From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #337 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, July 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 337 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:30:07 -0700 (PDT) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. Sets Stage for New Mini-Nuke Design Greetings Peace and environmental advocates: This extremely important item has broad implications for all of our efforts. Read on... --Marylia U.S. Sets Stage to Design New, Deep-Burrowing "Mini-Nuke" by Sally Light and Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs' July 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch The Senate Armed Services Committee Report includes a provision for Fiscal Year 2001 that would "require the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to assess requirements and options for defeating hardened and deeply buried targets. The provision would expressly authorize the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct any limited research and development that may be necessary to complete such assessments." (Sec. 1018) If approved by the full Congress and the President, this new law would lift certain key restrictions imposed by a 1994 law barring the DOE nuclear weapons labs from conducting research and development that could lead to the production of a precision, low-yield nuclear weapon with an explosive force of less than 5 kilotons. Thus, the change would enable the Livermore and Los Alamos labs to design an entirely new nuclear weapon for the U.S. arsenal, a "mini-nuke" capable of burrowing up to 1,000 feet underground before detonating. In the 1990s, the weapons labs "modified" an existing B61 to create the B61-11, with a variable yield beginning at 50 kilotons and an earth-penetrating capability of about 300 feet. If developed, the new "mini-nuke," would be tailor-made for use in conventional conflicts, and against non-nuclear adversaries. This continues an already insanely dangerous trend in U.S. nuclear policy, one in which various existing nuclear bomb designs are being "modified" or "refurbished" to make them more "usable." As soon as it was deployed, the U.S. considered using the B61-11 earth-penetrator against Khadafy, and, according to one former Pentagon official, the current idea would lead to a lower-yield, "deep penetrator that could hold at risk a rogue state's deeply buried weapons or Saddam Hussein's bunker without torching Baghdad." Design studies for a new "mini-nuke," savage the spirit, not to mention the preambular language, of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and abrogate the disarmament imperative in Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. According to a June 12, 2000, article by Walter Pincus in the Washington Post, support for this new, low-yield nuclear weapon comes from a small group of senior Republican Senators and nuclear weapons lab officials (no surprise). This cadre of Strangeloves also thinks the U.S. should scuttle the CTBT altogether and resume full-scale underground nuclear blasts. As Sandia Lab President C. Paul Robinson explains it, "The U.S. will eventually need a new, low yield nuclear weapon." In a wider context, the Senate authorization for "mini-nuke" research must be seen as part of an overall U.S. plan to keep nuclear weapons forever. Witness, as two more examples, the current push to revive Star Wars and the U.S. Space Command's plan to militarily control the earth from the sky by 2020, using space-based nuclear weapons and exotic laser technology. Public outcry is crucial. What we all do, or fail to do, right now will impact our Mother Earth's future. Call us for copies of the NPT, CTBT or the U.S. Space Command's "Vision 2020" report. See also articles & fliers in the edition of Citizen's Watch. 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 Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - 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, 7 Jul 2000 17:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF and the Congress Dear colleagues: Here is an update (and next steps) on the budget process and the National Ignition Facility. Thanks to the Green Scissors Coalition groups and others for their work on this. Read on... Marylia Congress and the NIF: Budget Honeymoon May Be Ending by Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs' July newsletter, Citizen's Watch On June 1, 2000, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) missed its Congressionally-mandated deadline to deliver a certified "rebaseline" of the full cost to taxpayers for the problem-plagued National Ignition Facility (NIF), currently under construction at Livermore Lab. Instead, DOE requested a three-month extension, until mid-September. This conveniently puts off delivery of the NIF rebaseline until after Congress finishes with the Fiscal Year 2001 budget. So, we taxpayers and lawmakers alike are asked to take it on faith that DOE will control NIF's ballooning costs and successfully resolve the mega-laser's various mission, managerial and technical uncertainties. On June 27, the NIF faced its first serious budget challenge when two conscientious Congressmen, Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), offered an amendment to cut $74.1 million from NIF's construction funding. There would be only 36 hours between the time the Rules