From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #447 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, June 6 2001 Volume 01 : Number 447 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:39:19 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) NDE's Teach-In to be available on videotape May 25, 2001 NEVADA DESERT EXPERIENCE=92S TEACH-IN TO BE AVAILABLE ON VIDEOTAPE Friends, The May 22-24, 2001, teach-in held by Nevada Desert Experience at San Francisco State University on the nuclear cycle and on =93Star Wars,=94 w= ill be available on videotape in several weeks. Featuring well-known experts who spoke on the full range of nuclear issues as well as on missile defense and =93Star Wars,=94 the teach-in wa= s sponsored on campus by the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and Students for a Better Environment. Speakers included Isaac Trotts (scientist who recently resigned from Livermore Lab), Jackie Cabasso (Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation), Patrice Sutton (Western States Legal Foundation and medical researcher), Dr. Kathryn Smick (Physicians for Social Responsibility), Marylia Kelley (Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs), Inga Olson (Nuclear Weapons & Waste Program Associate with Tri-Valley CAREs), Christopher Ney (Disarmament Coordinator of War Resisters League), June Stark Casey (renowned radiation survivor and Bay Area Liaison for Peace Links), Andrew Page (California Peace Action), Fr. Louie Vitale & Fr. Bill O=92Donnell (long-time faith-based activists)= , Ernest Goitein (retired engineer and expert on nuclear power plants), David Brown (maker of, =93Bound By the Wind=94 and other films), Cade Bursell (internationally award-winning film maker and cancer survivor), Carah Ong (Coordinator of Abolition 2000 Global Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Maurice Campbell & Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai (Hunters Point Shipyard activists), Patricia Axlerod (expert on Uranium 238, also known as =93depleted uranium=94), Jeanie Shaterian (Mordechai Vanunnu Campaign)= , Ward Young (BAN Waste, expert on radioactive waste), Sandra Schwartz (American Friends Service Committee), Chris Montesano (Board Chair of Nevada Desert Experience) and Sally Light (Executive Director of Nevada Desert Experience). Lynda Williams (Professor of Physics at S.F. State) performed her =93Cosmic Cabaret=94 theater piece on =93Star Wars.=94 The videotapes are an excellent education & outreach tool, and will be available in several weeks. Those wanting information about getting copies of the videotapes can contact Sally Light, Executive Director of Nevada Desert Experience by email at sallight1@earthlink.net or by =91phone at (510) 849-1540. - - 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: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:01:33 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Pollution & Cleanup at Livermore Lab-invitation Greetings: Here is information about an upcoming public meeting on cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution at Livermore Lab's site 300 high explosives testing range. The meeting is sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and TRAQ. If you are in Northern California -- you are cordially invited to attend. All others on my email lists -- this is FYI. Read on... for further information, contact Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 Inga Olson, Program Associate, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 Peter Strauss, Environmental Scientist, (415) 647-4404 * Media Advisory * COMMUNITY MEETING TO ADDRESS PROPOSED FUNDING CUTS, OTHER THREATS TO CLEANUP OF RADIOACTIVE AND TOXIC POLLUTION AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB'S SITE 300 HIGH EXPLOSIVES TESTING RANGE WHAT: Public Meeting, "Site 300 - Pollution, Cleanup and the Role of the Community," jointly sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and Tracy Regional Alliance for a Quality Environment (TRAQ) WHEN: Thursday, May 31, 2001 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM WHERE: Tracy Community Center, 300 East 10th Street, Tracy WHO: * Peter Strauss of PM Strauss and Associates, technical advisor to Tri-Valley CAREs for over a decade and author of the "Community Guide to the Site 300 Cleanup," will discuss the on-site and off-site contaminated groundwater plumes and their potential impact on human health and the environment. * Marylia Kelley, the Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs, will outline solutions, including various types of soil and groundwater treatment technologies, and will discuss the need for long-term, stable funding for the Superfund cleanup effort at site 300. * Inga Olson, Tri-Valley CAREs' Program Associate will be joined by Tracy community members to initiate a call to action, and will outline several effective measures that citizens can employ to help assure the cleanup of radioactive and toxic pollutants at site 300. WHY: Contaminants in soil and groundwater near Tracy could be left in place and allowed to migrate unchecked because of reductions in the Department of Energy's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Request for cleanup at the site. Livermore Lab's environmental restoration budget is slated to be cut from its current $21.7 million to $11.3 million, a 48% decrease. Site 300 was designated as a Superfund site, requiring priority cleanup, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1990. Since 1955, site 300 has been used by Livermore Lab to test high explosives and components of nuclear weapons. Underground plumes of water contain high concentrations of uranium, tritium (radioactive hydrogen), volatile organic compounds (including TCE), high explosives and other toxic chemicals. -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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:43:29 -0400 From: "globalnet@mindspring.com" (by way of ASlater ) Subject: (abolition-usa) [abolition-caucus] COORDINATOR TRIP REPORT Friends, Just back from three weeks away to England, Ireland, and Germany. The Global Network's (GN) membership conference in Leeds, England was a great success (see Karl Grossman's recent article that we mailed out for details). For the first time we had folks come from places like Alaska, Egypt, South Korea, Australia, Norway, Sweden, France, and Belgium. In all we had over 200 people from 20 countries represented. As Karl said in his article we expanded the GN Board of Directors (BOD). We have added several new people including: Alla Yaroshinskaya (Russia), Cheong Wooksik (South Korea), Loring Wirbel (Colorado), Sally Light (California) and we have asked activists in Australia to suggest a woman to be added to the BOD. We expect this to be done very soon. We also approved Dave Knight, the chairperson of CND in the United Kingdom, to be the new chair of our advisory board. We'd like the advisory board to take a greater role in 2001-2002 in helping us do long-range planning. With consultation with our BOD, Dave will be working to expand the advisory committee in the coming months. After a few days off in Ireland I went to Germany for a speaking tour that took me to Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Trier, Munich, Kornwestheim, Darmstadt, and Frankfurt. I went by train to each stop and our advisory board member Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck (Mutlangen) coordinated the tour. GN board member Regina Hagen and Wolfgang joined me in Berlin where we spent 2 1/2 days holding a news conference, held public meetings with several different peace groups, and held sessions with members of parliament (MP) and their staffs. We met with two MP's from the ruling SPD party, one of whom extended an invitation to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to come to Berlin to speak to German members of the Bundestag. I carried home a hand written invitation and have sent it to Rep. Kucinich. We also met with 14 leaders in the PDS party (former East Germans) who have recently been working to gather anti-Star Wars signatures of parliamentarians from around the world. They were particularly pleased to develop relationships with the GN. We were supposed to meet with two MP's from the Green Party but instead they sent four of their aides. The German Greens are being heavily criticized by the peace movement for their support of the NATO war on Yugoslavia and for recent weak statements on Bush's plan for "missile defense." Several news articles came out of our Berlin news conference as well as radio coverage. Hamburg was my biggest meeting, with representatives from many different groups in attendance. In Bonn I did a radio interview that was broadcast nationally and in Trier the local newspaper covered my talk. Prior to the event in Munich, local activists took me to a local radio station for an interview. Munich was a very important meeting because it is very near the U.S. signals intelligence base at Bad Aibling. We have not had alot of work done around Bad Aibling in the past and it was my hope that we could get folks in Munich to agree to focus more attention on the base. The people at the meeting enthusiastically agreed to hold an action there in conjunction with our October 13 international day of protest. While in Munich I stayed at the home of the renowned nuclear physicist Hans Peter Duerr. We had a wonderful breakfast discussion on the Star Wars issue and I feel certain that he will become more involved in the campaign to keep space for peace. He has tremendous influence inside and outside of Germany. I am confident that several key German cities (including Berlin) will hold actions on October 13 as a result of this trip. There was tremendous interest in the issue, several people in Berlin followed us from meeting to meeting. Both in England and Germany it is clear that people view the Bush administration as a significant threat to global peace and stability and will respond with increased activity on the issue. In both these countries there is always talk about the "special relationship" their government has with the U.S. and it was important for an American citizen to be publicly saying that they do not need to "follow" the U.S. on this issue. Much thanks to all those who made the events in England and Germany such a success. Immediately upon our return Dr. Michio Kaku, one of our GN board members, had Karl Grossman and me on his radio show (Science for the People) to talk about our trip to Europe. Michio regularly keeps the work of the GN before the public on his national radio program. I think it important that people understand that the recent return of the U.S. Senate to Democratic party control will only marginally help us stop Star Wars. While it is likely to help slow down any early deployment of "missile defense", Democratic Senate leader Tom Dsachle (D-SD) said just this morning on TV that his party still supports "missile defense" but only wants to be sure that it works properly before deploying. He said clearly that research and development (wasting hundreds of billions of dollars) should continue. It has always been my opinion that if you give the Pentagon enough money and enough time that they will come up with some technology that will work. So please don't be fooled into thinking that the Democrats will save us -- they won't. We have much work to do. 