From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #359 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 Thursday, August 17 2000 Volume 01 : Number 359 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:25:39 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) MEMO ON STOPPING NMD/STAR WARS 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 MEMO ON STOPPING NMD/STAR WARS Dear People and Organisations that are opposing NMD/Star Wars, I am writing because the campaign to stop 'Star Wars' (NMD) is entering a crucial phase, and because the NGOs and parliamentarians of countries that are US allies have a vital role to play in stopping NMD/'Star Wars'. It is important therefore, to raise the profile and priority of this campaign worldwide, particularly in US allies whose governments will have to cooperate in order to make NMD/'Star Wars' work. The role of organisations outside the US is vital. This memo will set out a series of steps that you and/or your organisation can take to stop NMD/'Star Wars'. It may well be that you are already doing some or all of these things, and it may well be that you are taking further steps which we have not thought of yet. If so this is great. Please don't feel insulted if parts of this memo seem to be telling you or asking you to do things you are already doing. If you are already taking actions such as those we talk about here, as many of you are, you have our support and our thanks. We are also conscious that in each country, local NGOs will know best what actions will work and what is possible. You may however, like to check a number of commonsense steps that your organisation can take to influence governments outside the US to maintain or to step up their opposition to NMD/'Star Wars'. 1) Signing the Big Letter If your organisation has not yet signed the large sign-on letter to President Clinton, Bush, Gore, Cohen, Putin, and NATO governments, we urge you to do so. This letter will be faxed directly to your own government, and the larger the number of organisations from your country signed on to it, the more effective it will be. It is quite likely by now that you are one of the over 200 organisations that has already signed this letter. If so, you may like to persuade other organisations and prominent individuals (church/religious leaders, parliamentarans, trade-union leaders) to sign it. It's vital that key NGOs in the countries whose foreign ministers/defence ministers/prime ministers will recieve copies of this letter, sign the letter. 2) Your Own Letters We urge you, if you have not already done so, to also write your own letter(s) to your government. This is not a substitute for signing the large letter, but should be done as well. We will be sending a number of sample letters around in a short time as part of a global fax campaign, but we are sure you will be well able to write your own letter, again, if you have not yet done so. The obvious people to write to are your Foreign Minister, your Minister of Defence and your Prime Minister or President. If your government has already taken a very strong stand against NMD/Star Wars, as the governments of France, Germany and Sweden have, you may like to congratulate them for that and ask them not to back down from that stand. If your government has taken a less strong but still good stand (Canada, UK), you might like to urge them to take a stronger one. If, like the Australian government, your government has supported the US position you may like to let them know that their position is unacceptable. If you have already written, perhaps you might be able to get your memberships or get other organisations to also write, so that a large number of letters are received by the relevant minister. If your minister has already taken a good stand, it is also important to let them know that they are doing the right thing. We are sure you will have already done some of this and that you will be in a position to know exactly how to pitch the message to your own government. 3)Further steps you can take include steps at a Parliamentary and political level and face to face lobbying, as well as protests and demonstrations. For example, in Australia on 29th June, the Australian Senate passed a motion in which it asked the US not to proceed with NMD, and asked the government not to participate in NMD. That motion was introduced by Senator Lynn Alison at the request of NMD campaigners. Detailed questions in parliament such as those recently asked in the UK, are also a good option. 4) A number of organisations in NATO countries are already organising actions against nuclear- related installations. Of these the most obvious is the inspiring actions organised by Trident-Ploughshares against the Trident submarine base. Installations such as Fylingdales, Thule, and other large radar installations are all appropriate targets for NMD/Star - Wars related actions. Actions have already taken place at a number of these places, and a global action day is planned for October 7 (see memo below by Bruce Gagnon). You are urged to plan actions based on whatever NMD-Related installations there are in your country, and to participate in the October 7 Action Day. SUMMARY 1)Sign the Big Letter 2)Write your own letters. Get everyone else to write. 