Western Shoshone Oppose Divine Strake

We will not take this “Divine Strake” without resistance! We are calling for support and organizations willing to call their member out to Shoshone lands to stop this test.

Step 1: File in their own courts demanding an injunction to stop this “big blast” : the Divine Strake – see article below, lawsuit filed this morning in Las Vegas federal court.

Step 2: Build a coalition of people and bring thousands to serve as witnesses and peace vigils to stop this detonation from taking place.

What you can do: Join the Stop “Divine Strake’ Coalition and send people to a direct action demonstration and peace vigil at the entrance of the Nevada Test Site on May 28, 2006 or read below for how to become involved now.

Thank you for your continued support. Email or call to sign onto the coalition and the planning will continue to move forward.

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Suit Filed To Stop Big Blast

Reno
Ed Pearce

An Indian tribe and several nuclear fallout "downwinders" want a federal court to halt plans for a huge non-nuclear blast that's expected to generate a mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert.

A Reno-based lawyer representing four members of the Western Shoshone tribe and two non-Indian residents of Utah calls the planned "Divine Strake" blast a worst nightmare come true for downwinders.

He says detonating a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb at the Nevada Test Site will stir up radioactive fallout left from 100 aboveground and 828 underground nuclear weapons tests conducted from 1951 to 1992.

The lawsuit filed in U-S District Court in Las Vegas names Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the chiefs of the two federal agencies planning the blast.

No comment yet from the Defense Department or test planners.

But Test Site officials have said the blast won't be near where nuclear testing was done -- and shouldn't kick up surface contamination.