Committee allowed their amendment and the vote on the floor of the House. The two Representatives were gathering substantial support from both parties, momentum was building to cut NIF and, as the public got wind of it, there was an encouraging grassroots response. Still, it seemed an impossibly short turn around time, and the vote wouldn't actually come to the floor until after 10 PM Tuesday. These factors would hamper the valiant efforts of Ryan and Kucinich to achieve the amendment's passage. Kudos are in order for the fine speeches made by both Representatives, covering all of the following: the multi-billion dollar cost overruns; schedule slippages of a half-decade or more; scientific uncertainties; the pending GAO report; the missing rebaseline; the myth of NIF's necessity to maintenance of the arsenal; its proliferation risks; its role in promoting a return to full-scale U.S. nuclear testing and more. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) submitted testimony citing NIF's radioactive wastes and stating eloquently that NIF "symbolizes the American failure to lead the way on global arms control." On the other side, Livermore Lab and DOE pulled out all the stops in order to defeat the amendment. Interestingly, but not unexpectedly, several Reps. who rose to oppose cutting NIF offered arguments taken directly from Livermore Lab's lobbying materials, in some cases reading them word for word off the page. Leading the charge to oppose the amendment was Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Livermore), who relied on the same old fallacies that Livermore Lab has been selling since 1995, namely that NIF is a "cornerstone" of Stockpile Stewardship, and "the best way to ensure the safety and reliability of our nuclear weapons." (See box with quotes from prominent scientists, below.) The one novel argument Tauscher offered was that the U.S. had already spent nearly a billion on NIF and that in and of itself justified spending more. The House Appropriations Committee Chair, Ron Packard (R-Oceanside), spoke against the amendment but expressed misgivings about the NIF program. The jury is still out, he said. All in all, the Ryan-Kucinich NIF amendment made a strong showing, but failed on a voice vote. Now the budget debate will move to the Senate. Upon its return from the July 4th holiday, the Senate is expected to vote on its Appropriations bill. That vote will specify how big a check the Senate is willing to write for NIF. If the Senate cuts (or increases) NIF's budget, then any differences between the House and Senate funding levels would be negotiated in committee. Stay tuned. __________________ Scientists on NIF __________________________ Experts decry the myth that NIF is needed for maintaining nuclear weapons "safety" & "reliability" Edward Teller, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, when asked about the NIF's utility for this task, replied: "None whatsoever." Los Alamos physicist Rod Schultz wrote in a lab publication that NIF's touted importance to the weapons stockpile does "not reflect the technical judgment of the nuclear weapons design community." Sandia Lab's former vice-president Bob Peurifoy called NIF "worthless" for maintenance of the arsenal. In a separate interview with another newspaper, Livermore weapons scientist Seymour Sack called NIF "worse than worthless" for that task. Ray Kidder, another Livermore Lab physicist, said: "As far as maintaining the stockpile is concerned, [NIF] is not necessary." (Sources: Tri-Valley Herald, Contra Costa Times, Albuquerque Tribune & Science Magazine.) 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 Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - 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, 8 Jul 2000 03:00:03 +0100 From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" Subject: (abolition-usa) NMD Test Glitch This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01BFE888.9D172800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear F/friends I have just heard on BBC TV's 'News 24' that the Pentagon has announced = there is a glitch with the intercept missile for the 3rd American NMD = test which will hold the test up for at least two hours.=20 If only it could be a permanent glitch! To all those protesting against NMD, we are with you in Spirit! Off to Fylingdales in a few hours to protest at its expected involvement = in NMD. Love and Peace Anni (and Lindis, who is currently walking from Menwith Hill to = Fylingdales with a small group of CND protesters to highlight and link = the two UK bases that the US is likely to use for NMD!) CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES(CAAB) 8 Park Row, = Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K. Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482 702033 email: caab.lindis_anni@virgin.net Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/ =20 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can = change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." = Margaret Mead=20 =20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01BFE888.9D172800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I have just heard on BBC TV's 'News 24' = that the=20 Pentagon has announced there is a glitch with the intercept missile for=20 the 3rd American NMD test which will hold the test up for at = least two=20 hours.
 