3)Lobby your government 4)Plan protests, participate in the October 7 action Day. 9 JULY MEMO FROM BRUCE GAGNON OF THE GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE ON OCTOBER 7 INTERNATIONAL NMD ACTION NEXT NMD TEST PLANNED IN OCTOBER: GLOBAL RESPONSE NEEDED Following the July 7 NMD fizzle the Pentagon is scrambling to find some good reason to keep the Star Wars fires burning bright. In the weeks before the crucial, but failed test, the peace movement showed great signs of life. Nearly all major peace organizations contributed, at some level, to the cascade of criticism against the NMD program. Worldwide media coverage was strong and unforgiving in the days before the test as questions about cost, implications for arms control, the lack of a real threat, and allegations of fraud surrounded the Pentagon. Protests initiated by the Global Network in the days before the July 7 test sprouted up in England, Germany, and throughout the U.S. at key space warfare bases. Protest vigils were held at Cape Canaveral; NSA HQ at Ft Meade, MD; Space Command HQ at Peterson AFB, CO; at Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge, PA; at Raytheon in Tucson, AZ and at Vandenberg AFB, CA. In England a declaration was made on July 4 at Menwith Hill U.S. spy base that the citizens shall be free of U.S. domination and control. The message was the same at each protest site. We do not want to see a new arms race. The people are tired of their hard earned tax dollars being poured down a rat hole while health care, child care, environmental care, and jobs are being cut back. The Pentagon has announced that the next NMD test will be held sometime in October.[It now looks like November or December] The Global Network has put out a call for an International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space on October 7. Already we have many commitments from groups around the world to hold local protest actions on that day. We urge all groups to consider holding a local action on October 7 in order to show the widening opposition to plans for Star Wars. It's important to remember that NMD is just the beginning. George W. Bush is calling for a global missile defense system and a space-based laser weapons system that would give the U.S. military clear and total command of space and the Earth below. The aerospace corporations have much at stake. They will now press hard to ensure that their plans for massive tax expenditures to nuclearize and weaponize space go forward. Even though they suffered a severe public relations loss with the July 7 test failure they will intensify pressure on Congress and work tirelessly to make their case to the media. We must work twice as hard to create a visible and forceful statement that the public is not following blindly behind the Star Wars piper. In early August Defense Secretary William Cohen will make his deployment recommendation to Clinton.[Now will be in September] Sometime in the fall the president will follow with his own decision. Either way, it is vital to understand that the research, development and testing for space warfare will go on. Our determination is growing as our movement grows. Our conscience moves us toward life not death. We know in our hearts that the weaponization of space is an evil notion. Our government lies when they tell us Star Wars is for our protection. The $100 million for each of the next 16 NMD tests is a theft from every human and environmental need that exists. Every dollar spent on research and development for space-based lasers, anti-satellite weapons, and nuclear powered rockets is wrong and must be opposed. Please join us on October 7 as we make another step toward sanity. Join us as we hold hands with friends around the planet in the historic call to Keep Space for Peace. Check our website at http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk for the growing list of October 7 actions. Let us know if you plan to organize one in your community. Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, Fl. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk globalnet@mindspring.com 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 - - 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, 17 Aug 2000 17:47:45 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Pls Sign Letter to Stop NMD/Star Wars PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER BY EMAILING FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign with your organisations name and location (remember to state which COUNTRY you are from), and your title. Dear All, Enclosed is an international sign on letter, asking that NMD/'Star Wars' not proceed. If NMD/Star Wars goes ahead it will set back attempts to eliminate nuclear weapons by years or even decades. The signature of your organisation on this letter would add weight to an important initiative. John Hallam PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201, PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173, +7-095-205-4219, PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918, PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, +33-147-42-2465, PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN +33-142-34-2677 GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU, +49-030-20-00-19-99, CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER, +49-228-56-2357, +49-30-4000-2357, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI, [FAX NO?] JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA, +1-613-941-6900, KOSTAS SIMITIS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE, +301-671-6183 POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK, +45-33-11-1665 PRIME MINISTER DAVID ODDSSON, PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND, +354-622373, PRIME MINISTER MASSIMO D'ALEMA, PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY, +39-6-678-3998 PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY, +47-2224-2796 PRIME MINISTER WILLHEM KOK, PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS, +31-70-356-4683, CC US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202-647-6047, US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. 