From: Carah Lynn Ong Subject: (abolition-usa) April Action for Peace Date: 02 Apr 2001 17:01:22 -0600 APRIL ACTION for PEACE OAK RIDGE TENNESSEE APRIL 7-8 2001 Come to the last full-scale operating nuclear weapons production plant in the United States, the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Say "NO!" to US global domination and nuclear weapons. BWXT and Bechtel will make $534 million dollars a year from weapons work at Y-12 alone. The Department of Energy along with BWXT-Y-12 wants to spend a minimum of $4 billion to rebuild the bomb plant. This would enable them to do 10 times as much weapons work as current levels as well as go back into full scale production of NEW nuclear weapons! http://www.stopthebombs.org/calendar/AprilAction2001.html for more information about the April 8th Action for Peace at the gates of Y-12 http://www.stopthebombs.org/orepa/directions.html for directions The Stop the Bombs campaign aims to end nuclear weapons production at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge and to build a permanent presence for peace through the development of nonviolent community. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Information sought re: nuclear testing in Brazil Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Dear friends, I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination throughout the region. If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? Thank you. Peace... Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles F Hilfenhaus Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Date: 04 Apr 2001 18:52:49 EDT Dear Sally, Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests. According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. Argus I at S38.5W11.5 on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7 on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles. All of them, especially Argus I, would have been visible in Brazil. These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the South Atlantic. Charlie Hilfenhaus chilfenhaus@juno.com On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light writes: >Dear friends, > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, >who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination >throughout >the region. > >If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > >Thank you. > >Peace... > >Sally Light >Executive Director >Nevada Desert Experience > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >---------------------~-~> >Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep >in touch. 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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: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Date: 04 Apr 2001 20:20:58 +0100 Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - Sally. Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > Dear Sally, > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests. > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles. > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been visible in Brazil. > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the > South Atlantic. > Charlie Hilfenhaus > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > writes: > >Dear friends, > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish, > >who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination > >throughout > >the region. > > > >If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Peace... > > > >Sally Light > >Executive Director > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Sign-on to letter RE: Irradiation of school lunches Date: 05 Apr 2001 21:01:21 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:14 PM Apologies for cross postings. Dear Fellow Anti-Food Irradiation Campaigners, Today the Bush administration indicated that the government will likely purchase irradiated meat for schools. Please sign-on to this letter to Ann Veneman, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, indicating this is unacceptable. Please send your name and organization to Jessica Vallette Revere, jvrevere@citizen.org, by Wednesday, April 11. Thanks for all of your hard work and continued support. Sincerely, Jessica Vallette Revere Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program Food Irradiation Campaign 202-454-5174 www.citizen.org/cmep April 5, 2001 Honorable Ann Veneman, Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture 14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20250 Dear Secretary Veneman: We, the undersigned, are writing to oppose any action taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the purchase of irradiated beef for the National School Lunch Program, and approving the use of irradiation to treat meat that is used in that program. We strongly urge you to reverse your position for the following reasons: =B7 Notwithstanding the approval granted by the Food and Drug Administration and by your department, food irradiation has not been proven to be safe for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration failed to follow its own protocol for approving irradiation as a food additive in accordance with 21 CFR 170.20 and 170.22. Until the FDA completes its work on this technology, no further approval should be granted by any U.S. government agency on the use of irradiation. =B7 The World Health Organization is currently conducting studies on the harmful effects of 2-DCB, a chemical that is formed when meat is irradiated. There has been at least one study conducted by German scientists that has shown that this chemical can cause significant DNA damage in rats (citation of German study). Until these studies are completed, the U.S. government should cease its approval of irradiation. =B7 Irradiating food causes it to lose key vitamins and vital enzymes, such as vitamins A, B1, C, K, and E. =B7 Current labeling regulations do not require restaurants, hospitals or schools to inform consumers that food that they have prepared has been irradiated. Students and parents will not be informed that the meat prepared in school cafeterias has been irradiated unless the school personnel take the initiative to inform them of this fact. Your action is putting school districts in the unenviable position of deceiving parents and students by not informing them that meats in the school lunch program have been irradiated. They have a right to know what is being fed to them. =B7 Your proposed action fails to address the need for improved sanitary conditions in slaughtering and processing facilities, and in the handling of food within school cafeterias. It is a placebo. Irradiating food will not make it safer if the conditions under which it is slaughtered, processed and prepared is unsanitary. Your proposed actions are irresponsible. Instead of ensuring that the food we feed consumers, and in particular, our children is safe and wholesome, you seem to be more interested in increasing industry profits and making it easier for it to shirk its responsibility to consumers. Your action is a bail-out of the food irradiation industry that is facing a skeptical consuming public about the safety of its products. We strongly urge you to reverse your position on this important public health issue. Sincerely, Your Group COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE FARM SANCTUARY GLOBAL RESOURCE ACTION CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (GRACE) HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CATHOLIC RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION PUBLIC CITIZEN' CRITICAL MASS ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM STANDING FOR TRUTH ABOUT RADIATION (STAR) - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vernon Brechin Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Date: 06 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT) 04/06/01 Sally, Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is probably right since at 300 miles altitude the flash would have been visible at a great distance. Most likely, the radioactive debris, including kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and then over vast areas of the earth's surface. Its also likely that much of the debris was caught in the earth's magnetic fields which resulted in the transport of the debris to the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. A great many geo-physicist were really pissed by these U.S. DoD experiments with what they considered to be a pristine near-space laboratory. A recently released video documentary, "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," describes some of the history of the U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the source at http://www.vce.com. The video is also obtainable from on-line mail-order firms such as Amazon.com. Much later there was some interest in using nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel some rivers near the northern border of Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. Vernon Brechin Nuke Blast History Researcher Mountain View, CA, USA --- Sally Light wrote: > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > Sally. > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > Dear Sally, > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > have found your tests. > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > 1992 three tests, Argus > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > altitude of 300 miles. > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > visible in Brazil. > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > tests conducted in the > > South Atlantic. > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > writes: > > >Dear friends, > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > of a Catholic parish, > > >who, for several years has been seeking > information about a secret US > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > skies over northeastern > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > contamination > > >throughout > > >the region. > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > other such tests carried > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > >Sally Light > > >Executive Director > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! 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Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vernon Brechin Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil Date: 06 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT) 04/06/01 Sally, Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is probably right since at 300 miles altitude the flash would have been visible at a great distance. Most likely, the radioactive debris, including kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and then over vast areas of the earth's surface. Its also likely that much of the debris was caught in the earth's magnetic fields which resulted in the transport of the debris to the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. A great many geo-physicist were really pissed by these U.S. DoD experiments with what they considered to be a pristine near-space laboratory. A recently released video documentary, "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," describes some of the history of the U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the source at http://www.vce.com. The video is also obtainable from on-line mail-order firms such as Amazon.com. Much later there was some interest in using nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel some rivers near the northern border of Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. Vernon Brechin Nuke Blast History Researcher Mountain View, CA, USA --- Sally Light wrote: > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > Sally. > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > Dear Sally, > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > have found your tests. > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > 1992 three tests, Argus > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > altitude of 300 miles. > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > visible in Brazil. > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > tests conducted in the > > South Atlantic. > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > writes: > > >Dear friends, > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > of a Catholic parish, > > >who, for several years has been seeking > information about a secret US > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > skies over northeastern > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > contamination > > >throughout > > >the region. > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > other such tests carried > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > >Sally Light > > >Executive Director > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the > > >account you wish to be subscribed to: > > >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~-~> > > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to > keep > > in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million > registered > > high school alumni--chances are you'll find your > friends! > > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7qNVlB/TM > > > > > > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > an email from the account you wish to be subscribed > to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the > body of the message. > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to > "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the > message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and > old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in > your message. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! 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Vernon Brechin wrote: > 04/06/01 > Sally, > > Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is > probably right since at 300 miles altitude > the flash would have been visible at a > great distance. > > Most likely, the radioactive debris, including > kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was > dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and > then over vast areas of the earth's surface. > Its also likely that much of the debris was > caught in the earth's magnetic fields which > resulted in the transport of the debris to > the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions. > > A great many geo-physicist were really pissed > by these U.S. DoD experiments with > what they considered to be a pristine > near-space laboratory. > > A recently released video documentary, > "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs," > describes some of the history of the > U.S. high-altitude nuke tests. See the > source at http://www.vce.com. The video is > also obtainable from on-line mail-order > firms such as Amazon.com. > > Much later there was some interest in using > nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel > some rivers near the northern border of > Brazil. That proposal didn't get far. > > Vernon Brechin > Nuke Blast History Researcher > Mountain View, CA, USA > > > ------------------------------------------------- > --- Sally Light wrote: > > Thank you, Charlie. Your information will be part > > of a compilation of responses to my query. Peace - > > Sally. > > > > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote: > > > > > Dear Sally, > > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I > > have found your tests. > > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to > > 1992 three tests, Argus > > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic. > > Argus I at S38.5W11.5 > > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and > > Argus III at S48.5W9.7 > > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an > > altitude of 300 miles. > > > All of them, especially Argus I, would have been > > visible in Brazil. > > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear > > tests conducted in the > > > South Atlantic. > > > Charlie Hilfenhaus > > > chilfenhaus@juno.com > > > > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light > > > > > writes: > > > >Dear friends, > > > > > > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor > > of a Catholic parish, > > > >who, for several years has been seeking > > information about a secret US > > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the > > skies over northeastern > > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive > > contamination > > > >throughout > > > >the region. > > > > > > > >If you have any information about this or any > > other such tests carried > > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me? > > > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > > > >Peace... > > > > > > > >Sally Light > > > >Executive Director > > > >Nevada Desert Experience > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > > > >To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send > > an email from the > > > >account you wish to be subscribed to: > > > >"abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > > > > > > > > > >Do not include a subject line or any text in the > > body of the message. > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > > less! > > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ---------------------~-~> > > > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to > > keep > > > in touch. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: NEWS release...Peace Walk] Date: 06 Apr 2001 14:19:10 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com ([207.69.200.110]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id tcl1i0.bia.37tiu4s Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nde (pool-63.53.33.213.irvn.grid.net [63.53.33.213]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA19458; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:22:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20010403193049.006c513c@pop2.igc.org> X-Sender: nde@pop2.igc.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Cc: abolition-caucus@egroups.com, abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear People~ Here's the news--thanx for listening/reading/acting upon it! =========================================== 3 April 2001 from: NevadaDesertExperience.org NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marc Page Phone: 702 646 4814 INTERFAITH DESERT PEACE WALK IS A PRAYER TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHO: Peace activists from around the U.S., organized by Nevada Desert Experience (NDE). WHAT: Five-day interfaith pilgrimage, walking from Las Vegas to the Nevada Test Site. WHERE: Starting at the Department of Energy parking lot ( 232 Energy Way, @ Losee Road, just north of Carey) and ending @ the Mercury entrance of the Nevada Test Site (60 miles from Las Vegas, NV on I-95) WHEN: On Sunday the 8th of April 2001 NDE hosts a 9:00 am Prayer service in front of the D.o.E. building in Las Vegas, NV. The Peace Walkers begin to walk @ 9:30. They arrive @ the Test Site on Friday April 13th. WHY: In solidarity with the Western Shoshone Nation, people of various faith traditions consistently gather in the desert to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In recent years, people have come from Belgium, Japan, Canada, Germany, Australia and England to join the NDE Peace Walks to the Nevada Test Site, held each Spring. They believe their prayers are essential in ridding the world of the nuclear curse. The Test Site currently accepts regular shipments of low-level nuclear waste, and conducts nuclear weapons related testing, to maintain and improve the U.S. nuclear arsenal & threat. NDE and individual "nuclear abolitionists" are quick to point out that the Test Site is unlawfully operating on Western Shoshone land, according to the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863. Over 1000 nuclear explosions have been detonated there, and the U.S. continues to conduct underground subcritical nuclear experiments, in which plutonium is blasted to pieces by high explosives, wherein any possible fissions won't be self-sustaining. "But the amount of money and commitment to nuclear weapons maintenance is greater now than during the Cold War, so faith-based activists must continue to pray together while cultivating appreciation of the natural beauty and power of the Creator as manifest in the desert," says Marc Page, local organizer with NDE. "I'm very offended by the way our society profits from the pathological nuclear weapons indstry." Each day the group of walkers will hold a vigil for the employees driving to or from the Test Site. The walkers are calling attention to the illegality and immorality of U.S. nuclear policy. One of the Canadian pilgrims, Shan Raventree, says, "As a mother I believe that righteousness and peace must kiss. The downfall of our people is not simply that we've forsaken the truth and the natural world; our downfall is in CONTINUING in these irresponsible ways. We need to embrace God's plans for the proper care of the earth and of our own human bodies." This Peace Walk will arrive at the N.T.S. on April 13th (Good Friday). On Friday, April 21st, the group of walkers will commemorate the victims of radioactive warfare through the "Nuclear Stations Of The Cross" at the Mercury Gate of the Nevada Test Site. This 7th annual NDE Peace Walk is part of a larger faith-based campaign to stop the radioactive violence and global threats to peace committed by the U.S. #30 _____________________________________ http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org PO Box 46645 Las Vegas NV 89114-6645 phone 702 646 4814 nde@igc.org ===================================== P.S. We expect two dozen Peace Walkers this year (twice as big of an event as last year). Tikkun, Shundahai & Agape, Marc P. B. Page P.S. If you're in Las Vegas, please come to wish our Peace Walkers a farewell next Sunday, April 8th @ 9:00am @ the D.o.E. building on Losee Rd. See this portion of our website for further info: http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org/nextEVENT.html <\><\><\><\><\><\><\> TELEPHONE IS THE BEST WAY TO REACH US 702 646 4814 NevadaDesertExperience.org POB 46645 Las Vegas NV 89114-6645 USA http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org <\><\><\><\><\><\><\> --------------960989D32D761D0FE97F2269-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Message to Peace Walk Date: 07 Apr 2001 09:28:59 +0100 Dear Rieko, Thank you for your message of solidarity. We appreciate hearing from you and extend our warmest regards to the Japan Council Against A & H Bombs, as well as to everyone participating in your 3-month-long march. August 5 - 9, 2001, we are having our August Desert Witness at the Nevada Test Site, and will announce the details later regarding this event. I will circulate your kind message to our Board of Directors in case anyone of them might be able to attend either your march and/or your 2001 World Conference Against A & H Bombs. We are definitely interested in working more closely with you in future. Perhaps I and/or members of our Board might be able to attend your Conference this year. I will look into this possibility. Could you send details about this event? I will also check your web site for information. We also would be most interested in your coming to our future events. Yours for a safe and nuclear-free future, Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Las Vegas Office: P.O. Box 46645, Las Vegas, NV 89114-6645, USA. Tel: (702) 646-4814. California Office: P.O. Box 7849, Oakland, CA 94601, USA. Tel.: (510) 849-1540. Web Site: www.NevadaDesertExperience.org Email: nde@igc.org; sallight1@earthlink.net Antiatom wrote: > To: Nevada Desert Experience > > Dear friends, > > We send our warmest greetings of solidarity to all the marchers joining the > Peace Walk starting from Las Vegas on April 8 to Nevada Test Site. We join > you in your effort and struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons and end > all sufferings caused by the past and ongoing development and production of > nuclear weapons. > > "Nuclear weapons states must fulfill their promise to abolish nuclear > weapons!" is the common voice of all the people who are working in many > different parts of the world to ensure the future of humanity and the > planet. With this slogan, in Japan, the 2001 Nationwide Peace March will > start from the museum of the Fifth Lucky Dragon in Tokyo, a victim fishing > boat of the 1954 Bikini Hydrogen Bomb Test. Joined by 100,000 people on 11 > major routes and spreading the message for abolitioh on the way, the marches > will proceed throughout Japan for 3 months to reach Hiroshima and Nagasaki > in August, to join the 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs. > > We send all our best wishes for the success of your Peace Walk and good > health of all the marchers. We send our support also to the people of > Western Shoshone Nation in their resistence and effort to regain the > integrity and health of their land and the people. > > We hope our cooperative efforts will develop further, and look forward to > welcoming you in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the World Conference against A & > H Bombs. > > Yours in peace, > > Rieko Asato > Japan Gensuikyo > ================================================= > Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) > 6-19-23 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004 Japan > Tel: +81-3-3436-3205 Fax: +81-3-3431-8781 > Email: antiatom@twics.com > Web Site: http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/ > ================================================= - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/04/09 - important Date: 09 Apr 2001 07:43:13 -0400 [NucNews archives are posted through April 5, 2001 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.=20 Here are two chilling articles from today's Washington Times. You may= recall that Dick Cheney, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, was quoted as saying, "Now the only war we have left is the drug war." Mr. Cheney may be looking for another war? Time, maybe, to get on the phones to the White= House and suggest GWB should cool down Cheney's rhetoric, and remember, when screaming "foul!" that the U.S. is still doing underground "subcritical" nuclear testing. White House - 202-456-1111-0] 1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test 2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S. ------- 1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test=20 By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001 http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149224735.htm China is preparing to conduct a small, underground nuclear test in the= midst of a standoff with the United States over the detention of 24 American= military personnel, The Washington Times has learned.=20 U.S. intelligence officials said the EP-3E surveillance aircraft that= collided with a Chinese interceptor jet April 1 was gathering electronic intelligence related to the impending test, along with other intelligence targets. The= test preparations were detected two weeks ago at China's Lop Nur testing facility= in western Xinjiang province. They were based on U.S. spy satellite photographs that showed activity related to nuclear testing at one location of the= testing site. One official said the underground blast could be another in a series of "subcritical" nuclear tests =97 small explosions that do not produce an= actual nuclear yield but are useful in weapons development and maintenance.