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: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:49:00 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian citizens oppose waste dump Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:28:36 -0500 Subject: (GDR) Russians Said to Oppose Waste Bill X-FC-MachineGenerated: true From: "Ndunlks@aol.com" : : Russians Said to Oppose Waste Bill .c The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - A leading Russian environmentalist said Saturday that legislation to allow the import of nuclear waste could face an uphill battle if lawmakers listen to their constituents. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is to vote June 7 on a third and final reading of the legislation, which passed by a wide margin in its second reading last month. Alexei Yablokov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a leading anti-nuclear campaigner, said recent opinion surveys, including a poll by Greenpeace on Friday, showed that 90 percent of voters are against the plan. ``I think that it will make the deputies think (twice) about passing this law,'' Yablokov said. If it passes the Duma, the bill will face a vote in the upper parliament house, the Federation Council. Yablokov said the chamber's chairman, Yegor Stroyev, was opposed the project and had branded it as a plan ``designed either for madmen or the mafia.'' Russia's new energy minister, Alexander Rumyantsev, has pushed for the legislation allowing the import of spent nuclear fuel rods from other nations since his appointment in March, saying it was essential for Russia to be able to export new nuclear fuel. Russia's Nuclear Power Ministry has also lobbied for the plan. The ministry says Russia would earn up to $20 billion by importing 22,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel over a 10-year period. Nuclear power stations around the world have about 200,000 tons of waste in temporary storage Officials have said spent fuel would be sent by armored train to a facility near Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains for reprocessing. The recycling process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent rods while reducing their potential to be used in weapons, the Nuclear Power Ministry has said. A 1992 law forbids importing nuclear materials from countries other than former East Bloc nations with existing contracts. Russia now imports spent fuel rods from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary for reprocessing, a system established during Soviet times. AP-NY-05-26-01 0637EDT Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:58:18 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-caucus] ACTION ALERT: Bush at NATO HQ 13/6/01] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------3D0D9A02B4DBB85373F00173 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------3D0D9A02B4DBB85373F00173 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from mq.egroups.com ([208.50.144.79]) by emu (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tha6ed.8bn.37tiu8v.1 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:03:25 -0700 (PDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1413460-3440-991238455-sallight1=earthlink.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by mq.egroups.com with NNFMP; 30 May 2001 16:00:55 -0000 X-Sender: nukes@motherearth.org X-Apparently-To: abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 16:00:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 94882 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 16:00:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 16:00:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stonehenge.gec.be) (195.144.66.133) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 16:00:18 -0000 Received: (from apache@localhost) by stonehenge.gec.be (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4UFx9U30511; Wed, 30 May 2001 17:59:09 +0200 Message-Id: <200105301559.f4UFx9U30511@stonehenge.gec.be> X-Authentication-Warning: stonehenge.gec.be: apache set sender to nukes@motherearth.org using -f To: abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.23 X-IPAddress: 192.168.1.1 From: "For Mother Earth" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com; contact abolition-caucus-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:59:09 +0200 Subject: [abolition-caucus] ACTION ALERT: Bush at NATO HQ 13/6/01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends, On 13 June George W. Bush will visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to meet with