From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/02 Date: 02 May 2000 13:27:58 -0400 1) NucNews archives have been posted through April 25, 2000. http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. 2) At the meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons last Friday, April 28, 2000, I promised I'd try to ascertain and distribute the presidential candidates' speaking schedules. Today I submitted requests to both Gore and Bush campaigns for schedules of their upcoming speeches. I'll send the lists out to you as soon as received. I hope this will help you bring the question of Nuclear Abolition to the Town Halls during this year's campaign for President. Until I hear from the campaigns, I must rely on the day's news. Today, VICE PRESIDENT GORE travels to Atlanta and Atlantic City, N.J. 3) At the International Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting last Sunday, April 30, 2000, the dangers of Ballistic Missile Defense and the plight of the islanders of Vieques, were issues all agreed deserve our active attention. See http://prop1.org/calendar.htm for links to relevant websites. 4) Intern(s) needed: If you're a student who has or wants experience editing web pages, we could sure use your help making NucNews more user-friendly. You don't have to live in Washington D.C. to help. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) ASK YOUR GOVT TO SUPPORT NEW AGENDA COALITION NOW AT NPT REVIEW Date: 03 May 2000 17:31:56 +1000 PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear All who recieve this email, As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal' between the nuclear weapon states, signed in 1968 and in force since 1970, whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any of them. Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal obligations under the NPT. They ask the nuclear weapon states to: --Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of negotiation taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years --They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence negotiation in START-III --They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals. Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no first use' guarantees, reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear weapons, and other commonsense measures. All governments should support this program. It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th) recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review. That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of omnicide. Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda Coalition's efforts. There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please read it) Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at the fax number below. If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that government may have), that you support them, at least in this. Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them on what they have already done. If your government is the Mexican, South African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government, please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what other faults they may have). If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China, UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want them to do. Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and not 'ultimately'. It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe. Do it now. The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you to read it and use its points. BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS. NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL. FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in the world is listed plus lots of information is this: Http://www.abolition2000.org. (Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org ) Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of the two URLs above. (The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be. You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope however, that people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister but also those of Russia and the US.) Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me know at and check the number on the URL or with your own telephone system. If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461 The US United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 415 4443 If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is +7-095-244-3276 or +7-095-244-2203. (You need to be persistent with these numbers) The general Kremlin fax number is +7-095-205-4330. (This is the slowest fax in the universe) Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252 If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is +33-1-45-51-60-12, Jacques Chirac's fax number is +33-1-47-42-24-65. France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889 If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is +44-171-925-0918. The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is: +44-171-270-2144 The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316 If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: +49-228-56-2357, or +49-30-4000-2357 Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662, 49-30-20186-252, +49-228-1734-02, +49-30-201-8619-24 The German UN mission is on: Fax +1 212 940 0402 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195 If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 751 1966 If you are in Italy please fax 39-6-628-6210, or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734 Italy UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 486 1036 If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on +36-1-356-3801 If you are in Korea, try your minister of foreign affairs on +82-2-724-8291, +82-2-739-5370 If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be +55-61-226-1762 Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242 If you are in Mexico, try +52-6-782-4109 If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095) If you are in Thailand, try +66-2-225-6155, or 66-2-226-1374 BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN OFFICE. PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS Dear Colleagues, One month is a long time in politics. The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000. As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for nuclear disarmament since 1998. Building on the language contained in treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise. Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187 governments. You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are weakening and a new arms race is brewing. o Please send letters and visit your elected representatives o Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence o Please send letters to the editor o Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity Following you will find: * Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work Lobbying Points o The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24 by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations. Mexico is speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference. o Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together 187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law in 1970. o The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6. "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." o The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden. Their resolution at last years General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states and enjoyed the support of 111 countries. o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable, practical and reasonable and realistic. o If your government has any resistance to the following measures identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them specifically what points could possibly object to in the following: 1. the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming five year period; 2. the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START II and begin negotiations on START III; 3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons. Six interim steps were identified: 1. an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear weapons; 2. de-alerting; 3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination; 4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile materials; 5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and 6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures. ******* ******* ******* ******* Felicity Hill, Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom United Nations Office 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Ph: 1 212 682 1265 Fax: 1 212 286 8211 email: flick@igc.apc.org web: www.wilpf.int.ch www.reachingcriticalwill.org ******* ******* ******* ******* - 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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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/03 - (1) Presidential Candidates (2) Congress Date: 03 May 2000 13:12:56 -0400 (1) Presidential Candidates' whereabouts: =20 Ralph Nader (http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html):=20 Wednesday, 5-3-00 - 5:45 pm Speech Columbia, SC - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2701 Haywood St. Friday, 5-5-00 - 6:00 pm Speech Charleston, WV - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston WV 25302 -- Al Gore: 9:15 a.m. =97 Addresses the AFL-CIO 25th Constitutional Convention, Bally's Park Place Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J. 12:45 a.m. =97 Addresses a Democratic National Committee luncheon, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. -- George Bush and Pat Buchanan - unknown. 2) May 3, 2000 Washington Times Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200053214843.htm Energy policy discussion =97 noon =97 The Heritage Foundation holds a discussion on "How America's Energy Policy Undermines Our National Security." Participants include Denise Bode, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and Donald Hodel, former energy secretary. Location: Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, DC. Contact: 202-608-6143. Broadcast live on web at www.heritage.org. Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers briefing =97 9 a.m. =97 The Coalit= ion to Reduce Nuclear Dangers holds a briefing on the upcoming U.S.-Russia summit, the national missile-defense debate and the future of nuclear arms. Location: Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th St. NW. Contact: 301/384-4338. Iraqi sanctions briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, holds a briefing on the current U.N. sanctions policy against Iraq, its effect on the Iraqi civilian population, and its impact on the Iraqi regime. Location: 2203 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5871. SENATE COMMITTEES=20 9:30 a.m. =97 Appropriations defense subcommittee holds a hearing on fiscal 2001 defense appropriations. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3471. 3 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal Authorization Act. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews= =20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Harris Poll on Nuclear Disarmament at Excite.com today! Date: 03 May 2000 15:13:04 -0500 Dear friends, Here's an opportunity for some electronic organizing. Today's Harris Poll on the website of the search engine Excite asks the question: Should the world's five key nuclear powers eliminate their nuclear arsenals? Currently, of over 26,000 "votes" cast, 45% said "yes", 50% said "no", 4% said "don't know". Never mind why they excluded Israel, India, and Pakistan (actually, you can post that question on the webpage after you vote). Go to http://news.excite.com/news/poll/ and cast your "vote" for for nuclear abolition. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY! - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook Date: 04 May 2000 07:36:59 -0400 May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200054215436.htm Kissinger speech =97 7:30 p.m. =97 Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state, addresses the prospects of peace in the Middle East during a lecture at the University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development. Location: Tawes Theatre, University of Maryland, College Park. Contact: 301/405-4625. Small-arms trafficking conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Eminent Persons Group holds a conference to discuss small-arms trafficking. A news conference will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, at 2 p.m. Location: School of International Service Lounge, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950 or= 703/855-5556. Handgun Control briefing =9710 a.m. =97 Handgun Control holds a news briefing to focus on the gun-control records of prominent elected officials. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/898-0792. U.N. report discussion =9712:30 p.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a panel discussion, "The U.N. Secretary-General's Millennium Report: A Vision for the 21st Century." Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7500. Iraqi sanctions news conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Reps. Joseph Crowley, N= ew York Democrat, and John E. Sweeney, New York Republican, hold a news conference to announce a letter to President Clinton urging that the United Nations maintain sanctions against Iraq. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/225-3965. Youth violence discussion =97 7 p.m. =97 The Creative Coalition holds = a panel discussion, "Youth Violence in America: The Reel Story?" Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/778-1251. (etc.) Ralph Nader's schedule: http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html Gore and Bush schedules unknown.=20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) sample letters to the editor on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and missile defense Date: 04 May 2000 11:01:53 -0500 Dear Friends: Following are two sample letters to the editor for use with your local newspaper on U.S. nuclear policy, particularly regarding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference currently meeting at the U.N. and plans to deploy a national missile defense. Project Abolition Field Coordinator Karina Wood drafted the first, I drafted the second (as you'll see, hers is much better). Feel free to use or adapt as you see fit, and let us know of any success you have in getting letters published. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition #### Letter #1 To the editor, Question: What sounds like disarmament, but isn't? Try this: "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goal of a complete elimination of nuclear weapons." A statement from the five major nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) at the 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), currently taking place at the UN in New York. You have to love that phrase "ultimate goal." That's diplomat-eeze for "not for a very, very long time, and probably not in your lifetime if we can help it." The nuclear weapons-owning countries remind me of a group of old alcoholic drinking buddies, who, in the height of their drunkenness regale us with promises of their "unequivocal commitment" to the "ultimate goal" of sobriety. Who do they think they're kidding? Their statement was immediately and quite rightly lambasted by many non-nuclear nations and disarmament advocates at the conference as inadequate, vague and contradictory. Inadequate, because the statement simply reiterated the commitment of the nuclear powers to the 1970 treaty's original goals, to which they are already legally bound - that the nuclear weapons owning countries will give up their nukes in return for non-nuclear countries agreeing never to acquire them. Vague, because the statement neglects to mention any new undertakings to actually achieve disarmament. Contradictory, because while US diplomats mouth reassuring platitudes at the UN, back in Washington, DC, their Administration bosses are colluding with Congress on a missile defense plan that will surely spark a new nuclear arms race. And there's also the little problem of the Senate's rejection of the test ban treaty, and the nearly $5 billion the US is spending every year on experimental new nuclear weapons research and development. It's high time the United States and company quit their dangerous addiction to nuclear weapons. I want to see their 12 step recovery program for ridding the world of the nuclear threat. Here's some concrete actions to back up their wiley words. Step one: reject the misguided, unworkable waste of taxes known as "missile defense." Step two: take missiles off hair-trigger alert. Step three: accept Russia's lowest offer for mutual reductions in our two countries' nuclear stockpiles. Step four: convene multilateral negotiations on a convention to abolish all nuclear weapons. Sincerely, ##### Letter #2 To the editor: According to documents made public last week by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the U.S. is working hard to gain Russian acquiescence to an American limited missile defense system to protect the U.S. against a small missile attack by a "rogue state". This is necessary to convince Russia to amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which limits missile defenses on the theory such systems would provoke an offensive nuclear missile buildup by the other side. A Pentagon document reassures Russia, "Both the United States and the Russian Federation now possess and, as before, will possess under the terms of any possible future arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive weapons=85" How wonderful. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, which should have removed any rationale for such a thing, the U.S. wants to extend indefinitely the ability of our country and of Russia to destroy each other. The U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain, and France are bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, currently being reviewed at a United Nations conference in New York, to negotiate the elimination of nuclear weapons. Those states, which are also the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, released a joint statement the other day re-affirming their commitment to disarmament that is directly contradicted by the U.S.=92s =93Dr. Strangelove=94statement to Russia. So which is it? Do we hold sacred the Cold War doctrine of =93mutual assured destruction=94 =96 MAD =97 or are we serious about abolishing nuc= lear weapons? Clearly, U.S. policy-makers are confused. They need to hear, from we the people, loud and clear: stop the MADness, abandon plans for a missile defense system that will provoke a new arms race, and get serious about negotiating a treaty to rid the planet of the scourge of nuclear weapons. > > Sincerely, - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global Date: 04 May 2000 12:49:33 -0400 (1) Vieques Arrests and Upcoming Actions (2) Italian DU in Iraq TV Series (3) Global Connections -- (1) Urgent-U.S. Arrests Vieques Demonstrators - Actions Listed Below Today, Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 5:30 A.M. federal authorities began to arrest the people conducting Civil Disobedience in Vieques. For more details, please access news media. This is the moment to put forward the planned activities. Today and tomorrow protests will take place in U.S. and Puerto Rico, please access (http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm) for scheduled protests. For more information: wwww.ViequesLibre.org The time to act is NOW QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO y VIEQUES LIBRE. NOT ONE MORE BOMB !!! Contact: Anthony Cruz - vieques2000@hotmail.com Condemn the U.S. invasion of Vieques by attendingthese protests events that will be held in the following areas. (See http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm for times and places.) So far protests May 4th and 5th have been scheduled for: Boston, Massachusetts Burlington, Vermont Cornell University Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Hartford, Connecticut Miami, Florida Minnesota, Minneapolis Montpelier, Vermont New Orleans, Louisiana New York City Orlando, Florida Philadelphia, Pennsylvania San Francisco, California San Juan, Puerto Rico Seoul, South Korea Springfield, Massachusetts Toronto, Canada Tucson, Arizona Vieques, Puerto Rico Washington, D.C. -- On May 5 there will be a mobilization in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House at at noon. Please, contact the media and call your people. DC Contact: David Santiago 202-223-3915 ext. 308 ------------- (2) 15 TV-programs about DU in Iraq Today, Father Benjamin (onorary member of the italian NGO Ethical Environmental Observatory) is in Bagdad were he will stay 15 days with a troupe of the italian TV - Canale 5. Each day, starting from 6 May, there will be a 5 to 8 minutes program (broadcasted in real time) for a total of 15 evenings, during "Striscia la Notizia", a program with an audience of about 10 million people. In this program, the effects of the UN embargo on Iraqi population are shown, with a special attention on DU. During the same time, we will campaign here in Italy to put an end to the embargo on Iraq. Marco Saba Osservatorio Etico Ambientale via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra, 20090 Segrate (MI) Tel. 02 21591373 - GSM 0338 5838282 http://stop-u238.i.am ---- (3) For those looking for activists in your region, check out Global Connections: An International Roster of Prominent Non-Government Organizations Advocating Abolition, Containment, or Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons. Incomplete, but a good idea, and your additions to the list invited..... http://members.home.net/globalconxion/index.htm ------------- ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops! re NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Date: 04 May 2000 13:05:30 -0400 Oops. Sorry. Marco Saba wrote about Italy, not Vieques. Contact: Anthony Cruz - vieques2000@hotmail.com - about Vieques. http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm Ellen _____________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * * Please get EVERYONE to sign the online petition in support of HR-2545! * http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html * _____________________________________________________________ - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Supporting New Agenda Coalition In NPT Review Date: 05 May 2000 18:47:27 +1000 PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear All who recieve this email, As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal' between the nuclear weapon states, signed in 1968 and in force since 1970, whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any of them. Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal obligations under the NPT. They ask the nuclear weapon states to: --Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of negotiation taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years --They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence negotiation in START-III --They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals. Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no first use' guarantees, reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear weapons, and other commonsense measures. All governments should support this program. It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th) recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review. That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of omnicide. Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda Coalition's efforts. There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please read it) Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at the fax number below. If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that government may have), that you support them, at least in this. Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them on what they have already done. If your government is the Mexican, South African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government, please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what other faults they may have). If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China, UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want them to do. Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and not 'ultimately'. It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe. Do it now. The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you to read it and use its points. BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS. NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL. FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in the world is listed plus lots of information is this: Http://www.abolition2000.org. (Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org ) Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of the two URLs above. (The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be. You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope however, that people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister but also those of Russia and the US.) Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me know at and check the number on the URL or with your own telephone system. If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461 The US United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 415 4443 If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is +7-095-244-3276 or +7-095-244-2203. (You need to be persistent with these numbers) The general Kremlin fax number is +7-095-205-4330. (This is the slowest fax in the universe) Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252 If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is +33-1-45-51-60-12, Jacques Chirac's fax number is +33-1-47-42-24-65. France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889 If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is +44-171-925-0918. The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is: +44-171-270-2144 The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316 If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: +49-228-56-2357, or +49-30-4000-2357 Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662, 49-30-20186-252, +49-228-1734-02, +49-30-201-8619-24 The German UN mission is on: Fax +1 212 940 0402 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195 If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 751 1966 If you are in Italy please fax 39-6-628-6210, or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734 Italy UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 486 1036 If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on +36-1-356-3801 If you are in Korea, try your minister of foreign affairs on +82-2-724-8291, +82-2-739-5370 If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be +55-61-226-1762 Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242 If you are in Mexico, try +52-6-782-4109 If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095) If you are in Thailand, try +66-2-225-6155, or 66-2-226-1374 BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN OFFICE. PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS Dear Colleagues, One month is a long time in politics. The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000. As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for nuclear disarmament since 1998. Building on the language contained in treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise. Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187 governments. You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are weakening and a new arms race is brewing. o Please send letters and visit your elected representatives o Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence o Please send letters to the editor o Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity Following you will find: * Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work Lobbying Points o The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24 by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations. Mexico is speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference. o Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together 187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law in 1970. o The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6. "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." o The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden. Their resolution at last years General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states and enjoyed the support of 111 countries. o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable, practical and reasonable and realistic. o If your government has any resistance to the following measures identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them specifically what points could possibly object to in the following: 1. the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming five year period; 2. the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START II and begin negotiations on START III; 3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons. Six interim steps were identified: 1. an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear weapons; 2. de-alerting; 3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination; 4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile materials; 5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and 6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures. ******* ******* ******* ******* Felicity Hill, Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom United Nations Office 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Ph: 1 212 682 1265 Fax: 1 212 286 8211 email: flick@igc.apc.org web: www.wilpf.int.ch www.reachingcriticalwill.org ******* ******* ******* ******* - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook Date: 05 May 2000 06:13:09 -0400 Nuclear Accountability for the New Millennium DC Days 2000=20 May 7-10, 2000 Washington, DC Co-sponsored by Friends Committee on National Legislation & Fellowship of Reconciliation, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability=20 Contact: mailto:kathycrandall@earthlink.net, 202/833-4668 http://www.ananuclear.org/dcdays.htm What is DC Days? In each of the past eleven years, ANA has hosted four days of training, education, and political advocacy that bring activists from around the country to Washington, DC, to explain the concerns of their constituencies. It is an opportunity to make your voice heard at the national level and to network with people and organizations working on similar issues. Why should you participate? This year the administration is set to make major decisions concerning the nuclear weapons complex. Our national priorities can be for health, safety, and the environment, or they can be for more waste and new weapons. Your participation in DC Days will make a difference in the outcome. Join us and be part of the solution.... Several Alliance for Nuclear Accountability groups have used DC Days to organize effectively in their communities and are available to talk to you about their successes. Please call the ANA offices or call the experienced grassroots activists directly if you need some assistance. ANA Seattle Office - 206-547-3175, nanuclear@earthlink.net ANA Washington, DC Office - 202-833-4668, kathycrandall@earthlink.net Margaret Stewart, Snake River Alliance, ID - 208-726-7271 - mstewart@snakeriveralliance.org Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, CA - 925-443-7148 - marylia@earthlink.net Tom Marshall, Rocky Mountain Peace Center, CO - 303-444-6981 - t_marshall2@earthlink.net ---- May 5, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200055224049.htm VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to Lansing, Mich., and Farmington, Pa. Today [RALPH NADER - 6:00 pm Speech Charleston, WV - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston WV 25302 http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html] In D.C.-- Russia discussion =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The National Press Club holds a Morn= ing Newsmaker news conference featuring Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of the Council of Europe (COE), discussing "Russia's Relations with the West Under President Putin, the COE Role in Southeast Europe, Chechnya, and U.S.-Council on Foreign Relations." Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593. =20 Highlight =97 12:30 p.m. =97 Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of th= e Council of Europe, "The Ascent of the Far Right in Europe." Location: Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 212/751-4000, Ext.= 271. "Clean" cars briefing =97 noon =97 The Sierra Club hosts a luncheon briefing to discuss the future of "clean" cars and hold a demonstration of the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, the first commercially available "clean" cars. The speakers are Jim Motavalli, author of "Forward Drive," and Shirley Smith, a Honda Insight owner. Location: 408 C St. NE. Contact: 202/675-2383. China and Taiwan discussion =97 2:30 p.m. =97 The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research sponsors a panel discussion, "China and Taiwan: The Linkage Between Trade and Security." Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, 1150 17th St. NW. Contact: 202/862-5800. =20 China trade conference =979:15 a.m. =97 The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage Foundation, the Institute for International Economics, the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and the Rand Corporation co-sponsor a conference, "China's Bid for Permanent Normal Trade Relations: A Hearing on the Debate." Highlights =97 9:30 a.m. =97 Panel One: "The Deal, Its Economic Implications and Prospects for Chinese Compliance." 10:30 a.m. =97 Panel Two: "Labor, Environmental and Human Rights= Concerns." 11:50 a.m. =97 Panel Three: "The Geopolitical Stakes." Location: 902 Senate Hart Office Building. Contact: 212/434-9544. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Date: 06 May 2000 15:19:18 -0700 Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Nuclear Weapons test "Oboe 3" On Thursday, May 4, in an attempt to deter future nonviolent actions at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), Nye County's Justice of the Peace Bill Sullivan found Susi Snyder guilty of Trespass, Resisting Arrest and Public Nuisance. This was for her nonviolent actions during a February 3rd early morning blockade of the main road leading into NTS in an attempt to stop subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 3". Susi was one nine activists that linked arms and walked across the main entrance into NTS blocking worker traffic from entering the site, several hours before the planned detonation of Oboe 3. All of the activists carried permits issued by the Western Shoshone National Council allowing them to be on Western Shoshone land. NTS is located in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation known as "Newe Sogobia". For many decades the Western Shoshone Nation (the most bombed nation on Earth with over 1000 nuclear devices exploded within their traditional territory) have been stridently working to shut down NTS and begin immediate clean up and environmental remediation. The nonviolent activists walked about 15 feet into the site until stopped by a line of Nye County Sheriffs and Wackenhut private security guards and then sat down on the roadway. At this time the sheriffs and Wackenhut began using intimidation tactics and pain compliance holds while dragging the demonstrators off the road into the holding pens built for just this purpose. 3 of the activists agreed to walk with the guards. Soon Susi and Graham Sullivan (no relation to Justice Sullivan) were the only ones left on the road. Then the Sheriffs escalated their abuse of this nonviolent duo. Grahams thumb was sprained while being twisted around and Susi was hit in the face and pushed roughly to the ground. After Graham had been removed from the roadway, the Sheriffs decided to separate Susi and send her to the county jail in Beatty. Susi and others believe that this was to single her out because of her vocal and effective efforts to raise public awareness in Las Vegas about what was going on at NTS and organize public opposition to the subcritical nuclear testing program as well as ongoing nuclear waste dumping and plans for the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste dump. After a four hour trial presided over by Justice Sullivan during which both Sheriff and Wackenhut witnesses perjured themselves, and the five defense witnesses testified that they all did the same action and were not prosecuted while Susi who was totally nonviolent was singled out, she was found guilty and fined a total of $450 and thirty days in jail- 16 suspended for one year, and she was given credit for four days time-served for a total of ten days. She has until May 15th to notify the court of her intent to appeal, or the sentence will be imposed on May 16 at that time. Susi plans on appealing the verdict and sentencing noting that the judge was very biased and nonobjective. "If the justice court thinks this is a deterrent," Susi said "they are sorely mistaken- now is the time for thousands to converge on the test site, and SHUT IT DOWN." These subcritical nuclear weapons test, one of which Susi was attempting to stop are detonated dangerously close to Nevada's groundwater. The plutonium in these tests- which is exploded into dust, travels quickly through to the water table- and is deadly to all living things. These tests violate the non proliferation treaty, recently under review at the United Nations. They demonstrate the United States military desire (driven by the greed for tax dollars of Lockheed Martin, Bechtel and others) to continue in the arms race. These subcritical nuclear weapons tests have been denounced by nations throughout the world. "With the lack of ratification of the CTB and expanded weapons research at the NTS this action by the Nye county officials is yet another escalation in their efforts to squash the opposition to the destruction occurring at all nuclear facilities. I hope that folks will recognize that what the DOE is Doing at the Test Site is similar to taking the Test underground in 1963. All of us that can should come down and support the effort to close the NTS as it is an icon of US Global dominance in a starving world." said Mateo Ferreira, a "loser carpenter from Michigan". (Next weekend, May 12 - 15th, a Mothers Day 2000 gathering will be held at the gates to the Nevada Test Site. People from around the world will gather to learn about nuclear abolition efforts and support the Western Shoshone Nation as they call for a closure to the test site. 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VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to New York City today [RALPH NADER - for updates on schedule: http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html] ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) strong Senate letter on nuclear disarmament Date: 08 May 2000 10:58:43 -0500 Dear Friends, Below is a letter urging President Clinton to get serious about nuclear disarmament from Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Note in the "Dear Colleague" cover letter, Sen. Dorgan mentions that fromer Sen. Alan Cranston of the Global Security Institute (and a co-chair of Project Abolition) helped write the letter to the president. I think you'll agree it's a strong letter. The deadline for additional signers has been extended for approximately another week, so keep your calls flowing! Call your senators and urge them to sign onto Dorgan's letter. The Capitol switchboard is at 202-224-3121. In Peace, Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY! ####### > April 27, 2000 > > > >Dear Colleague: > >The world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation has been shaken recently, particularly because of the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. After years of championing international attempts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, the United States now is on the defensive at the NPT Review Conference in New York. A broad alliance of arms control advocates, U.N. officials and diplomats have charged that the United States is impeding the non-proliferation movement rather than leading it. > >If you share my concern about this issue, I hope you will consider signing the attached letter to President Clinton which I drafted in coordination >with former Senator Alan Cranston and several non-government organizations. > It proposes a number of steps that the President could take during the remainder of this administration to help shore up confidence in America's commitment to the international non-proliferation regime. > >If you would like to sign the letter, or wish additional information, please contact Wayne Pieringer or Brian Moran on my staff (224-2551) by May 3, 2000. > > Sincerely, > > > > Byron L. Dorgan > U.S. Senator > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >The President >The White House >Washington, D.C. 20500 > >Dear Mr. President: > >We laud your March 6th statement on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), particularly your reiteration that "the United States is committed >to the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons." Nevertheless, we are concerned that the non-proliferation regime will be corroded unless you >take dramatic steps to back up your words with actions. > >The NPT review conference is now underway in New York, and it is clear that the world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation has been compromised by the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and by contradictions between American rhetoric and action. >For example, the 1997 Presidential Decision Directive 60 stated that nuclear weapons remain the "cornerstone" of our security policy, and the U.S. has prodded NATO to reaffirm that nuclear weapons "will continue to >fulfill an essential role" in its strategic policy. > >The apparent rush to deploy a National Missile Defense (NMD) system threatens the integrity of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and strategic arms reductions. Unilateral NMD deployment could stimulate a >dangerous new arms race with China and Russia. Even if there is a bilateral START/NMD compromise, NMD deployments will inevitably impede deep strategic >force reductions. > >When NATO members sought a review of NATO nuclear policy, the United States objected. Virtually all the countries in the Southern Hemisphere are members of nuclear weapons-free zone agreements. Yet, when they attempted to make the southern hemisphere one unified nuclear weapons free zone, the United States objected. The U.S. has also thwarted attempts to >institute formal bodies to discuss the preconditions necessary to negotiate nuclear disarmament. Countries without nuclear weapons are sensitive to the >global hazard of maintaining nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. For these and other reasons, the world's confidence in the commitment of nuclear weapons states to disarmament has been seriously weakened. > >We propose some simple steps that you can take during the remainder of your administration to help shore up confidence in the commitment of the United States to non-proliferation. > >=95 Because the U.S. has an obligation under Article VI of the NPT to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, we urge you to take the lead in promoting multilateral discussions on how the international community can best pursue that goal. > >=95 The U.S. should accept the lowest offer that Russia has extende= d for mutually-verifiable cuts in nuclear arsenals under START III. > >=95 The U.S. should take clear steps to diminish the salience of nuclear weapons by, for example, making reasoned efforts to take them off hair-trigger alert, pledging never to use them first, negotiating an >agreement that assures non-nuclear weapon states that nuclear weapons will not be used against them, and committing to an international prohibition on >the development of new nuclear weapons. > >=95 The U.S. should promote the establishment an international accounting system for all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade materials, and continue to >push for a verifiable fissile material cut-off treaty. > >=95 The U.S. should encourage NATO to adopt a policy of "no first use of nuclear weapons." > >Mr. President, it is unlikely that the NPT regime can endure indefinitely if a few states insist that nuclear weapons provide them with unique security benefits while denying these alleged benefits to others. > >Unless the United States takes tangible steps now to stride beyond the lethargic bilateral processes commenced during the Cold War, arms control >and disarmament will stagnate and the >non-proliferation regime will be weakened. There could hardly be a less attractive legacy for your Presidency. However, people around the world would forever be indebted to you if you took some simple, practical steps to help fulfill one of humanity's deepest longings: a world free from the threat of nuclear destruction. > > Sincerely, - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JTLOWE@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) strong Senate letter on nuclear disarmament Date: 08 May 2000 16:40:49 EDT Hi, Any information about who has signed on? thanks, Colby - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/09 - Daybook / Today in Congress / Presidential Date: 09 May 2000 07:29:06 -0400 May 9, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200059221122.htm SENATE COMMITTEES=20 9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal 2001 Defense Department Authorization Act. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. =20 HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 2 p.m. =97 Government Reform's government management, information and technology subcommittee holds hearing on "Financial Management at the Defense Department." Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074. --- Washington Post "Today in Congress" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30301-2000May8.html Senate Committees: =20 Armed Services--9:30 a.m. Closed. Markup of pending legislation. 222 Russell Office Building. Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs--9 a.m. China-WTO agreement and financial services. Treas. Sec. Lawrence Summers. 538 Dirksen Office= Building. Judiciary--10 a.m. Criminal justice oversight subc. Drug enforcement efforts in the Caribbean. 226 DOB. HOUSE Committees: Armed Services--1 p.m. Military procurement subc. Mark up pending legislation. 2118 RHOB. Armed Services--4 p.m. Military research and development subc. Mark up pending legislation. 2118 RHOB. Commerce--10 a.m. Health and the environment subc. Mark up pending legislation. 2322 RHOB. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200059221122.htm Gore speech =97 12:45 p.m. =97 Vice President Al Gore addresses the Anti-Defamation League's National Leadership Conference. Location: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW. =20 [RALPH NADER - for updates on schedule: http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html] ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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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HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 10 a.m. =97 Government Reform national security, veterans affairs and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing on acquisition revisions in the Defense Department's joint strike fighter program. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074. =20 11:30 a.m. =97 Commerce Committee marks up legislation to prohibit the imposition of access charges on Internet-service providers, followed by a telecommunications, trade and consumer protection subcommittee markup of the Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act of 2000 and the Wireless Telecommunications Sourcing and Privacy Act. Location: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927. =20 GENERAL AGENDA=20 Skin cancer screening day =979 a.m. =97 The American Academy of Dermatologists holds a skin cancer screening day. Location: B-334, first-aid station, Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/737-8400. =20 Asia policy discussion =97 7:30 p.m. =97 The Asia Society holds a discussion, "U.S. Security Policy Toward Asia." The speakers are Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Japanese Ambassador Shunji Yanai. Location: JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 703/695-0169 or= 202/833-2742. Compiled by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. For an e-mail subscription to the Washington Daybook, click here - mailto:daybook@find-inc.com. -- Today in Congress=20 http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagena me=3Dwpni/print&articleid=3DA37331-2000May9 Wednesday, May 10, 2000 ; A04=20 SENATE Committees: Foreign Relations--10:30 a.m. International operations subc. U.N. efficacy and reform. 419 DOB. Foreign Relations--2 p.m. Pending nominations. 419 DOB. Indian Affairs--9:30 a.m. Indian Health Care Improvement Act. 485 Russell Office Building. Select Intelligence--2:30 p.m. Closed. 219 Hart Office Building. HOUSE Committees: Armed Services--10 a.m. Mark up pending legislation. 2118 RHOB. Government Reform--10 a.m. National security, veterans affairs and international relations subc. Revisions in Defense Department's Joint Strike Fighter program. 2247 RHOB. Select Intelligence--Noon. Closed. H-405 Capitol. International Relations--10 a.m. Extension of permanent normal trade relations status to China. 2172 RHOB. Science--10 a.m. Technology subc. Protecting computers from malicious attack. 2318 RHOB. Science--2 p.m. Space and aeronautics subc. FY 2001 budget request for NASA's earth science program. 2318 RHOB. =20 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000510211732.htm VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20 9 a.m. =97 Hosts a town hall meeting at a conference on the future economic development of the Mississippi Delta, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington. =20 [RALPH NADER - for updates on schedule (I hope; it's still stuck on 5/5/00): http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html]=20 ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT: support needed for Dorgan letter on U.S. nuclear policy Date: 10 May 2000 17:27:41 -0500 May 10, 2000 TO: anti-nuclear colleagues FR: Daryl Kimball & Kevin Martin RE: Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) letter on nuclear weapons policy and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review (NPT) Conference At the moment, only 7 Senators including Dorgan have agreed to sign Senator Dorgan's letter. This is due to the short amount of time that the letter has out and the very strong message it delivers on U.S. nuclear policy. In order increase the possibility that the letter gains a more respectable number of signatories and to increase the possibility that it can be wrapped-up and delivered before the end of the NPT Review Conference (May 19), your help is needed. PLEASE REDOUBLE YOUR EFFORTS TO CONTACT SENATORS MOST LIKELY TO SIGN THE LETTER. Most likely candidates for signing Dorgan letter: NOTE: Senators in (parentheses) have agreed to sign. (Biden) - DE Bingaman - NM Boxer - CA Durbin - IL Feingold - WI (Harkin) - IA Johnson - SD Kennedy - MA Kerrey - NE Kerry - MA Kohl - WI Lautenberg - NJ (Leahy) - VT Levin - MI (Murray) - WA Reed - RI Reid - NV Schumer - NY (Wellstone) -MN Wyden - OR Jeffords - VT ************************* DEAR COLLEAGUE AND TEXT OF LETTER April 27, 2000 Dear Colleague: The world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation has been shaken recently, particularly because of the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. After years of championing international attempts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, the United States now is on the defensive at the NPT Review Conference in New York. A broad alliance of arms control advocates, U.N. officials and diplomats have charged that the United States is impeding the non-proliferation movement rather than leading it. If you share my concern about this issue, I hope you will consider signing the attached letter to President Clinton which I drafted in coordination with former Senator Alan Cranston and several non-government organizations. It proposes a number of steps that the President could take during the remainder of this administration to help shore up confidence in America's commitment to the international non-proliferation regime. If you would like to sign the letter, or wish additional information, please contact Wayne Pieringer or Brian Moran on my staff (224-2551) by May 3, 2000. Sincerely, Byron L. Dorgan U.S. Senator ******** The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We laud your March 6th statement on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), particularly your reiteration that "the United States is committed to the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons." Nevertheless, we are concerned that the non-proliferation regime will be corroded unless you take dramatic steps to back up your words with actions. The NPT review conference is now underway in New York, and it is clear that the world's confidence in America's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation has been compromised by the Senate's failure to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and by contradictions between American rhetoric and action. For example, the 1997 Presidential Decision Directive 60 stated that nuclear weapons remain the "cornerstone" of our security policy, and the U.S. has prodded NATO to reaffirm that nuclear weapons "will continue tofulfill an essential role" in its strategic policy. The apparent rush to deploy a National Missile Defense (NMD) system threatens the integrity of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and strategic arms reductions. Unilateral NMD deployment could stimulate a dangerous new arms race with China and Russia. Even if there is a bilateral START/NMD compromise, NMD deployments will inevitably impede deep strategic force reductions. When NATO members sought a review of NATO nuclear policy, the United States objected. Virtually all the countries in the Southern Hemisphere are members of nuclear weapons-free zone agreements. Yet, when they attempted to make the southern hemisphere one unified nuclear weapons free zone, the United States objected. The U.S. has also thwarted attempts to institute formal bodies to discuss the preconditions necessary to negotiate nuclear disarmament. Countries without nuclear weapons are sensitive to the global hazard of maintaining nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. For these and other reasons, the world's confidence in the commitment of nuclear weapons states to disarmament has been seriously weakened. We propose some simple steps that you can take during the remainder of your administration to help shore up confidence in the commitment of the United States to non-proliferation. =95 Because the U.S. has an obligation under Article VI of the NPT t= o pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, we urge you to take the lead in promoting multilateral discussions on how the international community can best pursue that goal. =95 The U.S. should accept the lowest offer that Russia has extended for mutually-verifiable cuts in nuclear arsenals under START III. =95 The U.S. should take clear steps to diminish the salience of nuclear weapons by, for example, making reasoned efforts to take them off hair-trigger alert, pledging never to use them first, negotiating an agreement that assures non-nuclear weapon states that nuclear weapons will not be used against them, and committing to an international prohibition on the development of new nuclear weapons. =95 The U.S. should promote the establishment an international accounting system for all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade materials, and continue to push for a verifiable fissile material cut-off treaty. =95 The U.S. should encourage NATO to adopt a policy of "no first use of nuclear weapons." Mr. President, it is unlikely that the NPT regime can endure indefinitely if a few states insist that nuclear weapons provide them with unique security benefits while denying these alleged benefits to others. Unless the United States takes tangible steps now to stride beyond the lethargic bilateral processes commenced during the Cold War, arms control and disarmament will stagnate and the non-proliferation regime will be weakened. There could hardly be a less attractive legacy for your Presidency. However, people around the world would forever be indebted to you if you took some simple, practical steps to help fulfill one of humanity's deepest longings: a world free from the threat of nuclear destruction. Sincerely, ____________________________________ Daryl Kimball, Executive Director Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers 110 Maryland Avenue NE, Suite 505 Washington, DC 20002 (ph) 202-546-0795 x136 (fax) 202-546-7970 website http://www.crnd.org Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition 219-534-3402, ext. 21 kmartin@fourthfreedom.org - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Should political parties be able to endorse Unity 2000? Date: 11 May 2000 00:43:37 -0700 TO: Michael Morrill Unity 2000 1-610-478-7888 www.unity2000.com Dear Michael, Please consider an alternative or additional idea of having your network coming together for July30th in Philly for RNC, long BEFORE then, to collaborate on formation of a grassroots all-progressive-issues "American Platform 2000" that can be well publicized and all candidates for all elections this year be thereby compelled to take a stand on its issues/planks. Wouldn't this be better than seeking endorsements of your event/coalition from candidates and political parties? Why not just ask your Unity2000 network below to contribute ideas for platform issues that candidates and parties should adopt and effect in their campaigns instead of just a token endorsement of somewhat nebulous and yet to be formalized goals? In collaboration with a few folks here in California hoping for some consensus on this idea I have set up an "American Platform 2000 Committee" egroup list at http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom and have stepped forward as interim temporary committee chair until someone more qualified steps forward to bring the idea to fruition. Ideas for inclusion in American Platform 2000 can be sent to amplcom@egroups.com and such submissions will be archived for public review at above committee list website address. What do you think? David Crockett Williams, C.L.U. (Chartered Life Underwriter) Legal Services Pre-Paid http://www.egroups.com/group/legal-services-prepaid ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:16 AM Friends: Unity 2000 has had a number of endorsements come in recently from political parties. Local or national chapters of Socialist, Communist, Labor and Green Parties have formally endorsed us. However, Unity 2000 made a decision over a year ago that we would not accept formal endorsements from electoral political entities. The reasons were myriad. We wanted to make it clear that we were not doing electoral political work and that we were conducting an issue-based march and rally. We also did not want to be seen as de facto endorsing some other party or candidate because we were organizing during the RNC. There was also a concern about 501(c)(3) organizations jeopardizing their tax status. Recent events have made it clear to everyone that we are, in fact, an issue-based action. That is no longer a question, especially since we are working with organizers in LA to create a common issues platform. It is also clear from recent major actions in Seattle, D.C. and Columbia that 501(c)(3) organizations and political parties can both endorse the same event, as long as the event is organized as an issue-based educational action. Unity 2000 is designed to educate people about the issues we care about. We are not endorsing any candidates or parties, nor are we advocating the passage or defeat of any particular legislation, so we are safe in that area. My question is this. Should we open up our endorsement to political parties and other electoral entities? I would especially like to hear from 501(c)(3) endorsers or potential endorsers. Will opening up endorsement to political parties prevent you from participating in any way? Also for political parties, will the fact that you could not formally endorse prevent your participation? Please send your responses to the discussion list. If you are not a member of that list, please send your responses to me and I'll forward them to the Spokes Council. Michael Morrill Unity 2000 1-610-478-7888 www.unity2000.com P.S. Has your organization endorsed Unity 2000? Check the list below. If not, forward your organization's information (contact person, organization name, street address, phone, fax, email, url) to: Pennsylvania Ø ACT-UP Philadelphia Ø Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care Ø American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1723 Ø Animal Defense League PA Ø Au Courant Ø Berks United Consumers Ø Black Radical Congress-Philadelphia LOC Ø Brandywine Peace Community Ø Center City Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Ø Center for Progressive Political Communication Ø DUTV-Cable 54 Ø Equal Partners in Faith Ø Germantown Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Ø Greater Philadelphia DSA Ø House of Our Own Ø Interfaith Coalition for the General Welfare Ø Interfaith Working Group Ø International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons Ø Kensington Welfare Rights Union Ø Mobilization for Animals Ø NARAL-PA Ø National Organization for Women-PA Chapter Ø National Writers Union, UAW, AFL-CIO, Philadelphia Local Ø Peace Action of the Delaware Valley Ø Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network Ø Pennsylvania Consumer Education Project Ø Pennsylvania Environmental Network Ø Pennsylvania Fair Trade Campaign Ø Pennsylvania Green-Labor Alliance Ø Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Ø Pennsylvania State Council of Senior Citizens Ø Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health (PHILAPOSH) Ø Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union Women Ø Philadelphia NAACP Ø Philadelphia NOW Ø Philadelphia Solidarity Ø Physicians for a National Health Program Ø Question Everything Challenge Everything Magazine Ø School of the Americas Watch, Northeast Ø The Shalom Center Ø Spiral Q Puppet Theater Ø Ujima Collective Ø UNITE!, Mid-Atlantic Region Ø United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1776 Ø Veterans for Peace, Philadelphia Chapter Ø White Dog Café Ø 2000 Queers National Ø Activist Resource Network Ø Alliance for Democracy Ø Committees of Correspondence Ø Democratic Socialists of America Ø Equal Partners in Faith Ø Global Exchange Ø Global Peace Walk 2000 Ø Independent Progressive Politics Network Ø International Socialist Organization Ø Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility of the United Church of Christ Ø Nuclear Information and Resource Service Ø Patients United for a National Health Plan Ø Peace Action Ø Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Ø Queers for Racial and Economic Justice Ø Rainforest Action Network Ø Silent March Ø Student Environmental Action Coalition Ø United for a Fair Economy Ø Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti Imperialist California Ø Alliance for Democracy, Davis, CA Chapter Ø Committees of Correspondence Ø Global Emergency Alert Response Ø Greater Sacramento Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy Ø Change Links Progressive Newspaper Ø Mendocino Coast Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy Colorado Ø WAAKE-UP! District of Columbia Ø District of Columbia Alliance for Democracy Ø Mid-Atlantic Infoshop Georgia Ø Athens Human Rights Festival Committee Ø Edward Wright Justice Coalition Ø Living Without Violence, Inc. Indiana Ø Indiana Alliance for Democracy Kansas Ø Kansas Fair Trade Alliance Maryland Ø Alliance for Democracy, Baltimore Chapter Massachusetts Ø Boston Center for Nonviolent Social Change Ø Citizens Awareness Network Ø Food Not Bombs, Boston Ø United for a Fair Economy New Hampshire Ø Food Not Bombs, NH Ø Fuck Censorship New Jersey Ø South Jersey Clinic Defense Coalition Ø South Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice Ø Temporary Workers Alliance Ohio Ø Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy Ø International Network for Human Rights Vermont Ø Instant Antiwar Action Group Virginia Ø Hampton Roads Vegetarian Community Ø Liberty Underground of Virginia International Ø Awami Committee for Development (Pakistan) Ø Canadian Auto Workers Left Caucus Ø International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (Nepal) Ø Play Fair Europe (Germany) Ø ORGANACT (Quebec) Ø Rastriya Sarokar Samaj (National Concerns Society) (Nepal) Ø VicWTO Watch (Australia) Ø Unimundal Monad (UK) Ø University of Wollongong Students' Representative Council (Australia) ________________________________________________________________________ Start an Email List For Free at Topica. http://www.topica.com/register - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/10 - Report on ANA - Daybook / Today in Congress Date: 11 May 2000 07:06:32 -0400 Report from Ellen Thomas, NucNews editor: Yesterday the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability's DC Days lobbying event closed, an intense learning experience which I would recommend to everyone. Next year's event will be the 14th. If you're sorry you missed this year's, you can contact ANA at 1801 18th St, Suite 9-1, Washington, DC 20009, 202-833-4668, fax 202-234-9536, and sign up in advance. I personally spoke to Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Mark Udall, both of whom expressed interest in co-signing a letter to President Clinton which specifically asks him to propose de-alerting nuclear weapons to President Putin of Russia during Clinton's visit to Moscow on June 4th. Representative Woolsey in particular thought it was a great idea, but thought Representative Ed Markey should have first shot at drafting it, since he has de-alerting legislation pending in the House (with 90+ signatures). Ms. Woolsey asked me to advise Mr. Markey that she would actively help him collect signatures on such a letter. The legislative aides of Senators Harkin and Wellstone both said they believed their bosses would be interested in such a letter from the Senate side, "perhaps a Harkin-Markey letter with other signatures," said Lowell Unger, Senator Harkin's aide. I spoke to Representative Markey's aide, Craig Jaczko, yesterday, and he said he would discuss the offers with Mr. Markey, and hopefully have a decision by Monday, May 15. =20 I'll continue updating on this. A note why such a letter is important: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Armed Services Committee are notoriously bad about sitting on legislation, which takes a ponderously long time to wend its way through both houses of Congress. However, President Clinton, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority to order the nuclear weapons to be de-alerted as a safety measure. There are various degrees of "de-alerting" that can be utilized, from removing the firing pin but leaving the bomb otherwise intact, to removing the warhead from the missile and storing it in a separate place. Removing the firing pin would increase the launch time to perhaps an hour from current hairtrigger alert status. (At present, from the time a possible missile has been detected to the time of launch is only 15 minutes, during which time the technician advises his or her commander, who advises the Pentagon, which advises the President, who must make a decision based on data only a few minutes old.) ---- May 11, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000511212112.htm Report release =97 9:30 a.m. =97Physicians for Social Responsibility hol= ds a news conference to release its report linking common household and industrial chemicals to behavioral and learning disabilities in children. Location: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/463-6671. War-crimes discussion =97noon =97 The Woman's National Democratic Club holds a discussion on war crimes. The speaker is Diane Orentlicher, Washington College of Law professor, and authority on human rights law and war-crimes tribunals. Location: 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. Contact: 202/232-7363. China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican, holds a news conference on technology, China and trade. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/225-0600. --- Today in Congress=20 Reuters / Washington Post Thursday , May 11, 2000 ; A04=20 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45371-2000May11.html SENATE Meets at 9:30 a.m. Committees: Commerce, Science and Transportation--9:30 a.m. Safety, public awareness & environmental protection in pipeline transportation. 253 Russell Office= Bldg. Energy and Natural Resources--2:30 p.m. National parks, historic preservation & recreation subc. Pending legislation. 366 DOB. Environment and Public Works--9:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. Administration's legislative proposal on Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. 406 DOB. Foreign Relations--10 a.m. Pending nominations. 419 DOB. Judiciary--10 a.m. Executive business meeting on pending legislation. 226 DOB. HOUSE Meets at 10 a.m. Committees: Banking and Financial Services--10 a.m. Economic impact on financial industry of proposed permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China. Treasury Sec. Lawrence Summers. 2128 Rayburn House Office Bldg.=20 Commerce--10 a.m. Finance & hazardous materials subc. "Competition in the New Electronic Market: Part II." 2123 RHOB. Commerce--11:30 a.m. Health & environment subc. Programs to improve quality of health care available to minorities. 2332 RHOB. Government Reform--10:30 a.m. Criminal justice, drug policy & human resources subc. "Drug Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Are They Working?" 2154 RHOB. International Relations--10 a.m. State Department computer security lapses. 2172 RHOB. Resources--2 p.m. Water & power resources subc. Mark up pending legislation. 1334 LHOB. Science--10 a.m. NASA's Mars program after report issued by Mars Program Assessment Team. 2318 RHOB. Veterans Affairs--10 a.m. Mark up Montgomery GI Bill, which would increase educational assistance to veterans. 334 Cannon House Office Bldg. --- NO WORD ON PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS' LOCATIONS TODAY ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com |= http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Proposition One Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/12 - Gore in Oregon; Congress Date: 12 May 2000 08:08:18 -0400 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook, May 12, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000512213358.htm VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE 11:30 a.m. =97 Holds a discussion on Social Security, Portland Community College, Portland, Ore. GENERAL AGENDA Chinese airfields news conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Center for Defense Information and the Federation of American Scientists hold a news conference to reveal new high-resolution satellite images of Chinese airfields facing Taiwan. Location: Zenger Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/675-1007. ___________________________________________________ NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.): DOE Watch - mailto:doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch Downwinders - mailto:downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com EnviroNews - mailto:environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all, 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 28 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED! Date: 12 May 2000 08:24:36 -0700 "2000 BY 2000" COUNTDOWN! ABOLITION 2000 NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!!! ABOLITION 2000 HAS GROWN TO 1972 ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS AND MUNICIPALITIES! WE NEED ONLY 28 MORE TO REACH OUR GOAL OF "2000 BY 2000". WITH 6 MORE WORKING DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, WE CAN MAKE IT, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT AWAY!! PLEASE REACH OUT TO PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, CHURCH, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER GROUPS AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT. ENDORSEMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY ON THE ABOLITION 2000 WEBSITE www.abolition2000.org OR FOLKS CAN E-MAIL ENDORSEMENTS TO ABOLITION 2000 COORDINATOR CARAH ONG AT A2000@silcom.com ABOLITION 2000 PLANS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW 2000 STRONG AND THAT WE INTEND TO KEEP GROWING UNTIL WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! PLEASE HELP US GET THOSE LAST 28 ENDORSMENTS IN. 2000 THANKS!!! **************************************************************************** *************** Jacqueline Cabasso WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California 94612 USA Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877 Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) STOP THE NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IN SPACE Date: 12 May 2000 14:35:21 -0400 www.times-up.net ************************************************ US REJECTS RUSSIAN OFFER TO CUT NUCLEAR ARSENALS ************************************************ President Putin of Russia has offered to cut Russia's long-range nuclear arsenal to 1000-1500 warheads, provided the US does not build its $60 billion "Son of Star Wars", in violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Russia also urged that the world negotiate a global missile ban, a much less expensive and more secure way to prevent attacks from so-called "rogue" states, but the US is determined to proceed with its corporate-driven scheme to militarize and control the heavens. Outrageously, the Pentagon rejected the Russian offer and advised them to maintain a larger arsenal of 2,500 warheads on launch-on-warning, hair-trigger alert as a way of "re-assuring" the Russians that they would be able to overcome the planned US shield. Russia said it will revoke its recent ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Start II Treaty (cutting to 3,500 warheads) if the US goes ahead with its "national missile defense" scheme. Both Russia and China plan to build up their nuclear arsenals if the US militarizes space. Sign a petition to stop this madness and forward a message to President Clinton or your head of state. ********************************************** STOP THE NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IN SPACE ********************************************** WHAT YOU CAN DO: ********************************************** 1. Sign our petition and send a message to elected leaders. ********************************************** **US RESIDENTS** To send a letter electronically, go to http://actionnetwork.org/add.tcl?domain=TIMESUP (Note: You will need to create a new password to sign up - do not use your usual email password; create a new one.) OR - you can print out and send the letter below. Dear President Clinton, I am shocked and outraged that you have rejected President Putin’s offer to cut the US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 from 1,500 warheads in order to build a “Son of Star Wars” against the so-called “rogue states”. Russia’s suggestion to negotiate a global ban on missile technology is much more sensible, would save lots of money, and would make our country more secure. Instead, you have told the Russians to keep 2,500 warheads on launch-on-warning hair-trigger alert, which is a much greater threat to our security that any missile North Korea might be able to build some day. We could easily handle the North Korean threat by welcoming them into the family of nations and establishing relations with them. Please cancel any decisions to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to build a “national missile defense”. Take up the Russian offer to cut to 1,000 warheads and then invite the other nuclear weapons states to negotiations for a ban on nuclear weapons, just as we have banned chemical and biological weapons. Sincerely, (Your name and address) *********************************************************** ***NON-US RESIDENTS*** http://www.gracelinks.org/gracelinks/timesup/nonusresidents.html If you live outside the United States, you can click on the link above or cut and paste the letter below to your Head of State, or put it in your own words. To find your Head of State, go to http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/elinx.html Sample Letter Dear I am shocked and outraged that the US has rejected President Putin's offer to cut the US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 - 1,500 warheads in order to build a "Son of Star Wars" against the so-called "rogue" states. Russia's suggestion to negotiate a global ban on missile technology is much more sensible, would preserve the ABM Treaty, and would make our world more secure. Instead, the US has advised the Russians to keep 2,500 warheads on launch-on-warning hair-trigger alert, which is a much greater threat to our world security that any missile North Korea might be able to build some day. We could easily handle the North Korean threat by welcoming them into the family of nations and establishing relations with them. Please urge President Clinton to cancel any decisions to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to build a "national missile defense". Ask him to take up the Russian offer to cut to 1,000 warheads, and then invite the other nuclear weapons states to negotiations for a ban on nuclear weapons, just as we have banned chemical and biological weapons. Sincerely, (your name and address) *********************************************** 2. Enroll your organization in Abolition 2000 - a global network to eliminate nuclear weapons. *********************************************** http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/orgendorse.html *********************************************** Thank you - YOUR LETTER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! *********************************************** www.times-up.net Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 28 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED! Date: 12 May 2000 15:06:49 -0700 "2000 BY 2000" COUNTDOWN! ABOLITION 2000 NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!!! ABOLITION 2000 HAS GROWN TO 1972 ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS AND MUNICIPALITIES! WE NEED ONLY 28 MORE TO REACH OUR GOAL OF "2000 BY 2000". WITH 6 MORE WORKING DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, WE CAN MAKE IT, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT AWAY!! PLEASE REACH OUT TO PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, CHURCH, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER GROUPS AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT. ENDORSEMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY ON THE ABOLITION 2000 WEBSITE www.abolition2000.org OR FOLKS CAN E-MAIL ENDORSEMENTS TO ABOLITION 2000 COORDINATOR CARAH ONG AT A2000@silcom.com ABOLITION 2000 PLANS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW 2000 STRONG AND THAT WE INTEND TO KEEP GROWING UNTIL WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! PLEASE HELP US GET THOSE LAST 28 ENDORSMENTS IN. 2000 THANKS!!! **************************************************************************** *************** Jacqueline Cabasso WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California 94612 USA Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877 Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) NM Fire = Nuclear Emergency Alert, Global Peace Walk Date: 12 May 2000 16:09:53 -0700 Below post describes info regarding radioactivity source and danger of smoke plume from New Mexico fire threatening Los Alamos Nuclear Labs. This morning in a phone call Reverend Yamato, now in that area with the Global Peace Walk, explained he considers the situation a global emergency and I should send out this announcement to email contacts following the walk's progress. Rather than just consider the origin of this fire, "brush clearing" by Forest Service, the consequences of its expansion due to global climate change induced increasing planetary wind velocities needs to be understood in terms of potentially grave global consequences including now the radioactive smoke plume moving across country, let alone the potential of greater fallout depending on what else burns near the labs. Tomorrow, Rev. Yamato will be conducting a memorial prayer ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial near Angelfire, NM, community (Eagle's Nest) and then the walkers and kitchen support vehicles, etc., will be going to the Los Alamos area to conduct prayers and offer help in whatever way they can to support local community and firefighting efforts. Yamato has advised that he considers this so serious that Oklahoma schedule of Global Peace Walk may be readjusted depending on how long the walkers stay and are able to help in Los Alamos area. Within 24-48hours I should receive another phone call update and will send more info when available. -----Original Message----- It was just announced that Lawrence Livermore is tracking and calculating all possible travel patterns of the smoke plume from Los Alamos. Due to this, one can safely presume the cloud falls under their jurisdiction which means it is radioactive. They (DOE) do not normally track fire/smoke plumes, nor does the DOE get usually involved in tracking and projecting smoke trajectories from forest fires. The formal announcement from Los Alamos is that the Radioactive substances INSIDE the lab are safe, but they said nothing about the off site hot spots, nor radioactive substances stored outside of the actual Laboratory buildings. The cloud is visible from outer space and is traveling east rapidly. Troy, NY was hit hard with Fallout from Nevada many years ago. Presently Vermont is having massive rains and that will need to be watched.... Denise Keep your Geiger counters handy... ---------end forwarded post------ David Crockett Williams Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry http://www.egroups.com/group/legal-services-prepaid General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) =?iso-8859-1?Q?NUKES_=93FOREVER=94--_US_PLANS_REVEALED?= Date: 12 May 2000 16:31:57 -0700 --=====================_5959815==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2000 =20 CONTACTS: Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation c/o (212) 818 -1861 Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group: (505) 982-7747 John Burroughs, Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear Policy (212) 818-1861 NUKES =93FOREVER=94-- US PLANS REVEALED United Nations Headquarters, New York -- According to United States= Department of Energy (DOE) documents just made public for the first time at the United Nations, the US has plans to keep nuclear weapons =93forever.=94 This is in= spite of the thirty-year agreement signed by the US as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) under which the US has pledged to end the nuclear arms race and eliminate its nuclear arsenal. As recently as last week the US renewed what it called an =93unequivocal=94 agreement to the =93ultimate=94 goal of complete nuclear disarmament in a= joint statement with the other four major nuclear powers =96 Russia, Britain,= France and China =96 released at the month-long NPT Review Conference now underway= at the United Nations. The documents revealing plans that would enable the US to keep nuclear= weapons =93forever=94 were acquired by the Los Alamos Study Group, a= non-governmental organization (NGO) that monitors the US nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos New Mexico. The documents were unveiled at a UN meeting between NPT delegates and NGOs on Wednesday evening by Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director of the California-based Western States Legal Foundation, an NGO= that researches and analyzes US nuclear weapons policy and activities. The documents reveal US plans, presented at a DOE briefing in March this= year by A.E. Whiteman of the DOE=92s Albuquerque New Mexico Office of Technology,= as part of a report on restructuring of US nuclear weapons production= facilities and technologies. Whiteman outlined what will be required to ensure that US nuclear weapons =93remain viable forever=94 under the so-called =93Stockpile Stewardship=94 program. Requirements, he said, include =93replacement and certification of every part of every weapon.=94 A program called =93SLEP=94 (Stockpile Life Extension Program), Whiteman said, =93will be the driver for= the replacement and certification.=94 According to the documents, Stockpile Stewardship is intended to maintain US nuclear weapons =93indefinitely,=94= without underground nuclear testing.=20 Commenting on the revelations, Cabasso told NGOs and UN delegates that in combing through government statements, her organization has found numerous references to US reliance on nuclear weapons =93for the foreseeable future= =94 and even =93indefinitely.=94 However, she said, =93this is the first official= reference we have found confirming US plans for keeping nuclear weapons forever.=94= She added: =93Viewed in combination with the shocking US =91talking points=92= recently obtained by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declaring that both the United States and Russia =91will possess under the terms of any possible future= arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive weapons,=92 it is has become undeniable that the real US intention= is =91nukes forever.=92=94=20 According to Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group: =93These documents reveal a resurgent nuclear weapons complex that is= completely out of step with the requirements of the NPT. These legal requirements are seldom mentioned in DOE documents and have had no effect whatsoever on US weapons production plans. The DOE=92s proposal to spend more than $4 billion= on new nuclear weapons production facilities and to produce at least 450= plutonium bomb =93triggers=94 per year is outrageous and irrational. We call on the international community to help up put the brakes on all plans for new= nuclear weapons design and production facilities. If built the facilities will be used.=94 John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear= Policy in New York stated: =93US plans to modernize its nuclear arsenal and to= maintain nuclear arms indefinitely flagrantly violate both provisions of the NPT disarmament obligation =96 the requirement to end the nuclear arms race and= the requirement for good faith negotiations leading to complete nuclear disarmament.=94 =20 # # # **************************************************************************** *************** Jacqueline Cabasso WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California 94612 USA Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877 Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the=20 ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS **************************************************************************** *************** --=====================_5959815==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2000        &n= bsp;         &nb= sp;         &nbs= p;
CONTACTS: Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation c/o (212) 818 -1861
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NUKES =93FOREVER=94-- US PLANS REVEALED

