Updated January 9, 2007

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Solidarity Against War (SAW) at UC Santa Barbara (UC Nuclear Free’s partner group at the campus) created a mock “nuclear waste dump” in the campus’ Arbor (main quad) today. The waste dump is an “expansion” of the waste dump the University of California co-manages in real life, Area G at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Enough radioactive and chemical waste to fill over 1.4 million 55-gallon barrels is currently stored there.

The week-long “waste dump” display will culminate on Friday, January 12, at 6 p.m. at Storke Tower with a screening of the documentary Why We Fight.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about the UC Nuclear Free campaign and get involved, as we will make a presentation on our current work during the screening.  Click here for more info on the film!

For a slightly more detailed overview of the waste dump, visit the new Think Outside the Bomb blog.  The overview there includes photos.

For UCSB students who learned about this web site from visiting the waste dump, we’d like to offer the following links we think you will find helpful (and we hope to see you this Friday at 5!):

• Key Facts About Nuclear Weapons and the University of California’s Involvement in Their Production
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: Issues: Nuclear Weapons
• Think Outside the Bomb Principles of Unity
• “The Emerging Crisis”: Why We Protest The UC Regents
• UC Nuclear Free Frequently Asked Questions
• War is Peace, Arms Racing is Disarmament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the US Quest for Global Military Dominance

Click here to learn how to get involved with the Coalition to Demilitarize the UC. E-mail ucsb.saw[at]gmail.com for info on how to be involved with anti-war activism at UCSB in general.

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