Reminder! Reception for new mural tomorrow, Aug. 3, 2-4 pm, CloudCliff Building in Santa Fe. ALSO: Join us Tuesday Aug. 6 in Santa Fe to discuss whether the 2024 elections are likely to alter the course of the new nuclear arms race and if so how
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Dear friends --
First, don't forget tomorrow's (8/3/24) reception from 2-4 pm for jetsonorama (Chip Thomas) and the new mural that he and volunteers are creating at the Cloud Cliff Building (1805 2nd Street, Santa Fe, map).
For more about this event see this past Wednesday's
letter and the
article in today's
Santa Fe New Mexican.
Come one, come all!
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Then, please join us next week on Tuesday, August 6, to discuss the question of whether the 2024 elections are likely to alter the course of the new nuclear arms race. Could a new face in the White House make a difference, and if so how? What can we expect? Meanwhile, what can we do? (Hint: Especially if you live in New Mexico, plenty!)
We will meet at St. John's United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail (
map), from 6-8 pm.
It's important to repeat what we said earlier this week: voices are now calling for Los Alamos National Laboratory to more than double its pit production goals AND expand nuclear weapons development to build a much larger, more "diverse," and more "usable" nuclear arsenal.
Meanwhile nuclear escalations between the U.S. and Russia are almost too frequent to mention. They are happening every week. Our national news media does not mention most of them, certainly. On Tuesday, we will.
Also, yesterday the Senate Appropriations Committee urged NNSA to consider building a new off-site campus for LANL given the transportation, housing, and alleged electric power shortages facing the lab as it slowly tries to transform itself into a nuclear weapons production site. (LANL won't make the whole weapons, just the pits. But will they? That is partly up to me and thee.)
Also of note, the City of Santa Fe is "breadcrumbing" us with their slow, piecemeal response to our Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) request for emails from the City to LANL and NNSA. Tidbits appear, like LANL's request to the City to avoid the public notice requirements for putting a microwave antenna on the Lab's Pacheco St. complex, the better and more securely to communicate with the mother ship. Weird that they would want to hide this -- the antenna certainly won't be hidden -- but sadly predictable. For more on the City's lack of transparency, see
Recent lawsuit highlights city's struggle to respond to records requests in a timely manner,
Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 1, 2024.
Finally, you may want to pencil in Tuesday, August 13, our next public event, also in Santa Fe. Stay tuned! Get involved!
Best wishes to all,
