From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #458 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, August 19 2001 Volume 01 : Number 458 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:15:26 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [energy-csd] Fwd: [nyclimatechange] Re: Clean Air-Cool Planet Releases Case Studi >Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:50:54 -0400 >Subject: [energy-csd] Fwd: [nyclimatechange] Re: Clean Air-Cool Planet Releases Case Studi >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: green-house@greenhousenet.org, energy-csd@yahoogroups.com, tisc@yahoogroups.com, andy@mail.clearwater.org >From: "Sharmuse@aol.com" > >Hi - More interesting progress on climate change (despite our "rep's" in >DC). >--Shar > >------------------------ Yahoo! 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The report, Cool Solutions to Global >Warming, highlights 24 innovative organizations in the Northeast, including >businesses, municipalities, universities, and nonprofits. Among those >profiled in the report are state, local, and tribal agencies participating >in projects or providing funding: > >The City of Burlington, Vermont >The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut >New Hampshire Governor's Office of Energy and Community Services >The State of New Jersey >New York Power Authority >New York State Energy Research Development Authority > Vermont Department of Agriculture > >Topics include alternative energy sources, energy efficiency projects, >improved industrial processes, recycling, demand-side management, and >comprehensive climate action plans. 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Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:17:54 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: "SC might block borders to plutonium" >Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:43:13 -0400 >Subject: "SC might block borders to plutonium" >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: bananas@lists.speakeasy.org >From: "susangordon@earthlink.net" > >The State (Columbia, SC) >August 10 2001 >S.C. might close its borders to plutonium >By LEE BANDY Staff Writer > >Gov. Jim Hodges ordered his public safety director Thursday to evaluate >options for closing the state's borders to plutonium shipments to the >Savannah River Site near Aiken. >"We must be prepared to stand up to Washington," he said in a memo to >Boykin Rose, director of the Department of Public Safety. >"My hope is the federal government will come to its senses and allow us to >avoid this step, but we cannot take a chance." >Hodges asked Rose to consider options for highway roadblocks or "other >measures." >Asked if this might mean stationing Highway Patrol troopers at the borders >or calling out the Army National Guard, Hodges replied, in an interview, >"Whatever it takes." >And if it precipitates a national crisis, so be it, he said. >The U.S. Justice Department declined comment on what legal action, if any, >it might take to stop South Carolina from shutting down its borders to >trucks or trains that deliver the plutonium. >S.C. Attorney General Charlie Condon had no immediate comment. >In 1988 and 1991, Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus used state police to block >railroad cars filled with radioactive waste from entering a federal >storage site. >Lawsuits that arose from those actions ultimately led to a settlement >agreement that set deadlines for shipping nuclear waste out of Idaho. >During the Clinton administration, South Carolina worked out an >arrangement with the Department of Energy whereby the state agreed to >accept temporary custody of surplus plutonium at SRS in return for a >promise to ship the deadly fuel to Nevada for final burial and to convert >plutonium to an energy fuel. >DOE, however, has "reneged" on the deal, Hodges said. What was to be >temporary storage now may turn into long-term or even permanent storage, >the governor fears. >He met with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at the National Governors' >Association conference in Rhode Island Monday and asked him to delay >shipments until the department agrees to a legally enforceable long-term >plan for removing the material. The secretary declined to commit to that, >Hodges said. >"My concern is that we're weeks away from seeing plutonium from across the >nation shipped to our state with no idea of what they're going to do with >it or when they're going to ship it out in a safer form to another >location. And that's unacceptable," the governor said. >Abraham was in the state Thursday touring SRS. He toured the facility >south of Aiken to announce a $5 million contribution to an industrial park >adjacent to the site and meet with community leaders. >He described discussions with Hodges as "very frank." Abraham said a top >assistant met Thursday with a representative from the governor's office. >He said the dialogue "can lead to positive results, and we're anxious to >work with the state to achieve that." >Shipping is to begin sometime this month, mostly from a federal facility >in Rocky Flats, Colo., Hodges said. >Hodges painted a scenario where DOE or the president might say "no" to the >Yucca Mountain burial site in Nevada, which has yet to receive high-level >nuclear waste. >"And then we have all the plutonium here and no place to stick it. It >terrifies me," the governor said. >In his memo to Rose, the governor said that once the plutonium from other >states arrives in South Carolina, "it will no longer be an issue of >concern for other states. We will be left holding the proverbial bag," >In its agreement with the state, DOE promised to build facilities at SRS >to immobilize plutonium to make it safe for shipment to its final burial >ground, and to convert it to fuel for commercial nuclear energy >facilities. Both would have created hundreds of job opportunities. The >projects now are doubtful. The Bush administration cites budgetary >concerns. >That's not good enough, Hodges said. When it comes to the issue of health >and safety of the state's citizens, money shouldn't be an issue. >"We will not allow the health and safety of our citizens to be threatened >by storage of plutonium without a definite timetable for conversion and >disposition in another state," he said. >U.S. Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., a senior member of the House Armed Services >Committee, has proposed legislation to bar shipments of plutonium after >Feb. 1, 2002, if no agreement has been reached with the state. >Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., included language in an energy bill that says >DOE must consult with the state on this matter and submit a report to >Congress on how it plans to address plutonium disposition at SRS for the >long term. >What worries Hodges is that a lot of plutonium could be shipped between >now and when legislation passes. >"Once they begin the shipments, they won't stop. A lot could be shipped >between now and February. And once that process starts, it's difficult to >stop," Hodges said. >Staff Writer Kenneth A. Harris contributed to this report. >http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/08/10/front/websrs10 .htm > >************************************** >Susan Gordon, Director >Alliance for Nuclear Accountability >www.ananuclear.org >1914 N 34th, Suite #407, Seattle, WA 98103 >ph 206-547-3175 fax 206-547-7158 >ANA is a national alliance of organizations working to address >issues of nuclear weapons production and waste clean-up. > - - 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, 10 Aug 2001 23:12:09 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Thwartnuke/Original anti-nuke video game on TVC website Thwartnuke 1.0 An Anti-Nuclear Video Game designed and developed by Tri-Valley CAREs' Issac Trotts available, downloadable and playable on our website at www.igc.org/tvc ___________________________________________ In this fanciful game, Einstein defends the Earth against the latest productions of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. The action takes place in space, with the National Ignition Facility hurling B83 and B61-11 nuclear bombs at the Earth. As Einstein, you valiantly protect the planet by throwing an unlimited supply of paper cranes at the weapons, which turn into sunflowers if touched by cranes. When you pacify a sufficient number of nukes, peace prevails. Score bonus points by tagging a nuke advocate (such as George W. Bush, "Dick" Cheney, LLNL director Bruce Tarter, or New Mexico Senator "Pete" Domenici) with a paper crane. The game comes with source code and is in the public domain. Suggestions, hacks, and ports to non-PC systems are solicited. ___________________________________________ Play it -- and let us know what you think. Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:57:22 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Building links from the peace movement to the anti-globalization movement Dear Friends, Below is a very disturbing message from a friend who is working to put reasonable brakes on the privatization and commodification of the very genetic material which makes us human. It seems that our traditional allies in the peace movement and other liberal-progressives are on the wrong side of this issue--blindly supporting science--instead of questioning whether we have the maturity or wisdom to handle what man hath wrought in the laboratory. Certainly, from the point of view of nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and star wars, we know that scientists are not always up to the task. Also--I find it very interesting that the human genome project started at Los Alamos--from the boys who brought us the bomb!! Those of you who read Bill Joy's essay in Wired Magazine, "Does the Future Need Us?" must be aware that it is probably best to put a stop to this kind of "science" until we know we will have the know-how to handle the results without doing further harm to our species and the environment. Hope you will think about these issues and start a dialogue in your community. If you'd like a copy of Bill Joy's article, I have extras. (He's Chief of Science at Sun MicroSystems and invented the Java program.) > >From: chris desser >Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning > > >You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both >reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the >House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162. An attempt to substitute the >weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178. > >This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning, >inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology. > >But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands. > >Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social >conservatives and religious pro-lifers. Seeing this, many liberal and >progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at >stake, reflexively took the other side. > >In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about >the >dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human >beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of >letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for >science to operate within social and ethical norms. > >And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national >leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic >justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the >arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts: that there's no way we can >stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that >only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere >with >scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling >future of genetic improvement, and more. > >If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political >liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and >hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the >conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big, >because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic >technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before >in human history. > >We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new >human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing >pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can >have universal appeal. > >More soon. > >In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston >University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from >Species-Altering Procedures", now is the time. It will be an important >occassion for building the movement we need to build. See >http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm. > >Rich > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Chris Desser >Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies >2151 Pacific Avenue >San Francisco, CA 94115 >415-561-2627 >chris@igc.org > > > > > >============================================================ >How to Use this Mailing List >============================================================ > >You received this e-mail as a result of your registration on the >transgenicfish mailing list. > >To unsubscribe, please send an email to listserv@iatp.org. In the body of >the >message type: >unsubscribe transgenicfish > >To Subscribe, please send an email to listserv@iatp.org. In the body of >the >message type: >subscribe transgenicfish > >To view the archive, go to www.iatp.org/listarchive > >For a list of other commands and list options, please send email to >listserv@iatp.org. >In the body of the message type: >help > >Please direct content questions about this list to: mritchie@iatp.org > >Please direct technical questions about this service to: support@iatp.org > > > > > >----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- >Return-Path: >Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com >[172.18.149.37]) >by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v79.27) with ESMTP id MAILINYC28-0803063954; >Fri, >03 Aug 2001 06:39:54 -0400 >Received: from mail.iatp.org (iatp-2.innovsoftd.com [208.141.36.66]) by >rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v79.20) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC53-0803063922; >Fri, >03 Aug 2001 06:39:22 -0400 >Received: from [208.141.36.73] by mail.iatp.org > (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 282 > for Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:49:25 -0500 >From: "Transgenic Fish and Marine Life" >To: HELAINELER@aol.com >Subject: Rich Hayes' Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:58:13 -0500 >X-Mailer: Allaire Cold Fusion 3.1 >Message-ID: <20010803074919739.AAX110.282@[208.141.36.73]> > > >> > >Return-Path: >Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com >[172.18.149.37]) by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v79.27) with ESMTP id >MAILINYC28-0803063954; Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:39:54 -0400 >Received: from mail.iatp.org (iatp-2.innovsoftd.com [208.141.36.66]) by >rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v79.20) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC53-0803063922; >Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:39:22 -0400 >Received: from [208.141.36.73] by mail.iatp.org > (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 282 > for Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:49:25 -0500 >From: "Transgenic Fish and Marine Life" >To: HELAINELER@aol.com >Subject: Rich Hayes' Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:58:13 -0500 >X-Mailer: Allaire Cold Fusion 3.1 >Message-ID: <20010803074919739.AAX110.282@[208.141.36.73]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Transgenic Fish and Marine Life (transgenicfish@iatp.org) Posted: >08/02/2001 By mritchie@iatp.org >============================================================ > > > > >From: chris desser >Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning > > >You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both >reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the >House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162. An attempt to substitute the >weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178. > >This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning, >inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology. > >But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands. > >Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social >conservatives and religious pro-lifers. Seeing this, many liberal and >progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at >stake, reflexively took the other side. > >In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about >the >dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human >beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of >letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for >science to operate within social and ethical norms. > >And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national >leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic >justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the >arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts: that there's no way we can >stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that >only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere >with >scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling >future of genetic improvement, and more. > >If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political >liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and >hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the >conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big, >because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic >technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before >in human history. > >We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new >human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing >pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can >have universal appeal. > >More soon. > >In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston >University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from >Species-Altering Procedures", now is the time. It will be an important >occassion for building the movement we need to build. See >http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm. > >Rich > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Chris Desser >Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies >2151 Pacific Avenue >San Francisco, CA 94115 >415-561-2627 >chris@igc.org > > > > > >============================================================ >How to Use this Mailing List >============================================================ > >You received this e-mail as a result of your registration on the >transgenicfish mailing list. > >To unsubscribe, please send an email to listserv@iatp.org. In the body of >the message type: >unsubscribe transgenicfish > >To Subscribe, please send an email to listserv@iatp.org. In the body of >the message type: >subscribe transgenicfish > >To view the archive, go to www.iatp.org/listarchive > >For a list of other commands and list options, please send email to >listserv@iatp.org. >In the body of the message type: >help > >Please direct content questions about this list to: mritchie@iatp.org > >Please direct technical questions about this service to: support@iatp.org > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:26:15 -0700 From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) apologies for full mailbox; please resend if important Dear friends -- Due to travel complications my e-mail box filled up. Consequently, messages sent to me between August 11 and August 15 were bounced back. Please re-send anything important. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks. -- Jackie Cabasso - - 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: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:08:02 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival Dear Friends, Please add your endorsement to this Festival of Creative NonViolence during the NATO parliamentary assembly in Ottawa. There will also be a Teach-in the day before on October 5th: Global Cops: The Corporate Security State's Assault on Democracy. You can sponsor that event as well by emailing Peter Coombs, pcoombes@peacewire.org, and asking him to add you to his list. The teach-in will feature speakers who can make the links between NATO and globalization--the iron fist that supports corporate rule. Hope you can endorse both events and that lots of your will come to Ottawa. Regards, Alice >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:14:17 -0400 >Subject: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: no_to_nato@flora.org >X-FC-Forwarded-From: ad207@freenet.carleton.ca >From: "no_to_nato@flora.org" > >Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival > >As of August 15, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade has received 40 >endorsements from various NGOs for our Festival of Creative NonViolence, to >be held in Ottawa on October 6. These endorsements have mostly come in >over just the past few days. > >PLEASE help us to get even more endorsements by circulating the request for >endorsements to any NGOs that you believe may be interested in supporting >this effort. You can get a copy of our "call to endorse" the festival at > > >Antiwar.com, USA >Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children, France >Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia >Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation >Befriending the Earth network >Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies >British Columbia Voice of Women >Canadian Auto Workers >Centre for Social Justice >Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade >Father's Day Coalition for Peace >Gerald and Maas >Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA >Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA >Green Party of Ontario >Guideposts for a Sustainable Future >Hamilton Action for Social Change >Homes not Bombs - Toronto >Illinois Peace Action, USA >Island Catholic News >Jonah House, USA >Kashmiri-Canadian Council >Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence >M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA >National Union of Public and General Employees >Nukewatch, USA >OPIRG - McMaster >Peace and Disarmament Working Group/ > Social Responsibility Cttee., First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa. >Peace Alliance Winnipeg >Project Peacemakers >Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon >Raging Grannies - Ottawa >Rainforest Raging Grannies, Vancouver >Sierra Youth Coalition >St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society >Toronto Action for Social Change >VANA - Manitoba >Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group >Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Canada >Woodstock Raging Grannies >Zero Tolerance Network > > >Notes: >* Unless otherwise stated, these NGOs in Canada. > >* We will eventually list all endorsing organizations on the Coalition to >Oppose the Arms Trade website We will include >contact information and a 30-or-so word description which we are asking >each organization to provide. > >* Further