From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #299 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Saturday, May 6 2000 Volume 01 : Number 299 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:13:04 -0500 From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Harris Poll on Nuclear Disarmament at Excite.com today! Dear friends, Here's an opportunity for some electronic organizing. Today's Harris Poll on the website of the search engine Excite asks the question: Should the world's five key nuclear powers eliminate their nuclear arsenals? Currently, of over 26,000 "votes" cast, 45% said "yes", 50% said "no", 4% said "don't know". Never mind why they excluded Israel, India, and Pakistan (actually, you can post that question on the webpage after you vote). Go to http://news.excite.com/news/poll/ and cast your "vote" for for nuclear abolition. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition PLEASE 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 07:36:59 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200054215436.htm Kissinger speech =97 7:30 p.m. =97 Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state, addresses the prospects of peace in the Middle East during a lecture at the University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development. Location: Tawes Theatre, University of Maryland, College Park. Contact: 301/405-4625. Small-arms trafficking conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Eminent Persons Group holds a conference to discuss small-arms trafficking. A news conference will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, at 2 p.m. Location: School of International Service Lounge, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950 or= 703/855-5556. Handgun Control briefing =9710 a.m. =97 Handgun Control holds a news briefing to focus on the gun-control records of prominent elected officials. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/898-0792. U.N. report discussion =9712:30 p.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a panel discussion, "The U.N. Secretary-General's Millennium Report: A Vision for the 21st Century." Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7500. Iraqi sanctions news conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Reps. Joseph Crowley, N= ew York Democrat, and John E. Sweeney, New York Republican, hold a news conference to announce a letter to President Clinton urging that the United Nations maintain sanctions against Iraq. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/225-3965. Youth violence discussion =97 7 p.m. =97 The Creative Coalition holds = a panel discussion, "Youth Violence in America: The Reel Story?" Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/778-1251. (etc.) Ralph Nader's schedule: http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html Gore and Bush schedules unknown.=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 - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto: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) - Great! - 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. - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:01:53 -0500 From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) sample letters to the editor on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and missile defense Dear Friends: Following are two sample letters to the editor for use with your local newspaper on U.S. nuclear policy, particularly regarding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference currently meeting at the U.N. and plans to deploy a national missile defense. Project Abolition Field Coordinator Karina Wood drafted the first, I drafted the second (as you'll see, hers is much better). Feel free to use or adapt as you see fit, and let us know of any success you have in getting letters published. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition #### Letter #1 To the editor, Question: What sounds like disarmament, but isn't? Try this: "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goal of a complete elimination of nuclear weapons." A statement from the five major nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) at the 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), currently taking place at the UN in New York. You have to love that phrase "ultimate goal." That's diplomat-eeze for "not for a very, very long time, and probably not in your lifetime if we can help it." The nuclear weapons-owning countries remind me of a group of old alcoholic drinking buddies, who, in the height of their drunkenness regale us with promises of their "unequivocal commitment" to the "ultimate goal" of sobriety. Who do they think they're kidding? Their statement was immediately and quite rightly lambasted by many non-nuclear nations and disarmament advocates at the conference as inadequate, vague and contradictory. Inadequate, because the statement simply reiterated the commitment of the nuclear powers to the 1970 treaty's original goals, to which they are already legally bound - that the nuclear weapons owning countries will give up their nukes in return for non-nuclear countries agreeing never to acquire them. Vague, because the statement neglects to mention any new undertakings to actually achieve disarmament. Contradictory, because while US diplomats mouth reassuring platitudes at the UN, back in Washington, DC, their Administration bosses are colluding with Congress on a missile defense plan that will surely spark a new nuclear arms race. And there's also the little problem of the Senate's rejection of the test ban treaty, and the nearly $5 billion the US is spending every year on experimental new nuclear weapons research and development. It's high time the United States and company quit their dangerous addiction to nuclear weapons. I want to see their 12 step recovery program for ridding the world of the nuclear threat. Here's some concrete actions to back up their wiley words. Step one: reject the misguided, unworkable waste of taxes known as "missile defense." Step two: take missiles off hair-trigger alert. Step three: accept Russia's lowest offer for mutual reductions in our two countries' nuclear stockpiles. Step four: convene multilateral negotiations on a convention to abolish all nuclear weapons. Sincerely, ##### Letter #2 To the editor: According to documents made public last week by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the U.S. is working hard to gain Russian acquiescence to an American limited missile defense system to protect the U.S. against a small missile attack by a "rogue state". This is necessary to convince Russia to amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which limits missile defenses on the theory such systems would provoke an offensive nuclear missile buildup by the other side. A Pentagon document reassures Russia, "Both the United States and the Russian Federation now possess and, as before, will possess under the terms of any possible future arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive weapons=85" How wonderful. