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Los Alamos Study Group Calendar
December 10 , 2007 update

  • Public discussion in Taos

    Plutonium, profit, and pollution: privatized nuclear weapons manufacturing in northern New Mexico

    Saturday, December 15, 2007, 2:00 pm

    Kit Carson Electric Coop Board Room, 118 Cruz Alta Road
  • Breakfast seminars this week -- "Whither LANL?"

    Wednesday, December 12, Albuquerque Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE
    Thursday, December 13, United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso
    7:25am - 8:45am

    Our breakfast seminar and discussion groups have been lively and are generally going well, especially in Albuquerque.  The overall theme of the series, which will continue until early April, is “Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Responses and Renewal.” If you are interested please join us! 

    This week we will talk about realistic prospects for new missions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  Can and should LANL’s mission be changed, expanded, or contracted, and if so how would such changes take place?
  • Solstice Walk for Disarmament, Human Security

    December 21 - 24, 2007
    Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
    Itinerary

    Fri, Dec 21
            7:00 am Send off from Los Alamos Study Group headquarters, 2901 Summit Place NE, Albuquerque, NM
        3:00 pm -- arrive in Bernalillo, NM (approx. 18 miles)

    Sat, Dec 22 (Winter Solstice)
        7:00 am     -- Leave Bernalillo
        4:00 pm -- Arrive in Pena Blanca, NM (approx. 23 miles)

    Sun, Dec 23
        7:00 am     -- Leave Pena Blanca
        4:00 pm – Arrive Bandelier National Park campsite (approx. 18 miles)

    Mon, Dec 24, Christmas Eve
        7:00 am     – Leave Bandelier
        1:00 pm     -- Arrive Los Alamos National Laboratory (approx. 12 miles)
            Welcome and invocation by Gilbert Sanchez, San Ildefonso Pueblo

    Contact the Los Alamos Study Group office in Albuquerque at 505-265-1200 for more information.
  • Public breakfast meetings Nov 7 & 8, 2007

    7:25am - 8:45am

    Wed, Nov 7th in Albuquerque at the Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE, and

    Thur, Nov 8th in     Santa Fe at the United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso

    We will be following last week's presentation and discussion of the factual aspects of current nuclear policy with suggestions and discussion concerning our political response!

    Join us at either (or both) meeting/s for breakfast, discussion, and action! No RSVP is required -- just come! These breakfast meetings are provided by the Study Group at no cost to the public. However, if you are able to donate toward expenses for these breakfasts there will be a donation basket available. Thank you to everyone that attended last week! We look forward to seeing all of you again this week and more!

  • Public meetings announced

    The Study Group is beginning a series of weekly public breakfast seminar and discussion meetings in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque.  There will be 21 meetings at each location over the coming six-month period.  We’ll start this week and end the first week in April, plotting our direction for future meetings from there.  We won’t have meetings during the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

    The overall theme of these seminars will be     “Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Responses and Renewal.”  Of course we will emphasize nuclear policy, New Mexico, and we ourselves as actors and participants.  As mentioned above, this week's topic will be "Los Alamos in Crisis --  The Decline and Fall of a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory?"

    We hope to alternate each week between factual aspects of the unfolding crisis (which is a crisis for New Mexico in particular) on the one hand, and our political response to it on the other. 

    Everybody is invited.  We expect these discussions to be informative, lively, and inspiring, despite the hour.  If you aren't awake when you arrive I trust you will be an hour and a half later.  Topics will be announced beforehand.  Besides core Study Group personnel there will be occasional guest speakers.

    The Albuquerque meetings will be held every Wednesday morning at the Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE.  The first meeting will be October 31.   There will be no meetings on November  21 or December 26.

    The Santa Fe meetings will be held every Thursday morning at the United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso. The first meeting will be November 1.  There will be no meetings on November 22 or December 27.

    Meetings will begin at 7:25 am and end at 8:45 am (please be prompt!)  Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be provided.  There is no cost – provided there are enough donations to cover the modest expenses.  We’ll pass the hat.

    (In addition to these meetings, if you would like someone from the Study Group to speak to your church, peace group, college class, or organization, please call or write.  We have a small speakers’ bureau and in all likelihood we can probably respond favorably.)

  • The Los Alamos Study Group will be sponsoring weekly, public breakfast meetings beginning Wednesday, October 31st in Albuquerque at the Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard Blvd NE, and Thursday, November 1st in Santa Fe at the United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, 7:25am - 8:45am.  These regular weekly meetings will be held at the same location and time every Wednesday and Thursday, except holidays, and will focus on issues -- such as nuclear weapons and other aspects of our global crisis (global warming, fossil fuel depletion, poverty, etc.) and tactics -- specifically our organized response.  Topics will be announced in more detail beforehand and we will have guest speakers occasionally, along with our Study Group leaders.  These weekly meetings will be provided at no cost to the public and coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be available.  Please come and participate!  If you have any questions you can call our office in Albuquerque at 505-265-1200 and speak to Trish.  You can also access our calendar of events on our website at: lasg.org/calendar.htm for the posting of meetings, with upcoming topics of discussion and featured speakers. 
  • August 8-18, 2006 - "Nuclear Abolition Immersion" - seven young activists working in California, and/or attending California universities participated in an 11-day intense experience of hands-on activism and volunteering for the Los Alamos Study Group in Albuquerque and Los Alamos, New Mexico. All of the participants were actively engaged in local Department of Energy hearings on the Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement the first three days of their visit to New Mexico, as well as contacting and interacting with Study Group volunteers. While in New Mexico these young people were immersed in the day-to-day operations of the anti-nuclear work of the Los Alamos Study Group, attending meetings with legislators, conducting extensive community outreach, research projects, and . "There is no more pivotal issue, place, or time; and in many ways this is the historical moment of truth for U.S. nuclear weapons," Study Group Director Greg Mello.

