Previously (10/30/26): Report-back; upcoming meetings; DOE's amazingly bad reprocessing initiative

Dear friends -- 

Good afternoon everybody. This will be a short note. We hope you are all well and enjoying these beautiful fall days. 

First, please join us Saturday, November 14, at 11:00 am at St. John's United Methodist Church in Santa Fe, at 1200 Old Pecos Trail, when we will celebrate 37 years of nuclear weapons resistance in New Mexico and some of the many people who have been involved in it -- and discuss what we hope to do, and can do, now. The fields are ripe for harvest...

Lunch will be served. We need you to RSVP for this event! To do so send an email to our part-time organizer Ella Katz, ekatz@lasg.org. (corrected link)

Dozens of people who made New Mexico-based nuclear weapons resistance successful have now died. Their values and their legacy have not, however -- if anything, they are stronger than ever. We want to celebrate that living legacy, which not everybody today knows about, and above all we want to make it burn brightly in our time. 

We will definitely touch upon the results of the recent election, although its potential effects are far from certain and depend in part on what "we" here -- as in, we in New Mexico -- do. 

Greg and Trish will be among the speakers. There may be others as well; I can't be more specific at this time. Stay tuned -- we will let you know.

This state is now besieged by a number of national security-related enterprises, from plutonium warhead core ("pit") production, to so-called "fusion energy" (which are actually nuclear weapons design and testing facilities and their supply chains), to hypersonic missile testing and production, to big AI data centers. All these are part of a (failing) "global domination complex," in which New Mexico is playing a large part (and being "played" in the process). How can resistance become more unified and powerful? 

Second, the next meeting of the City of Santa Fe Governing Body (= City Council + Mayor) is on Tuesday Nov. 10 (not Wednesday as per usual) at the normal place (City Hall, 200 Lincoln Ave.). It is possible -- but that's all it is, a possibility -- that the proposed Santa Fe City Council resolution will be on the agenda. We are meeting with some members of the Council tomorrow to discuss the resolution. Regardless of whether the resolution is on the agenda or not, if you live nearby we hope you will be there on the 10th to speak in opposition to pit production and the expansion of LANL into Santa Fe. 

Best wishes, everybody, 

Greg Mello, for the Study Group