The Red Water Pond Road Community Association and the Pipeline Road Community invite you to attend the historic 46th commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on Saturday, July 19th beginning at 6 am near the tailings spill location, 12 miles north of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566. Free t-shirts will be available for the first 100 participants.  https://swuraniumimpacts.org/red-water-pond-road-community-association/ , https://www.visitgallup.com/things-to-do/outdoors/red-rock-park/

Breakfast will begin at 6 am, followed by opening prayers. There will be a walk to the tailings spill site starting at 6:30 am.  The group will return to the shaded arbor for lunch.  There will be speakers, educational tables, a kid’s corner, and a silent auction.  At 4 pm, the event will end with a closing prayer.

Food and drink donations are welcomed.

In 1968, the United Nuclear Corporation began mining operations in the largest underground uranium mine in the United States. Mining wastes were disposed of in three lined lagoons behind a dam that United Nuclear Corporation and the state and federal agencies knew was subject to failure.  When, on July 16th, 1979, the dam was breached, 1,100 tons of uranium tailings waste and 94 million gallons of radioactive water flowed into and contaminated about 80 miles of the Rio Puerco.  Many Navajos relied on the Rio Puerco for their daily needs and watering livestock.  Uranium workers, their families and others have suffered for decades because of the unremediated radioactive and chemical tailings spill.  https://www.vice.com/en/article/church-rock-americas-forgotten-nuclear-disaster-is-still-poisoning-navajo-lands-40-years-later/

The organizers said, “This historic event is open to all ages and will share the struggles people face in their daily lives, the healing yet to come for our people and Mother Earth, and the awareness and education required in the local area, tribally, statewide and on the national level.

“We would like the younger generation to be present, advocate and carry on these traditions of caring for Mother Earth…

“Let’s collaborate to restore, preserve and protect our Mother Earth and to provide a life of balance and harmony for our people now and for the future generations.”

For more information about the tailings spill, please visit https://swuraniumimpacts.org/

1. Friday, July 18^th from noon to 1 pm –
   

   Join your neighbors and friends at the intersection of East Alameda and Sandoval for the weekly one-hour peaceful protest for nuclear disarmament and against expanded plutonium pit production at LANL. Join with Veterans for Peace, CCNS, Nuclear Watch NM, Loretto Community, New Mexico Peace Fest, Pax Christi and others. Bring your flags, signs and banners in support of nuclear weapons disarmament.

1. Watch the “Television Event” 2:13 minute trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5RGRsTwjM It is about the television movie of the week about nuclear war shown on television during the Reagan administration.  Watch the trailer to learn more.

1. Wednesday, July 23^rd from 5 pm – 6:30 pm MT – A virtual event at which Timmon Wallis will discuss his new book, Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario.  Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action.   Register here:  https://masspeaceaction.org/event/nuclear-abolition-a-scenario/

1. Friday, August 1^st through Friday, August 29^th – Anti-Uranium Mapping Project Opening with photographer and activist Shayla Blatchford who documents her 14 year journey to expose the hidden truths of extractive mining practices on the Navajo Nation. CENTER, 1570 Pacheco St., Unit B1, Santa Fe, NM.

Special reception for the artist on Thursday, August 14^th from 5 to 8 pm.

https://www.antiuraniummappingproject.com/   

5. Saturday, August 9^th from 10 am to – 3 pm – Nagasaki Commemoration in Los Alamos, NM, sponsored by NM PeaceFest, Veterans for Peace, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Watch New Mexico.