From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #365 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Saturday, August 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 365 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:15:31 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Final Faxing NMD/Star Wars Letter in 7 Days sign now Hi John - I noticed that you've removed my name as signator for Nevada D= esert Experience. By the time you actually send the letter off, I will have be= gun my new position with NDE as its Executive Director. (My last day with Tri-Valle= y CAREs was August 8). So, could you reinstate my name, along with Marcus Page, = as signing for NDE? Thanks. Sally Light FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign wrote: > 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 > > Over 286 organisations so far have signed this letter to stop NMD/Star = Wars. > > Has yours signed it yet? > > (note that some very recent signatures may not be on this text yet) > > It has already been faxed once to Clinton, Cohen, Bush, Gore, and NATO > prime ministers and foreign ministers. > > The final faxing is in exactly 7 days. > > It will be released to media on september 6th in Sydney, washington, Lo= ndon > and Berlin. > > PLEASE BY EMAILING > FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign > > With your name, position, and organisational details including city AND > COUNTRY. > > 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, OF ICELAND, +354-622373, > > PRIME MINISTER MASSIMO D'ALEMA, OF ITALY, +39-6-678-3998 > > PRIME MINISTER JENS STOLTENBERG > OF NORWAY, Fx:+47-2224-9500. +47-2224-2796 > > PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK, OF THE NETHERLANDS, +31-70-356-4683, > > CC > US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202-647-6047, > > US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN +1-703-695-1149, > > FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV, > +7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323, > > ROBIN COOK, UK MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, +44-171-829-2417, > +44-171-270-2833, > > HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, +33-1-4317-520= 3, > > JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY +49-228-168-6662, > +49-1888-171-928, > +49-228-173-402, +49-30-201-861-924, > > YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, +81-3-3581-9675 > > LLOYD AXWORTHY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA, +1-613-952-3904, > +1-613-996-3546 > > LOUIS MICHEL, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BELGIUM, +32-2-511-6385, > > THEODOROS PANGALOS, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GREECE, +30-1-362-4= 195 > > George Bush Presidential Candidate, +1-512-637-8800. > Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, +1-202-456-2461 > > Dear Presidents and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Defence Mini= sters, > > 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 appropri= ate > forums or bilaterally, to press the US government not to proceed with t= he > deployment of NMD, and to maintain the integrity of the ABM Treaty. > > Proceeding with National Missile Defence threatens to undermine the bas= is > 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 w= hich > the US is legally committed, together with all other NPT signatories. T= he > final declaration of the NPT Review Conference expressly calls for: > "the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and conclusi= on > of START-III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the > Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stabil= ity > 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 th= at > 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 al= low > 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 influentia= l > 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 mis= sile > threat from so-called 'Rogue States', (now termed 'States of Concern') = are > not the solution to missile proliferation, sabotage nuclear disarmamen= t > 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 t= he > 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 Lore= tz, > Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclea= r > War (IPPNW), BC Canada/Cambridge, USA., > Colin Archer, Secretary-General, Kate Dewes, Vice-President, Internatio= nal > Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva/NZ > Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawy= ers > Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Neth., > Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council > (BASIC), Washington/London, > Bruna Nota, International President, Womens International League for Pe= ace > and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva/NY., > Dr. John Burroughs,Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Pol= icy > (LCNP), NY/NZ., > Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium, > Michael L. Gold, VP North American Affairs, UN Envoy, International > Association of Educators for World Peace,(IAEWP) (100 countries), > Karen Talbot, International Centre for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) > > 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 Parl= iament. > 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, > Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth United States, > Washington, DC., USA., > > Commander Robert D. Green, RN (Retd.) Chair, World Court Project UK., N= Z/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, > Peter Nicholls, Acting Chair, Abolition-2000 UK, London, UK., > Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Ba= ses, > (CAAB), Yorkshire, UK., > Dr. Chris Busby, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, UK., > Liz Waterson, Gillian Reeve, Executive Director, MEDACT, UK., > Jane