= However, other officials familiar with intelligence reports said the Chinese are= known to have a covert testing program that relies on small, or low-yield, nuclear explosions. In 1996, China became a signatory to an international treaty banning all underground nuclear blasts. U.S. intelligence officials said suspicions about the secret Chinese= nuclear testing program were confirmed after agents from Beijing purchased special nuclear containment equipment from Russia several years ago. The special equipment is known to be used in masking the seismic signatures= of nuclear explosions =97 like the small blast China set off June 1999, days= before a senior U.S. diplomat delivered an apology to Beijing for the mistaken= bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the air war there. The timing of that test, which took place at Lop Nur, was viewed as an intentional signal from Beijing, which had cut off all military contacts= with the United States and had begun vitriolic attacks on the United States in= the government-controlled media. Although the test preparations were spotted before the showdown between= China and the United States began, officials did not rule out a connection to= China's stepped-up aggressive harassment of U.S. intelligence and plans for the= test. China is opposing Bush administration plans for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan= and plans for deployment of a national missile defense, and it has been engaged= in a concerted effort to influence U.S. policies, said defense and intelligence officials. A test during the current standoff would signal China's growing nuclear= power, said the officials. A U.S. defense official said the testing activity at the current time is a sign that China's leader, President Jiang Zemin, may not be fully in= control. "Some say Jiang is a moderate who wants good relations with the United States," the official said. "If that's the case, this test during a= difficult period with the United States indicates he is not in control of China." The EP-3E conducts signals intelligence operations that are aimed at collecting large amounts of communications and other electric signals. The aircraft left from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, and flew south along= the Chinese coast until its encounter with two Chinese interceptor jets near= Hainan Island. The aircraft's sensitive listening equipment is capable of picking up communications thousands of miles inland, including any signals from Lop= Nur, the main Chinese nuclear testing facility, intelligence officials said. The U.S. intelligence community also uses RC-135 reconnaissance flights and spy satellites to collect intelligence from Lop Nur. It also has "sniffer" aircraft that can detect any nuclear particles produced from nuclear tests after they take place. China in the past has used tests of its missiles and nuclear weapons as political signals to the United States. China is currently engaged in a= major strategic weapons buildup. Last year, it conducted two flight tests of a new road-mobile long-range missile known as the DF-31. China also is building a longer-range missile known as the DF-41 and a new class of ballistic missile submarine that will be equipped with a naval= version of the DF-31. China last conducted large-scale nuclear tests in 1996. It announced later that year it was agreeing to the international nuclear test= ban known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. U.S. intelligence agencies assessed the 1996 tests to be the first blasts= of a new small warhead =97 believed based on the design of the W-88, the United States' most advanced small nuclear warhead, obtained through espionage. Although China signed the test ban treaty, it has not ratified it. The U.S. Senate rejected the pact in 1999. The State Department said at the time of the Senate debate that U.S. ratification of the treaty would "constrain" China's nuclear weapons modernization because any information on U.S. nuclear testing obtained by Chinese spies could not be used without= first conducting nuclear tests. "China is not likely to rely on weapons incorporating information obtained through espionage without first conducting nuclear explosive tests," the department said in a 1999 fact sheet. The fact sheet also stated that China said when it signed the test ban= treaty in 1996 that "it would continue to evaluate the safety and reliability of= its nuclear weapons. . . . We believe that China has initiated such a program at its Lop Nur test site." China has refused to permit international monitoring at its nuclear weapons test facilities =97a key reason Senate Republicans rejected the test ban= treaty as unverifiable. Negotiators failed to include provisions in the treaty that would allow precise monitoring near Lop Nur. Despite the Senate's rejection of the treaty, the Bush administration is seeking $21 million for international monitoring of the defunct treaty, a= sign treaty proponents are operating outside the control of administration= political appointees. "It's the Clinton bureaucracy doing this, and it shows the Bush= administration hasn't reined them in," said one U.S. official. The continued nuclear test efforts by China show "China could never be a reliable treaty partner" since= it announced in 1996 that it would no longer test, this official said. --- 2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S.=20 By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001 http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149233026.htm The Bush administration stepped up pressure on China yesterday, warning Beijing that continuing to hold the crew of a downed U.S. military aircraft captive is damaging relations.=20 Vice President Richard B. Cheney repeated U.S. "regrets" for the loss of a Chinese pilot and said the United States has nothing to apologize for. "It's important to recognize that every day that goes by without resolution= of this does lead to the possible risk =97 lasting damage, if you will =97 to= the relationship between the United States and China," Mr. Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Cheney would not say what penalties would be imposed on China for its failure to release the 24 detained Americans who made an emergency landing= in southern China aboard a damaged EP-3E surveillance aircraft that collided= with an intercepting Chinese F-8 jet over international waters. Pressures on the Bush administration intensified, too. Mr. Cheney insisted that the 24 American crewmen are not hostages, as Rep. Henry J. Hyde,= Illinois Republican and chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said= on Saturday they were. He said they're "detainees." When he was asked about an editorial in the Weekly Standard, suggesting that the incident had the= making of a "national humiliation" for the United States, Mr. Cheney snapped that= the editorial was an attempt to "sell magazines." He called the editorial "disreputable." Secretary of State Colin Powell, on another television program, called the editorial "absurd." Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, said he too regards the crewmen as "detainees," but not for long. "In two or three days, I'm going= to call them hostages. . . . We're getting precariously close to that." Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican and chairman of the Senate= Intelligence Committee, said China could become an adversary. "The incidents that we are going through right now . . . is probably one of many for the future," Mr. Shelby said. "We have to look at China realistically. A lot of people haven't." Mr.= Shelby has been a critic of U.S. intelligence for its overly benign analysis of= China. On the southern Chinese island of Haikou, where the Americans are being= held, the top U.S. military officer in China, Brig. Gen. Neal Sealock, said U.S. officials were "hopeful" China would today begin granting daily access to= the crew. "This morning, our desire remains the same. Our request is for unfettered access to the crew on a daily basis and, in fact, twice a day," he told reporters. "Our purpose for that is to continue to monitor the treatment of the crew= and to continue to observe what has taken place. We're hopeful for that to take place today and every day following." In Beijing, the official military newspaper, Liberation Army Daily,= repeated a demand that the United States halt all surveillance flights over Chinese territory. "China has the right to fully and thoroughly investigate this entire= incident, including the American military aircraft and the people in charge of it,"= the newspaper said. "The U.S. government should . . . immediately stop all= military surveillance activities off the Chinese coast." Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian early today added his voice to the Chinese leaders demanding an apology. "The U.S. should apologize to the Chinese people and take effective= measures to avoid another similar matter from happening," said Gen. Chi, who is also vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party organ that controls the Chinese military. His comments were reported in today's editions of the official party newspaper, People's Daily. Mr. Cheney said the United States is willing to discuss the flights, but= that "in terms of our right to be there . . . that's a given and we will continue= to operate as appropriate." In a sign that negotiations are continuing at high levels, U.S. Ambassador= to China Joseph Prueher met privately yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister= Tang Jiaxuan in the latest round of diplomatic meetings to end the impasse. U.S. diplomats met with eight crewmen yesterday, although Brig. Gen.= Sealock had asked to see all 24. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, said on CNN's "Late Edition" that it "isn't helpful" that Gen. Sealock's request to meet= with the entire crew was rejected. Mr. Powell repeated U.S. "regrets" and used the word "sorry" to describe= his feelings over the loss of the Chinese pilot. He made it clear once more that the United States would not accept responsibility for the incident and "therefore won't apologize for that." A senior administration official said yesterday's television talk show appearances by senior national security officials was meant as a signal to Beijing. "The message is: There is a closing window for the Chinese to still salvage this," the official said. "But they could have done it right away by releasing the crew." Several congressional delegations scheduled to visit China were canceled Saturday to protest, and congressional aides said legislation punishing= Beijing is likely to follow if the impasse is not resolved. Mr. Powell, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," declined to say how the administration would punish China but said "whatever price the Chinese ultimately pay, they are making it worse in terms of delaying this= situation." On CBS' "Face the Nation," Mr. Powell said the administration wants China= to realize that "we do regret the loss of their pilot and plane." He expressed "regret" for the U.S. plane's emergency landing on the southern Chinese= island that "violated their airspace." He urged Beijing to "look at the emergency circumstances that the pilot was facing." Nevertheless, U.S.-China relations were being hurt by the incident. "The relationship is being damaged," Mr. Powell said. "The damage can be undone.= But in order for the damage to be undone and no further damage to occur, we have got to bring this matter to a close as soon as possible." The United States has a trade deficit with China estimated at more than $80 billion, and some members of Congress have called for the imposition of= trade sanctions to act as leverage. Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political= strategist, said last week that trade sanctions against Beijing were not being= considered "at this point." Meanwhile, Mr. Bush has written a letter to the wife of the lost pilot,= Wang Wei. The letter from the president to Ruan Guoqin is being sent as a humanitarian gesture, U.S. officials said. Mrs. Ruan wrote that the= president was "too cowardly" to apologize. Mr. Powell said the reply was meant to= respond to a "widow who is grieving. Whatever you think about the politics of it,= she's lost her husband." Miss Rice said the president's letter was not a shift in U.S. policy. "The president is taking the high ground here, and he is simply responding to the expression of grief, and nothing else," she said. The administration had offered China "a way to have a discussion about the facts." Other U.S. officials said the administration is proposing to convene a= meeting under a 1998 U.S.-China agreement on military maritime incidents. Mr. Powell said the United States still supports China's bid to join the= World Trade Organization, but another congressional vote on normal trade relations status with that country might not pass. Congress approved permanent normal trade status for China last year, despite its arms sales to rogue states and its continuing poor record on human rights. Meanwhile, a Hong Kong newspaper reported last night that a Chinese F-8 pilot that shadowed the EP-3E asked= for permission to shoot down the unarmed surveillance plane. F-8 pilot Zhao Yu was told by ground controllers not to take any action against the U.S. military aircraft, the South China Morning Post quoted unidentified "Chinese sources" in Beijing as saying. "The officials at ground control were cool-headed," the newspaper quoted= one source as saying. "Zhao could have shot the plane down but that would have meant the death of 24 U.S. airmen. It would have been an act of war, whereas the collision was an accident." China's official media continued to criticize the United States. The= state-run Xinhua news agency reported that people throughout China continued "to= angrily condemn the hegemonist action of a U.S. military reconnaissance plane." ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.com OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites - DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.org Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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) Join President Gorbachev, President Carter and Others in Date: 09 Apr 2001 15:07:15 -0400 Dear Friend, By retracting his commitment to reducing carbon emissions 2 weeks ago and cutting funding for energy efficiency programs yesterday, President George W. Bush has dealt a real blow to efforts to stem climate change and create a smart energy policy for our country. This week in TIME Magazine, President Mikhail Gorbachev -- head of Green Cross International -- co-signed a letter with President Jimmy Carter, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Harrison Ford and others to President Bush. Saying that 'no challenge we face is more momentous than the threat of global climate change,' the leaders urge President Bush to 'develop a plan to reduce U.S. production of greenhouse gases' as 'the future of our children=97and their children=97depends on the resolve that (President Bush) shows.' (You can see the letter at: http://www.globalgreen.org/news/archives2.cfm?id=3D25&bgt=3D33e3r9jfkdl) Please write to President Bush today (SEE DRAFT LETTER BELOW) urging him to reinstate funding for proven energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that reduce electricity demand and ensure cleaner air. Combined with the recent reversal of a commitment to reduce carbon emissions, the US under President Bush is accelerating the adverse effects of climate change. Please copy and forward this message, urging others to write to President Bush as well. Thank you. Sincerely, Matt Petersen Executive Director Global Green USA the American affiliate of Green Cross International =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D (copy and paste the letter below. Send by mail on your letterhead or by email to president@whitehouse.gov =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Honorable George Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush: I commend your effort to increase funding for low-income energy efficiency programs announced this week. However, if your proposed cuts to other energy efficiency programs are allowed to stand, $25 billion in annual savings to consumers will be lost and millions of tons of pollution will be added to our atmosphere. It is in your power to avoid this serious blow to our children's health and slowing economy. I am also gravely concerned with your reversal on reducing carbon emissions in the US. We must take our responsibility as the world's remaining super power seriously, and work to improve the Kyoto Protocol rather than opposing it. Our nation can be more competitively economically while helping create a healthier future for our children if we address the challenge of climate change now. =20 Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest way to help stem the adverse affects of climate change while increasing our nation's energy supply. Research and deployment of wind, solar and geothermal energy technologies are essential to providing a reliable and affordable electricity supply over the coming decades. We must commit to energy efficiency -- including higher standards for clotheswashers, water heaters, and central air conditioners as well as our homes and buildings -- to help the American public save money in their electricity bills. Combined with a significant commitment to renewable energy, we can help reduce demand and slow the growing impact of climate change. President Bush, take strong action today to reduce carbon emissions and other pollution by emphasizing efficiency and renewables in our nation's energy policy and budget. Please do not endanger the health of our families by relying on polluting fossil fuels whose price volatility also threaten the pocket books of the American people. Sincerely, If you would like to change your preferences or unsubscribe at=20 any time, please go to the following URL:=20 http://www.globalgreen.org/news/pref.cfm?uid=3D92773359728200093054322163525= . - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "globalnet@mindspring.com" (by way of ASlater ) Subject: (abolition-usa) [abolition-caucus] SPACE ORGANIZING TRIP REPORT Date: 09 Apr 2001 17:31:04 -0400 Friends, I've just returned from a couple of weeks of intense travel that took me to Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, and Ohio. These trips were largely done to promote our October 13 "International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space." My stop in Pennsylvania was to the congressional district of major Star Wars promoter Rep. Kurt Weldon (Republican). Our friends there are working hard to organize opposition to Lockheed Martin's facilities in Valley Forge, PA. and Moorestown, N.J. and plan to hold actions there on October 13. The Brandywine Peace Community will coordinate those efforts. Thanks to Scotty & Bill Stewart Whistler for arranging that visit. In New Orleans I spoke at Loyola University at an event organized by Rev. Tom Warren of the United Church of Christ. He is now coordinating efforts to hold actions at the Stennis Missile Center in Mississippi (the new test facility for the space-based laser -- a $30 billion testing program that will lead to a first flight test around 2012.) Protests will be held there for the first time ever this coming May 13 (Mothers Day) and on October 13. Tom took me to Mississippi to check out the Stennis Center (in the southwest corner of the state) that is basically in a swamp near the Gulf coast. We all send our best wishes to our new friends in Louisiana. My mid-west trip was coordinated by Cleveland Peace Action and took me to Detroit in Michigan and Yellow Springs, Toledo, Columbus, Kent, Akron, and Cleveland in Ohio. While on the trip I spoke at four college campuses (Antioch, Kent State, University of Akron, and Cleveland State University) and one high school in Columbus. The Detroit meeting, organized by Sigrid Dale of Michigan Peace Action, had the largest turnout on the trip. They got a full page interview with me published in the Detroit Metro News (thanks to Keith Gunter) in advance of my speaking event. I also did a radio spot there. While in Cleveland I also met with people to plan for a joint Global Network and Cleveland Peace Action event from October 12-14 in that city. We will hold a major "Keep Space for Peace" conference at Cleveland State University on October 13 and organize protest vigils at the national headquarters of TRW in town on October 12 & 14. TRW is working on the airborne laser and THEL systems for Theatre Missile Defense (TMD) and the space-based laser. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is also part of the development team for the nuclear rocket. Our goal is to draw people from the region to the October 13 conference in Cleveland as well as a sprinkling of others from around the country. Even though we are strongly encouraging local actions on October 13 we feel it important to have one event as a centerpiece for the day in the U.S. so that we can "highlight" another key space facility (just as we helped to do at Vandenberg AFB in California last October 7.) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has agreed to speak at the October 13 Cleveland conference. Some of the other speakers will include: Karl Grossman, Joseph Gerson (AFSC), Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space in Colorado), Patricia Mische (Antioch College professor of Peace Studies), Bruce Gagnon, and Mike McMurray (PAND in Cleveland). I will return to Ohio on September 17-24 for another speaking tour to promote the October 12-14 events and to meet again with the local organizing committee. We are now gathering co-sponsors for the Cleveland event (any donations of $25 or more are required for groups to be listed as an event co-sponsor.) A brochure advertising this event will be forthcoming. Special thanks to Francis Chiappa and Don McPherson in Cleveland for all their hard work and support. Bruce K. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Date: 11 Apr 2001 12:05:00 -0400 >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:19:49 -0400 >Subject: Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Standards! >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: "NPETRIE@citizen.org" > >Oppose the Dismantling of International Food Irradiation Standards! > >On March 16, the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants >(CCFAC), which advises the Codex Alimentarius ("Food Code") Commission, >approved a proposal that would remove virtually every assurance that >irradiated food will be of good quality, be handled by trained workers, >and be processed under safe and clean conditions in government-inspected >facilities. > >The proposal is now about half-way through the steps required for final >Codex approval. Codex sets food safety standards for over 160 countries, >representing 97% of the world's population. It is operated by the World >Health Organization and the United Nations. Codex standards are >enforceable by the World Trade Organization. > >The proposal would amend the Codex's 22-year-old food irradiation standard >by stating that food companies "should" rather than "shall" comply with >the standards. Many of the changes were proposed without any advance >notice and approved at meetings that were closed to the public. > >The Implications: > >* Irradiated food standards in the U.S., which are much stricter than what >the Codex is proposing, could be challenged through the World Trade >Organization (WTO). A successful challenge could pressure the U.S. to >weaken its standards. > >* Irradiated food would no longer have to be "of suitable quality," in >"acceptable hygienic condition," or "handled ... according to good >manufacturing practices." > >* Food irradiation facilities would no longer have to comply with "safety" >and "good hygiene practices," or be staffed by "adequate, trained and >competent personnel." > >* Food irradiation facilities would not have to be licensed or inspected >by government officials, or maintain certain records on radioactive >activities. > >* Food irradiation would no longer have to be carried out "commensurate >with . . . technological and public health purposes," or conducted "in >accordance with good radiation processing practice." > >* Numerous U.S. food and nuclear safety regulations could be at risk. >These include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rules requiring all >irradiation facilities using radioactive material to be licensed and >regularly inspected; the Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules requiring >beef, pork and poultry products to meet certain quality standards; and the >USDA and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules requiring food to be >processed under hygienic conditions. > >CCFAC also endorsed removing the Codex's current irradiation dose limit of >10 kiloGray, which is the equivalent of about 330 million chest X-rays. >When food is exposed to such doses of ionizing radiation, the flavor, >texture, odor, nutritional integrity and chemical composition of food can >be significantly corrupted. Very few of the new chemicals that are formed >in irradiated food have been studied for toxicity. Most U.S. foods are >dosed with between 1 and 7.5 kiloGray. > >The proposal will be debated by the full Codex Commission, which meets >July 2-7 in Geneva. > >U.S. meat inspector chief, Thomas Billy, who is the chairman of the Codex >Alimentarius Commission, has allowed your health and safety to be >threatened. The shortcomings of the U.S. meat inspection service should >not be projected onto the world. Tell him you will not stand for this. > > >Let the U.S. Codex representatives know that this proposal is unacceptable! > >Contact Information: > >Mr. Tom Billy >Chairman, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Department of Agriculture, 331-E >Jamie Whitten Bldg., Washington, DC 20250-3700 > >Phone: 202-720-7025, Fax: 202-690-0550 >E-mail: Tom.billy@usda.gov > > >Dr. F. 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The plan downgrades international irradiation standards from >regulations to suggestions, and advocates for the removal of the current >irradiation Codex dose limit of 10 kiloGray. Currently the maximum dose >limit for most foods in the U.S. stands at 7.5 kiloGray. > >I assume, since you function as a representative of the United States to >the Codex Alimentarius Commission, you are concerned about the welfare of >the public. Please do not compromise the well being of my family or of >families throughout the world. > >Do not allow this proposal to be accepted. > >Sincerely, > >Your Name >Your Address > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----__JNP_000_200d.5577.2c15 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net id OAA12867 Do you agree?=20 (1) Yes (2) No (3) Not Sure Your comment (optional): =20 PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY=20 Unshaken belief pulls clown-suited priest to missile silo When I grow up, I want to be like Carl Kabat.=20 Oh, but I know I'll never have his guts. Or his outsized commitment to an abiding belief. Nor could I, like him, do 15 years in this nation's federal penitentiaries. And he didn't kill anyone.=20 Carl Kabat, 67, is a Roman Catholic priest. He is back in Denver, the feds yet again nipping at him, trying to stuff him in prison at least one more year.=20 He has held a mirror to their faces, which he has done for nearly 30 years. Now, as then, they don't like it.=20 This is what Rev. Kabat did: In August of last year, he donned a clown suit and scaled the fence surrounding a Minuteman III nuclear missile site about 80 miles northeast of Denver.=20 There, he placed bread, wine and a hammer on top of the silo and prayed. He is charged with entering a fenced military site without permission. Trespassing. Trial is set for April 30.=20 "We are fools and clowns for God and humanity's sake," Kabat says to explain the clown suit. "We bring bread and wine and a hammer as symbols of life in this damnable place of death."=20 I met him quite by accident a couple of months ago. He is a man embittered not at all who, when asked of the lengthy prison sentences he has endured, merely chuckles.=20 Oh, the stories he tells. His first prison stretch occurred after he participated in an anti-nuclear arms protest in Plains, Ga., shortly before Jimmy Carter was sworn in.=20 In 1980 he, along with the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, and five others were arrested in Pennsylvania for hammering on nuclear missile nose cones at a General Electric plant. That cost him seven years prison time.=20 He spent another seven years for damaging a missile silo in Kansas City with three others. On Good Friday 1994, he dawned a clown suit and did the same to a missile silo in North Dakota. It netted him another 4=20 years.=20 His graying crew cut is thinning almost to the point of nonexistence. He is missing some teeth. Laugher tumbles from his mouth as he discusses the government's attempt to silence him.=20 "They've jailed -- killed -- so many of the good ones. But we are called to do things. Sometimes, it isn't always pleasant."=20 Not once in our long conversation did he ever complain of his incarceration. He explains it this way: In 1965, he accepted a missionary assignment to the Philippines. It was there, he said, he saw the negative impact of U.S. foreign policy on poor nations.=20 He saw children in abject poverty starve to death, while its government reaped billions of U.S. aid. In 1969, he left for a four-year missionary stint in Brazil. Again, it was the same thing. "I saw a nation with limited resources spending millions buying U.S. weapons while its people suffered."=20 So, he said, he decided "to beat those swords into plowshares."=20 "If he had bent down," Denver attorney Walter Gerash told the court, "and kissed the missiles and said, "Hosanna! I love these missiles!' Would there be a case? I don't think so." Gerash is representing Kabat for free.=20 The government says Kabat trespassed, plain and simple. And should be punished.=20 I haven't done justice to the story of the Rev. Carl Kabat here. Yet if the government does prevail, know he will go to prison yet again, and without complaint.=20 And that, in a variety of ways, would be remarkable. And a bit of a sin.=20 Bill Johnson's column appears Saturday, Wednesday and Friday. Rockybj@aol.com or (303) 892-2763.=20 April 11, 2001=20 MORE JOHNSON COLUMNS =BB=20 =20 2001 =A9 The E.W. Scripps Co. Privacy Policy and User Agreement Questions? Comments? Talk to Us. =20 ----__JNP_000_2292.450c.5c08 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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When I = grow up, I=20 want to be like Carl Kabat.=20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

