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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/01 - Daybook
Date: 01 Sep 2000 08:23:49 -0400

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1) Washington Daybook - August 30, 2000 - Washington Times, Agence
France-Presse
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20009122041.htm

      8:30 a.m. =97 Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a meeting of the=
 advisory
committee on reactor safeguards. Location: Conference Room T-2B3, 11545
Rockville Pike, Rockville. Contact: 301/415-6805.

      Vigil =97 7:30 p.m. =97 The Free Burma Coalition begins an=
 around-the-clock
vigil and fast in front of the Burmese ambassador's residence to protest the
current situation in Burma. Zaw Zaw, former Burmese political prisoner,
participates. Location: 2223 R St. NW. Contact: 202/387-8030 or on-site cell
phone, 703/731-1167.

     Vigil -- 5:00-8:00 pm -- in front of White House, daily until President
Clinton meets with Vieques Leaders.  Contact Andres Thomas,
[e-mail], 202-232-1999

2) Presidential Candidates

G.W. Bush - LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, AND TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS
         9:00 a.m. - Lafayette Regional Airport, The Main Terminal Gate 1A,=
 200
Terminal Drive Lafayette, Louisiana
        12:15 p.m. - College Hill Elementary School, 200 Artesian Street,
Texarkana, Arkansas [phone]

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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Statement of Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen on NMD
Date: 01 Sep 2000 08:53:25 -0800

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>= OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
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>[phone](media)
>IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>September 1, 2000
>[phone](public/industry)
>STATEMENT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM S. COHEN
>Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen today released the following statement:
>"The President's choice to defer a deployment decision on a National
>Missile Defense system to his successor involved many factors.
>Central for me, as I have stated publicly, is the importance of
>sustaining a solid national consensus not only on the need for an
>NMD system but on the scope and structure of such a system.
>"The President's statement today underscores the importance of
>having the next President fully involved in decisions regarding the
>future of the program before committing the U.S. to a deployment
>strategy.  I support this approach.
>"I have noted on many occasions that several emerging threats
>warrant the deployment of an effective missile defense program as
>soon as technologically feasible and I will work closely with my
>successor on providing all appropriate information.  In the
>meantime, we will aggressively proceed with the developmental
>testing program and also continue our consultations with the
>Congress, our allies, and with Russia."
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Subject: (abolition-usa) job openings
Date: 01 Sep 2000 20:06:57 -0400

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From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/02 - Presidential Candidates; NMD Announcements;
Date: 02 Sep 2000 08:31:00 -0400

- Ralph Nader

9:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 5, 2000 - Nader 2000 news conference,.Nation=
al
Press Club, West Room, 14th and F Street NW, Washington, DC. 202-265-4000

- George W. Bush

September 2 - George W. Bush will receive an intelligence briefing from t=
he
Central Intelligence Agency, on Saturday morning. Acting CIA Deputy Direc=
tor
John McLaughlin will lead the briefing on intelligence matters. This is a
regular briefing conducted at the request of the White House for each par=
ty's
presidential candidate. Governor Bush will be accompanied by chief foreig=
n
policy advisor Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz, also an advisor on fo=
reign
policy issues.=20

September 3 - open airport arrival at Chicago O'Hare International Airpor=
t,
7:45 p.m.

September 4 - Naperville, IL and Romeo, Michigan (with Dick Cheney)
        9:00 a.m. - Labor Day Rally, Naperville North High School
        10:00 a.m. - City of Naperville Labor Day Parade=20
        4:45 p.m. -  Michigan Peach Festival, Mellen House, 124 West Gate=
s
Street , Romeo, Michigan, [phone]=20
        After the parade in Naperville, Secretary and Mrs. Cheney will mo=
ve to
Jefferson Park in Northwest Chicago to the Taste of Polonia Festival, at =
5216
West Lawrence Avenue, near Milwaukee Avenue at around 12:30 p.m.

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2) NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE DECISION

For Immediate Release     September 1, 2000
http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/September_1_2000.html

 President Clinton announced today that the NMD program is sufficiently
promising and affordable to justify continued development and testing, bu=
t that
there is not sufficient information about the technical and operational
effectiveness of the entire NMD system to move forward with deployment.

 In making this decision, the President considered the threat, the cost,
technical feasibility and the impact overall on our national security of
proceeding with NMD.  He considered a thorough technical review by the
Department of Defense as well as the advice of his top national security
advisors.

 The Pentagon has made progress on developing a system that can address t=
he
emerging missile threat. But we do not have sufficient information to con=
clude
that it can work reliably under realistic conditions.  Critical elements =
of the
program, such as the booster rocket for the missile interceptor, have not=
 been
tested; and there are questions to be resolved about the ability of the s=
ystem
to deal with countermeasures.  The President made clear we should not mov=
e
forward until we have further confidence that the system will work and un=
til we
have made every reasonable diplomatic effort to minimize the costs.

 The Pentagon will continue the development and testing of the NMD system=
. That
effort is still at an early stage: three of the nineteen planned intercep=
t
tests have been held so far.  Additional ground tests and simulations wil=
l also
take place.

 The development of our NMD is part of the Administration?s comprehensive
national security strategy to prevent potential adversaries from threaten=
ing
the United States with such weapons and acquiring the weapons in the firs=
t
place.

 Arms control agreements with Russia are an important part of this strate=
gy
because they ensure stability and predictability between the United State=
s and
Russia, promote the dismantling of nuclear weapons, and help complete the
transition from confrontation to cooperation with Russia.  The Anti-Balli=
stic
Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972 limits anti-missile defenses according to a =
simple
principle: neither side should deploy defenses that would undermine the o=
ther's
nuclear deterrent, and thus tempt the other to strike first in a crisis o=
r take
countermeasures that would make both our countries less secure.

 This announcement will provide additional time to pursue with Russia the=
 goal
of adapting the ABM treaty to permit the deployment of a limited NMD that=
 would
not undermine strategic stability.  The United States will also continue =
to
consult with Allies and continue the dialogue with China and other states.

 An NMD program that meets the projected threat

 Last August, the President decided that the initial NMD architecture wou=
ld
include: 100 ground-based interceptors deployed in Alaska, one ABM radar =
in
Alaska, and five upgraded early warning radars.

 This approach is the fastest, most affordable, and most technologically =
mature
approach to fielding an effective NMD against the projected threat. It wo=
uld
protect all 50 states against emerging threats from both North Korea and =
the
Middle East and is optimized against the most immediate and certain threa=
t,
North Korea.

 On July 23, 1999, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 4, the 'Nationa=
l
Missile Defense Act of 1999, stating that it is the policy of the United =
States
to deploy as soon as technologically possible an effective NMD system.  T=
he
legislation includes two amendments supported by the Administration: the =
first
making clear that any NMD deployment must be subject to the authorization=
 and
appropriations process, and thus that no decision on deployment has been =
made;
the second stating it is the policy of the United States to seek continue=
d
negotiated reductions in Russian nuclear forces, putting Congress on reco=
rd as
continuing to support negotiated reductions in strategic nuclear arms,
reaffirming the Administration?s position that  missile defense policy mu=
st
take into account important arms control and nuclear nonproliferation
objectives.

 NMD Budget

 The Clinton Administration has spent approximately $5.7 billion on NMD, =
and
budgeted an additional $10.4 billion in FY 2001-2005 to support possible
deployment of the initial NMD architecture.

 Our current estimate for developing, procuring and deploying our initial
system - 100 interceptors, an ABM radar, upgrades to 5 early warning rada=
rs,
and command and control - is around $25 billion (Fiscal Years 91-09).  Bu=
t to
put that in perspective, it represents less than 1 percent of the defense
budget over the coming six years.

3)  Text of Clinton's Missile Defense Speech
September 1, 2000, Associated Press
http://www.foxnews.com/national/090100/missiledefense_text.sml

WASHINGTON The transcript of President Clinton's address Friday at George=
town
University's School of Foreign Service on the future of a missile defense
system for the United States. Transcription by eMediaMillWorks Inc.:

Thank you very much. When you gave us such a warm welcome, and then you
applauded some of Dean Galucci's early lines, I thought to myself, "I'm g=
lad he
can get this sort of reception, because I gave him a lot of thankless job=
s to
do in our administration where no one ever applauded."

And he did them brilliantly. And I'm delighted to see him here succeeding=
 so
well as the dean.

Provost Brown, thank you for welcoming me here.

And I told them when I came in I was sort of glad Father O'Donovan wasn't=
 here
today, because I've come so often I know that at some point, if I keep do=
ing
this, he will tell me that he's going to send a bill to the U.S. Treasury=
 for
the Georgetown endowment.

I was thinking, when we came out here and Bob talked about the beginning =
of the
school year, that it was 35 years ago when, as a sophomore, I was in char=
ge of
the freshmen orientation. So I thought I should come and help this year's
orientation of freshmen get off to a good start.

I also was thinking, I confess, after your rousing welcome, that if I wer=
e
still a candidate for public office I might get up and say hello and sit =
down
and quit while I'm ahead. For I came today to talk about a subject that i=
s not
fraught with applause lines, but one that is very, very important to your
future: the defense of our nation.

At this moment of unprecedented peace and prosperity with no immediate th=
reat
to our security or our existence, with our democratic values ascendant an=
d our
alliances strong, with the great forces of our time - globalization and t=
he
revolution in information technology - so clearly beneficial to a society=
 like
ours with our diversity and our openness and our entrepreneurial spirit; =
at a
time like this, it is tempting, but wrong, to believe there are no seriou=
s
long-term challenges to our security.

The rapid spread of technology across increasingly porous borders raises =
the
specter that more and more states, terrorists and criminal syndicates cou=
ld
gain access to chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons and to the me=
ans of
delivering them, whether in small units deployed by terrorists within our=
 midst
or ballistic missiles capable of hurling those weapons halfway around the
world.

Today, I want to discuss these threats with you, because you will live wi=
th
them a lot longer than I will. Especially, I want to talk about the balli=
stic
missile threat. It is real and growing and has given new urgency to the d=
ebate
about national missile defenses, known in the popular jargon as NMD.

When I became president, I put our effort to stop the proliferation of we=
apons
of mass destruction at the very top of our national security agenda. Sinc=
e
then, we have carried out a comprehensive strategy to reduce and secure n=
uclear
arsenals, to strengthen the international regime against biological and
chemical weapons and nuclear testing and to stop the flow of dangerous
technology to nations that might wish us harm.

At the same time, we have pursued new technologies that could strengthen =
our
defenses against a possible attack, including a terrorist attack, here at=
 home.

None of these elements of our national security strategy can be pursued i=
n
isolation. Each is important, and we have made progress in each area. For
example, Russia and the United States already have destroyed about 25,000
nuclear weapons in the last decade. And we have agreed that in the START =
III
Treaty we will go 80 percent below the levels of a decade ago.

In 1994, we persuaded Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, three of the forme=
r
Soviet Republics, to give up their nuclear weapons entirely. We have work=
ed
with Russia and its neighbors to dispose of hundreds of tons of dangerous
nuclear materials, to strengthen controls on illicit exports and to keep
weapons scientists from selling their services to the highest bidder.

We extended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty indefinitely. We were th=
e very
first nation to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, an idea first emb=
raced
by Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower. Sixty nations now have ratified the=
 test
ban treaty. I believe the United States Senate made a serious error in fa=
iling
to ratify it last year, and I hope it will do so next year.

We also negotiated and ratified the international convention to ban chemi=
cal
weapons and strengthened the convention against biological weapons. We've=
 used
our export controls to deny terrorists and potential adversaries access t=
o the
materials and equipment needed to build these kinds of weapons. We've imp=
osed
sanctions on those who contribute to foreign chemical and biological weap=
ons
programs.

We've invested new equipment - invested in new equipment and medical
countermeasures to protect people from exposure. And we're working with s=
tate
and local medical units all over our country to strengthen our preparedne=
ss in
case of a chemical or biological terrorist attack, which many people beli=
eve is
the most likely new security threat of the 21st century.

We have also acted to reduce the threat posed by states that have sought
weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles while pursuing activit=
ies
that are clearly hostile to our long-term interests.

For over a decade - for almost a decade, excuse me - we have diverted abo=
ut 90
percent of Iraq's oil revenues from the production of weapons to the purc=
hase
of food and medicine. This is an important statistic for those who believ=
e that
our sanctions are only a negative for the people, and particularly the
children, of Iraq.

In 1989, Iraq earned $15 billion from oil exports and spent $13 billion o=
f that
money on its military. This year, Iraq is projected to earn $19 billion f=
rom
its legal oil-for-food exports, but can spend none of those revenues on t=
he
military.

We worked to counter Iran's efforts to develop nuclear weapons and missil=
e
technology, convincing China to provide no new assistance to Iran's nucle=
ar
program and pressing Russia to strengthen its controls on the export of
sensitive technologies.

In 1994, six years after the United States first learned that North Korea=
 had a
nuclear weapons program, we negotiated the agreement that, verifiably, ha=
s
frozen its production of plutonium for nuclear weapons. Now, in the conte=
xt of
the United States' negotiations with the North, the diplomatic efforts by
former Defense Secretary Bill Perry and most lately the summit between th=
e
leaders between North and South Korea, North Korea has refrained from
flight-testing a new missile that could pose a threat to America.

And we should be clear: North Korea's capability remains a serious issue,=
 and
its intentions remain unclear, but its missile testing moratorium is a go=
od
development worth pursuing.

These diplomatic efforts to meet the threat of proliferation are backed b=
y the
strong and global reach of our armed forces. Today, the United States enj=
oys
overwhelming military superiority over any potential adversary. For examp=
le, in
1985, we spent about as much on defense as Russia, China and North Korea
combined. Today we spend nearly three times as much, nearly $300 billion =
a
year. And our military technology, clearly, is well ahead of the rest of =
the
world.

The principle of deterrence served us very well in the Cold War, and dete=
rrence
remains imperative. The threat of overwhelming retaliation deterred Sadda=
m
Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction during the Gulf War. Our f=
orces
in South Korea have deterred North Korean aggression for 47 years.

The question is: Can deterrence protect us against all those who might wi=
sh us
harm in the future? Can we make America even more secure? The effort to a=
nswer
these questions is the impetus behind the search for NMD.

The issue is whether we can do more not to meet today's threat, but to me=
et
tomorrow's threats to our security. For example, there is the possibility=
 that
a hostile state with nuclear weapons and long-range missiles may simply
disintegrate, with command over missiles falling into unstable hands; or =
that
in a moment of desperation, such a country might miscalculate, believing =
it
could use nuclear weapons to intimidate us from defending our vital inter=
ests
or from coming to the aid of our allies or others who were defenseless an=
d
clearly in need.

In the future, we cannot rule out that terrorist groups could gain the
capability to strike us with nuclear weapons if they seized even temporar=
y
control of the state with an existing nuclear weapons establishment.

Now no one suggests that NMD would ever substitute for diplomacy or for
deterrence, but such a system, if it worked properly, could give us an ex=
tra
dimension of insurance in a world where proliferation has complicated the=
 task
of preserving the peace. Therefore, I believe we have an obligation to
determine the feasibility, the effectiveness and the impact of a national
missile defense on the overall security of the United States.

The system now under development is designed to work as follows: In the e=
vent
of an attack, American satellites would detect the launch of missiles. Ou=
r
radar would track the enemy warheads, and highly accurate, high-speed,
ground-based interceptors would destroy them before they could reach thei=
r
targets in the United States.

We have made substantial progress on a system that would be based in Alas=
ka and
that, when operational, could protect all 50 states from the near-term mi=
ssile
threats we face, those emanating from North Korea and the Middle East. Th=
e
system could be deployed sooner than any of the proposed alternatives.

Since last fall, we've been conducting flight tests to see if this NMD sy=
stem
actually can reliably intercept a ballistic missile.

We've begun to show that the different parts of this system can work toge=
ther.
Our Defense Department has overcome daunting technical obstacles in a
remarkably short period of time, and I'm proud of the work that Secretary
Cohen, General Shelton and their teams have done. One test proved that it=
 is,
in fact, possible to hit a bullet with a bullet.

Still, though the technology for NMD is promising, the system as a whole =
is not
yet proven. After the initial tests succeeded, our two most recent tests
failed, for different reasons, to achieve an intercept. Several more test=
s are
planned. They will tell us whether NMD can work reliably under realistic
conditions.

The critical elements of the program, such as the booster rocket for the
missile interceptor, have yet to be tested. There are also questions to b=
e
resolved about the ability of the system to deal with countermeasures; in=
 other
words, measures by those firing the missiles to confuse the missile defen=
se
into thinking it is hitting a target when it is not.

There is a reasonable chance that all these challenges can be met in time=
, but
I simply cannot conclude, with the information I have today, that we have
enough confidence in the technology and the operational effectiveness of =
the
entire NMD system to move forward to deployment.

Therefore, I have decided not to authorize deployment of a national missi=
le
defense at this time.

Instead, I have asked Secretary Cohen to continue a robust program of
development and testing. That effort still is at an early stage. Only thr=
ee of
the 19 planned intercept tests have been held so far. We need more tests
against more challenging targets and more simulations before we can respo=
nsibly
commit our nation's resources to deployment. We should use this time to e=
nsure
that NMD, if deployed, would actually enhance our overall national securi=
ty.
And I want to talk about that in a few moments.

I want you to know that I have reached this decision about not deploying =
the
NMD after careful deliberation. My decision will not have a significant i=
mpact
on the date the overall system could be deployed in the next administrati=
on if
the next president decides to go forward.

The best judgment of the experts who have examined this question is that =
if we
were to commit today to construct the system it most likely would be
operational about 2006 or 2007. If the next president decides to move for=
ward
next year, the system still could be ready in the same time frame.

