From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #436 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Monday, April 9 2001 Volume 01 : Number 436 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:01:22 -0600 From: Carah Lynn Ong Subject: (abolition-usa) April Action for Peace APRIL ACTION for PEACE OAK RIDGE TENNESSEE APRIL 7-8 2001 Come to the last full-scale operating nuclear weapons production plant in the United States, the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Say "NO!" to US global domination and nuclear weapons. BWXT and Bechtel will make $534 million dollars a year from weapons work at Y-12 alone. The Department of Energy along with BWXT-Y-12 wants to spend a minimum of $4 billion to rebuild the bomb plant. This would enable them to do 10 times as much weapons work as current levels as well as go back into full scale production of NEW nuclear weapons! http://www.stopthebombs.org/calendar/AprilAction2001.html for more information about the April 8th Action for Peace at the gates of Y-12 http://www.stopthebombs.org/orepa/directions.html for directions The Stop the Bombs campaign aims to end nuclear weapons production at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge and to build a permanent presence for peace through the development of nonviolent community. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Information sought re: nuclear testing in Brazil Dear friends, I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination throughout the region. If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? Thank you. Peace... Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience - - 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: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:52:49 EDT From: Charles F Hilfenhaus Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Dear Sally, Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests. According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. Argus I at S38.5W11.5 on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7 on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles. All of them, especially Argus I, would have been visible in Brazil. These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the South Atlantic. Charlie Hilfenhaus chilfenhaus@juno.com On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light writes: >Dear friends, > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, >who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination >throughout >the region. > >If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > >Thank you. > >Peace... > >Sally Light >Executive Director >Nevada Desert Experience > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >---------------------~-~> >Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep >in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered >high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! >http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7qNVlB/TM >---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the >account you wish to be subscribed to: >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - - 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: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:20:58 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - Sally. Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > Dear Sally, > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests. > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles. > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been visible in Brazil. > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the > South Atlantic. > Charlie Hilfenhaus > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > writes: > >Dear friends, > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, > >who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination > >throughout > >the region. > > > >If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Peace... > > > >Sally Light > >Executive Director > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:01:21 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Sign-on to letter RE: Irradiation of school lunches - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel Petrie" To: Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: Sign-on to letter RE: Irradiation of school lunches Apologies for cross postings. Dear Fellow Anti-Food Irradiation Campaigners, Today the Bush administration indicated that the government will likely purchase irradiated meat for schools. Please sign-on to this letter to Ann Veneman, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, indicating this is unacceptable. Please send your name and organization to Jessica Vallette Revere, jvrevere@citizen.org, by Wednesday, April 11. Thanks for all of your hard work and continued support. Sincerely, Jessica Vallette Revere Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program Food Irradiation Campaign 202-454-5174 www.citizen.org/cmep April 5, 2001 Honorable Ann Veneman, Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture 14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20250 Dear Secretary Veneman: We, the undersigned, are writing to oppose any action taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the purchase of irradiated beef for the National School Lunch Program, and approving the use of irradiation to treat meat that is used in that program. We strongly urge you to reverse your position for the following reasons: =B7 Notwithstanding the approval granted by the Food and Drug Administration and by your department, food irradiation has not been proven to be safe for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration failed to follow its own protocol for approving irradiation as a food additive in accordance with 21 CFR 170.20 and 170.22. Until the FDA completes its work on this technology, no further approval should be granted by any U.S. government agency on the use of irradiation. =B7 The World Health Organization is currently conducting studies on the harmful effects of 2-DCB, a chemical that is formed when meat is irradiated. There has been at least one study conducted by German scientists that has shown that this chemical