From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Back From the Brink Job Listings Date: 01 Apr 2000 10:15:34 -0800 (PST) Dear peace and enviro advocates: Below are two job descriptions for positions on our de-alerting campaign, called "Back From the Brink." Please post and share them with potential candidates, and/or consider applying yourself. Ira Shorr is the person to whom replies or inquiries should be sent. Thanks, Marylia Reply to: Ira Shorr >Back From the Back >301-588-8923 > > >Back From the Brink has the following Job Openings > > >Constituency Outreach/Organizer Position > >Back From the Brink is a new, national public education campaign, whose goal >is to get nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. We are seeking a full time >program person for constituency outreach and to facilitate grassroots public >education efforts. Responsibilities will include: networking with a wide >range of national constituency organizations to involve them in the effort to >de-alert nuclear weapons; helping individuals and local organizations promote >public education activities; traveling to promote the campaign; and writing >resource materials on de-alerting. Person should have good speaking, >writing skills and computer skills, and preferably, some background in >nuclear weapons issues. Three years minimum experience in organizing and/or >outreach required. Salary: $30,000 and up (depending on experience) plus >benefits. Back From the Brink is currently envisioned to be a two to four >year project, and will be based in the Washington, D.C. area. > > > >Administrative Position > >Back From the Brink is a new, national public education campaign, whose goal >is to get nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. We are seeking a half-time >(20 hours a week) administrative person. Responsibilities will center on >handling administrative functions for a small office (three person staff) >including: phone and written correspondence, mailings, computer data base >management, accounts, outreach to individuals and organizations. Person must >be well organized, have good internet/computer and word-processing skills and >excellent communication skills. Three years minimum experience in >administrative work. Salary: $15-16,000 (plus benefits) Back From the Brink >is currently envisioned to be a two to four year project, and will be based >in the Washington, D.C. area. > > >Send a cover letter and resume by April 30 to: > >Ira Shorr >Back from the Brink >105 E. Franklin Avenue >Silver Spring, MD 20901 > >Ph: 301-588-8923 >e.mail: IRARR84@aol.com Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) New on Tri-Valley CAREs' website! Date: 01 Apr 2000 15:11:59 -0800 (PST) Dear peace and environmental advocates: Have you visited Tri-Valley CAREs' web site lately? You can find us at http://www.igc.org/tvc. Our webmeister has posted some new items for your reading pleasure, including our March 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch with articles about: * Missile Defense -- how and why it puts the United States and, indeed, the whole world at risk * Superfund cleanup -- all about an important May 4th Public Hearing on the proposed plan to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater resulting from weapons activities at the Livermore Lab's site 300, located between Livermore and Tracy, California * Community calendar, events and more Also conveniently posted for your reading and downloading pleasure are: (1) an analysis of the Department of Energy fiscal year 2001 budget request for nuclear weapons activities; (2) a spiffy graphic (easily downloadable) and text from which to create your own de-alerting postcards; (3) information on the National Ignition Facility and other so-called "Stockpile Stewardship" projects, (4) the complete text of the Community Acceptance Criteria we developed to guide the Livermore Lab site 300 cleanup, and much more! No shirt or shoes required. Nothing to buy. You are invited to visit our web site anytime. Peace, Marylia Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) NM Global Peace Walk April 4-22, 2000 Date: 02 Apr 2000 10:38:01 -0700 For immediate release: April 2, 2000 For more information: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 Global Peace Walk 2000 from San Francisco to Washington DC and to New York City, for the 55th anniversary of the United Nations and to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century, is now in New Mexico for a month of events to help fulfill its mission of bringing out the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, the first step towards actually realizing true global peace. Last week's local events in Phoenix, AZ, included ceremonies and meetings with representatives of Senator John McCain, and the Mayor of Phoenix who offered his proclamation of Phoenix as a Global Peace Zone. The Governor of Arizona also offered a letter of support. Both of these representatives agreed that the first essential step for the cause of global peace is for all of humanity to embrace this firm resolve for "Global Peace Now!". A new Independent US Presidential candidacy was formally announced at the walk's ceremony outside Senator McCain's office and the scheduled new clean-energy technology presentation by a local inventor was cancelled. In Albuquerque, on the Tuesday, April 4th, anniversary of the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the local Global Peace Walk takes place at 11AM from Robinson Park to the Mayor's office. In Santa Fe, on Friday, April 7th the local walk begins at 12noon after an 11AM ceremony at the Children's Peace Statue located behind the downtown Post Office in the Plaza at Paseo de Peralta and Old Taos Hwy. The walk will go by City Hall and end at the State Capitol Rotunda. At Noon on Saturday, April 8th, the traditional Buddha's Birthday anniversary, a "Finishing Karma Ceremony" will be conducted by Global Peace Walk initiator and Zen Buddhist Monk Yusen Yamato at the memorial gravestones in Rosario Cemetery of the WWII Japanese Internment Camp whose entrance is located at Paseo de Peralta and Hwy 285. Mayor Delgado participated in a previous ceremony at this site after proclaiming Santa Fe a Global Peace Zone. Governor Johnson gave a support letter to the Global Peace Walk in 1995 and he and Mayor Delgado have been invited to this April 8th ceremony. On Friday evening, April 14th, the band called Big Mountain will headline a benefit concert for the Global Peace Walk 2000 at Albuquerque's El Rey Theater with tickets available at the theater or through Ticketmaster. In Taos, on Saturday, April 22nd, the 6th annual Global Peace Walk EarthDay gathering will take place in Kit Carson Park beginning with a sunrise ceremony. This EarthDay2000 event is among thousands worldwide expected to involve 500 million people from nearly every country of the globe in support of the "Clean Energy Now!" campaign. In 1995 Taos became the first city to become a Global Peace Zone by mayoral proclamation in support of the Global Peace Walk project's goal of creating a worldwide Global Peace Zone. "Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented effort", says Earth Day Network National Coordinator Christopher J. Curtis in his support letter for Global Peace Walk 2000. Daily updates on the walk's location are recorded on the voicemail at 415-267-1877 where messages for the walkers may also be left. Flyers and latest details/updates for Global Peace Walk local coordinators may be found at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk . Global Peace Walk 2000 took its first step from the War Memorial Building in San Francisco, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday on January 15, 2000, after a morning ceremony conducted by Western Shoshone indigenous spiritual leader Corbin Harney and Reverend Yamato. The initiating route of the Global Peace Walk project took place in 1995 from January 15th to June 20th from New York to San Francisco for the UN50th anniversary. Along the way Global Peace Walk 2000 has received letters and proclamations of support from many religious, community and political leaders, including the mayors of San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo (County Board of Supervisors), Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Williams, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, AZ; Gallup, NM; and the Navajo Nation. The number of walkers is being kept intentionally small (a few dozen) until the main rendezvous of branch routes with peacewalkers from around the world who may join the last ten weeks from the August 6th Hiroshima Day gathering under the famous East-West Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri. Many survival issue messages are being collected by the walk for delivery in Washington DC and to the United Nations. Supporters of the walk, and its "Global Peace Now!" message, may or may not support all of these survival issue messages. The Global Peace Walkers are carrying petitions, messages, and information to educate and network with people and groups on such survival issues as: The Abolition2000 call to ban nuclear weapons worldwide; Protecting Land & Life and other environmental and social issues; Native American issues (e.g., Leonard Peltier clemency; Big Mountain Dineh relocation, AZ, Ward Valley nuclear waste dump, CA; Nevada Nuclear Test Site and Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump - Shoshone treaty violations); Sustainable global economy (e.g., permaculture, industrial hemp); Alternative healing/medicine; medical cannabis/marijuana relegalization; Global conflict resolution by creating a Culture of Peace and a Spiritual United Nations; the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement; Peace Pagoda Project; Global Peace Zone Project; Proper funding to complete research and development of the New Clean-Energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power and neutralize radioactive wastes; and other issues that people offer to the walkers along the way. For the New Mexico events, specially invited presenters include Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor "Thomas" Takashi Tanemori of the Silkworm Peace Institute, New Clean-Energy technology inventor Paul LeBreton of Laguna, and Ann McCormick of Compassionate Moms and Cures-Not-Wars who joined the walk in Phoenix and whose son Todd McCormick is a California cancer patient and medical cannabis user sentenced to five years imprisonment in Los Angeles Federal Court on March 27, 2000, in a case followed by the national media because the Federal Government denied the validity of the California medical use law (Proposition 215) and because of actor Woody Harrelson's posting of Todd's half million dollar bail while awaiting trial and sentencing. On Saturday, May 6th, the Global Peace Walkers will return to Albuquerque to take part in the Medical Marijuana March event there, one of 79 cities worldwide that day conducting such events in support of harm reduction policies, medical cannabis relegalization, and legalization of the anti-addiction rainforest vine root extract Ibogaine now in advanced stages of government testing for its demonstrated ability to end heroin and cocaine addiction for many people with one treatment. On Saturday, October 7, 2000, the Global Peace Walk will arrive to The White House in Washington DC bringing accumulated letters and messages (more papers than Ken Starr delivered to Congress?) and "The Message of Peace” to US Government leaders. On Sunday, October 8th, the walkers will conduct a ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the construction of the US Capitol and The White House, taking place at the original geographic center of the Capitol complex (the "Jefferson Strone") where the Washington Monument was to be sited before discovery that the ground would not support its weight. On the Monday, October 9th Columbus Day Holiday (also John Lennon's 60th birthday and, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the recognized 1000 year anniversary of the Vikings' landing in America) a "Millennial Peace Ceremony" will be conducted with perhaps over one million people participating, including major political figures and candidates, to rededicate the Washington Monument as a "Symbol of The Message of Peace". Global Peace Walk 2000 will end in New York City at the United Nations on October 24th, 2000 (United Nations Day, 55th anniversary of ratification of UN Charter created June 20, 1945) to deliver its accumulated letters and The Message of Peace to the world government leaders, to reaffirm the original principles of the United Nations Charter to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war...reaffirm faith in the dignity of human rights” to “live together in peace”, and to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century. "Living On the Globe with All Our Friends" "Global Peace Now!" -30- For the most recent reports on the walk, copies of letters and proclamations of support, etc., and to subscribe to the Global Peace Walk 2000 local coordinators email group list, see http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk For printable typeset efax version of main walk flyer see http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/208.html Master GPW2000 schedule with links to printable local flyers, maps http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html Selected list of letters and proclamations of support linked to texts http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/listproc.html Links to other New Clean-Energy researchers http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/10.html For more information, contact: David Crockett Williams gear2000@lightspeed.net 661-822-3309 GLOBAL EMERGENCY ALERT RESPONSE http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk latest updates/releases USCampaign: Williams-Peltier for US Pres/VP gear2000@onemain.com http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier The Vision of Paradise on Earth http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html **Support HR 2545: Global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act Details & Email: http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Sign letters to senators http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter Easy index to email Congress & Media http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (copy & paste email letters to media and Congress) An Agenda for Peace http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Important notice regarding Fail Safe Date: 03 Apr 2000 10:47:51 -0500 PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY Dear Friends: For those of you in the Central and Mountain time zones, the CBS-TV live re-make of the anti-nuclear thriller Fail Safe will not be at 9:00 p.m., as CBS had previously told us. The show will air at 8:00 Central time, 7:00 Mountain time. For east and west coast activists, nothing has changed; Fail Safe will air at 9:00 Eastern and 9:00 Pacific time. Thus, the show will be "live" in all time zones except Pacific. CBS apologized for their error. Let me stress once again that everyone should call their local CBS station to confirm the time the show will air in your town, but the information we have now is 9:00 Eastern, 8:00 Central, 7:00 Mountain, and 9:00 Pacific. I realize this new information poses a problem for those of us (including me) in Central or Mountain time zones who've already scheduled watch parties based on the erroneous information that the show would be on at 9:00. (We have at least four parties to reshedule in Northern Indiana, and we had a front-page article in yesterday's Goshen News on Fail Safe with the wrong time. Ugh!) At least we have six days to reschedule watch parties an hour or two earlier and contact attendees and the local media. My apologies, again, we had been fed erroneous information by CBS. On another note, the CBS website, , now has much more information about Fail Safe. It will be a re-make of the original, that is it will be set in 1964, not updated to 2000. George Clooney said they tested the original film to a group of young people and found that the fear of nuclear war still resonated with them. Some activists have expressed concern to me that the film might be somehow turned around into a pro-nuke, or at least pro-Star Wars film. While I can't guarantee anything, I haven't seen the re-make (nor has anyone else, because it's being done live), I don't see how the film itself could be turned into a piece of pro-nuke propaganda. If pro-nuke folks try to use the film as an occasion to say, in the media, that "the continuing danger of accidental nuclear war shows why we need missile defense", then that's great, it provides us with an opportunity to refute that nonsense and give our answer, that the continuing nuclear danger shows that the only answer is to eliminate the scourge of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. Matter of fact, I hope some pro-nuke folks do try that line, so we can bring the debate out of its slumber. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Serious challenge Date: 03 Apr 2000 14:50:30 -0400 --=====================_54677126==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It has come to my attention that the new flier for the US Abolition campaign (I haven't seen it yet) asks people to lobby for the Woolsey and Markey resolutions, but doesn't mention Norton's bill, HR-2545 (http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm). I know you are aware of it. I don't know who prepared the flier, and accidents happen, but I have a suspicion that this was a policy decision rather than oversight. Can anyone explain? Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org *** BAN AND BURY ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * Sign the Petition Online!: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Depleted uranium keeps on killing!: http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm --=====================_54677126==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
It has come to my attention that the new flier for the US Abolition campaign (I haven't seen it yet) asks people to lobby for the Woolsey and Markey resolutions, but doesn't mention Norton's bill, HR-2545 (http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm).  I know you are aware of it.  I don't know who prepared the flier, and accidents happen, but I have a suspicion that this was a policy decision rather than oversight.

Can anyone explain? 
 
Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389
prop1@prop1.org  --  http://prop1.org

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BAN AND BURY ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS
* depleted uranium, fission, neutron *

Sign the Petition Online!:  http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html
Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm
Depleted uranium keeps on killing!: http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm
NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
--=====================_54677126==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nukeresister@igc.org (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa) Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Serious challenge - I second this! Date: 03 Apr 2000 15:01:45 -0700 This is frustrating. Whoever answers, please post to the list, not just to Ellen. I doubt anyone outside of Peace Park has gathered as many signatures in the last decade+ for abolition, and thus helped get E.H. Norton to sponsor a bill she was also initially inclined to ignore. I hope the US abolition campaign coordinators take a different course than to ignore this. Jack >It has come to my attention that the new flier for the US Abolition campaign (I >haven't seen it yet) asks people to lobby for the Woolsey and Markey >resolutions, but doesn't mention Norton's bill, HR-2545 >(http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm). I know you are aware of it. I don't know >who prepared the flier, and accidents happen, but I have a suspicion that this >was a policy decision rather than oversight. > >Can anyone explain? > >Ellen Thomas >Proposition One Committee >PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 >202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 >prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org _____________________________________ the Nuclear Resister "a chronicle of hope" P.O. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Subject: (abolition-usa) Action alert Date: 03 Apr 2000 15:07:53 -0800 Wal-Martís response to filthy factory farms Recently, corporate giant Wal-Mart announced it will be among the first to sell raw meat products that have been exposed to doses of radiation equal to or greater than 10 million x-rays. Rather than insuring that meat is not contaminated with fecal matter, which harbors food-borne disease, the meat industry will attempt to kill the bacteria with radiation. Irradiated food will soon be test-marketed around the country. Take action now! Wal-Mart is planning to sell irradiated meat at a premium. Customers will not be warned that their meat could still contain fecal matter, they will only be told that irradiation has made their food ěbacteria freeî which is a potentially dangerous stretch of the truth. Customers will not be told that irradiation destroys nutrition and creates new, untested chemicals in food. Tell Wal-Mart you will not buy their filthy meat! H. Lee Scott Jr, CEO 702 SW Eighth St. Bentonville, AR 72716-8611 501-273-1917 501-273-4000 Background: Consumers need to be informed that proper handling and thorough cooking of meat kills bacteria and will protect them against food-borne disease. But, the meat industry would rather use a band-aid approach to solving food safety problems than clean up filthy slaughterhouses. If the meat industry cared about public health, would it promote food irradiation, which: Depletes vitamins and minerals; Creates new chemicals in food, some of which are known carcinogens; Poses a threat to workers and the environment through the use of radioactive materials and deadly levels of radiation; Creates more nuclear waste, adding to the already staggering problem? No! If the meat industry was concerned with public health, it would clean up its factory farms and offer a product that deserves consumer confidence. Instead, industry is pressuring the Food and Drug Administration to allow the sale of irradiated meat without labels in order to keep consumers in the dark. Seventy-seven percent of Americans say they do not want to buy irradiated filth.* Do you? *according to a 1997 CBS News Poll Take action! Tell Wal-Mart you do not want their filthy meat! Also, tell your local grocer not to sell food that has been irradiated. Call Public Citizen at 202-546-4996 or visit HYPERLINK http://www.nonukedfood.org www.nonukedfood.org for more about food irradiation and what you can do. Sample Letter to Wal-Mart: H. Lee Scott, Jr. Wal-Mart Incorporated 702 Southwest Eighth Street Bentonville, AK 72716 Dear Mr. Scott: As a long-time customer of Wal-Mart, I am writing to express my outrage that your stores are selling irradiated meat. Irradiation serves as a mask to the problem of poor meat processing practices that leave meat contaminated with feces, urine and puss. Although irradiation may kill most of the bacteria, meat still may contain fecal matter. While proponents of the process state that irradiation will make food safer, no one really knows the health impacts of eating irradiated food. New chemicals called unique radiolytic products are created in the irradiation process and no testing has been done to identify these chemicals, much less to determine if they are safe. The evidence indicates that chromosomal damage (among other problems) could occur as the result of consuming irradiated food. Foods that have been exposed to ionizing radiation have second-rate nutrition and counterfeit freshness. Even at low doses, some irradiated foods lose 20% of vitamins such as A, C, E and B complex. Because irradiation breaks down the foodís cell walls, accelerated vitamin losses occur during storageóup to 80%. According to your Website, ěSam Walton believed that each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.î Mr. Scott, you should know that American consumers do not value meat products treated by the radiation equivalent of 10 to 70 million x-rays. As a matter of fact, market research shows that consumers are overwhelmingly opposed to eating irradiated food. A 1997 CBS News poll found that 73 percent of the public opposed radiation and 77 percent would not eat irradiated food. A 1999 poll, jointly sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), found that 86 percent of Americans want irradiated food labeled. I call on Wal-Mart to put public health ahead of corporate profits and pledge not to sell irradiate meat and to clearly label the beef sold at Wal-Mart as IRRADIATION FREE! Sincerely, - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Date: 03 Apr 2000 15:08:02 -0800 Please read, sign and distribute as widely as possible! To endorse this statement please copy the form below and return it to cmep@citizen.org or fax it to (202) 547-7392 att. CMEP. Yes! We endorse this statement on food irradiation. Name of organization: Address (city and state): Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Contact person (name and title): Statement on Food Irradiation The food industry and its allies in the federal government are promoting the use of high levels of radiation to "sterilize" the filth that contaminates our food. Rather than ensuring clean, wholesome, high-quality food by cleaning up the food industry, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have legalized the irradiation of food, a technological fix that hides the real cause of food-borne illness: filthy food produced by factory farms and processed at slaughterhouses. The emergence of new bacteria like deadly strains of deadly E. coli are a direct result of industrialized farming practices. Food irradiation is a short-term, unproven fix for a long-term problem with the way our food is produced and processed. Many kinds of food can now be irradiated, including fruits, vegetables, beef, poultry, lamb, pork, and spices. The government legalized food irradiation based on studies conducted before 1980-modern toxicological studies on the safety of irradiated food have not been performed. Irradiation creates new chemicals in food, called unique radiolytic products (URPs), many of which have not been identified, much less tested for safety. Enough scientific evidence exists to cause concern, including evidence of chromosomal damage. Irradiation also destroys vitamins, enzymes, and beneficial bacteria. According to FDA and USDA regulations, irradiated food has to be labeled if sold in retail stores such as supermarkets. However, labeling is not required in restaurants, schools, hospitals, or by food caterers or food service providers. Under pressure from the food industry, the FDA is considering eliminating labeling altogether. Since no one knows the effects of feeding growing youngsters irradiated food, parents should be especially concerned. Processed foods, such as baby food, do not have to be labeled if irradiated. Schools are not required to tell parents that they are serving irradiated food. The government has shown no concern for the health impacts on children (or the elderly, or low-income people) that may end up eating food made less nutritious from exposure to radiation. Most irradiation facilities use the radioactive isotopes Cobalt 60 or Cesium 137. If food irradiation becomes economically feasible, hundreds of new irradiation facilities will be built across the North American continent, creating additional radioactive waste disposal and transport problems. Actions: ˙ The FDA should continue requiring the labeling of irradiated food. People have a right to know whether their food has been exposed to an amount of radiation equal to between 10 million and 70 million chest x-rays. ˙ Congress should strengthen food-labeling laws so consumers know in all circumstances whether their food has been irradiated. ˙ Corporations that plan to sell irradiated food products should honor a consumer's right-to-know by voluntarily providing easy-to-read labels for all processed foods. ˙ Those corporations that plan to sell irradiated foods should inform customers that the food product could still contain fecal matter and that irradiation destroys vitamins and creates untested chemicals, this is especially true when selling irradiated meat and other products at a premium. ˙ Restaurants, schools, airlines, hospitals and food service providers should voluntarily label food as irradiated so that people know what they are eating. ˙ Congress should fund new and unbiased research on the toxicological effects of food irradiation. These studies should determine the health impacts from eating unique radiolytic products (URPs), which are created by exposing food to radiation. Studies should also look at the safety impacts caused by the irradiation of various food additives and contaminants, such as pesticides, chlorine, dyes, bacteria, and viruses. ˙ Federal and state agencies that allow food irradiation should be required to perform an environmental impact statement regarding the environmental danger associated with the increased use, handling, transporting, and disposal of radioactive materials. ˙ Congress should require the FDA and the USDA to address the root causes of food borne disease: factory farms and filthy slaughterhouses. To endorse this statement please copy the form below and return it to cmep@citizen.org or fax it to (202) 547-7392 att. CMEP. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally light Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Serious challenge Date: 03 Apr 2000 18:27:31 +0100 --------------95AB9F64DF26EDF023B9A3E4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Ellen - Thank you for your message re: the Norton bill. As one of the US CAMPAIGN's Coordinating Committee members, about 1 month ago I asked that you, as Convener of the Congressional FocusWorking Group, be contacted to brief the Coordinating Committee re: Norton's bill, because I felt that we should consider it along with the Woolsey/Markey resolutions. Apparently you never got that request. So, let me now ask that you, if you have the time available, please send your assessment of the Norton bill to us in time for our next conference call on April 12. Also, if you would like to be on that call, please let me know and I'll have your report to the Coordinating Committee added to the agenda. You can respond to me at my email address shown above. Thanks very much for spotting this important issue. Sally Light Tri-Valley CAREs US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Ellen Thomas wrote: > It has come to my attention that the new flier for the US Abolition > campaign (I haven't seen it yet) asks people to lobby for the Woolsey > and Markey resolutions, but doesn't mention Norton's bill, HR-2545 > (http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm). I know you are aware of it. I > don't know who prepared the flier, and accidents happen, but I have a > suspicion that this was a policy decision rather than oversight. Can > anyone explain? > Ellen Thomas > Proposition One Committee > PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 > 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 > prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org > > *** > BAN AND BURY ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS > * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * > Sign the Petition Online!: > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html > Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - > http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm > Depleted uranium keeps on killing!: > http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm > NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm > --------------95AB9F64DF26EDF023B9A3E4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Ellen -  Thank you for your message re:  the Norton bill.  As one of the US CAMPAIGN's  Coordinating Committee members, about 1 month ago I asked that you, as Convener of the Congressional FocusWorking Group, be contacted to brief the Coordinating Committee re:  Norton's bill, because I felt that we should consider it along with the Woolsey/Markey resolutions.  Apparently you never got that request.  So, let me now ask that you, if you have the time available, please send your assessment of the Norton bill to us in time for our next conference call on April 12.  Also, if you would like to be on that call, please let me know and I'll have your report to the Coordinating Committee added to the agenda.  You can respond to me at my email address shown above.  Thanks very much for spotting this important issue.

Sally Light
Tri-Valley CAREs
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Ellen Thomas wrote:

It has come to my attention that the new flier for the US Abolition campaign (I haven't seen it yet) asks people to lobby for the Woolsey and Markey resolutions, but doesn't mention Norton's bill, HR-2545 (http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm).  I know you are aware of it.  I don't know who prepared the flier, and accidents happen, but I have a suspicion that this was a policy decision rather than oversight. Can anyone explain?
Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389
prop1@prop1.org  --  http://prop1.org

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Contact: 202/994-3087. ________________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Don't Forget! Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html ________________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Serious challenge Date: 04 Apr 2000 06:20:34 -0400 --=====================_44587833==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thank you for the quick response. I would be pleased to brief re HR-2545 -- see http://prop1.org/prop1/ehn99716.htm as a starter. If you need anything else, please let me know. Yes, I would like to be included on the Conference Call on April 12 -- 202-462-0757 -- please advise what time it will be? Ellen At 06:27 PM 4/3/2000 +0100, Sally light wrote: > > Hi Ellen - Thank you for your message re: the Norton bill. As one of the > US CAMPAIGN's Coordinating Committee members, about 1 month ago I asked that > you, as Convener of the Congressional FocusWorking Group, be contacted to > brief the Coordinating Committee re: Norton's bill, because I felt that we > should consider it along with the Woolsey/Markey resolutions. Apparently you > never got that request. So, let me now ask that you, if you have the time > available, please send your assessment of the Norton bill to us in time for > our next conference call on April 12. Also, if you would like to be on that > call, please let me know and I'll have your report to the Coordinating > Committee added to the agenda. You can respond to me at my email address > shown above. Thanks very much for spotting this important issue. > > Sally Light > Tri-Valley CAREs > US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS ________________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Don't Forget! Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html ________________________________________________________________ --=====================_44587833==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Thank you for the quick response.  I would be pleased to brief re HR-2545 -- see http://prop1.org/prop1/ehn99716.htm as a starter.  If you need anything else, please let me know.  Yes, I would like to be included on the Conference Call on April 12 -- 202-462-0757 -- please advise what time it will be?  Ellen

At 06:27 PM 4/3/2000 +0100, Sally light <sallight@earthlink.net>
 wrote:
Hi Ellen -  Thank you for your message re:  the Norton bill.  As one of the US CAMPAIGN's  Coordinating Committee members, about 1 month ago I asked that you, as Convener of the Congressional FocusWorking Group, be contacted to brief the Coordinating Committee re:  Norton's bill, because I felt that we should consider it along with the Woolsey/Markey resolutions.  Apparently you never got that request.  So, let me now ask that you, if you have the time available, please send your assessment of the Norton bill to us in time for our next conference call on April 12.  Also, if you would like to be on that call, please let me know and I'll have your report to the Coordinating Committee added to the agenda.  You can respond to me at my email address shown above.  Thanks very much for spotting this important issue.

Sally Light
Tri-Valley CAREs
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS



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________________________________________________________________ --=====================_44587833==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Congressional co-sponsors of HR-2545 and the Markey/Woolsey Date: 04 Apr 2000 06:52:13 -0400 --=====================_46487633==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >get update information on all resolutions, woosley, markey and on >norton, hr2545, number of sponsors? who the sponsors are? Here's the relevant information not only on HR-2545, but also on Markey, Woolsey, and Kucinich resolutions. Let me know if you need anything else. -- H.R.2545 (Bill - text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545ab.htm) Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (introduced 7/16/1999) Title: To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992. Rep Lewis, John - 8/5/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/10/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 8/5/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/23/2000 (That last one was a surprise -- and a good one!) -- HCON 177 IH (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres177) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 8/5/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that nuclear weapons should be taken off hair-trigger alert. COSPONSORS(89), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 11/4/1999 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 9/28/1999 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 11/5/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 9/28/1999 Rep Barcia, James A. - 11/1/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 2/1/2000 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 11/4/1999 Rep Bonior, David E. - 10/13/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 11/5/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 9/28/1999 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 11/15/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 11/17/1999 Rep Coyne, William J. - 11/5/1999 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 11/4/1999 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 2/1/2000 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 11/4/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 10/13/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 11/17/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 11/4/1999 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 11/15/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 11/4/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 9/28/1999 Rep Gordon, Bart - 11/15/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 10/26/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 11/5/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/26/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/1/2000 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 11/5/1999 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 11/15/1999 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 11/5/1999 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 10/26/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 11/1/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/13/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/18/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/28/1999 Rep Levin, Sander M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Lewis, John - 11/5/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 9/28/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/13/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 9/28/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 9/28/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 11/22/1999 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 10/13/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 11/5/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 9/28/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 11/5/1999 Rep Miller, George - 11/17/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 11/5/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 11/4/1999 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/28/1999 Rep Oberstar, James L. - 11/9/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/15/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 10/13/1999 Rep Price, David E. - 2/1/2000 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 11/15/1999 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 10/13/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 11/15/1999 Rep Sawyer, Tom - 11/4/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 11/4/1999 Rep Stabenow, Debbie - 2/1/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 9/28/1999 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 11/18/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 10/13/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Tom - 11/5/1999 Rep Vento, Bruce F. - 11/4/1999 Rep Waters, Maxine - 11/5/1999 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 11/5/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 11/15/1999 Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 10/13/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 9/28/1999 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/15/1999 -- H.CON.RES.74 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres74) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 3/24/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile. COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 4/12/1999 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 5/4/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/4/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 5/4/1999 Rep DeGette, Diana - 3/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 2/1/2000 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/12/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 3/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 2/29/2000 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/22/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/17/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 3/24/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/24/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 2/1/2000 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 3/24/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 3/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 3/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/24/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 3/24/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 3/24/1999 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/12/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/28/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/12/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 3/24/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 4/12/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999 -- H.RES.82 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99woolsey.htm) Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. (introduced 2/24/1999) Title: Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament. COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/14/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/20/1999 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/24/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/14/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/6/1999 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 2/24/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 2/24/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/24/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/24/1999 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 3/17/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/5/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/24/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/14/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/20/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/30/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 3/23/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/23/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/24/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/17/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 2/24/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 2/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/23/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/3/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/30/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 2/24/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/24/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 3/24/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/6/1999 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/24/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/24/1999 Rep Thompson, Mike - 10/7/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/24/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 4/13/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/24/1999 ------------ Additionally, Dennis Kucinich has introduced a resolution supporting Woolsey's resolution: -- H.RES.369 (Resolution Text Below) Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 11/9/1999) Title: On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 11/9/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/9/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 11/9/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/9/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 11/18/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 11/9/1999 Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental... (Introduced in the House) HRES 369 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 369 On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 9, 1999 Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. OWENS, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. JACKSON of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations RESOLUTION On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental nuclear war; Whereas the United States has failed to fulfill its obligations toward nuclear disarmament under article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures toward nuclear disarmament; Whereas the bilateral measures for nuclear arms control under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) process have ground to a halt with restrictions by the Congress for further cuts below START II levels until the Russian Duma ratifies START II; Whereas in 1991 President George Bush ordered the United States to unilaterally withdraw tens of thousands of forward-deployed nuclear tactical weapons and remove thousands more from high alert status and Russian President Gorbachev reciprocated; Whereas on August 19, 1999, Russia proposed additional reductions by cutting nearly in half the number of nuclear warheads that would be allowed under a prospective START III treaty and the United States failed to agree to the offer; and Whereas previous congressional resolutions on furthering complete nuclear disarmament (such as H. Res. 82) require the urgent attention of the Congress to adopt such measures for the prompt reduction of nuclear weapons ; and Whereas a congressional delegation met with a Duma delegation during the war in Kosovo and successfully promoted cooperation and built confidence between both countries: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) urges the President to initiate emergency negotiations with Russia leading to reciprocal reductions in the strategic and substrategic arsenals in both countries; (2) welcomes House Resolution 82 and requests the support of the Congress to promote measures through the United Nations on nuclear disarmament; and (3) requests that a congressional delegation convene meetings to discuss nuclear disarmament of United States and Russian nuclear arsenals with a delegation from the Russian Duma as soon as possible. Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org *** BAN AND BURY ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * Sign the Petition Online!: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Depleted uranium keeps on killing!: http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm --=====================_46487633==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
>get update information on all resolutions, woosley, markey and on
>norton, hr2545, number of sponsors? who the sponsors are?

Here's the relevant information not only on HR-2545, but also on Markey, Woolsey, and Kucinich resolutions.  Let me know if you need anything else.

-- H.R.2545  (Bill - text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545ab.htm)

Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (introduced 7/16/1999)
Title: To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992.

Rep Lewis, John - 8/5/1999
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/10/1999
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 8/5/1999
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/23/2000

(That last one was a surprise -- and a good one!)

-- HCON 177 IH   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres177)

Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 8/5/1999)
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that nuclear weapons should be taken off hair-trigger
alert.

COSPONSORS(89), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 11/4/1999
 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 11/5/1999
 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 9/28/1999
 Rep Barcia, James A. - 11/1/1999
 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 2/1/2000
 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Bonior, David E. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 11/5/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 9/28/1999
 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 11/15/1999
 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 11/17/1999
 Rep Coyne, William J. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 11/4/1999
 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 2/1/2000
 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 11/4/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 11/17/1999
 Rep Farr, Sam - 11/4/1999
 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 11/15/1999
 Rep Filner, Bob - 11/4/1999
 Rep Frank, Barney - 9/28/1999
 Rep Gordon, Bart - 11/15/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/1/2000
 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 11/5/1999
 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 11/5/1999
 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 11/1/1999
 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/18/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/28/1999
 Rep Levin, Sander M. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Lewis, John - 11/5/1999
 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 9/28/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Luther, Bill - 9/28/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 11/22/1999
 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 10/13/1999
 Rep McDermott, Jim - 11/5/1999
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 9/28/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 11/17/1999
 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 11/5/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 11/4/1999
 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/28/1999
 Rep Oberstar, James L. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 10/13/1999
 Rep Price, David E. - 2/1/2000
 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 11/15/1999
 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 10/13/1999
 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 11/15/1999
 Rep Sawyer, Tom - 11/4/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Stabenow, Debbie - 2/1/2000
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 9/28/1999
 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 11/18/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 11/5/1999
 Rep Udall, Mark - 11/5/1999
 Rep Udall, Tom - 11/5/1999
 Rep Vento, Bruce F. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Waters, Maxine - 11/5/1999
 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/15/1999

-- H.CON.RES.74   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres74)

Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 3/24/1999)
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile.

COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 4/12/1999
 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 5/4/1999
 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/4/1999
 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 5/4/1999
 Rep DeGette, Diana - 3/24/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Farr, Sam - 2/1/2000
 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/12/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 2/29/2000
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/22/1999
 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/17/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 3/24/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 2/1/2000
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/24/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 3/24/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/24/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/12/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/28/2000
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/12/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Udall, Mark - 4/12/1999
 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999

-- H.RES.82   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99woolsey.htm)

Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. (introduced 2/24/1999)
Title: Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament.

COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/14/1999
 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/20/1999
 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/24/1999
 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/14/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/6/1999
 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/24/1999
 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/24/1999
 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 3/17/1999
 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/14/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/20/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/30/1999
 Rep Luther, Bill - 3/23/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/23/1999
 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/24/1999
 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/17/1999
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/24/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 2/24/1999
 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/23/1999
 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/3/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/30/1999
 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 3/24/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/6/1999
 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/24/1999
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/24/1999
 Rep Thompson, Mike - 10/7/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/24/1999
 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 4/13/1999
 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/24/1999

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Additionally, Dennis Kucinich has introduced a resolution supporting Woolsey's resolution:

-- H.RES.369  (Resolution Text Below)
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 11/9/1999)
Title: On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 11/9/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 11/9/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 11/18/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 11/9/1999

Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental... (Introduced in the House)

HRES 369 IH

                                   106th CONGRESS

                                      1st Session

                                     H. RES. 369

On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

                       IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                 November 9, 1999

Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. OWENS, Mr.
MARKEY, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. JACKSON of Illinois) submitted the
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
                                    RESOLUTION

On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental nuclear war;

Whereas the United States has failed to fulfill its obligations toward nuclear disarmament under article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures toward nuclear disarmament;

Whereas the bilateral measures for nuclear arms control under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) process have ground to a halt with restrictions by the Congress for further cuts below START II levels until the Russian Duma ratifies START II;

Whereas in 1991 President George Bush ordered the United States to unilaterally withdraw tens of thousands of forward-deployed nuclear tactical weapons and remove thousands more from high alert status and Russian President Gorbachev reciprocated;

Whereas on August 19, 1999, Russia proposed additional reductions by cutting nearly in half the number of nuclear warheads that would be allowed under a prospective START III treaty and the United States failed to agree to the offer; and

Whereas previous congressional resolutions on furthering complete nuclear disarmament (such as H. Res. 82) require the urgent attention of the Congress to adopt such measures for the prompt reduction of nuclear weapons ; and

Whereas a congressional delegation met with a Duma delegation during the war in Kosovo and successfully promoted cooperation and built confidence between both countries: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

        (1) urges the President to initiate emergency negotiations with Russia leading to reciprocal reductions in the strategic and substrategic arsenals in both countries;

        (2) welcomes House Resolution 82 and requests the support of the Congress to promote measures through the United Nations on nuclear disarmament; and

        (3) requests that a congressional delegation convene meetings to discuss nuclear disarmament of United States and Russian nuclear arsenals with a delegation from the Russian Duma as soon as possible.

Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389
prop1@prop1.org  --  http://prop1.org

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--=====================_46487633==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles F Hilfenhaus Subject: (abolition-usa) Oboe 4 Set for 4-6 Date: 04 Apr 2000 15:30:29 EDT The U.S. Department of Energy has scheduled the subcritical nuclear test Oboe 4 for the afternoon of 4-6. Local activists led by Shundahai Network plan to protest Thursday morning at the Nevada Test Site and in the afternoon in Las Vegas. Charlie Hilfenhaus Alliance of Atomic Veterans Director, Atomic Workers Division chilfenhaus@juno.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) local media work around Fail Safe Date: 04 Apr 2000 15:05:47 -0500 Dear Friends, Project Abolition's media consultant reports that CBS is very interested in our watch party campaign around this Sunday's live CBS-TV re-make of the anti-nuclear classic "Fail Safe" (9:00 eastern, 8:00 central, 7:00 mountain, 9:00 pacific times). It's not too late to organize a house party with eight to ten of your friends. Contact me via email or call me at 800/233-6786, ext. 21 for last-minute assistance in organizing a house party. Even if you aren't organizing a watch party, I think it's still worth contacting your local CBS station. You can offer yourself or someone from your local peace group for interviews commenting on "Fail Safe" and the issues the show raises on the ongoing nuclear threat. This show represents a rare opportunity -- 20 to 30 million people are expected to watch -- when the mainstream media addresses the issue of nuclear weapons. Let's not miss the chance to get our message out in the media. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erippy@jps.net Subject: (abolition-usa) SGI to push for CTBT ratification, hard look at 'subcritical' tests Date: 04 Apr 2000 15:25:55 -0700 0100,0100,0100Daisaku Ikeda, pres. of the Buddhist lay org Sokka Gakkai International (SGI), wrote in his most recent peace proposal: < [Quote] The SGI intends to promote an international network for the promotion of CTBT ratification, consistent with our long-held stance in support of nuclear disarmament. Such a network would generate momentum to press states that have not yet ratified the Treaty, using the New Diplomacy technique of working together with other NGOs and those governments that are committed to promoting ratification. I believe that this campaign should not only encourage each state to ratify the CTBT, but also advocate two additional points in order to enhance the CTBT's effectiveness. The first of these two points is to seek the understanding and cooperation of all states toward obtaining the financing required to create the kind of verification regime stipulated in the CTBT. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty Organization is currently setting up a verification regime that includes facilities, scattered throughout the globe, for detecting nuclear tests. These efforts, which work to the common advantage of all signatory states, should be continued regardless of the status of progress toward ratification. The second point is to build consensus for the establishment of a mechanism to determine if subcritical experiments, not explicitly prohibited by the CTBT, run counter to the Treaty's intent. (The CTBT's preamble clearly states that its intention is to take effective measures toward nuclear disarmament and against the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects.) With many nonnuclear weapon states frustrated with the carrying out of subcritical experiments, the establishment of such a mechanism would go a long way toward responding to these frustrations and enhancing the effectiveness of the CTBT. [End quote] -- Since David Krieger0100,0100,0100 knows Ikeda fairly well (I gather) I wdn't be surprised to see NAPF broach this project. I'm talking to the E. Bay Peace Action board abt it next week -- we'd love to see a CTBT w/ 'nuclear test' defined as any test which produces n-wpns design data. Speaking of subcriticals, I'll get this Thur's out on KPFA News -- hope to see lots of y'all @ Bechtel! -- Ed Rippy Any time religion renders people passive and powerless, it deserves the dishonorable title of 'opiate.' -- Daisaku Ikeda, 'Peace Through Dialogue: A Time to Talk' - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT Nuclear Weapons Test Thursday!!! ALERT Date: 04 Apr 2000 18:36:47 -0700 Derek Scammel of DOE Nevada Operations Office just confirmed that Subcritical Nucear Weapons Test "Oboe 4" will be detonated THURSDAY. This is the 11th subcritical nuclear weapons test conducted since 1997. "Oboe 4" is part of a series of tests, manufactured at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, operated by Bechtel. These "experiments" test the sanity of U.S. policy, they wreak havoc on international politics, they violate the NPT treaty, break the Treaty of Ruby Valley, and they cause other nations to conduct nuclear weapons tests of their own. If you live in Las Vegas: Come to Sunrise Ceremony at the Nevada Test Site (65 miles northwest of vegas on US 95, mercury exit) followed by a creative non-violent direct action. Then join us in the afternoon between 3 and 5 pm at the Department of Energy building, 232 Energy Way just off Lossee road (north of Lake Mead blvd) as we vigil DOE workers. Call Shundahai 702-647-3095 for more info. If you live in the Bay Area there will be an action at the Bechtel Building 50 Beale Street (1 block south of Market). Call Sally Light for more info: 510-527-2057. There will also be actions held in Japan, Australia and Europe. We must continue to pressure the U.S. government and their corporate sponsors to stop this insanity. These subcritical nuclear weapons tests are a direct threat to our planetary health. They leave the deadliest substance ever created, only a hundred feet from our water table. This water has already been contaminated and is moving off of the Nevada Test Site. These deadly plumes will poison all life, and mutate the genes of our future generations. We must stop further contamination!!! The best cure for radiation is prevention. Please, please take action to stop these atrocities. Contact your Congress members and demand they ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Demand they work to uphold international law and stop these atrocities. Shundahai ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702) 647-3095 (FAX) 647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erippy@jps.net Subject: (abolition-usa) SGI to push for CTBT ratification, hard look at 'subcritical' tests Date: 04 Apr 2000 20:39:01 -0700 Daisaku Ikeda, pres. of the Buddhist lay org Sokka Gakkai International (SGI), wrote in his most recent peace proposal: [Quote] The SGI intends to promote an international network for the promotion of CTBT ratification, consistent with our long-held stance in support of nuclear disarmament. Such a network would generate momentum to press states that have not yet ratified the Treaty, using the New Diplomacy technique of working together with other NGOs and those governments that are committed to promoting ratification. I believe that this campaign should not only encourage each state to ratify the CTBT, but also advocate two additional points in order to enhance the CTBT's effectiveness. The first of these two points is to seek the understanding and cooperation of all states toward obtaining the financing required to create the kind of verification regime stipulated in the CTBT. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty Organization is currently setting up a verification regime that includes facilities, scattered throughout the globe, for detecting nuclear tests. These efforts, which work to the common advantage of all signatory states, should be continued regardless of the status of progress toward ratification. The second point is to build consensus for the establishment of a mechanism to determine if subcritical experiments, not explicitly prohibited by the CTBT, run counter to the Treaty's intent. (The CTBT's preamble clearly states that its intention is to take effective measures toward nuclear disarmament and against the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects.) With many nonnuclear weapon states frustrated with the carrying out of subcritical experiments, the establishment of such a mechanism would go a long way toward responding to these frustrations and enhancing the effectiveness of the CTBT. [End quote] -- Since David Krieger knows Ikeda fairly well (I gather) I wdn't be surprised to see NAPF broach this project. I'm talking to the E. Bay Peace Action board abt it next week -- we'd love to see a CTBT w/ 'nuclear test' defined as any test which produces n-wpns design data. Speaking of subcriticals, I'll get this Thur's out on KPFA News -- hope to see lots of y'all @ Bechtel! -- Ed Rippy Any time religion renders people passive and powerless, it deserves the dishonorable title of 'opiate.' -- Daisaku Ikeda, 'Peace Through Dialogue: A Time to Talk' - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NucNews Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/05: DC Hearings - Gulf War Syndrome; Los Alamos Date: 05 Apr 2000 06:11:53 -0400 --=====================_131586228==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable April 5, 2000 Daybook (Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200045212129.htm Gulf war syndrome briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Surface Report and the Desert Storm Justice Foundation hold a congressional briefing on Gulf war syndrome. A news conference will be held at noon. Location: Capitol, Room H-327 (briefing) and National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW (news conference). Contact: 202/898-8000. 9:30 a.m. =97 Judiciary administrative oversight and the courts subcommittee holds a hearing on the handling of the investigation of Los Alamos laboratory scientist Peter Lee. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_131586228==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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    Gulf war syndrome briefing
            = ;       =97 10 a.m. =97 The Surface
            = ;       Report and the Desert Storm
            = ;       Justice Foundation hold a
            = ;       congressional briefing on Gulf
            = ;       war syndrome. A news
            = ;       conference will be held at noon.
            = ;       Location: Capitol, Room H-327
            = ;       (briefing) and National Press
            = ;       Club, 14th and F streets NW
            = ;       (news conference). Contact:
            = ;       202/898-8000.

    9:30 a.m. =97 Judiciary
            = ;       administrative oversight and the
            = ;       courts subcommittee holds a
            = ;       hearing on the handling of the
            = ;       investigation of Los Alamos
            = ;       laboratory scientist Peter Lee.
            = ;       Location: 216 Hart Senate Office
            = ;       Building. Contact:
            = ;       202/224-5225.


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--=====================_131586228==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally light Subject: (abolition-usa) Tri-Valley CAREs' press release re: "Oboe 4" subcritical action at Bechtel-S.F. Date: 05 Apr 2000 09:18:26 +0100 Dear Abolitionists, Here's a press release announcing the action at Bechtel in San Francisco protesting the "Oboe 4" subcritical nuclear test at NTS tomorrow, Thursday, April 6. Our protest will also be tomorrow, at noon. Sally Light Nuclear Program Analyst Tri-VAlley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) April 5, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs at (510) 527-2057, (925) 443-7148 Ann Beier, Western States Legal Foundation at (510) 839-5877 Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project at (510) 663-8065 "OBOE 4" SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TEST PLAYS ON DESPITE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE TO REVIEW NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY; ACTIVISTS WORLDWIDE PROTEST US' 11TH TEST SINCE 1997; LOCAL DEMONSTRATION AT BECHTEL CORPORATION IN SAN FRANCISCO. "CHALK ACTION" AT NOON ON THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2000, AT BECHTEL OFFICES LOCATED AT 50 BEALE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, 1 BLOCK SOUTH OF MARKET STREET BART STATION. For the second time in two weeks, the US will detonate an underground subcritical nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Bay Area activists will join activists around the world in protesting this test, which is code-named "Oboe 4." Designed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, =93Oboe 4=94 is the 11th in= a series of such tests beginning in mid-1997. Just two weeks ago, on March 21st, the 10th subcritical nuclear test, "Thoroughbred," was exploded at NTS, engendering protests in the US, Japan, Australia and Europe. In addition to these underground tests, there are ongoing above ground subcritical tests at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Bay Area protest is planned for noon on Thursday, April 6th at Bechtel Group's international headquarters in San Francisco at 50 Beale St., just one block south of the Embarcadero BART station on Market Street. Protesters from a coalition of peace organizations, including Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation, Livermore Conversion Project, and California Peace Action, to name a few, will converge on the sidewalks around Bechtel's office building, where they will write the names of many of the over 1,000 US nuclear tests since the beginning of the "nuclear age" in 1945. Bechtel is targeted by protesters because it has a multi-billion dollar contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to operate NTS, and also is engaged in other numerous nuclear-related activities at DOE sites around the country's nuclear weapons complex. Subcritical nuclear tests are "subcritical" in that they do not reach criticality, or the level of a self-sustaining chain reaction. However, they do involve high explosives being blown up with fissile material such as plutonium, while monitoring equipment records the explosion for subsequent technical analysis. The resulting data are then fed as updates into the DOE's nuclear weapons computer codes. "We are extremely upset that the US continues to detonate these tests, especially just before the month-long Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference which convenes at the UN in New York later this month," stated Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program Analyst with Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore antinuclear group that "watchdogs" Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where "Oboe 4" was prepared. "Oboe 4," like all subcritical tests, violates the Non-Proliferation Treaty's Article VI, the recent World Court opinion upholding Article VI, and the intent of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty which bans all nuclear weapons tests," she continued. Ms Light explained that the NPT's Article VI places an obligation on nuclear nations to take affirmative steps to end nuclear weapons activities. The US is a signatory to that treaty, as well as to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The CTBT failed ratification by the US Senate last year. "We are concerned that the US' recent failure to ratify the CTBT, plus the continuation of the US subcritical tests, undermine international trust in our commitment to disarmament," said Ann Beier, Associate Director of the Oakland antinuclear group, Western States Legal Foundation. She continued, "These tests also run counter to public surveys that indicate overwhelming popular support in the US and in other countries for ending nuclear tests and for achieving complete abolition of nuclear weapons." Later this month, representatives from both Tri-Valley CAREs and Western States Legal Foundation will attend the United Nations NPT review conference in New York, where they will participate in a panel at the UN on the DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP)," of which subcritical testing is a part. Both groups described the SSP as an extremely over-funded US nuclear weapons program committed to continuing the development of modernized nuclear weapons. The two groups also view subcritical tests as helping to renew a nuclear arms race - Russia, for instance, has responded by conducting its own subcritical tests. "There's no doubt that the SSP, including the subcritical nuclear tests, shows the federal government still has a "cold war" mentality," stated Sherry Larsen-Beville of the Livermore Conversion Project, the Oakland peace organization that coordinated the demonstration at Bechtel. "As the world's leading nuclear power, the US has a special responsibility to take the lead in nuclear abolition, particularly since it created these immoral weapons. We are demanding that the US end the subcritical tests, and honor the NPT, CTBT and the World Court opinion, as well as public opinion, by taking immediate steps toward nuclear disarmament," she concluded. For more information, please contact Tri-Valley CAREs at (925) 443-7148. -30- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) PRESS RELEASE RE 'OBOE' SUBCRITICAL NUKE TEST Date: 06 Apr 2000 19:09:37 +1000 John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE 6/4/2000 US CONDUCTS ANOTHER SUBCRITICAL N-TEST ON THE EVE OF NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE The United states will for the second time in two weeks, conduct a 'subcritical' nuclear test at its Nevada test site today. The test comes as the US is poised to take part in the Review Conference of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in the United Nations, April 24-May19. Article VI of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty requires the nuclear weapons states to negotiate to eliminate their nuclear weapons arsenals 'at an early date'. It has been in place since 1970 - thirty years. It is legally binding. Subcritical nuclear tests allow the continued possession of nuclear weapons and allow limited development of existing nuclear weapons designs. Many antinuclear groups argue that the conducting of subcritical nuclear tests violates the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, (CTBT) which the US has signed but which Congress refused to ratify. It is certain that the conducting of subcritical nuclear tests violates the spirit and intent of the CTBT. It is also certain that the conducting of subcritical nuclear tests 'the nuclear test you have when you're not having a nuclear test' on the eve of the review of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty sends a signal that the US, like Russia which also has an extensive subcritical test program, intends to keep its nuclear weapons when it has signed a treaty - a treaty also signed by every other nation except India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba - that asks that it eliminate its nuclear weapons arsenal. The New Zealand Parliament, the Australian Senate, and the Canadian Senate have all recently passed resolutions that call on the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their obligations under the terms of the NPT. Contact: John Hallam, 02-9517-3903 h9810-2598 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NucNews Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/06: DC Hearings Date: 06 Apr 2000 05:23:32 -0400 --=====================_1459733==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable April 6, 2000 Daybook (Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200046213458.htm China arms discussion =97 8 a.m. =97 The Council on Foreign Relations= holds a panel discussion on "Arms Race or Arms Control: China and the Nuclear= Future." Location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts= Ave. NW. Contact: 212/434-9537. SENATE COMMITTEES=20 9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on procedures for the granting of security clearances at the Defense Department. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. 10 a.m. =97 Foreign Relations international policy, export and trade promotion subcommittee and East Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee hold a hearing on the effects of China's membership in the World Trade Organization on the U.S. high-technology sector. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat testifies. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651. HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 9:30 a.m. =97 Appropriations VA, HUD and independent agencies subcommittee holds a hearing on fiscal 2001 appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). James Lee Witt, FEMA director, testifies. Location: Capitol, Room H-143. Contact: 202/225-2771. HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 2 p.m. =97 Transportation and Infrastructure oversight, investigations and emergency management subcommittee holds a hearing on "Preparedness Against Terrorist Attacks Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction." Location: 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. 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     China arms discussion =97 8 a.m. =97 The Council on Foreign Relations holds a panel discussion on "Arms Race or Arms Control: China and the Nuclear Future." Location:  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 212/434-9537.