Tallents, Trident-Ploughshares, UK. > Caroline Nursey, Clerk, Quaker Peace and Service Central Committee, Lon= don, > UK., > Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair, > Defence and Security Committee, > David Drew MP, House of Commons., London, UK., > Malcolm K. Savidge MP House of Commons, London, UK., > > 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, Mutlang= en, > Germany, > Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Kornwesthi= em, > Germany, > Jan Gildemiester, Director, Action Committee Service for Peace (AGDEF), > Bonn, Germany, > > Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounter and Non-Violence, Bad Ischl, Aust= ria, > Plattform Gegen Atomgefahr, Linz, Austria, > > Daniel Durand, Secy, Mouvement de la Paix, Paris, France, > Bruno Barrilot, Director, L'Obervatoire des Armes Nucl=E9aires Francais= es, > Lyons, France, > 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, Ital= y, > Dr Joachim Lau, Italian Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA-Italy), > Florence, Italy, > > Martin Schwander, Swiss Peace Movement, Basel, Switz., > David Schmitter, Global Initiative for Immediate Disarmament, Switz, > Dr Arthur Muhl, IPPNW Switzerland, > > Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100 in Finland, Helsinki= , > Finland, > Ulla Lehtinen, President, First Peoples, Turku, Finland., > Bjorn Hilt, Chair, Kirsten Osen, Vice-Chair, Anne Grieg MD, IPPNW Norwa= y, > Horten, Norway., > Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland, > > Gunnar Westberg, President,Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear War (SLMK= ) > Sweden, > 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 S=D8rensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark., > Finn Eckman, Liason Committee for Peace and Security, Copenhagen, Denma= rk, > > Karel Koster, Project on European Nuclear Nonproliferation (PENN > -Netherlands), Neth., > Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Antwerp, Belgium, > Eloi Glorieux, MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium, > Peter Vanhoutte, MP, Member of the Belgian Parliament, Brussells, Belg, > > 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, Odes= sa, > 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, > Losena T Salabula, Assistant Director Demilitarisation, Pacific Concern= s > Resource Centre(PCRC)/Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP), Suva= , > Fiji, > > Jean P. Patterson, Heredia Disarmament Committee, San Jose, Costa-Rica.= , > Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin American Circle for Internatio= nal > Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, > Dr Carlos Puzos, IPPNW Cuba, > Grace De Haro, Suzanne Schultz, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina= , > > Alfred Felix Perez Aruaza, Environmental Strategic Research Council, Ur= uguay, > Alfredo Felix Perez Aruaza, Instituto de Estudios Estrategicos No Aline= ado > 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 Ur= uguay, > 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 Resear= ch, > Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India, > Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, > Dr. Ronald Mc Coy, Chair, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War (IPP= NW), > 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. > > Iwamatsu Shigetoshi, Chair, Japan Congress Against A and H Bombs > (Gensuikin) Tokyo, Japan, > Hiro Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for > Disarmament and Security (PCDS), Japan., > Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, > (JPPNW), Hiroshima, Japan, > > Youk Kyung Sook, Coordinator, Green Korea United, Seoul, S. Korea, > Chauyen Lai Shrestha, President, Youth Alliance for Development, > Kathmandhu, Nepal, > > Senator Doug Roche, Senator, Ottowa, Canada., > 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-Preside= nt, > The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, > Carol Hodgson, Coordinator, OPIRG-Carleton, Ottowa, Canada., > Jacques Boucher, Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence, Montreal, > Quebec, Canada, > Project Peacemakers, Winnipeg, Canada, > Edward H. Schaffer, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms(VANA), Canada, > > Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr, US Navy (Retd), Vice-President, Cent= re > 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, Livermo= re, > Calif., USA., > Alice Slater, President, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environm= ent > (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 Studi= es, > Cambridge, Mass, > Michael D. Intriligator, Vice-Chair, Economists Allied for Arms Reducti= on > (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., > Steve Willey, Sandpoint Friends Meeting, Idaho, USA., > Rev. William J. Morton SSC, Coordinator, Columban Mission Office, El Pa= so, > Texas, USA., > Rev Leland P. Stewart, Unity-and Diversity World Council, Los Angeles, = CA., > 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 Internationa= l > 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, Mi= ch., > 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, U= SA., > 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., > Jon Naar, New York Solar Coalition, > Steve Jambeck/Joan Flynn, Envirovideo, Queens, NY., > Motoki Hashima., President, American University Coalition for a > Nuclear-Free World, American University, Washington DC., > Alfred L. Marder, President, United States Peace Council, > Joanie Misrack, Pathways to Peace, Larkspur, CA., USA., > Diane Bader, Grandmothers for Peace, Wilton, CA, USA., > Dr Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA (Engaged Democracy for the Nuclear A= ge), > Brooklyn, NY, USA., > Marcus P. Blaise-Paige, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Las Vegas, > Nev/Calif, USA, > Sandi Brockway, President/Founder, Macrocosm USA., Ca, USA., > Richard L. Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Honolulu, Hawa= ii, > 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., > Megan Hutching, Secy, Dame Laurie Salas, WILPF-Aotearoa, Wellington, > NZ/Aotearoa > 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, Christchu= rch, > NZ., > Ian Shearer, Sustainable Energy Forum, Wellington, New Zealand, > Stewart Sontier, FAIR-NZ, Auckland, NZ., > Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ., > Dame Laurie Salas, National Consultative Committee on Disarmament NZ., > John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa, Wellington, Aotearoa= /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, > Warren Snowdon MP, ALP Federal Member for the Northern Territory, > Jan Mc Farlane, ALP Federal Member for Stirling, W.A., > Colin Hollis, ALP Federal Member for Throsby, NSW., > Senator Bob Brown, Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania, > 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., > Ralph Clark, ALP State Member for Ross Smith, SA., > Robyn Geraghty, ALP State Member for Torrens, SA., > Frank Pangallo, Mayor, Queenbeyan City Council, > Gareth Smith, Nuclear Disarmament Party, Vic., > Dr. Susan Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) > Canberra, > Dr Rachel Darken, MAPW Queensland, > 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., > Anne Wharton, Christians for Peace, Darwin, NT., > Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmamen= t, > (CICD) Melb, Vic., > Jacob Grech, Earthworker, Trades Hall, Melb., > Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology Australia, > Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territor= y > (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 (A= CF), > Melb., > Alec Marr, Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society,(TWS), Canberra, > Hon. Dr Doug Everingham, Member, NCCPD, Qld, > 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. - - 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, 25 Aug 2000 16:16:26 -0600 From: "bob kinsey" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Please sign and return to: helio@globenet.org Please Sign Me On using the information below ************************************************* Bob Kinsey Peace and Justice Task Force Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ bkinsey@peacemission .org 6555 Ward Road, Arvada, Colorado, 80004 "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God" -- Jesus of Nazareth - ----- Original Message ----- From: Abolition 2000 To: ; Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:14 PM Subject: (abolition-usa) Please sign and return to: helio@globenet.org > Dear Friends, > > We are used to the multiple reincarnations of the nuclear industry, trying > to save the world at all costs (at our costs!). We have seen the "peaceful > atom", food irradiation, the covert recycling of nuclear wastes in our pots > and pans, etc. Nowadays, those of you working on the climate issue know > that nuclear plants have been suggested as appropriate projects for the > Kyoto flexible mechanisms. The European Union has expressed its opposition, > but the last word will be spoken at COP6 in The Hague or possibly even at > SB-13 in France, a country which can boast of having the most nuclearised > electricity sector in the world. > > To obtain its clean bill of health as a climate change solution, nuclear > energy lobbyists needed to get nuclear accepted as a sustainable form of > energy. One way this is being attempted is by diverting the mandate the > Commission for Sustainable Development. Canada, another nuclear strong > country, is trying to include nuclear in a side-exhibition planned for > CSD9! > > We are therefore calling upon all NGOs of all fields to express their > opinion and tell CSD to keep to its mission. We propose the following > petition for your endorsement. Please distribute it via your networks, make > it accepted by as many representatives of civil society as you can and > e-mail us your agreement immediately. we would like to publicise the first > results of this petition at SB-13 (September 4-14, 2000) in Lyon. > > Thank you for your help in preventing the latest assault of this bankrupt > industry on our health and environment! > > ============================================================ > > PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER BY EMAILING HELIO INTERNATIONAL > > PETITION ADDRESSED TO THE CHAIR AND MEMBER STATES OF THE U.N. COMMISSION ON > SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT > > Your Excellencies, > > We the undersigned NGOs active in development, environmental, disarmament > and human rights issues express our deepest regret and extreme concern that > nuclear > energy seems to have been included in the draft agenda of CSD-9 and that > this > declining and unsustainable industry might be allocated space in the > related exhibition. > > We consider any focus on nuclear energy to be both against the spirit of > Agenda 21 and the mandate of the U.N. CSD. Moreover it is contrary to the > interests of developing countries which require sustainable, mostly > decentralized, low-cost energy systems, adapted both to their needs and > their endownments in capital, resources and labour. > > Most countries are now committed to phasing out, or not developing nuclear > energy. They also formally oppose the inclusion of nuclear energy into the > projects of the Clean Development Mechanism to be established under the > Kyoto Protocol. > > At its last meeting, the G-8 stated its commitment to "encourage and > facilitate investment in the development and use of sustainable energy, > underpinned by enabling domestic environments, (which) will assist in > mitigating the problems of climate change and air pollution. To