From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #55 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Wednesday, January 6 1999 Volume 01 : Number 055 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:28:30 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) My First Message of 1999! Happy New Year, Happy 40th Anniversary for Fidel Castro, and Happy New Millenium 365 Eve! - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Peace Action - National Office Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you You should respond to me at how many do you want and do you want them with a 'disarmament clearinghouse'return address or a blank return address. Bruce - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Sun Dec 27 07:27:25 1998 > From: JTLOWE@aol.com > Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:25:00 EST > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Hi, > > With children home (can I blame it on them?) I have lost the address to > request postcards. Do you still have it and if so can you forward it to me?? > > Thanks, > > Colby Lowe > member, National Board, Peace Action > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST From: Chiapski@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you Bruce, I think we've run out of time on this. We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them. Thanks anyway. Francis Chiappa - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:42:19 EST From: JTLOWE@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you Hi Bruce, I think I hav edone this already. Anyway 10 please wlith Dis. Clearing house in return label. Did you know that 1999 is the last year in the UN 3rd disarmament decade? Here's hoping it proves fruitful. All the best in the new year to you, Colby - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:51:30 EST From: DavidMcR@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: VitW Outreach letter In a message dated 1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, kkelly@igc.apc.org writes: << ubj: VitW Outreach letter Date: 1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time From: kkelly@igc.apc.org (Kathy Kelly) To: kkelly@igc.apc.org January 4, 1998 Dear Friends, Following is a letter we have just sent off to our entire database. You may already be familiar with some of the info that follows--sorry for reruns. We'll be very grateful for any help you can give us in circulating the "Declaration" form, (newly modified), and in publicizing our forthcoming "Walk Away From the Pentagon." Our 19th delegation to Iraq left Chicago on December 17 1998, grateful to three Palestinians who have up their seats on a Royal Jordanian flight to Amman so that we could reach Baghdad as soon as possible. Enroute, many people anxiously wondered aloud, with us, "Would the US continue to bomb Iraq on the first night of Ramadan?" On December 19, arriving in Baghdad, the answer became clear as explosions pierced the night sky. We are astonished at the dignity and graciousness Iraqi people sustained through four days of bombardment. Yet make no mistake about it, people we met experienced stark terror and fear, each night. Now they wait, anxious and vulnerable, for the next attack. Meanwhile, the deadly embargo continues to devastate and destroy people. On December 7 1998, Voices in the Wilderness received a Prepenalty Notice from the Department of the Treasury in Washington DC. The notice included Proposed Penalties directed at Voices and four individual delegates: Bert Sacks, Randall Mullins, Dan Handelman, and Joe Zito. We are charged with violating the embargo on Iraq through "exportation of donated goods, including medical supplies and toys, to Iraq." The proposed penalty for Voices is $120,000, with individual delegates' proposed penalties ranging from $10,000-$12,000. Ironically, the 'notice' has allowed us to reach many hundreds of new supporters. At a December 30 1998 press conference in Washington DC, we announced our response to the penalty notice, acknowledging through a letter to the Treasury Department that we violated the embargo by bringing "medicine and toys" to Iraqi children and families. Our letter explains why we are determined to continue nonviolently resisting the pitiless embargo laws and invites government officials to join us. Attachments include an international law argument by Professor Richard Falk, an historical argument by Professor Howard Zinn and a moral argument by Rev. Simon Harak, SJ, along with statements by the four individuals who've been served pre-penalty notices. Believing that money entrusted to us must be spent to help end the sanctions and alleviate misery in Iraq, we assured the Treasury Department that we won't pay any fines and will do all that we can to prevent them from seizing or freezing our funds. C-Span aired the entire press conference several times. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. People from all over the country have contacted us to learn how they can become involved in the campaign, and many have asked to be included as co-conspirators, (see enclosed "Declaration" form.) Along with circulating and collecting the "Declaration" forms, please consider the following urgently needed actions: * Publicize, support or join the January 15 - January 31 1999 Voices in the Wilderness Pentagon - UN Walk, urging the United Nations to walk away from the Pentagon, to no longer allow US foreign policy to pervert the UN into becoming an instrument of warfare. Beginning on Martin Luther King's birthday, members will leave the Pentagon behind, headed toward the UN, via stops in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. For details and itinerary, call Beth La Voie, at 404-753-9337 (Atlanta, GA). * Help organize a National Call-In Week January 11 - 15, 1999 Monday, January 11, Call President Clinton with message "Don't Bomb Iraq: Lift the Sanctions Now!" 202-456-2580/202-456-1111 Tuesday, January 12, Call Sec of State Albright 202-647-4000/202-647-5291 Wednesday, January 13, Call the OFAC, Mr. Newcomb, to tell your opinion about imposing sanctions on Voices in the Wilderness 202-622-2510 Thursday, January 14, Call your Senators 202-225-3121 Friday, January 15, Call your Representatives 202-224-3121 * Organize an outreach and education event in your area--contact us for speakers, videos (recent C-Span coverage, footage from Dec. '98 VitW action in which Iraqi children sing verses of "We Shall Overcome" in Arabic, or other educational videos), enlarged pictures, and/or suggestions about other people you can connect with in your area. * Help us build our campaign by sending a donation to Voices in the Wilderness at the address listed below. Please let us know if you would like to receive copies of the pre-penalty notice and our response along with the attachments. Alternatively, you could visit our website at: www.nonviolence.org/vitw and there you will find all of the documents along with recent reports and updates. In a January 3, 1999 New York Times article, Steven Kinzer described the effect of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis as "an almost surreal descent into a poverty they believe they do not deserve." He closes his article with this quote: "First I sold my television, then my furniture, then my car, then my house," said Mohammed Abdul Razaq, a retired office worker. "Everything that I built up over a lifetime is gone. A bomb is something you hear far away, or at worst, it kills you in a second. Sanctions kill you every day." We look forward to joining our voices with yours as we cry out for an end to this humanitarian disaster. May we live in peace with Iraqi people. Mike Bremer Jeff Guntzel Kathy Kelly Rick McDowell for Voices in the Wilderness DECLARATIONS, 1999 In January of 1996, the Voices in the Wilderness campaign sought commitments from supporters which included signing a letter of intent to violate the sanctions and help send medical relief supplies to children and families in Iraq. In light of recently proposed penalties amounting to $163,000 which the Office of Foreign Assets Control may impose on members of this campaign, we invite you to sign the form below to indicate your wish to be included as a member of this campaign who has intentionally violated the UN/US economic sanctions against Iraq. Please return your signed form to the address above. We will collect the forms and submit them to the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control, which has already received several hundred such Declarations. Please be aware that by signing this form and filling in any other information, you may face future consequences for your involvement in this effort to publicly violate the sanctions. The Treasury Department notified us that we would have 30 days in which to respond to a pre-penalty notice which arrived on December 3, 1998. We have already submitted a letter that explains what we did, along with an invitation to OFAC and Treasury Department members to join our continued efforts to bring medicine and toys to children and families in Iraq. We believe that the proposed monetary penalties should not be assessed against us, because the small amount of money in our accounts is badly needed to buy medicines for children in Iraq. Citizens of the United States have given us this money in trust to buy medical supplies for these children, and to cover the costs of bringing them to Iraq, and to campaign for an end to the embargo. I have intentionally violated the UN/US sanctions against Iraq by one of the following actions: ( ) Traveling to Iraq ( ) Bringing medicines and toys to children in Iraq ( ) Raising money to buy medicines and toys for distribution in Iraq ( ) Donating money to assist the Voices in the Wilderness campaign in its efforts ( ) Donating medicines for transport to Iraq. Name: ____________________________ Contact Information: ______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Voices in the Wilderness A Campaign to End the US/UN Economic Sanctions Against the People of Iraq 1460 West Carmen Ave. Chicago, IL 60640 ph:773-784-8065; fax: 773-784-8837 email: kkelly@igc.apc.org website: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw >> - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:45:45 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering 99 Healing Global Wounds PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389 phone: (760) 852-4175 fax: (760) 852-4151 hgw@scruznet.com http://www.shundahai.org/HGW Re: Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10, 1999, Nevada Test Site Dear Friends, We are writing to you to invite your participation in and endorsement of the largest, most exciting and unique gathering at the Nevada Test Site in many years. Already organizations, community groups and activists from around the world are preparing themselves to join us at the Test Site so that we may unite ourselves together to break the nuclear chain, learn to heal ourselves and protect Mother Earth. Others are organizing events in their own local areas in order to visibly demonstrate the links in the nuclear chain and show widespread solidarity and respect for mothers standing in defense of their lands, families and cultural rights. Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10, 1999, will be a celebration of mothers and their contribution to the environmental and Native Sovereignty movements. In the 1950's it was the mothers that were the backbone of the international protest against nuclear testing that resulted in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and in the late 80's it was the Mothers Day events that created a huge and successful movement to stop full scale nuclear weapons testing that resulted in the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. It is not over yet. We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to stand with us as we demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and an immediate halt to the dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Native Sacred lands. The epicenter for the nuclear industry is in Nevada at the Nuclear Test Site. This is where we will come together Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10 1999. Standing united we will say No more! No more to Waste and Weapons, No more to poisons in our Water, Earth and Air. Enclosed you will find some material about this exciting gathering. Included is a: Calender announcement for Web pages and newsletters; an email flyer and an article about the Honoring the Mother Gathering. We hope that you will help us in our outreach endeavors by including this material in your local grassroots newsletters, magazines and web. If you would like to recieve a full hardcopy packet with photo ready flyers and ads please contact us at shundahai@shundahai.org Thank you for your strength and spirit in this struggle to defend and protect Mother Earth. We hope to see you at the Nevada Test Site! We need you to: 1) Endorse this important and herstoric event. (Please email your endorsement to Jennifer Viereck at hgw@scruznet.com or mail in the enclosed form) 2) Help Sponsor this event by sending in a group donation to help cover the costs of Native and low income activists. (Donations can be made to Healing Global Wounds and mailed to HGW, PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389) 3) Help publicize this event by putting in a Calender Announcement or article in your local alternative papers or orgazational newsletters. 4) Join one of the collectives set up to work on this gathering: Logistical camp set up; Youth Empowerment; Health Care and First Aid; Outreach; Media; Community Life; Parking; (Please send a brief email message to Jennifer Viereck at hgw@scruznet.com or call her at (760) 852-4175, explaining your skills and interests.) 5) Bring a carload, a van load, or a bus load of friends and family to the Nevada Test Site to join our amazingly diverse community 6) Send a banner from your school, community organization, church or family to symbolize your participation. 7) If you are not able to join us at the Nevada Test Site you can organize solidarity events in your local area. 8) If you have a website please consider linking to the Healing Global Wounds page at http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/ ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Calendar Announcement for newsletters and web pages ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10, 1999 at the Nevada Test Site We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to unite with us as we demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and a halt to the dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Sacred Native land. Together we will: Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and around the world; Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all beings great and small; Create alliances and strategies to break the nuclear chain - protect the future generations of all life; Celebrate the unique and powerful gifts women bring to the entire human family; Occupy Western Shoshone lands stolen for the creation of the Test Site, in healing prayer and celebration. This Spring Gathering will include: Community building, cultural events and performances; Programs to honor all ages; Daily Sunrise Ceremony and Sweat Lodges; Information sharing; Atomic Cafe, campfires and drumming; Nonviolence training's and action planning; Mother's Day brunch and rally at the Nevada Test Site gates; Reclaiming Shoshone Land and Shutting Down the NTS!!! We hope that you will join us. For more information about this unique and exciting culturally diverse event pleas contact: Healing Global Wounds office @ PO BOX 420, Tecopa CA 92389 hone: (760) 852-4175 fax: (760) 852-4151 hgw@scruznet.com website http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/ ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Email text flyer ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< HONORING THE MOTHER HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS SPRING GATHERING May 7-10, 1999, Nevada Test Site In 1870, women in the United States proclaimed the first Mother's Day. Far from the sentimental Sunday of Hallmark cards and roses, the original proclamation was a powerful call for women everywhere to unite in nonviolent resistance to a world of warfare. 