SENATE COMMITTEES

     9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services
            = ;       Committee holds a hearing on
            = ;       procedures for the granting of
            = ;       security clearances at the
            = ;       Defense Department. Location:
            = ;       222 Russell Senate Office
            = ;       Building. Contact:
            = ;       202/224-3871.

     10 a.m. =97 Foreign Relations
            = ;       international policy, export and
            = ;       trade promotion subcommittee
            = ;       and East Asian and Pacific
            = ;       affairs subcommittee hold a
            = ;       hearing on the effects of China's
            = ;       membership in the World Trade
            = ;       Organization on the U.S.
            = ;       high-technology sector. Deputy
            = ;       Treasury Secretary Stuart
            = ;       Eizenstat testifies. Location: 419
            = ;       Dirksen Senate Office Building.
            = ;       Contact: 202/224-4651.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

            = ;            9:30 a.m. =97 Appropriations
            = ;       VA, HUD and independent
            = ;       agencies subcommittee holds a
            = ;       hearing on fiscal 2001
            = ;       appropriations for the Federal
            = ;       Emergency Management Agency
            = ;       (FEMA). James Lee Witt,
            = ;       FEMA director, testifies.
            = ;       Location: Capitol, Room H-143.
            = ;       Contact: 202/225-2771.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

    2 p.m. =97 Transportation and
            = ;       Infrastructure oversight,
            = ;       investigations and emergency
            = ;       management subcommittee holds
            = ;       a hearing on "Preparedness
            = ;       Against Terrorist Attacks
            = ;       Involving Weapons of Mass
            = ;       Destruction." Location: 2167
            = ;       Rayburn House Office Building.
            = ;       Contact: 202/225-9446.
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--=====================_1459733==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO Date: 06 Apr 2000 10:16:40 -0400 Dear Friends, Although this message may not appear to directly affect our issue, it is clear that we are all effected. The WTO NGOs have successfully organized to have a substantial impact on globalization. Already the counterforces are rallying. Activists from Seattle are coming to Washington and will have a huge demonstration on April 16th to protest the practices of the World Bank and IMF. I plan to be there and I urge you to join in if you can--either by going to Washington, or supporting the action in your local communities. For more information see www.a16.org We need to make the links between the global war system and its nuclear guns and terrorism, with the corporate takeover the world. Peace, Alice Slater >Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:52:06 -0400 >Subject: On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO >To: aslater@gracelinks.org >From: wto-activist@iatp.org (wto-activist@iatp.org) > >WTO Activist (wto-activist@iatp.org) Posted: 04/06/2000 By >mritchie@iatp.org >============================================================ > >Report from Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public Interest >On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO >bsilverglade@cspinet.org > > >In response to protests over the operations of the World Trade Organization >(WTO) the Cordell Hull Institute, a Washington DC based think tank >dedicated to rebuilding public support for free trade, recently sponsored a >day long seminar entitled AAfter Seattle: Restoring Momentum in the WTO.@ >The meeting was called in light of recent protests in Seattle and >anticipated protests in Washington, D.C. by organizations who believe that >the rules of international commerce set by the WTO are leading to lower >consumer, environmental, and labor standards around the world. > >In attendance at the seminar was an invitation only group of about 50 >present and former international trade officials from federal government >agencies, congressional staff, representatives from embassies of major >trading partners of the US, and lawyers and consultants representing >multinational companies involved in trade disputes such as the recent row >between the U.S. and the European Union over meat and banana exports. The >speakers were high level. They included Clayton Yeutter (former Secretary >of Agriculture), Robert Litan (former Associate Director of the White House >Office of Management and Budget), Lawrence Eagleburger (former Secretary of >State), and Luiz Felipe Lamreia, the foreign Minster of Brazil. > >I was disappointed that only one representative like myself, from a >non-profit organization concerned about the impact of the WTO on food >safety regulation, was invited. But I was pleased that the door had been >opened and I looked forward to the high level event aimed at addressing >concerns about the WTO=s impact on consumer and environmental protection >raised by my organization and many other non-governmental organizations >(NGOs) -- the international term for what is referred to in the U.S. as >public interest groups. > >I anticipated that the group would discuss how to give credence to >President Clinton=s remarks at the Seattle WTO meeting that trade >proceedings should be more open to the public. The President had stated >there that AWe can do it a little bit now and little bit later. We can drag >our feet, or we can run through an open door. But my preference is to open >the meetings, open the records, and let people file their opinions.@ The >Office of the U.S. Trade Representative was represented at the meeting, and >I eagerly anticipated what the agency would say about following up on the >President=s remarks. > >As it turned out, I got a lot more than I bargained for. The seminar that >I was invited to, by a think tank whose mission it is to build public >support for free trade, turned out to be a strategy session on how to >defeat those opposed to the current WTO system. Apparently, no one knew >who I was (perhaps my graying temples and dark suit helped me blend in with >the overwhelming older male group of attendees) and I did not speak up >until the end of the meeting. >The meeting was kicked off by a gentleman named Lord Patterson who was >Margaret Thatcher=s Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. He began by >stating that AOur number one job is to restore confidence in the WTO before >embarking on any new rounds@ of trade negotiations. So far, so good, I >thought. > > But he then proclaimed that non-profit groups have no right to criticize >the WTO as undemocratic because the groups themselves do not represent the >general public. (I wondered which groups he was talking about because >organizations that are gravely concerned about the impact of the WTO on >environmental and consumer protection, like the Sierra Club and Public >Citizen, have hundreds of thousands of members). He then stated that we >must never have another WTO meeting on U.S. soil because it was too easy >for advocacy groups to organize here and security could not be assured. >Was this for real I thought? He added that President Clinton's speech >during the WTO meeting in Seattle, in which the President acknowledged the >protesters concerns, was "disgraceful" and stated that it was also >disgraceful that delegates to the WTO meeting in Seattle had to survive on >sandwiches and couldn=t get a decent meal during three days of social >protest by 40,000 people. The Lord finished his speech by recalling better >times, having tea with AMaggie,@ and stating that the staff of the WTO >Secretariat (the general administrative office of the WTO responsible for >its day-to-day operations) should not be balanced with people from >developing countries just Abecause of the color of their skin. After a few >words with the Chairman of the meeting, Lord Patterson added Oh, I hope I >have not offended anyone. > > I thought I was hearing an arcane viewpoint from someone from another >country and eagerly anticipated a response from some of the American >officials attending the seminar. But the largely American audience of >trade officials and policy wonks took the Lord=s pronouncements seriously. >The first comment, by an American, picked up on the criticisms and asked >AHow can we de-legitimize@ the NGOs? The questioner from the audience >claimed that these groups are usually supported by just a few charitable >foundations and if the foundations could be convinced to cut off funding, >the groups would be forced to cease operations. Mr. Litan, the former >White House budget official, had another approach. He stated ACan=t we >give the NGOs other sandboxes to play in@ and have them take their concerns >to groups like the International Labor Organization (a toothless United >Nations sponsored group in Geneva Switzerland). The representative from >the U.S. Trade Representative=s office said nothing. > >I was hoping for a more enlightened approach from Clayton Yeutter, the >former Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S. I knew that Mr. Yeutter was a >conservative, but I presumed that his speech would be more in tune with >reality than those of the speakers who preceded him. After all, this was >supposed to be a seminar on how to rebuild public confidence in the WTO, >not transform the agency into the former Soviet KBG. I was again shocked >at what I heard. Under the banner of rebuilding public confidence in the >WTO, Mr. Yeutter concurred with his British colleague=s suggestion that the >next WTO meeting be held in some place other than the U.S. Awhere security >can be assured. He further suggested that the WTO give the public Alittle >advance notice@ of where the meeting would be held so as to Akeep the >protesters off balance. He said that the protesters= demands for greater >transparency in WTO proceedings was a Amisnomer@ because the protesters >didn=t really want to participate in WTO proceedings -- all they wanted was >to get TV coverage and raise money for their organizations.@ There was a >reprise from the questioner in the audience who had suggested earlier that >everyone should just find a way to cut off the NGOs foundation grants. The >representative for the U.S. Special Trade Representative=s office was again >silent. > > I really had about all I could take. Even if these guys really wanted to >save the WTO, they were going about it precisely the wrong way. However, I >decided to keep my true feelings in and instead simply tried to give the >group some advice. I stated that it would be a mistake to write off the >NGOs and attempt to de-stabilize them. I explained that this approach was >tried in the early 1950s at the time of the civil rights movement, it was >tried again in the 1960s during the anti-Vietnam war movement, and it was >tried once more in the 1970s at the beginning of the modern environmental >movement. Each time the strategy failed. The NGOs that arose during these >periods grew in size and ended up making a very major impact on public >policy, but only after a long battle during which those who tried to >de-legitimize@ them lost credibility. I told the group that it would be >unfortunate to have to repeat this battle on an international level, and >even more unfortunate to lose the battle on terms not favorable to those >who support free trade. I said that I did not have a crystal ball, but >that if we are at the beginning of a new social movement, simply Adrawing >the wagons in a circle@ would exacerbate, not alleviate, public mistrust of >the WTO and would ultimately be self-defeating. Let us learn from history, >not repeat it, I said, and let=s bring the NGOs into the WTO process >instead of trying to keeping them out. > >A young trade lawyer from a major Washington DC law firm put it this way "I >don't have as much experience as you people, but I can tell you that the >days of going to a seaside resort and negotiating trade agreements in >secret are over." > > The day ended with the usual Washington reception but which this meeting >agenda fittingly identified as Drinks. After the Drinks, several appetizers >and a heavy entree was served along with fine wines. During desert, the >foreign minister of Brazil spoke and lamented that if the next WTO meeting >had to be held in an out of the way place, he preferred that it be held on >a cruise ship instead of in the middle of the desert. He then gave an >impassioned speech in which he opposed writing core labor standards into >the WTO agreement and defended child labor by describing how in one region >of Brazil, more than 5,000 children help their families earn a little extra >money" by hauling bags of coal from a dump yard to a steel mill. He >stressed, however, that the children do not work directly in the steel >mill. He was greeted by a hearty round of applause. > >On the way home, I thought of children hauling coal on their backs and had >trouble digesting my meal. I thought -- these guys just don=t get it! > > > > > > > > >Mark Ritchie, President >Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy >2105 First Ave. South >Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 USA >612-870-3400 (phone) 612-870-4846 (fax) >cell phone 612-385-7921 >mritchie@iatp.org www.iatp.org > > > >============================================================ >How to Use this Mailing List >============================================================ > >You received this e-mail as a result of your registration on the >wto-activist mailing list. > >To unsubscribe, please send an email to listserv@iatp.org. In the body of >the message type: >unsubscribe wto-activist > >For a list of other commands and list options, please send email to >listserv@iatp.org. >In the body of the message type: >help > >Please direct questions about this list to: mritchie@iatp.org > >Please direct technical questions about this service to: support@iatp.org > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) [corp-focus] A Dozen Reasons to Come to DC for April 16 Date: 06 Apr 2000 10:20:54 -0400 Dear Friends, Just some background on the Washington demo. Also, you can register your organization's support at the www.a16.org site. Regards, Alice A Dozen Reasons to Come to DC for April 16 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman The next citizen showdown against corporate globalization will be on April 16 and 17, when thousands of people come to Washington, D.C. to protest -- through legal demonstrations and/or civil disobedience -- the politics of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. For details on events, see www.a16.org. Here's a dozen reasons why you should join the protests: 1. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs have increased poverty around the world. Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. In the two regions with the most structural adjustment experience, per capita income has stagnated (Latin America) or plummeted (Africa). Structural adjustment has also contributed to rising income and wealth inequality in the developing world. 2. IMF/World Bank "debt relief" for poor and indebted countries is a sham. Many poor countries must devote huge portions of their national budgets to paying back foreign creditors -- often for loans that were made to or for dictators, wasteful military spending or boondoggle projects. The money used to pay back debt subtracts from essential expenditures on health, education, infrastructure and other important needs. The IMF/World Bank plan to relieve poor countries' debt burden will leave most poor countries paying nearly as much as they currently do. And all of the debt relief is conditioned on countries undergoing years of closely monitored structural adjustment. 3. The IMF has helped foster a severe depression in Russia. Russia in the 1990s has witnessed a peacetime economic contraction of unprecedented scale -- with the number of Russians in poverty rising from 2 million to 60 million since the IMF came to post-Communist Russia. The IMF's "shock therapy" -- sudden and intense structural adjustment -- helped bring about this disaster. "In retrospect, it's hard to see what could have been done wrong that wasn't," says Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 4. The IMF helped create and worsen the Asian financial crisis. The IMF encouraged Asian countries to open their borders to "hot money" -- speculative finance invested in currency, stocks and short-term securities. That was an invitation to trouble. The Asian financial crisis resulted from the hot money brokers' herdlike decision to leave Asian countries en masse. Once the crisis hit, the IMF made things worse by requiring structural adjustment as a condition for IMF loans. The result was a surge in bankruptcies, layoffs and poverty. In Indonesia, poverty rates rose from an official level of 11 percent to 40 to 60 percent, depending on the estimate. At one point, Indonesia's food shortage became so severe that then-President Habibie implored citizens to fast twice a week. Many had no choice. 5. The IMF bails out big banks. The IMF bailouts in Asia, like those in Russia and Mexico, directed money to those countries largely for the purpose of paying off loans to foreign banks. Thanks to the IMF, the banks escaped significant losses for imprudent lending decisions. Citigroup, Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan were among the beneficiaries of the "Korean" bailout. 6. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs devastate the environment. Structural adjustment demands an increase in exports and foreign exchange earnings. As a result, explains Friends of the Earth, "Countries often over-exploit their resources through unsustainable forestry, mining and agricultural practices that generate pollution and environmental destruction." 7. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Here's how Dr. Peter Lurie and collaborators explained the problem in the journal AIDS: The displacement of the rural sector under structural adjustment programs -- as imports undermine local farmers and the shift to large-scale plantations for exports further displaces the rural population -- contributes to migration and urbanization. Many men leave rural villages for work in big cities or in mines, contract HIV/AIDS from casual sex partners or sex workers, and then spread the disease to spouses in their home village. The displacement of children and young women into the cities has led to a sharp increase in commercial sex work and heightened rates of HIV/AIDS. 8. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs harm women. Cuts in budget spending, mandated by structural adjustment programs, leave women to pick up the pieces -- with government services eliminated, women are forced to provide informal social supports for the sick and disabled. The IMF/Bank emphasis on exports has pushed women farmers to switch from growing food for family consumption to crops for exports -- and left them poorer in the process. The high interest rates associated with structural adjustment have made credit less accessible, undermining the viability of small women-owned businesses. 9. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs and Bank project loans have led to deforestation worldwide. The export orientation demanded by structural adjustment policies has led to more forest cutting. And World Bank forest sector loans to countries around the world have done nothing to improve the situation. "Although the [1991 Bank Forest] policy had dual objectives of conservation of tropical moist forests and tree planting to meet the basic needs of the poor, Bank influence on containing rates of deforestation of tropical moist forests has been negligible in the 20 countries with the most threatened tropical moist forests." Who said that? The World Bank's own Operations Evaluation Department, in November 1999! 10. World Bank policies have displaced millions of people around the world. World Bank loans for dams and major infrastructure projects routinely require removal of massive numbers of people from their homes and destruction of their communities. In addition to the emotional hardship of leaving their land, the displaced people almost always find their quality of life diminished after the move. The Bank itself agrees. A 1994 report from the World Bank's Environmental Department found that, "Declines in post relocation incomes are sometimes significant, in certain cases reaching as much as 40 percent for people who were poor even before their displacement." 11. The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) provides corporate welfare for environmentally destructive projects. The IFC finances and provides advice for private sector ventures and projects in developing countries in partnership with private investors. Among its private sector partners: ExxonMobil, BP, Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark and Marriott. There's no reason for a public development institution, supposedly working to fight poverty, to lend its support to these well-endowed multinationals. Making matters worse, many of the private sector projects supported by the IFC, especially in the oil and gas sector, are environmentally destructive. 12. April 16 is a chance to make history. While massive protests against IMF and World Bank policies are commonplace in the developing world -- from Jordan to Indonesia, Venezuela to Zambia -- the IMF and World Bank are not accountable to populations in those countries. In contrast, there has never been a demonstration of more than a few hundred people to challenge IMF and Bank policy in the United States -- the largest and most influential shareholder in the institutions. That's going to change on April 16. The thousands of people who will attend the April 16 protests will forever change the political context of debates on IMF and the World Bank -- the best hope for billions in the developing world who have been subjected to the IMF and Bank's brutal policies with no recourse. Special bonus reason to come to D.C.: With large puppets, colorful pagaentry, militant protests, Emcee Michael Moore at the legal demonstration on the Ellipse, and lots of great music, the protests will be a fun-filled festival of resistance. Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor, and co-director of Essential Action, one of the sponsors of the April 16 Mobilization for Global Justice. Mokhiber and Weissman are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999, http://www.corporatepredators.org) (c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman _______________________________________________ Focus on the Corporation is a weekly column written by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman. Please feel free to forward the column to friends or repost the column on other lists. If you would like to post the column on a web site or publish it in print format, we ask that you first contact us (russell@essential.org or rob@essential.org). Focus on the Corporation is distributed to individuals on the listserve corp-focus@lists.essential.org. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: FW: poorly reported survey on Date: 06 Apr 2000 17:32:03 -0400 Dear Daryl, You might try to get Celinda Lake and/or Mellman to draft a response. Lake was very effective in describing the results of the Lake and Mellman polls on US attidudes towards nuclear weapons at the VOA/Peace Links program we attended. The Lake poll is at our website, www.gracelinks.org/gracelinks/nuke/poll.html Thanks for following up on this. Regards, Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles F Hilfenhaus Subject: (abolition-usa) Oboe 4 Subcritical Date: 06 Apr 2000 18:31:23 EDT Mercury, Nevada, U.S.A. 4-6-2000 3:30 p.m. PDT The United States Department of Energy has just conducted the subcritical nuclear test "Oboe 4" at the LYNER facility on the Nevada Test Site. This, following "Thoroughbred" on March 22 and "Oboe 3" on February 3, is the third subcritical nuclear test of 2000 by the United States. This is more tests than United States has averaged per year in recent years. John Hallum and Friends of the Earth are absolutely correct, these tests are a deliberate insult to all the other participants in the NPT Review Conference. Twenty-one people gathered at sunrise in protest this morning at the Mercury entrance to the Nevada Test Site. Under the banner of Shundahai Network and lead by Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney they conducted a ceremony following which six individuals entered onto the Test Site and were arrested. They were subsequently cited for trespass and released. Additional protests are planned this afternoon in Las Vegas at the Department of Energy offices from 3-5p.m.. Charlie Hilfenhaus Alliance of Atomic Veterans Director, Atomic Workers Division chilfenhaus@juno.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) -NM Gov. Johnson's Global Peace Walk Day proclamation Date: 06 Apr 2000 16:35:19 -0700 Following is the text of New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson's proclamation of support for Global Peace Walk 2000 designating April 7, 2000, as Global Peace Walk Day in New Mexico. A copy of the signed proclamation is posted as efax attachment at bottom of post archived at http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/319 The Global Peace Walk ceremony (& speeches) starts in Santa Fe at 11AM Friday April 7th at the Children's Peace Statue (behind downtown Post Office in Plaza at Paseo de Peralta and Old Taos Highway) with the walk from there leaving at Noon to walk by City Hall (Santa Fe mayor has previously proclaimed Santa Fe as a Global Peace Zone) and ending at the State Capitol Rotunda. ---------text of proclamation: STATE OF NEW MEXICO EXECUTIVE OFFICE SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Proclamation Whereas, The Global Peace Walk represents people from around the world gathering together to spread the message of "Global Peace Now"; and Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 is being conducted across America to mark the 55th anniversary of the United Nations; and Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 is composed of people from many different races and backgrounds gathering together to spread The Message of Peace; and Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 seeks to unite all of humanity for a worldwide Global Peace Zone; Now, Therefore I, Gary E. Johnson, Governor of the State of New Mexico, do hereby proclaim the 7th of April 2000 as "GLOBAL PEACE WALK DAY" Throughout the State of New Mexico and urge all citizens to recognize the importance of Global Peace. Attest: [signature] Rebecca Vigil-Giron Secretary of State Done at the Executive Office this 5th day of April, 2000. Witness my hand and the Great Seal of The State of New Mexico, [signed] Gary E. Johnson Governor [State Seal affixed] ---------------end text of proclamation For text of Governor Johnson's 1995 letter of support for the UN50th Global Peace Walk see http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/johnson.html For text of Governor Johnson's 1999 speech: BEYOND PROHIBITION: THE CASE FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/drugreform.html David Crockett Williams gear2000@lightspeed.net GLOBAL EMERGENCY ALERT RESPONSE http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts USCampaign: Williams-Peltier for US Pres/VP gear2000@onemain.com http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier The Vision of Paradise on Earth http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html **Support HR 2545: Global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act Details & Email: http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Sign letters to senators http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter Easy index to email Congress & Media http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (copy & paste email letters to media and Congress) An Agenda for Peace http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally light Subject: (abolition-usa) Action at Bechtel HQ in San Francisco to Protest "Oboe 4" Subcritical Test Date: 06 Apr 2000 16:20:03 +0100 Today at noon about 20 activists gathered at the international headquarters of the Bechtel Group in San Francisco to protest the detonation of the =93Oboe 4=94 subcritical nuclear test at the Nevada Tes= t Site today at 3:30pm. Bechtel operates the Nevada Test site for the Department of Energy. The protesters carried out a =93chalk action=94 by writing names of the m= ore than 1,000 nuclear tests the US has conducted since the first one in 1945. The sidewalks around the front entrance of the Bechtel office building were covered with these names, leaving a strong, visual impact after the action itself was over. Speakers took turns at the bullhorn, while others passed out information. Flyers were quickly distributed, and passersby stopped to engage in dialog with the activists. Organizations represented included Tri-Valley CAREs, Western States Legal Foundation, Livermore Conversion Project, California Peace Action, Nevada Desert Experience, and American Friends Service Committee. Reporters from two radio stations, KPFA in Berkeley (Pacifica Radio), and San Francisco Liberation Radio recorded interviews and both stated the coverage would be broadcast later today by their respective stations. There were no arrests. Sally Light Nuclear Program Analyst Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 06 Apr 2000 18:09:43 -0700 Dear Friends, We are sad to announce that the Department of Energy completed subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 4" at 3:30 pm (PST) today. This morning more than twenty people gathered for Sunrise Ceremony at the gates of the Nevada Test Site. Many nations were represented at the circle. Shortly after dawn, six people walked into the test site, three men and three women. They were taken to the pens for a brief period and then cited and released, court date to be announced. This afternoon there was a colorful enthusiastic gathering at DOE in North Las Vegas. Members of Shundahai Network, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, and local Las Vegans brought many voices, and many bullhorns to amplify those voices- singing, speaking to the DOE workers as they left the building, and speaking to the passersby on the street. Today's test was to answer questions about what they call "ejecta and spall". What that means is that they bombard the plutonium so hard, pieces of it shatter into miniscule dust. We know that plutonium clings to moisture and will easily move from a dusty chamber into our groundwater, and ever closer to us. We know these tests must be stopped. It's an election year, let's make this an issue. Shundahai ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702) 647-3095 (FAX) 647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT 'HEADS OF STATE LETTER FAXED TO HEADS OF STATE Date: 07 Apr 2000 12:57:57 +1000 John Hallam =46riends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 =46ax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd The following letter has been faxed and mailed to the Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Foreign Ministers of the US, Russia, France, China, Uk, India, Pakistan and Israel, Canada, Belgium, Germany, and Japan,and faxed to their Geneva or NY UN missions. It is also being faxed and mailed to the Canberra Diplomatic Corps, all NY and Geneva UN missions, and to selected groups of foreign ministers of NPT signatory countries by organisations in NZ, Santa Barbara, and Canberra. It has been signed by some 374 NGOs, Parliamentarians and Church groups including Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace International, Pax Christi International, WILPF, IPPNW, BASIC, Gensuikin, Gensuikyo, The Anglican Synod of Canada, the Uniting Church of Australia, 42 parliamentarians including 17 from Australia, 13 MEPs, and 3 members of the UK and Belgian parliaments. It is to be released formally to media on Monday10 in Canberra, New York, Christchurch NZ, London, and Moscow. TO: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, (US) +1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201 MADELEINE ALLBRIGHT, DEPARTMENT OF STATE +1 202 647 6047 UN-1-212-415-4443 Geneva -41-22-749-4880 PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, (RUSSIA) +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173, =46OREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV(RUSSIA) +7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323 (Geneva)+41 22 734 4044 (UN)+1 212 628 025= 2 PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, (UK) +44-171-925-0918 MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS +44-171-829-2417 or 270 2833 UN-1-212-745-9316 Geneva41-22-918-23-33 PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC (FRANCE) +33-147-42-2465, PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN(FRANCE) +33-142-34-2677 MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 33 1 4317 5203 PRESIDENT JIANG XEMIN (CHINA) UN-1-212-634-7626 Geneva 41-22-793-7014 CC PRIME MINISTER A.B. VAJPAYEE, (INDIA) +91-11-301-6857 MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS +91-11-301-0700 PRESIDENT MOHAMMED RAFIQ DARAR(PAKISTAN) 011-9251-920-3938, =46OREIGN MINISTER ABDUL SATTAR (PAKISTAN) +92-51-920-7217 +92-51-920 0420 or 820-420 PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK (ISRAEL) +972-266-4838, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS +972-2-530-3367 ALL HEADS OF STATE AND FOREIGN MINISTERS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADORS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NPT RE: ENSURING A SUCCESSFUL NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE= =2E Dear Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, and Ambassadors, The undersigned organizations, representing many millions of deeply concerned people worldwide, are writing to you regarding the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the United Nations in New York, April 24-May 19, 2000. This meeting has crucial implications not only for NPT member states, but also for non-member states, especially India, Pakistan and Israel. We believe the 2000 Review Conference could and should be a catalyst in breaking the deadlock in the nuclear disarmament arena. It represents an opportunity to make real progress toward nuclear disarmament, and nuclear weapons abolition, which is essential to the achievement of common security based on human and ecological values and respect for international institutions and law. Failure in this regard could lead to the unraveling of the NPT regime. This is exactly opposite to the wishes and expectations of the majority of the people of the world. It is clear from recent polls, that the overwhelming majority of the world's people expect no less than immediate commencement of multilateral negotiations leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons through a global treaty in fulfillment of Article VI. Crucial to the outcome of this Review Conference will be the extent to which the nuclear weapon states are willing to act on their unambiguous legal obligation and commitment to the elimination of their nuclear weapons as called for by Article VI, which states: "Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." Since the 1995 Review and Extension Conference, the importance of Article VI and the NPT itself has been reinforced by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which concluded unanimously in its 1996 Advisory Opinion that: "there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control" While some progress has been achieved over the last decade in the reduction of the total number of nuclear weapons deployed by the nuclear weapon states, these states maintain their commitment to highly dangerous nuclear military doctrines as a cornerstone of their defence and security policy, some for the indefinite future. Progress on fulfilling Article VI obligations is thus stalled, and the development of new nuclear dangers is encouraged. The following developments represent a growing peril that challenges international and human security, and to which NPT states parties and especially nuclear states must respond creatively: --Ten years after the end of the Cold War, over 30,000 nuclear weapons remain worldwide, and India and Pakistan have both tested nuclear weapons. --Though UN and European Parliament resolutions have drawn attention to the Article VI obligations and to the ICJ Advisory Opinion, NATO has jeopardized the NPT by its re-affirmation in April 1999 that nuclear weapons are 'essential' to its security. While the NATO nuclear policy review is welcome, it is preempted and undercut by this reaffirmation. -- The US and Russia failed to respond to worldwide pressure to de- alert by December 1999, and each maintain over 2000 nuclear warheads on permanent 'launch on warning' status. This continues in spite of the incorporation of de-alerting into the 1996 recommendations of the Canberra Commission, into two resolutions passed by massive majorities in the UN General Assembly in 1998, and again in 1999, and a unanimous resolution of the European Parliament of November 18, 1999. --Key states have failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), opened for signature in 1996. The US Senate in October 1999 voted down ratification, in spite of the nearly unanimous endorsement of that treaty by the international community and overwhelming US public support for nuclear disarmament and the CTBT. --The clear aim of the CTBT is to constrain weapons development: yet the US, Russia, and other nuclear states still proceed with the development of new nuclear weapon types and modifications in computer-simulated 'virtual reality', with the aid of sub-critical underground nuclear testing, which undermines both the spirit and purpose of the treaty. In particular, US activities at the National Ignition Facility and the French Megajoule laser project enable further weapons development. --In 2000, the US may decide to deploy a National Ballistic Missile Defence (NMD) system which would violate the existing Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which is fundamental to the existing strategic arms restraints between the United States and Russia. NMD deployment could set back progress on Article VI objectives for years to come. --Presidential Decision Directive 60 has reaffirmed US use of nuclear weapons as a 'cornerstone' of its security policy. Meanwhile, Russia has steadily moved toward a more ready use of nuclear weapons in recent years. The potential dangers in this are extreme. In light of the above developments, lack of progress on Article VI obligations poses the increasing danger that some non-nuclear states will conclude that it is in their interests to acquire nuclear weapons, while those that have already tested them will proceed to further weaponisation and expansion of their arsenals. A positive and creative response to the above, and commitment and leadership on behalf of both human life and all other life is urgently demanded. Of critical importance in addressing the currently unacceptable situation are interim measures such as de-alerting, and the removal of weapons from delivery systems, aimed at decreasing the possibility of accidental nuclear war and at increasing mutual trust and establishing a momentum toward nuclear weapons elimination. NPT states parties should resolve, as a first step, that all nuclear forces be immediately stood down from high alert status. We urge all nuclear weapons states leaders, and all NPT Review participants, as a matter of the highest priority and urgency, as well as a clear legal obligation, to take action to complete unfinished disarmament objectives and to begin urgent negotiations toward a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. Immediate steps (both in the CD and other fora) must be taken by the nuclear states that will lead clearly and swiftly toward negotiations in fulfillment of Article VI. You, as a world leader, have the fate of the world in your hands during these discussions. We therefore strongly urge you to attend this review conference, as you have the authority to commence negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons. By doing so, you can to alter the course of history and leave a legacy of a more secure future for this generation and for those to come. Failure to do so risks a revived nuclear arms race that ultimately could destroy civilization. (Organisational Signatures) (International Organizations) Maj-Britt Theorin, MEP, President, (Kate Dewes, Vice-President,) International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Bruna Nota, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, (WILPF), Geneva/NY, Ian Maddocks (Chair), Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President, Merav Datan, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass, Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), The Hague, Netherlands, William Peden, Disarmament Campaign, Stephanie Mills, Nuclear Campaign, Greenpeace International, Canonbury Villas, London, UK., Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council, London/Washington, UK/US, Bertrand Charrier, Executive Director, Green Cross International, Geneva, Switz, Paul Lansu, Pax Christi International Secretariat, Brussells, Rosalie Bertell, GNSH., President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Canada, Peer de Rijk.,World Information Service on Energy.(WISE) International, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium., Roland Schutzbach, President, David Schmitter, Vice-President, Global Initiative, Solothurn, Switzerland, Jim Morgan, ARC-Peace, International Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility, Stockholm, Swed, /NY., USA., Professor Eugen Eichhorn, Taichiro Kajimura, German/Japanese Peace Forum, Japan/Germany =46iona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, (Friends of the Earth Groups) Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador., Roque Pedace, Friends of the Earth Argentina, Cordoba/Buenos Aires, Nnimmo Bassey, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Benin City, Nigeria, Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth U.S., Washington., Dr. Patrick Green, Senior Nuclear and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland, London, UK., Dr. Victor Khazan, Friends of the Earth Ukraine (Zelenyi Zvit), Prof. Vladimir Koklyukhin, Friends of the Earth Belarus, Brest, Belarus., Manana Kochladze, Friends of the Earth Georgia/CEE Bankwatch Georgia, Daniela Stojanova, Secy General, Friends of the Earth Macedonia., Dr. Maria Minkova, 'Ekoglasnost', Friends of the Earth Bulgaria, Sofia, Juraj Zamkovsky, Friends of the Earth Slovakia, Ponicky, Slovakia, Jan Beranek, Chair, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (Hnuti Duha) Brno, Czech Republic, Diderich Johny, LIFE-Luxembourg (Youth Friends of the Earth Luxembourg) Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth Cyprus, Kim Ejlertsen, Secy, Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH) Salla Tuomivaara, Friends of the Earth Finland, Wendy Johnson, Friends of the Earth New Zealand, John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia (Sydney, Australia) (Members of the European Parliament) Dr. Caroline Lucas, MEP, Greens,UK, European Parliament, Hiltrud Breyer, MEP., Greens, Germany, European Parliament, Brussels, Elizabeth Schroedter, MEP, Greens Group, Germany, European Parliament, Brussells, Gorka Knorr Borrass, MEP, European Parliament, Brussells, Pierre Jonkheer, MEP, Greens Group Belgium, European Parliament, Brussels, Heidi Hautala, MEP Greens Group Finland, European Parliament, Patsy S=F6rensen Member of The European Parliament, Greens Group, Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Group, Ireland, Nuala Ahern MEP Greens Group, Ireland, European Parliament, Brussells, Rolf Linkohr, MEP, Germany, Social-Democrats., European Parliament, Brussell= s, =46rancis Wurtz, MEP, President, Group GUE/NGL (Green-Left), European Parlia= ment, Marianne Eriksson, MEP, Maj-Britt-Theorin, MEP, Social Democrats, Sweden (as President IPB) (UK Organisations) Commander Robert Green, RN (Retd.), Chair, George Farebrother Secretary, World Court Project, UK, Dave Knight, Chair, CND, UK., Janet Bloomfield, former chair CND, Saffron Walden Group Against Nuclear Weapons, England, Di Mc Donald., Nuclear Information Service., Southampton, UK., Liz Waterson, Douglas Holdstock, MEDACT (IPPNW- UK)., Lond., UK, Anni Rainbow, Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases, Yorkshire, UK., Margaret Turner, WILPF-UK., Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham., UK., Glen Lee, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, UK., Angie Zelter, Environment and Peace Campaigner, Cromer, Norfolk, UK., Dr. George Farebrother, Sussex Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament, UK, Allan Cottey, International Week of Science and Peace, Norwich, UK., Pat Gaffney, Pax Christi British Section, London, UK., Nancy Zook, Christian CND., London, UK., David Morris, Chair, CND-Cymru, John Thomas, Calderdale Green Party, Yorks, UK., Kevin Macnamara MP, House of Commons, UK., Dennis Canavan, MP, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Alice Mahon MP, House of Commons,UK Parliament, Margaret Ewing MP, House of Commons, UK Parliament, Llew Smith MP, (Blaenau Gwent), House of Commons, UK Parliament, (Irish Organisations) Roger Cole, Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Ireland, Eugene Mc Cartan, Chair, Communist Party of Ireland, Sister Mary O'Connor, Irish Commission for Justice and Peace, Ireland, (German Organisations) Ulla Loetzer, MdB,(German Parliament) PDS, Xanthe Hall, IPPNW Germany, Berlin, Bernd Frieboese (Berlin), Ole von Uexkull (Lund), Barsebacksoffensiv, Germany/Sweden., Claus Biegert, Nuclear-Free Future Award., Munich, Germany., Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Germany., Ulf Panzer, District Court Judge, Judges and Prosecutors for Peace, Hamburg, Germany., Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany., Henning Droege, Arzt fur Allgemeinmedizin, Allgau, Germany., Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council., (Austrian Organisations) Josef Puehringer, Plattform Gegen Atomgefahr, Austria., Josef Puehringer, Centrum-Energie Ceske Budejovice(Czech Republic) Josef Puehringer, Buergerinitiative Umweltschutz, (Czech Republic) Hienz Stockinger, Chair, PLAGE., (Platform Gegen Atomgefahren), Salzburg, Austria., Mathilde Halla, Chair, Uberpartlielice Platform Gegen Atomgefahren, Linz, Austria., Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl, Austria., Dr. Hildegard Faessler, Chairwoman, International Week of Science and Peace, Innsbruck, Austria., Dr. Hildegard Zlabinger, Chairwoman, Eco-Ontological System for Human Rights and Environmental Protection., Bernadette Koechl, Council of Eco-ontological Systems for Human Rights and Environmental Protection., Stefan Fuglister, Greenpeace Switzerland, Zurich., (Finnish Organisations) Malla Kantola, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland, Laura Lodenius, Peace Union of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, Ulla Lehtinen, First Peoples, Finland., Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Finland., Pirkko Lindberg, Women Against Nuclear Power, Finland., Lea Rantanen, Grandmothers Against Nuclear Power, Finland., Anita Hagman, Grandmothers for Peace, Finland., Anna-Liisa Mattsoff, No More Nuclear Power Movement, Finland., (Scandinavian Organisations) Claudia Behrens, Norwegian Green Party, Bjorn Hilt, Norske Leger Mot Atomkrieg, (IPPNW Norway) Trondhiem, Norway., Gunnar Westberg, President, Vendela Englund Burnett, SLMK (IPPNW affilliate) Goteborg, Sweden, Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland, Poul-Eck Soerensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark, Aungiira Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth Romania, =46undatia Pentru Partenariat Comunitar., Romania, Alba Circle Nonviolent Movement, Budapest, Hungary, Peace Tax Payers, Budapest, Hungary., (French Organisations) Solange Fernex, President, WILPF France, Paris, France, Dominique Lalanne, STOP-ESSAIS, La Ville, France., Daniel Durand, National Secy., Mouvement de la Paix, Paris France., Harsh Kapoor, South Asians Against Nukes, Combaillaux, France., G=E9rard Levy, National Secy, The Greens, (Les Verts) France., 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/06: DC Hearings Date: 07 Apr 2000 06:38:03 -0400 --=====================_89531383==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (1) April 7, 2000 Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20004721156.htm Environmental summit =97 9 a.m. =97 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Environment and Regulatory Affairs Division holds its "Environmental Summit 2000." Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt, National Governors Association chairman, delivers the keynote address. Location: 1615 H St. NW. Contact: 202/463-5682. Asian economics discussion =97 noon =97 The Council on Foreign Relations holds a discussion, "Securing the Sustainability of Asia's Economic Recovery." The speaker is Tadao Chino, Asian Development Bank president. Location: St. Regis Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 212/434-9537. [Downwinders, here's one for you...] Reno speech =97 12:40 p.m. =97Attorney General Janet Reno addresses the National Organization for Victims' Assistance. Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/616-2771. -----=20 (2) NUCLEAR PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS ON LINE AmeriScan: April 6, 2000 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-06-09.html WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2000 (ENS) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its Plant Performance Reviews (PPRs) for 90 nuclear power plants and is making them available on the NRC web site. Thirteen nuclear plants, which participated in a pilot test of the agency's revised reactor oversight process, received their performance assessments late last year. PPRs are an interim measure the NRC has used to assess nuclear power plant safety, after suspending the Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance in 1998 while it developed a revised reactor oversight process. PPRs consist of an in depth, integrated assessment of overall plant performance. The primary purpose of these reviews is to evaluate safety performance information and identify any changes in plant performance so NRC can allocate inspection resources. The text of each PPR letter is available from the NRC Office of Public Affairs and has been posted at: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/ppr.=20 An important element of the previous SALP process was the public meeting the NRC conducted with the licensee to discuss the assessment results. During the interim process, the NRC has continued its practice of meeting publicly with licensees to discuss its performance assessments. Most plants have had recent public meetings and therefore few meetings will be scheduled for these PPRs. These PPRs mark the last assessments before initial implementation begins this month of the revised reactor oversight process. Under the new program, the NRC will conduct quarterly reviews of performance indicators and inspection findings and issue semi-annual assessments and updates to each plant's inspection plans. A full description of the revised reactor oversight process is available at: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/primer.htm or http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/index.html ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_89531383==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
(1)  April 7, 2000 Washington Times

    Environmental summit =97 9 a.m. =97
            = ;         The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
            = ;         Environment and Regulatory Affairs
            = ;         Division holds its "Environmental
            = ;         Summit 2000." Utah Gov. Michael O.
            = ;         Leavitt, National Governors
            = ;         Association chairman, delivers the
            = ;         keynote address. Location: 1615 H St.
            = ;         NW. Contact: 202/463-5682. Asian
            = ;         economics discussion =97 noon =97 The
            = ;         Council on Foreign Relations holds a
            = ;         discussion, "Securing the Sustainability
            = ;         of Asia's Economic Recovery." The
            = ;         speaker is Tadao Chino, Asian
            = ;         Development Bank president. Location:
            = ;         St. Regis Hotel, 16th and K streets NW.
            = ;         Contact: 212/434-9537.

[Downwinders, here's one for you...]

            = ;            &nb= sp; Reno speech =97 12:40 p.m.
            = ;         =97Attorney General Janet Reno
            = ;         addresses the National Organization for
            = ;         Victims' Assistance. Location: 2237
            = ;         Rayburn House Office Building.
            = ;         Contact: 202/616-2771.

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(2)  NUCLEAR PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS ON LINE

AmeriScan: April 6, 2000
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-06-09.html
            = ;     WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2000 (ENS) - The
            = ;     Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has
            = ;     completed its Plant Performance Reviews (PPRs)
            = ;     for 90 nuclear power plants and is making them
            = ;     available on the NRC web site. Thirteen nuclear
            = ;     plants, which participated in a pilot test of the
            = ;     agency's revised reactor oversight process,
            = ;     received their performance assessments late last
            = ;     year. PPRs are an interim measure the NRC has
            = ;     used to assess nuclear power plant safety, after
            = ;     suspending the Systematic Assessment of
            = ;     Licensee Performance in 1998 while it developed
            = ;     a revised reactor oversight process. PPRs consist
            = ;     of an in depth, integrated assessment of overall
            = ;     plant performance. The primary purpose of these
            = ;     reviews is to evaluate safety performance
            = ;     information and identify any changes in plant
            = ;     performance so NRC can allocate inspection
            = ;     resources. The text of each PPR letter is
            = ;     available from the NRC Office of Public Affairs
            = ;     and has been posted at:
            = ;     http://www.nrc.gov/O= PA/ppr.

