From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #325 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 Monday, June 19 2000 Volume 01 : Number 325 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:21:19 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nunn, Perry, Owens, Goodpaster, Shalikashvili urge missile defense delay >Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:01:29 -0400 >Subject: Nunn, Perry, Owens, Goodpaster, Shalikashvili urge missile defense delay >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: jdi@clw.org >From: jdi@clw.org (jdi@clw.org) > >From Washington Post, June 16, 2000 story by Roberto Suro, Washington Post >Staff Writer > >"A bipartisan group of 15 former diplomats, military officials and defense >intellectuals has urged Clinton, in a letter made public yesterday, to >defer the decision on national missile defense because of unresolved issues >remaining concerning the 'costs, technology and security and foreign policy >implications.' The group includes William J. Perry, who served Clinton as >defense secretary, and retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, a former >chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Clinton." > >Complete text of letter: > >June 7, 2000 > >William J. Clinton >The President of the United States >Executive Office of the President >1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW >Washington, DC 20500 > >Dear Mr. President: > >On May 22, 2000 Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and >Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation convened us in Washington, DC for >discussion of the possible consequences of deploying the limited national >missile defense system under consideration by the administration. We >discussed questions of technology and costs; the range of threats, long- >and short-term, to the United States and international security, including >accidental launch of nuclear weapons; the diplomatic implications of a >deployment decision; and alternative defense systems. > >It is gratifying to note that a range of influential individuals, both >Republican and Democrat have written recently on national missile defense, >and that their concerns reflect those raised at our May 22 meeting. >Indeed, we are convinced that significant unresolved issues remain >concerning the costs, technology, and especially the security and foreign >policy implications of a national missile defense system. Recognizing the >complexity of the issues that will affect your analysis and ultimate >decision, we respectfully urge you to defer a decision to deploy, and not >to be forced by artificial deadlines, but to further the debate that has >now begun in earnest. > >We support an approach that includes further research on a range of defense >system concepts; discussions with a number of countries, especially with >our NATO allies, Russia, China and Japan, and with other countries, >including India and Pakistan; and vigorous diplomatic initiatives to reduce >threats, in the manner of the current explorations with North Korea. > >A decision on national missile defense deployment has far-reaching >implications. We believe it merits transparent evaluation, open >discussion, and full consultation with key countries and with the American >people. > >Sincerely, > >Dr. Gloria C. Duffy >Susan Eisenhower >Dr. Richard L. Garwin >General Andrew J. Goodpaster (ret.) >Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund >John D. Isaacs >Dr. Lawrence J. Korb >Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr. >Dr. Jessica T. Mathews >Senator Sam Nunn >Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. >Admiral William A. Owens (ret.) >Dr. William J. Perry >Dr. Roald Z. Sagdeev >General John M. Shalikashvili (ret.) > >Cc: Secretary Albright > Secretary Cohen > National Security Advisor Berger > > >John Isaacs >Council for a Livable World >110 Maryland Avenue, NE - Room 409 >Washington, D.C. 20002 >(202) 543-4100 x.131 >www.clw.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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:57:48 EDT From: LANLaction@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) PEACE ACTION NATIONAL RESOLUTION The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following Resolution on June 11, 2000 Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affected Communities, and Peoples. WHEREAS: Article 6 of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for total nuclear disarmament and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking over the role of Rocky Flats, escalating their production of plutonium 'pits' for nuclear weapons; and WHEREAS: Outer Space Treaty requires States not to place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit and states that space is not subject to national appropriation and that LANL researches, develops, and produces the plutonium Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) components and that its work contributes to fulfilling the U.S. Space Command's "Vision for 2020" for dominating space; and WHEREAS: The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) prohibits the development of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develops components for the NMD system; and WHEREAS: LANL thus enables the United States to violate international treaties; and additionally, WHEREAS: LANL has historically disposed of