years.=20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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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) Good Friday + other actions/Come! Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:20:51 -0700 Friday, April 13 Good Friday Action "Not by Might" 6:45 AM, gather at Livermore Lab Corner of East Ave. and Vasco Rd. (510) 548-4141 or (925) 443-7148 The annual Good Friday service and demonstration at Livermore Lab will open with music at 6:45 AM. Speakers will begin at 7, followed by a procession to the Lab's gate, where some participants will risk arrest. A community gathering and refreshments will then be provided at Marylia's Rec Room, 5720 East Ave., near the Lab. Monday, April 16 Tax Day Leafletting at East Bay Post Offices (510) 849-3020 for details Would you like to alert your Bay Area neighbors to the high percentage of their tax payments going to the DOE and the Pentagon for weapons and war? Call Women for Peace at the number above to take part. Thursday, April 19 Tri-Valley CAREs meets 7:30 PM, Livermore Library 1000 So. Livermore Ave. (925) 443-7148 for details Do your part for peace, justice and a healthy environment. Join us for our monthly meeting this April 19. Get updates on the NIF and other nuclear issues. Help plan a community meeting on LLNL site 300 cleanup. Share your aspirations for a peaceful world. New & long-time members welcome. Bring a friend, or meet new ones there. Thursday, May 3 Tri-Valley CAREs "study group" 7 PM, Tri-Valley CAREs office 2582 Old First St., Livermore (925) 443-7148 for details We welcome Peter Strauss, an environmental scientist who advises Tri-Valley CAREs on nuclear waste and cleanup issues. He will be writing a report on plutonium pollution in the community for Tri-Valley CAREs later this year. Join Peter for a discussion covering such topics as -- What is plutonium? What are its hazards? How has it entered our environment? And, what can we do about it? May 11 - 14 "Celebrate Life and Sovereignty" Mothers Day Gathering Nevada Test Site (775) 537-6088 for details Join Shundahai and other colleague groups for a week of ceremony, learning and celebration to protect the land at the test site and Yucca Mountain -- and affirm the Western Shoshone Nation's sovereign rights. 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 sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:59:33 -0700 Dear colleagues: Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the U.S. The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the letter... April XX, 2001 The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham The Members of the United States Senate The Members of the United States House of Representatives Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our environment. One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following reasons: * NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; * NIF will create radioactive wastes; * Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; * NIF offers no commercial use; * NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing arsenal; and, * NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for your reference, and the full report is available on the web at www.greenscissors.org. Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. Respectfully, Marylia Kelley Executive Director Tri-Valley CAREs Livermore, CA YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. end of letter 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: Joan Russow Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 12 Apr 2001 17:01:10 -0700 please add my name Joan Russow PhD Global Compliance Research Project 1230 ST Patrick ST Victoria, B.C. V8S4Y4 CANADA At 04:59 PM 04/12/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Dear colleagues: > >Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that >the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under >construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your >sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if >applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on >by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to >marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 >or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA >94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the >U.S. > >The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected >officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have >already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the >letter... > >April XX, 2001 > >To: The President of the United States, George W. Bush > The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham > The Members of the United States Senate > The Members of the United States House of Representatives > >Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: > >We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," >environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter >expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released >"Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of >Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). > >"Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if >cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our >environment. > >One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser >should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing >laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities >would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of >the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." > >"Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following >reasons: > >* NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program >that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; > >* NIF will create radioactive wastes; > >* Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a >Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; > >* NIF offers no commercial use; > >* NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" >program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing >arsenal; and, > >* NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. > >The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for >your reference, and the full report is available on the web at >www.greenscissors.org. > >Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment >and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate >termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National >Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. > > >Respectfully, > >Marylia Kelley >Executive Director >Tri-Valley CAREs >Livermore, CA > >YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. >PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR >SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. > >end of letter > >Marylia Kelley >Tri-Valley CAREs >(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) >2582 Old First Street >Livermore, CA USA 94550 > > - is our web site, please visit us there! > >(925) 443-7148 - is our phone >(925) 443-0177 - is our fax > >Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley >CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear >Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the >Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the >U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink >campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. > > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 12 Apr 2001 18:11:42 -0700 Thank you much! Peace, MK >please add my name >Joan Russow PhD >Global Compliance Research Project >1230 ST Patrick ST >Victoria, B.C. V8S4Y4 >CANADA > >At 04:59 PM 04/12/2001 -0700, you wrote: >>Dear colleagues: >> >>Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that >>the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under >>construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your >>sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if >>applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on >>by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to >>marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 >>or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA >>94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the >>U.S. >> >>The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected >>officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have >>already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the >>letter... >> >>April XX, 2001 >> >>To: The President of the United States, George W. Bush >> The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham >> The Members of the United States Senate >> The Members of the United States House of Representatives >> >>Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: >> >>We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," >>environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter >>expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released >>"Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of >>Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). >> >>"Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if >>cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our >>environment. >> >>One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser >>should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing >>laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities >>would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of >>the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." >> >>"Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following >>reasons: >> >>* NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program >>that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; >> >>* NIF will create radioactive wastes; >> >>* Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a >>Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; >> >>* NIF offers no commercial use; >> >>* NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" >>program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing >>arsenal; and, >> >>* NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. >> >>The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for >>your reference, and the full report is available on the web at >>www.greenscissors.org. >> >>Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment >>and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate >>termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National >>Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. >> >> >>Respectfully, >> >>Marylia Kelley >>Executive Director >>Tri-Valley CAREs >>Livermore, CA >> >>YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. >>PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR >>SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. >> >>end of letter >> >>Marylia Kelley >>Tri-Valley CAREs >>(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) >>2582 Old First Street >>Livermore, CA USA 94550 >> >> - is our web site, please visit us there! >> >>(925) 443-7148 - is our phone >>(925) 443-0177 - is our fax >> >>Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley >>CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear >>Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the >>Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the >>U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink >>campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. >> >> >> >>- >> To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" >> with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. >> For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send >> "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. >> >> > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. 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: "Harry Rogers" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:13:54 -0700 Please sign me on Harry Rogers Carolina Peace Ressource Center Columbia SC ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:59 PM > Dear colleagues: > > Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that > the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under > construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your > sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if > applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on > by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to > marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 > or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA > 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the > U.S. > > The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected > officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have > already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the > letter... > > April XX, 2001 > > To: The President of the United States, George W. Bush > The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham > The Members of the United States Senate > The Members of the United States House of Representatives > > Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: > > We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," > environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter > expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released > "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of > Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). > > "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if > cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our > environment. > > One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser > should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing > laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities > would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of > the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." > > "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following > reasons: > > * NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program > that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; > > * NIF will create radioactive wastes; > > * Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a > Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; > > * NIF offers no commercial use; > > * NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" > program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing > arsenal; and, > > * NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. > > The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for > your reference, and the full report is available on the web at > www.greenscissors.org. > > Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment > and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate > termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National > Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. > > > Respectfully, > > Marylia Kelley > Executive Director > Tri-Valley CAREs > Livermore, CA > > YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. > PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR > SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. > > end of letter > > Marylia Kelley > Tri-Valley CAREs > (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) > 2582 Old First Street > Livermore, CA USA 94550 > > - is our web site, please visit us there! > > (925) 443-7148 - is our phone > (925) 443-0177 - is our fax > > Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley > CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear > Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the > Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the > U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink > campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 12 Apr 2001 19:07:54 -0700 Hi Harry. Thanks. I look forward to seeing you in DC. Peqce, MK >Please sign me on >Harry Rogers >Carolina Peace Ressource Center >Columbia SC >----- Original Message ----- >From: "marylia" >To: >Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:59 PM 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: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 13 Apr 2001 04:45:29 +0100 Thank you for your excellent work! ... Please sign us on: Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy (Co-coordinators) CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB) 8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K. Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482 702033 email: anniandlindis@caab.org.uk Website: http://www.caab.org.uk "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:59 AM > Dear colleagues: > > Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that > the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under > construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your > sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if > applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on > by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to > marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 > or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA > 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the > U.S. > > The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected > officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have > already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the > letter... > > April XX, 2001 > > To: The President of the United States, George W. Bush > The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham > The Members of the United States Senate > The Members of the United States House of Representatives > > Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: > > We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," > environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter > expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released > "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of > Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). > > "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if > cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our > environment. > > One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser > should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing > laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities > would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of > the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." > > "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following > reasons: > > * NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program > that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; > > * NIF will create radioactive wastes; > > * Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a > Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; > > * NIF offers no commercial use; > > * NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" > program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing > arsenal; and, > > * NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. > > The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for > your reference, and the full report is available on the web at > www.greenscissors.org. > > Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment > and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate > termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National > Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. > > > Respectfully, > > Marylia Kelley > Executive Director > Tri-Valley CAREs > Livermore, CA > > YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. > PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR > SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. > > end of letter > > Marylia Kelley > Tri-Valley CAREs > (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) > 2582 Old First Street > Livermore, CA USA 94550 > > - is our web site, please visit us there! > > (925) 443-7148 - is our phone > (925) 443-0177 - is our fax > > Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley > CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear > Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the > Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the > U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink > campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Holdom" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 13 Apr 2001 23:48:53 +1200 Please add my name. Jim Holdom 23 Ross Crescent Hamilton New Zealand phone: 64 7 855 5699 Fax: 64 7 855 5902 jholdom@ihug.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Friday, 13 April 2001 11:59 > Dear colleagues: > > Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that > the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under > construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your > sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if > applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on > by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to > marylia@earthlink.net, by phone at (925) 443-7148, by fax at (925) 443-0177 > or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA > 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the > U.S. > > The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected > officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have > already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the > letter... > > April XX, 2001 > > To: The President of the United States, George W. Bush > The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham > The Members of the United States Senate > The Members of the United States House of Representatives > > Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: > > We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," > environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter > expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released > "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of > Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). > > "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if > cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our > environment. > > One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser > should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing > laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities > would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of > the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." > > "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following > reasons: > > * NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program > that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; > > * NIF will create radioactive wastes; > > * Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a > Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; > > * NIF offers no commercial use; > > * NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" > program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing > arsenal; and, > > * NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. > > The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for > your reference, and the full report is available on the web at > www.greenscissors.org. > > Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment > and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate > termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National > Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. > > > Respectfully, > > Marylia Kelley > Executive Director > Tri-Valley CAREs > Livermore, CA > > YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. > PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR > SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. > > end of letter > > Marylia Kelley > Tri-Valley CAREs > (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) > 2582 Old First Street > Livermore, CA USA 94550 > > - is our web site, please visit us there! > > (925) 443-7148 - is our phone > (925) 443-0177 - is our fax > > Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley > CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear > Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the > Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the > U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink > campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jan Harwood Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign! Date: 13 Apr 2001 11:25:02 -0700 Count us in! Santa Cruz Abolition 2000, Jan Harwood, chair. 312 Elm St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060 - 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) 62 arrests at Livermore Lab Date: 13 Apr 2001 16:02:57 -0700 --=====================_7846462==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BRIEF REPORT ON GOOD FRIDAY ACTION AT LIVERMORE LAB =97 62 ARRESTS 13 April, 2001 =97 Early this morning approximately 150 nonviolent= demonstrators assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory= in California for the 20th annual Good Friday worship service and nonviolent direct action. Following the ecumenical service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella Goodpaster, the participants processed to one of the Lab=92s auxiliary entrances, stopping along the way to observe the =93Stations of the Cross,= =94 appropriately themed to reflect the current dangers of nuclear weapons. The demonstrators were met at the Lab gate by rows of uniformed Alameda County Sheriff=92s Department officers and University of California police (the University of California manages the Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear= weapons labs for the Department of Energy). While the demonstrators quietly sang= songs of peace, several of them conducted a =93die-in=94 at the gate. After= police warnings to leave the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial count) were peacefully arrested, many of them kneeling in prayer. They were briefly= taken into custody a the Lab, issued citations and released. The Good Friday demonstration was sponsored by the Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and the Livermore Conversion Project.=20 --=====================_7846462==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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13 April, 2001 =97 Early this morning approximately 150 nonviolent demonstrators assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the 20th annual Good Friday worship service and nonviolent direct action.  Following the ecumenical service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella Goodpaster, the participants processed to one of the Lab=92s auxiliary entrances,  stopping along the way to observe the =93Stations of the Cross,=94 appropriately themed to reflect the current dangers of nuclear weapons.  The demonstrators were met at the Lab gate by rows of uniformed Alameda County Sheriff=92s Department officers and University of California police (the University of California manages the Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs for the Department of Energy).  While the demonstrators quietly sang songs of peace, several of them conducted a =93die-in=94 at the gate.  After police warnings to leave the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial count) were peacefully arrested, many of them kneeling in prayer.  They were briefly taken into custody a the Lab, issued citations and released.  The Good Friday demonstration was sponsored by the Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and the Livermore Conversion Project. --=====================_7846462==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) 62 arrests at Livermore Lab Date: 14 Apr 2001 02:32:26 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01DB_01C0C48B.25029B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Jackie Thank you all for bringing light to a dark place ... you are in our = thoughts and prayers. In Peace Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy (Co-coordinators) CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB) 8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K. Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482 702033 email: anniandlindis@caab.org.uk Website: http://www.caab.org.uk "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can = change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." = Margaret Mead=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jackie Cabasso=20 To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com=20 Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 12:02 AM Subject: (abolition-usa) 62 arrests at Livermore Lab BRIEF REPORT ON GOOD FRIDAY ACTION AT LIVERMORE LAB - 62 ARRESTS 13 April, 2001 - Early this morning approximately 150 nonviolent = demonstrators assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence Livermore = National Laboratory in California for the 20th annual Good Friday = worship service and nonviolent direct action. Following the ecumenical = service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella Goodpaster, the participants = processed to one of the Lab's auxiliary entrances, stopping along the = way to observe the "Stations of the Cross," appropriately themed to = reflect the current dangers of nuclear weapons. The demonstrators were = met at the Lab gate by rows of uniformed Alameda County Sheriff's = Department officers and University of California police (the University = of California manages the Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs = for the Department of Energy). While the demonstrators quietly sang = songs of peace, several of them conducted a "die-in" at the gate. After = police warnings to leave the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial = count) were peacefully arrested, many of them kneeling in prayer. They = were briefly taken into custody a the Lab, issued citations and = released. The Good Friday demonstration was sponsored by the Ecumenical = Peace Institute/CALC and the Livermore Conversion Project.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_01DB_01C0C48B.25029B80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Jackie
 