United Nations Headquarters, New York -- According to United States Department of Energy (DOE) documents just made public for the first time at the United Nations, the US has plans to keep nuclear weapons =93forever.=94  This is in spite of the thirty-year agreement signed by the US as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) under which the US has pledged to end the nuclear arms race and eliminate its nuclear arsenal.

As recently as last week the US renewed what it called an =93unequivocal=94 agreement to the =93ultimate=94 goal of complete nuclear disarmament in a joint statement with the other four major nuclear powers =96 Russia, Britain, France and China =96 released at the month-long NPT Review Conference now underway at the United Nations.

The documents revealing plans that would enable the US to keep nuclear weapons =93forever=94 were acquired by the Los Alamos Study Group, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that monitors the US nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos New Mexico.  The documents were unveiled at a UN meeting between NPT delegates and NGOs on Wednesday evening by Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director of the California-based Western States Legal Foundation, an NGO that researches and analyzes US nuclear weapons policy and activities.

The documents reveal US plans, presented at a DOE briefing in March this year by A.E. Whiteman of the DOE=92s Albuquerque New Mexico Office of Technology, as part of a report on restructuring of US nuclear weapons production facilities and technologies. Whiteman outlined what will be required to ensure that US nuclear weapons =93remain viable forever=94 under the so-called =93Stockpile Stewardship=94 program. Requirements, he said, include =93replacement and certification of every part of every weapon.=94  A program called =93SLEP=94 (Stockpile Life Extension Program), Whiteman said, =93will be the driver for the replacement and certification.=94 According to the documents, Stockpile Stewardship is intended to maintain US nuclear weapons =93indefinitely,=94 without underground nuclear testing.

Commenting on the revelations, Cabasso told NGOs and UN delegates that in combing through government statements, her organization has found numerous references to US reliance on nuclear weapons =93for the foreseeable future=94 and even =93indefinitely.=94  However, she said, =93this is the first official reference we have found confirming US plans for keeping nuclear weapons forever.=94 She added: =93Viewed in combination with the shocking US =91talking points=92 recently obtained by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declaring that both the United States and Russia =91will possess under the terms of any possible future arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive weapons,=92 it is has become undeniable that the real US intention is =91nukes forever.=92=94

According to Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group: =93These documents reveal a resurgent nuclear weapons complex that is completely out of step with the requirements of the NPT.  These legal requirements are seldom mentioned in DOE documents and have had no effect whatsoever on US weapons production plans. The DOE=92s proposal to spend more than $4 billion on new nuclear weapons production facilities and to produce at least 450 plutonium bomb =93triggers=94  per year is outrageous and irrational. We call on the international community to help up put the brakes on all plans for new nuclear weapons design and production facilities.  If built the facilities will be used.=94

John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York stated: =93US plans to modernize its nuclear arsenal and to maintain nuclear arms indefinitely flagrantly violate both provisions of the NPT disarmament obligation =96 the requirement to end the nuclear arms race and the requirement for good faith negotiations leading to complete nuclear disarmament.=94 


