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  1. Shifting the Narrative
  2. 16 Days of Activism
  3. Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking), USA

Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking), USA

Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking) is a network of local activists working in Northern New Mexico, USA, to protect their peoples and lands from the nuclear weapons industry.  

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Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking), USA

The women work locally for global disarmament.  Since 1943, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has occupied the sacred ancestral homelands of the Pueblo Peoples and displaced Hispanic homesteaders with the establishment of the Manhattan Project on the Pajarito Plateau in the Jemez Mountains.

Over the past decade, the U.S. Department of Energy, which owns LANL, has pushed to expand manufacturing of plutonium triggers for nuclear warheads to 450 per year.  Las Mujeres Hablan played a pivotal role in mobilizing disenfranchised downwind and downstream communities to successfully limit production to 20 triggers per year.  Nevertheless, LANL is the only U.S. facility that manufactures plutonium triggers.

The women attribute much of their success to self-training on the technical issues of the nuclear weapons industry.  They say that this knowledge has been essential for building working relationships and influencing key federal and state decision makers.  Their work looks not only at the impacts of LANL today, but on future generations.

As women, we are not afraid to take comfort in what we know and to speak it and be true to our spirituality. -- Las Mujeres Hablan.

Las Mujeres Hablan includes:

Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety

Marian Naranjo, Honor Our Pueblo Existence
Sheri Kotowski, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group
Kathy Sanchez and Beata Tsosie-Pena, Tewa Women United
Holly Beaumont, New Mexico Conference of Churches
Paula Garcia and Quita Ortiz, New Mexico Acequia Association
Clarissa Duran, Community Service Organization del Norte

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The declaration of independence - from nuclear weapons, Huffington Post, 9 December 2009.

 

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16 Days of Activism

November 25, 2022

Afrah Nassar: "Believe that you are worth listening to."

November 25, 2022

Jamila Afghani: “We should extend hands of support to each other."

November 25, 2022

Mèaza Gidey Gebremedhin: “I always need to fight for myself, for my place in this world, and to help others.”

November 25, 2022

A Q&A with democracy activist Khin Ohmar: "I feel at peace knowing there is a young generation fighting for their rights."

November 25, 2022

Amira Osman Hamed: "Don't let them terrify you."

November 25, 2022

Lubna Alkanawati: "What's really helped me to survive is the women's network around me."

November 25, 2022

Nina Potarska, Anna Chernova and Oksana Senyk: "Family peace is a small piece of peacebuilding."

November 25, 2022

Nadia Murad: "We don't get anywhere by pacifying with politeness."

December 10, 2021

Manal Shqair: I’m always fighting every day for my existence as a woman (Palestine)

December 9, 2021

Ounaysa Arabi: Knowledge is power and we have a good inheritance from feminists around the world (Sudan)

December 9, 2021

Ilaf Nasreldin: We as women deserve to live a better life (Sudan)

December 8, 2021

Musu Diamond Kamara: When one woman is affronted, all of us are affronted (Liberia)

More — 16 Days of Activism

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