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Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, +1-202-456-2461 Dear Presidents and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Defence Ministers, The undersigned NGO groups and Parliamentarians, representing millions of people, are writing: 1) To urge the US not to proceed with proposals for a National Missile Defence System (NMD), 2) To urge US allies to make the strongest representations in appropriate forums or bilaterally, to press the US government not to proceed with the deployment of NMD, and to maintain the integrity of the ABM Treaty. Proceeding with National Missile Defence threatens to undermine the basis of existing and future offensive nuclear arms reduction measures. We note the strong statements made on NMD by the Governments of France, Germany and Sweden, and the expressions of concern by other US allies including the UK, Canada, and the European Union. At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal. Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which the US is legally committed, together with all other NPT signatories. The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference expressly calls for: "the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and conclusion of START-III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in accordance with its provisions." We do not believe it is possible for this to be interpreted in a way that will allow the deployment of an NMD system, nor should it be so interpreted. We therefore urge the US and Russia instead to proceed to the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels and to the immediate implementation of START-II. We note that the UN Secretary-General, and representatives of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European Community, the New Agenda Coalition and the Non-Aligned movement have expressed the view that the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability. The recent meeting of G8 foreign ministers has also expressed strong concern over the possibility that the ABM treaty may be abrogated to allow NMD to proceed, and has stated that they are 'deeply concerned' over missile proliferation as a result of NMD. The Australian Senate on June 29th, passed a motion in which it called on the US not to proceed with the deployment of an NMD system and in which it called for the implementation of START-II as soon as possible, and the negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels. We note also recent expressions of concern within the US, by Congresspeople, Nobel laureates, and other distinguished and influential people and organizations. America should not simply ignore the strongly repeated opinion of governments and NGOs of the whole world, that NMD should not proceed, and that the integrity of the ABM treaty should be maintained. Missile defence schemes respond to an exaggerated perception of the missile threat from so-called 'Rogue States', (now termed 'States of Concern') are not the solution to missile proliferation, sabotage nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the rest of the world, and decrease overall US and international security. There are serious doubts whether this system, or whether any missile defence system, can ever work. The problems posed even by relatively simple decoys are probably technically insoluble. The Welch Panel, an independent team of scientists, released a report outlining the probability of NMD systems failure due to time and schedule constraints. Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US focus on practical solutions to global strategic security. We therefore urge the US and Russia, as the highest priority, to proceed to the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III agreement, the removal of obstacles to the implementation of START-II, and the removal of strategic missile forces from high alert status as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN resolutions and the final NPT declaration. Yours Sincerely, (Signed) Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA., Ian Maddocks, Chair, Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President, Dr. John Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), BC Canada/Cambridge, USA., Kate Dewes, Vice-President, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva/NZ Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Neth., Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council (BASIC), Washington/London, Bruna Nota, International President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva/NY., Dr. John Burroughs,Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), NY/NZ., Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium, Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), El Salvador/Amsterdam, Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador,(CESTA) El Salvador, Jarna Pasaren, Friends of the Earth Finland, Turku, Finland, Peep Mardiste, Friends of the Earth Estonia, Tartu, Estonia, Victor Khazan, MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Member, Ukrainian Parliament. Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth Cyprus, Lonnenga Ginting, Campaign Director, Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI), Jakarta, Indonesia, Fahmi Rizal, WALHI-Acheh, Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana, Madrid, Spain, Commander Robert D. Green, RN (Retd.) Chair, World Court Project UK., NZ/UK., Dave Knight, Chair, Rae Street, Vice-Chair, CND UK., Dave Webb, Yorkshire CND, Yorks, UK., Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, Birmingham, UK., R. Ralph Say, Woking Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK., Jill Stallard, CND-Cymru, Wales, Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases, (CAAB), Yorkshire, UK., Dr. Chris Busby, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, UK., Liz Waterson, Gillian Reeve, Executive Director, MEDACT, UK., Jane Tallents, Trident-Ploughshares, UK. Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair, Defence and Security Committee, David Drew MP, Westminster., Stephen Mc Closkey, One World Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dr Heinz-Peter Romberg, Xanthe Hall, IPPNW-Germany, Berlin, Regina Hagen, Darmstadter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany, Claus Biegert, Nuclear Free Future Award, Munich, Germany, Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Berlin, Germany, Manfred Stenner, Director, Network of the German Peace Movement, Bonn, Germany, Wolfgang Schupp-Hauck, Friedens und Begegungsstaette Mutlangen, Mutlangen, Germany, Helene Connor, Director, HELIO International, Paris, France., Dr Josep Puig, Chair, Dr Joaquim Corominas, Vice-Chair, Scientists and Technologists Group for a Non-Nuclear Future, Barcelona, Spain, Grupo Autonomo di Volontariato Civile in Italia (GAVCI), Bolongna, Italy, Martin Schwander, Swiss Peace Movement, Basel, Switz., David Schmitter, Global Initiative for Immediate Disarmament, Switz, Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100 in Finland, Helsinki, Finland, Ulla Lehtinen, President, First Peoples, Turku, Finland., Kirsten Osen, Vice-Chair, Anne Grieg MD, IPPNW Norway, Horten, Norway., Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement, Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden, Agneta Norberg, 'Living Future', Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Committee,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Swedish Womens Left Association,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Peace in Kurdistan,Sweden, Agneta Norberg, Peace in Iraq,Sweden, Poul-Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark., Karel Koster, Project on European Nuclear Nonproliferation (PENN - -Netherlands), Neth., Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Antwerp, Belgium, Eloi Glorieux, MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium, Biljana Stevanovska, Association for Sustainable Development, Skopje, Macedonia, Vladimir Sliviak, 'ECODEFENSE', Russia, Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union Antinuclear Campaign, Moscow, Galina Ragouzhina, World Information Service on Energy(WISE) Russia, Alexandra Koroleva, Baltic Research and Action Centre, Kaliningrad, Professor A.V. Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia, Andrei Laletin, Chair, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia, Nikolai Zubov, CEO, Krasnoyarsk Social-Ecological Union, Russia, Alla Shevchuck, Chairwoman, Odessa Branch Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine, Paul Saoke, IPPNW, Kenya, Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGO's, Egypt, Boaz Fyler, Campaign Director, Green Action, Tel Aviv, Israel, Roy Cabonegro, Secy-General, YSDA Phillipines, Jean P. Patterson, Heredia Disarmament Committee, San Jose, Costa-Rica., Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, Grace De Haro, Suzanne Schultz, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina, Alfred Felix Perez Aruaza, Environmental Strategic Research Council, Uruguay, Alfredo Felix Perez Aruaza, Instituto de Estudios Estrategicos No Alineado para la Paz Mundial, Uruguay, Eusebio Garcia Varela, Mesa Ambientista de San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay, Blanca Nivia Peirano, Corporacion Nacional de Ecologia y Turismo del Uruguay, Gonzalo Ciganda, Instituto Naval de Arqueologica Subaciutica e Investigaciones Marinas del Uruguay, Psilink Uruguay, Mesa Social Coordinadora de NGO Independientes del Uruguay, Geovision Tercer Milenio, Grupo de Derechos Civiles del Uruguay, Comision Nacional de Solidaridad Uruguayo-Argentino, Felix Perez Aruaza, South American Peace Committee, Uruguay, S. P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and Research, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India, Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dr. Ronald Mc Coy, Chair, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War (IPPNW), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Siti Maimunah, Kappala Indonesia, East Java, Indonesia., Syafryzaldi, Walhi Sumbar, Padang, Indonesia., Rally Syumanda, deputy Director, ULAYAT, Bengkulu, Indonesia., Tanty Thamrin, Yayasan Pendidikan Rakyat Bulukumbu, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Berry Nahdian Forquian, Executive Director, Yayasan Cakrawala Hijau Indonesia, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Youk Kyung Sook, Coordinator, Green Korea United, Seoul, S. Korea, Chauyen Lai Shrestha, President, Youth Alliance for Development, Kathmandhu, Nepal, Niel Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival,(PGS) Canada., Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada., Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility,(CCNR), Canada, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health,(IICPH) Toronto, Canada., David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Canada., Dr. Joan Russow, National Leader, Green Party of Canada, Victoria, BC., Dave Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon Chapter, Dr. Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Linda Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Sask, Canada, Niel Sinclair, New Green Alliance, Sask, Canada, Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada, Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President, Dr. Penelope Simons, Vice-President, The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr, US Navy (Retd), Vice-President, Centre for Defence Information,(CDI) Washington, USA., Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Program Director, Federation of American Scientists, (FAS), NY, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program Analyst, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, Calif., USA., Alice Slater, President, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE) NY, USA, Michael Marriott, Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Washington, USA., Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA., Ellen Thomas, Executive Director, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., USA., Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington DC, USA., Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Gainesville, Florida., Randall Forsberg, Director, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Mass, Michael D. Intriligator, Vice-Chair, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), UCLA, USA., Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Director, HOME, Tecopa, Calif.., Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountains Conference, United Church of Christ, Colorado, USA., Rev H.J. Grapes, Sanctuary of Light Healing and Spiritual Centre, NY., USA., Don Reeves, General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., Ruah Swennenfeldt/Stan Becker Clerk, Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, Burlington Vermont USA., Rev. William J. Morton SSC, Coordinator, Columban Mission Office, El Paso, Texas, USA., Lori Redhair-Martin, Planetary Transformations, Grover Beach, CA, USA., Ross Mc Cluney PhD, Principal Research Scientist, Florida Solar Energy Centre, Florida,(pers. capy) Mark Colby, Office Manager, Solar Energy International, Colo, USA., John Reese, Community Action Network, Seattle, Wash, USA., Terry Gips, President, Alliance for Sustainability, Minneapolis, Mn,USA., John M. Laforge, 'Nukewatch', Wisconsin, USA., Paige Knight, Hanford Watch, Portland, Ore, USA., Barbara Weidener, Grandmothers for Peace International, Calif.., Alan Moore, Peace and Justice Commission, City of Berkley, Alan Moore, Patch Adams Peace and Justice Centre, Alan Moore, Butterfly Gardeners Association, Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA., Phyllis S. Yingling, Chair, Kay Camp, Former Chair, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA., Yoshiko Ikuta President, Women Speak out for Peace and Justice,(WILPF-Cleveland), Cleveland Ohio, Margo Schepart, Coordinator, NO ESCAPE, NY, USA., Lynn Sims, Don't Waste Oregon, Portland, Ore, USA., Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Shelburne, Mass, USA., Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project, Livermore, USA., Mary Byrd-Davis, Yggdrassil Institute, Georgetown, KY, USA., Paul Williams, Green Party of New Jersey, Atlantic City, NJ., Samara Dun, Just Act: Youth Action for Global Justice, San Francisco, Calif., USA., Corrinne Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich, USA., Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Monroe, Mich., Keith Gunter, Citizens Resistance at Fermi-Two, Monroe, Michigan, John M. Laforge, Nukewatch, Wisconsin, USA., Mary-Anne Zepettello, Peace Action Central New York., Susan Shaer, Womens Action for New Directions, (WAND), Arlington, MA, USA., Lt-Col WC Holmberg (Retd), President, Global Biorefineries, Wash, DC., Tracy Moavero, Peace Action Education Fund, USA., Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA, Brooklyn, NY., USA., Corbin Harney, Shundahai Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA., Richard L. Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Honululu, Hawaii, USA., Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ., Auckland, NZ, Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, (DSC), Christchurch, NZ., Dr. R. E. White, Deputy Director, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ., Jim Holdom, CORSO, Hamilton, NZ., Leona Fay, Womens International League for Peace (WILPF), Christchurch, NZ, Carol-Anne Bradford, Coalition for Gun Control, Auckland, NZ., Richard Frizzell, Nelson Peace Group, Nelson, Aotearoa/NZ., Gerry Coates, Founder, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Wellington, NZ., Larry Ross, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, Christchurch, NZ., Ian Shearer, Sustainable Energy Forum, Wellington, New Zealand, Stewart Sontier, FAIR-NZ, Auckland, NZ., Kieth Locke, MP, Greens, Aotearoa/NZ Dr. Carmen Lawrence MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Fremantle, W.A., Anthony Albanese MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Grayndler, NSW., Tanya Plibersek, ALP Federal Member for Sydney, NSW., Allan Morris MP, ALP Federal Member for Newcastle, NSW., Daryl Melham MP, ALP Federal Member for Banks, NSW., Kelly Hoare MP, (ALP) Federal Member for Charlton, NSW, Jan Mc Farlane, (ALP) Federal Member for Stirling, W.A., Colin Hollis, (ALP) Federal Member for Throsby, NSW., Senator Vicky Bourne, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson for the Democrats, Democrat Senator for NSW., Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW, Senator Chris Schacht, ALP Senator for SA., Senator Brian Grieg, Democrat Senator for W.A., Cheryl Davenport, MLC, Member for South Metropolitan, W.A., Norm Kelly MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Lee Rhiannon MLC (Greens) NSW., Richard Jones MLC, (Ind) NSW., Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens Member for Molonglo ACT, Don Nardella MLA, ALP Member for Melton, Vic., Gis Watson MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A., Gareth Smith, Nuclear Disarmament