From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Spiritual Environmental Summit Date: 30 Sep 2000 23:19:42 -0700 (This message is brief outline. Please stay posted for specific speakers and activities for each event.) AS A FUTURE GENERATIONS' PRAYER, the Global Peace Walk 2000 is humbled and honored to be both holding and calling for Spiritual Environmental Gathering Summits during the Year 2000 AD on the United Nation's 55th Anniversary. The time has come to Develop Spiritually United Nations. The time has come for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. A major theme of these summits is for indigenous spiritual leaders to expand and empower the growing "deep ecology" consciousness amongst regular people, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational corporations, and even state and national and international governments. The Spiritual Environmental Summits will take place during October in six locations up the East Coast. Please let us all use these opportunities to their potential! October 11th, American University Amphitheater, Wash D.C., 7-10pm. October 17th, Swarthmore College, PA: Ceremony in Amphitheater, 5-6pm; Lecture in Lang Performing Arts Cinema, 7-10pm. October 19th, Princeton University, NJ. October 22nd, NYC begin: TBA. October 23rd, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, 12am-9am. October 24th, UN Day. Baha'i Center Auditorium, 7-11pm. Last week, during the 8th Annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth on the Washington Monument grounds, the Eskimo people of Greenland sent a message: "last year there was a stream in the ice...this year it is a river." Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Pipe Carrier of the Lakota Nation, speaking with the memory of his ancestors, told that only within the last 15 years has the sun burnt their skin during the Sun Dance. The examples are countless and increasing: Today is a Global Emergency. The earth is suffering, the water is polluted, the fire has become all gas and electricity, the air is becoming polluted, and spirituality is becoming all noise. As a global community, we must cooperate beyond race, gender, religion, ideology, and class in order to Protect our Life and Land. We emphasize that we must do whatever we can to restore the spiritual relationship between the human being and the elements: the earth, the water, the fire, and the air. Many people these days are talking about creating a global culture of peace; we suggest that if we all sincerely want to create a culture of peace that we look to the historical precedents set by traditional cultures of peace and that we listen closely to those few bearers of traditional knowledge still alive today to guide us back to harmony and balance and sustainability. As a prayer for "All our relations" and "Living on the Globe with all our friends" Respectfully, Global Peace Walkers Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Please call 202 244 3407 for more info. _______________________________________________________ -------end forwarded message---------- ** gear2000@lightspeed.net David Crockett Williams, CLU Chartered Life Underwriter Scientist - Activist - Manager GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES http://www.GeneralAgencyServices.com For your personal and financial independence The Legal Revolution - Equal Justice for All Free Legal Resource Center eService http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams Online legal content: FAQ, audio guides, legal forms, discussion boards. Low-cost attorney telephone access, national prepaid legal protection plans. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Washington DC Events Schedule #3 Date: 01 Oct 2000 13:03:14 -0700 [please excuse any duplicate posts of this soon upcoming DC events schedule] Global Peace Walk 2000 Global Peace Walk / YUCCA . 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization P.O. Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117 (202) 244-3407 DC . (413) 895-8588 (fax) (415) 267-1877 (schedule update & road contact) GPZONE2000@aol.com . www.globalpeacenow.org Regular updates and subsription at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk Washington, D.C. Press Release 10/1/2000 The Global Peace Walk took its first step from the United Nations Building in New York City on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday on January 15th, 1995, to bring out the prayer of "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, and walked across this continent, arriving at the War Memorial Building in San Francisco on June 20th, 1995 to highlight the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations and to encourage the original principles of the United Nations Charter. Fifty-five years ago the Charter of the UN was created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" and to "reaffirm faith in the dignity of human rights" and to "live together in peace." What happened? There is war and relocations in all directions and the ecological balance is in peril as never before. Ancient traditions are becoming extinct. Today during Global Peace Walk 2000, we continue to carry a positive message to promote a Future Generations' Global Peace Prayer. We have walked over 3000 miles through 14 states. Throughout the United States, GPW has received letters of support from the US President, Vice President, US representative to UN, mayors, governors, senators, tribal governments, spiritual leaders, a political prisoner, cultural leaders, environmental organizations, and many others. There is an obvious parallel between the extinction of traditional cultures and the general degradation of the environment; therefore, we urge that the voices of traditional spiritual leaders be honored and heeded in order to lead our civilization back to a SUSTAINABLE Way of Life. Indigenous spokespersons are traveling with the walk so that this message may be conveyed. October 3rd: Join Indigenous Environmental Network outside State Department / Edward Kelly Park - 10:30am. Evening Program UDC School of Law - 4200 Connecticut Ave. - 7:00pm - Video "Drum Beat for Mother Earth" along with traditional food samples and speakers from the Indigenous delegation. October 5th: Grand Entrance. 9am, We will gather at the Ballston Commons Metro Stop in Virginia and walk along Wilson Blvd, through downtown Arlington, through the Iwo Jima Park down to Memorial Bridge Circle on the west side of the Potomac River. 11 am, there will be a ceremony and gathering before we walk across the water and up to the Meridian Hill Park (Malcolm X Park) via Dupont Circle for 2 pm-8pm gathering, speeches, music, and pot-luck. We are honored that the World Peace Flame will be carried with the walk. October 7th: We will join the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (http://www.space4peace.org) in solidarity with 45 vigils worldwide. We will meet 2pm at Meridian Hill Park and walk to Lafayette Park 3pm for vigil and speakers. Contact: Proposition One: (202) 462-0757 . http://www.prop1.org October 8th: Sunrise & Noon Ceremony at the Jefferson Stone, close to Washington Monument, rededication of the Nation's Center to balance and peace. These ceremonies will be led by Traditional & Spiritual Leaders from across the country. October 9th: Columbus Day Sunrise Ceremony at Washington Monument. 12 noon prayer circle for rededication as a symbol of peaceby forming a human circle around the base of the Washington Monument. Spiritual and political leaders will be making speeches all-day at the Sylvan Theater. October 11: Spiritual Environmental Summit - American University - Amphitheater - 7-10pm. Traditional leaders and elders will be offering their stewardship and wisdom to representatives from the "deep ecology" and environmental movement, Governmental & Spiritual Leaders, UN Representatives and NGO's, and social and political groups. We hope all will share dialogue and ideas so that everybody can better serve Mother Earth and Future Generations in a global spiritual-political environment. October 12th: 12 noon, Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Gathering in Lafayette Park with Global Peace Ambassador. Co-sponsored by Grey Panthers and the Piscataway Tribe. From the opportunity presented from the hand delivery of a letter to President Clinton about these events, it is this day that we are arranging for our spiritual leaders to meet with him. October 17th: Swathmore College - Spiritual Environmental Summit. October 19th: Princeton University - Spiritual Environmental Summit. October 23rd: All-night vigil, ceremony, concert at St. Mark In-the Bowery (East 10th Street & 2nd Avenue - NYC.) Contact: Joan Coddington (212) 674-6377 October 24th: Sunrise ceremony. Breakfast. Walk down to UN Headquarters on 55th Anniversary. We are holding a Spiritual Environmental Summit at The Baha'i Center Auditorium (53 East 11th Street - University Place/Broadway), 7pm-11pm. ---------------end forwarded post--------- ** gear2000@lightspeed.net David Crockett Williams, CLU Chartered Life Underwriter Scientist - Activist - Manager GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES http://www.GeneralAgencyServices.com For your personal and financial independence The Legal Revolution - Equal Justice for All Free Legal Resource Center eService http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams Online legal content: FAQ, audio guides, legal forms, discussion boards. Low-cost attorney telephone access, national prepaid legal protection plans. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/02 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 02 Oct 2000 06:35:40 -0400 [Hi, folks, I'm on my way to speak in Asheville Thursday night, October 5,= at Pack Library Auditorium, 6-8 p.m., and will take some time with family, so can't do Briefs for you for a week. You can check the Washington Daybook yourself each morning if you go to http://208.246.212.80/national and scroll down till you see "Daybook" in the box on the right margin. And you can= submit your own announcements to http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews. Here's today's info. et in dc] Washington Times Daybook, October 2, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000102211437.htm Fuel Economy Guide news conference =97 2 p.m. =97 The Energy= Department and the Environmental Protection Agency hold a news conference to introduce the latest edition of the on-line Fuel Economy Guide. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and Carol Browner, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, participate. Location: Forrestal Building, Energy Department, 1000= Independence Ave. SW. Contact: 202/586-5806. Defense challenges forum =97 5 p.m. =97 The Center for Strategic and International Studies presents its policy forum, "Defense Challenges for the 21st Century." The speaker is Defense Secretary William S. Cohen. Location: 1800 K St. NW. Contact: 202/775-3186. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES The first presidential debate will be tomorrow, October 3, 2000, John F. Kennedy Library at University of Massachusetts. Here are candidates'= websites: - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Today - 2:30 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Harris River Front Park, Corner of= 10th Street and Veterans Memorial Park, Huntington, West Virginia=20 - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ =20 - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Panel Discussion on NMD Dear Friends: My name is Motoki Hashima, a student at American University. I am organizing= a student organization, AU Coalition for a Nuclear-Free World. I am writing to invite you to our panel discussion on NMD at American University on October 17th from 8:00 p.m. The detailed information is below.=20 Date-October 17, 2000, Time-8 p.m.=20 Place-American University SIS Lounge=20 Address - American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016=20 "National Missile Defense: Necessary Shield or Unnecessary Risk?" Panelists=20 =B7 Baker Spring from Heritage Foundation,=20 =B7 Dennis Ward-Sen. Thad Cochran's staff,=20 =B7 Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes-Former general counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency=20 =B7 Wayne Glass =ADStaff from Sen. Bingaman's office. Moderator: William Kincade=20 =B7 Dr. William Kincade-SIS professor. Professor Kincade specializes in U.S. foreign and defense policy and US-Russian/Eurasian security relations. From www.american.edu Sponsored by AU Coalition for a Nuclear-Free World=20 Cosponsored by School of International Service - Letter to NucNews: Au contraire! Your commentary on Peace Links is far from the mark! Peace Links has a disarmament program and a staffmember regularly attends the two primary working groups: Nuclear Weapons Working Group and Monday Lobby= Group. PL regularly sends out the 20/20 Vision cards to its network around the country, and is involved with Project Abolition, etc., etc. Additionally, Peace Links has initiated a two year nationwide public educational campaign, targeting women across the country,that is to be= launched by a Conference of Women for Responsible National Security in December, with several partner organizations signed on. This is in addition to Peace Links' other major program areas that include partnering with the Library of Congress's Young Russian Leaders= Program and Youth Links, which is addressing the increasing violence in schools by empowering the students and communities to diminish such violence through= joint activities. Its founder, Betty Bumpers, is a remarkable role model for women= (and men) and will indeed stir things up at the U.S. Institute of Peace to make= it a real peacemaking operation. I hope this enlightens you and the others on your mailing list about Peace Links. [From: "Freda Johnson" ] - Update on the Fast and the Grand March in Vieques=20 Monday, October 2, is the 131st birthday of Mohandas K. Gandhi, it is also= the International Day of Prayer, Fasting, and Action for Peace in Vieques,= Puerto Rico. Over 150 religious leaders and many others signed on to this= initiative and many have pledged to spread the word about this Call. For information, please visit www.viequesfast.org. If you don't have Web access, we can send= you information by email.=20 The most important specific action to take at this time is to= contact members of the House of Representatives and urge them to sign on to the= "Dear Colleague" letter circulated by Congressman Sam Farr, Lu=EDs Gutierrez and others. Your Member of Congress should send an email message to debbie.merrill@mail.house.gov expressing their desire to sign onto the= letter. Please take a few moments to call them and urge them to do this: Tel. 202-224-3121.=20 Tomorrow is also the day I meet with some of the leaders of the religious and peace movement here in Vieques to discern with them the future= of the fast. I am prepared to keep fasting on water-only. The last visit to the doctor showed that I have not yet entered into a critical stage of the fast that would be detrimental to my long-term health.=20 However, there is no indication that anyone here is asking me to continue fasting. After 70 days of fasting on liquids, 50 of which have been= on water-only, they are saying that the fast should shift to something else. I= am completely open to whatever consensus comes from the meeting. If I do transition out of the water fast, as is most likely, I will take great care with how this is done. I will also do so knowing that many hundreds of= people have learned about the situation in Vieques as a result of the fasting that= I and others have been doing for Vieques, and that especially tomorrow, people will be praying, fasting and acting on behalf of this land and people who= have suffered so much.=20 Thanks to all who have supported and challenged me during this= entire journey. Love at all cost, Andr=E9s Thomas Conteris =20 OCTOBER 01, 18:33 EDT=20 Navy Detains Protesters on Vieques=20 By LILLIAM IRIZARRY=20 Associated Press Writer=20 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) =97 The U.S. Navy detained 65 protesters Sunday near a former weapons depot on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, part of a day of antimilitary demonstrations.=20 The protesters entered the base by crawling under a fence before dawn, Navy spokesman Lt. Jeff Gordon said. They would likely face trespassing charges,= he said.=20 Later in the day, thousands of Puerto Ricans marched to demand the military abandon the Vieques training ground it has used since the 1940s.=20 "What's that sound I hear? It's the people on the warpath!" they chanted, waving Vieques' blue-and-white flag. [this was not a common chant= whatsoever... the most common one was "Vieques Yes, Navy No" or "Navy Out"] Authorities have arrested more than 600 protesters since May. More= than 400 await trial on trespassing charges.=20 The Navy controls about two-thirds of the 20-mile by four-mile= island. Opposition to the military's presence on Vieques flared in April 1999, when= a U.S. Marine Corps F-18 jet dropped two 500-pound bombs off target, killing a civilian guard on the range.=20 Protesters occupied the bombing range to thwart further exercises= until U.S. marshals forcibly removed them on May 4.=20 Navy opponents say the military exercises have damaged the= environment, stunted the island's economy and endangered residents. The Navy says their claims are exaggerated and argues that the training is necessary to national defense.=20 President Clinton promised the Navy would abandon the western= weapons depot and leave Vieques completely if the island's 9,400 residents vote in a referendum to expel it. That vote is expected before mid-2002. ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - 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: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Caucus Preparations for CSD9 Date: 02 Oct 2000 11:01:27 -0400 >Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 01:31:54 -0400 >Subject: Caucus Preparations for CSD9 >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: deling@igc.org >Cc: rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org >From: deling@igc.org (deling@igc.org) > >29 September 2000 > >NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus website: >http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo >(Click on Energy & Climate Change under "Caucuses") > >Dear Friends, > >The ninth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD9) >will meet from 16-27 April 2001, and everyone is now finally in the midst >of preparations for it. Energy is on the agenda for CSD9, and, based on >all our past experience, will certainly be the most contentious issue. > >NUCLEAR ISSUE: We realise that people have been justifiably upset that >nuclear energy was mentioned in the CSD8 report as one of the key issues to >be examined in preparation for CSD9 (many of us certainly worked to try to >stop that, but could only achieve language that mentioned some problems >that nuclear would have to address before it could be considered >sustainable). At this point, we are trying to get many more anti-nuclear >NGOs involved in this issue, since many of us suspect that certain >countries would only be too happy to see NGOs spend all their time against >nuclear and forget all about fossil fuels, etc. > >Of course, we suggest pointing out that building new nuclear plants simply >does not make economic sense. Conservation and energy reduction >programmes, plus certain types of solar and almost all wind, are already >much cheaper, with none of the environmental and safety problems of >nuclear. We need to focus, as we do in our Caucus's Global Action Plan, >on ending nuclear energy, fossil fuel, and large hyrdo subsidies (even in >Europe, the high oil taxes do not begin to cover all the subsidies paid out >to support fossil fuel production, distribution and consumption over the >last 50 years), while supporting cost-effective conservation and the most >sustainable renewables, many of which are already cost-effective completely >or in certain situations, e.g., in areas that lack "modern" energy access. > >SUBMISSIONS FOR SECRETARY GENERAL REPORT FOR CSD9: The Caucus will be >submitting our Global Action Plan (ECCGAP), plus some specific examples. >If your organisation has excellent experiences/case studies of good >practices in implementation of conservation/efficiency and truly >sustainable energy projects (see Points 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Caucus Global >Action Plan), especially at the grassroots level, either in developing or >industrialised countries, we strongly urge you to SUBMIT these BY 15 >OCTOBER directly to the CSD Secretariat. The inputs should be between 5 to >10 pages. > >Please email your organisations's submission to Mr. K. N. Mak, UN >Department of Economic and Social Affairs, i.e., DESA (email: mak@un.org), >and cc: to us (rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org, deling@igc.org). > >If you would like the Caucus to mention certain specific projects in the >formal submission from the Caucus as a whole, you must email the materials >to Rajat and Deling NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER. > >PREPARATORY MEETINGS OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2000: If there are Caucus members >who can attend the various meetings that are noted on our website calendar, >please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can be sure that all >meetings are well covered by knowledgeable NGOs. In particular, the >regional high level meetings on energy and sustainable development (Latin >America: Ascuncion, Paraguay, 13-14 October; Asia and the Pacific: Bali, >Indonesia, 21-24 November; and Africa: Nairobi, Kenya, 4-6 December) are >extremely important as they are high level intergovernmental meetings, and >all will prepare formal statements of input for CSD9. > >BRIEFING ON ASIA PACIFIC HIGH LEVEL REGIONAL MEETING: The Indonesian >mission to the UN in New York today (29 Sept.) gave a briefing on the Asia >Pacific High Level Meeting, which is being organised by the Indonesian >government, DESA, and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the >Pacific (ESCAP). There will be a parallel NGO Forum, organised by ESCAP, >and a Business Forum, organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and >Mines. Deling was at the briefing and asked exactly how it would be >determined what ministry's ministers would be invited, since there is often >overlapping reponsibility for energy and sustainable development among two >or more ministries in some countries. The answer (?) was that they would >ask each country to identify which ministry/minister to invite. >(Obviously, there will be even further problems - will these be the same >ministries/ministers who will show up for CSD9?) There was a question >from the Netherlands mission, concerning whether there were any joint >meetings planned of NGOs and business. Answer: no. Mr. Salamat, the >co-chair (from Iran) of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts on >Energy and Sustainable Development (IGEESD) noted that they had identified >key issues and wondered if, in particular, the issue of access, would be >specifically dealt with by the High-Level Regional Meeting. The answer >seemed to be: maybe. > >Many Caucus NGOs will attend and be very active at this meeting, since the >Asia Pacific group of countries is a very big grouping that includes >countries extending from the Middle East oil producing countries to major >population areas in East and South Asia such as China and India, plus many >Pacific island states, as well as WEOG (Western European and Others Group) >countries like Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In some respects, it is >a microcosm of the UN as a whole. Whatever statement this high level >meeting will agree on will probably be taken quite seriously at CSD9. Any >Asian/Pacific NGOs that can attend the meeting in Bali, please let us know >as soon as possible!! > >UNITED STATES NGOs: We hope that you and your organisation and allied NGOs >are following the Presidential, Vice-Presidential, Senatorial and House of >Representatives candidates around to urge them to support ending government >producer/distributer subsidies ("corporate welfare") to nuclear, fossil >fuels, and large hydro (or at least give the same amount of funding support >to conservation/solar/wind, etc.) so that there will be a minimal "free >market" situation (or at least the playing field can be leveled a little >after 50-100 years of subsidies to nuclear, large dams and fossil fuels, >and less than one percent as much support to solar and wind). For general >background information, see the Caucus website, and for a lot of specific >U.S. case studies, see Friends of the Earth US's "Green Scissors" reports >for 1999 and 2000 on their website: www.foe.org > >OTHER CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS RELEVANT TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: We will soon >post on our webpage a parallel list of upcoming meetings and conferences >organised by NGOs and others. Please submit information concerning any >meetings/conferences/workshops/seminars that you know. > >NEW LIST OF LINKS: We would like to post as soon as possible on the >website a new list of linked websites on technical information and case >studies/good practices/international cooperation related to conservation >and very sustainable forms of energy, as well as on the issue of subsidies >and full costs. Please submit websites, including a brief description, to >us for posting. > >MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE "STARTER PAPERS": Each of the designated major >groups have been asked to prepare 16 page papers that will get the dialogue >discussions started. The Energy/Climate Change and Transport Caucuses have >been officially designated as the NGO organising partners for the >Dialogues. The first two of the Dialogues deal with energy; the second two >with transport. Rajat will temporarily coordinate the one on >eco-efficiency, eco-effectivess...choices for producing, distributing, and >consuming energy, and Deling will temporarily coordinate the one on >achieving equitable access to clean energy. Of course, our Caucus can also >input to the NGO Transport Caucus on their two topics (public-private >partnerships for de-carbonizing the transportation system, and sustainable >transport planning). The two energy dialogue topics fit in very well with >our ECCGAP points, and we will make all those points in our papers. >COORDINATION WITH OTHER MAJOR GROUPS: We need to encourage other major >groups to include the same goals and points that we will be making in our >dialgoue papers. Therefore, we will try to get our materials to the other >partners at least two weeks before the papers are due. > >ADDITIONAL BRIEFING PAPERS ON CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS: Since we expect that, >based on past experience, the formal process of input to the CSD >Secretariat will not be sufficient at all, and it's uncertain if anyone >except the authors will carefully read the five 18-page Dialogue papers, we >would like to prepare additional briefing papers on what we anticipate to >be the most controversial issues, and send these, as well as the NGO input >for the Dialogues, directly to key governments in January-February 2001 >(BEFORE the second session of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts >on Energy and Sustainable Development at the end of February and the >intersessionals in March). > >COMMITTEES AND VOLUNTEERS: We ask everyone to VOLUNTEER for one of five >Caucus coordinating committees that will continue through CSD9 in April >2001, and possibly through Rio+10 in 2002: > >1. Financial Mechanisms/Policy Strategies/Decision-Making Process >Committee: subsidies, incentives, regulations, etc. for increasing >sustainable energy access, plus energy policy and programmes' >decision-making process to facilitate such access >2. Conservation and Most Sustainable Renewables Committee: sustainable >choices for producing, distributing and consuming energy >3. Major Groups/NGOs Outreach Committee >4. Governments/Intergovernmental Agencies Outreach Committee >5. Database/Website Committee > >Thank you! > >Rajat and Deling >Coordinators >NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus > >Southern Coordinator: > >Rajat Chaudhuri/CUTS >3B Camac Street >Calcutta-700 016 INDIA >Phone: 91-33-229 7391 >Fax: 91-33-249 6231 >Email: rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org, cutscal@vsnl.com > >Northern Coordinator: > >Deling Wang/MSES/Network Sustainable NYC >151 West 25th St., 8th Fl Rear >New York, NY 10001-7204, USA >Phone: 1-212-330-9015 >Fax: 1-212-645-2214 >Email: deling@igc.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: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Rehearsing Doomsday to air October 15 Date: 02 Oct 2000 12:09:34 -0500 Dear Friends: Less than two weeks remain until the George Crile documentary "Rehearsing Doomsday" will air on CNN Sunday, October 15 at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific time, but there's still time to order a watch party organizing kit from Project Abolition. Call us at 219/535-1110 or email me at . Below is my original notice from last week. Kevin Martin *** Fr: Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition September 25, 2000 Rehearsing Doomsday documentary to air on CNN October 15 Rehearsing Doomsday, a documentary produced by George Crile whose notable documentary =93The Missiliers=94 aired last February on =9360 Minutes II,=94 gives an unprecedented look at the nuclear arsenals of both the United States and Russia. Unlike any yet produced, this documentary will take us on a journey to meet the generals and commanders responsible for nuclear weapons, the missiliers charged with firing them, and the politicians who craft our policies. We all know that the Russians are eager to reduce their nuclear stockpile and that a string of former US generals and cabinet secretaries, haunted by their actions, have become abolitionists. This documentary is different. Rehearsing Doomsday will expose the hypocrisy of current nuclear policy with portraits of Senators, frustrated by their lack of access to knowledge, and missiliers, gravely concerned as they watch the American people sleepwalk toward armageddon. Rehearsing Doomsday will be broadcast Sunday, October 15 at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific time on CNN (The documentary may also air on another date, we=92ll let yo= u know as soon as we find out). Thanks and kudos are due to the Global Security Institute, headed by former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, for working with George Crile and CNN to get this show on the air. Let=92s put this much-anticipated documentary to good use in the election season. Here are some suggestions for peace and disarmament activists: 1. Organize a Rehearsing Doomsday watch party in a private home, church or place of worship, college campus, or other community meeting center. Last spring, Project Abolition, the Global Security Institute, and the Disarmament Clearinghouse organized over 100 watch parties around the country for the live CBS television re-make of the anti-nuclear thriller Fail Safe. Please contact Project Abolition at 219/535-1110 or kmartin@fourthfreedom.org for a house party organizing kit. If the broadcast times are inconvenient, you can videotape the show and hold your watch party on another day and time. Be sure to invite your local media to your watch party. 2. Bird-dog congressional candidates and demand to know how they will work to reduce the nuclear threat if they are elected or re-elected. Show up at candidate debates, rallies or town meetings prepared to ask tough questions of the candidates. You can also bring your local peace group=92s literature to hand out attendees. 3. Use the broadcast of Rehearsing Doomsday to raise nuclear abolition as an issue with your local media. Project Abolition will provide sample letters to the editor. You can also contact your local newspaper=92s television critic and encourage her or him to preview or review Rehearsing Doomsday. After the broadcast, you can refer to the show and the concerns it raises in encouraging your local media to cover the nuclear issue and to raise it with candidates in editorial board meetings or candidate debates. - 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: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) Position Available Date: 02 Oct 2000 09:33:24 -0800 Director of Communications sought by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. This is a senior level position requiring a broad range of responsibilities, including membership outreach, marketing, public relations, coordination of events, and editing of publications.. Put your experience to work helping to make a difference. Salary DOE + benefits. Contact Chris Pizzinat, (805) 965-3443. Fax resume to (805) 568-0466 or e-mail: wagingpeace@napf.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: "Andrew Lichterman" Subject: (abolition-usa) NYT piece featuring peace priorities bus Date: 03 Oct 2000 13:06:38 -0700 piece featuring the disarmament work and broader peace and justice work of two Abolition 2000 groups (and others). Also appeared in NYT print edition, at A12 (top of national report) New York Times on the Web National October 3, 2000 A Mission to Redirect Money Used for Defense By GUSTAV NIEBUHR T. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 27 - Under a radiant autumn sky, a bus with a sign identifying it as the "Moneymobile" pulled into the College of St. Benedict, a Roman Catholic institution near here. The bus's five young occupants emerged and inflated nine large balloons, which assumed a form both festive and esoteric - billowing, multicolored pie charts and bar graphs representing federal spending. As a largely student crowd of about 100 gathered, one of the bus passengers, Shauna Farabaugh, 23, announced what was coming: a presentation by a Catholic organization on a cross-country tour urging that military spending be reduced and that the money saved go to health care and education. "What we choose to prioritize as funding says a lot about us as a nation," Ms. Farabaugh said, as another person from the bus, dressed as Uncle Sam, appeared for a scripted debate about federal spending and social needs. The presentation was part of a two-month effort by Pax Christi USA, a venerable peace organization with 14,000 members and headquarters in Erie, Pa., to call attention to an issue with which it has long been concerned. But in a larger sense, the bus journey illustrates how some religious organizations have been trying to call attention to broad issues that fall outside the themes that seem to dominate the close presidential race, themes like tax cuts and prescription drug costs for the elderly. Over a 40-day stretch in July and August, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith antiwar organization, held a series of events in Washington called the People's Campaign for Nonviolence, seeking nuclear disarmament, abolition of the death penalty and the lifting of sanctions on Iraq. "We are, in our modest but persistent way, continuing to call for those changes," said the Rev. John Dear, the fellowship's executive director. "There's a lot of grass-roots organizing happening," Father Dear said, "on justice issues." In a separate effort in June, a group of religious leaders and retired generals and admirals issued a statement calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Their statement - part of an effort called the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative - called for "a great national and international discussion and examination of the true and full implications of reliance on nuclear weapons, to be followed by action leading to the international prohibition of these weapons." The statement has been signed by Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and others. "Many of us in positions of religious leadership follow these matters more closely than many people would assume," said one signer, the Rev. John A. Buehrens, president of the Unitarian-Universalist Association. Noting the statement's interfaith character and the number of military officials who signed, Mr. Buehrens added, "It's not coming from a romantic or naïve view of the dangers in this world." Pax Christi's project began in March, when the organization released a statement signed by 34 Catholic bishops, some of them retired, calling for "a national Catholic campaign of prayer, study and action to end exorbitant military spending." Titled "Bread, Not Stones," it said the federal budget should be viewed as a "moral document," reflecting compassion for society's have-nots. It also described a lack of health insurance and adequate child care for poor families as "a tragic consequence of a nation which chooses to spend only 6 cents on education and 4 cents on health care for every 50 cents it spends on the military." Later, the organization received an offer of help - use of the Moneymobile - from a nonprofit organization called Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, whose president is Jerry Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. The group holds that military spending can be cut without endangering national security, and the money redirected to health care and education. Before the Iowa presidential caucuses and the New Hampshire primary last winter, the group dispatched its bus through both states, holding public events with the inflatable charts, a spokesman, David Crosson, said. For the last three weeks, the bus has made its way among college campuses, Catholic high schools and public parks in California, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri and Minnesota. Stops are planned in 33 cities, with Chicago, New York and Boston to come, before the tour ends in Burlington, Vt., just before Election Day. Those on board say the presentations have sometimes drawn only a handful of people. But sometimes there are crowds like the one at St. Benedict. "We do a lot of college campuses," said Katie Krolczyk, "and some are into it and some are not." Shortly before they visited St. Benedict, in nearby St. Joseph, Ms. Krolczyk and the tour organizer, Eric LeCompte, stopped by a Catholic high school in St. Cloud to speak with students. During a break, Mr. LeCompte said that neither he nor others in the bus favored cuts in military pay. "In no way do we think that providing less for our soldiers is just," he said. Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin Suite 202 Oakland, CA 94612 USA phone: +1 (510) 839-5877 fax: +1 (510) 839-5397 e-mail: alichterman@worldnet.att.net Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin Suite 202 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: Peacework Subject: (abolition-usa) source of quote? Date: 03 Oct 2000 16:47:36 -0400 Greetings. A friend passed on the following message, alas without attribution. Does anyone know the source? We would like to quote it in Peacework magazine, but we can't do that without some verification. Thank you for whatever help you can offer. Patricia Watson, editor, Peacework "A directive from the US Department of Defense was sent to all Army units in the field. It reads: It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads must be stored upside down, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. To prevent anyone making a mistake, and in order that there will be no doubt as to which is the bottom and which is the top, for storage puirposes, it will be noted that the bottom of each warhead has been labeled with the word 'Top.'" - 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: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) Univ of Hawaii Student Senate Passes (Reaffirms) Nuclear-Free Zone Resolution Date: 03 Oct 2000 15:36:16 PDT To Abolition 2000 Global Caucus and Abolition 2000 USA, FYI: The First Nuclear Free Zone resolution was passed by ASUH Senate Assembly (undergraduate student government) in March 2000. A new ASUH Senate (newly-elected) passed the following resolution to reaffirm previous resolution last night, October 2, 2000. The Univ of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization also passed a Nuclear Free resolution in March 2000. Our next GOAL is to SHUT DOWN Pearl Harbor Nuclear storage facilities! THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MNOA 2465 Campus Road, Campus Center Room 211 Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 SENATE RESOLUTION 08-01 URGING THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS. WHEREAS, The four currently existing international nuclear-free zone treaties (covering all of Latin America, the Pacific Ocean region, the African continent, and Southeast Asia) established and formalized the definition of "nuclear-free zones" as areas of jurisdiction set apart to be free from all testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by anyone and by means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, or to acquire the same, directly or indirectly, on behalf of anyone else in any other way, and to be free of receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of possession of any nuclear weapons, and for all adherents to undertake to refrain from engaging in, encouraging or authorizing, directly or indirectly, any of the activities listed above including, in any way, in the testing, use, manufacture, production, possession or control of any nuclear weapon as well as engagement in nuclear science research which sought to divert end-use of nuclear materials away from peaceful uses and toward destructive ends; and WHEREAS, The billions of dollars spent on nuclear weapons each year could be reallocated to help fund educational programs and other social needs; and WHEREAS, The research and development of nuclear weapons, which has involved many of our universities, fosters a culture of secrecy which is in direct opposition to the principles of democracy; and WHEREAS, The intellectual resources currently devoted to the development and maintenance of our nuclear arsenals could be far more productively used for research into environmentally sound technologies; and WHEREAS, The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously in July 1996, "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"; and WHEREAS, Retired U.S. General Lee Butler, once responsible for all U.S. strategic nuclear forces, has called nuclear weapons "inherently dangerous, hugely expensive, militarily inefficient, and morally indefensible"; and WHEREAS, The residual effects of nuclear warfare would have a lasting impact on present and future generations, posing a constant threat to the health and peace of mind of the world's citizens; and WHEREAS, It is in the direct interest of young people to support the sustainability of life on this planet in order that they may have a healthy place to live in which to pursue their dreams and aspirations; now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Senate of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (ASUH), the elected body representing over 9,000 full-time classified undergraduate students declares itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone and supports the further development of Nuclear Weapon Free Zones throughout the world; BE IT RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH stands in solidarity with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation for the Abolition 2000 Global Campaign introduced by Richard Salvador, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls for nuclear weapons to be taken off alert status, for all nuclear warheads to be separated from their delivery vehicles, and for the nuclear weapons states to agree to unconditional no first use of these weapons; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls upon governments of all nuclear weapons states to begin negotiations immediately on a Nuclear Weapons Convention to prohibit and eliminate all nuclear weapons early in the first years of the new millennium; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, a call for copies of this resolution to be distributed among the student body; U.S. Congressional Delegation; President of the United States; the United States Student Association (USSA); the UH Board of Regents; UH President Kenneth Mortimer; Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; the Hague Appeal for Peace; Peace Action Network; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Pugwash U.S.A; Student Peace Action Network; and all University of Hawai'i at Manoa department heads. INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FOLEY, CHINA, BERGER, LOY, NAKAMOTO, and VICE- PRESIDENT TAKAHASHI _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Why we must vote for Nader Date: 03 Oct 2000 16:28:06 -0700 ---This is a forwarded message to all activists and media lists from Dr. Brian O'Leary who was science and energy policy advisor and speechwriter on science and energy policy issues for four previous US Presidential Candidates. More info on Dr. O'Leary is at http://www.independence.net/oleary ------- Hi, David, Because my cyberabilities are severely limited (I've never done a mass-mailing for example) and my computer is busted most of the time, I wonder if you could circulate this as widely as possible within your network, including Steve Kaplan, Remy Chevalier and all the rest. The only bit I'm not sure of substantiating is the Gore/Occidental Petroleum deal, which I had learned of from only one source. Suffice to say, that if we are to have the proper revolution we desire (clean energy, hemp, etc.), we absolutely will need to put our support behind Mr. Nader. It almost sickens me the number of e-mails I'm getting to vote for Gore, and yet my cyberlimitations seem to be unable for my voice to be heard. The following statement, I want shouted from the mountaintops, given to all our friends such as Steve, Remy Chevalier, etc. Perhaps you could make the following statement available to all whom you wish to hear it; it's a counterpoint that must be heard, and it's my only trump card in this strangest of years. Thanks for helping. Why I'm Voting for Nader Brian O'Leary, Ph.D., copyright 2000 I've been deeply disturbed, dismayed and sometimes depressed with the recent movement of folks I admire and respect with their plea to vote for Mr. Gore, which is spreading like wildfire on the internet. Therefore, as never before in my limited cyberpresence, I must protest and offer some of my reasons for voting for Mr. Nader. What I hear primarily is a fear of "the burning Bush", that oilman and his golden-parachute henchman, Mr. Cheney, master of smart bombs that kill people, and could kill more. Let me say at the outset that I don't want those gentlemen (?) in there any more than the rest of you. They're spoiled fraternity boys aggrandized by the silliest most superficial media I have seen in my sixty years here (Sorry, Mr. Gore isn't much better). But I also see fear and ignorance in the anti-Nader, pro-Gore statements that are full of shallow myths ("A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush") ("Nader has no credentials besides being a consumer advocate") (etc). I wish to not only dispel these myths, but to also point outfrom my own considerable Washington experience, that not only is Mr. Nader superbly qualified, but we have a clear choice independent of the unprecedently inordinate influence of big money interests that are destroying our environment and individual freedom. Mr. Nader therefore needs our support. We are in a revolution of human affairs, a paradigm shift, where defensive voting has no place...sorry, it's too late for that. A week ago I keynoted a Forum to Convert to a Hydrogen Economy in Ft. Collins. We discussed what it would take to get off our life-destroying fossil fuel economy. The only standing ovation I got was when I said I'd vote for Ralph Nader. These were professors, technical people, no dummies. The support came only because of the simple fact that Mr. Nader is the only candidate who supports the rapid conversion to a clean energy economy. Recently my colleague Dennis Weaver and I heard Nader speak here in Montrose. Nader epitomizes honesty, intellectual rigor, compassion, the desire to get off fossil fuels, universal health care, legalizing commercial hemp in order to save our forests, and busting the awesome power of international corporatations. Gore has been bought out. This is important stuff, the essence of my entire research over the past two years, Over the past four decades, I have advised and written speeches for McGovern, Kennedy, Mondale, Udall and Jackson.The Gore people also asked me to help, but I refused the oppportunity for the following reasons: he has all but abandoned the precepts of "The Earth in Balance", has accepted campaign contributions from the likes of Occidental Petroleum, who won the bid for the pipeline to the pristine Arctic Wildlife Refuge, advocates the largest peacetime military budget in American history, oversees the largest incarceration rate in the world for victimless crimes, and is basically bought out. So what if Gore has the support of the Sierra Club and other "environmental" groups? My new book in progress well documents how those groups have sold out too. Those endorsements mean absoloutely nothing to me. Perhaps most importantly, I cannot vote for someone defensively. I'd rather live with four years of Bush, then switch to Nader (whom I'll be heartily supporting in future years, if he has the courage to run again) than to buy into the lesser evil of the unprecedently money-ridden neopolik of America; I feel we need to expose this outrageous corruption and cooption of the media, and not vote defensively. A 10-15 % showing could go a long way in hearing Nader's voice, so far considered a joke by the media of the likes of Pat Buchanan.. We need a revolution here, not more of the same; I shocked at how the fear of Bush would have created so much defensiveness and pretty much a guarantee of the same shameful American "prosperity" which is leading the world down the tubes. Whatever has happened to democracy, where we vote our consciences? We're collectively crazy!!! I told an audience of 4000 in Houston last week that the next time I would have a temper tantrum is when someone tells me that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush. No, a vote for Nader is a vote for Nader. Nader happens to be en excellently qualified candidate who refuses to be bought out, and could make a big difference. Gore is just another mish-mash of decadent (although admittedlly morally better) of Clintonism, of Blairism, etc. So you have a choice to join the revolutionary team, or sell out again! Being a revolutionary might take another four years but will be much better on the other side. I've also heard from various quarters that Nader doesn't have the credentials. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nader is a much misunderstood man. In fact, he is more of a Washington insider than the insiders themselves, but he's incorruptable. He has maintained the same modest studio apartment for decades. I worked with him briefly on nuclear power issues during the 1970s while I was consultant to the U.S. House subcommittee on energy and the environment headed by Mo Udall who was running for president. Nader tirelessly drafted legislation, worked endlessly with the committee congressmen (and myself) day and night creating a leveling off of nuclear power plant new starts. More than any "lobbyist" he was always in the public interest and against the corporate, big money interest, an interest which has totally corrupted our culture, including Mr. Gore himself. The fat cats have taken over Washington, it's so obvious, and Mr. Nader is one of a handful of public interest advocates (much, much more than just a consumer advocate). He will be remembered in history as a great selfless American hero, well-versed in Washington affairs, while Nero fiddles as Rome burns, and as the current Administration or a truly awful Bush administration figure out ways of rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic, taking their oil profits (the analogue to the iceberg awaiting) and figuring out ways to get to the first lifeboat. If you or some of your subscribers vote for Nader, it will be clean, honest, incorruptable, and essential for the environment. I have seen the process of Mr. Gore selling out. Don't trust he'll return to his "environmentalism" any more than existing "environmental" groups allow SUVs to pollute the air, for global warming/climate change to change a la Kyoto celebrated by Mr. Gore, which is way too little too late, or for one acre of forests per second to be irrevokably destroyed, while the Clinton/Gore administration raids and arrests native Americans for growing commercial hemp in South Dakota (Nader's words for these actions: "medieval") Please vote for Nader, or we're in big trouble. Thanks. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Univ of Hawaii Student Senate Passes (Reaffirms) Nuclear-Free Zone Resolution Date: 03 Oct 2000 19:32:53 +0100 Congratulations to Richard Salvador and all the other students at UH. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Abolition2000 Pacific Region wrote: > To Abolition 2000 Global Caucus and Abolition 2000 USA, > > FYI: > > The First Nuclear Free Zone resolution was passed by ASUH Senate Assembly > (undergraduate student government) in March 2000. A new ASUH Senate > (newly-elected) passed the following resolution to reaffirm previous > resolution last night, October 2, 2000. > > The Univ of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization also passed a Nuclear Free > resolution in March 2000. > > Our next GOAL is to SHUT DOWN Pearl Harbor Nuclear storage facilities! > > THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MNOA > 2465 Campus Road, Campus Center Room 211 > Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 > SENATE RESOLUTION 08-01 > > URGING THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONES THROUGHOUT THE > WORLD AND THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS. > > WHEREAS, The four currently existing international nuclear-free zone > treaties (covering all of Latin America, the Pacific Ocean region, the > African continent, and Southeast Asia) established and formalized the > definition of "nuclear-free zones" as areas of jurisdiction set apart to be > free from all testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by anyone > and by means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, or to acquire the same, > directly or indirectly, on behalf of anyone else in any other way, and to be > free of receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of > possession of any nuclear weapons, and for all adherents to undertake to > refrain from engaging in, encouraging or authorizing, directly or > indirectly, any of the activities listed above including, in any way, in the > testing, use, manufacture, production, possession or control of any nuclear > weapon as well as engagement in nuclear science research which sought to > divert end-use of nuclear materials away from peaceful uses and toward > destructive ends; and > > WHEREAS, The billions of dollars spent on nuclear weapons each year could be > reallocated to help fund educational programs and other social needs; and > > WHEREAS, The research and development of nuclear weapons, which has involved > many of our > universities, fosters a culture of secrecy which is in direct opposition to > the principles of democracy; and > > WHEREAS, The intellectual resources currently devoted to the development and > maintenance of our nuclear arsenals could be far more productively used for > research into environmentally sound technologies; and > > WHEREAS, The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously in July 1996, > "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"; and > > WHEREAS, Retired U.S. General Lee Butler, once responsible for all U.S. > strategic nuclear forces, has called nuclear weapons "inherently dangerous, > hugely expensive, militarily inefficient, and morally indefensible"; and > > WHEREAS, The residual effects of nuclear warfare would have a lasting impact > on present and future generations, posing a constant threat to the health > and peace of mind of the world's citizens; and > > WHEREAS, It is in the direct interest of young people to support the > sustainability of life on this planet in order that they may have a healthy > place to live in which to pursue their dreams and aspirations; now > therefore, > > BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Senate of the Associated Students of the > University of Hawaii at Manoa (ASUH), the elected body representing over > 9,000 full-time classified undergraduate students declares itself a Nuclear > Weapon Free Zone and supports the further development of Nuclear Weapon Free > Zones throughout the world; > > BE IT RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH stands in solidarity with the Nuclear Age > Peace Foundation for the Abolition 2000 Global Campaign introduced by > Richard Salvador, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, University of Hawaii > at Manoa; > > BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls for nuclear weapons to be > taken off alert status, for all nuclear warheads to be separated from their > delivery vehicles, and for the nuclear weapons states to agree to > unconditional no first use of these weapons; > > BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls upon governments of all > nuclear weapons states to begin negotiations immediately on a Nuclear > Weapons Convention to prohibit and eliminate all nuclear weapons early in > the first years of the new millennium; > > BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, a call for copies of this resolution to be > distributed among the student body; U.S. Congressional Delegation; President > of the United States; the United States Student Association (USSA); the UH > Board of Regents; UH President Kenneth Mortimer; Abolition 2000 Global > Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; the Hague Appeal for Peace; Peace > Action Network; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Pugwash > U.S.A; Student Peace Action Network; and all University of Hawai'i at Manoa > department heads. > > INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FOLEY, CHINA, BERGER, LOY, NAKAMOTO, and VICE- > PRESIDENT TAKAHASHI > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - 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: Tom Condit Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) source of quote? Date: 04 Oct 2000 15:26:40 -0700 It sounds like one of a familiar genre of jokes to me. At 04:47 PM 10/3/00 -0400, Peacework wrote: >Greetings. A friend passed on the following message, alas without >attribution. Does anyone know the source? We would like to quote it in >Peacework magazine, but we can't do that without some verification. Thank >you for whatever help you can offer. Patricia Watson, editor, Peacework > >"A directive from the US Department of Defense was sent to all Army units >in the field. It reads: > It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads must be >stored upside down, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at >the top. To prevent anyone making a mistake, and in order that there will >be no doubt as to which is the bottom and which is the top, for storage >puirposes, it will be noted that the bottom of each warhead has been >labeled with the word 'Top.'" > > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "david rush" Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: SLMK Appeal: Proposal on Research Institutes Date: 05 Oct 2000 09:06:48 -0400 "Australia-MAPW Lynda Campbell" ; "Austria-PPNW Dr Klaus Renoldner" ; "Can-PPNW Dr Mary-Wynne Ashford" ; "Chinese PPNW Medical Association Susan Lin" ; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Abraham Behar" ; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Jacques Mongnet" ; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Patrice Richard" ; "Den-DLMK Dr Anton Aggernaes" ; "Den-DLMK Dr Jacob Obbekjaer" ; "Den-DLMK Dr Pavl Revsbech" ; "Fin-PPNW Kaisa Kahala" ; "Fin-PPNW Maija Vainiom=E4ki" ; "Fin-PPNW Partrik Sandstr=F6m" ; "Fin-PP= NW Pekka Aarninsalo" ; "Ger-PPNW Jennifer R=E4mer" ; "Ger-PPNW Dr Lars Pohlmeier" ; "Ger-PPNW Armin Kr=F6ning" ; "India-Journalist Praful Bidway" ; "India-PPNW D= r S.S. Shrivastwa" ; "Israel Hillel Schenker" ; "Japan-PPNW" ; "Mal-P= PNW Dr Ron McCoy Malaysia" ; "Neth-PPNW Dr Herman Spanjaa= rd" ; "Neth-PPNW H M Zontenlier" ; "Nor-NLMA Dr Ellen-Ann Antal" ; "Nor-NLMA Bj=F8rn Hilt" ; "Nor= -NLMA Ingvild Fossgard Sandoy" ; "Nor-NLMA Dr Kirsten Osen" ; "Pak-PPNW Dr S. Tipu Sultan= " ; "Pol-PPNW Dr Kinga Tomczak" ; "Rus-PPNW Moscow" ; "Rus-PPNW Dr Sergei V. Grachev" ; "Rus-PPNW Dr Sergei Kolesnikov" ; "Swe-SLMK Med Stud Anna Hellman" ; "Swe SLMK board" = ; "Swi-PPNW Dr Monica Brodmann" ; "UK-Medact Dr Jack Piachaud" ; "UK-Medact Dr Liz Waterston" ; "UK-Medact Dir Gill Reeves" ; "UK-ORG Janet Bloomfield" ; "US-PSR David Rush" ; "US-PSR Director Robert K. Musil" ; "US-PSR Dr Paul Fisher" ; "US-P= SR Dr Lee Francis" ; "US-PSR Dr Ira Helfand" ; "US-PSR Jan and Peter Wilk " Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 11:46 AM > IPPNW and Nuclear Disarmament friends, > Please help us this week, and send at least one proposal (if possible > before 18th September) on a qualified research institute (preferably in > your country) that should be invited by SLMK/IPPNW to undertake a resea= rch > study on the topic "Instead of Nuclear Weapons". > SLMK presently discuss to initiate this research program for year 2001 = in > order to give us more tools and motivation for our opinionmaking, dialogues > and seminars etc. > SLMK drafts this research program in cooperation with the Department fo= r > Peace and Conflict reserach in Uppsala Sweden. > * We will formulate the invitation and the guidelines to the selected > institutes in a quite open way, in order to obtain non-limited new-thinking. > * We want the results during mid or late 2001. > * We do not yet have the big money to offer, but will discuss fundraisi= ng > with IPPNW board as soon as we know that there are institutes to invite. > * The selected and invited and willing research institutes will work > totally independent, which will make the reports very interesting. Will= a > research study undertaken in US, Russia, Sweden, Israel, France, China, > Japan, India etc........ bring up totally different results? > * Please try to send us at least one address of a qualified research > institute (Governmental or Non Governmental) and if possible a contact > person and a few words of why you think that this is a good institute. > No Nukes Now and visions on a nuclear weapons free future! > SLMK / Hans Levander and Gunnar Westberg > - 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) Spiritual Environmental Summit, Update 1 Date: 05 Oct 2000 07:23:08 -0700 Cc: AS A FUTURE GENERATIONS' PRAYER, the Global Peace Walk 2000 is humbled and honored to be both holding and calling for Spiritual Environmental Summit during the Year 2000 AD on the United Nation's 55th Anniversary. The time has come to Develop Spiritually United Nations. For the Tree of Life, for the Way of Life: The time has come for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. A major aim of these summits is for indigenous spiritual leaders to expand and empower the growing "deep ecology" consciousness amongst regular people, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational corporations, and even state and national and international governments. A major theme is how the loss of Indigenous traditional culture and spirituality relates to the devastion of the natural environment. The Spiritual Environmental Summit will take place in six locations up the East Coast Corridor between Washington, D.C. and New York City during October 11-24th. Please stay posted on the constantly evolving schedule! October 11th, American University Amphitheater, Wash D.C., 7-10pm (Massachusetts and Nebraska Av). Native American Spiritual Leaders: Singing, Drumming, Ceremonies, and Speeches. Special Guests: Rev. Chief Leonard Crow Dog, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Rev. Yusen Yamato, Chief Jacob Sanderson, Chief Oscar Marino, Chief Luciano Perez, Rev. Chief John Crow Dog, Carter Camp, Casey Camp. Invited: Chief Billy Tayac. Live Music: Roots Rock Reggae/Soldiers of Jah, Global Peace Orchestra Rapping for Peace, Native Drummers. October 17th, Swarthmore College, PA: Traditional Buddhist and Native American Ceremony in Amphitheater, 4-6pm; Lecture in Lang Performing Arts Cinema, 7-10pm: Rev. Yamato, Dr. Ashok Gangadean of Global Dialogue Institute, Keith Curley Dine'h Sun Dancer, Alice Yeager with Inner Peace Treaty, Marie Tucker of Taos Pueblo, Professor Mark Creekwater from the School of Life. October 19th, Princeton University, NJ. Afternoon traditional peace tree planting ceremony. Evening Lecture 7-11pm: Rev. Yamato; Selo Black Crow of Oglala Lakota; Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza of Maxuci Tribe, Brazil; Sammy Blackbear of Skull Valley Goshutes Utah; Rose Romero and Marie Tucker of Taos Pueblo; Dine'h Navajo representative from Big Mountain. Invited: Tibetan Monks, Greenpeace, Sierra Club. October 22nd, NYC begin: TBA. October 23rd, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, 12am-9am. Music by Miho Hatori and Nina Siegenthaler; Global Peace Orchestra. October 24th, UN Day. Baha'i Center Auditorium, 7-11pm. Speakers: Rev. Yamato, Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza, Selo Black Crow, Ben Romero of Taos Pueblo, Big Mountain representative, Sammy Blackbear. Invited: Tibetan monks, Qi Energy masters, Ed Nakawatse of AFSC, Rainforest Action Network, Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President of the Friends of the Earth, Nature Conservancy representative. Last week, during the 8th Annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth on the Washington Monument grounds, the Eskimo people of Greenland sent a message: "last year there was a stream in the ice...this year it is a river." Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Carrier of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota Dakota Nation, speaking with the historical memory of his ancestors, told that only within the last 15 years has the sun burnt their skin during the Sun Dance. The examples are countless and increasing: Today is a Global Emergency. The earth is suffering, the water is polluted, the fire has become all gas and electricity, the air is becoming polluted, and spirituality is becoming all noise. As a global community, we must cooperate beyond race, gender, religion, ideology, and class in order to Protect our Life and Land. In the name of Global Peace we emphasize that we must do whatever we can to restore the spiritual relationship between the human being and the elements: the earth, the water, the fire, and the air. Many people these days are talking about creating a global culture of peace; we suggest that if we all sincerely want to create a culture of peace that we look to the historical precedents set by traditional cultures of peace and that we listen closely to those few bearers of traditional knowledge still alive today to guide us back to harmony and balance and sustainability. As a prayer for "All our relations" and "Living on the Globe with all our friends" Respectfully, Global Peace Walkers Please call 202 244 3407 or 718 624 2611 fo mo info. -----------end forwarded post--------- ** gear2000@lightspeed.net David Crockett Williams, CLU Chartered Life Underwriter Scientist - Activist - Manager GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES http://www.GeneralAgencyServices.com For your personal and financial independence The Legal Revolution - Equal Justice for All Free Legal Resource Center eService http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams Online legal content: FAQ, audio guides, legal forms, discussion boards. Low-cost attorney telephone access, national prepaid legal protection plans. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest Date: 06 Oct 2000 22:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Dear peace and environmental colleagues: As the 3-part series in USA Today is much, much too long to post, this short article from our October newsletter may be of interest. This story of early bomb sites has, like many of our stories, broad implications for a number of interrelated issues, including compensation for ill workers and communities, basic justice, health and the environment. Peace, Marylia Secret Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest adapted by Maryia Kelley from a 3-part series in USA Today for Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch Lewis Malcolm began working at the steel mill in the 1930s and felt "lucky to have a job." In March 1948, the first rail cars full of uranium and thorium arrived at the Simonds Saw & Mill Co. in New York. Workers were told only that they would be rolling a "new metal." In fact, they made the fuel rods for the plutonium production reactors at Hanford. "There was a lot of dust. We thought there might be problems... They always told us there was no danger," Malcolm explained. Only weeks away from a painful and protracted death from kidney failure, Malcolm ruminated on his life recently, and said he "wasn't so sure" he had been lucky those many years ago. "Most of the guys are dead now. Cancer, kidneys, lung problems, you see a lot of that," John Smith said of the workers at Ohio's Hanshaw chemical plant, where uranium was secretly processed during the 40s and 50s for the nuclear weapons program. Documents reveal that radioactive dust in the Hanshaw plant was measured at 200 times the safety limit of the day. Employee exposures ranged up to 374 times the then-allowed dose limit. The U.S. employed a vast network of private companies in its quest to develop the atomic bomb, and in subsequent early-Cold War production. These secret sites were largely abandoned as the major government-owned, contractor-operated facilities of the nuclear weapons complex came on line -- Hanford, Savannah River, Rocky Flats, Livermore Lab and so on. The contamination at these formerly-used, private sites was an official secret, the records documenting worker and community risks classified and hidden from those who were simply left to suffer the consequences. And, the poison legacy remains to threaten new generations. USA Today, in a recent series from which this article is drawn, reported on nearly 100,000 pages of government records, many declassified for the first time. These documents show that the U.S. hired around 300 private companies in its early bomb production enterprise, and that nearly one-third of them handled large amounts of radioactive and toxic material even though basic protective equipment and information on hazards was often lacking. While many of the biggest sites are in the Midwest, according to the Department of Energy some twenty of the 571 formerly-used bomb sites are in California. Further, the records show that the government, on many occasions, sent its health physicists to document worker risks. They gave false assurances to the workers, and hid the results which often included exposures hundreds of times above the already-lax safety standards. Also documented, and strictly classified, was evidence of widespread pollution of the air, soil and water around these private facilities. Dr. Arjun Makhijani, hired by USA Today to analyze worker dose records, called the situation "appalling," and said that the magnitude of the exposures calls into question the oft-held assumption that Soviet nuclear weapons production was more polluting than those same activities in the U.S. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), which assisted USA Today reporters in the investigation, called on the DOE to provide full information and compensation to all workers and communities that may have been harmed. (See also the related story on the Congressional debate over the substantially more limited compensation being considered for workers on page 3.) ANA, a nation-wide network to which Tri-Valley CAREs belongs, also called on the government to provide a complete inventory of all toxic and radioactive materials used or currently found at all nuclear weapons sites - whether government or privately owned. To the thousands whose lives have been put at risk, and to the unknown numbers who have paid the ultimate price -- loss of health and their very lives -- we owe no less than the whole truth. To future generations, we owe adequate cleanup, our deepest apologies, and the total elimination of nuclear weapons. Copies of the USA Today 3-part series are available from Tri-Valley CAREs' office on request. Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF budget analysis/speech excerpts Date: 06 Oct 2000 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Dear peace and enviro advocates. Thank you to the many of you who weighed in to stop the National Ignition Facility. Here is an analysis of the NIF budget debate and outcome for the upcoming fiscal year. It is followed by a suggested action and excerpts from excellent speeches on the Senate floor by Tom Harkin and Harry Reid. The excerpts make this a tad longer than I usually post, but both Senators' words are worthwhile! Please read on... Peace, Marylia Senate Restrains NIF, Conference Committee Lets it Loose by Marylia Kelley for Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch The National Ignition Facility survived the budget ax this year, but just barely. NIF foes succeeded in bringing the facility's proliferation risks, technical problems and still-hemorrhaging budget to the attention of Congress, marking the first time that the institution providing the funds truly noticed the mega-laser. This is a significant achievement that can be built upon and may yield positive results over the long haul, for many lawmakers did not like what they saw. NIF advocates came away from the budget battle with a notable chunk of additional construction money, giving the beleaguered facility a much-needed shot in the arm, in their view. Certainly, the added funding does provide a respite for NIF - to the dismay of our organization and many others. As reported in our July 2000 edition of Citizen's Watch, the NIF debate began in the House with a valiant effort led by Reps. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), offering a last-minute amendment to cut NIF construction that lost on a voice vote. The action then moved to the Senate. Several factors there allowed for a more penetrating look at NIF. In August, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released its report. That study was highly critical of NIF and pegged its pre-completion costs at $4 billion. (See also the September 2000 Citizen's Watch and the new NIF postcards, available soon on our website.) Too, a variety of issues held up the vote on Senate Appropriations, which served to give staffers and Senators alike a small piece of time in which to educate themselves on NIF. A number of them studied technical materials on the mega-laser from several sources, including DOE, Livermore Lab, GAO, Tri-Valley CAREs and other non-governmental organizations. Two champions quickly emerged to restrain NIF, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Harry Reid (D-NV). (See also excerpts from their speeches, below.) Working with other Senate colleagues, they crafted an amendment to put a "cap" on NIF's construction budget, limiting it to the $74.1 million in the DOE's original budget request and slamming the door on an extra $135 million that DOE had begun seeking after the NIF cost overrun became public. Additionally, the amendment required the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to undertake a study of NIF's technical difficulties and its utility (or lack thereof) for maintaining the safety and reliability of the arsenal. The NAS study was also to investigate alternative methods for achieving that goal, and to offer recommendations on whether NIF should be canceled or scaled back. The powerful chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Pete Domenici (R-NM), concurred with their efforts. On September 7, the amendment to cap NIF construction passed the Senate on a voice vote. Whenever differences exist between a House bill and a Senate bill, the matter goes to a special "Conference Committee" for resolution. Since the Senate had now placed a limit on NIF construction not found in the earlier House version, the Conference Committee was the next stop on NIF's wild ride. At this point, the Conferees chose the wasteful and profligate spending path, offering NIF $199 million for construction in fiscal year 2001. Of that, $69 million will be held back pending NIF's compliance with specified milestones. Equally disappointing, however, was that the Conference Committee did not retain the Senate provision requiring the NAS study, allowing instead more of the "same old" wherein DOE will review itself to determine if NIF milestones are met. This leaves entirely too much room for DOE and Livermore to hide serious, ongoing problems with NIF and to manipulate the outcome of the reporting requirements. While the $199 million is $10 million less than Lab management and DOE had hoped to get, it is being touted by Livermore Lab as a victory for NIF. Ironically it will likely turn out to incur financial losses for the Lab overall. For, not all of the NIF construction funding is actually new money. Forty million dollars is slated to come out of the NIF operating budget at Livermore Lab. In other words, this will constitute a lateral move from one Livermore pot of NIF money to another. Laser operators and other non-construction employees are generally paid out of the operating budget -- now to be gutted in favor of construction. No matter what the Lab PR staff says publicly, privately employees are worried. Further, the Conferees directed Livermore Lab to take $25 million from its non-NIF programs as part of the deal to boost NIF construction. The Committee's report does not specify from which Livermore programs the cuts will come, apparently leaving DOE and Lab management to make that decision. This may become a dark year indeed for Livermore Lab's smaller programs, especially those that have a significant civilian, rather than predominately military, application. Management is unlikely to look first to the subcritical nuclear testing program for NIF funds. Instead, astrophysics, geophysics, basic sciences and other, similar and already underfunded endeavors at Livermore Lab will feel the budget ax first, most keenly and with disproportionate pain. So, rather than being a straightforward matter of NIF avoiding the ax this year, in reality it is more truly a deflection, a change in the angle of the ax's descent. Suggested action: Call Reps. Paul Ryan & Dennis Kucinich and Senators Tom Harkin & Harry Reid to thank them for their efforts to bring some common sense and financial restraint to the NIF project. Let them know you care about cutting NIF and why. Otherwise, DOE and Livermore Lab managers will be the only voices they will hear. They can all be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Sept. 5, 2000 on NIF funding: "Leaders from DOE and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab came to me at a time when many Members of the Senate, including Chairman [Pete] Domenici, were somewhat skeptical that NIF was actually needed. They assured me that NIF was absolutely vital to national security and that it would be brought in on time and within budget. Based on that, I came to bat for NIF and convinced many of my colleagues to support it. I regret it. "In my estimation, DOE lied to me. They sold me a bill of goods and I am not happy about it. It is now several years later and the project is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule... Enough is enough. "There is plenty of skepticism in the scientific and national security community as to whether we will ever be able to get the information we need to certify our stockpile from NIF. I believe there are other, cheaper ways to get this job done and I think that it is time to go back to the drawing board and find a new path forward." Senator Tom Harkin: "As many of my colleagues are aware, this is a deeply troubled program. The General Accounting Office recently issued a report that detailed management turmoil, cost overruns, slipping schedules, and unsolved technical problems. I am deeply concerned that we will pour more and more money into NIF, money that could be used for other scientific purposes. NIF appears to be mostly a jobs program for nuclear weapons scientists. "We have had a lot of problems with NIF. They have repeatedly tried to hide the true costs of the project. In fact, DOE and lab officials told GAO that they deliberately set an unrealistically low initial budget because they feared Congress would not fund a realistic one... They lied to us. They simply lied to us. They admitted it to GAO. Now they want more money. Is this what we reward? "So what is this NIF? Why is it necessary?... It may be true that NIF would provide useful data for simulating nuclear weapons explosions. But we don't need that data to maintain the nuclear weapons we have today. For decades, we have assured the safety and reliability of our nuclear weapons with a careful engineering program... We don't need a $4 billion facility at Lawrence Livermore to do what we are doing right now. We can and will continue these surveillance activities of our stockpile. "The kind of detailed information on nuclear explosions that NIF could provide is needed only to modify weapons or design new ones. But we don't need to design any new nuclear weapons. ...but that is what they intend to do with it. ...NIF may itself be a proliferation threat." -- From the statement of Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) on September 7, 2000 on the floor of the Senate to introduce the amendment to limit funding for the construction of the National Ignition Facility. Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) sick workers wait Date: 06 Oct 2000 22:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Sick Workers Wait by Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch While throwing millions more at NIF, the Conference Committee remains mired in debate over whether to compensate the workers made ill by exposure to toxic and radioactive materials in the nation's bomb factories and labs. Some workers suffered acute exposure, some chronic. Some were "dosed" with excess radioactivity, some by hazardous chemicals. What they have in common is that they are sick and dying, and some are already dead. Many have problems with insurance and medical bills, leaving little to bequeath to a surviving spouse. Earlier this year, DOE Secretary Bill Richardson reversed over a half-century of official agency denial, admitting that atomic workers had been put in harms way. The DOE proposed compensation for an estimated 3,000 past and present employees, a number that we said accounted for only a fraction of those made ill. Still, it represented an historic first step. (See our May 2000 Citizen's Watch for details on DOE's plan.) Now, Congress appears reluctant to find even the start-up funding needed for the program. For weeks, conferees have debated the issue without resolution. Reportedly, the House Republicans on the Conference Committee are balking at the proposal's price tag of $1.7 billion over ten years. State governors intensified a letter writing campaign in support of a compensation bill. Most recently, Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NV) wrote and urged passage of the proposal, calling it "long deserved." Gov. Gary Locke (D-WA) also weighed in on behalf of the program earlier in the week. The governors from Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and So. Carolina have sent missives to the Committee as well. Meanwhile, the sick workers wait... and die. Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) activist networking & GeneralAgencyServices.com Date: 08 Oct 2000 15:16:23 -0700 This is a note for those potentially interested in networking cooperations to further increased funding of their and our activism work -- by expanding outreach of General Agency Services as an eventually large global people-to-people personal and financial agency service alternative to contemporary governments and "business" programs. If neither you nor anyone in your network that you might forward this message to would be interested in investigating this idea, feel free to stop reading here and delete this message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Peace Walk 2000 - Update 10/8/2000 Date: 08 Oct 2000 22:46:21 -0700 Global Peace Walk 2000 Monday, October 9 Sunrise Ceremony - Washington Monument Millennial Peace Ceremony - NOON Circle Around Washington Monument For Rededication As a Symbol of Peace SYLVAN Theater ALL DAY Speeches/music ... so far... Speakers Reverend Yamato, Zen Buddhist Monk & Initiator of Global Peace Walk 2000 Native American Spiritual Leaders & Elders - Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President of the Friends of the Earth, William Thomas, Proposition 1 - Hendrik Voss, School of the Americas Watch - Guatemala Human Rights Commission - Capitol City Tibetan Association - International Society of Krishna Consciousness - Stan Scarano, National Coalition for the Chemically Injured - Institute for Policy Studies - Greenpeace - Diane Williams, One Day in Peace & the Millennian Meal World Peace Flame - Amazon Alliance Music Global Peace Orchestra & Rappers - Roccosan - Kharabia Rayford - Christo - Tyoshi Statements President Bill Clinton - Mayor Anthony Williams - Congressman Dennis Kuicinich Julia Butterfly - Roberta Blackgoat and Bonnie Whitesinger from Big Mountain, AZ. - Students of Washington DC High Schools & Middle School Free Speech / Open Mike Global Peace Walk 2000 - Update 10/8/2000 Global Peace Walk 2000 Global Peace Walk / YUCCA - 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization 4841 Tilden Street, NW, Washington DC 20016 P.O. Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117-0245 (202) 244-3407 (DC) - (413) 895-8588 (fax) (415) 267-1877 (schedule update & road contact) GPZONE2000@aol.com - www.globalpeacenow.org ********************************************************************** Latest News Flash American Indian Chiefs representing many American Indian Nations from across the continent will arrive in Washington DC for Indigenous People's Day Events. At present, the following American Indian Chiefs will be present for speeches and ceremonies: Chief Leonard Crow Dog, Chief Oscar Marino, Chief Luciano Perez, Chief John Crow Dog, Chief Richard Crimes, Chief Norman Tooley, Chief Jacob Sanderson, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and Chief Billie Tayac. They will hold a Press Conference concerning issues of the Native American Nations and their People. Some of these Chiefs will attend the following events: October 11th: The first session of the "Spiritual Environmental Summit" at American University Amphitheater - 7-10pm. October 12th: Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Gathering at Lafayette Park, starting at 12 Noon. Offerings for Traveling and Hospitality Expenses are greatly needed to help offset the costs of getting these Native American Chiefs & Spiritual Leaders to and from their Tribal Lands as well as make their stay in Washington DC comfortable. Donations can be accepted and sent to: "Global Peace Walk/YUCCA" - 4841 Tilden Street, NW, Washington DC 20016. Global Peace Walk / YUCCA (a 501 (c) 3 California Association, for the Spiritual Arts). A receipt with tax ID number will be sent by return mail upon request. Please contact us for further information, or to help in any way: call 202-244-3407 or 415-267-1877 or email: GPZONE2000@aol.com All Our Relations... Global Peace Now! ********************************************************************** Global Peace Walk 2000 Spiritual Environmental Summit 6 Sessions American University - Washington DC on October 11th Swarthmore College, PA on October 17th - 4-6pm Princeton University on October 19th - 7-11pm New York City - October 22nd - Location & Time TBA New York City - St. Mark's In-the-Bowery on October 24th, 12midnight-9am New York City - Baha'i Center, October 24th, 7-11pm. AS A FUTURE GENERATIONS' PRAYER, the Global Peace Walk 2000 is humbled and honored to be both holding and calling for Spiritual Environmental Summit during the Year 2000 AD on the United Nation's 55th Anniversary. The time has come to Develop Spiritually United Nations. For the Tree of Life, for the Way of Life: The time has come for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. A major aim of these summits is for indigenous spiritual leaders to expand and empower the growing "deep ecology" consciousness amongst regular people, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational corporations, and even state and national and international governments. A major theme is how the loss of Indigenous traditional culture and spirituality relates to the devastion of the natural environment. The Spiritual Environmental Summit will take place in six locations up the East Coast Corridor between Washington, D.C. and New York City during October 11-24th. Please stay posted on the constantly evolving schedule! SPIRITUAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMIT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AMPHITHEATER WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH - 7-10PM SPECIAL GUESTS: NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEFS AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS SPEECHES, SINGING, DRUMMING & CEREMONIES AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENT SPEAKERS SPIRITUAL & ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKERS AND MORE... LIVE MUSIC ROOTS ROCK REGGAE / SOLDIERS OF JAH GLOBAL PEACE WALK ORCHESTRA RAPPING FOR PEACE October 17th, Swarthmore College, PA: Traditional Buddhist and Native American Ceremony in Amphitheater, 4-6pm; Lecture in Lang Performing ancer, Alice Yeager with Inner Peace Treaty, Marie Tucker of Taos Pueblo, Professor Mark Creekwater from the School of Life. October 19th, Princeton University, NJ. Afternoon traditional peace tree planting ceremony. Evening Lecture 7-11pm: Rev. Yamato; Selo Black Crow of Oglala Lakota; Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza of Maxuci Tribe, Brazil; Sammy Blackbear of Skull Valley Goshutes Utah; Rose Romero and Marie Tucker of Taos Pueblo; Dine'h Navajo representative from Big Mountain. Invited: Tibetan Monks, Greenpeace, Sierra Club. October 22nd, NYC begin: TBA. October 24th, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, 12midnight-9am. Discussion. Music by Miho Hatori and Nina Siegenthaler; Global Peace Orchestra. October 24th, UN Day. Baha'i Center Auditorium, 7-11pm. Speakers: Rev. Yamato, Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza, Selo Black Crow, Ben Romero of Taos Pueblo, Big Mountain representative, Sammy Blackbear. Invited: Tibetan monks, Qi Energy masters, Ed Nakawatse of AFSC, Rainforest Action Network, Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President of the Friends of the Earth, Nature Conservancy representative. Last week, during the 8th Annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth on the Washington Monument grounds, the Eskimo people of Greenland sent a message: "last year there was a stream in the ice...this year it is a river." Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Carrier of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota Dakota Nation, speaking with the historical memory of his ancestors, told that only within the last 15 years has the sun burnt their skin during the Sun Dance. The examples are countless and increasing: Today is a Global Emergency. The earth is suffering, the water is polluted, the fire has become all gas and electricity, the air is becoming polluted, and spirituality is becoming all noise. As a global community, we must cooperate beyond race, gender, religion, ideology, and class in order to Protect our Life and Land. In the name of Global Peace we emphasize that we must do whatever we can to restore the spiritual relationship between the human being and the elements: the earth, the water, the fire, and the air. Many people these days are talking about creating a global culture of peace; we suggest that if we all sincerely want to create a culture of peace that we look to the historical precedents set by traditional cultures of peace and that we listen closely to those few bearers of traditional knowledge still alive today to guide us back to harmony and balance and sustainability. As a prayer for "All our relations" and "Living on the Globe with all our friends" Respectfully, Global Peace Walkers Please call 202 244 3407 or 718 624 2611 for more info. - 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) grant application opportunity Date: 08 Oct 2000 23:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Dear colleagues, FYI. --mk =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00 =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00October 3, 2000 Dear Prospective Applicant, We are pleased to provide a Request for Proposals for funding from the Citizens=ED Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (Round 2, Fall 2000). To assist groups to prepare fundable proposals, we have divided the application process into two steps, an initial Letter of Intent and a more detailed proposal. The Letter of Intent is designed to ensure that the project as envisioned is fundable and to identify potential impediments to funding early in the process. We will work with you, as we did with Round 1 applicants, so the application can be reviewed and the project finalized as quickly as possible. While the RfP is lengthy we have included detailed information on the history of the Fund, the basic steps for applying, and the criteria your organization must meet. The specific questions that you must address in your proposal begin on Page 10. As you review this Round 2 RfP, please be aware of the following: there are two important deadlines (November 27 for the Letter of Intent and January 4 for the Proposal); it will expedite the application process if you call us as early in the process as possible to indicate your interest in applying and to ask questions; the financial accounting requirements outlined and the requirement for complying with the Office of Management and Budget circulars in Section IV can be handled in any number of ways and tailored for your existing accounting system (these requirements are identical to grants from federal government agencies and are necessary under the settlement agreement that created the Fund); and the certifications in Section V are intended to establish that you are eligible for funding. Please pass the Round 2 RfP along to others who might be interested in receiving money from the Citizens=ED Monitoring and Technical Assessment =46und. Please contact me at any time if you have any questions about the RfP or the application process. We are looking forward to funding another round of proposals. Sincerely, Bruce J. Stedman MTA Fund Manager Draft Grant Guidelines & Application Process Round 2 Fall 2000 Key Dates and Deadlines to Remember If you are considering applying for a grant, please inform RESOLVE as soon as possible. The required Letter of Intent must be postmarked November 27, 2000. The Proposal must be postmarked January 4, 2001. Introduction As part of a 1998 court settlement between U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and 39 plaintiffs (nonprofit peace and environmental groups around the country), DOE established a $6.25 million Citizens=ED Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (Fund) to provide money to non-profit, non-governmental organizations and Federally recognized tribal governments working on issues related to the nuclear weapons complex. The Fund was established to help those groups procure technical and scientific assistance to perform technical and scientific reviews and analyses of environmental management activities at DOE sites. These grants also may support dissemination of the technical and scientific reviews and analyses undertaken with monies from the Fund, but cannot be used for litigation, lobbying, administrative support, or fundraising.=02 The Fund represents an opportunity for citizens groups, tribes, and others to conduct their own research and monitoring of DOE environmental management activities at sites throughout the country. The Fund also represents an opportunity to develop new approaches for community-based research that may be applicable to other environmental issues and problems. Administering Organization The administering organization for the Fund is RESOLVE, Inc., a neutral non-profit dispute resolution organization with special expertise in the environmental arena with offices in Washington, DC, Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1977, RESOLVE=EDs mission is to mediate controversial environmental issues and promote the effective use of conflict resolution in public decision-making. RESOLVE has experience managing technical assistance and research funds, and bringing groups together with technical experts to produce the highest quality research with practical applications. Robert Fisher, a Senior Mediator and RESOLVE's Chief Operating Officer directs the Fund. Bruce Stedman, a Senior Mediator, manages the fund with assistance from Sam Ashton (RESOLVE=EDs Controller), Jenny Billet, Jeff Citrin, Troy Hartley, and Morrissa Young. RESOLVE formed an Advisory Board=02 to oversee use of the Fund and to advise RESOLVE on how the Fund should be distributed. The Advisory Board is composed of representatives from organizations that were involved in the lawsuit against DOE that created the Fund and others, including tribes that are and are not Federally recognized. In addition to the Advisory Board, RESOLVE seeks input from other organizations, tribes, and individuals, including those who believe their views may not be represented on the Advisory Board, and potential applicants, about how the Fund should be managed and distributed. The Advisory Board will assist RESOLVE in reviewing proposals and make recommendations to RESOLVE about which proposals to fund, but will not make funding decisions. Members of the Advisory Board also are available to assist applicants in preparing proposals. (See the Proposal Development section, below.) Under the terms of the court settlement, RESOLVE has sole discretion and decision-making authority with respect to the Fund. RESOLVE will make all funding decisions. Priority For Funding Awards of money from the Fund in Fall 2000 funding round will focus on eligible organizations and tribes engaged in, or preparing to engage in, community-based research. Priority for funding will be given to eligible organizations, and tribes that have limited technological resources or that may be "disenfranchised" or "disproportionately affected" by environmental management activities at DOE sites. Eligible organizations are non-profit, non-governmental organizations (including tribal citizens=ED organizations) and Federally recognized tribal governments working on issues related to the nuclear weapons complex. Organizations and communities of color and low-income communities and organizations are encouraged to apply. Proposal Development Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to inform RESOLVE of your interest in applying to the Fund at the earliest possible opportunity - by telephone, fax, or email. We ask that you notify us before submitting the Letter of Intent to ensure that all application criteria can be met by the deadlines. It also will help Fund staff to see the range of proposals being considered. Prospective applicants are also encouraged to work with their experts, a Fund staff person, or a Fund Advisory Board member in preparing your proposal. =46or example, RESOLVE or an Advisory Board member may assist with: identifying an appropriate technical advisor or researcher to partner with on an application; developing methods or strategies for conducting the research or information distribution; and/or explaining application requirements. If you need assistance identifying an appropriate expert and/or a Fund Advisory Board member to work with in developing your Proposal, please contact RESOLVE. Application Process Eligibility Eligible Organizations and Tribal Governments Grants will be made only to non-profit, non-governmental organizations or =46ederally recognized tribal governments working on issues related to the nuclear weapons complex. (See description of eligible organization at the bottom of page 1.) The Fund will consider collaborative proposals from eligible organizations and/or tribal governments. Eligible Projects Grants may be given to eligible organizations and tribal governments for technical and scientific assistance to perform technical and scientific reviews and analysis of environmental management activities at DOE sites. Monies from the Fund also may be used to support the dissemination of the technical and scientific reviews and analyses undertaken with monies from the Fund. Round 1 Award Recipients - Eligibility for Round 2 Organizations or tribal governments that received funding in Round 1 (Winter 2000) may not submit proposals in this Round and must wait until Round 3 (Spring 2001) to apply again. The sole exception will be emergency situations=02, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Resubmitting Revised Applications Applications that are not funded during a funding round may be revised and resubmitted in the next round. RESOLVE encourages all applicants, including those whose proposals were not funded in Round 1, to discuss their proposals with RESOLVE or a member of the Advisory Board before resubmitting them. Multiple Applications Only one application may be made submitted by each eligible organization or tribal government in each funding round. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES Grant Amount The average award will be $35,000. Most funded awards during the Fall 2000 round will be less than $35,000, and no grant will exceed $50,000. Grant requests exceeding $35,000 must specifically include an explanation of why the greater amount is necessary. Up to $600,000 will be distributed in this round of funding. If the total requested amount of all approved proposals exceeds $600,000, individual grants may be funded at levels below the requested amounts. Prohibited Uses of Funds Money from the Fund may not be used to conduct litigation, lobbying, or fundraising. In addition, money from the Fund may not be used for basic administrative support or for the purchase of equipment (e.g. computers and other office machinery, software, and laboratory machinery). =46or Application Procedures, any additional information, and a complete cop= y of the RfP, contact: Citizens' Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund c/o RESOLVE, Inc. 1255 23rd Street NW Suite 275 Washington, DC 20037 Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Job Opportunity Date: 10 Oct 2000 11:38:28 -0400 Dear Friends, Below is a job description for an Administrative Assistant at GRACE. Please circulate. Many thanks. Alice slater Title: Administrative Assistant Type: Full-time Area of Focus: Environment, Nuclear Disarmament, Sustainable Agriculture, Corporate Accountability Job Description: The Administrative Assistant will be responsible for assisting the organization’s president, answering phones, typing, maintaining office files and databases, coordinating mailings, managing student interns, composing correspondence, assisting with web site, liaising with peace organizations worldwide, and special projects, as necessary. Qualifications: College graduate with previous office experience. We are seeking a highly motivated, organized individual who has excellent writing and communication skills, and is proficient with Windows 98 and the Internet. Must be devoted to details and able to manage multiple tasks in a high-paced environment. Salary: Commensurate with experience plus benefits. To Apply: Fax or mail resume, cover letter and writing sample to Diane Hatz, Communications Director, GRACE, 15 East 26th Street, Suite 915, New York, NY 10010. Fax: (212) 726-9160 GRACE is a non-profit organization, established in 1996, that works to form new links with the research, policy and grassroots communities to preserve the future of the planet and protect the quality of the environment. GRACE works in two major areas: The GRACE Factory Farm Project and the Nuclear Abolition Project. The Nuclear Abolition Project supports initiatives to redress the toxic legacy of the nuclear age. GRACE works with local and international networks affiliated with Abolition 2000, working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and for the creation of a Global Sustainable Energy Agency. The Factory Farm Project supports initiatives to create a sustainable food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable, and environmentally sound. Website: 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. 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) short report on Vandenberg action Date: 10 Oct 2000 15:40:06 -0700 International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space; Report= from Vandenberg =20 From the back of a flatbed truck, Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, was telling the gathering how the United States Air Force had brought Nazi rocket scientists from Germany after World War II to start the U.S. space program. At that moment, an enormous black =93gunboat=94 helicopter appeared overhead,= hovering ominously above the assembly, its thunderous engines drowning out the= speakers. This was the scene across the street from the main gate at Vandenberg Air= Force base on Saturday, October 7, as approximately 200 people gathered to= peacefully express their opposition to ongoing U.S. plans to deploy a =93Star Wars=94= National Missile Defense program. Rally speakers included Medea Benjamin, Green= Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California, =93Butch=94 Turk, representing= Greenpeace, Carah Ong, Coordinator of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, and actor Martin Sheen.=20 After the rally, surprised nonviolent demonstrators, singing and holding hands at the main gate of the base, were met by camouflage-clad,= baton-wielding =93storm troopers,=94 dogs and a water cannon. A few people who were= prepared to risk arrest by attempting to deliver a letter to the base commander were handled unnecessarily roughly, inspiring others to join them. By the end of the day 23 people (including Martin Sheen) had been arrested =97 some of= them literally grabbed off the sidewalk by military personnel. In an unusual= and disturbing development, arrestees were read their rights and =93interviewed= =94 before being released. They also received letters banning them from the= base along with trespass citations. The Vandenberg rally and nonviolent direct action was part of an internationally-coordinated day of protest to stop the militarization of space. Demonstrations took place in 16 countries and 39 U.S. cities. Vandenberg Air Force Base is the U.S. launch site for Ballistic Missile= Defense (BMD) interceptor tests, first-strike nuclear missile tests and military satellites. When President Clinton announced his decision on September 1 to delay deployment of a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, he also= mandated a =93robust=92 program of continued development and testing, including 16= more BMD tests at $100 million each. The next BMD interceptor test is planned from Vandenberg in January 2001. =97 Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation - 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 00/10/11 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 11 Oct 2000 06:58:03 -0400 [NucNews Archives have been updated and posted through September 30, 2000 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. If you're interested in reading last week's speech to Asheville, NC activists, send me a request - mailto:prop1@prop1.org. et] Washington Times Daybook, October 11, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001011212958.htm Peacekeeping missions =97 10 a.m. =97 The House International Relations= Committee holds a hearing on the policy blueprint for approving peacekeeping missions= by the United Nations. Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021. 10 a.m.=20 10 a.m. =97 Government Reform Committee holds a hearing, "The Anthrax= Vaccine Immunization Program: What Have We Learned?" Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074. =20 U.S.-Japanese report release =97 10 a.m. =97 A bipartisan U.S.-Japanese= study group chaired by Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye, former assistant defense secretaries, hold a press conference to release "The United States and= Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership," a new report outlining a= U.S.-Japanese policy for the future. Location: Capitol, Mansfield Room, S-207. Contact: 703/875-8660 or 202/518-3403. Iran news conference =97 11 a.m. =97 Senior members of the House= International Relations Committee hold a news conference to release a statement on Iranian policy on behalf of a majority of House members. Location: 2255 Rayburn= House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-3931. =20 Chechnya briefing =97 2 p.m. =97Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the= American Committee for Peace in Chechnya hold a briefing on "Bringing Peace to Chechnya." The speaker is Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign-affairs minister of= Chechnya. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/457-6949. U.N. peacekeeping discussion =97 2 p.m. =97 Georgetown University holds a discussion, "U.N. Peace Operations: Problems and Prospects." The speaker is William Durch of the Henry L. Stimson Center. Location: McGhee Library, Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. Contact: 202/687-2683. =20 Global Peace Walk summit =977 p.m. =97 American University hosts the first= of four Global Peace Walk 2000 Spiritual Environmental Summits, which conclude Oct.= 24 at the Baha'i Center, New York City. Location: Amphitheater, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950. Third-party candidates and debates discussion =97 12:20 p.m. =97 American University's Washington College of Law hosts a discussion, "Exclusion of= Third Party Candidates from the Presidential Debates." Jamin Raskin, Washington College of Law professor, participates. Location: American University, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/274-4279. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 9 p.m. =97 The second presidential debate will be today, October 11, 2000, Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest University, Wait Chapel. Here are= candidates' websites:=20 - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ =20 - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html OCTOBER 12TH 3:30pm - 5:00pm WHO: Ralph Nader What: Rally WHERE: O'Connell Center, University Ave. & North-South Drive, University of Florida, Gainesville Ralph Nader will appear at Madison Square Garden, NYC, this Friday, October 13. Doors Open at 5:30 PM. Event Starts at 8:00 PM. Super Rally Special= Guests include Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bill Murray, Susan Sarandon, Tim= Robbins, Ben Harper, Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, and more. Read more: http://votenader.org/press/001006MSGrally.html Friday, Oct. 20, 3pm - Nader to speak at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA,= out on the mounds. From: "Amy *" To:= fnb-l@lists.tao.ca=20 -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - You are invited to send a message to the =91Saying NO to militarism and= war=92=20 message board at The message board is for=20 you to share your vision of a world in which there is no militarism or war. =91Saying NO to militarism and war=92 (17 October*) is the international day= of=20 'Saying NO to Violence' Week (YWCA Week Without Violence) which will take=20 place in Aotearoa / New Zealand from 15 to 22 October 2000.=20 - West Coast Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown (W.E.N) 9/13/00, quakeproofnukes@netscape.net We are a broad based coalition of concerned citizens, student and community organizers, and environmentalists who form this coalition= demanding the immediate shutdown and decommissioning of the following three nuclear= power plants: The Diablo Canyon power plant in Northern California and the San= Onofre in Southern California both precariously situated on earthquake faults, and= the Washington power plant in Washington State built in earthquake and volcano country....=20 These are the facts:=20 *The NRC,structural engineers, and geologists are well aware that= the Diablo Canyon power plant is improperly retrofitted and should not continue= to operate. The undersea earthquake fault, only three miles away, was not discovered until after construction of the plant began.=20 *The Diablo Canyon plant is built on the Hosgri fault, a "thrust" fault, however it is retrofitted for a "strike-slip" fault, with an entirely= different type of ground motion. (California,"Faulty Power", by Glen Martin, Aug, 1990,Volume 6(16))=20 *PG&E and private contractor R.L. Cloud Associates are suspected for misinformation on a report to the NRC designed to determine the earthquake resistance of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant.(Wall Street Journal,"PG&E May= Have Misled NRC on a Report Of Nuclear Unit's Earthquake Resistance", by staff reporter, Jan. 28, 1982, p.8)=20 *The concept of the "earthquake-proof" or "volcano-proof" nuclear= power plant is unrealistic. By definition, a "meltdown" occurs because of failure within electrical and cooling systems leading to a "meltdown" of the reactor core. We know that Three Mile Island and Chernobyl did not require and earthquake or a volcano to increase the risk of a meltdown event.=20 *The San Onofre power plant is already in the process of decommissioning on of its' reactors. We must shut it down completely.=20 We invite everyone, activists and organizations, to join us in our effort. Let your voice be heard. We are organizing an event at San Francisco State University Thursday, Oct. 12th,between noon and 2pm, to draw media attention to this issue. This event is sponsored by SFSU student= organizations celebrating and commemorating Indigenous People's Day. Indigenous people are known to be on the forefront of organizing on nuclear issues throughout U.S. history. The W.E.N. coalition encourages all peoples to participate in this great effort to save our communities from this potential nuclear threat.= Please contact Dolores Beliso as soon as possible by email at quakeproofnukes@netscape.net.=20 - New Egroup for UK & European Radiation Issues -- "rad-UK" is a discussion list dealing with all aspects of ionising radiation= in the UK and Europe. The group's premise is that current dose-risk estimates= do not accurately reflect the actual effect of internalised radionuclides. To subscribe to the group go to the following URL and click on "subscribe":=20 http://www.egroups.com/group/rad-UK - PAUL REVERE RIDES AGAIN TO ALERT STUDENTS!=20 GRASSROOTS ANTI-NUCLEAR GROUP PLANNING TEACH-INS, SPEAKERS TO STOP GLOBALIZATION OF NUCLEAR POWER=20 Beginning in the Northeast, the US's aging, mismanaged nuclear power plants are being sold in a desperate attempt to finish the bail out the= nuclear industry. Global power corporations AmerGen, Entergy, and Dominion Resources have already cut deals for 10 reactors in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nuclear reactors should be shut,= not bailed out and sold! But if successful, these companies will control 20% or more of the electricity supply in each Northeast state within two years. Through= its "Paul Revere Rides Again! Campaign," the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) is fighting this wave of nuclear colonization through grassroots education and organizing, and working to rid the region of nuclear power.=20 This fall, CAN is bringing the campaign to college campuses through= a series of teach-ins, presentations, and outreach and organizing events. Speakers are avaliable for a sliding scale honorarium ($0-$1,000), depending= on what your school or group can afford. To schedule an event on your campus, contact a chapter in your state (see above) or CAN's main office in Massachusetts (413) 339-5781.=20 In the last year, CAN has conducted 6 Paul Revere Ride caravans to alert people in affected communities throughout the Northeast, reaching thousands= of people directly and educating local media on the issues. In August, CAN= hosted the third Nuclear Free Northeast Action Camp in southern Vermont, focusing= on the sales of Northeast nukes and the globalization of the nuclear industry.= The camp concluded with a march through Brattleboro, VT, and a demonstration at Vermont Yankee corporate headquarters. Protesters committed to shutting= Vermont Yankee and the other nukes no matter who owns them!=20 CAN Chapter email Contacts=20 MA-CAN/main office: can@shaysnet.com CT-CAN: ctcan@snet.net=20 NY-CAN: cny-can@rootmedia.org VT-CAN: katgen16@sover.net=20 - Childrens Creative Response to Conflict sponsors wonderful workshops dedicated to the training of teachers and students in the skills of conflict resolution, problem solving, peer mediation, bias awareness, communication, cooperation and affirmation. The workshops also are good for general= training for use in adult and activist situations as well. There will be a workshop= on October 28. e-mail Linda Nunes-Shrang at Childrens Creative Response to Conflict above or call her at: 301-270-1005 - PASSAGE OF "MINI-NUKE" PROVISION COULD LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW= NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE RESUMPTION OF NUCLEAR TESTING New York, October 10th - The Pentagon's FY 2001 authorization bill (H.R. 5408) contains a short section (Sec. 1044) that calls for the Departments of Defense and Energy to conduct a study on how to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets such as underground command bunkers or buried weapons caches. The weapon of choice of some war planners for burrowing into the ground and destroying such a target would be a low-yield nuclear warhead.=20 The provision, introduced by Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Wayne Allard (R-CO), does not explicitly mention nuclear weapons. But their clear intention is to lay the groundwork for a resumption of nuclear testing for= the purpose of developing new, low-yield nuclear warheads, or "mini-nukes." Officials at the US nuclear weapons laboratories have argued for years for= the development of low-yield nuclear warheads, which they claim would be able to destroy a bunker built into solid rock, a hundred yards or more underground, without harming the surrounding population. "The essential argument coming= from the laboratories and supporters of this provision is let's build a nuclear weapon we can actually use," says William D. Hartung, President's Fellow at= the World Policy Institute. The idea that the US could build a usable or "safe" nuclear weapon= =20 will have catastrophic consequences internationally. Joe Volk, Executive Secretary for the Friends Committee on National Legislation points out that, "Senators Warner and Allard's mini-nukes, if deployed, will probably fail in defeating hidden weapons of mass destruction, but will certainly succeed in killing the current worldwide nuclear test moratorium and future prospects= for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."=20 It would encourage other nations to resume nuclear weapons programs, opening the floodgates to a new nuclear arms race. Moreover, it would= starkly contradict the United States' recent reaffirmation of its obligation under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to "pursue negotiations= in good faith" for the reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.=20 "More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US= continues to possess more than 10,000 nuclear warheads at an annual price of $35= billion. Clearly, the US government is having a difficult time weaning itself from= its nuclear-weapons addiction," adds Hartung. From the Senate's failure to= ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, to the Clinton administration's= reluctance in pursuing arms-reduction talks with Russia, to the current bi-partisan= push for a National Missile Defense system, US policymakers are endangering world security by continuing to push nuclear weapons as a key element of US= military strategy.=20 For more information please consult the Friends Committee on National Legislation website at: www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/minnukeindx.htm=20 - As the focus of your organization and web site is highly relevant to our annual international conferences and relief projects, we would appreciate= your posting a link to our site, to help in raising awareness of these important efforts. We invite you to visit our site for full detailed information at: http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html. Included are notices for:=20 (1) the 9th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION (ICR)= held May 10-20, 2001 in St. Petersburg, Russia.=20 (2) the BALKAN RECOVERY PROJECT: Catastrophic Trauma Recovery Training= (CTR).=20 [Common Bond Institute (CBI) - Steve Olweean and Sandra Friedman, Co-coordinators, 12170 S. Pine Ayr Drive, Climax, Michigan 49034=20 Ph/Fax: 616-665-9393 mailto:solweean@aol.com] - USA Today Series on Nuke Weapons Sites Still on Web=20 http://www.usatoday.com/news/poison/cover.htm - TITLE XXXVI--ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM - Full text can be found in it's entirety on the Downwinders website at http://www.downwinders.org/compensation_act.htm [From: Winston Weeks ] - Information is a weapon-arm yourself, visit http://www.teknopunx.co.uk/antinukenews.html "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then=20 they fight you. Then you win." - Gandhi [mailto:heather@teknopunx.co.uk] - There is an expose in the Toledo Blade about the occurrence of beryllium disease in nuclear weapons labs. Dept of Energy chose to save face rather= than admit liability. http://www2.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=3DTO&Dato=3D99999999= &Kat egori=3DSRDEADLY03&Lopenr=3D9999095&Ref=3DAR&AvisData=3DTO [From: "Kamalu Koenig" ] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - 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: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nader & nukes Date: 11 Oct 2000 17:27:54 -0400 >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:46:55 -0400 >Subject: Nader & nukes >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: "ctcan@snet.net" > >6 October 2000 >Ralph Nader Statement on Nuclear Power=20 > >It is time to end the use of nuclear power in the United States. Nuclear >energy is too dangerous, too inefficient, too costly, and poses too many >long-term hazards. > >Rather than learning from Chernobyl, the U.S. nuclear industry argues that >this kind of accident could not happen here. In fact, a nuclear accident >could occur at a U.S. power plant that would release radiation comparable >to that released in Chernobyl. U.S. reactors are much more dangerous than >the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the nuclear industry suggest. >At least five reactors in this country have experienced partial core-melt >accidents. Aside from catastrophic accidents, reactors are prone to >numerous small accidents, as well as =93routine=94 releases of small= amounts of >radioactivity. > >Reactors also produce high-level radioactive wastes with intractable >storage >problems. High-level nuclear waste will be hazardous for more than >200,000 >years longer than our ability to isolate it from the biosphere. It is >technologically impossible and scientifically irresponsible to =91dispose= =92 of >nuclear waste. Even attempts to dispose of low-level radioactive waste >have failed. Every low-level radioactive waste dump in this country leaks. > >The Department of Energy is considering Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site >for >=93permanent disposal.=94 A leak could contaminate the groundwater beneath= the >Mountain and jeopardize the health of nearby residents. An earthquake in >the area (and since 1976 there have been hundreds of serious seismic events >within a 50-mile radius) could cause a rise in groundwater levels that >would flood the repository. If the Yucca Mountain site is approved, waste >will be transported there through 43 states, past the homes, workplaces and >schools of 50 million Americans. The Department of Energy estimates that at >least 50 and as many as 310 accidents would occur. An Energy Department >study found that a severe accident in a rural area could contaminate a >42-square-mile area, require over a year to =93clean up=94, and cost $620 >million. > >Both Democratic and Republican administrations have treated nuclear power >as an >official, government-sponsored technology. The NRC has functioned as an >industry promoter rather than regulator, imperiling public health. This >must stop. > > =20 >We should: > >=B7 Phase out commercial nuclear reactors within five years, and set= a >timetable for phasing out other dangerous nuclear technologies, >nuclear-waste incinerators, food irradiation and all military and >commercial uses of depleted uranium. > >=B7 Ban long-distance transport of high-level nuclear waste. > >=B7 Assure that stored nuclear waste is continuously monitored, with >public access to monitoring data, unless and until a method can be found to >assure its isolation from the biosphere for the duration of its hazardous >life. The government should not relieve companies that generate nuclear >waste from their responsibility for its dangers. > >=B7 Redirect federal funding from nuclear energy research to= renewable >energy technology. > >=B7 Stop federal government promotion of nuclear energy, and U.S. >companies selling nuclear technology, internationally. > =20 - 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: Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/12 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 12 Oct 2000 06:26:43 -0400 12 noon, Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Gathering in Lafayette Park with= Global Peace Ambassador. Co-sponsored by Grey Panthers and the Piscataway Tribe.= (See last posting in this message for mroe detail) Washington Times Daybook, October 12, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001012212836.htm 9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Appropriations, Labor, Health and Human Services,= and Education subcommittee holds a hearing on Persian Gulf war illnesses. H.= Ross Perot, president/CEO/ chairman of Perot Systems Corp., testifies. Location:= 124 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3471. 10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on= the implementation of the Iran Nonproliferation Act. Location: 2172 Rayburn= House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021. Energy forum =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy hosts a forum, "E-Vision 2000: Key Issues= that Will Shape Our Energy Future." The dinner speaker is Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. Location: Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 703/548-4662. Russian crime briefing =978:30 a.m. =97 Radio Free Europe/ Radio= Liberty hold a briefing on "Economic Crime in Russia and Ukraine: A Status Report." The speaker is Vladimir Brovkin, director of the money-laundering project at American University's Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. Location: fourth-floor conference room, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact:= 202/457-6949. Millennium summit conference =97 9 a.m. =97 American University's= Center for the Global South hosts a conference to evaluate the U.N. Millennium Summit= held in September in New York City. Mark Malloch-Brown, U.N. Development Program administrator, delivers a keynote address at 9 a.m. The luncheon speaker is Kemal Dervis, World Bank vice president. Location: American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950. Vigil =97 5:30 p.m. =97 Amnesty International and the Sierra Club hold= a vigil for Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, Mexican environmental activists convicted of what backers say are trumped-up drug and weapons charges. Location: Mexican Embassy, 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/675-6698= or 202/544-6304, ext. 302. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ Noon =97 Addresses Wisconsin voters, Cathedral Square Park, Milwaukee, Wis. - Ralph Nader - Be sure to check the now-efficient schedule online: http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html OCTOBER 12TH 3:30pm - 5:00pm Rally WHERE: O'Connell Center, University Ave. & North-South Drive, University of Florida, Gainesville -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - PLEASE POST AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. THESE ARE IMPORTANT CHIEFS! Indigenous Solidarity Day Rally=20 Thursday, October 12, Noon=20 Lafayette Park across from White House Speakers include: =95Chief Avril Lookinghorse(Carrier of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe)= =20 =95Ben Carnes (League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations-LISN)=20 =95Anita Parlow (Author)=20 =95Paul Magno (Father McKenna Center) =95Members of the Council of Traditional Chiefs of Lakota Sioux Territory=20 Head Chief Leonard Crow Dog,=20 Chief Luciano Perez,=20 Chief Oscar Marino,=20 Chief John Crow Dog,=20 Chief Richard Grimes,=20 Chief Norman Tulley=20 =95Chief Jacob Sanderson of the Cree Nation=20 =95LakotaHasie Frazier, Abenaki-Lakota.=20 =95Reverend Yusen Yamato, Japanese Zen Buddhist, initiator of Global Peace= =20 Walk 2000=20 =95Linda Grover, One Day for Peace and the Millenium Meal=20 =95Flavio Cumpiano (Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques) Contact John Steinbach at 703-369-7427 ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [abolition-caucus] LAST CHANCE: PLEASE FAX NRC AT: Date: 12 Oct 2000 10:48:42 -0400 --=====================_1472416903==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:11:20 -0400 >Subject: [abolition-caucus] LAST CHANCE: PLEASE FAX NRC AT: 301-415-2234 Re 20 YEAR EXT >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: worldwatch@igc.apc.org, abolition-caucus@egroups.com, doewatch@egroups.com, downwinders@egroups.com, nukenet@envirolink.org, nucnews@egroups.com, du-list@egroups.com, earthfirst@igc.org, earthisland@igc.apc.org, greenpeace.usa@wdc.greenpeace.org >From: "smirnowb@ix.netcom.com" > > > Friends, > > Unless an extension of NRC's deadline is granted beyond the Monday >October 16 deadline, this is our last chance to tell NRC how we feel about >20 year extensions of 85% of the commercial nuclear power reactors around >the USA. They need to hear from us in DROVES and UNEQUIVICATIVELY that NO >reactors should have extensions granted them. > > PLEASE FAX THEM NOW. > > > >NRC Fax#: 301-415-2234, NRC Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov Please >dissemenate widely. > > > > Please ask NRC for an EXTENSION of their Monday October 16, 2000 >deadline for public comment. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Elie" >To: >Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:53 PM >Subject: [westcan] This Explains a Lot > >>> from AlterNet.org >>> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9836 >>> >>> Patching Nuclear Power >>> J.A. Savage, Albion Monitor >>> September 25, 2000 >>> >>> In a hushed quest to allow an expected 85 percent of the nation's >>nuclear >>> reactors to live beyond mandatory retirement, the nuclear industry >>talked >>> the federal government into allowing a generic 20-year extension on the >>> life of reactors. The public only has until October 16 to let the >>Nuclear >>> Regulatory Commission (NRC) know what it thinks of the government's plan >>> to allow license renewal instead of decommissioning. >>> >>> >>> According to the NRC, the only public meeting on the re-licensing plan >>has >>> been held at its Maryland headquarters. The government's process >>> effectively shuts out any public input on extending plant licenses, said >>> Public Citizen senior policy analyst Jim Riccio. "Most of the public is >>> not aware of the issues until they land in their laps, by way of their >>> local nuclear plant." >>> >>> >>> Here's where the "generic" part of re-licensing comes in. Instead of >>> having an "in my backyard" approach for concerned citizens, the generic >>> license extension puts the onus in a generic somewhere-else land. "By >>> making something generic, they don't have to deal with the public," >>Riccio >>> added. >>> >>> >>> What few nuclear critics are hip to the industry/government move, are >>> focusing on safety issues. "During the early stage of life and the late >>> stage, the failure rate for both man and machines is generally higher >>than >>> during middle age; the reliability of both man and machines is generally >>> lower during the early and late stages. The prudent and proper course of >>> action is to retire aging nuclear plants before they reach the point >>where >>> reliability drops off markedly," notes Dave Lochbaum, Union of Concerned >>> Scientists' nuclear safety engineer. The nuclear industry claims it >>> deserves generic safety rules for re-licensing because its safety track >>> record has only gotten better over the years, now that its reactors are >>in >>> middle age. >>> >>> >>> In a fortunate acronym for nuclear critics, the generic re-licensing >>> program is called "GALL"- -for Nuclear Power Plant Generic Aging Lessons >>> Learned. The "generic" part appears most important to both industry and >>> government. >>> >>> >>> "Aging is the same no matter if the [reactor] maker is GE, Westinghouse >>or >>> Combustion Engineering," said Electric Power Research Institute manager >>of >>> life-cycle management, John Carey, who added that the weather >>surrounding >>> a particular reactor is the only difference. >>> >>> >>> Long known as an aging problem is the brittleness of the metal enclosing >>> the reactor core. The reactor gets bombarded with electrons for years >>and >>> the metal becomes brittle. EPRI, for one, believes that brittleness is >>not >>> a problem. "Many plants even at 60 years won't reach that [threshold] >>> level of embrittlement. There's probably none that will at 40," said >>> Carey. >>> >>> >>> While most of the government's and critics' attention is focused on >>> reactor safety during aging, the industry's impetus admittedly has to do >>> with short-term financial gains that come with a second license and the >>> value added to a plant for resale. >>> >>> >>> "In a deregulated, competitive business, a fully depreciated nuclear >>plant >>> (beyond its original 40-year license) is a tremendous asset. It can sell >>> its power at marginal cost, which is very competitive. Such a plant >>would >>> have significant profit potential," notes the industry group Nuclear >>> Energy Institute. In other words, once ratepayers have paid off the >>> construction investment, the primary expense of nuclear plants >>disappears >>> and the only ongoing costs to owners are fuel, safety expenditures and >>> staffing. Less tangible opportunity costs like guaranteed ecological >>> preservation are not a part of the calculations. >>> >>> >>> >>> The NRC's attempt at generic guidelines for license renewal had been >>> sitting around in various stages since the early 1990s. It was goosed >>into >>> action, though, when Baltimore Gas & Electric's (Constellation) Calvert >>> Cliffs became the first facility to ask for a 20-year extension. Calvert >>> Cliffs (in the NRC's back yard) was approved this March. Duke's Oconee >>> plant in North Carolina followed suit in May. >>> >>> >>> License renewal does not come without a price, however, as keeping that >>> license means an owner has to invest in anti-aging technology - a.k.a. >>> capital investments. >>> >>> >>> Like plastic surgery fixes the fissures and sags in an aging body, >>keeping >>> a past-prime nuke in shape "depends on how much money you have," Carey. >>> >>> >>> For instance, replacing a steam generator, a typical aging problem, >>costs >>> about $150 million. Shareholders might be loath to invest that kind of >>> capital in an old plant. But, the beauty of re-licensing is that any >>such >>> investment can be amortized over an extra 20 years, even if the plant >>> owners do not plan to run the plant that long. Thus, license renewal >>tucks >>> in the short-term operating costs of nuclear plants. >>> >>> >>> Public Citizen's Riccio, says that the 20 year extension "shifts the >>risk >>> of future operation from the stockholder to the ratepayer." Riccio >>> believes that the specter of early shutdowns with their attendant >>stranded >>> asset risk is driving re-licensing. Fitch ICBA analyst Ellen Lapson >>> explained the early shutdown scenario, "Towards the end of the life of a >>> plant, if there's no re-licensing then there's less reason to invest >>> capital." >>> >>> >>> Using the medical metaphor again, that means there's a choice between >>> euthanasia (decommissioning) because the patient is too expensive to >>keep >>> up and take the risk of having to pay all those exorbitant hospital >>bills, >>> or pump more money into the patient--say an aging pop singer, a la Diana >>> Ross--in the expectation the survival will allow payback when the star >>> makes a comeback tour. >>> >>> >>> A 20-year extension also "enhances the value of the plant if [owners] >>> decide to get out of the business," said Bob Wood, NRC senior licensing >>> financial policy advisor. He added that no owner had confessed that >>intent >>> directly. >>> >>> >>> But the industry's unstated intent appears known to the NRC. "GenCos are >>> snatching up economically uncompetitive facilities," noted Christopher >>> Grimes, NRC chief of license renewal and standardization. >>> >>> >>> But economics can also kill a re-license. Yankee Rowe, a poster-child >>> nuclear facility, scrapped its plans to live beyond middle age because >>it >>> would have cost too much money just to prove to the NRC that it could do >>> the repairs needed for re-licensing. EPRI's Carey blamed it on the small >>> size of the plant and the economics of energy in New England. >>> >>> >>> >>> The other economic benefit to plant owners is that when a plant gets a >>> 20-year life extension, payments into its decommissioning fund also gets >>> drawn out another 20 years, allowing another decrease in short-term >>> operating expenses, noted Fitch's Lapson. >>> >>> >>> Like a boomer turning 40, the limit for what constitutes old-age in a >>nuke >>> was "arbitrary," said the NRC's Grimes. >>> >>> >>> "In the Atomic Energy Act of 1956, everybody said 40 years ought to be >>> enough," said Grimes, adding that the arbitrary number was based on >>> financing available to owners. "We looked into what might be >>life-limiting >>> aging effects. In 1991 the first rule was issued on aging effects. It >>> concluded Mother Nature doesn't care how long the NRC's license term >>is." >>> >>> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >>> Citizen's Awareness Network - Central New York >>> (315) 475-1203 >>> 162 Cambridge St., Syracuse, NY 13210 >>> nonukes@rootmedia.org www.nukebusters.org >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >Mr. William Smirnow >168 Maple Hill Road >Huntington, NY 11743 >September 30, 2000 > > > > To the NRC, > I am writing/faxing to state my strong >opposition to your intentions to extend the operating life of most >reactors in the USA by 20 years. Or for that matter for any years. I am >also writing/faxing to express my strong displeasure and opposition to >NRC's totally UNDEMOCRATIC approach of only holding public hearings at >NRC headquarters not at reactor sites around the country where people will >be most directly affected by continued reactor functioning. And where they >will both know that such actions are being considered and be able to >Democratically express their views on proposed license extensions. > > > First, NO consideration now or ever should be given to extending the >operating life of any reactor anywhere. They are much too dangerous with >their continous "creating" of nuclear waste, "low-level" radiation, >potential for terrorism, meltdown and proliferation. "Low-level" radiation >has been implicated in infant mortality. See: >http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/infant.html This should be enough >to have reactors shut down as close to immediately as possible. NRC has by >their own admission before Congress stated that there's a 45% chance of a >core meltdown over a 20 year period- precisely the period of time that NRC >wants to extend the operating license of most reactors in the country. >This MUST NOT BE ALLOWED to happen! > > > Lastly, NRC is suppossed to act as a public watchdog. They are doing >exactly the opposite. NRC as an alleged public watchdog should do an >immediate 180 and call for a national program of solar, wind and >conservation and massive governmental subsidies to insure the success of >these programs and the safety and health of the public and environment. > > > I look forward to your response to my letter and implementation of >said public hearings at reactor sites around the country. > > > > Most Sincerely, > Mr. William Smirnow > 168 Maple Hill Road > Huntington, NY 11743 > > > > > > Call, write, fax the NRC see http://www.nrc.gov and tell them this is >wrong, this is dangerous, this is stupid and we won't let them experiment >with us, our genetic pool and the environment for an additional 20 years. >Also tell them that by their own testimony before Congress that there's a >45% chance of a core meltdown over exactly this period- 20 years >http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/probability.html . > > > And that by their own commissioned report, while grossly an >underestimate, this is how many dead, cancers, injuries & economic damage >we >can expect: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/crac.html > > > How Democratic of them to try and sneak this by everyone in the entire >United States and Northern Hemisphere with most of the world's >population[India,China, all of Asia & most of Africa are in the Northern >Hemisphere]. If you live outside the USA please contact NRC and tell them >that fallout from a meltdown will probably affect you as Chernobyl fallout >affected the entire Northern Hemisphere and pass this along to >friends/contacts of yours within the USA. > > > Remember- please give NRC a piece of your mind- NOW, before it's too >late. Please share/spread this to anyone that will do anything about it. >http://www.nrc.gov > > > -Bill Smirnow > > > > > > > > --=====================_1472416903==_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="body905.htm"
 