Thank you all for bringing light to a dark place = ... you=20 are in our thoughts and prayers.
 
In Peace
 
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy=20 (Co-coordinators)
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF = AMERICAN BASES=20 (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 = 1HQ,=20 England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482=20 702033
email: anniandlindis@caab.org.uk
Website: http://www.caab.org.uk
 
"Never doubt that a small group = of=20 thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the = only thing=20 that ever does."     Margaret=20 Mead 

----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Jackie=20 Cabasso
To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com= =20
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 = 12:02=20 AM
Subject: (abolition-usa) 62 = arrests at=20 Livermore Lab

BRIEF REPORT ON GOOD FRIDAY ACTION AT LIVERMORE = LAB — 62=20 ARRESTS

13 April, 2001 — Early this morning = approximately 150=20 nonviolent demonstrators assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence=20 Livermore National Laboratory in California for the 20th = annual=20 Good Friday worship service and nonviolent direct action.  = Following the=20 ecumenical service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella Goodpaster, the=20 participants processed to one of the Lab’s auxiliary = entrances,  stopping=20 along the way to observe the “Stations of the Cross,” = appropriately themed to=20 reflect the current dangers of nuclear weapons.  The = demonstrators were=20 met at the Lab gate by rows of uniformed Alameda County = Sheriff’s Department=20 officers and University of California police (the University of = California=20 manages the Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs for the = Department=20 of Energy).  While the demonstrators quietly sang songs of peace, = several=20 of them conducted a “die-in” at the gate.  After = police warnings to leave=20 the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial count) were peacefully = arrested,=20 many of them kneeling in prayer.  They were briefly taken into = custody a=20 the Lab, issued citations and released.  The Good Friday = demonstration=20 was sponsored by the Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and the Livermore = Conversion Project. ------=_NextPart_000_01DB_01C0C48B.25029B80-- - 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: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: AP Story on Kabat trial Rocky Mountain News April 11 2001] Date: 14 Apr 2001 11:13:45 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F04437B0F3B7749D5BB6F6D2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------F04437B0F3B7749D5BB6F6D2 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from m2.boston.juno.com ([64.136.24.65]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tdgqo1.ga6.37tiu4s Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"FsCvqP7IVGGUuYuAQ/kBgq/xhd/vslhdxK8QEcT+PO62+h8azGfmlA=="> Received: (from bsulzman@juno.com) by m2.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id F2ZCY43Y; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:18:13 EDT MKirkbride@sisna.com, sallight1@earthlink.net, L_LMiller@qwest.net, bjimenez@jstb.gtulink.edu, loho232@earthlink.net, sgordon@bwn.net, sgonsalves@capecodonline.com, regina.hagen@jugendstil.da.shuttle.de, palomagal@earthlink.net, admin@dallaspeacecenter.org, mickd3@surfbest.net, diedrich@gazette.com, chernus@spot.colorado.edu, viv@grove27.freeserve.co.uk, jbloomfield@gn.apc.org, baenen@mindspring.com Message-ID: <20010414.091510.-408891.3.bsulzman@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--__JNP_000_64fb.09a9.375b X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 17-6,7,9-10,13,16,19-20,23,27,29,31-32,34,37-38,41,43,45,48,51,53-56,57-32767 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----__JNP_000_64fb.09a9.375b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Defense says international law backs priest in trespass case Prosecutors reject claim of legal right to enter missile silo for peace protest By The Associated Press Lawyers argued Monday that a trespassing case against a self-proclaimed "fool for Christ" who donned a clown suit and scaled a fence at a missile silo should be dismissed because of international law. The Rev. Carl Kabat, 67, who has spent more than a decade in prison for peace protests, appeared in federal court in Denver for the pretrial motions hearing on the trespassing charge. On Aug. 6, 2000, 55 years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Roman Catholic priest climbed the fence at a Minuteman III missile site about 80 miles northeast of Denver. He put bread, wine and a hammer on top of a silo and prayed. Denver lawyer Walter Gerash, representing Kabat for free, argued he was protesting an illegal site because a 1996 World Court ruling said countries should not use weapons of excessive force. Defense witness Ved Nanda, a professor at the University of Denver and an expert on international law, testified that under the Nuremberg Charter, established after World War II, civilians have a right to protest weapons of mass destruction that can be used for genocide. Prosecutor George Gill argued that the 1996 ruling was an advisory opinion, not a binding opinion. "The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land, and not the Nuremberg Charter," he said. The defense also argued that Kabat was acting on First Amendment rights. "His symbolic communication of free speech was turned into a crime," Gerash said. Prosecutors maintained that Kabat was trespassing because a posted sign says no civilians are allowed into the site without the commanding officer's permission. If convicted, Kabat could spend a year in prison. Kabat had been living at a home for Oblate priests in Belleville, Ill., when he drove to Colorado for the protest. Though he left without permission, he was not dismissed from the priesthood. His peace activism began in 1976, when he was jailed for four days after protesting in Plains, Ga., home of President-elect Jimmy Carter. He served prison terms ranging from six to 18 months for a series of peace protests from 1979 to 1982. Then, in the early 1980s, Kabat and three others damaged a missile silo outside Kansas City, Mo. He spent seven years in prison for the attack, going free in 1991. On Good Friday in 1994, Kabat dressed in a clown suit, declared himself "a fool for Christ" and pounded on a missile silo in North Dakota with a sledgehammer. After 4 more years in prison, he went to the Illinois home, where he stayed until driving to Colorado for the August protest. April 11, 2001 ----__JNP_000_64fb.09a9.375b Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Defense says international law backs = priest in=20 trespass case

Prosecutors reject claim of legal right to = enter=20 missile silo for peace protest

By The Associated Press

Lawyers argued Monday that a = trespassing case=20 against a self-proclaimed "fool for Christ" who donned a clown = suit=20 and scaled a fence at a missile silo should be dismissed = because of=20 international law.=20

The Rev. Carl Kabat, 67, who has spent more than a decade in= =20 prison for peace protests, appeared in federal court in Denver = for=20 the pretrial motions hearing on the trespassing charge.=20

On Aug. 6, 2000, 55 years after the first atomic bomb was = dropped=20 on Hiroshima, the Roman Catholic priest climbed the fence at a= =20 Minuteman III missile site about 80 miles northeast of Denver.= =20

He put bread, wine and a hammer on top of a silo and prayed.= =20

Denver lawyer Walter Gerash, representing Kabat for free, = argued=20 he was protesting an illegal site because a 1996 World Court = ruling=20 said countries should not use weapons of excessive force.=20

Defense witness Ved Nanda, a professor at the University of= =20 Denver and an expert on international law, testified that under= the=20 Nuremberg Charter, established after World War II, civilians = have a=20 right to protest weapons of mass destruction that can be used = for=20 genocide.=20

Prosecutor George Gill argued that the 1996 ruling was an=20 advisory opinion, not a binding opinion.=20

"The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land, and not the=20 Nuremberg Charter," he said.=20

The defense also argued that Kabat was acting on First = Amendment=20 rights.=20

"His symbolic communication of free speech was turned into a= =20 crime," Gerash said.=20

Prosecutors maintained that Kabat was trespassing because a= =20 posted sign says no civilians are allowed into the site without= the=20 commanding officer's permission.=20

If convicted, Kabat could spend a year in prison.=20

Kabat had been living at a home for Oblate priests in = Belleville,=20 Ill., when he drove to Colorado for the protest. Though he left= =20 without permission, he was not dismissed from the priesthood.=20

His peace activism began in 1976, when he was jailed for = four=20 days after protesting in Plains, Ga., home of President-elect = Jimmy=20 Carter.=20

He served prison terms ranging from six to 18 months for a = series=20 of peace protests from 1979 to 1982.=20

Then, in the early 1980s, Kabat and three others damaged a=20 missile silo outside Kansas City, Mo. He spent seven years in = prison=20 for the attack, going free in 1991.=20

On Good Friday in 1994, Kabat dressed in a clown suit, = declared=20 himself "a fool for Christ" and pounded on a missile silo in = North=20 Dakota with a sledgehammer. After 4=20

more years in prison, he went to the Illinois home, where he= =20 stayed until driving to Colorado for the August protest.

