From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #326 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Wednesday, June 21 2000 Volume 01 : Number 326 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:37:55 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/06/20 - Daybook; Vieques Press Conf; Prayer at Nat'l Cathedral; Presidential Candidates - --=====================_6908716==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000620213653.htm Dalai Lama meeting =97 11:30 a.m. =97 Members of Congress, including Sen.= Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican, hold a meeting with the Dalai Lama.= Location: Capitol, Room S-116. Contact: 202/224-4651. 10:15 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee marks up a= bill to facilitate the transition to more competitive and efficient power= markets, which began May 24. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4971. 9:30 a.m. =97 House Appropriations Committee marks up the Energy and= Water Development appropriations bill for fiscal 2001. Location: 2359 Rayburn= House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2771. 2) Press Conference with Vieques Faster Hector Rosario, 12:00 noon today, Lafayette Park. See http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm for updates. 3) Please Come Pray for Nuclear Disarmament tomorrow - 12 noon on= Wednesday, June 21, 2000 at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW, DC, the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative will conduct= a special interfaith service to pray for the success of a joint military/religious call for the outlawing and prohibition of nuclear weapons worldwide. Call-to-action signatories participating in the service are= General Charles A. Horner, USAF (Ret.), Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret.) and Chaplain (Major General) Kermit D. Johnson, USA (Ret.). General Horner is a former commander of the U.S. Aerospace Command and Admiral Turner is a= former Director of Central Intelligence. General Johnson, former Chief of Army Chaplains, will preach the sermon. (202) 537-2221. To join the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative online visit http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/nuclear. [Corrected announcement.] 4) Presidential Candidates VICE PRESIDENT GORE - Travels to Lexington, Ky. GOVERNOR BUSH - Cupertino and L.A., California 9:00 a.m. - Leadership Forum on Math and Science, De Anza College Campus Center Building, Meeting Room A, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.= Cupertino, CA 408/864-8371=20 7:15 p.m. - RNC/California Republican Party Dinner, Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles Room, 2025 Ave. of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 310/277-2000=20 ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Interactive Archives (since 6/10/00): http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe to NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Excellent e-mail news resources: DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com - http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://www.downwinders.org/=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org -= http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark/Reuters - mailto:anna@planetark.org -= http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org=20 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) Presidential Candidates' Websites: George W. Bush - http://www.georgewbush.com/ Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_6908716==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000620213653.= htm

   Dalai Lama meeting =97 11:30 a.m. =97 Members of Congress, including Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican, hold a meeting with the Dalai Lama. Location: Capitol, Room S-116. Contact: 202/224-4651.

    10:15 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee marks up a bill to facilitate the transition to more competitive and efficient power markets, which began May 24. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4971.

    9:30 a.m. =97 House Appropriations Committee marks up the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill for fiscal 2001. Location: 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:=20 202/225-2771.

2)  Press Conference with Vieques Faster Hector Rosario, 12:00 noon today, Lafayette Park.  See http://prop= 1.org/currevnt.htm for updates.

3)  Please Come Pray for Nuclear Disarmament tomorrow - 12 noon on Wednesday, June 21, 2000 at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW, DC, the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative will conduct a special interfaith service to pray for the success of a joint military/religious call for the outlawing and prohibition of nuclear weapons worldwide.  Call-to-action signatories participating in the service are General Charles A. Horner, USAF (Ret.), Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret.) and Chaplain (Major General) Kermit D. Johnson, USA (Ret.). General Horner is a former commander of the U.S. Aerospace Command and Admiral Turner is a former Director of Central Intelligence. General Johnson, former Chief of Army Chaplains, will preach the sermon.  (202) 537-2221. To join the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative online visit http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/nuclear<= /u>. [Corrected announcement.]

4)  Presidential Candidates

VICE PRESIDENT GORE - Travels to Lexington, Ky.

GOVERNOR BUSH - Cupertino and L.A., California
        9:00 a.m. -  Leadership Forum on Math and Science, De Anza College Campus Center Building, Meeting Room A, 21250 Stevens Creek  Blvd. Cupertino, CA  408/864-8371
        7:15 p.m. - -  RNC/California Republican Party Dinner, Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles Room, 2025 Ave. of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 310/277-2000

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Quick Route to U.S. Congress:

http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators'= Websites)
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http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation -= Search)

