The Nevada Desert Experience hosted it's 14th annual August Desert Witness
in Las Vegas and the Nevada Test Site.  Corbin Harney began the day with a
sunrise ceremony.  At 8 am over 50 anti-nuclear activists from 10 states and
Canada gathered for a liturgy.  Half of the congregation was on the Bureau
of Land Management's claimed side of the fence and the other half of the
congregation was on the Department of Energy's claimed side of Western Shoshone
land.  After the liturgy many chose to walk in the desert.  There were 27
arrests.  The Nye County Sheriff's Department organized for a speedy release,
in the hot desert sun.  They provided a port-a-potty in the holding pens,
but no water.	
			David Buer, ofm
			Nevada Desert Experience