A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Fourth Annual Interfaith Trinity “Test” Remembrance
In 2002, soon after we moved into this building, and led by our founding rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, we hosted the Hiroshima Flame Interfaith Pilgrimage. The pilgrims had brought the flame, kept alive from the embers of the Little Boy blast, and carried it cross-country, from the grave of Chief Seattle to the United Nations in NYC. In July 2025, Nahalat Shalom hosted the inaugural meeting of Back from the Brink's New Mexico Hub, supporting the Tikkun Olam pillar of our faith we have supported since our founding. Last year was the 80th anniversary of the detonation that continues to reverberate. This year, we have ongoing issues of multiple war fronts, legacy waste issues, a ramp-up of nuclear weapons production and mining bids, and related health and existential problems. Yet we’re told we can’t afford to stop doing this. We need to talk!
On Sunday, July 19, at St Michael’s High School in Santa Fe, join Archbishop John Wester, Back from the Brink, Nukewatch NM, the Tularosa Downwinders Consortium, and invited speakers, to hear more about the developing new arms race, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), what is being done and what YOU can do.
Come for the hope and inspiration!
We need to recruit more volunteers from our Nahalat Shalom community this year. Volunteers from Soka Gakkai International have made up most of our volunteer corps the past three years, and they’re awesome to work with on this mission which affects all of humanity. However, this year they have another big event to support in July, so we need strong recruitment from all the orgs and faith communities that are in our network.
Here is the link to the Google form our Back from the Brink leader made that is the non-SGI version of the volunteer sign-up form for this year's event:
https://forms.gle/bGPSt2howqkWJk416
When people sign up to volunteer, their data get automatically entered into a spreadsheet that our event director will then use to make the final volunteer assignments. We can carpool.
Anyone who has the link can access the form to sign up to volunteer, so thanks for sharing this widely so we can welcome our 30+ volunteers-to-be!