129 years later, we ask you to answer that original call. People all over the world are living with nuclear threats, whether you live near a uranium mine, a nuclear power plant, a nuclear weapons stockpile, or a nuclear waste dump, or if you live along one of the many nuclear waste transportation routes. We can put a stop to this madness. We must unite ourselves together and build a better and safer world for our families and future generations. Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10, 1999, should be the best Nevada Test Site Gathering ever. We are planning workshops and ceremonies that will: Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and around the world; Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all beings great and small; Create alliances and strategies to break the nuclear chain and to protect the future generations; Occupy Western Shoshone lands stolen for the Test Site, in healing prayer and celebration. Each day, Healing Global Wounds begins with a Sunrise Ceremony led by Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney. Sweatlodges are available for all wishing to join in healing prayers, followed by breakfast. The program for the main portion of each day is followed by a community dinner. The camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the gates of the Nevada Test Site. You can experience the beautiful and fragile desert first hand. Join in an incredibly rich and culturally diverse community from all over the world. Learn about nuclear and indigenous land rights issues. Participate in traditional and multi-faith ceremonies. If so inspired, join us in nonviolent direct action to shut down the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and Reclaim Newe (Western Shoshone) Land! Please come as self sufficiently as possible, with plenty of food and water. Be prepared for desert camping where there can be hot days and cold nights. The suggested donation of $30 will help cover the expenses of meals, portable toilets and first aid. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Healing Global Wounds is an alliance of organizations and individuals working to break the nuclear chain, and restore respectful sustainable living with the Earth. For the latest Healing Global Wounds Newsletter and information packet, please contact: Healing Global Wounds, P.O. Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389 Phone: (760) 852-4175 Fax: (760) 852-4151 hgw@scruznet.com website: http:\\www.shundahai.org\HGW ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Healing Global Wounds Article for newsletters and web pages ><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Health and Survival Near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. By Michelle Xenos, On May 7th thru 10th, 1999, at the gates of the Nevada Test Site, the seventh annual Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, Honoring the Mother, will nurture a multi- cultural community effort to break the nuclear chain. The goal of the gathering is to: Honor women from around the world in their struggle to protect their lands and rights; Celebrate our strength and community; to Heal our Sacred Mother Earth and strengthen our commitment to defend her. The nuclear cycle has put us in a spiral that threatens all the living things on Earth. People are getting very sick in areas around the mining, processing, research, production, and implementation of nuclear weapons and energy. The world faces an environmental challenge that it cannot turn the clock back on and will in fact last for tens of thousands of years. Associated Press articles refer simultaneously to the scientific evidence invalidating the Yucca Mountain Project (a proposed high level nuclear waste repository on Sacred Western Shoshone land), as well as the billions of dollars being won by the nuclear industry in Federal court rulings because of high level nuclear waste stockpiles around the country which the government is legally responsible for. We know that there is a proliferation of interest in nuclear weaponry by India, Pakistan, Korea, and other countries, because of the U.S.'s disregard for the disarmament process and the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. Everyday here in Las Vegas, we are reading about the radioactivity found in the groundwater around the valley, which by natural law, flows into the Colorado River. All the while, many of us know that most stories are not told in the newspapers. We are the ones responsible for the health and wellness of our families and communities. And we as mothers bear the weight of this burden, it is our role to speak for our children when they cannot yet speak for themselves. Many of us understand the things that are happening right now to the earth and her children. There were times that I did not go to the test site gates in protest, to protect the health of my son and I. There are health risks in going near the test site, most significantly if you're downwind (to the northeast). There are many radioactive particles still in the soils and sands around Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and further towards the east. The city water is questionably contaminated