From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #345 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 Sunday, July 23 2000 Volume 01 : Number 345 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:51:06 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) Message From Mayak, Russia please, distribute widely PRESS-RELEASE Chelyabinsk-Moscow July 21, 2000 For more information: +7(095)7766546, 7766281 - Vladimir Slivyak +7(3512) 135457 - Eduard Meilah e-mail: ecodefense@glasnet.ru http://www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear LARGEST ALL-RUSSIAN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTION 2000: CAMP NEAR "MAYAK" About 100 of representatives of environmental, scientific, human rights groups get together for 11th annual public opposition to dangerous industrial projects; July 23 - - August 5, 2000 THE All-Russian anti-nuclear camp near the "Mayak" nuclear reprocessing plant and one of the proposed dump sites for foreign nuclear waste (Chelyabinsk region, close to the Ural Mountains of Russia) begins on July 23, 2000. THE camp is co-organized by ECODEFENSE! and Anti-nuclear campaign of the Socio-Ecological Union, also Chelyabinsk' environmental groups Techa, Pravosoznanie, Ecofront. Groups which assisted in organizing all-Russian action to protest the nuclear threat: Planet of Hope (Ozyorsk), Environmental Students' Inspection (Tomsk), Siberian Scientists for Global Responsibility (Novosibirsk). During two weeks activists will stage anti-nuclear protests in several cities of Chelyabinsk region to protest the nuclear policy of the authorities that may cause great nuclear accidents, additional radioactive contamination and more nuclear waste. Goals of the anti-nuclear campaigners organizing this camp are: 1. To prevent the import of nuclear waste, including spent nuclear fuel to Russia (to the region of Chelyabinsk with the "Mayak" facility). 2. To introduce the legal status of the 30 km zone around the "Mayak" facility , which would improve the social benefits of the population affected by radioactive contamination. 3. To stop the construction of the South-Ural nuclear plant. 75% of THE local citizens voted against the construction of the South-Ural nuclear plant in a referendum on March 17, 1991. This public decision can not be changed unless the authorities organize another referendum. But the Ministry of atomic power (Minatom) included the South-Ural nuclear plant into its new "strategy of atomic development of Russia for 2000-2050" and will get the money for this illegal project. Implementation of this project could result in widespread plutonium contamination of the Chelyabinsk region. The South-Ural nuclear plant would be loaded with extremely dangerous uranium-plutonium oxide fuel (MOX-fuel) once it's completed. According to Minatom' statements, more than 10,000 ton of high-level nuclear waste can be imported to Russia as soon as national legislation will be changed to allow it. Minatom confirmed that it lobby for such changes in legislation. At the same time, several polls across Russia show that 80-90% of population speak strongly against this idea. Many thousands of local residents living close to "Mayak" facility are suffering from widespread radioactive contamination as a result of several nuclear accidents at "Mayak". Presently, both Russian government and nuclear industry refuses to provide those residents with social benefits and compensations needed for re-settling people from polluted areas. For more information, please contact the camp' organizing team preferably through e-mail environmental-friendly and least expensive way of communication. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ - ----------------- - - 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: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:12:00 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/07/21 - Daybook; Announcements - --=====================_305997396==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. - July 21, 2000 http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000721211153.htm 9 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee marks up the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4971. 10 a.m. =97 Vice President Al Gore, AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department convention, Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 301/983-8274. - ---- 2) People's Campaign for Nonviolence this week July 21=20 8 p.m., White House (Lafayette Park) - "Journey to Salaam: A= Culture of Peace for the Muslim Community", Georgetown University Salaam Center.