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Jacqueline Cabasso
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612 USA
Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877
Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397
Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member of the
ABOLITION 2000 GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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WITH 6 MORE WORKING DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, WE CAN MAKE IT, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT AWAY!! PLEASE REACH OUT TO PEACE, ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, CHURCH, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER GROUPS AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT. ENDORSEMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY ON THE ABOLITION 2000 WEBSITE www.abolition2000.org OR FOLKS CAN E-MAIL ENDORSEMENTS TO ABOLITION 2000 COORDINATOR CARAH ONG AT A2000@silcom.com ABOLITION 2000 PLANS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY OF THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE, TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE NOW 2000 STRONG AND THAT WE INTEND TO KEEP GROWING UNTIL WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! PLEASE HELP US GET THOSE LAST 28 ENDORSMENTS IN. 2000 THANKS!!! **************************************************************************** *************** Jacqueline Cabasso WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, California 94612 USA Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877 Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 Western States Legal Foundation is a founding member 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT URGENT ACTION 2 (From Felicity Hill Via FOE Sydney) Date: 13 May 2000 21:03:42 +1000 Dear All, I am passing on Felicity Hill's second alert, from the NPT Review Confernce at the UN, which is now moving into a final, crucial, stage. I have appended to it the sample letter springing out of Felicity's first alert, which also includes fax numbers, URL's, that are also useful for Alert No 2. I have also appended a letter written by FOE Australia and the Australian Peace Committee in immediate response to Flick's appeal, hoping it may be useful in writing to your own governments. If you use the sample letter, please take careful note of what Felicity has said in her second alert. Both alerts call for support for the New Agenda position, especially for paragraph 1 of the New Agenda working paper. Alert No 2 is much more specific and nuanced. NPT URGENT ACTION 2 from =46elicity Hill, WILPF Sharon Riggle, CESD Merav Datan, IPPNW The 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty brings together 187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law in 1970. The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6. "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." The Main Committee devoted to non-proliferation, disarmament and international peace and security concluded its work at the NPT Review Conference today. Three draft texts were discussed at the last meeting of Main Committee I. There are still six working days of the conference in which there is opportunity for NGOs to have an impact on the final outcome. NGOs all around the world can reinforce the efforts of NGOs at the UN by: 1. Writing to and visiting your foreign ministry in your capital city. 2. Writing to and visiting your parliamentary representatives, urging them to contact the foreign ministry. 3. Faxing and calling your delegation here in New York. (For the contact details in many capitals and all New York Missions, see www.reachingcriticalwill.org Click on the Governmental Disarmament Contacts button). 4. Writing to your newspapers (either articles, letters to the editor, or particular journalists who might take up the issue) This Urgent Action relates in particular to the most contentious language in the FORWARD LOOKING DOCUMENT for ACTION OVER THE COMING 5 YEAR PERIOD, developed in a Working Paper of Subsidiary Body I (a subcommittee of Main Committee I) under the Chairmanship of Clive Pearson of New Zealand. The full document, (NPT/CONF.2000/MC.1/SB/1/CRP.7) can be found at: http://www.basicint.org We think it would be useful to concentrate on five paragraphs in particular which relate to 1. Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17) 2. The ABM treaty (para 5) 3. Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11) 4. Dealerting, Deactivating (para 13) 5. A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies (para 14) & the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document 1. Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17) Para 17. An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the forthcoming NPT review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States parties are committed under Article VI. Currently the last paragraph in the document, NGOs believe that this "unequivocal undertaking" is in fact one of the most important elements of the working paper. This language reflects Operative Paragraph 1 from the New Agenda Coalition's Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament, tabled on the first day of the Conference. (The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.) An "unequivocal undertaking" is the language proposed to replace the "ultimate goal" language of the 5 Nuclear Weapon States. "Ultimate" means: last or last possible, final. This explains why many states and all NGOs are fairly suspicious of the word ultimate. An undertaking is an action, not a promise, which would then translate into a faster process than we have seen in the past 30 years of the existence of the NPT. Once there is a demonstrated commitment to the TOTAL elimination of nuclear weapons, the consequences will be an accelerated programme of action. 2. The ABM Treaty Para 5. The early entry into force and full implementation of START II and the conclusion of START III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons, in accordance with its provisions. The majority of this language is taken directly from the joint statement of the five nuclear weapon states. The consensus nature of this document was only possible because of differing interpretations of the word "strengthening". Strengthening cannot necessarily mean modify but that is how the US is interpreting this language. An unfortunate consequence of the 5 agreeing to common language has been the rest of the states parties being reticent to comment on the danger of US plans for a national missile defense which could spark a new arms race. The essence of the ABM was a recognition that reduction of offensive weapons requires a limit on defensive capabilities. The US government talking points leaked 2 weeks ago (available on www.thebulletin.org) indicate that the US "comforted" the Russians that they should maintain between 1,000 and 2,000 nuclear weapons to have "the certain ability to carry out an annihilating counterattack=8A" 3. Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11) Para 11. Annual reports within the framework of the NPT review process by all States parties on the implementation of Article VI and paragraph 4 (c) of the 1995 Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. NGOs support an annual reporting mechanism and propose that there be a standardised format or structure to the annual reports to streamline the information provided and to avoid the proliferation of glossy propaganda and self-serving or selective reporting. The reports should cover the number of weapons dismantled, in storage and deployed. The reports should also detail nuclear doctrines and policy changes that relate to, facilitate or obstruct nuclear disarmament. 4. Dealerting, de-activating, removal of warheads from delivery vehicles (para 13) Para 13. Measures to de-alert and de-activate nuclear weapon systems, the removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of nuclear forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of strategic stability. Even though dealerting was identified as the first step towards disarmament in the Canberra Commission, it is still being resisted. For persuasive arguments and facts on dealerting go to www.dealert.org 5. A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies (para 14) & the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document Para 14. A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimise the risk that these weapon ever be used, to facilitate the process of elimination, to enhance strategic stability and to contribute to international confidence and security. This paragraph was originally targeted at NATO's renewed nuclear posture, but has since been broadened to include any state that is explicitly increasing reliance on these weapons. On face value this paragraph might appear positive but it contains contradictions. The diminishing role of nuclear weapons in security policies is necessary for disarmament, however, the addition of "to enhance strategic stability" cannot be supported by NGOs because this language reinforces a minimum level of possession of nuclear weapons. In other words, strategic stability and the abolition of nuclear weapons are mutually exclusive notions. The irony is that the concept of elimination is right next to the concept of strategic stability. ******* ******* ******* ******* =46elicity Hill, Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom United Nations Office 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Ph: 1 212 682 1265 =46ax: 1 212 286 8211 email: flick@igc.apc.org web: www.wilpf.int.ch www.reachingcriticalwill.org ******* ******* ******* ******* SAMPLE LETTER TO ALL NPT SIGNATORY FOREIGN MINISTERS AND NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES (Address and fax number of foreign minister) (Address and fax number of UN mission/NPT Review Conference Representative) Dear Foreign Minister, UN Mission, or NPT Review Conference Representative, I am writing to you to persuade your government to support the working paper of the New Agenda Coalition at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York at the United Nations Headquarters, and most particularly paragraphs 17,5,11,13,and 14 of the chairmans working paper of subsidiary body-1 of main committee1. On 24April, the New Agenda Coalition group of nations, led by Mexico, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa and Egypt, presented a working paper to the NPT review Conference. This working paper provides a realistic, moderate, practical, and reasonable program of action for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that should serve as the basis for the final decision of the Conference. That program includes the following elements: --An unequivocal undertaking by the five nuclear weapons states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, not as an 'ultimate' aim to be accomplished at some remote date, but as an immediate obligation. For the five nuclear weapons states to engage in an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming 2000-2005 period. --Implementation of START-II and commencement of negotiations on START-III --The integration of all five nuclear weapon states into a process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. --Adaptation of policies and postures to preclude the use of nuclear weapons --Taking strategic nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert. It is requested that your government support Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda working paper, which reads: "The five nuclear weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the course of the forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which states parties are committed under Article VI." This is pariticularly important because the nuclear weapons states have themselves issued a joint statement on 1 May, which included the following sentence: "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control". However, the use of the world 'ultimate' in this context, as well as the linkage to general and complete disarmament, means that the objective of the elimination of nuclear weapons is in fact being postponed to a distant future. The original language of the NPT itself (in force since 1970) refers to the need to achieve results by an early date. The 1996 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice unanimously emphasizes the obligation to actually achieve the goal of elimination of nuclear weapons. I//(My organization) therefore urges you, Foreign Minister, to support Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda Working Paper, as offering a series of practical steps to move towards the fulfillment of what are in any case the clear legal obligations of the nuclear weapons states, to eliminate their nuclear weapons arsenals at an early date. Your government should especially support also the chairmans working paper of subsidiary body-1 of main committee1, paragraphs 17,5,11,13,and 14 which now embody the intent of the NAC working paper. We urge you to give your full support to the measures outlined by the New Agenda Coalition in their working paper, especially if your government has not seen fit to do so before now. These measures offer a realistic way out of the nuclear quagmire which the P5 statement does not. The current embodiment of these proposals in the chairs working paper of SB-1 of main committee 1 must therefore also be supported. (Signed) LETTER FROM AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE/FOE AUSTRALIA TO FOREIGN MINISTER DOW= NER AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE =46RIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA 12/5/2000 ATTN THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, 02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166 PENNY WENSLEY, AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, 0015-1-212-351-6610 cc MARINA TSIRBAS, BOB TYSON, AUSTRALIAN NPT REVCON DELEGATION RE:NPT REVIEW, CHAIRS WORKING PAPER, SUBSIDIARY BODY-1, MC-1 Dear Foreign Minister Downer, Penny Wensley, Marina Tsirbas, Bob Tyson, and Australian NPT Review Conference Delegation, We are writing over language to be incorporated in the 'Forward Looking Document for Action over the Coming Five Year Period', developed in the Working Paper of Subsidiary Body-1 of Main Committee 1, chaired by Ambassador Clive Pearson of New Zealand. There are a number of paragraphs which in our view are particularly worthy of support. Our comments and recommendations follow. 1)Paragraph 17 refers to 'an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the forthcoming NPT Review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed under article VI'. We view this paragraph and its wording as vital. We note that this language differs from that of the P5 statement in which the elimination of nuclear weapons is referred to as an 'ultimate goal', and that, as such, it reflects more closely the actual legal obligations unanimously reaffirmed by the 1996 advisory opinion of the ICJ. We also note that the UK has proposed that the reference to the forthcoming NPT Review period 2000-2005 be dropped, and that, as would be expected, there is resistance amongst the P5 to this language. It is our view that this resistance should not be allowed to prevail, and that Australia should take no steps that weaken the position of the NAC and indeed the majority of the governments of the world in pushing the weapons states as far as possible. 2) Paragraph 5 of the SB-1 Chair's paper refers to: "The early entry into force and full implementation of START-II and conclusion of START-III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the ABM treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in accordance with its provisions". This language in many respects mirrors that of the P5 statement. However, we would draw attention to a number of points: a)We are fully aware of the obstacles that exist to the full implementation of START-II, namely that the Russian Duma's ratification legislation provides that instruments of ratification shall not be exchanged until the US Senate in turn ratifies protocols to the ABM treaty agreed to in 1997, but which the US Senate has made clear it does not desire to ratify. A mechanism needs to be found to short-circuit this block. b)We are also aware that documents leaked to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists show that a negotiating position, 'Talking points', conveyed to the Russians, actually envisioned the maintenance, on hairtrigger alert, of higher overall warhead numbers than the Russians themselves, for economic reasons, wish to maintain in order to provide an assurance of deterrence in the face of the possible deployment by the US of an ABM system. Such a position undercuts any assurances by the US in particular that it is interested in moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons at all, and in this context the word 'ultimate' appears very 'ultimate'. We would strongly urge that START-III negotiations be aimed at achieving the lowest possible warhead totals and that they encompass also the standing down of nuclear forces from hairtrigger alert, as recommended by the Canberra Commission. c)The maintenance of the ABM treaty as a 'cornerstone' of strategic stability has been emphasized in this context by the UN Secretary General, by Russia, by China, by France, by the P5 statement itself, by the EU, by the NAM and by the NAC as well as by a variety of individual countries. Needless to say none of these statements emphasizing its importance seems to have meant that a BMD system should be deployed, or that such a system is in any way compatible with the maintenance and strengthening of the ABM treaty. Australia should in no way encourage the US toward the belief that it will be in any way supported in deploying a BMD system. 3)Paragraph 13 of the SB-1 MC-1 Chair's paper refers to: "Measures to de- alert and deactivate nuclear weapons systems, the removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of nuclear forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of strategic stability" It will be well known to you that de-alerting was strongly recommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996. The Australian Senate has twice carried resolutions calling for nuclear weapons to be taken off hairtrigger alert in the leadup to the Y2K rollover, as has the European Parliament. Resolutions incorporating de-alerting have also been carried by the United Nations General Assembly. De-Alerting, or the standing down of nuclear forces from hairtrigger alert would do much to lessen the probability of accidental nuclear war resulting from computer or sensor glitches or from human miscalculation during a crisis. You will be aware that a number of frightening 'near misses' have occurred over the years in both Russian but also in US nuclear weapons command and control systems. 4) Paragraph 14 refers to: "A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize the risk that these weapons ever be used, to facilitate the process of elimination, to enhance strategic stability, and to contribute to international confidence and security". In this context it is disturbing that recent Russian pronouncements on nuclear doctrine have moved away from the strong 'no first use' position previously held, to one in which certain circumstances (no matter how supposedly desperate) might justify the use of nuclear weapons. US and NATO statements too, continue to envisage nuclear weapons as having a continuing role, and recent developments in the proposed deployment of an ABM system also point in that direction. '...to enhance Strategic Stability' in this context should not be seen (but is often seen) as a rationale for maintaining high numbers of warheads in order to be able to assure deterrence in the light of the deployment of a BMD system, or otherwise to ensure 'deterrence'. In view of its potential use as a way to defend the retention of numbers of nuclear warheads it would be better if this phrase were removed. It would be prefereable if it were absolutely clear to all that this phrase means the standing down of weapons systems and the movement to lower and lower (and then to zero) warhead numbers, not the maintainance of any number at all of nuclear warheads. 5)NGOs favour the adoption of an annual reporting mechanism on Article VI and Paragraph 4(c) of the 1995 principles and Objectives for Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and that in order to avoid self- serving and selective reporting, there be a standard format in which the number of weapons dismantled, in storage, and deployed as well as nuclear doctrines, policy changes, force postures, and other relevant matters be reported. We commend these points to your attention and trust that you will be able in particular to be able to offer strong support for Paragraph 17 of the working paper. John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner Friends of the Earth, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS. (NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.) =46AX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in the world is listed plus lots of information is this: Http://www.abolition2000.org. (Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org ) Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of the two URLs above. (The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be. You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope however, that people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister but also those of Russia and the US.) Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me know at and check the number on the URL or with your own telephone system. If you are in the US, Secy of State Madeleine Allbrights fax number is: +1 202 647 6047 President Clintons fax number is +1-202-456-2461 The US United Nations mission is on Fax. +1 212 415 4443 If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is +7-095-244-3276 or +7-095-244-2203. (You need to be persistent with these numbers) The general Kremlin fax number is +7-095-205-4330. (This is the slowest fax in the universe) Russia's UN mission is on +1-212-628-0252 If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is +33-1-45-51-60-12= , Jacques Chirac's fax number is +33-1-47-42-24-65. =46rance's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889 If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is +44-171-925-0918. The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is: +44-171-270-2144 The United Nations mission is on Fax. +1 212 745 9316 If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: +49-228-56-2357, or +49-30-4000-2357 =46oreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: +49-228-168-6662= , +49-30-20186-252, +49-228-1734-02, +49-30-201-8619-24 The German UN mission is on: Fax +1 212 940 0402 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. Canada, UN Mission -Fax. +1 212 848 1195 If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 751 1966 If you are in Italy please fax +39-6-628-6210, or +39-6-3222-850 or +39-6-3222-734 Italy UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 486 1036 If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on +36-1-356-3801 If you are in Korea, try your minister of foreign affairs on +82-2-724-8291, +82-2-739-5370 If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be +55-61-226-1762 Brazil UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 371 5716 or +1 212 758 9242 If you are in Mexico, try +52-6-782-4109 If you are in Greece try +30-1-645-0094 (or 0095) If you are in Thailand, try +66-2-225-6155, or +66-2-226-1374 - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) FIRE-ALERT: Global Peace Walk 2000 Date: 13 May 2000 15:51:44 -0700 "We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life." -- Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Today again I spoke to Reverend Yamato on the phone from New Mexico about the Global Peace Walk plans concerning what he feels is a Global Emergency Situation resulting from the fire that has ravaged the Los Alamos area including outlying areas of the Nuclear Weapons Lab reportedly aerosolizing in the smoke decades of radioactive contamination from areas surrounding the Lab, smoke now settling as potentially very dangerous ash over several States so far and moving eastward. (details/evidence on this point below) Yamato has asked me to sound a Global Emergency Alert on this matter to call on supporters everywhere to take media publicity actions to get the facts known to ameliorate potential present dangers, to prevent any future such dangerous nuclear radioactivity threat situations, and to focus the current national and global public attention on this tragedy towards increasing public support and activism for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. Please forward this post to your lists. Tomorrow, Sunday, May 14th, Mother's Day (originally called Mothers Day for Peace) Reverend Yamato (zen buddhist monk and initiator of the Global Peace Walk project) will be conducting a global peace prayer and healing ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Hall in Angelfire near Eagle's Nest, New Mexico, caravaning there from Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico, after gathering at 9AM. In the afternoon, the Global Peace Walkers and support kitchen bus and shuttle vehicles will be going to the Los Alamos area, in spite of reported dangers mentioned above and evidenced below, to offer their help in any way possible to the community ravaged by fire and, if needed, in firefighting efforts. Please keep them in your prayers. Depending on how long their help may be of value there, the walk's next schedule of May 29th ceremony at the Oklahoma City National (bombing victims') Memorial may be postponed. This Mother's Day ceremony is in solidarity with the prayer gathering being held this weekend near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in support of Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney and efforts to abolish nuclear power, testing and weapons globally, stop uranium mining and waste contaminations especially such as the proposed Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste repository http://www.shundahai.org Yamato specifically asked for all those dedicated to the cause of Nuclear Abolition 2000 to write letters with their messages about the dangers of nuclear weapons and their production's contamination of the land, and send these letters of support to their local media and to the Global Peace Walk to distribute to New Mexico and the national/international media on site in Los Alamos to address the need for Abolition 2000. Closing the weapons lab after this fire would be another idea. Such letters/messages may be emailed (asap) to for forwarding to the walk, and/or signed copies (on letterhead if available) faxed to 561-658-2735. He feels strongly that this situation at Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab now has the national and international media attention which should be utilized quickly by the Abolition 2000 network to inspire public support for ending the danger of nuclear weapons. He feels that it is not just a "coincidence" that the Global Peace Walk is now in a position to help facilitate this by being on site in Los Alamos starting tomorrow afternoon for, if necessary, an extended period of time. If you have not already, you may join the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (in response to whose call for such cross-country peace walk this year Reverend Yamato is conducting Global Peace Walk 2000) at http://www.abolition2000.org An easy way to email your letters to your local or Statewide media all in one email send, is via the Media Guide at http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd (also same for government leaders indexed at that site by your zip code) Excerpts of recent emails received discussing the radioactivity danger in the smoke from the Los Alamos fire (don't expect to see this in your media unless they are pressured by you since from history we know that the US and DOE will try to keep this kind of information from the public as long as possible to "avoid panic" -- and outrage) Remember, one microgram of plutonium can be lethal if inhaled. I leave it to your best judgement and hope the fears are overblown but "better to be safe than sorry", etc. One thing I do feel fairly sure about from past history of US/DOE on reporting nuclear accidents/dangers, if there is a radioactivity danger in the smoke it will be kept as secret as possible on orders from on high to prevent public panic and outrage. Details will only filter gently into the media over many years in the future. If you feel the info below is worth investigating, I suggest we need to get media folks to look into it and what can be done to ameliorate potential problems (eg, wearing dust filters when in the smoke to prevent breathing ash, treat ash as hazardous waste just in case, etc.) -----------------begin forwarded related posts/evidence------ Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 5:58 PM > Tell your walkers to go indoors or get out from under the > Los Alamos smoke plume! It's radioactive! > > See http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391ba0417204.htm [Gary Vesperman, in Las Vegas NV, regularly follows nuclear issues including the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation advanced technologies to neutralize radioactive wastes and related Emerging Energy (ZPE, etc.) technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power. His extensive summary on this info that he submitted as public comments last month on DOE Strategic Plan are among others on these topics archive for public review at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan ] Another, very long, important compilations of posts by Gary on the Los Alamos fire situation, with a map and satellite photo, I am not including due to length but you can see it at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/360.html Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:32 PM > Check out these two web sites. The first one is a DOE site that details > some of the contamination present. The second site is a local citizens > monitoring group. > > www.em.doe.gov/bemr96/lanl.html > > www.lasg.org > > Stephen Dunifer xmtrman@pacbell.net > [Free Radio Berkeley (CA)] > www.freeradio.org ---------------- I got the photo of Bush and Yamato which I used in our page at http://globalcircle.net/mm.htm . More on the Peace Walk http://globalcircle.net/peace1.htm and the fire http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm . I live right under that cloud. I see the Peace Walk is doubling back to this area because of the fire, but I can't find any verification of radioactive cloud, though our fire page has several major media questioning the monitoring of above ground contaminants. --paul, webmaster http://globalcircle.net Peace Walk will meet at Kit Carson Park in Taos at 9:00 am tomorrow Sunday May 14, to go to Angelfire for their ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We get that from Mike and Rev. Yamato in Taos when we talked to them on the phone this morning. Then they plan to come down here to the Espanola area to volunteer help for evacuees etc. and revise their OK City schedule as a result. I think we all know better than to believe anybody in government that says there's no radiation danger. Lie and coverup is SOP for "national security" (read: saving agency costs and discrediting opposition), from 3-mile Island to every nuclear plant in the country. We do not have verified radiation readings so we are not claiming proof. We just know. After all, they lied to the Navajo uranium miners all those years, and all the lab workers exposed to Beryllium etc. for decades. We have more of this now on our fire page at http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm . There's a great deal of source information linked there now, and people can make up their own minds. But "national security" always demands that those officials stonewall and coverup. We've seen everybody who could get his face on TV go on Channel 4 in Albuquerque and claim the air monitors show nothing but "background" levels. They go on and on about no loss of life, and the outpouring of help from around New Mexico. Too many flaws in that to even count them. Reports tell us the original monitors burned up around the lab before getting any readings from them. What they've installed afterward won't tell us what was in the smoke to start with. And who exactly is reading those monitors? Not me or you. Why weren't monitors put out in the 700 places where depleted uranium was exploded for decades? Or where all the outdoor storage of contaminants could burn? I could go on and on. And who is monitoring for all the other toxic materials? My real concern now is for the work crews that have to go in hot and do all kinds of stuff up there because it's their job. Whatever it is, they'll take the brunt of it. What will they die of 2 or 20 years from now? Barb and I are taking the position that the Lab should be decomissioned, boarded up, fenced, abandoned, and guarded for the next 100 years, minimum. And none of it's functions should be transferred elsewhere. Everybody who worked and lived there should be compensated and taken care of for life. The whole mountain should be a memorial to the people who suffered, and the animals killed without a thought. Besides, it's sitting on an active fault line. One microgram of plutonium is lethal. The lab has 2.7 metric TONS. And the Manhattan Project was over 50 years ago. It all started here. It has to stop here. The world is watching. --paul > -----Original Message----- > From: pelofson@aol.com > To: happen@pipeline.com ; nukenet@envirolink.org > > Cc: doewatch@onelist.com ; downwinders@egroups.com > > Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:46 AM > Subject: [downwinders] Radioactivity at Los Alamos fire, will authorities > own up to doses to public? > > Thanks for the update Scott. May 12, 2000 > > Our Radalert nuclear radiation monitor pegged out to it's maximum reading > following the RFETS prescribed burn a month ago, and finally settled down > about a week afterward. It has picked up and has steadily climbed higher > in the past 2 days here in Denver, Colorado again to 12,105 cpm total > count, and still climbing. > > Unfortunately, our local authorities and DOE people can't seem to pick up > anything. Maybe it's due to their monitors being calibrated to the Rocky > Flats local high background, so it doesn't pick up anything of note as > "it's all background" here. You have to wonder how much the people in > New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado are being exposed to in > that massive plume. Will we ever know - officially that is? > > We're trying to minimize going outside as much as possible to avoid it. > The satellite photos of the huge plume from the Los Alamos fire shown in our > daily papers shows most of the main plume headed east, with some portions > headed NE. There may be some portion coming all the way up to Denver, > following the mountain range up to us. Question is, Just how much crap is > in that huge plume from the 50 years of immediate fallout to the surrounding > environs that has been settled into soils, taken up into the burning > vegetation, etc.? Any citizens with monitors should be logging daily > readings for comparisons. > > I hope this disaster teaches DOE and the U.S. Forest Service to stop > prescribed burning near any of the DOE facilities. It probably won't. But > we can hope. > > Yours, > > Paula Elofson-Gardine > Executive Director > Environmental Information Network > > > In a message dated 5/12/00 9:02:31 AM Mountain Daylight Time, > happen@pipeline.com writes: > > << Subj: radioactivity at Los Alamos fire > Date: 5/12/00 9:02:31 AM Mountain Daylight Time > From: happen@pipeline.com (Scott D Portzline) > Sender: owner-nukenet@envirolink.org > Reply-to: happen@pipeline.com (Scott D Portzline) > To: nukenet@envirolink.org (nukenet) > > Radioactive materials, including plutonium, uranium and DU, might be > dispersed into the atmosphere at Los Alamos due to 50 years of ground > contanimation. So far, reports from the media indicate that there is no > increased radioactivity. Their focus is on the nuclear weapons materials > "safely" stored in fire resistant buildings. > > But, a man 40 miles away in Sante Fe is recording radioactivity levels 3.5 > times greater than the safe level. He is not in the wind path. > > The report came from Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast radio last night. > > http://www.em.doe.gov/bemr96/lanl.html >> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 4:37 PM > I heard about this NM disaster from Richard C. Hoagland on Art Bell's show > last night! What a melt-down and it's being blacked out for the most part > even though people as far away as Santa Fe are taking geigercounter > readings of 30-40 millirems! There's plutonium and depleted uranium in > those smoke plumes! > > A while back I sought the media support team that works on shooting the > Global Peace Walks, got busy and have since lost that link. I would like to > collaborate in shaping a piece with these people-can you put me in touch > again? > > Thank's for your ceaseless vigilance... > > vaya con gaia, > > Chris Shine > Imaging Director > Michele Shine Media > San Francisco, USA > chris@msmedia.org > ----------------end forwarded posts--------------- David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 [phone] Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html Co-coordinator, Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Initiator, Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 dba General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NY, May 18-20!!: "the next step after dc--re-imagining Date: 14 May 2000 08:26:15 -0400 Dear Friends, My name is Mark LeVine, and I am a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History at Cornell, Chair of the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning and a contributing editor at Tikkun magazine. I am writing after this incredible weekend of protests, celebrations, and teach-ins, to inform you about an important conference being convened this spring by the Foundation, Tikkun, and numerous other co-sponsoring organizations, with the hope that you will join us at this historic event. Entitled "Re-Imagining Politics and Society at the Millennium: Creating a Just, Caring, and Sustainable World," and scheduled for May 18-20, 2000 at the Riverside Church in NYC, this conference will bring together numerous organization and thousands of individuals committed to the following basic principles: =85 To reawaken and foster the simple yet transformative belief that people are yearning for meaningful connection to others and to a purpose greater than themselves; to challenge our prevailing cultural emphasis on material self-interest by encouraging a spirit of caring and a process of mutual recognition that will nourish inclusive, sustainable, and just communities =85 Our belief is that we stand today at a crucial juncture in the history= of our political culture and economic life. The corrupting influence of big money, the intensely partisan spirit, the lack of any meaningful mainstream response to frenzied globalization, and the failure to address seriously the long-term environmental health of the planet, all reveal an increasing emptiness of spirit at the center of political power that cries out for meaningful change and renewal. =85 Thus this conference seeks to challenge the accepted values of selfishness and materialism and develop an approach that emphasizes the creation of a loving, just, spiritually and ecologically sensitive society. In contrast to the often narrow agenda of traditional progressive and conservative politics, we seek to explore how our psychological and spiritual needs can be integrated into an agenda of human rights, corporate and political ethics, and the healing of our relationship to nature. We seek to bring together people who embrace holistic and ecological values, and who have often felt excluded from the existing liberal/conservative political debate, to discuss how ethics, a concern for the common good, and a community spirit of caring can begin to replace the cynical self-interest and corporate-technocratic worldview that currently dominate public discourse. As the email flyer below demonstrates, this conference is without a doubt the biggest event of the year for people opposed to the WTO/IMF vision of the world and for a just and sustainable globalization (over 200 speakers from around the world, thousands of participants expected). I would like to invite you all to come and participate in this conference, and to send us materials/flyers/other information that we could distribute to our attendees and to the press covering us about you and your organizations. Like the movement behind this weekend's activities in Washington, we are a totally grassroots enterprise, with no funding from anyone other than registrations, so we appreciate any help you could give to spread the word. Volunteers in the NY area are also eligible for scholarships to the conference. Finally, If any of you have interesting stories and/or perspectives about this weekend or the larger events surrounding the protests, I would like to invite you to write an article about your activities to publish in Tikkun magazine, one of the most important progressive intellectual journals in the United States, and a early leader in the fight against corporat-led, consumer-driven globalization. I can be reached at (607) 266 8386, or email me at . I hope to hear from you soon and that we can work together. Best, Mark LeVine, PhD Chair, FEM -------------- Re-imagining Politics & Society at the Millennium Creating a Caring, Ethical & Sustainable World May 18-20, 2000 Riverside Church, NYC www.meaning.org We stand today at a crucial juncture in the history of our political culture and economic life. The corrupting influence of big money, the intensely partisan spirit, the lack of any meaningful mainstream response to frenzied globalization, and the failure to address seriously the long-term environmental health of the planet, all reveal an increasing emptiness of spirit at the center of political power that cries out for meaningful change and renewal. The protests against the WTO in Seattle have demonstrated the potential for challenging the dominant neo-liberal, amoral, consumerist paradigms that dominate our culture. Yet as Newsweek magazine commented about the protests, "One thing that seems to be lacking today is a mission statement, a credo, that gives the movement, such as it is, some focus." This conference seeks to achieve just such a focus, to create a new language and credo that can unify the disparate movements who realize the long-term damage to our personal and planetary well-being by the political, economic, and cultural status quo. We challenge the accepted values of selfishness and materialism and develop an approach that emphasizes the creation of a loving, just, spiritually and ecologically sensitive society. In contrast to the often narrow agenda of traditional progressive and conservative politics, we seek to explore how our psychological and spiritual needs can be integrated into an agenda of human rights, corporate and political ethics, and the healing of our relationship to nature. We offer an opportunity for those who embrace holistic and ecological values, and who have often felt excluded from the existing liberal/conservative political debate, to come together to discuss how ethics, a concern for the common good, and a community spirit of caring can begin to replace the cynical self-interest and corporate-technocratic worldview that currently dominate public discourse. Re-imagining Politics and Society is envisioned as a successor to the historic National Summit on Ethics and Meaning held in Washington, DC in 1996, which was attended by over 1,800 people and co-sponsored by Tikkun, Sojourner's, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, the Center for Visionary Leadership, People for the American Way, The Unitarian Universalist Association, the Reconstructionist Federation, and numerous other organizations. We encourage interested individuals and organizations to work with us to help shape the political and cultural debate at the turn of the new millennium. The conference agenda and speaker roster is still in the planning stages and will be available soon. Confirmed speakers include (see our website, www.meaning.org, for a full description) Nobel Peace Prize nominee Wei Jingsheng, David Korten, Michael Lerner and Peter Gabel, Riane Eisler, Matthew Fox, Moctar Tayeb, Eugene Gendlin, Saskia Sassen, Arianna Huffington, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Patricia Ireland, Hamilton Fish, Cherie Brown, Moctar Tayeb, Mark Green, C. Virginia Fields, Rev. James Forbes, Rev. Jim Wallis, John Dalla Costa, Gar Alperovitz, Fernando Ferrer, Rep. Major Owens, Danny Goldberg, Arturo Escobar, Bill Stephney, Randy Shaw, Alisa Gravitz, Jay Rosen, Alan Gerson, Jerome Segal, Tracie Morris, Andrew Ross, Jason Hill, Elizabeth Lesser, Michaele Wucker, Michael Sorkin, James Gordon, MD, Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Mark Kingwell, Redwood Mary, Samuel Epstein, MD, Richard Falk, Rev. Emory Searcy, Tim Keating, Raphael Kellman, MD, Naomi Klein, Paul Wapner, David Loye, Douglas Sloan, Ron Miller, Brent Blackwelder, Heidi Mills, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Ralph Moss, MD, Kathy Davis, Elizabeth Dribben, Richard Schwartz, Arthur Waskow, Mark Ritchie, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, Sharon Perez-Abreu, Ajani Benjamin. Catherine Keller, Mike Flynn, Katherine Kurs, Dr. Frank Kirkland, David Orr, Russell Hemenway, Rick Jarrow. Many other speakers are in the process of confirming, and will be added when confirmed. Numerous organizations have already signed on as co-sponsors, including UTNE Reader, WBAI (Pacifica Radio, New York City), COOP America, NYC Friends of the Clearwater, Wetlands Environmental & Social Justice Activism Center (Wetlands Preserve), YES! Magazine, Tikkun Magazine, The Nation, The Riverside Church, The Interfaith Center of New York, Amnesty International, The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Claremont Seminary, The Center for Process Studies, The Center For Visionary Leadership, The Positive Futures Network, The People Centered Development Forum, Progressive America, The Employment Project, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, the NY State Labor-Religion Alliance, The Shalom Center of ALEPH, Healing the North-South Wound, TJWalker.com, ONN (Online Noetic Network), The Kellman Center for Progressive Medicine, The Centre for Ethical Orientation, and Ithaca Hours. More are being added weekly, and if you know of an organization that should be joining us, let us know! or better, let them know! To register, call 212 219 2527, x.110 or email or visit our website for full information: www.meaning.org Mark LeVine, Ph.D. Lola Perniciaro Dept. of History 87 Uptown Road Cornell University Apt. A206 450 McGraw Hall Ithaca, NY 14850 Ithaca, NY 14853 607 266 8386 607 266 8386 fax - 607 255 1422 ************Please note, if in the future this email does not work, please email me at , but only if it does not work.************** ____________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * ____________________________________________________________ - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/15 - Daybook Date: 15 May 2000 08:14:03 -0400 May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000515215450.htm VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20 Travels to Philadelphia and to Nashville, Tenn. SENATE=20 Meets at 1 p.m. for morning business until 3 p.m. At 3 p.m. the Senate will resume consideration of S. 2521, the Military Construction FY 2001 Appropriations bill. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/224-8601, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/224-8541. HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 6:30 p.m. =97 House Rules Committee holds a meeting to consider the rules for floor debate of laws making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2001, and for other purposes. Location: U.S. Capitol, Room H-313. Contact: 202/225-9191. GENERAL AGENDA=20 Global economics conference =97 all day =97 Economic Strategy Institut= e hosts the Global 2000 Forum, "The World To Come: Value and Price of Globalization =97 How Technology and Globalization Are Changing Economics, Politics and Society." Highlights =97 8:10 a.m. =97 President Kim Dae Jung, Republic of Korea= , "Present at the Creation: Building a New Economy for a New Era." 2 p.m. =97 Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, "A Tale of Two Cities: Washington and Brussels." Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: Global Forum Office, 703/548-4662. Trade briefing =97 11 a.m. =97 The Foreign Press Center holds a briefi= ng, "Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China." U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky participates. Location: FPC, Room 898, National Press Building, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/661-8944. China lecture =97 2 p.m. =97 The Woodrow Wilson Center holds a lecture= on China. Gov. Paul Cellucci, Massachusetts Republican, participates. Location: WWC, 1 Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/691-4000. ____________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * ____________________________________________________________ - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) 2000 BY 2000: 18 MORE ENDORSERS NEEDED! Date: 15 May 2000 12:21:12 -0400 Since the last notice on the 2000 by 2000 Campaign, 13 more organizations have enrolled in Abolition 2000 for a total of 1,982 organizations!! Fifteen more to go to meet our goal of 2000 before the final day of the PrepCom this Friday. Please help us so that we can let the world know that the people of the planet want nuclear abolition at the last press conference for the NPT Review on Friday. Reach out to another organization and let them know how we are working in 93 countries for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. Send your replies to Carah Ong, the Abolition 2000 coordinator at a2000@silcom.com Many thanks for your support! Peace, Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrew Lichterman Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. considered nuke blast on the Moon Date: 15 May 2000 11:06:44 -0700 From the Observer (UK) US planned one big nuclear blast for mankind Antony Barnett, Public Affairs Editor Sunday May 14, 2000 The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation, revealed America's extraordinary lunar plan. 'It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship. The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth,' he said yesterday. 'The US was lagging behind in the space race.' 'The explosion would obviously be best on the dark side of the moon and the theory was that if the bomb exploded on the edge of the moon, the mushroom cloud would be illuminated by the sun.' The bomb would have been at least as large as the one used on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. 'I made it clear at the time there would be a huge cost to science of destroying a pristine lunar environment, but the US Air Force were mainly concerned about how the nuclear explosion would play on earth,' said Reiffel. Although he believes the blast would have had little environmental impact on Earth, its crater may have ruined the face of the 'man in the moon'. Reiffel would not reveal how the explosion would have taken place. But he confirmed it was 'certainly technically feasible' and that at the time an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile would have been capable of hitting a target on the moon with an accuracy of within two miles. Reiffel was approached by senior US Air Force officers in 1958, who asked him to 'fast-track' a project to investigate the visibility and effects of a nuclear explosion on the moon. The top-secret Project A119, was entitled 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights'. 'Had the project been made public there would have been an outcry,' said Reiffel. Many Cold War documents are still classified in the US, but details of Project A119 emerged after a biography of celebrated US scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan was published there last year. Sagan, who died in 1996, was famous for popularising science in the US and pioneering the study of potential life on other planets. At the Armour Foundation in Chicago - now called the Illinois Institute of Technology Research - he was hired by Reiffel to undertake mathematical modelling on the expansion of an exploding dust cloud in the space around the moon. This was key to calculating the visibility of such a cloud from the Earth. At the time scientists still believed there might be microbial life on the moon and Sagan had suggested a nuclear explosion might be used to detect organisms. Despite the highly classified nature of the work, Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson, discovered that he had disclosed details of it when he applied for the prestigious Miller Institute graduate fellowship to Berkeley. Yet, until today, the full nature of Project A119 has never been revealed. Friends of Sagan believe he never would have wilfully revealed classified information, but Reiffel has come forward to put the 'historical record straight'. Reiffel continued: 'It was well known that the existence of this project was top secret. Had Sagan wanted to make any disclosures to any party, as his boss at the time, I would have had to take forward any such request and Air Force permission would have been extremely unlikely in those very tense times.' In a letter to the science magazine Nature, Reiffel said: 'Fortunately for the future of lunar science, a one or two horse race to detonate a nuclear explosion never occurred. But in my opinion Sagan breached security in March, 1959.' Reiffel produced eight reports between May 1958 and January 1959 on the feasibility of the plan, all of which were destroyed in 1987 by the foundation. Reiffel would not discuss details of these reports, believing they were still classified, but it was clear the conclusion was that the explosion would have been visible from Earth He does not know why the plans were scrapped, but said: 'Thankfully, the thinking changed. I am horrified that such a gesture to sway public opinion was ever considered.' Dr David Lowry, a British nuclear historian, said: 'It is obscene. To think that the first contact human beings would have had with another world would have been to explode a nuclear bomb. Had they gone ahead, we would never have had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong taking "one giant step for mankind".' Lowry believes Project A119 has relevance today with the US proposing a missile defence system in space. He said: 'The US has always wanted to militarise space and some of the fanciful ideas currently being put forward will seem as incredible as the idea of nuking the moon in the Fifties seems today.' A Pentagon spokesman would not confirm or deny the plans. • antony.barnett@observer.co.uk Guardian Unlimited © Guardian New -- Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1440 Broadway Suite 500 Oakland, CA 94612 USA phone: +1 (510) 839-5877 fax: +1 (510) 839-5397 e-mail: alichterman@worldnet.att.net - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) American Platform2000 suggestions Date: 15 May 2000 11:49:16 -0700 Dear Joy, Thanks for the positive feedback on the idea of public collaboration on an "ideal" American Platform 2000 that everyone can contribute to and help publicize to seek media coverage of important issues and compel their acceptance by the mainstream politicial candidates for all offices this election year. To start this process I have created an American Platform Committee egroups list at http://www.egroups.com/amplcom to which I am copying this post and where a few previous ones on this topic are archived for public view at that site. My suggestion would be to encourage anyone interested to submit their ideas to that list and then for some who step forward for this purpose to gradually refine the ideas in the coming weeks into "American Platform 2000 drafts" which can also be posted at that site by those who will take the responsiblity as "editors". I think a good general timeframe would be to see what kind of final drafts can be created by the end of June so that these can be publicized widely in the last month or so before the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Obviously it will be extremely difficult for "everyone" who might join in this project/list to "unanimously agree" on all points that everyone else might submit for such American Platform 2000. There may, however, be numerous points on which everyone would agree. There may then develop a "basic" platform and several different "supplementals" to include the various points and when promoting the idea each issue group activist could promote the basic and whatever supplemental format they prefer? The basic idea is to popularize the idea that the "people" themselves in this election cycle are composing/submitting the issues they think most important for the candidates to address and those who take up the most important ones are the only ones who will get elected this year. For the time being I think the best plan is just to invite anyone interested to submit their ideas to this egroup list by either forwarding them to a list member to post to the list as they see fit, or by joining the list and posting it themselves. Egroups has many choices of how list members can receive posts to lists or just view on the web. I have set up the list so that members only can post to it but anyone can view messages and files attached to them. Currently it is set up so anyone can join the list without moderator approval, but if it gets out of hand the moderator(s) can unsub any member. It is currently set up so that "reply" function sends replies to the member who posted the idea being replied to, so if the reply is intended to go to the list members, it (as any posts to list) should be addressed by list members to amplcom@egroups.com Any non-list-member posts to list will just bounce but anyone, list member or not, may view the posts to the list at list website. This is how the list is set up as of now and can be changed as needs be in coming weeks. To subscribe to the American Platform 2000 egroup list one can send a blank email to amplcom-subscribe@egroups.com or subscribe at the list website where posts may also be viewed by anyone http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom I will be abstracting ideas that I favor from posts to that list for incusion also in the Williams-Peltier Independent US Presidential/VP Candidacy Platform which will be posted with other info relevant to this candidacy at its egroup list http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier but I would prefer others take the initiative on editing American Platform 2000 drafts which I will most likely of course also endorse. I would also prefer someone(s) else to take over moderating this American Platform Committee list as soon as the right folks step forward to do so (also a "co-chair" team to guide this informal "e-committee" so I can bow out of that interim function. So first task would be to publicize the opportunity to submit ideas for American Platform 2000 to its egroup list, then to identify folks who want to put some time into the idea by studying the submissions and perhaps weekly offering compilation drafts to the list for review. An American Platform 2000 Committee should be formed in the next couple of weeks who can use polling functions, chat, etc. of the egroups list to make decisions on finalizing draft ideas and wordings, etc. If this idea catches on I suspect it will be an ongoing process into the Fall and perhaps even after November 2000 elections. If the list gets enough support and publicity, the polls of its members could carry some weight with the media, especially if each of the members indicates they represent numbers of people in their respective issue groups. For this reason I strongly suggest that each list member complete the "member profile" information at egroups site so that other list members can click to their profiles and see who it is that is posting and about their interests, groups represented, etc. Let's see where this idea goes after this posting to you and a few of my lists. David Crockett Williams Interim Chairman, American Platform 2000 Committee http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom Dear David, YOUR PLATFORM 2000 idea is sheer genius. I'm disseminating the "idea" to the various E-groups that send me stuff, but I'm wondering what progress you've made to put a draft document out there. There are of course several suggestions for "What-the-World-Needs" in existence. I know we signed one in Holland, and one at a Post-Hague Appeal meeting. I don't have them at my finger tips. ) I'm appending : 1. Your list from our letter--reformatted a bit. 2. The "Irreducible Minimum" decisions that I submitted to the Hague Appeal for Peace Agenda committee (without immediate results). 3. An abbreviated letter from Doug Hunt (a leader in the A-16 Washington World Bank protests.) At the end is a list of the Big Sponsors of A-16. Blessings, Joy ====================================================================== 1. ABSOLUTE NATURE OF TRUTH. Recognition that truth is not just what people are made to believe but what is factually correct. ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND REDIRECT THEIR BUDGET TO PEACEFUL PURPOSES. (HR 2545 http://www.prop1.org). STOP CIA DRUG SMUGGLING. http://www.copvcia.com and end the drug war. RELEGALIZE HEMP/CANNABIS For all purposes and end the fraud by which it was outlawed as marijuana in 937, so that this most useful and bioefficient plant can be widely globally cultivated on a global emergency scale level to save the trees and heal the atmosphere to ameliorate global climate change http://www.jackherer.com http://www.chrisconrad.com . NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. Adequate funding for a "crash program" to quickly finish the research and development on the new energy technologies ($108 million/year says O'Leary http://www.maui.net/~oleary -- phone number on that site). AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS like Leonard Peltier who embrace and champion the teaching of nonviolence; etc. etc. RELEASE OF NONVIOLENT DRUG PRISONERS -- funding prevention training and rehab centers to help those with crippling addictions and problems. ============= Joy: With a preamble to the effect that we are entering a new millennium where decisions will be derived from principles of **ALL LIFE IS SACRED. **BOTH/AND (not either/or) and WIN/WIN (not I win, you lose) ============================================================================ 2. Suggestions (to the Hague Appeal for Peace) for "Irreducible Minim" Decisions UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO SUBSISTENCE: Investment of the 80 Billion dollars that the UN Development Program says would bring universal access to basic education, clean-water-and- sanitation, basic health-and nutrition. (re-investing a droplet of the military arms-budget.) GLOBAL DISARMAMENT. DEMOCRACY: People's Assembly in the U.N. ( Revocation of veto powers in the United Nations.? ( Proportional representation of political parties in the congress?) TREATIES:PARLIAMENTARY RATIFICATION by each country Of the international treaties we have have signed. (Especially disarmament and banning nukes.) PEOPLE CLAIMING OUR RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE AIR WAVES. so that campaign-financing by Big Bucks could be eliminated; so that violence and consumer-driven TV programming could be changed; so that "alternative" media could have access to mass media and thus a tool to raise consciousness and political will. PEOPLE/GOVERNMENT RE-TAKING THE HISTORIC RIGHT TO CHARTER CORPORATIONS--and revoke charters when the 'common welfare' is not served. ZERO INTENTIONAL DEATHS:A year's experiment with a moratorium on war and capital punishment. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE--moving to change the 'penal code' to re-integrative, restorative, healing paradigms. Reduce drastically the number of citizens in prisons. LIFT THE EXISTING SANCTIONS AND EMBARGOES (unless asked for by the people themselves). Against Iraq, Cuba,Libya and some 30 other nations. (A one year's experiment?) ============================================================================ 3. G-77 Doug Our children will gaze back aghast upon us and our time as a period of waste, war, abandon, and oppression on a scale so vast it screwed up the planet and humanity for a millennium. TRADE-SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki Attempts To Secure A United Bloc By William Dhlamini JOHANNESBURG May 12 (IPS) - South African President Thabo Mbeki is attempting to secure a united bloc of developing nations as a counterweight to the G7 of most industrialised countries to push for the interests of developing countries, ahead of the next round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade negotiations. This bloc, it is hoped, will constitute the major emerging economies: China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria. SA's Erwin is a playing a key role in trying to get the next round of global trade talks on track which stalled after they came to an abrupt end at Seattle. The argument in SA is that developing nations should now use their muscle within the world trading system to kick-start global trade talks. SA secured a coup when developing nations Group 77 body adopted a resolution at the presidential summit in Havana, Cuba, last month calling for the group to speak, for the first time, in one voice at the WTO. To give form to the resolution, the heads of State and senior ministers from the G77 countries agreed to create a new political directorate in the bloc to give practical effect to its decisions. The directorate, whose powers are still being defined, includes Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malaysian President Mahathir Mohamad. "The Party's Over" for Corporate Lackeys in Both "Parties" Republicans: Philadelphia, PA - July 30th - MArch and Rally - http://www.unity2000.com July 31st / August- http://www.thepartysover.org Democrats: Los Angeles - August 14-17th - http://www.d2kla.org __________________________________________________ On the Web: Mobilization for Global Justice, site for protesters: http://www.a16.org Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF http://Religiouswg.org 50 Years is Enough! http://www.50years.org Justice Calendar http://www.justicecalendar.org WhirledBank http://www.whirledbank.org Jubilee 2000/USA http://www.j2000usa.org ----------------------- Our Terrorist platform: We demand transparent, accountable and wholly democratic government and financial institutions that put the needs of the planet and all of its' people before the short-term interests of multi-national corporations. Things to expect after the revolution: Fair allocation of resources for social security, health-care, education and environmental stewardship along with accountability from those who claim to know what we want and need. Sound radical? It is. It's called Democracy. DEAR DAVID, This is the final paragraph from a letter from Han Shan of the Ruckus Society. I told him of you and Platform 2000, and enclosed below is our exchange of letters--for your skim-reading. Peace, Joy Dear Han Shan and fellow Terrorists, Great opt-ed. Is there anything we can do to help it get published--like if a number of us wrote the Sun, perhaps? You forgot a couple of neat quotes, though they are implied: "One man's terrorist is another man's hero" (to wit: Patrick Henry & the Boston Tea party people) "Today's hero may be another day's terrorist." (to wit: Ben Laden "our man" in helping us fight the Russians in Afghanistan; Noriega "our man" in helping with the drug supply and with bases against the Sandinistas....) AS WE BUILD THESE GREAT COALITIONS, DAVID CROCKETT WILLIAMS (presidential candidate with Leanard Pelletier as his VP) IS SUGGESTING THAT WE ALL GET TOGETHER ON A LANDMARK "PLATFORM 2000" --FIRST AGREEING ON IT (with our great concensus techniques) -- then GETTING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. --WHICH WILL OF COURSE REALIZE THAT GUSH AND BORE'S PLATFORM LEAVES SOMETHING OUT. Looks like youv'e got the essence of a PLATFORM 2000 draft in your final paragraph! Blessings, Joy Crocker =============================================== > Greetings Terrorist friends, > In response to the afore-posted editorial from the Calgary Sun, I wrote: > (hope it gets printed) > > Calgary Sun > To the Editor: > > In the United States, Europe and Canada, journalists have ruminated since > last fall about this 'new face of protest' which walked onto the world's > stage in Seattle. Never mind that for decades throughout the 'developing > world,' there have been demonstrations numbering in the hundreds of thousands > against the economic colonialism represented by the WTO, World Bank and IMF. > "But where did this new protest movement come from?", the media has wondered > aloud. Never mind that the Group of 77 Nations, the countries exclusively > impacted by IMF and World Bank policies (and comprising 80% of the human > population), released a statement strongly supporting the DC protesters. > > But Paul Jackson finally nailed it when he wrote that we are in fact > [drumroll please...] international terrorists (parading very cleverly as > steelworkers, religious people, teachers, human rights advocates, > tree-huggers and Tibetans-in-exile). Since we started working to democratize > the world economy, seeking equality and environmental sustainability in the > global economic system, the support has been pouring in from the Middle East! > Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are our biggest fans! And I for one never > realized they had such good senses of irony. > > Oh, and Calgary. Yes, we in the "International Terrorist" community are now > turning our attention to the World Petroleum Congress, coming in June. The > practices of the oil industry are responsible for widespread environmental > devastation, human rights abuses, and global warming and, well... that just > really burns us. So with drug money-financing and training by eco-terrorists > such as Co-motion and the Ruckus Society, we'll once again descend on > Calgary. We'll pave the way for Islamic world domination by attacking an > event characterized by some DC insiders as the "turban and ten-gallon hat" > meeting. Yes, we will come to Alberta to represent our facsist puppetmasters > in Beijing and the Middle East. We zealots will make unreasonable demands > that oil exploration cease and that the billions of dollars saved be invested > in research and development of sustainable energy resources. Note new > terrorist lingo: sus-tain-a-bil-ity. > > Yes, we are only getting started. Our Terrorist platform: We demand > transparent, accountable and wholly democratic government and financial > institutions that put the needs of the planet and all of its' people before > the short-term interests of multi-national corporations. Things to expect > after the revolution: Fair allocation of resources for social security, > health-care, education and environmental stewardship along with > accountability from those who claim to know what we want and need. Sound > radical? It is. It's called Democracy. > > Han Shan > Berkeley (aha!) California, USA > > Han-shan > Rocket Scientist > The Ruckus Society > phone: 510-848-9565 > cell: 510-772-3166 > fax: 510-848-9541 > e: han@ruckus.org > http://www.ruckus.org > > "Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly > exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses" > -Gary Snyder ---------------end forwarded posts------ David Crockett Williams Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hisham Zerriffi Subject: (abolition-usa) India & nuclear disarmament Date: 15 May 2000 18:47:41 -0400 >Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com) > >India & nuclear disarmament > >By Arjun Makhijani > >THERE HAS been notable silence on the issue of nuclear apartheid >from the Indian nuclear establishment after the May 11, 1998, >nuclear tests. Not that nuclear apartheid has disappeared, of >course. Of 187 parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty >(NPT), 182 do not have nuclear weapons; five do. Having broken >down the door to the nuclear club, India has been seeking >legitimacy from its charter members, most notably the United >States. India knows that this cannot be achieved by accession to >the NPT as a nuclear weapons state, because most countries would >not stand for it. Rather, India's hope seems to be that it will >be recognised as a weapon state in other ways, such as being a >party to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that will >engage in new weapons design through American-style stockpile >stewardship, and by acquiring nuclear technology from members of >the Nuclear Suppliers Group, who have heretofore restricted >exports to India. > >Before going farther down this road, India should ask itself, as >it did before the Pokhran tests, why the U.S. Government should >be accorded special status as the provider of legitimacy. After >all, the U.S. is in the process of violating its commitments to >the 182 non-nuclear weapon states. It has not accepted the >legitimacy of the World Court's opinion, which held that nuclear >weapons are illegal and that Article VI of the NPT requires all >nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty to actually achieve >nuclear disarmament in all its aspects. The U.S. Senate rejected >the CTBT breaking another commitment to the NPT parties in the >name of maintaining U.S. superiority. Even the defence of the >CTBT by the Clinton administration was made on the basis that it >would lock in U.S. advantages (which the $ 60 billion, 13-year >U.S. stockpile stewardship programme would do). It seems >prepared, if necessary, to abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile >Treaty to achieve what it believes would be unilateral security >advantages. It led the 1998 and 1999 bombings of Iraq and >Yugoslavia (respectively) without obtaining the necessary >authorisation from the United Nations Security Council. This >dismal catalog of illegitimacy can, unfortunately, be quite >easily extended. > >The positions of the vast majority of countries being expressed >at the NPT Review Conference going on now in New York, are not in >accord with U.S. policy. Indeed, on ballistic missile defences, >the U.S. is practically isolated. Even its NATO partners have >grave reservations about the direction of the U.S. on this issue. >Moreover, U.S. claims that it is attending to its NPT disarmament >obligations by reducing weapons systems ring hollow in the halls >of the U.N. Most are aware that the U.S. is designing new weapons >and that its real policy is to maintain nuclear weapons as a >principal feature of its military arrangements for the future. >India would be far better off seeking legitimacy in a different >direction. The ratification by the Russian Duma of the CTBT even >in the face of its rejection by the U.S. Senate was a bold and >refreshing departure from the politics of reaction to the U.S. >Coming on the heels of Russian ratification of the START II >nuclear arms reduction treaty, and just before the NPT Review >Conference, Russia put the U.S. on the defensive, newly unsure >how to pursue its agenda. In contrast, Russia has been applauded >at that conference for its ratification actions. The strength of >the Russian position derives from the fact that it acted in a way >that was at once in its own interest, for instance, it can hardly >afford to spend vast sums on testing readiness, and >simultaneously in the interests of disarmament. Russia's asking >the U.S. to stick to the ABM Treaty gained additional credibility >because it proposed a way to address missile proliferation >threats by intensifying missile non- proliferation policies, >rather than by unilateral installation of national missile >defenses that could also serve as part of a first-strike nuclear >arsenal. > >Russia has taken some bold actions, but they are in the context >of promulgating a doctrine that increases the role of nuclear >weapons. It is still partly locked in a dangerous battle of >nuclear wills with the U.S. India can further its own security >and that of the whole world by being even more bold on the CTBT, >but without condoning Russia's nuclear doctrine. > >The CTBT could be a sound instrument for disarmament, since it >bans all nuclear explosions. Its disarmament goal is being >vitiated not by its provisions, but by non-treaty factors. One of >the principal problems is the flagship enterprise of the U.S. >stockpile stewardship programme a huge laser-driven device, >called the National Ignition Facility (NIF), designed to create >laboratory thermonuclear explosions. These explosions, which are >intended to reach ten or more pounds of TNT equivalent, would be >illegal under the CTBT, according to the analysis done by my >institute. Planning for them is also prohibited under Article I >of the CTBT. Interestingly, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) >has so far failed to respond to a letter from the U.S. Senator >from iowa, Mr. Harkin, for the basis on which laboratory >thermonuclear explosions are considered legal, even though the >DOE states that smaller fission explosions (four pounds TNT >equivalent) are banned. > >France is similarly violating the CTBT, since it is building a >device of the same type and size as NIF near Bordeaux. Britain is >cooperating with the U.S. in the NIF program and such >collaboration is also prohibited by Article I. The French and >British actions are all the more egregious, since both countries >have ratified the CTBT. > >Further, the U.S. is developing new low-yield nuclear weapons, >and may develop pure fusion weapons, the latter by using NIF as a >scientific proving ground (though not for detailed weapon >design). Pure fusion weapons would have essentially no >radioactive fallout. It may be undertaking these activities with >one eye on the World Court opinion, which found that nuclear >weapons are illegal, in part because they cause indiscriminate >damage. This path of seeking to legitimise nuclear weapons >increases the chances of nuclear war. > >In 1996, the Government of India frequently voiced the objection, >quite legitimately, that the nuclear weapons powers, notably the >U.S., were converting the CTBT into an instrument of non- >proliferation to the exclusion of the long-cherished goal of >disarmament. India now has the chance to help make the CTBT into >a disarmament treaty, especially since Russian ratification has >left the U.S. more vulnerable to international pressure. > >India should sign the CTBT, with the announcement that it >intends, as a signatory, to ensure that it will be an instrument >of disarmament and that its letter and spirit will be completely >respected. India should announce that it will seek an end to >design of new weapons by all nuclear weapon states, as well as >clarification of Article I to ensure that laboratory >thermonuclear explosions are explicitly banned. India could >invite Pakistan to sign the CTBT and to join it in this effort. >It could also enlist the support the vast majority of other >signatories, possibly including Russia and China, to make the >CTBT a true disarmament treaty. > >India should note that most Governments as well as non- >governmental organisations at the NPT Review Conference have >given pride of place to Russian treaty ratifications as well as >to the disarmament proposals of the New Agenda Coalition (Egypt, >Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil). >Rather than seeking legitimacy in the nuclear arena from the one >nuclear weapon state that is increasingly isolated and seen as an >obstacle to nuclear disarmament, India should act independently >in accord with its best traditions. It should sign the CTBT and >work hard to convert it into an instrument of disarmament. That >would be a historically fitting task for the Government of a >country whose Prime Minister was the first world leader to call >for such a treaty. > >Copyrights: 2000 The Hindu & Tribeca Internet Initiatives Inc. ***************************************************************** Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 204, Takoma Park, MD 20912 Phone: (301) 270-5500 Fax: (301) 270-3029 E-mail: hisham@ieer.org Web: http://www.ieer.org ***************************************************************** - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Multi-Million Victims March & GPW2000 Date: 15 May 2000 18:52:48 -0700 Dear Paula and Bill, et al, I think your excellent suggestions warrant very serious and quick consideration in light of the situation with the Los Alamos fire and radioactive ash danger that will still have media and public attention in the coming weeks with which your concept can be promoted. I especially support Bill's idea to broaden the issues/coalition for such an effort as he described below, and I would suggest additional catagories of "victims" could include victims of wars and police/prison violence/abuses, the millions of global indigenous people victimized by various oppressions especially as related to the nuclear and energy issues such as Big Mountain, the Shoshone people's land destruction by nuclear testing and waste dumping in Nevada, Leonard Peltier's fraudulent conviction over the uranium mining in the Black Hills pressures in the 1970's http://www.freepeltier.org, victims of unfair economic and world trade policies and homelessness-poverty-hunger, victims of alcohol abuse (drunk driving etc), prescription drug deaths, medical inequities, victims of the drug war and Inquisition-style forteiture laws and police abuse such as nonviolent offenders especially medical marijuana users and victims of the crack cocaine epidemic such as those plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the DoJ and CIA filed on behalf of South Central Los Angeles and Oakland California residents (with unanimous resolution of support from Oakland City Council under mayor Jerry Brown) based on DoJ IG report vol2 acknowledging CIA complicity in the illegal drug trade years ago (http://www.copvcia.com), and also the victims of gun violence such as the recent Million Mom March in DC (interesting that 12 of the 14 recent shootings by youth in schools etc were cases where the perpetrators were prescribed users of the "youth control drugs" [for "ADD"] such as Ritalin and Prozac which have indicated behavioral abbherations side effects listed), victims of increasing levels of storm damages due to global climate change, etc etc., ie, an "All Victims March on DC" kind of thing in support of global peace, a "March of Millions in Many Communities Globally Simultanteously on Behalf of All Victims of Stupid Government Policies" kind of thing? My response/offer is to incorporate this idea for such a "victims march" into the overall timeframe and plan of Global Peace Walk 2000 which will be arriving from San Francisco to Washington DC for main activities over Columbus Day holiday weekend with Saturday October 7 rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House for special focus on that day (http://www.prop1.org) with other events globally for abolition of weapons in space, ABM, etc., as well of course as Abolition2000 which this cross- country walk was inititiated in support of, to further global abolition of nuclear weapons and to unite "all survival issue messages" under the banner of its prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. http://www.globalpeacenow.org On Sunday, Oct8 will be a Global Peace Ceremony at the Jefferson Stone, the original centerpoint site of the White House -- Capitol -- Memorials and where the Washington Monument was to be placed before it was discovered the ground would not support its weight. Many prayer ceremonies by indigenous spiritual leaders etc have been conducted in recent years at this site being re-energized as a Symbol of Peace Monument by Arthur Lisch who is coordinating GPW2000 event there that day. On the Mondy October 9th Columbus Day Holiday (Indigenous Peoples Day) the main GPW2000 event will be a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument as a Symbol of The Message of Peace, which we optimistically hope can reach the "million people" target for participants including political candidates for offices/election this year. This date has a unique coincidental symbolism this year because it is also, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the observed 1000 year anniversary of the Vikings landing in America (see increasing stories in coming months on this theme, eg, May8th issue of Time Magazine cover story) and it is also John Lennon's 60th birthday (we are working on connection to invite Yoko's participation/support), ie, a "Millennial Give Peace a Chance Ceremony". During the following days in DC (after most folks who can only come for the weekend leave) the walk and representatives of various issues will be delivering the letters and messages gathered along the way to various government agencies before the walk departs DC towards the UN after the traditional October 12th indigenous peoples "Columbus Day" ceremony in DC area. Since the "momentum" of the Global Peace Walk 2000 has already been building since the walk left SF on MLK birthday Jan15, I would invite and suggest that the concept of a "(Million) Victims March on DC" would be an excellent idea to join with the GPW2000 DC events and thereby the victims message would also be carried on with additional strength as the walk completes its journey to end at the United Nations on its 55th charter ratification anniversary ("birthday") October 24th, to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century, and to mark the mid-point of the UN Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:42 AM > On 05/13/00 12:46:56 you wrote: > > > > > Dear Paula & Susan, > Apologies for any multiple postings. I like your idea of a Multi-Million Victims March in Washington. My take on it > is that it's doable but it will take a lot of outreach. First, most Americans are downwinders as the vast majority of us born before the > Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 were bombed/irradiated by our own goverment. That's about 150 to 200 MILLION Americans that are victims > right off the bat. Not to mention what got into the gene pool. Atmospheric testing continued as late as October 16, 1980 when the Chinese > detonated their last open air nuclear weapon. Fallout contaminated the USA that late. > > > Then there are the myriad of victimizations ranging from those perpetrated by DOD,DOE, NRC, FDA, all corporate media that hides these > crimes/victimizations from WE THE PEOPLE. The pharmeceutical industry & medical industry through their criminal negligence and funding of > medical schools on a massive scale and the massive drug/allopathic ideology they continue to dissemenate at the expense of vastly more > effective, non-toxic treatments and preventative approaches to health have murdered [LITERALLY murdered] tens of millions of US citizens > see http://www.garynull.com and will continue to do so until stopped. The [mis]use of DU, pesticides, the tobacco industry's lies & cover- > ups, the auto industry. Not to mention victims of racism, sexism & homophobia. And on & on & on. My suggestion is to approach as broad a > coalition of these groups, their leaders & all victims as possible and to organize a VICTIMS MARCH ON WASHINGTON. > > > Such leaders that immediately come to mind are U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Ralph Nader[Phone:202-546-4996] and Jesse Jackson. > Also, Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Congresspersons Cynthia McKinney of Georgia & Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A number of > celebrities like Martin Sheen, Dick Gregory, Ted Turner & Michael Douglas should be approached, too. I'd suggest you call Nader & Jesse > Jackson first thing Monday morning and raise the idea of such a march. It's time for both a stop to many of these ongoing practices and a > legal accounting and exposing of these crimes and their perpetrators. > > > See Dr Rosalie Bertell's study of 1.3 BILLION victims globally from the nuclear industry which appearred in the November 1999 "The > Ecologist" at: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/victims.html > > > Victims To Come? http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/nuclearwar.html > > > If enough people take this seriously & get active organizing & communicating, this IS doable. > > > -Bill Smirnow > > > > >Dear ALL, > > > >My apologies to anyone that receives multiple copies of this from any cross > >posting. Our hearts go out to the people of the Los Alamos area. This was a > >completely preventable tragedy. Repeated calls to cease the practice of > >"prescribed burns" near or around DOE/DOD radioactive or hazardous waste > >sites has fallen upon deaf ears. Our government officials that should be > >overseeing such practices have failed to recognize the dangers of burning > >vegetation that holds radioactive and hazardous waste within it - releasing > >it to local residents to inhale, possibly to become quite ill from it later > >on. These are valid concerns. > > > >There was a "prescribed test burn" at Rocky Flats here in Colorado > >immediately upwind of 3.5 million people just over a month ago, despite > >multiple protests against it (see email & photos below). The arrogance of the > >DOE, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Parks Service has been staggering in this > >regard. The U.S. EPA has failed to protect us, as have local health > >departments. > > > >This utter disregard and failure to respect our breathing space needs to be > >addressed in a national forum hosted by the Governors, Congressional > >Senators, Representatives, State Rep's from impacted "DOE host" states. They > >could turn this into a win/win situation by taking this issue in hand and > >working with affected or concerned citizens. > > > >This monstrous situation must be brought back to being "for and by the > >people". Do we have to have a "Multi-million Victim's March" in Washington to > >get their attention? Who can afford to do this, or who would like to sponsor > >such an event? Let's get started. I can be reached at (303) 233-6677. > > > >Yours, > > > >Paula Elofson-Gardine > >Executive Director > >Environmental Information Network > >From the Fallout Zone of Rocky Flats and now Los Alamos On 05/13/00 15:51:44 you wrote: > Dear David, Concerning the media, I'd like to suggest that you and/or those working closely on this issue contact the media watchdog group FAIR {Phone:212-633-6700, http://www.fair.org] who are expert at media work & will probably have both tips as to how best to go about approaching media & in supplying media sources, both domestically & internationally. You're doing an excellant job & those people going to the Los Alamos area to help have a lot of guts. -Bill Smirnow [earlier GPW post excerpt]: >"We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life." >-- Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org > > >Today again I spoke to Reverend Yamato on the phone from New Mexico >about the Global Peace Walk plans concerning what he feels is a Global >Emergency Situation resulting from the fire that has ravaged the Los Alamos >area including outlying areas of the Nuclear Weapons Lab reportedly >aerosolizing in the smoke decades of radioactive contamination from areas >surrounding the Lab, smoke now settling as potentially very dangerous ash >over several States so far and moving eastward. (details/evidence on this >point below) > >Yamato has asked me to sound a Global Emergency Alert on this matter to call >on supporters everywhere to take media publicity actions to get the facts >known to ameliorate potential present dangers, to prevent any future >such dangerous nuclear radioactivity threat situations, and to focus the >current national and global public attention on this tragedy towards >increasing public support and activism for the global abolition of >nuclear weapons. > >Please forward this post to your lists. [full text of above excerpted GPW post with info links is archived at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/364.html with additional subsequent posts documenting evidence and concerns about Los Alamos fire somke/ash radioactivity danger posted since May 12th at http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams ] David Crockett Williams Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/16 - Congress; Presidential Candidates Date: 16 May 2000 07:20:43 -0400 --=====================_41520438==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable May 16, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200051621308.htm HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 11 a.m. =97 House Rules Committee meets to formulate a rule on the= National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2001. Location: Capitol, Room H-313. Contact: 202/225-9191.=20 Noon =97 House Commerce energy and power subcommittee holds a markup of legislation to clarify that environmental protection, safety and health provisions continue to apply to the functions of the national Nuclear= Security Administration to the same those functions before transfer to the administration. Location: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927. SENATE COMMITTEES=20 [Huh? What a strange combination of issues! et] 10 a.m. =97 Senate Governmental Affairs international security,= proliferation and federal services subcommittee holds a hearing on legislation to provide long-term care insurance for federal employees. Sen. Charles E. Grassley,= Iowa Republican, and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, participate. Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4751. 2 p.m. =97 Senate Judiciary criminal justice oversight subcommittee= holds a hearing, "Threats to Federal Law Enforcement Officers." Location: 226= Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225. VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20 Travels to Nashville, Tenn., and to New York. 1 p.m. =97 Hosts a round-table discussion on Social Security, James B. McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Business School, 140 W. 62nd St., New York. 7 p.m. =97 Addresses the Columbia Law School graduation commencement,= Avery Fisher Hall, 132 W. 65th St., New York. [INSERT from "mitzi" -- GOVERNOR BUSH George W. Bush's Schedule: May 16, 2000 =20 11:45 a.m. - Governor George W. Bush will discuss personal retirement= accounts in Portland, Oregon, Gunderson, Inc. Training Center, 4700 Northwest Front= Ave. - 503/972-5700 =20 5:05 p.m. - Governor departs Portland International Airport Flight Craft,= 7505 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR 503/331-4200 =20 =20 5:55 p.m. - Governor Airport Arrival King County Airport, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 206/296-7380 =20 NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the media with official identification. RALPH NADER Ralph Nader will be in New Haven, CT on Wednesday May 17. He will meet=20 residents at the Yale Co-op Bookstore on the corner of Chapel and Temple=20 Streets opposite the New Haven Green. 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HOUSE COMMITTEES