can cause significant DNA damage in rats (citation of German study). Until these studies are completed, the U.S. government should cease its approval of irradiation. =B7 Irradiating food causes it to lose key vitamins and vital enzymes, such as vitamins A, B1, C, K, and E. =B7 Current labeling regulations do not require restaurants, hospitals or schools to inform consumers that food that they have prepared has been irradiated. Students and parents will not be informed that the meat prepared in school cafeterias has been irradiated unless the school personnel take the initiative to inform them of this fact. Your action is putting school districts in the unenviable position of deceiving parents and students by not informing them that meats in the school lunch program have been irradiated. They have a right to know what is being fed to them. =B7 Your proposed action fails to address the need for improved sanitary conditions in slaughtering and processing facilities, and in the handling of food within school cafeterias. It is a placebo. Irradiating food will not make it safer if the conditions under which it is slaughtered, processed and prepared is unsanitary. Your proposed actions are irresponsible. Instead of ensuring that the food we feed consumers, and in particular, our children is safe and wholesome, you seem to be more interested in increasing industry profits and making it easier for it to shirk its responsibility to consumers. Your action is a bail-out of the food irradiation industry that is facing a skeptical consuming public about the safety of its products. We strongly urge you to reverse your position on this important public health issue. Sincerely, Your Group COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE FARM SANCTUARY GLOBAL RESOURCE ACTION CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (GRACE) HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CATHOLIC RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION PUBLIC CITIZEN' CRITICAL MASS ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM STANDING FOR TRUTH ABOUT RADIATION (STAR) - - 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, 6 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Vernon Brechin Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil 04/06/01 Sally, Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is probably right since at 300 miles altitude the flash would have been visible at a great distance. Most likely, the radioactive debris, including kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and then over vast areas of the earth's surface. Its also likely that much of the debris was caught in the earth's magnetic fields which resulted in the transport of the debris to the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. A great many geo-physicist were really pissed by these U.S. DoD experiments with what they considered to be a pristine near-space laboratory. A recently released video documentary, "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," describes some of the history of the U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the source at http://www.vce.com. The video is also obtainable from on-line mail-order firms such as Amazon.com. Much later there was some interest in using nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel some rivers near the northern border of Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. Vernon Brechin Nuke Blast History Researcher Mountain View, CA, USA - ------------------------------------------------- - --- Sally Light wrote: > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > Sally. > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > Dear Sally, > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > have found your tests. > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > 1992 three tests, Argus > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > altitude of 300 miles. > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > visible in Brazil. > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > tests conducted in the > > South Atlantic. > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > writes: > > >Dear friends, > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > of a Catholic parish, > > >who, for several years has been seeking > information about a secret US > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > skies over northeastern > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > contamination > > >throughout > > >the region. > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > other such tests carried > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > >Sally Light > > >Executive Director > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the > > >account you wish to be subscribed to: > > >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~-~> > > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to > keep > > in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million > registered > > high school alumni--chances are you'll find your > friends! > > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7qNVlB/TM > > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > > > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the account you wish to be subscribed > to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > - > 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - - 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, 6 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Vernon Brechin Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil 04/06/01 Sally, Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is probably right since at 300 miles altitude the flash would have been visible at a great distance. Most likely, the radioactive debris, including kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and then over vast areas of the earth's surface. Its also likely that much of the debris was caught in the earth's magnetic fields which resulted in the transport of the debris to the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. A great many geo-physicist were really pissed by these U.S. DoD experiments with what they considered to be a pristine near-space laboratory. A recently released video