  Friends,
 
     Unless an extension of NRC's deadline is granted beyond the Monday October 16 deadline, this is our last chance to tell NRC how we feel about 20 year extensions of 85% of the commercial nuclear power reactors around the USA. They need to hear from us in DROVES and UNEQUIVICATIVELY that NO reactors should have extensions granted them.
 
   PLEASE FAX THEM NOW.
 
 
 
NRC Fax#:  301-415-2234,   NRC Web Site:  http://www.nrc.gov     Please dissemenate widely.
 
 
 
   Please ask NRC for an EXTENSION  of their Monday October 16, 2000 deadline for public comment.
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elie" <elie@highlands.com>
To: <westcan@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:53 PM
Subject: [westcan] This Explains a Lot

> from AlterNet.org
> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9836
>
> Patching Nuclear Power
> J.A. Savage, Albion Monitor
> September 25, 2000
>
> In a hushed quest to allow an expected 85 percent of the nation's nuclear
> reactors to live beyond mandatory retirement, the nuclear industry talked
> the federal government into allowing a generic 20-year extension on the
> life of reactors. The public only has until October 16 to let the Nuclear
> Regulatory Commission (NRC) know what it thinks of the government's plan
> to allow license renewal instead of decommissioning.
>
>
> According to the NRC, the only public meeting on the re-licensing plan has
> been held at its Maryland headquarters. The government's process
> effectively shuts out any public input on extending plant licenses, said
> Public Citizen senior policy analyst Jim Riccio. "Most of the public is
> not aware of the issues until they land in their laps, by way of their
> local nuclear plant."
>
>
> Here's where the "generic" part of re-licensing comes in. Instead of
> having an "in my backyard" approach for concerned citizens, the generic
> license extension puts the onus in a generic somewhere-else land. "By
> making something generic, they don't have to deal with the public," Riccio
> added.
>
>
> What few nuclear critics are hip to the industry/government move, are
> focusing on safety issues. "During the early stage of life and the late
> stage, the failure rate for both man and machines is generally higher than
> during middle age; the reliability of both man and machines is generally
> lower during the early and late stages. The prudent and proper course of
> action is to retire aging nuclear plants before they reach the point where
> reliability drops off markedly," notes Dave Lochbaum, Union of Concerned
> Scientists' nuclear safety engineer. The nuclear industry claims it
> deserves generic safety rules for re-licensing because its safety track
> record has only gotten better over the years, now that its reactors are in
> middle age.
>
>
> In a fortunate acronym for nuclear critics, the generic re-licensing
> program is called "GALL"- -for Nuclear Power Plant Generic Aging Lessons
> Learned. The "generic" part appears most important to both industry and
> government.
>
>
> "Aging is the same no matter if the [reactor] maker is GE, Westinghouse or
> Combustion Engineering," said Electric Power Research Institute manager of
> life-cycle management, John Carey, who added that the weather surrounding
> a particular reactor is the only difference.
>
>
> Long known as an aging problem is the brittleness of the metal enclosing
> the reactor core. The reactor gets bombarded with electrons for years and
> the metal becomes brittle. EPRI, for one, believes that brittleness is not
> a problem. "Many plants even at 60 years won't reach that [threshold]
> level of embrittlement. There's probably none that will at 40," said
> Carey.
>
>
> While most of the government's and critics' attention is focused on
> reactor safety during aging, the industry's impetus admittedly has to do
> with short-term financial gains that come with a second license and the
> value added to a plant for resale.
>
>
> "In a deregulated, competitive business, a fully depreciated nuclear plant
> (beyond its original 40-year license) is a tremendous asset. It can sell
> its power at marginal cost, which is very competitive. Such a plant would
> have significant profit potential," notes the industry group Nuclear
> Energy Institute. In other words, once ratepayers have paid off the
> construction investment, the primary expense of nuclear plants disappears
> and the only ongoing costs to owners are fuel, safety expenditures and
> staffing. Less tangible opportunity costs like guaranteed ecological
> preservation are not a part of the calculations.
>
>
>
> The NRC's attempt at generic guidelines for license renewal had been
> sitting around in various stages since the early 1990s. It was goosed into
> action, though, when Baltimore Gas & Electric's (Constellation) Calvert
> Cliffs became the first facility to ask for a 20-year extension. Calvert
> Cliffs (in the NRC's back yard) was approved this March. Duke's Oconee
> plant in North Carolina followed suit in May.
>
>
> License renewal does not come without a price, however, as keeping that
> license means an owner has to invest in anti-aging technology - a.k.a.
> capital investments.
>
>
> Like plastic surgery fixes the fissures and sags in an aging body, keeping
> a past-prime nuke in shape "depends on how much money you have," Carey.
>
>
> For instance, replacing a steam generator, a typical aging problem, costs
> about $150 million. Shareholders might be loath to invest that kind of
> capital in an old plant. But, the beauty of re-licensing is that any such
> investment can be amortized over an extra 20 years, even if the plant
> owners do not plan to run the plant that long. Thus, license renewal tucks
> in the short-term operating costs of nuclear plants.
>
>
> Public Citizen's Riccio, says that the 20 year extension "shifts the risk
> of future operation from the stockholder to the ratepayer." Riccio
> believes that the specter of early shutdowns with their attendant stranded
> asset risk is driving re-licensing. Fitch ICBA analyst Ellen Lapson
> explained the early shutdown scenario, "Towards the end of the life of a
> plant, if there's no re-licensing then there's less reason to invest
> capital."
>
>
> Using the medical metaphor again, that means there's a choice between
> euthanasia (decommissioning) because the patient is too expensive to keep
> up and take the risk of having to pay all those exorbitant hospital bills,
> or pump more money into the patient--say an aging pop singer, a la Diana
> Ross--in the expectation the survival will allow payback when the star
> makes a comeback tour.
>
>
> A 20-year extension also "enhances the value of the plant if [owners]
> decide to get out of the business," said Bob Wood, NRC senior licensing
> financial policy advisor. He added that no owner had confessed that intent
> directly.
>
>
> But the industry's unstated intent appears known to the NRC. "GenCos are
> snatching up economically uncompetitive facilities," noted Christopher
> Grimes, NRC chief of license renewal and standardization.
>
>
> But economics can also kill a re-license. Yankee Rowe, a poster-child
> nuclear facility, scrapped its plans to live beyond middle age because it
> would have cost too much money just to prove to the NRC that it could do
> the repairs needed for re-licensing. EPRI's Carey blamed it on the small
> size of the plant and the economics of energy in New England.
>
>
>
> The other economic benefit to plant owners is that when a plant gets a
> 20-year life extension, payments into its decommissioning fund also gets
> drawn out another 20 years, allowing another decrease in short-term
> operating expenses, noted Fitch's Lapson.
>
>
> Like a boomer turning 40, the limit for what constitutes old-age in a nuke
> was "arbitrary," said the NRC's Grimes.
>
>
> "In the Atomic Energy Act of 1956, everybody said 40 years ought to be
> enough," said Grimes, adding that the arbitrary number was based on
> financing available to owners. "We looked into what might be life-limiting
> aging effects. In 1991 the first rule was issued on aging effects. It
> concluded Mother Nature doesn't care how long the NRC's license term is."
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> Citizen's Awareness Network - Central New York
> (315) 475-1203
> 162 Cambridge St., Syracuse, NY 13210
> nonukes@rootmedia.org   www.nukebusters.org
>
>
>
>
 
Mr. William Smirnow
168 Maple Hill Road
Huntington, NY 11743
September 30, 2000
 
 
 
    To the NRC,
                            I am writing/faxing to state my strong opposition to your intentions to extend the operating life of most reactors in the USA by 20 years. Or for that matter for any years. I am also writing/faxing to express my strong displeasure and opposition to NRC's totally UNDEMOCRATIC  approach of only holding public hearings at NRC headquarters not at reactor sites around the country where people will be most directly affected by continued reactor functioning. And where they will both know that such actions are being considered and be able to Democratically express their views on proposed license extensions.
 
 
    First, NO consideration now or ever should be given to extending the operating life of any reactor anywhere. They are much too dangerous with their continous "creating" of nuclear waste, "low-level" radiation, potential for terrorism, meltdown and proliferation. "Low-level" radiation has been implicated in infant mortality. See: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/infant.html   This should be enough to have reactors shut down as close to immediately as possible. NRC has by their own admission before Congress stated that there's a 45% chance of a core meltdown over a 20 year period- precisely the period of time that NRC wants to extend the operating license of most reactors in the country. This MUST NOT BE  ALLOWED  to happen!
 
 
    Lastly, NRC is suppossed to act as a public watchdog. They are doing exactly the opposite. NRC as an alleged public watchdog should do an immediate 180 and call for a national  program of solar, wind and conservation and massive governmental subsidies to insure the success of these programs and the safety and health of the public and environment.
 
 
     I look forward to your response to my letter and implementation of said public hearings at reactor sites around the country.
 
 
 
        Most Sincerely,
                                      Mr. William Smirnow
                                      168 Maple Hill Road
                                       Huntington, NY 11743
 
 
 
 
 
    Call, write, fax the NRC see http://www.nrc.gov   and tell them this is
wrong, this is dangerous, this is stupid and we won't let them experiment
with us, our genetic pool and the environment for an additional 20 years.
Also tell them that by their own testimony before Congress that there's a
45% chance of a core meltdown over exactly this period- 20 years
http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/probability.html . 


    And that by their own commissioned report, while grossly an
underestimate, this is how many dead, cancers, injuries & economic damage we
can expect: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/crac.html


    How Democratic of them to try and sneak this by everyone in the entire
United States and Northern Hemisphere with most of the world's
population[India,China, all of Asia & most of Africa are in the Northern
Hemisphere]. If you live outside the USA please  contact NRC and tell them
that fallout from a meltdown will probably affect you as Chernobyl fallout
affected the entire Northern Hemisphere and pass this along to
friends/contacts of yours within the USA.


   Remember- please give NRC a piece of your mind- NOW, before it's too
late. Please share/spread this to anyone that will do anything about it.
http://www.nrc.gov