            = ;     An important element of the previous SALP
            = ;     process was the public meeting the NRC
            = ;     conducted with the licensee to discuss the
            = ;     assessment results. During the interim process,
            = ;     the NRC has continued its practice of meeting
            = ;     publicly with licensees to discuss its performance
            = ;     assessments. Most plants have had recent public
            = ;     meetings and therefore few meetings will be
            = ;     scheduled for these PPRs. These PPRs mark the
            = ;     last assessments before initial implementation
            = ;     begins this month of the revised reactor
            = ;     oversight process. Under the new program, the
            = ;     NRC will conduct quarterly reviews of
            = ;     performance indicators and inspection findings
            = ;     and issue semi-annual assessments and updates
            = ;     to each plant's inspection plans. A full
            = ;     description of the revised reactor oversight
            = ;     process is available at:
            = ;     http://www.nr= c.gov/OPA/primer.htm or
            = ;     http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/index.html

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--=====================_89531383==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe action alert Date: 07 Apr 2000 15:07:50 -0500 =93We=92re to blame, both of us. We let our machines get out of hand...W= hat we put between us, we can remove.=94 -the president, played by Henry Fonda, to the Soviet premier in the original 1964 movie version of Fail Safe Dear Friends, The quote above is the message of Fail Safe, and it=92s even more urgent today. If we the people demand the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons, it can and will happen. While it may seem odd to organize around a television show, we have gotten an enthusiastic response to our watch party campaign from activists around the country (also in Canada and Argentina!) and from the media. So here's an activist to-do list: 1. Even if you aren't hosting or attending a watch party, tune in to CBS television for the live remake of the anti-nuclear thriller this Sunday night at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central, 7:00 mountain, and 9:00 pacific times. 2. Write a letter to President Clinton demanding he take action to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide. A sample letter can be found at www.disarmament.org/presltr.htm 3. Call the White House Monday (202/456-1111 or 202/456-1414) on National Fail Safe Call-In Day with the same message. We need to jam the White House phone lines! A flier for the call-in can be found at http://www.fourthfreedom.org/hottopic/fail_safe_poster.htm If you can make two more calls, call the Bush and Gore campaigns and demand that they address nuclear disarmament in the presidential campaign. Bush HQ: (512) 637-2000, Gore HQ: (615) 340-2000. 4. Even if you aren't holding a house party, contact local media and offer yourself or someone from your peace group as a spokesperson to respond to Fail Safe. Priority contacts are your local CBS station and local newspapers. A few talking points: We need to be careful not to allow anyone to dismiss Fail Safe as a Cold War anachronism. There are still 35,000 nuclear warheads worldwide. While the scenario in Fail Safe of nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert no longer applies, the reality is we are in a worse situation with our missiles on 24-hour hair-trigger alert, ready to be launched on a few minutes notice, able to strike their targets less then 30 minutes after launch. The timing of this action, just a few days after the latest U.S. hypocritical (I mean subcritical) nuclear test and just a few weeks before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, couldn't be better. Politicians and the media think nobody cares about the nuclear threat anymore. Here's a chance to raise our voices. Let's not miss it. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." -A.J. Muste PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY! - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: UN Secretary-General's report to Millennium General Date: 07 Apr 2000 16:57:28 -0400 Dear Friends, I think we should all write to Kofi Annan and support his idea for a conference on nuclear disarmament. Write to him at: The United Nations New York, NY 10017 > >Excerpt from UN Secretary-General's new report to the >Millennium General Assembly. > >Nuclear weapons > >248. Let me now turn to nuclear weapons. When the bipolar balance of >nuclear terror passed into history, the concern with nuclear weapons also >seemed to drift from public consciousness. But some 35,000 nuclear weapons >remain in the arsenals of the nuclear powers, with thousands still deployed >on hair-trigger alert. Whatever rationale these weapons may once have had >has long since dwindled. Political, moral and legal constraints on >actually >using them further undermine their strategic utility without, howver, >reducing the risks of inadvertent war or proliferation. > >249. The objective of nuclear non-proliferation is not helped by the fact >that the nuclear weapon states continue to insist that those weapons in >their hands enhance security, while in the hands of others they are a >threat >to world peace. > >250. If we were making steady progress towards disarmament, this situation >would be less alarming. Unfortunately the reverse is true. Not only are >the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks stalled, but there are no negotiations >at all covering the many thousands of so-called tactical nuclear weapons in >existence, or the weapons of any nuclear power other than those of the >Russian Federation and the United States of America. > >251. Moreover, unless plans to deploy missile defences are devised with >the >agreement of all concerned parties, the progress achieved thus far in >reducing the number of nuclear weapons may be jeopardized. >Confidence-building is required to reassure states that their nuclear >deterrent capabilities will not be negated. > >252. Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at >the >highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing >nuclear >weapons and from further proliferation. > >253. To help focus attention on the risks we confront and on the >opportunities we have to reduce them, I propose that consideration be given >to convening a major international conference that would help to identify >ways of eliminating nuclear dangers. > > > >Suzanne Pearce, Coordinator >Middle Powers Initiative >727 Massachusetts Avenue >Cambridge, MA 02139, USA >Tel: 617 492-9189 Fax: 617 868-2560 >MPI webpage: www.middlepowers.org > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) *by10Apr!! Comment on DOE Energy Strategic Plan2000 Date: 07 Apr 2000 20:10:00 -0700 I am not sure what the distinction here is between the "New National Energy Policy Plan" (CNES Comprehensive National Energy Strategy) prepared by DOE after three public hearings in 1998 and submitted by President Clinton to Congress, , and the below described "DOE Energy Strategic Plan" apparently open to public comments since 8Feb2000 at invitation of Secretary Richardson but only today appearing in the realm of one of my email interest groups and indicating a deadline of three days from now of Monday, April 10, 2000 (apparently extended from March 31, 2000) courtesy of Mr. Wiggins (cc above). I would suggest to Mr. Wiggins and DOE by this email, and those in agreement following copied to , that this deadline should be extended to the end of April 2000 so as to take advantage of the "Clean Energy Now!" campaign being fostered by the EarthDay2000 events across country so that this network of activists including many clean energy experts have a chance to offer their public input. I am again disappointed at the low degree of public outreach apparently effected by DOE on this most important matter of our national energy strategy revisions especially in light of the mounting evidence of imminent global warming environmental catastrophes at hand in the coming few years and I most urgently ask for such public input deadline extension to end of April 2000. I would at least have expected DOE to notify public commenters on 1998 CNES about this new public input solicitiation. I was among a small number of people who found out in time to offer oral and written testimony to DOE CNES hearings in 1998 and my public comments were excerpted on p55 of first draft and p57 of final draft April 1998 as "One commenter recommended that DOE look into zero-point energy and referred to a specific technology for harnessing it called the "N" machine. He challenged the Secretary of Energy to fully investigate this technology and let the American public know about it." [ ] One of the two people I was able to alert in time to testify at the last public hearing on CNES, in Washington DC chaired by Secretary Pena, Thomas Valone of Integrity Research Institue, got some of his recommendations included in CNES public comments record following the above remarks as "Another commenter encouraged DOE to form an office for emerging technologies. The commenter explained that truly new groundbreaking technologies would emerge only when an office is established to engage scientists and researchers who are on the fringe of technology." The other person I alerted who testified there, William Thomas of Proposition One in Washington DC, on February 19, 1998, queried the Energy Secretary as to DOE position on these new clean energy technologies, "Allegedly, this new genre of zero point energy technology needs no fuel, is freely available, and is free of pollution. Assuming this is true, obviously this technology would entirely replace fossil and nuclear power and form the foundation of the optimal national, even international, energy policy." and Secretary Pena ordered a letter sent to him which was received dated May 12, 1998, over the signature of Robert W. Gee, Assistant Secretary, DOE Office of Policy and International Affairs, after he submitted additional written comments on February 25, 1998 and sent a letter to his Congressperson April 29, 1998 asking for her help . This letter of May 12, 1998, closed with the comment "If you have further questions, please contact Ehsan Khan of the Office of Energy Research at (202) 586-4785" [Dr. Khan referred David Hamilton or David Goodwin as the new DOE point of contact on 20Sep99] The letter contained an attachment describing the DOE's recent acceptance of evidence for the potential of the idea of Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) devices saying, "The energy associated with the ZPE is known to be essentially inexhaustible and ubiquitous, so a question that arises in the mind of the technologist is whether such energy can be 'mined' for practical use and thereby constitute the "Holy Grail" of energy research. " I subsequently solicited from my network additional input to Dr. Khan, as the then point of contact at DOE, on these emerging energy technologies and additional information was offered by Thomas Bearden, Hal Fox, and Eugene Mallove, which resulted in an expressed interest and faint hope that the DOE would further investigate more seriously the other variations on this new clean-energy genre also known under the various names of Cold Fusion, High Density Charge Clusters, and the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation devices proven to neutralize radioactive wastes as well as liberating energy apparently/possibly from the ZPE. Due to the controversial nature of this new science which was until recently well ahead of contemporary theoretical physics now being evaluated by Sarfatti, et al, no apparent progress has been made towards updating new Energy Secretary Richardson on these developments. Or possibly, as claimed by journalist Jeane Manning in her book about some of these technologies, The Coming Energy Revolution, there is in another department (DOD?) a "dual-use" secrecy restriction hampering their public development while evidence exists that the new science behind them is being developed covertly inside and outside the US for advanced electromagnetic weaponry. I am submitting below my recent brief summary of these new emerging clean-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power and neutralize radioactive wastes, in the form of my appeal for this issue to become a mainstream issue in this year's political arena for national elections in November. The text of my DOE CNES 1998 hearing testimony and following written public comments detailing these arguments/data in context of CNES codifications is posted at http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier/8.html I fully agree with Dr. O'Leary that we need a global emergency level "crash-program" (a "New Manhattan Project" analog) to rapidly complete research and development on optimum emerging energy technologies for immediate deployment to address global climate change before it is too late. I also agree with his assessment of the need for relegalization and widespread cultivation of the industrial hemp plant to replace the need to cut trees and as the most efficient biofuels source. Even if we had these new clean-energy technologies fully implemented today, this would only slow the present atmospheric degradation because so many trees have already been cut. To reverse the greenhouse effect and replenish atmospheric oxygen needed to heal the ozone layer depletion we need to rapidly regreen the planet with a global emergency level program that would best include a contemporary revival of the USDA's 1941-45 "Hemp for Victory" program that was implemented in spite of the 1937 fraud on the American Congress and people by which hemp was outlawed as marijuana. http://www.jackherer.com http://www.chrisconrad.com With the US now beginning to commit itself to another "Vietnam War", in Columbia striving for oil resources access/protection while deploying purportedly ongoing Iran/Contra-style CIA drugwar strategies/skullduggery http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/318 in this year of High Level Oil Prices & DrugWar Electioneering, all these issues need to be reexamined carefully in light of hidden history coming to light http://www.copvcia.com -----Original Message----- >YOUR TURN: COMMENT ON OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. >A draft copy of STRENGTH THROUGH SCIENCE: POWERING THE 21ST CENTURY, the > Energy Departments strategic plan is available on the world wide web for > public comment through Monday, April 10. This draft will evolve into a > final Strategic Plan through consultation with you. DOE plans to publish a > final version of the plan this Spring with your help. This document > outlines the agencys long-term directions and policies. It establishes the > mission, objectives, performance goals and strategies for the department. > It is available at www.doe.gov/strategic_plan > > >___________________________________________________________________________ _ >This discussion group is sponsored in part by: >* Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, http://www.crest.org >* Global Environmental Options, http://www.geonetwork.org >Archives and related documents can be found at at: http://www.green-power.com > Cc: Baseline Mansion ; *Global Peace Walk Project Dear Nader for President Campaign 2000, Green Party, Mr. Ralph Nader, et al: I saw Ralph Nader on CSPAN yesterday speaking at University of Maryland College Park, listened carefully to his message and responses to questioners, and suggest you read very carefully the extremely important information below which can help greatly the success of his US Presidential Campaign and/or the campaign of any understanding candidate. I am emailing to suggest strongly that he investigate and include in his Presidential Campaign issue under the banner of "Clean Energy Now!" (EarthDay2000 slogan) the need for adequate funding to finish the research and development on the new so-called "free-energy" or "new-energy" technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, as for example, one class of which (devices to harness the "Zero Point Energy" field of the space in which matter resides) made passing mention on p.57 in the public comments section of the new national energy policy plan (CNES Comprehensive National Energy Strategy http://www.hr.doe.gov/nesp/cnes.html ) prepared by the DOE and submitted to Congress in 1998 to address Kyoto protocol goals for US energy industry carbon emissions to ameliorate global climate change. In addition, in a formal scientific letter to our representative ordered by then Energy Secretary Pena, in May 1998 the DOE acknowledged the existence of the Zero Point Energy field and called such potential devices to harness it the "Holy Grail of energy research" (for details and copy of this DOE letter, see story and follow links from "energy" button at bottom of http://www.prop1.org ). Further, I would strongly urge Mr. Nader to consult on this matter with those cc'd above including former astronaut and physicist/astronomer Dr. Brian O'Leary (cc above) who was the science and energy policy advisor and speechwriter to four previous US presidential candidates (beginning with Udall and ending with Jackson) before in recent years becoming familiar with many of these new energy technologies and their inventors/researchers and then writing a popular book about them called "Miracle in the Void" and the foreword to Canadian journalist Jeane Manning's book on some of these inventions and researchers called "The Coming Energy Revolution". (I suggest you start with Appendix II in O'Leary's book which is a speech of his from 1994 with good overview, entitled "Green Power") http://www.maui.net/~oleary A "flip-side" benefit to one class of this new genre of fuel-less energy technologies, a class (related to what was initially labeled "cold fusion" and then suppressed/debunked publicly before the last decade of quiet serious research has shown its underlying working principles proven sound) including labels of "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" and "High Density Charge Clusters", has actually demonstrated the ability to neutralize radioactive wastes rapidly as was shown on ABC Good Morning America news in early June 1997 where the radioactivity of uranium was reduced over half in less than two hours by the Patterson Power Cell. Dr. Mallove's Infinite Energy Magazine http://www.infinite-energy.com and the peer reviewed publications of the Institute for New Energy edited by Hal Fox http://www.padrak.com/ine provide additional and more technical details on latest research in these areas. I suspect that Mr. Nader has the experience and background to appreciate the government/corporate dynamics factors which have been hindering the development of these new energy technologies over the past two decades of my interest and involvement in this area of research. He may also appreciate the reference in Jeane Manning's book to the government secrecy orders under which she claims these new developments are being ordered secret and suppressed, austensibly for national security reasons but apparently to protect entrenched corporate profiteering and energy industry global economics and governments control. For additional references among cc's above for more information you may also want to check with Col. Bearden and Moray King regarding details on Zero Point Energy perspectives on this new science; with Thomas Valone of Integrity Research Institute there in Washington DC who has done some conferences there on this topic; with Randell Mills of Blacklight Power ; with systems theory and radar pioneer Dr. Fred B. Wood, Sr., who is worried about secrecy policies on this new science as relates to covert advanced electromagnetic weaponry potentially under development by the US and perhaps even more advanced in countries hostile to the US; and with Dr. Jack Sarfatti who with the support of former US West CEO Joseph Firmage is making rapid progress via global internetwork of researchers on the advanced theoretical physics of new energy and vacuum propulsion technologies especially as connected to physics of consciousness research and investigation of purported reverse engineering of UFO technologies . Mr. Firmage's new personal assistant, Andrew Mount, was for 9 years the personal assistant of the late Bruce DePalma whose research leading to the 1979 tests of the n-Machine "free-energy generator" mentioned on p.57 of DOE's CNES http://www.depalma.pair.com also has antigravity technology implications. He and Adam Trombly with Project Earth , who patented internationally one Zero Point Energy generator, both reported death threats since the early 1980's over suppression of this new science. Although this new energy science is still very controversial since the experimental results have not yet been reconciled in the "mainstream scientific establishment" with commonly accepted 20th century theoretical physics (eg, ), nevertheless I strongly urge you to consider the underlying potential and voluminous evidence available and insist that this topic become more deeply investigated and that it become a main topic of discussion in this year's Presidential and Congressional elections. Nowhere is this controversy more evident, and the lack of common agreement among these new energy researchers as to how all these different results and theories can be understood in common terms, than in the work over the last three decades of inventor Joseph Newman from Mississippi now living near Phoenix, Arizona . His experimental results on the Newman Energy Machine, contrary to Mr. Newman's theoretical understandings, seem to some influential scientists as "violating the laws of physics". Even so, he gained sufficient testimonies from top scientists who witnessed tests of his energy machine that by the 1980's he earned the support of the Republican Congressional Caucus and 11 different Members of the House of Representatives separately introduced (unsuccessful) bills into Congress to give him a patent by congressional act to over-ride an intransigent US Patent Office's refusal. Today he is marketing a production model of his energy machine apparently under NAFTA-guaranteed foreign patent protection. [note/addendum of 7Apr00: Correct or not, Mr. Newman's theoretical understanding of how his generator works is by converting a small amount of matter (copper?) into a large amount of electricity in his device, which sounds a lot better than doing this with uranium or plutonium in nuclear reactors] Please ask Mr. Nader and his staff to carefully and thoroughly investigate this information as soon as possible. He is in a position, by his candidacy now gaining momentum for the US Presidency, to insert this information into the national election arena and compel all candidates and the public to push for rapid implemetation of this new science which has the potential to help end energy industry pollutions, more fairly restructure the global economy, and help ameliorate global environmental threats before it is too late to save all life on Earth from otherwise certain destruction. Finally, I would invite Mr. Nader to offer his letter of support for Global Peace Walk 2000 with his message which this walk to Washington DC and the United Nations can help publicize and carry for delivery with other such messages in Washington DC and to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary and to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century. Since Global Peace Walk 2000 will be conducting en route its annual April 22nd event in Taos, New Mexico, as one of the many global EarthDay2000 events, as soon as we receive Mr. Nader's letter we would like to send it to all the EarthDay network organizers and ask that they copy it and references to above new "Clean Energy Now!" information to their EarthDay2000 event attendees. With the support of some of those cc'd above we are planning to have a major conference on these new energy technologies in Washington DC toward the end of the first week of October just preceding the walk's arrival there for a ceremony October 9th to rededicate the Washington Monument as a symbol of the message of peace. We hope you will commit to attend this ceremony and that those receiving this post will help us achieve the goal of gathering over one million people for that ceremony including prominent politicial officeholders and candidates. With my fervent prayers for your serious consideration and response to the above suggestions as soon as possible, and appreciating your website at http://www.votenader.com, Sincerely, CLEAN-ENERGY CAMPAIGN 2000 David Crockett Williams gear2000@lightspeed.net Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CSUN, CA, 1969) Chartered Life Underwriter (American College, PA, 1971) Independent Candidate for United States President 2000 Leonard Peltier, Vice Presidential Candidate USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier GLOBAL EMERGENCY ALERT RESPONSE http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts The Vision of Paradise on Earth http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html **Support HR 2545: Global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act Details & Email: http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Sign letters to senators http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter Easy index to email Congress & Media http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (copy & paste email letters to media and Congress) An Agenda for Peace http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Call for Nominations Date: 08 Apr 2000 08:09:20 -0400 --=====================_12576017==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" -----Original Message----- <castron@OCC.NCI.NIH.GOV> <I-131NTSFALLOUT-L@LIST.NIH.GOV> Dear Listserv Members: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is pleased to extend this "call for nominations" for the Communications Development Group (CDG) that will provide input and guidance for ongoing outreach concerning the public health impacts of I-131 exposure from the Nevada Test Site (NTS). As you know, it was agreed at the January 11-13, 2000 meeting that a strategic communications plan be developed to facilitate credible and meaningful communications about I-131 exposure from the NTS. It was also agreed by all that ongoing public participation in the planning process was critical for the success of the program, and that a CDG would be convened for this purpose. The NCI will play the lead role in the development of this plan, and would like your input into the identification of CDG members. Based on the recommendations at the January Workshop, we will convene a group of approximately 5-8 individuals representing a wide variety of groups and perspectives. As discussed in January, this group size is being designed to ensure that the planning process moves forward efficiently while providing significant public input and accountability. We will not expect CDG members to travel and will conduct discussions via conference call. It is anticipated that CDG members will be involved in the planning process through the end of July 2000. The NCI will compensate CDG members with a modest stipend recognizing the time and energy spent on this public service effort. We will compensate group members at a rate of $35/hour with a ceiling of $1500. This letter includes a summary of the roles and responsibilities for CDG members as well as the criteria we will be using to make the final selection of individuals. The selection criteria are closely based upon the discussions at the breakout session on this effort held during the January meeting. Please review these carefully before you nominate yourself or someone else. It is very important that those who serve on the CDG are able to make the full commitment required. Recognizing the importance of ensuring adequate public input into this process, NCI reserves the right to address any significant individual shortfall in participation by discussing this with the individual and, if necessary, removing and replacing him or her. Please submit your nominations no later than Friday, April 21, 2000. In your nomination, please include the name of the nominee, what group(s) he or she represents or whose perspective he or she represents, and a brief summary of the qualifications and expertise that this person can bring to the review of the plan NCI develops. We will review the nominations, carefully select the group members based upon the criteria outlined in this letter, and post the selections on the Listserv no later than April 28, 2000. We would like to hold a kick-off conference call with the group during the first week of May, preferably on Thursday, May 4 from 2-4 P.M. EST. During this call, we will review the roles and responsibilities of group members and review a proposed timeline for the project. The outcome of all conference calls and/or meetings will be posted on the Listserv to keep everyone informed of our progress over time. Proposed Roles and Responsibilities of NCI * The National Cancer Institute will have the primary responsibility for developing the I-131 communications plan. * The NCI will host and facilitate all conference calls, develop call summaries, and distribute them to CDG members. The NCI also will review and discuss all comments and suggestions made by CDG members during the planning process. Proposed Roles and Responsibilities of CDG Members The CDG provides a mechanism to ensure broad public input and to keep public representatives involved as partners with NCI as it develops effective public outreach about the health effects of exposure to I-131 fallout from the NTS. If this communications effort evolves over time, the CDG will serve as a model for continued public representation in an expanded program, one that might address other radionuclides (strontium-90, cesium-137, etc.), diseases other than those of the thyroid gland, and possibly multiple exposures. Therefore the role of the CDG (with both Government and community members) will be to: * Provide community representation in the ongoing program development. * Provide guidance in development of the communications plan's elements, including identifying target audiences, delineating messages by target audience, providing input about additional consumer research, and helping to articulate the strategies and tactics necessary to reach communication objectives. * Serve as the Government's "touch stone" to the community. The CDG will not be required to draft documents or write the communications plan. The role of the CDG will be to provide feedback on the documents developed by the NCI, based on workshop and CDG input. * Commit the time to participate in this process. At a minimum, this will require at least four 2-hour conference calls, reviewing materials (draft planning documents) to prepare for those calls, and providing written comments and suggestions to the NCI if requested. It is anticipated that the members will be involved in communication planning activities through July 2000. In assuming these responsibilities, the CDG members agree that after NCI takes the first steps (in identifying audiences, developing messages, proposing consumer research, and outlining strategies and tactics) that they will review NCI's proposals/plans and provide individual advice and guidance to NCI. The NCI, while recognizing that the CDG's advice and guidance are essential, will have final responsibility for all communication elements. CDG Membership Criteria Based on the input of those attending the January workshop, it was determined that the five to eight individuals to be selected for the CDG meet the following criteria: * Those selected should be able and willing to make a time commitment to the project that could possibly affect professional or family time. This will include regularly scheduled conference calls (probably about one per month) which may last up to two hours, reviewing materials prior to the calls, preparing written feedback or input into planning documents via e-mail or regular mail, reviewing a potentially high volume of e-mail messages, etc. * Individuals selected should have the ability to do informal outreach on behalf of the campaign to their constituents and to their communities. Among the membership, the most important constituent groups-by virtue of number of people, exposure levels, health consequences, etc.-as well as those identified in the January workshop, should be represented, while still keeping the number of community representatives to eight or fewer individuals. * Individuals selected should represent a diverse geography assuring that communities and regions with different exposure levels and varied adverse health affects are included on the group. Individuals should be able to represent a broad constituency or points of view. Where possible, it will be helpful to identify individuals who can represent multiple groups. For example, a physician member of a health professional group or a representative of the American Thyroid Foundation who is a health educator. * Members should have a long-term perspective to give this process the potential to serve as a model for projects related to other radionuclides and non-thyroid diseases should they be undertaken in the future. * Potential groups to be represented in the CDG include the following: * "Downwinders" from the Nevada Test Site * The African American community * Hispanic community group and migrant health center worker * American Indian tribal nation (s) * State health departments and local health departments * Health professional organizations and/or practicing physicians * Thyroidologists * The health education community * The radiation activist community. Please send nominations by email, mail, or fax to: Clare Collins National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Communications Bldg. 31, Room 10A03 31 Center Dr. Bethesda, MD 20892 clarec@mail.nih.gov 301-435-7784 301-402-0894 fax ---------- Reply-To: downwinders@egroups.com --=====================_12576017==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" -----Original Message-----
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Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: Call for Nominations

Dear Listserv Members:

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is pleased to extend this "call for nominations" for the Communications Development Group (CDG) that will provide input and guidance for ongoing outreach concerning the public health impacts of I-131 exposure from the Nevada Test Site (NTS).

As you know, it was agreed at the January 11-13, 2000 meeting that a strategic communications plan be developed to facilitate credible and meaningful communications about I-131 exposure from the NTS.  It was also agreed by all that ongoing public participation in the planning process was critical for the success of the program, and that a CDG would be convened for this purpose.

The NCI will play the lead role in the development of this plan, and would like your input into the identification of CDG members.  Based on the recommendations at the January Workshop, we will convene a group of approximately 5-8 individuals representing a wide variety of groups and perspectives.  As discussed in January, this group size is being designed to ensure that the planning process moves forward efficiently while providing significant public input and accountability. We will not expect CDG members to travel and will conduct discussions via conference call.  It is anticipated that CDG members will be involved in the planning process through the end of July 2000.  The NCI will compensate CDG members with a modest stipend recognizing the time and energy spent on this public service effort.   We will compensate group members at a rate of $35/hour with a ceiling of $1500.

This letter includes a summary of the roles and responsibilities for CDG members as well as the criteria we will be using to make the final selection of individuals.  The selection criteria are closely based upon the discussions at the breakout session on this effort held during the January meeting.  Please review these carefully before you nominate yourself or someone else. It is very important that those who serve on the CDG are able to make the full commitment required.  Recognizing the importance of ensuring adequate public input into this process, NCI reserves the right to address any significant individual shortfall in participation by discussing this with the individual and, if necessary, removing and replacing him or her.

Please submit your nominations no later than Friday, April 21, 2000.

In your nomination, please include the name of the nominee, what group(s) he or she represents or whose perspective he or she represents, and a brief summary of the qualifications and expertise that this person can bring to the review of the plan NCI develops.  We will review the nominations, carefully select the group members based upon the criteria outlined in this letter, and post the selections on the Listserv no later than April 28, 2000.   We would like to hold a kick-off conference call with the group during the first week of May, preferably on Thursday, May 4 from 2-4 P.M. EST.  During this call, we will review the roles and responsibilities of group members and review a proposed timeline for the project.  The outcome of all conference calls and/or meetings will be posted on the Listserv to keep everyone informed of our progress over time.

Proposed Roles and Responsibilities of NCI
  • The National Cancer Institute will have the primary responsibility for developing the I-131 communications plan.
  • The NCI will host and facilitate all conference calls, develop call summaries, and distribute them to CDG members.  The NCI also will review and discuss all comments and suggestions made by CDG members during the planning process.
Proposed Roles and Responsibilities of CDG Members

The CDG provides a mechanism to ensure broad public input and to keep public representatives involved as partners with NCI as it develops effective public outreach about the health effects of exposure to I-131 fallout from the NTS.  If this communications effort evolves over time, the CDG will serve as a model for continued public representation in an expanded program, one that might address other radionuclides (strontium-90, cesium-137, etc.), diseases other than those of the thyroid gland, and possibly multiple exposures.  Therefore the role of the CDG (with both Government and community members) will be to:
  • Provide community representation in the ongoing program development.
  • Provide guidance in development of the communications plan's elements, including identifying target audiences, delineating messages by target audience, providing input about additional consumer research, and helping to articulate the strategies and tactics necessary to reach communication objectives.
  • Serve as the Government's "touch stone" to the community.  The CDG will not be required to draft documents or write the communications plan.  The role of the CDG will be to provide feedback on the documents developed by the NCI, based on workshop and CDG input.
  • Commit the time to participate in this process.  At a minimum, this will require at least four 2-hour conference calls, reviewing materials (draft planning documents) to prepare for those calls, and providing written comments and suggestions to the NCI if requested.  It is anticipated that the members will be involved in communication planning activities through July 2000.
In assuming these responsibilities, the CDG members agree that after NCI takes the first steps (in identifying audiences, developing messages, proposing consumer research, and outlining strategies and tactics) that they will review NCI's proposals/plans and provide individual advice and guidance to NCI.  The NCI, while recognizing that the CDG's advice and guidance are essential, will have final responsibility for all communication elements. 

CDG Membership Criteria

Based on the input of those attending the January workshop, it was determined that the five to eight individuals to be selected for the CDG meet the following criteria:
      • Those selected should be able and willing to make a time commitment to the project that could possibly affect professional or family time.  This will include regularly scheduled conference calls (probably about one per month) which may last up to two hours, reviewing materials prior to the calls, preparing written feedback or input into planning documents via e-mail or regular mail, reviewing a potentially high volume of e-mail messages, etc. 
      • Individuals selected should have the ability to do informal outreach on behalf of the campaign to their constituents and to their communities.  Among the membership, the most important constituent groups-by virtue of number of people, exposure levels, health consequences, etc.-as well as those identified in the January workshop, should be represented, while still keeping the number of community representatives to eight or fewer individuals.
      • Individuals selected should represent a diverse geography assuring that communities and regions with different exposure levels and varied adverse health affects are included on the group.  Individuals should be able to represent a broad constituency or points of view.  Where possible, it will be helpful to identify individuals who can represent multiple groups.  For example, a physician member of a health professional group or a representative of the American Thyroid Foundation who is a health educator.
      • Members should have a long-term perspective to give this process the potential to serve as a model for projects related to other radionuclides and non-thyroid diseases should they be undertaken in the future.
      • Potential groups to be represented in the CDG include the following:
    • "Downwinders" from the Nevada Test Site
    • The African American community
    • Hispanic community group and migrant health center worker
    • American Indian tribal nation (s)
    • State health departments and local health departments
    • Health professional organizations and/or practicing physicians
    • Thyroidologists
    • The health education community
    • The radiation activist community.


Please send nominations by email, mail, or fax to:

Clare Collins
National Cancer Institute
Office of Cancer Communications
Bldg. 31, Room 10A03
31 Center Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20892
clarec@mail.nih.gov
301-435-7784
301-402-0894 fax

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--=====================_12576017==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) Native sovereignty and militarization ("USS Hawaii" Nuclear sub) Date: 09 Apr 2000 01:47:41 PDT Hi Abolitionists, Just wanted to share some info about what's going on in "paradise"!! Thanks. Richard Salvador Honolulu, Hawaii -- Hawai`i Moves Toward Independence Most people in the United States do not know that the United States Government participated in the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai`i Government in 1893. At that time, the Kingdom was a constitutional monarchy and had international treaties with 70 sovereign nations, including the U.S. One hundred years later, Congress passed and the President signed Public Law 130-150 formally apologizing for the overthrow. In what has come to be known as the Apology Resolution, the U.S. admitted that the "U.S. Minister assigned to the sovereign and independent Kingdom of Hawaii ... conspired ... to overthrow the indigenous and lawful government of Hawaii" and acknowledged that "Hawaii has never surrendered its inherent sovereignty through the monarch or by treaty or plebiscite." Under international law, the Kingdom of Hawai`i is a nation of indigenous people, known as Kanaka Maoli, with their government absent. After being jailed in 1893, Queen Lili'uokalani wrote to President Cleveland that she "yield(s) to the superior force ... until such time as the government of the United States shall ... reinstate (her) in the authority which (she) claim(s) as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands". On February 24, 1894, President Cleveland issued a proclamation which said: "Whereas, my good and great sister and fellow sovereign, her gracious majesty, Liliuokalani, queen of Hawai`i, has been wickedly and unlawfully dethroned by the machinations of Americans and persons of American descent in those islands, being instigated by the devil, one John L. Stevens [US Minister] ... I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby ordain and appoint the last day of April next as a day of solemn fasting, humiliation, and prayer. Let my people humble themselves and repent of their injustice to me and my great and good sister, and pray ... for her speedy return to the throne .... Long Live Liliuokalani, the de jure queen of Hawaii." The Queen lodged similar protests to the next two U.S. presidents. Over 38,000 indigenous people signed a petition to protest annexation of their Kingdom in 1897. The U.S. Congress passed a resolution favoring annexation and quietly finessed the resolution into an annexation by sleight of tongue. This manipulation of words was never lawful, as the Apology Resolution acknowledges. The Kanaka Maoli have never stopped their struggle to regain their independence. Today, that movement is stronger than ever before. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down as unconstitutional the election process for trustees of an agency known as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). Set up in part to give back to Hawaiians a little of what was taken from them, the OHA elections were limited to descendants of the original Hawaiians. The Supreme Court said such a limitation in a state election was unconstitutional. Removing one of the last remaining quasi-self governing vehicles for Kanaka Maoli has moved the sovereignty question to a new level. The only debate within the sovereignty movement is whether to seek creation of a "nation within a nation" as the Native Americans now exist or complete independence. Inherent sovereignty is the legacy of the Kanaka Maoli. No group, communities, native born or otherwise can abrogate this legacy and the precious inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness given by the Creator, Ke Akua. This is Natural Law (or Common Law) and is protected by international law and the Law of Nations. Furthermore, all nations have the right to exist and overthrown nations have a right to reinstate their former governments. Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium,Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania, Bulgaria are among the many sovereign nations whose conquered governments were reinstated in this century. In 1949, Israel was reinstated after 1300 years of exile. While certainly it may seem strange to people on the mainland, Hawai'i, under international law, is a foreign country awaiting the return of its government. There are various efforts underway to restore the Hawaiian nation. There is also an effort underway by the United States government characterized as "reconciliation." Representatives of the Justice Department and the Interior Department came to Hawai`i to hold hearings. Sovereignty activists noted the absence of anyone from the State Department. Members of Congress are trying to fashion a Department of Hawaiian Affairs-type solution to the injustices of the past. These US government efforts cannot substitute for an honest dialogue about restoring sovereignty stolen from the Hawaiian people. The naming of a new US nuclear powered attack submarine as the USS Hawaii tells more about US intentions than any reconciliation effort. The Secretary of the Navy views Hawai`i as the forward base for US naval insertion into the Pacific. The naming is a deliberate insult and provocation designed to intimidate those seeking justice. The Hawaiian people are incresingly united in their quest for restoration of their sovereignty. The United States would be well served to honor the admission of guilt in the Apology Resolution and discontinue efforts to impose a solution. --- end forwarded text See URL below for more information on Hawaiian sovereignty: ___________________________________________________________ | Hawai`i - Independent & Sovereign | | info@hawaii-nation.org http://hawaii-nation.org | |___________________________________________________________| ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) [One Hawaiian response] Letter to the Editor re: new submarine (fwd) Date: 09 Apr 2000 02:08:12 PDT FYI: Native sovereignty and militarization. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- --- begin forwarded text This letter is in opposition to the proposed naming of a Virginia-class submarine "USS Hawaii," as reported Friday. As a Kanaka Maoli and as a person with much aloha for this `aina [land], I cannot help but protest a decision that in my mind goes against all that Hawai`i is. This is a place for us to care for. Our name should not be emblazoned on the hull of a war machine. Hawai`i is a sacred name, given to these islands by the first people who prophesized their existence more than two millennia ago. The name has tremendous spiritual and emotional weight for those whose genealogies stretch over centuries to this place, and to the multicultural nation that developed here in the 19th century. The proposed name "USS Hawaii" is an attempt to Americanize this Hawai`i of ours, to solidify the tenuous illegal relationship between Hawai`i and the US and also to obscure and destroy our unique Local and Kanaka Maoli cultures. This is being done at a time when we citizens who love this land are seeking internal reconciliation for the events of the last hundred-plus years, so as to build a peaceful future for all our peoples. The proposed naming is a mockery of our important community- and peace-building process. The Honolulu Advertiser reports Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig as saying, "Hawaii is remarkable for its level of commitment to its military forces and for its strategic location" (Friday April 7 2000). We need to ask ourselves: is Hawai`i only that - a 'strategic location'? No. Hawai`i is much more. This is all our home. We have lived here in prosperity for two thousand years, we have buried our ancestors here, and we will continue to raise our grandchildren here to practice "aloha `aina" - a deep and profound love for the land. The name "Hawai`i" belongs to the `aina of Hawai`i itself, and to the people who care for it. The US Navy has no right, nor does any other party, to unilaterally take this name. Let's all practice our aloha `aina today and forever, and stand for our vision of Hawai`i as a place where we live and which we love. Aloha `Aina Mau A Mau, Ikaika M L Hussey Mokapu 382-8770 --- end forwarded text -- ___________________________________________________________ | Hawai`i - Independent & Sovereign | | info@hawaii-nation.org http://hawaii-nation.org | |___________________________________________________________| "The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep- seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station." - Queen Lili`uokalani <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/10: DC Briefings; archives updated to 3/31/00 Date: 10 Apr 2000 07:21:10 -0400 --=====================_6058704==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (1) NucNews Archives will be updated to 3/31/2000 by noon today (EDT). (2) April 10, 2000 Washington Times Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000410212410.htm Environmental news briefing =97 9 a.m. =97 Environmental Media Services= holds a news briefing on World Bank financing of oil, gas and mining projects in poor actions. Location: National Press Club, West Room, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/822-5200. World Bank conference =97 1 p.m. =97 World Bank holds a conference on "Investing in Our Children's Future." Highlights =97 2 p.m. =97 Health and= Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala keynote address: "Investing in Young Children to Break Intergenerational Poverty" =97 Location: World Bank, = Preston Auditorium, 1818 H St. NW. Contact: 202/477-1234. (3) A16 Action events - http://www.a16.org/action.html: Press Conference - 10am=20 A press conference to launch the boycott of World Bank Bonds, with = speakers from investment firms and boycott organizers. National Press Building,= Zenger Room (13th Floor) - More Info >> Neil Tangri action@essential.org,= 202.387.8030 Neil Watkins - watkinsn@cepr.org - 202.822.1180 x208,= www.worldbankboycott.org=20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_6058704==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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    Environmental news briefing  =97 9 a.m. =97 Environmental Media Services holds a news  briefing on World Bank  financing of oil, gas and mining projects in poor actions.  Location: National Press Club,  West Room, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/822-5200.

    World Bank conference =97 1 p.m. =97 World Bank hold= s a conference on "Investing in Our Children's Future."  Highlights =97 2 p.m. =97 Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala keynote address: "Investing in Young Children to Break Intergenerational Poverty" =97  Location: World Bank,  Preston Auditorium, 1818 H St. NW. Contact: 202/477-1234.

(3) A16 Action events - http://www.a16.org/action.html:

Press Conference - 10am
A press conference to launch the  boycott of World Bank Bonds, with  speakers from investment firms and boycott organizers. National Press Building, Zenger Room (13th Floor) - More Info >> Neil Tangri action@essential.org, 202.387.8030
Neil Watkins - watkinsn@cepr.org - 202.822.1180 x208, www.worldbankb= oycott.org