updates to this list of endorsing NGOs will be available in the >archive of the no_to_nato list serve which you can check by visiting the >COAT website or > > > Richard Sanders > Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) > > A national peace network supported by > individuals and organizations across Canada > > 541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2 Canada > Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614 > Email: Web site: > >----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- > Help build opposition to NATO PA meetings in Ottawa, Oct. 5-8, 2001! > Join the "no_to_nato" list serve: > Send the message: subscribe no_to_nato to >----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- >Unsubscribe by sending an email to with the >following command in the BODY of your message: unsubscribe no_to_nato > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:33:28 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) New NIF billboard to debut Mon/media adv. for more information, contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 media advisory MONDAY, AUGUST 20, BILLBOARD UNVEILING FOR CAMPAIGN TO URGE LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTISTS TO QUIT WORK ON THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY AND OTHER NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROJECTS WHAT: Tri-Valley CAREs has purchased space on the only billboard in the City of Livermore to appeal to scientists and engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), asking them to forswear work on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser and other nuclear weapons programs. WHEN: 11 AM, Monday, August 20, 2001, for an "unveiling" and press conference. WHERE: At the 24-foot billboard, corner of Portola Ave. and Murrieta Blvd., Livermore (at the Portola Ave. on ramp to I-580). WHO: Speakers include * Issac Trotts, former LLNL Computer Scientist in the Stockpile Stewardship program, on the broad-based campaign, of which the billboard is a key element, urging scientists and engineers to renounce work on nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Trotts has been speaking to young scientists in colleges and Universities on the nuclear weapons applications of NIF and the Stockpile Stewardship program since leaving his position at LLNL earlier this year. * Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, former nuclear chemist in the LLNL Stockpile Stewardship program, on the responsibility of scientists to refuse to work on nuclear weapons. Dr. Toupadakis left LLNL's weapons program last year for reasons of conscience. * Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog" organization, on why the group purchased the billboard and what else is planned for 2002 in the group's campaign to reach LLNL workers. * Also present and available for interviews will be physicist Marion Fulk, LLNL retired, Tri-Valley CAREs' Ann Seitz, who helped design the billboard, Don King, Martha Priebat and other community representatives. WHY: The new billboard, a lighted, high-quality vinyl creation in brilliant reds and yellows, will be seen by 24,100 drivers each day, including many of the Livermore Laboratory staff who live in town or commute home to other communities in the Tri-Valley or East Bay. The billboard artistically features part of the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility and invites the viewer to ponder NIF's relationship to advancing nuclear weapons science. Concludes the billboard, "Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste." The international Scientists and Engineers Pledge to Renounce Weapons of Mass Destruction, recently launched by Tri-Valley CAREs and three colleague organizations, and other relevant materials about NIF, Stockpile Stewardship and nuclear weapons are available on Tri-Valley CAREs' web site, which is listed on the billboard (www.igc.org/tvc) along with the group's phone number. The new Livermore billboard is similar to one placed by the Los Alamos Study Group near the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, and is part of a coordinated campaign. Tri-Valley CAREs will be creating postcards using the new billboard image, and will be corresponding in 2002 with all 8,000 Livermore Lab employees. - --end-- Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:48:35 -0700 From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars Test Rigged! Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a letter I wrote to my local newspapers about the rigging of the missile defense test. Please send similar letters to your newspapers and Congressional representatives expressing your outrage as a taxpayer and demanding a full investigation. As a taxpayer, I was outraged to read (August 5 Sacramento Bee Forum Section) that the target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for the July 14 missile defense test carried a beacon which guided the kill vehicle toward it, as did the target missiles for the previous 3 tests (2 of which failed anyway). I'm outraged that missile defense tests are being rigged. I feel that the missile defense proponents are attempting to trick us taxpayers into supporting a deeply flawed missile defense system to fatten the pocketbooks of defense contractors. I believe that the missile defense program should be frozen and that Congress and the Justice Department should conduct a full scale investigation of the rigging of missile defense tests. Please contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to urge them to demand a full Congressional and Justice Department investigation of the rigging of missile defense tests and to urge them to vote to freeze the program until the investigation is finished. - - 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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