= Sunset Concert . Contact Rabia 845-358-4601 ext.43. Muslim Peace Fellowship.=20 July 21-23 'Journeying from Violence to Wholeness' Nonviolence Workshop 6 p.m. Fri-3= p.m. Sun, First Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 'E' St. NW. Call to register. 206-720-0313. Lutheran Peace Fellowship & Pace e Bene.=20 July 23-31=20 Peacemaker Training Institute, Grace Lutheran Church, 4300 16th St. NW.= Call Neera Singh to register. 845-358-4601. Fellowship of Reconciliation. July 24=20 Cancel the Debt Day. Meet at NE side of the Capitol at 12 p.m. Evening= Program on Debt Cancellation 7 p.m., St. Aloysius, 19 'I' St. NW. 202-832-1780.= Jubilee 2000. July 25=20 An Event to Highlight the Cost of Nuclear Weapons & Create Change. Music, drama, speakers & more, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., US Capitol (NE lawn). 404-524-5999. Women's Action for New Directions. Check http://www.forusa.org/109.htm for schedule through August 9. - --- 3) NO STAR WARS HOUSE SIGNS The Peace Action National Office has nifty, professionally-produced,= two-sided (Donnelly-Colt) laminated yards signs opposing Star Wars. The "tif" file= below is a photo of one outside someone's house in Northeast. You are welcome to= drop by our office to pick one up, complete with metal holder; they assemble= with a simple stapler, in a few seconds. This is a great opportunity to create= public visibility for a strong peace message on one of the hottest issues around.= =20 Please let me know if you're interested--we might even be able to deliver= them to you. Our main goal at this time is just to get them out on the streets. Van Gosse Organizing Director Peace Action 1819 H Street NW Suite 420 Washington DC 20006 [one block from Farragut West Metro station] - -------- 4) ACTION CAMPS! Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:22:46 -0400=20 From: michael mariotte =20 Make plans now to attend one (or both!) of this year's Nuclear Free Action Camps! Come to the Nuclear Free Northeast camp near Brattleboro, VT August 18-22. The Nuclear Free Great Lakes camp is near Kalamazoo and runs August 20-27. Both camps will feature great workshops, trainings, speakers,= actions, and fun. People and groups interested in setting up action camps elsewhere= in the country (esp the Southeast!) next year are especially encouraged to= attend the Great Lakes camp. - -- Back by populist demand!....=20 Nuclear Free Great Lakes ACTION CAMP August 20-27, 2000 Van Buren Youth Camp, Bloomingdale, MI to register, call: 1-877-9NF-GLAC The Nuclear Free Great Lakes Campaign -- consisting of seven of the region's most active and involved safe-energy environmental organizations -- is= actively working to rid the Great Lakes Bio-Region of all hazardous nuclear reactors= and contamination sites. We've created this special annual summer training camp to educate activists and the general public about nuclear power hazards,= and promote safe-energy alternatives to its continued use train the next generation of safe-energy and environmental activists, both on the energy-related issues affecting the bio-region, and in the skills needed to become effective and successful activists and organizers, and put your= skills to work immediately by targeting a local nuclear facility and working for= its closure=20 - -- ACTION CAMP CENTERS ONTHE GLOBALIZATION OF NORTHEAST NUKES HUNDREDS TO GATHER FOR WORKSHOPS AND DIRECT ACTION The third Northeast anti-nuclear "action camp" begins near Brattleboro, Vermont, August 18, 2000 and runs through August 22. During that period, activists will participate in workshops and training sessions in a forested, camp setting; and will arrest Vermont Yankee Nuclear Corporation in Brattleboro, VT on August 21st. =20 The media is welcome at the New England Action Camp and related activities.= For maps, logistical information, to set up interviews with speakers, workshop leaders, etc., please contact CAN at 413-339-. 5781 or NIRS at 202-328-0002 - ----- 5) The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space has a new web site address: http://www.space4peace.org Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator globalnet@mindspring.com ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.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 (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -= http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) 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. - --=====================_305997396==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. - July 21, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000721211153.= htm