April 11, 2001

  ----__JNP_000_64fb.09a9.375b-- --------------F04437B0F3B7749D5BB6F6D2-- - 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 Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Wash. Post: U.S. Studies Developing New Nuclear Bomb Date: 16 Apr 2001 09:05:05 -0400 U.S. STUDIES DEVELOPING NEW NUCLEAR BOMB By Walter Pincus Washington Post Sunday, April 15, 2001; Page A02 The Defense Department is studying whether to develop a new, low-yield nuclear weapon with an earth-penetrating nose cone that could knock out hardened or deeply buried targets such as leadership bunkers and command centers, according to administration and congressional sources. Such a weapon has long been sought by nuclear weapons scientists and some military strategists, including key members of the Bush administration, as a way of reaching targets that are hidden deep underground without incurring huge collateral damage. Advocates also say that by developing such smaller nuclear weapons, the United States could safely reduce its current stockpile of 6,000 much more powerful warheads. Interest in low-yield weapons has been rising with concern that Iraq's Saddam Hussein could hide his biological and chemical arsenals in underground bunkers. Another hardened target that has drawn attention is Russia's long-term construction of a nuclear war command center under Yamental mountain. One senior adviser to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that the Iraqi leader would not be deterred by current U.S. nuclear weapons "because he knows a U.S. president would not drop a 100-kiloton bomb on Baghdad" and destroy the entire city and its population to reach his weapons of mass destruction. The prospect that the Pentagon would recommend that the Bush administration develop a new, low-yield nuclear weapon has become the focus of attention for groups committed to traditional arms control. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) plans to release a report this week that argues "that adding low-yield warheads to the world's nuclear inventory simply makes their eventual use more likely." A report on the Pentagon study is to be sent to Congress in July. Seven years ago, Congress barred research and development of a low-yield precision-guided nuclear weapon, out of concern that it would blur the line between conventional and nuclear weapons. But an amendment last year to the defense authorization bill by Sens. John W. Warner (R-Va.) and Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) required the Pentagon to study how to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets. The Defense Department was specifically asked to determine what weapons might be needed, including low-yield nuclear devices. The Energy Department, which controls the nuclear labs, is assisting the Pentagon. The July report is due at the same time a review of U.S. strategic nuclear deterrence policy, ordered by Rumsfeld, could be completed. That study deals with offensive and defensive systems, nuclear as well as conventional, administration sources said. In a paper presented last month, Paul Robinson, head of Sandia Nuclear Laboratories, said he believed "low-yield weapons with highly accurate delivery systems" would be desirable "for deterrence in the non-Russian world." Robinson, however, said the devices could help decision-makers "contemplate the destruction of some buried or hidden targets while being mindful of the need to minimize collateral damage." Stephen M. Younger, chief of nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, suggested in a paper last summer that accurate, low-yield nuclear weapons could be better suited to attacking buried, concrete bunkers and mobile missiles than today's U.S. arsenal of silo-busting weapons that each have the explosive power of 30 Hiroshima bombs. To destroy moderately hard targets, such as missile silos, Younger urged the development of low-yield weapons to be placed on highly accurate missiles. A new, five-kiloton warhead -- with less than half the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb -- would vaporize a 30-foot-thick silo door if it were delivered by a precise missile, he wrote. A new nuclear bomb has not been developed in the United States since the 1980s, and nuclear testing was halted in 1992. Each year the Energy Department spends about $4.5 billion in its stockpile stewardship program that keeps warheads safe and secure. Tiny elements of nuclear materials are exploded in "sub-critical" tests, which are allowed under the testing moratorium because they do not create a nuclear chain reaction. Because many tested U.S. weapon designs exist from the period before the moratorium, one senior U.S. weapons scientist said recently that a low-yield weapon could be developed without testing. He added that with information developed on earth penetration for the Pershing II intermediate-range missile in the 1980s and the B-61 more recently, "we could build [a low-yield earth penetrator] tomorrow; it is not hard to do." Critics say such a weapon would not be able to penetrate deep enough to keep radioactive debris from getting into the atmosphere. The FAS study, by Princeton University theoretical physicist Robert W. Nelson, argues that "in order to be fully contained, nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site must be buried at a depth of 650 feet for a five-kiloton explosive." Based on that analysis, Nelson concludes: "This mission does not appear possible, without causing massive radioactive contamination. No American president would elect to use nuclear weapons in this situation -- unless another country had already used nuclear weapons against us." The government nuclear weapons scientist said a one-kiloton warhead would have to dig down only 175 feet for its radioactive material to remain contained. Copyright © 2001 The Washington Post Company - 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 Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) FAS: Lethal side-effects of earth-penetrating warhead Date: 16 Apr 2001 14:01:03 -0400 LETHAL SIDE-EFFECTS OF EARTH-PENETRATING WARHEAD =20 =20 WASHINGTON, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Low-yield earth-penetrating nuclear weapons, intended to threaten deep bunkers without killing the surrounding population, would release dangerous fallout, according to an analysis by the Federation of American Scientists.=20 Some nuclear weapons developers have advocated developing and testing new small nuclear weapons as a way to destroy deeply buried bunkers containing enemy leaders or biological weapons. Delivered by a bomb or missile that would strike the ground a high speed and penetrate deeply before exploding, the weapon is intended to destroy the bunker but leave nearby civilians unharmed because the earth over the explosion would contain it.=20 But the study, performed by Princeton University physicist Robert Nelson, finds this to be technologically impossible. "No earth-burrowing missile can penetrate deep enough into the earth to contain an explosion with a nuclear yield even as small as 1 percent of the Hiroshima weapon. The explosion simply blows out a massive crater of radioactive dirt, which rains down on the local region with especially intense and deadly fallout," according to the study.=20 A 1-kiloton explosion, less than one tenth that of the Hiroshima bomb, would need to be under 450 feet of earth to be fully contained. But the U.S. B61-11 deep-penetrating bomb only penetrates about 20 feet. A tactical missile might possibly penetrate to 100 feet, although it would be difficult for a nuclear warhead to function after such an impact.=20 If an underground explosion is not contained, it becomes very "dirty", in that the earth above it is made radioactive and thrown over a large area. Thus, use of even a small earth-penetrating warhead in a populated area would cause significant civilian casualties, according to the study.=20 Scientists who built the first atomic bomb founded the Federation of American Scientists in 1945. More than half of the current American Nobel Laureates today serve on the FAS Board of Sponsors. FAS conducts research, analysis, and advocacy on public policy issues created by advances in science and technology (see http://www.fas.org). Copyright =A9 2001 U.S. Newswire [The full report is at = . - 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: (abolition-usa) Updated Teach-In Schedule - May 22 - 24, 2001 at San Francisco State Univ. Date: 17 Apr 2001 21:58:03 +0100 Dear Friends, Here is the latest update of the program for the 3-day teach-in that Nevada Desert Experience is holding at San Francisco State University, May 22-24, 2001. All aspects of nuclear weapons and "Star Wars" will be covered. You can also check our web site for updates: www.NevadaDesertExperience.org Peace... Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Nevada Desert Experience=92s S. F. State University Teach-In Schedule, Ma= y 22-24, 2001 May 22 (Cesar Chavez Student Bldg. - Rosa Parks #A, B & C - 1 large room): 10 am - Welcome, overview of the 3-day event. Sally Light & Dolores Beliso, event organizers. 10:05 am - =93Nukes 101=94 - Brief history of nuclear weapons, nuclear cycle, Dept Of Energy=92s =93 Stockpile Stewardship Program=94, etc. Presenters drawn from WSLF, TVC, PSR, NDE. 11 am =96 Chris Ney, War Resisters League 11:30 - Cobrin Harney, Traditional Spiritual Leader of the Western Shoshone. 12:30 pm - Nuclear Power - Ernie Goitein. 1:30 pm - Uranium 238 (aka =93Depleted Uranium=94) - Patricia Axlerod. 2:30 pm - Panel on Radiation & Health. PSR/TVC/WSLF. 3:30 pm - End of day 1. May 23 -( held in the Jack Adams auditorium, Cesar Chavez Student Bldg.): 10 am - Sanda Schwartz of AFSC facilitates film presentations by David Brown and Cade Bursell. 12 pm - June Casey, well-known radiation survivor. 1 pm - =93Star Wars 101=94 - Presenters drawn from NDE & WSLF. 2 pm =96 Ward Young =96 Radioactive Waste. 2:30 pm pm - Lynda Williams=92 =93Cosmic Cabaret.=94 Lynda teaches physi= cs at S.F. State and performs her sensational cabaret piece about =93Star Wars=94 at campuses throughout the US. 3:30 pm - End of day 2. May 24 (again in Rosa Parks A, B & C - 1 large room): 10 am - Personal witness - Presentations by long-time anti-nuclear activists Fr. Bill O=92Donnell and Fr. Louie Vitale. 11 am - Lawrence Livermore National Lab - Marylia Kelley, Exec. Dir. of TVC. 11:30 am - Hiroshima & Nagasaki - Presentation by Chris Montesano of NDE. 12 noon - Fusako de Angelis' update on Japan-US agreements. 12:30 pm - Nuclear whistleblowers - presentation by Jeannie Shaterian on Mordechai Vannunu 1 pm Nuclear whistleblowers, continued - presentations by Andreas Toupadakis and Isaac Trotts, former Livermore Lab. scientists. 2 pm - Panel - Future Directions. Presenters drawn from WSLF, TVC, Calif. P.A., AFSC, NDE. 3:30 pm - End of day 3. *********************** Notes: AFSC =3D American Friends Services Committee Calif. P.A. =3D California Peace Action NDE =3D Nevada Desert Experience PSR =3D Physicians for Social Responsibility TVC =3D Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) WSLF =3D Western States Legal Foundation **************************************** For more information contact: Sally Light, Exec. Dir. of Nevada Desert Experience (510) 527-2057. Email: sallight1@earthlink.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: Kevin Martin Subject: (abolition-usa) website for organizing against John Bolton nomination Date: 18 Apr 2001 13:15:10 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------63776A6D1FAEA47577AA1155 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------A5EFB279F44BB6DFA0A114DC" --------------A5EFB279F44BB6DFA0A114DC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by elk1.elkhart.net id f3IIDvL32758 Dear Friends, Our colleagues at the Campaign for United Nations Reform have set up a website to help in organizing against the nomination of Jesse Helms protege John Bolton for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, the number three position in the State Department. The site is at . Check it out, it's a good site, please spread the word. Below is additional information on Bolton, thanks to Peace Action Education Fund. In Peace, Kevin Martin Director, Project Abolition P.S. I've heard from local activists in Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, D.C. and Rhode Island that they are mobilizing to bring folks to DC for Project Abolition's June 10 - 12 anti-Star Wars, pro-nuclear abolition rally and Congressional Education Days. I'm sure many more states will be represented. The list of national organizations endorsing the actions is growing steadily. New endorsers include Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, DontBlowit.org, and Women=92s International League for Peace and Freedom, USA. Information on the June event is available at . Registration info. for the Congressional Education Days, as well as an organizing kit against Star Wars, will be available soon. ****** ACTION ALERT: Oppose John Bolton for Undersecretary for Arms Control "The greatest protection for children and others being harmed in wars around the world is the Pentagon." Those are the words of John Bolton, the President Bush's nomination for the next Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and International Security. Bolton, currently a senior vice president for the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, has fought the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, payment of UN dues and negotiations with North Korea regarding its missile program. He is far to the right of other Bush Administration officials, notably Colin Powell. This is the man who will be charged with arms control and international security negotiations. Remember all that progress with North Korea and at the UN with the New Agenda Coalition calling for eliminating nuclear arsenals? Those responsibilities will now fall to John Bolton. There are signals that Democrats will voice opposition but ultimately vote yes. We need everyone to put on the pressure. Below you will find 1.) Sample letter 2.) Bolton quotes 3.) Boston Globe editorial Let's get those letters and calls going! 1.) SAMPLE LETTER Dear Senator, President Bush's nomination of John Bolton to be the new Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and International Security is deeply troubling. Mr. Bolton has publicly denounced key arms control treaties. He has called for the United States to recognize Taiwan as a state over China's objections, a move which would heighten nuclear tension in that region. He has called for the United States to stop paying dues to the United Nations, a key forum for arms control negotiations. Mr. Bolton has denounced U.S. negotiations with North Korea to halt its missile development program, calling for a "get tough" stance instead. This week North Korea cited Bush Administration signals along those very lines as a reason to restart long-range missile tests. Mr. Bolton is on the political fringe, taking positions out of line with a number of other Bush appointees and advisors, including Secretary of State Powell. He is not an appropriate nominee for this important position. I urge you to oppose his appointment. The Boston Globe April 2, 2001, Monday ,THIRD EDITION EDITORIAL HEADLINE: THE ARMAGEDDON NOMINEE BODY: IF PRESIDENT GEORGE Bush is worried that his appointments to key positions are not pleasing the right wing of his own party, he may take heart from the introduction Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms gave Bush's nominee to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, John Bolton. Bolton, a Helms protege, heard himself praised Thursday by the senator from North Carolina as "one of the best and wisest" nominations Bush has made for "senior foreign policy positions." Helms made his reasons for kinship with Bolton explicit. He recalled saying at an American Enterprise Institute event that "Bolton is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, for what the Bible describes as the final battle between good and evil in this world." Helms's political action committee, the National Congressional Club, was represented by Bolton when that PAC was fined for evading campaign finance laws. In turn, Helms backed Bolton for previous positions in the State and Justice departments. When Bolton was an assistant attorney general in 1989 he refused to provide documents that Senator John Kerry requested on drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Kerry, who was dubious at Thursday's Foreign Relations Committee hearing about Bolton's professed backing for the 1994 Framework Agreement freezing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, asked the nominee if he might be exhibiting a "confirmation conversion." But the main reason to oppose Bolton for the number three position in the State Department is neither his collaboration with Helms nor his coyness at his confirmation hearing. Bolton does not belong in the arms control job because, as the director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project, Joseph Cirincione, says: "Bolton is philosophically opposed to most of the international treaties that comprise the nonproliferation regime." Characteristically, Helms left no room for ambiguity at Thursday's hearing when he said to Bolton: "John, I want you to take that ABM Treaty and dump it in the same place we dumped our ABM co-signer, the Soviet Union - on the ash heap of history." The 1972 antiballistic missile treaty that Helms and Bolton zealously oppose has served as what Cirincione calls "the cornerstone of strategic stability in the world because it reins in the nuclear forces of the nuclear powers." Not only the ABM Treaty, but also the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Conference on Disarmament, the verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention and any effort to prevent an arms race in outer space are all valuable instruments for arms control. They would all be imperiled were Bolton to be put in charge of arms control at the State Department. --------------A5EFB279F44BB6DFA0A114DC Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by elk1.elkhart.net id f3IIDvL32758 Dear Friends,

Our colleagues at the Campaign for United Nations Reform have set up a
website to help in organizing against the nomination of Jesse Hel= ms
protege John Bolton for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security, the number three position in the State
Department.  The site is at <www.StopBolton.org>.  Check it out, it's a
good site, please spread the word.  Below is additional info= rmation on Bolton, thanks to Peace Action Education Fund.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

P.S.  I've heard from local activists in Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas
Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, California,
Washington, D.C. and Rhode Island that they are mobilizing to bri= ng folks to DC for Project Abolition's June 10 - 12 anti-Star Wars, pro-nucl= ear abolition rally and
Congressional Education Days. I'm sure many more states will be represented. The list of national organizations endorsing the actions is growing steadily. New endorsers include Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Law= yers Committee on Nuclear Policy, DontBlowit.org, and Women=92s International League for Peace and Freedom, USA. Information on the June event is avail= able at <www.projectabolition.org>.  Registration info. for the Congre= ssional Education Days, as well as an organizing kit against Star Wars, will be available soon.
******

ACTION ALERT: Oppose John Bolton for Undersecretary for Arms Contr= ol

"The greatest protection for children and others being harmed in wars
around the world is the Pentagon."

Those are the words of John Bolton, the President Bush's nominatio= n for the
next Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and
International Security. Bolton, currently a senior vice president for the
right-wing American Enterprise Institute, has fought the Comprehe= nsive Test
Ban Treaty, payment of UN dues and negotiations with North Korea regarding
its missile program. He is far to the right of other Bush Adminis= tration
officials, notably Colin Powell. This is the man who will be char= ged with
arms control and international security negotiations. Remember all that
progress with North Korea and at the UN with the New Agenda Coali= tion
calling for eliminating nuclear arsenals? Those responsibilities will now
fall to John Bolton.

There are signals that Democrats will voice opposition but ultimat= ely vote
yes. We need everyone to put on the pressure.

Below you will find
1.) Sample letter
2.) Bolton quotes
3.) Boston Globe editorial

Let's get those letters and calls going!

1.) SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Senator,

President Bush's nomination of John Bolton to be the new Undersecr= etary of
State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and International Secur= ity is deeply troubling.

Mr. Bolton has publicly denounced key arms control treaties. He has called
for the United States to recognize Taiwan as a state over China's=
objections, a move which would heighten nuclear tension in that region. He
has called for the United States to stop paying dues to the Unite= d Nations,
a key forum for arms control negotiations. Mr. Bolton has denounc= ed U.S.
negotiations with North Korea to halt its missile development pro= gram,
calling for a "get tough" stance instead. This week North Korea cited Bush
Administration signals along those very lines as a reason to rest= art
long-range missile tests.

Mr. Bolton is on the political fringe, taking positions out of lin= e with a
number of other Bush appointees and advisors, including Secretary of State
Powell. He is not an appropriate nominee for this important posit= ion. I
urge you to oppose his appointment.
 

The Boston Globe
April 2, 2001, Monday ,THIRD EDITION
EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: THE ARMAGEDDON NOMINEE
BODY:
IF PRESIDENT GEORGE Bush is worried that his appointments to key positions
are not pleasing the right wing of his own party, he may take hea= rt from
the introduction Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jess= e Helms
gave Bush's nominee to be undersecretary of state for arms contro= l and
international security, John Bolton.
Bolton, a Helms protege, heard himself praised Thursday by the senator from
North Carolina as "one of the best and wisest" nominations Bush has made
 for "senior foreign policy positions."
Helms made his reasons for kinship with Bolton explicit. He recal= led saying
at an American Enterprise Institute event that "Bolton is the kin= d of man
with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, for what the Bible describes
as the final battle between good and evil in this world." Helms's political
action committee, the National Congressional Club, was represente= d by
Bolton when that PAC was fined for evading campaign finance laws. In turn,
Helms backed Bolton for previous positions in the State and Justi= ce
departments.
When Bolton was an assistant attorney general in 1989 he refused to provide
documents that Senator John Kerry requested on drug trafficking by the
Nicaraguan contras. Kerry, who was dubious at Thursday's Foreign Relations
Committee hearing about Bolton's professed backing for the 1994 Framework
Agreement freezing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, asked the nominee
if he might be exhibiting a "confirmation conversion."
But the main reason to oppose Bolton for the number three positio= n in the
State Department is neither his collaboration with Helms nor his coyness at
his confirmation hearing. Bolton does not belong in the arms cont= rol job
because, as the director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Projec= t, Joseph
Cirincione, says: "Bolton is philosophically opposed to most of the
international treaties that comprise the nonproliferation regime.= "
Characteristically, Helms left no room for ambiguity at Thursday'= s hearing
when he said to Bolton: "John, I want you to take that ABM Treaty and dump
it in the same place we dumped our ABM co-signer, the Soviet Unio= n - on the
ash heap of history." The 1972 antiballistic missile treaty that Helms and
Bolton zealously oppose has served as what Cirincione calls "the<= /tt>
cornerstone of strategic stability in the world because it reins in the
nuclear forces of the nuclear powers."
Not only the ABM Treaty, but also the Comprehensive Test Ban Trea= ty, the
Conference on Disarmament, the verification protocol to the Biolo= gical
Weapons Convention and any effort to prevent an arms race in oute= r space
are all valuable instruments for arms control. They would all be imperiled
were Bolton to be put in charge of arms control at the State Depa= rtment.
 