this end, > the increased use of renewable energy sources in particular will improve > the quality of life, especially in > developing countries." ....... > > Non-G8 countries are also taking similar stances. Turkey has just cancelled > plans initiated in 1992 for a nuclear plant at Akkuyu. Prime Minister > Bulent Evecit said in official public statement that, "the world is > abandoning nuclear power". Worldwide, nuclear power has been plagued by > high cost, erratic performance, endemic technical problems, the risk of > catastrophic accidents, and environmental problems such as routine > radiation releases, radioactive waste management and the high cost of > decommissioning. > > However, hardpressed nuclear vendors, mainly U.S., Canadian, French and > German corporations, are eyeing the developing world as a 'last gasp' > market for their products and are stepping up their lobbying efforts at > U.N. conferences, including the Climate Change negotiations. > > ********************* > > Therefore, we, the undersigned NGOs, urge you to preserve the integrity of > the CSD process by ensuring that all non-sustainable energy technologies, > particularly nuclear energy, are excluded from CSD9 debates, exhibitions > and other activities. The CSD should focus on promoting clean, secure and > sustainable forms of energy for the welfare of present and future > generations as per the aim of Agenda 21. > > Signatures: > > NAME ORGANISATION FULL ADDRESS > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > **************************************** > HELIO INTERNATIONAL > Observatoire mondial > de la viabilit$B7 8\(Jerg$B8f(Jique > SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WATCH > 56, rue de Passy France - 75016 PARIS > Tel:(33-1) 42 24 51 48 Fax: -42 24 86 33 > E-mail: helio@globenet.org > Website: http://www.globenet.org/helio > **************************************** > > -- > > > Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\eudora\attach\bdrew.vcf" > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 17:14:23 -0400 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) Celebrate Winnie Gallant 7 p.m.Sunday, August 27, 2000, in Peace Park - --=====================_210766906==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MEMORIAL FOR WINIFRED GALLANT, D.C. ACTIVIST SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2000, 7:00 P.M. LAFAYETTE PARK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2000 - Contact: Keshav Hunter in New York, 917-312-3749 mailto:keshav@keshav-music.com Ellen Thomas in D.C., 202-462-0757, mailto:prop1@prop1.org There will be a memorial for Winifred Gallant on Sunday, August 27th, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. in Lafayette Park, north of the White House. Ms. Gallant died in the early morning hours of August 23rd at Washington Adventist Hospital, after a lifetime of activism in Washington D.C. and, before 1972, in New York City. Born Winifred CorneliaColucci in her mother's New York apartment on May 21, 1918, in the old Italian section of West Village, Ms. Gallant's activism began early. As a young woman near 20, she was a member of the Lindbergh Peace Parade Committee. In 1938 she was a columnist for a small newspaper in New York, The Gateway. During World War II she worked with the Greek War Relief Association campaign to feed children. She was active in civil rights in the 1960's, and during the Vietnam War, she was a member of the 5th Avenue Peace Parade Committee, which was at the heart of anti-war sentiment in New York City. In 1968 she launched a consulting business in New York, "Optimum Files." Although the business was doing well in New York City, she moved it to Washington, which from her activist point of view was the "belly of the Beast." 1972, after moving to Washington D.C., she supported the Quaker Vigil, a year-long 24-hour-a-day presence on the White House sidewalk against the war. She grieved when the Quaker Vigil was terminated by the police in 1973. In 1984 she adopted the anti-nuclear vigilers who have remained day and night outside the White House since June 3, 1981. For seven years she shared her small efficiency apartment with numerous members of the vigil. An active member of Shiloh Baptist Church for many years, she worked hard to raise the members' awareness about issues surrounding the Savannah River nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina, home towns of many of the Shiloh members. She started "Church-to-Church Action" to help D.C.-area churches reach out to the churches near the Savannah River plant. After retirement, she continued as a full-time activist. Ready with quips and a big smile, she sought out and stood up for the dispossessed and abused. D.C. Statehood advocates knew Ms. Gallant well, as did gay rights and medical marijuana advocates. In recent years she was a passionate opponent of the Convention Center, which she believed would mean gentrification, with local people losing their homes and small shops as new businesses came in. Long an advocate against homelessness, she kept her home open to the homeless as well as to political activists from all over the nation when they needed a bath, a meal or to store their possesions. She is survived by one son, Keshav Hunter, a New York poet and musician. I hope you will be able to come on such short notice. I know it would be a miracle. Again, the memorial for Winifred Gallant is on Sunday, August 27th, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. in Lafayette Park, north of the White House. ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html ______________________________________________________________ - --=====================_210766906==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" MEMORIAL FOR WINIFRED GALLANT, D.C. ACTIVIST
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2000, 7:00 P.M.
LAFAYETTE PARK