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--=====================_6058704==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Update on Bolivia Date: 10 Apr 2000 10:20:54 -0400 Dear Friends, If we are going to make the links with the events in Seattle and nuclear weapons, here's a harrowing story about one of our more infamous corporate nuclear weapons contractors--the guys who bring us underground subcritical tests in Nevada (Bechtel), are trying to privatize Bolivia's water supply.= =20 Here are some links to be made!! Alice >Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:48:30 -0400 >Subject: Update on Bolivia >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: greenleaf@ak.planet.gen.nz (greenleaf@ak.planet.gen.nz) > >This reply from Bolivia is forwarded to all Water Pressure Group lists, >member/non-member/international. > >If you wish to receive further postings on Bolivia, please reply - we are >forming a separate Email list for that as we did with the World Water >Forum. >Regards >Jim Gladwin >The Water Pressure Group >http://www.water-pressure-group.org.nz/ >email: jimg@pl.net >PO Box 10046 >Dominion Road >Auckland >New Zealand >Ph / Fax 0064 09 828 4517 >Mobile: 025 2666 552 >________________ > >X-Sender: jshultz@albatros.cnb.net >Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:35:31 -0400 >To: greenleaf@ak.planet.gen.nz >From: Jim Shultz >Subject: UPDATE > >Thanks for all your help. Here's more and please keep us posted on what >you hear. > >Best, > >Jim Shultz > >Sunday, April 9th >Cochabamba, Bolivia > >Dear Friends: > > The situation here in Bolivia remains critical. Since the >declaration of >martial law yesterday at least three people have been killed, including a >17 year old boy shot by soldiers with live ammunition here in Cochabamba. >More than 30 people in Cochabamba alone have been injured from conflicts >with the military. Respected leaders of the water protests have been >jailed, some flown to a remote location in Bolivia=92s jungle. Soldiers >continue to occupy the city=92s center. However, there is now= something very >real and straightforward you can do to help. > > The massive protests that prompted the declaration of martial law here >were prompted by the sale of Cochabamba=92s public water system to a= private >corporation (Aguas del Tunari, owned by International Water Limited) which >then doubled water rates for poor families that can barely afford to feed >themselves. It turns out that that the main financial power behind that >water corporation in the Bechtel Corporation, based in San Francisco >(Source: http://www.bechtel.com/whatnew/1999artsq4.html). > > The people of Bolivia have made it very clear that they want >Bechtel out. >The Bolivian government is so committed to protecting Bechtel that it has >declared martial law and killed its own people. While some in the >government here are saying this afternoon that Bechtel will leave, given >the government's reversal on the same promise Friday the statement has no >credibility here ansent a written agreement and end to martial law. It is >critical that pressure be brought to bear directly on Bechtel in the US. >You can help, here=92s how: > >1) Send an e-mail, letter, fax or make a phone call to: > > Riley Bechtel, Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Corp > E-mail: northame@bechtel.com > Tel: (415) 768-1234 > Fax: (415) 768-9038 > Address: 50 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 > >2) The Message: > > "Bolivians have made it absolutely clear that they want Bechtel=92s water >company, Aguas de Tunari, out of Bolivia, through a week of huge protests >that have nearly shut down the country. To protect Bechtel, the Bolivian >government has now put the country under martial law, leaving many dead and >wounded. Bechtel has a responsibility to honor the wishes of Bolivians and >bring the crisis to an end by immediatley signing an agreement to turn the >water system back over to Bolivians." > >3) Please send this information as far and wide as you can. More than >1,000 other are receiving this message today. Even 100 e-mails ro calls to >Bechtel Monday will make an enormous difference. > > To give you some additional context on events here I am including >below an >article, which I published in Saturday=92s San Jose Mercury News. The= article >went to press just before the government reversed position and declared >martial law. > > Many thanks, > > Jim Shultz > The Democracy Center > JShultz@democracyctr.org > > > > BOLIVIAN PROTESTERS WIN WAR OVER WATER > >COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA > >In a stunning concession to four days of massive public uprisings, the >Bolivian government announced late Friday afternoon that it was breaking >the contract it signed last year that sold the region's water system to a >consortium of British-led investors. > >A general strike and road blockades that began Tuesday morning in >Cochabamba shut down the city of half a million, leaving the usually >crowded streets virtually empty of cars and closing schools, businesses and >the city's 25-square-block marketplace, one of Latin America's largest. > >The government's surprise agreement to reverse the water privatization deal >follows four months of public protest. It came just as it appeared that >President Hugo Banzer Su=E1rez was preparing to declare martial law,= possibly >triggering fighting in the streets between riot police and the thousands of >angry protesters who seized control of the city's central plaza. > >Greater meaning > >While rumors are surfacing that the government might backtrack on their >promise, for Bolivians the popular victory apparently won over water has >much wider meaning. ``We're questioning that others, the World Bank, >international business, should be deciding these basic issues for us,'' >said protest leader Oscar Olivera. ``For us, that is democracy.'' > > The selling-off of public enterprises to foreign investors has been a >heated economic debate in Bolivia for a decade, as one major business after >another -- the airline, the train system, electric utilities -- has been >sold into private (almost always foreign) hands. Last year's one-bidder >sale of Cochabamba's public water system, a move pushed on government >officials by the World Bank, the international lending institution, brought >the privatization fight to a boil. > >In January, as the new owners erected their shiny new ``Aguas del Tunari'' >logo over local water facilities, the company also slapped local water >users with rate increases that were as much as double. In a city where the >minimum wage is less than $100 per month, many families were hit with >increases of $20 per month and more. > > Tanya Paredes, a mother of five who supports her family as a >clothes-knitter, says her increase, $15 per month, was equal to what it >costs to feed her family for 1 1/2 weeks. ``What we pay for water comes out >of what we have to pay for food, clothes and the other things we need to >buy for our children,'' she said. > > Public anger over the rate increases, led by a new alliance, known here as >``La Coordinadora,'' exploded in mid-January with a four-day shutdown of >the city, stunning the government and forcing an agreement to reverse the >rate increases. > > In early February, when the promises never materialized, La Coordinadora >called for a peaceful march on the city's central plaza. Banzer (who >previously ruled as a dictator from 1971-78) met the protesters with more >than 1,000 police and an armed takeover of La Cochabamba's center. Two days >of police tear gas and rock-throwing by marchers left more than 175 >protesters injured and two youths blinded. > > February's violent clashes forced the government and the water company to >implement a rate rollback and freeze until November, and to agree to a new >round of negotiations. > >Deal scrutinized > > Meanwhile, La Coordinadora, aided by the local College of Economists, >began to scrutinize both the contract and the finances behind the water >company's new owners. While the actual financial arrangements remain mostly >hidden, the city's leading daily newspaper reported that investors paid the >government less than $20,000 of upfront capital for a water system worth >millions. > > Amid charges of corruption and collusion in the contract by some of the >officials who approved it last year, La Coordinadora announced what it >called la =FAltima batalla (the final battle), demanding that the= government >break the contract and return the water system to public hands. The group >set Tuesday as the deadline for action. > > Government water officials warned that private investors were needed to >secure the millions of dollars needed to expand this growing region's water >system. They argued that breaking the contract would entitle the owners to >a $12 million compensation fee, and pleaded for public patience to give the >new owners time to show the benefits of their experience. > > Among the vast majority of Cochabamba water users, however, that patience >had run out. Two weeks ago, an inquiry surveyed more than 60,000 local >residents about the water issue and more than 90 percent voted that the >government should break the contract. During one of the marches this week >protesters stopped at the water company's offices, tearing down the new >``Aguas del Tunari'' sign erected just three months ago. > > Tuesday, city residents took to the street with bicycles and soccer balls >-- only a few cars moved across town to take advantage of the day off from >work and school. By Wednesday, armies of people from the surrounding rural >areas, fighting a parallel battle over a new law threatening popular >control of rural water systems, began arriving, reinforcing the road >blockades, and puncturing car and bicycle tires. Thursday night, with >another day of wages lost and no sign of movement from the government, >public anger started to erupt. > >Protesters arrested > > A crowd of nearly 500 surrounded the government building where >negotiations, convened by the Roman Catholic archbishop, were taking place >between protest leaders and government officials. In the middle of >negotiations, the government ordered the arrest of 15 La Coordinadora >leaders and others present in the meeting. > > ``We were talking with the mayor, the governor, and other civil leaders >when the police came in and arrested us,'' said Olivera, La Coordinadora's >most visible leader. ``It was a trap by the government to have us all >together, negotiating, so that we could be arrested.'' > > In response, thousands of city and rural residents filled the city's >central plaza opposite the government building, carrying sticks, rocks and >handkerchiefs to help block the anticipated tear gas. Television and radio >reports speculated all day that the president would declare martial law, >and there were reports of army units arriving at the city's airport. > > Freed from jail early Friday morning, the leaders of water protests agreed >to a 4 p.m. meeting with the government, called by the archbishop. At 5 >p.m., government officials still had not arrived and the plaza crowd waited >tensely for the expected arrival of the army. > > Suddenly and unexpectedly, the archbishop walked into the meeting and >announced that the government had just told him that it had agreed to break >the water contract. Jubilant La Coordinadora leaders crossed the street to >a third-floor balcony, announcing the victory to the thousands waiting >below, many waving the red-green-and-yellow Bolivian flag, as the bells of >the city's cathedral echoed through the city center. > >"We have arrived at the moment of an important economic victory," Olivera >told the ecstatic crowd. > =20 Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. =20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe Call-In Day today! Let's jam the White House phone lines! Date: 10 Apr 2000 10:53:51 -0500 PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY! Dear Friends: Last night, activists all around the country gathered at between 150 and 200 Fail Safe watch parties around the country, and more are happening today or later this week. Today, we have another opportunity to raise our voices for peace and disarmament. ACTION: Call the White House today (202/456-1111 or 202/456-1414) on National Fail Safe Call-In Day demanding President Clinton get serious about abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide. We need to jam the White House phone lines! If you can't get through (and that's probably a good sign) try again later, also tomorrow. If you can make two more calls, call the Bush and Gore campaigns and demand that they address nuclear disarmament in the presidential campaign. Bush HQ: (512) 637-2000, Gore HQ: (615) 340-2000. MEDIA: The watch party campaign generated terrific media coverage around the country, and we need to track our succesesses. Just off the top of my head, local CBS affiliates in San Francisco (interviewed former Senator and Project Abolition co-chair Alan Cranston), Providence, RI and South Bend, IN covered last night's watch parties, and I'm sure dozens more. Newspaper coverage included USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune, Goshen News, South Bend Tribune, and again, dozens more papers we don't yet know about. The url's for a few of these articles are below. Our media consultants, Rabinowitz Media Strategies in DC, did a great job and are working to track coverage around the country. Please let us know of any media coverage of watch parties in your area. Email me and send copies of clippings to Project Abolition, Fourth Freedom Forum, 803 N. Main St., Goshen, IN, 46528. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000410/2128214s.htm http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2000/04/09/entertainment.20000409-sbt-MICH-E1-Activist_hopes_drama.sto http://www.nepanews.com/stories/04082000/news/368.htm In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles F Hilfenhaus Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops Date: 10 Apr 2000 22:52:49 EDT In a reverse biblical action the sharks at the CIA have thrown seven small fishes to the masses. In military circles there is an aphorism that once is accident, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action. Let us examine the number of coincidences the CIA wants the world to believe were accidents: 1) The Chinese Embassy was the only target designated by the CIA in the whole bombing campaign!!! This is prof of intent to many people without any other evidence. 2) The Chinese Embassy was an accidental target!!! Either the CIA was acting like the Keystone Cops or?? 3) The most sensitive area of the Embassy was targeted 4) The strike involved the B2 bomber and the most accurate next generation cruise missiles 5)The strike involved a nuclear weapons delivery system. Given the CIA habit of not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing who can ever believe the latest denial. All I personally believe is that the false evidence was planted on the seven small fish or in their files before the strike took place. One more thing, they probably told the same lie to President Clinton, and the most damning thing I can say about him is he believed it. Charlie Hilfenhaus Alliance of Atomic Veterans Director, Atomic Workers Division chilfenhaus@juno.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) 'Heads of State' letter re NPT Canberra Launch Date: 11 Apr 2000 16:09:13 +1000 John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd The following contains the press releases issued by NGOs for the Canberra release of the 'Heads of State' NPT letter, the release issued by Senator lyn Allison, and extracts from AAP newswire and the Age reports. The letter was released yesterday in Canberra, Christchurch NZ, New York, The Hague, Moscow, and London. EMBARGOED TO 1PM MON,APRIL 10, (CANBERRA TIME) ROOM 1 S 5, MONDAY APR 10 PARLT HOUSE CANBERRA WORLD ORGANIZATIONS SAY 'TIMES UP' FOR N-WEAPONS - WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF LETTER TO HEADS OF STATE On the eve of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, 374 citizen organisations and parliamentarians have said time is up for nuclear weapons. Groups and parliamentarians from all over the world representing millions of people have written to all the signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to ask that they fulfill article VI of the treaty, which calls for the elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles. Will the worlds leaders be able to respond to the hopes of their publics, who are asking for a Review Conference that will allow the NPT to work as it was intended? The NPT has been signed by 187 countries, with only India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba not signed up. The letter has been sent to these countries also. The letter is being released internationally on 10 April in Canberra, New York, Christchurch, Moscow, the Hague and London. It emphasizes that under the terms of the NPT, in force since 1970, the nuclear weapons states are legally obliged to eliminate their nuclear arsenals 'at an early date'. The NPT Review Conference will take place at the United Nations in New York from 24April to May 19th. It will help determine whether or not the world will move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons or their further proliferation. The conference is widely expected to be 'difficult'. Issues that will help make the conference difficult include the testing of nuclear weapons by India, and Pakistan, the refusal of the US Senate to ratify the Comprehensive test Ban treaty, the failure of the Russian Duma to ratify the START-II agreement, and the destabilizing effect of US plans to deploy a ballistic missile defence system. The letter notes that even ten years after the supposed end of the cold war, some 5,000 nuclear warheads are on permanent 'hair trigger' alert. The letter has been signed by 42 parliamentarians including 13 members of the European Parliament, by 17 Australian MPs, and members of the parliaments of the UK, Belgium, Canada, NZ, and Germany. Groups that have signed the letter include Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace International, International Peace Bureau, IPPNW, British-American Security Information Council and Green Cross International. Contact: Sydney - John Hallam 61-2-9517-3903 h61-2-9810-2598 Canberra - Clare Henderson, 61-2-6262-9345 New York - Felicity Hill, 1 212 682 1265 London - Claire Poyner, Abolition 2000 UK 44-171-281 4281 Christchurch NZ - Commander Rob Green, (+64) 3 348 1353 Russia: Alisa Nikoulina, +7-095-278 4642 Press release from Senator Lyn Allison N-disarmament 'gone backwards' On the eve of a conference reviewing the historic Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Australian Democrats nuclear spokesperson, Senator Lyn Allison, said it was disturbing to note Australia's retreat from involvement in disarmament. Speaking at the Australian launch of a 374-signatory letter calling for disarmament, Senator Allison said, "The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed back in 1968, but I think it is fair to say we've gone backwards since that time." Senator Allison echoed the UN Secretary-General. "The nuclear disarmament agenda is in a state of deplorable stagnation," she said. "Hopefully, this letter will help break the deadlocked progress in pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation. The vast majority of Australians want to see disarmament and an end to nuclear weapons. "The possession of nuclear weapons by any state is a constant stimulus for other states to acquire them. "Currently, 5000 nuclear missiles are pointed at major cities around the world. More worryingly, these missiles are on hair trigger alert. "Russia and the US have, between them, 30,000 nuclear weapons and there are still no disarmament negotiations in relation to tactical weapons. "Today I want to say that Australia could take a much stronger role in persuading nuclear weapons states to disarm. "We want Australia to take a stronger role in this review. It is an opportunity to put pressure on the US and Russia. New Zealand, Ireland and Sweden have spoken out. We can't argue that Australia is too small and too inconsequential to make a difference," Senator Allison concluded. The NPT Treaty Review Conference commences in New York on the 24th of this month and goes through until May 19. Seventeen Australian MPs signed the letter distributed at today's launch. AAP Newswire: (This is reproduced word for word in the AGE of Monday Apr 11) Fed: Push for renewed committment to nuclear disarmament Canberra, April 10 AAP- An international summit may be the worlds last chance to break the nuclear disarmament deadlock. Several Australian politicians warned today that the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) may break down unless committment to disarmament is renewed at this months review conference in New York. "The NPT Review Conference will help determine whether or not the world will move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, or their further proliferation' they said in a statement. The warning came at the launch of an international petition calling on the 187 treaty signatories to fulfil their committment to ending the nuclear age. Of the 374 government and non-government signatures, 17 were from Australian MPs. The petitions release was presided over by signatories lyn Allison (Australian Democrats) Carmen Lawrence (ALP) and Bob Brown (Australian greens) They were joined by lobbyists from non- govenmental organisations in urging the Australian government to take a strong stance on the issue. Senator Allison re- stated UN Secretary general Kofi Annans warning that the disarmament movement was in a 'state of deplorable stagnation'. She told journalists 5000 nuclear missiles were pointed at major cities around the world, while the US and Russia had 30,000 warheads between them. ........ .....Her views were echoed by Dr Carmen Lawrence, who said the govrnment had surrendered Australias leading role - as shown duribg the 1996 Canberra Commission - to other middle powers such as Ireland and New Zealand. .......Foreign minister Alexander Downer would attend the conference, a spokesperson said. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Ethics & DOE Strategic Plan2000, a White House Paper, public input Date: 11 Apr 2000 04:49:39 -0700 This is a Global Emergency Alert Response: Ethics & DOE Strategic Plan2000, a White House Paper, public input by David Crockett Williams -- April 10, 2000 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CSUN 1969) Chartered Life Underwriter (ACLU 1971) Coordinator, UN 50&55th anniversary Global Peace Walk '95 & 2000 Independent Candidate for United States President 1996 & 2000 Strategic Plan2000 addresses issues of energy production, global climate change, U.S. National Security, advances in science, and interagency global problem solving coordination, but it is severely hampered in its present form by its failure to properly integrate available insights into ethics errors whose correction is essential for the future of The Nation and The Globe. Over the past two years significant under-reported advances have been made in fundamental science and new Clean-Energy applications availing previously esoteric knowledge of the nature of consciousness along with technologies to replace contemporary energy systems and to neutralize radioactive wastes while invigorating a more robust sustainable global economy. A wise teacher once said, "At the deepest level of Mind, everyone knows The Truth but to survive and prosper in the material world we have all been conditioned since birth to pretend that we can invent it." Errors in perception of the very nature of truth itself are the basis for ethics errors which may only be corrected by higher levels of understanding. This paper also mentions solutions to fundamental misunderstandings rooted in the historical progression of human thought from the "reasonable", to the "objective", to the present "relative" view of the nature of truth itself which is the basis of modern societies and which is at the root of the US DOE as the contemporary incarnation of the Manhattan Project of 1942 that used the "equations of relativity" to produce the atomic bomb that is still foolishly considered the cornerstone of "US National Security". Sections of this paper include: (1) Background; (2) Immediate Focus; (3) Delineation of Manifestations of Ethics Errors; (4) Page-by-Page Specific Comments on DOE Strategic Plan2000 Draft; (5) Conclusion and Action Plan; (6) Author references. 1) Background This position paper is offered for widespread evaluation as a public comment to the people and governments of America and the world in response to input request on DOE's Strategic Plan 2000 draft per advice to of Friday, April 07, 2000 1:56 PM, Subject: "GP: Your turn to comment on DOE Energy Strategic Plan", which indicated that the draft copy of "Strength Through Science: Powering The 21st Century", the Energy Department's strategic plan, is available on the world wide web for public comment through today Monday, April 10, at which indicates public comments are requested by 31March2000. This position paper is supplemental to my initial response of April 7th before review of Strategic Plan Draft sent to Strategic_Plan@hq.doe.gov which references my public comments of two years ago on DOE's Comprehensive National Energy Strategy (CNES) , and which includes the appeal for extension of this public comments deadline until 30Apr2000 to allow time for more adequate public input in light of the global Earth Day 2000 theme of "Clean Energy Now!". Additional documentation to support opinions in this paper, and additional attachments submitted with my CNES comments, will be posted after today at . To avoid undue repetition here see my initial response and CNES comments above for details on this summary, and additional websites below. 2) Immediate Focus Today we face a national and global social and environmental emergency as evidenced by increasing intensity of domestic violence, global climate change, international terrorism, inter-religious hostilities and misunderstandings, addictions, wars, and the misdirection of human and finanical resources to the preparations for war instead of towards solving critical social and environmental problems before it is too late in this age of proliferating weapons of mass destruction. In large part, the daily struggle and methods for acquisition of energy resources, individually, nationally, and globally, that are required for ever-more-consumptive lifestyles are linked to the causes of this emergency because of how energy, food, housing, money, and personal perceptions of power and self-worth are perceived to be tied to successful vigorous competition over these presently limited resources. The forefront new science mentioned above and discussed below offers harmonization of conflicting ideologies, and the promise of virtually unlimited low cost energy resources, which can minimize or eliminate this struggle and resolve this global emergency with our proper cooperative responses. In today's edition of my local newspaper, the Bakersfield Californian, wire service reports are condensed in a brief report of yesterday's conclusion of talks in Japan by G-8 environmental ministers from the world's industrialized nations expressing hope for ratification as soon as possible of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, despite U.S. and Canadian opposition to its fixed deadline for reducing greenhouse gases to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012, largely because of U.S. auto and oil companies' opposition and the hotly debated emission-trade plan. The meeting was a prelude to the sixth conference on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP6), scheduled for November in The Hague, Netherlands, which is considered crucial in promoting the early ratification and enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol. As I detailed in my CNES comments, this Kyoto Protocol goal represents a decrease from 1998 levels of 13 percent, while the projected change in carbon emissions from increased fossil fuel usage over this time frame is projected by DOE to increase by 20 percent -- adding up to a 33 percent disparity between forecast and goal compared to 1998 levels. Nothing in CNES or the Strategic Plan draft addresses how it is possible to accomplish even this token inadequate commitment which does not reverse the global warming trend factors but only slows down the rate of increase of climate changing greenhouse gases. In order to solve the problem we need to reverse the present trend -- not just slow it down, i.e., not only move away from fossil fuels but save the existing trees and regreen the planet and restore the atmospheric oxygen depletion that is exacerbating the ozone layer depletion that threatens all the oceanic phytoplankton (over half Earth's oxygen supply) with destruction (by 2008 according to Project Earth climate modeling predictions of 1988 deemed by them on target in 1997 http://www.projectearth.com) and accelerating polar ice melting. What the DOE in its vernacular calls "Stakeholders" from whom "public comments" are carefully solicited on its various plan documents, while the general public and the scientific community in general is left to fend for coincidental last-minute opportunities like this one for public comment, seem in reality to be special interest groups vested in current high-profit energy systems and nuclear power/weapons related industries. Since these same special interest groups provide the bulk of political fundraising and lobbying efforts, it is no wonder that regarding global climate change the US Bureaucratocracy is "fiddling while Rome burns". If we want to learn how to put out the fire, instead of just having a "good old time" until we all burn up, it may require a hard cold look at a broader global view to contrast the myths and legends that Americans have swallowed hook, line and sinker as US history. (3) Delineation of Manifestations of Ethics Errors Machiavellianism is said to be the quiet behind-the-scenes "realism" of modern politics where even rules and agreements of law can be intentionally broken at will, and brutal violence used indiscriminately, for the purposes of expediently propagating the myth of the sovereign power of the state. The United States and its Constitution were created on the premise that individual human beings are the sovereign entities by divine right, and that they cede a limited authority to the government for the management of the common good. In these times the governments of the world, especially including the United States, have completely taken over by the threat of violence and imprisonment the sovereignty of the individual and cede back to him/her limited "rights" "guaranteed by law". Yet when the public continually witnesses such rights and laws being deliberately ignored and disregarded at will by the government, who can have faith in its ethics and integrity, and in their own divine legacy as sovereign and sacred human beings? Is it any wonder that over the last century of witnessing these injustices that people have become more rebellious of governments around the world and nonviolence is all but a forgotten teaching? Is it really any wonder that crime is such big business in the United States, with such swelling prison populations of virtually slave laborers, that private prisons sell stock on Wall Street?! Is this really a democracy (self-government) in the United States when such a tiny percentage of the people actually vote into power, over all of us, the representatives of Our Republic? It might be more accurately called an unethical Bureaucratocracy. Hitler is rightfully criticized for the deaths of millions of people in the "concentration camps" of WWII, but who in America pays attention to his claim of inspiration for this kind of atrocity from the United States' treatment of the American Indian peoples, tens of millions of whom have been sacrificed over our country's history, a sacrifice which intensified with the discovery of energy resources on the indigenous people's "reservations" and which continues today in places like the "National Sacrifice Area" of northeastern Arizona where the people are still being destroyed by US energy acquisition policies. It would be virtually impossible to find one single nation-to-nation Treaty that the United States has made with the native American peoples that has not been broken and abrogated by the US government. Is it really any wonder that so many people around the world are furious with the United States and are even threatening the use of weapons of mass destruction? The underhanded mechanations behind the 1970's push for uranium mining in the Black Hills of South Dakota fomented such a high level of violence against those indigenous peoples who resisted this move that hundreds of members of the Tribal Nations in that area were murdered over a few years time which led to such intensity of hostilities that even when two FBI agents were murdered at Jumping Bull Ranch all of the defendents were acquitted on the grounds of self defense except American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier who is still imprisoned after 26years, "railroaded" on ballistics and extradition evidence that the prosecution later admitted was falsified. Amnesty International recognizes Peltier as a political prisoner of the United States Government and mostly our citizens are largely apathetic to his plight while millions around the world support his release under executive clemency or parole, including Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, et. al. In February of 1945 there was a meeting of the Allied Powers in Europe on the eve of the expected defeat of Hitler which came in April. At that meeting, then-secret agreements were made for dividing up the conquered countries of the Axis powers among Allied jurisdictions including the Soviet Union which reportedly agreed would invade Japan to finish the war and extend its territory. After the defeat of Nazi Germany the US became increasingly wary of Stalin and the Soviet postwar communist intentions and potential threat to western societies. In this context in June of 1945 in San Francisco was convened the convention to create the charter for the United Nations Organization, a charter signed by the founding nations in agreement to its basic principles to end the scourge of war for the future generations, to foster respect for human rights, and to enable the people of the nations to live in peace. Among those principles was the renunciation of weapons and practices of mass destruction as were exemplified in the gruesome freshness of the Nazi gas chambers applied to noncombatant civilian populations. The US Manhattan Project had already been underway since 1942 for the express purpose of creating the greatest weapon of indiscriminate mass destruction that the world had ever known, the atomic bomb, which was not abandoned in spite of the US signing the UN Charter agreement. While American history records that the atomic bombs were used against the civilian noncombatant populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (almost entirely women, children and elderly with most men away at war) to save the lives of American soldiers, at that time the Soviet Union was reportedly massing troops on its border preparing according to agreement to invade Japan. In addition to saving American soldiers' lives the atomic bombings were executed in violation of the signed UN charter and were also the first human test of the uranium and plutonium versions of the atomic bomb, implicitly conducted to threaten the Soviet Union with a similar fate if it did not demur to American global dominance and occupation of Japan which has in effect become a colony of the United States since then, abandoning its non-rearmament peace constitution under US pressure to create a "self-defense force" that today has a military capability greater than WWII. Ten weeks after the atomic bombings, in the context of the dominant American nuclear threat against any enemies, the UN charter was ratified in New York on October 24, 1945, by the founding nations including the US which has continued to violate this charter by the ongoing first-strike threat of the use of nuclear weapons. Is it any wonder that the Soviet Union, which lost so many millions of citizens in the war with Germany, responded in kind to this threat and built up its own nuclear arsenal? Today the Soviet Union exists no longer and its threat of communist domination has ended. The Japanese-Americans who were interned during WWII have received apologies and reparations. But not one American President has ever apologized or repented the atomic bombings of the civilian populations of Japan or renounced the threat of their use to further American global dominance, i.e., "National Security". Not one American President has yet recognized as the first step towards true national security the repudiation of the use of nuclear weapons. Ample evidence exists that in 1895 Nikola Tesla built an electric power plant on Long Island in New York, based on his advanced knowledge of electromagnetism and new energy technology he tested in Colorado, that was to power all of America with fuel-less electric power wirelessly transmitted but his backer, J.P. Morgan, decided to scuttle the project in favor of the more profitable induction-based systems that we still have today with their expensive but profitable copper mining, electric meters, etc. From time immemorial until the early part of the 20th Century one of the most useful plants in human history for food, oil, fiber, medicines, paper, cloth, canvas, etc., was the hemp plant which has superior qualities in many of these uses, which grows prolifically without fertilizers or pesticides on even marginal farmland, and which was made into cheap early automobile fuels before the fossil fuel industry took over the American economy. Hemp was the mainstay of early America yet after it was outlawed as marijuana in 1937 by a campaign of yellow journalism and an historic fraud on the US Congress perpetrated by industrial monopolists to protect threatened profits in the timber-paper, petrochemical, and fossil fuel industries, et. al., the suppression of the truth about this plant has been so thorough that it has been essentially erased from our collective memory and expunged from history. Yet this plant, now still demonized as a "drug", is perhaps the single most important plant for the future of humanity because of its superior applicability for biofuels and the carbon sequestration needed to ameliorate global climate change while replacing the need to cut down trees for most of their current uses. Oil and drugs are the two most powerful addictions of modern societies which are manipulating people for profit. With the US now beginning to commit itself to another "Vietnam War", in Columbia striving for oil resources access and protection while deploying purportedly ongoing Iran/Contra-style CIA drugwar strategies/skullduggery http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/318 in this year of high level oil prices & drug war electioneering, all these issues need to be reexamined carefully in light of hidden history coming to light. In Columbia the indigenous U'Wa people are being destroyed by Occidental Petroleum's planned exploitation of major oil reserves. Not many people know that the offshore oil leases around north and south Vietnam were assigned to the like of Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Amoco, etc., and that the Mekong Delta had more expected potential for oil than the Mississippi Delta. Both Vietnam and Columbia wars involve covert use of drug smuggling revenues Iran/Contra-style as in the CIA/KLA collaboration in the Kosovo war to secure the oil pipeline route through the Balkans from the Middle East to Europe. These wars are somewhat less obviously related to oil than the Gulf War which is a classic example of how our National Security and oil energy supplies are so violently linked. (4) Page-by-Page Specific Comments on DOE Strategic Plan2000 Draft Due to time constraints on such short notice to read and evaluate the lengthy Strategic Plan Draft, some comments on various pages of the draft may be out of page [#] order. The most important thing to begin with is evaluation of the degree of precision and accuracy in the language used which is entirely conditioned on mutually understandable definitions of terms and which determines the "truth coefficient" of the document. The best example to illustrate this point keys in on the various inconsistencies throughout the document regarding the confusing and imprecise use of words such as "emissions", "pollutions", "carbon emissions", "particulate matter", "greenhouse gases", and even "clean". As someone who earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Chemistry, I am dismayed at the lack of overall clarity of information presentation due to switched and confusing terminology definitions used in the various parts of the Strategic Plan document. Since I understand the chemistry of what is being discussed it is easy to see how this language/definition problem, even at the internal level of the DOE, prevents clear communication and understanding of the nature and scope of the problems and solutions faced by today's energy industry. The primary energy industry "greenhouse gas" is carbon dioxide, which is "emitted" by fuel carbon or hydrocarbon combustion that commensurately consumes oxygen from which Earth's protective ozone layer is phototropically produced. Although incomplete combustion also produces an array of other "emissions" including particulate carbon, carbon monoxide, various unburned hydrocarbons, combusted fuel impurities like oxides of sulphur, etc., i.e., air "pollutions", the lazy shorthand term of "carbon emissions" seems, at least for purposes of energy industry greenhouse gases quantification, to primarily describe carbon dioxide expressed as for example "tons of carbon emissions". Yet on page [5] of the Strategic Plan under the Energy Challenges subsection of the DOE's Challenges section, it says "The Department's Energy Resources R&D Portfolio is addressing the carbon emissions challenge by proposing investments in a variety of clean fuel options, such as natural gas...", in the same first partial paragraph which concludes with "The Energy Resources R&D Portfolio also recognizes the continuing importance of nuclear power in generating clean, emission-free electricity". From this it seems that DOE's greatest challenge is one of truthfully and accurately representing the facts. For an agency whose rhetoric prides itself on its "world class science" it is hard to see these two statements as mistakes instead of obfuscation. Sure natural gas burns "cleaner" in terms of more complete combustion with perhaps less impurities than, say, the high sulphur uranium contaminated coal that is stripmined from the the "National Sacrifice Area" of the Black Mesa in Arizona and burned in power plants with unfiltered smokestacks producing reportedly more acid rain pollutions than the top five US cities combined while showering thousands of square miles with radioactive ash and the coal transport slurry line drains underground water drying up the Tribal Nations lands in the whole area, BUT, in absolutely no way is natural gas combustion "cleaner" in terms of reducing carbon dioxide emissions because it still yields carbon dioxide upon combustion in the same proportions as coal or oil. By no stretch of the imagination does investment in natural gas combustion ameliorate carbon dioxide greenhouse gas energy industry emissions. As to nuclear power producing "clean emission-free electricity", sure there are no carbon emissions but it does produce the most toxic "emissions" imaginable that are subject to catastrophic releases, meltdowns, etc., as evidenced by Three Mile Island and recent accidents in Japan, etc. Even more routinely tragic and dangerous are the effects of uranium mining and wind-blown tailings piles continually causing cancers and deaths to the local people in mining areas most of whom are members of Tribal Nations who are "sacrificed" like the Big Mountain Dineh (Navajo) people forcibly relocated from the Black Mesa to "new lands" in the area of the Rio Puerco uranium tailings pond dam burst and flood that makes these lands dangerously radioactive. For "world class science" to tout nuclear power as "clean emission-free electricity" is unconscionable when the main "emission" is the nuclear waste that is piling up at every nuclear power plant with no place to go, except sneaking it across country into Yucca Mountain without required permits targeted for FY 2010 per Strategic Plan [64] and in violation of US Treaty with the Western Shoshone Tribal Nation, while DOE ignores the LENT Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation data submitted two years ago about this demonstrated new technology to neutralize radioactive wastes. A recent summary of this research courtesy of Emerging Energy Mutual Fund: "The Transmutation of Nuclear Wastes "Currently over 55 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste is stored in leaking underground tanks at Hanford, Washington. These and other storage facilities in the US and Russia are already leaking into ground water supplies. We (humans) discovered how to make these materials; we must also discover how to safely undo this radioactive legacy. "This urgent scientific problem can be solved. Unknown to most people outside the scientific community, the transmutation of elements (changing one element into another) has been demonstrated using several pioneering processes. Some of these processes have shown it may be possible to stabilize radioactive material. "Transmutation of elements has been demonstrated using: (1) Electron charge clusters by Kenneth Shoulders (2) Cold fusion technology by J. Dash and T. Mizuno (3) Gaseous cold fusion technology by Karbut (4) Electrolytic cells by H. Fox (5) Accelerated gamma-rays by P. Brown "We believe the most promising physical process is based on the use of high-density electron charge clusters. "The US Department of Energy, so far, has ignored promising solutions despite these scientists' progress toward solving this most dangerous of scientific problems. The US Department of Energy has not shown sufficient interest in developing or implementing new technologies. The DOE has instead committed to a questionable and incredibly costly plan of vitrifying a mere portion of the nation's nuclear waste and storing it "temporarily" in Yucca Mountain. These deadly wastes remain hazardous for more than 10,000 years. "We propose a one-year effort to prove the physics of high-density electron charge cluster transmutation for the purpose of the amelioration of radioactive materials. Our plan is to research the technology and perform one or more demonstrations of the different techniques. The purpose of the demonstration will be to take what others have shown to be possible, validate this technology and take it to the next step by improving the transmutation efficiency. This effort will lead to the elimination of nuclear waste permanently, rather than storing it for millennia. "The proposed study should involve the leading scientists in the field, including Ken Shoulders, Hal Fox, John Dash, Paul Brown, and others. It is time to explore fully whether or not one or more of the proposed transmutation techniques really work and can be engineered to demonstrate conclusively their usefulness in eliminating the nuclear waste problem. "For more information, contact Stephen Kaplan, 503-297-7348, " It is patently evident that this is a superior alternative to "geologic disposal [as] the [present] national strategy". Kaplan is also co-author of a recent detailed referenced article (with Dr. Brian O'Leary, at ) featuring an overview of the many new Clean-Energy technologies mentioned above to replace nuclear, fossil fuel, hydroelectric, and other inefficient induction-based electricity generating power systems. Dr. O'Leary was the science and energy policy advisor and speechwriter for four US Presidential candidates, wrote the foreword for journalist Jeane Manning's book about this genre called The Coming Energy Revolution and his book on the topic called Miracle in the Void, and was passed over for appointment to a top DOE science post in 1998. More on his work may be found at . Contrary to DOE Strategic Plan speculations, this new genre of power technology does promise to be a "silver bullet" to address the energy demands for the 21st Century in all three end-use sectors: Buildings, transportation, and industry. [4] One possible explanation for overall DOE intransigence towards serious investigation and implementation of these new ideas may be found in Strategic Plan references beginning on [7] "nearly half of the current R&D technical managers will be able to retire in five years; serious skills gaps have developed due to significant downsizing; [and] there exists virtually no pipeline to develop future managers..." With the senior R&D staff too old to embrace cutting edge developments from the private sector, technical skills gaps and no hope for replacing the aging DOE Bureaucratocracy, perhaps it is time to either embrace Dr. Eugene Mallove's contention that the DOE itself should be dissolved or seriously restructured, and/or Dr. O'Leary's appeal for a New Manhattan Project analog as a global public "crash program" to rapidly complete R&D and implementation of these new Clean-Energy technologies. After we received the DOE letter of May 1998 detailed in my initial response above, the DOE point of contact appointed by then Energy Secretary Pena did his best to liaison with our people to input these ideas into the DOE R&D bureaucracy and he was encouraged by the 1997 results cited in that letter proving the existence of the long postulated Zero Point Energy (ZPE) field that some researchers feel is at the root of many of these new energy technologies' operation (what the DOE letter called the "Holy Grail of energy research"), but after a few months in mid-1998 of career threatening internal resistence he backed off and was apparently reassigned to other tasks under the administration of new Energy Secretary Richardson. This is hardly a comforting example in support of purported DOE "Core Values" [3] "4. We value creativity and innovation", "8. We pursue the highest standards of ethical behavior", and from the Strategic Plan inside back cover "3. We value listening as an essential tool in learning from others". These new technologies specifically fulfill the Strategic Plan Draft [18] prediction that "Advanced technology may ultimately mitigate some of these..." [17] Key External Factors beyond DOE's direct control that are expected to influence DOE's Strategic Planning, i.e., climate change amelioration decisions, aging facilities (by 2015, 60% of coal fired and 40% of nuclear power plants will be 40 years old and it is not clear how much longer they can operate due to regulatory and economic issues), Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Process and NRC, EPA regulations for proposed high level nuclear waste repository, and "public perception directly affects (sic) Congressional and Administration support for DOE programs." Certainly it would appear that even without additional funding the existing [26] DOE Energy Research and Development Portfolio of April 1999 budget of $7 billion can accomodate all or a good portion of the $108 million annual budget proposed by Dr. O'Leary for the "New Manhattan Project" given its potential value to accomplishing DOE and Strategic Plan goals including amelioration of nuclear wastes. However, if the American public is properly advised of this opportunity there would be no doubt that each American would be thrilled to chip in a dollar a year from their taxes to fund this Project. This would help fulfill the Strategic Plan's commitment to "breakthrough research in science and technology". Biofuels are mentioned [4] and an extensive Interagency Crosscutting Coordination discussion pervades the Strategic Plan text with other agencies involved listed in Appendix A, including the US Department of Agriculture (which conducted the 1941-45 Hemp for Victory program to help win WWII), but this Crosscutting needs to include the White House Office of Drug Policy Control to reverse Federal resistence to hemp relegalization in favor of a global scale emergency revival of the Hemp for Victory campaign to win the "war" against global climate change, not only for its superior biofuels applications (see my CNES comments discussion) but also for adequate effective [27] "carbon sequestration". Finally, for the time I can now devote, the organization chart [15] shows a positive change from the 1997 to the 2000 versions where "illustrative measures for strategy", is replaced and realigned to "performance goal for objective", but there needs to be included a box for "error analysis and feedback adjustments" in the system for it to take advantage of the cybernetics of goal accomplishment or the DOE will continue to lack the best helmsmanship techniques available. (5) Conclusion and Action Plan With the development of such an organizational plan implemented by modern electronic communications media and embraced by the peple, the agencies and governments of this Globe, and including the corrected ethics reflective of modern advances in the chemical physics of consciousness itself, the present course of human history may be, and must be, quickly changed off of the path towards total destruction and onto the path towards realizing the goal of true peace, harmony among all life and free natural abundance as paradise on Earth. Give O'Leary the $108 million per year under a negotiated performance contract for him to initiate the "New Manhattan Project". This message and related information will be offered to the Global Peace Walk 2000 for public dissemination and delivery on its arrival in Washington DC, October 6-12, 2000, and to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century. This walk is hoping to gather over a million people for a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument as a Symbol of the Message of Peace on the October 9th Columbus Day Holiday which is also John Lennon's 60th birthday and, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the observed 1000 year anniversary of the arrival of the Vikings to America. The above article has been abbreviated due to time constraints for submission so for additional claims documentation, references, and updates see . (6) Author references David Crockett Williams gear2000@lightspeed.net Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CA State Univ. Northridge '69) Chartered Life Underwriter (American College of Life Underwriters PA '71) Author of Tetron Natural Unified Field Theory equations '74-'77 (purports to be a correction and completion of E=mC^2 defining Tetron as the human mind's consciousness orientation function of light) GLOBAL EMERGENCY ALERT RESPONSE http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts USCampaign: Independent US Presidental Campaign2000 Williams for President and Leonard Peltier Vice President gear2000@onemain.com http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier The Vision of Paradise on Earth http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Support HR 2545: global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act of 1999 Details & Email: http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Sign letters to senators http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter Easy index to email Congress & Media http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (copy & paste email letters to media and Congress) An Agenda for Peace http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Al Haber Subject: (abolition-usa) minutes/us campaign/march 2, 2000 Date: 11 Apr 2000 08:47:14 -0400 Re: minutes /march 2,2000 conference call Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:55:59 -0500 From: Alan Haber To: Jackie Cabasso CC: ASlater , "sallight@earthlink.net" , johnburroughs@earthlink.net, aav1@ctaz.com, od4life@aol.com, bmartin@afsc.org, pmeidell@igc.apc.org, dave@paxchristiusa.org, tewawu@la-tierra.com, disarm@forusa.org, bevdroz@aol.com, a2000@silcom.com minutes, second posting us campaign to abolish nuclear weapons coordinating committee conference call thursday march 2,2000, 9:30 am pacific/ 12:30 pm eastern jackie, pamela, sally, john. dave, anthony, carah, beverly, odile, alan pamela facilitate/ sally time/ time notice every 5 minutes. alan/notes 1)discussion of minutes-- first posting, draft, internal circulation to the coordinating committee only. reflect decisions, sense of discussion, considerations, put a "sensitivity flag" by discussions/decisions/considerations that seemed "sensitive." request comments, systhesize post "revised" version to the larger us campaign list/abolition 2000/abolition caucus (abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com) 2)support for regular calls for coordinating committee and face to face meetings. GRACE agreed to support "diversity" needs for conference calls. "conference america" bills for diversity are sent directly to GRACE, after agreement with alice slater. for general support for calls and meetings we must go to other funders. [covering costs and who is diversity seemed "sensitive" questions] 3)face to face meeting Thursday April 27 dinner, 6:30 and evening. agenda review. at alice slater's house (east 70's) Friday April 28, 10am-noon; 1-3pm coordinators meeting; 3-6 more open meeting: time for working groups, member groups, all americans, public event? ASK VIA MINUTES: ALL COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEMBERS. WILL YOU ATTEND THIS MEETING? DO YOU NEED A SUBSIDY TO GO? contact lawyers committee or western states indicating plans and needs financial problems considered on a case by case basis. meeting at united nations headquarters. formal snail mail/hard copy letter of invitation to be written, by john, to the whole coodinating committee. 4) actions a--support of abolition 2000 call b--us abolition campaign commitment to dc action/for campaign for non-violence c--wolsey/markey/norton d--green party e--public event 3-6 friday april 28 [we began with e-- thinking about a public event or action, friday afternoon.] general comment: building network is first priority emphasis first year, reach out to other groups in abolition 2000, reach out more broadly in public education. build working group structure. ad hoc program planning group: john, dave, jackie, sally, anthony, pamela, go forward, convene, develop web site, open chat room, bring some ideas to next call. a) a2000 call to action enlarge number of organizations write to clinton gather signatures on petition participate in demonstrations b) people's campaign participation july 1-august 10 different group focuses each day. initiate a decade of non-violence. raise standard of non-violence proposed time for us campaign july 15-24/ july 16 is anniversary of first trinity test. range of actions, relatively small gatherings, panel discussion, nobel laurets, demonstrations, occupations, sit-ins chaining ourselves, education, teach-ins, sustained civil disobedience. alternative times were suggested, early august, coordinated to draw support to action at yorktown, thursday, july 27. july 31 was suggested. overlaying the august 6-9 bombing dates. eariler times were suggested as better for building the network, before the grand finales; some coordination committee members have local organizational responsibilities on august 6 so it is difficult time to get a full presentation of the us campaign in washington. discussion to be continued in next call. QUESTION: what are member groups doing in relation to washington actions? poll all 400 plus member groups of abolition 2000 ask ibrahim from FOR: do they know what groups are doing what? c) woosley/markey resolutions, norton bill get update information on all resolutions, woosley, markey and on norton, hr2545, number of sponsors? who the sponsors are? understanding: that these resolutions and legislation are considered mutually consistent and being promoted in a cooperative mutually supportive way. request ellen thomas (congressional working group) to prepare an update report and post it to the "listserve" [information included as post script to these minutes] *********************************************** on going discussion of political action, keep monitoring our political action. does netwrk plus staff lobby, status and practice of the staff reflects the campaign. ************************************************* d) green party--california. abolition 2000 medea benjamin, california state senator, ralph nader presidential campaign, support nuclear abolition. promise a bottom up campaign, 1000 organizers in the streets objective 5% of vote will secure federal matching funds in2004. green national nominating convention in denver, june 24. platform update dave and pamela: prepare brochure for us campaign targeted to greens, exploring, explaining, developing the nuclear abolition component of the green values and platform. note: robert bowman is a reform party nuclear abolutionist candidate for president. *********************************** next call is monday april 3,2000, 11am pdt/ 2pm edt and comments made during evaluation. general view that it was a good and productive call, dissatisfaction that a way was not open for odile and alan to participate in the april 27-28 coordinators meeting, from israel, where they will be at megiddo, "transforming armageddon." some appropiate conferencing technology should be available. others who cannot attentd should also have a check-in possibility. ******************************************** no comments were recieved on DRAFT minutes, indicating anything that should be anything that should be added or excised. ********************************************* post script posting of sponsors of markey, woolsey and norton legislation and resolutions: Here's the relevant information not only on HR-2545, but also on Markey, Woolsey, and Kucinich resolutions. Let me know if you need anything else. -- H.R.2545 (Bill - text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545ab.htm) Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (introduced 7/16/1999) Title: To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992. Rep Lewis, John - 8/5/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/10/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 8/5/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/23/2000 (That last one was a surprise -- and a good one!) -- HCON 177 IH (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres177) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 8/5/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that nuclear weapons should be taken off hair-trigger alert. COSPONSORS(89), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 11/4/1999 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 9/28/1999 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 11/5/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 9/28/1999 Rep Barcia, James A. - 11/1/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 2/1/2000 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 11/4/1999 Rep Bonior, David E. - 10/13/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 11/5/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 9/28/1999 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 11/15/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 11/17/1999 Rep Coyne, William J. - 11/5/1999 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 11/4/1999 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 2/1/2000 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 11/4/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 10/13/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 11/17/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 11/4/1999 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 11/15/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 11/4/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 9/28/1999 Rep Gordon, Bart - 11/15/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 10/26/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 11/5/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/26/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/1/2000 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 11/5/1999 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 11/15/1999 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 11/5/1999 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 10/26/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 11/1/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/13/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/18/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/28/1999 Rep Levin, Sander M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Lewis, John - 11/5/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 9/28/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/13/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 9/28/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 9/28/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 11/22/1999 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 10/13/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 11/5/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 9/28/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 11/5/1999 Rep Miller, George - 11/17/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 11/5/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 11/4/1999 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/28/1999 Rep Oberstar, James L. - 11/9/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/15/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 10/13/1999 Rep Price, David E. - 2/1/2000 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 11/15/1999 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 10/13/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 11/15/1999 Rep Sawyer, Tom - 11/4/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 11/4/1999 Rep Stabenow, Debbie - 2/1/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 9/28/1999 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 11/18/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 10/13/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Tom - 11/5/1999 Rep Vento, Bruce F. - 11/4/1999 Rep Waters, Maxine - 11/5/1999 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 11/5/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 11/15/1999 Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 10/13/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 9/28/1999 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/15/1999 -- H.CON.RES.74 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres74) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 3/24/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile. COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 4/12/1999 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 5/4/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/4/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 5/4/1999 Rep DeGette, Diana - 3/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 2/1/2000 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/12/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 3/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 2/29/2000 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/22/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/17/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 3/24/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/24/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 2/1/2000 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 3/24/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 3/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 3/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/24/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 3/24/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 3/24/1999 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/12/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/28/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/12/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 3/24/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 4/12/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999 -- H.RES.82 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99woolsey.htm) Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. (introduced 2/24/1999) Title: Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament. COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/14/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/20/1999 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/24/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/14/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/6/1999 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 2/24/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 2/24/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/24/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/24/1999 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 3/17/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/5/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/24/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/14/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/20/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/30/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 3/23/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/23/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/24/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/17/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 2/24/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 2/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/23/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/3/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/30/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 2/24/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/24/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 3/24/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/6/1999 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/24/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/24/1999 Rep Thompson, Mike - 10/7/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/24/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 4/13/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/24/1999 ------------ Additionally, Dennis Kucinich has introduced a resolution supporting Woolsey's resolution: -- H.RES.369 (Resolution Text Below) Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 11/9/1999) Title: On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 11/9/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/9/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 11/9/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/9/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 11/18/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 11/9/1999 Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental... (Introduced in the House) HRES 369 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 369 On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 9, 1999 Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. OWENS, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. JACKSON of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations RESOLUTION On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental nuclear war; Whereas the United States has failed to fulfill its obligations toward nuclear disarmament under article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures toward nuclear disarmament; Whereas the bilateral measures for nuclear arms control under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) process have ground to a halt with restrictions by the Congress for further cuts below START II levels until the Russian Duma ratifies START II; Whereas in 1991 President George Bush ordered the United States to unilaterally withdraw tens of thousands of forward-deployed nuclear tactical weapons and remove thousands more from high alert status and Russian President Gorbachev reciprocated; Whereas on August 19, 1999, Russia proposed additional reductions by cutting nearly in half the number of nuclear warheads that would be allowed under a prospective START III treaty and the United States failed to agree to the offer; and Whereas previous congressional resolutions on furthering complete nuclear disarmament (such as H. Res. 82) require the urgent attention of the Congress to adopt such measures for the prompt reduction of nuclear weapons ; and Whereas a congressional delegation met with a Duma delegation during the war in Kosovo and successfully promoted cooperation and built confidence between both countries: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) urges the President to initiate emergency negotiations with Russia leading to reciprocal reductions in the strategic and substrategic arsenals in both countries; (2) welcomes House Resolution 82 and requests the support of the Congress to promote measures through the United Nations on nuclear disarmament; and (3) requests that a congressional delegation convene meetings to discuss nuclear disarmament of United States and Russian nuclear arsenals with a delegation from the Russian Duma as soon as possible. Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: Humanity v MOX/Parallex Date: 11 Apr 2000 08:44:17 -0500 Dear Friends: I regret to report that i struck out in federal district court in Kalamazoo last Friday. I had spent over two weeks working full time to prepare my testimony on this extremely technical, complicated and detailed matter involving gross violations by the US Department of Energy of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994, 1998 Amendments, and a good deal of the Atomic Energy Act, the World Court Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, international environmental law, etc. I presented over a 2 hour oral argument to the Judge. When everything was over, he took out an Opinion that he had already prepared, read it, and denied our motion. In other words,his mind was made up before we went in there. At this point in time we are investigating the feasibility of filing similar litigation in Canada. We will be trying to get my oral argument on-line so that people can use it to oppose MOX in any one of the 182 or so State Parties to the NPT whose governments decide to go for MOX. Francis. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:38 PM ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''tploughshares@dial.pipex.com' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' '; ''AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ' Sensitivity: Private Nuclear Information & Resource Service 1424 16th St. NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League P.O. Box 88 Glendale Springs, NC 28629 Physicians for Social Responsibility Atlanta Chapter 421 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30307 March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release Contact: Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast 706-722-8968 Janet Zeller, BREDL 336-982-2691 Kevin Kamps, NIRS National Office 202-328-0002 Ed Arnold, PSR/Atlanta 404-378-9078 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Nuclear Information and Resource Service Join Legal Challenge to U.S. Nuclear Proliferation-Prone Plutonium Plan Citing grave concerns about the potential spread of plutonium for bombmaking throughout the world, three organizations, two national and one regional have joined the plaintiffs who have sued to stop a U.S.-Russian-Canadian plan to use nuclear weapons plutonium as fuel in nuclear power reactors. The internationally-known Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), with nearly 6000 members, including more than 1000 U.S. grassroots groups nationwide, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc. (BREDL), headquartered in North Carolina with 30 chapters in five southern states, and the internationally known Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for educating about the dangers of nuclear weapons, are the latest public interest advocates to formally enter a federal lawsuit in Kalamazoo, Michigan which was brought by an array of Canadian and U.S. First Nations tribes and other nuclear power and weapons critics. The lawsuit seeks to halt a test shipment of mixed oxide plutonium fuel, or MOX, from being transported to a test nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario from the Russian Federation, as part of a bigger scheme to use MOX as reactor fuel in light water reactors in the Southeastern United States, Canada and Russia. Billed as a peaceful means of reusing nuclear weapons, the plan would legitimize the commercialization and exportation of plutonium and may allow many nations and even independent groups to develop nuclear bomb capability. The Chalk River test, named "Parallex," was first challenged in court last December when plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Energy to halt shipment of the U.S. MOX fuel from being trucked across Michigan to Canada until there was a formal, public decision making process over the environmental and nuclear weapons proliferation impacts of the program. Judge Richard Alan Enslen ruled that while the Energy Department had acted in bad faith to hasten the test of MOX, courts could not stop the Executive Branch from conducting foreign policy. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to reconsider that decision, and NIRS, PSR and BREDL are adding their weight to that request. "The Department of Energy has already begun to disregard the law and trample our rights," said Janet Zeller, BREDL's Executive Director. "People from across the country must join together to block this reckless and secretive program and insure that the DOE obeys national and international law." BREDL is campaigning against the planned use of MOX fuel in six Southeastern U.S. reactors: Duke Power's Catawba 1&2 near Rock Hill, South Carolina; McGuire 1&2, near Charlotte, North Carolina; and Virginia Power's North Anna 1&2 reactors near Charlottesville, Virginia. Physicians for Social Responsibility has actively opposed the MOX plan since its inception, primarily on the grounds that it promotes nuclear proliferation, rather than delivering the goal of making the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons unavailable for further destructive purposes. The Atlanta chapter of the national organization has led professionals in the region in their action to oppose the commercialization of plutonium. "Citizens everywhere want nuclear weapons abolished," said Ed Arnold, Executive Director of PSR/Atlanta. "We don't accomplish that by recirculating nuclear weapons material. And we don't abolish nuclear weapons by shipping bomb-grade plutonium all over the planet. This MOX program encourages nuclear proliferation and we must stop it." NIRS, which launched a "NIX MOX" campaign in 1998, recently opened a Southeastern office to assist BREDL and other grassroots groups opposing MOX fuel usage and the spending of hundreds of millions in public funds to subsidize MOX fabrication, utility acceptance and reprocessing. "Nuclear power is the most expensive form of energy and under utility deregulation is going to be subject to tough competition. The MOX program provides direct tax dollars to underwrite more dirty, dangerous nuclear waste production," said Kevin Kamps, nuclear specialist with NIRS. "This is an unfair subsidy that will disadvantage safer and cheaper power sources that have less hazardous byproducts. This is another reason that we are committed to stopping the MOX mistake." "The people in the Southeast have gotten the picture loud and clear from the first shipment of MOX fuel to Canada that the US DOE will lie, cover their actions, take a cloak of secrecy and act above not only the law of the land, but also international treaty in order to accomplish their goals" affirmed Mary Olson, Director of NIRS Southeast Office. She continued, "This is the old National Security mythology applied to a so-called commercial enterprise, but in the end it is taxpayer dollars that are funding this program, so we are proud to support citizens in taking action to stop this charade." The first MOX shipment to Canada included transport within Canada by helicopter, despite DOE's acknowledgement that the MOX casks were not certified for air transport and the agency's assurances that no air travel would be involved "The use of MOX creates more bomb possibilities around the world, not fewer," said Terry Lodge, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "Instead of rolling plutonium up in two-ton glass logs and disposing of it under heavy guard, our government instead wants to show the world how to fuel low-security civilian nuclear plants with it. There will be lots of scary new members to the 'Nuclear Club' if we do this." Trial activity will resume on April 7 on the issues of whether the Russian shipment must be stopped because of claimed violations of federal environmental law and violation of the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. -NIRS/BREDL/PSR- Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/11: DOE Workers' Testimony Date: 11 Apr 2000 09:45:26 -0400 --=====================_60499657==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [Here are recent testimonies of workers at DOE plants. These archives supposedly will be gone April 16, 2000 (per downwinders@egroups.com). There is a free pdf-conversion service online that can transcribe pdf to txt format: mailto:pdf2txt@adobe.com (weblink in subject line and body); they'll send it back within a couple of days. If you get any of the pdf files converted, would you send NucNews a copy of the txt version? Thanks! mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews).] Occupational Disease Benefits for Energy Workers Initiative: Transcripts from Public Meetings http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/index.html March 18, 2000 - Los Alamos National Lab http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/index.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/lanl/000318lanl.pdf February 25, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nevada http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/nevada/nevada.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/nevada/000225nevada.pdf February 3, 2000 - Hanford http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/hanford/hanford.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/hanford/000203hanford.pdf December 15, 1999 - Rocky Flats http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/rfets/rfets.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/rfets/991215avarda.pdf December 8, 1999 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/ornl/ornl.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/ornl/991208ornl.pdf October 30, 1999 - Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/portsmouth/portsmouth.html http://tis.eh.doe.gov/benefits/meetings/portsmouth/991030portsmouth.pdf ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_60499657==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
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--=====================_60499657==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: Humanity v MOX/Parallex Date: 11 Apr 2000 09:00:38 -0500 "Kalamazoo federal judge won't stop plutonium shipment" Saturday, April 8, 2000 By LISA SINGHANIA ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal judge Friday rejected an anti-nuclear coalition's motion to block an American-funded shipment of Russian plutonium to Canada, saying he lacked the jurisdiction to act on its newest legal argument. The group of Canadian and American activists had argued that the Parallex Project violated an arms control agreement signed by the U.S government, but Chief Judge Richard Enslen said the issue was irrelevant. "The judicial courts have nothing to do with this," Enslen said, after pointing out that treaties are between governments, not private citizens and governments. "We're disappointed, but I'm not sure what we'll do next," said Terry Lodge, a lawyer for the coalition. The government said it was pleased with the decision and the project would go forward. This was the anti-nuclear coalition's second attempt to block a shipment associated with the joint American-Russian $20 million experiment to determine whether commercial nuclear reactors in Canada can use material from decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons as fuel. For the project to go forward, both the United States and Russia have to send plutonium to Canada. The United States sent its plutonium - about 4 ounces in all - to Canada via Michigan and several other states in January after winning a court fight with the same group. The U.S. government says the project is key to reducing the spread of nuclear weapons. But the anti-nuclear activists believe it will do the opposite, while creating potential for nuclear accidents during transport. In December, the activists had asked Enslen to block the shipment on the grounds the Department of Energy had violated the law by doing an insufficient environmental study of the project. The judge said that although the plaintiffs' contentions that the government violated the law appeared to have merit, the DOE's assertions that an injunction would hurt nuclear disarmament talks were more important. On Friday, the group went back to court to try to block the transport of the Russian plutonium - about 1.5 pounds total - which is expected to be shipped early this summer. Several Canadian groups also joined the complaint, in addition to the original plaintiffs: six individuals and Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination. In addition to arguing the project violated arms control agreements signed by the U.S. government, the group's lawyers reiterated an argument made in the December hearings - the contention Parallex should be blocked until more environmental study has been done. Although the Russian plutonium shipment is not expected to cross U.S. territory, the plaintiffs argued it still falls under U.S. law since the DOE is picking up the entire tab and the Canadian test site is near the U.S. border. Enslen said Friday he remains convinced the Department likely violated the law by conducting a limited environmental study, but that violation would not be enough to stop the project given its importance to national security. The anti-nuclear activists aren't sure what they'll do next. The case could still go to trial, but that likely would not happen before the shipments were completed. A lawsuit in Canada is also possible. Some of the Indian tribes in Ontario, the province where the experiment will take place, say the Canadian government did not consult with them sufficiently before approving the shipments. There were demonstrations against the U.S. shipment last year. "There is more unity on this issue in Canada," says Grand Chief Larry Sault of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. "We will fight this." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:44 AM ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' '; ''AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ' Sensitivity: Private Dear Friends: I regret to report that i struck out in federal district court in Kalamazoo last Friday. I had spent over two weeks working full time to prepare my testimony on this extremely technical, complicated and detailed matter involving gross violations by the US Department of Energy of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994, 1998 Amendments, and a good deal of the Atomic Energy Act, the World Court Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, international environmental law, etc. I presented over a 2 hour oral argument to the Judge. When everything was over, he took out an Opinion that he had already prepared, read it, and denied our motion. In other words,his mind was made up before we went in there. At this point in time we are investigating the feasibility of filing similar litigation in Canada. We will be trying to get my oral argument on-line so that people can use it to oppose MOX in any one of the 182 or so State Parties to the NPT whose governments decide to go for MOX. Francis. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:38 PM ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''tploughshares@dial.pipex.com' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' '; ''AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ' Sensitivity: Private Nuclear Information & Resource Service 1424 16th St. NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League P.O. Box 88 Glendale Springs, NC 28629 Physicians for Social Responsibility Atlanta Chapter 421 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30307 March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release Contact: Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast 706-722-8968 Janet Zeller, BREDL 336-982-2691 Kevin Kamps, NIRS National Office 202-328-0002 Ed Arnold, PSR/Atlanta 404-378-9078 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Nuclear Information and Resource Service Join Legal Challenge to U.S. Nuclear Proliferation-Prone Plutonium Plan Citing grave concerns about the potential spread of plutonium for bombmaking throughout the world, three organizations, two national and one regional have joined the plaintiffs who have sued to stop a U.S.-Russian-Canadian plan to use nuclear weapons plutonium as fuel in nuclear power reactors. The internationally-known Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), with nearly 6000 members, including more than 1000 U.S. grassroots groups nationwide, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc. (BREDL), headquartered in North Carolina with 30 chapters in five southern states, and the internationally known Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for educating about the dangers of nuclear weapons, are the latest public interest advocates to formally enter a federal lawsuit in Kalamazoo, Michigan which was brought by an array of Canadian and U.S. First Nations tribes and other nuclear power and weapons critics. The lawsuit seeks to halt a test shipment of mixed oxide plutonium fuel, or MOX, from being transported to a test nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario from the Russian Federation, as part of a bigger scheme to use MOX as reactor fuel in light water reactors in the Southeastern United States, Canada and Russia. Billed as a peaceful means of reusing nuclear weapons, the plan would legitimize the commercialization and exportation of plutonium and may allow many nations and even independent groups to develop nuclear bomb capability. The Chalk River test, named "Parallex," was first challenged in court last December when plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Energy to halt shipment of the U.S. MOX fuel from being trucked across Michigan to Canada until there was a formal, public decision making process over the environmental and nuclear weapons proliferation impacts of the program. Judge Richard Alan Enslen ruled that while the Energy Department had acted in bad faith to hasten the test of MOX, courts could not stop the Executive Branch from conducting foreign policy. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to reconsider that decision, and NIRS, PSR and BREDL are adding their weight to that request. "The Department of Energy has already begun to disregard the law and trample our rights," said Janet Zeller, BREDL's Executive Director. "People from across the country must join together to block this reckless and secretive program and insure that the DOE obeys national and international law." BREDL is campaigning against the planned use of MOX fuel in six Southeastern U.S. reactors: Duke Power's Catawba 1&2 near Rock Hill, South Carolina; McGuire 1&2, near Charlotte, North Carolina; and Virginia Power's North Anna 1&2 reactors near Charlottesville, Virginia. Physicians for Social Responsibility has actively opposed the MOX plan since its inception, primarily on the grounds that it promotes nuclear proliferation, rather than delivering the goal of making the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons unavailable for further destructive purposes. The Atlanta chapter of the national organization has led professionals in the region in their action to oppose the commercialization of plutonium. "Citizens everywhere want nuclear weapons abolished," said Ed Arnold, Executive Director of PSR/Atlanta. "We don't accomplish that by recirculating nuclear weapons material. And we don't abolish nuclear weapons by shipping bomb-grade plutonium all over the planet. This MOX program encourages nuclear proliferation and we must stop it." NIRS, which launched a "NIX MOX" campaign in 1998, recently opened a Southeastern office to assist BREDL and other grassroots groups opposing MOX fuel usage and the spending of hundreds of millions in public funds to subsidize MOX fabrication, utility acceptance and reprocessing. "Nuclear power is the most expensive form of energy and under utility deregulation is going to be subject to tough competition. The MOX program provides direct tax dollars to underwrite more dirty, dangerous nuclear waste production," said Kevin Kamps, nuclear specialist with NIRS. "This is an unfair subsidy that will disadvantage safer and cheaper power sources that have less hazardous byproducts. This is another reason that we are committed to stopping the MOX mistake." "The people in the Southeast have gotten the picture loud and clear from the first shipment of MOX fuel to Canada that the US DOE will lie, cover their actions, take a cloak of secrecy and act above not only the law of the land, but also international treaty in order to accomplish their goals" affirmed Mary Olson, Director of NIRS Southeast Office. She continued, "This is the old National Security mythology applied to a so-called commercial enterprise, but in the end it is taxpayer dollars that are funding this program, so we are proud to support citizens in taking action to stop this charade." The first MOX shipment to Canada included transport within Canada by helicopter, despite DOE's acknowledgement that the MOX casks were not certified for air transport and the agency's assurances that no air travel would be involved "The use of MOX creates more bomb possibilities around the world, not fewer," said Terry Lodge, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "Instead of rolling plutonium up in two-ton glass logs and disposing of it under heavy guard, our government instead wants to show the world how to fuel low-security civilian nuclear plants with it. There will be lots of scary new members to the 'Nuclear Club' if we do this." Trial activity will resume on April 7 on the issues of whether the Russian shipment must be stopped because of claimed violations of federal environmental law and violation of the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. -NIRS/BREDL/PSR- Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Multiple Myeloma Linked to Worker Low-level Radiation Date: 11 Apr 2000 10:16:50 -0400 >Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:10:43 -0400 >Subject: Multiple Myeloma Linked to Worker Low-level Radiation Exposure >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: bananas@lists.speakeasy.org >From: bobschaeffer@earthlink.net (bobschaeffer@earthlink.net) > >EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 9 APRIL 2000 AT 17:00 ET US > > Contact: David Williamson > david_williamson@unc.edu > 919-962-8596 > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of >nuclear workers > > Increasing exposure to ionizing radiation boosts the risk of >multiple myeloma, a rare but often fatal cancer of blood-forming >tissues, especially among people exposed later in life, according to a >new study of workers at four U.S. Department of Energy plants. > The study, conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill >researchers, analyzed radiation exposures among plant employees and >compared them to health records. Older workers with cumulative radiation >doses of five rem or more were almost three-and-a-half times more likely >to die from multiple myeloma than workers at the same plants whose >cumulative exposures were less than one rem. > The current occupational limit for radiation workers is five rem per >year. Average background radiation is between a tenth and a third of a >rem per year depending on what is being counted, such as radon. > A report on the findings appears in the April issue of Annals of >Epidemiology, a scientific journal. UNC-CH School of Public Health >authors are Dr. Steve Wing, associate professor; Dr. David Richardson, >postdoctoral fellow; Suzanne Wolf, research associate; and programmer >Joy L. Wolf, all of epidemiology, and Drs. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown, >professor, and Gary Mihlan, research assistant, both of environmental >sciences and engineering. > "Workers exposed to ionizing radiation at older ages appeared to be >more sensitive than younger workers," Wing said. "However, that does not >mean that it is safe for young workers to be exposed to radiation. >Exposures during the child-bearing ages might lead to genetic mutations >that could affect children and future generations." > UNC-CH researchers identified 98 workers who died of multiple >myeloma and 391 age-matched controls from a combined roster of 115,143 >people hired before 1979 at the Hanford (Wash.), Los Alamos National >Laboratory (N.M.), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tenn.) and the >Savannah River (S.C.) nuclear facilities, he said. Information on work >history, smoking, medical X-rays and exposure to physical and chemical >agents came from personnel, medical, industrial hygiene and health >physics records, including readings from radiation badges known as >dosimeters. > The study included workers who died through 1990 or, among Hanford >employees, through 1986. Male workers and those hired before 1948 died >of multiple myeloma at about twice the rate of women and workers hired >after 1948, the scientists found. Blacks were almost five times as >likely as whites to have developed the illness, although only five cases >were found among blacks. > The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health requested >and paid for the study because of previous reports suggesting a link >between exposure to ionizing radiation and cases of the cancer at the >Hanford site, Wing said. > "Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in U.S. >nuclear workers, was intended to include more cases of the disease, >better evaluation of radiation doses and measurement of other >occupational exposures not available in the Hanford studies," he said. > Investigators also tried to determine whether workers exposed to >solvents, metals, welding fumes asbestos and other agents faced >increased risks of multiple myeloma, Wing said. Records of such >exposures, however, were inadequate to enable the scientists to >calculate increased risks accurately. > Because exposures to ionizing radiation were almost entirely below >what government regulations currently allow, the findings could affect >federal occupational exposure standards, the scientist said. He and his >colleagues initially hoped to extend their research to other cancers of >the blood-forming organs but were required by their contract to limit >the study to multiple myeloma. > "One important element of this work is that it comes at a time when >the U.S. Department of Energy is expressing greater concern for workers' >health and the history of radiation exposures in the nuclear weapons >complex," Wing said. > ### > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Peace work at Y-12 Date: 11 Apr 2000 23:14:12 -0400 >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:12:20 -0400 >Subject: Peace work at Y-12 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: bananas@lists.speakeasy.org >From: orep@earthlink.net (orep@earthlink.net) > > Y-12 Plant shut down: first ever complete blockade >April 9, 2000 > >Peace protesters at the last, full-scale operating nuclear weapons >production plant in the United States closed the plant in a nonviolent >direct action on Sunday, April 9, 2000. Wearing T-shirts that read >"Claim the Future, DISARM NOW" eighteen protesters, supported by more >than 200 demonstrators, successfully blockaded all three entrances to >the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge. > At one entrance, protesters closed and locked a security gate, >stretched a thick cable across the roadway to prevent traffic from >circumventing the blockade, and took up residence on the road behind a >large mock missile that was stenciled "DISARM NOW." After more than >thirty minutes, two fire trucks arrived and the cable was finally cut >with the "jaws of life," equipment usually put in service to save lives >rather than destroy them, and the protesters were taken into custody. > At the west Bear Creek Road entrance, peace demonstrators road and >walked nearly two miles onto DOE property, making a human chain to block >traffic, before they were intercepted and arrested and charged with >trespass. > At the main entrance on east Bear Creek Road, protesters held a huge >banner which pointed out the nuclear weapons production violates >international law. Five protesters were dragged from the street, >surrounded by singing supporters, and all seven were arrested for >blocking traffic. > Arrested in the action were Danna Baxley of Frederick, MD; Traylor >Biasiolli of Charlottesville, VA; Betty Coleman of Knoxville, TN; Lena >Feldman of Asheville, NC; Jason Fults of Berea, KY; Andrea Golden of >Auburn, MA; Anne Hablas of Jacksboro, TN; Megan Jackson or Maryville, >TN; Seth Jensen of Oak Ridge, TN; Erik Johnson of Maryville, TN; Ingrid >Johnson of Maryville, TN; Sarah Krueger of Asheville, NC; Mary Dennis >Lentsch of Apison, TN; Gordon Maham of Cincinnati, OH; Mary Beth Selzer >of Winter Park, FL; Chlo=E9 Tewksbury of Berea, KY; Shelley Wascom of Lake >City, TN; and Ruthy Woodring of Pineville, KY. > In a statement released before the direct action/civil disobedience, >protesters noted that their actions were in defense of international >law, pointing out that the World Court ruled in 1996 that the use or >threat of use of nuclear weapons is illegal. > Jason Fults of Berea, KY, said, "I don=92t want my grandkids to have to >worry about the threat of nuclear war. I plan to outlive bomb production >at Y-12. Until bomb building stops, I will continue to return to this >facility to put my body in the way. One day, I will look into the eyes >of young people, and I will tell them that I did my very best to give >them a safe and sustainable society." > The action at Y-12 attracted more than 65 students from around the >southeast who came to claim their future. The students participated in a >day-long workshop, "Building the Nonviolent Community" on Saturday, >followed by contra dancing. On Sunday, a workshop on "Researching >University and College ties to Nuclear Weapons" was presented by Brad >van Guilder of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop was followed by a march >through Oak Ridge to the bomb plant, a rally, and the direct action. > Closing the day, more than 80 people gathered for the weekly Vigil for >Peace at Y-12. The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, sponsors of >the weekend=92s activities, has been holding weekly vigils at 5:00 on >Sunday afternoon since late November. > The events of April 8-9 were part of the ongoing Stop the Bombs >campaign sponsored by OREPA and two dozen other regional and local peace >groups. > >The future for those arrested: > Megan Jackson is a juvenile and her case will be handled separately. > Gordon Maham, 83 years old, told the judge, "I don=92t believe I did >anything wrong," but entered a guilty plea in General Sessions court in >Oak Ridge. The state requested a fine of $50 (the maximum), and Gordon >presented an article on the plight of the mentally ill saying, "These >people need money more than you do." The proposed fine was dropped, and >his sentence was 30 days unsupervised probation. > Seven protesters will appear in Oak Ridge City Court on Wednesday, >April 12 on charges of trespassing (carrying a maximum $500 fine and 90 >days in jail). > The others have been scheduled in General Sessions Court for May 9 on >misdemeanor charges of blocking a highway. > >The future for the campaign: >August 5-6, 2000 >Direct Action for Peace > =20 Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. =20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 Noon =97 Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the legal authority of the National Security Agency. George J. Tenet, director of Central Intelligence, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4121. GENERAL AGENDA=20 World Bank-International Monetary fund news conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold a news conference. Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael Mussa, economic counselor and director of the International Monetary Fund's Research Department. 11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn, World Bank president. Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St. NW. Contact: 202/473-1796, 202/473-6313 or 202/473-2243. =20 -------- Thursday, April 13: HOUSE 11:00 a.m. - Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and= Investigations hearing focusing on a review of U.S. Enrichment Corporation privatization= and its impact on the domestic uranium industry. 2322 Rayburn House Office= Building ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_460834==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
April 12, 2000 Daybook

TODAY'S HEADLINERS

     Resources hearing =97 11 a.m. =97
House Resources Committee holds a
hearing on "Compromising our National
Security by Restricting Domestic
Exploration and Development of our Oil
and Gas Resources." Location: 1324
Rayburn House Office Building.
Contact: 202/225-2761.

