Recent Media Coverage of PLC

34 were arrested on March 10th at the NNSS.

In March, 2014 the Pacific Life Community (PLC) conducted its annual retreat in Las Vegas with support from the Vegas Catholic Worker. The final act in the retreat was on the day before the Fukushima Disaster's anniversary, so the PLC environmental justice activists had this message to deliver. In addition to prayers and education at the retreat, the group focused on two air force bases and two nuclear facilities (the nuclear test site, or NNSS, and the NNSA building, which is a D.o.E. facility managing the test site).

On March 8th the PLC folks held a vigil at Creech AFB, on the 9th they held vigil at Nellis AFB, on Monday they held vigil at the nuclear test site, and a few hours later, they held vigil at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) building. All of this was in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the US bombing of Rongelap (hurting Japanese fishermen) and the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear power plant meltdown disaster, affecting millions as the pollution continues to spread across the Pacific Ocean.

10 PLC folks entered the building seeking to gain wider access to employees to distribute this message/flier.
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Here are some of the PLC participants who wished to speak with as many employees as possible on this eve of the anniversary of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan!


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After the PLC representatives were denied badging entrance passes into the facility, they continued to hold vigil outside the NNSA badging office in the parking lot.

Recent Coverage

First NDE News Release
Second NDE News Release
John Amidon's newsreel of PLC @ Nellis
Slide-show: Welcome Back, PLC! (soon-to-be-posted--Friday 21 March 014)


We are from the Pacific Life Community- a group organized by faith to abolish nuclear weapons. We are here today in grievance and repentance of the destructive actions we have complacently allowed to happen in our world. The 11th of March marks the third year of the continuing flow of radiated water pouring from the nuclear facility in Fukushima, Japan into the Pacific Ocean.
We are here today as conscientious objectors to the continued growth and risk of every kind of nuclear disaster. It is our collective responsibility to prevent our involvement in the spread of nuclear injury and it is our legal responsibility to uphold the obligations prudently set by the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. Seeing the disaster that has emerged from nuclear engineering through Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rongelap and many other areas, including the Nevada National Security Site, we are obligated to transform this tragedy into a beautiful sustainability for our world.
To do this we all must accept our responsibility to turn the direction of the Department of Energy into one that is healthy for everyone.
There is no one who can do this better than those who work with the Department of Energy, the workers who have the experience and knowledge of this organization and their own good personal potential to make a change for the better. We stand in unity with the workers to conscientiously object to the continuous contribution to nuclear disaster, by directing the Department of Energy to creatively use the skills and talents of these workers in areas that will ;preserve life and not death, that will illuminate clean energy without nuclear radiation. We urge workers to organize and advocate this change to create jobs that bring hope and create stewardship that will lift the the heavy weight of despair that will only fall onto the shoulders of our children if we do not overcome this burden.

Charles Franch's Olympics 2020 artwork