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Speaking from the
Heart:
Testimony & Healing in the Desert
March 30 - April 2, 2006
Fence and Road into the Test Site
Stop Testing Turtle and Art & Megan
Some of those who came to witness at the Nevada Test Site
Crossing the Line into the Nevada Test Site
A Tresspass Citation
Photos Courtesy of Rebecca Hollenberg
How do we create peace within ourselves and in
the world? How do we speak to those with whom we disagree?
How do we communicate across our social, political, religious
and economic differences? What does it mean to integrate
nonviolence in every relationship in our lives? You are
invited to explore answers to these questions in a meeting
of those whose lives have been significantly marked by the
nuclear age: those who survived the bombing of Hiroshima,
those who lived downwind of the Nevada Test Site, those
who worked in the nuclear industry, those who were employed
at the Nevada Test Site and those who opposed nuclear testing.
Share your journey in nonviolence with others who have sought
alternative ways of resolving conflicts. By receiving each
other with open hearts, we will connect compassionately
with the humanity of everyone's choices as a way to create
the peace we seek.
Speakers and Participants
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Takashi “Thomas”
Tanemori, a survivor (hibakusha) of the
Hiroshima atomic bomb. Takashi learned to transform
his hatred through love and forgiveness. He is an
artist and founder of the Silkworm Peace Institute,
to promote peace, healing and cultural understanding.
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Bob Nelson is an
Episcopal Priest and former Manager for Test and
Operations at the Department of Energy. Bob has
had a long relationship with NDE, characterized
by his willingness to dialogue and engage the NDE
community with dignity and respect.
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Claudia Peterson,
is a resident of St. George, Utah who lost her daughter
and sister to cancer from living “downwind”
of the Nevada Test Site. She has served on NDE’s
Board for many years.
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Jim Merlino is
a retired Nye County Sheriff. Jim was in charge
of security for the NTS for many years, and from
the beginning of our relationship with him in 1982,
treated all who protested at the test site with
respect and courtesy.
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Steve Kelly is
a Jesuit priest and ploughshares activist. He was
one of the 19 arrested at the NTS on Good Friday
during the first Lenten Desert Experience and has
spent many years in prison for his anti-nuclear
activism.
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Katherine Blossom is
a Western Shoshone Traditional Elder, a mother of
four, grandmother of nine and a great-grand mother
of five children. She has also been active in the
National Indian Education Conference for over ten
years. She was the recipient of the “Elder
of the Year” award in 2001, for dedication
to the youth and parents and setting an example
by living a healthy life.
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Michael May is
former Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He also served as US Delegate to the Strategic Arms
Limitations Talks with the Soviet Union, as Technical
Adviser to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty negotiations
and served in a variety of advisory positions to
the US Government. He is director emeritus of LLNL.
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Joyce Hollyday
is an Associate Conference Minister for the Southeast
Conference of the United Church of Christ, is a
co-founder and co-pastor of Circle of Mercy, an
ecumenical congregation in the mountains of western
North Carolina. Joyce visited South Africa twice—once
to cover the persecution of the church under apartheid,
and a decade later to observe that nation’s
unprecedented Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
She is currently at work on a book about the South
African reconciliation process and the Greensboro
Truth and Community Reconciliation Project.
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Bill Wylie-Kellermann
is a United Methodist pastor who has served city
parishes in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently
Director of Graduate Theological Urban Studies for
the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education
of Chicago, Illinois. He is also a frequent contributor
to Sojourners, often on topics framed biblically
by "the principalities and powers." He
and Joyce also work with Word and World, a floating
movement school for faith-grounded activists.
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Anne Symens-Bucher
is a co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience and
has served as either NDE staff or Board member since
1982. She lives in Oakland, California with her
husband, Terry and their five children. She served
as the co-director of the JPIC Office for the Santa
Barbara Franciscans for 25 years and is now working
as a personal assistant to Joanna Macy.
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Terry Symens-Bucher's
first visit to the Nevada Test Site was as a Franciscan
Novice, on Ash Wednesday, 1982, the first day of
the first Lenten Desert Experience. He served NDE
over the years as both staff and board member. Terry
attended the Air Force Academy and served for five
years as an officer in the Marine Corps. He currently
resides in Oakland with Anne and their five children,
and runs the legal department for Alameda County
Child Support Services.
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Hozan Alan Senauke
is a Soto Zen priest and teacher. Alan is presently
serving as head of practice at Berkeley Zen Center
in California, where he lives with his wife, Laurie,
and their two children. He is the former Executive
Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and is
presently Senior Advisor at BPF. Alan is a new NDE
Board Member. In another realm, Alan has been a
student and performer of American traditional music
for nearly forty years.
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Fred Sly will be
the main facilitator of the weekend. He is a certified
trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a volunteer
mediator with the Victim/Offender Reconciliation
Program of Mendocino County. Fred performs mediations
with those struggling for peace, harmony and understanding
in their relationships, and is working statewide
to shift the current punitive justice system toward
restorative justice.
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