all NATO heads of state/government. This is a unique opportunity to make your feelings known on NATO nuclear policy, Star Wars, ... Please spread this message to any individuals and organisations that you know, and come to Brussels yourself! Love, David Heller Katri Silvonen For Mother Earth International ************************************************************************* MANIFESTATION WEDNESDAY JUNE 13TH NATO headquarters BRUSSELS Dear Friends Over the past months everybody has been shocked by the disastrous policy decisions of US President Bush. It is obvious by now he doesn't give a damn about international agreements, he only follows the dictates from the oil and weapon industry. On Wednesday June 13th George Bush is visiting the NATO headquarters at Brussels, where he will meet the heads of state of the Western alliance. The development of Star Wars will be the major item on his agenda. Demonstration We cannot let this summit pass without making our feelings known. Under the common idea 'respect international agreements' a group of Belgian and international NGO's calls for a non-violent demonstration. At this moment the group consists of 11..11.11, Attac (against financial speculation), Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Flemish environmental umbrella organisation), War Resisters International, Greenpeace, Inter Environment Wallonie (Walloon environmental group), Oxfam Solidariteit and For Mother Earth. We plan a short march to NATO headquarters with a clear message to the Heads of state and for President Bush. All organisations and participants are invited to make signs concerning the themes of the international agreements that Bush is violating (e.g. nuclear disarmament, human rights, climate). We also have a 'Wanted Poster" that reminds people of the international crimes against Humanity and the Planet that Bush is committing. This poster can be downloaded from the website ;; and adapted to suit your needs. We expect some counterdemonstrations of the financial world, the oil industry and the military industrial complex which will see their welcome party for the President disturbed. The participants to the action will be invited to sign a "non-violence engagement declaration", and we expect everyone on the demonstration to take a non-violent attitude (verbal as well as physical). There will be legal support for anyone arrested. The meeting point for the demonstration is 8:30 am at Metro Station "Bordet" in Brussels. The demonstration will leave for NATO headquaters at 9am promptly. We hope to make a maximum use of the internet to make this action successful. Please spread this acton alert and the 'Wanted' poster as widely as possible. Updates can be obtained on our website http://www.geocities.com/bushwanted/ You can e-mail to : bushwanted@yahoo.co.uk On Tuesday evening, June 12th there will be a protest vigil in front of the US embassy. More information about this vigil is available on the website. ******************************************************************************* For Mother Earth Maria Hendrikaplein 5-6 9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32-9-242.87.52 fax: +32-9-242.87.51 E-mail: international@motherearth.org http://www.motherearth.org International postal account: #000-1618561-19 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/ - --------------3D0D9A02B4DBB85373F00173-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:26:19 -0500 From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear power debate on TV this weekend Friends and colleagues in the U.S., Between now and Wednesday at various times across the country, PBS will=20 broadcast a debate on nuclear power between Arjun Makhijani, president of=20 the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and Eileen Supko,=20 nuclear engineer and senior consultant with Energy Resources=20 International. More information about the show follows. The show also has= =20 a web site: http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/ Lisa Ledwidge, IEER >THIS WEEK THINK TANK ASKS...Is Nuclear Power Making a Comeback? > >(#923 PBS feed 5/31/2001) > >President George W. Bush=B9s energy plan is reviving nuclear power, an >industry long out of public favor. Once again, the atom is being hailed= as >a cheap and clean source of energy. Recent polls show that 50 percent of >Americans now support the construction of new nuclear power plants, a= figure >that includes 59 percent of energy-strapped Californians. But critics >remain skeptical. Some 40,000 tons of nuclear waste await final disposal, >while plans for a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, remain >bogged down in a political ground war. Is the nuclear industry poised to >make a comeback? Or is the issue still too hot to handle? > >To find out, Think Tank is joined by two experts: > >Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental >Research, and coauthor of The Nuclear Power Deception: U.S. Nuclear >Mythology from Electricity "Too Cheap to Meter" to "Inherently Safe" >Reactors. > >And Eileen Supko, nuclear engineer and senior consultant with Energy >Resources International, and author of numerous research papers on nuclear >power. > >For more information or to report carriage of Think Tank, contact Greg >Erken at (202) 862-4882 or via email at gerken@aei.org "Think Tank" air times for Washington, D.C., and some major markets (visit= =20 http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/where_watch.html to find out about others): >New York: Saturday, WNET, 9 AM >Los Angeles: Saturday, KCET, 1:30 PM >Chicago: Thursday, WYCC, 10:30 PM >Washington, DC: Saturday, WETA (Ch. 26), 1:30 PM and Monday, WETA, 1 AM >Washington, DC: Sunday, WHUT (Ch. 32), 11 AM and Tuesday, WHUT, 9 AM - - 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, 04 Jun 2001 20:15:42 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) nuclear power poll http://www.wb17.com/ Take the poll. Should We Build More Nuclear Power Plants? Bill Braxton From: "Bill Braxton" __________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org * Please sign the Online Petition! - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm __________________________________________________ - - 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: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:45:21 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED! Dear peace and enviro colleagues: Here is an article I think you will find interesting on the international campaign to persuade the Japanese-based Hoya corporation to stop making glass for the National Ignition Facility (and by extension, for the French Laser Megajoule). Kudos to Gensuiken and to our own Issac Trotts who is "on the case" in Japan this week. Read on... Peace, Marylia Ex-lab worker stumps in Japan Trotts quit over nuclear research By Glenn Roberts Jr. STAFF WRITER LIVERMORE -- A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist, who renounced nuclear weapons work in favor of anti-nuclear activism, is touring Japan this week to speak with activists, politicians and business representatives. On Issac Trotts' itinerary is a meeting with officials at Hoya Corp., a Japan-based company with a shop in Fremont that is preparing high-tech glass slabs for the National Ignition Facility laser project at Livermore Lab. In February, Hoya officials announced that shipments of glass for the laser project were being withheld "for the time being." Public protests in Japan have questioned why Hoya managers would support the construction of NIF, a U.S. nuclear weapons research tool. Though the Japan Times reported in late March that Hoya managers planned to resume the shipments, officials at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory reportedly have not received a formal statement from the company about resumption of the shipments. Lab spokesman Susan Houghton said Monday that "nothing has changed in relation to Hoya." "We value our relationship with Hoya and are allowing them to handle this issue," Houghton said. Trotts, 25, who worked as a computer scientist and mathematical programmer at Livermore Lab from October 2000 to March of this year, has said he resigned after learning that lab scientists continue to develop new capabilities for nuclear weapons. Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, a Livermore-based nuclear watchdog group, and Gensuikin, a Japanese anti-nuclear group, combined forces to send Trotts to Japan. In a paper he prepared for his trip, Trotts states that NIF is "an instrument for continuing U.S. nuclear weapons research and development." The paper also says, "As such, it would not be socially responsible for a Japanese business, or any business for that matter, to directly contribute to the NIF's construction. Hoya Corporation now has an opportunity to show its social responsibility to the people of Japan by ending its involvement with the National Ignition Facility." Houghton said Trotts "was never affiliated with the National Ignition Facility and his claims are not credible." Hoya Corp. is contracted to produce about half of the specialized laser glass needed for NIF and for a similar nuclear weapons research project in France called the Megajoule. Both projects are expected to generate nuclear weapons explosions on a miniature scale by blasting radioactive fuel pellets with high-power ultra-violet lasers. Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs, said Trotts went to Japan "with a stack of documents to present to Hoya -- so that Hoya (officials) understand the NIF's role in enhancing and maintaining nuclear weapons." She said Trotts also is planning to travel to Hiroshima this week to meet with its mayor and to visit the atomic bomb museum there. - ------------------------------------------------------------ c1999-2001 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:37:52 -0700 From: "John E. Linker" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED! Thanks sincerely, John E. Linker Sanitary Engineer California Department of Health Services Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management Drinking Water Field Operations Branch Sonoma District Office Santa Rosa, CA (Please see my resume at http://jelinker.homestead.com/jelinker.html) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "marylia" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED! > Dear peace and enviro colleagues: > > Here is an article I think you will find interesting on the international > campaign to persuade the Japanese-based Hoya corporation to stop making > glass for the National Ignition Facility (and by extension, for the French > Laser