In the meantime, we will continue to work with our allies and with Russia=
 to
strengthen their understanding and support for our efforts to meet the em=
erging
ballistic missile threat, and to explore creative ways that we can cooper=
ate to
enhance their security against this threat as well.

An effective NMD could play an important part of our national security
strategy, but it could not be the sum total of that strategy. It can neve=
r be
the sum total of that strategy for dealing with nuclear and missile threa=
ts.

Moreover, ballistic missiles, armed with nuclear weapons, as I said earli=
er, do
not represent the sum total of the threats we face. Those include chemica=
l and
biological weapons and a range of deadly technologies for deploying them.=
 So it
would be folly to base the defense of our nation solely on a strategy of
waiting until missiles are in the air and then trying to shoot them down.

We must work with our allies and with Russia to prevent potential adversa=
ries
from ever threatening us with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of=
 mass
destruction in the first place and to make sure they know the devastating
consequences of doing so.

4) Statement by Governor George W. Bush regarding President Clinton's=20
announcement on a national missile defense system:

"As President, I intend to develop and deploy an effective missile defens=
e=20
system at the earliest possible date to protect American citizens from=20
accidental launches or blackmail by rogue nations. Today's announcement t=
hat=20
President Clinton will leave this unfinished business for the next Presid=
ent=20
underscores the fact that for seven years, the Clinton-Gore administratio=
n=20
has failed to strengthen America's defenses. President Clinton and Vice=20
President Gore first denied the need for missile defenses, then delayed.=20
Now they are leaving this important unfinished business for the next=20
President, and I welcome the opportunity to act where they have failed to=
=20
lead by developing and deploying effective missile defenses to protect al=
l=20
50 states and our friends and allies."=20

5) STATEMENT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM S. COHEN=20
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen today released the following statem=
ent:
"The President's choice to defer a deployment decision on a National Miss=
ile
Defense system to his successor involved many factors. Central for me, as=
 I
have stated publicly, is the importance of sustaining a solid national
consensus not only on the need for an NMD system but on the scope and str=
ucture
of such a system.=20

"The President's statement today underscores the importance of having the=
 next
President fully involved in decisions regarding the future of the program
before committing the U.S. to a deployment strategy. I support this appro=
ach.=20

"I have noted on many occasions that several emerging threats warrant the
deployment of an effective missile defense program as soon as technologic=
ally
feasible and I will work closely with my successor on providing all appro=
priate
information. In the meantime, we will aggressively proceed with the
developmental testing program and also continue our consultations with th=
e
Congress, our allies, and with Russia."

6) State of the World Forum next week, convened by Gorbachev
http://www.worldforum.org/forum2000/exec_summary.html

Forum 2000  =20
Shaping Globalization: Convening the Community of Stakeholders  =20
September 4 - 10, 2000, New York  =20

Executive Summary  =20
The protest by a coalition of unions and NGOs at the World Trade Organiza=
tion
conference in Seattle in December, 1999, and at the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund conferences in Washington, D.C. in April, 200=
0,
highlights both the inadequacies of the current system of global governan=
ce and
the imperative to establish a more inclusive consultative mechanism by wh=
ich
major stakeholders can come together to deliberate on global issues; disc=
ern
common objectives; and work on common problems.

It is to this challenge that the State of the World Forum has committed i=
tself
in this millennium year. Working with partners worldwide, the Forum will
convene a high-level gathering of international leaders of business and c=
ivil
society in New York September 4-10, 2000, timed to coincide with the hist=
oric
United Nations Millennium Summit. The UN Millennium Summit, scheduled for
September 6-8 at the United Nations, is expected to draw 120-150 Heads of
State, the largest gathering of government leaders in modern history.

The intent of the State of the World Forum and its partners in juxtaposin=
g
Forum 2000 with the UN Millennium Summit is to convene a "global town mee=
ting"
in which the private sector and civil society can come together for subst=
antive
dialogue with selected Heads of State concerning the great issues confron=
ting
humanity as globalization takes hold and affects us all.

The centerpiece of Forum 2000 will be a "post Seattle" dialogue on "Shapi=
ng
Globalization: Convening the Community of Stakeholders." In convening thi=
s
discussion, the State of the World Forum is working with representatives =
of
nation states, international institutions, corporations, unions, major
religions, academia, science and technology and non government organizati=
ons.

The Forum=92s convening Chairman, Mikhail Gorbachev, will open the confer=
ence
with a plenary discussion on "Globalization and the New World Order", to =
which
he is inviting a spectrum of world leaders; Sir Sridath Ramphal, Co-Chari=
man of
the Commission on Global Governance, will chair a session of world leader=
s on
"The Future of Global Governance"; McKinsey & Co. and Heidrick & Struggle=
s are
providing leadership in bringing senior business executives, economists, =
and
representatives of international financial institutions; the AFL-CIO, Uni=
ted
Steelworkers of America, Textile Workers Union and their international
counterparts are bringing the most articulate voices of the trade union
movement; the Synergos Institute, Free the Children, Ashoka Innovators fo=
r the
Public and the Earth Council, among others, are convening grass roots
activists, civil society leaders, and critics of current policies on
globalization; and the Alliance of Religion and Conservation is convening
representatives of the eleven major world religions. Negotiations have be=
en
initiated with numerous Heads of State to ensure their participation.
Discussions are in process with upwards of one hundred other institutions
worldwide.

Forum 2000 is being convened in the belief that the future of global gove=
rnance
must include governments, civil society and the private sector, each oper=
ating
in its own sphere with distinctive rights and responsibilities, and comin=
g
together in a process of mutual discernment and deliberation.

BBC World Television and Time Magazine are participating as strategic med=
ia
partners in Forum 2000 and will be covering portions of the event for the=
ir
respective audiences worldwide. A comprehensive global webcast will be
undertaken, in order that citizens worldwide can access and comment on th=
e
proceedings.

The event will begin Monday evening, September 4th, and conclude Sunday
mid-day, September 10, 2000. It will be centered at the New York Hilton a=
nd
Towers.=20

Selected List of Forum 2000 Speakers
http://www.worldforum.org/forum2000/speakers.html


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Schedule Global Peace Walk 2000 final leg
Date: 03 Sep 2000 17:12:25 -0700

--------from schedule/route link at http://www.globalpeacenow.org

Global Peace Walk 2000
San Francisco - Washington DC - New York / U.N.
1/15/2000 - 10/5/2000 - 10/24/2000

Present Tenative Schedule 8/27 - 10/25, 2000
Call 415-267-1877 for exact dates & details,
and to contact on the road.

September 2nd-4th, Sat.-Mon. - Columbus, Ohio
September 6th, Wed. - Zanesville, Ohio
September 10-11th, Sun.-Mon. - Wheeling, West Virginia
September 15th-17th, Fri.-Sun. - Pittsburgh, PA
September 19th - Tues. - Uniontown, Pennsylvania
September 22nd - Fri. - Cumberland, Maryland
September 24th - Sun. - Hancock, Maryland
September 26th - Tues. - Hagerstown, Maryland

October 5th-12th (Thurs.-Thurs.) - Washington DC - Ceremonies & Events

Global Peace Walk through Washington DC (Oct. 5)

Delivery of the Messages of Peace (Proclamations & Support Letters) to the
White House (Oct. 6), Senate & Congress (Oct. 10-11)

Nuclear Abolition and Demilitarization of Space (Oct. 7) - Washington DC

Ceremonies at Jefferson Stone (Oct. 8) & Millennial Circle of Peace at
Washington Monument (Oct. 9) - Washington DC

Indigenous People's Day (Oct. 12) - Washington DC

October 14th, Sat. - Baltimore, Maryland

October 17th, Tues. -  Swarthmore College

Ocotber 18th, Wed. - Philadelphia, PA

October 21st, Sat. - Princeton University, New Jersy

October 23-25th, Mon.-Wed. - 55th Anniversary of UN Spiritually United
Nations Day at the United Nations, New York City. Ceremonies & Spiritual
Environmental Summit.


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January 15th (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday) War Memorial Building,
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January 28th - Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
February 4th - Keene, CA (Cesar Chavez Memorial)
February 5th - LA, Hollywood, CA
February 12th-13th - Ward Valley, CA
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February 16th - Las Vegas, Nevada
February 26th - March 2nd - Navaho Nation and Hopi Land
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March 24th-29th - Phoenix, AZ (Global Peace Zone)
April 8th - Rosario Cemetary, Santa Fe, NM
April 22nd - Taos, New Mexico (Earth Day)
May 14th - Vietnam Veterans Cemetary, Angel Fire, NM
May 29th - Memorial Day @ Oklahoma City 1995 bombsite
June 25th - Kansas City, MO @ Liberty Memorial
July 1st-4th - Fast for Leonard Peltier @ Doherty Park near Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary, Kansas
July 10th - Independence, MO - Prayer @ Truman Library
July 17th - Fulton, MO - Winston Churchhill Memorial
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August 25th-26th - Indianapolis, IN - Traditional Ceremony at Native
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Special Invitation
Date: 04 Sep 2000 09:01:32 EDT

Share this with friends with interest, Jonathan


State of the World Forum





IS PLEASED TO PRESENT A SPECIAL SESSION




WITH






President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia


ON THE SUBJECT OF


Spiritual Insight and Political Responsibility





Jonathan Granoff, Moderator, CEO Global Security Institute

 Dr. Ashok K. Gangaden, Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute,
Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College

 Audrey Kitagawa, Head, Sri Ramakrishna Spiritual Family, noted attorney,
Honolulu, Hawaii

 Dr. Chung Hwan Kwak, Chairman of the Interreligous and International
Federation for World Peace

John OSullivan, Editor in Chief, United Press International







Thursday, September 7, 2000




9:15 am Check In*
9:45 Event Begins






Mercury Ballroom

New York Hilton and Towers





Please register by completing this form and emailing to
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> , or fax to
[phone].  If you do not have access to email or fax you can call (310)
428-2069 to rsvp for this special event.

 There is no charge to attend this event.  We kindly ask that you respondy by
Tuesday, September 5, 2000, no later than 6pm.  You must rsvp to be placed on
the guest list.  There will be no registration at the door.  You are not
required to register for any other event of the forum to attend this special
session.

 *DUE TO TIGHT SECURITY CONCERNS, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARRIVE BY 9:15 AM
FOR SECURITY CHECK-IN AND CLEARANCE.




Name:__________________________________________________

Title: ____________________________________________

Organization:______________________________________

Address:_________________________________________

City:_____________________________________________

State:____________________________________________

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Cost on Nuclear Missile Defense
Date: 04 Sep 2000 15:35:41 -0400

Some messages on the abolition-usa and abolition-caucus lists have
stated the
projected cost on the National Missile Defense System as $60 Billion
over the
next 5 years, if I remember correctly. Can someone please clarify,
stating where
the $60 B number came from and why it differs from the one reported by
Peace
through Reason, as stated below:

"The Clinton Administration has spent approximately $5.7 billion on NMD,
and
budgeted an additional $10.4 billion in FY 2001-2005 to support possible
deployment of the initial NMD architecture.

Our current estimate for developing, procuring and deploying our initial
system - 100 interceptors, an ABM radar, upgrades to 5 early warning
radars,
and command and control - is around $25 billion (Fiscal Years 91-09)."

Thank you,
Frank Dworak

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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Special Invitation
Date: 04 Sep 2000 18:22:28 EDT

Hi Jonathan,

You amy remember I spoke to you about coming out here to the wilds of CT to
speak to our church about Sufi Moslems.

You are welcome to address the congregation, not children, on any of the
following Sundays; November 5,12,19
December 3, 10, 17
January (2001) 7, 14 and 28.

This series on world religions will be held following regular church services
in the meeting house. That is Congregationalism for sanctuary. You* are
welcome to come Saturday and stay with us and go to church, etc., or you can
come early Sunday but I would worry that there would be traffic or train
delays.

I am hoping that you can work this into your busy schedule. It would be great
to see you.

Peace and  health,

Colby

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Cost on Nuclear Missile Defense
Date: 04 Sep 2000 20:19:09 -0400

Just so you know, Peace through Reason didn't write that quote; it was from
the White House.  See "NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE DECISION"  September 1, 2000
http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/September_1_2000.html

Ellen Thomas

At 03:35 PM 9/4/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Some messages on the abolition-usa and abolition-caucus lists have
>stated the
>projected cost on the National Missile Defense System as $60 Billion
>over the
>next 5 years, if I remember correctly. Can someone please clarify,
>stating where
>the $60 B number came from and why it differs from the one reported by
>Peace
>through Reason, as stated below:
>
>"The Clinton Administration has spent approximately $5.7 billion on NMD,
>and
>budgeted an additional $10.4 billion in FY 2001-2005 to support possible
>deployment of the initial NMD architecture.
>
>Our current estimate for developing, procuring and deploying our initial
>system - 100 interceptors, an ABM radar, upgrades to 5 early warning
>radars,
>and command and control - is around $25 billion (Fiscal Years 91-09)."
>
>Thank you,
>Frank Dworak
>
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/05 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 05 Sep 2000 08:02:39 -0400

1)  Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, September 5, 2000 [no relevant=
 events]
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200095221626.htm

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- BUSH AND CHENEY ANNOUNCE SCHEDULE FOR DEBATES=20
The schedule and locations of the debates Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney
have accepted are as follows:=20
* A presidential debate next Tuesday, Sept 12 in Washington in a special=
 time
prime edition of Meet the Press moderated by Tim Russert;
* A presidential debate on October 3 in Los Angeles in a prime time edition=
 of
Larry King Live that will be seen worldwide and on a Spanish language=
 network;=20
* A vice presidential debate on October 11 in Winston Salem, North Carolina
sponsored by the presidential debate commission;
* A vice presidential debate in a forum yet to be decided.=20
* A final presidential debate on October 17 at Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri, sponsored by the presidential debate commission.=20

- RALLY FOR DC STATEHOOD=20
Featuring Green Party Presidential Candidate RALPH NADER=20

 Saturday, September 16, 7 PM=20
 UDC Auditorium,  4200 Connecticut Ave. NW, Building 46
 VanNess/UDC Metro=20
 $5 donation, none turned away for lack of funds=20

 Also Featuring DC Statehood Green Candidates:  Arturo Griffiths, DC Council
(at-large) Martin Thomas, US Shadow Representative Thomas E. Smith, Board of
Education (Wards 1&2) Renee Bowser, DC Council (Ward 4) Gail Dixon, Board of
Education (Wards 5&6)=20

For more information call [phone] http://www.votenader.org -=20
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org


--------

3)  ANNOUNCEMENTS

-  Protests at the Commission on Presidential Debates begin Thursday,=
 September
7 to demand Third Party inclusion in the national debates
  * WHERE: In front of the office of the Commission on Presidential Debates,
1200 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
  * WHEN: Thursday, September 7, noon to 1 pm, continuing every Thursday
(September 14, 21, 28) at noon
  *  For more information...
        * On the CPD=92s policy: http://www.fair.org -
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org
        * The D.C. Statehood Green Party: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
        * The Maryland Green Party: http://www.enviroweb.org/mdgreens
        * Alliance for Democracy: http://www.afd-online.org/

----

- DC Prayer Vigil for The Earth <[e-mail]>=20
Sunrise, September 23rd, 2000
        "In this time of prophecy we are all asked to join together--black,
red,
white, yellow and brown--to pray as One People for the Earth." At sunrise on
Saturday, September 23rd, 2000, near the Washington Monument, Native=
 American
spiritual elders will hold a sacred Pipe Ceremony to begin a 33-hour Prayer
Vigil for the Earth. Participants will maintain continuous silent and open
prayer offered in various traditions throughout the vigil. A sacred fire=
 will
burn at the center of the ceremonial circle. The circle will be enclosed by=
 30
tipis and structures of other traditions, including an African Alter, a
Labrynth, a Buddhist Stupa, and a Sukkah in the Jewish tradition. Within and
around the circle various ceremonies will be held including the World Peace
Prayer Ceremony, healing music in the Sufi Tradition, walking meditations,
round dances for racial unity, drumming, chanting and Talking Circles.
        Indigenous leaders for the Vigil will include William Commanda of=
 the
Algonquin Nation from Manawaki, Quebec, Canada and Harry S. Byrd of the=
 Lakota
Nation.
        The Prayer Vigil welcomes people of all paths of spirituality. In=
 the
circle, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Bahais, Buddhists and many
others share in the program. Participants pray together for harmony among=
 all
people and for living in balance with Nature on the Earth. From many=
 traditions
there are ceremonies, songs of healing and thanksgiving, drumming, prayers=
 and
sacred dances. The deeply touching World Peace Prayer Ceremony honors people=
 of
every nation on earth in a flag presentation ceremony. Tipis and other
structures serve as a safe place for small groups of people to gather in=
 quiet
contemplation and conversations, for children's activities, and for story
telling from many traditions.
        The circle of tipis around the fire at the foot of the Washington
Monument is a beautiful and inspiring sight. The first light of the rising=
 sun
casts long shadows of the tipis and the Washington Monument, dramatically
juxtaposing symbols of Community and Nation. Smoke from the ceremonial fire
rises and mingles with the morning mist as hundreds of people from many=
 races
greet the day - and each other - as they gather in prayer and fellowship.=
 Sea
gulls, geese and other birds swoop over head, circling among the flags atop=
 the
tipis - following the winds that sweep across the Mall. The moment is
breathtaking, inspiring and memorable.
        We encourage you to create your own event wherever you are. Let us=
 know
about your plans by sending an email to [e-mail] -- please use the
subject "Joining".  [From <[e-mail]>]

---

- New NIF letter on TVC web
One of our Tri-Valley CAREs members has just posted talking points and a=
 sample
letter that you can use in creating YOUR NOTE to your Senators. The sample
letter urges your Senators to rein in spending on the National Ignition
Facility. We invite you to visit our web site at http://www.igc.org/tvc.=
 There
you will easily find the sample letter in our "NIF Boondoggle" section,=
 right
on the front page of our site. Download the sample letter, personalize it=
 with
any talking points or thoughts you may have, and send it to your Senators. =
 The
Senate is scheduled to take up the question of NIF funding when they return
from the Labor Day recess on Tuesday, September 5. Please act TODAY. If you=
 are
unsure of who your Senators are -- we have a link right on our sample letter=
 so
you can find out. Send me a copy of your letter at [e-mail] if=
 you
can. Thanks muchly. Your letter now could make a huge difference.  [Marylia
Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs=20
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), 2582 Old First Street,
Livermore, CA USA 94550, http://www.igc.org/tvc/]

---

- Shootin' for the Moon
Sept/Oct Issue, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
http://www.bullatomsci.org/
        An early plan for nuking the moon came to light a few months  ago=
 with
the publication of Keay Davidson's book, "Carl Sagan: A  Life." Davidson
revealed that early in his career Sagan worked for a secret military project
researching the idea of detonating a  nuclear device on the surface of the
moon=97mostly the military just  wanted to see what would happen.=20
        Author Jeffrey Richelson explains that setting off a  lunar=
 explosion
was just one of several plans for exploiting the moon. With   today's U.S.
Space Command revving up to achieve "full  spectrum dominance of the
[near-Earth] battlespace" by 2020, perhaps it's time to take another look at
air force and army plans of the 1950s and 1960s for putting U.S. bases on=
 the
moon (and keeping the  Soviets off).

