From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #437 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 Wednesday, April 11 2001 Volume 01 : Number 437 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:07:15 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Join President Gorbachev, President Carter and Others in Urging Bush to Take Acti Dear Friend, By retracting his commitment to reducing carbon emissions 2 weeks ago and cutting funding for energy efficiency programs yesterday, President George W. Bush has dealt a real blow to efforts to stem climate change and create a smart energy policy for our country. This week in TIME Magazine, President Mikhail Gorbachev -- head of Green Cross International -- co-signed a letter with President Jimmy Carter, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Harrison Ford and others to President Bush. Saying that 'no challenge we face is more momentous than the threat of global climate change,' the leaders urge President Bush to 'develop a plan to reduce U.S. production of greenhouse gases' as 'the future of our children=97and their children=97depends on the resolve that (President Bush) shows.' (You can see the letter at: http://www.globalgreen.org/news/archives2.cfm?id=3D25&bgt=3D33e3r9jfkdl) Please write to President Bush today (SEE DRAFT LETTER BELOW) urging him to reinstate funding for proven energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that reduce electricity demand and ensure cleaner air. Combined with the recent reversal of a commitment to reduce carbon emissions, the US under President Bush is accelerating the adverse effects of climate change. Please copy and forward this message, urging others to write to President Bush as well. Thank you. Sincerely, Matt Petersen Executive Director Global Green USA the American affiliate of Green Cross International =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D (copy and paste the letter below. Send by mail on your letterhead or by email to president@whitehouse.gov =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Honorable George Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush: I commend your effort to increase funding for low-income energy efficiency programs announced this week. However, if your proposed cuts to other energy efficiency programs are allowed to stand, $25 billion in annual savings to consumers will be lost and millions of tons of pollution will be added to our atmosphere. It is in your power to avoid this serious blow to our children's health and slowing economy. I am also gravely concerned with your reversal on reducing carbon emissions in the US. We must take our responsibility as the world's remaining super power seriously, and work to improve the Kyoto Protocol rather than opposing it. Our nation can be more competitively economically while helping create a healthier future for our children if we address the challenge of climate change now. =20 Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest way to help stem the adverse affects of climate change while increasing our nation's energy supply. Research and deployment of wind, solar and geothermal energy technologies are essential to providing a reliable and affordable electricity supply over the coming decades. We must commit to energy efficiency -- including higher standards for clotheswashers, water heaters, and central air conditioners as well as our homes and buildings -- to help the American public save money in their electricity bills. Combined with a significant commitment to renewable energy, we can help reduce demand and slow the growing impact of climate change. President Bush, take strong action today to reduce carbon emissions and other pollution by emphasizing efficiency and renewables in our nation's energy policy and budget. Please do not endanger the health of our families by relying on polluting fossil fuels whose price volatility also threaten the pocket books of the American people. Sincerely, - ----------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to change your preferences or unsubscribe at=20 any time, please go to the following URL:=20 http://www.globalgreen.org/news/pref.cfm?uid=3D92773359728200093054322163525= . - - 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 17:31:04 -0400 From: "globalnet@mindspring.com" (by way of ASlater ) Subject: (abolition-usa) [abolition-caucus] SPACE ORGANIZING TRIP REPORT Friends, I've just returned from a couple of weeks of intense travel that took me to Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, and Ohio. These trips were largely done to promote our October 13 "International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space." My stop in Pennsylvania was to the congressional district of major Star Wars promoter Rep. Kurt Weldon (Republican). Our friends there are working hard to organize opposition to Lockheed Martin's facilities in Valley Forge, PA. and Moorestown, N.J. and plan to hold actions there on October 13. The Brandywine Peace Community will coordinate those efforts. Thanks to Scotty & Bill Stewart Whistler for arranging that visit. In New Orleans I spoke at Loyola University at an event organized by Rev. Tom Warren of the United Church of Christ. He is now coordinating efforts to hold actions at the Stennis Missile Center in Mississippi (the new test facility for the space-based laser -- a $30 billion testing program that will lead to a first flight test around 2012.) Protests will be held there for the first time ever this coming May 13 (Mothers Day) and on October 13. Tom took me to Mississippi to check out the Stennis Center (in the southwest corner of the state) that is basically in a swamp near the Gulf coast. We all send our best wishes to our new friends in Louisiana. My mid-west trip was coordinated by Cleveland Peace Action and took me to Detroit in Michigan and Yellow Springs, Toledo, Columbus, Kent, Akron, and Cleveland in Ohio. While on the trip I spoke at four college campuses (Antioch, Kent State, University of Akron, and Cleveland State University) and one high school in Columbus. The Detroit meeting, organized by Sigrid Dale of Michigan Peace Action, had the largest turnout on the trip. They got a full page interview with me published in the Detroit Metro News (thanks to Keith Gunter) in advance of my speaking event. I also did a radio spot there. While in Cleveland I also met with people to plan for a joint Global Network and Cleveland Peace Action event from October 12-14 in that city. We will hold a major "Keep Space for Peace" conference at Cleveland State University on October 13 and organize protest vigils at the national headquarters of TRW in town on October 12 & 14. TRW is working on the airborne laser and THEL systems for Theatre Missile Defense (TMD) and the space-based laser. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is also part of the development team for the nuclear rocket. Our goal is to draw people from the region to the October 13 conference in Cleveland as well as a sprinkling of others from around the country. Even though we are strongly encouraging local actions on October 13 we feel it important to have one event as a centerpiece for the day in the U.S. so that we can "highlight" another key space facility (just as we helped to do at Vandenberg AFB in California last October 7.) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has agreed to speak at the October 13 Cleveland conference. Some of the other speakers will include: Karl Grossman, Joseph Gerson (AFSC), Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space in Colorado), Patricia Mische (Antioch College professor of Peace Studies), Bruce Gagnon, and Mike McMurray (PAND in Cleveland). I will return to Ohio on September 17-24 for another speaking tour to promote the October 12-14 events and to meet again with the local organizing committee. We are now gathering co-sponsors for the Cleveland event (any donations of $25 or more are required for groups to be listed as an event co-sponsor.) A brochure advertising this event will be forthcoming. Special thanks to Francis Chiappa and Don McPherson in Cleveland for all their hard work and support. Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, FL. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.space4peace.org globalnet@mindspring.com 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:05:00 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Standards! >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:19:49 -0400 >Subject: Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Standards! >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: "NPETRIE@citizen.org" > >Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Standards! > >On March 16, the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants >(CCFAC), which advises the Codex Alimentarius ("Food Code") Commission, >approved a proposal that would remove virtually every assurance that >irradiated food will be of good quality, be handled by trained workers, >and be processed under safe and clean conditions in government-inspected >facilities. > >The proposal is now about half-way through the steps required for final >Codex approval. Codex sets food safety standards for over 160 countries, >representing 97% of the world's population. It is operated by the World >Health Organization and the United Nations. Codex standards are >enforceable by the World Trade Organization. > >The proposal would amend the Codex's 22-year-old food irradiation standard >by stating that food companies "should" rather than "shall" comply with >the standards. Many of the changes were proposed without any advance >notice and approved at meetings that were closed to the public. > >The Implications: > >* Irradiated food standards in the U.S., which are much stricter than what >the Codex is proposing, could be challenged through the World Trade >Organization (WTO). A successful challenge could pressure the U.S. to >weaken its standards. > >* Irradiated food would no longer have to be "of suitable quality," in >"acceptable hygienic condition," or "handled ... according to good >manufacturing practices." > >* Food irradiation facilities would no longer have to comply with "safety" >and "good hygiene practices," or be staffed by "adequate, trained and >competent personnel." > >* Food irradiation facilities would not have to be licensed or inspected >by government officials, or maintain certain records on radioactive >activities. > >* Food irradiation would no longer have to be carried out "commensurate >with . . . technological and public health purposes," or conducted "in >accordance with good radiation processing practice." > >* Numerous U.S. food and nuclear safety regulations could be at risk. >These include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rules requiring all >irradiation facilities using radioactive material to be licensed and >regularly inspected; the Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules requiring >beef, pork and poultry products to meet certain quality standards; and the >USDA and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules requiring food to be >processed under hygienic conditions. > >CCFAC also endorsed removing the Codex's current irradiation dose limit of >10 kiloGray, which is the equivalent of about 330 million chest X-rays. >When food is exposed to such doses of ionizing radiation, the flavor, >texture, odor, nutritional integrity and chemical composition of food can >be significantly corrupted. Very few of the new chemicals that are formed >in irradiated food have been studied for toxicity. Most U.S. foods are >dosed with between 1 and 7.5 kiloGray. > >The proposal will be debated by the full Codex Commission, which meets >July 2-7 in Geneva. > >U.S. meat inspector chief, Thomas Billy, who is the chairman of the Codex >Alimentarius Commission, has allowed your health and safety to be >threatened. The shortcomings of the U.S. meat inspection service should >not be projected onto the world. Tell him you will not stand for this. > > >Let the U.S. Codex representatives know that this proposal is unacceptable! > >Contact Information: > >Mr. Tom Billy >Chairman, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Department of Agriculture, 331-E >Jamie Whitten Bldg., Washington, DC 20250-3700 > >Phone: 202-720-7025, Fax: 202-690-0550 >E-mail: Tom.billy@usda.gov > > >Dr. F. Edward Scarbrough >U.S. Manager for Codex, Department of Agriculture, Room 4861, South Bldg., >Washington, DC 20250 > >Phone: 202-205-7760, Fax: 202-720-3157 >E-mail: Ed.scarbrough@usda.gov > >Mr. L. Robert Lake >Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-4), Food and Drug >Administration, 200 C St. SW, Washington, DC 20204 > >Phone: 202-205-4160, Fax: 202-401-7739 >E-mail: LRL@cfsan.fda.gov > >Sample letter: > >Dear Sirs, > >I am writing regarding the approval of the Revised Draft General Standard >on Irradiated Food, by the Codex Committee on Food Additives and >Contaminants. I strongly object to this proposal and to the