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, which should have removed any rationale for such a thing, the U.S. wants to extend indefinitely the ability of our country and of Russia to destroy each other. The U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain, and France are bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, currently being reviewed at a United Nations conference in New York, to negotiate the elimination of nuclear weapons. Those states, which are also the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, released a joint statement the other day re-affirming their commitment to disarmament that is directly contradicted by the U.S.=92s =93Dr. Strangelove=94statement to Russia. So which is it? Do we hold sacred the Cold War doctrine of =93mutual assured destruction=94 =96 MAD =97 or are we serious about abolishing nuc= lear weapons? Clearly, U.S. policy-makers are confused. They need to hear, from we the people, loud and clear: stop the MADness, abandon plans for a missile defense system that will provoke a new arms race, and get serious about negotiating a treaty to rid the planet of the scourge of nuclear weapons. > > 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:49:33 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global Connections (1) Vieques Arrests and Upcoming Actions (2) Italian DU in Iraq TV Series (3) Global Connections - -- (1) Urgent-U.S. Arrests Vieques Demonstrators - Actions Listed Below From: "Marco Saba" Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 01:51:47 -0000 Today, Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 5:30 A.M. federal authorities began to arrest the people conducting Civil Disobedience in Vieques. For more details, please access news media. This is the moment to put forward the planned activities. Today and tomorrow protests will take place in U.S. and Puerto Rico, please access (http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm) for scheduled protests. For more information: wwww.ViequesLibre.org The time to act is NOW QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO y VIEQUES LIBRE. NOT ONE MORE BOMB !!! Contact: Anthony Cruz - vieques2000@hotmail.com Condemn the U.S. invasion of Vieques by attendingthese protests events that will be held in the following areas. (See http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm for times and places.) So far protests May 4th and 5th have been scheduled for: Boston, Massachusetts Burlington, Vermont Cornell University Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Hartford, Connecticut Miami, Florida Minnesota, Minneapolis Montpelier, Vermont New Orleans, Louisiana New York City Orlando, Florida Philadelphia, Pennsylvania San Francisco, California San Juan, Puerto Rico Seoul, South Korea Springfield, Massachusetts Toronto, Canada Tucson, Arizona Vieques, Puerto Rico Washington, D.C. -- On May 5 there will be a mobilization in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House at at noon. Please, contact the media and call your people. DC Contact: David Santiago 202-223-3915 ext. 308 - ------------- (2) 15 TV-programs about DU in Iraq From: "Marco Saba" Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 01:51:47 -0000 To: du-list@egroups.com Today, Father Benjamin (onorary member of the italian NGO Ethical Environmental Observatory) is in Bagdad were he will stay 15 days with a troupe of the italian TV - Canale 5. Each day, starting from 6 May, there will be a 5 to 8 minutes program (broadcasted in real time) for a total of 15 evenings, during "Striscia la Notizia", a program with an audience of about 10 million people. In this program, the effects of the UN embargo on Iraqi population are shown, with a special attention on DU. During the same time, we will campaign here in Italy to put an end to the embargo on Iraq. Marco Saba Osservatorio Etico Ambientale via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra, 20090 Segrate (MI) Tel. 02 21591373 - GSM 0338 5838282 http://stop-u238.i.am - ---- (3) For those looking for activists in your region, check out Global Connections: An International Roster of Prominent Non-Government Organizations Advocating Abolition, Containment, or Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons. Incomplete, but a good idea, and your additions to the list invited..... http://members.home.net/globalconxion/index.htm - ------------- ___________________________________________________ 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 - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:05:30 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops! re NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global Connections Oops. Sorry. Marco Saba wrote about Italy, not Vieques. Contact: Anthony Cruz - vieques2000@hotmail.com - about Vieques. http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm Ellen _____________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * * Please get EVERYONE to sign the online petition in support of HR-2545! * 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:47:27 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Supporting New Agenda Coalition In NPT Review PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT 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 All who recieve this email, As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal' between the nuclear weapon states, signed in 1968 and in force since 1970, whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any of them. Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal obligations under the NPT. They ask the nuclear weapon states to: - --Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of negotiation taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years - --They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence negotiation in START-III - --They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals. Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no first use' guarantees, reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear weapons, and other commonsense measures. All governments should support this program. It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th) recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review. That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of omnicide. Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda Coalition's efforts. There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please read it) Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at the fax number below. If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that government may have), that you support them, at least in this. Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them on what they have already done. If your government is the Mexican, South African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government, please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what other faults they may have). If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China, UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want them to do. Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and not 'ultimately'. It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe. Do it now. The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you to read it and use its points. BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS. NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL. 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. (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 The US United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 415 4443 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) Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252 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. France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889 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 The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316 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 The German UN mission is on: Fax +1 212 940 0402 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195 If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 751 1966 If you are in Italy please fax 39-6-628-6210, or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734 Italy UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 486 1036 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 Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242 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 BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN OFFICE. 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 Following you will find: * Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work 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. ******* ******* ******* ******* Felicity 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 Fax: 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 06:13:09 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook Nuclear Accountability for the New Millennium DC Days 2000=20 May 7-10, 2000 Washington, DC Co-sponsored by Friends Committee on National Legislation & Fellowship of Reconciliation, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability=20 Contact: mailto:kathycrandall@earthlink.net, 202/833-4668 http://www.ananuclear.org/dcdays.htm What is DC Days? In each of the past eleven years, ANA has hosted four days of training, education, and political advocacy that bring activists from around the country to Washington, DC, to explain the concerns of their constituencies. It is an opportunity to make your voice heard at the national level and to network with people and organizations working on similar issues. Why should you participate? This year the administration is set to make major decisions concerning the nuclear weapons complex. Our national priorities can be for health, safety, and the environment, or they can be for more waste and new weapons. Your participation in DC Days will make a difference in the outcome. Join us and be part of the solution.... Several Alliance for Nuclear Accountability groups have used DC Days to organize effectively in their communities and are available to talk to you about their successes. Please call the ANA offices or call the experienced grassroots activists directly if you need some assistance. ANA Seattle Office - 206-547-3175, nanuclear@earthlink.net ANA Washington, DC Office - 202-833-4668, kathycrandall@earthlink.net Margaret Stewart, Snake River Alliance, ID - 208-726-7271 - mstewart@snakeriveralliance.org Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, CA - 925-443-7148 - marylia@earthlink.net Tom Marshall, Rocky Mountain Peace Center, CO - 303-444-6981 - t_marshall2@earthlink.net - ---- May 5, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200055224049.htm VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to Lansing, Mich., and Farmington, Pa. Today [RALPH NADER - 6:00 pm Speech Charleston, WV - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston WV 25302 http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html] In D.C.-- Russia discussion =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The National Press Club holds a Morn= ing Newsmaker news conference featuring Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of the Council of Europe (COE), discussing "Russia's Relations with the West Under President Putin, the COE Role in Southeast Europe, Chechnya, and U.S.-Council on Foreign Relations." Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593. =20 Highlight =97 12:30 p.m. =97 Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of th= e Council of Europe, "The Ascent of the Far Right in Europe." Location: Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 212/751-4000, Ext.