     11 a.m. =97 House Rules Committee meets to formulate a rule on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2001. Location: Capitol, Room H-313. Contact: 202/225-9191.

     Noon =97 House Commerce energy and power subcommittee holds a markup of legislation to clarify that environmental protection, safety and health provisions continue to apply to the functions of the national Nuclear Security Administration to the same those functions before transfer to the administration. Location: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.

    SENATE COMMITTEES

[Huh?  What a strange combination of issues! et]

    10 a.m. =97 Senate Governmental Affairs international security, proliferation and federal services subcommittee holds a hearing on legislation to provide long-term care insurance for federal employees. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, participate. Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4751.

     2 p.m. =97 Senate Judiciary criminal justice oversight subcommittee holds a hearing, "Threats to Federal Law Enforcement Officers." Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE

     Travels to Nashville, Tenn., and to New York.
     1 p.m. =97 Hosts a round-table discussion on Social Security, James B. McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Business School, 140 W. 62nd St., New York.
     7 p.m. =97 Addresses the Columbia Law School graduation commencement, Avery Fisher Hall, 132 W. 65th St., New York.

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GOVERNOR BUSH

George W. Bush's Schedule: May 16, 2000
 
11:45 a.m. - Governor George W. Bush will discuss personal retirement accounts in Portland, Oregon, Gunderson, Inc. Training Center, 4700 Northwest Front Ave. - 503/972-5700
 
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RALPH NADER

Ralph Nader will be in New Haven, CT on Wednesday May 17. He will meet
residents at the Yale Co-op Bookstore on the corner of Chapel and Temple
Streets opposite the New Haven Green. Mitzi Bowman (203)389-2067.]


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Hallman, Chair Methodists United for Peace with Justice 1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 Phone/fax: 301 896-0013; e-mail: mupj@igc.org Methodists United for Peace with Justice is a membership association of laity and clergy. It has no affiliation with any Methodist denomination. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "bob kinsey" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Los Alamos lab buildings destroyed by fire.. Date: 16 May 2000 13:53:44 -0600 Even better- the nuclear weapons and material are safe but not the houses of the people. I hope the people whose houses are burned notice that it was even the houses of those who built the weapons that were not safe. ************************************************* Bob Kinsey Peace and Justice Task Force Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ bkinsey@peacemission .org 6555 Ward Road, Arvada, Colorado, 80004 "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God" -- Jesus of Nazareth ----- Original Message ----- Cc: abolitionusa Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:05 AM destroyed by fire.. > At 01:35 PM 5/16/00 +0100, Janet Bloomfield wrote: > >Forest fire razes bomb laboratories. > > Dear Friends, > > Is this not a parable? There is no such thing as a "controlled burn" with > nuclear weapons. Once started they will consume us all. > > With best regards, > Howard Hallman > Howard W. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) ONLY THREE ORGANISATIONS NEEDED TO 2000 BY FRIDAY Date: 17 May 2000 10:39:25 +1000 PLEASE REPLY TO Abolition2000@aol.com, A2000@silcom.com, NOT THIS ADDRESS 16 May 2000 Dear Friends and Activists, We are now in the final week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. As many of you know, early this year the Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee initiated a "2000 by 2000" Campaign to have 2000 organizational and municipal endorsers of the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. We have almost reached our goal! 1997 organizations and municipalities have now endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement. We only need 3 more organizations to reach our goal of 2000! We need your HELP! Please enroll an organization TODAY so we can make an announcement in a press conference on Friday that Abolition 2000 is 2000 endorsers strong and will continue its work to eliminate nuclear weapons and create a more just and secure world. Thank you for your ACTION to support the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. I look forward to continuing our vital work. In peace and solidarity, Carah - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) ONLY THREE ORGANISATIONS NEEDED TO 2000 BY FRIDAY Date: 17 May 2000 10:39:21 +1000 PLEASE REPLY TO Abolition2000@aol.com, A2000@silcom.com, NOT THIS ADDRESS 16 May 2000 Dear Friends and Activists, We are now in the final week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. As many of you know, early this year the Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee initiated a "2000 by 2000" Campaign to have 2000 organizational and municipal endorsers of the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. We have almost reached our goal! 1997 organizations and municipalities have now endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement. We only need 3 more organizations to reach our goal of 2000! We need your HELP! Please enroll an organization TODAY so we can make an announcement in a press conference on Friday that Abolition 2000 is 2000 endorsers strong and will continue its work to eliminate nuclear weapons and create a more just and secure world. Thank you for your ACTION to support the Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. I look forward to continuing our vital work. In peace and solidarity, Carah - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT APPEAL - THREE DAYS LEFT Date: 17 May 2000 19:16:14 +1000 PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT John Hallam =46riends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 =46ax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear All, There's only three days to go till the end of the NPT review. You need to write to your government now and urge them to support the total and unequivocal elimination of the nuclear arsenals of the nuclear weapons states. The fax numbers of foreign ministers worldwide are available on: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org The most important numbers are also at the end of this appeal. As things have moved very fast, I am re- issuing a sample letter and alert from last week that gives a general call to support the language in the New Agenda Working paper, esp paragraph 1. This language has now gone through a variety of different working papers under different paragraph numbers. The bottom line is however, the same. Please use your networks to spread this message around to anyone, especially parliamentarians, that might use it to influence your governments. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference will go until the 19th of this month. It is now the 17th. There's 3 days to go. The New Agenda Coalition, a group of nations led by New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt, has put forward a 'working paper' which provides a moderate, reasonable, and practical step- by - step way forward to the elimination of nuclear weapons as reqired by Article VI of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Especially critical is support for 'Operative paragraph 1' of the New Agenda working paper, which asks the Nuclear Weapons states to committ to an unequivocal and total elimination of nuclear weapons and to commence that process over the 2000-2005 review period. This is in contrast to the committment they have made to the 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear weapons - maybe a hundred years from now! (The wording in this working paper, especially Paragraph 1, has now gone into a variety of other working papers now under condiferation, line- by line) The next 3 days of the NPT Review Conference are utterly crucial as delicate negotiations take place between the nuclear weapons states and the New Agenda Coalition who have the support of the overwhelming majority. THERE'S JUST THREE DAYS - PLEASE CONTACT YOUR GOVERNMENT NOW AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT THE NEW AGENDA LANGUAGE *A clear message from the public direct to your country's foreign minister, secretary of state, president, or UN mission will make a big difference at this point.* If you live in a nuclear weapons state or a NATO country: Please write to your foreign minister or UN mission immediately to ask them to to committ to the unequivocal and total elimination of nuclear weapons starting in the 2000-2005 review period. If you are living in a country that is part of or supports the New Agenda Coalition, let them know they are doing the right thing and that (no matter what other faults they may have) on this issue at least they have your support. If you are not sure of the position of your country, ask them to support the New Agenda Coalition position anyway. A sample letter is below. After the letter is a list of fax numbers and an appeal to support the NAC from Felicity Hill of WILPF which you are encouraged to read before you write and fax. There is also an appeal to parliamentarians which you can use. You are encouraged to use as much of the sample letter and these appeals as you find useful and to make whatever changes or improvements you feel appropriate. It is better not to use it word for word, and its best to handwrite. It does not need to be very long. Do please do it and get as many others as you can to do it, this is an action that really has the potential to help rid the world of nuclear weapons. THIS IS A SAMPLE LETTER TO BE SENT TO FOREIGN MINISTERS AND UN MISSIONS. YOU WILL NEED TO ALTER IT TO FIT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. SAMPLE LETTER TO ALL NPT SIGNATORY FOREIGN MINISTERS AND NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES (Address and fax number of foreign minister) (Address and fax number of UN mission/NPT Review Conference Representative) Dear Foreign Minister, UN Mission, or NPT Review Conference Representative, I am writing to you to persuade your government to support the working paper of the New Agenda Coalition at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York at the United Nations Headquarters, in particular the wording in Paragraph 1, now in various other NPT review conference documents. On 24April, the New Agenda Coalition group of nations, led by New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Egypt, presented a working paper to the NPT review Conference. This working paper provides a realistic, moderate, practical, and reasonable program of action for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that should serve as the basis for the final decision of the Conference. That program includes the following elements: --An unequivocal undertaking by the five nuclear weapons states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, not as an 'ultimate' aim to be accomplished at some remote date, but as an immediate obligation. For the five nuclear weapons states to engage in an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear disarmament in the coming 2000-2005 period. --Implementation of START-II and commencement of negotiations on START-III --The integration of all five nuclear weapon states into a process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. --Adaptation of policies and postures to preclude the use of nuclear weapons --Taking strategic nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert. It is requested that your government support Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda working paper, which reads: "The five nuclear weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the course of the forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which states parties are committed under Article VI." This is pariticularly important because the nuclear weapons states have themselves issued a joint statement on 1 May, which included the following sentence: "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control". However, the use of the world 'ultimate' in this context, as well as the linkage to general and complete disarmament, means that the objective of the elimination of nuclear weapons is in fact being postponed to a distant future. The original language of the NPT itself (in force since 1970) refers to the need to achieve results by an early date. The 1996 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice unanimously emphasizes the obligation to actually achieve the goal of elimination of nuclear weapons. I//(My organization) therefore urges you, Foreign Minister, to support especially Operative Paragraph 1 of the New Agenda Working Paper, as offering a series of practical steps to move towards the fulfillment of what are in any case the clear legal obligations of the nuclear weapons states, to eliminate their nuclear weapons arsenals at an early date. We urge you to give your full support to the measures outlined by the New Agenda Coalition in their working paper, especially if your government has not seen fit to do so before now. These measures offer a realistic way out of the nuclear quagmire which the P5 statement does not. (Signed) BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS. (NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.) =46AX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in the world is listed plus lots of information is this: Http://www.abolition2000.org. (Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is: Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org ) Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of the two URLs above. (The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be. You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope however, that people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister but also those of Russia and the US.) Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me know at and check the number on the URL or with your own telephone system. If you are in the US, Secy of State Madeleine Allbrights fax number is: +1 202 647 6047 President Clintons fax number is +1-202-456-2461 The US United Nations mission is on Fax. +1 212 415 4443 If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is +7-095-244-3276 or +7-095-244-2203. (You need to be persistent with these numbers) The general Kremlin fax number is +7-095-205-4330. (This is the slowest fax in the universe) Russia's UN mission is on +1-212-628-0252 If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is +33-1-45-51-60-12= , Jacques Chirac's fax number is +33-1-47-42-24-65. =46rance's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889 If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is +44-171-925-0918. The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is: +44-171-270-2144 The United Nations mission is on Fax. +1 212 745 9316 If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: +49-228-56-2357, or +49-30-4000-2357 =46oreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: +49-228-168-6662= , +49-30-20186-252, +49-228-1734-02, +49-30-201-8619-24 The German UN mission is on: Fax +1 212 940 0402 Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions: If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: +1-613-996-3546. Canada, UN Mission -Fax. +1 212 848 1195 If you are in Japan, you need to fax +81-3-3581-9675 UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 751 1966 If you are in Italy please fax +39-6-628-6210, or +39-6-3222-850 or +39-6-3222-734 Italy UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 486 1036 If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on +36-1-356-3801 If you are in Korea, try your minister of foreign affairs on +82-2-724-8291, +82-2-739-5370 If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be +55-61-226-1762 Brazil UN Mission - Fax. +1 212 371 5716 or +1 212 758 9242 If you are in Mexico, try +52-6-782-4109 If you are in Greece try +30-1-645-0094 (or 0095) If you are in Thailand, try +66-2-225-6155, or +66-2-226-1374 NPT URGENT ACTION 2 from =46elicity Hill, WILPF Sharon Riggle, CESD Merav Datan, IPPNW The 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty brings together 187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law in 1970. The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6. "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." The Main Committee devoted to non-proliferation, disarmament and international peace and security concluded its work at the NPT Review Conference today. Three draft texts were discussed at the last meeting of Main Committee I. There are still six working days of the conference in which there is opportunity for NGOs to have an impact on the final outcome. NGOs all around the world can reinforce the efforts of NGOs at the UN by: 1. Writing to and visiting your foreign ministry in your capital city. 2. Writing to and visiting your parliamentary representatives, urging them to contact the foreign ministry. 3. Faxing and calling your delegation here in New York. (For the contact details in many capitals and all New York Missions, see www.reachingcriticalwill.org Click on the Governmental Disarmament Contacts button). 4. Writing to your newspapers (either articles, letters to the editor, or particular journalists who might take up the issue) This Urgent Action relates in particular to the most contentious language in the FORWARD LOOKING DOCUMENT for ACTION OVER THE COMING 5 YEAR PERIOD, developed in a Working Paper of Subsidiary Body I (a subcommittee of Main Committee I) under the Chairmanship of Clive Pearson of New Zealand. The full document, (NPT/CONF.2000/MC.1/SB/1/CRP.7) can be found at: http://www.basicint.org We think it would be useful to concentrate on five paragraphs in particular which relate to 1. Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17) 2. The ABM treaty (para 5) 3. Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11) 4. Dealerting, Deactivating (para 13) 5. A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies (para 14) & the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document 1. Unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of arsenals (para 17) Para 17. An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the forthcoming NPT review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States parties are committed under Article VI. Currently the last paragraph in the document, NGOs believe that this "unequivocal undertaking" is in fact one of the most important elements of the working paper. This language reflects Operative Paragraph 1 from the New Agenda Coalition's Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament, tabled on the first day of the Conference. (The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.) An "unequivocal undertaking" is the language proposed to replace the "ultimate goal" language of the 5 Nuclear Weapon States. "Ultimate" means: last or last possible, final. This explains why many states and all NGOs are fairly suspicious of the word ultimate. An undertaking is an action, not a promise, which would then translate into a faster process than we have seen in the past 30 years of the existence of the NPT. Once there is a demonstrated commitment to the TOTAL elimination of nuclear weapons, the consequences will be an accelerated programme of action. 2. The ABM Treaty Para 5. The early entry into force and full implementation of START II and the conclusion of START III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons, in accordance with its provisions. The majority of this language is taken directly from the joint statement of the five nuclear weapon states. The consensus nature of this document was only possible because of differing interpretations of the word "strengthening". Strengthening cannot necessarily mean modify but that is how the US is interpreting this language. An unfortunate consequence of the 5 agreeing to common language has been the rest of the states parties being reticent to comment on the danger of US plans for a national missile defense which could spark a new arms race. The essence of the ABM was a recognition that reduction of offensive weapons requires a limit on defensive capabilities. The US government talking points leaked 2 weeks ago (available on www.thebulletin.org) indicate that the US "comforted" the Russians that they should maintain between 1,000 and 2,000 nuclear weapons to have "the certain ability to carry out an annihilating counterattack=8A" 3. Annual reporting by nuclear weapon states (para 11) Para 11. Annual reports within the framework of the NPT review process by all States parties on the implementation of Article VI and paragraph 4 (c) of the 1995 Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. NGOs support an annual reporting mechanism and propose that there be a standardised format or structure to the annual reports to streamline the information provided and to avoid the proliferation of glossy propaganda and self-serving or selective reporting. The reports should cover the number of weapons dismantled, in storage and deployed. The reports should also detail nuclear doctrines and policy changes that relate to, facilitate or obstruct nuclear disarmament. 4. Dealerting, de-activating, removal of warheads from delivery vehicles (para 13) Para 13. Measures to de-alert and de-activate nuclear weapon systems, the removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles and the withdrawal of nuclear forces from active deployment for the maintenance and promotion of strategic stability. Even though dealerting was identified as the first step towards disarmament in the Canberra Commission, it is still being resisted. For persuasive arguments and facts on dealerting go to www.dealert.org 5. A diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies (para 14) & the use of "Strategic stability" throughout the document Para 14. A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimise the risk that these weapon ever be used, to facilitate the process of elimination, to enhance strategic stability and to contribute to international confidence and security. This paragraph was originally targeted at NATO's renewed nuclear posture, but has since been broadened to include any state that is explicitly increasing reliance on these weapons. On face value this paragraph might appear positive but it contains contradictions. The diminishing role of nuclear weapons in security policies is necessary for disarmament, however, the addition of "to enhance strategic stability" cannot be supported by NGOs because this language reinforces a minimum level of possession of nuclear weapons. In other words, strategic stability and the abolition of nuclear weapons are mutually exclusive notions. The irony is that the concept of elimination is right next to the concept of strategic stability. ******* ******* ******* ******* =46elicity Hill, Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom United Nations Office 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Ph: 1 212 682 1265 =46ax: 1 212 286 8211 email: flick@igc.apc.org web: www.wilpf.int.ch www.reachingcriticalwill.org ******* ******* ******* ******* A CALL TO PARLIAMENTARIANS TO STRENGTHEN THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY BY SUPPORTING THE NEW AGENDA COALITION 3 May 2000 States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) are meeting in New York until May 19 to review the Treaty and its implementation including the obligations of the nuclear weapon states to negotiate for complete nuclear disarmament. On 24 April, the seven nations of the New Agenda Coalition submitted a working paper to the NPT Review Conference outlining a realistic program of action for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament that can serve as the basis for the Conference's final decision. For the vitality of the treaty and to strengthen the international security regime, the NPT must produce a credible plan of action for the next five years, leading up to the next Review Conference in 2005. Paragraph One of the working paper states that, in order to fulfill the disarmament requirements of the NPT: "The five nuclear-weapon states make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and, in the course of the forthcoming review period 2000-2005, to engage in an accelerated process of negotiations and to take steps leading to the nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons." Such an undertaking from the nuclear weapon states is necessary to demonstrate good faith intentions from the nuclear weapon states to implementing their disarmament obligations. A wide range of States at the NPT Review Conference have expressed a lack of confidence in such intentions, citing the continued policies and programs of the nuclear weapon states and their unwillingness to make an unequivocal commitment to achieving nuclear disarmament. There is considerable support from delegations for the inclusion of the above paragraph, and other elements from the New Agenda working paper, in the Review Conference final document, which will most likely require consensus to be adopted. On May 1 China, France, Russia, the UK and the US released a statement which included the following: "We reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goals of a complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." The release of this statement, including the use of the New Agenda Coalition language "unequivocal commitment", indicates that the nuclear weapon states are aware of the need to respond to the strong and urgent call for them to commit themselves to nuclear disarmament. However, the rest of the language indicates that they are choosing to obfuscate rather than make any real commitment. They continue to use the word ultimate with respect to the goal of nuclear disarmament, meaning that they are not committing themselves to pursue complete nuclear disarmament at an early date. The statement makes no mention of the obligation to achieve the goal, as opposed to merely pursuing it, an obvious rejection to the 1996 International Court of Justice opinion on nuclear weapons which emphasised the obligation to achieve the goal. In addition, they link the goal of general and complete disarmament with that of nuclear disarmament, a linkage which would prevent any earlier achievement of nuclear disarmament. =46inally, the statement of the nuclear weapons states ignores important aspects of the New Agenda Coalition statement including: The call for an accelerated process of negotiations, which changes the impetus of nuclear disarmament negotiations from some undetermined time in the future to today. The importance of making some progress before the next NPT Review Conference in 2005. There is no expectation that negotiations for complete nuclear disarmament will be completed by 2005, but that such negotiations would be underway and some interim steps would be achieved. Therefore we, as NGOs specializing in disarmament and arms control, respectfully request your assistance in promoting the NAC proposal - in particular Paragraph One - in your parliaments, to your governments and to your delegations to the NPT Review Conference. Contacts: Middle Powers Initiative 727 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Tel: (617) 492 9189 UN Coordinator, Jim Wurst telephone: (212) 818 1861 Lisa von Trapp Coordinator Parliamentarians Network for Nuclear Disarmament Parliamentarians for Global Action 211 ast 43rd Street, 16th floor New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: 212 687 7755 x104 - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Waste Manifesto at NPT Date: 17 May 2000 12:41:59 -0400 Dear Friends, I am presenting this paper at a strategy meeting today during the NPT and would appreciate your feedback. Alice Slater NUCLEAR WASTE MANIFESTO The 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference is drawing to a close and will offer little to abolitionists who are determined to see the elimination of nuclear weapons from our planet. The unholy bargain for the inalienable right to poison the planet with the so-called “peaceful uses” of nuclear technology, which many non-nuclear weapons states continue to cling to, aided by the collusion of nuclear supplier countries, threatens to turn our planet into a nuclear waste dump and destroy our genetic heritage. A clear call must be issued around the planet to stop this insanity!! Here are some simple rules proposed to change the thinking and speaking about nuclear waste and weapons for the millenium. 1. Stop mining uranium 2. Stop producing new nuclear waste 3. Don’t transport wasteleave it as near as possible to the site where it is generated 4. Don’t process wastedon’t cook it, glassify it, ceramify it, transmute it, mox it 5. Isolate waste from the air, soil, and water in above ground retrievable storage in sturdy containers that can easily be replaced over time 6. Keep contained waste under international guard 7. Establish a Global Sustainable Energy 8. Establish a Global Waste Project which will devote intellectual and financial resources to studying the long term problem of nuclear waste, commensurate with the resources that were devoted to poisoning the planet with nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE/sick nuclear workers Date: 17 May 2000 21:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Hi peace and enviro colleagues. Here is an article I thought would be of interest from our recent newsletter on the compensation proposed by DOE for its sick workers. Peace, Marylia Aid Pledged to Sick Workers by Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs' May 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch Energy Secretary Bill Richardson pledged his Department would reverse over 50 years of denial that it caused injury, illness and death amongst its employees in U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and factories. "Justice for nuclear weapons workers is finally happening. The government is, for a change, on their side," Richardson proclaimed in an April 12th press conference to announce his support for a new initiative to provide compensation to some current and former workers exposed to toxic and radioactive contaminants on the job. Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, Dr. David Michaels said workers at Livermore Lab suffered exposures to plutonium, tritium, beryllium and other deadly materials. These workers will be eligible to file claims, he said. Admitting responsibility is an historic first step in the long journey of reparation, but there are serious limitations to the DOE compensation plan. Justice for workers and others made sick by the bomb-building enterprise remains a still-elusive glimmer. The DOE proposes to grant only a small number of claims nationwide. Michaels estimated that 3,000 workers would be eligible. He said there are perhaps 1,500 workers with radiation-induced cancers, 750 cases of beryllium disease and 750 workers with other illnesses caused by their employment. Despite pronouncements by Richardson and Michaels that their agency would no longer battle and belittle the workers' claims, it is worth noting that most of the injured will have to prove exposure to be eligible for compensation. That will present a difficult if not impossible hurdle for many. In some cases the workers' medical records are missing, in others their files were altered after they became ill, leaving them without recourse to even the state-run workers compensation programs. A number of Livermore workers have spoken to us over the years about the "black holes" in the official records, where information about exposure goes in - but nothing comes out. We believe the problem to be widespread. We also know of cases at Livermore and elsewhere where the workers were too intimidated to report the exposure to their supervisors. One contractor who experienced "flu-like symptoms" after becoming enveloped in toxic gas told us he was afraid of losing his job. If they become ill as a result of their exposures, these workers will likely not be able to get help. DOE knows that this is a problem. Michaels said that the agency would take a sick worker's job description into account, but for most workers the burden of proof still falls heavily on their shoulders. Even in cases where exposure was severe and demonstrable, the worker's eligibility hinges on whether he or she suffered the specific illness on the DOE list for that contaminant. For example, a worker exposed to beryllium dust who develops lung disease may be eligible, but the worker standing next to him suffering the same exposure will not receive any compensation if he becomes ill with cancer. While there is a strong correlation between beryllium exposure and cancer, that disease is not on the DOE list for that contaminant. Moreover, the DOE initiative does not acknowledge or help the plight of nuclear plant neighbors, some of whom suffered exposures as high as the employees. In Washington they call it the "Hanford mile," and many of its neighbors have developed cancers and other rare diseases. In Livermore, a study by the California state Department of Health Services found Lab workers suffered a 400% increased incidence of malignant melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer. The study correlated the increases in cancer with five workplace factors. In 1995, the state completed a thirty-year study of Livermore's young - and found that children who were born here suffered a 640% increase in malignant melanoma. Children who were merely moved here while young had a 240% increase. And the list goes on. Under the Energy Department's plan, eligible workers, or their survivors, could receive a lump-sum payment of $100,000. In other cases, sick workers could get medical costs and lost wages, a package that could potentially exceed $100,000. DOE estimated it would need $120 million annually for the first three years and then about $80 million a year after that. It is unclear as yet whether Congress will appropriate those modest dollars. The good news is that some who were made sick may receive aid. As one ill worker, retired from Livermore Lab told us, "I'm dying. I want to know that my wife will have enough money to pay off my bills and to live." The bad news is it is not enough. Not nearly enough. If you or a family member may have a DOE job-related illness, you can call a new toll-free number set up by the Department at (877) 447-9756. We at Tri-Valley CAREs are compiling a data base of residents and workers who believe their illnesses could be Lab related. Please call us at (925) 443-7148. Marylia Kelley Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA 94550 Phone: 1-925-443-7148 Fax: 1-925-443-0177 Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Subcritical Nuclear Tests Date: 17 May 2000 22:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Dear colleagues: Here is an article from our newsletter on subcritical nuclear tests. Peace, Marylia More Subcritical Nuclear Tests Planned by Sally Light from Tri-Valley CAREs' May 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch The Department of Energy (DOE) has detonated 11 underground subcritical nuclear tests at its Nevada Test Site (NTS) since the first such test in mid-1997. Tri-Valley CAREs, along with its colleague organizations, opposes these tests. A subcritical test is not a full-scale nuclear test. Fissile materials such as plutonium are involved, but the nuclear chain reaction is halted before it becomes self-sustaining. Each subcritical test consists of high explosives being blown up along with plutonium, while sophisticated monitoring equipment records the detonation in great detail. The data gathered from the test are later fed into DOE's computers to update nuclear weapons computer codes. While DOE claims that these tests are performed in the cause of maintaining the stockpile's "safety" and "reliability," Tri-Valley CAREs and others counter that the tests, which are part of DOE's Stockpile Stewardship program, are done to further the research and development of nuclear weapons. Livermore Lab has prepared 7 of the 11 tests carried out so far (the other 4 were prepared by the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico). Livermore is currently completing a series of 16 subcritical tests code-named the Oboe series. Oboe 1 was detonated at NTS last year. Three Oboe tests have been performed so far in this fiscal year, and reportedly up to 5 more such tests are planned by the end of September, with the balance of the Oboe tests to be done in fiscal year 2001. Located on beautiful desert land belonging to the Western Shoshone Nation, NTS is an island of pockmarked, radioactively-contaminated desolation caused by decades of U.S. nuclear weapons testing. The subcritical tests further degrade the environment. It was confirmed recently that plutonium from past explosions has been moving with the area's underground aquifer towards the NTS fence line. Subcritical testing also has serious, negative international repercussions. Other nations see them as proof that the U.S. has no intention of complying with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), even though the U.S. has signed it and has an obligation under the Treaty's Article VI to take steps to discontinue its nuclear weapons activities and to achieve nuclear disarmament. Subcritical tests also undermine the trust among nations needed to accomplish the sensitive international ratification now underway of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all nuclear weapons tests. The subcritical tests by DOE have been cited by some countries as an impediment to ratification of the CTBT. U.S. tests have been answered by Russian subcritical tests. Russia has been conducting subcritical tests over the last two years. We and others have been warning the U.S. that such tests at NTS risk starting another nuclear arms race, or, at the very least, keep the competitive fires burning in the style of the Cold War. We see the responsive Russian subcritical tests as proof of that risk. In the Bay Area, every time a subcritical test is performed, we local groups respond with an action at noon on the day of the test. The actions are in San Francisco at the international headquarters of the Bechtel Group, the corporation that holds a multi-billion dollar contract with DOE to operate NTS. These protests are part of an international response to the U.S. tests - actions also take place in Nevada, Japan, Australia and Europe. Call us for more information -- or to be placed on the notification list for actions. Marylia Kelley Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA 94550 Phone: 1-925-443-7148 Fax: 1-925-443-0177 Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/18 - Congress today; Sunday 8:45 a.m. action, Date: 18 May 2000 07:38:24 -0400 --=====================_121916880==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable May 18, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000518213750.htm SENATE COMMITTEES=20 2 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds hearing to receive testimony on= U.S. strategic nuclear force requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 253 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. HOUSE COMMITTEES=20 2 p.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources subcommittee holds= hearing, "Inquiry into Payments to Federal Employees." Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761. 11 a.m. =97 Commerce health and the environment subcommittee holds hearing= on the disposition of hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed for biomedical research. Jane Goodall testifies. Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office= Building. Contact: 202/225-2927. GENERAL AGENDA=20 China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 The Institute for America's Future= holds a news conference to release a new economic analysis, "China's Rapid Leap into Advanced Technologies." The participants include: Charles McMillion, report author; and Reps. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, and Dennis J.= Kucinich, Ohio Democrat. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/955-5665. Citizens Trade Campaign news conference =97 9:45 a.m. =97 The Citizens Trade Campaign holds a news conference and rally with 60 Chinese human rights= leaders to ask Congress to reject permanent normal trade relations with China. Rep. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, East= Front lawn. Contact: 202/624-8136. Grant presentation =97 2 p.m. =97 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson presents= an Energy Department grant to Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat, for a= University of California at Riverside solar-energy project. Location: 2300 Rayburn= House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-6161. ---- Albright protest this Sunday Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:09 AM=20 Dear friends, DC area activists are planning to protest US aggression in Iraq and the policies of Madeleine Albright, who will be receiving an honorary degree= from George Washington University at a Commencement ceremony this Sunday morning= at the Ellipse. Protest assembles at 8:45 a.m., Sunday, May 21, at 15 and E Streets, NW. 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2 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds hearing to receive testimony on U.S. strategic nuclear force requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 253 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

2 p.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources subcommittee holds hearing, "Inquiry into Payments to Federal Employees." Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.

11 a.m. =97 Commerce health and the environment subcommittee holds hearing on the disposition of hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed for biomedical research. Jane Goodall testifies. Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.

GENERAL AGENDA

China news conference =97 1 p.m. =97 The Institute for America's Future holds a news conference to release a new economic analysis, "China's Rapid Leap into Advanced Technologies." The participants include: Charles McMillion, report author; and Reps. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, and Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat. Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Contact: 202/955-5665.

Citizens Trade Campaign news conference =97 9:45 a.m. =97 The Citizens Trade Campaign holds a news conference and rally with 60 Chinese human rights leaders to ask Congress to reject permanent normal trade relations with China. Rep. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, East Front lawn. Contact: 202/624-8136.

Grant presentation =97 2 p.m. =97 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson presents an Energy Department grant to Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat, for a University of California at Riverside solar-energy project. Location: 2300 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-6161.

