From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS PRESS ADVISORY
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Organization: PACH
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:27:41 GMT

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                        HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS
                   PO Box 4082 Las Vegas, NV 89127
                    702-386-8696 Fax (702)386-9335

                           PRESS ADVISORY

September 18, 1992                      Contact: Ann Harrison

INTERNATIONAL GATHERING TO COMMEMORATE 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE
    AND CALL FOR AN END TO NUCLEAR TESTING ON NATIVE LANDS

Las Vegas, Nevada -- Thousands of Native Americans, Indigenous
leaders from around the world, and supporters will gather in
Las Vegas and at the Nevada Test Site, October 2nd through 12th,
to tell the truth about the Columbus arrival in the Americas,
and to call for an end to the 500 years of injustice to Native 
Americans. The International Event called Healing Global Wounds,
will seek to promote respect for Native American culture and 
contributions.

The eleven-day event will begin October 2nd, with the arrival in 
Las Vegas of two cross-country, 3,000 mile European initiated
walks, designed to apologize for the genocide perpetrated on 
Native People since the arrival of the first europeans. The 
walkers will be greeted by a traditional Pow-Wow at the University
of Nevada Las Vegas. On October 3rd-4th there will a two day forum
focusing on both the continuing struggles of native people and the 
Human and Environmental effects of Nuclear Weapons testing and 
production. On Monday October 5th, Forum Participants will march to
The Department of Energy to present the findings of the Forum and
to demand a response from the DOE. Hundreds of people will then 
join the cross-country walks for the final 4 days of their 8 month
trek to the Nevada Test Site.

On October 10th there will be an All Nations Healing for Mother
Earth Ceremony led by Corbin Harney, the Spiritual Leader of the 
Western Shoshone Nation. On October 11th a multi-cultural rally 
will be followed by a mass non-violent action at the Nevada Test
Site. The culmination of these activities will take place on 
October 12th, at the Test Site when Native Elders from around the
country will lead a commemoration of the past 500 years of 
resistance and call for future action to end 500 years of injustice.

"Mother Earth has suffered since Columbus stepped on to these shores"
said Western Shoshone National Council Chief Raymond Yowell. "The
United States Government and other nuclear powers are now testing
and producing their most destructive weapons on the territory of 
Native peoples. Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site Violates
Western Shoshone Land rights and the Treaty of Ruby Valley. Today
in 1992, 500 years after Columbus' first visit to the Americas,
Western shoshones and other Native Americans remain without basic
land rights. We need to make people aware of this, and change our 
direction to take care of Mother Earth if we are going to survive."

The events are sponsored by the Western Shoshone National Council,
and the Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, an international network of,
indigenous, downwinder, radiation survivor, environmental, and test
ban groups from around the world, and participating groups number
over 100.
 

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