Vigils of peace

By Shaya Rogers, Features Reporter | Photo Illustration by Jonathan Gamboa

Employee celebrates 30 years protesting at Sandia Weapons Lab

Former instructor Chuck Hosking celebrates 30 years of peaceful protest outside the Sandia Weapons Lab.
Former instructor Chuck Hosking celebrates 30 years of peaceful protest outside the Sandia Weapons Lab.

 Former CNM instruc­tor and current Disability Resource Center note taker Chuck Hosking is celebrating 30 years of peaceful protest outside of Sandia Weapons Lab.

He has held more than 16,000 protests just out­side the entrances to the weapons lab and hopes that his peace vigil will inspire the Sandia employ­ees to consider what effect their career has on others, he said.

“Basically, what I’d like to do is to get these employees to think about something other than weapons of mass destruc­tion; to think about the ethical implications of their work,” he said.

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