some of its plutonium, uranium, depleted uranium, tritium, beryllium and heavy metals in a haphazard and often unsafe manner, thus contaminating the soil, air, water, vegetation, and irresponsibly endangering the health and lives of people living in Los Alamos and the surrounding areas of New Mexico; and WHEREAS: LANL has shown little regard for the health and safety of its employees, accidents and releases on LANL property being a regular occurrence; and WHEREAS: LANL endangers the health, safety, environment, subsistence, and sacred sites of the Pueblos and other Native American communities, and WHEREAS: The Cerro Grande fire has shown that LANL took no precautions to protect the firefighters or to monitor the effects of possible contamination in communities downwind of the fire, including the farmers in this agricultural area; THEREFORE, PEACE ACTION DEMANDS, Los Alamos National Laboratory cease all but necessary administrative operations and the Department of Energy and Department of Defense budget allocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory be redirected for cleaning up the environment and addressing health issues. The U.S. government also must be required to make complete reparations to the communities historically damaged by the operations of LANL. Therefore, let it be further resolved that this Resolution be sent to Members of Congress, the President, Secretaries of Defense, Energy and State, major candidates for President, Secretary General of the U.N., Security Council members and governments of the middle powers states. It is also to be sent to Abolition 2000 for endorsement by supporting organizations. PEACE ACTION, formerly SANE/FREEZE, is the nation's largest grassroots peace and justice organization. Working for peace since 1957. CONTACT: Peace Action New Mexico - LANLaction@aol.com 226 Fiesta St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501 Phone: 505.989.4812 - - 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, 16 Jun 2000 14:17:59 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) PEACE ACTION NATIONAL RESOLUTION BRAVO!!!!!!!! Sign me on for GRACE. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:11:50 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/06/17 - Vieques Fast "to death"? - --=====================_38522538==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [NucNews archives have been posted through June 10, 2000 - see http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Here are some weekend messages. et] 1) Drum for Vieques this weekend - Lafayette "Peace" Park; support the fasters. Vieques activist Hector contines his fast and 24-hour vigil outside the White House. He's a lovely young man. Please don't let him die. Start spreading the word of his fast; come visit him if you can, bring drum or noisemakers, any time. See http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm 2) DC Coalition to Stop the US War Against Iraq Date: Monday, 19 June Time:7 p.m. Place: Luna Books, 1633 P Streets, NW On the agenda: building a Coalition forum on US policy toward Iraq, scheduled for July 25. For more information, email . 3) Whistleblowers: Alert! Reno Backs Penalties for Some Leaks http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Media-Leaks.html Filed at 12:28 p.m. EDT New York Times By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno endorsed applying criminal penalties to intentional leaks of truly classified information that discloses intelligence sources and methods and puts lives in jeopardy. But she balked at criminalizing accidental leaks or leaks of improperly or overclassified information. She also said prosecutors should continue to go after leakers and not news reporters who get leaked information. ``I think prosecution can be a very great deterrent'' to leaks, Reno told her weekly news conference Thursday. But she added, ``We have to address how you walk the fine line between a free press able to publish and encourage public debate and how we protect the national security of this country.'' ``What we want to do is make sure that the information that is classified is properly classified and ... that there's no ability of people to overclassify information to limit what can be truly discussed in the public's domain,'' Reno said. A day earlier, Reno's strong objections during a closed-door hearing prompted senators to agree to take a closer look at their proposed legislation to make disclosing classified information to the news media a felony punishable by up to three years in prison. But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and principal sponsor of the measure, said he had no intentions of weakening the proposed legislation, which the committee has approved and sent to the full Senate. The Clinton administration opposes the legislation. Reno said Thursday that criminal penalties should be used ``clearly where there is information that is classified, that is appropriately classified, that if it is leaked, would reveal sources and methods and expose people's lives to danger.'' She said the proposed legislation could be clearer about what classified information was covered. ``I think it is important to make sure that we do not over-classify so as to withhold from the public information that they should legitimately have,'' Reno said. In the case of ``inadvertent disclosure to someone whom you mistakenly believe has clearance,'' Reno