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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:35:38 -0800
From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) media adv/Scientist Quits Weapons Work-Calls Lab Deceptive
Dear colleagues: Below is the media advisory for two very important news
conferences on Thursday. Please read and enjoy. Also, pass the word along
to any media you know. I will post more as it develops! Peace, Marylia
Contact:
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
Media Advisory
LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTIST QUITS, CALLS LAB DECEPTIVE
Leaves High-Paying Job In "Stockpile Stewardship" Program,
Encourages Others To Refuse Work On Nuclear Weapons
WHAT:
Press Conferences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visitors
Center in Livermore and the World Affairs Council in San Francisco
WHEN:
Thursday, March 15
9:30 AM at the Livermore Laboratory, and
NOON at the World Affairs Council (sandwiches and drinks provided)
WHERE:
The Livermore Laboratory Visitors Center is located on Greenville Road,
about 2 miles south of I-580.
The World Affairs Council is at 312 Sutter Street in San Francisco (also
serves as the new "home" of the San Francisco Press Club)
WHO:
Issac Trotts was recruited out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) to an $85,000/year position at Livermore Laboratory in the Visual
Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation group in the Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) of the Stockpile Stewardship program.
After graduating from U.C. Davis in 1999, Trotts received a Masters of
Science in Applied Mathematics at Brown University and worked as a Visiting
Researcher at MIT before coming to Livermore in September 2000. Trotts last
day at Livermore Lab was March 3, 2001.
WHY:
To expose deceptive recruiting practices at Livermore Lab, encourage other
scientists to refuse to work on nuclear weapons, and outline future plans
by Trotts, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations to conduct outreach
to counter Livermore Lab recruitment in Universities and within scientific
associations. Trotts will also release an open statement to current and
prospective employees.
FORMAT:
Trotts will conduct a briefing for reporters, answer questions and release
an open letter to Livermore Lab employees. Marylia Kelley, executive
director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog"
organization, will explain the group's campaign to encourage scientists and
engineers to renounce work on nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction. Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a chemist who left Livermore Lab last
year to protest the construction of the National Ignition Facility and the
Stockpile Stewardship program will be on hand to support Trotts. Other
public interest groups will also participate.
- -- 30 --
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.
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:35:54 -0800
From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) media adv/Scientist Quits Weapons Work-Calls Lab Deceptive
Dear colleagues: Below is the media advisory for two very important news
conferences on Thursday. Please read and enjoy. Also, pass the word along
to any media you know. I will post more as it develops! Peace, Marylia
Contact:
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
Media Advisory
LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTIST QUITS, CALLS LAB DECEPTIVE
Leaves High-Paying Job In "Stockpile Stewardship" Program,
Encourages Others To Refuse Work On Nuclear Weapons
WHAT:
Press Conferences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visitors
Center in Livermore and the World Affairs Council in San Francisco
WHEN:
Thursday, March 15
9:30 AM at the Livermore Laboratory, and
NOON at the World Affairs Council (sandwiches and drinks provided)
WHERE:
The Livermore Laboratory Visitors Center is located on Greenville Road,
about 2 miles south of I-580.
The World Affairs Council is at 312 Sutter Street in San Francisco (also
serves as the new "home" of the San Francisco Press Club)
WHO:
Issac Trotts was recruited out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) to an $85,000/year position at Livermore Laboratory in the Visual
Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation group in the Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) of the Stockpile Stewardship program.
After graduating from U.C. Davis in 1999, Trotts received a Masters of
Science in Applied Mathematics at Brown University and worked as a Visiting
Researcher at MIT before coming to Livermore in September 2000. Trotts last
day at Livermore Lab was March 3, 2001.
WHY:
To expose deceptive recruiting practices at Livermore Lab, encourage other
scientists to refuse to work on nuclear weapons, and outline future plans
by Trotts, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations to conduct outreach
to counter Livermore Lab recruitment in Universities and within scientific
associations. Trotts will also release an open statement to current and
prospective employees.