    -Bill  Smirnow





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Thursday, October 12, 2000 DOE faces suit over laser review By Glenn Roberts Jr. STAFF WRITER LIVERMORE -- Local and national nuclear watchdog groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Energy Department, charging that officials violated openness laws by failing to provide sufficient public information about the review of a massive laser project at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Livermore-based Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive environmental and the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in Washington, D.C., filed the complaint in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. In August, a team of about 40 reviewers, selected and led by Energy Department officials, spent one week at Livermore Lab to review the National Ignition Facility, a nuclear weapons research tool that is an estimated six years behind its original construction schedule and $1 billion over budget. Lab and Energy Department officials have said that the review was independent, although more than half of the members were employed by Energy Department labs and contractors. In the lawsuit, the two environmental groups claim that the review committee "is clearly subject" to the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, though the Energy Department "has not complied with (the act) in any fashion with respect to the . . . review." "The meetings were not open to the public, the existence of the committee was not made public, the required committee materials were not made publicly available and (the Energy Department) never filed a charter for the committee," the groups state in the lawsuit. Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs, said there appears to be a "clear pattern" in which the Energy Department has violated openness laws. The meetings and materials by the review committee did not allow public participation or review, Kelley said. "This has really been an egregious violation, and we're asking the court to, in essence, command the Energy Department to disclose that they've been in violation of the law," she said. Kelley said that Tri-Valley CAREs has tried for years to get "a truly independent assessment" of NIF. Before filing the lawsuit, the NRDC last month sent a letter to Energy Secretary Bill Richardson offering the Energy Department an opportunity to avoid a lawsuit by turning over all documents related to the NIF review to the public. An Energy Department general counsel responded to the letter, claiming that the department did not violate federal policy and that documents would be made public "as quickly as they can be screened for any proprietary or classified information." ------------------------------------------------------------- =A9 2000 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers Thursday, October 12, 2000 Suit hits 'independent' NIF review Two environmental groups charge that a report on the laser project violates public meeting laws BY ANDREA WIDENER TIMES STAFF WRITER A glowing review the Department of Energy used to bolster calls for Congress to fund an over-budget laser project violated a public meetings law, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. The federal suit by two environmental groups says the review of the National Ignition Facility is part of a larger pattern of the DOE evading a law designed to ensure outside reviews remain independent. The Natural Resources Defense Council and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment are asking that the DOE not be allowed to use the review to support the NIF and inform those involved that it was not an independent evaluation of the project to build a 192-beam laser. The Federal Advisory Committee Act is designed to ensure balance any time a federal agency seeks outside advice and to protect those advisers from the agency's influence, said Rebecca Daugherty, director of the Freedom of Information Center for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Anytime an agency asks a nongovernment employee for advice, any meetings or review documents must be open to the public. "It is supposed to make certain that when the government is looking to outsiders to make decisions it does so in a fair way and that the public knows what it is doing," Daugherty said. "You don't want secrets drawn into governments making decisions." The disputed report, known as the Carlson-Lehman review, evaluated the financial and technical viability of the massive laser project, which is $1 billion over budget and four years behind schedule. The study said the project had overcome management and technical problems and was fit to move forward. The DOE has used similar reviews to evaluate large projects for its Office of Science, but this was the first time the review process was used for a defense-related project. The defense council and Tri-Valley CAREs have said the laser, which is designed to simulate the temperature and pressure conditions inside a nuclear explosion, has numerous technical problems and has never undergone a truly independent review. "Let's follow the implication of some of these issues that have cropped up from time to time and find out where they really lead," said Christopher Paine of the defense council. DOE officials did not return two calls for comment Wednesday. But they have said the project has met and passed innumerable reviews and is ready to move forward. The agency called the review "independent" in a press release, a letter to several members of Congress and the report itself. But the meetings were not open to the public, and the presentation documents and interim reports of the committee have not been released. "It was the characterization of the review as 'independent' that so outraged us," said Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs. The review was so secret that personal and Freedom of Information Act requests for its agenda and its membership roster were initially denied. The report's membership was released only when the final report was made public Sept. 15. More than half of the review's 38 members work for the DOE or one of its laboratories, which are operated by contractors. Many of the other members are outside contractors for the government, Paine said. "They continue to insist on having it both ways," Paine said. "They claim to be independent, but they are not complying with the (law)." Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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This morning I e-mailed him a request that he deal with this subject in the third and final debate of the presidential candidates. I pointed out that whoever is elected president will be commander-in-chief of the most powerful nuclear force in the world. We voters should know where they stand on nuclear issues. I urge you to likewise contact Jim Lehrer and ask that nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament be discussed in the final debate. His e-mail address is newshour@pbs.org. You can offer questions in your own words. As a point of departure, here are the three questions I submitted: (1) In this year's presidential campaign, there is much talk about moral values. What are your views on the morality of the use of nuclear weapons and the threatened use through the doctrine of nuclear deterrence? (2) It has been more than fifty-five years since a U.S. president has authorized the use of nuclear weapons. If elected president, in what circumstance would you authorize actual use of nuclear weapons? What category of targets would you consider it legitimate to strike with nuclear weapons? (3) At the May 2000 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the United States joined with Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China in making a commitment to "an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals." If elected president, what will you do during your four-year term to fulfill this commitment? Shalom, Howard Howard W. 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) Questions for presidential candidates debate Date: 12 Oct 2000 17:01:05 -0600 Thanks for your work! New e-mail is bobkinsey@earthlink.net We are planning a metro - Denver clergy luncheon to consult about where they and their churches are on nuclear weapons. Do you have a quick way to get to any of the official church statements on their morality etc. that have been made over the last several decades -- especially the most recent pronouncements?? We held a shadow debate over Denver Community Cable TV between five candidate representatives on issues of foreign and military policy. It was more interesting than the real candidates and way more lively, thoughtful and informative. Our two role-players for Gore and Bush were honest and accurate in their representations. We also had Nader, Hagelin and Browne and their representatives -- who were from their parties did a good job. We used six questions as the basis of the "debate". Each "candidate had the opportunity to answer the questions and to question one other candidate about their stance. If you are interested I could send you the questions. ************************************************* 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 ----- Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:21 PM > Dear Colleagues: > > So far the debates of presidential and vice-presidential candidates haven't > got into the issue of nuclear weapons. Previously I had written to Jim > Lehrer a request to take up this issue, and I offered a couple of > questions. This morning I e-mailed him a request that he deal with this > subject in the third and final debate of the presidential candidates. I > pointed out that whoever is elected president will be commander-in-chief of > the most powerful nuclear force in the world. We voters should know where > they stand on nuclear issues. > > I urge you to likewise contact Jim Lehrer and ask that nuclear weapons and > nuclear disarmament be discussed in the final debate. His e-mail address > is newshour@pbs.org. You can offer questions in your own words. As a > point of departure, here are the three questions I submitted: > > (1) In this year's presidential campaign, there is much talk about moral > values. What are your views on the morality of the use of nuclear weapons > and the threatened use through the doctrine of nuclear deterrence? > > (2) It has been more than fifty-five years since a U.S. president has > authorized the use of nuclear weapons. If elected president, in what > circumstance would you authorize actual use of nuclear weapons? What > category of targets would you consider it legitimate to strike with nuclear > weapons? > > (3) At the May 2000 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation > Treaty (NPT) the United States joined with Russia, the United Kingdom, > France, and China in making a commitment to "an unequivocal undertaking to > accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals." If elected > president, what will you do during your four-year term to fulfill this > commitment? > > Shalom, > Howard > > Howard W. 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. > - 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 00/10/13 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 13 Oct 2000 05:59:16 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 13, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 (unavailable) http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001012212836.htm -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - Michigan http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp 9:15 a.m. - Remarks, Van Andel Institute, 333 Bostwick NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan, (616) 234-5390=20 1:30 p.m. - Remarks to GM Employees and other local citizens, Truck Product Center Atrium, 2000 Centerpoint Parkway, Pontiac, Michigan, (248) 753-0376=20 - Al Gore - Wisconsin http://www.algore2000.com/ Noon =97 Addresses Wisconsin voters, Cathedral Square Park, Milwaukee, Wis. - Ralph Nader - Florida, New York http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html Friday October 13,=20 Tampa, FL 9:15am - 10:00am - Press Conference, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, 700 North Westshore Boulevard New York City, NY 8:00 PM - Madison Square Garden- SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader with= Special Guests Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bill Murray, Susan Sarandon,, Tim= Robbins, Ben Harper, Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, and more. Doors Open at 7:00 PM. Tickets available now: 1) The Madison Square Garden Box Office, (212) 465-6741 2) The local greens office (212) 353-3111, (212) 254-4194 3) Our web site.=20 Saturday October 14 3:00 =96 5:00 PM - New York City, NY Fundraising Reception with Ralph Nader and Citizen's Committee, Special Guests include Susan Sarandon,= Michael Moore, and Tim Robbins Home of Danny Goldberg and Rosemary Carroll --- SOLD OUT -- 5:30pm - 6:30pm - Speech at the Pesticides Forum, Riverside= Church, Riverside Drive (between 120th St. & 122nd St.) Sunday October 15 New Jersey, NJ 1:00pm - 3:00pm, Rutgers State University, Busch Student Center, Multipurpose Room 604, Bartholomew Road Piscataway, NJ, 732-445-4724=20 5:00pm- 6:30pm - Speech, Count Basie Theater, 99 Monmouth Street,= Red Bank, NJ, Directions: www.theatre-link.com/cbt; 6:30pm - 7:00 pm -= Fundraising Reception 8:30pm - 10:00pm - Speech, Princeton University, Richardson= Auditorium in Alexander Hall ( off Nassau St. ), 609-258-3000, Directions: http://www.princeton.edu/~cvcs/directions.htm, Fundraising Reception to follow.=20 Tuesday, October 17, St. Louis, MO, Third Presidential Debate, Washington University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Unless an extension of NRC's deadline is granted beyond the Monday October= 16 deadline, this is our last chance to tell NRC how we feel about 20 year extensions of 85% of the commercial nuclear power reactors around the USA.= They need to hear from us in DROVES and UNEQUIVICATIVELY that NO reactors should have extensions granted them. PLEASE FAX THEM NOW. NRC Fax#: 301-415-2234,= NRC Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov Please dissemenate widely. Please ask NRC for= an EXTENSION of their Monday October 16, 2000 deadline for public comment. = [From: ASlater ] - November Vigil to close the SOA In five weeks, thousands will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia= to commemorate our sisters and brothers who have died, and who continue to= suffer throughout Latin America - tortured, intimidated, killed and "disappeared"= by graduates of the infamous U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). Soldiers= at the SOA are trained to protect the interests of U.S. corporations and= maintain the economic status quo for the few rich and powerful in the U.S. and their cohorts in Latin America.On November 18-19, we will stand in Solidarity with the people of Latin America and serve notice that we will not be accomplices to these cruel politics. We will speak for voices silenced by graduates of the= SOA and demand the closing of the =91School of Assassins'. The preparations for= the Vigil and the Nonviolent Civil Disobedience are in high gear and the hotels= in and around Columbus are filling quickly (If you check the hotels [http://www.soaw.org/Articles/newsletter/hotel_list.htm] for availability,= be sure to mention SOA Watch group rate). [From: School of the Americas Watch= DC ] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Correction to NucNews 00/10/13 Date: 13 Oct 2000 11:53:23 -0400 Correction from ASlater - Hi Ellen, Could you please announce that tickets are available at the box office at Madison Square Garden--doors open at 7, program at 8PM. The two numbers you posted today for the Nader Rally at Madison Square Garden are busy, interminably. A good sign!! Many thanks. > New York City, NY Friday, October 13, 2000: 8:00 PM - Madison Square Garden- SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader with Special Guests Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bill Murray, Susan Sarandon,, Tim Robbins, Ben Harper, Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, and more. Doors Open at 7:00 PM. Tickets available now: 1) The Madison Square Garden Box Office, (212) 465-6741 2) The local greens office (212) 353-3111, (212) 254-4194 ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) Rehearsing Doomsday on CNN this Sunday night Date: 13 Oct 2000 11:02:32 -0500 Fr: Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition October 13, 2000 Here's a final reminder of the George Crile documentary "Rehearsing Doomsday" which will air on CNN this Sunday night at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific time. CNN's website has additional information, including a chat room discussion after the show. Go to http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/index.html. More information on the show and how to use it as an organizing tool follows. Please excuse duplicate messages. *** Rehearsing Doomsday documentary to air on CNN October 15 Rehearsing Doomsday, a documentary produced by George Crile whose notable documentary =93The Missiliers=94 aired last February on =9360 Minutes II,=94 gives an unprecedented look at the nuclear arsenals of both the United States and Russia. Unlike any yet produced, this documentary will take us on a journey to meet the generals and commanders responsible for nuclear weapons, the missiliers charged with firing them, and the politicians who craft our policies. We all know that the Russians are eager to reduce their nuclear stockpile and that a string of former US generals and cabinet secretaries, haunted by their actions, have become abolitionists. This documentary is different. Rehearsing Doomsday will expose the hypocrisy of current nuclear policy with portraits of Senators, frustrated by their lack of access to knowledge, and missiliers, gravely concerned as they watch the American people sleepwalk toward armageddon. Rehearsing Doomsday will be broadcast Sunday, October 15 at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific time on CNN (The documentary may also air on another date, we=92ll let yo= u know as soon as we find out). Thanks and kudos are due to the Global Security Institute, headed by former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, for working with George Crile and CNN to get this show on the air. Let=92s put this much-anticipated documentary to good use in the election season. Here are some suggestions for peace and disarmament activists: 1. Organize a Rehearsing Doomsday watch party in a private home, church or place of worship, college campus, or other community meeting center. Last spring, Project Abolition, the Global Security Institute, and the Disarmament Clearinghouse organized over 100 watch parties around the country for the live CBS television re-make of the anti-nuclear thriller Fail Safe. Please contact Project Abolition at 219/535-1110 or kmartin@fourthfreedom.org for a house party organizing kit. If the broadcast times are inconvenient, you can videotape the show and hold your watch party on another day and time. Be sure to invite your local media to your watch party. 2. Bird-dog congressional candidates and demand to know how they will work to reduce the nuclear threat if they are elected or re-elected. Show up at candidate debates, rallies or town meetings prepared to ask tough questions of the candidates. You can also bring your local peace group=92s literature to hand out attendees. 3. Use the broadcast of Rehearsing Doomsday to raise nuclear abolition as an issue with your local media. Project Abolition will provide sample letters to the editor. You can also contact your local newspaper=92s television critic and encourage her or him to preview or review Rehearsing Doomsday. After the broadcast, you can refer to the show and the concerns it raises in encouraging your local media to cover the nuclear issue and to raise it with candidates in editorial board meetings or candidate debates. - 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: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) Very Important Message RE: A2000 Statement Date: 13 Oct 2000 11:56:50 -0800 13 October 2000 Dear Friends and Activists, The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee would like to bring a proposal to your attention regarding the amendment of the Abolition 2000 Statement. After consulting with the Global Council, the ACC would like to propose the deletion of the phrase "by the year 2000" from the Abolition 2000 Statement with a footnote explaining that this was removed in the year 2000. The Statement currently reads: 1. Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for effective verification and enforcement.* Under the proposed changes the Statement would read: 1. Initiate immediately and conclude negotiations on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for effective verification and enforcement.* * *The phrase "by the year 2000" was removed from this Statement at the end of the year 2000. In November, Abolition 2000 will have a strategic planning meeting during the Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. During this time a final decision will be made on this proposal. The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee and Global Council welcome your feedback on this proposal. If you will not be able to attend the Nagasaki Assembly, please let the ACC and other members of Abolition 2000 know whether or not you agree with this proposal by posting a message to the Abolition Global Caucus at . Thank you for your continued support and work for a nuclear free future. In peace and solidarity, The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee Janet Bloomfield (UK), John Burroughs (US), Jackie Cabasso (US), David Krieger (US), Lars Pohlmeier (Germany), Alice Slater (US), Hiro Umebayashi (Japan), Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ross Wilcock (Canada), Carah Ong (US/Coordinator) - 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: JGG786@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Meditation is Good Date: 13 Oct 2000 17:33:11 EDT Brought to you by Tibet Center and The Temple of Understanding, noted meditation masters follow in the footsteps of His Holiness The Dalai Lama as they come to New York City to present UNIVERSAL MEDITATION MASTERS, a three-day conference on meditation practice, November 3-5, 2000. Masters representing five different faiths will hold workshops to teach meditation from his/her own unique tradition and convene Sunday afternoon in a joint discussion and meditation. The conference will be held in Synod Hall of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Tickets are available at a special rate of $150 for the three-day conference for the first 100 callers FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! Offer expires 10/15/00. To purchase tickets, please call 212-246-2746. If you get an answering machine, please leave your full name, telephone number and your order, and someone will get back to you right away. FOR MORE INFORMATION www.thetibetcenter.org/umm - 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: Abolition 2000 Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter October 2000 Vol. II Number Date: 13 Oct 2000 14:40:40 -0800 Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter October 2000 Vol. II Number 7 ********************* IN THIS EDITION ********************* I. Articles II. Abolition 2000 Organizations in the Year 2000 III. Announcements IV. Calendar Events V. Resources ************* ARTICLES ************* International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space 7 October 2000 was designated the International Day to Stop the Militarization of Space by the Global Network Against Weapons and Power in Space. The Global Network urged individuals and organizations to organize an action at a military base, Department of Energy Laboratory, NASA facility, US Embassy, aerospace corporation, or academic institution working on military space. More than 63 actions in 16 countries and 38 US cities were held to demand that the US stop all plans to put weapons into space and that all nations support a treaty calling for a global ban on weapons in space. Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, attended an action held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California where testing of the proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) system is conducted. Approximately 200 people gathered at the main gate to practice their US Constitutional first amendment rights and oppose US plans to deploy any anti-ballistic missile system, a Trojan horse strategy by the Pentagon and aerospace corporations to weaponize and militarize Outer Space. In his speech, Gagnon compared the Nazi slogan "Deutchland uber allen" (Germany over all) to the self-proclaimed title "Master of Space" of the US Space Command. Other speakers at the rally included Medea Benjamin, Green party candidate for US Senate in California, Lawrence Turk representing Greenpeace, actor Martin Sheen and Carah Ong, Coordinator of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to eliminate nuclear weapons. Following the rally, the demonstrators, led by Bruce Gagnon and Bud Boothe, walked across the street to deliver a letter to the base Commander, sing and hold hands in front of the entrance to the base, which was blocked by storm troopers carrying batons. A portion of the letter to the base Commander read: "We are tired of being misled. We are tired of seeing our hard earned tax dollars promoting the bad seed of war, greed, and environmental degradation. We are tired of seeing $100 million national missile defense system tests at Vandenberg while Iraqi children die by the millions from starvation and preventable disease. We are tired of hearing that $60 billion will be wasted on National Missile Defense (NMD) and $30 billion more will now be thrown away on testing the space-based laser program, the real Reagan-era Star Wars plan. We are here at Vandenberg on October 7, and at the places around the world, in a real celebration of liberation. We are liberating ourselves from the corrupt political system that steals from the people. We are liberating ourselves from the self serving politicians and political parties that guard the gates to the Space Command bases and aerospace corporation factories. We call for justice. We call for peace. We call for democracy - not a shallow democracy of empty slogans and flag waving - but a true democracy that promotes human development and kindness, not a new arms race in the heavens. We pledge ourselves to work toward building a nation and a global community that views the moon and the stars with wonder, not as places to put military bases and weapons of 'control and domination.'" 23 people, including TV president, actor Martin Sheen, were arrested. Some of those arrested were grabbed off the sidewalk by military personnel. All the arrestees were read their rights and interrogated before being released with trespass citations and letters banning them from the base for one year. Reports from other actions around the world are available at the website of the Global Network Against Weapons and Power in Space at: Http://www.space4peace.org ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Update on Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly Abolition 2000 Review and Strategy Meeting in Nagasaki November 17-18 Nagasaki, Japan 17 Fri. 10:00-18:00 18 Sat. 9:00-12:00 (20 Mon. 17:00-20:00 *ACC/GC only meeting) Background: The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee (ACC), in cooperation with the members of its Global Council (GC) in Japan, would like to convene the Abolition 2000 Review and Strategy Meeting as above, taking the opportunity of the Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in Nagasaki (Nagasaki Assembly) to be held on Nov. 17-20. All those planning to attend the Nagasaki Assembly are encouraged to participate in this meeting. Please refer to the website at for the program and other details of Nagasaki Assembly. Also, please refer to the Nagasaki Update on the Abolition-caucus listserve issued by Japan Year 2000 Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon. Apart from this Abolition 2000 Review and Strategy Meeting, Abolition 2000 activities will be introduced and discussed in the formal plenary and workshop sessions of Nagasaki Assembly. Aims: At the very end of the year 2000, it would be very important to review the past five years of the Abolition 2000 global network as well as to discuss our strategies and action programs for the future. Draft program: In the consultation among ACC, the following program and items are suggested for the meeting. Please feel free to offer opinions and make suggestions. 1) Introduction and history 2) Review and explain the Abolition 2000 Statement and each of its 11 points and Moorea Declaration 3) Abolition 2000 report card 4) Strengths and weaknesses of the network -- A2000 turning point after 5 ye= ars 5) Strategy discussion Some items to be included in the strategy discussion: 1) National Missile Defense (NMD), Theater Missile Defense (TMD) and militarization of space 2) NPT 2000 Review Conference 13-point commitment; how to push for implementation 3) the Nuclear Weapons Convention 4) support for Kofi Annan's proposal for an international conference 5) Nuclear Weapon Free Zones 6) Follow-up to the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on nuclear weapons Languages: Official languages of this meeting are English and Japanese. Simultaneous interpretation will be available. Logistics: Those who want to participate in the Nagasaki Assembly must register in advance by Oct. 20. For details, contact the Organizing Committee at . They will provide you the accommodation information. The Abolition 2000 meeting begins at 10 am on Nov. 17, so the participants of the meeting from overseas are suggested to arrive at Osaka (Kansai) or Tokyo (Narita) preferably in the morning of Nov. 16. =46or those who are not able to come to Nagasaki: Those who are not able to come to Nagasaki this time are encouraged to contribute to this meeting by raising discussion and offering suggestions via email to the abolition-caucus listserve or send a message directly to Hiro Umebayashi and Akira Kawasaki . Also, Abolition 2000 will have a booth to display information at the Assembly. Member organizations of Abolition 2000 are welcome to ship materials, including brochures, documents, posters, and buttons to the following address (Please do not ship too much; The number of the participants of the Assembly is estimated about 500, most of whom cannot enjoy English without assistance.): c/o Hisaikyo 8-20, Okamachi, Nagasaki 852-8115, Japan Tel:+81-95-844-0958 Fax:+81-95-847-9135 Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee: Janet Bloomfield (UK); John Burroughs (US); Jacqueline Cabasso, (US); David Krieger (US); Lars Pohlmeier (Germany); Alice Slater (US); Hiro Umebayashi (Japan); Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand); Ross Wilcock (Canada); Carah Ong (US/Abolition 2000 Coordinator) Global Council Members in Japan: Akira Kawasaki; Akihiko Kimijima; Satomi Oba Host of the meeting in Nagasaki: Hirotami Yamada ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Gensuikyo Makes Progress in Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons On Tuesday, 3 October 2000, The Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo) submitted 6,770,215 signatures in support of the "Appeal from Hiroshima and Nagasaki" to the National Diet, urging them to adopt a total ban and the elimination of nuclear weapons as a national policy. One day prior, the total number of the signatures collected nationwide surpassed the goal of 60 million, representing roughly 50 percent of the Japanese population. An additional 4,844,509 signatures were submitted earlier this year on 14 July to the Prime Minister's Office. During two days of action on 3-4 October, representatives of Gensuikyo local groups visited the headquarters of all the political parties that were ready to receive them, to ask their MPs to support the petition. Simultaneously, Gensuikyo leaders visited the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and a number of embassies of declared and non-declared nuclear weapons states, New Agenda Coalition and Non-Aligned Movement member Governments, and those that opposed last year the UNGA resolutions for abolition of nuclear weapons. At the foreign ministry, Gensuikyo leaders met Yukio Takenouchi, director-general of Foreign Policy Bureau, and urged him that the Japanese Government should not cast an abstention vote any longer on the resolutions standing for the abolition of nuclear weapons as priority during this ongoing UN Millennium General Assembly. He admitted that it would not press for the "abolition as an ultimate goal", but did not promise that it would work together with New Agenda Coalition or any other Governments that stand for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Nor did he clearly say that Japan would support Non first use, Negative Security Assurance or any other urgent measures on nuclear weapons issues in the current disarmament discussions at the UN. Gensuikyo further urged that since the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, i.e., not manufacturing, not possessing and not allowing nuclear weapons to be brought in the Japanese territories, were the principle adopted by the National Diet, Foreign Ministry should appreciate Kobe and other local Governments for their practice. They urge all visiting foreign warships to submit a certificate of non-presence of nuclear weapons on board prior to their port-call, thus loyally implementing the national principle, which the Japanese Government, the foreign ministry in particular, has long neglected to implement. The director general did not refute this argument, but refrained from thanking the local governments mentioned above. Gensuikyo will continue its intensive campaign, including further collection of signatures, lobbying Japanese Government Agencies and diplomatic missions, sending a delegation to the permanent missions in New York and many sorts of grassroots actions until 30 October 2000. =46or more information, please contact: Hiroshi Taka Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) E-mail: antiatom@twics.com URL: Http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/ =46ax: +81-3-3431-8781 ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Nix Mox Day in Russia 29 September 2000 was the 43rd anniversary of a terrible explosion of Mayak facility. In the entire nuclear history of the USSR, it was the only comparable accident to the Chernobyl catastrophe. As a result of Mayak explosion, tens of thousands of people were resettled from contaminated areas and many thousands died as direct consequence of contamination. Ozersk, the city where the Mayak facility is located, has a population of approximately 8 000. Every family remembers the explosion and at least one member of each family died because of it. On the anniversary this year, no officials even briefly mentioned the catastrophe publicly nor did the local media remind the people of the incident. However, one radio station allowed an activist time to speak out against the proposed South-ural nuclear plant, which would bring a new generation of plutonium production. Now is a time for disarmament and plutonium disposition, not plutonium production. Activists will continue to speak out against plutonium production as well as the import of nuclear waste, which the Russian government recently "principally approved." For more information, please contact: Vladimir Slivyak in Moscow, Nadezhda Kutepova in Ozersk ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< =46ree Vanunu Vigil Held in Tel-Aviv On 4 October 2000, about 20 supporters of Mordechai Vanunu held a vigil outside the Perres Center for Peace in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The activists were calling for the release of the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and for the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction in Israel. The vigil, an annual event, was hosted by the Israeli Committee for Mordechai Vanunu to mark the 14th anniversary of Vanunu's abduction by Israel. Demonstrators held signs and banners that read "Peres Center for Nuclear Holocaust", "Free Vanunu", "A New Middle East Without the Bomb" and "Dismantle the Dimona Reactor." Vigilers stood for two hours at of the busiest intersections in the country during rush hour to reach a captive audience of many thousands. Demonstrators also had the opportunity to leaflet and speak with commuters and passers-by. The anniversary of Vanunu's imprisonment was unfortunately overshadowed by the ongoing violence and bloodshed in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The Israeli army and police suppressed Palestinian protests, leaving more than 50 people dead and thousands wounded. Many Israeli peace activists were attending protest actions that were held at the same time and some vigilers had come directly from a rally in Jaffa. Public tension and fears of the ongoing violence were evident with some passers-by shouting "You want to destroy our only line of defense" or "Why aren't you protesting the riots?." On a positive note, the nuclear issue seems to no longer be as taboo as it once was as even a policeman who was sent to keep order took a leaflet and also stayed to discuss the issues. Rayna Moss stated about the action to free Mordechai Vanunu, "While unquestionably ending the bloodshed and acting in solidarity with the Palestinian people is the major task of Israeli peace activists at the moment, we must also remember Mordechai Vanunu, imprisoned and silenced for 14 years, who is once again being subjected to the inhuman punishment of indefinite solitary confinement, and the terrible danger that Israel's nuclear arsenal poses to the entire Middle East." =46or more information, please contact: Rayna Moss ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Waste Ban in Argentina May Lead to Nuclear Waste Dump in Australia On Tuesday, 10 October 2000, the Australian Conservation =46oundation (ACF) called for a Senate Inquiry to investigate whether the Argentinean nuclear company INVAP falsified their bid to build a planned new reactor in Sydney. The bid included a contract that would transfer radioactive waste produced in Australia to Argentina for reprocessing. However, according to the ACF, the entry of radioactive waste to Argentina is prohibited under the country's Constitution. David Noonan, an ACF campaigner, stated, "Sydneysiders face the threat of new reactor waste in their backyard. The reactor's radioactive waste dump has been rejected by SA [South Australia] and WA [West Australia] Premiers. Argentina bans this waste. This means Senator Minchin is left pointing the radioactive waste threat squarely at Sydney and at outback NSW." Article 41 (1994) of Argentina's Constitution reads: "The entry to the national territory of waste currently or potentially hazardous, and of those radioactive, is prohibited." The people of Argentina are only now finding out that INVAP has contrived to transfer Australian radioactive waste to their country. INVAP has yet to face public scrutiny over their plans for the radioactive waste because the Industry Minister refused to publicly release the contract, under terms of commercial confidentiality. A Senate Inquiry into the INVAP Reactor Contract has just begun. ACF and the National Environmental Defenders group of Argentina (FUNAM) will present evidence on INVAP and on the failure of the contract tender process in Australia. Dave Sweeney, of ACF, stated, "Its time to call a halt to this discredited INVAP Reactor Contract, for the Federal Government to disclose all of the contract documents and provide all the answers on how they propose to deal with radioactive wastes from the new reactor. NSW [New South Whales] politicians have to now stand up and defend their communities from the risks posed by reactor operations and the hazards of radioactive wastes that have nowhere to go and effectively last forever." =46or further information, please Contact: David Noonan, ACF Campaign Officer Tel: +61 (08) 82322566 a/h +61 0408 821 058 Dave Sweeney: +61 (03) 99266708 or +61 0408 317 812 or Irene Gray Australian Peace Committee (SA Branch)Inc. 11 South Tce, Adelaide SA 5000 Australia Ph: +61 (08) 82127138 Fax: +61 (08) 83642291 URL: Http://www.peacecourier.com Email: r-grayle@msn.com.au ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Vigil Commemorates Tokaimura Accident On Saturday, 30 September 2000, approximately ten activists held a vigil at the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima City, Japan to commemorate the first anniversary of the Tokaimura accident. Not even rain could deter the vigilers from standing under one of the big trees at the dome, to light a candle and say a prayer to honor the two victims and suffering residents and workers exposed to radiation at the Tokaimura power plant last year. After one minute's silent prayer, a moving litany, written by Ms. Fumiko Saito was given with the music of Mozart in the background. Those in attendance also honored all the victims and survivors affected by the nuclear fuel cycle, as well as those who died from or survived the A bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Concern was also expressed for the nuclearization and weaponization of Outer Space. =46or more information, please contact: Satomi Oba Director of Plutonium Action Hiroshima Email: dogwood@muc.biglobe.ne.jp ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Nuclear Horror Picture Show Marking the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Day on 1 October 2000, =46orum Voor Vredesactie and Voor Moeder Aarde (For Mother Earth) in Belgium invited photographers to join their citizens=92 war crimes inspection at Kleine-Brogel, Belgium. The purpose was to obtain photographic evidence of the presence of the NATO B-61 nuclear weapons stored at the base. In addition to a mass citizen's inspection on 1 October, an action camp was set up near the base beginning on 27 September, which enabled activists to make a series of unannounced inspections of the base. Over three days, at least 20 groups of inspectors entered the base. As with previous actions at Kleine-Brogel, the inspectors included parliamentarians, celebrities, people from a range of backgrounds and anti-nuclear activists from several European countries. There were also a number of activists who joined the inspection en-route from the protests against the IMF in Prague. Inspectors photographed F-16 jets, the hardened concrete aircraft hangars (which contain the vaults used to store the nuclear weapons), and several radio antennas inside a heavily guarded compound. However, the police confiscated all cameras that were taken into the base. Activists at the action camp were able to take advantage of the lower levels of security in the days before the mass action, and generally managed to get further into the base. Two of these groups remained undetected for over two hours. In total, 80 arrests were made for "trespassing on a military base" and "photographing a military base", with 68 of these arrests as a result of the mass inspection. A number of those arrested were blindfolded and forced to lie on the floor of police vehicles as they were driven off the base. Several activists were also beaten or kicked. The political nature of the offenses means that any court case would have a high profile in Belgium, and the authorities could not afford the publicity that a trial would give to the presence of these "secret" weapons. Despite violence and intimidation from the police, the mood after the mass inspection remained defiant. The time spent waiting to be released from police custody was used to share personal experiences of arrest, as well as the information about the base that had been gathered during the inspection. Details of police brutality were also compiled, in order to submit a formal complaint. Planning is now underway for the next mass inspection at Kleine-Brogel, "Bomspotting III" on 16th April 2001. =46or more details, contact: Voor Moeder Aarde Maria-Hendrikaplein 5-6 9000 Gent, Belgium Europe Tel+32-9-2428752 =46ax +32-9-2428751 E-mail: international@motherearth.org or =46orum Voor Vredesactie Patriottenstraat 27 2600 Antwerpen, Belgium Europe Phone +32-3-281 6839 e-mail: forum@vredesaktie.ngonet.be ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Nuclear Free Zone Resolution Passed at University of Hawai'i On 2 October 2000, the newly elected Senate of the Associated Students of the University of Hawai'i (ASUH) in the Senate Assembly (undergraduate student government) passed a resolution making the campus a nuclear free zone. The First Nuclear Free Zone resolution was passed by ASUH in March 2000. Additionally, the University of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization passed a Nuclear Free resolution in March 2000. A portion of the resolution states: "BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Senate of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (ASUH), the elected body representing over 9,000 full-time classified undergraduate students declares itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone and supports the further development of Nuclear Weapon Free Zones throughout the world; BE IT RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH stands in solidarity with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation for the Abolition 2000 Global Campaign introduced by Richard Salvador, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa;" The next GOAL is to SHUT DOWN Pearl Harbor Nuclear storage facilities! For more information, please contact: Richard Salvador Email: salvador@hawaii.edu *********************** ANNOUNCEMENTS *********************** 13 October 2000 Dear Friends and Activists, The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee would like to bring a proposal to your attention regarding the amendment of the Abolition 2000 Statement. After consulting with the Global Council, the ACC would like to propose the deletion of the phrase "by the year 2000" from the Abolition 2000 Statement with a footnote explaining that this was removed in the year 2000. The Statement currently reads: 1. Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for effective verification and enforcement.* Under the proposed changes the Statement would read: 1. Initiate immediately and conclude negotiations on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for effective verification and enforcement.** *The phrase "by the year 2000" was removed from this Statement at the end of the year 2000. In November, Abolition 2000 will have a strategic planning meeting during the Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. During this time a final decision will be made on this proposal. The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee and Global Council welcome your feedback on this proposal. If you will not be able to attend the Nagasaki Assembly, please let the ACC and other members of Abolition 2000 know whether or not you agree with this proposal by posting a message to the Abolition Global Caucus at . Thank you for your continued support and work for a nuclear free future. In peace and solidarity, The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee Janet Bloomfield (UK), John Burroughs (US), Jackie Cabasso (US), David Krieger (US), Lars Pohlmeier (Germany), Alice Slater (US), Hiro Umebayashi (Japan), Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ross Wilcock (Canada), Carah Ong (US/Coordinator) ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Peace Movement Aotearoa The national networking peace group PO Box 9314, Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Tel: +64 4 382 8129, Fax: +64 4 382 8173, Email: pma@xtra.co.nz URL: Http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/ Internet Peace Gateway Http://www.peace.org.nz Kia ora, You are invited to send a message to the "Saying NO to militarism and war" message board at The message board is for you to share your vision of a world in which there is no militarism or war. "Saying NO to militarism and war" (17 October*) is the international day of "Saying NO to Violence" Week (YWCA Week Without Violence) which will take place in Aotearoa / New Zealand from 15 to 22 October 2000. The day is coordinated by Peace Movement Aotearoa and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa). Fore more information, please visit: Http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/sayno.html * 17 October is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the final day of the World March of Women in the Year 2000. Time to stop preparing for war and start preparing for peace. ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< The Abolition Journal is an on-line, interactive website dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons. SPEAK UP! Share your information, insights, or personal story about nuclear weapons, their control and their abolition. Email articles to . All writings will be reviewed for accuracy and relevance and published expeditiously on the website. Brief comments are also welcome. Visit: Http://www.abolitionjournal.org/ ********** EVENTS ********** October 12-15 International Peace Bureau Triennial Assembly on "Globalization of Peace" at Nanterre Town Hall, near Paris France. =46or more information, contact: International Peace Bureau Tel: 0041 22 731 6429 Email: mailbox@ipb.org 16 A Day without the Pentagon. Regional nonviolent direct actions. In Las Vegas, NV there will be an event at Nellis Air force Base including prayers for peace and safety and a Citizen Inspection Team. =46or more information please call Nevada Desert Experience (702) 646-4814 19 Indigenous Peoples' Day (Indigenous peoples have suffered disproportionate effects of nuclear mining and testing) 20-21 Asia-Europe Meeting III (ASEM III) will be held in Seoul, South Korea. For more information, please contact: Gyung-Lan Jung jglan21@yahoo.com 24 Disarmament Week 24 United Nations Day 30-31 Ballistic Missile Proliferation 2000 Conference "Political and Military Threats and Responses" at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. =46or FREE conference information, please contact Jane's Events Department at Email: conference@janes.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 8700 3700 =46ax: +44 (0) 20 8763 0277 URL: http://www.conference.janes.com ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< November 4-5 International conference against depleted uranium will be held in Manchester, UK. Register soon! Limited places available! The conference will be hosted by the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium. =46or more information, please contact: CADU One World Centre, 6 Mount St., Manchester, M2 5NS England Email: gmdcnd@gn.apc.org =46ax: +44-(0)161-834-8187 Tel: +44-(0)161-834-8301; or 834-8176 17-20 Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons will be held in Nagasaki, Japan. The Assembly is hosted by the Organizing Committee of Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in Nagasaki (Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace, and Nuclear Weapons Abolition Year 2000 Nagasaki Citizens' Council). For more information, please contact: Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace 7-8 Hirano-machi, Nagasaki, 852-8117 Japan Tel: +81 0 95 844 3975 =46ax: +81 0 95 846 5170 17-18 The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy A Conference at the Graduate Center, CUNY. For more information, please contact: Education and Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 8111 New York NY 10016-4309. Tel: +1 (212) 817-8215 Email: continuinged@gc.cuny.edu. URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/ December 10 Human Rights Day 12 Free world peace prayer event in Hiroshima, Japan. For more information, please visit: http://www.nttl-net.ne.jp/hiroshima2001 January 2001 26-29 Remember Operation Ranger-50th Anniversary of nuclear bombing at the Nevada Test Site. For more information, please contact Charles Hilfenhaus of the Alliance of Atomic Veterans at or call Marc Page of Nevada Desert Experience at +1 702 646 4814 *************** RESOURCES *************** WEB *Abolition 2000 Global Network Visit the website and find out why Abolition 2000 was ranked "Number 4 Watchdog Organization on the Internet" by InfoSeek/Go.com and "One of the best informational sites on the internet" by Encyclopedia Britannica. The website has recently been updated. If you have any suggestions for improvement or comments, please send to Carah Ong at admin@abolition2000.org URL: Http://www.abolition2000.org The latest edition of Disarmament Diplomacy (No. 50, September 2000) is now available on the website of the Acronym Institute at: Http://www.acronym.org.uk New UK-based email groups: rad-UK@egroups.com =46or those interested in issues relating to ionizing radiation in the UK an= d Europe. The premise of the group is that current dose-risk estimates do not accurately reflect the real effect of internalized radionuclides. URL: http://www.egroups.com/group/rad-uk peacewomen@egroups.com =46or women active in grassroots peace activism in the UK. Stories and messages relating to the women's peace camps at Aldermaston, Menwith Hill, Burghfield and Sellafield. URL: http://www.egroups.com/group/peacewomen ukwilpf@egroups.com =46or members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom base= d in the UK. URL: http://www.egroups.com/group/ukwilpf Information on the World Day of Actions in Japan can be found in Japanese and English at: http://ha5.seikyou.ne.jp/home/tokebi VIDEO "Nevada Desert Experience in the Nuclear Age" is a new video about the contemporary faith-based resistance to weapons testing. The video features comments from June Stark Casey, Ibrahim Abdil Mu'id Ramey, Joanna Macy, John Dear, sj, Sally Light, Greg Mello, St. Rosemary Lynch, osf, Jackie Cabasso, Louis Vitale, ofm, Nancy Lynch, David Buer, ofm, Rabbi Mel Hecht, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, and Jonathan Schell. The video exposed the history of nuclearism, reminds us of the nonviolent activism to stop the foolish nuclear industries. It also explains the purpose and activities of the Nevada Desert Experience in the context of the movement to abolish nuclear weapons. To order, please contact: The Nevada Desert Experience P.O. Box 46645 Las Vegas, Nevada 89114-6645 USA nde@igc.org BUDDHA WEEPS IN JADUGODA, duration 55 min. format Beta PAL, English subtitle= =2E =46or more information about the film, please contact: Shriprakash Kritika 30 Randhir pd street upper bazar Ranchi 834001 India ph + 91(0) 651 317461 kritikashri@yahoo.com BOOKS How Did That Sun Get Out by Roger Burkholder Suggested Price: $22.95 ISBN: 0-595-00257-9 Pub. Date: Aug-2000 "Deeply moving. Well worth reading." Hanna Newcombe, Peace Research Belonging to the first generation of collegiate students never to have experienced a time without the possibility of nuclear holocaust, C. J., Jack, and Leah, in their sometimes assured and other times hesitant movements toward each other, are struggling in the direction of a future they have always known they may not have. Then a crisis is inadvertently brought to all three lives by a psychiatrist involved in a lonely pursuit of definitions of global sanity. It is a crisis the psychiatrist himself comes to share and which soon begins to give voice to what have been silences central to our time. Respectfully nonviolent, this coming-of-age novel builds into an insightful and feelingly true exploration of quandaries basic to our era and ultimately touching all our lives, if only indirectly. To order, please visit: ********** EDITOR ********** Carah Ong -- Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 "He aha te nui mea o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" (A Maori saying) Translation: "What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, the people, the people." PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd, Suite 121 Santa Barbara, California 93108 Tel: (805) 965-3443 Fax: (805) 568-0466 email: admin@abolition2000.org URL: http://www.abolition2000.