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MEDIA
ADVISORY
OCTOBER 1, 2002
CONTACT:
Kalynda Tilges
702.369.2730 Office
702.743.8523 Mobile
Marcus Page
505.870.2275 Mobile
FAMILY SPIRIT WALK TO
ARRIVE IN LAS VEGAS AFTER 800 MILES
DEMONSTRATION AT NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
WHO: A group of inter-faith prayer walkers, the Family Spirit Walk have trekked over 800 miles through indigenous communities affected by the nuclear chain. (uranium mining, weapons production and testing, military and civilian waste, routine radioactive releases from nuclear power plants). The more than 25 walkers ranging in age from 15 months to 70+ years old, from homes across the US, Belgium and Austria have traveled from Los Alamos, NM on their way to Yucca Mountain.
WHAT: Walkers will arrive in Las Vegas at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) building on Losee Road and Energy way for a moving and powerful demonstration.
WHEN: Friday, October 4th, 2002 at 3 pm, P.S.T.
WHERE: Walkers will begin their day at 7 am from their campsite at the junction of Las Vegas Blvd. and Interstate 15 (exit 58) and will proceed south on Hwy. 604 (Las Vegas Blvd.) west on Cheyenne Ave, turning south onto Losee Rd to the National Nuclear Security Administration building (formerly the DOE bldg.) on Losee Rd. and Energy Way.
WHY: To bring awareness and mobilize communities around the dangers of the nuclear chain. The Family Spirit Walk began at a site sacred to the Tewa People, a Native American tribe indigenous to northern New Mexico, contaminated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Family Spirit Walkers have traveled through the Navajo Nation (in Arizona) contaminated by over 1100 uranium mines, through parts of southern Utah (downwind of the Nevada Test Site), en route to the Nevada Test Site for the Action for Nuclear Abolition Event, and then to Yucca Mountain, NV, the proposed site for the first high-level nuclear waste dump in the world.
DYNAMIC PHOTO, VIDEO AND INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE WITH
MULTI-GENERATIONAL MEMBERS OF AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
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