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2005 Los Alamos Study Group Calendar

  • January 24&25: The Los Alamos Study Group will host two discussions with David
    Barsamian, founder of the respected “Alternative Radio” network. Barsamian will take up Lenin’s famous question, “What Is To Be Done?” in the context of the crisis of democracy in the United States today. He will speak in Albuquerque on Monday, January 24 th at 7:00 p.m. , in the SUB Ballroom C at UNM and in Santa Fe on Tuesday, January 25th at 7:00 pm at Cloud Cliff Bakery, 1805 Second Street .

  • March 10 - 18: Greg Mello will travel to London, England and Brussels, Belgium at the invitation of Jean Lambert, Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) to give a seminar at the Parliament on the realities of U.S. nuclear proliferation. Mello will also meet with NGOs while there to discuss nuclear disarmament and present a virtual tour of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex. Also, Mello and his wife Trish, will be conducting interviews with several MEPs on their views of nuclear disarmament. Mello believes that widespread misunderstandings about the nature of U.S. nuclear weapons programs and institutions, together with the failure of U.S. liberals to confront the contradictions inherent in nuclear deterrence, has led to an absence of vigorous and effective debate.

  • March 28: Panel Discussion: The Sleep of Reason: Atoms for Peace and War (sponsored by the Los Alamos Study Group and the UNM Campus Greens)
    Where: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Student Union Building (SUB), Ballroom C
    When: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    More: Nuclear power, nuclear weapons – what are the common technologies?  At what point do they diverge?  What are the paths nuclear proliferators have taken, and what are the prospects for control?  Panel discussion with Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group and David Bacon, Southwest Energy Institute and Los Alamos Study Group. Moderated and with introduction by New Mexico’s own Peter Neils. 

  • March 29: Panel Discussion: The Sleep of Reason: Atoms for Peace and War (sponsored by the Los Alamos Study Group). Donations welcome.
    Where: Santa Fe, Cloud Cliff Bakery, Café, and Artspace, 1805 Second Street
    When: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    More: Nuclear power, nuclear weapons – what are the common technologies?  At what point do they diverge?  What are the paths nuclear proliferators have taken, and what are the prospects for control?  Panel discussion with Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group; David Bacon, Southwest Energy Institute and Los Alamos Study Group; and special guest Lindsay Lovejoy, attorney representing Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Public Citizen. Mr. Lovejoy will report on the efforts of a multi-national consortium, Louisiana Energy Services, LES, to build what it calls the “National Enrichment Facility” near Eunice, New Mexico.  Moderated and with introduction (and perhaps a nuclear song or two) by New Mexico’s own Peter Neils.

  • April 7 – 9: Visit to Santa Fe by the Hiroshima World Peace Mission

  • April 8: Public presentation & discussion: "Voice From Hiroshima: The Survivors' Message," by the Hiroshima World Peace Mission. Donations welcome.
    Where: Santa Fe, Cloud Cliff Bakery, Café, and Artspace, 1805 Second Street
    When: 7:00 - 9:00 pm

  • April 10: Benefit for the Study Group with folk singers Charlie King and Karen Brandow in Concert!
    with Special Guest: Peter Neils
    Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, Albuquerque, 3701 Carlisle Blvd NE
    When: 6:00 - 8:30 pm
    More: "One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time" (Pete Seeger).  "The music was nothing short of fantastic…If you have not done so yet, you must see these artists on stage" (Activist San Diego Concert Review).  "Exactly what a folk music recording should be: songs that make you think, laugh, weep and dance" (Matt Watroba, Folk DJ WDET, Detroit MI).

  • April 22: Vigil and Leafletting in Los Alamos (organized by Pax Christi New Mexico)
    Where: Los Alamos National Laboratory
    When: 7:30 - 9:00 am

  • April 28: Study Group delegation departs for United Nations, NY, for Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) 2005

  • May 9: Study Group delegation returns

  • May 11: Panel: "Report from the United Nations - The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at the Breaking Point" (co-sponsored by UNM College Greens)
    Where: UNM Main Campus, Student Union Building, Ballroom C, Albuquerque
    When: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    More: Los Alamos Study Group delegates will present personal accounts, interviews, and experiences from the 2005 NPT Review Conference. Q & A and discussion to follow.