in the Las Vegas Valley and down into the Colorado River. Buildings, tools, and materials exposed to radioactivity at the test site can be found throughout Nevada. These are the risks that we face living near the test site. Along the entire nuclear cycle, communities face these realities. Contaminated water, radioactive tailings, trucks carrying hot materials, particles in the air falling down onto their communities and into their soil, all attributing to the wide spread and serious health problems that many face today. I meet so many people from different communities who are directly impacted by the cycles of the nuclear chain. Who am I to say that one part of the earth is more important than another, or that one life should bear more than their share of the burden of exposure. The gatherings that we have at the gates of the test site have touched so many lives in so many ways, these circles are all interconnected. Through building our Healing Global Wounds community we are learning how to live sustainably with the Earth. Through the movement of our energies together we renew ourselves. In these natural cycles we will continue to grow, heal and live in defense of Mother Earth. I hope that you will be able to join us for the Spring Honoring the Mother gathering at the Nevada Test Site, May 7-10, 1999. But if you are not able, don't let that discourage you! We urge you to join with us in solidarity by creating an action, vigil or ceremony in your own home communities. Be a part of Healing Global Wounds everywhere by breaking the nuclear chain one link at a time. For more information about Healing Global Wounds please contact us at: HGW, PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389, ph: (760) 852-4175 fax: (760) 852-4151 email: hgw@scruznet.com web: www.shundahai.org/HGW - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500 From: Nisha Baliga Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote Hello all, Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners. A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by someone. Here it is: " Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it. Thanks and Happy New Year ! Nisha Baliga PSR - ------------ Nisha Baliga Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow Physicians for Social Responsibility 1101 14th Street NW Suite 700 Washington DC 20005 nbaliga@psr.org (202) 898 0150 ext. 231 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:11:57 EST From: DavidMcR@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) N.Y. Times on Iraq Sanctions For those of you who have not thrown out this week's N.Y. Sunday Times, note page 5 in the New of the Week - an excellent half page by Stephen Kinzer reporting from Baghdad: "Smart Bombs, Dumb Sanctions". Because the N.Y. Times is in so many ways a voice of the Establishment, Kinzer's stream of reports from Iraq are interesting. This is a real break to have a solid, on-the-spot reporter really covering things. Does this perhaps indicate an effort to shift public opinion away from sanctions? (I don't mean to be cynical about Kinzer's reports which are solid reporting - I just am always curious about when, where, etc. the N.Y. Times carries stories on issues such as Cuba, Libya, etc.). If you still have the News of the Week, don't toss it out but look it up. (And on the Op Ed page is a nice piece on our truly hateful Mayor here in NYC). Peace, David McReynolds - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:43:48 -0800 (PST) From: Peace Action - National Office Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you Thanks! I should have your order in UPS ground today/tomorrow at the latest. Bruce - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Sat Dec 26 12:03:37 1998 > From: "Robert Kinsey" > To: > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:54:24 -0700 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Please send 200 post cards with return address blank. > 6555 Ward Road > Arvada, Colorado 80004 > ____________________________________________________________________________ > _________________________________ > Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force > United Church of Christ, Rocky Mountain Conference > bkinsey@peacemission.org > 303-425-0348 > "Two paths lie before us. One leads to death, the other to life." > Jonathan Schell > "Faith has need of the whole truth" Teilhard de Chardin > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:06:44 -0800 (PST) From: Peace Action - National Office Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you Francis, I'm sorry the Disarmament Clearinghouse did not get back to you. The cards will not fit in a normal letter envelope. I am waiting for the news on their weight right now... They weigh less than 2 oz. We have these back from the printer today. January 5. If you still want them I can have them in your hands by the end of the week via UPS. Bruce - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Mon Jan 4 10:00:04 1999 > From: Chiapski@aol.com > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Bruce, > I think we've run out of time on this. We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not > willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them. > Thanks anyway. > Francis Chiappa > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:27:28 -0800 (PST) From: Peace Action - National