Who we are
Updated 9/27/06

Shundahai Network was formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear disarmament activists, at the request of Corbin Harney, a Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader.

Shundahai Network is dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with indigenous communities and environmental, peace and human rights movements. We seek to abolish all nuclear weapons and an end to nuclear testing. We advocate phasing out nuclear energy and ending the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste. We promote the principles of Environmental Justice and strive to insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies. All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies and nonviolent direct action.

We maintain three main programs

Environmental Justice Now directly assists indigenous communities affected by nuclear issues, ensuring their voices are heard on the national level.

Nuclear Free Great Basin fights the dumping and transportation of nuclear waste in the Great Basin bio-region by linking communities, businesses and activists in a common strategy to stop the construction of nuclear waste dumps.

Action for Nuclear Abolition works for complete nuclear weapons disarmament and closure of the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear programs except for containment and clean up. To this end we organize educational gatherings and nonviolent direct actions increasing public awareness and involvement.

Shundahai Network opposes all nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production. We actively seek to close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at Yucca Mountain and Skull Valley Reservation. We work to educate about the dangers of radioactive waste transportation and promote a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops and conferences.

Our staff and volunteers work on a wide range of community outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent direct action to generate public awareness and apply political pressure on nuclear and indigenous rights issues.

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Audio Reports

• Listen to the Mother's Day '01 Gathering Recordings mp.3's
  Free Radio Newe Sogobia Spring '00

We are proud alliance members of:

• ABOLITION 2000, A Global network for the elimination of Nuclear Weapons began at the UN in 1995, when more than 60 NGO's from every continent adopted the Abolition Statement and put nuclear abolition on the worlds agenda. Abolition 2000 demands that negotiations begin immediately on a nuclear weapons convention for complete disarmament within a time bound framework. Abolition 2000 now has more than 2030 organizations and municipalities in 93 countries and continues to grow each day.

• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is composed of local, regional and national organizations working together to promote education and action addressing issues pertaining to the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and related facilities.  These issues include public and worker health and safety, the environment, peace and disarmament, economic and social justice, and government accountability.
• Heal Utah is an alliance of citizens and organizations united in an effort to protect the public from the risks of transporting, storing and disposing of nuclear and toxic wastes.

• Participants in Building Action for Sustainable Environments (BASE) Program BASE is a coalition of 17 organizations nationwide representing people of color and disenfranchized communities affected by the nuclear chain, as well as U.S. chemical and biowarfare facilities. Shundahai Network is honored to be a member of this effort. Email contacts are located at the end of each group description."

• US Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children, grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to educate public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the United States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to eliminate nuclear weapons. Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.