      9 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee marks up the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:=20 202/224-4971.

      10 a.m. =97 Vice President Al Gore, AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department convention, Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 301/983-8274.

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2) People's Campaign for Nonviolence this week

July 21

          8 p.m., White House (Lafayette Park) - "Journey to Salaam: A Culture of Peace for the Muslim Community", Georgetown University Salaam Center. Sunset Concert . Contact Rabia 845-358-4601 ext.43. Muslim Peace Fellowship.

 July 21-23

 'Journeying from Violence to Wholeness' Nonviolence Workshop 6 p.m. Fri-3 p.m. Sun, First Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 'E' St. NW. Call to register. 206-720-0313. Lutheran Peace Fellowship & Pace e Bene.

July 23-31

 Peacemaker Training Institute, Grace Lutheran Church, 4300 16th St. NW. Call Neera Singh to register. 845-358-4601. Fellowship of Reconciliation.

July 24

 Cancel the Debt Day. Meet at NE side of the Capitol at 12 p.m. Evening Program on Debt Cancellation 7 p.m., St. Aloysius, 19 'I' St. NW. 202-832-1780. Jubilee 2000.

 July 25

 An Event to Highlight the Cost of Nuclear Weapons & Create Change. Music, drama, speakers & more, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., US Capitol (NE lawn). 404-524-5999. Women's Action for New Directions.

Check http://www.foru= sa.org/109.htm for schedule through August 9.

- ---

3) NO STAR WARS HOUSE SIGNS

The Peace Action National Office has nifty, professionally-produced,= two-sided (Donnelly-Colt) laminated yards signs opposing Star Wars. = The "tif" file below is a photo of one outside someone's house in= Northeast. You are welcome to drop by our office to pick one up, complete= with metal holder;  they assemble with a simple stapler, in a few= seconds.  This is a great opportunity to create public visibility for= a strong peace message on one of the hottest issues around.  Please= let me know if you're interested--we might even be able to deliver them to= you.  Our main goal at this time is just to get them out on the= streets.

Van Gosse <mailto:vgosse@peace-action.org>
Organizing Director
Peace Action
1819 H Street NW
Suite 420
Washington DC  20006
[one block from Farragut West Metro station]

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4) ACTION CAMPS!

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:22:46 -0400
From: michael mariotte <nirsnet@nirs.org>

Make plans now to attend one (or both!) of this year's Nuclear Free Action= Camps! Come to the Nuclear Free Northeast camp near Brattleboro, VT August= 18-22. The Nuclear Free Great Lakes camp is near Kalamazoo and runs August= 20-27. Both camps will feature great workshops, trainings, speakers,= actions, and fun. People and groups interested in setting up action camps= elsewhere in the country (esp the Southeast!) next year are especially= encouraged to attend the Great Lakes camp.

- --

Back by populist demand!....
Nuclear Free Great Lakes ACTION  CAMP
August 20-27, 2000
Van Buren Youth Camp, Bloomingdale, MI to register, call: 1-877-9NF-GLAC

The Nuclear Free Great Lakes Campaign -- consisting of seven of the region's= most active and involved safe-energy environmental organizations -- is= actively working to rid the Great Lakes Bio-Region of all hazardous nuclear= reactors and contamination sites.  We've created this special annual= summer training camp to  educate activists and the general public= about nuclear power hazards, and promote safe-energy alternatives to its= continued use  train the next generation of safe-energy and= environmental activists, both on the energy-related issues affecting the= bio-region, and in the skills needed to become effective and successful= activists and organizers, and  put your skills to work immediately by= targeting a local nuclear facility and working for its closure

- --

ACTION CAMP CENTERS ONTHE GLOBALIZATION OF NORTHEAST NUKES
HUNDREDS TO GATHER FOR WORKSHOPS AND DIRECT ACTION

The third Northeast anti-nuclear "action camp" begins near= Brattleboro, Vermont, August 18, 2000 and runs through August 22. During= that period, activists will participate in workshops and training sessions= in a forested, camp setting; and will arrest Vermont Yankee Nuclear= Corporation in Brattleboro, VT on August 21st. 

The media is welcome at the New England Action Camp and related activities.= For maps, logistical information, to set up interviews with speakers,= workshop leaders, etc., please contact CAN at 413-339-. 5781 or NIRS at= 202-328-0002

- -----

5) The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space has a= new web site address:  http://www.space4peace.org

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
globalnet@mindspring.com

    = ___________________________________________________

Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org
OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe= online)
Subscribe to NucNews Briefs:  mailto:prop1@prop1.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 (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

   Distributed without payment for= research and educational
purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.


