Dismantling Our Terror

Dismantling Our Terror

Witness for Peace at UC Berkeley’s Livermore National Lab

Good Friday: April 14, 2006
6:45am

Vasco & Patterson Pass Road

Featured Speaker: Reverend Ama Zenya,
First Congregational Church of Oakland
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Dismantling Our Terror
It is time we, as a world, dismantle our weapons of terror, so that we may dismantle the culture of fear used by our national governments to escalate the violence and development of tools of violence. We have seen this cycle before, and we know it doesn’t serve humanity or the planet. We want more from our world.
- The US government’s weapons are used to control the world, and our culture of fear is used to control the citizens of the US – used to control us from stopping the continuation of global violence.
Our witness is a foreign policy decision and a domestic policy decision. We believe we are safer when no one - not even us – has weapons of mass destruction. We also believe that our nation’s tax money and intellectual resources can be better spent rebuilding the Gulf Coast, funding public education, establishing national health care, creating affordable housing, and researching alternative energy sources, than in building more and more weapons.

We, as global citizens in solidarity with our kin in Iraq, in Iran, in Israel, in Palestine, in Japan, in the Marshall Islands, and all over the world, feel responsible to voice our fear of and our protest against this nuclear madness.
We fear the nuclear weapons themselves. We are all potential victims of their terrible violence.
We fear the ecological and environmental health effects of nuclear technology, on lab workers and neighboring communities as well as on victims of weapons used.
We fear the waste of domestic resources, of money, energy, and talent, on tools of violence instead of healing the wounds of an already broken world.
We fear our unacknowledged guilt as US Americans, for what we have done and what we are doing to the world.
We fear the perpetuation of the US Empire, of which nuclear weaponry is but one element, and the Empire’s unsustainable and oppressive relationship to the world.
We are already victims of having to live in a world where we fear each other and our human potential, instead of loving each other and celebrating our power as human co-creators with God. We intend to start dismantling our terror.

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