NEVADA TEST SITE

A Mother's Day weekend Gathering to Celebrate Life at the Nevada Test Site, May 10-13, will experience the beauty of the springtime desert, build a spiritually-based community for nonviolent resistance, and welcome a group of Western Shoshone activists who will have walked around the Nevada Test Site to protest the continued nuclear programs and military occupation of their lands. Toilets, community meals and potable local water will be supplied; otherwise come prepared for high desert camping (hot days, cold nights) and to respect the traditional protocols of the Western Shoshone hosts. For complete information, contact Shundahai Network, POB 1115, Salt Lake City, UT 84110, (819)359-2614, email: shundahai@shundahai.org, web: info@gzcenter.org, web: www.gzcenter.org.

PROJECT ELF

"Collateral Damage: a Mother's Anguish" is the theme of the annual Mothers' Day anti-Trident/ELF gathering, May 9-11. Thursday afternoon at Anathoth Community Farm: pitch camp, share dinner and music. Friday at Anathoth: all day workshops on ELF, nonviolence and direct action. Saturday: noon legal rally and nonviolent action at ELF antenna site, Clam Lake, Wisconsin. Keynote speakers: Polly Mann, founder of WAMM (Women Against Military Madness) and Frances Crowe, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee). For more information contact Nukewatch, POB 649, Luck, WI 54853, (715)472-4185, email:nukewatch@lakeland.ws, web: www.nukewatch.com.

VANDENBERG

The Vandenberg Action Coalition is sponsoring a week of nonviolent action for peace in space at Vandenberg Air Force Base, May 12-17. Backcountry action and peace camp leading up to May 18 Armed Forces Day rally and direct action at the front gate along California Highway 1. For more information, call (805)343-6322 and (805)688-7610.

NEVADA TEST SITE

Nevada Desert Experience will sponsor the annual August Desert Witness at the Nevada Test Site August 6-9. For more information, contact Nevada Desert Experience, POB 7849, Oakland, CA 94601, (510)849-1540, email: sallight1@earthlink.net, or web: www.NevadaDesertExperience.org.

TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES

Two Trident Ploughshares action camps are set for summer, 2002. In England, nonviolent resisters will converge on Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment June 18-23, followed August 4-19 by the international Summer Disarmament Camp at Coulport, Scotland. The major blockade at the Faslane Trident base will be August 5. For more information and an information packet, call +44-1259-753815 (0845-45-88-366 in the UK), or e-mail tp2000@gn.apc.org. Trident Ploughshares, 42-46 Bethel St., Norwich, NR2 1NR, UK, web: www.tridentploughshares.org.