 - --=====================_305997396==_.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: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:27:02 -0400 From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) Alert re Int'l Crim Ct: Helms legislation Dear nuclear abolitionists - I send the below alert re Helms' effort to sabotage the Int'l Criminal Court (ICC) because establishment of an= effective ICC would help greatly in creating a world in which the use of nuclear= weapons is unthinkable. - John Burroughs The World Federalist Association Vision for Global Change http://www.wfa.org/icc.htm Update on the International Criminal Court July 2000 URGENT: Take Action NOW! Call your Senators and Representatives by to urge them to oppose the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2000! Vote possible before August! Helms ICC legislation A hearing on the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2000, a bill= that attacks the ICC, is scheduled for July 25 in the House International= Relations Committee. It is possible that the bill could be voted upon by the entire House by the end of July. The bill, H.R. 4654 in the House and S. 2726 in the Senate, was introduced on June 14, 2000 by Senators Jesse Helms (R-NC) and John= Warner (R-VA) and by Rep. Tom DeLay, and is co-sponsored by nearly the entire Republican leadership. The bill is described as "A bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States Government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not a party."=20 The bill prohibits US cooperation with the ICC while the US is not a party= to the treaty, restricts US participation in UN peacekeeping without special immunity for troops, and penalizes countries that do ratify the treaty. Key provisions include the following:=20 =B7 No governmental entity in the United States, including any court,= may cooperate with the International Criminal Court in matters such as arrest= and extradition of suspects, execution of searches and seizures, taking of evidence, seizure of assets, and similar matters.=20 =B7 The U.S. must secure permanent immunity for American personnel fro= m ICC jurisdiction before the U.S. can participate in any assessed United Nations peacekeeping operation (or other arrangements must be in effect protecting such U.S. personnel from extradition to the Court).=20 =B7 No classified national security information can be transferred directly or indirectly to the ICC.=20 =B7 No country that has ratified the treaty establishing the Court can receive U.S. military assistance. (Exemption for NATO member countries and "major non-NATO allies," cited in the bill as Australia, Egypt, Israel,= Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand). The President may waive this restriction for countries that ratify the treaty but then enter into an agreement with the United States protecting U.S. personnel from extradition= to the Court=20 =B7 The President is authorized to use all means necessary and= appropriate to bring about the release from captivity of U.S. or Allied personnel= detained or imprisoned against their will by or on behalf of the Court.=20 =B7 The President is directed to analyze U.S. status-of-forces= agreements and alliance command arrangements, and develop plans to achieve enlarged protection for U.S. military personnel from the ICC. These provisions are in addition to existing U.S. law (the 2000-2001 Foreign Relations Authorization Act) which prohibits any U.S. funds going to the ICC once it has been established unless the Senate has given its advice and consent to the Rome Treaty.=20 This bill is damaging to US foreign policy on a number of fronts. First, the bill would hurt US relations with its allies. Most of the US's NATO allies, all of the European Union members, and other close allies like Canada,= Australia, and Switzerland, strongly support the court and have stated their strong opposition to US proposals to exempt its soldiers and officials from prosecution. Other countries, particularly our allies, are likely to view= this as an inappropriate attempt to strong-arm other countries into taking the US side. Second, the provisions prohibiting military assistance to states who ratify and authorizing the US to take all necessary measures to free accused US nationals are attempts to intimidate other countries that ignore the full range of interests military assistance serves. This bill would hamstring the flexibility necessary to conduct a sound foreign policy. Finally, the bill ignores the inevitable future need of the US for the ICC. Once the ICC is created, other countries will not be willing to authorize or support the creation of new ad-hoc tribunals. The US has been a key supporter of the Rwandan and former Yugoslav tribunals, and will likely want to continue bringing international criminals to justice. If this bill passes, the US= will not be able to assist the ICC in any way in this endeavor. Furthermore, this bill, and US efforts to secure exemptions for its troops= and officials, are unnecessary. According to the principle of complementarity, which was included in the statute as a concession to the US delegation in= Rome in 1998, the ICC can intervene only when national courts are unable or unwilling to grant a fair trial to the accused. US Secretary of Defense Richard Cohen, while opposing the ICC, admitted that this would provide protection= to US troops and officials during a press conference on June 12: "We have demonstrated over the years wherever there is an allegation of abuse on the part of a soldier we have a judicial system that will deal with it very effectively," Cohen said. "As long as we have a respected judicial system= then there should be some insulation factor (for the United States.)" This bill is unlikely to pass as a whole during the current Congressional session, but it is very likely that the bill will be amended in whole or in part to another legislative vehicle, such as an appropriations or authorization bill. Supporters of the ICC must remain vigilant during the coming months to protect the US from the folly of this ill-advised, damaging legislation.