documentary, "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," describes some of the history of the U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the source at http://www.vce.com. The video is also obtainable from on-line mail-order firms such as Amazon.com. Much later there was some interest in using nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel some rivers near the northern border of Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. Vernon Brechin Nuke Blast History Researcher Mountain View, CA, USA - ------------------------------------------------- - --- Sally Light wrote: > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > Sally. > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > Dear Sally, > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > have found your tests. > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > 1992 three tests, Argus > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > altitude of 300 miles. > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > visible in Brazil. > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > tests conducted in the > > South Atlantic. > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > writes: > > >Dear friends, > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > of a Catholic parish, > > >who, for several years has been seeking > information about a secret US > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > skies over northeastern > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > contamination > > >throughout > > >the region. > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > other such tests carried > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > >Sally Light > > >Executive Director > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the > > >account you wish to be subscribed to: > > >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~-~> > > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to > keep > > in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million > registered > > high school alumni--chances are you'll find your > friends! > > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7qNVlB/TM > > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > > > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the account you wish to be subscribed > to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > - > 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - - 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, 06 Apr 2001 07:49:11 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Vern - Thanks. Peace - Sally. Vernon Brechin wrote: > 04/06/01 > Sally, > > Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is > probably right since at 300 miles altitude > the flash would have been visible at a > great distance. > > Most likely, the radioactive debris, including > kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was > dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and > then over vast areas of the earth's surface. > Its also likely that much of the debris was > caught in the earth's magnetic fields which > resulted in the transport of the debris to > the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. > > A great many geo-physicist were really pissed > by these U.S. DoD experiments with > what they considered to be a pristine > near-space laboratory. > > A recently released video documentary, > "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," > describes some of the history of the > U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the > source at http://www.vce.com. The video is > also obtainable from on-line mail-order > firms such as Amazon.com. > > Much later there was some interest in using > nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel > some rivers near the northern border of > Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. > > Vernon Brechin > Nuke Blast History Researcher > Mountain View, CA, USA > > > ------------------------------------------------- > --- Sally Light wrote: > > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > > Sally. > > > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > > > Dear Sally, > > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > > have found your tests. > > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > > 1992 three tests, Argus > > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > > altitude of 300 miles. > > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > > visible in Brazil. > > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > > tests conducted in the > > > South Atlantic. > > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > > > writes: > > > >Dear friends, > > > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > > of a Catholic parish, > > > >who, for several years has been seeking > > information about a secret US > > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > > skies over northeastern > > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > > contamination > > > >throughout > > > >the region. > > > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > > other such tests carried > > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > > > >Sally Light > > > >Executive Director > > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > > > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > > an email from the > > > >account you wish to be subscribed to: > > > >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > > > > > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the > > body of the message. > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > > less! > > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ---------------------~-~> > > > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to > > keep > > > in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million > > registered > > > high school alumni--chances are you'll find your > > friends! > > > > > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7qNVlB/TM > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > > > > > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > > an email from the account you wish to be subscribed > > to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the > > body of the message. > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > - > > 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. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:19:10 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: NEWS release...Peace Walk] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com ([207.69.200.110]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id tcl1i0.bia.37tiu4s Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nde (pool-63.53.33.213.irvn.grid.net [63.53.33.213]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA19458; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:22:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20010403193049.006c513c@pop2.igc.org> X-Sender: nde@pop2.igc.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 19:30:49 -0700 To: cindypile@prodigy.net From: Nevada Desert Experience Subject: NEWS release...Peace Walk Cc: abolition-caucus@egroups.com, abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear People~ Here's the news--thanx for listening/reading/acting upon it! =========================================== 3 April 2001 from: NevadaDesertExperience.org NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marc Page Phone: 702 646 4814 INTERFAITH DESERT PEACE WALK IS A PRAYER TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHO: Peace activists from around the U.S., organized by Nevada Desert Experience (NDE). WHAT: Five-day interfaith pilgrimage, walking from Las Vegas to the Nevada Test Site. WHERE: Starting at the Department of Energy parking lot ( 232 Energy Way, @ Losee Road, just north of Carey) and ending @ the Mercury entrance of the Nevada Test Site (60 miles from Las Vegas, NV on I-95) WHEN: On Sunday the 8th of April 2001 NDE hosts a 9:00 am Prayer service in front of the D.o.E. building in Las Vegas, NV. The Peace Walkers begin to walk @ 9:30. They arrive @ the Test Site on Friday April 13th. WHY: In solidarity with the Western Shoshone Nation, people of various faith traditions consistently gather in the desert to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In recent years, people have come from Belgium, Japan, Canada, Germany, Australia and England to join the NDE Peace Walks to the Nevada Test Site, held each Spring. They believe their prayers are essential in ridding the world of the nuclear curse. The Test Site currently accepts regular shipments of low-level nuclear waste, and conducts nuclear weapons related testing, to maintain and improve the U.S. nuclear arsenal & threat. NDE and individual "nuclear abolitionists" are quick to point out that the Test Site is unlawfully operating on Western Shoshone land, according to the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863. Over 1000 nuclear explosions have been detonated there, and the U.S. continues to conduct underground subcritical nuclear experiments, in which plutonium is blasted to pieces by high explosives, wherein any possible fissions won't be self-sustaining. "But the amount of money and commitment to nuclear weapons maintenance is greater now than during the Cold War, so faith-based activists must continue to pray together while cultivating appreciation of the natural beauty and power of the Creator as manifest in the desert," says Marc Page, local organizer with NDE. "I'm very offended by the way our society profits from the pathological nuclear weapons indstry." Each day the group of walkers will hold a vigil for the employees driving to or from the Test Site. The walkers are calling attention to the illegality and immorality of U.S. nuclear policy. One of the Canadian pilgrims, Shan Raventree, says, "As a mother I believe that righteousness and peace must kiss. The downfall of our people is not simply that we've forsaken the truth and the natural world; our downfall is in CONTINUING in these irresponsible ways. We need to embrace God's plans for the proper care of the earth and of our own human bodies." This Peace Walk will arrive at the N.T.S. on April 13th (Good Friday). On Friday, April 21st, the group of walkers will commemorate the victims of radioactive warfare through the "Nuclear Stations Of The Cross" at the Mercury Gate of the Nevada Test Site. This 7th annual NDE Peace Walk is part of a larger faith-based campaign to stop the radioactive violence and global threats to peace committed by the U.S. #30 _____________________________________ http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org PO Box 46645 Las Vegas NV 89114-6645 phone 702 646 4814 nde@igc.org ===================================== P.S. We expect two dozen Peace Walkers this year (twice as big of an event as last year). Tikkun, Shundahai & Agape, Marc P. B. Page P.S. If you're in Las Vegas, please come to wish our Peace Walkers a farewell next Sunday, April 8th @ 9:00am @ the D.o.E. building on Losee Rd. See this portion of our website for further info: http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org/nextEVENT.html <\><\><\><\><\><\><\> TELEPHONE IS THE BEST WAY TO REACH US 702 646 4814 NevadaDesertExperience.org POB 46645 Las Vegas NV 89114-6645 USA http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org <\><\><\><\><\><\><\> - --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269-- - - 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, 07 Apr 2001 09:28:59 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Message to Peace Walk Dear Rieko, Thank you for your message of solidarity. We appreciate hearing from you and extend our warmest regards to the Japan Council Against A & H Bombs, as well as to everyone participating in your 3-month-long march. August 5 - 9, 2001, we are having our August Desert Witness at the Nevada Test Site, and will announce the details later regarding this event. I will circulate your kind message to our Board of Directors in case anyone of them might be able to attend either your march and/or your 2001 World Conference Against A & H Bombs. We are definitely interested in working more closely with you in future. Perhaps I and/or members of our Board might be able to attend your Conference this year. I will look into this possibility. Could you send details about this event? I will also check your web site for information. We