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) the simplest way to move toward peace Date: 15 Oct 2000 16:43:01 -0700 Dr. Wood's conclusion below asserts "the simplest way to move toward peace". presented presented The first of three weekly Community Business Meeting in Tehachapi to explore the Capital Hills Research Center project, proposed for the Capital Hills Development to further the rapid development of new energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power (overview at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan ), took place at the Denny's Restaurant meeting room at the Mill Street exit of Hwy58 in Capital Hills last Wednesday evening October 11th at 7:30PM. The next two such public meetings will take place at the same time and the same place on two more Wednesday evenings, October 18th and October 25th, to acquaint community members with the status and potential of this project, and to establish an exploratory committee to further the Research Center development plans. This first meeting was attended by four Tehachapi residents and two guests from Los Angeles and San Jose, including Dr. Fred B. Wood, Sr., who at age 82 considered this meeting of such importance that he took an arduous train ride to Tehachapi to deliver his message about this new science and its various applications -- along with copies of a 4-page abridged version (abstracted below) of his 20pp paper "Climate and Advanced Electromagnetics" that he prepared for the July 18-21, 2000, International Society of Systems Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Wood explained that he had started college at UC Berkeley studying sociology until he changed to electronics to help with the war efforts, to stop Hitler from taking over the world, by developing rocket-targeting RADAR systems that helped England deter the Nazi rocket bombardment. Wood went on to have a long career with IBM in systems theory and electronics development applying his doctorate of electrical engineering, and at the same time lobbying the government and industry to take socially responsible actions with scientific knowledge. For over 15 years now Dr. Wood has been deeply studying the peaceful and potentially covert military applications of this n ew science, especially as to the potential of advanced electromagnetic weapons to influence global climate change factors detrimentally. He was a featured presenter of this information at UCSB in 1997 during our briefing for the science advisor to His Holiness Dalai Lama, and in 1999 at UCBerkeley http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/fwood.html during our Global Crisis Solutions Conference there http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gcsc2.html Capital Hills owner John Guthrie explained at last Wednesday's meeting the history of the development of Capital Hills and about the Mello-Roos bond calculation error made by a City Contractor that has plagued sale of Capital Hills Phase One lots which due in part to this error are now subject to foreclosure procedings. This initial small group committee meeting included longtime local resident, and son of a former Tehachapi mayor, Gerald Valdez, who has for years been promoting "grandiose" plans for Tehachapi and Capital Hills developments. Local photographer and technologist Ed Delvers, former research assistant to new-energy pioneer the late Bruce DePalma (http://www.depalma.pair.com), was one of the attendees with the technical background to understand Dr. Wood's message about how the complex original "quaternion" version of the equations of electromagnetism developed by James Clerk Maxwell over 150 years ago were "rounded off" and only "first root" values have been employed in contemporary electronics by most researchers until the past few decades when the work of Nikola Tesla has been reexamined in light of the "second and third roots" of Maxwell's equations which explore "scalar electromagnetics" especially as relates to advanced electromagnetic weaponry developments being tested, and "biological systems applications of electromagnetism" such as understanding the "fifth dimension" (beyond our three "dimensions" of distance -- ie, length, area, volume -- and our one "dimension" of time) that evidence indicates is in the same realm as "spiritual" disciplines and the "bioenergetics" of such systems. Copies of Dr. Wood's paper summarized below may be obtained directly from him at address shown. He provided anecdotal evidence that many serious aircraft/spacecraft accidents in recent years may have been caused by testing of advanced electromagnetic weapons by countries hostile to the United States. He made the point that with such strict secrecy restrictions on this knowledge by the US authorities, it is impossible to know if such other countries are, as he suspects, decades ahead of the US in development of these weapons whose principles would be better applied to peaceful energy production technologies to replace the dangers, costs, and pollutions of nuclear and fossil fuel power. Dr. Wood's talk included discussion of the overlooked second and third "roots" of Maxwell's equations with evidence of their connections to understanding both their biological implications (values in quantitative analysis of biological systems) and their spiritual implications (uses of the mathematical values of "imaginary" root of Maxwell's equations for understanding the dynamics of "spiritual" and "ethical" systems). He discussed various plane crashes and other evidence pointing to years of covert experimentation with advanced electromagnetic weaponry, eg, TWA Flt 800, Egypt Air Flt 990, Challenger Shuttle disaster, China Airlines Flight 006 Taipei to LA 19Feb85. Also discussed was evidence that the mysterious (nuclear or meteor-like) blast effecting a remote part of the Soviet Union in the earlier part of the 20th century was a result of testing a Tesla electromagnetic weapons application of this knowledge. One of Dr. Wood's collaborator's, Army Lt. Col. (retired) Dr. Thomas Bearden PhD, last week announced publication on a DOE website of his recent 69pp paper evaluating a recent successful test of a solid state electromagnetic device to produce such "overunity effects" in apparently extracting usable electricity from the "Zero Point Energy" field produced by quantum vacuum fluctuations in the same space in which matter resides. This paper goes in to a detailed analysis of these overlooked implications of the original form of the Maxwell Equations. http://www.ott.doe.gov/pdfs/MEGpaper.pdf Several of the meeting participants, including Dr. Wood, will be forwarding the Capital Hills Research Center proposal and business plan to various potential funding sources with a target of implementing an interim facility in Tehachapi by the end of this year. CHRC research is already happening in disparate locations. We are presently in preparations for verification experiments, by two independent labs, on a recently released new energy device design and hope to have proof or falsification report for next weekly meetings. ---begin abstraction of Dr. Wood's paper copied to CHRC meeting 11Oct--- 4-page abridged version of 20-page paper opf Fred B. Wood, Sr., [University High School Class of 1936] with Andrea Bowe. University High, Oakland Reunion, September 8, 2000 Little Hills Ranch, San Ramon CA File No. A1960F Rev. 08/02/00 Prepared fopr the ISSS Conference in Toronto, Canada D:\Scanner Files\USR\FRED\11960F.wpd July 18-21, 2000 AD Climate and Advanced Electromagnetics A Start of a Proto-Encyclopedia of Systems Theory Concepts Needed for Relating Climate Cycles to the Survival of Human Civilization Fred B. Wood, Sr., M.S., Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) Andrea Bowe, B.S. Liberal Studies (2Yr. Electrical Engineering, 1Yr. General Engineering, plus Yr. in Psych. and Nuclear Reactor Tech.) Computer Social Impact Research Institute, Inc., (non-profit) Earth Regeneration Society, Inc. (non-profit) P.O. Box 5583, San Jose, CA 95150-5583 E-Mail: csiri@igc.org Twenty-eight systems-component areas of science, electrical engineering, bio-science, and spirituality are listed which require research to facilitate the solution of our civilizations's problems with the glacial cycle being distorted by the CO/2 added to our atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels. A sampling of Fig. 1, Fig. 9A, Roots of Differential Equations of Electricity and Magnetism, and Fig 11 are displayed below to show the path of research used here. Figure 1, Curves of Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Global Surface Temperatures During Last 140 years (Karl, 1999) [Figure 5, The Green Cube -- Template -- for Library of Evolution Sytems/Indexing grid for levels of data integration, design by Dr. Wood] Figure 9A, Woodpecker Signals Focussed over North Amercia to/from Interfereometer RADAR System Figure 11, N-1 Homopolar Generator, Bruce DePalma Roots: Mathematically real root for Physical Systems; Zero-Sum complex root for Biological Systems and Human Healing; Pointer to mathematically imaginary root for Ethical and Spiritual Systems (see Text & Figs. 13 thru Fig. 28) This report alsto constitutes a base of 28 component areas for monitoring the uses of the energy available in the Quantum Vacuum for four purposes: 1) Developing an understanding of "Consciousness" related to the Quantum Vauum Holofield, 2) Monitoring the Weapons being developed for World War III, to restrict the STEALING of Quantum Vacuum Energy from the indigenous peoples healing resources, and 3) To develop a dialog between the major political forces on our planet on the proper uses of the three classes of electromagnetic waves for the benefit of humankind and the planet, and 4) Establishing an unclassified Manhattan-type Project to design and produce "over unity" electric generators so that every country in the world could produce enough electricity for its own use, without having to go to war for energy sources such as clear cutting of trees, coal mining, and drilling for oil. Development of legal protection for trees that may be the carrier devices (like telephone poles holding wires) for maintaining the integrity of the holofield. Hypothesis A: On Maxwell's Equations [see full 20pp report] Hypothesis B: It is estimated that by about 1952 (48 years ago) Joseph Stalin asked the top Soviet scientists to organize a project of the order of magnitude of the American Manhattan Project of World War II to explore the corrections needed to the textbook versions of Maxwell's Equations and the weapons designs of Nikola Tesla (1904-1910) that would made the Soviet Union invincible in World War III. There is evidence that the sectet Soviet weapons developments have achieved considerable success. Breshnev, Krushchev, and Gromyko each in turn made public appeals for the United Nations to establish a committee to supervise the development of new weapons of mass destruction. Our country, the United States, did not cooperate, saying that we thought the Soviet proposals were a trick to get us to reveal our future weapons. It is important that we at least belatedly take the initiatvie in negotiating for discussions of the new weapons. Futhermore, we are learning that part of our human being memory system is outside the skull in the quantum vacuum holofield where both American and Russian brains are sharing the same holofield with an elementary security code provided by Galois field multiplier polynomials for coding. Hypothesis C: There is a severe problem with capitalist economic systems in that they try to prevent their citizens from understanding how the economic system works, so that members of the power-elite can manipulate energy policies to conceal national policies. For example, overunity engines and electric generators could be used to solve some energy problems. The suppression of the development of overunity engines has greatly increased the pollution of the environment, and led a growing population to think it is necessary to go to war to protect our oil deposits. This means that, if the United States supported the development of overunity engines, instead of delaying it, people could get all the electric power they wanted, so there would be no power drive for people to go to war for oil or their energy deposits, because everyone could get the power he wanted. They could get it by making use of overunity engines and generators which do not pollute the environment. The drive for more oil, gas, and coal may have stimulated the drive for World War I and World War II, which led to 320,000 casualties in WWI and 1, 078,000 casualties in WWII. The speedy development and distribution of overunity electric motors and generators is the simplest way to move toward peace. ---------end abstract of paper, omitting many figures/drawings---------- David Crockett Williams, CLU www.GeneralAgencyServices.com Coordinator, Capital Hills Research Center project http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.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 00/10/16 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 16 Oct 2000 05:24:00 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 16, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000101621645.htm 8:30 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a meeting of the fire protection subcommittee. Location: Room T-2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike,= Rockville. Contact: 301/415-6899. Association of the U.S. Army meeting =97 all day =97 The Association of= the U.S. Army holds its annual meeting. Highlights =97 8:40 a.m. =97 Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy de Leon, "Active Duty and Guard Integration and the Overall State of the Military." 9:30 a.m. =97 Army Secretary Louis Caldera, opening ceremony. Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW. Contact: 703/841-4300. On-line-privacy discussion =9710:30 a.m. =97 George Washington University's Communitarian Policy Studies hosts a= discussion on "Where Do Bush and Gore Stand on On-line Privacy." The speaker is Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat. Location: Monarch Hotel, 2401 M= St. NW. Contact: 202/994-8190. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - Michigan http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp - Al Gore - Wisconsin http://www.algore2000.com/ - Ralph Nader - Florida, New York http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html Today: Nader news conference =97 10 a.m. =97 The Nader for President Campaign holds a news conference. Location: Zenger Room, National Press= Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/265-0183. Tuesday, October 17, St. Louis, MO, Third Presidential Debate, Washington University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Susan Crane request [From: Jonah House ] I write from the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), where I= am serving a 27 month sentence - a consequence of civil resistance to our country's warmaking. I am no stranger to jail and prison; I am no stranger= to life with the most marginalized of our society - the poor, the mentally ill, those who have experienced so much misery in their lives that drugs seem a= way to deaden the pain. In this prison I live with women who have been= over-charged and over-sentenced by the criminal injustice system, with women who are innocent, and with women who defended themselves against battering husbands. As often as I have experienced them, I can never get used to conditions that are not only inhuman but unnecessary. There are large issues which deserve investigation if we call this a "Correctional Institution!" Job training, education, rehab, counseling, medical care, and exercise programs are= grossly inadequate. It can take two or more weeks see a medical person and get any treatment; meanwhile the prisoner - who might be contagious - continues to= go to her work even if it's food preparation or serving.=20 Jackets, protection against wet and cold, is a small issue but it makes a difference. In this - the only prison for women in Maryland - we walk to and from work, mess hall, and clinic. Though it is often cold and wet, the= prison issues only a light wind-breaker and a tee-shirt. Some women are able,= through a one-time package from home or through a catalogue order, to get= appropriate clothing. Some, who work outside, are given a jacket. I was dismayed to= learn of a woman whose prison job requires that she walk to all the buildings on= the compound wearing only a thermal shirt and tee shirt. She is a large woman;= the prison does not stock her size - even in a wind-breaker. She is cold; many= are cold. In the past, this problem was addressed by church people who donated= warm jackets for needy prisoners. The warden cancelled that program. In an ironic twist, many women work at a sewing-shop here and make sweat shirts for distribution to men in state prisons. But the women have no sweatshirts.= This problem can be solved; call on Marsha Maloff (410-799-5550), Warden, MCIW to reinstate the jacket program. Call on William Sondervan, Commissioner,= Division of Corrections (410-585-3300) to ensure that she do it. - CapitolWiz and State CapitolWiz could be of great use to you. This tool= helps your Web users find their elected officials (federal and state) and Media Outlets by entering a zip-code and send them a letter or email. It also= helps you track key bills/votes and also send correspondence to local and national media groups.=20 Please review our demo site http://congress.nw.dc.us/yo-ss or visit our home page at http://capitoladvantage.com [From: "David Lusk" ] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [Nader2000NYC] Fw: [Sacnader] On C-Span: Gore tries to Date: 16 Oct 2000 13:00:29 -0400 >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:34:33 -0400 >Subject: [Nader2000NYC] Fw: [Sacnader] On C-Span: Gore tries to debate Nader on October 20 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: @clark.fix.net >X-FC-Forwarded-From: Pendragon@fix.net >From: "Nader2000NYC@egroups.com" > >On Friday, October 20, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, >Judicial Watch will host a nationally televised presidential >debate featuring six of the seven qualified presidential >candidates. John Hagelin, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, >Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips have all accepted--only >George W. Bush has declined. > >C-SPAN has committed to televising the debate, and Fox TV and >American Voice Radio are considering coverage. The debate >will be moderated by a highly respected journalist, and the >panel will be composed of other journalists from well-known >national newspapers--both liberal and conservative. > >Seven lecterns will be set up on stage--no matter who attends >the debate. Each candidate will give an opening and closing >statement and will be asked questions by the panel in rotating >order. > >The questions, while not set in advance, will reflect Judicial >Watch concerns about ethics in politics--bribery laws, corporate >control of government, independent counsel issues, etc. > >About 600 people have been invited to the debate and to a >reception immediately following, including over 30 Ambassadors >and their seconds-in-command, as well as the entire Washington >press corps. > >We urge everyone to watch this debate, which certainly promises >to be the most interesting and representative presidential >debate of the season. As always, please check your local listings >for up-to-the-minute scheduling; TV and radio news stations >reserve the right to make last-minute changes. >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >JUST VOTE NADER. >http://www.votenader.com > > >RESOURCE PAGE FOR DO-IT-YOURSELF NADER CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: >http://www.oro.net/~dscanlan/NaderResource.html > > >MEDEA BENJAMIN FOR US SENATE. >http://www.medeaforsenate.org > > >END OF THE TRAIL SALOON alternate Sundays, 6am GMT http://www.kvmr.org > >"I uke, therefore I am." -- Cool Hand Uke > > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >SacNader-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [Nader2000NYC] Fw: [Sacnader] On C-Span: Gore tries to Date: 16 Oct 2000 13:00:29 -0400 >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:34:33 -0400 >Subject: [Nader2000NYC] Fw: [Sacnader] On C-Span: Gore tries to debate Nader on October 20 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: @clark.fix.net >X-FC-Forwarded-From: Pendragon@fix.net >From: "Nader2000NYC@egroups.com" > >On Friday, October 20, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, >Judicial Watch will host a nationally televised presidential >debate featuring six of the seven qualified presidential >candidates. John Hagelin, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, >Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips have all accepted--only >George W. Bush has declined. > >C-SPAN has committed to televising the debate, and Fox TV and >American Voice Radio are considering coverage. The debate >will be moderated by a highly respected journalist, and the >panel will be composed of other journalists from well-known >national newspapers--both liberal and conservative. > >Seven lecterns will be set up on stage--no matter who attends >the debate. Each candidate will give an opening and closing >statement and will be asked questions by the panel in rotating >order. > >The questions, while not set in advance, will reflect Judicial >Watch concerns about ethics in politics--bribery laws, corporate >control of government, independent counsel issues, etc. > >About 600 people have been invited to the debate and to a >reception immediately following, including over 30 Ambassadors >and their seconds-in-command, as well as the entire Washington >press corps. > >We urge everyone to watch this debate, which certainly promises >to be the most interesting and representative presidential >debate of the season. As always, please check your local listings >for up-to-the-minute scheduling; TV and radio news stations >reserve the right to make last-minute changes. >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >JUST VOTE NADER. >http://www.votenader.com > > >RESOURCE PAGE FOR DO-IT-YOURSELF NADER CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: >http://www.oro.net/~dscanlan/NaderResource.html > > >MEDEA BENJAMIN FOR US SENATE. >http://www.medeaforsenate.org > > >END OF THE TRAIL SALOON alternate Sundays, 6am GMT http://www.kvmr.org > >"I uke, therefore I am." -- Cool Hand Uke > > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >SacNader-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. 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Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) presents a lecture by Ivo Daalder, Brookings Institution senior fellow, on "Lessons From Yugoslavia." Location: Auditorium, Rome Building, SAIS, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/663-5626. 8:30 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a meeting of the fir= e protection subcommittee. Location: Room T-2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville. Contact: 301/415-6899. Defense debate forum =97noon =97 The Cato Institute presents a policy forum, "The Defense Debate: Raise the Anchor or Lower the Ship?" The participants include James Schlesinger, former defense and energy secretary and CIA director; Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato; and Kim Holmes, Heritage Foundation. Location: F.A. Hayek Auditorium, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/789-5229. Cato Institute reception =97 6 p.m. =97 The Cato Institute holds a reception to honor seven House members for keeping their promise to limit their tenure in Congress. The participants are Reps. Charles T. Canady, Florida Republican; Tillie Fowler, Florida Republican; Helen Chenoweth-Hage, Idaho Republican; Jack Metcalf, Washington Republican; Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican; Matt Salmon, Arizona Republican; and Mark Sanford, South Carolina Republican; Ed Crane, Cato Institute; and Paul Jacobs, U.S. Term Limits. Location: F.A. Hayek Auditorium, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/789-5229. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - Michigan http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Today - Third and final presidential debate. 10:00 p.m. - Post-debate rally, Clayton High School, 305 North Gay Street, Clayton, Missouri 60135, (314) 726-6949 - Al Gore - Wisconsin http://www.algore2000.com/ 9 p.m. =97 Participates in the third of the presidential debates, Washington University, St. Louis. 10:25 p.m. =97 Greets Missouri voters with Tipper Gore, Carpenter's District Council of Greater St. Louis AFL-CIO, St. Louis. - Ralph Nader - Florida, New York http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Free the Speech: Open the Debates -= http://www.votenader.org/debates/index.html Tuesday, October 17, St. Louis, MO, Third Presidential Debate, Washington University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - SUBMISSIONS FOR SECRETARY GENERAL REPORTS / ENERGY / ATMOSPHERE FOR CSD9 If your organisation has excellent experiences/case studies of good practices in implementation of conservation/efficiency and truly sustainable energy projects (see Points 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Caucus Global Action Plan), especially at the grassroots level, either in developing or industrialised countries, you are strongly urged to SUBMIT these to the CSD Secretariat by next week. (The Energy & Climate Change Caucus will be submitting their Global Action Plan, plus some specific examples.)=20 * Be brief (about 5 pages and not longer than 10 pages), * Relate to specific experiences in implementation or monitoring activities, * Focus on the lessons-learned/trends observed in the course of activities,= and * Highlight policy directions that can be brought to the attention of the= CSD. Please email your organisations's submission to Mr. K. N. Mak, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, i.e., DESA (mailto:mak@un.org), and cc: to the Energy Caucus Coordinators (mailto:rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org, mailto:deling@igc.org). Regards, Deling and Rajat, http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo (Click on Energy & Climate Change Caucus) - SIX OF SEVEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO DEBATE On Friday, October 20, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, Judicial Watch will host a nationally televised presidential debate featuring six of the seven qualified presidential candidates. John Hagelin, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips have all accepted--only George W. Bush has declined.=20 C-SPAN has committed to televising the debate, and Fox TV and American Voice Radio are considering coverage. The debate will be moderated by a highly respected journalist, and the panel will be composed of other journalists from well-known national newspapers--both liberal and conservative.=20 Seven lecterns will be set up on stage--no matter who attends the debate. Each candidate will give an opening and closing statement and will be asked questions by the panel in rotating order.=20 The questions, while not set in advance, will reflect Judicial Watch concerns about ethics in politics--bribery laws, corporate control of government, independent counsel issues, etc.=20 About 600 people have been invited to the debate and to a reception immediately following, including over 30 Ambassadors and their seconds-in-command, as well as the entire Washington press corps. =20 We urge everyone to watch this debate, which certainly promises to be the most interesting and representative presidential debate of the season. As always, please check your local listings for up-to-the-minute scheduling; TV and radio news stations reserve the right to make last-minute changes. [From: ASlater ] ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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: Re: (abolition-usa) Very Important Message RE: A2000 Statement Date: 18 Oct 2000 08:23:01 -0700 (PDT) yes, tri-valley cares agrees with the modification to the statement. peace and all good things in our abolition efforts, marylia >13 October 2000 > >Dear Friends and Activists, > > The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee would like to bring >a proposal to your attention regarding the amendment of the Abolition >2000 Statement. After consulting with the Global Council, the ACC >would like to propose the deletion of the phrase "by the year 2000" >from the Abolition 2000 Statement with a footnote explaining that >this was removed in the year 2000. > >The Statement currently reads: > >1. Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations >on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased >elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with >provisions for effective verification and enforcement.* > > >Under the proposed changes the Statement would read: > >1. Initiate immediately and conclude negotiations on a nuclear >weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of >all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for >effective verification and enforcement.* * > >*The phrase "by the year 2000" was removed from this Statement at the >end of the year 2000. > > > In November, Abolition 2000 will have a strategic planning >meeting during the Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the >Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. During this time a final decision >will be made on this proposal. The Abolition 2000 Coordinating >Committee and Global Council welcome your feedback on this proposal. >If you will not be able to attend the Nagasaki Assembly, please let >the ACC and other members of Abolition 2000 know whether or not you >agree with this proposal by posting a message to the Abolition Global >Caucus at . Thank you for your >continued support and work for a nuclear free future. > >In peace and solidarity, > >The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee > >Janet Bloomfield (UK), John Burroughs (US), Jackie Cabasso (US), >David Krieger (US), Lars Pohlmeier (Germany), Alice Slater (US), Hiro >Umebayashi (Japan), Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ross Wilcock >(Canada), Carah Ong (US/Coordinator) > >- > 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. Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/18 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 18 Oct 2000 13:43:00 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 18, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000101822523.htm 5:30 p.m. =97 Senate Judiciary Committee marks up pending legislation, including a resolution for personal appearance subpoena pursuant to Rule 26= to the Energy Department regarding Secretary Bill Richardson.... Location: Capitol, Room S-216. Contact: 202/224-5225. 10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on= the developments in Western Europe. Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office= Building. Contact: 202/225-5021. Association of the U.S. Army meeting =97 all day =97 The Association= of the U.S. Army holds its annual meeting. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660= Woodley Road NW. Contact: 703/841-4300. Sarajevo reforesting announcement =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The White House Millennium Council, the Agriculture Department and the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 hold a news conference to announce an effort to reforest Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,= and to encourage tree planting worldwide. Location: Indian Treaty Room, Room= 474, Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building. Contact: 202/395-2000. D.C. voting rights strategy meeting =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The Mayor's= Office and the D.C. Council host a meeting to disclose D.C. voting rights strategy. A= news conference follows immediately after the meeting. Mayor Anthony A. Williams= and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, both Democrats, participate. Location: Room 1030 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 Fourth St. NW. Contact: 202/225-8050. Press and the presidency discussion =97 7 p.m. =97 The Freedom Forum's Newseum presents "The Press and the Presidency," a review of the= presidential debates, Campaign 2000 media coverage and ins and outs of covering the White House. Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post,= and Helen Thomas, Hearst News Service columnist and former UPI White House correspondent, participate. Location: 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Contact: 703/284-3766. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp - Al Gore - Missouri and Michigan http://www.algore2000.com/ Travels to Kansas City, Mo. and Flint, Mich. - Ralph Nader - this week http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Wednesday, October 18=20 Dallas, TX 11:30am - 1:00pm - Nader Rally, Guadalupe Hall Gymnasium, Richland College, Contacts: Karen Elenich (214) 696-0965/752-0075=20 1:00pm - 2:15pm - Press Conference REFORM PARTY LEADERS TO ENDORSE NADER=20 Richland College, Room G138, Guadalupe Hall, Contacts: Karen Elenich (214) 696-0965/752-0075=20 Austin, TX 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm - Fundraiser Thread Gills World Headquarters, 301 West Riverside, Minimum requested donation $100, Contact: Jeannie Lawson (512) 327-6818=20 6:45pm - Press Conference, Burger Center, Between West Gate and= Brodie off 290 West, Contact: Adrienne Boer 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Ralph Nader Rally, Special Guests include Jim Hightower, Doors Open at 7:00 PM. Event Starts at 8:30 PM., Burger Center (5000 Capacity) Between West Gate and Brodie off 290 West,Volunteers needed, call (512) 472-6074 or email. Thursday, October 19 San Antonio, TX 10:30 am to 11:30 am Fundraiser / Reception, Contact: Adrian Worthy (210) 653-8816 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Nader Rally, With Special Guests Gary Dugger & Charlie Mauch, candidates for Texas Railroad Commission, and Natalia= Escudero & Jorge Torres of Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico - McAllister Auditorium,= San Antonio College (seats 1000), Contact: Adrian Worthy (210) 653-8816=20 Houston, TX 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Fundraiser, The Art Car Museum, 140 Heights Blvd.= , Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219=20 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm Press Conference, University Center University of Houston, Contact: Brian Howard 713-688-0893 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Nader Speech, Cullen Performance Hall (seats= 1700) University of Houston, Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219 Saturday, October 21, Oakland, CA 6:30pm - Nader Super Rally w/ Cornel West, Medea Benjamin, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - PEACE PARK DRUMMING - October 22, 2000, Noon As many of you probably know, October 22nd (this sunday!) is the national= day against police brutality. There will be a group of people gathering at Lafayette Park at 12 noon Sunday to hold a percussion protest. We will meet= at the statue at the center of the park. Please bring signs, flyers, drums, and wear black! Lafayette Park is in front of the White House. To get there by metro, get off at the McPherson square stop (blue/orange line), take the= White House exit, and walk one block to your left. I hope to see lots of people there! love and peace - Victoria [From: "Carol at Secession.Net" ] - "HUMAN SHIELDS" REMAIN IN BOMBING RANGE IN VIEQUES AS NAVY CONTINUES TO= BOMB Vieques, P.R.- At 4:00PM EST today, Tuesday October 17, the= delegation of Viequenses who entered the bombing range in Vieques early this morning= still remained there, even as the U.S. Navy continued to bomb from ship to shore. Ismael Guadalupe, one of the spokepersons for the Committee for the Rescue= and Development of Vieques (CRDV), explained that the group of Viequense 'human shields", members of the "Luisa Guadalupe Brigade", have been watching and hearing the intense ship-to-shore bombings by the U.S. Navy, close to where they are dispersed along the bombing range.Guadalupe metioned the names of= some of the "human shields" who remain in the bombing range in Vieques: the Honorable Radam=E9s Tirado, former Mayor of Vieques (member of the New Progressive Party); Father Justino L=F3pez, Deacon of the Catholic Church in Vieques; Robert Rabin, spokesperson for the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques; Cedric Morales, businessman and owner of the= principal supermarket in Vieques; Angel "Tato" Guadalupe, veteran, retired teacher and nephew of Luisa Guadalupe; and G=FCito Silva, viequense whose wife, like so= many other viequenses, died of cancer. Guadalupe explained that these are some of the "human shields" in= the bombing range, since there are others whose names and number will not yet be revealed for strategic reasons. Guadalupe stated: "Bombing Vieques, where there are almost 10,000 people living close to the bombing range, is immoral. But for the Navy to bomb= knowing full well that there are human beings right there on the bombing range is unconscionable. A group of courageous Viequenses are risking their lives in order to defend our people's lives and health. The U.S. Navy is showing once again its total lack of respect towards the lives, health and well-being of= the people of Vieques." Contacts: Nilda Medina or Ismael Guadalupe 787-741-0716= or 787-741-0358. [From: "Cumpiano, Flavio (MS-Mail)" ] - Images from depleted iraqi childrens http://www.benjaminforiraq.org/contaminazioneitaly.htm and French NGO for Gulf War Syndrome victims [DU] Association AVIGOLFE 2 rue Louis Liard 33000 Bordeaux - France Tel 05 56 91 86 71 Call: Mr Herv=E9 Desplat (Gulf War Vet affected by GWS) --- Forwarded by: Ethical Environmental Observatory http://stop-u238.i.am http://enadu.i.am [From: "Marco Saba" ] - Barseb=E4ck Offensive www.barseback.de is a network of swedish and german activist working together against the globalising nuclear industry. [From: Pettersson Louise ] ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Beginning immediately our new address and phone number are: Shundahai Network PO Box 6360 Pahrump, NV 89041 Ph: (775) 537-6088 We will not be fully up and functioning until mid November, but then we look forward to continuing our exciting and important work with you all in the movements to stop nuclear weapons testing and dumping, close down Yucca Mountain, strengthen alliances between indigenous, environmental and human rights communities and promote sustainable energy and living! Our email address ( shundahai@shundahai.org ) and web ( http://www.shundahai.org ) page will remain the same. Thanks for all you do on behalf of Mother Earth! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: A2000 Statement change Date: 18 Oct 2000 19:22:46 PDT Hi Nuclear Abolitionists, Aloha and Greetings from Hawaii. I agree with Graham Daniell. The statement was originally written in April 1995 and in spite of the intervening five years after, the network achieved a great many success. Congratulations to all of you! We, in Hawaii and the Pacific, are continually amazed at the way Abolition 2000 came together and grew from those humble aspirations in 1995! But these past five years must also guide and inspire new approaches and new methods in all areas for eliminating nuclear weapons. With this spirit, the Network must proceed forward, venturing to trailblaze the paths both tried and untried. The PROPOSED CHANGE in the Abolition 2000 Statement seems reasonable and should be supported. Thank you very much and congratulations again for all of your hard work for nuclear abolition. Richard Salvador Abolition 2000 Pacific region Honolulu, Hawaii --- Reply-To: gdaniell@wt.com.au CC: abolition-caucus@egroups.com, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com People for nuclear Disarmament (Western Australia) agree with this amendment. I personally feel that the Year 2000 was the best chance we had to achieve our aims. The fact that more progress was not made should indicate to the Abolition community that we will need to do things differently if we are to have success in the future. Perhaps the November meeting could discuss what other approaches we can take? Regards, Graham Daniell Abolition 2000 wrote: > > 13 October 2000 > > Dear Friends and Activists, > > The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee would like to bring > a proposal to your attention regarding the amendment of the Abolition > 2000 Statement. After consulting with the Global Council, the ACC > would like to propose the deletion of the phrase "by the year 2000" > from the Abolition 2000 Statement with a footnote explaining that > this was removed in the year 2000. > > The Statement currently reads: > > 1. Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations > on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased > elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with > provisions for effective verification and enforcement.* > > Under the proposed changes the Statement would read: > > 1. Initiate immediately and conclude negotiations on a nuclear > weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of > all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for > effective verification and enforcement.* * > > *The phrase "by the year 2000" was removed from this Statement at the > end of the year 2000. > > In November, Abolition 2000 will have a strategic planning > meeting during the Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the > Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. During this time a final decision > will be made on this proposal. The Abolition 2000 Coordinating > Committee and Global Council welcome your feedback on this proposal. > If you will not be able to attend the Nagasaki Assembly, please let > the ACC and other members of Abolition 2000 know whether or not you > agree with this proposal by posting a message to the Abolition Global > Caucus at . Thank you for your > continued support and work for a nuclear free future. > > In peace and solidarity, > > The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee > > Janet Bloomfield (UK), John Burroughs (US), Jackie Cabasso (US), > David Krieger (US), Lars Pohlmeier (Germany), Alice Slater (US), Hiro > Umebayashi (Japan), Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ross Wilcock > (Canada), Carah Ong (US/Coordinator) > Graham Daniell Perth, Western Australia gdaniell@wt.com.au _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/19 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 19 Oct 2000 06:32:45 -0400 [NucNews archives have been posted through October 10, 2000 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. See also=20 http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscriber submissions) and http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch (DOE Watch).] Washington Times Daybook, October 19, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001019213458.htm 9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on= issues related to the attack on the USS Cole. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. 9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a= hearing on the Energy Department's decision to release 30 million barrels of crude= oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the bid process used to award contracts regarding the released crude oil. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4971. 9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Judiciary Committee marks up pending legislation, including a resolution for personal appearance subpoena pursuant to Rule 26= to the Energy Department regarding Secretary Bill Richardson.... 11 a.m. =97 Gore-Russia-Iran arms deal news conference =97 Sens. Sam= Brownback, Kansas Republican, and Gordon H. Smith, Oregon Republican, hold a news conference on the Gore-Russia-Iran arms deal. Location: Capitol, Senate Radio/TV Gallery. Contact: 202/224-4651. =20 6 p.m. =97 Berger speech =97 Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh= School of Foreign Service's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy sponsors the 21st Oscar Iden Lecture. Samuel R. Berger, national security adviser, will speak= on "A Foreign Policy for the Global Age." Location: Auditorium, Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. Contact: 202/687-4328. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - Michigan and NYC http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp 9:00 a.m. - One-on-One, Visioneering Incorporated, Plant #2, 17501 Masonic Road, Fraser, Michigan 48026, (810) 293-1000 From Michigan, Governor Bush will travel to New York City. While in New=20 York Governor Bush will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman and=20 participate in the 2000 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.=20 - Al Gore - NYC http://www.algore2000.com/ Travels to New York City. On Friday, Al Gore will appear on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "Live with Regis," hosted by Regis Philbin. Gore will tape both shows on Thursday in= New York. The shows will air Friday across the country. Check your local= listings for air times. The Rosie O'Donnell Show is accepting questions for Al Gore= at its web site: http://rosieo.warnerbros.com/pages/rosieo/contactgore.jsp - Ralph Nader - San Antonio and Houston TX http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html San Antonio, TX 10:30 am to 11:30 am Fundraiser / Reception, Contact: Adrian Worthy (210) 653-8816 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Nader Rally, With Special Guests Gary Dugger & Charlie Mauch, candidates for Texas Railroad Commission, and Natalia= Escudero & Jorge Torres of Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico - McAllister Auditorium,= San Antonio College (seats 1000), Contact: Adrian Worthy (210) 653-8816=20 Houston, TX 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Fundraiser, The Art Car Museum, 140 Heights Blvd.= , Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219=20 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm Press Conference, University Center University of Houston, Contact: Brian Howard 713-688-0893 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Nader Speech, Cullen Performance Hall (seats= 1700) University of Houston, Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219 -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - ALERT! Nov. 17, 2000 comment deadline -=20 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission TO LEGALIZE RADIOACTIVE SOIL "REUSE," "RECYCLE," and RELEASE FROM REGULATORY CONTROL Public Comments sought on Draft NUREG-1725=20 "Human Interaction With Reused Soil: A Literature Search." The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in the process of rulemaking= to deregulate radioactive materials and wastes from regulatory control, that is= to allow the recycling of radioactive waste materials into daily commerce and= life as if they were not contaminated. On September 7, 2000 (65 FR 174) the= comment period was extended until November 17, 2000. The ~76 page document can be downloaded from the NRC website (which is case-sensitive)=20 http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1725/index.html=20 or requested from Tom Nicholson at NRC, tjn@nrc.gov , (301)415-6268. Email to tjn@nrc.gov Fax to 301-415-5385 & 301-415-2234 Mail to David L. Meyer, Chief=20 Rules and Directives Branch=20 Office of Administration Mail Stop T-6D59=20 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission=20 Washington, DC 20555-0001. For more information contact Diane D'Arrigo at Nuclear Information and=20 Resource Service, 202-328-0002 ext. 16 or dianed@nirs.org, www.nirs.org - FOIA contact information online - http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/index.html= =20 - Shundahai Network's new address Shundahai Network=20 PO Box 6360=20 Pahrump, NV 89041=20 Ph: (775) 537-6088=20 mailto:shundahai@shundahai.org http://www.shundahai.org - Solemn Vigil to acknowledge and mourn The Palestinian victims who were= killed as a result of the excessive Israeli military action in the Palestinian occupied territories DATE: Thursday, October 19, 2000=20 TIME: 5:00 - 6:30 PLACE: The Israeli Embassy (International Dr. and Van Ness) DETAILS: This week's gathering is a quiet vigil to reflect on the loss of= life of the Palestinian People and the violence and aggression that they are subjected to daily. Please wear black, or black Ribbon. There will be no chanting. For information Contact ADC: (202)244-2990 or e-mail - ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORS FOR VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE AND TEXAS GOV. GEORGE= BUSH TO DEBATE AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ON OCT. 21 The top environmental advisors to U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. Geore W. Bush will debate about environmental issues at the 10th national conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, which will be held= Oct. 19 to 22 at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. Kathleen McGinty and Christopher DeMuth, the environmental advisors to Gore and Bush respectively, will face off at noon on Saturday, Oct. 21= during a debate in the Big Ten Ballrooms B and C. This will be the only debate= between the environmental advisors of the major American presidential candidates= during the 2000 campaign. During the conference more than 100 speakers from around= the world will discuss a wide range of current environmental issues. Details= about the program are available at this website: http://www.sej.org/confer/index1.htm. [From: mailto:jenelrod@fnmail.com] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "david rush" Subject: (abolition-usa) Conference in NYC 11/17-18, on Nuclear War and the Academy Date: 19 Oct 2000 08:12:25 -0400 > > The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy > A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000 > Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue > Sponsored by the Center on Violence and Human Survival John Jay College > Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center > > > The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing > regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general > public, as well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to > American and international security. > > For questions about the program, please contact ChuckStrozier@Juno.com. > To register please call the Office of Continuing Education at the > Graduate Center of CUNY, (212) 817-8215. The conference is free, though > we request a donation of $35 and space is limited. > > > The Conference Program > > Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, will address the > conference at a special session late Friday afternoon, November 17. > There may be other prominent public figures as well who will participate > in the conference. For the rest, a series of panels will be organized > around significant topics. We will include on each panel those who have > thought deeply about nuclear weapons, along with colleagues who have not > focused on the subject but are interested in joining the conversation. > Workshops will be led by younger faculty and activists and will explore > specific topics. > > > Human Confusions About Contemporary Weapons (10:00 a.m., Friday morning, > Nov. 17)) > > Robert Jay Lifton, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology > at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and someone who has > been writing about nuclear threat for nearly half a century, including > his classic study, Death in Life, and, more recently, Destroying the > World to Save It, and (with Greg Mitchell) Hiroshima In America. > Panelists include Zia Mian of the Center for Energy and Environmental > Studies, Princeton University, and the author of Making Enemies, Creating > Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society, and (with Ashis Nandy), > The Nuclear Debate; Patricia Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia > University Law School, and one of the country's leading essayists and > author of The Rooster's Egg and The Alchemy of Race and Rights; and Todd > Gitlin, professor in the departments of culture and communication, > journalism, and sociology at New York University and author of, among > other works, the classic history of the 1960s, The Sixties: Years of > Hope, Days of Rage. James Oakes, professor and chair of the history > department of the CUNY Graduate Center, will chair the session. > > > > The Second Nuclear Age (early Friday afternoon, Nov. 17) > > Jonathan Schell, who teaches at Wesleyan University and is the Harold > Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute and at the forefront of > those thinking in new ways about the world after the end of the cold war, > and the author of "The Folly of Arms Control" in the most recent Foreign > Affairs, and of The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, and The Gift of > Time. Panelists include Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of > International Law and Practice at Princeton University and one of the > most important and informed voices about nuclear threat among specialists > in international relations and the author, among his numerous books, of > Law in an Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective and > Predatory Globalization: A Critique; and Craig Wolff, a professor in the > Columbia School of Journalism, who was for many years a staff writer for > the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of > the Twin Towers bombing. The chair of the session will be Lawrence > Wittner, professor of history at SUNY/Albany, who is writing a > three-volume history of the antinuclear movement of which two volumes > have appeared: Resisting the Bomb and One World or None. > > > Presidents Panel (late afternoon, Friday, Nov. 17) > > The central challenge of the conference is to figure out ways of > redirecting the academy toward a serious consideration of nuclear threat. > This "President's Panel" convenes several university presidents to > address this issue from the point of view of academic and institutional > leadership. The panel will be chaired by Frances Degen Horowitz, > president of the Graduate Center of CUNY. Other members of the panel > include Barbara Mosberg, president of Goddard College; Peter Gabel, > president of the New College of California; and Christopher Breiseth, > president of Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. > > > Special Session (5:30-6:15, Friday, November 17): Kofi Annan, > Secretary-General of the United Nations. > > > Evening Panel: Stars Wars (NMD) and A Human Future (Friday, Nov. 17) > > Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security > Policy, MIT. Postol has been a fearless critic of the continuing NMD > program from among those with technical scientific knowledge of how it > works, or doesn't. He has written many articles and reports and a book, > with Altmann and Morel, Anti-Tactical Missile Defenses and West European > Security; Frances Fitzgerald, author of the remarkable book about > President Ronald Reagan and the history of Star Wars, Way Out There in > the Blue; and Rolf Ekeus, former Swedish Ambassador to the United States > and before that Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special > Commission for Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1997; and Kai Erikson, the > William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology and American Studies at > Yale University and author of several books, including A New Species of > Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters and Everything in Its > Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. > > Saturday Workshops (Saturday morning, November 18) > > A number of simultaneous two-hour workshop sessions will led by younger > faculty and activists on topics including: The Legality and Morality of > Nuclear Weapons (John Burroughs and Alan Lichterman); Gender and Weapons > (Myriam Miedziam); Teaching an Antinuclear Curriculum (Michael Flynn and > John Broughton); Developing an Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Weapons > and the Environment (Karl Grossman); Creating Coalitions Between > Antinuclear and Social Justice Movements (Merav Datan and Kevin Martin); > Nuclear Weapons and the War System (Diane Perlman and John Fousek); > Following the Money Trail of Nuclear Weapons (Stephen Schwartz). > > > Nuclear Ethics and Citizen Responsibility > > Randall Forsberg, a nationally-known peace researcher and activist who > founded the 1980s Nuclear Freeze campaign, has authored or edited many > books including Nonproliferation Primer; Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp > Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, someone who has helped > re-shape contemporary ethical thinking about many issues and is the > author, among other books, of Democracy and Disobedience, How Are We To > Live? and Animal Liberation; and David Tracy, Distinguished Service > Professor, The Divinity School of the University of Chicago and a leading > voice of humanism among Catholic theologians and the author of Plurality > and Ambiguity and The Analogical Imagination. The chair of the panel is > Jennifer Simons, the President of The Simons Foundation in Vancouver, > Canada. > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Energy Daily for Oct. 19 Date: 19 Oct 2000 10:27:32 -0400 >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:25:53 -0400 >Subject: Energy Daily for Oct. 19 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: bananas@lists.speakeasy.org >From: "kathycrandall@earthlink.net" > >In `Vote Of Confidence,' DOE Extends UC >Contracts For Weapons Laboratories > >BY GEORGE LOBSENZ > >The Energy Department, backing off earlier proposals for bold management >reforms, >announced this week it would keep the University of California as >operator of Los Alamos >and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories despite major security and >project >management breakdowns. > >The department said it would seek to negotiate a three-year extension of >the university's management >contracts at the two labs=97a decision hailed by university officials as >"a vote of confidence" in their >stewardship of the facilities. > >In the meantime, DOE said the university had agreed to several near-term >changes, including bringing >in subcontractors to help tighten security and improve lab operations. > >That was a considerably less drastic step than one contemplated by >Energy Secretary Bill >Richardson several months ago when he suggested DOE might take >responsibility for security away >from the university and assign it to another contractor. > >DOE officials said Richardson and John Gordon, the new administrator of >the National Nuclear >Security Administration (NNSA), ultimately decided that it would be >counterproductive to strip the >university of responsibility for security. In particular, they said >tighter security could only be achieved >if it was integrated into lab operations by the university. > >"The fundamental conclusion is that the university has to be responsible >[for security]," said Madeline >Creedon, deputy NNSA administrator, in a teleconference with reporters >late Tuesday. "We believe >that with assistance, the university can carry this out effectively." > >She added: "If you relieve the university of any responsibility, you >have basically let the university off >the hook." > >Creedon also said the department decided against opening the lab >contracts to outside bidding >because it wanted to assure continuity and stability at the beleaguered >labs. She also said the >department concluded that a contract competition was not necessary >because the university was still >doing a good job on its fundamental nuclear weapons research mission. > >"Since the fundamental science was not broken and was in fact >sound....we found it in the >department's best interest to extend the contracts," Creedon said. > >Richardson's decision comes only months after the university was harshly >criticized by Congress and >Richardson for serious mismanagement of Livermore's National Ignition >Facility (NIF) project and >Los Alamos' highly publicized and still unexplained loss of computer >disks carrying classified nuclear >weapons data. > >It also marks the second time in recent years that DOE has considered >and then retreated from >putting the labs' contracts up for bid. Former Energy Secretary Hazel >O'Leary also mulled >competing the university's contract at Los Alamos due to lackluster >performance in several areas. >O'Leary ultimately decided to renegotiate a new contract that had >"off-ramps" that DOE could take >if it remained dissatisfied=97off-ramps that DOE never took. > >DOE's hands-off treatment of the university comes at a time when it has >completed management >contracts at virtually all of its other major nuclear weapons >facilities. > >Sources say the university enjoys strong political support from the >powerful California congressional >delegation. In addition, DOE officials have suggested the university's >academic prestige is crucial to >attracting the talent needed to maintain the nation's nuclear weapons >arsenal. Further, university >officials have at times threatened to walk away from the labs if DOE >opens its contracts to bidding. > >Creedon said DOE would seek unspecified improvements in security and >project management in >negotiating the extension of the current contracts, which now run >through September 2002. > >However, she declined to say whether DOE would ask the university to put >more of its DOE-paid >fees at risk through the kind of performance-based clauses that are >routinely incorporated in its other >site management contracts. > >Creedon also said DOE would not seek contractual changes that would make >the university subject >to DOE-imposed penalties for nuclear safety violations. She said such >changes could only be >imposed by Congress through changes to the Price-Anderson nuclear safety >law, which established >DOE's safety enforcement program. Creedon noted the university already >had told Congress it >would not object to such changes as long as its exposure to penalties >did not exceed its fees. > >Richardson said his decision to extend the contracts was based on >recommendations he received >from Gordon, who enjoys considerable backing in the >Republican-controlled Congress, which >created the semi-autonomous NNSA last year to take over operation of >DOE's nuclear weapons >complex. DOE and NNSA officials refused to release Gordon's >recommendations. > >The contract extension received some support in Congress, most notably >from Sen. Pete Domenici >(R-N.M.), who said it would help steady morale at the labs. However, the >decision is not likely to sit >well with Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and other House Democrats who have >called on DOE to fire >the university. > >-- >Kathy Crandall >Interim Program Director >Alliance for Nuclear Accountability >1801 18th Street NW, #9-2 >Washington DC 20009 >TEL: (202) 833 4668 >FAX: (202) 234 9536 >E-MAIL: KathyCrandall@earthlink.net >http://www.ananuclear.org > =20 - 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) Job Opening - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Date: 19 Oct 2000 10:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Please forward and distribute widely--thanks. Job Opening - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Program Director - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 10/1/00 -- Join an exciting progressive organization working to change environmental and national security policy on nuclear weapons and waste issues. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) seeks a Program Director, in our Washington, DC office. The Program Director (PD) will work to ensure that the concerns, perspectives, and positions of the ANA are effectively represented in Washington, DC and nationally, to Congress, the Administration, and other national organizations. The PD will also keep ANA member groups fully informed of critical information, events, and actions pertaining to the nuclear weapons complex at the national level. The PD will supervise the annual advocacy and education event in Washington, DC and will assist ANA groups as needed with individual educational efforts. The PD will supervise activities in the DC office, including all staff and interns. Skills needed: excellent communications skills including verbal, written and computer; 3+ years experience with progressive advocacy organizations; supervisory experience; strong organizational skills; and commitment to grassroots organizing. Knowledge of nuclear weapons and waste issues preferred. Knowledge of Congress and legislative process preferred. Starting salary in low $40,000 DOE, plus health and dental insurance and generous paid vacation. To apply - Send a letter of interest, resume, three references, and a short (3-6 pages) recent writing sample to: Hiring Committee, ANA, 1914 N 34th Street, #407, Seattle, WA 98103. For more info contact: Susan at 206-547-3175 or or www.ananuclear.org. Deadline 11/30. Interviews will be conducted the week of December 10 th in DC. People of color and women are strongly encouraged to apply. ************************** Anji Moraes Administrative Assistant Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 1914 N. 34th St., Suite 407 Seattle, WA 98103 206/547-3175, FAX: 206/547-7158 http://www.ananuclear.