Office Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) JFK quote I believe that is the June 10, 1963 speech at the American University in Washington, DC. This was considered one of Kennedy's finest and most pivotal moments. Shortly after his call for a renewed effort on behalf of the test ban, a limited test ban treaty was initialed in July and ratified by the US Senate in the fall. I might take this opportunity to offer an interesting historical perspective. In the late summer of 1963 Kennedy was on a tour of Western states toting his administration's conservation policies. This was sort of the equivalent to a safe good will tour and had little of interest for either the president (he wasn't really much of a conservationist) or the media. In one state, during a routine talk on conservation, the president also mentioned his desire to see improved relations with Russia and that the first step was ratification of the test ban treaty being negotiated (it may have already been completed by this time I'm winging it here) with Russia and the U.K. At these words the president was met with genuine, as opposed to polite or perfunctory, applause and enthusiasm. Being the savy politican, Kennedy went with the 'peace' theme to rave reviews for the rest of his western tour. The president became more engaged and realized that he had a 'winner' on his hands. Many in the administration or closely observing the administration believe that had he lived and been re-elected, improving relations with Russia and halting the arms race would have been a major objective of President Kennedy. You can double check the source by contacting the Kennedy library via the web. Bruce - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Tue Jan 5 07:04:48 1999 > Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500 > From: Nisha Baliga > Organization: Physicians for Social Responsibility > To: abolition-caucus@igc.apc.org, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote > Sender: owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Reply-To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Hello all, > > Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on > nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners. > A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by > someone. > > Here it is: > > " Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, > hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment > by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be > abolished before they abolish us." > -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President > > I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of > this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it. > > Thanks and Happy New Year ! > > Nisha Baliga > PSR > > ------------ > Nisha Baliga > Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow > Physicians for Social Responsibility > 1101 14th Street NW Suite 700 > Washington DC 20005 > nbaliga@psr.org > (202) 898 0150 ext. 231 > > - > 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:13:09 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews-US: 1/6/99 - 1. Groups hit Seabrook over deaths of seals http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/004/metro/Groups_hit_Seabrook_over_deaths_ of_seals+.shtml 2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - Ward Valley http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0 3. Clinton will request military base closures http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm - -------------------- http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm 3. Clinton will request military base closures Boston Globe, 01/04/99 As plant awaits federal exemption, critics ask officials to impose fines By Alice Giordano, Globe Correspondent, 01/04/99 SEABROOK, N.H. - Some 54 federally protected seals have been trapped and killed in underwater tunnels at the Seabrook nuclear power plant over the past five years and environmental groups want the plant fined up to $25,000 for each seal killed. But the National Marine Fisheries Service, which enforces endangered species laws, has imposed no fines and is considering exempting the plant from the Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 and allowing up to 34 seals a year to be killed. ''It's an outrage,'' said Bill Smith, executive director of Fish Unlimited, a New York-based group that monitors the impact of power plants on marine wildlife. ''If this was an average commercial fisherman, he'd have the National Fisheries [Service] all over him. ... But because it's a utility company, they're given a clean slate.'' Officials from both Seabrook Station and the Fisheries Service say that no one wants to prevent the seals from being killed more than they do, but so far it's been impossible to find a solution. Chris Mantzaris, chief of the protected resource division at the Fisheries Service in Gloucester, said plant officials have ''bent over backwards'' trying to solve the problem and were willing to spend $2 million to install a sonic device to deter the seals from entering the tunnels. But the Fisheries Service, he said, determined the device would not be effective. The plant is served by three 19-foot-wide underwater intake tunnels that pull in ocean water to help cool its reactor. The tunnels are 3 miles long. Each tunnel is capped with a mushroom-shape dome, but seals easily find