---

- Join CNN's debate on Star Wars NMD at
(http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@@.eeb69d6).=20
Need talking points? See
http://www.peace-action.org/starwars-talkingpoints.html

and factsheet (in pdf) at http://www.peace-action.org/starwarsfs.pdf

----

-  Help Wanted: Irradiated Meat Scouts
        When you go grocery shopping next time, please take a look in the
frozen
foods section and the fresh meat section and let us know if irradiated beef
and/or chicken is actually for sale in your state. The radura (a flower in a
circle that is broken up at the top) and the words "treated by irradiation"
should appear near the nutrition label.
        Unfortunately, right now we have to rely on eye-witness reports of
these
sales. USDA is not keeping track of stores that are participating in the=
 test
marketing. They are, however, keeping track of processors who are sending=
 their
product to irradiators. I am waiting to hear back from the agency about=
 whether
or not they'll readily share this information with us. For information on=
 the
companies we know are selling irradiated beef please refer to:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/Indexwhowhatwhere.htm.
        The list is not complete and your help in making it more complete is
very much appreciated. Another good way to find out is by asking your=
 store's
manager directly.
        Lastly, in Minnesota the beef association is giving away free
samples of
irradiated beef at the state fair. If you have an opportunity to visit your
state fair, see if similar interest groups are doing the same and let us=
 know.
[Jessica Vallette Revere, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy &=
 Environment
Program]

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From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Mini-Nuke Web Page
Date: 05 Sep 2000 08:47:13 -0400

>From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
>To: "Howard W. Hallman (E-mail)" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Mini-Nuke Web Page
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:00:29 -0400
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
>
>The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) has put up a web page
>on "mini-nukes", with lots of links.  The issue is currently being debated
>in the U.S. Congress.  The material includes:
>
>* Washington Post article (June 12)
>* Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal article on mini-nukes (August 15)
>* Los Alamos National Laboratory report on "Nuclear Weapons in the 21st
>Century"
>* Other background material
>
>The address is <http://www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/minnukeindx.htm>.
>
>
>David Culp
>
>Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
>245 Second Street, N.E.
>Washington, D.C.  20002-5795
>Phone:   [phone], ext. 146
>Fax:     [phone]
>E-mail:  [e-mail]
>Website: http://www.fcnl.org
>
Howard W. Hallman, Chair
Methodists United for Peace with Justice
1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone/fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]

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Subject: (abolition-usa) CORRECTION ON PRES. WAHID PANEL
Date: 05 Sep 2000 08:57:01 EDT

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL CONCERNED.

LOGISTICS COMPEL RSVP TO PRES. WAHID PANEL BY EMAIL. FAX WILL NOT WORK. EMAIL
 SO THAT IF WE ARE OVERBOOKED WE CAN NOTIFY YOU. SUCCESS HAS ITS PLEASANT
PROBLEMS. PLEASE FORGIVE ANY INCONVENIENCE. WE ARE DOING THE BEST WE CAN.
THANK YOU.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Projected Cost of National Missile Defense
Date: 05 Sep 2000 12:35:18 -0400

Ellen Thomas has corrected me. The source of the information on the
projected $25 Billion cost of NMD, contained in a message distributed
via abolition-usa, was the U.S. government.  My apology.

I have found the source of the $60 Billion estimate at Peace Action's
website:


Star Wars (NMD) has been and will be astronomically expensive

     Since the 50s the U.S. has spent $122 billion on various missile
intercept systems. Since Reagan's introduction of Star Wars in 1983
we've spent $69 billion dollars without fielding a workable system.
     The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that, through
2015, it would cost $60 billion to build and maintain the system planned
by the Clinton Administration.
     Current NMD budget for FY 2001-2005 is $12.7 billion, but is likely
to rise sharply.
     Pentagon cost estimates for highly technical weapons systems are
almost always much lower than the actual final cost of the weapon system
(e.g. B-1 bomber, B-2 bomber, F-18, M-1A-1 tank, etc, etc, etc)

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) CUT NIF - URGENT ACTION ALERT
Date: 05 Sep 2000 22:30:45 -0700 (PDT)

So, here's the story in a nutshell, read below to find out more . . .
DEBATE ON SENATE ENERGY AND WATER APPROPRIATION BEGINS NOW
SENATOR HARKIN TO OFFER AMENDMENT TO CUT NIF CONSTRUCTION $
VOTE TO OCCUR WED/ THURS of THIS WEEK
YOUR URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED - CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW
URGE THEM TO SUPPORT SENATOR HARKIN'S  EFFORT TO CUT NIF
CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD IS [phone]
THE BASIC TALKING POINTS ON NIF (THIS SHOULD BE A FAMILIAR TUNE BY NOW)
PLUS NEW DEVELOPMENTS MAKE THE CASE EVEN STRONGER
-GAO REPORT/ LABS CALL FOR RETHINKING NIF
-CLEANUP $$ MAY BE AT GREATER RISK
THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP --
Well, it is once again very exciting here in Washington DC, Congress is
back and as you've probably been hearing on the news, they are very anxious
to get through their spending bills. Debate has begun on the Senate Energy
and Water Appropriations Bill (you'll recall the House passed their version
in the end of June.)

SENATOR HARKIN TO OFFER AMENDMENT TO CUT NIF CONSTRUCTION $
Senator Harkin plans to bring up an amendment to cut this year's NIF
construction funds of $74.1 million. Currently the effort is simply to cut
the money.
(In other words the proposed amendment will not also shift the funds to
anything else.)

VOTE TO OCCUR WED/ THURS of THIS WEEK
The Senate schedule is always difficult to predict. Harkin's Office is
guessing that the amendment will be voted on this Thursday. It is
possible, however, that the vote could occur tomorrow (Wednesday).

YOUR URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED -
CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW URGE THEM TO SUPPORT SENATOR HARKIN'S  EFFORT TO CUT NIF
CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD IS [phone]
Yes, I am once again put in the position of asking for your urgent response
on this. Senator Harkin has been weighing options, and has just decided which
kind of amendment he would offer.

THE BASIC TALKING POINTS ON NIF (THIS SHOULD BE A FAMILIAR TUNE BY NOW)

(In general, it would be good to emphasize the cost overruns and technical
problems with all Senators, and to highlight the non-proliferation
problems, NIF's weapons design mission and the related CTBT concerns with
Democratic, and pro-arms control Senators. Also make sure your Senators
know that the rising money needed for this boondoggle over the years to
come is likely to threaten cleanup funds at Livermore Lab and DOE sites
across the country.)

What is NIF? - A large 192 laser beam facility being built in Livermore,
CA. Its stated purpose is to simulate conditions in the later stages of a
nuclear weapons explosion by fusing atoms to get thermonuclear ignition.

NIF is the most expensive project in DOE's Stockpile Stewardship nuclear
weapons program, and its revealed massive cost overruns are siphoning
enormous amounts of money from other DOE programs. (When NIF was originally
envisioned in 1990 its estimated cost was $400 million.  In 1997 it was
proposed to Congress at $1.2 Billion. Now GAO estimates are $4 billion, and
independent analysts find life-cycle costs likely to be approximately $10
billion.)

NIF is experiencing ongoing technical problems that have not been resolved,
including:  problems with optics, target material, diagnostics etc. It is
not even clear whether "ignition" can be achieved at the National IGNITION
Facility.

Other Laboratories and lab scientists have questioned the value of
proceeding with the current NIF. Most significantly, Sandia Laboratory
released an official position paper calling for NIF to be scaled back in
both size and budget.

Despite NIF proponents claims that NIF is essential to maintain the safety
and reliability of the current U.S. arsenal in the absence of nuclear test
explosions, many nuclear weapons experts (including Edward Teller, father
of the Hydrogen Bomb and founder of Livermore labs) have concurred that NIF
has almost no relevance to this task.

Instead, the NIF undermines arms control and nonproliferation goals, by
enhancing the capability for design of new nuclear weapons and modification
of existing nuclear weapons.

In stark contrast to NIF advocates who state that NIF is a necessary
trade-off that supports the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, NIF's capability
to alter current codes and support new nuclear weapons design is likely to
erode confidence that the nuclear arsenal can be certified safe and
reliable without full-scale nuclear weapons test explosions.

After major management and technical problems and cost over-runs were
revealed last year, Congress (Energy and Water Appropriations  Report FY
2000)  requested that DOE provide a re-baselining for the NIF. This report
was requested by June 1, 2000. DOE was unable to comply with that deadline.
Instead they have asked for an extension to Mid-September -AFTER the money
will already be appropriated for FY2001.

NOW is the time to hit the pause button and cut construction funds for NIF
this year. Congress should demand that DOE carefully answer basic questions
about NIFs purpose, its chances of fulfilling its described mission, and
the unresolved technical problems that continue to plague NIF. An honest
debate about the NIF is long overdue.

PLUS NEW DEVELOPMENTS MAKE THE CASE EVEN STRONGER
There has been a great deal of news to undermine NIF in the last couple of
months. The problems is that Congress has been out on vacation, and so most
Senators won't know this stuff . . .You need to tell them...

-GAO REPORT/ LABS CALL FOR RETHINKING NIF

The long-awaited GAO Report was released in August -and I know you've seen
many of the press reports. The GAO is quite scathing in its critique of NIF
and has also surfaced opposition from scientists at the other labs, who are
calling for a scaled-back NIF.

One quote from GAO Report that makes it clear:
"DOE and Lawrence Livermore now estimate that NIF will eventually cost
about $3.3 billion and will be completed by 2008 . . .  However, based on
our analysis of figures from DOE and Lawrence Livermore, we estimate that
NIF's cost is closer to $4 billion because DOE's estimate does not include
all research and development costs from other program areas that are needed
to support NIF. Furthermore,since significant research and development
activities to support NIF remain to be completed and technical
uncertainties persist the cost of NIF could grow even higher and the
completion could take even longer." (page 4)

-CLEANUP $$ MAY BE AT GREATER RISK

As the "costs grow even higher" where do we think the money will come
from?? Currently DOE has a late "reprogramming request" that would take $95
million from other Stockpile Stewardship Programs - but of course many in
Congress don't want money taken from other weapons programs.
In fact Senator Kyl (R-AZ) has offered another plan - in his amendment to
the Defense Authorization Bill contains a provision that would take $75
million from the Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Budget -
cleanup money.

 (This provision was adopted to the Senate version of the Defense
Authorization Bill - as a non-controversial amendment with no debate or
opposition. There is still a chance to have the provision taken out in the
Defense Authorization Conference happening right now - stay tuned for more
on this, but focus now on the Appropriations effort.)

You can bet that in years to come the ever expanding NIF bloat will
threaten cleanup funds more than weapons research or production funding.
Make sure that Senators from your states know that they need to act now to
protect money for their sites.

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP --
Thanks to your help over the past years, along with NIF's failures, we now
have an opportunity to really make a difference on this. Please call me
with questions, for assistance, and ESPECIALLY to let me know what you're
hearing from your Senators.


for more information call:
Kathy Crandall
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
1801 18th Street NW , 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: [phone]
Fax:      [phone]
Web:    www.ananuclear.org

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - 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.



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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/06 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 06 Sep 2000 08:35:29 -0400

1)  Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, September 6, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20009621226.htm

    Energy Department meeting =97 2 p.m. =97 The Energy Department holds a=
 public
meeting on civilian nuclear-energy research and development, development of
isotope missions and the Energy Department's draft programmatic=
 environmental
impact statement. Location: Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis
Highway, Arlington. Contact: 202/685-5806.

    U.N. forum =97 noon =97 The Cato Institute hosts a policy forum, "A=
 Robust
United Nations in the 21st Century: Benefit, Danger or Fantasy?" Location:=
 F.A.
Hayek Auditorium, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/789-5229.

 SENATE COMMITTEES=20

  9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on pending
nominations. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/224-3871.

    10 a.m. =97 Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing to examine=
 electronic
surveillance and privacy in the digital age. Location: 226 Dirksen Senate
Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225.

  10:30 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on=
 Taiwan's
accession to the WTO. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/224-4651.

    Tribal strategies summit =97 9 a.m. =97 The Justice Department and the=
 Office
of National Drug Control Policy host an Indian summit on tribal strategies=
 to
reduce alcohol and substance abuse and violence. Attorney General Janet Reno
speaks at 9 a.m. and retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, speaks at 12:15 p.m. Location: Washington=
 Monarch
Hotel, 2401 M St. NW. Contact: 202/616-2777 or 202/395-6618.

2) Presidential Candidates

---

- Al Gore - today
September 6 - 9:30 AM EDT - Live Webcast - Cleveland, OH -  at
http://algore.com

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- George W. Bush=20

September 6 (today) - Milwaukee, WI
        10:00 a.m. - Remarks at American Legion National Convention,=
 Location:
Midwest Express Center, 400 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin=
 53203,
[phone]=20

September 7 - Westland, MI, Dayton, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA
        8:15 a.m. - Remarks to Veterans, Harris Kehrer VFW Post #3323, 1055
South Wayne Road, Westland, Michigan 48186=20
        11:50 a.m. - Remarks to Veterans, Wright State University (MSG),
Student
Union Center - Multi-purpose Room, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio
45434, [phone]=20
        6:00 p.m. -  Rally in Pittsburgh at Mellon Square Park, corner of
William Penn and 6th Avenue.

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- Ralph Nader this week - New Mexico

Thursday, September 7- Albuquerque, NM=20
        3:45 - 4:30 PM - Press Conference, Hyatt Regency, 330 Tijeras, NW
        6:30 - 7:30 PM - Fundraising Reception, Fiesta Ballroom, Hyatt
Regency,=20
330 Tijeras, NW
        8:30 - 9:30 PM - Speech,  Kiva Auditorium,  401 Second St., NW

Friday, September 8 - Santa Fe and Farmington, New Mexico
        9:45 - 10:30 AM - Press Conference,  Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo De
Palarta, Santa Fe, NM=20
        4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Speech/Rally, Henderson Fine Arts Center, San Juan
College,  4601 College Blvd, Farmington, NM=20

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3)  Announcements

- A Force More Powerful TV Series
Upcoming PBS series on nonviolent movements, "A Force More Powerful," to be
aired Sept 18 and 25 in the US - two 90-minute programs showing how, during=
 a
century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle the forces of=
 brutality
and oppression with nonviolent weapons and won. The series, made by=
 filmmaker
Steve York, tells six stories: the student sit-in movement and boycott that
broke the system of segregation in Nashville, Tennessee; Gandhis campaign
against British rule in India; the consumer boycott campaigns against=
 apartheid
in South Africa; the valiant resistance of Danish citizens to Nazi invaders;
Solidarity's factory occupations and strikes that won the right to free=
 trade
unions in Poland; and the peoples movement that challenged and eventually
defeated the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Episode One=
 will
air nationally on PBS at 9:00 pm on Monday, September 18, 2000; Episode Two=
 at
9:00 pm the following Monday, September 25. (Check your local listings.)
Available on videocassette from Films for the Humanities and Sciences,
[phone], or www.films.com.




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From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. Government Failed to Protect Early Nuclear Weapons
Date: 06 Sep 2000 14:24:07 -0400

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Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE=20
Contact: Arjun Makhijani: 301-270-5500

U.S. Government Failed to Protect Early Nuclear Weapons Workers From Radi=
ation
Risks
Some Forgotten Workers in 1940s and 1950s Suffered Huge Doses of Radiatio=
n,
Study Finds
Study Raises Question of Whether Early U.S. Working Conditions Were as Ba=
d as
Those in the Soviet Union

Takoma Park, Maryland, 6 September 2000: Many workers at privately-owned
plants
that the U.S. government used in the 1940s and 1950s for processing
radioactive
and hazardous materials for its nuclear weapons programs suffered large
radiation doses, far in excess of then prevailing standards.  The US
government
and its contractors were well aware of the dangers and deliberately misle=
d the
workers by providing false reassurances of safety, according to a study b=
y the
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) based on official
documents of the time.  The study, which assessed radiation doses to
workers at
three of the dozens of factories that processed nuclear materials, was
commissioned by the newspaper, USA TODAY, which is publishing a series of
articles based on an extensive investigation.