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: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Humor...I hope Date: 19 Oct 2000 13:15:53 -0400 > >>>>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:52:11 -0400 >>>From: Paul Gunter >>>Reply-To: pgunter@nirs.org >>>Organization: NIRS >>>To: Gunter/ Paul >>>Subject: The Presidential Debate >>> >>>>From someone named Tom Bryer, whom I've never heard of, but who wrote it >>>BEFORE last night's debate (and it's scary how accurate it is)... >>> >>> >>>Subject: The Last Presidential Debate >>> >>> >>>For those who don't have time to watch the presidential debate Tuesday >>> >>>night, I've prepared this transcript of what will be said: >>> >>> >>>Jim Lehrer: Welcome to the third presidential debate between Vice >>> >>>President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The candidates have agreed on >>> >>>these rules: I will ask a question. The candidate will ignore the >>> >>>question and deliver rehearsed remarks designed to appeal to undecided >>> >>>women voters. The opponent will then have one minute to respond by >>> >>>trying to frighten senior citizens into voting for him. When a speaker's >>> >>>time has expired, I will whimper softly while he continues to spew >>> >>>incomprehensible statistics for three more minutes. >>> >>> >>>Let's start with the vice president. Mr. Gore, can you give us the name >>> >>>of a downtrodden citizen and then tell us his or her story in a way that >>> >>>strains the bounds of common sense? >>> >>> >>>Gore: As I was saying to Tipper last night after we tenderly made love >>> >>>the way we have so often during the 30 years of our rock-solid marriage, >>> >>>the downtrodden have a clear choice in this election. My opponent wants >>> >>>to cut taxes for the richest 1 percent of Americans. I, on the other >>> >>>hand, want to put the richest 1 percent in an ironclad lockbox so they >>> >>>can't hurt old people like Roberta Frampinhamper, who is here tonight. >>> >>>Mrs. Frampinhamper has been selling her internal organs, one by one, to >>> >>>pay for gas so that she can travel to these debates and personify >>> >>>problems for me. Also, her poodle has arthritis. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Gov. Bush, your rebuttal. >>> >>> >>>Bush: Governors are on the front lines every day, hugging people, crying >>> >>>with them, relieving suffering anywhere a photo opportunity exists. I >>> >>>want to empower those crying people to make their own decisions, unlike >>> >>>my opponent, whose mother is not Barbara Bush. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Let's turn to foreign affairs. Gov. Bush, if Slobodan Milosevic >>> >>>were to launch a bid to return to power in Yugoslavia, would you be able >>> >>>to pronounce his name? >>> >>> >>>Bush: The current administration had eight years to deal with that guy >>> >>>and didn't get it done. If I'm elected, the first thing I would do about >>> >>>that guy is have Dick Cheney confer with our allies. And then Dick would >>> >>>present me several options for dealing with that guy. And then Dick >>> >>>would tell me which one to choose. You know, as governor of Texas, I >>> >>>have to make tough foreign policy decisions every day about how we're >>> >>>going to deal with New Mexico. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Mr. Gore, your rebuttal. >>> >>> >>>Gore: Foreign policy is something I've always been keenly interested >>> >>>in. I served my country in Vietnam. I had an uncle who was a victim of >>> >>>poison gas in World War I. I myself lost a leg in the Franco-Prussian >>> >>>War. And when that war was over, I came home and tenderly made love to >>> >>>Tipper in a way that any undecided woman voter would find romantic. If >>> >>>I'm entrusted with the office of president, I pledge to deal >>> >>>knowledgeably with any threat, foreign or domestic, by putting it in an >>> >>>ironclad lockbox. Because the American people deserve a president who >>> >>>can comfort them with simple metaphors. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Vice President Gore, how would you reform the Social Security >>> >>>system? >>> >>> >>>Gore: It's a vital issue, Jim. That's why Joe Lieberman and I have >>> >>>proposed changing the laws of mathematics to allow us to give $50,000 to >>> >>>every senior citizen without having it cost the federal treasury a >>> >>>single penny until the year 2250. In addition, my budget commits $60 >>> >>>trillion over the next 10 years to guarantee that all senior citizens >>> >>>can have drugs delivered free to their homes every Monday by a federal >>> >>>employee who will also help them with the child-proof cap. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Gov. Bush? >>> >>> >>>Bush: That's fuzzy math. I know, because as governor of Texas, I have >>> >>>to do math every day. I have to add up the numbers and decide whether >>> >>>I'm going to fill potholes out on Rt. 36 east of Abilene or commit funds >>> >>>to reroof the sheep barn at the Texas state fairgrounds. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: It's time for closing statements. >>> >>> >>>Gore: I'm my own man. I may not be the most exciting politician, but I >>> >>>will fight for the working families of America, in addition to turning >>> >>>the White House into a lusty pit of marital love for Tipper and me. >>> >>> >>>Bush: It's time to put aside the partisanship of the past by electing no >>> >>>one but Republicans. >>> >>> >>>Lehrer: Good night. >>> >>> >>>### >>> >>> > - 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 00/10/20 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 20 Oct 2000 06:23:47 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 20, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001020205952.htm 9 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds closed hearing on the recent attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. 9 a.m. =97 Albright visit news conference =97 The Arms Control= Association holds a news conference on Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's visit= to North Korea. Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/463-8270. 10:30 a.m. =97 State Department holds a meeting of the U.S. advisory commission on public diplomacy. Location: Room 600, 301 Fourth St. SW.= Contact: 202/619-4463. 4 p.m. =97 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights news conference = =97 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights holds a news conference to discuss its current session, which concludes today after three weeks of hearings on some 50 cases from throughout the Americas. Location: Organization of= American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Contact: 202/458-3760. Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation conference =97 all day =97= The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation holds its second national conference on issues related to the adverse effects of Israeli policies on Christian and Muslim Palestinian society. Location: National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. Contact: 301/871-9222. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - New Hampshire and Maine http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp One-on-One with Governor Bush=20 11:15 a.m. - Saint Anslem College, Davison Building Cafeteria, 100 Saint Anslem Drive, Manchester, New Hampshire, (603) 641-7240=20 2:15 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Hanger #13, Bangor International Airport, (207) 942-3030 - Al Gore - New Orleans LA http://www.algore2000.com/ 6:55 p.m. =97 Attends a Democratic National Committee dinner with Mrs. Gore, Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. 7:55 p.m. =97 Attends a Democratic National Committee dinner with Mrs. Gore, Orpheum Theater, New Orleans. 9 p.m. =97 Speaks to the voters of New Orleans with Mrs. Gore,= Woldenberg Park, New Orleans. Taped yesterday for today's viewing: "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "Live with Regis," hosted by Regis Philbin. Check your local listings for= air times. The Rosie O'Donnell Show is accepting questions for Al Gore at its= web site: http://rosieo.warnerbros.com/pages/rosieo/contactgore.jsp - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html October 20 - Los Angeles, CA=20 11:00am - 12:20pm - Speech, University Theater, Unversity of California-Riverside 1:15 - 2:30pm - Speech, Auditorium, Chapman University, One= University Drive 3:30 - 4:45pm - Speech, Bridges Auditorium, Pitzer College, 1050= North Mills Avenue Saturday, October 21 -=20 Fresno, CA 1:00pm - 3:00pm - Speech, Tower District Theater, 815 East Olive Avenue Oakland, CA - Super Rally w/ Cornel West, Medea - Benjamin J.= Kaiser Auditorium Sunday, October 22 - Bay Area 7:00pm - 9:00pm - Speech, Freeborn Hall, University of= California-Davis Monday, October 23, Chico, CA Press Conference with members of California Nurses Association Enloe Hospital, Time TBA 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Rally, El Rey Theater, 230 West 2nd Street, San Francisco Monday, October 23, Palo Alto, CA 7:00pm - 10:00pm - Speech, Memorial Stadium, Stanford University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy=20 A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000=20 Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue=20 Sponsored by the Center on Violence and Human Survival John Jay College, Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center=20 The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general public,= as well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to American and international security.=20 For questions about the program, please contact= huckStrozier@Juno.com. To register please call the Office of Continuing Education at the Graduate Center of CUNY, (212) 817-8215.=20 - Anti-Armor Weapons=20 In a May, 2000 report, the General Accounting Office suggests that= the U.S. armed services may have too many anti-tank weapons. In "Defense Acquisitions: Antiarmor Munitions Master Plan Does Not Identify Potential Excesses or Support Planned Procurement" (GAO/NSIAD-00-67), the auditing= agency finds that the military has not justified its procurement of anti-armor weapons. Congressional committees have already questioned the level of development and procurement of such weapons. It's possible, therefore, that the military may soon start demilitarizing and disposing anti-armor weapons. Since many anti-armor= weapons contain uranium penetrators, this could raise new environmental challenges. Ironically, the uranium in weapons is recycled waste from the Energy Department's (and possibly others') processing of higher grades of uranium. GAO reports may be downloaded from http://www.gao.gov/, and single hardcopies may be ordered by phone from 202/512-6000. [From: Lenny Siegel, mailto:lsiegel@cpeo.org - http://www.cpeo.org Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight] - Russia has DU rounds: 3VBM-13, 3VBK-17, But also Tungsten: 3VBM-17 - http://www.taos-inc.com/3vbm13.htm [From: "Marco Saba" ] - Navy Begins Exercises in Puerto Rico=20 By MANUEL ERNESTO RIVERA, Associated Press Writer Wednesday October 18, 2000 VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) - With helicopters swooping overhead,= 2,000 U.S. troops staged an amphibious practice invasion of this contested Puerto Rican island - and the U.S. Navy arrested nine protesters on a bombing range Wednesday as they tried to interrupt the NATO exercises. - PROTESTERS OF TRIDENT SUBMARINE TRANSMITTER CHARGED IN FEDERAL COURT MADISON, WIS-Two anti-nuclear weapons protesters who cut down= antenna poles for a Navy submarine transmitter near Clam Lake, Wisc., will be= charged in U.S. District Court with "willfully injuring property belonging to the= U.S. Department of the Navy," according to a press release from Peggy A Laugenschlager, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Wisconsin [608-264-5158]. 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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: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Power is Sustainable, says Clinton Date: 20 Oct 2000 13:47:27 -0400 Clinton Administration's Reliance on Nuclear Energy Becomes More Apparent Nuclear Energy Institute October 10, 2000-The Clinton Administration's reliance on nuclear energy as a tool to combat the threat of global warming became clearer in recent days. "Nuclear energy is clean and should be part of the country' s energy mix to combat global climate change," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said October 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, McGraw-Hill reported in the trade publication Nucleonics Week that the U.S. government will prevent nuclear power from being excluded from projects qualifying for carbon emissions reduction credit under the Kyoto Protocol. U.S. officials told the publication that the State Department "will make sure" that efforts by the majority of members in the European Union (EU) and some developing countries to exclude nuclear power from qualifying for the protocol' s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will fail. The United States is strongly supported by Canada, China, and Japan, Nucleonics Week said. The 167 million metric tons of carbon emissions avoided by nuclear energy in 1999 was equivalent to removing 97 million cars and trucks from America's highways. The Council of Economics Advisors estimated that if the United States relied on international emissions trading for compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, the cost for carbon would range from $14 to $25 per metric ton. At $25 per ton, the carbon emissions avoided in 1999 alone would have been worth $3.5 billion. At least some renewable energy advocates concur with the Administration' s view of nuclear energy. Solar Industries Association Executive Director Scott Sklar said in a presentation at NEI last week that nuclear energy and solar energy are complementary because they are not in direct competition for customers choosing emission-free electricity. He raised the possibility that greater synergies can be developed between solar and nuclear energy. Specifically, Sklar cited the large land areas around nuclear plant sites and suggested that companies could use solar units to power non-plant facilities like visitor centers. Nuclear energy, undoubtedly, will be among the topics discussed during final negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism rules to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, in late November. Copyright c 2000 Nuclear Energy Institute. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [manhattangreens] Hitler or Mussolini -- The Lesser of 2 Date: 20 Oct 2000 16:03:21 -0400 >>To: nygreen@egroups.com >From: "mitchelcohen@mindspring.com" > >Check out this absolutely right-on article, from the San Francisco >Examiner, Tuesday, October 17, 2000 > >Lesser Of 2 Evils Is Still Evil >by Harley Sorensen > >If Benito Mussolini were a Democrat running for president of the United >States against Adolf Hitler, a Republican, who would you vote for... >assuming that Ralph Nader was the Green Party candidate? > >Easy choice, according to Examiner columnist Stephanie Salter and her >joined-at-the-hip buddy, Bernie Ward, of KGO Talk Radio. You'd hold your >nose and vote for Mussolini, the lesser of the two major-party evils. > >That's peculiar, because anyone with a scintilla of intelligence knows that >Ralph Nader, a true patriot who has already done more to serve his country >than perhaps any person alive today, is the only candidate even remotely >capable of leading us out of the undemocratic morass that Washington has >become. You would think a man like that would be a shoo-in. > >You'd think that freedom-loving liberals and conservatives alike would rush >to the Nader camp. Given the choices we have, you'd think that even the >sappiest of all political thinkers, the Libertarians, would be campaigning >for Nader and dying to vote for him. > >You'd think on Nov. 7 it'd be Nader by a landslide, leaving those tired old >machine politicians so far in the dust they'd be invisible to the naked >eye. > >But Nader doesn't stand a chance, they say. Of course he's the best, but we >have to be practical, they say. A vote for Nader, say the liberals, is a >vote for George W. Bush. Although Mussolini/Gore would be bad for the >country, they say, Hitler/Bush would be disastrous. > >One wonders: If Mussolini and Hitler were the major party candidates, and >God were the Green Party guy, would folks like Salter and Ward still urge >you to vote for Mussolini/Gore... because God is down in the polls? > >Psst! Hey, Buddy! Don't vote for that God guy. Seriously. > >He doesn't stand a chance. You've seen the polls; he's out of it. Vote for >Mr. Mussolini. Sure, he's not great, but he's better than that Hitler guy. >And he'll make the trains run on time. He promised. > >We are being urged by the leaders of both parties, but particularly the >Democrats, to put our principles aside and cast our vote for expediency. > >There isn't one Democrat in 50 who really likes Albert Gore Jr. We tend to >forget how he got where he is. If you remember 1992, Gore was defeated in >the primaries by Bill Clinton, then picked from the dung heap by Clinton to >join a winning team. > >Nothing that has happened in the last eight years makes Gore any more >attractive than he was when he got beat in 1992. He was nominated by the >Democrats this year only out of some distorted sense of courtesy. Lacking a >royal family, we Americans have taken to creating our own royalty, the sons >of successful people, or hangers-on like Al Gore. > >I've defended Gore in this space against the spurious attacks leveled >against him by Republicans, but, charming as he may be in private, he's a >pandering fool in public. Why he talks in public like an oversized >ventroliquist's dummy is anybody's guess, but his is not the sort of >conduct that inspires my confidence. > >George W. Bush, on the other hand, brings to the table these fine >qualities: He's no longer a drunk, he's no longer a cokehead, he doesn't >chase women any more, he's got a lot of money and his father is a bitter >failed president who eagerly seeks "revenge" against Bill Clinton. > >Bush has an advantage over Gore in that he's a tough guy, willing to fight >any man who dares tread on him or his. Mind you, Bush would do the tough >talking and hire someone else to do the actual fighting, but you get the >point. Talk like a tough guy and you'll win the support of 90 per cent of >the Joe Six-Packs in America. > >Voting for either of these buffoons when Ralph Nader is running is an act >of immorality for most of us. If you're a millionaire looking for a tax >break, then of course George W. Bush is your man. If you're a Democratic >Party hack looking for advancement, then of course Al Gore is your man. > >But if you're an honest, decent, loyal American who believes in the >principles of democracy, you have no moral choice: you must vote for Ralph >Nader. > >You must vote for the one person dedicated to destroying, not preserving, >the stranglehold monied interests have over the rest of us. > >Our cable television bills are too high. Our cellular phone bills are way >too high. Our Internet access charges are too high. Our utility bills are >too high. We pay too much for sugar. We pay too much for milk. We pay too >much to go to the movies. We certainly pay too much for housing, >spectacularly so in the Bay Area. You and I pay way too much for too many >products that should be relatively cheap. > >What that means is that we have to work too many hours for the stuff we >need or want. We are, in a sense, held in economic slavery. > >Why is that? What is there in the Constitution that says you and I have to >work a little harder and make do with a little less so that guys like Bill >Gates and Larry Ellison can become mega-billionaires? > >The Democrat Party, under Bill Clinton, has done nothing to correct the >inequities in our economic system. Those inequities have grown over the >past eight years and will continue to grow under Al Gore. > >If George W. Bush becomes our next president, it's Katie bar the door! The >gentle push the Democrats have given us toward economic perdition will >become a nosedive. > >If democracy is ever to be restored to our country through the ballot, we >must make our voices heard. If we consistently vote for more of the same, >we will continue to get more of the same. We can cry and whine all we want, >but nothing will change unless we show character and determination at the >ballot box. > >Voting for the lesser evil is, by definition, voting for evil. > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eGroups eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! >http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/5/_/421112/_/972071484/ >---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > >To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: >manhattangreens-unsubscribe@eGroups.com > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "david rush" Subject: (abolition-usa) Kakwort virus Date: 21 Oct 2000 09:03:02 -0400 The kakwort virus was on my machine, and it came from an abolition caucus message . A fix is available at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.fix.html David Rush - 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: Joan Russow Subject: (abolition-usa) Canadian Election Peace Issues Date: 22 Oct 2000 15:51:35 -0700 Dear Peace Groups A Canadian election was called today and will take place November 27th. As the federal leader of the Green Party of Canada, I will be advocating the following issues: 1. Nato - Canada's withdrawal 2. Nato - Disbanding 3. Ending the circulation and berthing of nuclear powered and enabled vessels 4. the closing of Nanoose Test Range on Vancouver Island 5. the phasing out of civil nuclear energy, coupled with a fair and just time-bound transition plan for affected workers and communities 6. the prohibition of the transfer of plutonium in the form of MOX from the US and Russia for use in Candu reactors, 7. to ban the sale of Candu reactors 8. to link civil nuclear energy with the development of nuclear arms 9. to support the abolition 2000 initiative 10. to work to recognize the Security Council as an affirmative action program for nuclear powers and to transfer its powers to the General Assembly 11. to reduce the Canadian Defence budget by 50% and transfer the savings to health and the environment 12. to work towards a culture of peace and away from the "cult of war" 13. the banning of uranium mining Incidentally, we are still looking for candidates for the Green Party in some ridings. Joan Russow. - 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 00/10/23 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 23 Oct 2000 06:28:03 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 23, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001023212342.htm 8 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds the 28th Water Reactor Safety meeting. Location: Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda. Contact: 301/415-6437. 10 a.m. =97 Environmental Protection Agency holds a meeting of the= national advisory committee for acute exposure guideline levels for hazardous substances. Location: Rooms 6332-6336, Nassif Building, Transportation Department Headquarters, 400 Seventh St. SW. Contact: 202/554-1404. 1:30 p.m. =97 Energy Department holds a meeting of the federal energy management advisory committee. Location: Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza SW. Contact: 202/586-3507. Media freedom briefing =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Radio Free Europe/ Radio= Liberty holds a briefing on "Media Freedom under Putin." The speaker is Sergei Grigoriants, Glasnost Public Foundation and director of the Glasnost-North Caucasus Information Center. Location: 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/457-6949. Ecuador discussion =97 9 a.m. =97 The National Press Club holds a= Morning Newsmaker news conference featuring a discussion on "Ecuador's National Security and Implications of Plan Colombia." The speaker is Heinz Moeller, foreign minister of Ecuador. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F= streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593. Colombia discussion =97 12:30 p.m. =97 The Johns Hopkins University= Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) holds a discussion on "Colombia's Communities of Peace: Non-Violent Resistance in the Midst of= War." The speaker is Andrew Miller, Amnesty International's acting advocacy= director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Location: Room 417, Nitze Building,= SAIS, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/663-5626. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp This week Bush travels to nine states in 17 cities which have a combined 140 electoral votes. His trip will cover 6,153 miles. Monday: Kansas City, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tuesday: Illinois, Tennessee, and Florida. Wednesday: Florida. Thursday: Pennsylvania and Michigan. Friday: he visits several Michigan cities via bus. - Al Gore - New Orleans LA http://www.algore2000.com/ - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Monday, October 23, Palo Alto, CA 7:00pm - 10:00pm - Speech, Memorial Stadium, Stanford University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Public Comment Sought:=20 Radioactive Soil from Nuclear Plants May be Sold to Homes, Farms October 19, 2000 (ENS) - A controversial plan that would allow nuclear power plant operators to market their radiologically contaminated soils to construction companies, farmers, golf courses and other commercial entities= is moving closer to reality. After a 14 month literature search, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has selected 56 documents with which to define "realistic reuse scenarios" for the many tons of contaminated soils currently piled up= at nation's nuclear power plants. According to the NRC, the nuclear power industry's stockpile of low level contaminated soils could be safely used for a number of private and public endeavors, such as home landscaping projects, athletic fields, and playgrounds. The 56 documents selected in the literature search, which were= culled from a collection of some two million scientific articles, academic publications and industry reports, will be used to characterize the impacts that the recycled contaminated soils would have on public health and the environment. Specifically, the NRC hopes to use the documents to analyze the "exposure pathways" that will result from each soil reuse scenario. For example, the NRC will use the documents to analyze the exposure pathways in= a "suburban scenario," where recycled nuclear power plant soils are used as backfill around a domestic residence. The exposure pathways resulting from any given soil reuse scenario would vary according to the activities of the people living area, the NRC notes.= =20 For example, if people within a suburban reuse scenario engaged in gardening activities, the exposure pathways could include inhalation,= ingestion of vegetables or fruits, inadvertent ingestion of soil, and external= exposure, the NRC points out. In order to evaluate the potential overall impact of reusing the= power plant soils, the NRC will analyze several scenarios to determine a "critical group." The NRC defines a critical group as a group of individuals= reasonably expected to receive the greatest exposure to residual radioactivity for any applicable set of circumstances. The dose of radiation received by the average member of the critical group will then be used to determine whether limitations are required so= that soil reuse will be controlled in a way that is protective of public health= and the environment, according to the NRC. The 56 documents that were culled from more than two million during= the literature search will provide valuable information in setting those parameters, the NRC maintains. Some of the document titles selected include: * "Hazardous soils to be used in paving mix."=20 * "Large scale adobe brick manufacturing in New Mexico."=20 * "Methodology to estimate the amount and particle size of soil ingested by children: implications for exposure assessment at waste sites."=20 * "Ash: A valuable resource."=20 * "Building with adobe brick."=20 * "Probabilistic prediction of exposures to arsenic contaminated residential soil."=20 * "Technical basis for establishing environmentally acceptable endpoints in contaminated soils."=20 * "We're in the soils business, remember!" A key element of the project was to have a team of outside experts review the results of the literature search, the NRC emphasized. According= to the NRC, the role of the outside experts was to alert the agency to concepts= or information overlooked in the literature search. One of the independent reviewers, Carlo Long Casler, did make such= an alert to the NRC. Casler, who is affiliated with the Arid Lands Information Center at the University of Arizona, asked the NRC to review Russian= documents pertaining to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.= Casler also suggested that the NRC analyze Japanese documents pertaining to the= long term health effects of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki some 55 years ago. The NCR, in a report released earlier this summer, concluded that= the environmental and health impacts of those cases were not relevant to the question of reusing radiologically contaminated soil from U.S. nuclear power plants. "The unintentional exposure hazard from the high-level radiation= that occurred in the cases Ms. Casler mentioned is significantly different from= the anticipated exposure derived from soils intentionally released from NRC-regulated locations," the NRC stated in its report. That's not good enough for Diane D'Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. D'Arrigo, like many environmentalists, takes issue with the NRC's plan to release low level radioactive materials from regulatory standards. "The goal should be to isolate radioactive materials and prevent exposures, not to deliberately expose people by allowing radioactive= materials into regular daily commerce, D'Arrigo said. "If it's contaminated from= nuclear power and the fuel chain, then it should be treated as a waste and= isolated." The NRC has already set radiation benchmarks that nuclear power= plants must meet before they can be decommissioned. Now, the NRC is trying to set standards that would allow individual aspects of the plants to be released= from regulatory control prior to a shutdown. In addition to contaminated soils, these standards would apply to metals, concrete and equipment used at= nuclear power plants. Like many environmentalists, D'Arrigo is not convinced that the= NRC's standards will be protective. "When the whole motivation behind it is to allow radioactive= materials to be released from regulatory control, we can't have a lot of hope that= these are really going to be objective or comprehensive or realistic," she said. The NRC will take public comments on its report on human interaction with reused soils until November 17. The document can be viewed on line at: [26]http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1725/index.html Comments can be submitted by email to: [27] tjn@nrc.gov, or by fax to: 301-415-5385. - Quick on the Trigger=20 Are you prepared for Gore's foreign policy? By William D. Hartung - November 2000, The Progressive Liberal columnists such as Anthony Lewis of The New York Times, E.J. Dionne= of The Washington Post, and Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker have done contortions to demonstrate that yes, Virginia, there are significant differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties. They then argue= that Ralph Nader, honorable man though he may be, should put aside his quixotic quest for the Presidency before he risks throwing the election to George W. Bush.=20 But in the field that I know best--U.S. foreign and military policy--it's= no easy matter to make a "lesser of two evils" argument for the Gore-Lieberman ticket. On many of the issues that progressives care about most--curbing= pro-corporate trade agreements, stopping the flow of U.S. arms and training to corrupt and abusive regimes in Colombia and Indonesia, ending the deadly civilian= sanctions against Iraq, reducing the nation's grotesque $311 billion military= budget--the differences between the standard-bearers of the two major parties range from subtle to nonexistent. Peace Action, the nation's largest grassroots peace group, highlights six issues in its latest Presidential voter guide. On five of these, Gore and= Bush agree: "Increase Pentagon spending" (Yes), "Spend $60 billion or more on= 'Star Wars' anti-missile system" (Yes), "Give aid to Colombian army guilty of= human rights violations" (Yes), "End sanctions on food and medicine to civilians= in Iraq" (No), and "Require labor rights and environmental protections in all trade agreements" (No). Gore's stances are decidedly against the positions= of most progressive organizations and activists. On only one issue, "Support treaty to ban nuclear testing," is Gore in favor and Bush opposed. By= contrast, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader supports the progressive position on all= six of the issues identified by Peace Action. On missile defense, there may be another important difference emerging. The Clinton-Gore Administration's recent decision to put its provocative= National Missile Defense program on hold--enunciated by the President in a September= 1 address to incoming students at Georgetown University and heartily seconded= by Vice President Gore--opens at least the possibility that a Gore-Lieberman Administration could get back on track toward implementing additional= post-Cold War nuclear arms reductions. Compared with George W. Bush's pledge to move= full speed ahead with a multitiered, open-ended missile defense plan that could= be even more costly and provocative than Ronald Reagan's original Star Wars vision, Gore's position looks pretty damned good. For some, this may be enough to cast their lot with the Democratic ticket.= But the rest of us may want to take a closer look at the records of Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman before we make up our minds. The Presidential ticket of Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman represents the ascendancy of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), a conservative= current within the Democratic Party that helped catapult Bill Clinton and Al Gore= onto the national scene with a corporate-friendly, pro-military, fiscally conservative agenda that was designed to put the party's allegedly ultra-liberal, "McGovernite" past behind it (see John Nichols's story,= "Behind the DLC Takeover," in the October issue of The Progressive). While the DLC virtually gave birth to Al Gore as a Presidential candidate, it has also= been central to the rise of Lieberman, who has served as the organization's= chairman for the past five years. It was Al Gore who first tested the DLC's pro-military themes in his= hapless Presidential campaign of 1988, when he was one of a cast of relatively= unknown and inexperienced Democratic Presidential contenders referred to derisively= by some commentators as the "seven dwarfs." I remember scratching my head when= I attended the Presidential debate held at Manhattan's Javits Convention= Center in the spring of that year and learned that one of Gore's distinguishing characteristics was that he was the only Democratic candidate who had= endorsed Ronald Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada--that great and glorious victory in which it was decisively proven that U.S. Marines in helicopter gunships are mightier than Cuban construction workers armed with shovels. While the Grenada case was an extreme example of Gore's eagerness to= endorse the use of military force as a way of demonstrating that he was a "different kind of Democrat," it is consistent with many of the positions he has taken since that time. In an April 1988 speech to the New York Democratic= Committee, Gore suggested that "because of their dovish foreign policy views, the nomination of Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis or the Reverend= Jesse Jackson would gravely jeopardize Democratic chances of regaining the White House," according to Robert Shogan of the Los Angeles Times. Among the= issues Gore chastised his Democratic rivals for were their failure to endorse Jimmy Carter's decision to put nuclear-armed Pershing missiles in Germany to= reduce our mythical "window of vulnerability" to nuclear attack by Moscow and their unwillingness to support Ronald Reagan's decision to provide U.S. military escorts to Kuwaiti tankers moving through the Persian Gulf. Gore was an early and consistent supporter of using force in the Persian= Gulf. In 1991, he and Lieberman were two of only ten Democrats in the Senate to= vote for the resolution authorizing the air war against Iraq. Lieberman also= called for the use of U.S. ground troops to drive Saddam Hussein from power,= despite the fact that such a move would have violated the U.N. resolution that had authorized U.S. intervention in the conflict. Lest we think his views have mellowed with age and experience, Gore has a section on his campaign web site entitled "Gore Backed Use of Military Force When Necessary to Protect U.S. Interests and Values," in which he proudly proclaims that he "argued strongly for punitive air strikes against the= Serbs," "supported air strikes and continuous patrolling of the no-fly zone to= contain Saddam Hussein," and "supported military retaliation against Osama Bin Laden for terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies in East Africa." (This= retaliation included the bombing of a building in the Sudan that was later determined to= be a pharmaceutical factory with no documented connection to Bin Laden.)=20 Look for a Gore and Lieberman Administration to be quick on the trigger= when it comes to launching air strikes on Washington's designated enemies of the moment. In this, they would continue the tradition of William Jefferson Clinton, who has used force overseas more often than any U.S. President of= the past two decades, including Ronald Reagan. And if you are hoping that Gore and Lieberman might deliver a peace= dividend, think again. During the Presidential debate in Boston on October 3, Gore proudly proclaimed that his ten-year Pentagon budget has "set aside more= than twice as much" as George W.'s for upgrading the military. Sadly for progressives, Gore's boast is true: He proposes to add $10 billion per year= to the Pentagon budget over the next decade, while Bush plans an increase of "only" $4.5 billion per year. Gore also went out of his way to criticize= Bush for "skipping the next generation of weapons," he said. "I think that's a= big mistake because I think we have to stay at the cutting edge." That means= Gore is in favor of funding costly, multibillion dollar weapons systems (for example, the F-22 or the Joint Strike Fighter) to replace current systems= that are already perfectly capable of defending the United States under all imaginable circumstances. It looks like the Pentagon and the weapons makers= can break out the champagne regardless of who wins in November. The people of Iraq, however, would have nothing to celebrate. Gore and Lieberman are not likely to have much sympathy for calls to end civilian sanctions on Iraq, despite strong evidence that ten years of sanctions have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of one million Iraqi civilians,= including the deaths of 4,500 children per month. Apparently, Gore and Lieberman's concern about the negative impact of the violent words and images visited= upon American children by the entertainment industry does not translate into sympathy for the deadly impact U.S.-led sanctions have had on Iraqi= children. In Al and Joe's moral universe, all children are decidedly not created= equal. The Clinton-Gore policy "does not aim to find an alternative to Hussein or= to arouse a democratic fervor in the people, but rather to continue the status quo, and in the process, test a few weapons to see how well they work, so= they can be marketed to other countries," says Representative Cynthia McKinney, Democrat of Georgia. "Unfortunately, innocent women and children are being killed along the way." On the issue of U.S.-Israeli relations, Al Gore is likely to be extremely reluctant to press Tel Aviv to rein in its military and police forces or to compromise on sensitive issues such as the status of Jerusalem. Gore's= longtime foreign policy adviser, Leon Fuerth, is the ultimate hardliner on Mideast affairs. When Gore ran for President in 1988, it was Fuerth who convinced= him to criticize Ronald Reagan from the right, slamming the Republican Administration for pressing then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to= trade land for peace. To make matters worse, one of Gore's current confidants on Mideast policy is New Republic editor-in-chief Martin Peretz. As Edward W.= Said has aptly noted of Peretz, "No one in American journalism is a more= unabashed hater and despiser of Arabs and Muslims, none more insulting, none more disparaging, none more reckless and ignorant." Gore and Lieberman can also be expected to block efforts at lifting the forty-year-old economic embargo against Cuba. As Vice President, Al Gore has carefully distanced himself from the Clinton Administration's modest steps toward relaxing economic and travel restrictions between the United States= and Cuba. On October 4, The New York Times asked Gore, "Would you press for the lifting of sanctions?" Gore answered: "No, no, I'm a hardliner on Castro."= He made that clear when he contradicted the U.S. Justice Department's position that Elian Gonzalez's father--not the rightwing Cuban American National Foundation and not the child's Miami-based cousins--should decide where the= boy would live. There is no rational explanation for Gore's embarrassing views= on Cuba other than his desire to pander to conservative Cuban exiles in Miami= in the hopes of stealing a few critical votes from the Republicans in Florida= come November. Meanwhile, Gore's running mate has an unblemished record of support for sustaining a tough embargo on Cuba. Lieberman's conservative stance on this issue dates back to his decision to embrace the Cuban American National Foundation and its late founder, Jorge Mas Canosa, during his first run for= the Senate against Republican moderate Lowell Weicker in 1988. In fact,= Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney has a far more progressive stance on the Cuba embargo than Lieberman does. During an appearance on Meet the Press earlier this year, Cheney criticized the Helms-Burton Act. "Unilateral sanctions almost never work," Cheney said. "They are usually politically motivated, responding to a domestic constituency."=20 Both Gore and Lieberman are major league practitioners of the art of pork barrel politics, which they have pursued with special zeal in order to= protect the interests of major weapons contractors. Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. companies have seized a dominant= position in the global arms market, controlling anywhere from one-third to one-half= of all international arms sales in any given year. In 1999, the last year for which full statistics are available, the Congressional Research Service estimates that the United States accounted for 54 percent of global weapons deliveries, more than all the other suppliers in the world combined. Clinton and Gore have helped promote the U.S. weapons industry at every turn,= following the credo enunciated by the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown at the 1993= Paris Air Show that "not only will we help you promote your products in the world market, but we will help you close the deal." Gore has actively involved himself in jawboning Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to buy American weaponry. He has paid special attention to helping Lockheed Martin "close the deal" on multibillion dollar sales of= eighty top-of-the-line F-16 fighter planes to the United Arab Emirates that will contain more advanced radar systems than those utilized on the U.S. Air= Force's own versions of the aircraft. Clinton and Gore's service to the arms= industry has not gone unrewarded: Bernard Schwartz, a former Lockheed Martin board member and the head of Loral Space and Communications, gave $601,000 in soft money to Democratic committees in the run-up to the 1996 Presidential= election, and he has nearly doubled that sum this time around, with $1.1 million in contributions to Democratic committees in the 1997-2000 time frame. As for Lieberman, he has done what every Connecticut Senator worth his salt has done for at least two generations: gone to bat for the state's arms manufacturers at every opportunity. He has resisted efforts by his= Democratic colleagues to cut funds for Lockheed Martin's F-22 combat aircraft, which at $200 million per copy is the most expensive fighter plane ever built. The engines for the aircraft are made in Hartford by the Pratt & Whitney= division of United Technologies. And he joined his home state colleague Christopher= Dodd in a shameless effort to get more Blackhawk helicopters--built in= Connecticut by United Technologies' Sikorsky unit--included in the Clinton= Administration's $1.3 billion aid package for Colombia instead of the cheaper Huey II, built= in Texas by Textron Bell. In a June 21 speech on the floor of the Senate, Lieberman openly shilled for Sikorsky, arguing that "the Blackhawks are= fast, they have tremendous capacity, and they are well suited for long-range operations. . . . While the Huey II is an improvement over the 1960s, it= does not have the same performance capabilities, including range, speed, lift, or survivability, at any altitude as does the Blackhawk." According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Lieberman received $33,000= in campaign contributions from United Technologies and its employees in the= most recent election cycle. The one area where the subtle rhetorical differences between Gore and Bush could develop into strong, clear policy differences is in nuclear arms= control. In a statement supporting Clinton's decision to put missile defense on hold, Gore asserted: "As President, I would oppose the kinds of missile defenses= that would unnecessarily upset strategic stability and threaten to open the gates for a renewed arms race with Russia and a new arms race with China,= including both offensive and defensive weapons." But in typical Clinton fashion, Gore left open the prospect for deploying some kind of system. Still, Gore's recognition that pushing full speed ahead on National Missile Defense could spark a new nuclear arms race indicates that his thinking is light years ahead of Bush's on this issue (although it must be noted that Lieberman was one of a handful of early Democratic supporters of Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran's "Defend America Act," a jingoistic, pro-National Missile Defense proposal). To their credit, both Gore and Lieberman support= the Comprehensive Test Ban, an important next step in the global nuclear arms control regime, while Bush is adamantly opposed to any such agreement. The Clinton-Gore Administration is the only Administration since the Eisenhower era that has not negotiated a single significant nuclear arms control agreement. Indeed, virtually all of the progress in nuclear arms reductions achieved during the 1990s was pursuant to agreements reached= under the Administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Gore deserves some= credit for working closely with Russia to implement the reductions in nuclear= arsenals that were agreed to under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and more importantly, for persuading Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to abandon= their holdings of nuclear weapons after the break-up of the Soviet Union. And the Clinton-Gore Administration's on-again, off-again negotiations with North= Korea over capping its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs are starting= to bear fruit. But before we get too carried away with the superiority of the probable Gore-Lieberman positions on nuclear weapons issues, it should be noted that= the Clinton-Gore vision of a "limited" National Missile Defense system is inherently flawed in its own right. Thanks to intrepid investigative= research by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, we now know that Clinton's foreign policymakers tried to reassure their Russian counterparts that a limited missile defense system wouldn't threaten Moscow's nuclear deterrent by= telling the Russians simply to keep 1,000 or 2,000 nuclear warheads operative and on high-alert status at all times. That shows how far Clinton and Gore are from taking a step toward getting rid of nuclear weapons once and for all. Their missile defense plan--which is still a very real possibility, pending= Russian approval--would simply reinforce the notion that the two erstwhile Cold War adversaries should maintain large arsenals of nuclear overkill indefinitely. And by retaining hair-trigger alert status, Clinton and Gore increase the= risk of a rash decision that leads to nuclear war or an accidental launch based= on a computer foul-up or human error.=20 Whether Gore builds on the positive elements of his record on arms control= or falls back into playing politics with nuclear issues in an effort to show= he's "tougher" than Republicans will depend on how much pressure a Gore-Lieberman Administration receives from the public and arms control advocates in= Congress. At least as important as what happens in the voting booth in November will= be what progressives and liberals do in the event that Gore and Lieberman get elected. Will the Democratic base give them the benefit of the doubt, as happened for much of the Clinton-Gore term, or will progressives join with sympathetic members of Congress to vigorously and publicly oppose the most noxious elements of the Gore-Lieberman foreign policy agenda?=20 Most important of all will be the question of whether independent movements for peace and social justice, such as the growing coalition against pro-corporate globalization schemes, can alter the political climate of the country to the point where the two major parties will have no choice but to address the deeper issues that are largely being ignored in the current Presidential campaign. As you may recall, Clinton and Gore's unofficial theme song was Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow." This time around, a far better theme song for progressives would be The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." [William D. Hartung is the President's Fellow at the World Policy Institute= at the New School of Social Research and the military affairs adviser to= Foreign Policy in Focus, a joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies.] ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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) Canadian Election Peace Issues Date: 23 Oct 2000 13:29:09 -0400 ood luck Joan!! Alice At 06:51 PM 10/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Peace Groups > >A Canadian election was called today and will take place November 27th. > >As the federal leader of the Green Party of Canada, I will be advocating >the following issues: > >1. Nato - Canada's withdrawal > >2. Nato - Disbanding > >3. Ending the circulation and berthing of nuclear powered and enabled >vessels > >4. the closing of Nanoose Test Range on Vancouver Island > >5. the phasing out of civil nuclear energy, coupled with a fair and just >time-bound transition plan for affected workers and communities > >6. the prohibition of the transfer of plutonium in the form of MOX from the >US and Russia for use in Candu reactors, > >7. to ban the sale of Candu reactors > >8. to link civil nuclear energy with the development of nuclear arms > >9. to support the abolition 2000 initiative > >10. to work to recognize the Security Council as an affirmative action >program for nuclear powers and to transfer its powers to the General >Assembly > >11. to reduce the Canadian Defence budget by 50% and transfer the savings >to health and the environment > >12. to work towards a culture of peace and away from the "cult of war" > >13. the banning of uranium mining > >Incidentally, we are still looking for candidates for the Green Party in >some ridings. > >Joan Russow. > > >- > 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. > 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: "Ellen.Thomas" Subject: (abolition-usa) Please re-send message sent to us between October 21 and 23, Date: 23 Oct 2000 23:16:18 -0400 Hi, our server was down Saturday through Monday, October 21 through 23rd. If you sent us a message we should receive at Prop1, please re-send it? Thanks! 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Ellen Thomas ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Coalition for Safe Minds news conference =97 9 a.m. =97The Coalition for= Safe Minds holds a news conference to announce that a brief will be filed in= Federal District Court to obtain an immediate recall of all pediatric vaccines containing thimerosal or other toxic mercury compounds. Location: Murrow= Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 716/271-0212. Debate =97 noon =97 American University's Washington College of Law holds= a debate on whether Congress is giving too much law-making power to federal agencies. Location: Room 603, Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/274-4279. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Tuesday: Illinois, Tennessee, and Florida. Wednesday: Florida. Thursday: Pennsylvania and Michigan. Friday: he visits several Michigan cities via= bus. [Here's an interesting allegation: THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE, by Michael= C. Ruppert - http://www.copvcia.com/bush-cheney-drugs.htm - et] - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ Travels to Shreveport, La., and Nashville, Tenn. - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Thursday, October 26 - Cleveland, OH Speech - Time:TBA University Center Auditorium, Cleveland State University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - CHERNOBYLS TO FALL FROM SKY? Magnetic rail systems and N-reactors among options for propulsion http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Oct2000/22-e13344.html Former ISCOS [Institute For International Security & Cooperation In Outer Space] Director, Connie Van Pratt, now with NASA, described the very real potential for "Chernobyls falling from the sky" if reactors are ever= deployed in outer space. For people wanting to become active in this area see the web site for "The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power In Space" at: http://www.space4peace.org and/or call in Gainesville, Florida: 352-337-9274= =20 Marshall scientists look for cheaper way of going into space. [From: "Bill Smirnow" ] - PLUTONIUM & NUCLEAR WEAPON STORAGE A Simple and Practical Plan should be installed NOW to implement the= retirement of RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS. Low Cost Climate Controlled Pre-Engineered= Buildings that are SAFE SECURE and ON-SITE In-the- Ground are available with OFF-SITE MONITORING will at least take care of SOME CURRENT PROBLEMS. It can start= with the Russian Submarine project and other similair problems as Nuclear Weapons are retired. Visit www.plutoniumstorage.com & http://www.nukewaste.com for information.=20 Will be gad to discuss further on e-mail address. [From: Joel Stahl ] - Ralph Nader's Statement on Nuclear Power=20 It is time to end the use of nuclear power in the United States.=20 uclear energy is too dangerous, too inefficient, too costly, and= poses too many long-term hazards.=20 ather than learning from Chernobyl, the U.S. nuclear industry argues that this kind of accident could not happen here. In fact, a nuclear= accident could occur at a U.S. power plant that would release radiation comparable to that released in Chernobyl. U.S. reactors are much more dangerous than the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the nuclear industry suggest. At= least five reactors in this country have experienced partial core-melt accidents. Aside from catastrophic accidents, reactors are prone to numerous small accidents, as well as "routine" releases of small amounts of radioactivity.= =20 eactors also produce high-level radioactive wastes with intractable storage problems. High-level nuclear waste will be hazardous for more than 200,000 years-longer than our ability to isolate it from the biosphere. It= is technologically impossible and scientifically irresponsible to `dispose' of nuclear waste. Even attempts to dispose of low-level radioactive waste have failed. Every low-level radioactive waste dump in this country leaks.=20 he Department of Energy is considering Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for "permanent disposal." A leak could contaminate the groundwater= beneath the Mountain and jeopardize the health of nearby residents. An earthquake in the area (and since 1976 there have been hundreds of serious seismic events within a 50-mile radius) could cause a rise in groundwater levels that would flood the repository.=20 If the Yucca Mountain site is approved, waste will be transported= there through 43 states, past the homes, workplaces and schools of 50 million Americans. The Department of Energy estimates that at least 50 and as many= as 310 accidents would occur. An Energy Department study found that a severe accident in a rural area could contaminate a 42-square-mile area, require= over a year to "clean up", and cost $620 million.=20 oth Democratic and Republican administrations have treated nuclear power as an official, government-sponsored technology. The NRC has functioned as= an industry promoter rather than regulator, imperiling public health. This must stop.=20 We should:=20 =B7 Phase out commercial nuclear reactors within five years, and set a= timetable for phasing out other dangerous nuclear technologies, nuclear-waste incinerators, food irradiation and all military and commercial uses of= depleted uranium.=20 =B7 Ban long-distance transport of high-level nuclear waste.=20 =B7 Assure that stored nuclear waste is continuously monitored, with public access to monitoring data, unless and until a method can be found to assure= its isolation from the biosphere for the duration of its hazardous life. The government should not relieve companies that generate nuclear waste from= their responsibility for its=20 dangers.=20 =B7 Redirect federal funding from nuclear energy research to renewable= energy technology.=20 =B7 Stop federal government promotion of nuclear energy, and U.S. companies selling nuclear technology, internationally.=20 - A Canadian election was called today and will take place November 27th. As the federal leader of the Green Party of Canada, I will be advocating the following issues: 1. Nato - Canada's withdrawal 2. Nato - Disbanding 3. Ending the circulation and berthing of nuclear powered and enabled= vessels 4. the closing of Nanoose Test Range on Vancouver Island 5. the phasing out of civil nuclear energy, coupled with a fair and just time-bound transition plan for affected workers and communities 6. the prohibition of the transfer of plutonium in the form of MOX from the= US and Russia for use in Candu reactors, 7. to ban the sale of Candu reactors 8. to link civil nuclear energy with the development of nuclear arms9. to support the abolition 2000 initiative 10. to work to recognize the Security Council as an affirmative action=20 program for nuclear powers and to transfer its powers to the General Assembly11. to reduce the Canadian Defence budget by 50% and transfer the savings to health and the environment 12. to work towards a culture of peace and away from the "cult of war" 13. the banning of uranium mining Incidentally, we are still looking for candidates for the Green Party in some ridings. Joan Russow. =20 - Got 20 more seconds? Send this along to your friends!