 
 
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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF letter/your sign-on is needed by cob 4/23 Date: 18 Apr 2001 14:28:26 -0700 Dear colleagues: Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. We have more than 50 groups already signed on -- and we need your help to reach our goal of 100 groups! The letter requests cancellation of the National Ignition Facility. (NIF is a new nuclear weapons facility under construction at Livermore Lab in California.) We have extended the deadline for sign-on until close of business on Monday, April 23 -- but after that may be too late. Please send your name, your title (if applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to marylia@earthlink.net, or by phone at (925) 443-7148 or fax at (925) 443-0177. Thank you to those who have already signed-on!!! And, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the letter... April XX, 2001 The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham The Members of the United States Senate The Members of the United States House of Representatives Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress: We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog," environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF). "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our environment. One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001." "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following reasons: * NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program that continues to be plagued with cost, schedule and technical problems; * NIF will create radioactive wastes; * Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste; * NIF offers no commercial use; * NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing arsenal; and, * NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals. The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for your reference, and the full report is available on the web at www.greenscissors.org. Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment and wise decision-making for our future all necessitate the immediate termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted. Respectfully, Marylia Kelley Executive Director Tri-Valley CAREs Livermore, CA YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE. PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR SIGN-ONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 23, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. end of letter 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) Fwd: [FrontlinesNewspaper] Wire from Quebec Nr. 1 Date: 20 Apr 2001 17:44:10 -0400 >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:36:57 -0500 >Subject: [FrontlinesNewspaper] Wire from Quebec Nr. 1 >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: frontlinesnewspaper@yahoogroups.com >X-FC-Forwarded-From: progress@ix.netcom.com >From: "FrontlinesNewspaper@yahoogroups.com" > >FRONTLINES REPORTS - About 4,000 demonstrators clashed with the >police today about two hours before the opening ceremonies of the >FTAA meeting. The blockade by mostly young protesters resulted in at >least five (5) heads of state not being able to meet with President >Bush, including the heads of state of Bolivia and Brazil. > >Police attacked demonstrators with truncheons and gas grenades. >Demonstrators answered by throwing back the grenades and throwing >some rocks and empty cans and bottles. The police moved against the >demonstrators. More than 20 demonstrators were seen being arrested. > >Apparently, the attack by the police was prompted by the fact that >the wind worked against the police lines throwing back the gas clouds >to the officers. > >The main demonstration planned to shut down the FTAA meeting is >tomorrow, Saturday. Tradeunions, environmentalists and student >groups will be in force to protest free trade. > > >Addresses: >Post message: FrontlinesNewspaper@egroups.com >Subscribe: >FrontlinesNewspaper-subscribe@egroups.com >Unsubscribe: >FrontlinesNewspaper-unsubscribe@egroups.com >URL to this page: http://www.egroups.com/group/FrontlinesNewspaper > >To read the latest issue of the SF Frontlines newspaper, go to: >www.sf-frontlines.com > >INVITE A FRIEND TO THE LIST! > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ChadAmherst@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF letter/your sign-on is needed by cob 4/23 Date: 21 Apr 2001 16:26:53 EDT Please sign-on our organization: Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, Franklin/Hampshire Chapter, Citizens for Participation in Political Action(CPPAX). Address: c/o Chad Johnson, 1114 South East St., Amherst, MA 01002. - 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: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] 850 arrested at Belgian NATO nuke base Date: 22 Apr 2001 08:55:53 +0100 Dear Pol - Thank you for your report. I have passed it on to many others who are members and supporters of Nevada Desert Experience. I am sure that all of us here are thrilled at the direct action and give you our full support. Please pass on to everyone our solidarity and excitement at what is happening in Belgium. In peace - Sally. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Pol D'Huyvetter (by way of George Farebrother ) wrote: > BOMSPOTTING III: Action Report > > 850 peace activists occupy runway of NATO nuclear base in Belgium > > On Easter Monday, 16th April a mass nonviolent direct action was > organised by Forum for Peace Action (Flemish branch of War Resisters > International) and For Mother Earth. 850 activists non-violently > trespassed on the NATO nuclear weapons base of Kleine Brogel, Belgium, > where 10 US nuclear weapons are stored. Around 800 activists occupied the > runway, in order to prevent the functioning of the base. Within some weeks a > resolution calling for nuclear disarmament will be tabled in the Belgian > Parliament by Peter Vanhoutte , a Green MP > who was amongst the 15 MP's present at the non-violent protest. Following > the high-profile and positive media-coverage on the anti-nuclear protest, the > resolution seems to reveive the hoped but unexpected support from liberals > and social-democrats. > > The action began shortly after 1pm with a colourful procession > from the village of Kleine Brogel to the "spotters corner", at the end of > the runway. Although the base authorities had been preparing for the > action for some time, they only had 30 soldiers waiting in this area. A > large section of the fence was quickly removed, and several hundreds of > activists streamed onto the base. Approximately 150 were arrested by > police and military before reaching the runway, although many of those > detained were able to release themselves from their handcuffs, and join > in with the rest of the action. > > Within a few minutes, activists had taken control of the runway, and a > series of short speeches were given by activists from the growing > anti-nuclear movements in Belgium, Nederlands, Britain and Finland. There > were also speakers from campaigns against Depleted Uranium, Trident > Ploughshares and NATO intervention in the Balkans. > > There was a defiant mood, with activists chanting "We are in, the bombs > must go out!" It took soldiers over two hours to clear the runway, and > while some activists walked to the waiting arrest buses, many > non-violently resisted by sitting down and linking arms. As on previous > actions, arrests of these activists were made using unnecessary amounts > of force. There were also several injuries from police horses and dogs. > Formal complaints are also being made about the conditions in which > people were detained after arrest, with several activists forced to stand > outside for up to four hours in temporary razor-wire "pens", and in > dangerously overcrowded buildings. > > A spokesperson from For Mother Earth said "This is probably the largest > direct action on a nuclear base that has ever taken place. It has been an > amazing experience, with people from all over Europe coming together to > give a clear message- we want a nuclear free Belgium, and a nuclear free > world. The only sour point has been the violence from the police and the > military, but that serves as a really clear reminder of the sorts of > lengths that a nuclear state will go to, in order to defend itself." > In total, there were around 850 activists detained under an > "administrative arrest", and the last activists were released shortly > before 11pm. > > The action gave considerable public and political support to the upcoming > nuclear disarmament resolution being prepared for approval by the Greens, > Social-Democrats and Liberals, all member parties of the Belgian > Government. Only the francophone liberals seem to oppose this historic > resolution to this date. Will Belgium soon follow its NATO partner Greece, > which disarmed its 'secret' stockpile of B-61 US nuclear weapons last > January. And will this on its turn open opportunities for the Dutch, German, > Italian and British peace movements opposing US nuclear weapons illegally > deployed in their region? > > For more photographs and stories from the action, (mostly in French and > Dutch) visit http://belgium.indymedia.org > For more information on the base, and the Belgian anti-nuclear campaign, > visit the For Mother Earth Website: http://www.motherearth.org or contact > international@motherearth.org > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > For Mother Earth International/Voor Moeder Aarde vzw, > p.a. Gents Ecologisch Centrum > Maria-Hendrikaplein 5-6, 9000 Gent, > Belgium > > Phone +32-9-242 87 52 > Fax +32-9-242 87 51 > Mobile +32-495-28 02 59 > E-mail > WWW: > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/04/25 Date: 24 Apr 2001 20:32:32 -0400 NucNews archives are posted through April 20, 2001 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Here are some items of interest: 1) Nationwide Days of Action To End the War on Iraq, April 26-28, 2001 2) "No to Star Wars, Yes to Nuclear Abolition" Action on June 10 - 12 in Washington, DC 3) U.S. Taxes Underwrite Nuke Plants Overseas 4) Please sign petition - Korea Eco-Center [Please be aware that Guin is leaving NucNews staff on April 29th, perhaps permanently, so we will be relying on subscribers to help keep us and each other posted. The publications we search for stories are listed at http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm. The most reliable way to post stories is by sending them to mailto:nucnews@onelist.com. If you have any trouble posting stories, please contact me. mailto:prop1.org (NucNews Editor)] 1) Nationwide Days of Action To End the War on Iraq, April 26-28, 2001 http://www.endthewar.org/action_wg/april_28-30.htm Robert Jensen, Department of Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, office: (512) 471-1990, fax: (512) 471-7979 Email: mailto:iraqnetwork@endthewar.org ---- 2) Project Abolition and Disarmament Clearinghouse's "No to Star Wars, Yes to Nuclear Abolition" Action on June 10 - 12 in Washington, DC will be a three-day, Sunday - Tuesday event: Sunday public demonstration/rally, Monday briefing/training day, Tuesday Congressional and Administration education day. First, I would like to ask that you, your friends, colleagues and organizations attend the event especially the Sunday rally. I'm also looking for volunteers and help with this event. ------ 3) U.S. Taxes Underwrite Nuke Plants Overseas Top Ten Censored Stories of 2000: Exposing the News that Didn't Make the News - Award to: Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina, The Progressive "Here's a story you probably won't see on CBS." So begins Silverstein and Urbina's expose of the U.S. Export-Import Bank's foreign nuclear power plant deals. The writers start smugly for good reason: Westinghouse, which built unsafe and overpriced Ex-Im-backed nuclear power plants, owns the CBS network. And sure enough CBS did not cover the story. The U.S. Export-Import Bank is a government agency that underwrites exports through tax-payer backed loans. As the writers document, between 1959 and 1993, it spent $7.7 billion to help sell American-made reactors overseas. The reason for this "help," however, was not altruistic. U.S. nuclear contractors like Westinghouse, Bechtel and General Electric have watched their home markets shrink, as nuclear power has become riddled with risks and uncertainties. Thus they have searched for clients abroad. Since most countries can't afford to buy nuclear power facilities, the contractors often provide financing backed by Ex-Im and you. Often, contractors make windfall profits from such loans. In 1985, Westinghouse built the Bataan nuclear power facility in the Philippines at a cost of $1.2 billion, 150 percent above projections. The plant was situated near an active volcano and never generated a single watt of energy. Nevertheless, the Philippines pays $300,000 a day in interest on the loan that funded the project. Of course, none of this should be a huge surprise -- the leader of the council overseeing Ex-Im loans is also the head honcho at Westinghouse. ----------- 4) Please sign petition Tel) +82-2-2254-1914 Fax) +82-2-2238-0377 mailto:ecofree@nownuri.net We, Korea Eco-Center, are young environmental movement group in Korea, mainly acting against nuclear-powered energy policy. Now there are 16 nuclear power plants in operation and 4 additional plants have been under construction for more electricity demands in future. Furthermore, the government has a plan to build nuclear waste storage as one of the nuclear-powered energy policy project and made an offer for public subscription of a site to local autonomous entities. The closing day of the public subscription is 28 June. Though Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) cannot guarantee the management of nuclear wastes, it is appeasing local residents with about 40 million US dollars to secure a site. We express clearly our dissatisfaction to authorities concerned and KEPCO and will give out a statement against nuclear policy in our land. We have a signature-collecting campaign against supporting nuclear technologies. Please sign petition. Write your name, organization and nation and send by e-mail (ecenter@nownuri.net or ecofree@nownuri.net) or fax: +82-2-2238-0377 In waiting. Korea Eco-Center mailto:ecofree@nownuri.net --> A protest Statement against nuclear policy of South Korea We are concerned about energy policy focusing on nuclear power plants. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents already got rid of a large number of lives and millions of people have suffered from them until now. Besides this, the economic losses in Soviet Union and USA are tremendous. But government authorities boast of its ranking first in the national average capacity factors ranged from a high of 94%, neglecting the past catastrophes, and push the construction of nuclear waste storage. In fact Korea has not yet had large-scale nuclear accidents like those of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. But there are so many troubles including leakage of heavy water, reactor shutdown, cracked inner wall, radiation exposure to workers, deformed livestock, etc. The nuclear waste storage is extremely more dangerous than nuclear power station. Researches into management of high level radioactive wastes have been made a lot of times but they have not led to any reliable safety supervision technique at present. In particular the reason why nuclear waste storage construction plan cause trouble so much is that that is under way with the intention of building new nuclear power station. We are against nuclear energy use. 'Atom for peace' is a lie and cannot cheat all of us any more. We urge government to repeal nuclear energy policy before people lose their lives, health and happiness. And doing so, it is also necessary for government authorities to open the methods of disposing of nuclear wastes to the public. ___________________________________________________ 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. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carah Lynn Ong Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Civil inspection nuclear weapons base Buechel, Germany Date: 25 Apr 2001 10:38:46 -0600 Please reply to : roblach@s.netic.de >From: "roblach+s.netic.de" >To: >Subject: Civil inspection nuclear weapons base Buechel, Germany >Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:16:22 +0200 >X-Priority: 3 > >Dear abolitionists, > > >we would like to let you know that the next civil inspection of a nuclear >weapons base will be organised for 30th September 2001 in B=FCchel/Germany. >You=B4d like to sign the following appeal too? > > >Peace > >Roland Blach >Non-voilent action >to abolish nclear wepaons >Lenzhalde 53 >D-70806 Kornwestheim >Tel. 0049-7154-22026 >Fax 0049-7154-186643 >info@gaaa.org >www.gaaa.org > >*** > >Civil inspection of the nuclear weapons base B=FCchel/S=FCdeifel on >Sunday September 30th - international day of action. > >"...in a nuclear war not only the survival of the enemy will be at stake, >but the fate of the entire humanity. There cannot be any acceptable politic= , >military or moral justification for the probable consequences of a nuclear >war. Moreover the menace of using nuclear weapons cannot be justified >neither." General a.D. Lee Butler, 2.2.98 at the National Press Club, >Washington D.C. > >Did you know >- that at B=FCchel (Eifel) and Ramstein (near Kaiserslautern) there are sti= ll >60 nuclear bombs stored ? >- that in B=FCchel, as a consequence of the nuclear participation of the BR= D, >German pilots exercise the use of nuclear weapons with Bundeswehr-Tornados >(German army Tornadoes) ? >- that the Federal Government still sees no reason to change its position, >although the International Court of Justice ICJ has declared in 1996 that >the menace of using nuclear weapons is generally contrary to international >law ? >Do you want to see this changed ? >We appeal to the Federal Government >- to stop the nuclear participation in B=FCchel >- to engage for a total de-alerting of nuclear weapons >- to insist with the USA, the NATO and Russia for a non-first use >declaration >- to ask for a withdrawal of all US and NATO nuclear bombs from German >territory and for a separation of all nuclear warheads from their delivery >systems >- to ask for a total elimination of all nuclear weapons all around the worl= d > >Since the statement of the ICJ in 1996 many "civil inspections" of nuclear >bases have been organised in Belgium, Holland, Scotland and Germany, with >the participation of many prominent persons (ministers, authors...). >The purpose of these actions was, while entering a military base without >permission, to commit a deed of civil disobedience and to express that way >our opposition to the storing of nuclear weapons. > >INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 30.9.2001 > >On 30.9.2001 we will, with a varied program, try again to have a civil >inspection in B=FCchel. The participation to the civil inspection can be >subject to a juridical persecution (trespass). For the action day every >support is important, as well for the preparation as for the camp in >preparation of the action (28-30.9). We need your help to make the action >still more effective. All through Europe (Netherlands, Belgium a.o.)actions >will take place at the same time. > >You can order our extended info-flyer, in which you will learn more about : > >- the airplane base B=FCchel near to Cochem >- the illegality of nuclear weapons >- non violent opposition and civil inspections >- an action which can serve as example (1983) with the participation of man= y >prominent people (Heinrich B=F6ll, G=FCnter Grass, Petra Kelly a.m.o.) >- the engagement of non-violent behaviour. >- possible juridical consequences. > >Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen >Lenzhalde 53 >70806 Kornwestheim >Tel. 07154-22026 >Fax 07154-186643 >www.gaaa.org > >First Supporting organisations & persons (24.4.): > >Aktionsgemeinschaft Dienst f=FCr den Frieden e.V., Aktionskreis f=FCr Fried= en >Th=FCringen, Bund f=FCr Soziale Verteidigung, Deutscher Friedensrat, DFG-VK= LV >NRW, LV Niedersachsen/Bremen (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft-Vereinigte >Kriegsdienstgegner), FIAN Gruppe Hamburg, Friedensnetz Ba-W=FC, Humanistisc= he >Union Marburg, For Mother Earth International, Int. Vers=F6hnungsbund, dt. >Zweig, IPPNW, dt. Sektion (Internationale =C4rzte zur Verh=FCtung eines >Atomkriegs), Pax Christi Bistumsstelle Limburg > >Marcus Armstrong (UK), Regina Hagen (Darmst=E4dter Friedensforum), George >Farebrother (World Court Project, UK), Jost Gruber (Landesgesch=E4ftsf=FChr= er >DFG-VK Bayern), Biggi H=E4ussler (Stuttgart), David Heller (Belgium), Hanna >J=E4rvinen (Belgium), Hanna Jaskolski (Erftstadt), Marion K=FCpker (For Mot= her >Earth Germany), Hans Lammerant (Belgium), Dr. Wolfgang Menzel (DFG-VK >Freiburg), Koen Moens (Belgium), Hanno Paul (B=FCnde), Stefan Philipp (DFG-= VK >Ba-W=FC), Clemens Ronnefeldt (Intern. Vers=F6hnungsbund- Deutscher Zweig), = Paul >Russmann (Ohne R=FCstung Leben), Monty Sch=E4del (DFG-VK und MdL >Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), R=FCdiger Stolzenberg (Vorsitzender DGB >Mittelhessen), Peter Strutynski (Bundesausschu=DF Friedensratschlag), Julie= n >Vacher (Belgium), Bernard de Witte (Belgium), Angie Zelter (UK) - 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) Re: Mother's Day 2001 Date: 25 Apr 2001 14:10:34 -0700 Dear friends -- Please accept my apologies for the long delay in responding. Western States Legal Foundation would like to endorse/support this year's Mother's Day Action. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to make a financial contribution. However, if it would be of use, we could donate a couple of our beautiful new multi-color T-shirts, which feature a California Tiger Salamander (our logo) wrapped around a sunflower (Abolition 2000 logo). Let me know if you would like us to send the T-shirts. Love to Corbin, et al. -- Jadcie At 03:00 PM 2/13/01 -0800, you wrote: > > An Invitation to Support Western Shoshone Sovereignty and Stewardship: = =20 > I'm inviting you all to come down to the Nevada Test Site for >Mother's Day and have your voices heard, we all have concerns for the >younger generation; so they can continue their life. The people are the >backbone of the government. We should be dictating to the leaders instead >of the government dictating to us how they are going to shorten our life. > So let's unite ourselves together and save something for the future. >Come for sure for Mother's Day and stay as long as you can and we will all >be together. That way, we'll have a cleaner life and enjoy our life for the >younger generations. Let's talk together. So come and bring your stuff; >your bedroll, your food and the water you survive on. As a person, I >really appreciate you people. > >Corbin Harney,=20 >Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader, Executive Director, Shundahai Network = =20 > =20 > We are contacting you to ask for your support for the 2001 Mother's Day >Gathering that will take place May 11th -14th > at the Nevada Test Site. If you want to lend your name this year, please >contact us immediately. We are especially looking for active co-sponsors >and supporters to co-host this year's gathering alongside the Western >Shoshone National Council, Shundahai Network, Seeds of Peace, Nevada Desert >Experience, and PooHaBah.=20 >=B1 Co-sponsor ($500 or equivalent in donations) >=B1 Supporter (donations of any kind) >=B1 Endorser (lend name only) >These are some other things you can do now: >=C5 Publicize this event in your literature or local calendars. >=C5 Organize a carload, van load, or busload to come and participate. >=C5 If you can't come, organize a solidarity event. >=C5 Make banners to bring or send. >=C5 Link your website to www.shundahai.org > > This year's Mother's Day Gathering will "Celebrate Life & >Sovereignty" as we unite and organize to stop nuclear contamination. The >Nuclear Industry continues to poison all life on this planet, and continues >to site its waste and processing facilities near people of color and >impoverished communities. By uniting ourselves together we aim to stop >this blatant environmental injustice. >All over the world there are people dying from radiation contamination that >is a direct result from business' and government's' disregard for our >safety and lives. People need to come together to discuss and take action >against these atrocities.