[FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

Mon Jan 13 23:36:54 EST 2020

Marcus, I spent four years at CNLS as Guest Scientist and Affiliate.  I
still wouldn't be O.K. if it were housed in Santa Fe.  Nuclear weapons
work--and Lanl is a nuclear weapons laboratory-- whether research or
training or administration doesn't belong anywhere on the planet.  But if
it is going to be pursued by flawed human beings, it belongs up on the
hill.  As many of us know, and you rightly point out, our local economy is
in a far-from-equilibrium state.  Bringing more humane education of some
kind to Santa Fe would provide a tiny bit more balance.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:06 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> It would make sense to put an organization like the Center for Nonlinear
> Studies in Santa Fe.   Academics could fly in to the municipal airport,
> give a talk and leave without it being hours more of effort slogging up and
> down the hill.   Badging could be further streamlined, or maybe just
> eliminated.   Maybe they could even have public talks as there’d be no need
> for security hovering at all times.   A lot of foreign nationals don’t stay
> to be staff members, as is it advantageous to get a clearance (and a
> foreign national cannot).   If they diffused into the Santa Fe population,
> maybe they’d stay and create start-ups.   There is little reason to live in
> Los Alamos, as there just is nothing up there, economically speaking,
> except the company.  (Ok, they have good schools, but that’s it.)   Smart
> public relations for LANL if they can pull it off.
>
>
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Frank Wimberly <
> wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Date: *Monday, January 13, 2020 at 7:41 PM
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> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00
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> In Pittsburgh I worked with a man who had formerly worked at LANL in
> plasma physics.  When I told him about my relationship to NM he said the it
> is a state on welfare.  He was referring to the percentage of that State's
> economy based on Federal $$.  Highest in the US?  I am aware of many
> projects at LANL that are not about weapons but others know more about that
> than I.
>
> -----------------------------------
> Frank Wimberly
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> Phone (505) 670-9918
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 8:33 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
>
> < There are many powerful people in Washington who know LANL specializes
> in taxpayer ripoffs. >
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>
> I am confident the use of such a property would be for science,
> administration, and outreach & training functions, not secure national
> work.   It would probably make a lot of LANL employees happy, as many of
> them live in Santa Fe.    Anyway, get real, if it wasn't for all the
> federal money, cities in New Mexico would collapse, there would be no SFI,
> etc.
>
>
>
> Marcus
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> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF
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> Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 2:23 PM
> Subject: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12;00 outside SF City Hall; bring
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> As we have explained in previous letters
> <http://www.lasg.org/letters/letters.html>, Wednesday is the day on which
> the City will announce the finalists for "Master Developer" of the former
> College of Santa Fe site (and possibly surrounding properties as well, a
> 64- to ~100-acre project). The National Nuclear Security Administration
> (NNSA) has applied for this role. NNSA and/or Los Alamos National
> Laboratory (LANL) are present in some (not all) other proposals, as
> tenant(s).
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> The situation is opaque, fluid, and developing. So far, Mayor Webber has
> disdainfully rebuffed our requests to meet or discuss the momentous social,
> cultural, and economic development impacts of placing a nuclear weapons
> campus in Santa Fe. (Don't be deceived -- that is exactly what LANL is and
> what this would be.)
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> People power may be the only force stronger than LANL's money and
> corruption. We really need you to help us expand our numbers.
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> If you live *anywhere* nearby please come to this joint press conference,
> and please ask as many friends to come as possible. Sheer attendance
> matters. A strong showing Wednesday will save countless hours of work
> later, and will give wings to efforts to push back on LANL's entirely
> unjustified expansion. There are many powerful people in Washington who
> know LANL specializes in taxpayer ripoffs. Some of them need to see some
> spine from us out here to take to their bosses.
>
> New Mexico is being selected to be a nuclear weapons support and sacrifice
> area. That now includes the Santa Fe metro area.
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> We may not know know the outcome of this first Midtown Campus decision by
> noon Wednesday but regardless of that we must seize the day.
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> While it seems absurd that NNSA could be a possible "master developer," we
> can't be sure that Mayor Webber and the people around him wouldn't want
> that -- or want, say, a training facility for plutonium workers. We just
> don't know.
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> This event will also give us a chance for us to network with each other
> and with representatives of any other groups present, as well as speak to
> any City officials willing to do so.
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> recommending right now. It is very, very important!  *
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