=20 John Burroughs, Executive Director=20 Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy=20 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204=20 New York, New York 10017 USA=20 tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857=20 e-mail: johnburroughs@earthlink.net website: www.lcnp.org=20 Part of the Abolition 2000 Global=20 Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons=20 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 06:52:12 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/07/23 - Announcements - --=====================_58670750==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by pooky.myhouse.com id GAA02120 [NucNews Archives have been posted through July 15, 2000 at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Below are some announcements. et= ] 1) Global Peace Walk Sunday, July 23rd, Global Peace Walk 2000 will be arriving in St. Louis Missouri and we need helpers there to connect with the walkers for hospit= ality, networking, etc. A team will stay in St. Louis organizing for main walk e= vent August 15th while some go to sundance in South Dakota and come back for A= ug15 to continue walking east with indigenous spiritual people. Please send co= ntact info you have for people in St. Louis. Call walk voicemail 415-267-1877 = or walk cellphone 888-285-8865 x 61389. Thanks,David Crockett Williams=20 , Co-coordinator Global Peace Walk 2000=20 http://www.globalpeacenow.org=20 2) Indian Point Update -- THEY DID IT!!!!!!=20 From: "Elie" Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:11:31 -0500=20 Thursday, July 20, at 1:00 pm Michele, Janine, Margaret, and Tom locked d= own a door at Con Ed headquarters in NYC for almost an hour.... A crowd gathere= d and someone shouted out, "Free the heroes, arrest Con Ed." The video will a= ir over Media One public access channel on Saturday, July 22, at 6:30 pm, Tu= esday, 8:30 pm, and Wednesday at 11:00 pm. It will be listed either as Con Ed Lo= ckdown or Solutions for Survival. If you can help get it on the air in your cabl= e area let me know and I will get you a copy. Please pass this on to anyone who = is interested. Phone interviews, photos and a copy of the video are availabl= e to press. 3) ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMP NEAR "MAYAK"=20 11th annual public opposition to dangerous industrial projects=20 July 23 - August 5, 2000 For more information on previous anti-nuclear camps in Russia and public=20 opposition to nuclear power in regions of Russia visit the website of=20 The SEU Anti-nuclear campaign http://www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear 4) Peace Action Announcements: - - Video footage of the successful July 18 Stop Star Wars protest at the U= S Capitol is now available online linked from http://www.peace-action.org/July18press.html.=20 - - One of the most important stops on the Missile Stop Tour is coming up o= n July 30 at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. We plan to be t= here with our mock missiles and hope you can join us. We're already hearing so= me reports of Peace Action buses filling up to come to Philadelphia.=20 5) The Nuclear Control Institute (Washington, D.C., USA) has posted a G-8 briefing on the U.S.-Russia plutonium disposition issue on its web site. = The briefing will be distributed at the NGO center in Okinawa to interested m= edia and others. http://www.nci.org/g8brief.htm. More information about weapo= ns plutonium disposition and the dangers of MOX are available at http://www.nci.org/nci-wpu.htm. 6) A poem for Hiroshima week (written after hearing testimonies of Hibaku= sha) Monday=92s Plantings by Philip Havey ta ichimai Idling on the steps of the Yokohama Species Bank I was turned to steam, leaving only my shadow behind to be tended and cultivate like a bed of flowers. kagero ya Those who flinched=20 so they only had their eyelids burned away were entertained by fat, black walnuts of oil rendered from vermin, pets, third plantings=20 and other organic matter near the epicenter who'd fallen back upon the earth as rain. kono shita ni After the roof tiles boiled off, the houses themselves swayed before departing, as consistent with the optics of August heat.