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--=====================_121916880==_.ALT-- - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Additions and corrections to list of anti-Star Wars resources for grassroots activists Date: 18 May 2000 12:23:48 -0500 Dear Friends, Below are a corrections and additions to the list of resources and activities for grassroots activists working against Star Wars national missile defense that I sent out last week. The complete list will be available on our website tomorrow. Go to www.fourthfreedom.org and click on "Hot Topics". In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition Fourth Freedom Forum ****** -=93Star Wars Action Days,=94 June 8 =96 10, contact: Jim Bridgman at Pea= ce Action Education Fund, jbridgman@peace-action.org, 202/862-9740, ext. 3041. Let both Democrats and Republicans know that you expect congressional leadership to oppose Star Wars deployment. Join local activists who will demonstrate at congressional district offices or Star Wars contractor plants (Boeing, TRW, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon) across the country to voice public opposition. Contact Jim for a flier on the action days with the message: =93Star Wars: Wastes Money, Won=92t Work, Won=92t Make Us Safer, Don=92t Let it Happen=94. Sponsoring organization= s as of May 5: Disarmament Clearinghouse, Fourth Freedom Forum, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Peace Action Education Fund, Peace Links, Physicians for Social Responsibility, 20/20 Vision, Women Strike for Peace, Women=92s Action for New Directions, Women=92s International League for Peace and Freedom (Please note, this is a correction from the previous posting, which incorrectly listed Van Gosse of Peace Action as the contact.) -Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers: www.crnd.org. This site is chock full of information on missile defense and arguments against it. The Coalition has produced a report, =93Pushing the Limits: The Decision on National Missile Defense=94= , and maintains a very informative daily and weekly email listserv on missile defense. Contact Stephen Young, syoung@clw.org, to request a copy of the report or to subscribe to the listserv. (Additional information from previous listing) -Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) has a white paper on missile defense available for download from the Global Security Institute website at www.gsinstitute.org (New listing) - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT on amendments to allow nuclear reductions and de-alerting Date: 18 May 2000 12:54:01 -0500 Dear Friend: Please read the important information below on amemndments to the Defense Authorization Bill to allow cuts in strategic nuclear weapons below the 6000 START I level and for de-alerting of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition ***** May 18, 2000 TO: supporters of nuclear weapons reductions and de-alerting FR: Daryl Kimball and Stephen Young, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers RE: Key House vote on nuclear weapons policy as soon as TODAY; Senate vote as soon as NEXT WEEK As soon as TODAY, the House may debate an amendment offered by to the fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization bill that would allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels (approx. 6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current law , such actions are prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an unlikely near-term prospect. IF the House rules committee allows it, an amendment sponsored by Allen (D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson (D-CT), could be voted on as soon as TODAY. It would allow the President the flexibility to reduce the U.S. arsenal below START I levels as long as the "... reductions in the strategic nuclear delivery systems of the United States are to be carried out in a verifiable, symmetrical, and reciprocal manner with Russia to ensure that the level of strategic nuclear delivery systems deployed by the United States does not fall below the level of strategic nuclear delivery systems deployed by the Russian Federation.'' SENATE VERSION Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE) will be seeking to offer a similar amendment to the Senate version of the Defense Authorization bill, which may be on the floor as early as NEXT WEEK. The Kerrey amendment would allow for deactivation or dismantlement of strategic nuclear delivery systems in excess of military requirements so long as such steps are taken in a verifiable and reciprocal manner. This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat different than the approach that Senator Kerrey pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this year, which was simply striking the restriction on cuts below START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor amendment was defeated 56-44. See for the floor debate and roll call vote. Last week, Reps. Allen and Spratt tried to strike the restriction in the House Armed Services Committee "markup" of the fiscal 2001 Defense bill, but lost 17-40. Opponents of the Allen/Spratt amendment characterized it as mandating unilateral disarmament, even though the amendment only granted flexibility and made no requirements on any levels and that there should be no further cuts until START II is finally approved, and that there should be symmetrical reductions. A better result will require the leadership of key Congressional leaders and the concerted efforts of many concerned citizens and nuclear security experts. See the Physicians for Social Responsibility web site <> for an action alert and information about how you can For further information see the following items, below: * PSR Action Legislative Alert w/capacity for e-mail letters to Congress * "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000 * "Talking Points" on the Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & the Kerrey amendments - DK & SY ************ "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While Russia's Declines" COALITION TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGERS -- ISSUE BRIEF VOL. 4, NO. 6, May 15, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION intended to encourage Russian ratification of START II now locks in U.S. nuclear forces at artificially high levels, despite the Russian Duma's approval of the Treaty last month. The legislation mandates that the U.S. maintain its nuclear arsenal at levels set in START I until START II enters into force. The U.S. Senate, which approved START II ratification in 1996, still must ratify new protocols to the Treaty before entry into force can take place. Approval of the protocols, however, has become entangled in the debate over national missile defense and the ABM Treaty, and it is unclear when the Senate will consider them. Unless this situation changes, the U.S. will be forced to keep its START I arsenal of 6,000 strategic nuclear weapons, while Russia's forces continue to decline due to aging and funding shortfalls. START I was signed in 1991 and entered into force in 1994. START II calls for reductions to 3,000-3,500 strategic nuclear warheads each and the elimination of land-based multi-warhead missiles. The congressional legislation requires maintaining the U.S. arsenal at START I levels of 76 B-52H bombers, 18 Trident ballistic missile submarines, 500 Minuteman III inter-continental ballistic missiles, and 50 MX missiles. Last year, at the request of the U.S. Navy, Congress modified the legislation to allow four Trident submarines to be retired if the President certified this would not adversely impact the U.S. nuclear deterrent. The START II protocols — which still require Senate approval — delay the destruction of delivery vehicles from 2003 to 2007 to allow Russia more time to accomplish that goal. Delivery vehicles that will be destroyed must still be de-activated by 2003. While those protocols are non-controversial, they have been linked to protocols to the ABM Treaty that were negotiated at the same time, making START II implementation highly uncertain. Military Support for Greater Flexibility Even before Duma action on START II, General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear his opposition to Congress mandating strategic nuclear force levels. In response to a question for the record from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Shelton said "I would definitely oppose inclusion of any language that mandates specific force levels. It is important for us to retain the ability to deploy the maximum number of warheads allowed by START I but the Services should also have the flexibility to do so with a militarily sufficient, yet cost effective, force structure." There is broad support for further reductions in U.S. nuclear arsenals both in the military and former officials. In an interview on 60 Minutes aired in February this year, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command General Eugene Habiger said, "... the fact that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower levels of nuclear weapons is troubling to me, and it should be troubling to you." In addition, Richard Perle, the Pentagon's chief nuclear strategist during the Reagan administration and advisor to candidate George Bush, was quoted in the Washington Post on May 12 calling for reductions in nuclear arsenals: "It is time for serious rethinking of the whole nuclear question. We should no longer be concerned about Cold War arithmetic. . . . War plans using 1,000 [or more] warheads no longer make sense." The High Cost of Cold War Relics A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten years. (See table.) This approach would make additional reductions in the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10, and in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels of 3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to seven. In response to another question Sen. Levin, Gen. Shelton gave support to further cuts, indicating that no military requirement exists for maintaining the current 50 MX ballistic missiles or more than 14 Trident nuclear- armed submarines. According to Gen. Shelton, Admiral Richard Mies, Commander in Chief of US Strategic Command, conducted an "extensive analysis" and concluded that, with no Peacekeeper missiles and only 14 Tridents, the remaining US arsenal would "meet our current and emerging war-fighting requirements." Removing the Congressional restriction would allow the U.S. military and the next President to explore alternate ways to reduce the nuclear threat through parallel, reciprocal, and verifiable reductions with Russia. For example, in exchange for U.S. reductions to START II levels– or even START III (2,000-2,500 strategic warheads) – levels, both sides could agree to use the verification provisions of START I to monitor deeper reductions. ________________________________ Reduce Nuclear Delivery Systems Within Overall Limits of START II Savings (Millions of Dollars) Budget Authority Outlays Annual: 2001 670 240 2002 420 340 2003 620 440 2004 690 540 2005 830 710 Cumulative: 2001-2005 3,230 2,270 2000-2010 8,330 7,880 Source: Congressional Budget Office, 3/00 ________________________________ The Bush-Gorbachev Example In fact, some of the most dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals took place outside the formal treaty process. In September 1991, President George Bush announced dramatic unilateral U.S. reductions in tactical nuclear forces deployed in Europe and on ships. The number of deployed tactical forces dropped significantly; in Europe alone, they fell from over 7,000 to less than 1,000. Bush also ordered off alert a thousand U.S. warheads deployed on strategic bombers and ballistic missiles slated for dismantlement. In response, Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev withdrew all tactical weapons from outside Russian territory, removed most categories of tactical nuclear weapons from service and designated thousands of nuclear warheads to dismantlement. # # # The Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of 17 of the nation's leading arms control and non-proliferation organizations working for a practical, step-by-step program to reduce the dangers of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. *The views and analysis expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of every member of the Coalition. For more information, contact Stephen Young at (202)546-0795, ext. 102, or email *************** Talking Points on 2000 Kerrey & Allen/McGovern/Gendjenson Amendments on Limitations on Nuclear Reductions by Allistar Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum, May 17, 2000 Approval of amendment to H.R. 4205 allows the President flexibility to retire U.S. strategic nuclear force levels in excess of military "requirements" so long as such reductions are pursued with Russia in a verifiable, and reciprocal manner and do not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capbilities. Such measures would not interfere with U.S. nuclear deterrent capabilities and it would save taxpayers billions of dollars. Improve Strategic Stability and Reduce Risks * Approval of the amendment would increase national security by reducing the possibility of unintended launch or other accident. The United States and Russia are the only nations to maintain nuclear weapons on hyper-alert, poised to launch at a moments notice, increasing the chances of an accident especially in Russia where early warning and nuclear weapons safety equipment is in serious disrepair. A total of about 4000 U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are on "hair-trigger" alert, prone to an accidental launch. * Current law prohibits the U.S. from retiring or "de-alerting" nuclear force levels below the nearly decade-old START I treaty (6000 deployed strategic weapons), until and unless START II is implemented (an uncertain prospect due to disputes over national missile defense). The existing law forces the Pentagon to keep planes, submarines, and missiles it no longer wants or needs. The current U.S. nuclear war-fighting plan calls for 2000-2500 strategic nuclear weapons. General Eugene Habiger, U.S. Air Force (Retired), the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command testified before retiring: "There is no need to stay at the START I level from a military perspective" (Washington Post - January 7, 1999). * Russia currently deploys a strategic nuclear force below START I level (5900) and is likely to reduce that force further in the coming years, while the U.S. deploys approximately 7200 strategic bombs. * In the interest of strategic stability and nuclear risk reduction, the next President should have the option of pursuing parallel, reciprocal reductions of deployed strategic nuclear weapons as Russia reduces the size of its deployed nuclear arsenal and taking a substantial portion of the deployed arsenal off hair-trigger alert. Such actions are consistent with President George Bush's 1991 nuclear reductions initiatives and would improve national security by reducing the probability of an unintended launch or other accident * Supporting this amendment would allow the United States to better comply with its stated goals and policies toward the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Removing restrictions would allow the United States to demonstrate its commitment to the other 186 signatories of the currently fragile Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The US delegation has repeatedly touted the reductions achieved under former President George Bush as evidence of progress towards its non-proliferation treaty commitments. Nearly ten years later, the world is waiting for more up-to-date evidence of further reductions in nuclear forces, in large part hindered by the restrictions that this amendment will remove. * Support for this amendment will further the achievement of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR). CTR is bipartisan alliance aimed at spurring prompt dismantlement and conversion of the post-Cold War Soviet nuclear stockpile. Eliminating restriction on further verifiable reductions of Cold War nuclear arsenals is a necessary part of continuing pursuit of a credible arms control agenda that Senators such as Lugar and Dominici support. Cut Costs * A new study by the Congressional Budget Office describes the dramatic savings that can be obtained by reducing U.S. nuclear forces to START II levels while making further cuts in delivery vehicles: $670 million in fiscal 2001 and $11.6 billion over ten years. * The amendment would save money by allowing for additional reductions in the Trident submarine forces, from 14 down to 10, and in the Minuteman III force, from 500 to 300. START II warhead levels of 3,000-3,500 warheads would still be maintained by increasing the number of warheads on each Trident missile from five to seven. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) GPW on the move again Date: 18 May 2000 15:34:46 -0700 Yesterday, May 17th, Global Peace Walk 2000 finished its schedule in New Mexico and began walking from Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico, on an accelerated pace to keep on schedule for May 29th Memorial Day Holiday Ceremony at the National Memorial in Oklahoma City. (Attn: Scott Bentley 405-235-3313) The walkers were rebuffed by the authorities in the Los Alamos area as to their offer of help. Apparently FEMA and other authorities have the "situation well in hand" and the area sealed off. (For important related info see 08Dec99 article by Uri Dowbenko "Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits" archived at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/367.html ) Reverend Yamato wants me to emphasize that this fire that swept over the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Labs while the walk was in the NM area means that we must clearly sound a Global Emergency Alert, for ending the nuclear age and reawakening humanity as to how to live together in peace, while the walk procedes on course to inaugurate this UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century. If you know people in Oklahoma who would like to connect with the walkers, you can keep checking the voicemail number for their latest overnight locations and schedule (415) 267-1877. The walk has now completed 4/9 of its jouney in time from San Francisco towards Washington DC (Oct6-12) before ending at the United Nations in New York City on its 55th anniversary October 24th. http://www.globalpeacenow.org The walkers now number at their smallest (about 20 with 7 support vehicles) but they are in high spirits and at last have a completely harmonious group, after those along from the beginning struggling for "personal control" have left the walk in process of recognition offered by deep ceremony in the last couple of weeks. Thanks so much to all those in New Mexico who have gone out of their way to help. Walk coordinator Crispin Clarke is spending a couple of weeks doing advance work in Washington DC (his hometown) and in New York City before rejoining the walk in Oklahoma on May 23rd. If you have information on contacts for him to make in DC or NYC you can email him at coolcrispinclear@hotmail.com Reverend Yamato asks me to pass on the invitation now to serious people who want to join as walkers and supporters as Global Peace Walk begins its route through Oklahoma. Financial support may be send as tax deductible donations to Global Peace Walk, PO Box 170245, San Francisco CA 94117. For matters that require a timely response you can call me at 661-822-3309. Non-tax deductible donations to help me cover phone bills, etc., so as to better be able to do advance arrangements for the walk may be sent to David Williams, POBox 147, Tehachapi, CA 93581. Also, check out this great idea as something of value to you in the US and Canada that can solve some problems and also offer financial support -- "The Legal Revolution" http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams David Crockett Williams Chartered Life Underwriter Bachelor of Science, Chemistry Co-coordinator, Global Peace Walk 2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Updates/Voicemail 415-267-1877 Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 General Agency Services gear2000@lightspeed.net http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html USCampaign gear2000@onemain.com D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams The Vision of Paradise on Earth, DCWilliams http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Easy way to Email Media and Government http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd "An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html - 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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Below: Nader's= itinerary today/tomorrow; Washington Daybook items, today. et] Ralph Nader on the Road http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html Friday, May 19th - 7:00 pm Speech Montpelier, Vermont - Speech/rally in Montpelier High School Auditorium.=20 Saturday, May 20th - 7:00 pm Speech - Bangor, Maine - Speech at Norembega= Hall=20 _____ May 19, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000519222913.htm Economic sanctions conference =97 all day =97 American Bar Association= Criminal Justice Section, Health Law Section, and Center for Continuing Legal= Education and the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units hold "A= National Institute on Economic Sanctions." Location: Doyle Washington Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Ave. NW. Contact: 800/285-2221. Energy/transportation conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97 America-Georgia= Business Development Council; U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association hold a conference on "Energy, Transportation and Security in the Caucasus and Caspian Region." Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican,= "Caspian as a Gateway of the European Transport Corridor." Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/638-3040. Drug policy conference =97 9 a.m. =97 Drug Policy Foundation concludes= its "13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform." Highlights =97 noon =97 Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat,= luncheon address. Location: Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Contact: 202/537-5005. Procurement workshop =979:30 a.m. =97 Inter-American Development Bank= concludes its procurement workshop. Location: IDB, 1300 New York Ave. NW. Contact: 202/623-1365. Congressional news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Congress holds a news= briefing on monthly China trade deficit data released by the Commerce Department. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, House triangle. Contact: 202/225-6871. Trade news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Washington Roundtable for the Asia-Pacific Press and the Heritage Foundation hold a news briefing on "Trans-Pacific Trade: What's Ahead?" Location: Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. Contact: 202/675-1761. Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the film= "Harvest of Shame." Location: National Archives, theater, Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets NW. 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Ralph Nader on the Road

Friday, May 19th - 7:00 pm Speech Montpelier, Vermont - Speech/rally
in Montpelier High School Auditorium.

Saturday, May 20th - 7:00 pm Speech - Bangor, Maine - Speech at Norembega Hall
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May 19, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

    Economic sanctions conference =97 all day =97 American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Health Law Section, and Center for Continuing Legal Education and the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units hold "A National Institute on Economic Sanctions." Location: Doyle Washington Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Ave. NW. Contact: 800/285-2221.

    Energy/transportation conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97 America-Georgia Business Development Council; U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association hold a conference on "Energy, Transportation and Security in the Caucasus and Caspian Region."
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, "Caspian as a Gateway of the European Transport Corridor."
      Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/638-3040.

      Drug policy conference =97 9 a.m. =97 Drug Policy Foundation concludes its "13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform."
      Highlights =97 noon =97 Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, luncheon address.
      Location: Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Contact: 202/537-5005.

    Procurement workshop =979:30 a.m. =97 Inter-American Development Bank concludes its procurement workshop. Location: IDB, 1300 New York Ave. NW. Contact: 202/623-1365.

      Congressional news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Congress holds a news briefing on monthly China trade deficit data released by the Commerce Department. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, participates. Location: Capitol, House triangle. Contact: 202/225-6871.

      Trade news briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 Washington Roundtable for the Asia-Pacific Press and the Heritage Foundation hold a news briefing on "Trans-Pacific Trade: What's Ahead?" Location: Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. Contact: 202/675-1761.

    Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the film "Harvest of Shame." Location: National Archives, theater, Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000.

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--=====================_4296094==_.ALT-- - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hisham Zerriffi Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Alternative Pu disposition plan: SIGN-ON Date: 19 May 2000 18:39:05 -0400 Dear Friends: The problem of dealing with the surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads is an extremely vexing one that has both short term and long term implications for disarmament and non-proliferation. Please consider signing on to this plutonium disposition plan which is an alternative to the plans being put forth by the U.S. and Russian governments which favor the use of plutonium in reactors. To sign on please e-mail Michele Boyd at Thanks, Hisham. > >Dear All: > >The United States and Russia are close to completing their negotiations >on the disposition of surplus military plutonium, most of which >is planned for use as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in commercial reactors. >Many NGOs around the world, however, do not support this program because > >of the safety, security, and environmental problems associated with MOX. > >A concerted push by grassroots organizations and others is needed, >not only against MOX but also for an alternative plan that will address >both the security of plutonium and provide financial support to Russia. >For this, we need widespread environmental support in the US, Europe, >Russia, and Japan. IEER is posting this plutonium disposition plan on >safeguarding separated plutonium for your endorsement. > >It necessary to stop MOX and to put both Russian and US plutonium into >non-weapons-usable form. This plan also holds the potential for moving >European countries that have MOX programs in the direction of >immobilization, given the German decision to phase out nuclear power. >Finally, it is an alternative plutonium disposition plan to the >Non-Proliferation Trust, Inc. (NPT, Inc.) idea to import foreign spent >nuclear fuel into Russia for storage, which is vigorously opposed by >Russian as well as many US environmental groups. > >This plan is in final form. The core points were formulated at a >meeting in March 2000 attended by Michael Marriotte (NIRS, Washington >DC), Mycle Schneider (WISE, Paris), Tobias Muenchmeyer (Greenpeace >International) and Arjun Makhijani (IEER). It has since been >discussed extensively with several colleagues from Russia and to some >extent also with some representatives of US groups. Their comments >have been incorporated. There is some urgency to creating and endorsing >an alternative plan since President Clinton will be meeting with >President Putin in Moscow on June 4 and 5, when they are expected to >announce their joint agreement. > >IEER, in collaboration with our Russian counterparts, would like to >release this letter to the global press in Moscow just before President >Clinton arrives there. So please look at this with some urgency and >consider signing on. Thank you. > >Arjun Makhijani > > > > >Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin, > >As a contribution to permanent arms reduction and disarmament, the >United States and Russia have declared about 50 tons each of military >plutonium surplus to their requirements. It is generally acknowledged >that this commendable step must be followed by measures to put this >plutonium into a form that cannot easily be diverted or reused in >weapons. > >There are several proposals that have been discussed and studied in the >last many years in both governmental and NGO circles as to how this >problem is to be addressed. The plan that the US and Russian >governments have been negotiating involves the conversion of most of >this plutonium into a mixed oxide (MOX fuel) for use in commercial >nuclear power reactors, mainly light water reactors, in both Russia and >the United States. The use of Canadian reactors is also being >considered as an option. > >This proposal has many drawbacks. It raises many unresolved safety >questions and could increase the risk and severity of nuclear reactor >accidents. Unless steps are taken to militarize security at these >nuclear power plants, the risk of diversion of weapons grade plutonium >will increase with time. > >We believe that the other option of immobilization of plutonium, which >Russia and the US have adopted for only a small proportion of the >plutonium, should be extended to cover the full amount. This is a >safer, faster, and more economically efficient option. It involves >putting plutonium into a non-weapons usable form by mixing it with >other materials and making the resultant waste form proliferation >resistant. The MOX option should be discarded. > >A considerable amount of discussion has also revolved around the >financing of the Russian portion of the plutonium disposition plan. >This is because Russia has agreed to the current plan, which is >dominated by the use of MOX in light water nuclear power reactors, >largely at the suggestion of the West. One financing plan has been >put forward by a US corporation known as the Non-proliferation Trust, >Inc. This would involve importation of up to 10,000 metric tons of >foreign spent nuclear power reactor fuel for storage in Russia, a >complete halt to commercial reprocessing, and a payment to Russia for >building storage facilities, a nuclear waste repository >and other purposes. Such a plan is currently illegal under Russian law >and hence attempts are being made to amend the law. However, the >Russian people are overwhelmingly opposed to such a plan, as is >demonstrated by polling and by the firm opposition of environmental >NGOs in Russia. Many US NGOs and those in other countries also oppose >this plan. > >In recognition of the reality that a plutonium disposition plan is >needed, we, the undersigned, would like to offer the following proposal >based on immobilization. > >1. The same disposition plan in terms of the disposition technical >details would be carried out in parallel in the United States and >Russia. > >2. It would include all separated commercial and surplus military >plutonium. > >3. Reprocessing of commercial spent fuel would be halted. > >4. All separated commercial plutonium in US and Russian stocks, as well >as all surplus military plutonium would be immobilized. There would be >some flexibility as regards the specific immobilization method. > >5. The immobilized plutonium of each country would be stored in that >country and put under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) >safeguards. > >6. The West would lease Russia's plutonium for 50 years or would >purchase it outright. Since plutonium has no commercial value as a >fuel, some means has to be found to determine the price to be paid for >the non-proliferation benefit. Since Russia regards plutonium as a >potentially valuable fuel, the upper limit to the purchase price would >be the value of the fuel normally used in light water reactors -- low >enriched uranium (LEU) -- equivalent of the MOX that could be made >out of the plutonium disregarding all fuel fabrication costs or any >other additional costs associated with the use of MOX. In other words, >the maximum amount Russia would be paid would correspond to the LEU >fuel value as if the plutonium had already been made into MOX. > >7. The payments to Russia could be stretched out over a time period >comparable to the deal that Russia and the United States have made for >the purchase of surplus Russian military highly enriched uranium -- that > >is about 20 years -- or to the time that it takes to immobilize the >plutonium and to put it under IAEA safeguards. > >8. The West would also pay for the immobilization of plutonium in Russia > >(in addition to the payment described in Item 6 above) . > >9. There are a number of ways in which this plutonium disposition plan >could be financed. For instance: (1) The G-7, as the group of wealthy >western countries is known -- would fund it using the funding of the >shut down of the reactors at Chernobyl as a precedent. (2) The European >Union would create a Russian plutonium fund. (3) A small tax on natural >gas imported from Russia into Europe could finance the plan. (4) The >United States could supply part of the funds as the wealthier party to >the agreement. (5) NATO could earmark funds for the plan, since this >will enhance security for all its members. These financing mechanisms >are not mutually exclusive. > >In view of the widespread concerns relating to the use of MOX fuel in >reactors, and the liabilities that it entails, we urge you not to adopt >a plutonium disposition plan that includes the use of MOX but rather to >endorse this alternative. We want to thank you for the time and >consideration that you have given to this letter and wish you success in > >your deliberations. > >Sincerely, > ***************************************************************** Hisham Zerriffi Senior Scientist Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 204, Takoma Park, MD 20912 Phone: (301) 270-5500 Fax: (301) 270-3029 E-mail: hisham@ieer.org Web: http://www.ieer.org ***************************************************************** - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Los Alamos radioactivity problems/remedies Date: 20 May 2000 10:43:27 -0700 Following is compilation of two posts with a news article and suggested remedies to radioactivity exposure from Los Alamos fire. Cc: Howdy & heads ups from Theresa Marie K. Gandhi theresamariegandhi@earthlink.net http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theresamariegandhi/ P.O. Box 842, Tracyton, WA 98393 USA May 19, 2000 Dear Editor: Radioactive Smoke is Blowing across America take care! Exposure to the smoke from the fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico is not healthy & could even be America's Chernobyl. Our governments long history of not telling the public the truth in the Name of National Security leaves it up to civil society. Los Alamos is the heart of National Security & we are on our own. I was born up river & down wind in 1946 from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Researching & writing Radiation, Research, Rage & Realization: the 4-R's of Growing up Downwind helped me process my outrage at lies that endangered my life. The Experimental Remedies was a part of that article. In my family three of five have had cancer, my 41 year old brother dead & 6 out of 10 friends from junior high school dead from cancer. Told in 1984 of cancer & in 1987 a brain tumor my life depended upon finding the truth & then to find a way to health without chemo therapy, radiation or health insurance. Keys I use to building health include: Drink miso soup with sea vegetables daily; Clean your colon & re-seed it with acidophilus, amylase, protease etc.; Dry brush & soak in hot salt bath to cleanse; Eat organic whole grains, vegetables & fruits; Juice vegetables & fruits for raw enzymes Drink clean fresh water; Supplement with: Complex B, multiple vitamin & mineral, calcium & kelp; Blue green algae & wheat grass - similar to blood & easy for body to use; Pray & meditate - as you think so you are - positive thoughts; & Love creates a coherent energy field - source & emanate love! The enclosed article: Emergency Experimental Radiation Remedies gives more information on the above. Fluoride was needed by the Manhattan project & a study fabricated by the University of Rochester to protect duPont from liability in a lawsuit because a fluoride release killed sheep & crops in New Jersey. This study was the father of all studies & the beginning of a huge cover-up that the American public pays for in ill health & bad bones - osteoporosis. Source material Project Censored, Nexus & searching all my life for the truth that would save my life. General Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial media complex & that the people would have to seek the truth, stand up & demand that we as a country work for peace. It is time to stop the era of making war on everything. Arming for peace is not congruent. The price of winning the cold war is a radioactive smoke cloud blowing across America, her grain belt & eastern shores. The people downwind deserve to know & to do what ever their own discernment tells them. I offer my experience with experimental radiation remedies for who ever might be interested. Your help in facilitating this would be greatly appreciated. Work that I did in researching the work of Mahatma Gandhi the decade of the 1980s was & is invaluable in knowing my peace of mind & heart. Although divorced from Mahatma Gandhi's relative I often turn within & ask what would a Mahatma Gandhi or a Jesus Christ do in this situation. Probably take a deep breathe, feel the Presence of Love within a moment of silence & know exactly what to next - hit the forward key & share my story that other lives may live. Thank you! A sister in Love & Light, Theresa Marie K. Gandhi EMERGENCY EXPERIMENTAL RADIATION REMEDIES Radiation Alert Los Alamos a Dirty Fire! Theresa Marie K. Gandhi Severe Health Danger Alert to all in & downwind of the fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico! Geiger counters not under Government control show high radioactivity present in Santa Fe & downwind according to a report on Coast to Coast AM. I communicate not to generate fear but rather to share knowledge learned the hard way, by experience. Fifty years of experiments with plutonium, fluoride & other very toxic & exotic materials are now air borne. The colors in the fire were very odd & most probably pose a Severe Health Threat to all Life Downwind. Pray for the fire fighters & share the following information. I am a Hanford Nuclear Reservation Downwinder born 1946 when everything radioactive was very, very hot & very, very loose in the environment. Ignorance by now dead scientists have left us a very dirty & dangerous legacy. February 1993 when the World Trade Center bomb exploded I received a large enough dose of radiation to cause 1/3 of my hair to fall out, nausea for month - lost 20 #s, black & blue from just a light touch etc. I had researched how to get radiation out of the body about the time of Three Mile Island. I immediately applied the following experimental remedies. I do not claim that this will cure anything. The danger is so great & the remedies harmless. Drink miso soup as soon & as much as possible with sea vegetables. Miso is a live culture with enzymatic active ingredients that help the small intestine stay healthy. The doctors at the hospital in Hiroshima found this out. Do not boil the miso. Add the miso paste to a small amount of soup that has cooled off, mix it & add to your soup stock just as you serve it to keep the culture alive. I went to an auravedic health store & bought a bottle of liquid humus, i.e. organic, mineral rich liquid mud (clay might work if you can't get humus). I diluted & drank the humus to pull the radioactive material & free radicals out of my intestines. Clean your colon & re-seed it with the proper intestinal flora & fauna meaning acidophilus, amylase, protease & other digestive enzymes. These are the body's labor force & become depleted with exposure to toxins, radioactivity & under nourishment. Food from our depleted & radioactive agribusiness practices does not help. Eat Organic whole grains, vegetables & fruits!* Cleanse & build are the principles. You want calcium in your bones (milk & dairy not a good source) & iodine in your thyroid gland. Supplement with calcium & kelp - homeopathic if you can get it. Blue green algae - the single cell with the broken cell wall is very good. Take a full spectrum vitamin, mineral & B complex. Symptoms of high stress & chemo therapy are the same as a depletion of the B vitamins. Juice vegetables & fruits & drink lots of clean fresh water. Radiation, fluoride, aspartame & MSG disrupt the brain's bio-chemistry, especially serotonin the mood governor. Depression can result & other mental health challenges of various kinds. Fear is a major challenge as it attracts to oneself what one fears the most. As you think so you are. Pray & meditate. Visualize self as healthy & feeling the Presence of Love flowing through your heart. Love creates a coherent energy field that supports, builds & maintains health. Skin is the largest elimination organ. After brushing the salty bath's bio-chemistry helps cleanse the body. I dry brush my body & take a very hot bath filled so you can submerse. I add to the bath: 3 handfuls of rock salt, 3 tablespoons baking soda & 3 tablespoons vinegar. I also add a drop or two of essential oil. I say my prayers, light a candle & mediate in the bath for about 20 minutes. A prayer is anything you feel from your heart, Open your heart & just BE! I daily ask Creator to be cleansed, balanced, centered in Love & connected with the Web of Life in gratitude for the blessing of Life & Presence of God. If you must be in the area of exposure - Emanate Light & Love. Staying centered in your heart consciously source love from within your heart & radiate it out. This experimental mode might explain the natural immunity of a Mother Teresa. After exposure remove outer clothes & don't sleep is same space with outside clothes or shoes. Shower as soon as possible. For further information see: "Gandhi's Truth" newsletter vol. 6 - 1993: Fighting Radiation & Chemical Pollutants with foods, herb & vitamins by Steven R. Schechter, N.D. & Practicing the Presence by Joel S. Goldsmith. I applied the above & moved out of New York to the southwest to recover from exposure. I knew I needed to minimize my further exposure & I knew that continued exposure to electro-magnetic & intense radio & microwave fields would make recovery difficult. The intense fields of a major city are not body friendly. Nature, clean water, organic & whole food, mental silence, peace of mind, an open heart & gratitude are major keys to survival, recovery, good health & a long life. Love & light through you & peace! A sister in the light Theresa Marie K. Gandhi theresamariegandhi@earthlink.net http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theresamariegandhi/ Box 842, Tracyton, WA 98393 USA Remember it's usually worse than the mainstream media is allowed to tell, and the lack of official information in this has been unprecedented. We attended the standing-room only meeting with state officials in Santa Fe last night, and the meeting with Siberian environmental professionals at St. Johns the night before, and no one has any independent assurances that all is well. Official assurances keep going on about the concrete bunkers being safe, but they won't talk about the tons of toxic contaminants on the ground where it burned, and what the onsite air monitors would have read if they hadn't burned. There are lots of tests and sampling techniques they admit they just aren't doing at all, but radiation isn't everything. Carol Miller of LASG and the Green Party made a well reasoned argument for outright shutdown on that basis. We live under that initial cloud of smoke just as Carol does. Look at the cloud on our site at http://globalcircle.net/losalamosfire.htm . These crowds were outraged at the lack of sufficient warnings and information, and lack of Spanish translation in the official warnings. Now it hits the fan. The summer storms start soon, and people are going to be asking blunt questions all down the Rio Grande through Texas to the Gulf. The fruit and citrus industry downriver may never hear the end of this. How much food contamination will grocery buyers put up with? Does anybody believe they're going to clean up thousands of acres in time for the summer storms? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- paul, webmaster liberty, sustainability, for the seventh generation http://globalcircle.net & http://fedupfeds.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thursday, May 18, 2000 http://www.abqjournal.com/news/35548news05-18-00.htm Runoff Poses Possible Danger By Ian Hoffman Journal Staff Writer SANTA FE - Disastrous as the Cerro Grande Fire has been for Los Alamos and its federal nuclear-weapons lab, scientists say things could get uglier. Envision floods and tons of cinder-speckled mud washing out of the charcoaled Jemez Mountains into Los Alamos' burned neighborhoods and the lab's canyons. The gushing floodwaters scour the burned EF and PHERMEX sites at the lab's Technical Area 15, both littered by pieces of chemical high explosive, toxic metals and radioactive elements. Any PCBs the fire did not convert to airborne dioxin, the runoff rinses out of a canyon behind the lab's power plant. Back at Technical Area 16, the waters carry away high explosives from an old explosives machining building and Material Disposal Area P, an explosives and toxic metals dump. The floods blast through the most burned and contaminated canyons - Los Alamos, Pueblo and Water - picking up dozens of contaminants mixed in soils no longer anchored by plants. They flush into the Rio Grande and Cochiti Reservoir. How real is this scenario? Quite, lab officials say. The mountains and lands of Los Alamos are likely to assume new shapes, perhaps form the beginnings of new canyons. The largest canyons probably will create large new deltas of sand and rock in the Rio Grande. "We're really looking at some catastrophic problems for the lab and the county coming off national forest lands," said Dave McInroy, a LANL cleanup manager. Beyond that, the uncertainties are huge. No one has gauged with any confidence the mudslide danger to Los Alamos' western side. No one is sure what kinds and what levels of contaminants will leave the lab, but lab scientists believe they will and at rates much greater than those of the last decade, if not since the Manhattan Project. So far, LANL environmental officials say the canyon contaminants are so low in concentration and so likely to be diluted by water and eroded soil that they probably will not reach humans at dangerous levels. But toxicologists know very little about the threat of exposure to multiple contaminants, especially for sensitive aquatic and amphibious wildlife. Sometimes, low-level toxins can be synergistic in effect. They can weaken different yet intertwined biological functions in ways that, for example, could increase vulnerability to illness. "The problem is quantifying that," said Russ MacRae, an environmental contaminant specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Albuquerque. Much depends on what the U.S. Forest Service and Los Alamos National Laboratory do in the next few weeks. Both are mobilizing contractors and checking with dealers for rock for riprap, jute matting and native seed. Scientists are flying over the burned forest and lab today. A plane specially equipped for spectral imaging also was to perform two days of passes, creating a detailed map of the land's reflection of light - an indicator of burn intensity and thus erosion potential. The Dome Fire of 1996 and the Oso Complex Fire of 1998 produced spots of extraordinary erosion. Heavily burned lands lost soil at rates of 100 tons an acre or more. So far, people working the Cerro Grande Fire report seeing large, scattered splotches of intense burn on steep slopes. One lab official said he has heard post-fire runoff estimated at 100 to 200 times normal. Experts for LANL, the state Environment Department and the federal Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation, or BAER, team already are fanning out on foot to inspect the blackened territory. They will estimate erosion potential, then draw up a plan to shore up burned areas and protect the lab and town. It is the first time such an interagency rehab team has ever dealt with a fire around and inside a nuclear site, especially one with a 57-year accumulation of contaminants. Meanwhile, lab scientists are checking many of the lab's roughly 1,000 waste dumps or spills - potential release sites, or PRSs. The fire itself has added a new slew of contaminants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, that result from incomplete burning. Some are innocuous, like those in a cup of coffee; others rank among the most carcinogenic substances. Potential release sites featuring the worst combinations of potential for erosion and heavy contamination may have to be dug up or fortified by rock, mats or hay bales. "We're going to make every effort we can to protest those," said McInroy, a scientist in charge of regulatory compliance for LANL's Environmental Restoration Project, which prepares sites for cleanup or stabilization. Lab environmental restoration scientists are hunkered down in a Santa Fe office, poring over maps of waste sites and the burned territory. Project leader Julie Canepa has assigned them to list the 10 or 15 most threatening potential release sites and a plan of attack. Water Canyon alone - heavily burned and draining several sites where scientists exploded various metals - contains traces of 11 radioactive elements from nuclear-weapons research, plus 95 manmade chemicals. They range from high explosives to insecticides and more than a dozen toxic metals. Fortunately, few houses lie in the canyons that are both burned and contaminated. The greatest risk for human exposure is expected to be to hikers, mountain bikers and others trekking in the canyons. "So we have low concentrations and low rates of use," said Lars Soholt, senior risk assessor for the restoration project's SWAT team. "Our preliminary assessment is the human risk, even under these changed conditions, hasn't changed. And we think the risk associated with the (contaminated) sediments is minimal." To be certain will require intense ground inspections, tests of water and soils and computer simulations. "It's going to take weeks to months to really clear up the picture," said Soholt. The work is intense, and some of Canepa's SWAT team lost homes and possessions in the fire. On Tuesday, "I had them go around the room and tell their stories," Canepa said. "There's a few people who are really affected, so I have to be careful with them. 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Richard Salvador Honolulu, Hawaii --- PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT [http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/] Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Monday, May 22, 2000 MARSHALLS PUT U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ALBRIGHT ON NOTICE REGARDING KWAJALEIN MAJURO, Marshall Islands – (May 12, 2000 – Marshall Islands Journal) ---Lawyers for Kwajalein landowners delivered an ultimatum last week to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright: talk to us within 14 days or we will start actions to remove the United States from the Kwajalein missile range. The Kwajalein demand comes as the Clinton administration and the U.S. Congress are debating funding for theater and national missile defense systems, which are now being field-tested at Kwajalein. Scott C. Taylor, who is representing Kwajalein Senators Imata Kabua, Ataji Balos and Sato Maie among other prominent landowners, delivered the ultimatum to Secretary of State Albright on May 1, demanding to talk with State Department negotiator Allen Stayman. Both Stayman and the RMI national government have turned a cold shoulder to requests to talk with the Kwajalein landowners, he said. Stayman told the lawyers that they should address their concerns to the RMI government. But Taylor said the national government doesn't own land at Kwajalein and "has no authority to speak or act on behalf of the Kwajalein landowners." The RMI government "has declined to participate in our efforts and has failed to recognize or address the concerns of the displaced people of Kwajalein," Taylor said in his May 1 letter. While Kwajalein landowners do not want to jeopardize any aspect of U.S. missile testing, "we do, however, intend to address by whatever means necessary what we see as grossly inadequate payments to our clients for the use of Kwajalein, which is unquestionably invaluable to the U.S.," he said. Taylor asked Albright for an "opportunity" to discuss these issues with Stayman. "If we are unable to do so within 14 days, we will be left with no alternative but to begin proceedings, on which we believe we stand on firm legal ground, to remove the U.S. from Kwajalein," he said. Landowners would prefer to reach an agreement that would provide fair compensation to the landowners as well as secure for the U.S. its continued presence at Kwajalein, without interruption, for an agreed upon duration, Taylor said. RMI READY TO WORK WITH KWAJALEIN OWNERS MAJURO – Marshall Islands (May 18, 2000 – Marshall Islands Journal)---RMI's Foreign Minister Alvin Jacklick has repeatedly told Kwajalein landowners that the national government is happy to raise any issues the landowners want addressed in upcoming negotiations with the U.S., a Cabinet official told the Journal. "We've been most cooperative in raising issues (for Kwajalein)," said Minister Gerald Zackios, who indicated that the same couldn't be said for the landowners. His comments were made in reaction to a letter from Kwajalein attorney Scott Taylor to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Commenting on Taylor's contention that the RMI has no authority to act on behalf of Kwajalein, Zackios said the land use agreement for Kwajalein is a "legally binding agreement between the RMI government and the landowners," which guarantees U.S. use of Kwajalein. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/22 - Daybook: Bush & Gore & Conferences; Date: 22 May 2000 07:53:54 -0400 --=====================_69938159==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [NucNews Archives have been updated to May 15, 2000] May 22, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000522215927.htm Presidential Candidates: George W. Bush, 1:15 p.m. =97 special address (Israel), Washington Hilton= Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200. Al Gore, 1 p.m. =97 Hosts a luncheon for South African President Thabo= Mbeki, State Department, 2201 C St. NW. Conferences: Defense Department conference =97 all day =97 Defense Department holds Acquisition and Logistics Reform Week 2000. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton participates. Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Opening ceremony; presentation of the David= Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. Location: Pentagon Courtyard, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/697-9312. American Israel policy conference =97 all day =97 American Israel= Public Affairs Committee holds its "2000 Policy Conference." Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers; and= Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, "The Peace Dividend: America's Investment in Middle East Peace." 1:15 p.m. =97 Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Republican Party presidential candidate, special address. 7:30 p.m. =97 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, "A Salute to the= 106th Congress" banquet. Location: Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200. Defense Department conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Defense Department Defense Modeling and Simulation Office and the National Training Systems Association hold a conference, "Industry Days 2000: State of Modeling and Simulation Briefing to Government and Industry." Location: Sheraton Premiere Hotel,= 8661 Leesburg Pike, Tysons Corner. Contact: 703/247-2569. Energy news briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Environmental and Energy Study= Institute holds a news conference on "Why Has Europe Taken the Lead in Wind Energy Technologies?" Location: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/662-1886. Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the= documentary "Harvest of Shame." Location: National Archives, Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000. Lobbying workshop =97 6:45 p.m. =97 Institute for Policy Studies Social= Action and Leadership School for Activists holds a "Strategic Lobbying Workshop." Location: IPS, Suite 1020, 733 15th St. NW. 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Presidential Candidates:

George W. Bush, 1:15 p.m. =97 special address (Israel), Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200.