SENATE COMMITTEES

     10 a.m. =97 Appropriations' defense
subcommittee holds hearing on fiscal
2001 Defense appropriations, focusing
on missile defense programs. Location:
192 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Contact: 202/224-3471.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

    Noon =97 Select Intelligence
Committee holds hearing on the legal
authority of the National Security
Agency. George J. Tenet, director of
Central Intelligence, testifies. Location:
2118 Rayburn House Office Building.
Contact: 202/225-4121.

GENERAL AGENDA

     World Bank-International Monetary
fund news conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97
The World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund hold a news conference.
     Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael
Mussa, economic counselor and director
of the International Monetary Fund's
Research Department.
     11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn,
World Bank president.
     Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St.
NW. Contact: 202/473-1796,
202/473-6313 or 202/473-2243.
         
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Thursday, April 13:

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--=====================_460834==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Congressional co-sponsors of HR-2545 and the Markey/Woolsey Date: 12 Apr 2000 14:18:25 -0400 --=====================_29100174==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >get update information on all resolutions, woosley, markey and on >norton, hr2545, number of sponsors? who the sponsors are? Here's the relevant information not only on HR-2545, but also on Markey, Woolsey, and Kucinich resolutions. Let me know if you need anything else. -- H.R.2545 (Bill - text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545ab.htm) Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (introduced 7/16/1999) Title: To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992. Rep Lewis, John - 8/5/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/10/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 8/5/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/23/2000 (That last one was a surprise -- and a good one!) -- HCON 177 IH (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres177) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 8/5/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that nuclear weapons should be taken off hair-trigger alert. COSPONSORS(89), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 11/4/1999 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 9/28/1999 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 11/5/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 9/28/1999 Rep Barcia, James A. - 11/1/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 2/1/2000 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 11/4/1999 Rep Bonior, David E. - 10/13/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 11/5/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 9/28/1999 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 11/15/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 11/17/1999 Rep Coyne, William J. - 11/5/1999 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 11/4/1999 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 2/1/2000 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 11/4/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 10/13/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 11/17/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 11/4/1999 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 11/15/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 11/4/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 9/28/1999 Rep Gordon, Bart - 11/15/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 10/26/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 11/5/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/26/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/1/2000 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 11/5/1999 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 11/15/1999 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 11/5/1999 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 10/26/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 11/1/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/13/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/18/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/28/1999 Rep Levin, Sander M. - 11/4/1999 Rep Lewis, John - 11/5/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 9/28/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/13/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 9/28/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 9/28/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 11/22/1999 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 10/13/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 11/5/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 9/28/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 11/5/1999 Rep Miller, George - 11/17/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 11/5/1999 Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 11/5/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 11/4/1999 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/28/1999 Rep Oberstar, James L. - 11/9/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/15/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 11/4/1999 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 10/13/1999 Rep Price, David E. - 2/1/2000 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 11/15/1999 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 11/15/1999 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 10/13/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 11/15/1999 Rep Sawyer, Tom - 11/4/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 10/13/1999 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 11/4/1999 Rep Stabenow, Debbie - 2/1/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 9/28/1999 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 11/18/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 10/13/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 11/5/1999 Rep Udall, Tom - 11/5/1999 Rep Vento, Bruce F. - 11/4/1999 Rep Waters, Maxine - 11/5/1999 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 11/5/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 11/15/1999 Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 10/13/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 9/28/1999 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/15/1999 -- H.CON.RES.74 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres74) Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 3/24/1999) Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile. COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 4/12/1999 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 5/4/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/4/1999 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 5/4/1999 Rep DeGette, Diana - 3/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999 Rep Farr, Sam - 2/1/2000 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/12/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 3/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 2/29/2000 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/22/1999 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/17/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 3/24/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/24/1999 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 2/1/2000 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 3/24/1999 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 3/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 3/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/24/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 3/24/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 3/24/1999 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/24/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/12/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/28/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/12/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 3/24/1999 Rep Udall, Mark - 4/12/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999 -- H.RES.82 (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99woolsey.htm) Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. (introduced 2/24/1999) Title: Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament. COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/14/1999 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/20/1999 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/24/1999 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/14/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/6/1999 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 2/24/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 2/24/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/24/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/24/1999 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 3/17/1999 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/24/1999 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/5/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/24/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/14/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/20/1999 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/30/1999 Rep Luther, Bill - 3/23/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/23/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/24/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/17/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/24/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/24/1999 Rep Miller, George - 2/24/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 2/24/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/23/1999 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/3/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/30/1999 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 2/24/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/24/1999 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 3/24/1999 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/6/1999 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/24/1999 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/24/1999 Rep Thompson, Mike - 10/7/1999 Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/24/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/24/1999 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 4/13/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/24/1999 ------------ Additionally, Dennis Kucinich has introduced a resolution supporting Woolsey's resolution: -- H.RES.369 (Resolution Text Below) Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 11/9/1999) Title: On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL: Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 11/9/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 11/9/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 11/9/1999 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/9/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 11/9/1999 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/9/1999 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/9/1999 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 11/18/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 11/9/1999 Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental... (Introduced in the House) HRES 369 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 369 On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 9, 1999 Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. OWENS, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. JACKSON of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations RESOLUTION On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium. Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental nuclear war; Whereas the United States has failed to fulfill its obligations toward nuclear disarmament under article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures toward nuclear disarmament; Whereas the bilateral measures for nuclear arms control under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) process have ground to a halt with restrictions by the Congress for further cuts below START II levels until the Russian Duma ratifies START II; Whereas in 1991 President George Bush ordered the United States to unilaterally withdraw tens of thousands of forward-deployed nuclear tactical weapons and remove thousands more from high alert status and Russian President Gorbachev reciprocated; Whereas on August 19, 1999, Russia proposed additional reductions by cutting nearly in half the number of nuclear warheads that would be allowed under a prospective START III treaty and the United States failed to agree to the offer; and Whereas previous congressional resolutions on furthering complete nuclear disarmament (such as H. Res. 82) require the urgent attention of the Congress to adopt such measures for the prompt reduction of nuclear weapons ; and Whereas a congressional delegation met with a Duma delegation during the war in Kosovo and successfully promoted cooperation and built confidence between both countries: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) urges the President to initiate emergency negotiations with Russia leading to reciprocal reductions in the strategic and substrategic arsenals in both countries; (2) welcomes House Resolution 82 and requests the support of the Congress to promote measures through the United Nations on nuclear disarmament; and (3) requests that a congressional delegation convene meetings to discuss nuclear disarmament of United States and Russian nuclear arsenals with a delegation from the Russian Duma as soon as possible. Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org *** BAN AND BURY ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * Sign the Petition Online!: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Write Letter to Congress about HR-2545 - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Depleted uranium keeps on killing!: http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm --=====================_29100174==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
>get update information on all resolutions, woosley, markey and on
>norton, hr2545, number of sponsors? who the sponsors are?

Here's the relevant information not only on HR-2545, but also on Markey, Woolsey, and Kucinich resolutions.  Let me know if you need anything else.

-- H.R.2545  (Bill - text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545ab.htm)

Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (introduced 7/16/1999)
Title: To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992.

Rep Lewis, John - 8/5/1999
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/10/1999
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 8/5/1999
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/23/2000

(That last one was a surprise -- and a good one!)

-- HCON 177 IH   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres177)

Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 8/5/1999)
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that nuclear weapons should be taken off hair-trigger
alert.

COSPONSORS(89), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 11/4/1999
 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 11/5/1999
 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 9/28/1999
 Rep Barcia, James A. - 11/1/1999
 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 2/1/2000
 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Bonior, David E. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 11/5/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 9/28/1999
 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 11/15/1999
 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 11/17/1999
 Rep Coyne, William J. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 11/4/1999
 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 2/1/2000
 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 11/4/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 11/17/1999
 Rep Farr, Sam - 11/4/1999
 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 11/15/1999
 Rep Filner, Bob - 11/4/1999
 Rep Frank, Barney - 9/28/1999
 Rep Gordon, Bart - 11/15/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/1/2000
 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 11/5/1999
 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 11/5/1999
 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 10/26/1999
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 11/1/1999
 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/18/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/28/1999
 Rep Levin, Sander M. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Lewis, John - 11/5/1999
 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 9/28/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Luther, Bill - 9/28/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 11/22/1999
 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 10/13/1999
 Rep McDermott, Jim - 11/5/1999
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 9/28/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 11/17/1999
 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 11/5/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 11/4/1999
 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/28/1999
 Rep Oberstar, James L. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 10/13/1999
 Rep Price, David E. - 2/1/2000
 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 11/15/1999
 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 10/13/1999
 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 11/15/1999
 Rep Sawyer, Tom - 11/4/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Stabenow, Debbie - 2/1/2000
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 9/28/1999
 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 11/18/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 11/5/1999
 Rep Udall, Mark - 11/5/1999
 Rep Udall, Tom - 11/5/1999
 Rep Vento, Bruce F. - 11/4/1999
 Rep Waters, Maxine - 11/5/1999
 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 11/15/1999
 Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 10/13/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/15/1999

-- H.CON.RES.74   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99markey.htm#hres74)

Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. (introduced 3/24/1999)
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile.

COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 4/12/1999
 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 5/4/1999
 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/4/1999
 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 5/4/1999
 Rep DeGette, Diana - 3/24/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Farr, Sam - 2/1/2000
 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/12/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 2/29/2000
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/22/1999
 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/17/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 3/24/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 2/1/2000
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/24/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 3/24/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/24/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/12/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/28/2000
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/12/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 3/24/1999
 Rep Udall, Mark - 4/12/1999
 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 9/28/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999

-- H.RES.82   (Resolution Text at http://prop1.org/2000/99woolsey.htm)

Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. (introduced 2/24/1999)
Title: Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament.

COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/14/1999
 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/20/1999
 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/24/1999
 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/14/1999
 Rep Capps, Lois - 5/6/1999
 Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/24/1999
 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/24/1999
 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 3/17/1999
 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 11/5/1999
 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/14/1999
 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/20/1999
 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/30/1999
 Rep Luther, Bill - 3/23/1999
 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 3/23/1999
 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/24/1999
 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/17/1999
 Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/24/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Miller, George - 2/24/1999
 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/23/1999
 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/3/1999
 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/30/1999
 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 3/24/1999
 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/6/1999
 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/24/1999
 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/24/1999
 Rep Thompson, Mike - 10/7/1999
 Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/24/1999
 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/24/1999
 Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 4/13/1999
 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/24/1999

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Additionally, Dennis Kucinich has introduced a resolution supporting Woolsey's resolution:

-- H.RES.369  (Resolution Text Below)
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 11/9/1999)
Title: On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL:

 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 11/9/1999
 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 11/9/1999
 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Owens, Major R. - 11/9/1999
 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 11/18/1999
 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 11/9/1999

Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental... (Introduced in the House)

HRES 369 IH

                                   106th CONGRESS

                                      1st Session

                                     H. RES. 369

On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

                       IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                 November 9, 1999

Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. OWENS, Mr.
MARKEY, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. JACKSON of Illinois) submitted the
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
                                    RESOLUTION

On reducing the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons in the new millennium.

Whereas it has been 10 years since the end of the Cold War and thousands of nuclear weapons still exist and remain on hair trigger alert postures prolonging the possibility of accidental nuclear war;

Whereas the United States has failed to fulfill its obligations toward nuclear disarmament under article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures toward nuclear disarmament;

Whereas the bilateral measures for nuclear arms control under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) process have ground to a halt with restrictions by the Congress for further cuts below START II levels until the Russian Duma ratifies START II;

Whereas in 1991 President George Bush ordered the United States to unilaterally withdraw tens of thousands of forward-deployed nuclear tactical weapons and remove thousands more from high alert status and Russian President Gorbachev reciprocated;

Whereas on August 19, 1999, Russia proposed additional reductions by cutting nearly in half the number of nuclear warheads that would be allowed under a prospective START III treaty and the United States failed to agree to the offer; and

Whereas previous congressional resolutions on furthering complete nuclear disarmament (such as H. Res. 82) require the urgent attention of the Congress to adopt such measures for the prompt reduction of nuclear weapons ; and

Whereas a congressional delegation met with a Duma delegation during the war in Kosovo and successfully promoted cooperation and built confidence between both countries: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

        (1) urges the President to initiate emergency negotiations with Russia leading to reciprocal reductions in the strategic and substrategic arsenals in both countries;

        (2) welcomes House Resolution 82 and requests the support of the Congress to promote measures through the United Nations on nuclear disarmament; and

        (3) requests that a congressional delegation convene meetings to discuss nuclear disarmament of United States and Russian nuclear arsenals with a delegation from the Russian Duma as soon as possible.
Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389
prop1@prop1.org  --  http://prop1.org

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--=====================_29100174==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally light Subject: (abolition-usa) Minutes of the 4/12/00 conference call of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Coordinating Committee Date: 12 Apr 2000 12:32:49 +0100 Minutes of the April 3, 2000 conference call of the Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Those on the call: Dave, Odile, Anthony, Sally, Alan, Bev, Jackie, Pam, John and Carah. Facilitator: Odile Note taker: Sally 1. CAMPAIGN Booklet =96 distribution and follow-up. The new booklet was recently mailed by the Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (in Michigan). Of the 1,000 printed, 600 were mailed. Several Coordinators also requested additional booklets: 100 to WILPF, 25 to Tri-Valley CAREs, 25 to AAV, 20 to Pax Christi USA, and 50 to Western States Legal Foundation. The remainder will be mailed to John at the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York , for distribution at the NPT Review Conference. Alan & Odile will mail these off. Jackie has received 3 responses to the booklet mailing so far =96 2 congratulatory emails and one RSVP from an organization. Also, our own groups should remember to return the RSVP forms to her. 2. Job Description. Dave will re-post to us his analysis of the job description (based on Alan=92s original description and Sally=92s draft job announcement), and = he requested this be put on the agenda of our April 28th meeting in NY. Basically, he believes we need 1 campaign coordinator with additional staffers such as field organizers. 3. Report from ad hoc planning group for meeting/action at NPT. The ad hoc group consists of John, Dave, Jackie, Sally, Anthony and Pamela. April 28th is the date of our day-long meeting in NY during the NPT. It will be in Conference Room D at the UN. The schedule is as follows: 10am-12pm and 1-3pm -- Coordinating Committee meeting; 3-6pm -- General Membership meeting (i.e., for member organizations). Carah will include our General Membership meeting notice in a mailing next week to the New York area, and Jackie will write and post our meeting notice to the US Abolition listserve. The ad hoc planning group will set the meeting agenda, and then it can be reviewed by our entire Coordinating Committee over dinner at Alice=92s on April 27th. Dave will draft and send it to the others in the ad hoc group this week. There was general discussion about whether we should do an action at the NPT Review Conference. We agreed that we will participate in the Abolition 2000 demonstration planned for April 25 at 9am. Pam will also speak on behalf of the US CAMPAIGN at an 11am press conference that day. If the huge banner listing all US nuclear tests, with striking graphics, now in production in the Bay Area, Calif., is ready by the time of the NPT, we will use it, along with any other creative touches we come up with (e.g., sunflower hats), as well as our booklet, at the demonstration. 4 .Agenda items and process for dinner meeting and meeting at NPT April 27-28. This has been deferred until the subgroup meets, etc. (see #3 above). 5. Other groups=92 actions and activities at NPT. For a complete events listing, see the web site - www.igc.org/disarm. Some events are: April 25 =96 Abolition 2000 demonstration. April 27 =96 Abolition 2000 5-year report card (morning). Panel on Stockpile Stewardship (afternoon). April 28 =96 Abolition 2000 5-year Celebration Dance (evening) April 30 =96 Annual meeting of international Abolition 2000 May 4 - Panel on The Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Age: Waste, Health, and Environmental Racism, 1-3 pm. 6. Participation in FOR=92s =93People=92s Campaign for Non-violence.=94 One date remains open =96 July 16 (=93Trinity=92s=94 anniversary). After discussion, we decided that we will request that day be reserved for our CAMPAIGN. A subgroup for this was formed: Pam, Dave and Jackie. Pam volunteered to be the organizer and to be the liaison with FOR. So far, there is no planned civil disobedience, but there will be workshops and vigils. As small numbers will be involved throughout all the events (targeting the White House, the Capitol and the Pentagon), the subgroup should be able to put together something in time, especially calling on those on the East Coast to be there. The subgroup will also encourage Ibrahim to attend our NY meeting on April 28. 7. Bottom-Up organizing. This is deferred until the NY meeting. Also, Andy Lichterman will be on our calls when this topic is on the agenda, as convener of the Bottom-Up Organizing Working Group. Michelle Xenos has informed Jackie that she will take our booklet to the Indigenous Environmental Network and will make a formal proposal that IEN join our CAMPAIGN, and, specifically, that they become conveners of the Indigenous People Organizing and Concerns working group. 8. Minutes. Minutes of today=92s meeting will be posted along with Dave=92s draft job description. 9. Finances. Jackie reported that it took approximately $1,900 to print and mail the booklet, leaving a general fund balance of approximately $600. 10. Next call. Will be on Weds., April 12 at 2pm EST and 11am PST. Carah will set up the call and confirm by email. Facilitator will be Sally, and Dave will be note taker. 11. Conference call evaluation. Jackie - very pleasant group to work with. Will see what=92s up with AFSC about participating on calls. Sally - I miss Ibrahim and Gilbert (or Michelle as his stand-in). Gilbert has been traveling a lot and sends his regrets about missing some calls. Anthony - I have also missed some calls due to working in the Caribbean. Sorry I=92ve been away. *************************************************************************= ************ Draft Job Description for National Coordinator US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Submitted by Dave Robinson Coordination/Management 1. Support ongoing work of the Campaign's Facilitators Group 2. Maintain database of US Campaign supporting groups 3. Maintain Campaign website 4. Maintain financial records and provide regular reports to Facilitators Group 5. Supervise Campaign staff and volunteers 6. Provide regular reports on Campaign status and activities to the Facilitators Group Outreach 1. Maintain relationships with Campaign organizations/groups 2. Work with college campus networks and groups 3. Develop new relationships with national and regional groups with an emphasis on those representing labor and people of color. Fundraising 1. Develop and submit grant proposals 2. Develop and maintain a direct mail donor program 3. Coordinate fundraising events nationally and regionally as appropriate Programmatic 1. Develop campaign outreach/educational materials 2. Represent the Campaign at national and regional meetings and events 3. Maintain a liaison with Abolition 2000 4. Coordinate the annual meeting of the US Campaign 5. Support the ongoing efforts of the Campaign Working Groups 6. Produce and distribute periodic mailings to Campaign members 7. Act as media contact for the Campaign and provide media releases on Campaign activities - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) New Enrollments...keep it coming Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:05:56 -0800 Dear Friends and Activists, The NPT 2000 Review and Extension Conference is less than 2 weeks away! To date, there are 1817 organizations and municipalities who have endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement. We can reach our goal of 2000 endorsers with your help. Please commit to enrolling a new organization this week! Also, you may consider passing a resolution on your college/university campus or in your municipality. Abolition 2000 has prepared some guidelines to assist you in passing a municipal resolution. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to receive a copy. Thank you for your continued support. I hope to hear from you soon! Below are the organizations which recently edorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement during the week of 3-10 April: Third Millennium Foundation, Auburn/Washington Zambia peace Confederation, Zambia/South Africa Gabon Environnement et Developpement sans Frontieres, Gabon/Africa Civil Solidarity in Anyang, Anyang City/Korea Christian Institute of Social Studies, Seoul/Korea Korea Sustainable Development Network, Seoul/Korea Korean Eco-Club, Seoul/Korea Sarangbang Group for Human Rights, Seoul/Korea Religous Society of Friends of Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania Green Cross International, Geneva/Switzerland Friends of the Earth Western Australia, Laverton/Western Australia People Against Uranium, Geraldton/Western Australia Socialist Party of New Jersey, Saddlebrook/New Jersey NGO Committee on Women and Religion, Bronx/New York Global Green USA, Santa Monica/California Young Power in Social Action, Chittagong/Bangladesh Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids Michigan North Dakota Peace Coalition, Bismarck/North Dakota Call to Action, San Juan Capistrano/California International Christian Fellowship (Association for Child Care), Ghana/West Africa Networks Productions, Inc., Santa Fe/New Mexico Silkworm Peace Institute, Lafayette/California Memphis Women's Political Caucus, Memphis/Tennesee Food Not Bombs, Atlanta/Georgia In Peace and Solidarity, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. Visit the Abolition 2000 website and submit a membership form. 4. Send an e-mail to: abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com (leave the subject line and body of the message blank). To post a message to the Abolition Global Caucus, send your message to: abolition-caucus@egroups.com To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no subject) to: abolition-usa-request@lists.xmission.com In the body of the message, write: "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks) To post a message to the Abolition-USA list, mail your message to: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) Call for Petitions Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:25:08 -0800 Dear Friends and Activists, Have you been collecting signatures on the Abolition 2000 International Petition? Has your organization been collecting signatures on a similar nuclear weapons abolition petition? As you may know, Abolition 2000 will have a large presence at the upcoming NPT Review and Extension Conference, being held at the UN from 24 April to 19 May. On 25 April, Abolition 2000, in conjunction with Earthday 2000, is having a large demonstration at Dag Hammarsjold Plaza at 47th Street and First Avenue. Additionally, the Chairman of the 2000 NPT Conference has agreed to accept petitions from Abolition 2000. We need your help to determine how signatories there are on the Abolition 2000 International Petition. Also, if your organization has been circulating a similar nuclear weapons abolition petition, please let us know how many signatures have been collected so we can give your organization credit and include those numbers in our presentation. We must let the nuclear weapons states know that their irresponsibility and reluctance to rid the world of nuclear weapons is unacceptable and we will not stand for it. Please send your Abolition 2000 International Petitions to: Abolition 2000 PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1 Santa Barbara, California 93108 USA or, please send the number of signatories you may have collected on NON-Abolition 2000 International Petitions to: A2000@silcom.com If you have any questions, please feel free to telephone or email me. I look forward to hearing from you. In Peace and Solidarity, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. Visit the Abolition 2000 website and submit a membership form. 4. Send an e-mail to: abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com (leave the subject line and body of the message blank). To post a message to the Abolition Global Caucus, send your message to: abolition-caucus@egroups.com To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no subject) to: abolition-usa-request@lists.xmission.com In the body of the message, write: "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks) To post a message to the Abolition-USA list, mail your message to: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) PREVENTING AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:26:15 -0800 The United States Government explicitly states that it wants to "control" space to protect its economic interests and establish superiority over the world. These efforts could produce a nuclear arms race in outer space and/or a nuclear catastrophe. The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is challenging these plans. We invite you to attend a panel discussion on: PREVENTING AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE April 25, 2000 1:15- 2:45 PM United Nations Conference Room 4 45th and 1st Avenue (enter through visitors' entrance) (You will need a pass to attend this event. Please contact 212-223-7520 to obtain a pass before April 15th) Speakers: Karl Grossman, Convenor Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Rashmi Mayur, Director International Institute for a Sustainable Future Facilitator: Alice Slater, Executive Director Global Resource Action Center for the Environment Sponsors: Abolition 2000 NY Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) Promoting Enduring Peace War and Peace Foundation __________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Thanks to All, re Heads of State letter Date: 13 Apr 2000 17:32:49 +1000 John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear Felicity Hill, Ellen Thomas, Merav Datan, Clare, George Farebrother, Rob Green, Kate Dewes, Clare Poyner, Dayrl Kimball, Alisa Nikoulina, Allan phillips, Ak Malten, Irene, Carah, and all, A very big thank you for all each one of you have done with the 'Heads of State' letter. It was launched on Monday in a senate committee room in Canberra by Senator Lyn Allison, Senator Bob Brown, and MP Carmen Lawrence. There was a respectable turnup of TV cameras and the thing was covered in the Age, (probably Australias most respectable paper with some pretensions to be progressive), and two west australian papers. Given that it was competing with a number of other issues this is not too bad. It was a pleasure to be able to name each of you in front of the media there as part of a global effort: Thanks to Felicity for releasing it in NY and for getting it to NY and geneva UN missions, as well as for putting much attention and valuable input into its drafting, To Carah Ong for sending it to a largish swag of foreign ministers To Rob for very careful and very patient input to what was at times a trying editing process, for releasing it to Christchurch media and for sending it to another largiish batch of foreign ministers, To Ellen thomas for sending the whole thing to the US Congress by fax To Ak Malten for getting it to the Dutch parliament by hand, for putting it on his website and for faxing it to european media, To George Farebrother for getting it to many UK Parliamentarians and getting them to sign it, To Clare Poyner of Abolition2000 UK for getting it to UK media, To Alisa Nikoulina for getting it to Moscow and regional Russian media, and for chasing many Russian signatures that has made the Russian section very healthy, To Merav Datan for her patient input in the early stages of the letter, To Dayrl Kimball for his patient and constructive input, To Alice Slater for her input and for not concluding that I had joined with the terrible 'arms control' community, To Allan Phillips for his input and for getting it (with PSR) to the Canadian parliament, To Kate Dewes for getting Irish and Japanese organisations to sign, To Clare Henderson for organising the Canberra press conference when we were seriously worried that maybe no- one at all might show up and when she had to take Denniss Halliday around Canberra, for sending copies of the letter to foreign ministers and the Canberra press corps and for her input to the letter, To Cathy Picone for her creative input to press releases, To anyone else I have missed out, My thanks for helping make all this happen. John Hallam - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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Noon =97 Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the legal= authority of the National Security Agency. George J. Tenet, director of Central Intelligence, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building.= Contact: 202/225-4121. SENATE COMMITTEES=20 10 a.m. =97 Appropriations' defense subcommittee holds hearing on= fiscal 2001 Defense appropriations, focusing on missile defense programs. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3471. GENERAL AGENDA=20 World Bank-International Monetaryfund news conference =97 8:30 a.m.= =97The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold a news conference. Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael Mussa, economic counselor and= director of the International Monetary Fund's Research Department. 11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn, World Bank president. Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St. NW. Contact: 202/473-1796,= 202/473-6313 or 202/473-2243. =20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_87119267==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
April 12, 2000 Daybook (etc.)

HOUSE COMMITTEES

   11:00 a.m. - Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing focusing on a review of U.S. Enrichment Corporation privatization and its impact on the domestic uranium industry. 2322 Rayburn House Office Building

     Resources hearing =97 11 a.m. =97 House Resources Committee holds a hearing on "Compromising our National Security by Restricting  Domestic Exploration and Development of our Oil and Gas Resources." Location: 1324 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.

    Noon =97 Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the legal authority of the National Security Agency. George J. Tenet, director of Central Intelligence, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4121.

SENATE COMMITTEES

     10 a.m. =97 Appropriations' defense subcommittee holds hearing on fiscal 2001 Defense appropriations, focusing on missile defense programs. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3471.

GENERAL AGENDA

     World Bank-International Monetaryfund news conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold a news conference.
     Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael Mussa, economic counselor and director of the International Monetary Fund's Research Department.
     11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn, World Bank president.
     Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St. NW. Contact: 202/473-1796, 202/473-6313 or 202/473-2243.
         

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So much for Clinton's Executive Order and "Environmental Equity"." before i went up to Kalamazoo i had discussed some of the issues involved with my friend and colleague, Fred Harris, who teaches environmental law here. When I got back, I sent Fred a copy of this post, and we talked about it a bit. Fred then discussed this in one of his classes as an example environmental racism, and criticized Richardson for routing weapons grade plutonium through Latino and Black neighborhoods in Chicago. Immediately after class, a well intentioned white student from a central Illinois farming town south of here on I57(where i have visited) whose inhabitants are predominantly white came up to Fred and said basically the following: " You are right. DOE was going to ship this stuff right near our town. but when we found out about it, our city politicians went over to Springfield (The State Capitol) and enlisted the support of State Legislators over there. They in turn pressured DOE in Washington to re-route and divert the shipment away from our town." Notice of course that due to the pressure exerted by sparsely populated white farming communities and their politicians, DOE diverted a shipment of 5 ounces of weapons grade plutonium directly into the southside of the Chicago Metro Area (including Gary and Hammond Indiana ) where there might be a million Latinos and Blacks living. In federal district court in Kalamazoo last Friday, we produced a scientist who testified that in the event of an accident 5 ounces of weapons grade plutonium could kill one million people. The DOE and USG never disputed that estimate, just opined that such an accident would never happen. We responded with Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc. In any event, notice the profound environmental racism here. Richardson and his DOE deliberately and needlessly exposed about a million People of Color in the Chicago Metro Area to a catastrophe, rather than expose low density white farmers in Central Illinois to the same risk. There are also some interesting pedagogical issues here. I discussed this case in my human rights course and pointed out that environmental racism is also an issue of human rights law. I asked the students if they knew anything about environmental racism. Those who had studied environmental law with Fred Harris knew about Environmental Racism. Those who had studied environmental law with our white professor knew nothing about it. according to Fred, generally speaking the upper middle class white professors who usually teach environmental law do not believe in environmental racism. so i proceeded to give my human rights class a lecture on environmental racism and what it has done to Blacks, Latinos and worst of all, Native Americans, whose reservations have become dumping grounds for large-amounts of radioactive wastes from all over the country. Part of the problem here is that the environmental lawyers travel in their own circles; the human rights lawyers travel in their own circles; and there are any a handful of lawyers with the guts to take on anti-nuclear weapons cases.This case is interesting because the coalition of Plaintiffs includes human rights organizations, environmental organizations, anti-nuclear weapons organizations, and Native American nations in Canada upon whose lands these dangerous activities will take place.I concluded the lecture by pointing out that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination could be useful in representing People of Color who have been the victim of environmental racism. As for Richardson, this Latino Nuclear Emperor wears no clothes. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:42 AM 'race_and_crime@src.uchicago.edu'; 'legaled@mail.law.fsu.edu' this is 3 for me today, so nothing more to say. but an interesting element here. The Clinton administration had adopted that Executive Order mandating an "Environmental Equity" review of all federal programs. In other words, an assessment for Environmental Racism--a result of your scholarship. But in this case, the DOE had never gotten around to adopting any Regulations on the subject. but they say they performed it anyway and did not find any adverse differential effects on people of color and the poor from this shipment of weapons grade plutonium from the United States to Canada. well i had a look at the DOE Map for the shipment. They deliberately routed this shipment of weapons grade plutonium on Interstate 55 into the Chicago Metropolitan area, then around and out to Michigan. As we native Chicagoans know, I55 goes through neighborhoods lived in by the poor and people of color, and then the same for the Chicago Interstates taking the weapons grade plutonium out to Michigan. It was a totally bogus environmental racism review by the DOE. DOE could have completely avoided the Chicago Metropolitan Area if they had wanted to by shipping it up I57, to I80, to I94, then up to Michigan. Instead, they maliciously and deliberately shipped weapons grade plutonium on I55 into Chicago, then routed it around the Chicago interstates out into Michigan. Of course these interstates went through Chicago neighborhoods where people of color and the poor live. So much for Clinton's Executive Order and "Environmental Equity". About as bogus as Clinton himself and his Secretary of Energy Richardson. Richardson is supposed to be a Latino. Does Richardson know that his DOE was shipping weapons grade plutonium through a Latino neighborhood in Chicago? Does Richardson even care? I doubt it. fab "Kalamazoo federal judge won't stop plutonium shipment" Saturday, April 8, 2000 By LISA SINGHANIA ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal judge Friday rejected an anti-nuclear coalition's motion to block an American-funded shipment of Russian plutonium to Canada, saying he lacked the jurisdiction to act on its newest legal argument. The group of Canadian and American activists had argued that the Parallex Project violated an arms control agreement signed by the U.S government, but Chief Judge Richard Enslen said the issue was irrelevant. "The judicial courts have nothing to do with this," Enslen said, after pointing out that treaties are between governments, not private citizens and governments. "We're disappointed, but I'm not sure what we'll do next," said Terry Lodge, a lawyer for the coalition. The government said it was pleased with the decision and the project would go forward. This was the anti-nuclear coalition's second attempt to block a shipment associated with the joint American-Russian $20 million experiment to determine whether commercial nuclear reactors in Canada can use material from decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons as fuel. For the project to go forward, both the United States and Russia have to send plutonium to Canada. The United States sent its plutonium - about 4 ounces in all - to Canada via Michigan and several other states in January after winning a court fight with the same group. The U.S. government says the project is key to reducing the spread of nuclear weapons. But the anti-nuclear activists believe it will do the opposite, while creating potential for nuclear accidents during transport. In December, the activists had asked Enslen to block the shipment on the grounds the Department of Energy had violated the law by doing an insufficient environmental study of the project. The judge said that although the plaintiffs' contentions that the government violated the law appeared to have merit, the DOE's assertions that an injunction would hurt nuclear disarmament talks were more important. On Friday, the group went back to court to try to block the transport of the Russian plutonium - about 1.5 pounds total - which is expected to be shipped early this summer. Several Canadian groups also joined the complaint, in addition to the original plaintiffs: six individuals and Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination. In addition to arguing the project violated arms control agreements signed by the U.S. government, the group's lawyers reiterated an argument made in the December hearings - the contention Parallex should be blocked until more environmental study has been done. Although the Russian plutonium shipment is not expected to cross U.S. territory, the plaintiffs argued it still falls under U.S. law since the DOE is picking up the entire tab and the Canadian test site is near the U.S. border. Enslen said Friday he remains convinced the Department likely violated the law by conducting a limited environmental study, but that violation would not be enough to stop the project given its importance to national security. The anti-nuclear activists aren't sure what they'll do next. The case could still go to trial, but that likely would not happen before the shipments were completed. A lawsuit in Canada is also possible. Some of the Indian tribes in Ontario, the province where the experiment will take place, say the Canadian government did not consult with them sufficiently before approving the shipments. There were demonstrations against the U.S. shipment last year. "There is more unity on this issue in Canada," says Grand Chief Larry Sault of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. "We will fight this." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ' Sensitivity: Private Dear Friends: I regret to report that i struck out in federal district court in Kalamazoo last Friday. I had spent over two weeks working full time to prepare my testimony on this extremely technical, complicated and detailed matter involving gross violations by the US Department of Energy of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994, 1998 Amendments, and a good deal of the Atomic Energy Act, the World Court Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, international environmental law, etc. I presented over a 2 hour oral argument to the Judge. When everything was over, he took out an Opinion that he had already prepared, read it, and denied our motion. In other words,his mind was made up before we went in there. At this point in time we are investigating the feasibility of filing similar litigation in Canada. We will be trying to get my oral argument on-line so that people can use it to oppose MOX in any one of the 182 or so State Parties to the NPT whose governments decide to go for MOX. Francis. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu Nuclear Information & Resource Service 1424 16th St. NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League P.O. Box 88 Glendale Springs, NC 28629 Physicians for Social Responsibility Atlanta Chapter 421 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30307 March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release Contact: Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast 706-722-8968 Janet Zeller, BREDL 336-982-2691 Kevin Kamps, NIRS National Office 202-328-0002 Ed Arnold, PSR/Atlanta 404-378-9078 Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Nuclear Information and Resource Service Join Legal Challenge to U.S. Nuclear Proliferation-Prone Plutonium Plan Citing grave concerns about the potential spread of plutonium for bombmaking throughout the world, three organizations, two national and one regional have joined the plaintiffs who have sued to stop a U.S.-Russian-Canadian plan to use nuclear weapons plutonium as fuel in nuclear power reactors. The internationally-known Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), with nearly 6000 members, including more than 1000 U.S. grassroots groups nationwide, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc. (BREDL), headquartered in North Carolina with 30 chapters in five southern states, and the internationally known Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for educating about the dangers of nuclear weapons, are the latest public interest advocates to formally enter a federal lawsuit in Kalamazoo, Michigan which was brought by an array of Canadian and U.S. First Nations tribes and other nuclear power and weapons critics. The lawsuit seeks to halt a test shipment of mixed oxide plutonium fuel, or MOX, from being transported to a test nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario from the Russian Federation, as part of a bigger scheme to use MOX as reactor fuel in light water reactors in the Southeastern United States, Canada and Russia. Billed as a peaceful means of reusing nuclear weapons, the plan would legitimize the commercialization and exportation of plutonium and may allow many nations and even independent groups to develop nuclear bomb capability. The Chalk River test, named "Parallex," was first challenged in court last December when plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Energy to halt shipment of the U.S. MOX fuel from being trucked across Michigan to Canada until there was a formal, public decision making process over the environmental and nuclear weapons proliferation impacts of the program. Judge Richard Alan Enslen ruled that while the Energy Department had acted in bad faith to hasten the test of MOX, courts could not stop the Executive Branch from conducting foreign policy. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to reconsider that decision, and NIRS, PSR and BREDL are adding their weight to that request. "The Department of Energy has already begun to disregard the law and trample our rights," said Janet Zeller, BREDL's Executive Director. "People from across the country must join together to block this reckless and secretive program and insure that the DOE obeys national and international law." BREDL is campaigning against the planned use of MOX fuel in six Southeastern U.S. reactors: Duke Power's Catawba 1&2 near Rock Hill, South Carolina; McGuire 1&2, near Charlotte, North Carolina; and Virginia Power's North Anna 1&2 reactors near Charlottesville, Virginia. Physicians for Social Responsibility has actively opposed the MOX plan since its inception, primarily on the grounds that it promotes nuclear proliferation, rather than delivering the goal of making the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons unavailable for further destructive purposes. The Atlanta chapter of the national organization has led professionals in the region in their action to oppose the commercialization of plutonium. "Citizens everywhere want nuclear weapons abolished," said Ed Arnold, Executive Director of PSR/Atlanta. "We don't accomplish that by recirculating nuclear weapons material. And we don't abolish nuclear weapons by shipping bomb-grade plutonium all over the planet. This MOX program encourages nuclear proliferation and we must stop it." NIRS, which launched a "NIX MOX" campaign in 1998, recently opened a Southeastern office to assist BREDL and other grassroots groups opposing MOX fuel usage and the spending of hundreds of millions in public funds to subsidize MOX fabrication, utility acceptance and reprocessing. "Nuclear power is the most expensive form of energy and under utility deregulation is going to be subject to tough competition. The MOX program provides direct tax dollars to underwrite more dirty, dangerous nuclear waste production," said Kevin Kamps, nuclear specialist with NIRS. "This is an unfair subsidy that will disadvantage safer and cheaper power sources that have less hazardous byproducts. This is another reason that we are committed to stopping the MOX mistake." "The people in the Southeast have gotten the picture loud and clear from the first shipment of MOX fuel to Canada that the US DOE will lie, cover their actions, take a cloak of secrecy and act above not only the law of the land, but also international treaty in order to accomplish their goals" affirmed Mary Olson, Director of NIRS Southeast Office. She continued, "This is the old National Security mythology applied to a so-called commercial enterprise, but in the end it is taxpayer dollars that are funding this program, so we are proud to support citizens in taking action to stop this charade." The first MOX shipment to Canada included transport within Canada by helicopter, despite DOE's acknowledgement that the MOX casks were not certified for air transport and the agency's assurances that no air travel would be involved "The use of MOX creates more bomb possibilities around the world, not fewer," said Terry Lodge, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "Instead of rolling plutonium up in two-ton glass logs and disposing of it under heavy guard, our government instead wants to show the world how to fuel low-security civilian nuclear plants with it. There will be lots of scary new members to the 'Nuclear Club' if we do this." Trial activity will resume on April 7 on the issues of whether the Russian shipment must be stopped because of claimed violations of federal environmental law and violation of the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. -NIRS/BREDL/PSR- Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! Date: 13 Apr 2000 12:34:59 -0400 --=====================_16115549==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by pooky.myhouse.com id MAA09273 Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decid= ed that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rat= her than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also be= ing hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts.=20 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the Depar= tment of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel Management= Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants that is stor= ed at or scheduled to be received by the DOE=92s Savannah River Site in South C= arolina. The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a lar= ge volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be u= sed to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactiv= e liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of = solid wastes.=20 Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing the= m with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can be = safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the uranium in t= he wastes unsuitable for making bombs.=20 "The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardso= n said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel."=20 The DOE=92s choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent= fuel avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nucl= ear Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).= =20 "Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making = sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said N= CI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make sure= there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job done."=20 Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at th= e Savannah River Site=20 The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research re= actors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement w= ill be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on the highly enrich= ed uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the end of reprocess= ing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations.=20 "This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally = and is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," sa= id NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an integra= l part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold War, and they = are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute must still be assure= d to keep the shutdown of these plants on track."=20 Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, a= bout 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the waste= s - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed ingots= would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent repository at = Yucca Mountain, Nevada.=20 Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad high= ly enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion = of the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to demonstrate= the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched uranium spent fuel = in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor building at the Savannah R= iver Site.=20 The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was permane= ntly closed in the late 1980=92s after decades of plutonium and tritium produc= tion for weapons.=20 Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savanna= h River Site=20 DOE=92s Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currentl= y stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is sched= uled to continue receiving such material from numerous research reactors aroun= d the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied the bomb-grade ur= anium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous U.S. universities, but= after realizing the proliferation risks of such supply began a program to conve= rt the wastes into forms incapable of being used for weapons.=20 DOE=92s concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched ura= nium ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors (RE= RTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government=92s most successful non-proli= feration initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to reduce risk= s of its diversion overseas for weapons.=20 NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment mad= e in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O=92Leary, to develop non-repr= ocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for environmental= and non-proliferation reasons.=20 "We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE=92s earlier commit= ment to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodi= ty to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the = same." The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remain= ing DOE reprocessing facilities=20 The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but ha= s yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE reprocessin= g facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah River Site.=20 "From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Geor= gia should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities,= " said Clements.=20 The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 da= y public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday.=20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environe= ws=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_16115549==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by pooky.myhouse.com id MAA09273
Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel

By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html
WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts.

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE)

The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE=92s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of solid wastes.

Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs.=20

"The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel."

The DOE=92s choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

"Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job done."

 Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the Savannah River Site

 The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations.

"This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track."

Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor building at the Savannah River Site.

The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was permanently closed in the late 1980=92s after decades of plutonium and tritium production for weapons.

Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah River Site

DOE=92s Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being used for weapons.

DOE=92s concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriche= d uranium ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government=92s most successful non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons.

NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O=92Leary, = to develop non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for environmental and non-proliferation reasons.

"We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE=92s earlier commitment to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the same."

 The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities

 The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah River Site.

"From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," said Clements.

The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday.