=93Until we performed these calculations, research indicated that working
conditions in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s were far worse than=
 in
the United States,=94 said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of IEER and pri=
ncipal
author of the report.   =93But the highest doses we found were so huge th=
at this
assumption needs to be questioned.  While we do not have data from compar=
able
Soviet plants of the time, the data that we do have indicate that we shou=
ld no
longer assume that the worst exposed US workers during that period had gr=
eatly
lower radiation doses and risks than their Soviet counterparts.=94

The study examined documents and radiation dose data from:

=B7     The Simonds Saw and Steel Co., a steel rolling mill in Lockport, =
New
York,
near Buffalo, where uranium and thorium metal was rolled into rods on a
part-time basis.
=B7       The Harshaw Chemical Co. in Cleveland, where operations to make
uranium
hexafluoride began during the Manhattan Project.  They continued at a gre=
at
pace after World War II.
=B7       The Electro-Metallurgical plant in Niagara Falls, NY, where ura=
nium
metal that would eventually be used in plutonium production reactors was =
made.

Workers at the private sites were exposed to a variety of risks, includin=
g
toxic materials like beryllium, chemicals like fluorine, and radioactive
materials, notably uranium, but also thorium.

=93The most severely exposed workers had a greatly increased risk of dyin=
g from
cancer,=94 said Bernd Franke, a co-author of the report and a senior cons=
ulting
scientist to IEER.  =93The risk of respiratory and kidney diseases would =
also be
elevated.=94

The highest cumulative radiation dose calculated by IEER corresponds to a=
 40
percent chance of dying from cancer due to the exposure  a 200 percent
increase
in the risk of fatal cancer compared to unexposed people, according to th=
e
report.=20

=93Working conditions were appalling,=94 said Dr. Makhijani.  =93Data fro=
m all three
factories that we studied show that the radiation protection standards of=
 the
time were routinely violated.  And there is incontrovertible evidence tha=
t the
government, putting production first, failed to adequately protect the wo=
rkers
or properly inform them of the severe hazards that many of them faced.=94

Before the government built and opened its own large-scale plants for
processing bomb materials, scores of private plants across the United Sta=
tes
were used in the 1940s and 1950s to provide materials for the furious pac=
e of
nuclear-bomb building after World War II.  Plant and government data clea=
rly
document that the air that workers breathed was contaminated well above
allowable limits, at times dozens or even hundreds of times above those
limits,
for long periods of time.  There is even documentation that the governmen=
t
simply did not want the workers to know the risks that they faced. =20
For instance, W. E. Kelley, Manager of the New York Operations Office of =
the
AEC, wrote, that =93if popular opinion has any basis at all, a distinct h=
azard
does exist=94 in a highly polluted part of one of the plants.  But he als=
o
stated
that =93how serious a hazard exists is a matter of individual opinion.=94=
  His
letter documented that plant air sometimes exceeded what were then consid=
ered
tolerable levels by hundreds of times, and that medical evaluations of
radiation dangers were =93becoming more conservative, and in some respect=
s, more
pessimistic about the eventual mass [?] outcome.=94  Yet, in the same let=
ter, he
reported that a staff member of the AEC had told workers at the same plan=
t
that
=93all of our [AEC] records indicated that no unusual hazard existed.=94

=93A full accounting of the failure to warn or properly protect nuclear w=
eapons
workers by the government is surely due to the people of the United State=
s,=94
said Dr. Arjun Makhijani.  =93And the first and most urgent step is to pr=
ovide
treatment to those who are sick and compensation to those who were harmed=
.=94

On September 7, 2000:

=B7       IEER=92s full report to USA TODAY will be posted on the USA TOD=
AY web
site
(www.usatoday.com).
=B7       At 10 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, Dr. Makhijani will hold a pr=
ess
conference at the National Press Club, First Amendment Room, 529 14th Str=
eet,
NW, Washington, DC, where he will release the full IEER report and the
associated documents.
=B7       At noon, Eastern Daylight Time, Dr. Makhijani will participate =
in an
on-line chat hosted by USA TODAY web site.

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Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204=20
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA
[phone]   fax: [phone]
http://www.ieer.org
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Institute for Energy and Environmental Research<br>
Press Release<br>
<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br>
Contact: Arjun Makhijani: 301-270-5500<br>
<br>
<b><div align=3D"center">
U.S. Government Failed to Protect Early Nuclear Weapons Workers From
Radiation Risks<br>
Some Forgotten Workers in 1940s and 1950s Suffered Huge Doses of
Radiation, Study Finds<br>
Study Raises Question of Whether Early U.S. Working Conditions Were as
Bad as Those in the Soviet Union<br>
<br>
</b></div>
Takoma Park, Maryland, 6 September 2000: Many workers at privately-owned
plants that the U.S. government used in the 1940s and 1950s for
processing radioactive and hazardous materials for its nuclear weapons
programs suffered large radiation doses, far in excess of then prevailing
standards.  The US government and its contractors were well aware of
the dangers and deliberately misled the workers by providing false
reassurances of safety, according to a study by the Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research (IEER) based on official documents of the
time.  The study, which assessed radiation doses to workers at three
of the dozens of factories that processed nuclear materials, was
commissioned by the newspaper, USA TODAY, which is publishing a series of
articles based on an extensive investigation.<br>
<br>
=93Until we performed these calculations, research indicated that working
conditions in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s were far worse than
in the United States,=94 said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of IEER and
principal author of the report.   =93But the highest doses we
found were so huge that this assumption needs to be questioned.
While we do not have data from comparable Soviet plants of the time, the
data that we do have indicate that we should no longer assume that the
worst exposed US workers during that period had greatly lower radiation
doses and risks than their Soviet counterparts.=94<br>
<br>
The study examined documents and radiation dose data from:<br>
<br>
<font face=3D"Symbol">=B7<x-tab>     </x-tab></f=
ont>The
Simonds Saw and Steel Co., a steel rolling mill in Lockport, New York,
near Buffalo, where uranium and thorium metal was rolled into rods on a
part-time basis.<br>
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;</x-tab></font>The
Harshaw Chemical Co. in Cleveland, where operations to make uranium
hexafluoride began during the Manhattan Project.  They continued at
a great pace after World War II.<br>
<font face=3D"Symbol">=B7<x-tab>       =
;</x-tab></font>The
Electro-Metallurgical plant in Niagara Falls, NY, where uranium metal
that would eventually be used in plutonium production reactors was
made.<br>
<br>
Workers at the private sites were exposed to a variety of risks,
including toxic materials like beryllium, chemicals like fluorine, and
radioactive materials, notably uranium, but also thorium.<br>
<br>
=93The most severely exposed workers had a greatly increased risk of dyin=
g
from cancer,=94 said Bernd Franke, a co-author of the report and a senior
consulting scientist to IEER.  =93The risk of respiratory and kidney
diseases would also be elevated.=94<br>
<br>
The highest cumulative radiation dose calculated by IEER corresponds to a
40 percent chance of dying from cancer due to the exposure  a 200
percent increase in the risk of fatal cancer compared to unexposed
people, according to the report. <br>
<br>
=93Working conditions were appalling,=94 said Dr. Makhijani.  =93Dat=
a from
all three factories that we studied show that the radiation protection
standards of the time were routinely violated.  And there is
incontrovertible evidence that the government, putting production first,
failed to adequately protect the workers or properly inform them of the
severe hazards that many of them faced.=94<br>
<br>
Before the government built and opened its own large-scale plants for
processing bomb materials, scores of private plants across the United
States were used in the 1940s and 1950s to provide materials for the
furious pace of nuclear-bomb building after World War II.  Plant and
government data clearly document that the air that workers breathed was
contaminated well above allowable limits, at times dozens or even
hundreds of times above those limits, for long periods of time.
There is even documentation that the government simply did not want the
workers to know the risks that they faced.  <br>
For instance, W. E. Kelley, Manager of the New York Operations Office of
the AEC, wrote, that =93if popular opinion has any basis at all, a distin=
ct
hazard does exist=94 in a highly polluted part of one of the plants. =
;
But he also stated that =93how serious a hazard exists is a matter of
individual opinion.=94  His letter documented that plant air sometim=
es
exceeded what were then considered tolerable levels by hundreds of times,
and that medical evaluations of radiation dangers were =93becoming more
conservative, and in some respects, more pessimistic about the eventual
mass [?] outcome.=94  Yet, in the same letter, he reported that a
staff member of the AEC had told workers at the same plant that =93all of
our [AEC] records indicated that no unusual hazard existed.=94<br>
<br>
=93A full accounting of the failure to warn or properly protect nuclear
weapons workers by the government is surely due to the people of the
United States,=94 said Dr. Arjun Makhijani.  =93And the first and mo=
st
urgent step is to provide treatment to those who are sick and
compensation to those who were harmed.=94<br>
<br>
On September 7, 2000:<br>
<br>
<font face=3D"Symbol">=B7<x-tab>       =
;</x-tab></font>IEER=92s
full report to USA TODAY will be posted on the USA TODAY web site
(<a href=3D"http://www.usatoday.com/" eudora=3D"autourl"><font color=3D"#=
0000FF"><u>www.usatoday.com</a></font></u><font color=3D"#000000">).<br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol">=B7<x-tab>     &nbs=
p; </x-tab></font>At
10 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, Dr. Makhijani will hold a press
conference at the National Press Club, First Amendment Room, 529
14<font size=3D1><sup>th</font></sup><font size=3D3> Street, NW, Washingt=
on,
DC, where he will release the full IEER report and the associated
documents.<br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol">=B7<x-tab>     &nbs=
p; </x-tab></font>At
noon, Eastern Daylight Time, Dr. Makhijani will participate in an on-line
chat hosted by USA TODAY web site.<br>
<br>
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Lisa Ledwidge<br>
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, <i>Science for Democratic Action<br>
</i>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)<br>
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204 <br>
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA<br>
[phone]   fax: [phone]<br>
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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Secret project carried hidden dangers
Date: 06 Sep 2000 13:29:26 -0800

Secret project carried hidden dangers

In the 1940s and '50s, the U.S. government secretly hired scores of
private companies to process huge volumes of nuclear weapons
material. But the companies were not prepared for the hazards of
handling nuclear material. Workers were not informed of the risks.
Thousands were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Government
reports were classified and buried. The result is a legacy of
poisoned workers and communities that lingers to this day. The full
story of the secret nuclear contracting has never been told, until
now.
Today    Thursday    Friday
Toxic legacy
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government secretly hired
hundreds of private companies to work on America's nuclear weapons
program - and never told the workers or communities of the dangers
they might face from radiation and other hazards.
    The workers
Many of the surviving workers now have higher risks for cancer and
other ailments, but there has been almost no effort to learn whether
such problems have occurred. That oversight might cost those who have
gotten sick a chance for compensation.
    The environment
Radioactive and toxic contamination at many of the contracting sites
lingered for years, sometimes with serious health risks. Some still
are not cleaned up, ignored by federal programs meant to address
pollution from nuclear weapons production.


=46or full story, please visit:  http://www.usatoday.com/news/poison/cover.h=
tm


=46ront page, News, Sports, Money, Life, Weather, Marketplace
=A9 Copyright 2000 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.


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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ACC Conference Call Minutes 23 August 2000
Date: 06 Sep 2000 15:16:32 -0800

ACC Conference Call
23 August 2000

Present:  Jackie Cabasso, John Burroughs, Alyn Ware, Alice Slater,
Akira Kawasaki (for Hiro), Ross Wilcock, David Krieger, Carah Ong

Apologies:  Lars Pohlmeier, Janet Bloomfield

Facilitator:  Jackie
Notetaker:  Carah

I.  Review Agenda

III.  Carah sent a financial report to the ACC on 23 August.  ACC needs to
discuss fundraising.  Rachel and Ben Vaughn Foundation is the only
outstanding Grant.

David posted an email to ACC on NAPF charges to host Abolition 2000
Coordinator to the ACC.  Currently, overhead is based on a percentage
of Carah's salary in relation to other projects hosted at NAPF.
*Should Abolition 2000 not receive funding, NAPF will reduce or
eliminate charges

Fundraising-Carah has taken the [grant] proposal initially drafted by NAPF
and refined it.  *Members of the ACC will email Carah with information
about other prospective funders.  *Carah will email list of large
contributors to ACC.
*Jackie will compose a fundraising appeal, to be posted on the list-serve
on behalf of the ACC to follow up on NPT mailing.

IV.  Global Council

Carah posted a report to the ACC on the Global Council listing
those who will be joining and continuing to serve.

Merav suggested several Israeli contacts and  John Hallam
suggested several South Asian contacts.  Akira
has suggested additional GC members from Japan.  The ACC agreed to invite
all of these nominees to join the GC.*Carah will contact [them] and
invite them to join the GC.

*Ross will contact Bill Robinson to update the GC listserv with new
addresses. * It was agreed that Bill Robinson would be invited to join the GC.

The ACC discussed various ideas about how to activate and engage the GC.
One idea is that the GC could be approached about amending the A2000 Statement.
However, concern was expressed that how to best frame this question
needs to be more
fully worked out.  It was agreed  to revisit the GC questions at the end of
the agenda.

*Akira will try to suggest possible facilitators for the GC and draft a
description for the facilitators.

V.  Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly

Akira sent an update on the Nagasaki Conference to the ACC.  The ACC
needs to focus on name and nature of A2000 meeting in Nagasaki.  Akira
proposed "Abolition 2000 Review and Strategy Meeting, Nagasaki:  How
to Strengthen the Grassroots Voice."   The ACC adopted the title
suggested by Akira.  *Akira will draft a program which the ACC
will discuss on the next call.  A2000 has 3 days during the
conference to schedule events.   *Akira will post an announcement and
invitation to the ACC, which will subsequently be posted to the
abolition-caucus.

Funding-  Akira noted that Abolition 2000 will not need to request
funding for conference outside of any expenses the Network would
incur.

VI.  Day to Ban Weaponization and Nuclearization of Outer Space

Alice suggested alerting the GC about the October 7 and ask what they
are doing in their country around the International Day.

Jackie suggested engaging the GC in a discussion on Space issues and
also bring up the October 7 event.

VII.  Millennium Summit

The Millienium Summit is coming up at the beginning of September.  Kofi
Annan has made a proposal for a major international
nuclear disarmament conference, which is being shot down by the NWS.
LCNP wrote a letter of support to all the UN missions, which was
posted to the abolition-caucus by John.  John noted that the nuclear
disarmament conference can still be pursued in the General Assembly after
the Millenium Summit. Jackie suggested initiating a mini-campaign to
encourage Network members to contact their governments and missions
in their own countries to support such
a conference and follow-up on the letter composed and sent by LCNP.
Alyn also suggested pushing for the option of a nuclear disarmament
conference being included in the final document.

David suggested that the ACC write a letter to Kofi Annan to give
support of Network to the idea of the conference.  *Carah and David
will draft a letter offering support for Annan's proposal (Millennium
Summit Opening is deadline for this process)

VIII.  Next Steps

* Alyn will draft an introductory message to the GC
soliciting input on and support for the letter to Kofi Anan and various
other proposals from the ACC


X.  Next Call

18/19 September 2000

Time of call:
Aotearoa:  9 am on 19 September
Canada:  5pm EDT, 2 pm PDT on 18 September
Germany:  11 pm on 18 September
Japan:  6am on 19 September
United Kingdom:  10 pm on 18 September
United States:  5pm EDT, 2 pm PDT on 18 September

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/07 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 07 Sep 2000 07:48:56 -0400

1)  Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, September 7, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200097212257.htm

    Report release =97 11 a.m. =97The Institute of Medicine holds a news=
 briefing
to release a report, "The Gulf War and Health," assessing the scientific
evidence on the potential health effects of depleted uranium, sarin,
pyridostigmine bromide and vaccines to protect against anthrax and botulism.
Location: National Academies, 2100 C St. NW. Contact: 202/334-2138.
        Additional information from DU-List:  The Institute of Medicine will
release the report, Gulf War and Health. Volume 1. Depleted Uranium, Sarin,
Pyridostigmine Bromide, and Vaccines, on Thursday, September 7th at 11 a.m.
(EST) at a briefing for the public and press. The briefing will be held in=
 the
Lecture Room of the National Academy of Sciences Building, 2101 Constitution
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
        A live audio Webcast of the briefing will be available on the=
 Internet
at http://national-academies.org> and you will be able to ask questions of=
 the
panelists during the briefing via email. The Webcast requires free=
 RealPlayer
software, available at <http://www.real.com/player>. Additionally, the
executive
summary of the report will be available on the Internet through the National
Academy Press website <http://www.nap.edu>

    Iraq briefing =97 5:30 p.m. =97 The New Atlantic Initiative and the=
 Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs host a news briefing, "Saddam's Iraq and the Next
Administration." The speaker is Richard Butler, former executive chairman of
UNSCOM, the U.N. special commission on disarmament. Location: Wohlstetter
Conference Center, American Enterprise Institution, 1150 17th St. NW.=
 Contact:
202/862-4878.

     Chemical emissions news conference =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The National
Environmental Trust, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Learning
Disabilities Association hold a news conference to release a report on
"Polluting Our Future: Chemical Emissions in the U.S. that Affect Child
Development and Learning." Location: Nest, Willard Intercontinental Hotel,=
 1401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/822-5200, Ext. 212.