FORMAT:
Trotts will conduct a briefing for reporters, answer questions and release
an open letter to Livermore Lab employees. Marylia Kelley, executive
director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog"
organization, will explain the group's campaign to encourage scientists and
engineers to renounce work on nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction. Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a chemist who left Livermore Lab last
year to protest the construction of the National Ignition Facility and the
Stockpile Stewardship program will be on hand to support Trotts. Other
public interest groups will also participate.
- -- 30 --
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.
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"help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:06:44 +1100
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign
Subject: (abolition-usa) Join 189 Groups& MPs Saying 'NO' to Missile Defence/'Star Wars'
TO SIGN THIS LETTER JUST EMAIL
Dear NGOs and Parliamentarians,
189 organisations and members of parliament have so far signed this letter
to President Bush, Defence Secretary Rumsfeld, and NATO.
Is your organisation among them?
If you believe that Missile Defence/Star Wars will lead to a new arms race
and your organisation has not yet signed this letter, you are urged to do
so.
(If you are already signed on to this letter and are recieving it again my
apologies- though you may like to check that your sign-on is correct. I am
sending this out to a number of lists that contain both organisations that
have already signed and that have not yet signed.)
TO SIGN THIS LETTER JUST EMAIL , (if you are getting
this direct you can just hit reply), giving details of your name, position,
organisation and address ESPECIALLY WHICH COUNTRY YOU ARE FROM.
Hoping for your organisations signature,
John Hallam
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
+7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173, +7-095-205-4219,
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
+7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323,
PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-207-925-0918,
ROBIN COOK, UK MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, +44-207-829-2417,
+44-207-270-2833,
PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, +33-147-42-2465,
PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN +33-142-34-2677
HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, +33-1-4317-5203,
GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
+49-030-20-00-19-99,
CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
+49-228-56-2357, +49-30-4000-2357,
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
JEAN CHRETIEN,
PRIME MINISTER, CANADA, +1-613-941-6900,
JOHN MANLEY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,
+1-613-952-3904, +1-613-996-3546, +1-613 996 3443.
POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK, +45-33-11-1665
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK
+45 3154 0533
JENS STOLTENBERG, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY +47-22249500
THORBJORN JAGLAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NORWAY +47-22833934
BJORN TORE GODAL, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, NORWAY +47-23092010
CC
US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL, +1-202-647-6047,
US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, DONALD C. RUMSFELD, +1-703-695-1149,
THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
+61-2-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166
THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA +61-2-6273-4115,
03-5979-3034
Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
Affairs and Defence:
We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy a
national ballistic missile defence network.
We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President George
W. Bush during his campaign -- in order to move toward the total and
unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
repeated international commitments.
The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making the
fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.
In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
international security.
President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
defences. If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from the
ABM treaty. President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
the treaty.
Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
conditional on the integrity of the ABM treaty. Russia's ratification of
START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.
It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US and
Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
status.
Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
deployment of even limited missile defences could lead to Russian
re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
missiles.
A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments. This
escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear arsenals
poised at even higher levels of alert.
Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive and
have not been proven to work in an operational environment.
No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six to 10
years. Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
warheads with close to 100% reliability.
Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could be
engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and more
reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly to
be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
build-ups.
The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
to result in a Chinese build-up.
The problems associated with missile defences require that the
international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing and
potential ballistic missile proliferation. Near-term efforts should be
focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement freezing
the North Korean missile program.
Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and regional
basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.
In light of the above:
- --We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such missile
defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
proliferation.
- --We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
joint facilities at Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
missile defence.
To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:
- --We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans. This will serve as the
most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
the risk of unintended nuclear attack.
- --We urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other states,
to proceed toward immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads each
through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.
The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as expressed
in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
under Article VI."
The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
governments expect.