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Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of solid wastes. Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs. "The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel." The DOE's choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job done." Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the Savannah River Site The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations. "This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track." Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor building at the Savannah River Site. The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was permanently closed in the late 1980's after decades of plutonium and tritium production for weapons. Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah River Site DOE's Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being used for weapons. DOE's concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched uranium ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government's most successful non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons. NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O'Leary, to develop non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for environmental and non-proliferation reasons. "We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE's earlier commitment to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the same." The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah River Site. "From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," said Clements. The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org| http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hisham Zerriffi Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is NOT dead in U.S.! Date: 13 Apr 2000 15:30:16 -0400 MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate programs. One is dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to reprocess the spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not. This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors. Please do not lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the disposition program can be slackened. Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a test of Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is nowhere near the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves. At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Boyle, Francis wrote: >Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons >grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. > >Francis A. Boyle >Law Building >504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue >Champaign, Ill. 61820 >217-333-7954 (voice) >217-244-1478 (fax) >fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org] >Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM >To: NucNews@onelist.com >Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! > > >Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel > >By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 >http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html > > >WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided >that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather >than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which >environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being >hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. > >Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) > >The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the >Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel >Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for >the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants >that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE's Savannah River >Site in South Carolina. > >The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be >reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large >volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used >to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward >disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive >liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of >solid wastes. > >Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them >with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can >be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the >uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs. > >"The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our >efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson >said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a >cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel." > >The DOE's choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel >avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear >Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). > >"Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making >sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said >NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make >sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job >done." > > Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the >Savannah River Site > > The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research >reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for >disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact >Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on >the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the >end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations. > >"This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and >is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," >said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an >integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold >War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute >must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track." > >Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, >about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the >wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed >ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent >repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. > >Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly >enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of >the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to >demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched >uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor >building at the Savannah River Site. > >The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the >L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was >permanently closed in the late 1980's after decades of plutonium and tritium >production for weapons. > >Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah >River Site > >DOE's Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently >stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is >scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research >reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied >the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous >U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such >supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being >used for weapons. > >DOE's concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched uranium >ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors >(RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government's most successful >non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept >spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to >reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons. > >NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made >in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O'Leary, to develop >non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for >environmental and non-proliferation reasons. > >"We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE's earlier commitment >to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this >bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat >weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity >to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the >same." > > The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining >DOE reprocessing facilities > > The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has >yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE >reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah >River Site. > >"From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia >should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a >timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," >said Clements. > >The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day >public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact >Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. > > ___________________________________________________ > >NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm > >Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm > >Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org > (NucNews-Editor) >About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm > >E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews > >Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org >(NucNews-Subscribe) > >Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for >educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): > >DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | >http://members.aol.com/doewatch >Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | >http://downwinders@onelist.com >EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews >Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org| > > >http://www.planetark.org/news/ >Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org > > > Distributed without payment for research and educational > purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, > in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >25% Off All Prints! >Buy one today at Corbis.com >http://click.egroups.com/1/3357/1/_/91925/_/955644853/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > ***************************************************************** Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 204, Takoma Park, MD 20912 Phone: (301) 270-5500 Fax: (301) 270-3029 E-mail: hisham@ieer.org Web: http://www.ieer.org ***************************************************************** - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: [abolition-caucus] MOX is NOT dead in U.S.! Date: 13 Apr 2000 14:35:26 -0500 The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade Plutonium to Canada as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen. Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 2:30 PM NucNews@onelist.com Cc: Boyle, Francis; ''du-list@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' ' MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate programs. One is dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to reprocess the spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not. This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors. Please do not lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the disposition program can be slackened. Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a test of Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is nowhere near the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves. At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Boyle, Francis wrote: >Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons >grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. > >Francis A. Boyle >Law Building >504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue >Champaign, Ill. 61820 >217-333-7954 (voice) >217-244-1478 (fax) >fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org] >Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM >To: NucNews@onelist.com >Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! > > >Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel > >By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 >http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html > > >WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided >that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather >than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which >environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being >hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. > >Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) > >The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the >Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel >Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for >the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants >that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE's Savannah River >Site in South Carolina. > >The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be >reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large >volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used >to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward >disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive >liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of >solid wastes. > >Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them >with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can >be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the >uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs. > >"The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our >efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson >said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a >cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel." > >The DOE's choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel >avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear >Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). > >"Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making >sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said >NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make >sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job >done." > > Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the >Savannah River Site > > The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research >reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for >disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact >Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on >the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the >end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations. > >"This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and >is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," >said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an >integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold >War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute >must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track." > >Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, >about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the >wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed >ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent >repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. > >Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly >enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of >the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to >demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched >uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor >building at the Savannah River Site. > >The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the >L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was >permanently closed in the late 1980's after decades of plutonium and tritium >production for weapons. > >Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah >River Site > >DOE's Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently >stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is >scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research >reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied >the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous >U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such >supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being >used for weapons. > >DOE's concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched uranium >ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors >(RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government's most successful >non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept >spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to >reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons. > >NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made >in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O'Leary, to develop >non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for >environmental and non-proliferation reasons. > >"We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE's earlier commitment >to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this >bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat >weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity >to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the >same." > > The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining >DOE reprocessing facilities > > The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has >yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE >reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah >River Site. > >"From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia >should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a >timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," >said Clements. > >The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day >public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact >Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. > > ___________________________________________________ > >NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm > >Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm > >Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org > (NucNews-Editor) >About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm > >E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews > >Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org >(NucNews-Subscribe) > >Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for >educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): > >DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | >http://members.aol.com/doewatch >Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | >http://downwinders@onelist.com >EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews >Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org| > > >http://www.planetark.org/news/ >Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org > > > Distributed without payment for research and educational > purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, > in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >25% Off All Prints! >Buy one today at Corbis.com >http://click.egroups.com/1/3357/1/_/91925/_/955644853/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > ***************************************************************** Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 204, Takoma Park, MD 20912 Phone: (301) 270-5500 Fax: (301) 270-3029 E-mail: hisham@ieer.org Web: http://www.ieer.org ***************************************************************** 1.6 Million Digital Images! Download one Today from Corbis.com http://click.egroups.com/1/3356/1/_/91925/_/955654277/ To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE Strategic Plan Apr24 extension, deadline for public comments Date: 13 Apr 2000 13:31:14 -0700 A boon for "Clean Energy Now!" Campaign?: To my surprise, my request for extension of deadline for submission of public comments on DOE Strategic Plan draft has been granted via below email this morning from DOE extending public comments deadline to April 24, 2000. This is a unique window of opportunity to submit to DOE, and via plan below for the public record accessible via internet to anyone including media and political candidates, your suggestions for changes in DOE strategy in the 21st Century regarding energy policies and priorities; nuclear power, weapons, and waste, National security considerations, DOE research in forefront sciences of many kinds, etc. The Strategic Plan draft may be viewed at http://www.doe.gov/strategic_plan and your public comments submissions to Strategic_Plan@hq.doe.gov should also be copied for the public record and referencing in this writer's final public comments submission of April 24, 2000, per deadline extension offered in below post, to ensure best DOE and public consideration of your input. Although this extension seems to be specifically directed to me (perhaps due to my complaint that as a commenter on DOE Comprehensive National Energy Strategy (CNES) of 1998 I was not notified of prior 31Mar deadline for comments on Strategic Plan except by coincidental receipt of third party forwarding on Apr7 about deadline's prior extension to Apr 10), I will reference/include in my Apr 24 submission all postings copied (cc) to strategic-plan@egroups.com which list archive I set up this morning so submissions copied to it may also be viewed by the public on an ongoing basis at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan If you have already copied to me re: public comments submissions on DOE Strategic Plan emailed before today, I have forwarded them to list above where my submissions of Apr7 and Apr 10 are also already posted. This additional time until April 24th may offer chance for additional significant and valuable ideas/inputs. David Crockett Williams Science in Society and Public Policy list http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams (my DOE Strategic Plan submissions* to date are also at this url) Cc: Thank you for your [*]note. We agree to extend the comment period for your comments to April 24, 2000. In pursuit of our goal to seek public comment we issued a press release February 24, 2000; notified our key stakeholders and other key interest groups (approximately 1400) by mail; placed a notice on the DOE homepage for the duration of the comment period; and used other public forums (for example the newsletter you received). The success of our outreach is measured in part by the several thousand downloads of the draft plan on our web-site. In this number are several hundred visits by the public which were simply not possible until the recent availability of this technology. The Comprehensive National Energy Strategy of 1998 is fully integrated into the draft plan. Anyone who contributed to that public process has already made significant contributions to the draft plan. We have a continuing interest in your comments and look forward to your response by April 24. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: But Quintupled In Canada: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! Date: 13 Apr 2000 15:57:21 -0500 In a typical bait-and-switch operation, US DOE just announced that they are quintupling the amount of weapons grade plutonium shipped from Russia to Canada at the behest of the United States. Anyone for five million dead people? fab. This piece was broadcast this morning at 8:00AM. Available at http://cbc.ca/clips/ram-audio/mclauchlin_wr000413.ram CBC Radio News Canada may accept more plutonium than initially agreed to WebPosted Thu Apr 13 13:25:41 2000 MONTREAL - An American official says there is more plutonium from Russia on its way to Canada - five times more than originally expected. The weapons-grade plutonium is to be processed at AECL's nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. It's part of an experiment involving Canada, the United States and Russia. The U.S. department of energy is paying Canada to take in plutonium that would have been destined for American or Russian nuclear weapons to see if it can be disposed of as reactor fuel. The American shipment arrived in January, 120 grams of plutonium. The terms of the agreement call for the same amount to be shipped in by the Russians, 120 grams. Now the head of the American office in charge of the program, Laura Holgate, says Russia will ship not 120 grams, but five times that amount. "I don't have the total figures but it's roughly 600 grams of plutonium," Holgate said. But that's not the figure Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is using. Company spokesperson David Lyle says, "It's not going to be significantly different from the shipment that occurred from the U.S." But it is a significant difference, according to the Canadian Environmental Law Association. Theresa McClennahan is legal counsel for the association. She says the increase in the amount of plutonium is illegal. "We would say no, it's not legal to amend the plan in this way. And this decision to take so much more fuel is also an extremely significant change to the original plan." McClennahan says the changes to the plan should be the subject of public discussion, or at least parliamentary debate. She says this apparent increase in the amount of fuel increases the hazard to which Canadians will be exposed and she expects some interested group will want to challenge it in court. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:54 AM Cc: Boyle, Francis; ''du-list@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' ' Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of solid wastes. Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs. "The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel." The DOE's choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job done." Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the Savannah River Site The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations. "This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track." Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor building at the Savannah River Site. The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was permanently closed in the late 1980's after decades of plutonium and tritium production for weapons. Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah River Site DOE's Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being used for weapons. DOE's concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched uranium ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government's most successful non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons. NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O'Leary, to develop non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for environmental and non-proliferation reasons. "We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE's earlier commitment to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the same." The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah River Site. "From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," said Clements. The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org| http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe op-ed Date: 13 Apr 2000 19:14:20 -0400 Dear Friends, Here's an op-ed piece I've sent in to USA Today. NOTHING'S CHANGED SINCE “FAIL SAFE” by Alice Slater This week an estimated 20 million Americans watched “Fail Safe”, the first live-performance TV drama in 39 years based on a 1964 best-seller, which painted a horrifying tale of accidental nuclear war. Broadcast in old-fashioned black and white, and using a rusty Cold War scenario of the 1950’s, modern viewers could hardly be faulted for perceiving the harrowing spectacle as a quaint period piece. Computer failure transmitting faulty information causes a fleet of United States bombers to proceed on a mission to obliterate Moscow. To prevent the destruction of the world, the US President, on the hotline to Moscow, devises a plan with the Soviet President to destroy New York City in a tit-for-tat response, which then allowed both nations to refrain from massive retaliation and the incineration of the planet and all life on earth. Yet today, the world is just as insecure as in those bygone days of “Fail Safe”, when the US and Soviet Union practiced “mutual assured destruction” during the height of East-West confrontation. Indeed, as recently as 1995, President Yeltsin actually unpacked the Russian nuclear “suitcase”, when his military could not readily determine that the launch of a Norwegian weather satellite was not a US nuclear attack. Yeltsin had only five minutes to decide on a response. While the “Fail Safe” airborne bombardiers had several hours to be recalled in 1950’s time, in today’s hi-tech world, a long-range strategic missile, accidentally launched, would be impervious to a changed command, should an error be discovered. There are 36,000 nuclear weapons on the planet with 5,000 of them poised at hair-trigger alert, ready to be fired in minutes. Although the nuclear weapons states pledged, in the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to get rid of their nuclear weapons, in return for a promise by non-nuclear weapons states not to acquire them, there is no evidence that they are willing to “pursue negotiations in good faith” for nuclear disarmament” as promised in the treaty. The NPT 2000 millennial review will take place at the UN later this month Since the treaty was extended in 1995, India and Pakistan went overtly nuclear, and Israel moved a step closer to being a declared nuclear power as it openly debated nuclear weapons policy in the Knesset. In the wake of NATO expansion, the Kosovo bombing, and US plans to abrogate the ABM treaty and build the “son of Star Wars”, both China and Russia have been rattling their nuclear sabers. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will modernize Russia’s nuclear arsenal and has rescinded Russia's no first use policy. China is also upgrading its nuclear weapons. In the midst of these dangerous developments, the US Senate rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty (CTBT) The US rejection of the CTBT particularly undermines the NPT. In 1995, the 1970 NPT’s 25-year term was up, and with little progress towards disarmament, its extension was in doubt. The US prevailed upon the signatories to renew the treaty, promising to champion a test ban as evidence of its good faith commitment to disarmament--a measure which the US Senate refused to take. Now, after 30 years with no effective nuclear disarmament in place, a growing number of non-nuclear states--including 36 with nuclear power capability but no overt weapons programs--are asking why they should not go the route of India and Pakistan. “The objective of nuclear non-proliferation is not helped by the fact that the nuclear weapons states continue to insist that those weapons in their hands enhance security while in the hands of others they are a threat to world peace,” said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan earlier this month. “If we were making steady progress towards disarmament, this situation would be less alarming. Unfortunately the reverse is true.” With the growing crisis in US relations with Russia and China, it would be grievously misleading for the public to view the rain of destruction and terror in “Fail Safe” as merely a closed chapter in history. Unfortunately, the “launch-on-warning” status of 5,000 US and Russian nuclear weapons, mounted on missiles that, once fired, cannot be recalled, demonstrates that we must do much more to insure the safety of our planet from nuclear destruction. The NPT conference this month will be an opportunity for the world to reduce the nuclear peril and begin earnest negotiations for a nuclear-free-world. Alice Slater is President of the Global Resource Action Center and a founder of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: RE: But Quintupled In Canada: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S Date: 14 Apr 2000 10:54:01 -0500 Draft Articles on the Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind, as revised by the International Law Commission through 1991, U.N. Doc. A/46/405 (1991), 30 ILM 1554(1991):" Article 26: Wilful and Severe Damage to the Environment. An individual who willfully causes or orders the causing of widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced {to...}." Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:57 PM 'NucNews@onelist.com' Cc: ''du-list@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' ' In a typical bait-and-switch operation, US DOE just announced that they are quintupling the amount of weapons grade plutonium shipped from Russia to Canada at the behest of the United States. Anyone for five million dead people? fab. This piece was broadcast this morning at 8:00AM. Available at http://cbc.ca/clips/ram-audio/mclauchlin_wr000413.ram CBC Radio News Canada may accept more plutonium than initially agreed to WebPosted Thu Apr 13 13:25:41 2000 MONTREAL - An American official says there is more plutonium from Russia on its way to Canada - five times more than originally expected. The weapons-grade plutonium is to be processed at AECL's nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. It's part of an experiment involving Canada, the United States and Russia. The U.S. department of energy is paying Canada to take in plutonium that would have been destined for American or Russian nuclear weapons to see if it can be disposed of as reactor fuel. The American shipment arrived in January, 120 grams of plutonium. The terms of the agreement call for the same amount to be shipped in by the Russians, 120 grams. Now the head of the American office in charge of the program, Laura Holgate, says Russia will ship not 120 grams, but five times that amount. "I don't have the total figures but it's roughly 600 grams of plutonium," Holgate said. But that's not the figure Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is using. Company spokesperson David Lyle says, "It's not going to be significantly different from the shipment that occurred from the U.S." But it is a significant difference, according to the Canadian Environmental Law Association. Theresa McClennahan is legal counsel for the association. She says the increase in the amount of plutonium is illegal. "We would say no, it's not legal to amend the plan in this way. And this decision to take so much more fuel is also an extremely significant change to the original plan." McClennahan says the changes to the plan should be the subject of public discussion, or at least parliamentary debate. She says this apparent increase in the amount of fuel increases the hazard to which Canadians will be exposed and she expects some interested group will want to challenge it in court. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:54 AM Cc: Boyle, Francis; ''du-list@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-caucus@egroups.com' '; ''abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com' '; ''a-days@motherearth.org' '; ''NUKENET@envirolink.org' '; ''TP2000' '; ''Scottish CND' '; ''JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU' ' Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Ill. 61820 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2000 (ENS) - The Department of Energy has decided that spent nuclear fuel should be melted down for permanent disposal, rather than reprocessed for reuse as fuel or other products. The decision, which environmentalists say will prove safer than reuse of the fuel, is also being hailed as a victory for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (All photos courtesy DOE) The policy was established in a report being issued publicly by the Department of Energy (DOE) this week. The "Savannah River Site Spent Fuel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement" evaluates alternatives for the safe and efficient management of spent nuclear fuel from power plants that is stored at or scheduled to be received by the DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE had been considering a process in which the spent fuel would be reprocessed, separating the wastes into highly enriched uranium and a large volume of liquid radioactive waste. Critics feared the uranium could be used to build nuclear weapons, hindering U.S. and international moves toward disarmament and nonproliferation. In addition, the disposal of radioactive liquid waste is considered more hazardous and difficult than disposal of solid wastes. Instead, the DOE is leaning toward melting down the wastes and mixing them with nonreactive substances, forming metal ingots that the agency says can be safely stored in permanent repositories. The process also makes the uranium in the wastes unsuitable for making bombs. "The melt-and-dilute technology under development at SRS will further our efforts to reduce the danger from weapons of mass destruction," Richardson said in a statement. "Also, it will reduce waste generation and provide a cost effective, long term way to manage aluminum based spent fuel." The DOE's choice of a new technology which does not reprocess the spent fuel avoids adding to the stockpile of nuclear weapons material, said the Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson deserves congratulations for making sure that this important new policy was actively pursued and approved," said NCI Executive Director Tom Clements. "Now he must act decisively to make sure there is an adequate budget to implement the policy and get the job done." Spent fuel rods underwater at a receiving basin for off-site fuels at the Savannah River Site The decision covers highly enriched uranium spent fuels from research reactors in the U.S. and similar wastes imported from other countries for disposal. Other forms of spent fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement will be reprocessed, but both NCI and NRDC view the decision on the highly enriched uranium spent fuel as an essential step in hastening the end of reprocessing in the U.S. and an important example for other nations. "This decision sends a positive non-proliferation signal internationally and is a critical step toward the closing of reprocessing facilities at SRS," said NRDC Staff Attorney David Adelman. "These plants were built as an integral part of fissile material production for weapons during the Cold War, and they are no longer needed. Long term funding for melt-and-dilute must still be assured to keep the shutdown of these plants on track." Of the 68 tonnes of fuel covered in the Environmental Impact Statement, about 48 tonnes - 60 percent of the mass, 97 percent of the volume of the wastes - would be subjected to the melt and dilute treatment. The processed ingots would be destined for eventual shipment to the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad highly enriched uranium research reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of the melted material into low-enriched uranium ingots. In order to demonstrate the new technology, the DOE plans to melt highly enriched uranium spent fuel in an oven soon to be installed in the old L-Reactor building at the Savannah River Site. The full-scale treatment facility is expected to be operational in the L-Reactor building at Savannah in fiscal year 2008. L-Reactor was permanently closed in the late 1980's after decades of plutonium and tritium production for weapons. Spent nuclear fuel pools like this hold tons of reactor wastes at Savannah River Site DOE's Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, South Carolina, currently stores a large quantity of foreign and domestic spent fuel in pools and is scheduled to continue receiving such material from numerous research reactors around the world until 2009. The United States originally supplied the bomb-grade uranium fuel to reactors in over 30 countries and numerous U.S. universities, but after realizing the proliferation risks of such supply began a program to convert the wastes into forms incapable of being used for weapons. DOE's concerted effort to convert research reactors to low enriched uranium ingots, known as the Reduced Enrichment in Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), has proved to be one of the U.S. government's most successful non-proliferation initiatives. Under the RERTR program, DOE agreed to accept spent highly enriched uranium fuel for disposition in the U.S. in order to reduce risks of its diversion overseas for weapons. NCI and NRDC praised Secretary Richardson for fulfilling a commitment made in the 1996 by one of his predecessors, Hazel O'Leary, to develop non-reprocessing technologies for management of the returning spent fuel for environmental and non-proliferation reasons. "We congratulate Secretary Richardson for honoring DOE's earlier commitment to the American people to pursue non-reprocessing disposal options for this bomb-grade spent fuel," said Clements. "As the U.S. moves to treat weapons-grade nuclear material as waste rather than as a valuable commodity to be introduced into commerce, foreign states will be encouraged to do the same." The H-Canyon corridor at the Savannah River Site - one of the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities The U.S. terminated commercial reprocessing of spent fuel in 1972 but has yet to present a firm timetable for closing the two remaining DOE reprocessing facilities, F- and H-Canyons, both located at the Savannah River Site. "From an environmental perspective, the people of South Carolina and Georgia should welcome this decision by DOE, but they deserve to be presented a timetable for closure of the dirty and dangerous reprocessing facilities," said Clements. The DOE will issue a record of decision sometime after the end of a 30 day public comment period beginning Friday. The final Environmental Impact Statement will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org| http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LCNP@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) A2000 Annual Business Meeting - time, location Date: 15 Apr 2000 10:47:04 EDT Coordinates for April 30 Abolition 2000 Annual Business Meeting, New York, in connection with NPT Review Conference: Time: Sunday April 30: 9:00 - sign-in and coffee; 9:30 - meeting begins; 6:00 pm (or earlier if we choose) - meeting closes Location: 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side) Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R) John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@earthlink.net website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MOX is NOT dead in U.S.! Date: 15 Apr 2000 21:07:20 -0400 --=====================_7770587==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham Zerriffim. I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews list.... Sorry for jumping to conclusions, everybody.... Must be wishful thinking. Ellen At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson wrote: > > Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE has decided to adopt a "melt > and dilute" strategy for their weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly, > MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US. Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in > the US and Russia would use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined > weapons grade plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that > this use of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium > separation from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue > making more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in > use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX > still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear > power industry that it is! > > Mary Olson > Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast > P.O. Box 5647 > Augusta, Georgia 30916-5647 USA > 706-722-8968 706-722-3506 fax > nirs.se@mindspring.com www.nirs.org > >At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote: >>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons >>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab. >> >>Francis A. Boyle >>Law Building >>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue >>Champaign, Ill. 61820 >>217-333-7954 (voice) >>217-244-1478 (fax) >>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote: >MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate programs. One is >dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is >dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to reprocess the >spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing >to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not. >This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium >fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors. Please do not >lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the >disposition program can be slackened. > >Hisham Zerriffi >Senior Scientist >p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a test of >Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is nowhere near >the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in >Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian >and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am >outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as >to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves. >> At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote: >The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade >Plutonium to Canada as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last >Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who >under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill >about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute >that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen. >Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab > >Francis A. Boyle >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org] >>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM >>To: NucNews@onelist.com >>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.! >> >> >>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel >> >>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000 >>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_7770587==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham Zerriffim.  I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews list....  Sorry for jumping to conclusions, everybody....  Must be wishful thinking. Ellen

At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson <nirs.se@mindspring.com> wrote:
Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE has decided to adopt a "melt and dilute" strategy for their weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly, MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US. Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in the US and Russia would use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined weapons grade plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that this use of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium separation from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue making more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear power industry that it is!

Mary Olson
Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast
P.O. Box 5647
Augusta, Georgia  30916-5647      USA
706-722-8968   706-722-3506 fax
nirs.se@mindspring.com     www.nirs.org
 
>At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE  are still paying Russia to ship weapons
>>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab.
>>
>>Francis A. Boyle
>>Law Building
>>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
>>Champaign, Ill. 61820
>>217-333-7954 (voice)
>>217-244-1478 (fax)
>>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>

At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote:
>MOX is not dead!!!!  These are two entirely separate programs.  One is
>dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is
>dealing with plutonium from weapons.  This decision not to reprocess the
>spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing
>to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not.
>This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium
>fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors.  Please do not
>lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the
>disposition program can be slackened.
>
>Hisham Zerriffi
>Senior Scientist
>p.s. One more point of clarification.  The DOE is paying for a test of
>Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada.  The program is nowhere near
>the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in
>Canada.  This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian
>and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am
>outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as
>to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves.
>>

At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade
>Plutonium to Canada  as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last
>Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who
>under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill
>about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute
>that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen.
>Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab
>
>Francis A. Boyle

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org]
>>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM
>>To: NucNews@onelist.com
>>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.!
>>
>>
>>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel
>>
>>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000
>>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html



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--=====================_7770587==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UPDATE AND INVITATION! Date: 16 Apr 2000 18:19:23 -0700 --=====================_7495206==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net id SAA19039 US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network *************************************************************************= *** ******************************** UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently re= ceived in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Reso= urce Booklet. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the Re= sponse Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of Abolition 20= 00.=20 We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and we want you in it= !=20 Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a= US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our National Campaign Meeting a= nd Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found at the bottom of this messag= e. RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HO= LMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text a= t http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of legislative initiative= s US CAMPAIGN groups are working on! (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Th= omas is the convener of the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the = Norton Bill to the Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the= phone number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the= US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong! The correct number= is (510)839-5877. US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!=20 HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee=92s meeting, there will be a =93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAI= GN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1)= to update folks on the status of the Campaign through a report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York and when they = return home. A meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on tha= t day to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The cauc= us meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. =20 AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take plac= e FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, 611 Broad= way, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested. Take B,D,F or Q train to Bro= adway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street. Entrance to 611 Broadway is on t= he west side of Broadway just north of Houston. OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Aboli= tion 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and = First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side). Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C= , E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R). All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome. N= etwork business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Confere= nce world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Aboli= tion 2000 meeting next fall. FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW CONFER= ENCE: http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html ****************************************************** Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California USA 94612 Tel: +(510)839-5877 Fax: +(510)839-5397 E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net ****************************************************** Western States Legal Foundation is part of ABOLITION 2000 A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS --=====================_7495206==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net id SAA19039
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network
*************************************************************************= ***********************************
UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently received in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the Response Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of Abolition 2000.  We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and we want you in it!  Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our National Campaign Meeting and Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found at the bottom of this message.

RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text at http= ://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of legislative initiatives US CAMPAIGN groups are working on!  (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Thomas is the convener of the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the Norton Bill to the Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the phone number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong!  The correct number is (510)839-5877.

US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!
HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WIL= L BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee=92s meeting, there will be a =93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAIGN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1) to update folks on the status of the Campaign through a report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York and when they return home.  A meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on that day to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The caucus meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. 

AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take place FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested.  Take B,D,F or Q train to Broadway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street.  Entrance to 611 Broadway is on the west side of Broadway just north of Houston.

OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Abolition 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side).  Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R).  All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome.  Network business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Conference world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Abolition 2000 meeting next fall.

FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE: h= ttp://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html
******************************************************
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +(510)839-5877
Fax: +(510)839-5397
E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net
******************************************************
Western States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Long term-Low dose Date: 17 Apr 2000 11:00:04 -0400 >Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:06:09 -0400 >Subject: Long term-Low dose >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: rbassilakis@snet.net (rbassilakis@snet.net) > >New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of >nuclear workers > >EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 9 APRIL 2000 AT 17:00 ET US > >Contact: David Williamson > 919-962-8596 > > >Increasing exposure to ionizing radiation boosts the risk of >multiple myeloma, a rare but often fatal cancer of blood-forming >tissues, especially among people exposed later in life, according >to a new study of workers at four U.S. Department of Energy >plants. > >The study, conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel >Hill researchers, analyzed radiation exposures among plant >employees and compared them to health records. Older workers with >cumulative radiation doses of five rem or more were almost >three-and-a-half times more likely to die from multiple myeloma >than workers at the same plants whose cumulative exposures were >less than one rem. > >The current occupational limit for radiation workers is five rem >per year. Average background radiation is between a tenth and a >third of a rem per year depending on what is being counted, such >as radon. > > >A report on the findings appears in the April issue of Annals of >Epidemiology, a scientific journal. UNC-CH School of Public >Health authors are Dr. Steve Wing, associate professor; Dr. David >Richardson, postdoctoral fellow; Suzanne Wolf, research >associate; and programmer Joy L. Wolf, all of epidemiology, and >Drs. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown, professor, and Gary Mihlan, >research assistant, both of environmental sciences and >engineering. > >"Workers exposed to ionizing radiation at older ages appeared to >be more sensitive than younger workers," Wing said. "However, >that does not mean that it is safe for young workers to be >exposed to radiation. Exposures during the child-bearing ages >might lead to genetic mutations that could affect children and >future generations." > > >UNC-CH researchers identified 98 workers who died of multiple >myeloma and 391 age-matched controls from a combined roster of >115,143 people hired before 1979 at the Hanford (Wash.), Los >Alamos National Laboratory (N.M.), Oak Ridge National Laboratory >(Tenn.) and the Savannah River (S.C.) nuclear facilities, he >said. Information on work history, smoking, medical X-rays and >exposure to physical and chemical agents came from personnel, >medical, industrial hygiene and health physics records, including >readings from radiation badges known as dosimeters. > > >The study included workers who died through 1990 or, among >Hanford emp > >loyees, through 1986. Male workers and those hired before 1948 >died of multiple myeloma at about twice the rate of women and >workers hired after 1948, the scientists found. Blacks were >almost five times as likely as whites to have developed the >illness, although only five cases were found among blacks. > >The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health >requested and paid for the study because of previous reports >suggesting a link between exposure to ionizing radiation and >cases of the cancer at the Hanford site, Wing said. > >"Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in >U.S. nuclear workers, was intended to include more cases of the >disease, better evaluation of radiation doses and measurement of >other occupational exposures not available in the Hanford >studies," he said. > >Investigators also tried to determine whether workers exposed to >solvents, metals, welding fumes asbestos and other agents faced >increased risks of multiple myeloma, Wing said. Records of such >exposures, however, were inadequate to enable the scientists to >calculate increased risks accurately. > >Because exposures to ionizing radiation were almost entirely >below what government regulations currently allow, the findings >could affect federal occupational exposure standards, the >scientist said. He and his colleagues initially hoped to extend >their research to other cancers of the blood-forming organs but >were required by their contract to limit the study to multiple >myeloma. > >"One important element of this work is that it comes at a time >when the U.S. Department of Energy is expressing greater concern >for workers' health and the history of radiation exposures in the >nuclear weapons complex," Wing said. > >### >***************************************************** > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) New organizations Date: 17 Apr 2000 12:46:35 -0800 Dear Friends and Activists, One one week remains until the NPT Review Conference begins at the UN in New York! With less than 7 days left, there are now 1840 municipalities and organizations in 93 countries that endorse the Abolition 2000 Statement. We only 160 additional organizations and municipalities to reach our goal of 2000! My sincere thanks to all those who are working to help and achieve this goal. Please support the work of Abolition 2000 by enrolling a new organization this week. We can only reach our goals if we work together! Please join me in welcoming the following organizations who endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement during the week of 10-16 April: Vrije Bond Algemene Ledenvergadering, Utrecht/The Netherlands De Haagse Stadspartij, The Hague/The Netherlands Centre for Peacemaking & Community Development, Moscow/Russia The Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania Citizens' Budget Campaign, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Saskatchewan/Canada Raging Grannies, Saskatchewan/Canada Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Seattle Mennonite Church, Seattle/Washington ICUCEC (Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative) Saskatoon/Canada Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition, Toronto/Ontario Fawcett North London, Leytonstone/London Older Feminists Network, Leytonstone/London Fremantle Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), Fremantle/Western Australia Abolition 2000 Network Kyoto, Kyoto/Japan Benitengu, Tokyo/Japan NEPA Coalition of Japan, Yokosuka/Japan Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), Wellington/Aotearoa Auckland District Council of Social Service, Auckland/Aotearoa Anti-Bases Campaign, Christchurch/Aotearoa Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), Christchurch/Aotearoa Anglican Pacifist Fellowship of New Zealand, Auckland, Aotearoa. Municipality Chofu City Council (Tokyo) Thank you again for your continued support. My best wishes to you in our common endeavors. In Peace and Solidarity, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. Visit the Abolition 2000 website and submit a membership form. 4. Send an e-mail to: abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com (leave the subject line and body of the message blank). To post a message to the Abolition Global Caucus, send your message to: abolition-caucus@egroups.com To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no subject) to: abolition-usa-request@lists.xmission.com In the body of the message, write: "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks) To post a message to the Abolition-USA list, mail your message to: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" Date: 17 Apr 2000 13:55:07 -0700 For Immediate Release (Dear Editor), Monday, April 17, 2000 Contact: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 Call for Earth Day Expansion: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth" The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to my request, in respect of Earth Day 2000 and its call for "Clean Energy Now!", to extend the public comments deadline on its new Stategic Plan draft until April 24th. Details are at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan To further the Earth Day Network's efforts to "Make Every Day Earth Day" as a way to awaken public activism for timely amelioration of today's critical environmental problems and for the cause of global peace, the Taos, NM, annual April 22nd new Earth Day event, organized by the Global Peace Walk Project, is initiating a call for expanding the original goals of Earth Day with "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign to inaugurate an annual "Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox of March 21st to April 22, 2001. We hope everyone who has embraced the vision of Earth Day will in their own ways make the most of this campaign by applying a deeper understanding of the Earth Day 2000 "Clean Energy Now!" message by releasing their own minds and, as Global Peace Walk initiator Reverend Yusen Yamato says in his zen-speak way, to let the "dust out". In his letter of support for this spiritual walk across America to bring out "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, Earth Day Network's national coordinator Chris Curtis says, "Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented effort". Everyone should be proud of how Senator Gaylord Nelson's call for a national "Environmental Teach-In" on April 22, 1970, has been so well implemented by the Earth Day Network for over thirty years since the "natural" Earth Day idea itself was presented by John McConnell, at the San Francisco UNESCO Conference on the Environment in November 1969, as an annual Spring Equinox event to unite people of all faiths to solve environmental problems that have by today reached global emergency proportions. On the phone Saturday, McConnell shared his disappointment that the value of his initially proposed symbolic annual date for Earth Day as the Spring Equinox, originally accepted by the United Nations, has been largely overlooked but he expressed respect for the work of the April 22nd Earth Day Network. This proposal for "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" (April 22, 2000 to April 22, 2001), and an annual "Earth Month" starting next year, includes the suggestion that event organizers opt for whatever date(s) make the most sense to them to celebrate Earth Day, even "Every Day as Earth Day". Global Peace Walk 2000 will conduct a ceremony to mark the midpoint of this Year for The Earth, in New York City before arriving at the United Nations, walking from San Francisco since January 15th, for the UN 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century". We hope that Denis Hayes, John McConnell, and Gaylord Nelson and all Earth Day Networks will participate, and support Global Peace Walk 2000 carrying these messages across country to Washington DC and to the United Nations. Happy Earth Day to You, Happy Earth Day to you..... "Living on The Globe with All Our Friends" "Natural Earth Day" site: http://www.earthsite.org "New Earth Day" (Network) site: http://www.earthday.net Global Peace Walk site: http://www.globalpeacenow.org "I am glad to offer my support for 'Global Peace Now!', as an initiative that all earthlings can support and to add An Agenda For Peace to those messages that will allow Global Peace Walk 2000 to find resonance with the many hearts it will touch as it proceeds upon its journey...an agenda we must all adopt if we are to create a world in the next century that we can be proud to live in", says 1970's Philadelphia Earth Day organizer Ira Einhorn in his letter/message of support for Global Peace Walk 2000. For The Global Peace Walk Project and "Global Peace Now!", David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Science & Technology in Society and Public Policy list http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com DCWilliams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Easy way to email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd An Agenda for Peace, by Ira Einhorn, '70's Earth Day PA organizer http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html The Vision of Paradise on Earth, by DC Williams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html A Free Service: Money by Email https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=gear2000%40lightspeed.net - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" Date: 17 Apr 2000 13:54:56 -0700 For Immediate Release (Dear Editor), Monday, April 17, 2000 Contact: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 Call for Earth Day Expansion: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth" The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to my request, in respect of Earth Day 2000 and its call for "Clean Energy Now!", to extend the public comments deadline on its new Stategic Plan draft until April 24th. Details are at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan To further the Earth Day Network's efforts to "Make Every Day Earth Day" as a way to awaken public activism for timely amelioration of today's critical environmental problems and for the cause of global peace, the Taos, NM, annual April 22nd new Earth Day event, organized by the Global Peace Walk Project, is initiating a call for expanding the original goals of Earth Day with "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign to inaugurate an annual "Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox of March 21st to April 22, 2001. We hope everyone who has embraced the vision of Earth Day will in their own ways make the most of this campaign by applying a deeper understanding of the Earth Day 2000 "Clean Energy Now!" message by releasing their own minds and, as Global Peace Walk initiator Reverend Yusen Yamato says in his zen-speak way, to let the "dust out". In his letter of support for this spiritual walk across America to bring out "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, Earth Day Network's national coordinator Chris Curtis says, "Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented effort". Everyone should be proud of how Senator Gaylord Nelson's call for a national "Environmental Teach-In" on April 22, 1970, has been so well implemented by the Earth Day Network for over thirty years since the "natural" Earth Day idea itself was presented by John McConnell, at the San Francisco UNESCO Conference on the Environment in November 1969, as an annual Spring Equinox event to unite people of all faiths to solve environmental problems that have by today reached global emergency proportions. On the phone Saturday, McConnell shared his disappointment that the value of his initially proposed symbolic annual date for Earth Day as the Spring Equinox, originally accepted by the United Nations, has been largely overlooked but he expressed respect for the work of the April 22nd Earth Day Network. This proposal for "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" (April 22, 2000 to April 22, 2001), and an annual "Earth Month" starting next year, includes the suggestion that event organizers opt for whatever date(s) make the most sense to them to celebrate Earth Day, even "Every Day as Earth Day". Global Peace Walk 2000 will conduct a ceremony to mark the midpoint of this Year for The Earth, in New York City before arriving at the United Nations, walking from San Francisco since January 15th, for the UN 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century". We hope that Denis Hayes, John McConnell, and Gaylord Nelson and all Earth Day Networks will participate, and support Global Peace Walk 2000 carrying these messages across country to Washington DC and to the United Nations. Happy Earth Day to You, Happy Earth Day to you..... "Living on The Globe with All Our Friends" "Natural Earth Day" site: http://www.earthsite.org "New Earth Day" (Network) site: http://www.earthday.net Global Peace Walk site: http://www.globalpeacenow.org "I am glad to offer my support for 'Global Peace Now!', as an initiative that all earthlings can support and to add An Agenda For Peace to those messages that will allow Global Peace Walk 2000 to find resonance with the many hearts it will touch as it proceeds upon its journey...an agenda we must all adopt if we are to create a world in the next century that we can be proud to live in", says 1970's Philadelphia Earth Day organizer Ira Einhorn in his letter/message of support for Global Peace Walk 2000. For The Global Peace Walk Project and "Global Peace Now!", David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Science & Technology in Society and Public Policy list http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com DCWilliams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Easy way to email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd An Agenda for Peace, by Ira Einhorn, '70's Earth Day PA organizer http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html The Vision of Paradise on Earth, by DC Williams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html A Free Service: Money by Email https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=gear2000%40lightspeed.net - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" Date: 17 Apr 2000 14:02:55 -0700 For Immediate Release (Dear Editor), Monday, April 17, 2000 Contact: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 Call for Earth Day Expansion: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth" The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to my request, in respect of Earth Day 2000 and its call for "Clean Energy Now!", to extend the public comments deadline on its new Stategic Plan draft until April 24th. Details are at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan To further the Earth Day Network's efforts to "Make Every Day Earth Day" as a way to awaken public activism for timely amelioration of today's critical environmental problems and for the cause of global peace, the Taos, NM, annual April 22nd new Earth Day event, organized by the Global Peace Walk Project, is initiating a call for expanding the original goals of Earth Day with "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign to inaugurate an annual "Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox of March 21st to April 22, 2001. We hope everyone who has embraced the vision of Earth Day will in their own ways make the most of this campaign by applying a deeper understanding of the Earth Day 2000 "Clean Energy Now!" message by releasing their own minds and, as Global Peace Walk initiator Reverend Yusen Yamato says in his zen-speak way, to let the "dust out". In his letter of support for this spiritual walk across America to bring out "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, Earth Day Network's national coordinator Chris Curtis says, "Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented effort". Everyone should be proud of how Senator Gaylord Nelson's call for a national "Environmental Teach-In" on April 22, 1970, has been so well implemented by the Earth Day Network for over thirty years since the "natural" Earth Day idea itself was presented by John McConnell, at the San Francisco UNESCO Conference on the Environment in November 1969, as an annual Spring Equinox event to unite people of all faiths to solve environmental problems that have by today reached global emergency proportions. On the phone Saturday, McConnell shared his disappointment that the value of his initially proposed symbolic annual date for Earth Day as the Spring Equinox, originally accepted by the United Nations, has been largely overlooked but he expressed respect for the work of the April 22nd Earth Day Network. This proposal for "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" (April 22, 2000 to April 22, 2001), and an annual "Earth Month" starting next year, includes the suggestion that event organizers opt for whatever date(s) make the most sense to them to celebrate Earth Day, even "Every Day as Earth Day". Global Peace Walk 2000 will conduct a ceremony to mark the midpoint of this Year for The Earth, in New York City before arriving at the United Nations, walking from San Francisco since January 15th, for the UN 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century". We hope that Denis Hayes, John McConnell, and Gaylord Nelson and all Earth Day Networks will participate, and support Global Peace Walk 2000 carrying these messages across country to Washington DC and to the United Nations. Happy Earth Day to You, Happy Earth Day to you..... "Living on The Globe with All Our Friends" "Natural Earth Day" site: http://www.earthsite.org "New Earth Day" (Network) site: http://www.earthday.net Global Peace Walk site: http://www.globalpeacenow.org "I am glad to offer my support for 'Global Peace Now!', as an initiative that all earthlings can support and to add An Agenda For Peace to those messages that will allow Global Peace Walk 2000 to find resonance with the many hearts it will touch as it proceeds upon its journey...an agenda we must all adopt if we are to create a world in the next century that we can be proud to live in", says 1970's Philadelphia Earth Day organizer Ira Einhorn in his letter/message of support for Global Peace Walk 2000. For The Global Peace Walk Project and "Global Peace Now!", David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Science & Technology in Society and Public Policy list http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com DCWilliams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Easy way to email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd An Agenda for Peace, by Ira Einhorn, '70's Earth Day PA organizer http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html The Vision of Paradise on Earth, by DC Williams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html A Free Service: Money by Email https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=gear2000%40lightspeed.net - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/18 - Archives updated to 4/10/00 Date: 18 Apr 2000 07:00:18 -0400 --=====================_43257595==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" House and Senate are not in session, so no hearings this week. NucNews Archives, April 1 to 10, 2000, were updated yesterday. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_43257595==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
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--=====================_43257595==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) WRITE YOUR GOVT NOW - 5 DAYS TO NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:05:45 +1000 PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE FAR AND WIDE Dear All who get this message, This message may seem impersonal but it is important, it is not trying to get you to buy something, and it affects the future of the whole planet - or more accurately whether or not there will BE a future. It tells you how you can help get rid of nuclear weapons on the eve of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty review in New York, April 24- May 19th. There are now less than five days to the start of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, depending exactly what time- zone you are in. It is essential that every government on the planet hears from its citizens that they think it is of overwhelming importance to get rid of nuclear weapons, as Article VI of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) obliges the nuclear weapons states to do. If progress - significant progress - toward that goal does not start happening soon, there is a profound danger that the stagnation that currently exists in the movement toward the elimination of nuclear weapons may be converted into movement in the opposite direction - toward a dangerous nuclear arms race, as UN secretary- General Kofi Annan has warned. Article VI of the NPT, actually legally obliges the nuclear weapons powers to negotiate to eliminate their nuclear arsenals 'at an early date'. Like the rest of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, article VI has been in force since 1970. It is now central to a treaty that has been signed by every nation except India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba. One would have thought that 30 years was getting a bit long for 'at an early date'. Resolutions in the Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian parliaments in the last month or so have urged the weapons states to abide by their Article VI obligations. Further resolutions are before the German parliament and the European Parliament. 374 international NGOs have signed a letter that has been faxed and mailed to all NPT signatories plus india Pakistan and Israel, asking for the fulfilment of article VI. The ratification of the START-II agreement by the Russian parliament is a hopeful sign that movement is possible, but is subject to many conditions that have not been met. You are very much urged to write to your government, preferably to your foreign minister, and to urge them to place as much pressure on the nuclear weapons states to move as quickly as possible toward the fulfillment of their 'Article VI obligations', which are to get rid of nuclear weapons. I am enclosing three sample letters that you can use as the basis for what you write: One general one, One to the Russian government, and one to the Australian government. The one to the Australian government can be adapted for use by other US allies. I am also attatching a notice put out earlier urging people to tell their governments that 'times up' for nuclear weapons. You don't need to use these letters word for word - in fact it is best to put it as much as possible in your own words, and best to write by hand. (If your government has voted in the past in favour of anti- nuclear weapons resolutions such as the 'New Agenda' resolution in the UN, they also need to know that you support them in that.) Do please take this seriously and write to your government immediately, whether you are living in a nuclear weapons state (US, UK, France, China, Russia, ), in the rest of the world, or in India, Pakistan and Israel. BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS, THEN THE SAMPLE LETTERS. HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in the world is listed plus lots of information is this: Http://www.abolition2000.org. It also has a (very) short sample letter. (Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org ) Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of the two URLs above. (The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be. You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope however, that people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister but also those of Russia and the US.) Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me know at and check the number on the URL or with your own telephone system. If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461 If you are in Australia, foreign minister Alexander Downers fax number is 61-2-6273-4112. Prime Minister Howards fax number is 61-2-6273-4100 If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is +7-095-244-3276 or +7-095-244-2203. (You need to be persistent with these numbers) The general Kremlin fax number is +7-095-205-4330. (This is the slowest fax in the universe) If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is +33-1-45-51-60-12, Jacques Chirac's fax number is +33-1-47-42-24-65. If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is +44-171-925-0918. The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is: +44-171-270-2144 If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: +49-228-56-2357, or +49-30-4000-2357 Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662, 49-30-20186-252, +49-228-1734-02, +49-30-201-8619-24 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers only: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 If you are in Italy please fax 39-6-628-6210, or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734 If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on +36-1-356-3801 If you are in Korea, try your minister of foreign affairs on +82-2-724-8291, +82-2-739-5370 If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be +55-61-226-1762 If you are in Mexico, try +52-6-782-4109 If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095) If you are in Thailand, try +66-2-225-6155, or 66-2-226-1374 SAMPLE LETTERS (1) General Sample Letter SAMPLE LETTER FOR EVERYONE TO SEND TO PRESIDENTS/PRIME MINISTERS/FOREIGN MINISTERS RE: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE APRIL 24-MAY 19 2000 - GETTING RID OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO: PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER, Your Excellency, [0r] Dear President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, I am writing to urge [your/our] government to take a strong position at the upcoming Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in New York April 24 to May 19, 2000, and to urge [your/our] head of state or of government to attend this meeting. It is vital that the governments of all nations do their utmost to pressure the nuclear weapons states, especially the US and Russia, to do more to fulfill their obligations under Article VI of the NPT, and negotiate their nuclear weapons stockpiles down to zero. The International Court of Justice reaffirmed in 1996, in a unanimous advisory opinion that this is indeed a legal obligation. The nuclear weapons states are currently making very little movement toward fulfilling this obligation. Instead there have been many developments in the opposite direction. The US Senate has failed to ratify the CTBT,(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) and the US is contemplating the deployment of a Ballistic Missile Defence System in violation of the 1972 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty. Talks between the US and Russia to make cuts in nuclear weapons are stalled, as is implementation of START II. Russia has changed its previous policy of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons to one that mirrors those of the western states. The recent ratification of START-II by the Russian duma, though welcome, has many conditions attatched to it which are not likely to be satisfied soon by the US, and if the US deploys a 'National Missile Defence' (NMD) system, the Russians say they will not be bound by any arms limitation treaties. Both the US and Russia continue to conduct 'subcritical' nuclear tests. China is modernizing its nuclear arsenal, and India and Pakistan have openly tested nuclear weapons. Israel, in spite of a recent debate in the Knessett, refuses to acknowledge its nuclear capabilities but may have as many as 400 weapons. On the other hand, the non nuclear weapons states with a few notable exceptions, have adhered to their side of the bargain, while the NPT has become nearly universal. A successful outcome at the coming NPT Review Conference, would explicitly commit parties under Article VI to the elimination of nuclear weapons at an early date, and a global regime banning nuclear weapons, and would outline the process for that to occur. It is important that your government and every government, use its position to push the nuclear weapon states and particularly the US and Russia, to fulfill Article VI during the coming review conference. In particular, they must be pressed to proceed further to the implementation of START-II and toward START-III immediately. A key preliminary step in this direction that would reduce the danger of purely accidental war and improve the climate for further steps, would be the removal from alert status of warheads, and the abandonment of'launch on warning' postures. This should be followed by the verifiable physical removal of warheads from delivery vehicles. It is especially vital that [your/our] [head of government/head of state] be present at the proceedings of this review conference, and speak clearly in favour of the elimination of nuclear weapons at an early date, and fulfillment of the requirements of Article VI. The decisions taken at the coming NPT Review conference will literally determine the fate of the world. Only by the authority lent by the presence of heads of State or of Government can decisions be taken that will have the end result of ridding the world of nuclear weapons and fulfilling the mandate of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty over the last thirty years. Signed...etc. (2) Sample letter to president Putin and Foreign Minister Ivanov of Russia, cc'd to Clinton. SAMPLE LETTER FOR EVERYONE TO SEND TO PRESIDENT PUTIN AND FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV. RE: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE APRIL 24-MAY 19 2000 - GETTING RID OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO: PRESIDENT PUTIN +7-095-205-4330, FOREIGN MINISTER IVANOV +7-095-244-3276, +7-095-244-2203 RUSSIAS UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR + 1 212 628 0252 cc PRESIDENT CLINTON +1-202-456-2461 Dear President Putin and Foreign Minister Ivanov, I am writing to urge Russia's government to fulfill its obligations under Article VI of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and to commend your ratification of the START-II agreement. It is vital that we negotiate their nuclear weapons stockpiles down to zero sooner rather than later. The International Court of Justice reaffirmed in 1996, in a unanimous judgment, that this is indeed a legal obligation. It is now vital that the Russia and the US fulfill their clear obligations under Article VI of the nonproliferation treaty. While arms reductions have occurred since the 1980s, this process of reduction has now stalled and may be going into reverse. The US and Russia are both signed on to a treaty, article VI of which demands that you negotiate to eliminate your nuclear arsenals. The binding nature of Article VI was reaffirmed by the 1996 unanimous advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Russia and the US together, as well as China, the UK and France cannot forever refuse to fulfill their clear legal obligations under the NPT while expecting that other countries will continue to fulfill theirs. The credibility of the NPT will disappear if the nuclear weapon states - yourselves - do not fulfill your obligations. The eventual result of that is likely to be much wider acquisition of nuclear weapons, with a vastly increased likelihood of nuclear war. While Russia may have been given reasons to distrust US and NATO intentions, the stakes in getting rid of nuclear weapons are literally ultimate. No political goal, no matter how central it may seem to the interests of either Russia or the US, can justify the possible destruction of human civilisation and life worldwide. Public opinion in both your countries is strongly in favor of negotiating to eliminate nuclear weapons. Global public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of this and indeed demands it, as do the overwhelming majority of governments. A successful outcome at the coming NPT Review Conference, would explicitly commit parties under Article VI to the elimination of nuclear weapons at an early date, and a global regime banning nuclear weapons, and would outline the process for that to occur. The ratification of START-II by the Russian Duma is a move in the right direction. However, it would be terrible if the conditions that you have attatched to that ratification were to prevent further progress due to the intransigence of the US Congress. We urge on both sides the importance of actually implementing the treaty and of moving beyond it to START-III and the elimination of nuclear weapons. In this context, it is especially vital that the Russian and US Presidents be present at the proceedings of the NPT Review Conference, and be ready to negotiate to eliminate your nuclear arsenals as you are obliged to do under Article VI. The decisions taken at the coming NPT Review conference will literally determine the fate of the world. Only by the authority lent by the presence of heads of State or of Government can decisions be taken that will have the end result of ridding the world of nuclear weapons and fulfilling the mandate of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty over the last thirty years. Signed...etc. (3)Sample letter to Alexander Downer (foreign Minister) and Prime Minister Howard of Australia SAMPLE LETTER TO ALEXANDER DOWNER/JOHN HOWARD ON THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE RE: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE APRIL 24-MAY 19 2000 - GETTING RID OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO: JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER 02-6273-4100, 9251-5454 ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166 PENNY WENSLEY, AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, 0015-1-212-351-6610 Dear Foreign Minister Downer, Ambassador Wensley, and Prime Minister Howard, I am writing to urge the Australian government to take a strong position at the upcoming Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in New York April 24 to May 19, 2000. It is vital that Mr Downer makes a strong statement in favour of the elimination of nuclear weapons as legally required under article VI of the NPT, at that forum. The Senate on Thursday 9 March 2000 has made the same request, and asks that the government base its policy on the reccommendations of the Canberra Commission. The New Zealand and Canadian parliaments have passed similar resolutions unanimously. It is vital that the Australian government does its utmost, as the March 9th Senate resolution asks, to pressure the nuclear weapons states, especially the US and Russia, to do more to fulfill their obligations under Article VI of the NPT, and negotiate their nuclear weapons stockpiles down to zero sooner rather than later. The International Court of Justice reaffirmed in 1996, in a a unanimous judgment that this is indeed a legal obligation. The nuclear weapons states are currently making very little movement toward fulfilling this obligation. Instead there have been many developments in the opposite direction. These developments lead many including the Secretary General of the United Nations and ex-President Jimmy Carter, to predict a difficult review conference, and to call for new initiatives to break the logjam. The ratification of START-II by the Russian Duma, while hopeful, is highly conditional and depends on the US taking steps on the ABM treaty which it has for far been unwilling to take. A successful outcome would explicitly commit parties to the elimination of nuclear weapons at an early date and to a global regime banning nuclear weapons, and would outline the process for that to occur. Australia has had a good reputation in the nuclear disarmament field. It is important that Australia use its position to push the nuclear weapon states and particularly our allies in that direction during the coming NPT Review Conference. In doing so it should follow the practical steps laid out by the Canberra Commission which this country initiated. Signed...etc. ****************************************** TIME'S UP! - http://www.times-up.net ****************************************** There are over 36,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. More countries are building bombs while unsecured nuclear stockpiles are a target for terrorists. Stop nuclear madness! Send a message to the people who can prevent nuclear havoc. ******************************************* Join millions of people and send a message to our elected leaders to tell them TIME'S UP! for nuclear weapons. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE FAR AND WIDE!! On April 24, the nations of the world will assemble at the United Nations for a four week conference to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The 1970 NPT was a pledge from the whole world not to acquire nuclear weapons in return for a promise from the five nuclear states (United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France and China) to eliminate nuclear weapons. Instead, we now have over 36,000 nuclear bombs on the planet -- 5,000 of them poised on hair trigger alert in the U.S. and Russia. India and Pakistan joined the nuclear club two years ago and Israel admitted it had the bomb last year. Currently, American efforts to build a "son of Star Wars" violates the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This blatant violation has resulted in new nuclear saber rattling in Russia and China. The world is at a critical crossroads. Either the Millennial NPT review will keep the promises made to rid the world of nuclear bombs or a new runaway nuclear arms race will proliferate around the globe. In one quick step, you can make a difference. Send a message to the people who can prevent nuclear havoc by telling them TIME'S UP! for nuclear weapons. ****************************************** WHAT YOU CAN DO: ****************************************** 1. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/19 - Date: 19 Apr 2000 08:31:45 -0400 --=====================_135163069==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable April 19, 2000 Washington Times Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000419215732.htm GENERAL AGENDA=20 Vieques news conference =979:30 a.m. =97 The National Day of Solidarity with= the People of Vieques group holds a news conference on legislation pending in Congress on the continued bombing at the U.S. Navy base in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Location: Holeman Lounge, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 703/867-8502. 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Vieques news conference =979:30 a.m. =97 The National Day of Solidarity with the People of Vieques group holds a news conference on legislation pending in Congress on the continued bombing at the U.S. Navy base in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Location: Holeman Lounge, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 703/867-8502.  ALSO:  Noon rally in Lafayette Park.