2) Presidential Candidates

- Al Gore - Carbondale, Pa.
      1 p.m. =97 Addresses employees of Gentex and discusses his specific=
 budget
goals for the future and details budget plans, Gentex Corp.,=20

- George W. Bush - Westland, MI, Dayton, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA
        8:15 a.m. - Remarks to Veterans, Harris Kehrer VFW Post #3323, 1055
South Wayne Road, Westland, Michigan 48186=20
        11:50 a.m. - Remarks to Veterans, Wright State University (MSG),
Student
Union Center - Multi-purpose Room, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio
45434, [phone]=20
        6:00 p.m. -  Rally in Pittsburgh at Mellon Square Park, corner of
William Penn and 6th Avenue.

---

- Ralph Nader this week - New Mexico

Thursday, September 7- Albuquerque, NM=20
        3:45 - 4:30 PM - Press Conference, Hyatt Regency, 330 Tijeras, NW
        6:30 - 7:30 PM - Fundraising Reception, Fiesta Ballroom, Hyatt
Regency,=20
330 Tijeras, NW
        8:30 - 9:30 PM - Speech,  Kiva Auditorium,  401 Second St., NW

Friday, September 8 - Santa Fe and Farmington, New Mexico
        9:45 - 10:30 AM - Press Conference,  Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo De
Palarta, Santa Fe, NM=20
        4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Speech/Rally, Henderson Fine Arts Center, San Juan
College,  4601 College Blvd, Farmington, NM=20

----

3)  Announcements

- D.C. Statehood Green Party monthly meeting
Thursday 7 September, 7 p.m, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th Street NW, room=
 700.
For more information, call Jenefer 546-0940. [Note: The D.C. Green Party=
 office
was burglarized last weekend, for the second time.]

- Stop the Mobile Chernobyl! No Nuke Dumps on Native American Lands!
Nuclear Utilities Would Transport 40,000 Tons of High-Level Nuclear Waste
through Dozens of States to Dump on the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians
Reservation in Utah.  Make Your Opposition Known to the U.S. Nuclear=
 Regulatory
Commission Before the Public Comment Period Ends September 21, 2000:=20
1. Submit Comments on the NRCs Draft Environmental Impact Statement=20
2. Sign NIRS petition opposing the Private Fuel Storage plan (go to NIRS web
site http://www.nirs.org/roadsrails/skullvalleypetition.htm)=20
3. Print NIRS petition, get it filled out, and send it to us ASAP.=20
You can also submit comments on-line at=20
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1714/index.html=20
The DEIS itself is also available at this web site.

- Star Wars (NMD) has been and will be astronomically expensive
Since the 50s the U.S. has spent $122 billion on various missile intercept
systems. Since Reagan's introduction of Star Wars in 1983 we've spent $69
billion dollars without fielding a workable system. The Congressional Budget
Office recently estimated that, through 2015, it would cost $60 billion to
build and maintain the system planned by the Clinton Administration. Current
NMD budget for FY 2001-2005 is $12.7 billion, but is likely to rise sharply.
Pentagon cost estimates for highly technical weapons systems are almost=
 always
much lower than the actual final cost of the weapon system (e.g. B-1 bomber,
B-2 bomber, F-18, M-1A-1 tank, etc, etc, etc)  <[e-mail]>


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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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From: [e-mail] (Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Washington Gathering to Free Vanunu
Date: 07 Sep 2000 09:40:48 -0700

WASHINGTON GATHERING TO FREE VANUNU
Three Days of Solidarity and Support for Israel's Nuclear Whistleblower and
for a Nuclear-Free World
September 26-28

**Tuesday, September 26 - THE CONFERENCE
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Aloysius Church, 900 N. Capitol St. NW (at K St.),
four blocks northwest of Union Station red line Metro stop.  Speakers
include BISHOP THOMAS GUMBLETON, ELIZABETH MCALISTER, RABBI PHILLIP BENTLEY
AND NICK & MARY EOLOFF, Mordechai's adoptive parents.  Light lunch and
refreshments will be available for a small fee.

EVENING PROGRAM - Tuesday, September 26
Music by Ken Giles, award ceremony and talk by
        DANIEL ELLSBERG
          "Mordechai is My Brother"
Vegetarian dinner at 6:30, available for $5.  Evening program and dinner at
St. Aloysius Church.
Childcare available for the conference and evening program, but reserving a
space is necessary (phone # below).

**Wednesday, September 27 - THE VIGIL
Dawn to dusk vigil for Vanunu's freedom and for a nuclear-free Middle East
and world at the Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive, NW.  Come for
all or part.  While not at the vigil, activists can call on their Senators
and Congressional Representatives on Capitol Hill.

**Thursday, September 28 - THE ACTION
Noon-hour mass rally in front of the Israeli Embassy to mark the 14th
anniversary of Vanunu's kidnapping by Israeli agents in Rome after telling
his story to a British newspaper.  Speeches, songs, prayers and action
demanding the prisoner's immediate and unconditional release and the
abolition of nuclear weapons.  Meet at 11:45 a.m. at Connecticut Ave. and
Van Ness St. at Van Ness/University of the District of Columbia stop on the
Metro red line to assemble for the three block walk to the Israeli embassy.

For more information and childcare reservations, contact Kathy at Dorothy
Day House, [phone], or the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu,
[phone], email <[e-mail]>.



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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Invitation to NMD Seminar
Date: 07 Sep 2000 09:40:15 -0800

>Delivered-To: [e-mail]
>X-Sender: [e-mail]
>Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:13:51 -0400
>To: [e-mail]
>From: sfraser <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Invitation to NMD Seminar
>
>Hi Friends and Colleagues:
>
>WILPF NY Metro is organizing a seminar on National Missile Defense!
>Please come if you can!
>
>National Missile Defense: From the Local to the Global
>
>WHEN:    September 16, 2000; 11:00am - 4:00pm
>WHERE:    New School Graduate Faculty Building, Swayduck Auditorium, 65
>5th Avenue, New York City
>
>SPEAKERS:
>
>Aaron Bouska, Peace Action NY State
>
>Lucy Webster, ECAAR
>
>Michelle Ciarrocca, World Policy Institute
>
>Stephen Young, Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
>
>John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
>
>Bill Hartung, World Policy Institute
>
>Karl Grossman, SUNY Professor of Journalism
>
>
>
>We will be videotaping the event, from which a NMD video will be
>produced and distributed to Congress!
>
>
>No RSVP is necessary and the EVENT IS FREE!!!!!!!
>
>See you there,
>
>Stephanie Fraser
>
>PS:  FYI, for all my friends and family on this list: my baby has
>not arrived yet, and is due on the 21st.  Everything has gone
>beautifully so far! Love to all of you who have sent good wishes!


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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Get Active No Nukes for Global Warming
Date: 07 Sep 2000 09:57:59 -0800

>- - - original CMEP message follows - - -
>
>No Nuclear Reactors For Global Climate Change; Nuclear Energy Should Not
>Receive Renewable Energy Credits
>
>The nuclear power industry is trying to gain access to yet another subsidy
>and the U.S. is posed to support them in upcoming international
>negotiations. By falsely claiming that nuclear power is needed to address
>global climate change, the industry hopes to construct and operate new
>reactors all over the world. The industry wants to use a pollution trading
>credit scheme in the current Kyoto climate change agreement to offset
>nuclear energy's oppressive construction costs. The Clinton/Gore
>administration is planning to support use of  pollution credits to nuclear
>energy based on the same formula used to give renewable energy credits.
>This policy would give nuclear energy status equal to sustainable energy
>under the energy credit  plan in the Kyoto agreement.
>
>CALL OR EMAIL officials below. Demand the Clinton/Gore administration adopt
>the following positions:
>
>*  Nuclear power is not sustainable and is not the solution to global
>climate change; energy efficiency and sustainable energy are.
>
>*  Any further subsidy to the nuclear industry will thwart sustainable
>technologies and ultimately hurt our efforts to address global climate change.
>
>*  Nuclear power must be specifically excluded from the CDM (clean
>development mechanism) of the Kyoto agreement and given no credits.
>
>Also, tell the Clinton/Gore administration many "developing" nations don't
>want nuclear power and their citizens do want a voice
>
>We must not spread nuclear terror by allowing financially and/or
>politically fragile nations to be burdened with nuclear waste, pollution
>and weapons proliferation risk as many countries (including the US)
>currently are. All nations deserve better. We MUST reduce greenhouse gases
>domestically, not get false "credit" for reductions by selling any nation
>dirty nuclear reactors. The U.S. should learn from our own horrible
>mistakes with nuclear energy and not allow the nuclear industry to abuse
>other nations with their failed technology-no nuclear power reactor order
>has been placed in the U.S. since 1973. We have yet to find a way to safely
>store the first cupful of radioactive waste produced in the U.S. on April
>24, 1942.
>
>We must tell the Clinton/Gore administration that it is unacceptable to
>support the nuclear industry in trying to get more undeserved investment
>and legitimacy, even while ratepayers in the United States are bailing out
>nuclear reactors to the tune of $500 billion dollars. A boost to the
>nuclear industry could also mean more nuclear reactors will be built in the
>US, after many years of stagnation and rate-payer robbery.
>
>Contact the following U.S. officials before and during climate change
>meeting in Lyon which commenced on September 4. Further alerts and updates
>will be coming.
>
>Mr. David Gardiner, Executive Director,
>White House Climate Change Task Force,
>Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone];
>email: [e-mail]
>
>Mr. Frank Loy; Under Secretary for Global Affairs;
>Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
>email: [e-mail]
>
>Mr. Roger Ballentine; Deputy Assistant to the President on Environmental
>Issues;
>Phone: [phone]; Fax [phone];
>email: rballe [e-mail]
>
>BACKGROUND
>
>Through the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement created to address
>climate change, the nuclear industry hopes to get credit (to offset
>construction costs) for something it cannot deliver: clean, environmentally
>friendly, non-polluting, energy production.
>
>Language in the Kyoto Protocol will allow developed nations to build power
>plants in other countries and get a pollution credit if the new plant leads
>to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, the country receiving the
>credit does not have to reduce their own greenhouse gas production. This
>concept is called the Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM. In essence, it
>is a worldwide pollution trading credits scheme. The United States (Three
>Mile Island), Russia (Chernobyl), and Japan (Tokaimura) are among the
>nations eligible for CDM credits. Each of these countries has a poor
>nuclear technology record and a history of sacrificing democratic
>principles, such as public participation, for nuclear industry profit.
>
>Decisions on policies and enforcement for the Kyoto agreement happen at
>annual meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Climate
>Change Convention. This year is the sixth meeting (COP 6). It will be held
>in The Hague, Netherlands from November 13-24, 2000. Decisions on the CDM
>may be made, however, at an interim meeting occurring September 4-15 in
>Lyon, France. In fact, the nuclear industry is pushing hard to give nuclear
>power CDM credits during LYON and is relying on the US, China and Japan to
>push the industry position during the negotiations.
>
>THE U.S. MUST APPROVE LANGUAGE WHICH SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS THE INCLUSION
>OF NUCLEAR POWER IN THE CDM.
>
>One of the CDM's primary objectives is to help developing countries achieve
>sustainable development by subsidizing previously unsubsidized industries.
>Allowing nuclear energy to receive pollution trading credits through the
>CDM would in effect reduce the cost of nuclear reactor construction,
>thereby giving nuclear power another huge, undeserved subsidy, while
>keeping money from sounder, proven investments like energy efficiency.
>Every dollar invested in energy efficiency is up to seven times more
>effective in CO2 emissions reduction than that same dollar invested in
>nuclear power. Energy efficiency alone could account for 60% of the
>emissions reduction necessary in the U.S. to meet the Kyoto protocol.
>
>Further investment in nuclear would also keep funds away from renewable
>energy development. This trade-off is exactly what has happened in the U.S.
>over the past 50 years. When comparing U.S. government subsidies for
>nuclear, solar, and wind, the nuclear power industry has received the
>majority (96.3%) of $150 billion in investments since 1947; that's $145
>billion for nuclear reactors and $5 billion for wind and solar. Nuclear
>subsidies have cost the average household a total amount of $1,411 [1998
>dollars] compared to $11 for wind. The more money we spend on nuclear
>power, the less greenhouse gas reduction benefit we receive, while we hurt
>sustainable technology investment.
>
>The U.S. claims it does not want to limit "developing" nations to certain
>technologies; that developing nations should decide for themselves which
>technologies are sustainable and which are not. While this seems to be a
>reasonable position on its face, implementation of the Kyoto agreement
>allows for very little equitable public participation. Therefore, a
>mechanism for ensuring that the citizens of a nation really want a certain
>technology does not exist. Additionally, many smaller developing nations
>fear nuclear power CDM credits would favor high-growth nuclear projects in
>developing countries over smaller, sustainable projects in non-nuclear
>developing nations. As an Indonesia delegate commented: "I think it is
>simple colonialism to push nuclear power onto developing countries, leaving
>them with all the burdens that come with it". Indian NGOs have worded a
>letter to the U.S., Japan, and Canada stating, "[T]he undersigned Indian
>social and political organizations, human rights organizations, NGOs,
>women's rights organizations, and trade unions are writing to urge you to
>exclude nuclear power from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the
>Kyoto Protocol".  Member nations of AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States)
>oppose giving nuclear reactors credit for greenhouse gas reduction, asking
>that CDM projects "Not support the use of nuclear power". Countries of
>AOSIS do not support the use of nuclear power to address global climate
>change even though their island nations stand to lose the most from sea
>level rise.
>
>Each current 1000-megawatt reactor produces 40 bomb's worth of plutonium
>per year and atomic waste which will be dangerous for many thousands of
>years, with no proven storage technology able to last for the entire
>hazardous life of these radioactive wastes, natural and man-made barriers
>included.
>
>Finally, nuclear reactors threaten our health. As a matter of normal
>operation, reactors release radioactive substances to the air and water.
>Many human population studies demonstrate that additional, low, constant
>levels of radiation can cause cancer and genetic mutations in this and
>future generations. Subjects of these studies, often nuclear facility
>workers and communities, suffer higher rates of diseases than non-nuclear
>communities, even with apparent normal operation of these facilities.
>
>For more information, Contact: Cindy Folkers, Energy Future Project
>Coordinator, NIRS, 202-328-0002.
>
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>works on, visit our web site at www.citizen.org .
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Addendum to Sunflower: Green Party Platform
Date: 07 Sep 2000 18:21:29 -0400

Dear Friends,
The recent edition of the Sunflower, always most welcome and appreciated,
quoted the miserable Democratic and Republican platforms on Star Wars.  Below
is the Green Party party platform, adopted in Denver this past June, on
nuclear
weapons and Star Wars.  Alice Slater

The Green Party would press for the immediate start of the negotiation of a
treaty to abolish nuclear weapons, and for the completion of those
negotiations
by the year 2002. We would cut off all funding for the development, testing,
production, and deployment of nuclear weapons, and also cut off funding for
nuclear weapons research. All nuclear weapons should be taken off alert and
all
warheads removed from their delivery vehicles.
. CONSOLIDATION of the nuclear weapons complex should move toward alternative
civilian technologies and non-proliferation work, not toward a new generation
of nuclear weapon design and production.
The Green Party, recognizing the need for de-escalating the arms race which
continues unabated in spite of the end of the 'Cold War", strongly opposes
putting nuclear weapons, lasers and other weapons in space in a new
militarization policy that is in clear violation of international law.