the large opening on the dome and swim into the tunnels, most likely out of sheer curiosity, said Greg Early, a marine biologist at the New England Aquarium. The seals, said Early, then get disoriented and drown. He agrees the plant has a difficult problem to solve. Among the seals that have died in the tunnels are harbor, hood, and gray seals, the most protected of the seal species. Mantzaris said seal pups have been the most susceptible to getting caught in the underwater tunnels. Smith suggested the plant could at the very least place grates over the entrances of the tunnels to keep the seals out. But David Barr, a spokesman for the power plant, said the problem with screening is that the holes have to be small enough to keep seals out, but large enough so they don't become clogged with seaweed and other debris. ''That could create even more serious environmental problems because it could interfere with the cooling of the plant's reactor,'' he said. The Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, a watchdog group that monitors the power plant, says that problem could be remedied by having divers check the grates. Smith said allowing as many as 34 seals to be killed each year at the plant is also suspect. ''If they're reporting they had 54 seals in over a five-year period, why do they need an exemption to kill 34 seals a year,'' he said. Mantzaris confirmed that the Fisheries Service recently gave the plant preliminary approval for an exemption from the Marine Mammals Protection Act that would allow the taking of up to 34 seals a year. The number, which was proposed by the Fisheries Service, he said, represents 2 percent of the area's seal population, a number that can be lost without impacting its population. A final determination, he said, will be made in about six weeks. Both the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League and lawyers for Fish Unlimited have filed petitions opposing the exemption. Smith said the issue is all about an ''already financially strapped corporation not wanting to take money from their shareholders to save a couple of seals.'' He vowed, ''If that permit is issued, we're all going to court.'' - ---------------------------------- http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0 2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - A look at specific areas of environmental controversy. spot-ox - 11:15am Nov 14, 1997 EST (#1 of 2365) Boy... I think I can hear the crickets in here.... Here's some new info I received yesterday: As you may or may not know, there is a fight going on to save Ward Valley, a spot in the Mohave Desert (southern California) about 13 miles from the Colorado River and above an aquifer. The nuclear industry wants to bury radioactive waste in unlined dirt pits in this valley. This waste will include any radioactive material, just short of spent rods. Among the very real, and reasonable, fear that the waste will contaminate the river and land, there is also the issue that this land is sacred for several Indian tribes in the area. It is also a habitat for the desert tortoise, and endangered species. This is the new news: US Ecology (the company that has been chosen to bury the waste) has hired a scientist (for over $100k) to study the tortoises. She was supposed to watch and learn, without intruding upon them. She was caught digging them up out of their burroughs. A complaint was filed against her by the coalition to save Ward Valley. She was later caught (and we have photos) putting transmitters on the tortoises using epoxy. These tortoises are given a transmitter about one fourth the size of the tortoise itself. It is wrapped up (I'm not sure what with) and glued to the back of the tortoise. The epoxy is all over the transmitter, and covers the tortoises back in a circle. The tortoise is released before the epoxy dries. What you end up with is a tortoise who is covered with dirt that's glued on, and will probably die because the epoxy will not allow the shells on the tortoise to grow as it ages. This is how the "caring" company studies the area and animals. If it's any clue, we should be scared about what they will do if they ever get that waste in the ground. - ------------------ http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm 3. Clinton will request military base closures USA Today, January 6, 1998 ...WASHINGTON - President Clinton's defense budget proposal to Congress next month will include a request for authority to close more military bases, a White House official said Tuesday. Clinton hopes Congress will support the base closures to help offset the cost of military modernization programs, said Robert Bell, senior director of defense programs at the National Security Council. The administration is counting on saving $2-3 billion from new base closures through 2005. Bell would not say which - or how many total - bases the administration would like to close. Although some congressmen favor more closures, many fear the economic backlash felt in communities dependent on the military. _______________________________________________________________________ * NucNews - to subscribe: prop1@prop1.org - http://prop1.org * Please forward -- help educate! _______________________________________________________________________ - - 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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