=20 The Presidential Campaign is about the future, right? Then why isn't anyone talking about the 36,000 nuclear weapons that exist today - and that= thousands of them are ready to be launched in minutes? The U.S. arsenal alone has the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs, costing taxpayers $30 billion a year!=20 Enough is enough! We can do something to reduce nuclear weapons and create a safer future.=20 Play the DontBlowIt flash game! And if you haven't yet - send your= free postcard telling the presidential candidates "Don't Blow It!" http://www.DontBlowIt.org=20 Please pass this on to your friends, and encourage them to pass it on as well. It's a fun way to learn more about nuclear dangers and to make your= voice heard.=20 For our kids' future, help make nuclear weapons a thing of the past!= If you don't have web access, just email laura@emediacy.org for email instructions. [Laura Kriv, WWW.DontBlowIt.org. mailto:laura@emediacy.org] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) new on tri-valley cares' web site Date: 24 Oct 2000 23:34:44 -0700 (PDT) dear colleagues: !!NEW!! On the Tri-Valley CAREs website at: www.igc.org/tvc, please find the October Citizen's Watch Newsletter. The lead article this month is entitled, "Senate Restrains NIF, Conference Committee Lets it Loose." It discusses the National Ignition Facility surviving the budget ax, but just barely. This article is an overview of the progression of the debate. Excerpted quotes from the Senate floor debate and other statements are included. While disappointment was expressed regarding the $199 million Congress gave to NIF, Tri-Valley CAREs acknowledged that public education efforts had raised the visibility of NIF, especially in the Senate and also noted that DOE and LLNL got a little less than what they had wanted for NIF. Twenty-five million is coming out of non-NIF programs at LLNL. Other programs will be hurt. Tri-Valley CAREs speculates this will foster discontent among scientists with worthy programs. Make your voice heard for 20 cents, 80 cents in total, with postcards. Four postcards, to be exact. They point out the pattern of deception, lies, fraud and abuse, detailed in the General Accounting Office's August 2000 report on the NIF and call for a criminal investigation now. (These will be posted on the website soon.) 3) Also, already available on the site, is an article entitled, "Secret Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest",which summarizes a USA Today investigative report where 100,000 pages of declassified documents show that the U.S. hired around 300 private companies in its early bomb production enterprise, and that nearly one-third of them handled large amounts of radioactive and toxic materials even though basic protective equipment and information on hazards was often lacking. These secret sites were largely abandoned as the major government-owned, contractor-operated facilities of the nuclear weapons complex came on line--Hanford, Savannah River, Rocky Flats, Livermore Lab and so on. 4) An article entitled; "Sick Workers Wait" provides an update on whether workers, made ill by exposure to toxic and radioactive materials in the nation's bomb factories and labs, will get compensation from the U.S. government. Citizen's Alerts briefly explain upcoming events, including a study group to be held Nov. 2, 2000 @ 7 PM, at the Tri-Valley CAREs office entitled "Nuclear Weapons and Your Health" -- everything you ever wanted to know about nuclear weapons and possible health effects but were afraid to ask. enjoy Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/25 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 25 Oct 2000 07:06:27 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 25, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001025212012.htm Secret Russian deal =97 10:30 a.m. =97 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's European affairs and Near Eastern and South Asian affairs subcommittees hold a joint hearing focusing on recent revelations that Vice President Al Gore signed secret agreements with then-Russian Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, in which he promised not to implement U.S. laws= requiring sanctions for Russian weapons proliferation to Iran, and then withheld the information from Congress. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651. =20 USS Cole hearing =97 2 p.m. =97 House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4151. 9 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing to receive testimony on issues related to the attack on the USS Cole. Location: 216= Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871. U.S.-Cuba trade conference =97 all day =97 The Center for= International Policy holds a conference on "The Potential for U.S.-Cuba Trade in= Agricultural Commodities." Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/232-3317. Russia briefing =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty= holds a briefing on "Old Problems, A New Agenda? Russia Under Putin." The speaker is Donald Jensen, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty associate broadcasting= director. Location: Fourth Floor Conference Room, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact: 202/457-6949. Pakistan discussion =97 5 p.m. =97 The Johns Hopkins University Paul= H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) presents a program titled "Pakistan: Friend or Foreign Policy Problem?" Stephen Cohen, Brookings Institution, and Zalmay Khalizad, Rand Corp., participate. Location: Auditorium, Rome Building, SAIS, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/663-5626. Awards dinner =97 7 p.m. =97 The Hudson Institute holds its 11th= annual James H. Doolittle Award Dinner. The honoree is former Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. Location: Pavilion, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania= Ave. NW. Contact: 315/549-4150. [Anyone know why Weinberger is receiving an award at this late date? et - mailto:prop1@prop1.org] -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Wednesday: Florida. Thursday: Pennsylvania and Michigan. Friday: he visits several Michigan cities via bus. - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Thursday, October 26 - Cleveland, OH Speech - Time:TBA University Center Auditorium, Cleveland State University -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Next Tuesday (Oct. 31) at 9pm EST (check local listings to confirm time),= 60=20 Minutes II on CBS will air a special two-part program on Star Wars, focusing= =20 on Nira Schwartz, the whistleblower at TRW, and Dr. Ted Postol, the MIT=20 physicist whose letter to the White House detailing inherent weaknesses in= =20 the Star Wars program was classified as secret. [From: "Jim Bridgman" ] - 'Blue glow' reported at Paducah plant 10.25.00 - A "blue glow" reported by workers at the Paducah Gaseous= Diffusion Plant could indicate nuclear reactions occurred underground in a top-secret burial pit for atomic-weapons parts, according to an internal memo obtained= by The Paducah Courier-Journal. http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0010/25/001025blue.html Workers were unprotected in contaminated buildings 10.25.00 - Security guards and firefighters at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant during the 1980s and possibly the early 1990s conducted anti-terrorist training inside heavily contaminated buildings without protective clothing= or equipment, a plant memo obtained by The Courier-Journal shows. http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0010/25/001025risk.html - Update on Plowshares Activists - SAM HOCHSTETLER - 30 DAYS, KRISTEN BETTS= - 60 DAYS, GREG BOERTJE-OBED - 6 MONTHS, ALL ARE IN THE CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU= OF PRISONS BECAUSE THEY THREATENED MILITARY MORALE=20 On May 20, 2000, 3 fine, loving human beings, recognizing the= reality that our country is under siege by a force more lethal than Hitler's= Germany, went to Andrews Air Force Base open house air show. Sam Hochstetler and Greg Boertje-Obed stood in front of a B52 holding a banner with the simple but prophetic message "swords into plowshares." Kristin Betts handed out= leaflets with only 6 words: "Weapons of destruction. Nothing to celebrate." Within moments they were arrested for trespassing....=20 On October 23, 2000, Kristin, Sam and Greg appeared before= Magistrate Day at the district court on base. In more than 3 hours of testimony by 6 witnesses, the prosecutor built his case around the accusations that the 3= were participating in a political protest with a message intended to deteriorate= the military's morale thereby hindering them from carrying out their mission of defending the US in the event of war. The defendants cross examined the government witnesses by asking them to define a political protest. Their response - what you people were doing. The defendants asked if chaplains= were allowed on base and were they allowed to read from the Bible. They asked if= the messages of the Bible were considered threatening to the morale of the military. They asked the government witnesses if they recognized the source= of the message on the banner. They did not, so Sam read from Isaiah 2:4..... During the sentencing phase, the prosecutor argued that extreme consequences needed to be imposed because of the severity of the crime. He argued that this was not a simple trespass but represented a serious threat= to this country's abilities to participate in war making activities. He warned= of the government's need to deter domestic terrorism and suggested that unless severe consequences were imposed, the government would lose the ability to maintain law, order and control over its people.... The Supreme Court ruled that freedom of speech is not protected on military installations when such expressions of speech pose a danger to military loyalty, discipline or morale. Expressions of speech affirming the military and its missions are, however, welcomed on base at any time. We= also learned that if those 6 simple words on the leaflets and 3 prophetic words= on the banner constitute such a threat, then the pen really is mightier than= the sword. For those that place their faith in the might of armaments, I would= say are in deep trouble. You can write to them at: Montgomery Co. Detention Center.=20 1307 Seven Locks Rd. Rockville MD 20854=20 They were sentenced by: Magistrate Charles Day U.S.Courthouse=20 6500 Cherrywood Lane Greenbelt MD 20770 -if you want to drop him a line. ALSO Prison for 2 more good folks=20 PETER DE MOTT AND FELTON DAVIS IN PRISON ... IS IT THEY - OR THE PENTAGON - THAT IS ABOVE & BEYOND THE LAW?=20 Today Peter Demott of Ithaca, NY and Felton Davis of New York City were sentenced in the Federal court in Alexandria, Va. for their participation in= an Hiroshima commemoration vigil at the Pentagon in August of 1999. The two= were charged with refusing to obey a police officer who ordered them to leave the steps of the Pentagon. They were not blocking or impeding traffic in any= way. They were simply holding banners and praying. Peter and Felton both received= 60 day sentences; Felton received an additional 30 days for probation violation= - consecutive to the 60 days otherwise imposed. The prosecution asked that= they be given time in prison because it's clear that they feel that they are= somehow above the law and that limits that others accept don't apply to them.=20 Felton had no prepared text for sentencing and was able to respond= to the condemning spirit that the prosecution expressed. He pointed out that= both he and Peter were there for sentencing; they were ready to take the= conseqences for their actions; they always have. Further, he said, it is the Pentagon= that feels above the the law; it is the Pentagon that accepts no limits. This is manifest by their actions around the world. It's unclear, as of now, as to where Felton and Peter will be serving.... - New York - Lazio and Clinton Find Foreign Policy Differences Only on the Prickly Margins By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, October 24, 2000 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/24/politics/24FORE.html ... On close analysis, differences emerge in the way Mr. Lazio and= Mrs. Clinton view America's role in the world.=20 She is a proponent of internationalism, contending that Americans should not limit their notion of the national interest to the traditional areas of military conflict, terrorism and trade. The United States' foreign policy objectives, she says, should include the fight for women's rights, as well= as the struggles against deadly diseases, extreme poverty, forced migration and environmental degradation. Mrs. Clinton did not respond to questions submitted by The Times, but in a speech last week before the Council on Foreign Relations, she said her expansive view was where realpolitik met "real-life politics."=20 "There is a refrain that runs through some of those arguments," Mrs. Clinton said, "that we should intervene with force only when we face= splendid little wars that we surely can win, preferably by overwhelming force in a relatively short period of time. To those who believe we should become= involved only if it is easy to do, I think we have to say, `America has never and= should not ever shy away from the hard task if it is the right one.' " The debate over when America should become involved in foreign= strife surfaced again last week as a presidential campaign issue when George W.= Bush's top national security aide, Condoleezza Rice, declared that a Bush administration would withdraw United States peacekeeping troops from the Balkans. Vice President Al Gore denounced such a move, saying it would deal= a "damaging blow" to NATO. Mr. Lazio supports what he calls "global engagement," but on a more limited level. He stops short of backing Mr. Bush's call for a withdrawal from= Bosnia and Kosovo, but warns that Mrs. Clinton's attempt to broaden American objectives overseas is too costly and could distract the military from its principal mission. "I would take exception with her if she is trying to suggest that we ought to commit troops any time somebody asks," he said. "We've got to make some very tough decisions, and those decisions include having to say no sometimes."=20 Mr. Lazio said the United States should commit troops overseas only when= there is a clear military objective and an exit strategy.=20 In 1994, he joined House leaders in calling for a withdrawal of American troops from Haiti. Two years later, he supported a ban on sending ground= troops to Bosnia, and this year he voted to withhold payment for American= operations in Kosovo until the president certified that Europeans were meeting specific burden-sharing targets by April 2001. Mr. Lazio did support airstrikes= against Yugoslavia last year in defense of Kosovo Albanians.=20 Both candidates are proponents of free trade. Mr. Lazio voted in support of enforcing trade rules through the World Trade Organization, backed the= North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, and sought to extend= some Nafta benefits to Central America and the Caribbean.=20 Mrs. Clinton qualifies her support for trade expansion, asserting= that it is ultimately self-defeating for the United States to try to remain an "island of prosperity" that ignores depressed living standards abroad. "Ensuring fair labor standards, environmental protection and transparency in international organizations should go hand in hand with free trade," she= said to the Council on Foreign Relations. Mrs. Clinton, who said she had visited every continent except Antarctica since moving to the White House, discusses foreign affairs with confidence= and polish, whether examining nuclear tensions on the Indian subcontinent or sympathizing with Colombia's president in the battle against= narcoguerrillas. Mr. Lazio's work in Congress has been concentrated in the House= Banking and Commerce Committees. Although he has not yet appeared before the Council= on Foreign Relations, the elite East Side forum for foreign policy devotees, he burnished his credentials last week by winning the endorsement of Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state.=20 Both candidates have flipped on important positions in recent years. Mr. Lazio, for instance, voted in July against forgiving hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign debt held by developing nations. Three months later, he= came out in support of debt relief. The congressman's stance on national missile defense has also changed. He voted against a bill last year that called on= the president to deploy the missile shield as soon as technologically feasible.= He now supports deployment of the shield..... Hispanic leaders complain that they have largely been ignored by the candidates, written off by Mr. Lazio and taken for granted by Mrs. Clinton. One exception has been Puerto Ricans in New York, who saw Mrs.= Clinton twice clash with her husband over policy. She initially opposed his offer of clemency last year to 16 members of the Puerto Rican independence group= known as F.A.L.N. who had been imprisoned, provided that they renounced violence. Then, facing the anger of many Puerto Ricans in New York, she backtracked, saying she had spoken too soon. She then called for an end to military= target practice on the island of Vieques off eastern Puerto Rico. Mr. Lazio has opposed clemency for activists he considers to be "terrorists," aides said, but he supports ending target practice on Vieques. ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: Update on Greg, Kristin and Sam Date: 25 Oct 2000 09:19:29 -0500 Dear Liz: We already live in a police state under the guise of the "wars" on "drugs" and "terrorism". We are now moving toward outright fascism. My love to you all. Francis. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954(voice) 217-244-1478(fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:35 PM Here the update promised last night. GREG, KRISTIN, AND SAM IN PRISON BECAUSE THEY THREATENED MILITARY MORALE! We sometimes ask ourselves what would we do if we were living in Nazi Germany. What would we do if we were living in a country where the occupying regime was committing unspeakable atrocities in which we were forced to be complicit either directly or indirectly? If it were obvious that we were living under such an occupying force, would we be more compelled to resist? Would we be more willing to turn to our God for strength and wisdom and would we be able to turn to each other for community and support? On May 20, 2000, 3 fine, loving human beings, recognizing the reality that our country is under siege by a force more lethal than Hitler's Germany, went to Andrews Air Force Base open house air show. Sam Hochstetler and Greg Boertje-Obed stood in front of a B52 holding a banner with the simple but prophetic message "swords into plowshares." Kristin Betts handed out leaflets with only 6 words: "Weapons of destruction. Nothing to celebrate." Within moments they were arrested for trespassing. On October 23, 2000, Kristin, Sam and Greg appeared before Magistrate Day at the district court on base. In more than 3 hours of testimony by 6 witnesses, the prosecutor built his case around the accusations that the 3 were participating in a political protest with a message intended to deteriorate the military's morale thereby hindering them from carrying out their mission of defending the US in the event of war. The defendants cross examined the government witnesses by asking them to define a political protest. Their response - what you people were doing. The defendants asked if chaplains were allowed on base and were they allowed to read from the Bible. They asked if the messages of the Bible were considered threatening to the morale of the military. They asked the government witnesses if they recognized the source of the message on the banner. They did not, so Sam read from Isaiah 2:4. They each took their turn in testifying. They spoke about hoping to warn people of our country's course of destruction, of hoping to raise questions and dialogue, of following conscience and answering to a higher authority. They spoke of being human beings trying to bring a human message to a portion of humanity that allows inhuman acts to proceed forward blindly. Needless to say, the 3 were convicted. During the sentencing phase, the prosecutor argued that extreme consequences needed to be imposed because of the severity of the crime. He argued that this was not a simple trespass but represented a serious threat to this country's abilities to participate in war making activities. He warned of the government's need to deter domestic terrorism and suggested that unless severe consequences were imposed, the government would lose the ability to maintain law, order and control over its people. SO - SAM HOCHSTETLER - 30 DAYS, KRISTEN BETTS - 60 DAYS, GREG BOERTJE-OBED - 6 MONTHS, ALL ARE IN THE CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS. We learned a few things as a result of this ordeal. The Supreme Court ruled that freedom of speech is not protected on military installations when such expressions of speech pose a danger to military loyalty, discipline or morale. Expressions of speech affirming the military and its missions are, however, welcomed on base at any time. We also learned that if those 6 simple words on the leaflets and 3 prophetic words on the banner constitute such a threat, then the pen really is mightier than the sword. For those that place their faith in the might of armaments, I would say are in deep trouble. You can write to them at: Montgomery Co. Detention Center. 1307 Seven Locks Rd. Rockville MD 20854 They were sentenced by: Magistrate Charles Day U.S.Courthouse 6500 Cherrywood Lane Greenbelt MD 20770 -if you want to drop him a line. - 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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Http://www.abolition2000.org Grassroots Newsletter October 2000 http://www.abolition2000.org/news/0010.html Abolition 2000 Report Card 2000 by Janet Bloomfield and Pamela Meidell http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/reportcard2000.html Take action on the ICJ Follow-up Resolution http://www.abolition2000.org/action/ICJfollowupresolution.html Reviewing Clinton Remarks on NMD From Theater Missile Defense (TMD) to National Missile Defense (NMD) A Looming Danger NGOs Must Resist By Bahig Nassar http://www.abolition2000.org/issues/BahigarticleBMD.html -- Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator, Abolition 2000 "He aha te nui mea o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" (A Maori saying) Translation: "What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, the people, the people." PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd, Suite 121 Santa Barbara, California 93108 Tel: (805) 965-3443 Fax: (805) 568-0466 email: admin@abolition2000.org URL: http://www.abolition2000.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: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Reveal a secret, face prison/Sac. Bee Date: 25 Oct 2000 19:21:31 -0700 (PDT) this new law could have a huge, negative impact on all our organizations' work to monitor the nuclear weapons complex and other government activities. read on ... mk Reveal a secret, face prison: Leaking any classified data will be illegal for first time By Michael Doyle Bee Washington Bureau Published Oct. 24, 2000 WASHINGTON -- A sweeping new law about to be signed by President Clinton, drafted without public hearings, for the first time makes it illegal to leak any classified information. "Because of the seriousness of the leaks and the releasing of classified information, we needed to take some additional steps," said Rep. Gary Condit, a Ceres Democrat who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "We hope it helps." Condit said he and other Democrats attempted to modify the measure to account for some concerns. But the full implications of what critics are calling America's first Official Secrets Act remain unclear -- for whistle-blowers, for journalists, and for security officials themselves. Consider, for one, just how many secrets America keeps. The number is literally inestimable, Steven Garfinkle of the federal Information Security Oversight Office said Friday. But among documents more than 25 years old, there are well over 1 billion classified pages -- enough, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York said earlier this year, to fill 441 Washington Monuments. Some still-secret documents date back decades, such as World War I-era documents concerning secret ink. The old documents are being declassified, but new secrets also are being created. Last year, 169,735 new documents -- each potentially spanning many pages -- were given their first classification. An additional 8 million documents got a fresh classification stamp last year when they included a previously classified secret. Release of any one of these, regardless of the topic, would subject the leaker to imprisonment for up to three years under the new law. "This is like a sea change," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies. "Congress has never even gone half this far." Until now, criminal sanctions have targeted "information relating to the national defense" that the leaker "has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States." It is also already illegal to leak information about codes and ciphers, and to make public the names of U.S. spies. Prosecutions are rare. A Nixon administration effort to prosecute leakers of the Pentagon Papers, historical documents describing origins of the Vietnam War, collapsed because of prosecutorial misconduct. A notable 1980s conviction involved U.S. naval analyst Samuel Loring Morison, who leaked "top secret" photographs of a Soviet aircraft carrier to Jane's Defense Weekly. Morison was not a spy; he wanted to impress a potential employer. But in upholding Morison's conviction, an appellate court in 1988 cited an argument equally relevant to the stricter new law. "We do not think the First Amendment offers asylum ... merely because the transmittal was to a representative of the press," the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. The judges, as is common, studied the legislative history of the law used to convict Morison. Such an examination, though, might prove difficult with the new law. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on the anti-leak proposal, but it was classified. The testimony of CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Janet Reno remains secret. "We think the CIA has been pushing this for years, but we don't really know," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Until now, civil penalties have applied for those leaking classified documents outside the category that includes national defense concerns, spy naming and code breaking. A leaker might be fired, or lose a security clearance. Hugh DeWitt, for instance, is a theoretical physicist who's worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley for 43 years. Now on emeritus status at the nuclear weapons lab, he recalled Friday his periodic run-ins with security officials who threatened to yank his top-rated Q clearance. Once, he was slapped with a security infraction -- and potential loss of his clearance -- for writing a story lab officials claimed relied on classified information. In reality, it was based on newspaper articles. "So often, the classification stamp is used to suppress information about policy, and not technical things," DeWitt said. Once, in a separate court case, "they called classified some of my citations to information that's in basic textbooks," he added. Under the new law, instead of losing clearances, such workers could be prosecuted. "I think the trend is alarming," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of the Livermore-based activist group Tri-Valley CAREs. "When you have blanket rules like this, it has a chilling effect on the information that people need." In the 1980s, Kelley recalled, the Energy Department classified two environmental assessments examining the consequences of building a controversial Lawrence Livermore uranium-vaporizing facility. Energy Department accident records, too, have been regularly classified. Prosecutors would not have to show potential national security damage for leaks of such accident reports or environmental assessment, but only that they were "properly classified" according to criteria set by executive order. "The executive branch," CIA Director Tenet testified two years ago, "leaks like a sieve." Within the past week, for instance, the Washington Times ran a front-page story based on a still-classified letter sent to Vice President Al Gore from Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The Washington Post offered a front-page story based on a CIA review of Chinese military documents. Earlier this year, Reuters used classified documents to report on an American hydrogen bomb lost off Greenland in 1968. The New York Times in April used a still-classified CIA history to report on the agency's 1953 role in toppling the Iranian government. As with Samuel Morison, the fact that these secrets ended up in the press wouldn't be a strong defense against prosecution under the new law. All of this has reporters, among others, wondering what the new law will mean for them. "I'm not sure what impact it will have," Washington Times national security reporter Bill Gertz said Friday, "but I don't think it's a good thing." Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/26 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 26 Oct 2000 06:39:51 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 26, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001026211333.htm Preventive defense briefing =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The Preventive Defense= Project holds a news briefing on "Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the= Future." William Perry, former defense secretary, participates. Location: Lisagor= Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 617/496-0964. -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp GOVERNOR BUSH TO VISIT PITTSBURGH AND OHIO=20 General Colin Powell to join Governor Bush in Pennsylvania 12:00 p.m. - Soldiers and Sailors Museum, 4141 5th Avenue,= Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (412) 621-4253=20 5:35 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Erie International Airport, North= Coast Air, 4645 West 12th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania 16505, (814) 836-9220=20 7:30 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Toledo Express Airport,=20 Grand Aire Inc., 11777 West Airport Service Road, Swanton, Ohio (419)= 861-6773=20 Friday: he visits several Michigan cities via bus. - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ Travels to Davenport, Iowa, and Madison, Wis. - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Thursday, October 26 - Cleveland, OH Speech - Time:TBA University Center Auditorium, Cleveland State University DC Rally November 5th - at 2PM. Doors open at Noon.=20 Ralph Nader will be wrapping up campaign 2000 right here in Washington, D.C. with a super rally of 17,000 people at the MCI Center.=20 -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Intl. DU Conference, 4-5 November, Manchester Town Hall=20 There are only 30 places remaining on the International Conference Against Depleted Uranium Weapons, 4-5 November, at Manchester Town Hall, Manchester, England. The conference has been deluged with registrations in the past few days, leading us up to our maximum number of 200 people. Gulf War veterans= and certified members of the media are admitted without charge. A special media suite will be available inside the conference venue, as we have had requests for interviews from the media of several countries. If you have not yet registered, and intend to do so, please send your name, organisation (if= any), and your contact information to the CADU office on fax number 44-(0)-161 834 8301 before Friday 27 October. You may also email the information to: gmdcnd@gn.apc.org . After that date, registration will still be open for any available places starting Saturday 4 November at 9 am= at Manchester Town Hall. The conference will start promptly at 9.45 am. We have speakers from 13 countries, including activists, scientists, and= policy-makers. There is plenty of time built into the schedule for audience input. The conference should provide a way to develop a common strategy for anti-DU= groups worldwide. We must convince the military and governmental decision-makers= that these radioactive and chemically toxic weapons are not worth the risk to= their own troops, to the workers who manufacture them, to non-combatant civilians, nor to the environment as a whole. [From: "Cat" ] - Visit the Abolition 2000 website and see what's new!=20 Http://www.abolition2000.org - Free Air Time on PBS: Not for All Candidates PBS has announced its plan to offer free air time to presidential candidates beginning October 25, and concluding on Friday, November 3. The candidates will get 2 and a half minutes at the end of the "News Hour with= Jim Lehrer" to address viewers directly, but the offer is not open to all the candidates: The PBS proposal provides four nights for Al Gore, and four for George W. Bush. This narrowing of the debate to the major parties continues the exclusionary spirit of this year's presidential debates, organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and moderated by NewsHour host Jim Lehrer. The CPD, a creation of the two major parties, devised debate rules= that were intended to keep viable third-party candidates out of the process. For whatever reason, PBS and its flagship newscast have decided to do the same. The air time proposal is essentially the same as the one being= offered by the commercial networks. Ironically, eight nights would give PBS a chance= to offer time to virtually all the major and viable minor party candidates. ACTION: Contact PBS and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" and let them know that free air time should be extended to all viable candidates. Point= out that because of the exclusionary policies of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Gore and Bush have already received plenty of free air time.= Encourage PBS to re-consider its proposal while there is still time. CONTACT:=20 Sandra Heberer, Director, News and Information Programming, PBS=20 mailto:sheberer@pbs.org=20 fax: 703-739-5295 The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer=20 3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206=20 Phone: 703-998-2150=20 mailto:newshour@pbs.org - Reveal a secret, face prison: Leaking any classified data will be illegal= for first time=20 By Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee Washington Bureau=20 Published Oct. 24, 2000 WASHINGTON -- A sweeping new law about to be signed by President Clinton, drafted without public hearings, for the first time makes it illegal to leak any classified information. "Because of the seriousness of the leaks and the releasing of classified information, we needed to take some additional steps," said Rep. Gary= Condit, a Ceres Democrat who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "We hope it helps." Condit said he and other Democrats attempted to modify the measure= to account for some concerns. But the full implications of what critics are calling America's first Official Secrets Act remain unclear -- for whistle-blowers, for journalists, and for security officials themselves. Consider, for one, just how many secrets America keeps. The number= is literally inestimable, Steven Garfinkle of the federal Information Security Oversight Office said Friday. But among documents more than 25 years old, there are well over 1 billion classified pages -- enough, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York said earlier this year, to fill 441 Washington Monuments. Some still-secret documents date back decades, such as World War I-era documents concerning secret ink. The old documents are being declassified, but new secrets also are being created. Last year, 169,735 new documents -- each potentially spanning many pages -- were given their first classification. An additional 8 million documents got a fresh classification stamp last year when they included a previously classified secret. Release of any one of these, regardless of the topic, would subject the leaker to imprisonment for up to three years under= the new law. "This is like a sea change," said Kate Martin, director of the= Center for National Security Studies. "Congress has never even gone half this far." Until now, criminal sanctions have targeted "information relating to the national defense" that the leaker "has reason to believe could be used to= the injury of the United States." It is also already illegal to leak information about codes and= ciphers, and to make public the names of U.S. spies. Prosecutions are rare. A Nixon administration effort to prosecute leakers of the Pentagon Papers, historical documents describing origins of= the Vietnam War, collapsed because of prosecutorial misconduct. A notable 1980s conviction involved U.S. naval analyst Samuel Loring Morison, who leaked "top secret" photographs of a Soviet aircraft carrier to Jane's Defense Weekly. Morison was not a spy; he wanted to impress a= potential employer. But in upholding Morison's conviction, an appellate court in 1988 cited an argument equally relevant to the stricter new law. "We do not think the First Amendment offers asylum ... merely= because the transmittal was to a representative of the press," the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. The judges, as is common, studied the legislative history of the law used to convict Morison. Such an examination, though, might prove difficult with the new law. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing= on the anti-leak proposal, but it was classified. The testimony of CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Janet Reno remains ecret. "We think the CIA has been pushing this for years, but we don't= really know," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Until now, civil penalties have applied for those leaking classified documents outside the category that includes national defense concerns, spy naming and code breaking. A leaker might be fired, or lose a security=20 clearance. Hugh DeWitt, for instance, is a theoretical physicist who's worked= at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley for 43 years. Now on emeritus status at the nuclear weapons lab, he recalled Friday his periodic run-ins with security officials who threatened to yank his top-rated Q clearance. Once, he was slapped with a security infraction -- and potential loss of his clearance -- for writing a story lab officials claimed relied on classified information. In reality, it was based on newspaper rticles. "So often, the classification stamp is used to suppress information about policy, and not technical things," DeWitt said. Once, in a separate court case, "they called classified some of my citations to information that's in basic textbooks," he added. Under the new law, instead of losing clearances, such workers could= be prosecuted. "I think the trend is alarming," said Marylia Kelley, executive director of the Livermore-based activist group Tri-Valley CAREs. "When you have= blanket rules like this, it has a chilling effect on the information that people= need." In the 1980s, Kelley recalled, the Energy Department classified two environmental assessments examining the consequences of building a controversial Lawrence Livermore uranium-vaporizing facility. Energy= Department accident records, too, have been regularly classified. Prosecutors would not have to show potential national security= damage for leaks of such accident reports or environmental assessment, but only= that they were "properly classified" according to criteria set by executive= order. "The executive branch," CIA Director Tenet testified two years ago, "leaks like a sieve." Within the past week, for instance, the Washington Times ran a front-page story based on a still-classified letter sent to Vice President= Al Gore from Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The Washington Post offered a front-page story based on a CIA review of Chinese military= documents. Earlier this year, Reuters used classified documents to report on an= American hydrogen bomb lost off Greenland in 1968. The New York Times in April used a still-classified CIA history to report on the agency's 1953 role in toppling the Iranian government. As with Samuel Morison, the fact that these secrets ended up in the press wouldn't be a strong defense against prosecution under the new law.= All of this has reporters, among others, wondering what the new law will mean= for them. "I'm not sure what impact it will have," Washington Times national security reporter Bill Gertz said Friday, "but I don't think it's a good thing." ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT: 60 Minutes II on Star Wars Oct 31!! Date: 26 Oct 2000 11:23:16 -0500 Dear Friends, Thanks to from Jim Bridgman of Peace Action Education Fund for the following alert on Star Wars. Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition **** Next Tuesday (Oct. 31) at 9pm EST (check local listings to confirm time), 60 Minutes II on CBS will air a special two-part program on Star Wars, focusing on Nira Schwartz, the whistleblower at TRW, and Dr. Ted Postol, the MIT physicist whose letter to the White House detailing inherent weaknesses in the Star Wars program was classified as secret. This is an excellent opportunity to write a brief letter to the editor of your local paper denouncing the Star Wars coverup. Below is a sample letter. Feel free to modify or write your own letter. To the Editor: The recent 60 Minutes II show on Star Wars national missile defense confirms that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the contractors working on Star Wars are more keen on protecting their own jobs and profits than protecting the American people. Now it is plain for everyone to see, that for $70 billion the taxpayers get a system that cannot distinguish between a missile and a decoy, and an illegal attempt by the government to cover up that fact. It=92s time to put an end to this massive corporate welfare program and seek real security through the proven process of arms control. Sincerely, Your Name A few tips before you submit your letter: * Know your paper's policy about length requirements and deadlines, * Include your name, address, and phone number to allow for newspaper confirmation, * Don't forget follow-up. If your leter is not printed immediately, resubmit an edited form with a slightly different angle. If your letter is published, PLEASE send us an original (if possible) or at least a good clean copy. Good luck!! James C. Bridgman Research & Resource Coordinator Peace Action Education Fund mailto:jbridgman@peace-action.org http://www.peace-action.org 202.862.9740x3041 fax: 202.862.9762 1819 H St., NW, #425 Washington, DC 20006 - 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 00/10/27 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 27 Oct 2000 06:19:40 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 27, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001027212145.htm [No "nuclear" news today, but a variety of events listed FYI] -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Today: Bush-Cheney reception =97 6 p.m. =97 The Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign= hosts a Victory 2000 reception in D.C. Location: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW. Contact: 512/637-7777. Earlier Today: 11:15 a.m. - Remarks,: Kalamazoo Christian=20 School, 2121 Stadium Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, (616) 381-2044 x116 1:20 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Lake Michigan College, Mendel Center= =20 2775 East Napier Avenue, Benton Harbor, Michigan 49022, (616) 927-1000=20 4:15 p.m. - Airport Departure, Corporate Wings=20 4302 Lathrop Street, Michiana Regional Airport, South Bend, Indiana 46628 Victory 2000 Rally, Orchard Ridge Campus of the Oakland Community College, H- Building, 27055 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan= 48334 - (248) 522-3572 - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ 10 a.m. =97 Travels to West Virginia presidential campaign rally,= south side of Charleston Capitol Building, 1900 E. Kanawha Blvd., Charleston,= W.Va. - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Friday, October 27 Nader on Good Morning America and Imus 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Press Conference, House Speaker's Conference= Room, State Capitol Building, Des Moines, IA 6:30pm - 8:00pm - Rally, Main Lounge, Iowa Memorial Union,= University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Sunday, October 29 Nader, Exclusive on This Week, Live at 9:00am Winona LaDuke, =20 2:00pm - Rally, Duluth, MN, Romano Gym, University of Minnesota -= Duluth Campus, Contact mailto:kosbakken@duluth.com Wednesday, November 1 Nader/LaDuke -=20 7:00pm - Milwaukee, WI, Super Rally with guest John Anderson Doors open at 5:00pm, Milwaukee Auditorium, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. (corner of= Kilbourn and 6th St.), Ticket & Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#WI Friday, November 3 - Los Angeles, CA 8:00pm - 10:30pm - Nader Super Rally with guest Phil Donahue, Doors open at 6:00pm, Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.; Ticket & Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#LA Sunday, November 5 -=20 9:00am - Nader Exclusive on Meet the Press 1:00 PM - DC Super Rally - Doors open at Noon.=20 Ralph Nader will be wrapping up campaign 2000 right here in Washington, D.C. with a super rally of 17,000 people at the MCI Center. [Please note, the time is different from yesterday's announcement; thanks for the correction, RMF!] Tuesday, November 7 - Election Day -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Peace Links is sending out an excellent card, developed with 20/20 Vision= and others, entitled "Turning the heat on: time to make national missile defense= an election issue." Iit provides a clear argument to help in lobbying. "If you would like copies for local distribution, call 1-800-669-1782. For= information on the U.S. House and Senate candidates, visit the League of Women Voters at www.lwv.org. You can also go to www.2020vision.org for sample letters,= further links on NMD or to find out who your Member of Congress is." ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will Date: 27 Oct 2000 16:22:17 -0400 >Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:13:49 -0400 >Subject: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy irradiated food! >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: "npetrie@citizen.org" > >Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy >irradiated food! > >http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm > >While the sale of irradiated beef was in February 2000, other irradiated >foods have been legally sold in the U.S. since 1983. The sale of >irradiated spices and seasons were legalized in that year. Irradiated pork >followed in 1985 and the irradiation of fruits, vegetables and fungus >(mushrooms) became legal in 1986. A significant portion of our diet can >now be irradiated, even though the studies that FDA relied upon to allow >this process did not even meet the agency's own scientific standards. > >These foods, when sold individually must be labeled "treated with [or by] >irradiation" and accompanied by the radura. Conversely, when these foods >are mixed in to a fruit cup, for example, the fruit cup does not need to >bear the label. Unfortunately, we may never know what foods we're eating >contains irradiated items. > >But we can stop the sale of irradiated foods with your help. > >Please use our website to fax the CEOs of Philip Morris (which owns Kraft >Foods, Boca Burger, and Miller Brewing Company), Kraft, Del Monte, >Wal-Mart, Tysons Foods. > >Tell the CEOs of these companies you are concerned about irradiation and >request that they refrain from selling irradiated foods. > >http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/28 - Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 28 Oct 2000 06:56:28 -0400 -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Saturday, October 28 - WISCONSIN AND MISSOURI Texas Governor George W. Bush and Secretary Cheney will participate in a rally in Appleton, Wisconsin, at Fox Cities Stadium, on Saturday morning, October 28. Saturday afternoon Governor Bush will participate in a Victory 2000 rally at the Columbia Regional Airport in Columbia, Missouri. 9:40 a.m. - Fox Cities Stadium, 2400 North Casaloma, Appleton, Wisconsin 12:40 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Ozark Airlines Hanger, Columbia Regional Airport, 11500 South Airport Drive, Columbia, Missouri (573) 443-8300 - Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ - Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Sunday, October 29 Nader, Exclusive on This Week, Live at 9:00am Winona LaDuke, 2:00pm - Rally, Duluth, MN, Romano Gym, University of Minnesota - Duluth Campus, Contact mailto:kosbakken@duluth.com ** Display tables available at the Nader Super Rally in DC, November 5. If this interests you and your organization, call Scott at 202-265-1160. (If not there, someone else can help you.) [From: Scott McLarty ] -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - URGENT Action Alert: Close Radioactive Waste Loophole [From: "michael mariotte" ] HMS Tireless: How a 'minor defect' could have caused disaster Only now, more than five months after the Ministry of Defence assured Gibraltarians that it was only a "minor defect", are the full extent and dramatic consequences coming to light. HMS Tireless, which has been moored off the Rock since May, was close to a disaster, its nuclear reactor "at the very point of failure", sources have told the Guardian. The crack, far more serious than first thought, is understood to be at a critical junction of pipes in the pressurised water reactor's cooling system which cannot be isolated. The navy now recognises it is not simply a question of wear and tear: it is a potentially catastrophic design fault. Asked whether it could have foreseen what it is now suspected is a "generic" problem, navy sources sidestep the question. They respond by repeating the mantra that safety is of "first importance". There is no doubt the navy treats the safety issue extremely seriously. What worries defence and nuclear sources is not what action was taken after the leak on the Tireless was eventually diagnosed - the recall of Britain's entire fleet of strike submarines - but why the initial leak, a symptom of what has turned out to be a much more devastating problem, was not discovered earlier. "The cracks could not be in a worse position. It is critical to safety," the Guardian has been told. Sources say the Tireless reactor was "at the very point of failure" - in other words a meltdown. The critical junction of pipes where the welding fault was finally discovered had not been inspected since the first Swiftsure class submarines with this reactor design were built in the early 1970s, sources have revealed. They added: "It is a very serious failure of the navy's inspection monitoring system. It's quite remarkable". The problem is compounded because the Ministry of Defence, not the manufacturers, Rolls-Royce, is the submarines' "design authority". That is to say, the MoD monitors the submarines; the makers are not liable for any faults. Naval engineers are said to have been astonished to discover the problem on the Tireless turned out to be so serious. Equally alarmingly, navy sources say the splits in the pipes of the reactor's cooling system were discovered only because of new technology of which they had no previous experience. Yet the navy is not short of experience of problems with its submarines' nuclear reactors. Polaris nuclear missile submarines were afflicted by reactor problems which turned out to be the same that crippled the navy's older fleet of hunter-killer submarines: cracked pipework in the primary cooling system. As far back as 1991, Reg Farmer, a member of the MoD's nuclear-powered warships safety committee, revealed that cracks had been found at the base of steam generators in the nuclear reactors. He spoke to Thames Television after the MoD had persistently refused to answer questions from MPs on the grounds that they covered "sensitive military areas". This week, the MoD said it could not disclose what is wrong with the Tireless reactor "without consulting the Americans first" - the reactor is based on an American design. In July, John Spellar, armed forces minister, told MPs: "The repair work on HMS Tireless is a standard repair following a contained leak of coolant water in her reactor compartment." The work, he added, would be completed "in the autumn." Given the sensitivity of Gibraltarian opinion, it is likely that repairs on Tireless will not begin until work is completed on one of its sister boats in Britain. Gibraltarians face the prospect of an immobile Tireless sitting off the Rock for a year. "The mood in Spain, in the towns near Gibraltar, is that it should be towed back to Britain," Michael Castiel, the lawyer representing opposition groups in Gibraltar, said yesterday. For the MoD that may be a little local problem compared with the navy being deprived of its entire submarine strike force for at least five months. It would be crass not to admit the "pain and grief" involved, a navy source said. The recall coincides with the sale of Britain's remaining conventionally powered submarines to Canada, a decision taken by the Tory government. [Richard Norton-Taylor, Saturday October 28, 2000 The Guardian] - October 2000 CONTRACTS - NAVY Lockheed Martin Missile and Space, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $521,783,935 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide funding for fiscal year 2001 Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed system support. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif. (57.1%); Salt Lake City, Utah (13.4%); Kings Bay, Ga. (9.5%); Clearwater, Fla. (4.4%); Bangor, Wash. (4.8%); Gainsville, Va. (2.9%); Baltimore, Md. (1%); N.Y (.7%); Ill. (.7%); Ariz. (.5%); Colo. (.1%); Mo. (.1%); other (4.8%), and is expected to be completed by September 2005. This contract was not competitively procured. Contract funds in the amount of $216,330,001 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00030-00-C-0100). TRIDENT II funding is going forward in spite of a House amendment offered to end production. The House amendment failed and no similar amendment was offered in the Senate. WEB links for some issues relevant to Trident: START III Moscow Pushes For Start-III Talks To Begin, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 203, Part I, 19 October 2000 http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start3/news/treaty-start3-001019.htm At the latest round of arms control talks between the U.S. and Russia, which concluded in Moscow on 18 October, Russia insisted that talks on the START-III treaty begin as soon as possible, Russian Foreign Ministry sources told Interfax. United Nations Draft Resolution On Steps To Prevent Accidental Use of Nuclear Weapons Among 13 Texts Introduced In Disarmament Committee, UN Press Release, 19 October 2000 http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001019.htm The General Assembly would call for a review of nuclear doctrines and, in that ontext, immediate and urgent steps to reduce the risks of unintentional and accidental se of nuclear weapons, according to one of 13 draft resolutions introduced this orning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security). Disarmament Committee Hears Introduction of Five Draft Resolutions, Including Text On Assurances For Non-Nuclear-Weapon States, UN Press Release, 20 October 2000 http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001020zur.htm The General Assembly would reaffirm the urgent need to reach an early agreement on effective assurances to non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, while acknowledging the difficulties in evolving a common approach, according to one of five draft resolutions introduced this morning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security). Four Draft Resolutions Introduced In Disarmament Committtee, Including Text Calling For Expert Report On Missiles, UN Press Release, 20 October 2000 http://www.fas.org/news/un/other/un-001020zur1.htm One of four draft resolutions introduced this afternoon in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) would have the General Assembly ask the Secretary-General to prepare a report, with the assistance of a panel of governmental experts, on the issue of missiles in all its aspects for consideration at the next Assembly session. The draft resolution was introduced by the representative of Iran. - http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/cgi-bin/printify.pl Tunnel Vision China is drawing up plans to use nuclear explosions, in violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, to blast a 10-mile tunnel through the Himalayas in order to build the world's largest hydroelectric plant. Work on the project, which is expected to produce more than twice as much power as the controversial Three Gorges Dam now being built, would begin after 2009. Meanwhile, Chinese officials defended the Three Gorges project yesterday, insisting that construction and the necessary resettlement of more than 1.1 million people are proceeding smoothly, despite stolen and misused funds. China, determined to divert water from its wet south and west to its drought-stricken north, is on a dam-building spree; the nation has constructed more dams in the past 30 years than the rest of the world's countries combined and it has many more on the drawing board. straight to the source: London Telegraph, Damien McElroy, 10.22.00 straight to the source: CNN.com, Associated Press, 10.26.00 straight to the source: China People's Daily, 10.26.00 [From: "Viviane Lerner" ] ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [Fwd: VIRUS ALERT]] Date: 29 Oct 2000 15:35:37 +0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AB5D87EE5821CB108CA80C1D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------AB5D87EE5821CB108CA80C1D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22595 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from igc.org (user-33qtm48.