=20 >The purpose of this gathering is to:=20 >=A8 Support Environmental Justice on Western Shoshone Lands > =A8 Support, Host, & Welcome WSNC Spirit Run/Walk that will circle the= test >site=20 >=A8 Protect Sacred Yucca Mountain from becoming a nuclear waste dump > =A8 Occupy & Pray for the land >=A8 Learn from Speakers & Trainers; Participate in Organizing Workshops > =A8 Take Action to STOP Nuclear Testing, Weapons, Waste, & Power > We are glad to announce that the Western Shoshone National Council >will be conducting it's 2nd Annual Spirit Run/Walk to the Mother's Day >Gathering. The walk will begin in Warm Springs, NV on May 7th and will >circle the Test Site. Johnnie L. Bobb is the main organizer of this walk. = =20 >If you would like to lend your support to this important event, you can >contact Johnnie Bobb directly:=20 > HC 61 BOX 6250, > AUSTIN, NV 89310 PHONE 775-964-2210 > ><<<>>> >May 11 (Friday) > Gathering Begins, Nonviolence trainings. >May 12 (Saturday) > Western Shoshone Spirit Walk arrives. Celebration of Life - Speakers from >our communities, Workshops May 13 (Sunday) > Sunrise Ceremony & Occupation, Mother's Day Brunch, Women's & Men's >Councils May 14(Monday) > Day of Action at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site > > Be prepared for desert camping, hot days and cool nights. Bring plenty of >drinking water, snacks and friends. Meals and local potable water will be >provided, donations gladly accepted to help cover costs. > >We thank you for taking the time to read this message. We hope that you >will be able to support the Western Shoshone Nation in their work for >environmental justice, and will attend the gathering. We look forward to >hearing frm you soon! > > >SHUNDAHAI > > >><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< >SHUNDAHAI NETWORK >"Peace and Harmony with all Creation" >Po Box 6360, Pahrump, NV 89041 >Phone:(775) 537-6088 >Email: shundahai@shundahai.org >http://www.shundahai.org=20 > > >Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: >US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20 >Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons >People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities Environmental Health Network >and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability > >>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< > > > >- > 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: Shundahai Network Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: Mother's Day 2001 Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:30:37 -0700 Hello Jackie,=20 Thank you for the endorsement, and YES, we would love to have some glorious, high-tech, multi-color t-shirts! These will undoubtedly be hot raffle items. Pretty please send them to=20 Shundahai Netowrk po box 6360 Pahrump, NV 89041 or, preferrably, bring them in person or send them down with a crew of others.=20 Many thanks again for the generous donation, and for all that you do. We hope to see you soon.=20 Peace,=20 Piper Weinberg (Mother's Day Coordinator) At 02:10 PM 4/25/01 -0700, you wrote: >Dear friends -- Please accept my apologies for the long delay in >responding. Western States Legal Foundation would like to endorse/support >this year's Mother's Day Action. Unfortunately, we are not in a position >to make a financial contribution. However, if it would be of use, we could >donate a couple of our beautiful new multi-color T-shirts, which feature a >California Tiger Salamander (our logo) wrapped around a sunflower >(Abolition 2000 logo). Let me know if you would like us to send the >T-shirts. Love to Corbin, et al. -- Jadcie > > >At 03:00 PM 2/13/01 -0800, you wrote: >> >> An Invitation to Support Western Shoshone Sovereignty and Stewardship:= =20 >> I'm inviting you all to come down to the Nevada Test Site for >>Mother's Day and have your voices heard, we all have concerns for the >>younger generation; so they can continue their life. The people are the >>backbone of the government. We should be dictating to the leaders instead >>of the government dictating to us how they are going to shorten our life. >> So let's unite ourselves together and save something for the future. >>Come for sure for Mother's Day and stay as long as you can and we will all >>be together. That way, we'll have a cleaner life and enjoy our life for= the >>younger generations. Let's talk together. So come and bring your stuff; >>your bedroll, your food and the water you survive on. As a person, I >>really appreciate you people. >> >>Corbin Harney,=20 >>Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader, Executive Director, Shundahai Network = =20 >> =20 >> We are contacting you to ask for your support for the 2001 Mother's Day >>Gathering that will take place May 11th -14th >> at the Nevada Test Site. If you want to lend your name this year, please >>contact us immediately. We are especially looking for active co-sponsors >>and supporters to co-host this year's gathering alongside the Western >>Shoshone National Council, Shundahai Network, Seeds of Peace, Nevada= Desert >>Experience, and PooHaBah.=20 >>=B1 Co-sponsor ($500 or equivalent in donations) >>=B1 Supporter (donations of any kind) >>=B1 Endorser (lend name only) >>These are some other things you can do now: >>=C5 Publicize this event in your literature or local calendars. >>=C5 Organize a carload, van load, or busload to come and participate. >>=C5 If you can't come, organize a solidarity event. >>=C5 Make banners to bring or send. >>=C5 Link your website to www.shundahai.org >> >> This year's Mother's Day Gathering will "Celebrate Life & >>Sovereignty" as we unite and organize to stop nuclear contamination. The >>Nuclear Industry continues to poison all life on this planet, and= continues >>to site its waste and processing facilities near people of color and >>impoverished communities. By uniting ourselves together we aim to stop >>this blatant environmental injustice. >>All over the world there are people dying from radiation contamination= that >>is a direct result from business' and government's' disregard for our >>safety and lives. People need to come together to discuss and take action >>against these atrocities.=20 >>The purpose of this gathering is to:=20 >>=A8 Support Environmental Justice on Western Shoshone Lands >> =A8 Support, Host, & Welcome WSNC Spirit Run/Walk that will circle the= test >>site=20 >>=A8 Protect Sacred Yucca Mountain from becoming a nuclear waste dump >> =A8 Occupy & Pray for the land >>=A8 Learn from Speakers & Trainers; Participate in Organizing Workshops >> =A8 Take Action to STOP Nuclear Testing, Weapons, Waste, & Power >> We are glad to announce that the Western Shoshone National Council >>will be conducting it's 2nd Annual Spirit Run/Walk to the Mother's Day >>Gathering. The walk will begin in Warm Springs, NV on May 7th and will >>circle the Test Site. Johnnie L. Bobb is the main organizer of this walk.= =20 >>If you would like to lend your support to this important event, you can >>contact Johnnie Bobb directly:=20 >> HC 61 BOX 6250, >> AUSTIN, NV 89310 PHONE 775-964-2210 >> >><<<>>> >>May 11 (Friday) >> Gathering Begins, Nonviolence trainings. >>May 12 (Saturday) >> Western Shoshone Spirit Walk arrives. Celebration of Life - Speakers= from >>our communities, Workshops May 13 (Sunday) >> Sunrise Ceremony & Occupation, Mother's Day Brunch, Women's & Men's >>Councils May 14(Monday) >> Day of Action at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site >> >> Be prepared for desert camping, hot days and cool nights. Bring plenty= of >>drinking water, snacks and friends. Meals and local potable water will be >>provided, donations gladly accepted to help cover costs. >> >>We thank you for taking the time to read this message. We hope that you >>will be able to support the Western Shoshone Nation in their work for >>environmental justice, and will attend the gathering. We look forward to >>hearing frm you soon! >> >> >>SHUNDAHAI >> >> >>><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< >>SHUNDAHAI NETWORK >>"Peace and Harmony with all Creation" >>Po Box 6360, Pahrump, NV 89041 >>Phone:(775) 537-6088 >>Email: shundahai@shundahai.org >>http://www.shundahai.org=20 >> >> >>Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: >>US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20 >>Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons >>People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities Environmental Health Network >>and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability >> >>>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< >> >> >> >>- >> To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to= "majordomo@xmission.com" >> with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. >> For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send >> "help" to the same address. 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Do not use quotes in your message. > ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" Po Box 6360, Pahrump, NV 89041 Phone:(775) 537-6088 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org http://www.shundahai.org=20 Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20 Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities Environmental Health Network and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability >< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< - 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: ATRC Update: STOP BOLTON Date: 26 Apr 2001 13:58:58 -0400 >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:34:48 -0500 >Subject: ATRC Update: STOP BOLTON >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >From: "BerrigaF@newschool.edu" > >April 26, 2001 > >To: Friends of the Arms Trade Resource Center > >From: Bill Hartung, Michelle Ciarrocca, Dena Montague and Frida >Berrigan > >Our complete email update will not be ready until next week, but we >wanted to send out information on John Bolton, George W. Bush's choice >for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and >International Security (what a title!!!). He is so bad the Boston Globe >called him the "the Armageddon Nominee." Hearing on his nomination in >the Senate could be held any day now. > >We assert here that John Bolton spells disaster for arms control, >non-proliferation and arms control. Only if they called the post >"Undersecretary for Arms Un-Control, Proliferation and International >Insecurity" would Bolton would be perfect. > >Stay tuned for our analysis of other Bush picks as well as an update on >U.S. weapons sales to Turkey-- coming soon to your inbox. > >================================================ > >APPOINTEES AND UPCOMING HEARINGS: >Sen. Kerry (D-MA) observed that ''never before have so many ideological >choices been made to execute key elements of what a president argues >will be a foreign policy beyond the ideological gridlock of the past.'' >Although the majority of Bush's picks raise eyebrows and throw the >notion of "compassionate conservatism" overboard, Democrat leaders ready >to play hard ball have been conspicuously absent throughout the >confirmation hearings. > >While Senators Biden (D-DE) and Kerry were noted for their "sharp >questioning" of John R. Bolton - Bush's nominee for Undersecretary of >State for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and International Security - >John Isaacs of the Council for a Livable World aptly summed up the >situation saying, ''Clearly, senators are uncomfortable with Bolton and >his positions and his background. The problem is that they're waiting >for someone else to take the lead.'' Leaders needed! > >If nominated for the number three position in the State Department, Mr. >Bolton, who currently serves as Vice President at the American >Enterprise Institute -- a conservative think tank home to right-wing >luminaries such as Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and >Lynne Cheney -- will have a great deal of impact on some of the most >pressing security issues facing the U.S. today. These include missile >defense, the fate of the ABM Treaty, negotiations with North Korea, the >Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the dismantling of Russian nuclear >stockpiles, and much more. > >A window into what we can expect . . . > >Bolton has been highly critical of the United Nations. In a 1994 panel >discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association, he said that >"there's no such thing as the United Nations," and stated ''if the UN >Secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit >of difference.'' In reference to the ABM Treaty our buddy Helms said, >"John, I want you to take that ABM Treaty and dump it in the same place >we dumped our ABM co-signer, the Soviet Union - on the ash heap of >history." No objections from Bolton. He calls those of us who support >the CTBT "misguided individuals following a timid and neo-pacifist line >of thought." > >Bolton backtracked a little on his previous remarks and positions >during his hearing, saying he believed the UN could be an effective >''policy instrument'' of the United States and that ''circumstances may >arise'' in which the United States could normalize relations with North >Korea, however, these efforts seemed to be steeped more in appeasement >than true changes in beliefs. > >Senator Helms described Bolton as "the kind of man with whom I would >want to stand at Armageddon" with, a strange comment to make, but who >knows -- with people like this in control Armageddon may be approaching >sooner than we thought! > > >WHAT YOU CAN DO: >The Campaign for UN Reform has set up a website (www.StopBolton.org) to >focus grassroots opposition to this nomination. From the site you can >send letters to your Senators opposing Bolton's nomination. > >Foreign Policy In Focus - "Republican Rule" Section for commentaries, >profiles and links to the Bush nominees - >www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/republicanrule/index.html > >Council for a Livable World - for recent news articles on Bolton >(www.clw.org/ef/boltonnomination.html) and the Council's Advisory >(www.clw.org/ef/opposebolton.html) > >And finally, visit the American Enterprise Institute - www.aei.org - or >view Bolton's resume directly at www.aei.org/scholars/bolton.htm to get >your blood boiling. > >Frida Berrigan >Research Associate, >World Policy Institute >66 Fifth Ave., 9th Floor >New York, NY 10011 >ph 212.229.5808 x112 >fax 212.229.5579 > - 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) Immediate Action on Sustainable Energy Agency Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:10:42 -0400 Dear Friends, Our Abolition 2000 proposed Model Statute for an International Sustainable Energy Agency has had a very good reception at the Commission on Sustainable Development meetings at the UN which is ending on April 27th. The NGO Energy Caucus is asking us to lobby our governments to have the final document of the CSD include a call for the establishment of a Sustainable Energy Agency. WE ARE ALSO BEING ASKED TO URGE THE US, RUSSIA, CANADA, UK, INDIA, PAKISTAN AND AUSTRALIA TO DROP THEIR INSISTENCE THAT NUCLEAR ENERGY BE INCLUDED AS A SUSTAINABLE FORM OF ENERGY!! (Interestingly, China is NOT a problem and France and Finland appear to be less of a problem than the others. All other countries are opposed.) It appears that although we haven't been able to fulfill the number one demand of our Abolition Statement for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons, we may be closer to fulfilling our number ten demand, to establish the energy agency! All hands are needed to continue to press this case. We are also looking for a nation to host the Agency. See what you can do. Thanks for all your help. Peace, Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT: VOTE NO ON NUCLEAR POWER! Date: 26 Apr 2001 13:48:45 -0700 --=====================_7737165==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear friends -- CNN is running a poll today on whether people think the US should rely more on nuclear power. At the moment it's running about 2/3 FOR nuclear power. Log onto http://www.cnn.com to vote NO! Please note that the poll is a little hard to find. You have to scroll down towards the end of CNN's home page. Spread the word. -- Jackie Cabasso --=====================_7737165==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Dear friends -- CNN is running a poll today on whether people think the US should rely more on nuclear power.  At the moment it's running about 2/3 FOR nuclear power.  Log onto http://www.cnn.com to vote NO!  Please note that the poll is a little hard to find.  You have to scroll down towards the end of CNN's home page.  Spread the word. -- Jackie Cabasso
--=====================_7737165==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carah Lynn Ong Subject: (abolition-usa) New to A2000 website Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:08:51 -0600 New to the Abolition 2000 website: Download a briefing paper on US plans for control and domination of outer space. Space: The New Frontier for Warfighting? by RE White, prepared for Abolition 2000 Auckland http://www.abolition2000.org (available in pdf only) Download, copy and distribute the new Abolition 2000 brochure! http://www.abolition2000.org (available in pdf only) -- Carah Lynn Ong Coordinator Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1 Santa Barbara, California 93108-2794 USA Tel: 805-965-3443 Fax: 805-568-0466 Email: abolition2000@napf.org Http://www.abolition2000.org Join the Abolition Global Caucus, send a message to abolition-caucus-subscribe@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: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: FW: HR 938 Date: 27 Apr 2001 10:04:39 -0400 >Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:00:11 -0500 >Subject: FW: HR 938 >To: maliha@haguepeace.org, terra828@hotmail.com, farouz@haguepeace.org, cweiss@igc.org >Cc: lialliancepeace@juno.com, aslater@gracelinks.org >From: "mmelkonian@broadviewnet.net" > >FYI Margaret Melkonian Please Forward. >Margaret Melkonian >UN Representative >Hague Appeal for Peace >763 Goodrich Street >Uniondale, NY 11553 USA >Tel: 1-516-538-0299 >Fax: 1-516-505-8630 >Email: mmelkonian@broadviewnet.net >NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS >www.haguepeace.org >-----Original Message----- >From: MAHA MUNA [mailto:MAHA@theIRC.org] >Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:47 AM >To: aburke@amnesty.org; Eugeniapl@aol.com; mmelkonian@broadviewnet.net; >flick@igc.org; aadrian-paul@international-alert.org; >fismail@international-alert.org >Subject: HR 938 > > >Action Alert on HR 938, The United Nations Rapid Deployment Act of 2001 >April 17, 2001 > >On March 8, 2001, Congressmen James McGovern (D-MA) and Amo Houghton (R-NY) >introduced HR 938, the United Nations Rapid Deployment Act of 2001. > >The current system of peacekeeping is not working. Horrifying crimes >against >humanity still occur with depressing frequency and refugees are fleeing in >ever-greater numbers from violent conflicts. > >HR 938 is but one effort among many in helping to strengthen and improve >the >ability of the international community to respond to current world crises. >Yet it is crucial, for its passage would demonstrate U.S. Congressional >support for the desire to improve United Nations peacekeeping capabilities. > >HR 938 calls for the United States to work with the UN Secretary-General to >establish a 6,000 member United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and >Security >Force (Police and Security Force) recruited from volunteers throughout the >world. These UN employees would report to the Security Council and engage >in >deployments limited to six months. > >This force will allow the Security Council to deploy properly trained and >equipped peacekeepers within 15 days of a resolution, bringing immediate >relief and protection to civilian populations emerging from violent >conflict. Creating a corps of disciplined personnel will give the UN time >to >negotiate member state longer-term troop deployments and training. > >Contact your congressperson's local office, in the congressional district >where you live, and urge him/her to support this important legislation. >Also >a letter or op-ed piece in your local paper can be very effective. > >For more information on this bill, go to thomas.loc.gov and type HR 938 in >the search engine. Also visit the UN's page on its peacekeeping efforts: >http://www.un.org/peace/ > - 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: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] CAAB in court - DAY 3 Date: 27 Apr 2001 09:09:06 +0100 --------------E5BB6377ADAA6BB5A5B258C9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Lindis & Anni - What good news this is! Congratulations on the victory! Sally Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow wrote: > RESULT OF THE CASE OF 'OBSTRUCTION' AND THE US FLAG (27 April > 2001) Today at Harrogate Magistrates' Court Anni Rainbow and Lindis > Percy were found not guilty of 'obstruction of the highway' at the > American National Security Agency base at Menwith Hill, North > Yorkshire. Peter Nuttall (the District Judge hearing the case) ruled > that Ms Rainbow and Ms Percy were not on the public highway when they > were witnessing and protesting at the Main entrance last year on the > night that George W Bush was to accept the US Presidency. Peter > Nuttall ruled that there was a clear distinction to be made between > the public highway and the private 'applicable area' covered by the > military land byelaws. The 'applicable area' has been in contention > for years and the Ministry of Defence Police have arrested many people > in this particular area. CAAB is very pleased that at long last the > confusion concerning the boundary of the Main entrance area at Menwith > Hill Station is finally defined and the disgraceful conduct of the > Ministry of Defence Police has in parts been addressed. Peter Nuttall > went on to find there was 'no conviction' in the matter of the charge > brought against Lindis Percy by the Crown Prosecution Service for > section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986. He ruled that the citizen has > rights and that the citizen has a right to peaceful protest. The > protest was peaceful and Ms Percy clearly did not intend to be > 'abusive and insulting' by holding the US flag with the words 'STOP > STAR WARS' written on it. Peter Nuttall commented that this complaint > did not need to come within the criminal code. Rajid Menon (defending > Ms Percy) referred to the prosecution of this particular charge > against her as 'clearly political'. CAAB is delighted at the outcome > of this case. The outcome is significant. The Public Order charge > was serious because of the implications for civil liberties and > peaceful protest. The Crown Prosecution Service discontinued the > 'racially motivated' charge just before the trial. We fully intend to > continue our witness and protest at this American base and other US > bases in this country. We will rigorously oppose the American Missile > Defense system and the probable involvement of NSA Menwith Hill, > Fylingdales or any other UK base. Tony Blair is expected to give > formal consent to the US goverment for use of these bases for the > American Missile Defense system. We with others are determined to > stop it. Thank you so much to everyone who came to the court, sent > emails, telephoned and generally supported us. Lindis Percy and Anni > RainbowCo-Coordinators CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN > BASES (CAAB)8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K. > > Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482 702033email: > anniandlindis@caab.org.ukWebsite: http://www.caab.org.uk "Never doubt > that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the > world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor [www.debticated.com] > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the > account you wish to be subscribed to: > "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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victory!