also would be most interested in your coming to our future events. Yours for a safe and nuclear-free future, Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Las Vegas Office: P.O. Box 46645, Las Vegas, NV 89114-6645, USA. Tel: (702) 646-4814. California Office: P.O. Box 7849, Oakland, CA 94601, USA. Tel.: (510) 849-1540. Web Site: www.NevadaDesertExperience.org Email: nde@igc.org; sallight1@earthlink.net Antiatom wrote: > To: Nevada Desert Experience > > Dear friends, > > We send our warmest greetings of solidarity to all the marchers joining the > Peace Walk starting from Las Vegas on April 8 to Nevada Test Site. We join > you in your effort and struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons and end > all sufferings caused by the past and ongoing development and production of > nuclear weapons. > > "Nuclear weapons states must fulfill their promise to abolish nuclear > weapons!" is the common voice of all the people who are working in many > different parts of the world to ensure the future of humanity and the > planet. With this slogan, in Japan, the 2001 Nationwide Peace March will > start from the museum of the Fifth Lucky Dragon in Tokyo, a victim fishing > boat of the 1954 Bikini Hydrogen Bomb Test. Joined by 100,000 people on 11 > major routes and spreading the message for abolitioh on the way, the marches > will proceed throughout Japan for 3 months to reach Hiroshima and Nagasaki > in August, to join the 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs. > > We send all our best wishes for the success of your Peace Walk and good > health of all the marchers. We send our support also to the people of > Western Shoshone Nation in their resistence and effort to regain the > integrity and health of their land and the people. > > We hope our cooperative efforts will develop further, and look forward to > welcoming you in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the World Conference against A & > H Bombs. > > Yours in peace, > > Rieko Asato > Japan Gensuikyo > ================================================= > Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) > 6-19-23 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004 Japan > Tel: +81-3-3436-3205 Fax: +81-3-3431-8781 > Email: antiatom@twics.com > Web Site: http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/ > ================================================= - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 07:43:13 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/04/09 - important [NucNews archives are posted through April 5, 2001 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.=20 Here are two chilling articles from today's Washington Times. You may= recall that Dick Cheney, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, was quoted as saying, "Now the only war we have left is the drug war." Mr. Cheney may be looking for another war? Time, maybe, to get on the phones to the White= House and suggest GWB should cool down Cheney's rhetoric, and remember, when screaming "foul!" that the U.S. is still doing underground "subcritical" nuclear testing. White House - 202-456-1111-0] 1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test 2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S. - ------- 1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test=20 By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001 http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149224735.htm China is preparing to conduct a small, underground nuclear test in the= midst of a standoff with the United States over the detention of 24 American= military personnel, The Washington Times has learned.=20 U.S. intelligence officials said the EP-3E surveillance aircraft that= collided with a Chinese interceptor jet April 1 was gathering electronic intelligence related to the impending test, along with other intelligence targets. The= test preparations were detected two weeks ago at China's Lop Nur testing facility= in western Xinjiang province. They were based on U.S. spy satellite photographs that showed activity related to nuclear testing at one location of the= testing site. One official said the underground blast could be another in a series of "subcritical" nuclear tests =97 small explosions that do not produce an= actual nuclear yield but are useful in weapons development and maintenance.= However, other officials familiar with intelligence reports said the Chinese are= known to have a covert testing program that relies on small, or low-yield, nuclear explosions. In 1996, China became a signatory to an international treaty banning all underground nuclear blasts. U.S. intelligence officials said suspicions about the secret Chinese= nuclear testing program were confirmed after agents from Beijing purchased special nuclear containment equipment from Russia several years ago. The special equipment is known to be used in masking the seismic signatures= of nuclear explosions =97 like the small blast China set off June 1999, days= before a senior U.S. diplomat delivered an apology to Beijing for the mistaken= bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the air war there. The timing of that test, which took place at Lop Nur, was viewed as an intentional signal from Beijing, which had cut off all military contacts= with the United States and had begun vitriolic attacks on the United States in= the government-controlled media. Although the test preparations were spotted before the showdown between= China and the United States began, officials did not rule out a connection to= China's stepped-up aggressive harassment of U.S. intelligence and plans for the= test. China is opposing Bush administration plans for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan= and plans for deployment of a national missile defense, and it has been engaged= in a concerted effort to influence U.S. policies, said defense and intelligence officials. A test during the current standoff would signal China's growing nuclear= power, said the officials. A U.S. defense official said the testing activity at the current time is a sign that China's leader, President Jiang Zemin, may not be fully in= control. "Some say Jiang is a moderate who wants good relations with the United