(Signed)
INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) Geneva/NY,
Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
(BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space, Florida, USA,
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
Peer De Rijk, World Information Service on Energy (WISE-International),
Amsterdam, Neth,
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
Cities,
Pamela S. Meidell, USA, Janet Bloomfield UK, Atomic Mirror, Calif USA and
Saffron Walden UK,
Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health,
Toronto, Cn,
Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Neth,
Charles Mercieia, President, International Association of Educators for
World Peace,
MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP Greens, SE England,
Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
Elizabeth Schroedter, MEP, Greens, Germany,
Marianne Eriksson MEP, Greens/NGL, Sweden,
Per Gahrton MEP Greens, Sweden,
Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,
Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)
Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
Finn Ekman, Liason Committee for Peace and Security, Denmark,
Malla Kantola, Secy General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland,
Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
Horst Hohmier, Anti-Atom Plenum, Ruhrgebiet, Germany,
Dr Margit Hoepfler, NGO Shalom, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Amberg,
Germany,
Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
Dr Josep Puig, Scientists and Technicians for a Nuclear-free Future,
Barcelona, Spain,
Catherine Arata, SHALOM, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Italy,
National Society of Conservationists, Hungary,
Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Constantin S. Lacatus, People of Sibiu for Peace, Sibiu, Romania,
Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,
Prof Vladimir Koklyukhin, Belarussian Association for Political Science,
Brest, Belarus,
RUSSIAN GROUPS
Prof Alexi B. Yablokov, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow,
Russia,
Vladimir Slivyak, Co-Chair, ECODEFENSE, Kaliningrad, Russia,
Alisa Nikoulina, Coordinator, Antinuclear Campaign of the Social-Ecological
Union, Moscow, Russia,
Alexandra Koroleva, Chair, Public Committee on Environmental Education,
Kaliningrad Regional Duma, Russia,
Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia,
Pavel Malyshev, AVA, Kaliningrad, Russia,
Alexey Kozlov, ECODEFENSE, Voronezh, Russia,
Oleg Bodrov, 'Green World', Sosnovy Bor (St Petersburg) Russia,
UK GROUPS
David Drew MP, UK.,
Lynne Jones MP,Birmingham-Selly Oak, UK,
Alice Mahon,MP, UK,
Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
Manchester, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
Birmingham, UK.,
Janet Laycock, Wallasey CND, Merseyside, UK,
Sarah Lazenby, CND-Oxford, UK,
Anna Cheetham, Chair, CND-Leicester,
Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
Angie Zelter, Reforest The Earth, Norfolk, UK,
J. E. Mabbit, Socialist Workers Party, Sheffield, UK,
JAPANESE GROUPS
Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (JPPNW),
Hiroshima, Japan,
Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,
Gyun Lan Jung, Women Making Peace, Seoul, S. Korea,
Cyprus Peace Council,Cyprus,
Abdul H. Nayyar, Pakistan Peace Coalition, Islamabad, Pk,
Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
Luis-Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin-American Circle for International
Studies, Mexico City, Mexico,
Jean Patterson, LIMPAL Disarmament Group, Costa-Rica,
Christopher Clark, President, Associao Amazonia, Manaus, Brasil,
Grace de Haro, Human Rights Organisation, Rio Negro, Patagonia, Argentina,
FUNAM- Foundation for Defenceof the Environment, Rio Negro, Patagonia,
Argentina,
Mr Percy S. Ngonyama, Organiser, Ceasefire Campaign, Johannesburg, SA,
Edward Appiah, Green Earth Organisation, Accra, Ghana,
UNITED STATES GROUPS
Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington, USA,
Helen Caldicott MD, Founding President, PSR,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
NY, USA,
David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
Sally Light, Executive Director, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Nevada, USA,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition-One Committee, Washington DC, USA,