= 271. "Clean" cars briefing =97 noon =97 The Sierra Club hosts a luncheon briefing to discuss the future of "clean" cars and hold a demonstration of the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, the first commercially available "clean" cars. The speakers are Jim Motavalli, author of "Forward Drive," and Shirley Smith, a Honda Insight owner. Location: 408 C St. NE. Contact: 202/675-2383. China and Taiwan discussion =97 2:30 p.m. =97 The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research sponsors a panel discussion, "China and Taiwan: The Linkage Between Trade and Security." Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, 1150 17th St. NW. Contact: 202/862-5800. =20 China trade conference =979:15 a.m. =97 The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage Foundation, the Institute for International Economics, the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and the Rand Corporation co-sponsor a conference, "China's Bid for Permanent Normal Trade Relations: A Hearing on the Debate." Highlights =97 9:30 a.m. =97 Panel One: "The Deal, Its Economic Implications and Prospects for Chinese Compliance." 10:30 a.m. =97 Panel Two: "Labor, Environmental and Human Rights= Concerns." 11:50 a.m. =97 Panel Three: "The Geopolitical Stakes." Location: 902 Senate Hart Office Building. 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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. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 15:19:18 -0700 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Nuclear Weapons test "Oboe 3" Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Nuclear Weapons test "Oboe 3" On Thursday, May 4, in an attempt to deter future nonviolent actions at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), Nye County's Justice of the Peace Bill Sullivan found Susi Snyder guilty of Trespass, Resisting Arrest and Public Nuisance. This was for her nonviolent actions during a February 3rd early morning blockade of the main road leading into NTS in an attempt to stop subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 3". Susi was one nine activists that linked arms and walked across the main entrance into NTS blocking worker traffic from entering the site, several hours before the planned detonation of Oboe 3. All of the activists carried permits issued by the Western Shoshone National Council allowing them to be on Western Shoshone land. NTS is located in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation known as "Newe Sogobia". For many decades the Western Shoshone Nation (the most bombed nation on Earth with over 1000 nuclear devices exploded within their traditional territory) have been stridently working to shut down NTS and begin immediate clean up and environmental remediation. The nonviolent activists walked about 15 feet into the site until stopped by a line of Nye County Sheriffs and Wackenhut private security guards and then sat down on the roadway. At this time the sheriffs and Wackenhut began using intimidation tactics and pain compliance holds while dragging the demonstrators off the road into the holding pens built for just this purpose. 3 of the activists agreed to walk with the guards. Soon Susi and Graham Sullivan (no relation to Justice Sullivan) were the only ones left on the road. Then the Sheriffs escalated their abuse of this nonviolent duo. Grahams thumb was sprained while being twisted around and Susi was hit in the face and pushed roughly to the ground. After Graham had been removed from the roadway, the Sheriffs decided to separate Susi and send her to the county jail in Beatty. Susi and others believe that this was to single her out because of her vocal and effective efforts to raise public awareness in Las Vegas about what was going on at NTS and organize public opposition to the subcritical nuclear testing program as well as ongoing nuclear waste dumping and plans for the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste dump. After a four hour trial presided over by Justice Sullivan during which both Sheriff and Wackenhut witnesses perjured themselves, and the five defense witnesses testified that they all did the same action and were not prosecuted while Susi who was totally nonviolent was singled out, she was found guilty and fined a total of $450 and thirty days in jail- 16 suspended for one year, and she was given credit for four days time-served for a total of ten days. She has until May 15th to notify the court of her intent to appeal, or the sentence will be imposed on May 16 at that time. Susi plans on appealing the verdict and sentencing noting that the judge was very biased and nonobjective. "If the justice court thinks this is a deterrent," Susi said "they are sorely mistaken- now is the time for thousands to converge on the test site, and SHUT IT DOWN." These subcritical nuclear weapons test, one of which Susi was attempting to stop are detonated dangerously close to Nevada's groundwater. The plutonium in these tests- which is exploded into dust, travels quickly through to the water table- and is deadly to all living things. These tests violate the non proliferation treaty, recently under review at the United Nations. They demonstrate the United States military desire (driven by the greed for tax dollars of Lockheed Martin, Bechtel and others) to continue in the arms race. These subcritical nuclear weapons tests have been denounced by nations throughout the world. "With the lack of ratification of the CTB and expanded weapons research at the NTS this action by the Nye county officials is yet another escalation in their efforts to squash the opposition to the destruction occurring at all nuclear facilities. I hope that folks will recognize that what the DOE is Doing at the Test Site is similar to taking the Test underground in 1963. All of us that can should come down and support the effort to close the NTS as it is an icon of US Global dominance in a starving world." said Mateo Ferreira, a "loser carpenter from Michigan". (Next weekend, May 12 - 15th, a Mothers Day 2000 gathering will be held at the gates to the Nevada Test Site. People from around the world will gather to learn about nuclear abolition efforts and support the Western Shoshone Nation as they call for a closure to the test site. 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