  • May 12: Panel: "Report from the United Nations - The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at the Breaking Point"
    Where: Cloud Cliff Bakery, Cafe, & Artspace, 1805 Second St, Santa Fe When: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    More: Los Alamos Study Group delegates will present personal accounts, interviews, and experiences from the 2005 NPT Review Conference. Q & A and discussion to follow.
  • May 13 & 14: Annual Conference, National Freedom of Information Coalition (co-sponsor, New Mexico Foundation for Open Government)
    Where: St. Francis Hotel, Santa Fe
    When:  Detailed schedule not yet available
    More: “Roughly 100 journalists, public officials and assorted public-records crusaders from around the country will gather to learn about current law and threats to public access, and to share war stories and trategies. This conference will address a broad range of critical issues involving access to information including government secrecy in the age of terrorism, balancing privacy rights and open records, HIPPA and medical privacy and more.”

  • June 10: Academy-Award-winning film "Chernobyl Heart," and talk by atomic bomb survivor Shigeko Sasamori, Cloud Cliff Bakery and Café, 1805 2nd St., Santa Fe, 7 pm.

  • June 15: Talk by Shigeko Sasamori, "Trauma and Spirituality" (5:30 pm) with film "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," 7 pm), Upaya Zen Center, 1404 Cerro Gordo Rd., Santa Fe. For more information see www.upaya.org.

  • June 17: Talk by Shigeko Sasamori, "Life of a Hiroshima Maiden," multimedia presentation, “The Growing Global Resistance to Nuclear Weapons," Cloud Cliff Bakery and Café, 1805 2nd St., Santa Fe, 7 pm.

  • July 13: Talk (5:30 pm) and film "Fat Man, Little Boy" (7 pm)
    Where: Upaya Zen Center, 1404 Cerro Gordo Rd., Santa Fe
    More: See upaya.org
  • July 15: Hiroshima survivor, Shigeko Sasamori, and disarmament advocates will be attending the "Blast from the Past," a weapons fete put on by the National Atomic Museum
    Where: National Atomic Museum, 1905 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque
    When: 5:30pm
    More: Ms. Sasamori, who was only one mile from the hypocenter of the explosion in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, barely survived and was so badly burned that her parents could not tell the front of her head from the back. As one of the "Hiroshima Maidens" that Dr. Norman Cousins brought to the United States, she was able to receive extensive reconstructive surgery and today works tirelessly for nuclear disarmament.
  • July 15: Mightier Than the Sword: Writers Address the Nuclear Age
    Where: James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe
    When: 7 – 9 pm
    Featuring: John Bradley, Judyth Hill, Karen Jones Meadows, Elaine Maria Upton, & William Witherup - Mary Oishi will emcee. Includes silent auction & "round robin" poetry open mike.
    Tickets: $10 and may be purchased in advance at the following Santa Fe businesses: Collected Works, 208-B W San Francisco and Nicholas Potter Bookseller, 211 E Palace Ave; or on-line at lasg.org. Tickets will also be available at the door, but seating is limited!

  • July 16: Mightier Than the Sword: Writers Address the Nuclear Age
    Where: Lobo Theater, 3013 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque
    When: 7 – 9 pm
    Featuring: Maisha Baton, John Bradley, Karen Jones Meadows, Mary Oishi, & William Witherup.
    Tickets: $10 and may be purchased in advance at the following Albuquerque businesses: Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd, NW; Page One Books, 11018 Montgomery Blvd NE; & The Book Stop, 3410 Central Ave SE; or on-line at lasg.org. Tickets will also be available at the door, but seating is limited!

  • July 29 – 31: "Remembering Our Humanity: Law, Public Conscience, and Nuclear Weapons," seminar on nuclear weapons law and policy.
    Where: University of New Mexico Law School, Room 2405, Albuquerque
    When: Friday, July 29, 5:30 pm, all day Saturday July 30, and ending Sunday, July 31 at noon
    For activists, lawyers, journalists, and laboratory personnel. With Dr. John Burroughs, Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy; Jacqueline Cabasso, Director, Western States Legal Foundation; Greg Mello, Director, Los Alamos Study Group, and Dr. Lawrence Wittner, award-winning historian of the nuclear disarmament movement and professor, SUNY Albany. Modest tuition.

  • August 5: Nonviolence training and Mass for the Feast of Transfiguration
    Where: Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Church, Richards Ave., Santa Fe (opposite Community College)
    When: 4 - 6 pm, training; 7:30 pm, mass
    More: For details see paxchristinewmexico.org

  • August 5 - 9: Interfaith “Bearing Witness” Retreat
    Where: Upaya Zen Center, 1404 Cerro Gordo Rd., Santa Fe, and Los Alamos
    More: For more information see: upaya.org
  • August 6 - 9: “Days of Bearing Witness”
    Where: Kannon Zendo, 35 Barranca Rd., Los Alamos
    When: 7 am - meditation and memorial service
    6:30 pm - documentary videos
    8 pm - evening meditation
    More:     Details vary slightly - for more information see kannonzendo.org

  • August 6: “Sackcloth and Ashes Witness for Peace”
    Where: Ashley Pond Park, Los Alamos
    When: 8 - 10 am
    More: walk to witness at Lab entrance, closing prayer. See paxchristinewmexico.org
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