Megajoule). Kudos to Gensuiken and to our own Issac Trotts who is "on > the case" in Japan this week. Read on... Peace, Marylia > > Ex-lab worker stumps in Japan > > Trotts quit over nuclear research > > By Glenn Roberts Jr. > STAFF WRITER > > LIVERMORE -- A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist, who > renounced nuclear weapons work in favor of anti-nuclear activism, is > touring Japan this week to speak with activists, politicians and business > representatives. > > On Issac Trotts' itinerary is a meeting with officials at Hoya Corp., a > Japan-based company with a shop in Fremont that is preparing high-tech > glass slabs for the National Ignition Facility laser project at Livermore > Lab. > > In February, Hoya officials announced that shipments of glass for the laser > project were being withheld "for the time being." Public protests in Japan > have questioned why Hoya managers would support the construction of NIF, a > U.S. nuclear weapons research tool. > > Though the Japan Times reported in late March that Hoya managers planned to > resume the shipments, officials at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory reportedly > have not received a formal statement from the company about resumption of > the shipments. > > Lab spokesman Susan Houghton said Monday that "nothing has changed in > relation to Hoya." > > "We value our relationship with Hoya and are allowing them to handle this > issue," Houghton said. > > Trotts, 25, who worked as a computer scientist and mathematical programmer > at Livermore Lab from October 2000 to March of this year, has said he > resigned after learning that lab scientists continue to develop new > capabilities for nuclear weapons. > > Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, a Livermore-based > nuclear watchdog group, and Gensuikin, a Japanese anti-nuclear group, > combined forces to send Trotts to Japan. > > In a paper he prepared for his trip, Trotts states that NIF is "an > instrument for continuing U.S. nuclear weapons research and development." > > The paper also says, "As such, it would not be socially responsible for a > Japanese business, or any business for that matter, to directly contribute > to the NIF's construction. Hoya Corporation now has an opportunity to show > its social responsibility to the people of Japan by ending its involvement > with the National Ignition Facility." > > Houghton said Trotts "was never affiliated with the National Ignition > Facility and his claims are not credible." > > Hoya Corp. is contracted to produce about half of the specialized laser > glass needed for NIF and for a similar nuclear weapons research project in > France called the Megajoule. > > Both projects are expected to generate nuclear weapons explosions on a > miniature scale by blasting radioactive fuel pellets with high-power > ultra-violet lasers. > > Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs, said Trotts went > to Japan "with a stack of documents to present to Hoya -- so that Hoya > (officials) understand the NIF's role in enhancing and maintaining nuclear > weapons." > > She said Trotts also is planning to travel to Hiroshima this week to meet > with its mayor and to visit the atomic bomb museum there. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > c1999-2001 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers > > 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. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:18:17 -0400 From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) June 10 open meeting on disarmament campaign activities On Sunday June 10, from 5-7 pm, in Washington, following the rally from 2-4 pm at Lafayette Park, the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will host an open meeting to discuss groups' plans for campaigning against missile defense and the weaponization of space and for the dealerting, reduction, and elimination of nuclear forces. The agenda is still being formed, but at a minimum the intent is to exchange information about upcoming events, actions, and campaigns, and to explore how to coordinate campaign activities. The meeting will be held at the Methodist Building, 100 Maryland Ave., NE, directly across the street from the Supreme Court. From the rally, take the red line from Farragut North to Union Station, exit onto Massachusetts, and head up 1st St. The building will be on your left just before you get to the Supreme Court. Contact John Burroughs (separate msg to johnburroughs@lcnp.org, not by reply to this msg, or call 212 818 1861) for more information or to provide input into the meeting agenda. The meeting is being held in connection with the rally and congressional education days, June 10-12, organized by the Nuclear Disarmament Partnership and Project Abolition. For more information regarding June 10-12 activities (not the meeting), see www.projectabolition.org or contact Kathy Crandall, Nuclear Disarmament Partnership, at kcrandall@disarmament.org. John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - 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. ------------------------------ End of abolition-usa-digest V1 #447 *********************************** - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" in the body of the message. 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