States," the official said. "If that's the case, this test during a= difficult period with the United States indicates he is not in control of China." The EP-3E conducts signals intelligence operations that are aimed at collecting large amounts of communications and other electric signals. The aircraft left from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, and flew south along= the Chinese coast until its encounter with two Chinese interceptor jets near= Hainan Island. The aircraft's sensitive listening equipment is capable of picking up communications thousands of miles inland, including any signals from Lop= Nur, the main Chinese nuclear testing facility, intelligence officials said. The U.S. intelligence community also uses RC-135 reconnaissance flights and spy satellites to collect intelligence from Lop Nur. It also has "sniffer" aircraft that can detect any nuclear particles produced from nuclear tests after they take place. China in the past has used tests of its missiles and nuclear weapons as political signals to the United States. China is currently engaged in a= major strategic weapons buildup. Last year, it conducted two flight tests of a new road-mobile long-range missile known as the DF-31. China also is building a longer-range missile known as the DF-41 and a new class of ballistic missile submarine that will be equipped with a naval= version of the DF-31. China last conducted large-scale nuclear tests in 1996. It announced later that year it was agreeing to the international nuclear test= ban known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. U.S. intelligence agencies assessed the 1996 tests to be the first blasts= of a new small warhead =97 believed based on the design of the W-88, the United States' most advanced small nuclear warhead, obtained through espionage. Although China signed the test ban treaty, it has not ratified it. The U.S. Senate rejected the pact in 1999. The State Department said at the time of the Senate debate that U.S. ratification of the treaty would "constrain" China's nuclear weapons modernization because any information on U.S. nuclear testing obtained by Chinese spies could not be used without= first conducting nuclear tests. "China is not likely to rely on weapons incorporating information obtained through espionage without first conducting nuclear explosive tests," the department said in a 1999 fact sheet. The fact sheet also stated that China said when it signed the test ban= treaty in 1996 that "it would continue to evaluate the safety and reliability of= its nuclear weapons. . . . We believe that China has initiated such a program at its Lop Nur test site." China has refused to permit international monitoring at its nuclear weapons test facilities =97a key reason Senate Republicans rejected the test ban= treaty as unverifiable. Negotiators failed to include provisions in the treaty that would allow precise monitoring near Lop Nur. Despite the Senate's rejection of the treaty, the Bush administration is seeking $21 million for international monitoring of the defunct treaty, a= sign treaty proponents are operating outside the control of administration= political appointees. "It's the Clinton bureaucracy doing this, and it shows the Bush= administration hasn't reined them in," said one U.S. official. The continued nuclear test efforts by China show "China could never be a reliable treaty partner" since= it announced in 1996 that it would no longer test, this official said. - --- 2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S.=20 By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001 http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149233026.htm The Bush administration stepped up pressure on China yesterday, warning Beijing that continuing to hold the crew of a downed U.S. military aircraft captive is damaging relations.=20 Vice President Richard B. Cheney repeated U.S. "regrets" for the loss of a Chinese pilot and said the United States has nothing to apologize for. "It's important to recognize that every day that goes by without resolution= of this does lead to the possible risk =97 lasting damage, if you will =97 to= the relationship between the United States and China," Mr. Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Cheney would not say what penalties would be imposed on China for its failure to release the 24 detained Americans who made an emergency landing= in southern China aboard a damaged EP-3E surveillance aircraft that collided= with an intercepting Chinese F-8 jet over international waters. Pressures on the Bush administration intensified, too. Mr. Cheney insisted that the 24 American crewmen are not hostages, as Rep. Henry J. Hyde,= Illinois Republican and chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said= on Saturday they were. He said they're "detainees." When he was asked about an editorial in the Weekly Standard, suggesting that the incident had the= making of a "national humiliation" for the United States, Mr. Cheney snapped that= the editorial was an attempt to "sell magazines." He called the editorial "disreputable." Secretary of State Colin Powell, on another television program, called the editorial "absurd." Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, said he too regards the crewmen as "detainees," but not for long. "In two or three days, I'm going= to call them hostages. . . . We're getting precariously close to that." Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican and chairman of the Senate= Intelligence Committee, said China could become an adversary. "The incidents that we are going through right now . . . is probably one of many for the future," Mr. Shelby said. "We have to look at China realistically. A lot of people haven't." Mr.