About this event "An Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test: 80 Years and Still Waiting" will be held at St. Pius X School in Albuquerque and will feature music, speakers, exhibitions, and moments of reflection and prayer. Topics will include the status of nuclear weapons programs in New Mexico, the harmful effects of uranium mining, the human and environmental impacts of nuclear testing, the growing national Back from the Brink movement, how young people are engaging with these issues, the role of hope and faith as we face growing nuclear threats, and what we can do now. This free public event will be held July 13, from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. Doors open at 2 p.m. Pre-registration is encouraged. The event will also be live-streamed. To pre-register and get on the list to receive the link for the livestream, go to: jotform.com/build/251126623369053 Featured speakers include: --Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN was the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. --Dr. Ira Helfand, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (1985 Nobel Peace Prize winners). --Eddie Laiche, Co-founder, Students for Nuclear Disarmament --Janene Yazzie, Dine Asa Navajo community organizer and human rights advocate who has worked on development and energy issues with Indigenous communities across the United States for over 12 years --Tina Cordova, Co-founder, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium --Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Nuclear Watch New Mexico --Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester --Nagasaki Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Takami (by video from Japan) --Adin Strauss, General Director, Soka Gakkai International Eighty years ago, the government neither warned nor evacuated the estimated tens of thousands living within a 50-mile radius of the Trinity Test blast. The detonation produced more heat and light than the sun, generating radioactive ash that fell for days. The communities downwind of the blast saw a spike in infant deaths in the months after the explosion, and generations later continue to suffer its harmful effects, especially multiple generations of cancer. Meanwhile, the US government has taken no responsibility for the sacrifice, suffering, and dying. Since that time, the people of New Mexico have continued to be surrounded on every side by various parts of the nuclear weapons industry, including uranium mining, processing uranium and other radioactive substances, assembling weapons, and transporting and dumping waste from this toxic chain. Downwinders from Tularosa and other New Mexico communities still being affected by the effects of the Trinity blast continue to deal with cancer and to wait for acknowledgement and compensation, including legislation that came close to passage last year. The existential threat of nuclear weapons use affects every person, all of life, in our entire world. The event is organized by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Interfaith Power and Light (NM-EP), Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Soka Gakkai International-USA, the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, and the Back from the Brink New Mexico Hub.