Party, Vic., Dr. Susan Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) Canberra, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA, Babs Fuller-Quinn, Australian Peace Committee Sydney, Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum, Doreen Burrows, South Coast Peace Committee, George Gotsis, Greek Peace Committee, (Sydney) Brian Miller, Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney Jo Vallentine, People For Nuclear Disarmament (PND) W.A., Scientists and Technologists Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND) W.A., Robin Chapple, Anti-Nuclear Alliance of W.A., Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign, Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW Reverend Professor James Haire, President, Uniting Church in Australia, Rev. Greg Thompson, St Johns Anglican Church Darlinghurst, NSW., Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament, (CICD) Melb, Vic., Jacob Grech, Earthworker, Trades Hall, Melb., Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology Australia, Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT), Darwin, NT, Rowena Skinner, Environment Centre of W.A.(ECWA), Perth, W.A., Glenn Marshall, Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Alice Springs, NT., Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Melb., Alec Marr, Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society,(TWS), Canberra, Margaret Reynolds, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA), John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Australia, 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 - - 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, 17 Aug 2000 07:55:34 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/08/17 - Daybook; Activist Announcements - --=====================_68561685==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [NucNews archives have been posted through August 5, 2000 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. If you think any articles should be included that haven't been, please send them to NucNews Editor , or (more quickly!) post them (as text-only) directly to http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews. et] 1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 17, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000817221754.htm 8 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a meeting on assessing= future regulatory research needs of nuclear experts from the government, the= nuclear industry, academia, and the public, to seek stakeholder input on the role= and future direction of nuclear regulatory research. Location: Marriott= Residence Inn, 7335 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Contact: 301/415-6293. Film screening =97 12:30 p.m. =97 The Institute for Policy Studies holds= a film screening and discussion on "International Harm Reduction Programs: How Do Other Countries Deal With Drugs?" The program includes excerpts from "The Crier Report: America's War on Drugs: Searching for Solutions," ABC News,= and "Containing the Fallout," Australia. The speaker is Alan Clear, executive director of the Harm Reduction Coalition. Location: 755 15th St. NW.= Contact: 202/234-9382. 2) Announcements: - - Democratic Convention Delegates List Listed below is the web address for the delegates to the Democratic=20 Convention 2000. As you may know, the democrats, like the republicans,=20 are supporting Son of Star Wars in their platform. There may be some sane=20 delegates who will lead a floor fight against this "nuclear weapons=20 forever" provision. You can look up your own state's delegates to the=20 convention on this list and ask them to reject the platform plank in favor= =20 of ballistic missile defense. Alice Slater http://www.dems2000.com/DelegateCenter/09_delegatelisting.html - - Dear Friends of Vieques,=20 Massive bombing by the US Navy began August 14, 2000 on the populated island= of Vieques, Puerto Rico. A juice-fast begun July 25 has now turned to= water-only asking President Clinton to hold a meeting with religious and peace movement leaders. Over 50 people are fasting on a rotating basis in Puerto Rico and= in the U.S. Some are fasting round the clock. "Vieques Fast for Justice and= Peace" =20 - - "War is Hell" - an anti-war site to check: http://www.warishell.com/ [From: "Nancy A. Hey" ] - - Faith in Action: Liberating the Conscious Heart Interfaith Meditation and Prayer, September 5-8, 2000 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From Tuesday afternoon, September 5 through Friday night, September 8, there will be a silent prayer and meditation retreat, open to people of all faiths, at the= Los Alamos National Laboratory. Vilma Ruiz w Los Alamos Study Group, 212 East= Marcy Street #10 w Santa Fe, NM 87501, Tel. (505) 982-7747 w Fax (505) 982-8502=20 Email: w vruiz@lasg.org=20 - - Check out: The Bomb Project {http://www.thebombproject.org}=20 - - SIERRA CLUB WEBSITE HIGHLIGHTS GREEN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES - http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-02-09.html,=20 http://www.sierraclub.org/politics=20 - - ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.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 (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -= http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_68561685==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [NucNews archives have been posted through August 5, 2000 at http://= prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.  If you think any articles should be included that haven't been, please send them to NucNews Editor <prop1@prop1.org>, or (more quickly!) post them (as text-only) directly to http:/= /www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews.  et]