Carol Rosin, Founder, Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space
(ISCOS),
Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA,
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA,
Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network (CAN), Ma, USA,
Rosalie Tyler-Paul,chair, Peace Action Maine, Maine, USA,
Elen R.Robinson, Peace Action New Mexico, NM, USA,
Donald and Janet Axman, Peoples Action for Clean Energy, Ct, USA,
Vivian Stockman, Concerned Citizens Coalition, West Virginia, USA,
Bonnie Urfer/John Lafarge, Nukewatch, USA,
Paloma Galindo, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Oak Ridge, Tenn, USA,
Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project, Oakland, Calif,
Citizens Protecting Ohio, Bexley, Ohio, USA,
Bill Sulzman, Citizens for Peace in Space, Colo, USA,
Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif, USA,
Lewis E. Patrie MD, President, North Carolina Chapter, PSR, NC, USA,
Melanie Canon, PSR-New York, NY, USA,
Bruce A. Drew, Prairie Island Coalition, Minn, USA,
Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Michigan, USA,
Corrine Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Mich, USA,
Kieth Gunter, Citizens Resistance at Fermi-2,
Susan V. Walker, President, Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Cape Cod, USA,
Jonathan Mark, No Flyby, Ma, USA,
Martha O. Vinick, West Hartford Abolition 2000,
Stacey Fritz, Coordinator, Alaskans Against National Missile Defence,
Fairbanks, Alaska,
Stacey Studebaker, Kodiak Rocket Launch Information Group, Kodiak, Ala, USA,
Alaska Action Centre, Anchorage, Alaska, USA,
Susas Shaer, Director, Womens Action for New Directions (WAND), Wash DC,
USA,
Jen Kato, Atlanta Womens Action for New Directions (WAND), Atlanta, USA,
Bernice Fisher, Penninsula Womens International League for Peace and
Freedom (WILPF), Calif, USA,
Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Centre, Palo Alto, Calif, USA,
Phyllis W. Stanley, President, Environmental and Peace Education Centre,
Florida, USA,
Adele Kushner, Action for a Clean Environment, Georgia, USA,
Justine Cooper, Native Forest Council, Oregon, USA.
William D. Hartung,Director, Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy
Institute, NY,USA,
James K. Wyerman, 20/20 Vision, Washington DC, USA,
Karen Talbot, International Centre for Peace and Justice, USA,
Harry Rodgers, Carolina Peace Resource Centre, Columbia, SC, USA,
James V. Albertini, President, Malu 'Aina, Hawaii,
Barbara Weidener, Grandmothers for Peace International, Calif, USA,
Jean Coster, Director, South Dakota Peace and Justice Centre,USA,
Luisa Brown, North Dakota Peace Coalition, USA,
Barry Reisch, President, Veterans for Peace, Washington DC, USA,
Bill Warwick MD, Gainville Florida Veterans for Peace, Fl, USA,
Carol Mosely, Kelli Sebastian, Coordinator, Florida Coalition for Peace and
Justice, Florida, USA,
Alan D, Moore, Fine Artists for World Peace, Berkley, Calif,
Alan D. Moore, Butterfly Gardeners Association, Berkley, Calif,
George B. Hug, President, Northwest Builders Network, USA,
George Croker, Director, North American Water Office, USA,
Mark Ritchie, Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy,
Mitch Hall, President, 'Checkmate' Non-Violence Group, Vermont, USA,
Amy Bannon, Volunteers for Peace, USA,
Ground Zero Centre for Nonviolent Action, Washington, USA,
Pablo Paster, Clayton Whitt, Cal-Poly Progressive Student Alliance, San
Luis Obispo, Calif, USA,
Dae Jung Moon, Young Koreans United of USA, LA, Calif,
Mary Ellen Mc Nish, General Secy, American friends Service Committee (AFSC),
Patricia A. Stalder, Immaculate Conception Gospel Justice Committee, Calif,
USA,
David Joslin, Capitol Region Conference of Churches, USA,
Maryellen Haydon, Thomas Merton Centre, Pittsburgh, USA,
Sister Ardeth Platte, Jonah House, Baltimore, USA,
Sister Ardeth Platte, Sacred Earth and Space Ploughshares, Colo, USA,
Toni Flynn, High Desert Catholic Worker Community, Ca, USA,
Robert M. Smith, Brandywine Peace Community,
CANADIAN GROUPS
Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
Alexa Mc Donough, MP for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
Ottowa, Canada,
Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear responsibility
(CCNR),
Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver, BC.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, NZ,
Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