=20 When a lesser light finally cut the smudged wind,=20 he wondered by what means he=92d aquired such a fine candelabra in his moment of need, until, he looked up to find the five fingers=20 of his right hand spanned wide apart and burning. yume no mizu ni She had not been surprised to find herself naked among lichen pied rocks in Asano Park=20 while the circle of city skyline burned around her; fire and desolation were lately native to her dreams. Encountering their district baker, Mr. Myshito, she asked him to go home and inform her husband=20 how their two children had been torn from he arms by great dragons of ash. (Such ideas occur full-blown in a dreamer=92s mind.) A portly man, still swaddled in oven whites,=20 he angled his bowed to her station and pledged to provide what assistance he could before shambling off between two flapping walls of fire as if to tend his loaves. "Surely", she told herself at that point (as she would many times over before the day ended), " I have reach the point at which awakening must happen." umi wa michishio The Almanac relates how the elements turned against them. When the five costal rivers needed to run sweet=20 and shallow to the sea, the salt tide didn=92t neap=20 before noon. Its steady morning=92s rise forced early refugees up=20 into an impasse with those clambering down to escape the heat. Shortly after eleven, everything fell away too sharply=20 for anything to matter either way. monoi ni omoishi The pika appeared pink, blue, red or orange depending where the observer stood. No one remembers the plane, heard its drone or saw anything separate from it. Light simply blazoned every where at once. Had one person said-"Yes, I saw it fall!"- it would not have been so bad. Later all agreed, aircrew and our people alike, the cloud which followed did not form the great portobello, journals would report, but made a question mark as clearly written=20 in a cursive Western hand, mizu aosagi no As people who value comic books, we naturally bled the color of India Ink and blotched, pointilated, like strawberries. Citizens in a land where communal bathing served a norm, the first burned cooked contoured to the city's safety cisterns=20 as the rage of firestorms brought the non-flowing waters=20 within the delta to a boil. Among those who prized graphic body adornment as a subtle art, the keloid patterns of roses raised almost at once were not instructive. nasugusa ya Within five days, the world about us blossomed while our hair fell out. As we sickened, bluets, goosefoot, knotweed and rape grew in profusion; While our blood paled, colors profused to lemon, cerise, madder and cerul= ean;=20 As the call went out a crossed the islands to send us canes and crutches,= =20 lavender heaved asphalt up, peonies broke out among fallen roof-beams=20 and prodigious coils of kudzu tugged down anything that leaned. Gladiola rooted among the bodies of the dead where no bulbs were sown. Hairy beans, lilacs, sesame, and clover knitted vomit to the high panic g= rass. The sicle-senna at Yokogawa Station alone ran so thick that rumor had it=20 where we huddled within our borax soaks that the tools of what happened h= ad, in some cruel manner, been fashioned from the seed of wildflowers. hirou mon A gardener=92s ability to use felt images leads to more preferential plan= tings,=20 which explains why the glassy blue melt of seventy thousand milk-bottles=20 curves so easily around the squares of tarmac cut from those once busy intersections where policemen directing morning traffic were reduced=20 to a scatter of glove-snaps and buckles barely noticed among the random=20 constellations of their brass-buttons.=20 Nor was it accidental, therefore, that mason jars brimming over=20 from the excess of scorched eyelets from schoolchildren=92s shoes=20 from playgrounds be integrated artfully with crates of briefcase handles=20 later swept up along the commercial routs,=20 each stippled like thin bass fry when light passed through the softer fle= sh=20 of the hand. Take care, for with so much to see on this pathway of lunchb= oxes=20 puckered to shiny muffins and tin stepping-stones,=20 one easily might miss the border welds of fused sewing scissors upended=20 in the earth to approximate the look of sawgrass=20 and never know how Hiroshima had once been a city=20 full of maidens and mothers. momochidori At some point the weeds crept in- The first spontaneous wreathes of paper-cranes and painted stones proved acceptable, as did the fountains, temples and bells which followed in kind=20 until desk-weights, chopsticks, cocktail coasters and T-shirts inscribed = with prays=20 for tranquillity in florissant dyes followed their natural course. In the end, we fielded plastic zinnias to setoff signs in 127 languages instructing pilgrims how to rinse their mouths and wash their hands shoul= d they inadvertent make contact with the doves of peace wheeling about the sky i= n flocks of thousands above Ground Zero. ta icima "planting a patch" (Kobu) kagero ya "summer shimmer"(Basho) =20 kono shita ni "under this"(Shiki)=20 yume no mizu ni "not seeing a dream"(Kyoshi)=20 uni wa michishio "sea at hightide"(Seisensi)=20 mono ni omoshi "a rather distant thing"(Takuboku)=20 mizu aosagi "water laps their legs"(Buson)=20 natsugusa ya "summer grass"(Basho)=20 hirou mon "things picked up"(Chiyo-ni)=20 momochiori "ten myriad birds"(Yoshino)=20 Phil Havey ___________________________________________________ Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe onlin= e) Subscribe to NucNews Briefs: mailto:prop1@prop1.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 (a-z): George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calend= ar.asp Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/ Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html (Please send other sites of qualified candidates.) 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. - --=====================_58670750==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by pooky.myhouse.com id GAA02120 [NucNews Archives have been posted through July 15, 2000 at http= ://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.  Below are some announcements.  et]