propagation >of food irradiation as a solution to filthy meat production and as an >alternative to the use of methyl bromide on imports. > >The proposal itself was produced in a truly undemocratic way, and its >contents do nothing but weaken already inadequate public health and safety >measures. The plan downgrades international irradiation standards from >regulations to suggestions, and advocates for the removal of the current >irradiation Codex dose limit of 10 kiloGray. Currently the maximum dose >limit for most foods in the U.S. stands at 7.5 kiloGray. > >I assume, since you function as a representative of the United States to >the Codex Alimentarius Commission, you are concerned about the welfare of >the public. Please do not compromise the well being of my family or of >families throughout the world. > >Do not allow this proposal to be accepted. > >Sincerely, > >Your Name >Your Address > - - 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, 11 Apr 2001 14:13:56 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: Bill Johnson's column on Carl Kabat] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------AEF87EBF16DFA5B4AE4C2A57 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI, by way of Bill Sulzman. - --------------AEF87EBF16DFA5B4AE4C2A57 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from m2.boston.juno.com ([64.136.24.65]) by kestrel (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id td9eoe.lgf.37tiucr Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"FsCvqP7IVGGUuYuAQ/kBgudqasHKmcd3Orz1Bfm5oml5BNLtlkar5A=="> Received: (from bsulzman@juno.com) by m2.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id F2R6NVHB; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:13:05 EDT To: KPLNY1@aol.com, ARLYONS@bellsouth.net, peter@rcnv.org, sallight1@earthlink.net, liechty98@hotmail.com, L_LMiller@Qwest.net, slang@calnet.org, nukewtch@lakeland.ws, mkujawa@uswest.net, denvercw@juno.com, jkohls@cpinternet.com, karenknoll@yahoo.com, bobkinsey@earthlink.net, bnk@teltech.net, johnk@verinet.com Cc: Gerash@mindspring.com Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:09:42 -0600 Subject: Bill Johnson's column on Carl Kabat Message-ID: <20010411.140950.-3798861.3.bsulzman@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=--__JNP_000_200d.5577.2c15; type="multipart/alternative" From: Bill Sulzman This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ----__JNP_000_200d.5577.2c15 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ----__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net id OAA12867 Do you agree?=20 (1) Yes (2) No (3) Not Sure Your comment (optional): =20 PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY=20 Unshaken belief pulls clown-suited priest to missile silo When I grow up, I want to be like Carl Kabat.=20 Oh, but I know I'll never have his guts. Or his outsized commitment to an abiding belief. Nor could I, like him, do 15 years in this nation's federal penitentiaries. And he didn't kill anyone.=20 Carl Kabat, 67, is a Roman Catholic priest. He is back in Denver, the feds yet again nipping at him, trying to stuff him in prison at least one more year.=20 He has held a mirror to their faces, which he has done for nearly 30 years. Now, as then, they don't like it.=20 This is what Rev. Kabat did: In August of last year, he donned a clown suit and scaled the fence surrounding a Minuteman III nuclear missile site about 80 miles northeast of Denver.=20 There, he placed bread, wine and a hammer on top of the silo and prayed. He is charged with entering a fenced military site without permission. Trespassing. Trial is set for April 30.=20 "We are fools and clowns for God and humanity's sake," Kabat says to explain the clown suit. "We bring bread and wine and a hammer as symbols of life in this damnable place of death."=20 I met him quite by accident a couple of months ago. He is a man embittered not at all who, when asked of the lengthy prison sentences he has endured, merely chuckles.=20 Oh, the stories he tells. His first prison stretch occurred after he participated in an anti-nuclear arms protest in Plains, Ga., shortly before Jimmy Carter was sworn in.=20 In 1980 he, along with the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, and five others were arrested in Pennsylvania for hammering on nuclear missile nose cones at a General Electric plant. That cost him seven years prison time.=20 He spent another seven years for damaging a missile silo in Kansas City with three others. On Good Friday 1994, he dawned a clown suit and did the same to a missile silo in North Dakota. It netted him another 4=20 years.=20 His graying crew cut is thinning almost to the point of nonexistence. He is missing some teeth. Laugher tumbles from his mouth as he discusses the government's attempt to silence him.=20 "They've jailed -- killed -- so many of the good ones. But we are called to do things. Sometimes, it isn't always pleasant."=20 Not once in our long conversation did he ever complain of his incarceration. He explains it this way: In 1965, he accepted a missionary assignment to the Philippines. It was there, he said, he saw the negative impact of U.S. foreign policy on poor nations.=20 He saw children in abject poverty starve to death, while its government reaped billions of U.S. aid. In 1969, he left for a four-year missionary stint in Brazil. Again, it was the same thing. "I saw a nation with limited resources spending millions buying U.S. weapons while its people suffered."=20 So, he said, he decided "to beat those swords into plowshares."=20 "If he had bent down," Denver attorney Walter Gerash told the court, "and kissed the missiles and said, "Hosanna! I love these missiles!' Would there be a case? I don't think so." Gerash is representing Kabat for free.=20 The government says Kabat trespassed, plain and simple. And should be punished.=20 I haven't done justice to the story of the Rev. Carl Kabat here. Yet if the government does prevail, know he will go to prison yet again, and without complaint.=20 And that, in a variety of ways, would be remarkable. And a bit of a sin.=20 Bill Johnson's column appears Saturday, Wednesday and Friday. Rockybj@aol.com or (303) 892-2763.=20 April 11, 2001=20 MORE JOHNSON COLUMNS =BB=20 =20 2001 =A9 The E.W. Scripps Co. Privacy Policy and User Agreement Questions? Comments? Talk to Us. =20 - ----__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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When I = grow up, I=20 want to be like Carl Kabat.=20

