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01-July-1996 
 
GA96041 
 
Group works to restore creation 
 
ALBUQUERQUE--The director of Albuquerque's Southwest Organizing Project 
(SOP) told Presbyterians For Restoring Creation that "links to churches are 
the only way we do the work we do." 
 
    The work of SOP, according to Jeanne Gauna, its director, is activism 
around environmental, economic and justice issues in a state impacted by 
the advent of nuclear weapons testing and now the proposed storage of 
nuclear waste at a site in southern New Mexico. 
 
    "The cost of World War II is dead land forever near Los Alamos," she 
said during Monday's Restoring Creation luncheon, decrying the ecological 
and human damage nuclear development has brought to New Mexico.  "The 
land," she said, "will never be the same again ... 
 
    "The nuclear cycle begins and ends here," Gauna said, arguing that some 
of the implications of that cycle are health problems. 
 
    She said SOP relies on funding and moral support from the justice arms 
of mainline denominations like the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 
 
 
Alexa Smith 

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