1) Washington Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, August 17, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000817221754.= htm

     8 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a meeting on assessing future regulatory research needs of nuclear experts from the government, the nuclear industry, academia, and the public, to seek stakeholder input on the role and future direction of nuclear regulatory research. Location: Marriott Residence Inn, 7335 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Contact: 301/415-6293.

   Film screening =97 12:30 p.m. =97 The  Institute for Polic= y Studies holds a film screening and discussion on "International Harm Reduction Programs: How Do Other  Countries Deal With Drugs?" The program includes excerpts from "The Crier Report: America's War on Drugs: Searching for Solutions," ABC News, and "Containing the Fallout," Australia. The speaker is Alan Clear, executive director of the Harm Reduction Coalition. Location: 755 15th St. NW. Contact: 202/234-9382.

2) Announcements:

- - Democratic Convention Delegates List
Listed below is the web address for the delegates to the Democratic
Convention 2000. As you may know, the democrats, like the republicans,
are supporting Son of Star Wars in their platform. There may be some sane
delegates who will lead a floor fight against this "nuclear weapons
forever" provision. You can look up your own state's delegates to the
convention on this list and ask them to reject the platform plank in favor
of ballistic missile defense. Alice Slater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
http://www.dems2000.com/DelegateCenter/09_delegatelistin= g.html

- Dear Friends of Vieques,
Massive bombing by the US Navy began August 14, 2000 on the populated island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. A juice-fast begun July 25 has now turned to water-only asking President Clinton to hold a meeting with religious and peace movement leaders. Over 50 people are fasting on a rotating basis in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Some are fasting round the clock. "Vieques Fast for Justice and Peace" <viequesfast@mail.com>

- "War is Hell" - an anti-war site to check: http://www.warishell.com/
[From: "Nancy A. Hey" <cattynancy@hotmail.com>]

- Faith in Action: Liberating the Conscious Heart Interfaith Meditation and Prayer, September 5-8, 2000 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From Tuesday afternoon, September 5 through Friday night, September 8, there will be a silent prayer and meditation retreat, open to people of all faiths, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Vilma Ruiz w Los Alamos Study Group, 212 East Marcy Street #10 w Santa Fe, NM 87501, Tel. (505) 982-7747 w Fax (505) 982-8502
Email: w vruiz@lasg.org

- - Check out:  The Bomb Project {http://www.thebombproject.org}

- SIERRA CLUB WEBSITE HIGHLIGHTS GREEN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES - http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-02-09.html,
http://www= .sierraclub.org/politics

- -
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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 (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

   Distributed without payment for= research and educational
purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.


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