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--=====================_135163069==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UPDATE AND INVITATION! Date: 19 Apr 2000 16:47:05 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0209_01BFAA1E.E5171820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jackie, You've got my e-mail address wrong in the yellow book. It is = globalnet@mindspring.com Hope to see you in NY Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, Fl. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk Sign our Star Wars petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jackie Cabasso=20 To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com ; bananas@lists.speakeasy.org=20 Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:19 PM Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: = UPDATE AND INVITATION! US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network = *************************************************************************= *********************************** UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently = received in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR = WEAPONS Resource Booklet. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the = Response Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of = Abolition 2000. We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and = we want you in it! Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If = you didn't receive a US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our = National Campaign Meeting and Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, = Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get = Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal = Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact = information will be found at the bottom of this message. RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR = HOLMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill = (H.R.2545, text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of = legislative initiatives US CAMPAIGN groups are working on! (See p. 13 = of Resource Booklet. Ellen Thomas is the convener of the Congressional = Focus Working Group, please add the Norton Bill to the Working Group = description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the phone number for Western = States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN) at = the bottom on the cover letter is wrong! The correct number is = (510)839-5877. US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!=20 HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW = CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK = AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN = Coordinating Committee's meeting, there will be a "caucus" open to all = US CAMPAIGN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the = meeting will be: 1) to update folks on the status of the Campaign = through a report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm = actions that the group and organizations can take regarding the NPT = while in New York and when they return home. A meeting with the US = delegation will be requested for 6 pm on that day to allow US CAMPAIGN = members to dialogue with the US delegation. The caucus meeting will take = place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. =20 AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of = the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take = place FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, = 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested. Take B,D,F or = Q train to Broadway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street. Entrance to = 611 Broadway is on the west side of Broadway just north of Houston. OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM = Abolition 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th = Street and First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition = 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., = between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side). Nearby = subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R). All Abolition = 2000 member groups are welcome. Network business will include annual = reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, Global = Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our = structure for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning = to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Conference world, including = an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Abolition 2000 = meeting next fall. FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW = CONFERENCE: http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html ****************************************************** Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California USA 94612 Tel: +(510)839-5877 Fax: +(510)839-5397 E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net ****************************************************** Western States Legal Foundation is part of ABOLITION 2000 A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0209_01BFAA1E.E5171820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Jackie,
 
You've got my e-mail address wrong in the yellow book.  It is = globalnet@mindspring.com
 
Hope to see you in NY
 
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons = &=20 Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. = 32607
(352)=20 337-9274
http://www.globenet.free-o= nline.co.uk
 
Sign our Star Wars petition at:
http://www.petitiononline.com<= /DIV>
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Jackie=20 Cabasso
To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com= ;=20 bananas@lists.speakeasy.org =
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 = 9:19=20 PM
Subject: (abolition-usa) US = CAMPAIGN TO=20 ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UPDATE AND INVITATION!

US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Part of = the=20 Abolition 2000 Global=20 = Network
****************************************************= ********************************************************
UPDATE=20 AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently = received=20 in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS = Resource=20 Booklet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, = and return=20 the Response Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser = of=20 Abolition 2000.  We are creating a NEW database for the US = CAMPAIGN, and=20 we want you in it!  Donations are voluntary but very welcome! = NOTE: If=20 you didn’t receive a US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which = includes our National=20 Campaign Meeting and Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - = 11,=20 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, = and would=20 like one, please contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim=20 clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found = at the=20 bottom of this message.

RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND=20 CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Nuclear = Disarmament=20 and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text at http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to = the list of=20 legislative initiatives US CAMPAIGN groups are working on!  (See = p. 13 of=20 Resource Booklet. Ellen Thomas is the convener of the Congressional = Focus=20 Working Group, please add the Norton Bill to the Working Group = description on=20 p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the phone number for Western States Legal = Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom = on the=20 cover letter is wrong!  The correct number is = (510)839-5877.

US=20 CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE = INVITED!=20
HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU = WHO WILL=20 BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE = WHO=20 LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following = the US=20 CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee’s meeting, there will be a = “caucus” open to=20 all US CAMPAIGN groups attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus = of the=20 meeting will be: 1) to update folks on the status of the Campaign = through a=20 report from the Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions = that the=20 group and organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York = and when=20 they return home.  A meeting with the US delegation will be = requested for=20 6 pm on that day to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US=20 delegation. The caucus meeting will take place in one of the = conference rooms=20 in the UN. 

AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to = celebrate=20 the 5th Anniversary of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate = Nuclear=20 Weapons will take place FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at = Limon=20 Dance Space, 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation = requested. =20 Take B,D,F or Q train to Broadway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker=20 Street.  Entrance to 611 Broadway is on the west side of Broadway = just=20 north of Houston.

OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: = *TUESDAY,=20 APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Abolition 2000 will hold a demonstration in = Dag=20 Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, = FROM 9 AM=20 - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting = at 322 W.=20 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west = side). =20 Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R).  All = Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome.  Network business will = include=20 annual reports from the international Coordinating Committee, Staff, = Global=20 Council, and Regional and Working Groups; affirming/modifying our = structure=20 for the next year and deciding who will serve; and beginning to look = ahead to=20 the post- 5 year NPT Review Conference world, including an invitation = from the=20 City of Nagasaki to host an Abolition 2000 meeting next = fall.

FOR AN=20 UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW = CONFERENCE: http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html
******************************************************
= Jacqueline=20 Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 = Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel:=20 +(510)839-5877
Fax: +(510)839-5397
E-mail:=20 = wslf@earthlink.net
***************************************************= ***
Western=20 States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL = NETWORK TO=20 ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
------=_NextPart_000_0209_01BFAA1E.E5171820-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Dennis Kucinich Date: 19 Apr 2000 17:00:39 -0400 Hi Bruce, I thought your conference was wonderful and hope you accomplished a lot at the strategy meeting. I saw Dennis Kucinich the next day at the ellipse, before he spoke, and he asked me if there was a recording of his speech at the Space conference. He gave it extemporaneously and wanted a copy. Do you have a tape or video of it? He's coming to our NPT Press briefing on April 24 from 12:30 to 3:00 PM at the UN Plaza Hotel. If you're in New York at that time, please join us--but let me know as it's a press-luncheon event and places are limited. Check out www.times-up.net for details of the demonstration on April 25th from 9-10. Hope you can be there. In any event I'll see you that afternoon at the panel. Love, Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Dennis Kucinich Date: 19 Apr 2000 17:24:03 -0400 Alice, I won't be able to make it for the news conference. But I will make the demo for sure. The CDI, Jon Lottman, filmed the entire conference. I will send a message to Kucinich's staff. I was very pleased with the events. Your participation was a great addition and I am happy that you enjoyed it too. I'll see you soon. Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, Fl. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk Sign our Star Wars petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:00 PM > Hi Bruce, > I thought your conference was wonderful and hope you accomplished a lot at the > strategy meeting. I saw Dennis Kucinich the next day at the ellipse, > before he > spoke, and he asked me if there was a recording of his speech at the Space > conference. He gave it extemporaneously and wanted a copy. Do you have a > tape > or video of it? He's coming to our NPT Press briefing on April 24 from 12:30 > to 3:00 PM at the UN Plaza Hotel. If you're in New York at that time, please > join us--but let me know as it's a press-luncheon event and places are > limited. Check out www.times-up.net for details of the demonstration on April > 25th from 9-10. Hope you can be there. In any event I'll see you that > afternoon at the panel. Love, > Alice Slater > Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) > 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 > New York, NY 10010 > tel: (212) 726-9161 > fax: (212) 726-9160 > email: aslater@gracelinks.org > http://www.gracelinks.org > > GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination > nuclear weapons. > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) New on Tri-Valley CAREs' web site! Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Dear peace and environmental advocates: For your reading pleasure, we have posted new, interesting, exciting information on our web site at http://www.igc.org/tvc. There you will find: The April 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch with: 1. Public Action and the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- tells about the treaty itself and why public attention and involvement around the upcoming Review Conference is so important. 2. Nuclear Crisis and the NPT -- former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's excellent analysis of the sad state of nuclear affairs. 3. Groups Petition to Bar BNFL Contracts -- 40 organizations, including ours, petition Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to cancel current Dept. of Energy contracts with British Nuclear Fuels Limited and to ban new ones. 4. Tri-Valley CAREs Wins 2 Awards -- for our advocacy on health and environmental issues related to Livermore Lab operations. Read all about it! 5. This Week at the National Ignition Facility (postcards to come soon to the web site!), Fail Safe, Community Calendar and MORE! Also, check out our new fact sheet on environmental problems and cleanup issues at Livermore Lab's site 300 testing range. **** For our Northern California readers, please note there will be a public hearing on site 300 coming up on May 4, 2000 in Tracy. **** Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT Jailed activists need your support. Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:38:52 -0700 The activists in Washington this weekend are still in jail. There have been reports of the police using pain compliance, to force people into breaking their solidarity by giving their names. This force has resulted in almost broken fingers and one women being thrown against a wall. These reports are alleged, but if you have ever dealt with the police after a mass demonstration you know that cops will do anything to break your spirit. These people need our help and prayers. Right now they are at the mercy of the law behind doors. Please call the jail in D.C., 202-673-8000. DEMAND THEY BE RELEASED WITH NO CHARGES. Remember these people are mothers, sons, and daughters. And they are isolated from each other and the world. Please help them to not be victims of brutal police. ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702) 647-3095 (FAX) 647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Last Call, Please Read Carefully Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:13:34 -0800 (Apologies for any duplicates received due to crossovers on listservs) Dear Friends and Activists, WITH THE NPT LESS THAN FOUR DAYS AWAY, ABOLITION 2000 NEEDS YOUR HELP! EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COME TO NEW YORK, HERE ARE SIX THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY TO HELP US REACH OUR GOAL OF 2000 ORGANIZATIONS BY THE NPT AND MAKE OUR PRESENCE KNOWN IN NEW YORK AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 1. Have you been collecting signatures on the Abolition 2000 International Petition? If so, please contact me ASAP and let me know how many you have gathered! Keep circulating those petitions, even after the NPT, we will still continue to gather signatures, so don't give up! 2. Has your organization been collecting signatures on any type of nuclear weapons abolition petition? If so, please contact me ASAP and we will include your organization's name and the amount you have collected when we present petitions to Ambassador Baali, the Chairman of the NPT, next week. 3. Enroll a new organization today! Below are the names of organizations which endorsed the Abolition 2000 just since Monday! This brings our TOTAL ENDORSERS TO 1860 ORGANIZATIONS AND MUNICIPALITIES IN 93 COUNTRIES. Momentum is building and this is our opportunity to tell the world, and particularly the leaders of the nuclear weapons states, that it is TIME TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! American Public Health Association, Washington/D.C. Magdalene House Catholic Worker, Half Moon Bay/California Abolition 2000 - The Western Pennsylvania Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Maine Public Health Association Helensburgh and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Helensburgh/SCOTLAND Stirling Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Larbert/SCOTLAND Nukewatch UK, Helensburgh/SCOTLAND Peace Research Institute-Dundas, Ontario/Canada Farmers Association (Egypt) African Farmers Federation, Al-Ahram Center of Political and Strategic Studies, Arab Center of Strategic Studies, Egyptian Council of Foreign Affaires, International Layers Association (Egyptian Branch), National Center of Middle East Studies Haags Vredesplatform (HVP), The Netherlands Peace Links of Elkhart County, Elkhart/Indiana Older Women's Network, Toronto/Canada Unitarian Universalist UN Office, New York/New York Volkssolidaritat, Berlin/Germany 4. If you haven't already, VISIT http://www.times-up.net AND SPREAD THE WORD TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE! 5 SEND YOUR DONATION to the Abolition 2000 Clearinghouse (address in signature below) so we can continue our vital efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. 6. IF YOU CAN, JOIN US IN NEW YORK, HERE ARE ABOLITION 2000 PLANNED ACTIVITIES YOU CAN ATTEND: Monday 24 April - Abolition Caucus Meeting, 8 am, Presbyterian Conference Room, 7th Floor, Church Center, 777 UN Plaza (44th and 1st Ave., accross from UN). Tuesday 25 April - Abolition 2000 Demonstration, 9am-10am, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th Street and First Avenue. Friday 28 April - Peace Dance 8:30 pm-12:30 am, celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Abolition 2000, 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, NYC Sunday 30 April - Annual General Meeting of Abolition 2000, 9am-7pm, Musician's Union Hall 322 W. 48th Street, between 8th and 9th PLEASE do everything you can to further the work of Abolition 2000. WE CAN ONLY ACHIEVE OUR GOAL OF A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE WORLD, IF WE WORK TOGETHER! In Peace and Solidarity, carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. Visit the Abolition 2000 website and submit a membership form. 4. Send an e-mail to: abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com (leave the subject line and body of the message blank). To post a message to the Abolition Global Caucus, send your message to: abolition-caucus@egroups.com To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no subject) to: abolition-usa-request@lists.xmission.com In the body of the message, write: "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks) To post a message to the Abolition-USA list, mail your message to: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) SB Passes Legislation, City switches to Renewable Energy Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:16:55 -0800 Dear Friends and Activists, I am happy to announce that yesterday, 18 April 2000, the Santa Barbara City Council adopted a proposal to switch Santa Barbara City Facilities requiring 50KW or under of electrical generation to a renewable energy source. This means that almost 90% of the energy used by city facilities will be renewable energy! The City will now contract electricity from Preferred Energy Services, Inc., also known as Clean n' Green Power. If you have not already, I encourage you to switch to a renewable energy provider for your electricity needs. Energy produced from renewable sources such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass are not only now technologically and economically feasible, they are also evironmentally begign. Energy from fossil fuels, coal and nuclear reactors is the leading cause of air pollution and the continued increase of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is causing Global Warming. We can each make a difference and save our Earth and its precious resources by purchasing renewable energy and practicing energy conservation. If you would like more information or would like to get involved, please feel free to contact me or visit our website. Yours for a Sustainable Future, Carah Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1 Santa Barbara CA 93108 Phone (805) 965 3443 FAX(805) 568 0466 Email: A2000@silcom.com Website http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition-Global Caucus listserv to receive regular updates about the Abolition movement. The caucus provides an international forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues. Important articles and information relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues. To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following: 1. Send a message to the list moderator at A2000@silcom.com 2. Visit the Abolition-caucus website at: Http://www.egroups.com/list/abolition-caucus/ and submit a membership form. 3. Visit the Abolition 2000 website and submit a membership form. 4. Send an e-mail to: abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com (leave the subject line and body of the message blank). To post a message to the Abolition Global Caucus, send your message to: abolition-caucus@egroups.com To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no subject) to: abolition-usa-request@lists.xmission.com In the body of the message, write: "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks) To post a message to the Abolition-USA list, mail your message to: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/20 - Significant events today in DC Date: 20 Apr 2000 07:33:55 -0400 --=====================_68236762==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Please note that phone numbers of contact people are included, for= follow-up.] April 20, 2000 Washington Times Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200042022634.htm Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty briefing =97 2 p.m. =97 The Washington = Foreign Press Center holds a news briefing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Gen. John Shalikashvilli, special adviser to the president, participates. Foreign= media only invited. Location: Suite 898, National Press Club, 14th and F streets= NW. Contact: 202/661-8946. Solar water pumping technology demonstration =97 4 p.m. =97WorldWater Corp.= holds a media briefing to demonstrate solar water pumping technology. Location: Mall= at Seventh Street across from the Air and Space Museum. 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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty briefing =97 2 p.m. =97 The Washington  Foreign Press Center holds a news briefing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Gen. John Shalikashvilli, special adviser to the president, participates. Foreign media only invited. Location: Suite 898, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/661-8946.

Solar water pumping technology demonstration =97 4 p.m. =97WorldWater Corp. holds a media briefing to demonstrate solar water pumping technology. Location: Mall at Seventh Street across from the Air and Space Museum. Contact: 703/979-3076.

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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) USCampaign 2000, update 20Apr2000 Date: 20 Apr 2000 12:28:34 -0700 In order to better awaken the American public, via media coverage of the U.S. Elections 2000 coverage -- to solutions to today's critical global social and environmental emergency situation available from correction in US policies regarding war and preparations for war, domestic police, justice and prison abuses, indigenous peoples oppression (symbolized by the unjust imprisonment of Leonard Peltier), nuclear weapons, power, wastes and mining, global climate change, the so-called drug war, hemp cultivation, reluctance to implement available new scientific discoveries to neutralize radioactive wastes and to replace damaging energy technologies such as nuclear and fossil fuel power, ending acknowledged CIA complicity in illicit drug smuggling http://www.copvcia.com and to champion the Longest Walk message that "Spirituality is The Highest Form of Politics" -- I initiated the "USCampaign 2000" on March 19, 2000, as an independent US Presidential candidacy nominating Leonard Peltier as my Vice Presidential running mate after conversations with his editor. http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier The formal public announcement of this USCampaign was made outside Senator John McCain's office in Phoenix, Arizona, on the March 24th occasion of the ceremony conducted there by Global Peace Walk 2000 now en route from San Francisco to Washington DC to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century", and to mark the midpoint of the UN "Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples" 1995-2004. This spiritual walk to bring out the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, the first tangible step to true global peace, will be conducting ceremonies at the Oklahoma City Bombing National Memorial on Memorial Day Holiday, May 29th; fasting four days July 1-4th near Leavenworth Prison where Peltier is incarcerated in Kansas; and August 6, 9, 15, 2000 events in Saint Louis, marking the 55th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II. My March 24th announcement, "Kickoff -- Clean-Energy Campaign2000: Introducing Solutions into Elections 2000" is at http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/uscampaign.html No money is being solicited for this USCampaign, but we need Electors now. Those who are interested in more information on this USCampaign may see details and campaign strategy at http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier/3.html where information is shown on how to help by volunteering now as a Presidential Elector to be listed on petitions for ballot access in each State for Independent or Write-In presidential candidates slate. Progress on this USCampaign in the last month has been nominal but significant. In the first 24hours after emailing above details, two coordinators have volunteered and six electors in five different States. Our ballot access petitioning in Alaska will be handled by Jack Herer http://www.jackherer.com who will be simultaneously circulating a hemp relegalization ballot initiative petition there this summer. Herer and another prominent hemp/cannabis relegalization author/activist, Chris Conrad http://www.chrisconrad.com , both previously agreed to be among my Presidential Electors for California during my brief 1996 independent presidential candidacy which ended when no vice presidential candidate stepped forward to join me. This USCampaign effort is being conducted to pressure, through public opinion, the more well know candidates for political offices this year to adopt our issues including a full pardon for Leonard Peltier http://www.freepeltier.org To the extent this is accomplished then we can better support any other candidates who adopt these issues as a result. To fulfill the goals of this USCampaign other projects are suggested for your support which are listed below, including some initiated in the last month such as: 1) "A Year for The Earth" campaign (April 22, 2000 to April 22, 2001) for an annual "Earth Month" beginning March 21 to April 22, 2001, to expand the Earth Day Network's "Clean Energy Now!" campaign http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/324.html , 2) The Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy reform project http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams , and 3) The DOE Strategic Plan public input project http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan started when DOE agreed to deadline extension to April 24th per my request in respect of Earth Day. Don't miss the chance to tell DOE what they can do with nuclear wastes, power, weapons, mining, etc., and any other DOE related issue. Also on April 24th, at the United Nations the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference will be convened exactly six months before United Nations Day, its 55th anniversary, October 24, 2000, when the Global Peace Walk 2000 will be arriving at the UN doorstep in New York City. Let's promote this first half of "A Year for The Earth" intensely to give the UN some tangible progress on nuclear abolition for its 55th birthday. The UN Charter prohibiting weapons of mass destruction was signed June 20, 1945; The U.S. Atomic Bombings of Japan were August 6 & 9, 1945; UN Charter ratification, October 24, 1945. My position on "Correcting American Ethics" is in my DOE Strategic Plan public comments of April 10th at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan/4.html Global Nuclear Disarmament is the first step towards a lasting global peace. The United States initiated the nuclear age and the nuclear weapons race so it must take the first steps towards ending these threats for any hope of achieving this result. This is the objective of HR-2545 now in Congress as the global Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 1999 which you can support at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html It would also be helpful if you can send an email letter in support of a nuclear abolition treaty to appropriate government officials which may easily be done using the form created by Time's Up at http://actionnetwork.org/add.tcl?domain=TIMESUP You can join the Abolition 2000 global network to eliminate nuclear weapons at http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/orgendorse.html where over 1,557 activist organizations plus 243 municipalities in 93 countries --- a total of 1,800 --- have already signed the Abolition 2000 Statement as of April 6, 2000, and the Abolition 2000 Petition signatories now number over 13,285,808. You can see more about my background, work and other "pet issues" at: General Agency Services http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org The Vision of Paradise on Earth http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html On the above matters or any issue of your concern, an easy way to send emails to government officials and the national Media Guide indexed State by State is at http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd Thanks very much for reading this Email, USCampaign: Independent U.S. Presidential Candidacy 2000 gear2000@onemain.com David Crockett Williams for President Leonard Peltier for Vice President http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. 20411 Steeple Court Tehachapi, CA 93561 Phone: 661-822-3309 General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html A Free Service to Send & Receive Money by Email: https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=gear2000%40lightspeed.net - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Norman & Karen Cohen Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: Media Advisory - April 26th Press Conference] Date: 20 Apr 2000 17:23:09 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5B8AF3BFC87E083672AC435A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net id TAA07467 Anyone in the DC area is urged to attend this press conference, and not just because Christie Brinkley will be there, but to learn new facts about nukes and cancers. norm cohen executive director coalition for p/j -- Coalition for Peace and Justice and the UNPLUG Salem Campaign; 321 Barr Ave., Linwood, NJ 08221; 609-601-8537 or 609-601-8583 (8583: fax, answer machine) UNPLUG SALEM WEBSITE: http://www.unplugsalem.org/ COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE WEBSITE: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~norco/ ICQ# 54268619; The Coalition for Peace and Justice is a chapter of Peace Action. =93We have two lives, the one we=92re given, and the other one we make=94 (Mary Chapin Carpenter) =93Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights...Get up, stand up, don=92t give up the fight!=94 (Bob Marley) --------------5B8AF3BFC87E083672AC435A Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from cocopah.gate.net ([216.219.246.49]) by immta5.bellatlantic.net (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000420110741.XEJY1010.immta5@cocopah.gate.net> for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:07:41 -0400 Received: from jbrownmia (tsmia4-18.gate.net [207.36.176.18]) by cocopah.gate.net (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA100148; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:04:17 -0400 Message-Id: <200004201104.HAA100148@cocopah.gate.net> X-Sender: jbbrown@pop.gate.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 popeye76@bellsouth.net, oldbooks@warwick.net, kitbob@erols.com, holmes@warwick.net, BMLAWYER@aol.com, frontierus@roadrunner.com, d056854C@dc.seflin.org, swesterly@earthlink.net, cindyf@nirs.org, cb@nuclear-free.com, dlochbaum@ucsusa.org, DebBoldt@aol.com, nayvin.gordon@prodigy.net, rphp_toothfairy@hotmail.com, MSSEJS@aol.com, weidnerb@aol.com, hdsharma@golden.net, Kohn@erols.com, ifujimoto@ucdavis.edu, jlneuwirth@aol.com, jackieo@mindspring.com, mtmind@compuserve.com, toxdocjs@aol.com, JayMGould@aol.com, jriccio@citizen.org, JoAnn Markel , odiejoe@aol.com, jibasmil@aol.com, HealthyInt@aol.com, Kgrossman@hamptons.com, KKOPACK@ROCKCO.COM, lbconsultants@msn.com, schepart@highlands.com, purplecloud@juno.com, lampert@adelphia.net, mwilson@toxicsaction.org, OakFinancial@hotmail.com, neis@forward.net, PJSlaterxo@aol.com, PStar22383@aol.com, rpohl@hembar.com, rsnell9113@aol.com, DORASON@aol.com, orhl@mindspring.com, scott@noradiation.org, happen@pipeline.com, marylia@earthlink.net, norco@bellatlantic.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; types="text/plain,text/html"; boundary="=====================_6244757==_.ALT" X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 --=====================_6244757==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" April 19, 2000 MEDIA ADVISORY Christie Brinkley - Consumer Group Unveil Study Raising Questions About Whether Radiation From Nuclear Plants Endangers Nearby Residents Study Shows Infant Death Rates Dropped After Reactors Closed WHAT: Press conference featuring supermodel Christie Brinkley, Rep. Michael Forbes (D-N.Y.) and Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. They will call on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to immediately begin taking health effects into consideration when renewing nuclear power plant licenses. A new study, to be discussed at the press conference by its author, Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project, shows that infant mortality rates around five nuclear power reactors dropped after the reactors closed. By 2003, more than two dozen nuclear reactors at more than a dozen nuclear power plants throughout the U.S. will have sought renewal of their operating licenses. Many of these plants have questionable safety records, with documents showing numerous safety violations. Although many believe that emissions and leaks from nuclear power plants are harming those who live near these facilities, the federal government does not consider potential health effects when renewing licenses. The press conference is being held by the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation, a group formed 1997 by Long Islanders; Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader; and the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a research and education group. WHEN: 9:30 a.m., April 26, 2000 (14th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster) WHERE: First Amendment Room, 13th floor, National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. WHO: Christie Brinkley -- STAR Foundation board member, concerned mother. Rep. Michael P. Forbes (D-N.Y.). Joan Claybrook -- President, Public Citizen. Joseph J. Mangano -- Research Associate, Radiation and Public Health Project. Janette Sherman, M.D. -- specialist in internal medicine and toxicology. Randy Snell -- Father of daughter with rare soft tissue cancer. CONTACT: Jeffrey Vinson (202) 588-7742; Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741; Ernest Baynard (202) 225-3826; or STAR Foundation: Scott Cullen (631) 324-0655 or cell (516) 819-4886; or RPHP - Jerry Brown, Ph.D. (305) 321-5612. --=====================_6244757==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" April 19, 2000
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Study Shows Infant Death Rates Dropped After Reactors Closed
WHAT:           Press conference featuring supermodel Christie Brinkley, Rep. Michael Forbes (D-N.Y.) and Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. They will call on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to immediately begin taking health effects into consideration when renewing nuclear power plant licenses.
A new study, to be discussed at the press conference by its author, Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project, shows that infant mortality rates around five nuclear power reactors dropped after the reactors closed.  By 2003, more than two dozen nuclear reactors at more than a dozen nuclear power plants throughout the U.S. will have sought renewal of their operating licenses. Many of these plants have questionable safety records, with documents showing numerous safety violations. Although many believe that emissions and leaks from nuclear power plants are harming those who live near these facilities, the federal government does not consider potential health effects when renewing licenses.
The press conference is being held by the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation, a group formed 1997 by Long Islanders; Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader; and the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a research and education group.

WHEN:   9:30 a.m., April 26, 2000 (14th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster)

WHERE:  First Amendment Room, 13th floor, National Press Club,
529 14th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.

WHO:            Christie Brinkley  -- STAR Foundation board member, concerned mother.
                Rep. Michael P. Forbes (D-N.Y.).
                Joan Claybrook -- President, Public Citizen.
Joseph J. Mangano -- Research Associate, Radiation and Public Health Project.
Janette Sherman, M.D. -- specialist in internal medicine and toxicology.
                Randy Snell -- Father of daughter with rare soft tissue cancer.
                
CONTACT:        Jeffrey Vinson (202) 588-7742; Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741; Ernest Baynard (202) 225-3826; or STAR Foundation: Scott Cullen (631) 324-0655 or cell (516) 819-4886; or RPHP - Jerry Brown, Ph.D. (305) 321-5612.

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KIEV (Reuters) - Fourteen years after the world'= s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl power plant is still reaping a harvest of deaths, Ukraine's Health Ministry said Friday.

Some 3.5 mill= ion people, over a third of them children, have suffered illness as a result of the contamination and the incidence of some cancers is 10 times the national average.

``The healt= h of people affected by the Chernobyl accident is getting worse and worse every year,'' Deputy Health Minister Olha Bobyleva told a news conference.

``We are very disturbed by these data.''

Chernobyl's number four reacto= r exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986, spreading a poisonous radioactive cloud over much of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and parts of Western Europe.

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Soviet officials, who initially tried to hush up the tragedy, acknowledged in the end that the accident had killed 31 people and affected thousands more.

Scale Of Tragedy= Greater Than Thought

But the real scale of the catastrophe,= which displaced hundreds of thousands of people and turned bustling villages and towns into ghost communities populated only by stray dogs and crows, has turned out to be far greater than once thought.

Official dat= a show that the health of some 3.5 million people, including 1.26 million children, was affected in this impoverished nation of 50 million.

Children and also emergency workers = sent in to clean up the contaminated areas are among the worst affected.

The death rate among t= hose living in contaminated areas is 18.28 percent per 1,000, compared to a national average of 14.8 percent.

Bobyleva said high radiation had led to an outbreak of diseases of the nervous, blood and respiratory systems. She said the number of these diseases among children affected by the accident was 17 percent higher than the national average.

The rate of t= hyroid cancer remains 10 times higher than normal among Ukrainian children. The ministry reported 1,400 cases of thyroid cancer between 1986 and 2000, while no cases were registered between 1981 and 1985.

Bobyleva said the ministry was p= articularly worried by an increase in deaths of emergency workers, popularly called ''liquidators,'' most of whom are still under 50. The death rate in the group is double the national average.

She said the consumption o= f radioactive food produced in the country's most contaminated northern and central regions of Kiev, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkassy and Rivne posed another danger for public health.

A lack of cash and other economic problems ha= ve further complicated the situation. Cash-strapped Ukraine has spent $1.4 billion to date to fight the consequences of the accident.

Ukraine has = promised it will close Chernobyl's last operational reactor by the end of this year.

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I am writing you, along with others who respond in agreement with this message, to ask you and Secretary Richardson to strongly and publicly support "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001", ending with the initiation of an annual "Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox (March 21, 2001) to April 22, 2001. This proposal was offered by the Global Peace Walk 2000 at its Earth Day 2000 event in Taos, New Mexico, to unite an effective global peace, justice, environment, and spritual reawakening movement, on its way walking from San Francisco to Washington DC to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century. The social and environmental situation in the world today is at a global emergency level and I/we strongly urge you and the Earth Day Network to accept this proposal to help empower the "Every Day is Earth Day" message and the Earth Day 2000 theme of "Clean Energy Now!". This proposal was circulated to national media and activists email lists on April 17th as archived at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/324.html , "DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: 'Earth Month' and 'A Year for The Earth 2000-2001'". It is essential in today's world for the peace, social justice, and environmental movements to unite because this global emergency condition effects all of their related issues. We must actually make "Global Peace Now!" into a universal human resolve, a firm resolve by all of humanity, as the very first realistic step in order to have any hope of achieving our goals. We need global peace now so that the human and financial resources now being squandered on war and the preparations for war can be redirected towards solving critical environmental and social justice problems before it is too late to avert an environmental catastrophe, increasing domestic social upheaval, or even a Third World War. Please also investigate the new clean Emerging Energy Technologies information submitted in the last couple of weeks to DoE that is archived at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan because these applications of forefront science offer little know additional superior alternatives to nuclear and fossil fuel power, as well as the remediation of nuclear wastes. My previous CNES comments are also referenced there and include the case for hemp relegalization and its widespread cultivation to replace the need for deforestation and for healing the atmosphere to ameliorate global climate change. The DOE Strategic Plan draft is at http://www.doe.gov/strategic_plan A good overview article of these newest Clean-Energy technologies, co-authored by Stephen Kaplan (who you know) and Dr. Brian O'Leary, is at http://www.connexion.org/kaplan . Saturday on CSPAN I saw your speech of April 22nd in Washington DC on the occasion of Earth Day 2000 where near the beginning you started one sentence with "When I started Earth Day in 1970...". I noted that you did not say "when the first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, in response to my call for a national environmental teach-in/protest for the Earth, after John McConnell first began Earth Day on the Spring Equinox of 1970 after making the announcement suggesting an annual Earth Day at the October 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment in San Francisco,..." Perhaps you had more important things to say in your brief allotted time Saturday, or perhaps I am in error in my understanding of the facts of the matter in this regard as depicted at http://www.earthsite.org, so I wonder what your comments might be about this historical point of fact whose failure of your mention makes the "Earth Day Movement", that you initiated according to Robert F Kennedy Jr's speech Saturday, seem less than fully in accord with the truth. The historical facts documented on that website represent a shadow on your name as the Founder of Earth Day, even though there is no doubt that your dedication and your call for a 1970 environmental teach-in on that April 22nd has been a major inspiration for what has become the successful global Earth Day Network. I would suggest that this misunderstanding may be cleared up best, and the objectives of Earth Day best fulfilled, by your personally taking the lead in championing this "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign for an annual "Earth Month". I noticed on the http://www.earthday.net website that the speakers in Washington DC on Saturday were in the main activists, scientists, political figures, and lawyers, with no religious or spiritual leaders listed that I could recognize. It seems that the original idea behind Mr. McConnell's original annual Earth Day proposal was to also bring together people of all faiths, almost in the spirit of a prayer for the Earth, to consider solutions to environmental problems. It seems to me that this is the one element that so far seems to have been overlooked. 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Biological-weapons discussion =97 3 p.m. =97 Georgetown University holds a= =20 discussion, "Biological Weapons: The Peril, the Prospects, the Policy." =20 Location: Riggs Library, Healy Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O= streets NW. Contact: 202/687-1639. Chernobyl briefing =97 4 p.m. =97 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty holds a=20 briefing, "Chernobyl's Continuing Political Fallout in Belarus." Stanislau= =20 Shushkevich, Social Democratic Assembly chairman, and former Belarus president, participates. Location: Fourth-floor conference room, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/457-6949. Foreign policy conference =979 a.m. =97 The State Department and the= Hispanic=20 Council on International Relations hold a U.S. foreign-policy conference. SENATE COMMITTEES=20 10 a.m. =97 Appropriations defense subcommittee holds a hearing on= fiscal =20 2001 defense appropriations. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen testifies.= =20 Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 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Nuclear-power study news conference =97 9:30 a.m. =97 Public Citizen,  the Star Foundation, and the Radiation and Public Health Project hold a news conference to discuss a new study,  which contends that infant mortality rates around five nuclear-power reactors dropped after the reactors  closed. Location: First Amendment  Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/588-7742.

Biological-weapons discussion =97 3 p.m. =97 Georgetown University hold= s a  discussion, "Biological Weapons: The  Peril, the Prospects, the Policy."   Location: Riggs Library, Healy Hall,  Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. Contact: 202/687-1639.

Chernobyl briefing =97 4 p.m. =97 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty holds a  briefing, "Chernobyl's Continuing Political Fallout in Belarus." Stanislau  Shushkevich, Social Democratic  Assembly chairman, and former  Belarus president, participates.   Location: Fourth-floor conference  room, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW.  Contact: 202/457-6949.

Foreign policy conference =979 a.m. =97  The State Department and the Hispanic  Council on International Relations hold  a U.S. foreign-policy conference.

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--=====================_29787065==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/26-(2) - Chernobyl Remembered, Lafayette Park, Date: 26 Apr 2000 14:35:35 -0400 --=====================_12538705==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chernobyl remembered=20 April 26, 2000 Washington Times Embassy Row, by James Morrison http://www.washtimes.com/world/embassy-2000426214254.htm Ukrainian Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko this evening will lead a commemoration on the 14th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Mr. Gryshchenko will be joined by representatives of the Ukrainian-American community and clergymen from the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic churches at the 6:30 p.m. gathering in Lafayette Park. ---- Here are some stories today and yesterday about Chernobyl: APRIL 26, 01:31 EDT=20 Ukraine Promises To Close Chernobyl By MARINA SYSOYEVA=20 Associated Press Writer=20 http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=3DEUROPE&STORYID=3DAPIS7= 437U780 CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) =97 For 14 years, Ukraine has coped with the legacy of the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl =97 and the path to recovery is still long. Now the government is again promising to shut the ill-fated plant, but refuses to give a date.=20 ``Chernobyl will be closed down,'' Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko pledged Tuesday night, the eve of the accident's anniversary. He spoke after laying a wreath at a memorial to firefighters who were among the first to combat radioactive flames from the disaster =97 and among the first to die.=20 The pre-dawn accident on April 26, 1986 sent a cloud that rained radiation over much of Europe and contaminated large areas in then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.=20 According to Ukrainian government figures, more than 4,000 of those who took part in the hasty and poorly organized Soviet cleanup effort have died, and more than 70,000 Ukrainians were fully disabled by the disaster.=20 Overall, about 3.4 million of Ukraine's 50 million people, including about 1.26 million children, are considered affected by Chernobyl. Of them, 400,000 adults and nearly 1.1 million children are entitled to state aid for Chernobyl-linked health problems.=20 But despite the terrible legacy, Chernobyl's closure =97 long urged by Western nations and environmentalists the world over =97 remains uncertain.=20 The plant now has just one working reactor, No. 3. The 1986 calamity ruined its reactor No. 4. Another of Chernobyl's RBMK reactors has been inactive since a 1991 fire and a third was stopped in 1996.=20 Ukraine had promised to fully close down Chernobyl by the end of 1999, but delayed the closure until an unspecified date this year, saying it is too strapped for energy and needs financial aid to build two new reactors as compensation.=20 Meanwhile, pressure is mounting on Ukraine to give a definite closure date for what many see as the embodiment of the evils of the atomic era.=20 ``It is essential to have a date fixed,'' Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said during a visit to Kiev this month.=20 Yushchenko, touring the plant 80 miles north of the capital, was noncommittal Tuesday, saying only that the date might be released by the summer meeting of international donors for Chernobyl.=20 The Group of Seven richest nations promised aid in 1995 to help Ukraine close Chernobyl, but Kiev complains the money has been slow in coming. Yushchenko reiterated that, asking for more support.=20 ``Despite the world's good political understanding of the Chernobyl problem, Ukraine is left alone to deal with practical liquidation of the danger that Chernobyl represents,'' he said.=20 The government says Ukraine spent $5.7 billion to battle the effects of the disaster during Soviet times and $5 billion since independence in 1991.=20 Over the past year, Western money has helped Ukraine conduct repairs on the leaky concrete and steel sarcophagus over the exploded reactor, and workers have started to build a nuclear waste storage facility.=20 Still, much remains to be done.=20 With the economy declining badly since the Soviet collapse, state funding covered only an average of 51.6 percent of Chernobyl relief needs from 1996-98. Financial constraints forced the Cabinet to actually finance just 85 percent of Chernobyl-linked social programs in 1999.=20 The 2000 budget allocated only $290 million of at least $830 million needed a year for social and health programs to help Chernobyl victims, Emergency Situations Minister Vasyl Durdynets said recently.=20 Officials say the health of affected populace is steadily deteriorating.=20 The number of diseases among affected children is 17 percent higher on average than among their ordinary counterparts, and the incidence of some illnesses twice exceeds the norm.=20 A Health Ministry report released last week said thyroid cancer among Ukrainian children has risen dramatically since the accident. About 1,400 people who were children or adolescents at the time of the disaster have been operated on for thyroid cancer so far.=20 Chernobyl-related troubles are not limited to health issues.=20 The working reactor has suffered repeated shutdowns this winter over failures at its safety valves. The government is far from clear on what to do with about 6,000 plant workers and their families once Chernobyl is closed. Vast areas of Ukraine remain contaminated. Tons of nuclear fuel apparently are still inside the sarcophagus.=20 ``The Ukrainian people have performed a heroic deed during those 14 years as they fought to contain this tragedy,'' Yushchenko said. ``Ukraine must not be left alone.''=20 ---- Ukraine Chernobyl survivors mark 14th anniversary UKRAINE: April 26, 2000 http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3D6464 KIEV - About 1,500 Ukrainian survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and their families marched through Kiev on Sunday to mark the 14th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident.=20 Umbrellas bobbed in drizzling rain among the orange and blue flags of activist groups, as marchers protesting against diminishing government compensation payments waved black banners, one of which read "Revising Chernobyl laws is genocide of the people". "This year's budget is offensive to the invalids, widows and orphans of Chernobyl," the head of the Chernobyl Union Yuri Andreyev told Reuters, referrring to the cash-strapped government's tight fiscal plan for 2000. "We all know it will finish with a complete end to the Chernobyl programme of social security." Health officials said this week the April 26, 1986 fire and explosion at the plant's fourth reactor was still blighting the lives and health of Ukrainians, with some 3.5 million people sickened by radioactive contamination. Over a third of that number were children. United Nations data show millions of people still live on contaminated land in Belarus, which bore the brunt of the disaster, and in Russia. Some parts of Western Europe were also polluted. The U.N. has called for the international community, whose efforts so far have concentrated on trying to close the last remaining reactor at Chernobyl, to raise $9.5 million for health and ecological projects in the impoverished region. "The health of people affected by the Chernobyl accident is getting worse and worse every year," Deputy Ukrainian Health Minister Olha Bobyleva told a news conference this week. UKRAINE PROMISES CHERNOBYL CLOSURE THIS YEAR Ukraine has promised the international community, fearing a repeat disaster if the Soviet-era station keeps working, to close Chernobyl by the end of this year but has set no date. It says foreign partners have not stumped up promised funds to help close the station - a complex and lengthy process - and complete new reactors at other atomic stations to replace capacity lost at Chernobyl. Ukraine's five nuclear power plants produce about half the nation's supply of electricity, which is in any case erratic across most of the country due to payment arrears and ageing infrastructure. The Group of Seven leading industrial nations says Ukraine must make good on its closure promises first. Closure also puts a large question mark over the fate of roughly 6,000 workers who keep the station running. "Of course I am for closing Chernobyl but it should have been done long ago. It's not so simple, and God forbid there should be any accident when they shut it down," said Nadezhda Matyash, head of a group of mothers of children with cancer. "Closing it takes a lot of money which we don't have, and our foreign partners promise and promise but don't give funds."=20 Story by Christina Ling=20 REUTERS NEWS SERVICE=20 ---- APRIL 25, 13:31 EDT=20 Russia Urged To Cut Fuel Leaks=20 By ANNA DOLGOV=20 Associated Press Writer=20 http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=3DEUROPE&STORYID=3DAPIS7= 42TCCG0 MOSCOW (AP) =97 The oil and natural gas that Russia loses in leaks and spills every year could provide enough energy to allow the country to close its nuclear power plants, Greenpeace said Tuesday.=20 The comments by the Russian, German and Dutch branches of the environmental group came on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Ukraine, which sent a radioactive cloud over much of Europe.=20 Russia relies heavily on its nine nuclear power plants. No major accidents have been reported at the Russian plants and the government says all Chernobyl-type reactors have been modernized and are safe.=20 ``We are trying to prove that ... the output of nuclear power stations could be substituted,'' said Oganes Targulian, a Greenpeace-Russia oil specialist.=20 Russian Nuclear Power Ministry spokesman Vladislav Petrov was skeptical about the Greenpeace proposal.=20 ``It's a bit like saying, 'Let's take the whole humankind and transport it to a new, wonderful planet,''' Petrov said by telephone. ``The idea is nice, but can it be realized?''=20 Between 70 million and 140 million barrels of oil are spilled in Russia every year, out of the approximately 2.1 billion barrels the country produces, according to government and environmentalist estimates cited in a Greenpeace report released Tuesday.=20 The country also loses between 210 billion cubic feet to 1.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in pipeline leaks every year, the report said. Russia's annual natural gas production has hovered around 19 trillion cubic feet the past few years, according to government figures.=20 The exact losses are hard to estimate because some companies underreport leaks and spills to avoid paying fines, while others may exaggerate them to hide fuel theft, Targulian told reporters.=20 Every year, another 630 billion cubic feet of associated natural gas =97 a byproduct of oil fields =97 is simply burnt up because Russian oil companies say transporting or converting it into energy is unprofitable, Targulian said.=20 Depending on fuel leak estimates and the efficiency of power plants, the wasted oil and gas could give Russia between 70 billion and 316 billion extra kilowatt-hours of energy every year, according to the Greenpeace report.=20 In comparison, Russia's nuclear power plants produce 120 billion kilowatt- hours of energy annually, according to government figures cited in the Greenpeace report.=20 Russia relies on aging pipelines, often hastily built during the Soviet era, and patching fuel leaks would require major upgrades. Greenpeace has not estimated the cost of renovations needed to reduce leaks, Targulian said. ---- April 25, 2000 Worst Effects of Chernobyl To Come http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-UN-Chernobyl.html By The Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations released a new assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown Tuesday, saying the worst health consequences for millions of people may be yet to come.=20 ``At least 100 times as much radiation was released by this accident as by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined'' at the end of World War II, said a 32-page booklet released to mark the 14th anniversary of the disaster.=20 Three people were killed in the explosion on April 26, 1986, and 28 emergency workers died within the first three months, the report said. It gave no other death toll, but noted that 106 of the other emergency workers that were first on the scene also were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome.=20 And, the report said, a total of 600,000 emergency workers who helped in the cleanup and later built a cover to seal the destroyed reactor ``must be constantly monitored for the effects of exposure to radiation.''=20 The booklet, published by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the three countries most affected by the radiation -- Belarus, Ukraine and Russia -- continue to pay the price.=20 ``Chernobyl is a word we would all like to erase from our memory,'' said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a foreword.=20 But, Annan added, ``more than 7 million of our fellow human beings do not have the luxury of forgetting. They are still suffering, everyday, as a result of what happened.'' He said the exact number of victims may never be known, but that 3 million children require treatment and ``many will die prematurely.''=20 ``Not until 2016, at the earliest, will be known the full number of those likely to develop serious medical conditions'' because of delayed reactions to radiation exposure, he said.=20 Annan said response to a U.N. appeal launched three years ago had fallen so short that the original list of 60 projects had been shortened to the nine most urgent.=20 ``These nine projects could, if implemented, make a vital difference to the lives of many people,'' Annan said in appealing for governments and institutions to contribute $9.5 million.=20 The projects include modernization of a hospital, creation of a network of centers to treat children and decontamination of schools, kindergartens and hospitals in Belarus.=20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_12538705==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Chernobyl remembered

April 26, 2000 Washington Times
 Embassy Row, by
 James Morrison


 Ukrainian Ambassador Kostyantyn
 Gryshchenko this evening will lead a
 commemoration on the 14th
 anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear
 accident.

 Mr. Gryshchenko will be joined by
 representatives of the
 Ukrainian-American community and
 clergymen from the Ukrainian
 Orthodox and Catholic churches at the
 6:30 p.m. gathering in Lafayette Park.

----

Here are some stories today and yesterday about Chernobyl:

APRIL 26, 01:31 EDT

 Ukraine Promises To Close Chernobyl

 By MARINA SYSOYEVA
 Associated Press Writer


 CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP)
 =97 For 14 years, Ukraine has
 coped with the legacy of the
 world's worst nuclear disaster
 at Chernobyl =97 and the path
 to recovery is still long. Now
 the government is again
 promising to shut the ill-fated
 plant, but refuses to give a
 date.

 ``Chernobyl will be closed
 down,'' Prime Minister Viktor
 Yushchenko pledged Tuesday night, the eve of the accident's
 anniversary. He spoke after laying a wreath at a memorial to
 firefighters who were among the first to combat radioactive
 flames from the disaster =97 and among the first to die.=20

 The pre-dawn accident on April 26, 1986 sent a cloud that
 rained radiation over much of Europe and contaminated large
 areas in then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

 According to Ukrainian government figures, more than 4,000 of
 those who took part in the hasty and poorly organized Soviet
 cleanup effort have died, and more than 70,000 Ukrainians
 were fully disabled by the disaster.

 Overall, about 3.4 million of Ukraine's 50
 million people, including about 1.26
 million children, are considered affected
 by Chernobyl. Of them, 400,000 adults
 and nearly 1.1 million children are
 entitled to state aid for Chernobyl-linked
 health problems.

 But despite the terrible legacy,
 Chernobyl's closure =97 long urged by
 Western nations and environmentalists
 the world over =97 remains uncertain.

 The plant now has just one working
 reactor, No. 3. The 1986 calamity ruined
 its reactor No. 4. Another of Chernobyl's
 RBMK reactors has been inactive since a
 1991 fire and a third was stopped in 1996.

 Ukraine had promised to fully close down Chernobyl by the end
 of 1999, but delayed the closure until an unspecified date this
 year, saying it is too strapped for energy and needs financial aid
 to build two new reactors as compensation.

 Meanwhile, pressure is mounting on
 Ukraine to give a definite closure date
 for what many see as the embodiment of
 the evils of the atomic era.

 ``It is essential to have a date fixed,''
 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
 said during a visit to Kiev this month.

 Yushchenko, touring the plant 80 miles
 north of the capital, was noncommittal
 Tuesday, saying only that the date might
 be released by the summer meeting of
 international donors for Chernobyl.

 The Group of Seven richest nations
 promised aid in 1995 to help Ukraine
 close Chernobyl, but Kiev complains the
 money has been slow in coming.
 Yushchenko reiterated that, asking for more support.

 ``Despite the world's good political understanding of the
 Chernobyl problem, Ukraine is left alone to deal with practical
 liquidation of the danger that Chernobyl represents,'' he said.