Oh, but I know I'll never have his guts. Or his outsized = commitment to=20 an abiding belief. Nor could I, like him, do 15 years in this nation'= s=20 federal penitentiaries. And he didn't kill anyone.=20

Carl Kabat, 67, is a Roman Catholic priest. He is back in Denver, = the=20 feds yet again nipping at him, trying to stuff him in prison at least= one=20 more year.=20

He has held a mirror to their faces, which he has done for nearly = 30=20 years. Now, as then, they don't like it.=20

This is what Rev. Kabat did: In August of last year, he donned a = clown=20 suit and scaled the fence surrounding a Minuteman III nuclear missile= site=20 about 80 miles northeast of Denver.=20

There, he placed bread, wine and a hammer on top of the silo and=20 prayed. He is charged with entering a fenced military site without=20 permission. Trespassing. Trial is set for April 30.=20

"We are fools and clowns for God and humanity's sake," = Kabat=20 says to explain the clown suit. "We bring bread and wine and a hammer= as=20 symbols of life in this damnable place of death."=20

I met him quite by accident a couple of months ago. He is a man=20 embittered not at all who, when asked of the lengthy prison sentences= he=20 has endured, merely chuckles.=20

Oh, the stories he tells. His first prison stretch occurred after = he=20 participated in an anti-nuclear arms protest in Plains, Ga., shortly= =20 before Jimmy Carter was sworn in.=20

In 1980 he, along with the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, = and=20 five others were arrested in Pennsylvania for hammering on nuclear = missile=20 nose cones at a General Electric plant. That cost him seven years = prison=20 time.=20

He spent another seven years for damaging a missile silo in Kansas= City=20 with three others. On Good Friday 1994, he dawned a clown suit and = did the=20 same to a missile silo in North Dakota. It netted him another 4=20

years.=20

His graying crew cut is thinning almost to the point of = nonexistence.=20 He is missing some teeth. Laugher tumbles from his mouth as he = discusses=20 the government's attempt to silence him.=20

"They've jailed -- killed -- so many of the good ones. But we are= =20 called to do things. Sometimes, it isn't always pleasant."=20

Not once in our long conversation did he ever complain of his=20 incarceration. He explains it this way: In 1965, he accepted a = missionary=20 assignment to the Philippines. It was there, he said, he saw the = negative=20 impact of U.S. foreign policy on poor nations.=20

He saw children in abject poverty starve to death, while = its=20 government reaped billions of U.S. aid. In 1969, he left for a four-= year=20 missionary stint in Brazil. Again, it was the same thing. "I saw a = nation=20 with limited resources spending millions buying U.S. weapons while = its=20 people suffered."=20

So, he said, he decided "to beat those swords into plowshares."=20

"If he had bent down," Denver attorney Walter Gerash told the = court,=20 "and kissed the missiles and said, "Hosanna! I love these missiles!' = Would=20 there be a case? I don't think so." Gerash is representing Kabat for = free.=20

The government says Kabat trespassed, plain and simple. And should= be=20 punished.=20

I haven't done justice to the story of the Rev. Carl Kabat here. = Yet if=20 the government does prevail, know he will go to prison yet again, and= =20 without complaint.=20

And that, in a variety of ways, would be remarkable. And a bit of = a=20 sin.=20


Bill Johnson's column appears Saturday, Wednesday and Friday.= =20 Rockybj@aol.com or (303) 892-2763.=20

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