If only it could be a permanent=20 glitch!
 
To all those protesting against NMD, we are with = you in=20 Spirit!
 
Off to Fylingdales in a few hours to = protest at its=20 expected involvement in NMD.
 
Love and Peace
 
Anni (and Lindis, who is currently = walking from=20 Menwith Hill to Fylingdales with a small group  of CND protesters = to=20 highlight and link the two UK bases that the US is likely to use for=20 NMD!)
 
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF = AMERICAN=20 BASES(CAAB) 8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England,=20 U.K.
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01BFE888.9D172800-- - - 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: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Tri-Valley CAREs is Hiring Dear colleagues: Tri-Valley CAREs -- located in Livermore, CA in the San Francisco Bay Area -- has 2 positions opening up. Please consider us if your skills and interests are a match -- or pass this notice on to others who may be interested. Thank you. Tri-Valley CAREs is Hiring The Organization: The group was founded in 1983 by area residents concerned about the nuclear weapons programs and environmental pollution at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a U.S. Dept. of Energy facility whose mission since 1952 has been to design and test nuclear weapons. Tri-Valley CAREs is the primary community group monitoring Livermore Lab activities. Tri-Valley CAREs also participates in several coalitions of groups that share similar goals of peace, justice and a healthy environment. Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink Campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. (More information can be found on Tri-Valley CAREs' website at http://www.igc/org/tvc.) Program Associate: Will perform research, analysis, writing and public education duties on select nuclear weapons and waste topics in support of the organization's program goals. Our programs include: (1) redefining the Dept. of Energy's so-called "Stockpile Stewardship" program in order to prevent the development of new nuclear weapons; (2) stopping the National Ignition Facility, a nuclear weapons research facility being built at Livermore Lab; (3) investigating the potential impacts of nuclear activities on community health; (4) promoting cleanup of radioactive and toxic pollutants; and, (5) safeguarding the community from future contamination. Resources Developer: Working as an independent contractor, will conduct grassroots, foundation and major donor fundraising and related duties critical to the success and growth of the organization and achievement of its program goals, listed above. To apply: Please send cover letter, resume and a completely original writing sample to Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA 94550. For full descriptions of the two positions available, or for more information about Tri-Valley CAREs and its programs, check our website at http://www.igc.org/tvc or call our office at (925) 443-7148. Marylia Kelley Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA 94550 Phone: 1-925-443-7148 Fax: 1-925-443-0177 Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc - - 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: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:06:01 -0700 From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO COMMEMORATE TRINITY - --=====================_1338227==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO COMMEMORATE TRINITY Sunday, July 16, will mark the 55th anniversary of the world's first nuclear test, "Trinity," on Mescalero Apache land near Alamagordo, New Mexico. As part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for Nonviolence, the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS will commemorate this solemn anniversary by conducting a vigil on the Mall in Washington, DC from 2 - 4 pm, to remind the American public that nuclear weapons research, development and testing is continuing today. The vigil will debut a spectacular, huge new banner, made by Bay Area graphic artist, Susan Dembowski, which lists in alphabetical order all 1000+ US nuclear tests, from Trinity to the most recent subcritical. (The next subcritical test at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone land is expected in August.). While holding the banner, participants will read aloud the names of the tests as part of a litany of "remembrance for the nuclear age." The vigil will conclude with the sounding of a World Word II-era air raid siren. Groups around the country are encouraged to organize their own Trinity commemorations. The complete list of tests and the litany of "remembrance for the nuclear age" are available upon request, by e-mail or fax, from Western States Legal Foundation (wslf@earthlink.net) or the Atomic Mirror (pamela@atomicmirror.org). Later in the week, a press release will also be available. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR GROUP IS PLANNING AN EVENT so we can include it in the release. IMPORTANT: If you know people who will be in Washington, DC on July 16 and who would be available to join the vigil please let us know, and help us to get in touch with them. The banner, in seven sections, requires at least 14 people to hold it! The Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for Nonviolence in Washington D.C. from July 1 through August 9 is calling for an end to our culture of violence and injustice, for disarmament, and for the creation of a culture of nonviolence and justice. The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the Abolition 2000 Global Network. Western States Legal Foundation is serving as its interim clearinghouse. If your group received a US AMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet (yellow cover) in the mail a few months ago and hasn't yet sent back the enclosed questionnaire, please do so now! Or, let us know if you need another copy and we'll send one along. WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON!! -- Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation and Pamela Meidell, The Atomic Mirror, on behalf of the Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS **************************************************************************** *************** Jacqueline Cabasso WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California 94612 USA Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877 Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS **************************************************************************** *************** - --=====================_1338227==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO COMMEMORATE TRINITY

