NWAD

Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days (NWAD) is calling for nonviolent direct action at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., April 24-25, 1999, linked with same-day Citizens' Inspections at sites related to NATO nuclear policy.

NWAD and For Mother Earth International have also initiated plans for the Walk for Abolition, seeking 2,000 people to depart from the conclusion of the Hague Appeal for Peace 1999 international conference and march on NATO headquarters in Brussels for nuclear disarmament actions about May 27.

The next NWAD international planning meeting is scheduled for January 30-31 in Gent, Belgium

For more information about the NATO Summit, Walk for Abolition and a useful guide to organizing and conducting Citizen Weapons Inspections, contact Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days, c/o For Mother Earth, Lange Steenstraat 16/D, 9000 Gent, Belgium; email: international@motherearth.org

LOCKHEED MARTIN

The next Citizens Disarmament Inspection of Lockheed Martin is planned for Martin Luther King Day, January 18. For more information, contact Brandywine Peace Community, POB 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081, (610) 544-1818, email: brandywine@Juno.com

LOCKHEED-MARTIN-SANDERS

A Human Rights Day peace witness begins with a 9 a.m. rally December 10 at Library Hill Peace Park, Nashua, New Hampshire, followed by civil disobedience at 11 a.m. at the Lockheed Martin-Sanders plant nearby. For more information, contact New Hampshire Peace Action, POB 771, Concord, NH 03302, (603)228-0559, email: nhpeaceact@igc.org

HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS

The seventh annual Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering will celebrate Mother's Day at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site (NTS) from May 7-10, 1999, across Highway 95 from the Mercury entrance to the NTS. All are invited to attend. This Spring Gathering will include community building, cultural events and performances, programs to honor the children and youth, daily sunrise ceremony and sweat lodges, campfires and drumming, nonviolence trainings and action planning, a Mother's Day brunch and rally at the Nevada Test Site gates, reclaiming Western Shoshone land, and shutting down the NTS. Please come as self-sufficient as possible and be ready to pitch in. For more information, contact Shundahai Network, 5007 Elmhurst Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304, (702)647-3095, email: shundahai@shundahai.org web: http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/spring99gath.htm

LEONARD PELTIER C.D. CAMPAIGN

The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC) has issued a call for a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, to pressure the Clinton administration to keep its promise (to consider Peltier's clemency petition) and free the political prisoner. Peltier suggested that this step be taken now, and the Defense Committee is asking supporters and groups to begin preparing for local nonviolent direct action during the holiday season on December 19, 1998, and then again on February 6, 1999, the anniversary of his arrest. The Committee notes "It is important for each group to organize legal support, local media contacts and an effective plan of civil disobedience." Bundles of large campaign posters ("Free Leonard Peltier and All Political Prisoners"), a sample letter to President Clinton, and more information are available from the LPDC, POB 583, Lawrence, KS 66044 (785)842-5774, email: lpdc@idir.net

Lakes and Prairies Life Community invites participation in the 20th annual Feast of the Holy Innocents retreat, witness and line crossing at STRATCOM headquarters near Omaha, NE, December 26-28. For more information call Jo Peterson at (402)556-9057.

A Faith and Resistance retreat to commemorate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, December 28, will be held in Washington, D.C. For more information, contact Jonah House, 1301 Moreland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21216, (410)233-6238.