Des Brough Chair, Dame Laurie Salas Vice-Chair, National Consultative
Committee on Disarmament, NZ,
E. R. White, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ,
AUSTRALIAN GROUPS
Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA, Aust,
Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
Pauline Mitchell, CICD, Melbourne, Vic, Aust,
Judy Blyth, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (WA), Perth, WA,
Aust,
Irina Reykhtman, Gaia Foundation, Perth, W.A.,
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH GROUPS
John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
Viktor Khazan MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine(Zeleny Zvit),
Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine,
Natalia Arias, Pres, Accion Ecologica (Friends of the Earth Ecuador),
Quito, Ecuador,
Istvan Farkas, Director, Friends of the Earth Hungary,
Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana (Friends of the Earth Spain),
Madrid, Sp,
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:02:42 -0500
From: Kevin Martin
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) media adv/Scientist Quits Weapons Work-Calls Lab Deceptive
Marylia,
Good stuff, Jackie C. told me about this. I forwarded the email to Jerome
McDonnell of WBEZ, public radio station in Chicago. He's a good buddy of mine,
he interviewed Andreas last year, and I highlighted the ASCI connection for him
- - 2 of the ASCI "centers of excellence" (puke) are at U. of Chicago and U. of
Illinois. Let's hope he bites.
Cheers,
Kevin Martin
marylia wrote:
> Dear colleagues: Below is the media advisory for two very important news
> conferences on Thursday. Please read and enjoy. Also, pass the word along
> to any media you know. I will post more as it develops! Peace, Marylia
>
> Contact:
> Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
>
> Media Advisory
>
> LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTIST QUITS, CALLS LAB DECEPTIVE
>
> Leaves High-Paying Job In "Stockpile Stewardship" Program,
> Encourages Others To Refuse Work On Nuclear Weapons
>
> WHAT:
> Press Conferences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visitors
> Center in Livermore and the World Affairs Council in San Francisco
>
> WHEN:
> Thursday, March 15
> 9:30 AM at the Livermore Laboratory, and
> NOON at the World Affairs Council (sandwiches and drinks provided)
>
> WHERE:
> The Livermore Laboratory Visitors Center is located on Greenville Road,
> about 2 miles south of I-580.
>
> The World Affairs Council is at 312 Sutter Street in San Francisco (also
> serves as the new "home" of the San Francisco Press Club)
>
> WHO:
> Issac Trotts was recruited out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> (MIT) to an $85,000/year position at Livermore Laboratory in the Visual
> Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation group in the Accelerated
> Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) of the Stockpile Stewardship program.
> After graduating from U.C. Davis in 1999, Trotts received a Masters of
> Science in Applied Mathematics at Brown University and worked as a Visiting
> Researcher at MIT before coming to Livermore in September 2000. Trotts last
> day at Livermore Lab was March 3, 2001.
>
> WHY:
> To expose deceptive recruiting practices at Livermore Lab, encourage other
> scientists to refuse to work on nuclear weapons, and outline future plans
> by Trotts, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations to conduct outreach
> to counter Livermore Lab recruitment in Universities and within scientific
> associations. Trotts will also release an open statement to current and
> prospective employees.
>
> FORMAT:
> Trotts will conduct a briefing for reporters, answer questions and release
> an open letter to Livermore Lab employees. Marylia Kelley, executive
> director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog"
> organization, will explain the group's campaign to encourage scientists and
> engineers to renounce work on nuclear and other weapons of mass
> destruction. Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a chemist who left Livermore Lab last
> year to protest the construction of the National Ignition Facility and the
> Stockpile Stewardship program will be on hand to support Trotts. Other
> public interest groups will also participate.
>
> -- 30 --
>
> 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.