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.216.136]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA23167 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:22:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <39FCB13F.6A28663E@igc.org> Reply-To: clr2@igc.org Organization: Labor/Community Alliance X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <39FC399E.C5B5C2D4@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This virus alert is a hoax. Go to: http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/mbody.htm -- Mike Rhodes Editor Labor/Community Alliance Newsletter P.O. Box 5077 Fresno Ca 93755 (559) 233-3978 (work/messages) (559) 233-6174 (work) (559) 226-0477 (home) clr2@igc.org http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home/ Sally Light wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Wanted you to have this info., just in case. > > Sally > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: VIRUS ALERT > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:24:56 EST > From: Jeoflin D Roh > To: bifriendly@frap.org, RyanJ@highbridgelife.org, fr.bob@mindspring.com, > nammara@jps.net, raven@uncanny.net, brennafitz30@hotmail.com, > erippy@jps.net, nde@igc.org, honorableson@hotmail.com, > georginaweyand@hotmail.com, tom.kardos@dent.otago.ac.nz, > ammonhennacy@disinfo.net, Bayview94501@peoplepc.com, > AlamedaMOW@aol.com, colonize@colonize.com, alibris@c4.mycampaign.com, > ecschefs@igc.org, sallight1@earthlink.net, Hugabugman@aol.com, > Bflyspirit@aol.com, cd6@energy-net.org, mail@tm01.net > > Subject: Alert not a joke > > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS > IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED "LET'S WATCH TV" DO NOT OPEN IT. > > IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. THIS INFORMATION WAS > ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT "KALI" IS A VERY > DANGEROUS VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN "MELISSA," AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY > FOR IT AT THIS TIME. SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE > REFORMAT FUNCTION FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE > ALL DOCUMENTS ON THE HARD DRIVE. > > IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND MICROSOFT > INTERNET EXPLORER. ITDESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. > > THIS IS A NEW, VERY MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT. > > PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE SHARE > IT WITH ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED. > > FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET. > > be good to self&others, > Jeoflin > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagh. --------------AB5D87EE5821CB108CA80C1D-- - 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 00/10/30 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 30 Oct 2000 06:11:36 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 30, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001030215323.htm [No "nuclear" events today.] - State Department told to turn over data on deal=20 Ten senior U.S. Republican senators have ordered the State Department to turn over "all the relevant documents" relating to a secret deal Vice President Al Gore made with Russia on arms sales to Iran by noon today. http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000103023126.htm -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Today: Albuquerque, New Mexico, morning; afternoon, rallies in Burbank, California, and Fresno, California; the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening. Details: 9:45 a.m. - Bosque Farms Elementary School, 1390 West Bosque Farms Loop, Bosque Farms, New Mexico 87068, (505) 869-2646 11:15 a.m. - Eclipse Aviation, 2503 Clark Carr Loop, SE,= Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, (505) 245-7555 3:25 p.m. - Hilton Burbank Airport & Convention Center, Academy Ballroom, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA, 818-843-6000=20 8:00 p.m. - Fresno Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 1, Fresno, California (559) 498-1511=20 - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ Unknown - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Wednesday, November 1 Nader/LaDuke -=20 7:00pm - Milwaukee, WI, Super Rally with guest John Anderson Doors open at 5:00pm, Milwaukee Auditorium, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. (corner of= Kilbourn and 6th St.), Ticket & Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#WI Friday, November 3 - Los Angeles, CA 8:00pm - 10:30pm - Nader Super Rally with guest Phil Donahue, Doors open at 6:00pm, Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.; Ticket & Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#LA Sunday, November 5 -=20 9:00am - Nader Exclusive on Meet the Press 1:00 PM - DC Super Rally - Doors open at Noon.=20 Ralph Nader will be wrapping up campaign 2000 right here in Washington, D.C. with a super rally of 17,000 people at the MCI Center. [Please note, the time is different from yesterday's announcement; thanks for the correction, RMF!] Tuesday, November 7 - Election Day -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Upcoming - "Conference of Women for Responsible National Security." will= be held Dec. 2 and 3 in Washington, DC. Call Peace Links at (202) 783-7030 and ask Charlotte for brochure or pdf file. - Is Your College Contaminated? On 21 September 2000, the US Department of Energy (DoE) published a list of more than 577 sites that may have been involved in nuclear activities.= The DoE is examining each site for possible nuclear contamination. The list includes more than 40 colleges and universities that may have conducted= nuclear weapons research over the last 50 years. Publication of the list comes at= the same time as the US House of Representatives is discussing legislation that would compensate people who worked in the nuclear weapons program and now suffer from illnesses related to radiation exposure. Among the colleges listed on the DoE's list are: Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University,= Colorado School of Mines, Columbia University, Cornell University Medical College, Fordham University*, Harvard University, Iowa State University, John Hopkins University, Long Island College of Medicine*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Montana State College, New York University*, North Carolina= State University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Purdue University,= St. Louis University, Stanford University*, Syracuse University*, Tufts College, University of Arizona*, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, University of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, University of Denver Research Institute, University of Florida, University= of Indiana at Bloomington, University of Miami*, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Nevada*, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, University= of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, Washington= University (Mo.), Wesleyan University and Yale University. The entire list can be= viewed at Http://www2.em.doe.gov/sitelist/ *Indicates institutions previously found not be contaminated (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 September 2000) ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< >< - Take Action and Write a Letter -=20 =20 Below is a sample letter to personalize and send to your Foreign Minister and UN mission, urging them to vote affirmatively on these resolutions. Handwritten letters are always best. Fax numbers for Heads of States and foreign ministers can be found at the Abolition 2000 website at Http://www.abolition2000.org and the Reaching Critical Will website at Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org. Dear Foreign Minister and UN Ambassador, I am writing to you because I understand that a number of important resolutions concerning nuclear weapons are coming up in the United Nations General Assembly First Committee, starting this month. I am concerned that my country may not be doing enough to rid the= world of the one thing that could possibly destroy civilization and perhaps the= human race. I understand that in a press conference on 14 September, the New= Agenda Coalition (NAC) (New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt= and Mexico) asked the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their obligations to get rid of nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This is a wonderful initiative, and I believe that my country should also take a leading role in supporting this vital initiative. Just as New Zealand and Ireland, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Egypt, all= small/middle countries, are pressing the US and Russia to get rid of their, so should my country. There are at least seven really good initiatives that will be= presented to the United Nations General Assembly, including a resolution from the NAC. Also included is a resolution to prohibit the use of nuclear weapons, a resolution for a nuclear weapons convention like the chemical weapons convention, a resolution to take nuclear weapons off "hair-trigger" alert,= as recommended by the Canberra Commission, a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons free zone in the Southern Hemisphere, and a resolution to prevent= space from being used for military purposes. I urge you, Foreign Minister, to please support the New Agenda group= in the General Assembly and satisfy the desire of all those who want this= country to take a leading role in nuclear disarmament. (Signed) (Your name) - NOW AVAILABLE! CDI's Issue Brief "National Missile Defense: What Does It= All Mean?" As the debate in the United States on the planned deployment of the national missile defense (NMD) system heats up, the Center for Defense Information (CDI) has released a timely Issue Brief, "National Missile= Defense: What Does It All Mean?" on this important national security issue. The Issue Brief is designed to offer unbiased, in-depth, and= up-to-date information on all aspects of the NMD debate to citizens, educators and decision-makers nationwide. Missile defense has gained additional prominence= as one of the most divisive and defining issues in this year's presidential campaign. The 56 page document includes the following: "The Impact of National Missile Defense on Strategic Relations with Russia" By Dr. Bruce G. Blair, President of CDI and the author of "The Logic= of Accidental Nuclear War." "Why Should You/We Care?" By Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.,= USN (Ret.), Vice-President of CDI, and former Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations. "Technical Feasibility, Threat Justification, and Program History= and Chronology" By Colonel Daniel Smith, USA (Ret.),CDI Chief of Research, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and a Military Attach=E9 in= London. "Current and Past Cost Estimates" By Christopher Hellman, CDI Senior Analyst, former Congressional aide. "NMD and Asia: Views from China, India, Pakistan, Japan, North and South Korea" By Dr. Nicholas Berry, CDI Senior Analyst, and the co-author of "IR:= The New World of International Relations." "Europe and NMD: Views from the European Continent and the Role of Europe in NMD Architecture" By Tomas Valasek, CDI Senior Analyst, former journalist on European security issues. In addition to the print version, CDI is preparing a web site with further information on the National Missile Defense program. Each section in the print version will be updated on the web, on an as-needed basis, to keep the document current. www.cdi.org - There is a precedent-setting review process happening behind closed doors= in NATO. Your government URGENTLY needs to know that its citizens are watching, and that you want the report / document made PUBLIC at the NATO meeting in December.=20 Suggested timeline: Because the final report from NATO on its= nuclear policy is due in DECEMBER, a letter out by end of October, and a meeting= with your representative and foreign ministry in November would be ideal. BASICS ABOUT NATO=20 The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington on 4 April 1949, creating an alliance of 12 independent nations committed to each other's defence. Four more European nations later acceded to the Treaty between 1952 and 1982. On 12 March 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were welcomed into the Alliance, which now numbers 19 members.=20 NATO countries are: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. NATO is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.=20 As of 1998, there were 214 NATO Nuclear Weapons storage sites in= seven NATO countries: Greece, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, UK, Netherlands. SOME LINKS AND REFERENCES FOR MORE INFORMATION - The Centre for European Security and Disarmament (CESD) http://www.cesd.org Subscribe to CESD's NATO NOTES, an email newsletter from former WILPF intern Sharon Riggle, Executive Director of CESD. (Sharon has= said she is willing to provide country specific information to WILPF sections Ph: + 32 2 230 0732, fax: + 32 2 230 2467 email: cesd@cesd.be) - Berlin Information-Center for Transatlantic Security subscribe to the NATO information email list of BITS - Berlin Information-Center for Transatlantic Security=20 email: news-project@bits.de and ask to subscribe - The British American Security Information Council http://www.basicint.org= has good article about NATO and the NPT promises - The Acronym Institute has regular reports on NATO developments http://www.acronym.org - The NATO Website http://www.nato.int SOME RELEVANT PARAGRAPHS FROM NATO DOCUMENTS The April 1999 Strategic Concept states:=20 "The supreme guarantee of the security of the allies is provided by= the strategic nuclear forces of the Alliance, particularly those of the United States. The fundamental purpose of the nuclear forces of the allies is political: to preserve peace and prevent coercion and any kind of war. They will continue to fulfill an essential role by ensuring uncertainty in the= mind of any aggressor about the nature of the allies' response to military aggression."=20 46.To protect peace and to prevent war or any kind of coercion, the Alliance will maintain for the foreseeable future an appropriate mix of= nuclear and conventional forces based in Europe and kept up to date where necessary, although at a minimum sufficient level. Taking into account the diversity of risks with which the Alliance could be faced, it must maintain the forces necessary to ensure credible deterrence and to provide a wide range of conventional response options. But the Alliance's conventional forces alone cannot ensure credible deterrence. Nuclear weapons make a unique= contribution in rendering the risks of aggression against the Alliance incalculable and unacceptable. Thus, they remain essential to preserve peace.=20 The April 1999 Final Communique Paragraph 32 states=20 32. Arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation will continue to play a major role in the achievement of the Alliance's security objectives. NATO has a long-standing commitment in this area. Allied forces, both conventional and nuclear, have been significantly reduced since the end of= the Cold War as part of the changed security environment. All Allies are States Parties to the central treaties related to disarmament and non-proliferation= of weapons of mass destruction, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, and are committed to the full implementation of these treaties. NATO is a defensive Alliance seeking to enhance security and stability at the minimum level of forces consistent with the requirements for the full range of= Alliance missions. As part of its broad approach to security, NATO actively supports arms control and disarmament, both conventional and nuclear, and pursues its approach against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery means. In the light of overall strategic developments and the= reduced salience of nuclear weapons, the Alliance will consider options for= confidence and security building measures, verification, non-proliferation and arms control and disarmament. The Council in Permanent Session will propose a process to Ministers in December for considering such options. The= responsible NATO bodies would accomplish this. We support deepening consultations with Russia in these and other areas in the Permanent Joint Council as well as= with Ukraine in the NATO-Ukraine Commission and with other Partners in the EAPC.= =20 The May 2000 Florence Ministerial Final Communique States: 54. NATO Allies value the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as= the cornerstone of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the essential foundation for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Alliance nations have dramatically reduced nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and reaffirm= their commitment to work for the further reduction of nuclear weapons globally. We welcome the positive outcome of the NPT Review Conference. The Conference agreed on the importance of universal adherence to and compliance with the= NPT, and reaffirmed the commitment of all States Parties to disarmament,= safeguards and peaceful nuclear co-operation. Allies confirm their commitments made at= the NPT Review Conference and will contribute to carrying forward the= conclusions reached there.=20 55. At the Washington Summit, NATO leaders committed the Alliance to consider options for confidence and security building measures,= verification, non-proliferation and arms control and disarmament, in the light of overall strategic developments and the reduced salience of nuclear weapons. At the December 1999 Ministerial meeting, we set this process in train. Today we received a progress report on the consultations that are taking place in the responsible NATO bodies, and welcome the fact that a comprehensive and integrated review is well underway. We look forward to receiving a= substantive report for Ministerial consideration in December 2000. We have instructed= the Council in Permanent Session to task the Senior Political Committee (Reinforced) to oversee and integrate the work on the process by= establishing, as the next step, the framework for this report. NATO's decision to set in train this process further demonstrates Allied commitment to promoting arms control and disarmament and to strengthening the international non-proliferation regime.=20 57.The proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC)= weapons and their means of delivery can pose a direct military threat to Allies' populations, territory and forces and therefore continues to be a matter of serious concern for the Alliance. The principal non-proliferation goal of= the Alliance and its members is to prevent proliferation from occurring, or,= should it occur, to reverse it through diplomatic means. In this context, we place great importance on arms control and the non-proliferation and export= control regimes as means to prevent proliferation.=20 Felicity Hill, Director, United Nations Office Women's International League for Peace and Freedom web: www.wilpf.int.ch or www.reachingcriticalwill.org ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fdpeace@earthlink.net Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: VIRUS ALERT] Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:46:23 -0500 Sally, I don't believe that is possible. The only way an e-mail message can give you a computer virus, as far as I know, is via an attachment or hyperlink. Never open an attachment from someone you don't know and trust. Even then, after downloading an apparently trustworthy attachment, run your virus checker on it before you open it. ---Frank Sally Light wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > I do not how reliable this information is, but thought I should pass it > on right away just in case. > > Sally Light > Executive Director > Nevada Desert Experience > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: VIRUS ALERT > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:24:56 EST > From: Jeoflin D Roh > To: bifriendly@frap.org, RyanJ@highbridgelife.org, fr.bob@mindspring.com, > nammara@jps.net, raven@uncanny.net, brennafitz30@hotmail.com, > erippy@jps.net, nde@igc.org, honorableson@hotmail.com, > georginaweyand@hotmail.com, tom.kardos@dent.otago.ac.nz, > ammonhennacy@disinfo.net, Bayview94501@peoplepc.com, > AlamedaMOW@aol.com, colonize@colonize.com, alibris@c4.mycampaign.com, > ecschefs@igc.org, sallight1@earthlink.net, Hugabugman@aol.com, > Bflyspirit@aol.com, cd6@energy-net.org, mail@tm01.net > > Subject: Alert not a joke > > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS > IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED "LET'S WATCH TV" DO NOT OPEN IT. > > IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. THIS INFORMATION WAS > ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT "KALI" IS A VERY > DANGEROUS VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN "MELISSA," AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY > FOR IT AT THIS TIME. SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE > REFORMAT FUNCTION FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE > ALL DOCUMENTS ON THE HARD DRIVE. > > IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND MICROSOFT > INTERNET EXPLORER. ITDESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS. > > THIS IS A NEW, VERY MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT. > > PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE SHARE > IT WITH ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED. > > FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET. > > be good to self&others, > Jeoflin > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagh. - 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) Fwd: Meeting with US delegation to UN CSD on Energy & Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:59:22 -0500 >Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:08:28 -0500 >Subject: Meeting with US delegation to UN CSD on Energy & Atmosphere =20 >To: brennantj@state.gov, annie_petsonk@environmentaldefense.org, dan.becker@sfsierra.sierraclub.org, sbernow@tellus.org, janine_bloomfield@edf.org, bramble@nwf.org, cflavin@worldwatch.org, hfrench@worldwatch.org, agupta@nrdc.org, postmaster@iucnus.org, healy@rspab.com, dhill@ccmail.sunysb.edu, hingea@aol.com, david.r.hodas@law.widener.edu, jcohen@unausa.org, ameyer@ucsusa.org, jennifer.morgan@wwfus.org, driesel@sprlaw.com, nrobinson@law.pace.edu, spatton@igc.apc.org, esmeloff@law.pace.edu, web@greenmap.org,= bwill@nrdc.org, rae.zimmerman@nyu.edu, aslater@gracelinks.org, momeara@bellatlantic.net, sdunn@worldwatch.org, jstronberg@anent.com, earthday@earthday.net, morrise@infohouse.com, rottinger@law.pace.edu, earthmedia@igc.org, kgsessions@aol.com, barbara_farhar@nrel.gov, jscherr@nrdc.org >Cc: prs@nyserda.org, ksm@nyserda.org, rgsliwin@gw.dec.state.ny.us, scheraga.joel@epamail.epa.gov, joffe@nwf.org, krchnak@nwf.org, grunbaum@pewclimate.org, cindyf@igc.org, mrapuano@aeclp.org, jcrawf1969@aol.com, jbarber@igc.org, koplow@indecon.com >From: "gkarlsson@worldnet.att.net" > >Dear Colleagues > >I am sending a report on the September 29 citizens consultation meeting >with >members of the US delegation organized to prepare for the February/March >and >April 2001 sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. > >The primary topics this year for the CSD concern the need for sustainable >energy and transportation systems that can promote economic development >without contributing to local and regional pollution, global climate >change, >or social inequities. > >The next step is to draft short (2 page) briefing papers, which will be >circulated to the government officials preparing US position papers and >discussed at subsequent meetings with delegation members. > >Regarding energy, the key issues that have been identified so far include: >promotion of energy efficiency, greater use of renewables, and cleaner use >of conventional fossil fuels; elimination of subsidies for fossil fuels and >use of market policies to support sustainable energy technologies; full >cost >accounting for all energy sources; rejection of nuclear power as a form of >"sustainable energy" because of health and environmental risks; and >adoption >of a mix of regulatory and voluntary approaches to change the direction of >currently unsustainable energy policies. On transportation, in addition >to >use of cleaner fuels, recommendations included increased emphasis on >development of non-combustion engines; support for public transportation >and >land use designs that reduce reliance on private vehicles; and >revitalization of walkable urban centers. > >I would be happy to get your thoughts on any of these issues, or otherwise >get you involved in the CSD preparation process. > >Best regards, > >Gail Karlsson >CitNet Working Group on Energy and Climate Change >258 Broadway 5A, New York, NY 10007 >(212) 267-4239 Fax (212) 587-1148 >gkarlsson@worldnet.att.net > > >REPORT ON CITIZENS CONSULTATION MEETING ON >ENERGY, ATMOSPHERE, TRANSPORTATION, AND >INFORMATION FOR DECISION-MAKING > >September 29, 2000 Washington, DC > >A public discussion with members of the US Delegation to the >Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), in preparation >for the CSD's 9th Session and Rio+10 > >Prepared by the US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development > > >On Friday, September 29, the US Citizens Network for Sustainable >Development >hosted the first of a new cycle of citizen consultation meetings with the >US >Delegation to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). (For >more >information about the CSD, see http://www.un.org\esa\sustdev.htm) These >meetings offer an opportunity for NGOs and citizen organizations to discuss >with government representatives their follow-up plans and actions in >implementing the Agenda 21 Program of Action agreed to at the 1992 Earth >Summit in Rio. This consultation meeting was held to discuss US and >preparations for the upcoming 9th Session of the CSD, to be held in April >2001. The CSD9 session will address the issues of energy, atmosphere, >transportation and information for decision-making. > >Approximately thirty representatives of citizen organizations and US >government agencies gathered at the Center for Respect of Life and >Environment conference room in Washington, DC discussing priorities for >CSD9 >and preparations for Rio+10 UN General Assembly=92s ten year review of >progress on sustainable development since the Earth Summit. > >The meeting was moderated by Gail Karlsson, coordinator of the Citizen >Network=92s Working Group on Energy and Climate Change. NGOs in attendance >gave several presentations, following up on a list of key points submitted >to the U.S. Delegation to CSD earlier that week. >(The list of points will be posted on the internet at www.citnet.org ). > >After the welcome and introductions, Jonathan Margolis, from the Bureau of >Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State and >head of the US Delegation to CSD, discussed how the delegation (still in >formation) is viewing CSD9 and preparatory processes for Rio+10. Since >their positions have not yet been formulated, they stressed their immediate >interest in hearing US NGO priorities and recommendations. While the >contact persons for each of the CSD9 issue areas have not yet been >designated, the delegation will let us know as soon as possible. Jonathan >made a point that in addition to emphasizing the importance of sustainable >development issues, the Delegation is making a strong priority of >protecting >the role of Major Groups in this process and opposing any efforts by any >countries or other bodies to undermine civil society participation. >Regarding Rio+10, he acknowledged that some of the same problems and issues >that arose at the 1992 Earth Summit =AD substantive and procedural --= remain >unresolved as we move towards Rio+10, especially regarding the positions of >blocks of countries. One major question will be how best to involve Major >Groups in this international dialogue. > >NGO PRESENTATIONS > >ENERGY POLICY - John Dernbach, from Widener University Law School in >Pennsylvania, began by emphasizing that we want to see the CSD =93generatin= g >work products that matter in the real world.=94 John pointed out that the >benefits of sustainable energy policies, not just at the federal but also >at >the state level, go beyond the climate issues and include: reduction of air >pollutants, job creation, technological innovation, protecting poor people >from the impact of price fluctuations, and peace/security. Linking these >issues with the climate issues can then be mutually reinforcing and very >powerful. Concerning legal instruments, we should look further than just >the Kyoto Protocol tools; the US Delegation should also encourage >exploration of a wider range of legal instruments, which can open up >greater >opportunities for progress with other countries. Most important is that >the >Delegation, in its preparations for CSD, work to integrate domestic policy >and connect domestic counterparts at EPA and elsewhere to the process.=20 >This >can help avoid discrepancies between what is being said at the >international >level and what is being practiced domestically. > >ENERGY SUBSIDIES - Gawain Kripke, of Friends of the Earth (FOE), described >FOE=92s Green Scissors campaign, highlighting their recent report Paying= for >Pollution addressing US energy subsidies. The federal government provides >well over $4 billion a year in subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear >power, >encouraging unsustainable energy options rather than establishing a level >playing field for energy alternatives. Globally, $235 billion a year is >being devoted to subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Reducing these >subsidies would reduce CO2 emissions by 18%. Reducing our US subsidies >would reduce our carbon emissions by 4%. The good news is that, compared >with other countries, US subsidies are moderate. In developing countries, >this is a more significant issue since artificially lower prices encourage >consumption of fossil fuels rather than alternatives. The US could play a >leadership role by raising this issue and helping developing countries to >redirect their resources onto a more sustainable energy track. This can >especially be addressed through our export credit agencies, as well as >multilateral agencies, which now play a major role encouraging fossil fuel >development rather than sustainable energy options in developing countries. > >COAL MINING IMPACTS - Mark Shelley and Dr. Harvard Ayers, of Appalachian >Voices from Boone, North Carolina, described the harsh reality of >mountain-top removal, one of the modern and unsustainable techniques of >coal >production, especially affecting the quality of life of communities in the >Appalachian region. Ayers highlighted the lack of consideration of >externalities at the front end of the coal cycle. Why is coal so cheap? >Why >are so many high electricity-using companies using coal? Because they are >not paying the piper. Recently, the head of the forestry division of the >state of West Virginia resigned because he could not stand the mountain-top >removal involved in coal production, a process which has removed more than >400 square miles of southern West Virginia from productive capacity. This >amounts to $60 million a year in forest growth that is now lost. This is >another unsustainable subsidy, sacrificing those resources. One power >plant >in North Carolina uses 180 train carloads a day of the mountains of West >Virginia. This is not sustainable. Internationally, it=92s happening in >Australia, India and other places. Connecting domestic policy with >international concerns is very important here, especially concerning the >Administration=92s emphasis on coal while neglecting the impacts of >mountain-top removal. > >LEADED GASOLINE & ENERGY EFFICIENCY - Jim Rochow, of the Alliance to End >Childhood Lead Poisoning, reminded everyone that the global phase-out of >leaded gasoline is not yet complete. Certainly the US has been a leader in >this globally, in large measure because it has been phased out >domestically. >The US can help achieve added benefits by continuing to advocate for this >and other measures to prevent lead poisoning. We don=92t need any more >language =AD it=92s pervasive. The question is how to implement this, how= to >fulfill this priority. This raises the big question of what the CSD=92s= role >is and if the CSD can be hooked into implementation. The starting point >would be to move from the segmented format of annual meetings on changing >topics toward some kind of continued attention over time to key issues.=20 >We=92 >d like to see environmental health become a core objective of these >international deliberations. Climate change should not be isolated as a >separate issue but linked to other concerns about air pollution, leading to >=93co-beneficial solutions.=94 > >DEREGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES - Jim Schulman, of Sustainable >Community >Initiatives suggested looking at some of these issues from a local >perspective, in particular, at the local electric utility here in the >nation >=92s capital -- Pepco =AD which he said =93has the unenviable reputation= as >having the lowest rate of renewable energy use in the country=94 =AD less= than >one-half a percent. As to the national energy policy of privatizing >electric utilities, the auctioning off of Pepco=92s power plant to a= private >conglomerate will leave the local communities of Washington, DC worse off >than before as to the use of renewable energy sources. This is typical of >many jurisdictions throughout the US. When the production portion of the >electric utility is taken away, separating generation from distribution, >you >also take away local community control. =93How is it this was rammed down >our >throat?=94 he asked. Everyone was saying electric industry restructuring >would have all these environmental benefits, but it is not really >happening. >Also, ironically, our rates are going up with restructuring. The reality >is >that restructuring only makes sense to those with high electricity costs. >Another part of the problem has to do not so much with the infrastructure, >but with the overall way communities are designed, which currently >encourage >high energy consumption rather than more sustainable practices. > >VOLUNTARY INITIATIVES & THE OIL INDUSTRY - Hilary Hoffman, representing the >Natural Heritage Institute in San Francisco, introduced everyone to the >California Corporate Accountability Project, which has been focusing its >attention on the oil and high technology industries in California and their >impacts abroad. Hilary also outlined the International Right to Know >Campaign, a major grassroots initiative involving Amnesty International, >the >Sierra Club, and AFL-CIO, which is working to have IRTK legislation >introduced in Congress January 2001. NHI feels that the Multi-stakeholder >Review of Voluntary Initiatives, which was initiated at the CSD in 1998, is >another important piece in the effort to gain corporate accountability >abroad. As a result, NHI has a great interest in the US Delegation to CSD >pressing for the next step to be taken with the Multi-stakeholder Review of >Voluntary Initiatives. While this review has provided an excellent >framework to look at the many voluntary codes of conduct in existence, >there >needs to be a system in place to evaluate them to determine, for instance, >which are legitimate and which are adopted superficially for public >relations purposes. NHI expressed their desire to work with the delegation >to determine what this system should be, and then to see the delegation >press for it at CSD9. > >TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES - Nancy Jakowitsch informed us about the >Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), representing over 200 >organizations around the country addressing federal transportation policy >at >the national and local levels and looking at ways improvements in >transportation and energy policies can contribute to creating sustainable >communities. The transportation sector is responsible for 32% of the CO2 >emissions in the US. The continued expansion of motor vehicle use >contributes not only to air quality and climate change problems but sprawl >and congestion, undermining the livability of communities. STPP places >special attention on influencing transportation demand, producing demand >for >alternative choices and for integrative transportation and land-use >planning. > >NUCLEAR POWER - The originally planned speaker on nuclear power was not >able to come. However, Gail Karlsson brought up the issue of the plans to >include nuclear power in the Sustainable Energy Exhibition planned for >CSD9. >She pointed out the strong NGO opposition to this inclusion, which could >threaten to sidetrack much of the discussion of sustainable energy issues >at >CSD9. John Margolis explained some of the background of these discussions >between the UN Secretariat, the Canadian and US governments. He said the >US >feels this exhibit would be a good way of generating dialogue about the >technology options that would not otherwise take place on the floor. Gail >conveyed concerns that protests might be organized if the UN and US were >perceived as promoting nuclear power as a clean technology on the same >level >as renewables. Because of the controversy involved, this has the potential >for diverting attention away from any other topic. > >NEXT STEPS - For US NGOs engaged in this process, Gail Karlsson explained, >some of our next steps include preparing a number of "briefing papers" >directed to the specific topics of concern listed in the issues paper, in >order to provide NGO input for the US positions being taken for CSD9 and >Rio+10. John Margolis pointed out that "you are ahead of us" on this, >since >they have not yet appointed the key people responsible for those position >statements. Tom Brennan explained the government process that will follow, >with a number of interagency working group meetings -- probably a maximum >of >three meetings -- between now and the Intersessional meeting. Another part >of this process will be the UNEP Governing Meeting in January, which will >involve almost all the same people for CSD and focused on many of the same >issues. So there will be two, perhaps three interagency working group >meetings dealing with this as well. They would like to see position papers >from NGOs on the overlapping issues being discussed to see if and how NGOs' >points can be integrated into the US government's position papers. The >major work will be done not in the larger working group meetings, but the >smaller groups involving the lead agencies. Thus, we will make sure that >the people preparing the NGO briefing papers will be in touch with the >government focal points of those lead agencies. > >As to preparations for Rio+10, Ann Stewart, the State Department's point >person for Rio+10, asked for people who had attended the first Earth >Summit >to give input on the Rio +10 process, to provide better insight into the >issues still active today and how to better address them this next time >around. > >VIDEO >The meeting concluded with a video presentation by Appalachian Voices, a >documentary showing the utter devastation to a community of West Virginia >by >mountain-top removal methods of coal mining. > >ATTENDANCE >Peter Adriance, Nat=92l Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of the U.S. >Harvard Ayers, Appalachian Voices >Tom Brennan, OES, Dept. of State >Logan Brown, Appalachian State University >Jeffrey Barber, Integrative Strategies Forum >Ann Carey, US Department of Agriculture >Susan Boyd, Concern & CitNet >Jonathan Cohen, UN Association [in New York] >Sarah Cohen, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisioning >Jenn Crawford, Integrative Strategies Forum >John Dernbach, School of Law, Widener University >Cindy Folkers, Nuclear Information and Resource Service >Nika Greger, Heinrich Boll Foundation >Hilary Hoffman, Natural Heritage Institute >Gail Karlsson, UNA & CitNet Working Group on Energy & Climate Change >Steve Keene, Dept of State >Karen Knispel, Natural Resources Defense Council >Gawain Kripke, Friends of the Earth >Susan Lapis, South Wings >Jonathan Margolis, Office of Policy Coordination and Initiatives, OES, > State Dept. >Eston Perez, Friends of the Earth >Jim Rochow, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning >Kim Sais, US Agency for International Development >Rick Schwabacher, Cousteau Society >Ann Stewart, Dept. of State, point person for Rio+10 >Bill Mansfield, Alliance for UN Sustainable Development Programs & UNEP >Jim Schulman, Sustainable Community Initiatives >Jennifer Terrell, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. >Maureen Walker, Dept of State > >In the weeks to come, we will be looking for US NGOs and civil society >organizations to help put together this series of NGO position papers on >energy, atmosphere, transportion and information for decision-making, as >well as the future of the CSD and the promises of the Earth Summit. We >look >forward to hearing from you in these next few weeks. > >Sincerely, > >Jeffrey Barber >CitNet National Coordinator > >Gail Karlsson >CitNet Working Group on Energy & Climate Change > =20 - 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: Sally Light Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: VIRUS ALERT] Date: 30 Oct 2000 14:55:22 +0000 Frank, Since my initial email to everyone, I've found out that this is a hoax. See http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/mbody.htm. Henceforth, I'm going to check with a reliable web site first before sounding the alarm. Thanks, however, for your message. I already use Norton AV, so I'm not worried about my own system so much. 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Tune in at 9 p.m. Tuesday, October 31 to >your local CBS affiliate to see this report on NMD and UCS >activism at work. > >Please forward this announcement to any of your friends and >colleagues who are interested in arms control and missile >defense, and encourage them to stop by our web site >http://www.ucsusa.org/missiledefense for more information. > - 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) Abolition 2000 Sustainable Energy Working Group Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:47:18 -0500 Dear Friends, Listed below is a good summary from the NGO Energy caucus of what the world is up against at the upcoming Commission on Sustainable Development at the UN in April. 29 September 2000. Industry is lobbying tirelessly to have nuclear energy included as sustainable energy for purposes of decreasing carbon in the atmosphere which contributes to global warming. Our Abolition Statement recognizes the "inextricable link" between nuclear power and nuclear bombs and calls for the establishment of a Global Sustainable Energy Agency in parallel to the IAEA which would promote clean, safe energy. If you or any of your members are interested in working on this project, please contact me. In the meantime, please alert your organization to the issues below, and ask them to take some meaningful action to stop this outrageous move by the nuclear coroporations to "greenwash: their lethal product. Peace, Alice Slater NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus website: http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo (Click on Energy & Climate Change under "Caucuses") Dear Friends, The ninth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD9) will meet from 16-27 April 2001, and everyone is now finally in the midst of preparations for it. Energy is on the agenda for CSD9, and, based on all our past experience, will certainly be the most contentious issue. NUCLEAR ISSUE: We realise that people have been justifiably upset that nuclear energy was mentioned in the CSD8 report as one of the key issues to be examined in preparation for CSD9 (many of us certainly worked to try to stop that, but could only achieve language that mentioned some problems that nuclear would have to address before it could be considered sustainable). At this point, we are trying to get many more anti-nuclear NGOs involved in this issue, since many of us suspect that certain countries would only be too happy to see NGOs spend all their time against nuclear and forget all about fossil fuels, etc. Of course, we suggest pointing out that building new nuclear plants simply does not make economic sense. Conservation and energy reduction programmes, plus certain types of solar and almost all wind, are already much cheaper, with none of the environmental and safety problems of nuclear. We need to focus, as we do in our Caucus's Global Action Plan, on ending nuclear energy, fossil fuel, and large hyrdo subsidies (even in Europe, the high oil taxes do not begin to cover all the subsidies paid out to support fossil fuel production, distribution and consumption over the last 50 years), while supporting cost-effective conservation and the most sustainable renewables, many of which are already cost-effective completely or in certain situations, e.g., in areas that lack "modern" energy access. SUBMISSIONS FOR SECRETARY GENERAL REPORT FOR CSD9: The Caucus will be submitting our Global Action Plan (ECCGAP), plus some specific examples. If your organisation has excellent experiences/case studies of good practices in implementation of conservation/efficiency and truly sustainable energy projects (see Points 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Caucus Global Action Plan), especially at the grassroots level, either in developing or industrialised countries, we strongly urge you to SUBMIT these BY 15 OCTOBER directly to the CSD Secretariat. The inputs should be between 5 to 10 pages. Please email your organisations's submission to Mr. K. N. Mak, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, i.e., DESA (email: mak@un.org), and cc: to us (rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org, deling@igc.org). If you would like the Caucus to mention certain specific projects in the formal submission from the Caucus as a whole, you must email the materials to Rajat and Deling NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER. PREPARATORY MEETINGS OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2000: If there are Caucus members who can attend the various meetings that are noted on our website calendar, please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can be sure that all meetings are well covered by knowledgeable NGOs. In particular, the regional high level meetings on energy and sustainable development (Latin America: Ascuncion, Paraguay, 13-14 October; Asia and the Pacific: Bali, Indonesia, 21-24 November; and Africa: Nairobi, Kenya, 4-6 December) are extremely important as they are high level intergovernmental meetings, and all will prepare formal statements of input for CSD9. BRIEFING ON ASIA PACIFIC HIGH LEVEL REGIONAL MEETING: The Indonesian mission to the UN in New York today (29 Sept.) gave a briefing on the Asia Pacific High Level Meeting, which is being organised by the Indonesian government, DESA, and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). There will be a parallel NGO Forum, organised by ESCAP, and a Business Forum, organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mines. Deling was at the briefing and asked exactly how it would be determined what ministry's ministers would be invited, since there is often overlapping reponsibility for energy and sustainable development among two or more ministries in some countries. The answer (?) was that they would ask each country to identify which ministry/minister to invite. (Obviously, there will be even further problems - will these be the same ministries/ministers who will show up for CSD9?) There was a question from the Netherlands mission, concerning whether there were any joint meetings planned of NGOs and business. Answer: no. Mr. Salamat, the co-chair (from Iran) of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development (IGEESD) noted that they had identified key issues and wondered if, in particular, the issue of access, would be specifically dealt with by the High-Level Regional Meeting. The answer seemed to be: maybe. Many Caucus NGOs will attend and be very active at this meeting, since the Asia Pacific group of countries is a very big grouping that includes countries extending from the Middle East oil producing countries to major population areas in East and South Asia such as China and India, plus many Pacific island states, as well as WEOG (Western European and Others Group) countries like Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In some respects, it is a microcosm of the UN as a whole. Whatever statement this high level meeting will agree on will probably be taken quite seriously at CSD9. Any Asian/Pacific NGOs that can attend the meeting in Bali, please let us know as soon as possible!! UNITED STATES NGOs: We hope that you and your organisation and allied NGOs are following the Presidential, Vice-Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates around to urge them to support ending government producer/distributer subsidies ("corporate welfare") to nuclear, fossil fuels, and large hydro (or at least give the same amount of funding support to conservation/solar/wind, etc.) so that there will be a minimal "free market" situation (or at least the playing field can be leveled a little after 50-100 years of subsidies to nuclear, large dams and fossil fuels, and less than one percent as much support to solar and wind). For general background information, see the Caucus website, and for a lot of specific U.S. case studies, see Friends of the Earth US's "Green Scissors" reports for 1999 and 2000 on their website: www.foe.org OTHER CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS RELEVANT TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: We will soon post on our webpage a parallel list of upcoming meetings and conferences organised by NGOs and others. Please submit information concerning any meetings/conferences/workshops/seminars that you know. NEW LIST OF LINKS: We would like to post as soon as possible on the website a new list of linked websites on technical information and case studies/good practices/international cooperation related to conservation and very sustainable forms of energy, as well as on the issue of subsidies and full costs. Please submit websites, including a brief description, to us for posting. MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE "STARTER PAPERS": Each of the designated major groups have been asked to prepare 16 page papers that will get the dialogue discussions started. The Energy/Climate Change and Transport Caucuses have been officially designated as the NGO organising partners for the Dialogues. The first two of the Dialogues deal with energy; the second two with transport. Rajat will temporarily coordinate the one on eco-efficiency, eco-effectivess...choices for producing, distributing, and consuming energy, and Deling will temporarily coordinate the one on achieving equitable access to clean energy. Of course, our Caucus can also input to the NGO Transport Caucus on their two topics (public-private partnerships for de-carbonizing the transportation system, and sustainable transport planning). The two energy dialogue topics fit in very well with our ECCGAP points, and we will make all those points in our papers. COORDINATION WITH OTHER MAJOR GROUPS: We need to encourage other major groups to include the same goals and points that we will be making in our dialgoue papers. Therefore, we will try to get our materials to the other partners at least two weeks before the papers are due. ADDITIONAL BRIEFING PAPERS ON CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS: Since we expect that, based on past experience, the formal process of input to the CSD Secretariat will not be sufficient at all, and it's uncertain if anyone except the authors will carefully read the five 18-page Dialogue papers, we would like to prepare additional briefing papers on what we anticipate to be the most controversial issues, and send these, as well as the NGO input for the Dialogues, directly to key governments in January-February 2001 (BEFORE the second session of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development at the end of February and the intersessionals in March). COMMITTEES AND VOLUNTEERS: We ask everyone to VOLUNTEER for one of five Caucus coordinating committees that will continue through CSD9 in April 2001, and possibly through Rio+10 in 2002: 1. Financial Mechanisms/Policy Strategies/Decision-Making Process Committee: subsidies, incentives, regulations, etc. for increasing sustainable energy access, plus energy policy and programmes' decision-making process to facilitate such access 2. Conservation and Most Sustainable Renewables Committee: sustainable choices for producing, distributing and consuming energy 3. Major Groups/NGOs Outreach Committee 4. Governments/Intergovernmental Agencies Outreach Committee 5. Database/Website Committee Thank you! Rajat and Deling Coordinators NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus Southern Coordinator: Rajat Chaudhuri/CUTS 3B Camac Street Calcutta-700 016 INDIA Phone: 91-33-229 7391 Fax: 91-33-249 6231 Email: rajat.chaudhuri@cuts-india.org, cutscal@vsnl.com Northern Coordinator: Deling Wang/MSES/Network Sustainable NYC 151 West 25th St., 8th Fl Rear New York, NY 10001-7204, USA Phone: 1-212-330-9015 Fax: 1-212-645-2214 Email: deling@igc.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. 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) broadening our base Date: 30 Oct 2000 18:30:15 -0500 Dear Friends, This exciting new initiative may give us an opportunity to build links to a broader movement than our own. Please review and sign on if you agree. Alice Slater The Simultaneous Policy, a new international campaign to counter the forces of globalisation and international competition, has been launched in London. Based on the premise that all nations are subject to global competitive forces unleashed by the ability of capital and transnational corporations to cross national borders, no nation nor group of nations can control global capital nor can they implement vital economic, social or environmental policies that might incur market or corporate displeasure. To break the vicious circle of global competition, both between nations and between corporations, all nations need to act simultaneously by implementing the Simultaneous Policy (SP); a range of measures to re-regulate global markets and corporations in order to restore genuine democracy, environmental protection and peace around the world. Endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ed Mayo and many other leading ecologists, counter-economists, churchmen and journalists, SP recognises that party politics has become little more than a sham in which whatever party we elect, the policies delivered inevitably conform to market and corporate demands and to the dictatorship of competition. It calls upon peoples all over the world to come together to take policy out of the hands of politicians and, by force of their numbers and their votes, to compel political parties around the world to adopt SP. By transcending party-political differences and by offering a means that allows politicians and governments to adopt it without risking their respective 'national interests', SP claims to provide the long-awaited, coherent and practical solution to globalisation and other world problems. Based on a new book, "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) has been established to campaign for the adoption of SP. Acclaimed as "the first writer on the 'sustainable society' to advance beyond rhetoric and grapple with the problem of how such a society might be achieved", the book crucially offers the blueprint for a secure and responsible transition from the existing paradigm of destructive, international economic competition to the new paradigm of global cooperation in which global economic, environmental and social problems can be solved. For further information on SP, e-mail ISPO at info@simpol.org or visit our website and join the SP campaign at www.simpol.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. 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) Northern California abolition 2000 Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:07:55 -0800 Greetings A2000 USA list members. If you are in the Northern California region and are not already receiving e-mail notices concerning Abolition 2000 regional meetings, please send me your e-mail address and I will add you to the list (and/or snail mail address). (If you are not in the region and would like to receive the meeting notices, feel free to add yourself to the list as well). The next meeting is November 11 in San Jose, further information and directions available on request. Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin Suite 202 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: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/31 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Date: 31 Oct 2000 06:13:21 -0400 Washington Times Daybook, October 31, 2000, Agence France Presse=20 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000103121959.htm [No "nuclear" events today.] -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - George W. Bush -=20 http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp unknown - Al Gore -=20 http://www.algore2000.com/ 9:30 a.m. =97 Delivers remarks on targeted tax relief, Portland= Community College, Rock Creek Campus, 7705 N.W. Springville Road, Building 5= Gymnasium, Portland, Ore. 6:30 p.m. =97 Rallies voters, Westwood Village, Weyburn and Broxton avenues, Los Angeles.=20 - Ralph Nader -=20 http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html Tuesday, October 31 Dearborn, Michigan 12:30pm - 1:00pm - Press Conference, The Fieldhouse, University of Michigan at Dearborn 1:05pm - 2:00pm - Rally Minneapolis, MN=20 5:00pm - 5:30pm - Press Conference, The Stoll Thrust Theater, Rarig Center, University of Minnesota, 330 21st Avenue South -- ANNOUNCEMENTS -- - Web site identifies eco-friendly power companies An environmental coalition has created a website to help consumers decide between the options. The website is known as the Power Scorecard (http://www.powerscorecard.org). Scorecard rates electricity in terms of environmental impact and renewable sources.....=20 http://www.earthtimes.org/oct/environmentwebsiteindentfiesoct21_00.htm=20 - NRC SCHEDULES DECOMMISSIONING WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 8-9 IN MARYLAND=20 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public workshop November 8-9= at its headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, to obtain comments on the agency's process for evaluating decommissioning and license termination plans for reactor and materials licensees, and to discuss current decommissioning issues.... The meeting will include several roundtable discussions with= invited stakeholders on partial site release criteria, restricted site use issues,= and the license termination plan review process. Copies of the agenda are= available on the NRC web page, at http://www.nrc.gov/NMSS/DWM/DECOM/NovWkspAgnda.htm - TAIWAN SCRAPS NUCLEAR PLANT, BRACES FOR STORM=20 Taiwan's anti-nuclear government abruptly announced October 27 it would stop construction of the island's fourth nuclear power plant, sparking a bitter partisan feud in the opposition-dominated legislature. "We must make a rational, responsible and conscientious choice for the sake of Taiwan's posterity," Premier Chang Chun-hsiung told a news conference. Source:= Reuters http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2000/10/10272000/reu_tai_39625.asp - Nuclear Terrorism - Sabotage and Terrorism of Nuclear Power Plants ... Former nuclear weapon designer and former Deputy Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, Ted Taylor says its very easy to turn a nuclear power plant into a nuclear weapon. http://www.tmia.com/sabter.html and http://www.tmia.com/Taylor1.ra - Greenpeace eyes Russian referendum on nuclear waste=20 RUSSIA: October 25, 2000=20 MOSCOW - Environmental group Greenpeace said yesterday it had collected= enough signatures to force President Vladimir Putin to call a referendum on= Russia's plans to go into the nuclear waste disposal and storage market.=20 http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3D8664 - During the test operation of the Temel=EDn unit 1 nuclear power plant= (Czech Republic), all of 4 feedwater pumps failed on Oct. 27. If this would have happened during full operation, this would have been a very serious= incident. For details, see:=20 http://www.temelin.at/tem_st2710.html (in German). [From: mailto:uranium@t-online.de (Peter Diehl)] - Re: USA's Water Could End Up Radioactive [From: Don Finch ] Go to the Google search engine and enter the search phrase=20 .=20 Just one of the URLs referenced: THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI Enter in your text search. This will take you to references to at least 15 aquifers that have been contaminated already. This, in addition to contaminated waterways (surface water). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 EXCERPTS REFERRING TO WATERWAYS:=20 "When the levels of radium increased in Canadian rivers as a result= of=20 uranium mining activities, the nuclear establishment obligingly increased= the=20 standard for an "acceptable level" of radium in drinking water by a factor= of=20 nine." (Dr. Gordon Edwards at the World Uranium Hearings, September, 1992):= =20 "In general, of all UMTRA Project sites, 22 sites are near surface water bodies including major rivers such as the Colorado, Dolores, San Juan and=20 Yampa. Ground water contamination in varying degrees has been observed at= all=20 but one site. Lowman, Idaho is the only site where ground water= contamination=20 does not exist. Milling at the Mexican Hat, Utah, and the Ambrosia Lake, New= =20 Mexico, sites created areas saturated with contaminated ground water in=20 geological formations that previously did not contain ground water."=20 You may also want to enter the search phrase . Go to: ; In the site search engine, enter ; This will lead you to: #69 - Landfilling Low-Level Radioactive Waste Is A Problem For All States, March 21, 1988.=20 ______________________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! * Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm ______________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.