said, ``I think we can craft language that can avoid criminalizing that type of conduct.'' She added that legislation also should reflect Justice Department policy ``through one administration after another, Republican and Democrat, ... that it would not go after the reporter because of the First Amendment considerations.'' After Wednesday's hearing, Shelby told reporters, ``We basically agree that we need a tougher criminal statute.'' Shelby's committee met with Reno, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Louis Freeh. Neither Reno, Tenet nor Freeh spoke with reporters as they left the committee room. Participants said Reno took the lead in criticizing the bill. Shelby suggested that Reno had made several suggestions to the committee and had agreed to work with it and its staff on possible modifications. But, Shelby asserted, ``We're not interested in watering anything down.'' Disclosure of classified material ``hurts us with our allies.... It puts a lot of our people, their lives, in jeopardy,'' Shelby said. Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada, vice chairman of the panel and its senior Democrat, said later in an interview he said he was optimistic a common approach could be reached that the administration could support. He said Reno seemed genuinely interested in working with the panel, Tenet and Freeh to ``tighten up the language used.'' ``There is some concern that the language is overly broad,'' Bryan said. ``The last thing we want to do is get involved in a First Amendment fight.'' The provision would give the Justice Department authority to protect all classified information from unauthorized disclosure. Currently, prosecutors must show they leaked on behalf of a foreign power or divulged ``national defense'' information.. An unclassified report on the legislation by the intelligence panel said the measure ``closes the gap in existing law.'' The fine would be up to $10,000 and three years imprisonment First Amendment groups oppose the bill, arguing that criminal prosecutions are not necessarily the best way to stop leaks. Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, predicted the measure, if enacted, would probably result in ``an increase in subpoenas against reporters'' as prosecutors sought to build cases against accused leakers. ``I would envision more journalists in jail for not identifying sources than leakers being sentenced for something,'' she said. The House version of the legislation, passed in May, does not contain such a provision. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation later this month. The bill is S. 2507 4) Cartoons - Best of the Week? (send the URLs of your choices!) [If you have problems with accessing, go to http://www2.uclick.com/content/opinion.html] Los Alamos, Pat Oliphant, June 13, 2000 http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/13/po.gif Los Alamos, Tom Toles, June 14, 2000 http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/tt.gif Nuclear Secrets, Glenn McCoy, June 16, 2000 http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/gm.gif Nuclear Secrets, Bill Deore, June 16, 2000 http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/bd.gif Non-nuclear insights: Glenn McCoy, June 14, 2000 (Microsoft) http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/gm.gif Tony Auth, June 11, 2000 (technology) http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/11/ta.gif 5) Presidential Candidates: Bush News June 16, 2000 http://www.georgewbush.com From: BushNews@georgewbush.com Associated Press' Glen Johnson, 6/16/00: "On other topics...beginning in South Portland, Maine, Bush: * "Said that, if elected, he would not be deterred in his efforts to build a national missile defense system. Defense Secretary William Cohen faced opposition this week from Russian President Vladimir Putin during discussions about a limited system..." BUSH'S SCHEDULE: June 19, 2000 - Washington (a.m.), California (p.m.) 11:05 a.m.- Visit to Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School (Tour portion of visit is press pool only) 2921 Falk Road Vancouver, Washington 98668 - 360/737-7372 5:40 p.m. - Bush for President Reception, Mediterranean Ballroom Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel 4290 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 650/857-0787 ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Interactive Archives (since 6/10/00): http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe to NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Excellent e-mail news resources: DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com - http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://www.downwinders.org/ EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org - http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark/Reuters - mailto:anna@planetark.org - http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Presidential Candidates' Websites: George W. 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1) Drum for Vieques this weekend - Lafayette "Peace" Park; support the fasters.
Vieques activist Hector contines his fast and 24-hour vigil outside the White House.  He's a lovely young man.  Please don't let him die. Start spreading the word of his fast; come visit him if you can, bring drum or noisemakers, any time.  See http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm

2) DC Coalition to Stop the US War Against Iraq
Date: Monday, 19 June
Time:7 p.m.
Place: Luna Books, 1633 P Streets, NW
On the agenda: building a Coalition forum on US policy toward Iraq, scheduled for July 25. For more information, email <HarrysSon@aol.com>.

3) Whistleblowers: Alert!
Reno Backs Penalties for Some Leaks
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Media-Leaks.html
Filed at 12:28 p.m. EDT New York Times
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno endorsed applying criminal penalties to intentional leaks of truly classified information that discloses intelligence sources and methods and puts lives in jeopardy.  But she balked at criminalizing accidental leaks or leaks of improperly or overclassified information. She also said prosecutors should continue to go after leakers and not news reporters who get leaked information.

``I think prosecution can be a very great deterrent'' to leaks, Reno told her weekly news conference Thursday. But she added, ``We have to address how you walk the fine line between a free press able to publish and encourage public debate and how we protect the national security of this country.''

``What we want to do is make sure that the information that is classified is properly classified and ... that there's no ability of people to overclassify information to limit what can be truly discussed in the public's domain,'' Reno said.

A day earlier, Reno's strong objections during a closed-door hearing prompted senators to agree to take a closer look at their proposed legislation to make disclosing classified information to the news media a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.

But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and principal sponsor of the measure, said he had no intentions of weakening the proposed legislation, which the committee has approved and sent to the full Senate. The Clinton administration opposes the legislation.

Reno said Thursday that criminal penalties should be used ``clearly where there is information that is classified, that is appropriately classified, that if it is leaked, would reveal sources and methods and expose people's lives to danger.''

She said the proposed legislation could be clearer about what classified information was covered. ``I think it is important to make sure that we do not over-classify so as to withhold from the public information that they should legitimately have,'' Reno said.

In the case of ``inadvertent disclosure to someone whom you mistakenly believe has clearance,'' Reno said, ``I think we can craft language that can avoid criminalizing that type of conduct.''

She added that legislation also should reflect Justice Department policy ``through one administration after another, Republican and Democrat, ... that it would not go after the reporter because of the First Amendment considerations.''  After Wednesday's hearing, Shelby told reporters, ``We basically agree that we need a tougher criminal statute.'' Shelby's committee met with Reno, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Louis Freeh.

Neither Reno, Tenet nor Freeh spoke with reporters as they left the committee room. Participants said Reno took the lead in criticizing the bill.

Shelby suggested that Reno had made several suggestions to the committee and had agreed to work with it and its staff on possible modifications. But, Shelby asserted, ``We're not interested in watering anything down.''

Disclosure of classified material ``hurts us with our allies.... It puts a lot of our people, their lives, in jeopardy,'' Shelby said.

Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada, vice chairman of the panel and its senior Democrat, said later in an interview he said he was optimistic a common approach could be reached that the administration could support. He said Reno seemed genuinely interested in working with the panel, Tenet and Freeh to ``tighten up the language used.''

``There is some concern that the language is overly broad,'' Bryan said. ``The last thing we want to do is get involved in a First Amendment fight.''  The provision would give the Justice Department authority to protect all classified information from unauthorized disclosure.

Currently, prosecutors must show they leaked on behalf of a foreign power or divulged ``national defense'' information..

An unclassified report on the legislation by the intelligence panel said the measure ``closes the gap in existing law.''

The fine would be up to $10,000 and three years imprisonment  First Amendment groups oppose the bill, arguing that criminal prosecutions are not necessarily the best way to stop leaks.

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, predicted the measure, if enacted, would probably result in ``an increase in subpoenas against reporters'' as prosecutors sought to build cases against accused leakers.

``I would envision more journalists in jail for not identifying sources than leakers being sentenced for something,'' she said.

The House version of the legislation, passed in May, does not contain such a provision. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation later this month.  The bill is S. 2507

4) Cartoons - Best of the Week? (send the URLs of your choices!)
[If you have problems with accessing, go to http://www2.uclick.com/content/opinion.html]
Los Alamos, Pat Oliphant, June 13, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/13/po.gif
Los Alamos, Tom Toles, June 14, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/tt.gif
Nuclear Secrets, Glenn McCoy, June 16, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/gm.gif
Nuclear Secrets, Bill Deore, June 16, 2000
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/16/bd.gif
Non-nuclear insights:
Glenn McCoy, June 14, 2000 (Microsoft)
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/14/gm.gif
Tony Auth, June 11, 2000 (technology)
http://www2.uclick.com/feature/2000/06/11/ta.gif

5) Presidential Candidates:

Bush News June 16, 2000
http://www.georgewbush.com
From: BushNews@georgewbush.com

Associated Press' Glen Johnson, 6/16/00:
"On other topics...beginning in South Portland, Maine, Bush:
* "Said that, if elected, he would not be deterred in his
efforts to build a national missile defense system. Defense Secretary William Cohen faced opposition this week from Russian President Vladimir Putin during discussions about a limited system..."