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Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
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- --=====================_6908716==_.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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:51:55 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) CD-Geneva Dear Friends, At the close of the NPT Review, both China and Russia took exception to the final document without blocking consensus, stating that if ABM was violated the promises made could not be kept. China also said that all of the steps proposed in the NPT should be "phased in with the prevention of an arms race in outer space." The story below about events in Geneva, show the new conflicts brewing. >> Today: June 15, 2000 at 8:27:14 PDT >> >> ASSOCIATED PRESS >> >> GENEVA (AP)--Japan pressed the world's main disarmament forum >> Thursday to act on banning nuclear weapons materials and >> eliminating atomic arsenals. >> >> Ambassador Seiichiro Noboru, head of the Japanese delegation, >> urged his colleagues in the 66-nation Conference on Disarmament >> to heed the demand of a global nonproliferation meeting in New >> York last month. >> >> That group called for immediate negotiations to ban the >> production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium as well as a >> start to talking about nuclear disarmament, he noted. >> >> The United States and Russia maintain they already are working to >> get rid of their nuclear weapons. Until last month, they claimed >> involvement by the Geneva-based conference would only complicate >> the process. >> >> Noboru said "the overwhelming majority of the international >> community" wants the conference to tackle both nuclear materials >> and disarmament immediately. >> >> "If not, the world will never understand why the (Conference on >> Disarmament) continues to be complacent with the standstill," >> Noboru said. "It is obvious that we cannot afford to waste any >> more time on procedural debates." >> >> The nuclear powers gave an "unequivocal" commitment to eliminate >> their arsenals over time when 187 signatories to the Nuclear Non- >> Proliferation Treaty met in New York in May to review the pact. >> >> The final, 27-page document of the New York meeting--which >> included nuclear powers Britain, China, France, Russia and the >> United States -- recognized "the necessity of establishing in the >> Conference on Disarmament an appropriate subsidiary body with a >> mandate to deal with nuclear disarmament." >> >> The Conference on Disarmament has failed to make any significant >> advances since it drafted a ban on nuclear testing in 1996. >> >> Noboru said the time is "not ripe" for negotiations on a treaty >> to ban arms in outer space. >> >> China and Russia maintain the treaty is needed in the face of >> U.S. plans to develop an anti-missile defense, which they say >> would undermine the complex system of arms-control accords >> already in place. >> >> - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:22:14 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/06/21 - Daybook; Vieques Update; - --=====================_92381145==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000621214219.htm Nuclear Reduction/ Disarmament Initiative news conference =97 10:30 a.m.= =97 Retired Air Force Gen. Charles A. Horner, former head of the U.S. Aerospace Command, and Adm. Stansfield Turner, former CIA director, and Christian,= Jewish and Muslim religious leaders hold a news conference to announce the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative, launched to generate public action against nuclear arms. An interfaith service follows. Location: St. John's Chapel, Washington National Cathedral. Contact: 202/585-2040. China's strategy =97 10 a.m. =97 The House Armed Services Committee= holds a hearing on the strategic intentions and goals of China. Location: 2118= Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4151. =20 10 a.m. =97 House Government Reform, national security, veterans= affairs, and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing to examine problems= with individual protective equipment used by U.S. forces to protect against chemical/biological attack. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074. 10 a.m. =97 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marks up pending legislation, including the Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000. Location: 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-9446. Korean War conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Woodrow Wilson Center and the= Korea Society hold a conference, "New Evidence on the Korean War from Russian, Chinese, European and U.S. Archives." Location: Fifth-floor conference room, Woodrow Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/691-4057 or 202/691-4110. Arrival ceremony =97 10 a.m. =97Defense Secretary William S. Cohen= hosts a full-honors arrival ceremony to welcome King Mohammed VI of Morocco to the Pentagon. Location: River Parade Field, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/695-0169. =20 Disasters forum =97 11 a.m. =97 The Congressional Natural Hazards= Caucus holds a forum, "Reducing America's Vulnerability to Disasters." 2) Please Come Pray for Nuclear Disarmament today - 12 noon at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW, DC, http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/nuclear. 3) June 26th, 2000 -- UN DAY DESIGNATED TO COMMEMORATE TORTURE VICTIMS and SURVIVORS -- The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC)= will begin a week long commemoration of the United Nations International Day in support of Torture Victims and Survivors on June 26th. At 7AM, a 24 hour= vigil will begin with a prayer service in Lafayette Park across from the White= House in remembrance of all those who did not survive their torture and those enduring it at that moment. Survivors from countries around the world will gather for this solemn occasion. They will be joined by representatives of= more than thirty organizations who will participate by creating their own form of remembrances. 202-529-6599, email: hnelson@ghrc-usa.org=20 TASSC is a project of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA=20 4) Vieques Fast Ends. Hector Rosario is now= on his way to Vieques, where, his supporters say, the U.S. Navy has resumed bombing.=20 5) Presidential Candidates GEORGE W. BUSH - Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas 8:20 a.m. - Gov. & Mrs. Bush talk about education at Puente Learning Center, 501 S. Boyle Ave. Los Angeles, CA 323/780-8900 7:45 p.m. - National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention= - Westin Galleria Hotel West Alabama Room, 5060 West Alabama St. Houston, TX= =20 713/960-8100 RALPH NADER=20 Completed 50-state tour yesterday; going to Green Party Nominating Convention the weekend of June 24-25, 2000 in Denver Colorado - see http://www.greens.org/colorado/convention.html AL GORE and PAT BUCHANAN - unknown [Note: There are other candidates, of course. I'm seeking e-mail / web addresses for others who have formally qualified to be candidates, and= provide this information in NucNews. Your help obtaining this information appreciated. et] ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Interactive Archives (since 6/10/00): http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe to NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Excellent e-mail news resources: DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com - http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://www.downwinders.org/=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org -= http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark/Reuters - mailto:anna@planetark.org -= http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org=20 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) Presidential Candidates' Websites: George W. Bush - http://www.georgewbush.com/ Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Distributed without payment for research and educational=20 purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. - --=====================_92381145==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000621214219.= htm