>
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:57:56 +0000
From: Sally Light
Subject: (abolition-usa) Minutes of March 13, 2001, conference call of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS' Coordinating Committee
Fellow Abolitionists,
Below are the minutes of the most recent conference call of the
Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
We will be posting future minutes as well. Dialog and inquiries are most
welcome.
Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience
Member, Coordinating Committee, US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Minutes of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS ( US affiliate of
the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)
COORDINATING COMMITTEE Conference Call of March 13, 2001.
Coordinating Committee (CC) Members Present: Jackie Cabasso, Fern Katz
(Susan Shaer=92s alternate), John Burroughs, Pamela Meidell, Anthony
Guarisco, Sally Light, Alan Haber, Inga Olson, Alice Slater and Ibrahim
Ramey.
Absent: Frank Dworak, Gilbert Sanchez, Odile Hugonot Haber and Bal
Pinguel.
Facilitator: John Burroughs Note Taker: Sally Light
Agenda:
1. Review last call=92s minutes
2. Results of e-mail poll; decision re: face-to-face CC meeting
3. Work of committees
4. Endorsing
5. Fundraising
6. Using the web site
7. Brief report on Women=92s Campaign conference at Notre Dame.
8. Next call: facilitator & note taker
1.Review last call=92s minutes. Minutes were approved after a very minor
correction: Sally was listed as the poll-taker (re: prospective
face-to-face meeting of the CC), but it was Jackie who actually did the
poll.
2.Results of email poll; decision re: face-to-face CC meeting.
Jackie reviewed with us the results of the questionnaire she emailed to
the entire CC. The questionnaire contained 6 questions about the
possibility of a face-to-face meeting of the CC as well as a general
meeting of the Campaign. (5 CC members failed to respond at all to the
questionnaire. 1 person answered only 1 of the questions.)
Question #1 =96 Re: availability of the CC members to meet in Ann Arbor
on March 31-April 1, there were 5 =93yes=94 responses, 7 =93no=94 respon=
ses,
and 2 who did not answer the question. We agreed that there was
insufficient interest in holding this particular meeting.
Question #2 =96 Re: proposing another set of dates and a location, we
decided to explore the possibility of holding both a CC meeting and a
general meeting during the period of the July 16 (=93Trinity Day=94) even=
t
being planned by New Mexico Peace Action in Los Alamos.
Question #3 =96 Re: who=92s willing to be in a working group to plan the=
CC
meeting - Anthony, Jackie, Pam, and Fern all volunteered. Alice may
also be part of the group. Gilbert will be approached for this, also,
as he lives in that region.
Question #4 =96 Re: who=92s willing to be in a working group to plan the
general meeting - Anthony, John (specifically on =93Best Practices,=94 i=
f
that is on the meeting=92s agenda), Alice, Jackie, Pam, and Alan
volunteered. Gilbert will also be asked if he=92d like to participate
with this planning group.
Question #5 =96 Re: who=92s willing to be part of a fundraising working
group - Anthony, Sally, John, Jackie, and Inga volunteered. They will
contact each other via email to set up their first conference call.
Question #6 =96 Re: whether conveners of US Campaign working groups had
any activities to report - Jackie submitted her own report on the
=93Future Directions of the Nuclear Weapons Complex=94 working group, and
two other conveners sent Jackie their reports - Pam on the =93Civil
Society Initiative=94 working group, and Alice on the =93Star Wars=94 wor=
king
group.
Working Group reports:
Alice: Star Wars Working Group -- I have been forwarding material about
the Global Network meeting in Alabama,
I am speaking to Congressman Kucinic about drafting a bill to strip Star
Wars funding out of the
appropriations bill and about distributing Vision 2020 to all members of
Congress; working with
Karina Wood and Kevin Martin of Project Abolition to organize a US
Campaign against the
weaponization of space.
Pamela: Civil Society Initiative Working Group =96 latent; communications
among members grandiose idea with no
infrastructure, therefore difficult to activate; problematic time in our
history; local learning experiences
doing outreach in Ventura county including finding directly affected
people (like Atomic Vets) who
have not previously been identified. KEY QUESTION: How to identify and
support local people
and groups to do this work (i.e., the work of a local organizer).