BUSH'S SCHEDULE: June 19, 2000 - Washington (a.m.), California (p.m.)
        11:05 a.m.- Visit to Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School (Tour portion of visit is press pool only) 2921 Falk Road Vancouver, Washington 98668 - 360/737-7372
        5:40 p.m. - - Bush for President Reception, Mediterranean Ballroom Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel 4290 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 650/857-0787



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Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 2:05 PM http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2000/nn10676.htm HOT WATER GETS COLD SHOULDER By Adrienne Anderson Denver, June 16, 2000 A recent ruling by a Denver judge sets the stage for EPA to begin to flush plutonium-contaminated Superfund site wastes into the public sewer systems, irrigate area parks with it, mix it with industrial and domestic sewage sludge, bag and sell it to unsuspecting home gardeners as "fertilizer", and spread the rest on a 50,000 acre piece of farmland the sewage district bought with public funds in Deer Trail, Colorado (east of Denver) as "beneficial biosolids", where wheat and other crops are grown and sold through the nation's commercial food supply for human consumption. A four year citizens' investigation reveals that the site is loaded with staggering levels of nuclear wastes, which EPA has simply axed off the books as "contaminants of concern" at the massively-contaminated Lowry Landfill, which such notorious polluters as Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant (which made plutonium bomb triggers), Martin Marietta (which builds Titan missiles), Coors (which also made nuclear fuel rods for the Atomic Energy Commission in the 60's) and a host of 200 other area polluters and defense contractors used for years as their liquid radioactive and hazardous waste dump. I filed a federal whistleblower case on this outrageous plan in 1997 when I served on the board of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, which had secretly entered into a deal with the Lowry Landfill's owner (City and County of Denver) and Waste Management, Inc. (operator of the site) to flush this problem down the drain, unbeknownst then to the sewer plant's workers which I'd been appointed to represent, or the public at large. My whistleblower case (Anderson v. MWRD Case No. 97-SDW-7) was won at the initial stage, with a ruling that I was being harassed, threatened and discriminated against by MWRD for speaking out against this plan on behalf of the workers, appealed, and then appealed to the Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor, who ruled in my favor that the case be reinstated and heard on the merits. With this recent ruling, Metro Wastewater has stepped up its union-busting efforts at the sewage plant, with a history of using extortion-type tactics in efforts to force their own workers to back their plan to receive plutonium-contaminated Lowry Landfill Superfund site wastewater for several years, even though the facility is not licensed to handle nuclear waste, and its workers are not even protected by OSHA. Metro Wastewater and its partners to the plan, including the EPA, then waged a campaign of defamation against those of us who have spoken against this outrageous plan, which has drawn 100% written opposition from citizens in comments to both EPA and the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District. All public opposition was ignored to carry out this absurd, precedent setting plan, using the EPA's controversial Section 503 Clean Water Act loophole as a means to dispose of the most dangerous wastes on the planet, including radioactive wastes that remain deadly with half-lives of tens of thousands of years. The Denver Judge, Steven Phillips, in response to an appeal for an injunction sought by farmers, union workers, students and other citizens here and nationally opposed to EPA's outrageous plan, has, in effect, tossed the matter to federal court for action, should the plaintiffs continue to seek court aid to block the plan. The federal court here, however, are complicit in the cover-up of major components of this, having already sealed from public view several major court decisions on matters citizens have the right to know, like which polluters have paid how much into the clean-up fund. The two federal judges to seal key rulings about Lowry Landfill -- Sherman Finesilver and Zita Weinsheink -- are also at the heart of other controversial pollution cases in Denver, where polluters got off the hook. Finesilver handled the Rocky Flats case, where a federal grand jury reportedly attempted to indict DOE and Rockwell officials as individuals and sought immunity to tell of their findings for the public good, with no success, to date. Weinsheink was the judge in a case over contaminated drinking water and associated deaths of children in the Friendly Hills neighborhood, where Weinsheink refused the bereaved families a jury trial, despite preliminary