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2000 -
Contact:  Keshav Hunter in New York, 917-312-3749  mailto:keshav@keshav-music.com
Ellen Thomas in D.C., 202-462-0757,  mailto:prop1@prop1.org                     

There will be a memorial for Winifred Gallant on Sunday, August 27th, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. in Lafayette Park, north of the White House. Ms. Gallant died in the early morning hours of August 23rd at Washington Adventist Hospital, after a lifetime of activism in Washington D.C. and, before 1972, in New York City.

Born Winifred CorneliaColucci in her mother's New York apartment on May 21, 1918, in the old Italian section of West Village, Ms. Gallant's activism began early. As a young woman near 20, she was a member of the Lindbergh Peace Parade Committee. 

In 1938 she was a columnist for a small newspaper in New York, The Gateway. During World War II she worked with the Greek War Relief Association campaign to feed children. She was active in civil rights in the 1960's, and during the Vietnam War, she was a member of the 5th Avenue Peace Parade Committee, which was at the heart of anti-war sentiment in New York City.

In 1968 she launched a consulting business in New York, "Optimum Files." Although the business was doing well in New York City, she moved it to Washington, which from her activist point of view was the "belly of the Beast."

1972, after moving to Washington D.C., she supported the Quaker Vigil, a year-long 24-hour-a-day presence on the White House sidewalk against the war.  She grieved when the Quaker Vigil was terminated by the police in 1973.

In 1984 she adopted the anti-nuclear vigilers who have remained day and night outside the White House since  June 3, 1981. For seven years she shared her small efficiency apartment with numerous members of the vigil.  An active member of Shiloh Baptist Church for many years, she worked hard to raise the members' awareness about issues surrounding the Savannah River nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina, home towns of many of the Shiloh members. She started "Church-to-Church Action" to help D.C.-area churches reach out to the churches near the Savannah River plant.

After retirement, she continued as a full-time activist. Ready with quips and a big smile, she sought out and stood up for the dispossessed and abused. D.C. Statehood advocates knew Ms. Gallant well, as did gay rights and medical marijuana advocates.  In recent years she was a passionate opponent of the Convention Center, which she believed would mean gentrification, with local people losing their homes and small shops as new businesses came in. Long an advocate against homelessness, she kept her home open to the homeless as well as to political activists from all over the nation when they needed a bath, a meal or to store their possesions.

She is survived by one son, Keshav Hunter, a New York poet and musician.

I hope you will be able to come on such short notice.  I know it would be a miracle.

Again, the memorial for Winifred Gallant is on Sunday, August 27th, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. in Lafayette Park, north of the White House.


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