Sally

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow wrote:

  RESULT OF THE CASE OF 'OBSTRUCTION' AND THE US FLAG (27 April 2001) Today at Harrogate Magistrates' Court Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy were found not guilty of 'obstruction of the highway' at the American National Security Agency base at Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire. Peter Nuttall (the District Judge hearing the case) ruled that Ms Rainbow and Ms Percy were not on the public highway when they were witnessing and protesting at the Main entrance last year on the night that George W Bush was to accept the US Presidency. Peter Nuttall ruled that there was a clear distinction to be made between the public highway and the private 'applicable area' covered by the military land byelaws.  The 'applicable area' has been in contention for years and the Ministry of Defence Police have arrested many people in this particular area. CAAB is very pleased that at long last the confusion concerning the boundary of the Main entrance area at Menwith Hill Station is finally defined and the disgraceful conduct of the Ministry of Defence Police has in parts been addressed. Peter Nuttall went on to find there was 'no conviction' in the matter of the charge brought against Lindis Percy by the Crown Prosecution Service for section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.  He ruled that the citizen has rights and that the citizen has a right to peaceful protest.  The protest was peaceful and Ms Percy clearly did not intend to be 'abusive and insulting' by holding the US flag with the words 'STOP STAR WARS' written on it. Peter Nuttall commented that this complaint did not need to come within the criminal code.  Rajid Menon (defending Ms Percy) referred to the prosecution of this particular charge against her as 'clearly political'. CAAB is delighted at the outcome of this case.  The outcome is significant.  The Public Order charge was serious because of the implications for civil liberties and peaceful protest. The Crown Prosecution Service discontinued the 'racially motivated' charge just before the trial. We fully intend to continue our witness and protest at this American base and other US bases in this country.  We will rigorously oppose the American Missile Defense system and the probable involvement of NSA Menwith Hill, Fylingdales or any other UK base.  Tony Blair is expected to give formal consent to the US goverment for use of these bases for the American Missile Defense system.  We with others are determined to stop it. Thank you so much to everyone who came to the court, sent emails, telephoned and generally supported us. Lindis Percy and Anni RainbowCo-Coordinators CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
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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: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF-DC NGO Roundtable - Invitation Date: 28 Apr 2001 00:38:31 -0700 Dear peace and environmental colleagues: If you are going to be in Washington, DC on May 10 -- this invotation is for you. Don't miss it. Peace, Marylia YOU ARE INVITED TO A NGO BRIEFING AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY AND THE U.S. STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM WHEN: Thursday, May 10 FROM: 9:30 am to 11:00 am WHERE: Natural Resources Defense Council Conference Room 1200 New York Avenue, NW, 4th Floor RSVP TO: (202) 833-4668 Coffee, bagels and pastries will be provided. SPEAKERS: * DR. ROBERT CIVIAK, former Program Examiner for the Department of Energy's national security programs in the White House Office of Management and Budget, has just completed a new study, "Soaring Costs, Shrinking Performance: Status of the National Ignition Facility," commissioned by Tri-Valley CAREs, a DOE watchdog organization based in Livermore, CA. Dr. Civiak's study provides the first independent examination of the cost to build and operate the NIF mega-laser, now under construction at Livermore Lab, and finds that NIF's full price will be 600% higher than what DOE said. The report details the key laser components for which DOE low-balled the costs -- and the ones left out of DOE's estimates altogether. "Soaring Costs, Shrinking Performance" looks also at the laser's standards, and finds that the output from the NIF per dollar spent is now projected to be only one-ninth what it was when NIF was approved in 1997. Civiak's last report for Tri-Valley CAREs was "Managing the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile: A Comparison of 5 Strategies," in July 2000. * DR. MATTHEW MCKINZIE, NRDC staff scientist, will put the NIF in the context of Stockpile Stewardship and discuss both the shortcomings and the more positive alternatives to the current program. McKinzie has written numerous articles and reports on the U.S. Stockpile Stewardship program and on several of its elements, including the National Ignition Facility and the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. This "guided tour" through the smoke and mirrors surrounding NIF -- DOE's flagship for so-called Stockpile Stewardship -- is a must for all activists and policy analysts who work on or care about nuclear weapons issues. Following the briefing, Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CAREs and Daryl Kimball of Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers will facilitate a discussion on next steps. Copies of the study will be available at the Roundtable, and can soon be obtained on-line by visiting , the website of Tri-Valley CAREs, which has for 18 years conducted research, critical analysis, and outreach to increase public participation in decisions regarding the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, with a special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Lab. The new study was produced as part of Tri-Valley CAREs' "Redefining Stockpile Stewardship" program. The briefing is sponsored by Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, Natural Resources Defense Council and Tri-Valley CAREs. For further information contact Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 or Jim Bridgman, ANA (202) 833-4668. end 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) Media Advisory - NIF, Nat'l Press Club Briefing Date: 28 Apr 2001 08:13:15 -0700 Dear peace and environmental colleagues: Tri-Valley CAREs is extremely pleased to announce the release of an eye-opening new report in May, 2001 -- "Soaring Cost, Shrinking Performance: The Status of the National Ignition Facility," by Dr. Robert Civiak. This study is the first truly independent analysis of the full cost of building and operating the Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility mega-laser. Below, please find the media advisory for our press conference Wednesday, May 9 at the national press club in Washington, DC. I also sent a separate email regarding a Roundtable on the report and its recommendations for non-governmental organizations to be held Thursday, May 10 at 9:30 AM at NRDC. Call (202) 833-4668 to RSVP for the Roundtable. And -- please share this media advisory with any journalists you know who may be interested. Peace, Marylia media advisory for further information, contact Dr. Robert Civiak, physicist, author, (603) 448-5327 Marylia Kelley, executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 FIRST DETAILED, INDEPENDENT STUDY FINDS NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY MEGA-LASER'S LIFE TIME COST MAY SOAR OVER $30 BILLION WHAT: News Conference to release a major new report, "Soaring Cost, Shrinking Performance: The Status of the National Ignition Facility," providing the first independent examination of the NIF mega-laser, now under construction at the Dept. of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in CA. The in-depth report details the key laser and program components for which DOE low-balled the costs -- and the ones left out altogether. WHEN: Wednesday, May 9 at 9:30 AM WHERE: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 13th Floor, 529 - 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. WHO: * Dr. Robert Civiak, a physicist and the author of the new report, served in the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1988 to 1999 as Program Examiner for the DOE's national security programs, including Stockpile Stewardship and the NIF. Previously, he served as a visiting scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as a technology policy analyst for the Congressional Research Service. * Marylia Kelley is Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore, CA-based DOE "watchdog" organization that sponsored the NIF cost study as part of its "Redefining Stockpile Stewardship" program. WHY: The Dept. of Energy is using smoke and mirrors to hide NIF's full cost from the public eye. Following disclosure of serious, underlying technical problems with the laser in 1999, DOE was forced by Congress to "rebaseline" NIF. The Department has increased its estimate of the cost to build the facility from $1.1 billion to $3.4 billion and delayed completion of the project from 2002 to 2008. Still, DOE has fallen far short of including all of the laser's costs in its estimate. For example, NIF's target design, diagnostics, and infrastructure costs are missing from DOE's cost accounting, as are several "add ons" expected before 2008. "Soaring Cost, Shrinking Performance" lays out how and why the NIF construction costs will reach $5 billion, if the laser is completed on its current schedule in 2008. The report also finds a significant potential for future problems and delays that will drive the NIF construction cost even higher. When imputed interest and a delay of one additional year are added, the cost rises to $7.8 billion. Furthermore, construction costs are just the tip of the NIF iceberg. DOE has dramatically underestimated the operating cost for the laser. A full accounting of the cost to build and operate the NIF over 30 years, as the DOE plans, comes to $32.4 billion -- more than 6 times what DOE said the life cycle costs would be when Congress approved the project. The materials currently used in key components of the NIF cannot withstand damage from the intensity of the laser beam at full energy for more than a few shots. DOE is studying the problem, as it has been for many years, but is still far from solving it. The performance of the laser is being substantially degraded by this and other technical uncertainties. Moreover, the report shows why the National Ignition Facility, despite its name, may never reach its scientific goal of ignition at any cost. -- 30 -- Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Don't forget June 3rd in D.C. - Making History! Date: 29 Apr 2001 14:53:14 -0400 Re: The Vigil's 20th Anniversary 6/3/01 (first Sunday), noon to ???? - Peace Park has been more and more often taken over by fences and police, with a thin path for the rest of us humans. So if the White House security forces decide to throw a damper on the 20th anniversary celebration starting noon June 3rd (first Sunday), the fall-back position for visitors will be 16th and H Street NW, on the north side of Lafayette Park (or across the street). Perhaps the residents of Hay Adams Hotel and St. John's Church would rather the police allow us to remain in our normal spot along Pennsylvania Avenue. Please come, bring drums, fliers, banners, food, friends. See http://prop1.org/history/2001/010603pp.20th.anniversary.htm. Love, Ellen, for Peace Park Crew __________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org * Please sign the Online Petition! - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm __________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.