ruling confirming that the huge defense contractor had indeed contaminated their public water supply, and had even acted in a conspiracy to cover up evidence. Both Rocky Flats and the U.S. Air Force/ Martin missile factory are Superfund sites themselves, as well as contributors of highly toxic wastes to the Lowry Landfill Superfund site, southeast of Denver. Today, developers and their political pawns in municipal and county government plan to turn the radioactive wasteland around Lowry Landfill into subdivisions and shopping centers. The Mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb - whose administration concocted this plan to simply flush a hot environmental problem down the drain - is reportedly eying a cabinet post in a future Gore Administration, who used the White House to violate the Hatch Act and solicit funds from Lowry's top polluters and contractor while looking the other way as his EPA lies left and right to the public that there is no nuclear waste contamination anywhere to be found at Lowry. And plutonium at Lowry? It didn't come from Rocky Flats, whose contractor gave thousands to the Clinton/Gore campaign and then won the biggest federal contract in U.S. history; it's "cosmic dust" that fell from the sky. The Clinton/Gore EPA has lied to the public repeatedly, records show, more than willing to cover up a major radioactive waste dump in the U.S. for apparent political gain and the corporate dollars from the polluters who put it there, for apparent political gain. Ralph Nader is being nominated for President at the Greens' convention in Denver this month, June 24th and 25th. I'm going to be there to see what he says about all of this, since we know where Al Gore stands. America's radioactive waste problem? Eat it. - -- Adrienne Anderson Instructor, Environmental Studies and INVST Programs University of Colorado at Boulder, CB 339 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0339 (303)492-2952 (voicemail message) (303)329-0271 (fax) ===== "We're all downwinders!" Check-out http://www.downwinders.org ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:42:35 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Buchanan v. Hagelin for Reform Party Nomination I am forwarding with intro/comments below post urging a simple action to further potential effectiveness of presidential campaigning to more effectively utilize Reform Party position by your entering nomination of third-party coalition builder and physicist Dr. John Hagelin for Reform Party Presidential nomination -- as explained below a opportunity available for the next few days. It certainly would be a more interesting national election if Nader and Hagelin were included in the national debates, etc., along with the presumptive leaders Gore and Bush. Hagelin's Natural Law Party is also active in his presidential campaign but if he can secure the Reform Party nomination instead of Pat Buchanan it would, I think, mean a much better choice for the voters in November and also mean a better chance of inputing critical issues into the public debate, issues that are now being largely ignored. - ------begin forwarded post-------- From: "gayatri lee" To: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: Re: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful! Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:06 PM Thanks for asking - and so quickly! Hagelin has been bringing together a large coalition of the 3rd parties - he very much desires their nomination! He's been to most of the Reform Party State Conventions looking to win their delegates nomination, and mostly he is succeeding. I spoke with him personally last Saturday at the North Carolina State Reform Party Convention and he strongly urged his supporters to get out the word that anyone in the country, regardless of party affiliation, can nominate him for the Reform Partys presidential candidacy. When he gets this, not only do we all get a wonderful candidate and the Reform Party gets stabilized again, but Hagelin will get nearly $13 million in federal campaign funds. Thus he finally can buy some media time (the tv networks, as you may know, are bought-and-paid-for, just like congress. That's why you haven't heard more about Hagelin. Where ever he goes, however, he is igniting hope and passion in people's hearts. This is the first time in 20 years that I have been involved in anything political, and I too am excited, as you probably can tell. Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, Sincerely, Gayatri Lee, PhD, editor Spirit in the Smokies Asheville, NC 828-274-5665 - -- Clarify the Lessons and Beauty of Your Life by Writing it, then Edit and Send to Spirit in the Smokies to Get Your Wisdom/Shift into the Morphogenic Field. Our Experiences ARE Encoded, so Encode Consciously, with Love, Gratitude and Awakening. For guidelines as to stories and ads, see our website: www.spiritinthesmokies.com Call 828-274-7223 for Editing support. From: "David Crockett Williams" Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:26:03 -0700 To: "Gayatri" Subject: Re: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful! Hagelin is already running under banner of Natural Law Party. How he feels about this nomination of his name to Reform Party would be useful to include in any forwarding of your message below. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Gayatri Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:43 AM Subject: URGENT, Time Sensitive & Wonderful! Greetings to you, (Please forgive duplicates) June 19, 2000 This is Gayatri Lee, a psychologist and publisher of a holistic magazine in Asheville, NC. I urgently request that you read and act on this information. As you will see, the message I bring to you is wonderful news and will take you just moments. Itıs also very time-sensitive. Because you are a networker and have access to many people and email addresses, your supporting Dr. Hagelinıs candidacy for US president in the Reform Party over the next few days - LITERALLY BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT MONDAY, JUNE 26, MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU DO THIS MILLENNIAL YEAR, especially if you send this on to many others around the country. I request that you read and act on, and forward this message, even if you, and those you network with, havenıt been much interested in politics - in fact, especially if you have been turned off by past political corruption. I urge you to take the simple action indicated below. We all know that we must shift our politics to save the planet. What is exciting is that it is now extremely do-able. A window of opportunity exists right now that is unprecedented, to change our political history with very little effort. First briefly, know that what will break the 2-party stranglehold on our democratic system is a 3rd party. The Reform Party has the infrastructure, the organization and I believe the destiny to be this history-making 3rd party in this millennial election. What must happen is for Dr. John Hagelin to be nominated as the Reform Partyıs presidential candidate. Because there are some members of the Reform Party who support the fundamentalist, right-wing, conservative Pat Buchanan - and they are active voters, all of us must help the Reform Party nominate Dr. John Hagelin as their presidential candidate. Dr. Hagelin is awesome - a quantum physicist who is forward-looking and solutions-oriented. He also appeals to a broad base of Americans - people of all races, walks of life and persuasions, unlike Buchanan. It is this broad-base appeal, united with the strength of the Reform Party, that can win the presidential election and help us all win our country back. What to do? Immediately request a ballot from the chairperson of your stateıs Reform Party via email; chair@statename.reformparty.org, (In North Carolina, for example, the email address is: chair@northcarolina.reformparty.org.) Give your name and street address and state: ³I hereby petition to be included in the Reform Party Presidential Primary. Please send me a ballot so that I can nominate the Reform Party's US presidential candidate of my choice. [I also hereby declare that I am a registered voter in this state.]* If anything else is required of me to request this ballot, please advise.² Do this no later than 11:59 PM (by midnight) Monday night, June 26. Each person must send in their own name and request. If you would like the phone number, address and Reform Party state website (if any), you can go to www.reformparty.org/states/index.html . (* Donıt include this statement if not already registered to vote and register as soon as possible. Know that you can be registered with any, or no, party affiliation. It doesnıt matter) If you mail your ballot request via the post, it must get there by Monday also. Your ballot will arrive in early July for you to fill out (nominating Hagelin) and return as directed.When you help nominate Dr. Hagelin for the Reform Partyıs presidential candidate, it does not obligate you to vote for him or anyone in particular in November. What it does is put a powerful candidate and third party together and gives the people of American another choice. In so doing, the Reform Party can restabilize and continue itıs strength and positive impact in US politics, and Dr. Hagelin finally gets the federal funds and media coverage previously denied to win the presidency. The two must unite, and we must unite to make this happen. For further information, see website: www.hagelin.org or call Tom Carlisle at 828-232-1311. You are also welcome to request further information from me. In the interest of time, I urge you to take action and send in your ballot request immediately. Please forward this to everyone you know, editing or adding your own notes as you wish. These are the times to unite and as we do, the world is forever changed, for the highest good of all. Sincerely, Gayatri Lee 828-274-5665 PS Please send me a copy of what you forward to others, and let me know how many you sent it to. 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