    Nuclear Reduction/ Disarmament Initiative news conference =97 10:30 a.m. =97 Retired Air Force Gen. Charles A. Horner, former head of the U.S. Aerospace Command, and Adm. Stansfield Turner, former CIA director, and Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders hold a news conference to announce the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative, launched to generate public action against nuclear arms. An interfaith service follows. Location: St. John's Chapel, Washington National Cathedral. Contact: 202/585-2040.

    China's strategy =97 10 a.m. =97 The House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on the strategic intentions and goals of China. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4151.
     
    10 a.m. =97 House Government Reform, national security, veterans affairs, and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing to examine problems with individual protective equipment used by U.S. forces to protect against chemical/biological attack. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

    10 a.m. =97 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marks up pending legislation, including the Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000. Location: 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-9446.

    Korean War conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Woodrow Wilson Center and the Korea Society hold a conference, "New Evidence on the Korean War from Russian, Chinese, European and U.S. Archives." Location: Fifth-floor conference room, Woodrow Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/691-4057 or 202/691-4110.

      Arrival ceremony =97 10 a.m. =97Defens= e Secretary William S. Cohen hosts a full-honors arrival ceremony to welcome King Mohammed VI of Morocco to the Pentagon. Location: River Parade Field, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/695-0169.
 
     Disasters forum =97 11 a.m. =97 The Congressional Natural Hazards Caucus holds a forum, "Reducing America's Vulnerability to Disasters."

2)  Please Come Pray for Nuclear Disarmament today - 12 noon  at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW, DC, http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/nuclear<= /u>.

3) June 26th, 2000 -- UN DAY DESIGNATED TO COMMEMORATE TORTURE VICTIMS and SURVIVORS -- The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) will begin a week long commemoration of the United Nations International Day in support of Torture Victims and Survivors on June 26th. At 7AM, a 24 hour vigil will begin with a prayer service in Lafayette Park across from the White House in remembrance of all those who did not survive their torture and those enduring it at that moment. Survivors from countries around the world will gather for this solemn occasion. They will be joined by representatives of more than thirty organizations who will participate by creating their own form of remembrances. 202-529-6599, email: hnelson@gh= rc-usa.org
TASSC is a project of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA

4)  Vieques Fast Ends. Hector Rosario <mailto:viequ= es@dartmouth.edu> is now on his way to Vieques, where, his supporters say, the U.S. Navy has resumed bombing.

5)  Presidential Candidates

GEORGE W. BUSH - Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas
        8:20 a.m. - - Gov. & Mrs. Bush talk about education at Puente Learning Center, 501 S. Boyle Ave. Los Angeles, CA  323/780-8900
        7:45 p.m. - - National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention - Westin Galleria Hotel  West Alabama Room, 5060 West Alabama St. Houston, TX
713/960-8100

RALPH NADER
        Completed 50-state tour yesterday; going to Green Party Nominating Convention the weekend of June 24-25, 2000 in Denver Colorado - see http://www.greens.org/colorado/convention.html

AL GORE and PAT BUCHANAN - unknown

[Note:  There are other candidates, of course.  I'm seeking e-mail / web addresses for others who have formally qualified to be candidates, and provide this information in NucNews.  Your help obtaining this information appreciated.  et]



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Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org

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)

Presidential Candidates' Websites:

George W. Bush - http://www.georgewbush.com/
Pat Buchanan - http://www.buchananreform.com/index.asp
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html
      Distributed without payment for research and= educational
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Alice >Ranking of World's Health Systems > >.c The Associated Press > > >By The Associated Press > >The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health >systems. > >Rank Country > >1 France > >2 Italy > >3 San Marino > >4 Andorra > >5 Malta > >6 Singapore > >7 Spain > >8 Oman > >9 Austria > >10 Japan > >11 Norway > >12 Portugal > >13 Monaco > >14 Greece > >15 Iceland > >16 Luxembourg > >17 Netherlands > >18 United Kingdom > >19 Ireland > >20 Switzerland > >21 Belgium > >22 Colombia > >23 Sweden > >24 Cyprus > >25 Germany > >26 Saudi Arabia > >27 United Arab Emirates > >28 Israel > >29 Morocco > >30 Canada > >31 Finland > >32 Australia > >33 Chile > >34 Denmark > >35 Dominica > >36 Costa Rica > >37 United States > >38 Slovenia > >39 Cuba > >40 Brunei > >41 New Zealand > >42 Bahrain > >43 Croatia > >44 Qatar > >45 Kuwait > >46 Barbados > >47 Thailand > >48 Czech Republic > >49 Malaysia > >50 Poland > >51 Dominican Republic > >52 Tunisia > >53 Jamaica > >54 Venezuela > >55 Albania > >56 Seychelles > >57 Paraguay > >58 South Korea > >59 Senegal > >60 Philippines > >61 Mexico > >62 Slovakia > >63 Egypt > >64 Kazakhstan > >65 Uruguay > >66 Hungary > >67 Trinidad and Tobago > >68 Saint Lucia > >69 Belize > >70 Turkey > >71 Nicaragua > >72 Belarus > >73 Lithuania > >74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines > >75 Argentina > >76 Sri Lanka > >77 Estonia > >78 Guatemala > >79 Ukraine > >80 Solomon Islands > >81 Algeria > >82 Palau > >83 Jordan > >84 Mauritius > >85 Grenada > >86 Antigua and Barbuda > >87 Libya > >88 Bangladesh > >89 Macedonia > >90 Bosnia-Herzegovina > >91 Lebanon > >92 Indonesia > >93 Iran > >94 Bahamas > >95 Panama > >96 Fiji > >97 Benin > >98 Nauru > >99 Romania > >100 Saint Kitts and Nevis > >101 Moldova > >102 Bulgaria > >103 Iraq > >104 Armenia > >105 Latvia > >106 Yugoslavia > >107 Cook Islands > >108 Syria > >109 Azerbaijan > >110 Suriname > >111 Ecuador > >112 India > >113 Cape Verde > >114 Georgia > >115 El Salvador > >116 Tonga > >117 Uzbekistan > >118 Comoros > >119 Samoa > >120 Yemen > >121 Niue > >122 Pakistan > >123 Micronesia > >124 Bhutan > >125 Brazil > >126 Bolivia > >127 Vanuatu > >128 Guyana > >129 Peru > >130 Russia > >131 Honduras > >132 Burkina Faso > >133 Sao Tome and Principe > >134 Sudan > >135 Ghana > >136 Tuvalu > >137 Ivory Coast > >138 Haiti > >139 Gabon > >140 Kenya > >141 Marshall Islands > >142 Kiribati > >143 Burundi > >144 China > >145 Mongolia > >146 Gambia > >147 Maldives > >148 Papua New Guinea > >149 Uganda > >150 Nepal > >151 Kyrgystan > >152 Togo > >153 Turkmenistan > >154 Tajikistan > >155 Zimbabwe > >156 Tanzania > >157 Djibouti > >158 Eritrea > >159 Madagascar > >160 Vietnam > >161 Guinea > >162 Mauritania > >163 Mali > >164 Cameroon > >165 Laos > >166 Congo > >167 North Korea > >168 Namibia > >169 Botswana > >170 Niger > >171 Equatorial Guinea > >172 Rwanda > >173 Afghanistan > >174 Cambodia > >175 South Africa > >176 Guinea-Bissau > >177 Swaziland > >178 Chad > >179 Somalia > >180 Ethiopia > >181 Angola > >182 Zambia > >183 Lesotho > >184 Mozambique > >185 Malawi > >186 Liberia > >187 Nigeria > >188 Democratic Republic of the Congo > >189 Central African Republic > >190 Myanmar > >191 Sierra Leone > >AP-NY-06-20-00 1800EDT > > Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:41:12 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Food Irradiation Action Alert from OCA! >Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:50:47 -0400 >Subject: Food Irradiation Action Alert from OCA! >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: stopirradiation@lists.citizen.org >X-FC-Forwarded-From: debbie@organicconsumers.org >From: stopirradiation@lists.citizen.org (stopirradiation@lists.citizen.org) > > >DON'T ELECTROCUTE OUR FOOD > >Action Alert: Actions you can take to stop irradiation from being used on >your food. > > >The following companies have announced they will test-market irradiated >foods within the next few months. They are watching consumer reaction >very closely, so it is ESSENTIAL that we make a strong effort to contact >as many as possible with a clear message that we don't want to eat any >irradiated foods and we will not purchase them. > >1. PAPAYAS. The company building the irradiation plant is called Hawaii >Pride, for papayas and exotic Hawaiian fruit. Contact the papaya >industry trade