Al Gore, 1 p.m. =97 Hosts a luncheon for South African President Thabo Mbeki, State Department, 2201 C St. NW.

Conferences:

    Defense Department conference =97 all day =97 Defens= e Department holds Acquisition and Logistics Reform Week 2000. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton participates.
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Opening ceremony; presentation of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award.
      Location: Pentagon Courtyard, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/697-9312.

      American Israel policy conference =97 all day =97 American Israel Public Affairs Committee holds its "2000 Policy Conference."
      Highlights =97 9 a.m. =97 Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers; and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, "The Peace Dividend: America's Investment in Middle East Peace."
      1:15 p.m. =97 Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Republican Party presidential candidate, special address.
      7:30 p.m. =97 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, "A Salute to the 106th Congress" banquet.
      Location: Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/639-5200.

    Defense Department conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Defense Department Defense Modeling and Simulation Office and the National Training Systems Association hold a conference, "Industry Days 2000: State of Modeling and Simulation Briefing to Government and Industry." Location: Sheraton Premiere Hotel, 8661 Leesburg Pike, Tysons Corner. Contact: 703/247-2569.

    Energy news briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Environmental an= d Energy Study Institute holds a news conference on "Why Has Europe Taken the Lead in Wind Energy Technologies?" Location: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/662-1886.

    Film =97 noon =97 National Archives presents a screening of the documentary "Harvest of Shame." Location: National Archives, Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets NW. Contact: 301/713-6000.

    Lobbying workshop =97 6:45 p.m. =97 Institute for Policy Studies Social Action and Leadership School for Activists holds a "Strategic Lobbying Workshop." Location: IPS, Suite 1020, 733 15th St. NW. Contact: 202/334-9382.
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Vice President Gore -
        8:30 a.m. =97 Addresses the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee Convention, Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.
      2:20 p.m. =97 Addresses the Service Employees International Union's 22nd Annual International Convention, David Lawrence Convention Center, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., Pittsburgh.

        Governor Bush news conference =97 10:30 a.m. =97 George W. Bush for President hosts a news conference. Texas Gov. George W. Bush participates. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 512/637-777
 
SENATE COMMITTEES

      9:30 a.m. =97 Armed Services Committee holds a hearing to receive testimony on U.S. strategic nuclear force requirements. Walter Slocombe, defense undersecretary, and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testify. Location: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

    10 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on African affairs meets with Mr. Mbeki, Capitol, Room S-116. Contact: 202/438-1657.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

    10 a.m. =97 Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 1999. Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-3951.

        2 p.m. =97 Armed Services oversight panel on terrorism holds a hearing on domestic terrorism. Location: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4151.

        2 p.m. =97 Resources Committee holds a hearing on "Funding of
 Environmental Initiatives and their Influence on Federal Public Lands Policies." Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.
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    Secret Evidence Repeal Act news conference =97 9 a.m. =97The National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom holds a news conference on "The Secret Evidence Repeal Act." Location: Capitol, House Triangle. Rain site: 122 Cannon House Office Building. Contact: 202/488-8787.

    Clinton-Putin summit briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Heritag= e Foundation holds a briefing on the upcoming President Clinton-Russian President Vladimir Putin summit. Location: Van Andel Center, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE. Contact: 202/608-6143.

    Putin hearing =97 10:30 a.m. =97 The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe holds a hearing on "The Putin Path: Are Human Rights In Retreat?" Location: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-1901.

    Mbeki speech =97 3 p.m. =97 South African President Thabo Mbeki delivers a keynote speech for a special convocation at Howard University. Location: Cramton Auditorium, 2400 Sixth St. NW. Contact: 202/238-2332.

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Message From: downwinders@egroups.com re Saturday May 26 --

Do lend our pals the GWV's attention for their "Rolling Thunder" rally in DC -- go down and visit and share with them. They are just downwinders from nuclear and chemical plants that are sick like the rest of the nuked folks.
Rolling Thunder event is May 26 in DC
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/thunder.htm



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VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE=20 10 a.m. =97 Joins Diane Rehm for a special edition of WAMU-FM's "The= Diane Rehm Show." ---- Governor Bush's Schedule: May 24, 2000=20 Event: 10:30 a.m. Conversation with Governor Bush at Cornerstone Schools Association - 6861 East Nevada, Detroit, MI. (Note: Gov. Bush will visit a kindergarten class with a press pool before conversation begins)= 313/892-1860 - Time: 8:30 a.m.- Press check-in begins=20 NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the media with official identification.=20 ---- MEDIA ADVISORY TRANSMUTATION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES IS =93NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE=94 Expensive Technology Would Increase Environmental, Health, Safety and Weapons Proliferation Risks, According To New Report WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 -- 10 am WHERE: Zenger Room, National Press Club 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC WHO: Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), who has written numerous articles, reports,= and books on nuclear issues. Hisham Zerriffi, Senior Scientist at IEER and principal author of the study. Annie Makhijani, Project Scientist at IEER and co-author of the study. WHAT: News conference to release a new study, The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble: An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy. The report analyzes expensive proposals now under consideration by Congress= and the US Department of Energy, as well as in other countries such as France= and Japan, to transform highly radioactive wastes into less dangerous materials. The authors warn that these schemes will not solve the problem and will increase the environmental, health, safety, cost and weapons proliferation risks. For further information, contact Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Hisham Zerriffi: 301-270-5500 Bob Schaeffer: 941-395-6773 --- DAY OF ACTION MAY 24th 7 am ~ South Entrance~ Pentagon 12 noon! Bring Signs, Banners, music, voice and spirit to the White= House, option for CD. Come to the meeting or call for more information. Events will be held in the following locations: SOA WATCH, Washington, D.C. 202.234.2440 soawatch@knight-hub.com =20 Chicago, IL Kathleen Desautels or Dorothy Pagosa 312.641.5151 dpagosa@claret.org =20 Boston, MA ~ Ann Eno ~978.692.5483 =20 St. Louis, MO Christie Hauck 314.721.2977 ifcla@aol.com =20 Syracuse, NY Ed Kinane 315.478.4571 edkinane@a-znet.com=20 Philadelphia, PA Linda Panetta 215.473.2162 or 215.477.5892 soawne@aol.com =20 San Antonio, TX ~ Shoko, Timon, Hauke, Andy ~ 210.271.3630 =20 Norfolk, VA Patrice Schwermer 757.583.0291 or 757.858.8176 =20 Takoma, WA Bruce Triggs 253.572.6582 guadalope@juno.com BACKGROUND: On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the Moakley mendment, accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and open an SOA Clone the very next day. The House opted to change the SOA=92s name rather= than close its doors. The name is basically all that is changed. The Pentagon=92s deceptive proposal is not a move towards responsible policy for Latin= America. It is merely an attempt to silence those working for human rights and= justice. It is an attempt to silence the bloody truth about the School of Assassins,= but THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED! Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten votes!= All week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol Hill, but= human rights activists weren=92t the only ones lobbying. Secretary of the Army= Caldera, Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there lobbying to keep the SOA open at= any cost. This shows we are the threat of a good example, we are winning and now= is the time to rise up! Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the Pentagon=92s= SOA Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know that we are not falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA CLONE! Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and demonstrations= at the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into organizing in your= own community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit of hope and resistance,= bring your outrage, bring your passion, bring your creativity and bring your= puppets and banners and help send the message that the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS MUST= BE CLOSED! ---- Los Alamos Wildfire Update, from KRSN Radio http://krsn.losalamos.com/ All neighborhoods are now open to residents. Most roadblocks have been removed. The Fire Department and Forest Service are monitoring all black= areas and will not respond to hot spots in remote areas. These areas are not currently a threat to the community or to any property, and will probably continue for a few weeks or until it rains. Protection Technology Los= Alamos is Posted to Traffic Checkpoints Around the Lab controlling access. More= info in LANL Information: http://krsn.losalamos.com/lanl.asp. 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May 24, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

HOUSE COMMITTEES
    10 a.m. =97 Government Reform national security, veterans affairs and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing on the Defense Department's management and oversight of its chemical and biological-defense program. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE
      10 a.m. =97 Joins Diane Rehm for a special edition of WAMU-FM's "The Diane Rehm Show."

----

Governor Bush's Schedule: May 24, 2000
 Event: 10:30 a.m. Conversation with Governor Bush at Cornerstone Schools Association - 6861 East Nevada, Detroit, MI. (Note: Gov. Bush will visit a kindergarten class with a press pool before conversation begins) 313/892-1860 - Time: 8:30 a.m.- Press check-in begins
NOTE - Media credentials will be issued on-site to members of the media with official identification.

----

MEDIA ADVISORY

TRANSMUTATION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES IS =93NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE=94
Expensive Technology Would Increase Environmental, Health, Safety
and Weapons Proliferation Risks, According To New Report

WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 -- 10 am

WHERE: Zenger Room, National Press Club 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

WHO: Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), who has written numerous articles, reports, and books on nuclear issues.
Hisham Zerriffi, Senior Scientist at IEER and principal author of the study.
Annie Makhijani, Project Scientist at IEER and co-author of the study.

WHAT: News conference to release a new study, The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble:
An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy.

The report analyzes expensive proposals now under consideration by Congress and the US Department of Energy, as well as in other countries such as France and Japan, to transform highly radioactive wastes into less dangerous materials. The authors warn that these schemes will not solve the problem and will increase the environmental, health, safety, cost and weapons proliferation risks.

For further information, contact
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Hisham Zerriffi: 301-270-5500
Bob Schaeffer:   941-395-6773

---

DAY OF ACTION MAY 24th

   7 am ~ South Entrance~ Pentagon
   12 noon! Bring Signs, Banners, music, voice and spirit to the White House, option for CD.  Come to the meeting or call for more information.

Events will be held in the following locations:

SOA WATCH, Washington, D.C. 202.234.2440 soawatch@knight-hub.com 
Chicago, IL Kathleen Desautels or Dorothy Pagosa 312.641.5151 dpagosa@claret.org 
Boston, MA ~ Ann Eno ~978.692.5483 
St. Louis, MO Christie Hauck 314.721.2977 ifcla@aol.com 
Syracuse, NY Ed Kinane 315.478.4571 edkinane@a-znet.com
Philadelphia, PA Linda Panetta 215.473.2162 or 215.477.5892
soawne@aol.com 
San Antonio, TX ~ Shoko, Timon, Hauke, Andy ~ 210.271.3630 
Norfolk, VA Patrice Schwermer 757.583.0291 or 757.858.8176 
Takoma, WA Bruce Triggs 253.572.6582 guadalope@juno.com

BACKGROUND: On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Congress dismissed the Moakley mendment, accepted the Pentagon proposal to close the SOA and open an SOA Clone  the very next day. The House opted to change the SOA=92s name rather than close its doors. The name is basically all that is changed. The Pentagon=92s deceptive proposal is not a move towards responsible policy for Latin America. It is merely an attempt to silence those working for human rights and justice. It is an attempt to silence the bloody truth about the School of Assassins, but THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SILENCED!

Support in the House was strong and the amendment lost by only ten votes! All week long people fighting to close the SOA lobbied on Capitol Hill, but human rights activists weren=92t the only ones lobbying. Secretary of the Army Caldera, Col. Weidner and Colin Powell were there lobbying to keep the SOA open at any cost. This shows we are the threat of a good example, we are winning and now is the time to rise up!

Register your outrage at the congressional vote to accept the Pentagon=92s SOA Clone. Let the White House, the Pentagon and Congress know that we are not falling for the Pentagon deception and we REJECT THE SOA CLONE!

Come to Washington to participate in civil disobedience and demonstrations at the White House, Pentagon and other locales, hook into organizing in your own community or organize yourself! Bring your spirit of hope and resistance, bring your outrage, bring your passion, bring your creativity and bring your puppets and banners and help send the message that the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS MUST BE CLOSED!

----

Los Alamos Wildfire Update, from KRSN Radio


All neighborhoods are now open to residents. Most roadblocks have been removed.  The Fire Department and Forest Service are monitoring all black areas and will not respond to hot spots in remote areas. These areas are not currently a threat to the community or to any property, and will probably continue for a few weeks or until it rains.  Protection Technology Los Alamos is Posted to Traffic Checkpoints Around the Lab controlling access. More info in LANL Information: http://krsn.= losalamos.com/lanl.asp. You can also check LANL's website - http://www.lanl.gov/.


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Essentially it asks Clinton and Putin at the Moscow Summit on 4/5 June, to go for the lowest possible START-III warhead numbers, and not to proceed with the NMD system. It reminds them forcefully of the final document from the NPT Revcon which has just finished, esp where the NMD is concerned. It's already got the signatures of CDI, WILPF, WCP, Abolition2000, TVC, Proposition One, PSR, and a number of members of the European Parliament, the Belgian Parliament and the Australian parliament. You are urged to sign it as a matter of urgency, given the shortness of time beween now and the Moscow summit. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON +1-202-456-2461, +1-202-456-2883, +1-202-456-6218, 456-6201 PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173 7-095-205-4219 CC FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV +7-095-244-3276, +7-095-244-2203 SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202- 647-6047 MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV +7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323, DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN +1-703-695-1149 Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin, We the undersigned, are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear weapons. The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations (or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been shown repeatedly in UN resolutions calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed. Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis for your Moscow discussions include: (1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference with a joint statement pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded that they consider the word 'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons. There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement may in fact mean 'forever'. Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is exactly the opposite of what needs to happen. The NWS statement fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its interpretation of Article VI of the NPT, it unanimously stated: "There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control." A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted in the final declaration of the NPT Review, in which the NWS made an 'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals'. This position however, represents a bare minimum. The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of your compliance with it. (2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status. The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'. We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status. The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning' makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. (3)Implementation of START-II The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to the implementation of START-II. This is highly uncertain due to US Senate opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols. Consequently, both sides should should agree to unilateral reciprocal measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures. (4)START-III The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to agree to irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons. If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your nuclear arsenals down to zero. (5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the 'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty. This and the NWS statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment. We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system, and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow such a deployment. As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals. The UN Secretary-General, New Agenda Coalition, Non-Aligned Movement, European Union, the other NWS and others have all strongly reaffirmed the importance of retaining the ABM Treaty. The deployment of a costly system of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories. The recent NPT Review shows that the whole world wants you to take immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals. Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons under strict international control. Signed: Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NY/Geneva., Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England, Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Commander Robert D. 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Peace, MK For Immediate Release: Wednesday eve, May 24, 2000 Contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 SANDIA NATIONAL LAB CALLS FOR MAJOR CUTS AT LIVERMORE LAB'S PROBLEM-RIDDLED MEGA-LASER; CALIFORNIA GROUP PREDICTS $10 BILLION PRICE TAG FOR NIF AND SAYS CANCEL IT OUTRIGHT In an unprecedented move, Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico today officially broke ranks with its "sister" lab in California and issued a public statement calling for cuts in both size and budget for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser, currently under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "The apparent delay and significant increase in cost for the NIF is sufficient that it will disrupt the investment needed at the other laboratories, and perhaps by the production plants, by several years," said Tom Hunter, Sandia's vice-president for nuclear weapons programs. Today's statement puts Sandia Lab at odds with the policy of its parent agency, the Department of Energy (DOE), which announced earlier this month it would seek an additional $95 million for NIF in fiscal year 2001. This increase would come on top of the $350 million already requested for the mega-laser in the coming fiscal year. (NIF budget summary faxed upon request) Following a report last year by Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore-based organization that monitors nuclear weapons activities, DOE announced that NIF was more than $350 million over budget and one and one-half years behind schedule. With NIF the object of continuing investigations both inside and outside of the Department, on May 3rd DOE was forced to revise its numbers upward, admitting that NIF's construction costs would essentially double -- from $1.2 billion to over $2 billion. Further, the NIF construction schedule would slip five years, according to DOE, from 2003 to 2008. "This causes us to question what is a reasonable additional investment in the NIF," said Tom Hunter in explaining Sandia Lab's position today. The Sandia statement calls for "a reduced project," though it stops short of making a specific recommendation on how many of NIF's proposed 192 laser beams should be abandoned. "Scientists at Sandia and other DOE laboratories have been discussing a one-quarter NIF option for some time now," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs. "It is the opinion of a number of scientists that NIF construction should be limited to 48 laser beams." "Many scientists at the DOE labs are worried that NIF will rob money from other, more valuable programs," Kelley added. "For example, an astrophysics program was recently canceled at Livermore Lab and staff scientists there expressed a belief that their funding had been diverted to NIF." Tri-Valley CAREs' recommendation goes one step further than Sandia's. "We advocate cancellation of the entire NIF project," explained Kelley. "NIF's technical problems will cause its price tag to continue to spiral upward. Moreover, NIF is simply not a necessary facility in order to ensure the 'safety' or the 'reliability' of existing nuclear weapons -- a fact that many prominent weapons physicists have already pointed out," she continued. "Add to this that NIF poses very real proliferation and environmental risks, and you have in a nutshell the reasons we want to see it stopped." In the wake of jolting revelations about NIF's severe technical difficulties, mismanagement and continuing budget overruns, the General Accounting Office began an investigation late last year. During a recent Congressional briefing, the GAO told members of the Science Committee that DOE still underestimates NIF's costs by around $1.5 billion, according to a New Mexico newspaper account. Add the GAO's tally of the extra $1.5 billion to the current construction estimate of $2.1 billion, and that brings the price tag for NIF to $3.6 billion, all before construction is completed in 2008 and the switch is thrown to start NIF's proposed 192 beams. Tri-Valley CAREs has conducted its own independent analysis of NIF costs, and the group projects the mega-laser will consume at least $3.7 billion by 2008. "In round numbers, this is very similar to the GAO estimate," said Kelley. "However, when the out-year program and operating costs over NIF's 'life-cycle' are factored in, that figure will balloon to $10 billion," she predicted. -- 30 -- FYI -- a "same day" news story can be found at www.abqtrib.com, and copies of the statement issued by Sandia National Laboratory can be obtained from their Albuquerque press office. 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Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Theodore Postol, professor of science and national security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short Paul Newman video to be premiered at the news conference; ----------- From "Nader for Prez! w.votenader.org" NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS Greens/Green Party USA Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago The International Conference Center of the Ecumenical Institute and The Institute of Cultural Affairs 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL. 60640, (773) 769-6363 (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are pay phones available in the building) Email is: iccchgo@aol.com Check out International Conference Center's site: http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm 2000 Greens/Green Party USA Congress Schedule and Agenda (draft) * Late Proposals can be added to the agenda by the Green Congress -- Nader is currently on the ballot in about 15 states, with most states petitioning RIGHT NOW. If you can help in your local petition drive, email me individually, not through the list serve, and I can send you a local contact so you can help out. greg gerritt co-chair Green National Convention Credentials Committee ---------- Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE" I suggest that the federal government take a proactive look at using low-voltage nuclear transmutation methods such as the ones being developed by Trenergy, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah [e.g. http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html]. 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Buchanan Room (downstairs).  Speakers: Bruce Gagnon, coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Theodore Postol, professor of science and national security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short  Paul Newman video to be premiered at the news conference; 

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NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS
Greens/Green Party USA
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago
The International Conference Center of the Ecumenical Institute and The
Institute of Cultural Affairs 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL. 60640,
(773) 769-6363 (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are pay
phones available in the building) Email is: iccchgo@aol.com
Check out International Conference Center's site:
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2000 Greens/Green Party USA Congress Schedule and Agenda (draft)
* Late Proposals can be added to the agenda by the Green Congress

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Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE"


I suggest that the federal government take a proactive look at using low-voltage nuclear transmutation methods such as the ones being developed by Trenergy, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah [e.g. http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html]. Gary

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--=====================_49847399==_.ALT-- - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Organisations Signatures Urgently needed for Moscow Summit Letter Date: 26 May 2000 18:47:37 +1000 ORGANISATIONAL SIGNATURES URGENTLY NEEDED - Sign by emailing FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Dear All, On June 4/5, Presidents Putin and Clinton will meet in Moscow. High in the list of things they are expected to discuss is the possibility of START-III negotiations, and the US plan to weaken the ABM treaty by deploying a national missile defence (NMD) system. This comes on the heels of a prolonged review meeting of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty at UN headquarters, in which the nuclear weapons powers have undertaken the 'unequivocal and total' elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and in which the ABM treaty's importance has been strongly affirmed by everyone from the UN secretary - general downwards. This letter urges Putin and Clinton to negotiate the lowest possible START-III warhead levels with a view to going to zero, and urges that the BMD system not be deployed. It needs signatures immediately if it is to be faxed in sufficient time to Putin and Clinton. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON +1-202-456-2461, +1-202-456-2883, +1-202-456-6218, 456-6201 PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173 7-095-205-4219 CC FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV +7-095-244-3276, +7-095-244-2203 SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202- 647-6047 MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV +7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323, DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN +1-703-695-1149 Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin, We the undersigned, are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear weapons. The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations (or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been shown repeatedly in UN resolutions calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed. Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis for your Moscow discussions include: (1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference with a joint statement pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded that they consider the word 'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons. There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement may in fact mean 'forever'. Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is exactly the opposite of what needs to happen. The NWS statement fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its interpretation of Article VI of the NPT, it unanimously stated: "There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control." A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted in the final declaration of the NPT Review, in which the NWS made an 'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals'. This position however, represents a bare minimum. The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of your compliance with it. (2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status. The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'. We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status. The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning' makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. (3)Implementation of START-II The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to the implementation of START-II. This is highly uncertain due to US Senate opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols. Consequently, both sides should should agree to unilateral reciprocal measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures. (4)START-III The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to agree to irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons. If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your nuclear arsenals down to zero. (5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the 'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty. This and the NWS statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment. We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system, and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow such a deployment. As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals. The UN Secretary-General, New Agenda Coalition, Non-Aligned Movement, European Union, the other NWS and others have all strongly reaffirmed the importance of retaining the ABM Treaty. The deployment of a costly system of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories. The recent NPT Review shows that the whole world wants you to take immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals. Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons under strict international control. Signed: Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NY/Geneva., Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England, Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother, Secy., World Court Project UK, Hailsham, Sussex, UK., Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK., Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK., Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK., Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK., Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands, Eloi Glorieux, MP Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium., Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member, Brussels, Belgium., Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland., Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania, Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary, Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria, Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia., Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia., Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia., Victor Khazan, Zelenyi Zvit (FOE Ukraine), Dniepropretrovsk, Ukraine, Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable Development, Kiev, Ukraine., Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt. Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Costa-Rica., Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada, Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada, David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada., Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada, Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance., Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native Exchange, Vancouver, Canada, David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada, Rear-Admiral Eugene J. 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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/26 - 1) Daybook; 2) Presidential Candidates; Date: 26 May 2000 07:28:47 -0400 --=====================_850075==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 The Institute of Medicine holds= a workshop, "Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems." Location: National Research Council, Cecil and Ida Green= Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-1318. =20 Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State Department holds a background briefing on President Clinton's trip to Russia. Location: Press Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607. 2) Presidential Candidates: V.P. Al Gore - http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm 7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova, Tenn. 12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents, teachers= and administrators, gymnasium. Ralph Nader On The Road - http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html Today, May 26: 12:00 pm March = =20 Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that rent space to Outside physicians who deny workman=D5s comp claims for= insurance companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital=20 8:00 pm Speech Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating for 300 Contact: Jim Sykes (907) 745-6962, (907) 278-3661 Steve Cleary (907)= 222-1630=20 Tomorrow, May 27 - Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds 200= people 20 South Vineyard Blvd 3) Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00 Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile "Offense" system a "boondoggle" and "scam," and suggested that the sudden= classification of Dr. Theodore Postol's letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up" that "won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with him. Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at length= about why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to prove that it= would be easy to fool any missile detection system with heated mylar balloons. = Dr. Postol said he hadn't received personal notice from the government that his letter is classified, and that it can be found online at the Moscow= Institute of Technology (see below). A member of the audience advised that Federation= of American Scientists also has the letter on their website (www.fas.org). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: http://www.armscontrol.ru/ Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of Prof. Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of Staff, Letter, May 18, 2000: http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf Attachments A., B., and C. 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Dennis Kucinich (again appearing) called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to de-alert= nuclear weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5. =20 ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Subscribe to NucNews: prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor) About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm NucNews - E-Mailed: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Excellent e-mail news resources: DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com - http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://downwinders@onelist.com=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org -= http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark/Reuters - anna@planetark.org - http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) radbull@dax.energy-net.org=20 Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. --=====================_850075==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
1) Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse

      Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 Th= e Institute of Medicine holds a workshop, "Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems." Location: National Research Council, Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-1318.
 
    Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State Department holds a background briefing on President Clinton's trip to Russia. Location: Press Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607.

2) Presidential Candidates:

7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova, Tenn.
12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents, teachers and administrators, gymnasium.

Today, May 26:
12:00 pm March            = ;            &nb= sp;            &= nbsp;            = ;            &nb= sp;            &= nbsp;       Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that rent space to Outside physicians who deny workmanÕs comp claims for insurance companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital
8:00 pm Speech
Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating for 300 Contact: Jim Sykes (907) 745-6962, (907) 278-3661 Steve Cleary (907) 222-1630
Tomorrow, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech
Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds 200 people 20 South Vineyard Blvd

3)  Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile "Offense" system a "boondoggle" and "scam," and suggested that the sudden classification of Dr. Theodore Postol's letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up" that "won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with him. Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at length about why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to prove that it would be easy to fool any missile detection system with heated mylar balloons.  Dr. Postol said he hadn't received personal notice from the government that his letter is classified, and that it can be found online at the Moscow Institute of Technology (see below).  A member of the audience advised that Federation of American Scientists also has the letter on their website (www.fas.org).

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of Prof. Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of Staff,
Letter, May 18, 2000:

Attachments A., B., and C. (all in PDF format)

4) Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol Building yesterday at 3 p.m., at which he and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (again appearing) called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to de-alert nuclear weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5. 