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) SURVEY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EXPOSES DIFFERENCES ON
Date: 07 Sep 2000 18:58:18 -0400

>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  CONTACT: Adam Eidinger or Howard Hallman
>September 7, 2000                                         202-986-6186
>or 301-896-0013
>
>SURVEY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EXPOSES DIFFERENCES ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS
>
>Bush and Gore Fail to Answer Morality Question
>
>WASHINGTON, DC =AD On behalf of 48 religious leaders from a cross-section
>of faith groups, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and United Methodist
>Bishop C. Dale White have released a new ten question survey of
>presidential candidates on nuclear weapons and disarmament.  Replies
>from George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Ralph Nader reveal policy differences
>on several issues. Only Nader answered all ten questions of the survey.
>Neither Reform Party candidate responded.  The complete survey results
>are available online at http://www.umc-gbcs.org/whatsnew.htm .
>
>During a news conference today, the religious leaders expressed concern
>that neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore answered a question on the
>morality of possession, threatened use, and actual use of nuclear
>weapons.
>=93It=92s disappointing when faith and values are commonly used to describe
>the guiding philosophy of the major party candidates and neither Bush
>nor Gore will address the question of the morality of nuclear weapons,=94
>said Howard Hallman, coordinator of the survey and chair of Methodists
>United for Peace with Justice.   Nader responded by saying, =93Nuclear
>weapons have no moral or practical use for any purpose except as a
>deterrent to nuclear threats.=94  Calling the U.S. refusal to adopt a
>no-first-use policy =93political immorality=94, Nader said that if elected
>president, the =93U.S. will never be the first to use a nuclear weapon in
>any conflict.=94
>
>Another question left unanswered by Bush and Gore was how they plan to
>carry out the obligation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
>(NPT) to achieve nuclear disarmament.  A review of the treaty on its
>30th anniversary at the United Nations last May produced the strongest
>commitment ever to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. Yet the
>Clinton/Gore Administration has not laid out a plan to achieve this
>goal. As a presidential campaigner, Vice President Gore has not offered
>a proposal, nor has Governor Bush.  Nader, though, presented a six point
>plan that over time would meet the goals of the NPT.
>
>Other questions exposed sharp disagreements. Both Gore and Nader favor
>Senate ratification of  the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as an
>important step to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.  Bush opposes
>ratification, saying that the treaty =93offers only words and false hopes
>and high intentions.=94
>
>On the possibility of taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert,
>Bush and Nader agree that the U.S. should commence de-alerting its
>nuclear stockpile.   Gore emphasized that the U.S. and Russia at this
>time do not have  nuclear weapons targeted at one another.  But on the
>possibility of separating warheads from delivery vehicles,  Gore
>expressed a concern for what might happen in a period of crisis if
>either side tried to reunite warheads with their delivery systems.
>
>On the START III negotiations the survey reveals a strong commitment by
>all three candidates to further reductions of the U.S. strategic
>arsenal, but only Nader specifically said he would be willing to reduce
>the number of nuclear weapons below the Russian proposed limit of 1,000
>warheads
>
>For a copy of the survey results please contact Adam Eidinger at
>202-986-6186 or Howard Hallman at 301-896-0013.
>
>###
>Presidential Candidates Views on Nuclear Disarmament Issues
>Responses of
> George W. Bush, Albert Gore, Jr., and Ralph Nader
>to Ten Questions Posed by 48 Religious Leaders
>
>On August 18, 2000 forty-eight religious leaders from a cross-section of
>faith groups and geographic areas wrote to the presidential candidates
>of the Democratic, Green, Reform, and Republican parties, asking a
>series of questions on nuclear disarmament issues.  From the responses
>of the candidates and their campaign staffs we obtained the views of
>Governor George W. Bush (Republican), Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
>(Democratic), and Mr. Ralph Nader (Green).  The two Reform Party
>candidates declined to respond.  The questions and the candidates'
>answers (and lack of answers) are presented below.
>
>Religious Leaders=92 Perspective
>
>We look forward to a wholesome debate among the presidential candidates
>on significant issues that are of great importance to the American
>people. Among these issues one of the most important is the future of
>the world's nuclear arsenal.   Our own perspective is that the time has
>come for the United States to provide creative leadership to achieve the
>global elimination of nuclear weapons
>
>For decades numerous religious denominations, interfaith organizations,
>and religious leaders have questioned the morality of nuclear weapons
>and have called for their elimination.
>
>The Sixth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1983 stated:  "We
>believe that that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally
>declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear
>weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be
>condemned on ethical and theological grounds.  Furthermore, we appeal
>for the institution of a universal covenant to this effect so that
>nuclear weapons and warfare are delegitimized and condemned as
>violations of international law."
>
>Speaking for the Holy See, Archbishop Renato Martino in October 1997
>told the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly:
>"Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the peace we seek for the 21st
>century.  They cannot be justified.  They deserve condemnation.... The
>world must move to the abolition of nuclear weapons through a universal,
>non-discriminatory ban with intensive inspection by a universal
>authority."
>
>In a message on January 1, 2000 His Holiness the Dalai Lama called for a
>step-by-step approach to external disarmament.  He stated, "We must
>first work on the total abolishment of nuclear weapons and gradually
>work up to total demilitarization throughout the world."
>
>In the United States numerous denominations have called for the
>elimination of nuclear weapons. Recently 21 heads of communion and other
>religious leaders joined with 18 retired generals and admirals to point
>out that "the long-term reliance of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of
>the nuclear powers, and the ever-present danger of their acquisition by
>others, is morally untenable and militarily unjustifiable.  They
>constitute a threat to the security of our nation, a peril to world
>peace, a danger to the whole human family."  Therefore, they called for
>"action leading to the international prohibition of these weapons."
> Questions to the Candidates and Their Replies
>
>(1) What are your views on the morality of possession, threatened use,
>and actual use of nuclear weapons?  To what extent do you agree or
>disagree with the broad consensus that has emerged within the faith
>community on the inherent immorality of nuclear weapons?
>
>Governor Bush: Views unknown.
>
>Vice President Gore: Views unknown.
>
>Mr. Nader: "Nuclear weapons have no moral or practical use for any
>purpose except as a deterrent to nuclear threats.  The U.S. government=92s
>refusal to adopt a no-first-use policy is a striking example of
>political immorality.  If elected President, I would immediately adopt a
>policy that the US will never be the first to use a nuclear weapon in
>any conflict, and would urge other nuclear powers to do the same.
>
>"More broadly, as the first country to use nuclear weapons, and the
>perennial leader in new technologies for these horrifying weapons of
>mass destruction, the United States has a moral obligation to take the
>lead in working for their elimination.  The 1968 Non-Proliferation
>Treaty gives us a legal obligation to work for elimination, as well.
>Gen. George Lee Butler, the retired former commander of both the
>Strategic Air Command and the U.S. Strategic Command has been eloquent
>in support of abolition."
>
>(2) We are encouraged that the United States has joined with Russia,
>United Kingdom, France, and China in making a commitment to "an
>unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their
>nuclear arsenals."  This occurred in the Final Document of the 2000
>Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).  This
>commitment carries forward the obligation for good faith negotiations on
>nuclear disarmament as expressed in Article VI of the NPT, an agreement
>signed by the United States in July 1968 and ratified by the U.S. Senate
>in March 1969.   If elected president, what specifically will you do
>during your four-year term to fulfill this commitment?
>
>Governor Bush: Views unknown.
>
>Vice President Gore: Views unknown.
>
>Mr. Nader: "I would:
>? Take all nuclear missiles off =91hair-trigger=92 high-alert status, and
>urge the Russian President to do the same.  The greatest danger of a
>global nuclear disaster is an accidental launch.  De-alerting will not
>undermine the United States=92 ability to deter a nuclear strike.  There
>are over 3,000 nuclear warheads on American submarines.  Enough are at
>sea and on alert at any time to assure sufficient retaliation capacity
>even after a massive first strike.
>? Adopt a no-first-use policy, and urge other nuclear powers to do the
>same.
>? Stop nuclear testing, including sub-critical and virtual testing.  I
>would make the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
>one of my top legislative priorities.
>? Prohibit the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons outside the United
>States.
>? Push for the ratification of the START II treaty, which Russia has
>already ratified, work with Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
>further reduce the US nuclear arsenal to around 1500 warheads as
>expeditiously as possible, and begin negotiating a START III agreement
>that will bring missile levels below 1,000.
>? Begin talks with all nuclear nations to develop a framework and a
>final date for the abolition of nuclear weapons."
>
>(3) For instance, do you favor multilateral negotiations to achieve a
>global nuclear weapons convention that provides for total elimination of
>nuclear weapons within a timebound framework with effective verification
>and enforcement?
>
>Governor Bush: Views unknown.
>
>Vice President Gore: Views unknown.
>
>Mr. Nader: "Yes.  Working toward total elimination is the only moral and
>rational course.  The United States, as the sole superpower, has the
>responsibility to take the lead in such negotiations."
>
>(4) There are interim steps to take in the quest for the elimination of
>nuclear weapons.  For example, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
>provides a means of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons.   If
>elected president, will you seek ratification of the CTBT by the United
>States Senate?
>
>Governor Bush: "Our nation should continue its moratorium on testing.
>But in the hard work of halting proliferation, the Comprehensive Test
>Ban Treaty is not the answer.  The CTBT does not stop proliferation,
>especially to renegade regimes. It is not verifiable. It is not
>enforceable. And it would stop us from ensuring the safety and
>reliability of our nation=92s deterrent, should the need arise. On these
>crucial matters, it offers only words and false hopes and high
>intentions =AD with no guarantees whatever. We can fight the spread of
>nuclear weapons, but we cannot wish them away with unwise treaties."
>
>Vice President Gore: "I support ratification of the Comprehensive Test
>Ban Treaty, and I will continue to fight for its ratification.  Because
>of the Treaty's importance to the long-term national security interests
>of our country, I intend to take this issue to the American people
>during my campaign for the Presidency, and if elected, my first act as
>President will be to put the Treaty back before the Senate with a demand
>from the American people for its ratification."
>
>Mr. Nader:  "Nuclear testing poses a grave threat to the environment and
>public health, and increases the danger of nuclear war by promoting the
>development of new nuclear-weapons technology.  I would both immediately
>halt all U.S. nuclear test explosions, including sub-critical and
>virtual testing, and make the ratification of the CTBT a high priority."
>
>(5) Many experts have pointed out the inherent danger of keeping U.S.
>and Russian strategic nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.  If elected
>president, will you embark upon a de-alerting initiative to take
>strategic weapons off hair-trigger alert?  If so, please provide
>specifics.
>
>Governor Bush:  "The United States should remove as many weapons as
>possible from high-alert, hair-trigger status -- another unnecessary
>vestige of Cold War confrontation.  Preparation for quick launch --
>within minutes after warning or an attack -- was the rule during the era
>of superpower rivalry.  But today, for two nations at peace, keeping so
>many on high alert may create unacceptable risks of accidental or
>unauthorized launch.  So, as president, I will ask for an assessment of
>what we can safely do to lower the alert status of our forces."
>
>Vice President Gore:  In another questionnaire when asked about Admiral
>Stansfield Turner's proposal that the U.S. take the initiative to create
>a reciprocal reduction in nuclear alert status by separating warheads
>from delivery systems and moving the components hundreds of miles away
>to a storage sites monitored by verification teams, Vice President Gore
>responded as follows:  "Right now, U.S. nuclear warheads are not
>targeted against Russian targets, and the Russians are similarly
>"de-targeted." I have concerns about Admiral Turner's ideas because of
>the way in which they might work out in a period of crisis if either
>side tried to reunite warheads with their delivery systems. This issue
>is one that requires further detailed study."
>
>Mr. Nader:  "Due to Russia=92s collapsing military infrastructure, the
>danger of an accidental nuclear launch is greater now than it was at any
>time during the Cold War.  I would immediately take all U.S. nuclear
>missiles off of =91hair-trigger=92 high-alert status, and strongly urge
>President Putin to do the same.  Again, this will not undermine the
>country=92s ability to effectively deter a nuclear strike.  Taking nuclear
>weapons off high-alert status is the single most important step we could
>take towards preventing a nuclear disaster."
>
>(6) During the past fifteen years progress has been made in reduction of
>nuclear weapons through treaties between the United States and the
>Soviet Union, then Russia.   Two treaties were negotiated under
>President Ronald Reagan: the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty to
>eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons and the first Strategic
>Arms Reduction Treaty (START I).  Another treaty, START II, was
>negotiated under President George Bush.  Russian President Vladimir
>Putin has indicated a willingness to negotiate a START III agreement to
>reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,000 on each side.
>However, we understand that the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff insist upon
>keeping 2,500 warheads in active service because of the targeting
>requirements of current U.S. policy.  If elected president, will you
>change U.S. policy so that deeper bilateral cuts in strategic weapons
>can occur?  Will you negotiate a START III agreement with Russia?  What
>level of strategic warheads will you seek?
>
>Governor Bush:  "America should rethink the requirements for nuclear
>deterrence in a new security environment.  The premises of Cold War
>nuclear targeting should no longer dictate the size of our arsenal.  As
>president, I will ask the Secretary of Defense to conduct an assessment
>of our nuclear force posture and determine how best to meet our security
>needs.  While the exact number of weapons can come only from such an
>assessment, I will pursue the lowest possible number consistent with
>national security.  It should be possible to reduce the number of
>American nuclear weapons significantly further than what has already
>been agreed to under START II, without compromising our security in any
>way.  We should not keep weapons that our military planners do not
>need.  These unneeded weapons are the expensive relics of dead
>conflicts.  And they do nothing to make us more secure."
>
>Vice President Gore: "I believe in the value of nuclear deterrence for
>the foreseeable future, but I do not think that we need incremental
>increases in our nuclear arsenal. In fact, I am interested in seeing our
>nuclear arsenal reduced substantially through arms control.  This
>Administration is working on the entry into force of the START II
>Treaty, negotiation of a START III Treaty providing for even deeper
>reduction in weapons pointed at the United States, and an agreement with
>Russia to adjust the ABM Treaty to make it possible to defend ourselves
>against rogue states."
>
>Mr. Nader: "I would push for immediate ratification of START II, and
>immediately begin negotiations of a START III agreement that will bring
>missile levels below 1,000.  Once we have achieved this level of
>disarmament we would be in a position to begin talks with all nuclear
>nations for the negotiation of deeper cuts and the eventual abolition of
>nuclear weapons.
>
>"The Center for Defense Information reports that the Pentagon=92s
>remarkably bloated list of targets for nuclear warheads has actually
>grown since the end of the Cold War.  I would provide the presidential
>leadership that has been lacking to reduce the target list, which is a
>major technical barrier to the negotiation of a START III agreement."
>
>(7) Complementary to nuclear arms reduction through treaties is the
>undertaking of reciprocal initiatives through executive action.  This
>was the approach used by President Bush in 1991 when he took unilateral
>action to deactivate a large number of U.S. strategic weapons and
>to withdraw most U.S. tactical nuclear weapons stationed outside the
>United States.  A few weeks later Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
>reciprocated with similar actions.  Would you as president use similar
>reciprocal initiatives to achieve such objectives as de-alerting and
>significant reductions in the nuclear arsenal?  If so, please provide
>specifics.
>
>Governor Bush:  "These changes to our forces should not require years
>and years of detailed arms control negotiation.  There is a precedent
>that proves the power of leadership.  In 1991, the United States invited
>the Soviet Union to join it in removing tactical nuclear weapons from
>the arsenal.  Hugh reductions were achieved in a matter of months,
>making the world much safer, more quickly.  Similarly, in the area of
>strategic nuclear weapons, we should invite the Russian government to
>accept the new vision I have outlined, and act on it.  But the United
>States should be prepared to lead by example, because it is in our best
>interest and the best interest of the world."
>
>Vice President Gore: Views unknown.
>
>Mr. Nader: "I would use reciprocal initiatives in parallel with treaty
>negotiation.  In particular, as discussed earlier, I would act
>immediately to take all nuclear weapons off of high alert, and work to
>reduce the number of deployed, strategic warheads to 1500.  Both of
>these could safely be done unilaterally, with strong urging that Russia
>follow suit"
>
>(8) We note that numerous retired generals, admirals, and national
>security civilian officials have indicated that nuclear weapons have no
>war-fighting utility.  We also know that Presidents Truman and
>Eisenhower chose not to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War and that
>Presidents Johnson and Nixon chose not to use nuclear weapons in the
>Vietnam War.   Do you see any utility for nuclear weapons in war?  If
>so, please tell us the categories of targets you as commander-in-chief
>would consider legitimate to strike with nuclear weapons.
>
>Governor Bush: "Deterrence remains the first line of defense against
>nuclear attack."  Governor Bush's views are unknown on war-fighting
>utility of nuclear weapons or specific targeting.
>
>Vice President Gore: "America must maintain its nuclear strength, with
>adequate offensive forces to ensure deterrence."  Vice President Gore's
>views are unknown on war-fighting utility of nuclear weapons or specific
>targeting.
>
>Mr. Nader: "The only practical use of nuclear weapons is as a deterrent
>to nuclear threats from other countries.  They should not be used for
>any other purpose whatsoever."
>
> (9) If your reply indicates that nuclear weapons are useful only to
>deter other nuclear weapons, would not the wisest and safest course of
>action be to achieve the universal elimination of nuclear weapons
>through such measures as previously identified?
>
>Governor Bush: No comment.
>
>Vice President Gore: No comment.
>
>Mr. Nader: "I agree completely.  As I have said above, we should set
>complete elimination of nuclear weapons as a long-term goal, and
>immediately begin taking concrete steps to de-alert, deactivate and
>eliminate nuclear weapons."
>
>(10) Are there other initiatives you plan to undertake for the
>elimination of nuclear weapons?
>
>Governor Bush: "If elected President, one of my highest foreign policy
>priorities will be to check the contagious spread of weapons of mass
>destruction, and the means to deliver them.  We must work to constrict
>the supply of nuclear materials and the means to deliver them by making
>this a priority with Russia and China. Our nation must cut off the
>demand for nuclear weapons by addressing the security concerns of those
>who renounce these weapons. And our nation must diminish the evil
>attraction of these weapons for rogue states by rendering them useless
>with missile defense.
>
>"In an act of foresight and statesmanship, Sen. Richard Lugar and Sen.
>Sam Nunn realized that existing Russian nuclear facilities were in
>danger of being compromised. Under the Nunn-Lugar program, security at
>many Russian nuclear facilities has been improved and warheads have been
>destroyed.  I=92ll ask the Congress to increase substantially our
>assistance to dismantle as many of Russia=92s weapons as possible, as
>quickly as possible."
>
>Vice President Gore: "I support the program that our Administration has
>developed with North Korea to forestall plutonium production
>development, a central element of which is to support the financing of a
>non-threatening type of reactor for nuclear energy. I also support our
>efforts to work with Russia to reduce the size of its nuclear weapons
>establishment, such as the Nuclear Cities Initiative, and I have
>personally engaged, through the U.S-Russia Binational Commission, in
>efforts that have resulted in the safe demilitarization of over 1500
>Russian nuclear warheads. Similarly, I have worked for removal of
>nuclear weapons, plutonium, and enriched uranium from the states of the
>former Soviet Union."
>
>Mr. Nader: "I would phase out the use of nuclear power in the United
>States, stop the US government from promoting nuclear power abroad, and
>work toward the global abolition of nuclear energy.  History shows that
>it is impossible to separate the =93peaceful atom=94 from the potential
>proliferation of nuclear weapons.  As part of the phase-out, I would
>immediately ban the conversion of plutonium into Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel,
>a particularly ill-advised procedure.  I would push for a global ban on
>the production of weapons-usable fissile materials.
>
>"I would halt all research into the design of new nuclear weapons,
>including improving existing types and creating new types.  The U.S. has
>all the nuclear weapons that it ever needs.  Further research is likely
>to destabilize our position by making other countries feel threatened,
>and could damage our security directly when our ideas leak out and are
>copied.  There are no benefits except to contractors at our national
>labs and military contractors in general.  It is time to put the
>interests of the people of this country and the world above the profits
>of General Dynamics and Lockheed-Martin.
>
>"I would abandon research into the useless and wasteful National Missile
>Defense program, and re-confirm the United States=92 support for the ABM
>treaty.
>
>"I would cancel the Department of Energy=92s plans to produce tritium, and
>push for legislation to ban the production of tritium in the United
>States.  Current tritium plans assume no progress on arms control.  The
>U.S. has a sizable inventory of tritium, and tritium can be recovered
>from scrapped nuclear warheads.  If we can even approach levels already
>negotiated in START II, or discussed for START III, there will be no
>need for new tritium far into the future.  If elected President, I will
>devote my energy to making sure that nuclear arms are reduced lower
>still."
>
>
>Sources
>
>Governor George W. Bush.  Information provided by campaign staff: (1)
>Speech on "New Leadership on National Security" given in Washington,
>D.C. on May 23, 2000; (2) not yet published answers to questions from an
>arms control organization.
>
>Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.  (1) Answers to questions posed by
>Council for a Livable World, November 1999; (2) speech at International
>Press Institute, Boston, MA, April 30, 2000; (3) Al Gore web site.
>
>Mr. Ralph Nader.  Statement entitled "Ralph Nader's Response to
>Interfaith Questionnaire on Elimination of Nuclear Weapons", received
>September 6, 2000.
> Signers of Letter to Presidential Candidates
>
> Gary Baldridge, Global Missions Coordinator
>Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
>Atlanta, GA
>
>The Most Reverend Victor H. Balke
>Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Crookston
>Crookston, MN
>
>Bruce Birchard, General Secretary
>Friends General Conference
>Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>The Rev. Leonard B. Bjorman, Co-Chair
>Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
>Syracuse, NY
>
>The Right Reverend Frederick H. Borsch
>Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
>Los Angeles, CA
>
>J. Daryl Byler, Director
>Washington Office
>Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
>
>Bishop Kenneth L. Carder
>Nashville Area, United Methodist Church
>Nashville, TN
>
>C. Wayne Carter, General Secretary (Interim)
>Friends United Meeting
>Richmond, IN
>
>The Rev. Dr. Forrest Church, Senior Minister
>All Saints Unitarian Church
>New York, NY
>
>The Most Reverend Matthew H. Clark
>Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Rochester
>
>Rochester, NY
>
>The Right Reverend John P. Croneberger
>Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Newark
>Newark, NJ
>
>
>
>The Rev. Dr. James Dunn, Visiting Professor
>Wake Forest Divinity School
>Winston-Salem, NC
>
>The Most Reverend Patrick F. Flores
>Archbishop, Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio
>San Antonio, TX
>
>The Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister
>Riverside Church
>New York, NY
>
>Rabbi Arthur Green
>Professor, Brandeis University
>Waltham, MA
>
>The Most Reverend Thomas Gumbleton
>Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
>Detroit, MI
>
>The Right Reverend Ronald H. Haines
>Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Washington
>Washington, DC
>
>Howard W. Hallman, Chair
>Methodists United for Peace with Justice
>Bethesda, MD
>
>The Right Reverend Sanford Z.K. Hampton
>Assistant Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Olympia
>Seattle, WA
>
>Dr. Susannah Heschel
>Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies
>Dartmouth College
>Hanover, NH
>
>Kathleen S. Hurty, Executive Director
>Church Women United
>New York, NY
>
>Thomas J. Jeavons, General Secretary
>Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
>Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>
>Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
>Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
>   and The Shefa Fund
>
>Rabbi Michael Lerner
>Editor, TIKKUN Magazine
>San Francisco, CA
>
>Rabbi Richard N. Levy
>Director of Rabbinical Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
>Religion
>Los Angeles, CA
>
>The Most Reverend Raymond A. Lucker
>Bishop, Catholic Diocese of New Ulm
>New Ulm, MN
>
>Bishop Ernest S. Lyght
>New York Area, United Methodist Church
>White Plains, NY
>
>The Rev. Dr. Clinton M. Marsh, Former Moderator
>Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
>Atlanta, GA
>
>Bishop Joel B. Martinez
>Nebraska Area, United Methodist Church
>Lincoln, NE
>
>Rabbi Paul Menitoff, Executive Vice President
>Central Conference of American Rabbis
>New York, NY
>
>The Right Reverend William D. Persell
>Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
>Chicago, IL
>
>Don Reeves, General Secretary (Interim)
>American Friends Service Committee
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>Judy Mills Reimer, Executive Director
>Church of the Brethren General Board
>Elgin, IL
>
>The Rev. Meg A. Riley, Director
>Washington Office for Faith in Action
>Unitarian Universalist Association
>Washington, DC
>Rabbi David Saperstein, Director
>Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
>Washington, DC
>
>Dr. Ronald J. Sider, President
>Evangelicals for Social Action
>Wynnewood, PA
>
>Dr. Glen Stassen, Professor
>Fuller Theological Seminary
>Pasadena, CA
>
>The Rev. Ron Stief, Director
>Justice and Witness Ministries
>United Church of Christ
>Washington, DC
>
>The Most Reverend Walter F. Sullivan
>Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Richmond
>Richmond, VA
>
>Bishop Melvin G. Talbert
>California-Nevada Area, United Methodist Church
>West Sacramento, CA
>
>The Rev. John H. Thomas
>General Minister and President
>United Church of Christ
>Cleveland, OH
>
>Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director
>The Shalom Center
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>The Rev. Dr. Daniel W. Weiss, General Secretary
>American Baptist Churches USA
>Valley Forge, PA
>
>Bishop C. Dale White
>United Methodist Church
>Newport, RI
>
>Marilyn M. White, Co-Chair
>Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
>League City, TX
>
>The Right Reverend Arthur B. Williams, Jr.
>Bishop Suffragan, Episcopal Diocese of Ohio
>Cleveland, OH
>The Rev. Dr. Albert C. Winn, Former Moderator
>Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
>Winston-Salem, NC
>
>
>The Rev. L. William Yolton, Executive Secretary
>Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
>Alexandria, VA
>
>
>
>
>September 7. 2000
>
>
>For further information, contact the facilitator of this project:
>
>Howard W. Hallman, Chair
>Methodists United for Peace with Justice
>6508 Wilmett Road
>Bethesda, MD 20817
>
>Phone/fax: [phone]
>E-mail: [e-mail]
> =20

