A few years ago NevadaDesertExperience.org created an event which brought\r\nover 500 people from around the world to Las Vegas and the USA’s nuclear\r\nTest Site for an alternative celebration of New Year’s Eve. The group hosted\r\nworkshops and ceremonies in Las Vegas and out in the desert at the Nevada\r\nTest Site at midnight to welcome the new\r\nmillennium taking action for peace. More than 300 people were arrested\r\nat the Test Site just after midnight, ringing in the new year on January\r\n1st 2000---the first mass arrests for civil resistance of this century,\r\nless than a month after the battle for Seattle. Unfortunately, the prayers\r\ndidn’t have an immediate effect: as we all have seen, the\r\ndomination system in this century seems to uphold injustice and violence\r\never more viciously. From the cries of the victims of 9-11 to the \r\nUSA’s\r\nplans to further\r\ncripple and destroy the people of Iraq, to the impending growth of the\r\ncarcinogenic nuclear\r\nindustry with its inherent\r\ndangers, humanity is in deep trouble. Now more than ever, people\r\nneed to gather and take collective actions based in Love and Peace. So\r\nNevada Desert Experience (NDE) again is calling people to return to the\r\ndesert to create peace on earth & good will to all.<\/b>\r\n
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NDE will hold ceremonies at the \r\nNevada Test Site \r\nfollowing a march on the Las Vegas Strip on December 31st\r\n2002. The New Year’s Eve gathering begins December 30th at St. James Church\r\nin North Las Vegas, and ends at brunch on January 1st. Join the company\r\nof Western Shoshone\r\nSpiritual Leader Corbin Harney,\r\nPace e Bene's\r\nKen\r\nButigan, eco-philosopher Joanna\r\nMacy, cross-cultural educator \r\nFran Macy, \r\ndepleted uranium expert Damacio Lopez, author & nonviolent\r\nactivist John Dear, and many others \"For the Sake of the Future\", in Southern\r\nNevada. The group will carpool to the Mercury Exit of Interstate 95 (60\r\nmiles from the edge of Las Vegas) for a candle-light procession into the\r\nNevada Test Site.<\/b>\r\n
While some people will inevitably camp out\r\nat the Test Site's Peace Camp \r\non their own, during those days, if you wish to participate fully in Vegas from December 30th \r\nto January 1st, with seven vegetarian meals and housing included, a fee is requested; \r\n(sliding scale, as much as you can donate, up to $100 ). \r\nFor more info, contact: For\r\nthe Sake of the Future c\/o JPIC Office, 1500 34th Ave, Oakland CA 94601.\r\nand check out: NevadaDesertExperience.org\r\nfor more details on this lovely way to spend your New Year’s Eve!\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"www.NevadaDesertExperience.org\/hype.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Join the prayer-action to STOP the works of war at the US nuclear test site! This annual vigil for peace and justice is helpful in the Western Shoshone resistance to the violence of nuclearism","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/11\/21647.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}