= Shelby has been a critic of U.S. intelligence for its overly benign analysis of= China. On the southern Chinese island of Haikou, where the Americans are being= held, the top U.S. military officer in China, Brig. Gen. Neal Sealock, said U.S. officials were "hopeful" China would today begin granting daily access to= the crew. "This morning, our desire remains the same. Our request is for unfettered access to the crew on a daily basis and, in fact, twice a day," he told reporters. "Our purpose for that is to continue to monitor the treatment of the crew= and to continue to observe what has taken place. We're hopeful for that to take place today and every day following." In Beijing, the official military newspaper, Liberation Army Daily,= repeated a demand that the United States halt all surveillance flights over Chinese territory. "China has the right to fully and thoroughly investigate this entire= incident, including the American military aircraft and the people in charge of it,"= the newspaper said. "The U.S. government should . . . immediately stop all= military surveillance activities off the Chinese coast." Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian early today added his voice to the Chinese leaders demanding an apology. "The U.S. should apologize to the Chinese people and take effective= measures to avoid another similar matter from happening," said Gen. Chi, who is also vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party organ that controls the Chinese military. His comments were reported in today's editions of the official party newspaper, People's Daily. Mr. Cheney said the United States is willing to discuss the flights, but= that "in terms of our right to be there . . . that's a given and we will continue= to operate as appropriate." In a sign that negotiations are continuing at high levels, U.S. Ambassador= to China Joseph Prueher met privately yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister= Tang Jiaxuan in the latest round of diplomatic meetings to end the impasse. U.S. diplomats met with eight crewmen yesterday, although Brig. Gen.= Sealock had asked to see all 24. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, said on CNN's "Late Edition" that it "isn't helpful" that Gen. Sealock's request to meet= with the entire crew was rejected. Mr. Powell repeated U.S. "regrets" and used the word "sorry" to describe= his feelings over the loss of the Chinese pilot. He made it clear once more that the United States would not accept responsibility for the incident and "therefore won't apologize for that." A senior administration official said yesterday's television talk show appearances by senior national security officials was meant as a signal to Beijing. "The message is: There is a closing window for the Chinese to still salvage this," the official said. "But they could have done it right away by releasing the crew." Several congressional delegations scheduled to visit China were canceled Saturday to protest, and congressional aides said legislation punishing= Beijing is likely to follow if the impasse is not resolved. Mr. Powell, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," declined to say how the administration would punish China but said "whatever price the Chinese ultimately pay, they are making it worse in terms of delaying this= situation." On CBS' "Face the Nation," Mr. Powell said the administration wants China= to realize that "we do regret the loss of their pilot and plane." He expressed "regret" for the U.S. plane's emergency landing on the southern Chinese= island that "violated their airspace." He urged Beijing to "look at the emergency circumstances that the pilot was facing." Nevertheless, U.S.-China relations were being hurt by the incident. "The relationship is being damaged," Mr. Powell said. "The damage can be undone.= But in order for the damage to be undone and no further damage to occur, we have got to bring this matter to a close as soon as possible." The United States has a trade deficit with China estimated at more than $80 billion, and some members of Congress have called for the imposition of= trade sanctions to act as leverage. Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political= strategist, said last week that trade sanctions against Beijing were not being= considered "at this point." Meanwhile, Mr. Bush has written a letter to the wife of the lost pilot,= Wang Wei. The letter from the president to Ruan Guoqin is being sent as a humanitarian gesture, U.S. officials said. Mrs. Ruan wrote that the= president was "too cowardly" to apologize. Mr. Powell said the reply was meant to= respond to a "widow who is grieving. Whatever you think about the politics of it,= she's lost her husband." Miss Rice said the president's letter was not a shift in U.S. policy. "The president is taking the high ground here, and he is simply responding to the expression of grief, and nothing else," she said. The administration had offered China "a way to have a discussion about the facts." Other U.S. officials said the administration is proposing to convene a= meeting under a 1998 U.S.-China agreement on military maritime incidents. Mr. Powell said the United States still supports China's bid to join the= World Trade Organization, but another congressional vote on normal trade relations status with that country might not pass. Congress approved permanent normal trade status for China last year, despite its arms sales to rogue states and its continuing poor record on human rights. Meanwhile, a Hong Kong newspaper reported last night that a Chinese F-8 pilot that shadowed the EP-3E asked= for permission to shoot down the unarmed surveillance plane. F-8 pilot Zhao Yu was told by ground controllers not to take any action against the U.S. military aircraft, the South China Morning Post quoted unidentified "Chinese sources" in Beijing as saying. "The officials at ground control were cool-headed," the newspaper quoted= one source as saying. "Zhao could have shot the plane down but that would have meant the death of 24 U.S. airmen. It would have been an act of war, whereas the collision was an accident." China's official media continued to criticize the United States. The= state-run Xinhua news agency reported that people throughout China continued "to= angrily condemn the hegemonist action of a U.S. military reconnaissance plane." ___________________________________________________ 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) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders 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) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - - 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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