Jackie: Future Directions of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Working Group =96
I see this =93working group=94 as the
same as the international A2000 =93Beyond the CTBT Working Group.=94
Following is the latest
summary I wrote for A2000: This is not a formal working group, but
rather an information sharing
subnetwork within A2000 focusing on the =93stockpile stewardship=94 prog=
ram
of the United States,
and to the extent possible, on ongoing nuclear weapons research,
development, testing and
production activities in the other nuclear weapon states (including
India, Israel and Pakistan),
including collaboration among them. Last spring, members of this
subnetwork drafted the NGO
presentation to the NPT Review Conference on "Nuclear Weapons Research,
Development,
Testing, and Production" (presented by William Peden, UK, Greenpeace
International). At present
we are investigating U.S. plans to develop mininukes and exploring the
technology overlaps between
the U.S. stockpile stewardship program, ballistic missile defenses and
other hightech weapons
including spacebased weapons.
As to questions # 3 & 4 above, Jackie will talk with New Mexico Peace
Action and with Gilbert, and, based on those discussions, will bring a
specific proposal to our next conference call re: the dates of our CC
meeting and the general meeting during the =93Trinity Day=94 event in Los
Alamos around the period of July 14 =96 17.
Two additional comments were made: John stated that he believes that
doing our Campaign work is more important than planning another
face-to-face meeting, although he won=92t oppose such a meeting if others
want one. Anthony volunteered to help with grantwriting.
3. Work of committees. After some discussion, we decided that, rather
than committing to any rigid process to form CC committees, we will form
them as needed as we go along. So far, 3 CC committees have been formed
to address the following areas: fundraising, planning our next CC
face-to-face meeting, and planning our next general meeting.
4.Endorsing. After some discussion, we agreed that we shouldn=92t get to=
o
bound up on this issue, otherwise we can=92t take decisive action re:
endorsements. We agreed that the CC can issue its own (i.e., CC)
endorsements of specific events (not of legislation, however, although
we might say we work on supporting specific legislation). At our next
general meeting, we will address the issue in plenary of the process by
which the US Campaign, as a whole, will make endorsements. Jackie will
research our records for language to support endorsements by the CC and
by the Campaign.
Jackie proposed that the CC endorse two events: Shundahai=92s May
=93Mothers=92 Day Gathering=94 and Project Abolition=92s Star Wars event =
in
D.C. We agreed that we, the CC, endorse both events. (For details
about the =93Mothers=92 Day Gathering,=94 go to Shundahai=92s web site wh=
ich is
www.shundahai.org.)
5. Fundraising. The newly-formed Fundraising Committee (Anthony,
Sally, Jackie, Inga and John) agreed to have a conference call. They
will set it up by email.
6.Using the web site. Western States Legal Foundation=92s web site has a
web page dedicated to the US Campaign. Already on it are event
listings, links to other web sites, the information contained in the US
Campaign=92s =93yellow booklet=94 (containing the goals, structure, histo=
ry,
CC, working groups, and so on). The issue of whether it should also
list endorsements will be discussed later. CC members will visit the
web site and give feedback/suggestions. Events can be emailed to Andy
Lichterman, as he maintains the web site.
7.Brief report on Women=92s Campaign conference at Notre Dame. Jackie,
Alice and Inga recently returned from the mid-west conference held at
Notre Dame Univ. of the Women=92s Campaign for Responsible National
Security. Jackie reported that it was small, but very good, had high
energy, and that people were very receptive to their message. She
believes it will lead to new connections and has started a =93ripple
effect=94 in a new region. After the conference, a press release, titled
=93Women for Responsible Security Say Bush is Irresponsible for Not
Negotiating with North Korea,=94 was issued.
8.Next conference call. Our next CC conference call will be on April
26, at 9 am Pacific Time, Noon Eastern Time. Ibrahim Ramey will be
facilitator. Note taker will be Inga Olson.
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