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Alioe Slater >Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:21:04 -0400 >Subject: nuclear chat >To: aslater@gracelinks.org >From: dianehatz@gracelinks.org (dianehatz@gracelinks.org) > >maybe some nuclear people should called into the chat to mention the >environmental destruction of nuclear energy....... > > >Live Chat >Upcoming chats >Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with >Maureen Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy >Institute. This chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. >Join a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of >green fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a >biodiesel that people can refine on their own. >Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the >Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. >The chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on >birds, particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and >what the songs mean. >For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at >dskillman@enn.com . >For more information: >http://chat.enn.com/ > > > > >Diane Hatz >Communications Director >Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) >15 East 26th Street, Room 915 >New York, NY 10010 >tel. 212-726-9161 >fax 212-726-9160 >www.gracelinks.org > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - 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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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: press release Date: 26 May 2000 16:37:04 -0400 --=====================_369876123==_ Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/plain"; boundary="=====================_369876123==_.REL" --=====================_369876123==_.REL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable News Release for Immediate Release=AD MAY 25, 2000 Contacts: Jordan Benjamin 202-822-5200 Stephen Kent 914-424-8382 Blinding Us With =93Science=94 Critics Charge National Missile Defense Fanfare Conceals Massive Campaign Contributions from Defense Contractors, Falsified Test Results, Damage to US National Security, US Rejection of Disarmament Opportunity, & Hidden Agenda For Offensive Space-Based Weapons [Washington, DC --May 25, 2000] As President Clinton prepares to depart for the Moscow summit next week, missile defense is at the top of the national agenda. While funding authorization for limited national missile defense (NMD) moves through Congress, George W. Bush this week made a proposal for reductions in nuclear arsenals coupled with an expanded missile defense program. Proponents say missile defense is a way of applying American technological know-how to shield the US from a perceived threat of nuclear attack by "rogue states." But experts presented new evidence today of massive defense lobby spending to push it through Congress, falsified test results and fraudulent science, and underlying agendas pursued at the cost of spurning nuclear disarmament opportunities and directly compromising US national security. Missile defense, they warned, is a smokescreen obscuring and exacerbating growing nuclear danger, and concealing its ultimate agenda, which is to create space-based and other futuristic offensive weapons. These points were made at a DC press conference today by spokespeople as diverse as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), an outspoken critic of US nuclear policy, and actor Paul Newman, appearing by video (broadcast copies available), whose role in a 1966 Hitchcock film about an "anti-missile missile" system influenced President Reagan's conception of Star Wars. The conference was co-sponsored by the Global Resource Action Coalition for the Environment (GRACE), the Fourth Freedom Forum and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It laid out in detail the rapidly mounting case against deploying NMD, as Congress, the White House, and George W. Bush all seem prepared to do. It also made the case for the US to engage Russia's unprecedented offers of new nuclear treaties plus deep cuts in nuclear arsenals to 1000-1500 warheads when President Clinton meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week. =AD 2 =AD Bush Proposal Fatally Flawed Commenting on the Bush proposal for an expansive missile defense program, including space-based weapons, GRACE president Alice Slater said, " Bush talks about rejecting the Cold War mentality, but Star Wars is worse than the Cold War, because it means a whole new arms race. At least while the Cold War was on we signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and ruled out new weapons development. Now we're abandoning those commitments to pursue destabilizing space-based weaponry." Strategic policy analyst Jack Mendelsohn says Bush=92s linkage of missile defense with deep cuts in arsenals is contradictory. =93It is impossible= to mix steep nuclear force reductions with the deployment of a robust national missile defense, let alone the kind of space-based weapon Star Wars system Bush envisions," he said. "If the US deploys NMD, China must increase its arsenal to defeat it. Russia has to maintain a large arsenal on hair-trigger alert to defeat it, plus deal with Chinese escalation, as must India. To talk about building missile defense and cutting arsenals in the same breath is empty rhetoric. NMD will have a provocative effect on China and a chilling effect on Russia." US Sends Contradictory Signals To Russia The Clinton administration faces the same sort of contradiction going into the Moscow summit as it seeks cuts in nuclear arsenals with Russia while pushing for NMD deployment. According to Steven Schwartz, publisher of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, documents the Bulletin obtained show the US actually encouraged Russia to put an increased number nuclear warheads aimed at the US on hair-trigger alert so that it will be assured of defeating a US missile shield and acquiesce in NMD deployment, even at the price of lost opportunities for de-alerting and deep cuts. By the same logic of needing to justify the assertion that NMD would not affect Russia=92s nuclear deterrent, at a May 23 Senate hearing the Joint Chiefs of Staff reiterated they would oppose cuts in Russia=92s arsenal below 2000-2500 warheads, even though Russia wants to go lower. Falsified NMD Test Results If the hidden costs of missile defense to US security include more Russian warheads on heightened alert, they are not likely to be balanced by anytime soon by practical gains in US ability to stop an attack from even a single incoming missile, according to a new report by MIT scientist Ted Postol entitled =93Scientific Fraud in the National Missile Defense Program.=94= Postol advises the US Chief of Naval Operations on ballistic missile technologies, and was the expert who discredited the myth propagated by the defense industry that Patriot missiles shot down Scuds accurately during Desert Storm. He charges, together with former TRW employee- turned-whistleblower Neera Schwartz, that even the limited successes reported in NMD tests were falsified. The story broke last week in The New York Times. The letter Postol wrote to the White House detailing the charges has since been classified by the Pentagon, although the details are explained in Postol=92s new report. The New York Times says the charges, if true, "could cripple or kill the proposed weapons system." =AD 3 =AD New Figures on Massive Defense Contractor Contributions =93Test results may indicate national missile defense may have a low probability of successfully defending the country from long-range ballistic missiles,=94 said Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute, =93but it has= a very high probability of defending the profit margin of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and TRW.=94According to a new report Hartung unveiled= today, these four companies have split more than 2.2 billion in missile defense R& D in the last two years alone, which represents roughly 60% of all contracts let by the Pentagon during FY =9198 and =9199. The four gave over $2= million in campaign contributions in this election cycle to 25 pro-NMD Senators who signed an April letter to the White House demanding President Clinton not cut any deals with Moscow that would limit the missile defense program.=20 The report is posted to the World Policy Institute website, www.worldpolicy.org. A Thinly Veiled Bid for Space-Based Weapons Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, warns that the NMD program is a thinly veiled bid for the militarization of space. National weapons lab research under the Stockpile Stewardship program coupled with US nuclear weapons policy directives and speculation on space-based weapons such as Bush made this week, telegraph an intent to build on missile defense infrastructure to develop systems which are anything but defensive. The labs are at work on projects to achieve global military dominance from space with technolgies such as exotic fusion-powered direct energy weapons. In the US Space Command document =93Vision for 2020=94 (available at www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace) the US Air Force openly portrays missile defense as a platform to create systems for =93dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investments, integrating space forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.=94 In a significant move, the US Space Command has recently changed its name to the US Space and Missile Defense Command. # # # For further information, contact Jordan Benjamin, 202-822-5200 or Stephen Kent 914-424-8382. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] >> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:37 PM >> To: jordan@fenton.com >> Subject: press release >> >> >> Hi Jordan, >> Could you email me the press release as an attachment that i could post >to >> our email lists? Many thanks. Alice >> Alice Slater >> Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) >> 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 >> New York, NY 10010 >> tel: (212) 726-9161 >> fax: (212) 726-9160 >> email: aslater@gracelinks.org >> http://www.gracelinks.org >> >> GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the >elimination >> nuclear weapons. 160af177.jpg grace day off release.wpd=20 --=====================_369876123==_.REL Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="160af177.jpg"; x-mac-type="4A504547"; x-mac-creator="4A565752" Content-ID: <4.0.2.20000526163624.00cbd120@204.141.205.3.0> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="160af177.jpg" /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB AQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB AQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/wAARCAAgACADASIA AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQA AAF9AQIDAAQRBRIhMUEGE1FhByJxFDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3 ODk6Q0RFRkdISUpTVFVWV1hZWmNkZWZnaGlqc3R1dnd4eXqDhIWGh4iJipKTlJWWl5iZmqKjpKWm p6ipqrKztLW2t7i5usLDxMXGx8jJytLT1NXW19jZ2uHi4+Tl5ufo6erx8vP09fb3+Pn6/8QAHwEA AwEBAQEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtREAAgECBAQDBAcFBAQAAQJ3AAECAxEEBSEx BhJBUQdhcRMiMoEIFEKRobHBCSMzUvAVYnLRChYkNOEl8RcYGRomJygpKjU2Nzg5OkNERUZHSElK U1RVVldYWVpjZGVmZ2hpanN0dXZ3eHl6goOEhYaHiImKkpOUlZaXmJmaoqOkpaanqKmqsrO0tba3 uLm6wsPExcbHyMnK0tPU1dbX2Nna4uPk5ebn6Onq8vP09fb3+Pn6/9oADAMBAAIRAxEAPwD+0n4s fD3wD8Sv2kfgnoXxG8D+D/H+iWnwQ/aQ1a10fxr4a0XxVpVtqsHjz9lmzg1O30/XbK/tIdQhtL++ tYr2OFbmO2vbuBJBFcTK/Yf8Mn/ss/8ARtXwA/8ADN/Dr/5nKPEf/J03wb/7IB+0r/6sX9k+v5m3 /wCCyn/BSTwb4q8NfD3xvqv7Bvir4reKL39sX4T2Hw08J/s6/HnwhBqfx9/Zm+K0X7IN1/wr7xlq /wC2l418SfEz4ZeDP2o/G3gb41/Ejyfg94R8aXH/AAT0+GX7TXxxk034e/ET4e6P8NtX9PLcnzHN /rSy7D/WZYOlQr4iEa1CnVVPE47CZZQdKlVq06mInVx+PweGjSw8atV1MRTvBRbkvh+NfEjgvw6W Qy4zzn+w6PEuYZrleU4qrl2a4rA1MZknCnEPHObLHY/L8Di8Hk+HwPCfCfEeeV8dnFfAYGODyjF2 xEq0YUp/0C/tCfsn/AL/AIUF8cP+EF/Zq+EH/Cbf8Kg+Jf8Awh3/AAifwb8F/wDCVf8ACVf8IXrX /CPf8I1/Y/hz+1/+Eg/tf7J/Y39l/wDEx/tH7N9h/wBJ8qvgD9gr9vnXfCPx28L/ALAfxwt/2sPH Oh+Mv+Elsf2LP2sv2gf2Q/2w/gTrXxRsPBHg7XPiDrX7PHx08Q/tI/Bb4cTeJvjh4D+GvhXxP4r8 H/GGO+1mb4weAPBviOy+L2pRfGzwtZ/Eb9pv4D+Fv/BX7/gqF8f/ABLpnwe+EUv7Acvxzvfi78TP 2cvC+ny/Ab47+LPhx8Rvi/4F+Mf7Xmj3C+NfFtv+2T4Nf9lzVvBHwC/ZhvP2gPjJ8FtRg/aH8beH vgfq3w2+Lnw18U/Fjxz+0j8Nf2ZPDX7N/ttf8nuf8EbP+zwP2kf/AF2p+2rU5jlOPymVCGPpU6M8 RTqVacIYrCYiahSxNfCTdWGGr1pUH7fDVoxhXVOdSEVWpxlRqU6k9OC/EHhPxBoZpiuEsfjMywuT 4zBYDG4qvkWf5PhXiswyTKuIsNDA4jO8ry6jmtN5TnWW1q+IyqeNw+ExFepl2Lq0MywmMwlD6/8A Ef8AydN8G/8AsgH7Sv8A6sX9k+v44Pjf8O/jl4c+JPiHxn4C/Yb/AGqfHXxp+Cn/AAUv/bC8Qan8 Sl/ZH/aI1Oz+Fv7Hn7Sv/BT/AMT+KPjF8VPgdcax8Ftb8DftDat8VPgzf+A/C9rpX7Pt14x+NOlf Cf4jeN/iT4Mm07wV4M+KlxH/AFMftW/tb/swfsjftD/s9+Kf2oPj78J/gJ4e8WfBj9pvQPDGrfFX xvoPgy18QazbeOP2U9RutO0dtavLVtRuLSxia5u1tVlW1jeE3DRm4gEnD/8AD6z/AIJIf9JG/wBj /wD8Pj4H/wDlrXp8McU5jwni8Zjcsp4OpXxuA/s+UsZRnWVCCx+AzGGIwyhVouljKOJy7Dyw+JvK eHletQ9niYUK9H4fxz8BeDPpB5Bw1w1xzjeJMJlXDPFi4uoUeG8yw2WSzTFS4T4r4MxOT55LE5fm Ecw4bzHJeMc3oZvkrhSw+c0nDLs1eMyTEZnlWYfKH/BID9jTQvBfxG+O/wC2C/wV8U/BKw8a6t47 8GfBPwv8QPh/45+FnxH8SQ/FvxZ4Y+Mf7W/7RHjzwh8RIPCfxT0vVvjz8ZvD/wAN/hRo3gf43fD+ 21vwH4J/Y68KeMvgxq9p8G/jpp+kn6v/AG2v+T3P+CNn/Z4H7SP/AK7U/bVo/wCH1n/BJD/pI3+x /wD+Hx8D/wDy1r5I+KH7e/7FH7XP7fn/AASL8J/sw/tVfAf48eKfCv7VH7RfiHxF4a+F/wAS/C3i 7X9I0Cb/AIJw/toaauuXmjaTqNxqKaOmo3FrYXGpi2aytb2+0+1uZ4Z9Qso5/PzvN8Vn2a47N8bG hTxGOrurKjhaXscLh4KMadDC4WjzTdPDYWhCnh8PCU6k40aUFOpUmpTl9h4YeHWQeEvAHCvhzwzV zTFZNwpldPL6GYZ7jf7Sz3OMVOrVxeaZ7nuYKjh6eNzzPs1xONznOMVRwuEw9fMsdiqmGwmEw8qe Gpf/2Q== --=====================_369876123==_.REL-- --=====================_369876123==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. --=====================_369876123==_-- - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT Report-Exceptions to Final Consensus Date: 26 May 2000 19:23:32 -0400 Dear Friends, Having stuck with the grinding NPT Review through four weeks in the basement of the UN, even until 5:00 AM Saturday morning (although the delegates "stopped the clock" at 10 minutes to midnite--a diplomatic fiction that their work would be completed on Friday) and having returned on Saturday at 11:00 am to 7:00 pm when the meeting finally adjourned, I have a few notes to add to the excellent reporting that has already been posted. After consensus was reached on the final report which deleted the nefarious word "ultimate" and instead adopted the New Agenda language of an "unequivocal undertaking by the Nuclear Weapons States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals", as well as some other welcomed promises which have been posted previously, there were exceptions raised orally to the final consensus. According to my notes, China stated that the weaponization of space "impedes nuclear non-proliferation", that the Nuclear Weapons States with the biggest stockpiles should take the lead in reductions, abandon deterrence, adopt positions of no-first use, "abolish the nuclear umbrella" and "withdraw nuclear weapons to your own borders". It noted that "these issues have been neglected." China added that the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty should be "phased in with the prevention of an arms race in outer space" and that the "CD should deal with three issues: Outer Space, FMCT, and nuclear disarmament." It also stated that greater transparency without those measures "is infeasible." Russia re-affirmed its commitment to the ABM Treaty and stated that without it, "it is impossible to make progress on nuclear disarmament." It further stated that "strategic stability" means to "strenghthen international security to enable future cuts in nuclear weapons and conventional arms." On the so-called "peaceful uses" of nuclear energy, the final document had language which "recognized the importance of the concept of sustainable development as a guiding principle for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The Conference endorses the role of IAEA in assisting Member States, upon request, in formulating projects that meet the objective of protecting the global environment by applying sustainable development approaches." AN OXYMORON, FOR SURE!! Three countries took exception to this language: Germany, Austria ("can't accept this wording. Nuclear power is not able to play a role in sustainable development") and Denmark. Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Organisations Pls Sign Clinton/Putin Moscow Summit Date: 27 May 2000 15:37:18 +1000 URGING AS MANY ORGANISATIONS AS POSSIBLE TO SIGN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE To sign, email me at FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear All, Presidents Clinton and Putin are meeting in Moscow on June 4/5, but Clinton leaves the US on 30th. This letter urges Clinton and Putin, in the light of the recent NPT Review, to go for the lowest possible START-III warhead totals and not to proceed with an NMD system. (Those who have already signed, please note that two paras noting the May 1 P5 statement, refering to 'ultimate' elimination of weapons have been removed. The letter rests now completely on the NPT Review final declaration and on the ICJ interpretation of Article VI.) This makes it clearer and tighter than before. I urge you to sign it. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON +1-202-456-2461, +1-202-456-2883, +1-202-456-6218, 456-6201 PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN +7-095-205-4330, +7-095-206-5173 7-095-205-4219 CC FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV +7-095-244-3276, +7-095-244-2203 SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT +1-202- 647-6047 MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV +7-095-247-2722, +7-095-293-3323, DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN +1-703-695-1149 Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin, We the undersigned, are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear weapons. The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations (or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been shown repeatedly in UN resolutions calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed. Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis for your Moscow discussions include: (1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal authority, reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its interpretation of Article VI of the NPT, unanimously stated: "There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control." In the final declaration of the NPT Review, the NWS made an 'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals'. This position however, represents a bare minimum. The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of your compliance with it. (2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status. The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'. We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status. The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning' makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. (3)Implementation of START-II The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to the implementation of START-II. This is highly uncertain due to US Senate opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols. Consequently, both sides should should agree to unilateral reciprocal measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1 levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures. (4)START-III The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to agree to irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons. If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your nuclear arsenals down to zero. (5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the 'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty. This and the NWS statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment. We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system, and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow such a deployment. As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals. The UN Secretary-General, New Agenda Coalition, Non-Aligned Movement, European Union, the other NWS and others have all strongly reaffirmed the importance of retaining the ABM Treaty. The deployment of a costly system of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories. The recent NPT Review shows that the whole world wants you to take immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals. Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons under strict international control. Signed: Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NY/Geneva., Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England, Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Commander Robert D. 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Gary -----Original Message----- Sickened By Atmpospheric Testing & Nuke Plants -----Original Message----- Atmpospheric Testing & Nuke Plants > For Bookmarking this site: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/bertell.html > > The following is from the November 1999 "The Ecologist" Volume 29, No. 7 from pages 408 to 411. > > > Copies can be obtained in the USA at: Phone:510-548-2032, Fax:510-548-4916 > > > Main Office in UK: Phone:0171-351-3578, Fax:0171-351-3617 E-mail: ecologist@gn.apc.org > > > "VICTIMS OF THE NUCLEAR AGE" Up to 1,300 million people have been killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since its inception. The industry's figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims from the world. Here, the author calculates the real number of victims of the nuclear age. By Dr. Rosalie Bertell > > > On the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, I was standing at a public meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, listening to the story of one of the firemen employed to clean up the site after the explosion. These workers took huge doses of radiation during this task, and their story is a terrifying one.About 600,000 men were conscripted as Chernobyl 'liquidators' [also called bio-robots']: farmers, factory workers,miners, and soldiers- as well as professionals like the firemen- from all >across Russia. Some of these men lifted pieces of radioactive metal with their bare hands. They had to fight more than 300 fires created by the chunks of burning material spewed off by the inferno. They buried trucks, fire engines, cars and all sorts of personal belongings. They felled a forest and completely buried it, removed topsoil, bulldozed houses and filled all available clay-lined trenches with radioactive debris. The minimum conscription time was 180 days, but many stayed for a year. Some were threatened with severe punishment to their families if they failed to stay and do their duty. > > > These 'liquidators' are now discarded and forgotten, many vainly trying to establish that the ill health most have >suffered ever since 1986 is a result of their massive exposure to radiation. At the Centre for Radiation Research outside >Kiev, there is an organization of former liquidators. This group reports that by 1995, 13,000 of their members had died- >almost 20 percent of which deaths were suicides. About 70,000 members were estimated to be permanently disabled. But the >members of this organization are the lucky ones. Because many former liquidators are now scattered throughout Russia, they >neither have the benefit of the organization's special hospital, nor of membership of a survivor organization. They are >known as the 'living dead.' > > > The fireman whose story I was listening to seemed to be an exception to this grim litany of illness and death. He was >telling the meeting how pleased and excited he was that, for the first time in ten years, his blood test findings were in >the normal range. I was standing next to a delegate from the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]- the organisation >charged with promoting the use of atomic energy. On hearing the fireman's story, he leaned over to me and said: "You see! We >said these were only transient disorders." A rough translation might read: Chernobyl? What's the problem? > > > IGNORING THE VICTIMS > > > The IAEA man's attitude was perfectly in keeping with that of his organization which, along with the International >Commission on Radiation Protection [ICRP] exists in practice largely to play down the effects of radiation on human health, >and to shield the nuclear industry from compensation claims from the public. The IAEA was set up in the late 1950s by he UN, >to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy- ironically, two contradictory >objectives. The ICRP which evlved from the 1928 International Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection, was set up in the >fifties to explore the health effects of radiation and [theoretically] to protect the public from it. In fact, both >organizations have come to serve the industry rather than the public. > > > The Chernobyl case is a classic example of the IAEA's inadequacy and questionable science. Despite massive evidence to >the contrary, not least from the many thousands of victims themselves, the IAEA insists that only 32 people have so far died >as a result of Chernobyl- those who died in the radiation ward of Hospital six in Moscow.All other deaths related to the >disaster and its aftermath [and there have been many more than 10,000 in Ukraine alone according to the Minister of Health >there] are ignored. Belarus had the highest fallout, and yet there is an international blackout among the IAEA and the rest >of the "radiation protection community" on the suffering of its people > > > The essential problem is that both the IAEA and the ICRP are dealing not with science but with politics and >administration; not with public health but with maintaining an increasingly dubious industry. It is their interests, and >those of the nuclear industry, to play down the health effects of radiation. > > > RESTRICTIVE DEFINITIONS > > > The main way in which the "radiation protection industry" has succeeded in hugely underrating the ill-health caused by >nuclear power is by insisting on a group of extremely restrictive definitions as to what qualifies as a radiation-caused >illness statistic. For example, under IAEA's criteria: > > > If a radiation-caused cancer is not fatal, it is not counted in the IAEA's figures > > If a cancer is initiated by another carcenogen, but accelerated or promoted by exposure to radiation, it is not counted. > > If an auto-immune disease or any non-cancer is caused by radiation, it is not counted. > > Radiation-damaged embryos or foetuses which result in miscarriage or stillbirth do not count > > A congenitally blind, deaf or malformed child whose illnesses are are radiation-related are not included in the figures >because this is not genetic damage, but rather is teratogenic, and will not be passed on later to the child's offspring. > > Causing the genetic predisposition to breast cancer or heart disease does not count since it is not a "serious genetic >disease" in the Mendelian sense. > > Even if radiation causes a fatal cancer or serious genetic disease in a live born infant, it is discounted if the estimated >radiation dose is below 100 mSv [mSv= millisievert,a measurement of radiation exposure. One hundred millsievert is the >equivalent in radiation of about 100 X-Rays]. > > Even if radiation causes a lung cancer, it does not count if the person smokes- in fact whenever there is a possibility of >another cause, radiation cannot be blamed. > > If all else fails, it is possible to claim that radiation below some designated dose does not cause cancer, and then >average over the whole body the radiation dose which has actually been received by one part of the body or even organ, as >for instance when radio-iodine concentrates in the thyroid. This arbitrary dilution of the dose will ensure that the 100 mSv >cut-off point is nowhere near reached. It is a technique used to dismiss the sickness of Gulf War veterans who inhaled small >particles of ceramic uranium which stayed in their lungs for more than two years, and in their bodies for more than eight >years, irradiating and damaging cells in a particular part of the body. > > > THE REAL VICTIMS > > > Despite the authorities' attempt at concealment, we can still begin to enumerate the real victims of the nuclear age. >Although the calculations and statistics which I have brought to bear below do not include all of the human suffering that >has been caused by the nuclear age, a closer look will show that the methodology is adequate for a first estimate of major >damage. The magnitude of the harm already caused is startling, and even more so when we realise many types of damage have >been omitted from this first estimate. > > > In my estimate cancer, whether fatal or non-fatal [excluding non-fatal skin cancer], genetic damage and serious >congenital malformations and diseases will be included in the figures. Other damage is acknowledged but not estimated. >Ultimately, whether or not one cares about the damage caused by radiation exposure is ultimately a human, not a >scientific question. Damage is damage, and causing an unwanted attack on someone's person or reproductive capacity is a >violation of human rights. Such damage can be rated for importance, but it should not be arbitrarily ignored. > > > "Statistics are the people with the tears wiped away" stated one of the Rongelap people of the Republic of the Marshall >Islands, who 'hosted' the United States Bikini nuclear testing in the 1950s. This is the story of many tears, and of a hard >hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering and ill-health that would be the 'acceptable' price to pay for the >world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology. > > > RISK ESTIMATES USED IN THIS ANALYSIS > > >In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and >other nuclear apologists] I will take the customary risk estimates, indicate their probable range of error, and then extend >the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by the regulators. For example, while the nuclear >regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments' by the regulators, others, especially those who endure >a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And limiting genetic effects to live born >offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth. > > > ESTIMATING THE FATAL AND NON-FATAL CANCER RISKS > > > In 1991, the ICRP concluded that the projected lifetime risk of fatal cancer for members of the population exposed Sievert >whole-body radiation at a low dose rate, was between seven and 11 excess fatal cancers, and seven to eight excess fatalities >for in the nuclear industry aged 25 to 64 years. We extend these estimates to non-fatal cancers by estimating the total >number of cancers which were used by the ICRP in order to obtain the number of fatalities. We therefore estimate 16 fatal >and non-fatal cancers if we exclude non-fatal skin cancers] or 36 if we count them.If the estimate of fatal cancers was off >by a factor of two then we can double all those numbers. > > > The estimate I use for cancer 16 per 100 Person Sieverts, but the reader can adjust this estimate to suit other >inclusions, exclusions or uncertainties. > > > ESTIMATING DAMAGE TO AN EMBRYO OR FOETUS > > > According to the BEIR Committee [Bilogical Effects of Ionizing Radiation] 1990 report, a dose of 150 mSv to human male >testes will cause temporary sterility, and a single dose of 3.5 Sv will cause permanent sterility. According to the ICRP in >1991, just 5 mSv to the testes will cause damage to offspring - YET THIS DOSE WAS PERMITTED YEARLY TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, >AND TEN TIMES MORE TO NUCLEAR WORKERS, IN ALL COUNTRIES PRIOR TO 1990. It continues today to be permitted yearly for nuclear >workers in most countries. > > > Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever have. The threshold for permanent female >sterilisation decreases with age, but in general about 650 mSv is considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in >women. After the Bravo event- the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in March 1954- the women >of Rongelap Atoll experienced about five years of sterility. As they regained their sterility, they experienced faulty >pregnancies, miscarrigies, stillbirths and damage to their offspring. Since some radionucleides can be retained in bone or >fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the developing embryo or foetus. Radionucleides in >the mother's body can also be transferred in her breast milk. > > > The official nuclear industry definition of 'detriment' includes only serious genetic disease not judged to be serious, >and teratogenic diseases [those which are not passed on to offspring] are not counted. Recently the 1990 BEIR committee >made one small concession in recognizing mental retardation in children exposed to radiation during the fifth to 15th weeks >of their mother's pregnancy. Radiation kills brain cells, causing both an underdeveloped brain [microcephaly] and mental >retardation. For the individual child, BEIR estimates that a dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause a range of problems >from poor school performance to severe mental retardation. > > > GENETIC DAMAGE > > > The U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation [UNSCEAR] and BEIR both agree that a population of one >million live births exposed to 100 Person Sieverts will result in one to three genetic damage effects to offspring, and so >to the human gene pool. The doubling dose for genetic effects [the dose that will cause twice as many genetic effects] is >more contentious, with some geneticists claiming that it is 2.5 Sv, and others claiming much greater sensitivity with a 0.12 >Sv doubling dose. If the latter is true, then the increase in genetic effects will be 8.3 per cent for every 10mSv and >therefore 83 such effects per million live births when the total averaged dose is 100 Person Sieverts rather than the 4 >such effects in the first instance. On the conservative side, we have taken 10 genetic effects to be the number for exposed >offspring. > > > ESTIMATE OF TERATOGENIC EFFECTS' > > > The damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can >lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies including permanent damage to the brain, mental deficiency, skull >deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities, growth retardation and childhood cancer. A total of >all those effects, including mortality, amount to 46, of which 25 are live born. > > When we summarise those risk estimates, we get 16 cancers, 10 genetic effects and 25 congenital effects for one million >exposed to 100 Person Sieverts.The task now is to apply those numbers for the global population from industrial nuclear >activities, including weapons testing in the fifties, sixties and early seventies and electricity production from nuclear >power over the past half century. When we do this we find that weapons testing has lead to nearly 376 million cancers, 235 >million genetic effects and 587 million teratogenic effects to give A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 1,200 MILLION. Meanwhile, >electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have lead to another million victims,of which as many >one-fifth will have been premature cancer deaths. Although not officially accounted for, about 500 million foetuses would >have also been lost as stillbirths during that period from radiation exposure while in the womb. > > > Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with more than 10 million victims a year. An industry >which has the potential to kill, injure and maim that number of innocent people- and all in the name of 'benefitting' >society >- is surely wholly unacceptable. > > >Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health and Editor in Chief of >International Perspectives in Public Health and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health [IICPH]. Dr. >Bertell can be reached via e-mail at: drrbertell@home.com > > > Maybe we can get the anti-abortion crowd aware of this mass slaughter of embryos and >foetuses. > > > International war crimes arrest warrants ought also to be issued for the perpetrators of these crimes. People in the >United States like Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, Michael Jordan CEO of Westinghouse and the usual litany of military >types, mostly Soviet & American. Does anyone know anything about initiating legal proceedings against these >people? > > > -Bill Smirnow > > > >------End forward 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erippy@jps.net Subject: (abolition-usa) Need help on radiation health science Date: 27 May 2000 17:33:23 -0700 I'm in a (principled) argument (on another list) over the science & politix of health-effects modeling for low-level radiation. I've read (basically) John Gofman's critiques of the A- bomb studies & Benjamin Gould's analysis of Three Mile Island data. But I'll need a lot more, preferably good lit reviews & critiques of 'establishment' science -- also well-documented instances of suppression & denial. Thanks, Ed Rippy Any time religion renders people passive and powerless, it deserves the dishonorable title of 'opiate.' -- Daisaku Ikeda, 'Peace Through Dialogue: A Time to Talk' - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/28 - Announcements Date: 28 May 2000 09:42:36 -0400 --=====================_40751320==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sunday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. - Airs in Washington, DC on Channel 32. "Dark Cloud: Our Strange Love Affair with the Bomb" Airs in NYC on Friday, June 2 on Channel 25 at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday, June 3 at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 13. This week on America's Defense Monitor: WEBSITE: http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338 Nukes as portable infantry weapons. Nukes for digging tunnels. Nuclear decontamination with a whisk broom. Secret government films of the 1940's, '50s and '60s form the backdrop for this darkly entertaining exploration of America's fascination with the Bomb. At times humorous, strange and disturbing, these films reveal how the culture of nuclear weapons shaped American society during the Cold War, and how the advocates of nuclear culture sought to make atomic weapons a part of everyday life. Show Transcript http://www.cdi.org/adm/1338/transcript.html Related ADM Videos: Can We Learn to Live Without Nuclear Weapons? http://www.cdi.org/adm/1206 Military Leaders for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons http://www.cdi.org/adm/1049 Test Anxiety: Should America Ratify the Test Ban Treaty? http://www.cdi.org/adm/1235 --- Live Chat Can anyone go on this chat show scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m., and tell them that nuclear energy isn't the answer to global warming? Alice Slater For more information: http://chat.enn.com/ Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with Maureen Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy Institute. This chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. Join a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of green fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a biodiesel that people can refine on their own. Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. The chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on birds, particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and what the songs mean. For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at mailto:dskillman@enn.com. ---- A crucial Senate vote on reducing the threat of accidental nuclear war is coming up the week of June 5th and we need your help! Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE)is offering an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would allow the President to take nuclear weapons off alert status and to significantly reduce U.S. nuclear forces -- so long as Russia also takes these steps. Passage of this amendment would allow the US to get rid of Cold War weapons we no longer need or want and save taxpayers billions of dollars currently wasted on unnecessary weapons. Please call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to support the Kerrey amendment to allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear forces below START I levels, and to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. Please forward this message on to friends and family and help spread the word! With your help we can reduce the threat of accidental nuclear war and reduce nuclear weapons world-wide. THANK YOU! --- Priority One Alert - Call until end of Memorial Day Recess (June 5). Senate vote on Kerrey (Neb.) amendment expected week of June 5th!! The following message is baesd on discussion from yesterday's Nuclear Weapons Working Group meeting here in Washington, DC and a previous email from Daryl Kimball, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers[mailto:dkimball@clw.org] As soon as June 6th , the Senate may debate Sen. Bob Kerrey's (NE) amendment offered to the fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization bill that would allow the President to reduce U.S. strategic nuclear force levels below START I levels (approx. 6000) and take weapons off combat status (i.e. de-alert). Under current law , such actions are prohibited until and unless START II is implemented -- an unlikely near-term prospect. This restriction exists despite the Russian Duma's ratification of START II because of several related protocols that need to be approved (see CRND's Stuck at First START factsheet at bottom for more info). TARGET LIST: Bayh, Byrd, Graham (FL), Lincoln, Chafee, Jeffords, Snowe, Collins, Hagel, Domenici, Warner, Fitzgerald, McCain, Specter, Santorum, Gordon Smith, Thomas, Lugar (call Lugar at district office only please). If your Senator is not on this list, please feel free to call anyway!!! RAP for Republicans: With G.W. Bush's speech this week supporting reductions and de-alerting, you should tell GOP Senators, "A vote against Kerrey's amendment is a vote against George Bush!" The House rules committee ruled the counterpart amendment sponsored by Allen (D-ME), McGovern (D-MA) and Gendjenson (D-CT), out of order, making the vote on the Senate amendment even more crucial (so it can go on to conference committee). This year's Allen-McGovern-Gendjenson & Kerrey amendments are somewhat different than the approach that Senator Kerrey pursued last year on the floor and by Allen and Spratt in HASC this year, which was simply striking the restriction on cuts below START I before START II implementation. Kerrey's 1999 floor amendment was defeated 56-44. This vote is on the Peace Action Education Fund 1999 Voting Record at http://www.peace-action.org/99votingrecord.pdf. You can also see for the floor debate and roll call vote. For further information see the following items, below: * PSR Action Legislative Alert w/capacity for e-mail letters to Congress * "Stuck at First START: U.S. Forced to Maintain its Nuclear Arsenal While Russia's Declines," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers ISSUE BRIEF, May 15, 2000 ---- NEW DATES FOR LOS ALAMOS RETREAT The Los Alamos retreat will now be be held from September 5-8, 2000. The Ponderosa Campground will still be available on Sept. 9 for those who are staying over until that morning. Please let me know if you plan to attend. Best regards, Vilma Ruiz ---- I'd suggest that anyone that's been exposed/poisoned by DU or for that matter ANY human being that wants to be healthy, either by preventing disease & enhancing immunity or mitigating or reversing any disease or injury they have, educate themselves as to the validity of alternative natural therapies most of which are backed up by hard science. This includes DU exposure. Please see the web site of Gary Null at: http://www.garynull.com Null has worked with Gulf War vets who've been poisoned by DU & other agents and has produced a documentry on it, contact info for interested parties is listed at the web site. He's also worked with many GW Vets & had much success in restoration of health IF the person chooses to remain on the protocol. Mainstream pharmeceutical, allopathic "health" practice is NO WHERE near as successsful in treating any disease there is- immune suppression which is strongly related to cancer, arthritis, lupus, AIDS, heart disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, DU exposure- as are many alternative, natural homeopathic approaches. The heart of the problem and the reason for the existence, much less massive institionalized practice of allopathic[drug based] approaches is two fold. One obviously is huge $, the other closed minds and a medical school education which is funded by over 60% by the pharmeceutical industry. Please read & study this web site, get the video & educate yourself via other sources- DO NOT trust maninstream MDs or other "health" practitioners who are illiterate when it comes to what constitutes health & how one goes about restoring it or preventing disease. Once learned, the fundamentals are amazingly simple. People just have to know & do them. Another good site is either of the following 2: http://www.preventcancer.org or http://www.preventcancer.com The book "The Politics of Cancer" by Dr Samuel Epstein, is avalable in bookstores & via http://www.amazon.com is a great place to start educating oneself as to the nature, economically & ideologically of the medical-industrial complex. Again, the site is: http://www.garynull.com -Bill Smirnow ---- Two Puerto Rico websites: http://www.micronetix.net/virus/facts.htm -- Vieques Libre http://www.viequesvive.com/ -- Vieques Vive ---- Price-Anderson Act ruling 1978 DUKE POWER CO. v. CAROLINA ENV. STUDY GROUP, 438 U.S. 59 (1978) APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 77-262. Argued March 20, 1978 Decided June 26, 1978 * http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&linkurl=<%LINKUR L%>&graphurl=<%GRAPHURL%>&court=US&case=/us/438/59.html ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Sub