 The government says Ukraine spent $5.7 billion to battle the
 effects of the disaster during Soviet times and $5 billion since
 independence in 1991.

 Over the past year, Western money has helped Ukraine
 conduct repairs on the leaky concrete and steel sarcophagus
 over the exploded reactor, and workers have started to build a
 nuclear waste storage facility.

 Still, much remains to be done.

 With the economy declining badly since the Soviet collapse,
 state funding covered only an average of 51.6 percent of
 Chernobyl relief needs from 1996-98. Financial constraints
 forced the Cabinet to actually finance just 85 percent of
 Chernobyl-linked social programs in 1999.

 The 2000 budget allocated only $290 million of at least $830
 million needed a year for social and health programs to help
 Chernobyl victims, Emergency Situations Minister Vasyl
 Durdynets said recently.

 Officials say the health of affected populace is steadily
 deteriorating.

 The number of diseases among affected children is 17 percent
 higher on average than among their ordinary counterparts, and
 the incidence of some illnesses twice exceeds the norm.

 A Health Ministry report released last week said thyroid cancer
 among Ukrainian children has risen dramatically since the
 accident. About 1,400 people who were children or adolescents
 at the time of the disaster have been operated on for thyroid
 cancer so far.

 Chernobyl-related troubles are not limited to health issues.

 The working reactor has suffered repeated shutdowns this
 winter over failures at its safety valves. The government is far
 from clear on what to do with about 6,000 plant workers and
 their families once Chernobyl is closed. Vast areas of Ukraine
 remain contaminated. Tons of nuclear fuel apparently are still
 inside the sarcophagus.

 ``The Ukrainian people have performed a heroic deed during
 those 14 years as they fought to contain this tragedy,''
 Yushchenko said. ``Ukraine must not be left alone.''

----

 Ukraine Chernobyl survivors
 mark 14th anniversary

 UKRAINE: April 26, 2000


 KIEV - About 1,500 Ukrainian survivors of the
 1986 Chernobyl disaster and their families
 marched through Kiev on Sunday to mark
 the 14th anniversary of the world's worst
 nuclear accident.

 Umbrellas bobbed in drizzling rain among the
 orange and blue flags of activist groups, as
 marchers protesting against diminishing
 government compensation payments waved black
 banners, one of which read "Revising Chernobyl
 laws is genocide of the people".

 "This year's budget is offensive to the invalids,
 widows and orphans of Chernobyl," the head of
 the Chernobyl Union Yuri Andreyev told Reuters,
 referrring to the cash-strapped government's tight
 fiscal plan for 2000.

 "We all know it will finish with a complete end=20 to
 the Chernobyl programme of social security."

 Health officials said this week the April 26, 1986
 fire and explosion at the plant's fourth reactor was
 still blighting the lives and health of Ukrainians,
 with some 3.5 million people sickened by
 radioactive contamination.

 Over a third of that number were children. United
 Nations data show millions of people still live on
 contaminated land in Belarus, which bore the
 brunt of the disaster, and in Russia. Some parts of
 Western Europe were also polluted.

 The U.N. has called for the international
 community, whose efforts so far have
 concentrated on trying to close the last remaining
 reactor at Chernobyl, to raise $9.5 million for
 health and ecological projects in the impoverished
 region.

 "The health of people affected by the Chernobyl
 accident is getting worse and worse every year,"
 Deputy Ukrainian Health Minister Olha Bobyleva
 told a news conference this week.

 UKRAINE PROMISES CHERNOBYL CLOSURE
 THIS YEAR

 Ukraine has promised the international
 community, fearing a repeat disaster if the
 Soviet-era station keeps working, to close
 Chernobyl by the end of this year but has set no
 date.

 It says foreign partners have not stumped up
 promised funds to help close the station - a
 complex and lengthy process - and complete new
 reactors at other atomic stations to replace
 capacity lost at Chernobyl.

 Ukraine's five nuclear power plants produce about
 half the nation's supply of electricity, which is in
 any case erratic across most of the country due to
 payment arrears and ageing infrastructure.

 The Group of Seven leading industrial nations
 says Ukraine must make good on its closure
 promises first.

 Closure also puts a large question mark over the
 fate of roughly 6,000 workers who keep the station
 running.

 "Of course I am for closing Chernobyl but it should
 have been done long ago. It's not so simple, and
 God forbid there should be any accident when
 they shut it down," said Nadezhda Matyash, head
 of a group of mothers of children with cancer.

 "Closing it takes a lot of money which we don't
 have, and our foreign partners promise and
 promise but don't give funds."

 Story by Christina Ling

 REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

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APRIL 25, 13:31 EDT

 Russia Urged To Cut Fuel Leaks

 By ANNA DOLGOV
 Associated Press Writer


 MOSCOW (AP) =97 The oil and natural gas that Russia loses in
 leaks and spills every year could provide enough energy to allow
 the country to close its nuclear power plants, Greenpeace said
 Tuesday.

 The comments by the Russian, German and Dutch branches of
 the environmental group came on the eve of the 14th
 anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in
 Ukraine, which sent a radioactive cloud over much of Europe.

 Russia relies heavily on its nine nuclear power plants. No major
 accidents have been reported at the Russian plants and the
 government says all Chernobyl-type reactors have been
 modernized and are safe.

 ``We are trying to prove that ... the output of nuclear power
 stations could be substituted,'' said Oganes Targulian, a
 Greenpeace-Russia oil specialist.

 Russian Nuclear Power Ministry spokesman Vladislav Petrov
 was skeptical about the Greenpeace proposal.

 ``It's a bit like saying, 'Let's take the whole humankind and
 transport it to a new, wonderful planet,''' Petrov said by
 telephone. ``The idea is nice, but can it be realized?''

 Between 70 million and 140 million barrels of oil are spilled in
 Russia every year, out of the approximately 2.1 billion barrels
 the country produces, according to government and
 environmentalist estimates cited in a Greenpeace=20 report
 released Tuesday.

 The country also loses between 210 billion cubic feet to 1.8
 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in pipeline leaks every year, the
 report said. Russia's annual natural gas production has hovered
 around 19 trillion cubic feet the past few years, according to
 government figures.

 The exact losses are hard to estimate because some companies
 underreport leaks and spills to avoid paying fines, while others
 may exaggerate them to hide fuel theft, Targulian told
 reporters.

 Every year, another 630 billion cubic feet of associated natural
 gas =97 a byproduct of oil fields =97 is simply burnt up because
 Russian oil companies say transporting or converting it into
 energy is unprofitable, Targulian said.

 Depending on fuel leak estimates and the efficiency of power
 plants, the wasted oil and gas could give Russia between 70
 billion and 316 billion extra kilowatt-hours of energy every
 year, according to the Greenpeace report.

 In comparison, Russia's nuclear power plants produce 120
 billion kilowatt- hours of energy annually, according to
 government figures cited in the Greenpeace report.

 Russia relies on aging pipelines, often hastily built during the
 Soviet era, and patching fuel leaks would require=20 major
 upgrades. Greenpeace has not estimated the cost of renovations
 needed to reduce leaks, Targulian said.

----

April 25, 2000

 Worst Effects of Chernobyl To Come


 By The Associated Press

 GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations released a new
 assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown
 Tuesday, saying the worst health consequences for
 millions of people may be yet to come.

 ``At least 100 times as much radiation was released by
 this accident as by the two atomic bombs dropped on
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined'' at the end of
 World War II, said a 32-page booklet released to mark
 the 14th anniversary of the disaster.

 Three people were killed in the explosion on April 26,
 1986, and 28 emergency workers died within the first
 three months, the report said. It gave no other death toll,
 but noted that 106 of the other emergency workers that
 were first on the scene also were diagnosed with acute
 radiation syndrome.

 And, the report said, a total of 600,000 emergency
 workers who helped in the cleanup and later built a
 cover to seal the destroyed reactor ``must be constantly
 monitored for the effects of exposure to radiation.''

 The booklet, published by the U.N. Office for the
 Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the three
 countries most affected by the radiation -- Belarus,
 Ukraine and Russia -- continue to pay the price.

 ``Chernobyl is a word we would all like to erase from
 our memory,'' said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
 in a foreword.

 But, Annan added, ``more than 7 million of our fellow
 human beings do not have the luxury of forgetting.=20 They
 are still suffering, everyday, as a result of what
 happened.'' He said the exact number of victims may
 never be known, but that 3 million children require
 treatment and ``many will die prematurely.''

 ``Not until 2016, at the earliest, will be known the full
 number of those likely to develop serious medical
 conditions'' because of delayed reactions to radiation
 exposure, he said.

 Annan said response to a U.N. appeal launched three
 years ago had fallen so short that the original list of 60
 projects had been shortened to the nine most urgent.

 ``These nine projects could, if implemented, make a
 vital difference to the lives of many people,'' Annan
 said in appealing for governments and institutions to
 contribute $9.5 million.

 The projects include modernization of a hospital,
 creation of a network of centers to treat children and
 decontamination of schools, kindergartens and=20 hospitals
 in Belarus.

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--=====================_12538705==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) APPEAL - SUPPORT NEW AGENDA COALITION ON N-WEAPONS Date: 28 Apr 2000 17:49:20 +1000 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE Dear All, This is from the director of WILPF's UN office, Felicity Hill, at the NPT Review Conference. You may have recieved it before - We are trying to get absolutely maximal circulation, so duplication is inevitable. Please excuse us. The gist of it is that we should all write to our foreign ministers/secretaries of state and UN representatives, asking them to support the New Aganda Coalition on nuclear weapons, and to endorse the initiatives proposed by that grouping. The New Agenda Coalition has proposed a series of measures aimed that implementing the legal requirement of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, namely that the nuclear weapons states eliminate their nuclear arsenals 'at an early date'. It includes a number of intermediate measures such as taking weapons off hairtrigger alert and 'no first use' guarantees as well as ratification of the CTBT, and START-II. All sane reasonable measures that are important for ensuring planetary survival. The New Agenda program my not be absolutely perfect but it warrants your strong support. Please do send this appeal to as many people as you can, and please do act on what it asks you to do as soon as possible. John Hallam Delivered-To: foesyd4@f.pop.ihug.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: flick@pop.igc.org =46rom: Felicity Hill Cc: wilpf-news@igc.topica.com X-Rcpt-To: nonukes@foesyd.org.au PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS Dear Colleagues, One month is a long time in politics. The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000. As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for nuclear disarmament since 1998. Building on the language contained in treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise. Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187 governments. You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are weakening and a new arms race is brewing. o Please send letters and visit your elected representatives o Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence o Please send letters to the editor o Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity =46ollowing you will find: * Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work * The text of the speech, also attached, introducing the Working Document * The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament, also attached. Lobbying Points o The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24 by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations. Mexico is speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference. o Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together 187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law in 1970. o The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6. "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." o The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden. Their resolution at last years General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states and enjoyed the support of 111 countries. o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable, practical and reasonable and realistic. o If your government has any resistance to the following measures identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them specifically what points could possibly object to in the following: 1. the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming five year period; 2. the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START II and begin negotiations on START III; 3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons. Six interim steps were identified: 1. an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear weapons; 2. de-alerting; 3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination; 4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile materials; 5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and 6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures. New Agenda Statement General Debate 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non -Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons New York, 24 April 2000 Mr. President, May I begin by expressing to you our congratulations on your assumption as President of the VI Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and express our full confidence in your diplomatic skills to provide the appropriate guidance for a successful outcome. Let me assure you of our support in the discharge of your important responsibilities. I have the honor to take the floor on behalf of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden, to address some issues of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation that we think are important to ensure that the purposes of the preamble and the provisions of the Treaty are being realized. This is the first occasion that the States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are gathered to review the operation of the Treaty since the adoption- without a vote of the three Decisions and the Resolution of 1995. One of the cornerstones of this package was the Principles and Objectives which we agreed would govern our actions in pursuing the goals of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Our renewed commitment in 1995 to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective nuclear disarmament measures included a commitment to the determined pursuit by the nuclear-weapon States Parties of systematic and progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally. We must concede that the period of this review has not delivered systematic and progressive efforts by the nuclear weapon states, nor the entry into force of any multilateral instrument in the field of nuclear disarmament. We must recognize that the international nuclear non-proliferation regime is in a fraught state and that our Treaty is under stress. It was within this context that we jointly launched the Declaration: Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World: The Need for a New Agenda. Our purpose in taking such an initiative was to put the nuclear agenda back on track, to give a clear perspective and underpinning through a new and clear undertaking to bring about a nuclear weapon free world without further prevarication. The New Agenda is a programme of action sufficiently flexible to adapt to the circumstances and requirements of each successive stage in the process that leads to the achievement of a world without nuclear weapons. It captures the elements of ongoing processes. And, in a pragmatic and realistic way it brings together successive steps for the international community to implement the obligations of this Treaty. =46undamental to this initiative is the requirement for an unequivocal undertaking on the part of the five nuclear weapon states to the total elimination of their respective nuclear arsenals. Such a commitment would be new. It would determine all future action on the part of.the nuclear weapon states. It would provide a reference point to evaluate progress towards the goals of the NPT, when we again meet in 2005 to review the implementation of the Treaty. And it would signal determination to uphold disarmament imperatives. Mr. President, The singular goal of the States Parties to the NPT is the total elimination of nuclear weapons. This requires bringing to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects, an imperative that was the unanimous conclusion of the International Court of Justice. Adherence to this Treaty by all but four states, three of which operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and retain the nuclear weapons option, is a testament to the extent of international commitment to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons. Underwritten by this unique commitment, there is now an inescapable onus on the nuclear weapon states to meet that challenge. And they must do so by making a definitive and unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. This would be demonstrated by engaging in an accelerated process of reductions. This new signal of determination, together with the efforts of the international community working in concert can achieve the goal of a nuclear weapons free world; a goal that is both realistic and pressing. The one hundred and eighty seven State * s Parties gathered in this review process must engage in plain speaking. We have witnessed continued challenges to the purposes of the Treaty since we last met in 1995. Two states non-parties have carried out nuclear weapon test explosions. These states non-parties and one other state non-party continue to operate unsafeguarded facilities and have not renounced the nuclear weapon option. There has been alleged non-compliance by others. The achievements of the two major nuclear weapon states parties have fallen short of the systematic and progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally, as required by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference. Besides the completion of the negotiation of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty nothing else has been achieved on the multilateral front. In short the response to the challenge of the persistence of nuclear weapons has been of complacency or indifference in some quarters. This critical Review Conference offers us a unique opportunity to move definitively forward in the achievement of a world without nuclear weapons. We have reached the juncture when more far-reaching action must be decided upon. We already have precedents when firm steps were taken which initiated a process leading to the elimination of entire categories of weapons of mass destruction. In the case of nuclear weapons more than half a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are long overdue in taking a determined step in the same direction. Yet, in place of such determination we continue to witness re-statements of policies and postures which reaffirm the central role of nuclear weapons in strategic concepts and the possibility of fighting war with the use of nuclear weapons. In short, we are witnessing a re-rationalization of nuclear weapons in an age when the context which gave rise to the original proliferation of nuclear weapons among the five nuclear weapon states has long disappeared. The elements of the agenda which we have set before you are not in themselves novel. Each of these elements has been the subject of detailed consideration. In this review process we are called upon jointly to develop nuclear disarmament objectives on the basis of the Treaty and the Principles and Objectives of 1995, What the New Agenda advocates is a coherence in approach that could be attained with the necessary political commitment. The achievement of our common goal requires action by all states. We do not seek to interfere in the details of those negotiations which are the primary responsibility of the nuclear weapon states. We acknowledge the prime responsibility of the United States and the Russian Federation in providing the leadership and first steps in nuclear force reductions. We welcome the ratification of the START 11 Treaty by the Russian Federation and urge the United States to complete the ratification procedure as soon as possible so that full and effective implementation of the Treaty can proceed. We acknowledge the unilateral measures undertaken by two of the five nuclear weapon states but call for the early involvement of all five nuclear weapon states in bringing about the elimination of their respective nuclear forces. We consider that the principle of irreversibility should be applied to all disarmament measures. We look to greater transparency as the nuclear disarmament process gains pace. We recognize that the process of nuclear weapons elimination will take time, even with the implementation of an accelerated program of force reductions. But we are also conscious that the nuclear weapon states parties have a responsibility to undertake interim measures consistent with a determination to lessen the prospect of the unleashing of nuclear weapons whether by design or accident before they are eliminated. The measures which we advance are those which our governments consider achievable if not in all cases with immediate effect, but at least in step with underlying nuclear force reductions: - we propose that the outcome of any evaluation of nuclear policies and postures should result in the adoption of non-first use strategies,by all nuclear weapon states among themselves and of non use with respect to non-nuclear weapon states. - we propose that de-alerting and arrangements for the separation of warheads from delivery vehicles be progressively advanced. - we underline the importance of withdrawing non-strategic nuclear weapons from deployment and their elimination. - we advocate the provision of security assurances of a legally binding nature to all non-nuclear weapon states parties. In the process of nuclear disarmament, the priority pursuit of force reductions by the nuclear weapon states must be paralleled by the conclusion of instruments necessary to guarantee the conditions of confidence required for a world without nuclear weapons. Nuclear disarmament is the responsibility of all states and all states must be involved in the process leading to this goal. The maintenance of a nuclear weapons free world will require an instrument or a series of instruments negotiated multilaterally, which will result in a non discriminatory and universal nuclear non-proliferation regime. The conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was an essential building block in the nuclear disarmament agenda. The urgent commencement of negotiations on a fissionable materials treaty must be another essential element, providing as it would the beginnings of the extension of multilateral verification to cover all fissile materials for weapons purposes, as required in a world free of nuclear weapons. Pending the conclusion and entry into force of these instruments, we call for a moratorium by the nuclear weapon states on all further production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons and to uphold the purposes of the CTBT to which they are all signatories. We also urge those states non-parties that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities to halt immediately production of fissile material for nuclear weapons. The further extension and development of existing nuclear weapon free zones and respect for their status by the nuclear weapon states through adherence to the relevant protocols reinforce the global thrust of non-proliferation efforts and the international consensus that these contribute to that end. We also call for the establishment of additional nuclear weapon free zones' especially in areas of tension such as the Middle East and South Asia. To date, the Conference on Disarmament has been central to the shaping of the agenda for a world free of nuclear weapons. It is now time to advance our engagement there on the next steps as well as the overall framework necessary for the achievement of a global ban on these weapons. Other organizations, in particular the IAEA, should be mandated to intensify work on elaborating the verification mechanisms required in a world free of nuclear weapons. Mr. President, We are encouraged by the fact that the. Secretary General in his rep ort to the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations proposes to give consideration "to convening a major international conference that would help to identify ways of eliminating nuclear danger". We consider that an international conference on nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, which effectively complements efforts being undertaken in other settings, could facilitate the consolidation of a new agenda for a nuclear weapon free world. Mr. President, The States Parties of the NPT gathered here today comprise one hundred and eighty seven out of the one hundred and ninety two member states of the international community. The three states non-parties to the Treaty that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and engage in nuclear weapons development are central to the achievement of nuclear disarmament. This Review Conference must address these states non-parties and work for their accession to the Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon states and for the placement of their nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards. We are committed to this treaty. But no treaty can be upheld, if the bargain which originally gave rise to is not being fulfilled. This is a critical moment for the NPT. This Review Conference may be our last and best opportunity to move definitively towards the. achievement of the goals of the Treaty and to deliver the security that the retention of nuclear weapons can never confer on humankind. Failure to move now or to signal new determination will make these weapons accepted currency. Nuclear power must not be perverted to endow humanity with the reckless instrument of its own destruction. The New Agenda is the advocacy of responsible and concerned states for a future in security. It is for this Conference to give this message substance by supporting the call for a new political undertaking for an accelerated process of action. Mr. President: - Consistent with the need to identify areas in which and the means through which further progress should be sought, the delegations of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden are putting forward a working document with measures and steps regarding the obligation under Article VI to achieve nuclear disarmament, and request the Secretariat that it be circulated as an official document of this Conference= =2E The Delegations of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden, propose the following text as the identification of areas in which and the means through which further progress should be sought in the future regarding the obligation under Article VI to achieve nuclear disarmament: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT The Sixth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Reaffirming the preamble and articles of the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Stressing the importance of the full implementation of the decisions and the resolution adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and their continued validity, Bearing in mind that the overwhelming majority of States have entered into legally binding commitments not to receive, manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, and recalling that these undertakings were made in the context of corresponding legally binding commitments by the nuclear-weapon States to the pursuit in good faith of nuclear disarmament, Recalling the unanimous conclusion of the International Court of Justice in its 1996 advisory opinion that there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control, Reaffirming that the strict observance of the provisions of the Treaty remain central to achieving the shared objectives of preventing under any circumstances the further proliferation of nuclear weapons, and preserving the Treaty's vital contribution to peace and security. Concemed that negotiations on nuclear arms reductions are currently stalled, Concerned also at the continued retention of the nuclear-weapons option by those three States that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and that have not acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and at their failure to renounce. that option, Stressing that the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems remains a cornerstone of strategic stability and underlining the responsibility of its States Parties to preserve its integrity, Underlining the imperative, in the interim leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons, of lessening the role of these weapons in security policies in a manner that enhances strategic stability so as to facilitate the process of elimination, Affirming that the maintenance of a nuclear-weapon-free world will require the underpinnings of a universal and multilaterally negotiated legally binding instrument or a framework encompassing a mutually reinforcing set of instruments, Bound by the Treaty to the achievement of a nuclear-weapon-free world, Affirms the need to move with determination to the full realisation and effective implementation of the purposes and all the provisions of the Treaty, and affirms the accountability of the States Parties for the fulfilment of their obligations under the Treaty, and to this end. 1 . The five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the course of the forthcoming Review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States Parties are committed under Article VI, 2. 'The United States of America and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement the Treaty on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START 11) and commence without further delay negotiations on START III with a view to its early conclusion; 3. The nuclear-weapon States undertake to proceed to the early integration of all five nuclear-weapon States into the process leading to the total elimination of their respective nuclear weapons; 4. The five nuclear-weapons States undertake, as early and interim steps: (a) To adapt their nuclear policies and postures so as to preclude the use of nuclear weapons; (b) To proceed to the de-alerting, to the removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and to the withdrawal of all nuclear forces from active deployment pending their complete elimination; (c) To reduce tactical nuclear weapons and to proceed to their elimination as an integral part of nuclear arms reductions; (d) To demonstrate greater transparency with regard to their nuclear arsenals and fissile material inventories; (e) To further develop the Trilateral Initiative between the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency so as to include all five nuclear weapon states in similar arrangements and 'to ensure the irreversible removal of fissile material from weapons programmes. (f) To apply the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear disarmament, nuclear arms reduction, and nuclear arms control measures; 5. States Parties agree on the importance and urgency of achieving: (a) The signature and ratification, unconditionally and without delay, of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and, pending the entry into force of the Treaty,'the observance of moratoria on nuclear tests; (b) A non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, taking into consideration both nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament objectives, and pending the entry into force of the treaty, the observation of a moratorium on the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; (c) The establishment in the Conference on Disarmament of an appropriate subsidiary body with a mandate to deal with nuclear disarmament; 6. States Parties agree on the importance and urgency of the pursuit, extension and establishment of nuclear weapon free zones, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at, among States of the regions concerned, especially in regions of tension, such as the Middle East and South Asia, as significant contributions to a nuclear-weapon-free-world, 7. The States Parties agree on the importance of the negotiation and conclusion at an early date of an internationally legally binding instrument to effectively assure non-nuclear weapon States party to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, 8. The States Parties call upon those States that have not yet done. so, to adhere unconditionally and without delay to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to take all the necessary measures required by adherence to that instrument as non-nuclear-weapon States Parties; 9. The States Parties call upon the three States that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and that have not yet acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and that have not renounced the nuclear-weapons option to reverse clearly and urgently the pursuit of all nuclear weapons development or deployment and to refrain from any action that could undermine regional and international peace and security and the efforts of the international community towards nuclear disarmament and the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Content-Id: Content-Type: application/msword; name=3D"nac_statement.doc" ; x-mac-type=3D"5738424E" ; x-mac-creator=3D"4D535744" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=3D"nac_statement.doc" Attachment converted: JOY!:nac_statement.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00005588) Content-Id: Content-Type: application/msword; name=3D"nac_working_paper.doc" ; x-mac-type=3D"5738424E" ; x-mac-creator=3D"4D535744" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=3D"nac_working_paper.doc" Attachment converted: JOY!:nac_working_paper.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00005589) ******* ******* ******* ******* =46elicity Hill, Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom United Nations Office 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Ph: 1 212 682 1265 =46ax: 1 212 286 8211 email: flick@igc.apc.org web: www.wilpf.int.ch www.reachingcriticalwill.org ******* ******* ******* ******* - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Joan Wade" Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent (and simple) Action!!! Date: 28 Apr 2000 12:14:57 -0400 Dear Friends, I am writing to express my deepest appreciation of all your efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Your passion and commitment is outstanding. After a year of working with many of you as the Disarmament Clearinghouse Coordinator, I will be leaving my position to go to graduate school and become an elementary school teacher. I thank you for all of your hard work and encourage you to apply for this excellent position (please see job description below my namestamp). Of course, I wouldn't be the Clearinghouse Coordinator if I didn't have one more action item for you, so here goes: Thank you to those of you who have signed on to the www.onedemocracy.com/stopmissiles petition against missile defense and to all of you who have taken action to stop this expensive and dangerous program. On June 20, 2000, this petition will be delievered to every member of the US Congress, driving home the message that national missile defense is not the object of the American public, but a political football that should not come at the expense of needed social programs and international treaties to reduce nuclear weapons. If you have already signed on and notified your friends and family to do the same, THANK YOU. If you have not yet taken this simple action for a safer world, I urge you to do so as soon as possible and to forward this message on to many others. If you can link this petition to your web site, please do! President Clinton is scheduled to decide this summer whether or not to deploy a $60 billion national missile defense system that doesn't work. As concerned citizens and activists, we must take every measure to avoid deployment, to avoid a new arms race. Please visit www.onedemocracy.com/stopmissiles today. Yours in Peace, Joan L. Wade, Coordinator Disarmament Clearinghouse 1101 14th St., NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 Ph: (202) 898-0150 x232 Fax: (202) 898-0172 E-mail: disarmament@igc.org Web: www.disarmament.org POSITION AVAILABLE DISARMAMENT CLEARINGHOUSE COORDINATOR The Disarmament Clearinghouse is a joint project of major national grassroots membership organizations, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Peace Action, Peace Links, Physicians for Social Responsibility, 20/20 Vision and Women's Action for New Directions. The Clearinghouse provides information, assistance, resources, and action tools to grassroots activists and policy makers working on nuclear disarmament, and develops and coordinates campaigns on nuclear disarmament measures such as National Missile Defense We are looking for someone with the following qualifications: 1) Commitment to promoting a nuclear weapons-free word and knowledge of nuclear disarmament issues including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, national missile defense, the nuclear weapons abolition movement, and other nuclear disarmament measures. 2) Strong writing and oral communication skills, especially for an activist audience. 3) Strong organizing skills with at least one year's experience organizing national issue/ policy campaigns and experience working with peace activists. 4) Knowledge of the legislative process and key policy makers on nuclear weapons issues. 5) Computer skills - Familiarity with e-mail list maintenance, word processing, desk top publishing, database management, and basic web design. 6) Ability to work efficiently and carry-out several projects simultaneously. 7) Ability to work effectively in coalitions, and be accountable to the Steering Committee organizations. 8) Ability to work independently. 9) B.A./B.S. degree or equivalent experience. The tasks of the Coordinator will include: 1) Provide - via e-mail, mailings, phone, and web postings - timely news and analysis of nuclear disarmament issues to grassroots activists and policy makers. 2) Produce educational and organizing resources such as sample letters to the editor, flyers, action alerts, news letters, resource kits etc. 3) Maintain and develop interactive web site. 4) Inform, mobilize, and coordinate national, and regional events such as call-in days, strategy summits. 5) Maintain and build a database of over 500 activists, organizations, and policy maker contacts. 6) Respond to daily requests for information and assistance. 7) Working with the Steering Committee to prepare funding proposals and progress reports for funders. 8) Conduct meetings of the Clearinghouse Steering Committee, including agendas and minutes. Terms: Full-time position. Salary in mid to high $20,000 depending on experience, with health coverage, and annual leave. Open until filled. Please send resume, cover letter and brief (no more than 1-4 pages) writing sample by to: Disarmament Clearinghouse Search 1101 14th Street NW #700 Washington DC 20005 Via FAX: (202) 898 0172 Via E-mail: mbutcher@psr.org NO phone calls please An Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) .Getting re-legalization into Election2000 mainstream Date: 29 Apr 2000 14:49:18 -0700 Saturday, April 29, 2000 Dear Friends, Please consider and take seriously this USCampaign strategy for using the Election2000 media melodrama to get hemp/cannabis/marijuana relegalization into the mainstream of public awareness and onto the platforms of those candidates who will be elected this November, along with other critical issues. Right now this campaign needs the quick commitment of a fairly small number of folks in each State plus DC who are willing for their names to be listed as "Electors" on ballot access petitions so that these petitions may now be put on the web for downloading and circulating by others in each State towards gaining ballot listing for the USCampaign candidacy which is standing strong for full relegalization for all uses as well as a global scale emergency revival of the 1941-45 USDA Hemp for Victory "crash program" to grow this plant everywhere possible as soon as possible as the best way to help ameliorate global climate change before it is too late. No other candidates for election this year are yet taking this strong a stand, but by your quick and easy action now -- to offer your name as a Presidential Elector so that others may start circulating ballot access petitions between now and mid-August towards getting enough signatures for ballot access -- then the public awareness level will rise quickly on this issue and thereby pressure all candidates who want to be elected to take up this legitimate and very serious strong stand for full relegalization. By offering your name as a Presidential Elector you do not have to commit to working on this campaign, gathering signatures, or even voting for the USCampaign ticket in November; your only serious commitment by offering your name as a registered voter to be listed on petitions as an elector in your State is that if the USCampaign ticket wins the popular vote in November in your State for the US Presidency (how likely is that? :-), that you will cast your Electoral College vote for the Williams-Peltier ticket. The entirety of this idea is to pressure mainstream candidates via the polls and increasing public awareness through newspaper articles, etc., to adopt this relegalization issue, and other critical issues that this campaign is championing, eg, end the drug war and CIA drug smuggling complicity, Pardon Leonard Peltier, abolition of nuclear weapons, funding for new clean-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, "Global Peace Now!", etc., etc. We need these elector names committed right away so signature gathering can start on or before a main public "kick-off" of the ballot access petitioning in conjunction with the May 6th global Millennium Marijuana March events for medical cannabis relegalization, and ibogaine legalization to help end drug addictions http://www.cures-not-wars.org So far, among the well known activists on the hemp issue who will help and endorse this campaign are Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, and Ann McCormick who will be electors and/or helping as best they can to promote this campaign. Jack http://www.jackherer.com will be circulating our ballot access petitions in Alaska while promoting the full relegalization initiative they already successfully got on the November ballot in that State by a major signature gathering campaign. Chris http://www.chrisconrad.com , who I spoke to about this last night on the phone, will be an elector for California and will be heavily lobbying other political candidates to stand strong for relegalization of medical cannabis/marijuana and industrial hemp. Jack and Chris both were glad to be my electors in my brief 1996 Independent Presidential campaign trying then to bring out these same issues. Ann http://members.home.net/amccormick , who I spoke to on the phone yesterday after her return to LA from the Global Peace Walk, is helping with networking and has recommended some good folks for me to contact in New England but I need your help, due to time limitations, to forward this post to all those you know who might be interested to help with this need for electors, right away, like this weekend. If we get enough signatures for ballot access in this period, then the Williams-Peltier ticket will go on the November ballot and that will give enormous leverage for the relegalization issue, and the others, during the last three months before the election. In each State where not enough signatures are gathered, the slate of electors will still be registered in each State by a later deadline two weeks before the election. This would mean instead of it being an "Independent Candidacy" listed on the ballot, it will be an offical "Write-In Candidacy" not listed on the ballot but where any write-in votes will be in fact be counted and reported. Again, I'm not asking for any commitments to waste votes in November, just to use this opportunity to raise public awareness and thereby pressure other candidates to take up this legalization issue and other important issues that USCampaign is championing. The first newspaper article about this USCampaign will appear in tomorrow's Bakersfield Californian newspaper and it may be on their website (Features?) in the morning at http://www.bakersfield.com The reporter interviewed me two days ago and said he would write in mention of Ann with reference to Todd McCormick's case, so already you can see that the media is becoming interested to write about this more because of this Quixotic Presidential Campaign. He said he is limited to 600 words and it is already longer than that, so we will see how it comes out. I expect he will do more articles because I gave him so much info on campaign issues. This is an AP wire paper so if the article appears in your newspaper, please save it and let me know so we can use it. You can also write a followup letter to the editor at that site with your comments and encouragement for them to do more stories in this, my local newspaper. For more information on this campaign, issues and strategy, see http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier If you can offer your name as a Presidential Elector in your State, send an email to uscampaign@egroups.com with the subject line including your state abbreviation [bracketed] followed by a space, and your name as registered to vote, eg, ----Subject: [CA] Hempfree J. Bogart ----. In the body of the email put your name and address as registered to vote, along with phone/fax/email data so when needed your info can be verified etc. If you have questions about the procedure, issues, messages, etc., or if you want to help as a signature gatherer or in any other way, please read the first posts in the messages archives at http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier If you know you want to be a coordinator for this USCampaign to help get the word out, collaborate by email, etc., send an email same as above but in addition to your state abbreviation begin subject line with [coordinator] in which case you do not even need to be a registered voter. Only electors and signature gatherers need to be registered voters. The most I can hope for at this time is that this campaign will gain enough public awareness with your help so that folks can pressure their favorite candidates for all offices this year on their particular issues by saying, "Look, even this Davy Crockett guy supports this issue so if you don't take it up, then I might have to vote for him and Leonard Peltier in November and I don't want to do that!". If we get a high enough level of public awareness on this campaign, with your help, this may become more than the joke it seems to be at this point in time. Thanks for doing whatever you can to help on this as the future of our planet may depend on the success of this campaign, for real, as well as any kind of relegalization and resolution to the drug war. David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) new president plans to grant a full pardon Date: 30 Apr 2000 08:55:18 -0700 Article on front page Local section was titled: "Tehachapi man never short on words for presidential run" http://www.bakersfield.com/bak/i--1255074667.asp The Bakersfield Californian Sunday, April 30, 2000 by Robert Price, Staff Columnist, rprice@bakersfield.com As soon as he's inaugurated, the new president plans to grant a full pardon to a certain infamous political figure. The president doesn't care how that gesture might affect his approval ratings because he has already planned his second official act: He's going to resign from office, paving the way for the pardoned man to seize control of the Oval Office in a coup the likes of which these shores have never seen. Sound like a Bill Clinton-hater's worst nightmare? A dirty little rumor emanating from the George W. Bush camp? The latest hard-cover conspiracy theory from Tom Clancy? A fresh subject for Rush Limbaugh, finally tiring of the Elian saga? It's none of the above. It's the inauguration-day game plan of one David Crockett Williams - Tehachapi resident, self-styled metaphysicist, futurist, advocate for peace and unlikeliest of presidential candidates. What makes Williams' plan particularly unusual is his choice of running mate: It's none other than Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life terms at Leavenworth for killing a pair of FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. Apparently, Williams is not actively pursuing the cop vote. Amnesty International considers Peltier, an Anishinabe-Lakota Indian, a political prisoner for two reasons: Peltier's leadership role in the pseudo-separatist American Indian Movement, and allegations of perjury and prosecution misconduct before and during Peltier's 1977 trial. Williams, a Caucasian, sees Peltier's unorthodox journey to the White House as a sort of American Nelson Mandela story, in which the incarcerated dissident walks out of prison and heals the nation's wounds. Peltier, needless to say, won't be doing much active campaigning. And that's OK, because Williams (who has never met Peltier personally) won't be doing much either. Not unless you count the electronic missives he fires around the country from his 12-by-12 home office. Williams is a 55-year-old chemist-turned-financial planner-turned fulltime visionary. At the age of 29 he shaved his head and declared that, until world peace is achieved, he would never again apply a razor to his skin. We all know how the world-peace thing is going, so it should be no surprise that, 36 years after taking his hair vow, Williams has a salt-and-pepper ZZ Top beard, thick, black-framed Allen Ginsberg reading glasses and a pony tail he wears in a tight bun. If elected, he would be the hairiest U.S. chief executive since Rutherford B. Hayes. Not much chance of that. Williams, running as an independent (he has about 3˝ months, starting this week, to collect enough signatures to qualify for the various state ballots), would be the first to admit that his odds are none and none. He may take issue with much of what passes for conventional thinking in physics, religion and politics, but he's enough of a realist to know a sinking rowboat when he sees one. He ran for president in 1996, too, and heard all the questions many readers might be asking themselves now. "That was the hardest part, listening to some of the reactions," Williams says. " 'Are you trying to be funny or are you just stupid? Or are you just really egotistical?' "It's none of those things. I don't want to be president but I have a responsibility as an American citizen to stand up and talk about what I know to be an environmental and social emergency. I'll be more than happy to back somebody else who can get my message out better than I can." David Crockett Williams Jr. is the son of a Walt Disney Co. accountant and World War II veteran who died in 1985. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and spent much of his adult life in Santa Barbara, coming to Tehachapi four years ago to care for his widowed mother, with whom he now lives. When he's not running for president, Williams occupies his time with an array of daunting (some might say odd) pursuits. Among them: Refuting Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity with his own Tetron Natural Unified Field Theory. Studying new commercial energy sources. He's written extensively about the relationship of electricity, gravity, magnetism and inertia. Working toward the legalization of marijuana. Ann McCormick, the mother of cancer patient Todd McCormick, who was recently sentenced to prison for "medical" marijuana possession, is the new volunteer staff coordinator for Williams' presidential campaign. Studying religion and spirituality. He has followed Buddhism but sees correlations and intertwined truths among many of the world's great religions, including the Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Hopi faiths. Helping organize the Global Walk for Peace, which is presently moving across the North American continent. Williams was the national coordinator of the 1995 event. He can talk about any or all of those subjects for as long as people are willing to listen. "Once," he says, "a friend told me, 'David, you are the kind of guy who, when someone asks you what time it is, you tell them how to build a watch?'" Which brings us to what might be the most difficult and challenging aspect of a David Crockett Williams administration, brief through it might otherwise be: The inauguration speech could go on for weeks. For more on David Crockett Williams: http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html --------------end newspaper article------ David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Peace Walk 2000 through New Mexico Date: 30 Apr 2000 17:46:45 -0700 Readers are invited to add their web links and to use the self-serve searchable directory of progressive and related organizations, approximately 7000 listed, Macrocosm USA http://www.macronet.org Many thanks to all the people in New Mexico (including the Global Circle webmaster for his New Mexico site with photos, below) for their help and participation with Global Peace Walk 2000 in the last weeks. Global Peace Walk Benefit Concert, Albuquerque NM Friday, May 5th. For latest details always check 415-267-1877 walkers' voicemail. The walkers will also be joining the Millennium Marijuana March in Albuquerque this Saturday, May6th, for medical cannabis relegalization and legalization of the ibogaine African rainforest root extract to help end drug addictions. http://www.cures-not-wars.org The Global Peace Walk event in Taos on April 22nd has inaugurated "A Year for The Earth Campaign" (April 22, 2000 -- April 22, 2001) for an annual "Earth Month" from the original Earth Day date of the Spring Equinox, on March 21st in 2001, to the April 22nd popular Earth Day date. The co-coordinator of this annual Earth Month campaign will be David M. Seaborg, an evolutionary biologist and environmental organizer listed in "Who's Who In America", and the son of Glenn Seaborg, the Nobel Prize winning chemist. http://www.egroups.com/group/earth-month The walk will be in New Mexico areas doing local events for the next couple of weeks before walking from Taos to Oklahoma City for a Monday May 29th Memorial Day Holiday Ceremony at the newly dedicated National Memorial at the Federal Building Bombing Site. From July 1-4, the walkers will be fasting at a camp close to Leavenworth Penitentiary near Lawrence, Kansas, in support of Freedom for Leonard Peltier http://www.freepeltier.org August 6-15 will be main events in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Preliminary, Apr26, report about the Taos, NM, area events from local coordinator Mrs. Standing Deer of Drums2000 and Medicine Bird Gallery: http://www.newmex.com/drum2000 The Global Peace Walk in Taos was fantastic! Pba-Quen-Nee-e and I went out to meet them in the canyon outside Talpa and we each walked about 5 miles with the group, many of whom had tired of walking through the mountains and retired to the bus. About 10 friends and relatives from Taos Pueblo were there waiting including our cousin , Annette McHorse and Mrs. Romero. They carried the peace pipe for the walkers. The walk got slowed down on US Hill when the bus had minor mechanical problem but some of the Rez boys drove up and before long they were back on the road. We got to the Visitor Center in Taos about 6:30 PM and Dr. Yamato said a prayer at sunset. On Saturday morning we went to Kit Carson Park a little after sunrise and about 6 or 8 town folk were waiting including Mayor Fred Peralta. About 8 o'clock we got concerned and sent out scouts. The mayor had to leave but returned later. They got to the park at somewhere close to 9 and the tree planting was beautiful. Dr.Yamato spoke, Mayor Peralta, Pba-Quen-Nee-e spoke briefly and said a prayer in Tiwa and Annette McHorse said a prayer. Also present was an Elder, Selo Blackcrow, the second principle chief of the Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota and a spiritual leader. He spoke also and was quite candid about the State of Turtle Island (the U.S.). The Peace Walkers dug three holes into which went water, poured by Dr. Yamato, some sage and tobacco and many prayers. Three young evergreens were lovingly planted by many hands, one Ponderosa Pine and the other two I'm not sure but perhaps a Pinon and a Spruce or Fir tree. Afterward we did a little drumming but Pba-quen-Nee-e and I had to leave about 10:30 as many stayed for a few hours of knowledge sharing and music making. The group stayed on the mesa a couple of nights since and did a sweat in Ranchos De Taos. Some members stayed at our cousin Annette's just down the road from us here on the Rez, where they parked the bus. The guys planted flowers, built a fence and cleaned up the area...looks great! Some gathered empty aluminum cans and made a little extra cash for gas. Today we took over some socks, shirts, jeans, jackets, soap , toothpaste, etc and delivered the messages you sent for Crispin who had gone somewhere to pick up his instruments, Annette said. We saw them packing the Bus about 5 this evening. Today was beautiful...about 80 degrees and a little windy but it was still tonite with a fantastic sunset!!! I understand they were leaving tonight or maybe in the morning. I think Crispin said they're going back toward Albuquerque. I hope they got their much needed rest. Wish you could have been here...I'm sure we'll meet someday. There should be an article in the Taos News tomorrow, maybe I can get a copy to you. Gotta run. More later. Ah-sa-mu-ya, Pha-Tuhl-Pupp-Yah --- Global Peace Walk co-coordinator Crispin Clarke reported by phone that Mayor Peralta patiently took part for a long time in the event April 22nd -- the five year anniversary of his being the first city mayor to proclaim his city as a Global Peace Zone in support of the walk and its mission to bring out the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve for a worldwide Global Peace Zone -- and this year, the sixth annual Global Peace Walk in Taos, Mayor Peralta took part in the prayer circle-of-hands ceremony and added his voice to the great common cry to the heavens for "Global Peace Now!" Crispin will spend two weeks at home in Washington DC after May 6th to do advance work for the walk's arrival there for events October 6-12 --- One of the participants created a special website for the walk with photos and special information which is reformatted and excerpted below: http://globalcircle.net/peace1.htm Global Peace Walk 2000 through New Mexico Webmaster's Message: "We were honored to take part in the ceremonies, and the photos we we took on this page cannot convey the meaning of the Tewa and Sioux rituals and Buddhist prayers for peace "We also join with Global Peace Walk in supporting the Dine' against forced relocation from Big Mountain" http://globalcircle.net/native.htm#Resisting [great link, info/resources on Big Mountain and other global indigenous issues] [photos; captions:] Tree planting in Taos, sunrise ceremony Apr 22 We caught up with the Peace Walkers coming into Taos early morning, Apr 22 Selo Blackcrow of the Pine Ridge Ogalala Sioux speaks to the sunrise gathering in Taos above: Marian and Selo Blackcrow right: Taos Pueblo elder in ceremony below: Taos Mayor takes part [other photos are shown, accompanying text:] Remembering Thomas Banyaca -- NY Times reporter Robert Thomas, Jr. wrote that Banyaca "spent half a century on a tireless and often thankless Hopi spiritual mission to save the planet from the ravages of modern materialism and greed." http://www.sonic.net/~kerry/banyacya/thomas.htm [photos & message] The annual activity of GPW is the walk from Taos to Santa Fe, New Mexico, from April 22 (Earth Day*) to April 26, Global Peace Walk Day in Santa Fe. --- See An important message about the real "*Earth Day" and Global Peace Walk 2000 --- http://globalcircle.net/peace6.htm In the year 2000, the Global Peace Walk will be from San Francisco, January 15th (Martin Luther King's birthday) walking to Washington, DC, for a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument as a symbol of peace (following the example of The Peace Pole as a symbol of The Message of Peace) and the UN in NY arriving on United Nations Day, October 24 the 55th anniversary of the ratification of the creation documents of the UN, signed on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco, before the July 16, 1945 first atomic bomb test. The theme will be "Global Nuclear Disarmament as the First Step Towards Global Peace Now and General Disarmament to End All Wars". The route of the Global Peace Walk 2000 will include Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22 & 26, and other cities including (CA) San Jose, Santa Cruz, Bakersfield, Keene (Cesar Chavez Foundation at La Paz), Tehachapi; (NV) Las Vegas and the Nuclear Test Site at Mercury; (AZ) Flagstaff, Hopi and Navajo (Dineh) territory including Big Mountain; (NM) Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos; (OK) Oklahoma City, Tulsa; (KS) Lawrence, Kansas City; (MO) Kansas City, Columbia, St. Louis (this is the rendezvous city for all branch routes to join together and walk together onward); (IN) Indianapolis; (OH) Dayton, Springfield, Columbus; (PA) Pittsburgh, Harrisburg; (MD) Baltimore From Global Peace Walk 2000 History http://www.globalpeacenow.org/history.html The Global Peace Walk was initiated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and to remember and empower its original purpose to remove the scourge of war from the future generations. The inspiration for the initiation of the Global Peace Walk came through the person of a contemporary colleague of Fujii Guruji, one of the last generations of Buddhist Monks schooled in the traditional system and culture of Japan, Rev. Yusen Yamato, a Zen Shiatzu Meditation Practitioner, who received the personal blessing of His Holiness Dalai Lama for this project. The Global Peace Walk, Pathway to Global Peace Zone 2000, By Zen Shiatzu [Meditation Practitioner] Rev. Yusen Yamato "We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life. Living on the Globe with All my friends." "In 1991, I visited the United Nations with the Hopi (people praying for peace) prophecy spokesperson, Thomas Banyaca. The Hopi Nation ancestors left a message that stated that the Hopi would visit the "house of mica" (the prophesied glasslike building found to be the United Nations) four times, to open the door of the UN to the Spiritual Message of Peace. Before 1991 Hopi had tried already three times to open the door of the UN, but the UN did not communicate with Hopi. "Prior to this UN visit with Mr. Banyaca, I pilgrimaged to India. In India I offered prayers in Leh, Ladakh, and Rajgir. I walked and prayed in Naranda, Buddha-Gaya, Sarnat, Baishari, and Kushinagar. In Kushinagar, Namgyo Monastery's monks offered me an invitation to His Holiness Dalai Lama's Namgyo Monastery in Dharamsala. I honorably met H.H. Dalai Lama to inform him of Hopi Prophecy. He offered me a message, "Future Generations must develop a greater sense of global responsibility". Also H.H. Dalai Lama invited me and the Hopi Prophecy spokesperson, Thomas Banyaca, to the New York City Central Park Sunrise Ceremony and Kalachakra Ceremony at Madison Square Garden. This ceremonial event was to fulfill part of both the Hopi Prophecy, and also the Tibetan Prophecy of "When iron birds fly in the sky and iron horses run on the land, the Red robe people will spread to the four directions and then the Dharma will come to the land of the Red people". I was honored to witness and participate in this spiritual ceremony. "After this ceremony Mr. Banyaca and I, and some representatives from Bahai, went to the UN building. In front of the entrance of the UN, the first UN secretary was waiting for us and officially accepted the Hopi Sovereign Nation passport, for the first time in history. Mr. Banyaca performed sacred ceremony, and he offered the Hopi message, eagle feather and prayer to the UN. "The following year 1992, the UN invited representatives from many indigenous nations around the world to come for a conference which turned into the "Beyond Treaty" ceremony during the big storm of New York City, December 12-13, 1992. In 1993, at the World Indigenous Conference in the UN, indigenous people accused the spirit of the UN for only supporting governments. They suggested that the UN support more the survival of human beings, The Way of Life, and The Tree of Life. I was there to witness this whole ceremony as an inspiration for the Global Peace Walk of 1995." The official site for the Global Peace Walk. http://www.globalpeacenow.org Here is the detailed schedule from San Francisco to New York (January 15 to October 24 2000) http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html The walkers' needs and fundraising. http://www.globalpeacenow.org/needs.html [please support the walkers and send donations to:] GLOBAL PEACE WALK c/o Yucca Foundation [501(c)3] P.O. Box 170245 San Francisco, CA 94117-0245 Phone: 415-863-2084 Voicemail & Updates: 415-267-1877 e-Fax: 413-895-8588 e-mail: GPZONE2000@aol.com web: www.globalpeacenow.org The mailing list for the Global Peace Walk at eGroups.com (email) http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk This is from their introduction to the mailing list: This email list is for those involved in the planning and participation in the ongoing UN Global Peace Walk Project initiated by the 1995 United Nations 50th Anniversary Global Peace Walk from New York to San Francisco (Jan15--June20) to bring out the prayer of Global Peace Now as a universal human resolve. The most important activities for 1999 are the organizing of regular local Global Peace Walks in communities everywhere possible and the raising of awareness and financial support for the Global Peace Walk 2000. Website design, content, and hosting donated by GlobalCircle of Santa Fe All pages © GlobalCircle 1999-2000 webmaster@globalcircle.net [homepage:] http://www.globalcircle.net A progressive portal from Santa Fe NM - networking and research resources on local and global issues of sustainability and survival: While some issues have other roots besides corporate globalization, the corporate connection lurks behind almost every social and economic issue on the planet today. From ecology to schools to military interventions to native peoples, corporate profit is increasingly seen as the driving force behind the loss of community and self determination. Yet there have always been alternatives. This site offers thousands of resources to uphold the highest ideals of democracy and liberty. [titles of (-- links) on http://www.globalcircle.net] The big picture: -- Global issues linked to corporate domination -- WTO-IMF activism & background Issues of sustainability and survival environment: -- agriculture & industry -- worker injury and illness worldwide -- political process -- media -- education -- native peoples -- natural spirituality, ecopsychology, & human rights ----------end globalcircle.net website abstract------ Readers are invited to add their web links and to use the self-serve searchable directory of progressive and related organizations, approximately 7000 listed, Macrocosm USA http://www.macronet.org Thanks very much for reading this email and noting links below. David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. Tehachapi, CA USA --- 661-822-3309 Global Peace Walk 2000 co-coordinator Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry Chemical Physics of Consciousness Researcher General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP->President http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, D C Williams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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