1) Global Peace Walk
Sunday, July 23rd, Global Peace Walk 2000 will be arriving in St. Louis Missouri and we need helpers there to connect with the walkers for hospitality, networking, etc. A team will stay in St. Louis organizing for main walk event August 15th while some go to sundance in South Dakota and come back for Aug15 to continue walking east with indigenous spiritual people. Please send contact info you have for people in St. Louis.  Call walk voicemail 415-267-1877 or walk cellphone 888-285-8865 x 61389. Thanks,David Crockett Williams
<gear2000@lightspeed.net>, Co-coordinator Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

2) Indian Point Update -- THEY DID IT!!!!!!
From: "Elie" <elie@highlands.com> Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13= :11:31 -0500

Thursday, July 20, at 1:00 pm Michele, Janine, Margaret, and Tom locked d= own a door at Con Ed headquarters in NYC for almost an hour.... A crowd g= athered and someone shouted out, "Free the heroes, arrest Con Ed.&qu= ot;   The video will air over Media One public access channel o= n Saturday, July 22, at 6:30 pm, Tuesday, 8:30 pm, and Wednesday at 11:00= pm. It will be listed either as Con Ed Lockdown or Solutions for Surviva= l. If you can help get it on the air in your cable area let me know and I= will get you a copy. Please pass this on to anyone who is interested. Ph= one interviews, photos and a copy of the video are available to press.
3) ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMP NEAR "MAYAK"
11th annual public opposition to dangerous industrial projects
July 23 - August 5, 2000
For more information on previous anti-nuclear camps in Russia and public =
opposition to nuclear power in regions of Russia visit the website of The SEU Anti-nuclear campaign http://www.ecoline.ru/an= tinuclear

4) Peace Action Announcements:
- Video footage of the successful July 18 Stop Star Wars protest at t= he US Capitol is now available online linked from http://www.peace-action.org/July18press.html.
- - One of the most important stops on the Missile Stop Tour is coming up o= n July 30 at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. We plan = to be there with our mock missiles and hope you can join us. We're alread= y hearing some reports of Peace Action buses filling up to come to Philad= elphia.

5) The Nuclear Control Institute (Washington, D.C., USA) has posted a = G-8 briefing on the U.S.-Russia plutonium disposition issue on its we= b site. The briefing will be distributed at the NGO center in Okinawa to = interested media and others. http://www.nci.org/g8brief.h= tm.  More information about weapons plutonium disposi= tion and the dangers of MOX are available at http://www.nci.org/nci-wpu.htm.