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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Upcoming Southwestern Nuclear Free Actions and Gatherings and
Date: 07 Sep 2000 17:32:59 -0700

Hello Friends,


We hope this letter finds you well. Thank you for all your individual actions to help protect Mother Earth!


Wow! What a summer it has been! We are writing to let you know about some upcoming events that Shundahai Network will be participating in, and invite you to join as well. We are also including a short summery of our summer activities at the end for those who are interested.


Of course you can find all of this information and much more, including: Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste; an impressive media archive on nuclear related articles; nuclear weapons testing and the Nevada Test Site; Western Shoshone, Big Mountain, Uwa and other Indigenous issues; national and international nonviolent direct actions; genetically modified and irradiated foods; lots of photos, flyers and fact sheets; on our web site at http://www.shundahai.org


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Upcoming Events:


September 15th: Las Vegas public speaking event and press conference with Ralph Nader and Corbin Harney. For more information please call Shundahai Network [phone]


September 22nd-23rd: Te'wa Women's United Gathering for Mother Earth.  This is an annual gathering of Indigenous people around Los Alamos. A spirit run to the gates of Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory will take place. For more information please call: 505-474-7100


September 30th: Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day. We deserve a clean and healthy environment for our families and children, but not all decisions makers have our families futures in mind. Special interest dollars and corporate powers are drowning out the publics voice when it comes to critical decisions shaping the future of our state. We must join together to fight for clean water, air and land, An amazingly diverse coalition of Nevadan environmental groups has formed to organize exciting events across the state. JOIN US in celebrating the precious splendor of Nevada and educating people about how they can protect it. In Northern Nevada please contact Citizen Alert [phone];


In Southern Nevada, "Nevada is Not a Wasteland" Day will be celebrated from Noon - 8PM at Morrell Park in Henderson. For information you can contact Shundahai Network [phone], Citizen Alert (702)  796-5662 http://www.shundahai.org.


October 6th-9th: Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering,  Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia, Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of Las Vegas, NV.  You are invited to the heart of the beautiful but fragile Great Basin Desert to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns, Celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and help build a strong and unified Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin. There will be an early morning ceremony and rally at Yucca Mountain it's self with a possible Citizen Inspection Team action. For More information please call Shundahai Network [phone] http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


October 7th: International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. Vandenberg Air force Base, CA and at other locations around the world. Help us say, "No Star Wars! Keep Space for Peace!" Organize a local event in solidarity. For more information please call Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space [phone] http://www.space4peace.org/http://www.space4peace.org/


October 16th: A Day without the Pentagon. Regional nonviolent direct actions. In Las Vegas, NV there will be an event at Nellis Air force Base including prayers for peace and safety and a Citizen Inspection Team. For more information please call Nevada Desert Experience [phone]


We would love to see you attend one or more of these events, and if you are interested in helping out before-hand, please let us know as soon as

possible. We are particularly needing folks to help with setting up and cleaning Peace Camp for the Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering.


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Shundahai Network Summer Report


After a busy spring when Shundahai Network helped organize the wonderfully successful Mothers Day 2000 Gathering at the Nevada Test Site, and did logistical support for the Western Shoshone National Council Yucca Mountain Gathering and the Western Shoshone Spirit Walk/Run around the test site, we plunged into the hot summer of continued organizational development, coalition and alliance building, outreach, strategic planning and action.


Here are some of the activities that have kept us busy throughout the summer:


Shundahai Network provided logistical support for the Western Shoshone National Gathering at Crescent Valley, NV, and the Indigenous Environmental Network's annual Protecting Mother Earth Gathering held in Brownsville, TX.


Members of Shundahai Network attended the National Rainbow Gathering in Jackson, Montana. Conducted workshops on Nuclear Waste Dangers and

Yucca Mountain in the Activist Camp. Distributed hundreds of nuclear information flyers.


We did a nonviolence training for Las Vegas activists in preparation for the Democratic National Convention, held in Los Angeles in

August.


We were at the core of a wonderfully diverse coalition of Nevada Environmental organizations that begun preparations for the Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day event here in Las Vegas.


We did a mailing to over three hundred activists and organizers inviting them to participate in a strategic planning session to be held at the Nuclear Free Great Basin gathering in October.


Shundahai Network continues to provide logistical and organizational development support for an exciting new Las Vegas organization, Nevadans Organizing To Better Address Diversity.


Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone elder and Executive Director of Shundahai Network, has been working on his next book and video through most of this summer. As well, he has continually has been on an ongoing outreach and educational tour though California, Oregon, Idaho  and Northern Nevada communities.  At the end of July he joined other Western Shoshone tribal leaders in a trip to Switzerland to present testimony at a United Nations Human Rights Forum on Genocide.


We attended the Local Affected Units of Government meeting, sponsored by the Department of Energy.  This was an excellent opportunity to speak to government officials- ranging from state to city to tribal, about the dangers of Yucca Mountain.


With Citizen Alert, we supported a media event to welcome the Nuclear Information and Resource Service's cross country mock nuclear waste cask tour. This event were covered by every local TV station, two radio stations and one newspaper. The coverage on TV ran throughout the weekend.


August 6th we commemorated the bombing of Hiroshima with a vigil and ceremony at the Nevada Test Site.  Never Again.


Members of Shundahai Network participated in the 2nd annual nonviolent direct action at Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, organized by Peace Action and held on August 9th, Nagasaki Day.


The Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas issued a proclamation declaring Sept. 30th, Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day, and commending

the Nevada organizations who have been a driving force behind keeping nuclear waste out of Nevada.


Shundahai Network sponsored a group of 11 Nevadan activists (and Citizen Alert's Life Sized Mock Nuclear Waste Cask) who traveled to Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention and demonstrations. We were able to speak to thousands of people; protestors, delegates and media.  We did one radio interview and five newspaper interviews.  We generated articles in the Las Vegas papers, as well as inspiring a comic strip in the LA weekly.  With the mock nuclear waste cask continually moving around the city and participating in rallies, marches and parades, we were able to
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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
Date: 07 Sep 2000 17:33:31 -0700

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Email text flyer: NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING

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NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING

October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia

Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.

http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


You are invited to join us in the heart of the beautiful but fragile Great Basin Desert to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns, Celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and help build a strong and unified Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin.


The Great Basin bio region is a beautiful, diverse and fragile areas stretching through five states. Home to strong indigenous people and cultures, high mountainous alpine lakes and forests, as well as many endangered and threatened plants and wildlife. Sadly, this land has experienced the deadly effects of nuclear weapons testing as well as the disposal of radioactive and toxic waste in leaking dumps.


Man made low level radiation causes cancer, premature aging, immune system suppression, birth defects and genetic mutations. Daily shipments of nuclear and hazardous materials travel on our roads and railways to be dumped in the Great Basin.


A serious nuclear accident could cause deaths and sickness, irreversibly contaminating large areas, and the U.S. has plans to continue and expand the radioactive assault on our air, water and land.


Now is the time to create a Nuclear Free Great Basin. Together we can work effectively with other regional Nuclear Free alliances to change nuclear policies, protecting Mother Earth and our future generations.


NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING

Current Schedule


FRIDAY, OCT 6TH:  Registration; Welcome to Newe Sogobia and Nevada Test Site and weekend orientation; National and International Nuclear Free Campaigns, successes and failures. Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team Action


SATURDAY, OCT 7TH: Nuclear issues within the Great Basin, panel discussion and strategizing workshop; Indigenous issues within the Great Basin, panel discussion and workshop; Strategy proposals for Great Basin Nuclear Free Campaign, discussion; Concert and Celebration


SUNDAY, OCT 8TH: Create time-line for Great Basin Nuclear Free Campaign, workshops; Building an Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin,

workshop; Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team Action


MONDAY, OCT 9TH: Convoy to Yucca Mountain Sunrise Ceremony at the base of Yucca Mountain Rally and Yucca Mountain Citizens

Inspection Team Action; Final plenary evaluation meeting held at Yucca Mountain


Daily Sunrise Ceremonies and Sweatlodges will be held. Meals and water will be provided Be prepared for Desert Camping, hot days and cool nights

Donations are accepted to cover costs


For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai Network, and Citizen Alert

http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


The Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering will be held in solidarity with the October 7th Actions to stop the Ballistic Missile Defense system.

http://www.space4peace.org/http://www.space4peace.org/




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 highlight nuclear issues facing the country today.  (You can see some of the media coverage we received by visiting our web page at http://www.shundahai.org)


Shundahai Network activists organized vigil and demonstration on August 18th to protest a subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 5" at the Nevada Test Site.


Corbin and other members of Shundahai Network participated in and helped facilitate the Seventh Generation Funds Sustainable Communities Gathering in Oklahoma and the Great Lakes Nuclear Free Action Training Camp in Michigan.


Shundahai Network was the driving force behind the successful campaign to get the City of Las Vegas to declare it's self a Nuclear Free Zone! on Sept 6. 2000.


Current News: Susi Snyder, community outreach coordinator for Shundahai Network, was singled out and arrested this spring during a nonviolent direct action at the Nevada Test Site to stop subcritical nuclear weapons test code named "Oboe 3". After a full trial before a Nye County Justice of the Peace she was found guilty and sentenced to 10 day in jail and $450 fine which is unheard of for an action at the test site, especially when Susi did not do anything differently then the other 8 activists arrested that day. Susi appealed her sentence but recently found out that her appeal was denied. To find out how you might help Susi, please call her at [phone]

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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Las Vegas Declared Nuclear Free Zone!
Date: 07 Sep 2000 17:47:34 -0700

Hi Friends, Just wanted to share this good news with you!

PRESS RELEASE                             CONTACT: Susi Snyder
September 6, 2000                                702-647-3095


LAS VEGAS DECLARED NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE

    This morning the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas passed resolution
R-85-2000, declaring Las Vegas a Nuclear Free Zone.  This resolution
opposes legislation that would allow the transportation, storage or
production of spent nuclear fuel, high-level nuclear waste, and low-level
radioactive waste within the City of Las Vegas. The resolution also
supports the on site storage of spent nuclear fuel, a shift in federal
funding for nuclear waste disposal studies, and the research and use of
alternative renewable energy sources.

    =93The majority of the people of Las Vegas are against radioactive waste
being shipped through the city,=94 said Susi Snyder,  =93a Nuclear-Free L=
as
Vegas is a great step towards a Nuclear-Free Great Basin.=93 =20

    The resolution passed this morning was proposed at a meeting between May=
or
Goodman, the Shundahai Network, Citizens Nuclear Information Committee an=
d
Citizen Alert in July.  =20

    =93We hope that all other counties and cities within Nevada will be insp=
ired
to pass their own nuclear free zone resolutions, =93 said Reinard Knutsen=
,
=93This will send a strong signal to Washington that Nevada is not the
dumping ground for the nuclear industry.=94  Reno, Sparks and Henderson h=
ave
also declared themselves to be Nuclear-Free Zones.

    The passage of this resolution is in great timing for Nevada Is Not A
Wasteland Day, September 30th, (12-8pm, Morrell Park in Henderson), and t=
he
Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering, October 6-9th, at Peace Camp, Newe
Sogobia (Mercury exit, US 95).