association, not Hawaii Pride. Write to Papaya >Administrative Committee, 230 Kekuanaoa St., Hilo, Hawaii 96720-4318 or >call 808/969-1160. Send a copy of your letter to the Hawaii >Tribune-Herald, Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box 767, Hilo, HI. 96721. > >Points to make: > >Say you won't buy ANY Hawaiian papayas >- Because you won't be able to determine which ones are irradiated >(Labels are required on whole fruit, but not on prepared or restaurants >foods. However, there's no guarantee all irradiated papayas will be >properly labeled). >- And you don't want to buy fresh-appearing fruit that has the nutrition >profile of cooked fruit: depleted vitamins and damaged enzymes. It can't >be good for you if it has been exposed to the equivalent of 1 million >medical x-rays! >- And, fruit irradiation benefits the producer: it has no benefit to >you. >- And, irradiation is not necessary: vapor heat and dry heat are tested, >proven technologies for disinfestations of papayas that do not have the >side-effects of irradiation (fewer vitamins, damaged enzymes and unique >radiolytic products created by irradiation). These technologies are >already being used, successfully. >Attached is a picture of Hawaiian papayas. > >2. GROUND BEEF AND CHICKEN >Vegetarians, please don't skip this section. The main users of >irradiation are meat and poultry packers, but vegetables and fruit >packers are waiting in the wings to see customer reaction to irradiation >of meat and poultry. >- Wal-mart. "Case-ready" irradiated beef. Call customer service: >1-800-966-6546-3 >- Tyson. Irradiated chicken. Call customer service: 1-800-233-6332. >- Colorado Boxed Beef. Irradiated beef products. Retail and wholesale, >headquartered in Auburndale, Florida (serves the Southeast). Call >headquarters: 863-967-0636 >- IBP. Irradiated ground beef. Largest beef packer and processor in US >(mostly wholesale and private label, also supplies to the military). >Call customer service at 1-800-416-0772 >- Excel. Irradiated ground beef. A division of Cargill, second largest >beef packer and processor in US. Call headquarters at 316-291-2500 > >Ask the company if they plan to sell irradiated products. If they claim >ignorance, say that you know they are planning to sell them, and give >them the following message: >The message for these companies is the same: You will not purchase >irradiated meats because you believe the contamination should be >addressed at the source (it isn't necessary to use the words "irradiated >sh*t" or "irradiated feces" to customer service representatives, but >that's the concept). Also, irradiation decreases the vitamins in food >and creates unique radiolytic products, compounds that have never been >studied for their effect on human health. You don't believe the science >is adequate to prove safety. > >3. KRAFT >Kraft (has not announced which of their products will be irradiated). >They have signed an agreement with an electron-beam company, Titan, to >use irradiation. This agreement is available on the internet, so if >their customer service people claim ignorance, tell them you know the >agreement exists. Call their customer service: 1-800-543-5335. Say that >you have heard Kraft plans to use irradiation, and that you oppose >irradiation and don't want to purchase any irradiated products. If they >say that the products will be labeled, say that the labels don't have to >be any bigger than the type face on the ingredient label, and that you >consider those labels inadequate and you want to know what you are >eating. > >4. CONGRESS. Send a letter to your member of Congress. Say that the >current FDA labeling requirement is inadequate (only for whole foods or >foods irradiated in packages need to be labeled, and the type face >doesn't have to be bigger than the type on the ingredient label). You >want PERMANENT, PROMINENT labeling and the use of the terminology >"irradiated" on ALL irradiated foods because irradiation has not been >proven safe. Congress directed the FDA to reduce or eliminate labels, >and only a Congressional bill can require larger labels. > >5. Please contact our Food Irradiation Coordinator Danila at >danila@purefood.org if you know: >- any magazines or newsletters that might want an article on this timely >news topic >- any radio shows that might want a person to interview (activist, >scientist, MD, local person) >- any shipments or sales of irradiated product >- any negative news stories that need a response >- or if you need help in organizing a demonstration outside a store >selling irradiated foods. > >6. 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