Nevada Desert Experience

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Members of Nevada Desert Experience hold a prayer vigil during the Easter period of 1982 at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site.
November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Nevada Desert Experience is a name for the movement to stop U.S.

Nevada National Security Site
(formerly called the Nevada Test Site or the Nevada Proving Ground).

History

In the spring of 1982, activists working for social justice, environmental preservation, and international peace organized a six-week peace vigil at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site, about 60 miles (100 km) from

Golden Rule) organically leads humans to make a stand for peace and environmental justice.[3] In 1989, NDE organizers founded Pace e Bene [4] to amplify the movement for peacemaking beyond the aspect of a global existential threat of nuclear weapons. The first ten years of NDE were the most synergistic and spiritually revolutionary[5]
for North American Peace Activists. In the early 21st century, the annual events of NevadaDesertExperience.org leaned more on "desert spirituality" (less Christocentric as in the 20th century) and expanded to resist robotic (weaponized drones) warfare.

Aims

The movement's immediate goal of ending nuclear testing at the

Jesus Christ
and quickly expanded ecumenically and inter-faithfully. Therefore, NDE continues to work for deep ecological sensitivities and social peacemaking, with one goal being to clean up and contain the contamination created by nearly 80 years of nuclear testing in Nevada and Western Shoshone country.

Protests in Nye County

From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 demonstrations were held at the Nevada Test Site involving 37,488 participants and 15,740 arrests, according to government records.[8] In the fall of 1986, the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association (APHA) organized a protest at the site with over 500 APHA members participating. Over 100 APHA members, along with Carl Sagan, Victor R. Sidel and H. Jack Geiger, were arrested.[9] In January, 1987, the actor Martin Sheen and 71 other anti-nuclear protesters were arrested at the Nevada Test Site in a demonstration marking the 36th anniversary of the first nuclear test there.[10] On February 5, 1987, more than 400 people were arrested, when they tried to enter the nation's nuclear proving grounds after nearly 2,000 demonstrators held a rally to protest nuclear weapons testing. Those arrested included the astronomer

Leon E. Panetta and Barbara Boxer.[12][13] In April 2007 Martin Sheen among others was arrested.[14]

Protests in Clark County against weaponized drones at Creech Air Force Base

In protest over

UAV attacks in Pakistan and the perceived extremely high danger of harming civilians,[15][16][17] in an event sponsored by Nevada Desert Experience, Friar Louis Vitale, Kathy Kelly, Stephen Kelly SJ, John Dear, and others were arrested outside Creech Air Force Base (adjacent to the Nevada National Security Site) on Wednesday April 9, 2009.[18] Subsequent monthly protests have been ongoing and conducted by a number of organizations including Code Pink.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nevada Desert Experience :: History". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
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  4. ^ a Franciscan Service in Nonviolence
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  6. ^ "The Status of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Signatories and Ratifiers". Arms Control Association. March 2014. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  7. ^ "Activism of Jesus Christ based on Fr. John Dear's Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-12.
  8. ^ Western Shoshone spiritual leader dies[permanent dead link] July 18, 2007. Elynews.com
  9. ^ "War and Public Health: Centralizing the Issue at APHA | SF Bay PSR". sfbaypsr.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  10. ^ Actor and Other Protesters Arrested at Nuclear Test Site
  11. ^ Ranger, Steve (June 23, 2015). "Defending the last missing pixels: Phil Zimmermann speaks out on encryption, privacy, and avoiding a surveillance state". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on September 13, 2019.
  12. ^ Robert Lindsey. 438 Protesters are Arrested at Nevada Nuclear Test Site New York Times, February 6, 1987.
  13. ^ "Biggest Demonstration Yet at Test Site". Archived from the original on 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  14. ^ Effron, Lauren (17 March 2012). "US Celebrities arrested crusading for causes". ABC News. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  15. ^ "Nevada Desert Experience : Predators & Reapers - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  16. ^ Combat Drones: Losing the Fight Against Terrorism Archived 2010-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Peace Policy.nd. October 1, 2009
  17. ^ "Obama Steps Up Drone Bombings Despite Civilian Deaths". Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  18. ^ VCNV Archived 2011-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ CODEPINK : Peace activists to rally Monday outside Creech Air Force Base: Will call for end to U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan Archived 2013-05-23 at the Wayback Machine codepink4peace.org

Pilgrimage Through a Burning World, by Ken Butigan, Chronicles and discusses the political and religious aspects of the nonviolent protest against nuclear testing called the Nevada Desert Experience. 2003, 256 pp., paper.

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