Sunday, July 16, will mark the 55th anniversary of the world's first nuclear test, "Trinity," on Mescalero Apache land near Alamagordo, New Mexico. As part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for Nonviolence, the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS will commemorate this solemn anniversary by conducting a vigil on the Mall in Washington, DC from 2 - 4 pm, to remind the American public that nuclear weapons research, development and testing is continuing today. The vigil will debut a spectacular, huge new banner, made by Bay Area graphic artist, Susan Dembowski, which lists in alphabetical order all 1000+ US nuclear tests, from Trinity to the most recent subcritical. (The next subcritical test at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone land is expected in August.). While holding the banner, participants will read aloud the names of the tests as part of a litany of "remembrance for the nuclear age." The vigil will conclude with the sounding of a World Word II-era air raid siren.

Groups around the country are encouraged to organize their own Trinity commemorations. The complete list of tests and the litany of "remembrance for the nuclear age" are available upon request, by e-mail or fax, from Western States Legal Foundation (wslf@earthlink.net) or the Atomic Mirror (pamela@atomicmirror.org). Later in the week, a press release will also be
available. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR GROUP IS PLANNING AN EVENT so we can include it in the release.

IMPORTANT: If you know people who will be in Washington, DC on July 16 and who would be available to join the vigil please let us know, and help us to get in touch with them. The banner, in seven sections, requires at least 14 people to hold it! The Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for Nonviolence in Washington D.C. from July 1 through August 9 is calling for an end to our culture of violence and injustice, for disarmament, and for the creation of a culture of nonviolence and justice. The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the Abolition 2000 Global Network. Western States Legal Foundation is serving as its interim clearinghouse. If your group received a US AMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet (yellow cover) in the mail a few months ago and hasn't yet sent back the enclosed questionnaire, please do so now! Or, let
us know if you need another copy and we'll send one along.

WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON!! -- Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation and Pamela Meidell, The Atomic Mirror, on behalf of the Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR=20 WEAPONS

 

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Jacqueline Cabasso
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612 USA
Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877
Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the
ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
****************************************************************************= *************** - --=====================_1338227==_.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. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:36:01 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/07/10 - Daybook - --=====================_108635014==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [International NucNews (collected by James McGuinness at Proposition One) posted through June 30, 2000 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.=20 Interactive archives posted at http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews - YOU send articles! et] Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000710214658.htm Land mines conference =97 all day =97 Physicians for Human Rights= and the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines hold a Conference on Landmines. Highlights =97 6 p.m. =97 Rep. Jim McGovern, Massachusetts Democrat, participates. Location: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/543-1094. War Resisters rally =97 9 a.m. =97 War Resisters League holds a "Penny= Poll" Military spending protest rally. Location: Washington Monument grounds (near 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW). Contact: 212/228-0450. Chemical weapons discussion =97 12:15 p.m. =97 Monterey Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation Studies presents a discussion on "The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons= Three Years after Entry Into Force: New Challenges Ahead for the Verification= Regime Under the Chemical Weapons Convention." Location: Monterey Institute= Washington Office, 11 Dupont Circle NW, ninth floor. Contact: 202/478-3409. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES George W. Bush, July 10, 2000 - Baltimore MD=20 2:45 p.m. - NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Location: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom on 4th floor, 1 West Pratt Street,=20 Baltimore, MD, 410-649-7000,=20 - -- Statement by Governor George W. Bush regarding missile defense=20 From: "Boddy, Lee" =20 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 13:19:08 -0500=20 Statement by Governor George W. Bush regarding missile defense: "While last night's test is a disappointment, I remain confident that, given the right leadership, America can develop an effective missile defense= system. In view of the potential threat we face from an accidental launch or an= attack from a rogue nation, the United States must press forward to develop and= deploy a missile defense system. Development of a missile defense system will be a priority in my Administration."=20 ___________________________________________________ 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=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://www.downwinders.org/=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org -= http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark/Reuters - mailto:anna@planetark.org -= http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org=20 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. Bush - http://www.georgewbush.com/ Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Updates on Current Events Outside the White House - http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_108635014==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [International NucNews (collected by James McGuinness at Proposition One) posted through June 30, 2000 at http://= prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.  Interactive archives posted at http:/= /www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews - - YOU send articles!  et]

Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000710214658.= htm

        Land mines= conference =97 all day =97 Physicians for Human Rights and the U.S.= Campaign to Ban Landmines hold a Conference on Landmines.
    Highlights =97 6 p.m. =97 Rep. Jim McGovern,= Massachusetts Democrat, participates.
    Location: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW.= Contact: 202/543-1094.

    War Resisters rally =97 9 a.m. =97 War Resisters League= holds a "Penny Poll" Military spending protest rally. Location:= Washington Monument grounds (near 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW).= Contact: 212/228-0450.

    Chemical weapons discussion =97 12:15 p.m. =97 Monterey= Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation Studies= presents a discussion on "The Organization for the Prohibition of= Chemical Weapons Three Years after Entry Into Force: New Challenges Ahead= for the Verification Regime Under the Chemical Weapons Convention."= Location: Monterey Institute Washington Office, 11 Dupont Circle NW, ninth= floor. Contact: 202/478-3409.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

George W. Bush, July 10, 2000 - Baltimore MD
2:45 p.m. - NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Location: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom on 4th floor, 1 West Pratt= Street,
Baltimore, MD, 410-649-7000,

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Statement by Governor George W. Bush regarding missile defense

From: "Boddy, Lee" <LBoddy@georgewbush.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 13:19:08 -0500

Statement by Governor George W. Bush regarding missile defense:
"While last night's test is a disappointment, I remain confident that,= given the right leadership, America can develop an effective missile= defense system. In view of the potential threat we face from an accidental= launch or an attack from a rogue nation, the United States must press= forward to develop and deploy a missile defense system. Development of a= missile defense system will be a priority in my Administration."




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- --=====================_108635014==_.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. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:00:51 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) DC2K & Global Peace Walk in Missouri The Global Peace Walk 2000 left Kansas City MO today en route to arrival in Columbia for events July 16th (55th anniversary of first atomic bomb test) and St. Louis arrival July 23rd, carrying many survival issue messages under the banner of "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. We need help with Columbia and St. Louis hospitality and networking so please pass the word and let me know who you know that is interested. If you know folks doing July 16th events please coordinate with us for wider outreach. Please alert your networks that we need help asap with arrangements and publicity for events in Missouri this month and also towards rallying large participation in (DC2K) events while the walk is in Washington DC October 6-12 on its way to the United Nations in NYC. The walkers expect their numbers to increase dramatically for the final leg of the walk from St. Louis on with some folks coming from Japan and places around the country. They have received good local media coverage in cities along the way and collected many messages, and letters and proclamations of support to deliver in DC and to the UN. Please send me your message/letter for the walk to help publicize. After July 23rd arrival at the St. Louis Zoo on the outskirts, a team of coordinators will remain in St. Lois to help organize while some of the walkers will go to Rosebud South Dakota to take part in the Sundance there with Leonard Crow Dog to complete their four years Sundance commitment. The walk will then start again from the Zoo to the East-West Gateway Arch on the Mississippi River in St. Louis on the August 15th 55th anniversary of the end of World War II and we are promoting nationally for that date coordinated local events for formulating a 21st Century Global Peace Treaty outlining problems and endorseable solutions to today's global problems. They have asked me to spread the word that they need donations of Airline frequent flyer coupons to enable indigenous elders to come and join the DC to UN leg and events. If you can help on this please email me directly. More info on the walk http://www.globalpeacenow.org - -dcw David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 gear2000@lightspeed.net Chemical Physicist Chartered Life Underwriter Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Independent US Presidential Candidate w/ Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier General Agency Services http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Offering "The Legal Revolution" http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ End of abolition-usa-digest V1 #337 *********************************** - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" 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.