6) A poem for Hiroshima week (written after hearing testimonies of= Hibakusha)
Monday=92s Plantings
by Philip Havey
ta ichimai
Idling on the steps
of the Yokohama Species Bank
I was turned to steam,
leaving only my shadow behind
to be tended and cultivate
like a bed of flowers.
kagero ya
Those who flinched
so they only had their eyelids burned away
were entertained by fat, black walnuts of oil
rendered from vermin, pets, third plantings
and other organic matter near the epicenter
who'd fallen back upon the earth as rain.
kono shita ni
After the roof tiles boiled off,
the houses themselves swayed before departing,
as consistent with the optics of August heat.
When a lesser light finally cut the smudged wind,
he wondered by what means he=92d aquired
such a fine candelabra in his moment of need,
until, he looked up to find the five fingers
of his right hand spanned wide apart and burning.
yume no mizu ni
She had not been surprised to find herself naked
among lichen pied rocks in Asano Park
while the circle of city skyline burned around her;
fire and desolation were lately native to her dreams.
Encountering their district baker, Mr. Myshito,
she asked him to go home and inform her husband
how their two children had been torn from he arms
by great dragons of ash.
(Such ideas occur full-blown in a dreamer=92s mind.)
A portly man, still swaddled in oven whites,
he angled his bowed to her station and pledged
to provide what assistance he could before shambling off
between two flapping walls of fire as if to tend his loaves.
"Surely", she told herself at that point
(as she would many times over before the day ended),
" I have reach the point at which awakening must happen."
umi wa michishio
The Almanac relates how the elements turned against them.
When the five costal rivers needed to run sweet
and shallow to the sea, the salt tide didn=92t neap
before noon.
Its steady morning=92s rise forced early refugees up
into an impasse with those clambering down
to escape the heat.
Shortly after eleven, everything fell away too sharply
for anything to matter either way.
monoi ni omoishi
The pika appeared pink, blue, red or orange
depending where the observer stood.
No one remembers the plane, heard its drone
or saw anything separate from it.
Light simply blazoned every where at once.
Had one person said-"Yes, I saw it fall!"-
it would not have been so bad.
Later all agreed, aircrew and our people alike,
the cloud which followed did not form
the great portobello, journals would report,
but made a question mark as clearly written
in a cursive Western hand,
mizu aosagi no
As people who value comic books, we naturally bled
the color of India Ink and blotched, pointilated, like strawberries.
Citizens in a land where communal bathing served a norm,
the first burned cooked contoured to the city's safety cisterns
as the rage of firestorms brought the non-flowing waters
within the delta to a boil.
Among those who prized graphic body adornment as a subtle art,
the keloid patterns of roses raised almost at once were not instructive.<= br> nasugusa ya
Within five days, the world about us blossomed while our hair fel= l out.
As we sickened, bluets, goosefoot, knotweed and rape grew in profusion; While our blood paled, colors profused to lemon, cerise, madder and cerul= ean;
As the call went out a crossed the islands to send us canes and crutches,=
lavender heaved asphalt up, peonies broke out among fallen roof-beams and prodigious coils of kudzu tugged down anything that leaned.
Gladiola rooted among the bodies of the dead where no bulbs were sown. Hairy beans, lilacs, sesame, and clover knitted vomit to the high panic g= rass.
The sicle-senna at Yokogawa Station alone ran so thick that rumor had it =
where we huddled within our borax soaks that the tools of what happened h= ad,
in some cruel manner, been fashioned from the seed of wildflowers.
hirou mon
A gardener=92s ability to use felt images leads to more preferent= ial plantings,
which explains why the glassy blue melt of seventy thousand milk-bottles =
curves so easily around the squares of tarmac cut from those once busy in= tersections where policemen directing morning traffic were reduced
to a scatter of glove-snaps and buckles barely noticed among the random <= br> constellations of their brass-buttons.
Nor was it accidental, therefore, that mason jars brimming over
from the excess of scorched eyelets from schoolchildren=92s shoes
from playgrounds be integrated artfully with crates of briefcase handles =
later swept up along the commercial routs,
each stippled like thin bass fry when light passed through the softer fle= sh
of the hand. Take care, for with so much to see on this pathway of lunchb= oxes
puckered to shiny muffins and tin stepping-stones,
one easily might miss the border welds of fused sewing scissors upended <= br> in the earth to approximate the look of sawgrass
and never know how Hiroshima had once been a city
full of maidens and mothers.
momochidori
At some point the weeds crept in-
The first spontaneous wreathes of paper-cranes and painted stones proved = acceptable,
as did the fountains, temples and bells which followed in kind
until desk-weights, chopsticks, cocktail coasters and T-shirts inscribed = with prays
for tranquillity in florissant dyes followed their natural course.
In the end, we fielded plastic zinnias to setoff signs in 127 languages i= nstructing pilgrims how to rinse their mouths and wash their hands should= they inadvertent make contact with the doves of peace wheeling about the= sky in flocks of thousands above Ground Zero.
ta icima "planting a patch" (Kobu)
kagero ya "summer shimmer"(Basho)
kono shita ni "under this"(Shiki)
yume no mizu ni "not seeing a dream"(Kyoshi)
uni wa michishio "sea at hightide"(Seisensi)
mono ni omoshi "a rather distant thing"(Takuboku)
mizu aosagi "water laps their legs"(Buson)
natsugusa ya "summer grass"(Basho)
hirou mon "things picked up"(Chiyo-ni)
momochiori "ten myriad birds"(Yoshino)
Phil Havey




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