updated 05.26.2008


Witness for Peace -- August 1-2, 2008 -- Santa Fe and Los Alamos
In commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Friday, August 1st, 2008 -- Santa Fe
4:00 Mass for Peace with Fr. John Dear, S.J.,
Santa Maria de la Paz Church, 11 College Ave., Santa Fe, NM

An Evening with Sr. Helen Prejean
7:00 p.m., El Museo Cultural Center, 1615 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM (Co-sponsored with the New Mexico Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)

Sister Helen Prejean (http://www.prejean.org/) is an internationally known anti-death penalty activist and author.

A native of Louisiana, she has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and in shaping the Catholic Church’s opposition to all state executions. She will call for the abolition of New Mexico's death penalty, as well as Los Alamos' nuclear weapons, which put us all on a global, nuclear death row.

Her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and spawned an Oscar-winning movie and an internationally-acclaimed opera Her latest book is The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. She travels the world giving lectures, and has been nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Saturday, August 2nd , 2008 -- Santa Fe, Los Alamos

10AM - Noon: NonViolence Training at Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe given by Keith Bierbaum.

2:00 p.m: Pax Christi's Annual "Sackcloth and Ashes" Peace Vigil. at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM. Sr. Helen will also speak at the Hiroshima Day rally beginning at 4:00 at Ashley Pond, Los Alamos, NM.

(Burlap sackcloth and ashes will be provided; please bring peace signs and banners.)