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RESOLUTION TO DESIGNATE LAS VEGAS A NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE
Adopted Unanimously by Las Vegas City Council Sept 6th, 2000

    WHEREAS, Congress has designated Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the only site t=
o
be studied for a High-level nuclear waste repository; and=20

    WHEREAS, the proposed Yucca Mountain site should be disqualified from
consideration due to scientifically proven geologic and technical factors=
;
and=20

    WHEREAS, billions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on the Yuc=
ca
Mountain Project; and

    WHEREAS, The government of the State of Nevada and the City of Las Vegas
are opposed to Yucca Mountain; and

    WHEREAS, the State of Nevada has already made countless sacrifices for t=
he
nation's nuclear programs; and

    WHEREAS, the Nevada Test Site is currently used by the Department of
Energy as a site for the final disposal of low level radioactive waste fr=
om
the cleanup of the Department of Energy's weapons complex; and

    WHEREAS, high level nuclear waste as well as some low level nuclear wast=
e
is extremely dangerous, containing long-lived radioactive isotopes; and=20

    WHEREAS, this high level nuclear waste would consist of irradiated nucle=
ar
fuel rods and other radioactive waste; and

    WHEREAS, legislation is introduced each year and is currently being
debated which, if adopted by Congress and signed into law by the Presiden=
t
of the United States, will allow for the transport of radioactive waste
through the City of Las Vegas and other towns in Nevada; and=20

    WHEREAS, this legislation would create an above ground interim storage
facility for high level nuclear waste at the Nevada Test Site; and=20

    WHEREAS, this legislation would begin the largest nuclear waste
transportation campaign in history, possibly endangering residents in 43
states,  thousands of towns and cities; and

    WHEREAS, the Department of Energy predicts that there will be nuclear
waste accidents occurring during this transportation campaign; and

    WHEREAS, lives, health, and properties of Las Vegas residents, living an=
d
working along transportation routes will be unnecessarily endangered by
accidents or incidents; and

    WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas will have limited funding for training of
emergency response personnel and for purchase of necessary equipment to
cope with a radiological emergency; and

    WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas does not have the independent resources
required to effectively cope with a radiological disaster that could occu=
r
as a result of radioactive waste transported through Las Vegas; and=20

    WHEREAS, tourism has long been the life-blood of Nevada's economy, with
over half of the estate's economic activity resulting directly or
indirectly from tourism related expenditures; and=20

    WHEREAS, the transportation of nuclear waste through Las Vegas would
diminish the safe and attractive image the city now conveys, poses a
possible health risk to potential visitors and would damage the city and
state's economy; and

    WHEREAS, the production of both high- and low- level waste continues,
transportation to either an interim or permanent repository does nothing =
to
solve the nuclear waste problem in our country; and=20

    WHEREAS, the city of Las Vegas supports basing nuclear waste disposal
decisions that will impact future generations on sound science, long term
safety considerations and a thorough evaluation of all possible options; =
and=20

    WHEREAS, at or near reactor above-ground monitored retrievable dry cask
storage technology can be used to safely and economically store high-leve=
l
radioactive wastes on site for at least 100 years;=20

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Council of the City Of Las
Vegas as follows:

SECTION 1: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas oppose all
legislation that would require or allow transportation of all radioactive
waste near or through the City of Las Vegas;

SECTION 2: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas support at reacto=
r,
on-site storage of high-level nuclear waste and a shift in funding to fin=
d
a scientifically defensible and publicly acceptable method of disposal;

SECTION 3: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas support the
research and use of alternative renewable energy sources;

SECTION 4:  That radioactive waste and nuclear waste, as referred to in
this Resolution, is principally intended to include fuel materials utiliz=
ed
in nuclear power production.  This Resolution does not relate to
radioactive materials used, in the City of Las Vegas, for medical
applications, industrial radiography and personal purposes such as time
pieces or smoke detectors;=20

SECTION 5: That in opposition to legislation  that would allow the
transportation, storage or production of spent nuclear fuel, high-level
nuclear waste, and low-level radioactive waste within the City of Las
Vegas, the mayor and City Council of Las Vegas designate the City of Las
Vegas as a Nuclear Free Zone.


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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Las Vegas Declared Nuclear Free Zone!
Date: 07 Sep 2000 22:26:38 -0700

Hi Friends, Just wanted to share this good news with you!

PRESS RELEASE                             CONTACT: Susi Snyder
September 6, 2000                                702-647-3095


LAS VEGAS DECLARED NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE

    This morning the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas passed resolution
R-85-2000, declaring Las Vegas a Nuclear Free Zone.  This resolution
opposes legislation that would allow the transportation, storage or
production of spent nuclear fuel, high-level nuclear waste, and low-level
radioactive waste within the City of Las Vegas. The resolution also
supports the on site storage of spent nuclear fuel, a shift in federal
funding for nuclear waste disposal studies, and the research and use of
alternative renewable energy sources.

    =93The majority of the people of Las Vegas are against radioactive waste
being shipped through the city,=94 said Susi Snyder,  =93a Nuclear-Free L=
as
Vegas is a great step towards a Nuclear-Free Great Basin.=93 =20

    The resolution passed this morning was proposed at a meeting between May=
or
Goodman, the Shundahai Network, Citizens Nuclear Information Committee an=
d
Citizen Alert in July.  =20

    =93We hope that all other counties and cities within Nevada will be insp=
ired
to pass their own nuclear free zone resolutions, =93 said Reinard Knutsen=
,
=93This will send a strong signal to Washington that Nevada is not the
dumping ground for the nuclear industry.=94  Reno, Sparks and Henderson h=
ave
also declared themselves to be Nuclear-Free Zones.

    The passage of this resolution is in great timing for Nevada Is Not A
Wasteland Day, September 30th, (12-8pm, Morrell Park in Henderson), and t=
he
Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering, October 6-9th, at Peace Camp, Newe
Sogobia (Mercury exit, US 95).

-30-

RESOLUTION TO DESIGNATE LAS VEGAS A NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE
Adopted Unanimously by Las Vegas City Council Sept 6th, 2000

    WHEREAS, Congress has designated Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the only site t=
o
be studied for a High-level nuclear waste repository; and=20

    WHEREAS, the proposed Yucca Mountain site should be disqualified from
consideration due to scientifically proven geologic and technical factors=
;
and=20

    WHEREAS, billions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on the Yuc=
ca
Mountain Project; and

    WHEREAS, The government of the State of Nevada and the City of Las Vegas
are opposed to Yucca Mountain; and

    WHEREAS, the State of Nevada has already made countless sacrifices for t=
he
nation's nuclear programs; and

    WHEREAS, the Nevada Test Site is currently used by the Department of
Energy as a site for the final disposal of low level radioactive waste fr=
om
the cleanup of the Department of Energy's weapons complex; and

    WHEREAS, high level nuclear waste as well as some low level nuclear wast=
e
is extremely dangerous, containing long-lived radioactive isotopes; and=20

    WHEREAS, this high level nuclear waste would consist of irradiated nucle=
ar
fuel rods and other radioactive waste; and

    WHEREAS, legislation is introduced each year and is currently being
debated which, if adopted by Congress and signed into law by the Presiden=
t
of the United States, will allow for the transport of radioactive waste
through the City of Las Vegas and other towns in Nevada; and=20

    WHEREAS, this legislation would create an above ground interim storage
facility for high level nuclear waste at the Nevada Test Site; and=20

    WHEREAS, this legislation would begin the largest nuclear waste
transportation campaign in history, possibly endangering residents in 43
states,  thousands of towns and cities; and

    WHEREAS, the Department of Energy predicts that there will be nuclear
waste accidents occurring during this transportation campaign; and

    WHEREAS, lives, health, and properties of Las Vegas residents, living an=
d
working along transportation routes will be unnecessarily endangered by
accidents or incidents; and

    WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas will have limited funding for training of
emergency response personnel and for purchase of necessary equipment to
cope with a radiological emergency; and

    WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas does not have the independent resources
required to effectively cope with a radiological disaster that could occu=
r
as a result of radioactive waste transported through Las Vegas; and=20

    WHEREAS, tourism has long been the life-blood of Nevada's economy, with
over half of the estate's economic activity resulting directly or
indirectly from tourism related expenditures; and=20

    WHEREAS, the transportation of nuclear waste through Las Vegas would
diminish the safe and attractive image the city now conveys, poses a
possible health risk to potential visitors and would damage the city and
state's economy; and

    WHEREAS, the production of both high- and low- level waste continues,
transportation to either an interim or permanent repository does nothing =
to
solve the nuclear waste problem in our country; and=20

    WHEREAS, the city of Las Vegas supports basing nuclear waste disposal
decisions that will impact future generations on sound science, long term
safety considerations and a thorough evaluation of all possible options; =
and=20

    WHEREAS, at or near reactor above-ground monitored retrievable dry cask
storage technology can be used to safely and economically store high-leve=
l
radioactive wastes on site for at least 100 years;=20

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Council of the City Of Las
Vegas as follows:

SECTION 1: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas oppose all
legislation that would require or allow transportation of all radioactive
waste near or through the City of Las Vegas;

SECTION 2: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas support at reacto=
r,
on-site storage of high-level nuclear waste and a shift in funding to fin=
d
a scientifically defensible and publicly acceptable method of disposal;

SECTION 3: That the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas support the
research and use of alternative renewable energy sources;

SECTION 4:  That radioactive waste and nuclear waste, as referred to in
this Resolution, is principally intended to include fuel materials utiliz=
ed
in nuclear power production.  This Resolution does not relate to
radioactive materials used, in the City of Las Vegas, for medical
applications, industrial radiography and personal purposes such as time
pieces or smoke detectors;=20

SECTION 5: That in opposition to legislation  that would allow the
transportation, storage or production of spent nuclear fuel, high-level
nuclear waste, and low-level radioactive waste within the City of Las
Vegas, the mayor and City Council of Las Vegas designate the City of Las
Vegas as a Nuclear Free Zone.


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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
Date: 07 Sep 2000 22:27:15 -0700

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NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING

October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia

Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.

http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


You are invited to join us in the heart of the beautiful but fragile Great Basin Desert to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns, Celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and help build a strong and unified Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin.


The Great Basin bio region is a beautiful, diverse and fragile areas stretching through five states. Home to strong indigenous people and cultures, high mountainous alpine lakes and forests, as well as many endangered and threatened plants and wildlife. Sadly, this land has experienced the deadly effects of nuclear weapons testing as well as the disposal of radioactive and toxic waste in leaking dumps.


Man made low level radiation causes cancer, premature aging, immune system suppression, birth defects and genetic mutations. Daily shipments of nuclear and hazardous materials travel on our roads and railways to be dumped in the Great Basin.


A serious nuclear accident could cause deaths and sickness, irreversibly contaminating large areas, and the U.S. has plans to continue and expand the radioactive assault on our air, water and land.


Now is the time to create a Nuclear Free Great Basin. Together we can work effectively with other regional Nuclear Free alliances to change nuclear policies, protecting Mother Earth and our future generations.


NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING

Current Schedule


FRIDAY, OCT 6TH:  Registration; Welcome to Newe Sogobia and Nevada Test Site and weekend orientation; National and International Nuclear Free Campaigns, successes and failures. Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team Action


SATURDAY, OCT 7TH: Nuclear issues within the Great Basin, panel discussion and strategizing workshop; Indigenous issues within the Great Basin, panel discussion and workshop; Strategy proposals for Great Basin Nuclear Free Campaign, discussion; Concert and Celebration


SUNDAY, OCT 8TH: Create time-line for Great Basin Nuclear Free Campaign, workshops; Building an Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin,

workshop; Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team Action


MONDAY, OCT 9TH: Convoy to Yucca Mountain Sunrise Ceremony at the base of Yucca Mountain Rally and Yucca Mountain Citizens

Inspection Team Action; Final plenary evaluation meeting held at Yucca Mountain


Daily Sunrise Ceremonies and Sweatlodges will be held. Meals and water will be provided Be prepared for Desert Camping, hot days and cool nights

Donations are accepted to cover costs


For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai Network, and Citizen Alert

http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


The Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering will be held in solidarity with the October 7th Actions to stop the Ballistic Missile Defense system.

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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Upcoming Southwestern Nuclear Free Actions and Gatherings and
Date: 07 Sep 2000 22:27:49 -0700

Hello Friends,


We hope this letter finds you well. Thank you for all your individual actions to help protect Mother Earth!


Wow! What a summer it has been! We are writing to let you know about some upcoming events that Shundahai Network will be participating in, and invite you to join as well. We are also including a short summery of our summer activities at the end for those who are interested.


Of course you can find all of this information and much more, including: Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste; an impressive media archive on nuclear related articles; nuclear weapons testing and the Nevada Test Site; Western Shoshone, Big Mountain, Uwa and other Indigenous issues; national and international nonviolent direct actions; genetically modified and irradiated foods; lots of photos, flyers and fact sheets; on our web site at http://www.shundahai.org


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Upcoming Events:


September 15th: Las Vegas public speaking event and press conference with Ralph Nader and Corbin Harney. For more information please call Shundahai Network [phone]


September 22nd-23rd: Te'wa Women's United Gathering for Mother Earth.  This is an annual gathering of Indigenous people around Los Alamos. A spirit run to the gates of Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory will take place. For more information please call: 505-474-7100


September 30th: Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day. We deserve a clean and healthy environment for our families and children, but not all decisions makers have our families futures in mind. Special interest dollars and corporate powers are drowning out the publics voice when it comes to critical decisions shaping the future of our state. We must join together to fight for clean water, air and land, An amazingly diverse coalition of Nevadan environmental groups has formed to organize exciting events across the state. JOIN US in celebrating the precious splendor of Nevada and educating people about how they can protect it. In Northern Nevada please contact Citizen Alert [phone];


In Southern Nevada, "Nevada is Not a Wasteland" Day will be celebrated from Noon - 8PM at Morrell Park in Henderson. For information you can contact Shundahai Network [phone], Citizen Alert (702)  796-5662 http://www.shundahai.org.


October 6th-9th: Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering,  Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia, Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of Las Vegas, NV.  You are invited to the heart of the beautiful but fragile Great Basin Desert to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns, Celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and help build a strong and unified Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin. There will be an early morning ceremony and rally at Yucca Mountain it's self with a possible Citizen Inspection Team action. For More information please call Shundahai Network [phone] http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html


October 7th: International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. Vandenberg Air force Base, CA and at other locations around the world. Help us say, "No Star Wars! Keep Space for Peace!" Organize a local event in solidarity. For more information please call Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space [phone] http://www.space4peace.org/http://www.space4peace.org/


October 16th: A Day without the Pentagon. Regional nonviolent direct actions. In Las Vegas, NV there will be an event at Nellis Air force Base including prayers for peace and safety and a Citizen Inspection Team. For more information please call Nevada Desert Experience [phone]


We would love to see you attend one or more of these events, and if you are interested in helping out before-hand, please let us know as soon as

possible. We are particularly needing folks to help with setting up and cleaning Peace Camp for the Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering.


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Shundahai Network Summer Report


After a busy spring when Shundahai Network helped organize the wonderfully successful Mothers Day 2000 Gathering at the Nevada Test Site, and did logistical support for the Western Shoshone National Council Yucca Mountain Gathering and the Western Shoshone Spirit Walk/Run around the test site, we plunged into the hot summer of continued organizational development, coalition and alliance building, outreach, strategic planning and action.


Here are some of the activities that have kept us busy throughout the summer:


Shundahai Network provided logistical support for the Western Shoshone National Gathering at Crescent Valley, NV, and the Indigenous Environmental Network's annual Protecting Mother Earth Gathering held in Brownsville, TX.


Members of Shundahai Network attended the National Rainbow Gathering in Jackson, Montana. Conducted workshops on Nuclear Waste Dangers and

Yucca Mountain in the Activist Camp. Distributed hundreds of nuclear information flyers.


We did a nonviolence training for Las Vegas activists in preparation for the Democratic National Convention, held in Los Angeles in

August.


We were at the core of a wonderfully diverse coalition of Nevada Environmental organizations that begun preparations for the Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day event here in Las Vegas.


We did a mailing to over three hundred activists and organizers inviting them to participate in a strategic planning session to be held at the Nuclear Free Great Basin gathering in October.


Shundahai Network continues to provide logistical and organizational development support for an exciting new Las Vegas organization, Nevadans Organizing To Better Address Diversity.


Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone elder and Executive Director of Shundahai Network, has been working on his next book and video through most of this summer. As well, he has continually has been on an ongoing outreach and educational tour though California, Oregon, Idaho  and Northern Nevada communities.  At the end of July he joined other Western Shoshone tribal leaders in a trip to Switzerland to present testimony at a United Nations Human Rights Forum on Genocide.


We attended the Local Affected Units of Government meeting, sponsored by the Department of Energy.  This was an excellent opportunity to speak to government officials- ranging from state to city to tribal, about the dangers of Yucca Mountain.


With Citizen Alert, we supported a media event to welcome the Nuclear Information and Resource Service's cross country mock nuclear waste cask tour. This event were covered by every local TV station, two radio stations and one newspaper. The coverage on TV ran throughout the weekend.


August 6th we commemorated the bombing of Hiroshima with a vigil and ceremony at the Nevada Test Site.  Never Again.


Members of Shundahai Network participated in the 2nd annual nonviolent direct action at Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, organized by Peace Action and held on August 9th, Nagasaki Day.


The Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas issued a proclamation declaring Sept. 30th, Nevada Is Not A Wasteland Day, and commending

the Nevada organizations who have been a driving force behind keeping nuclear waste out of Nevada.


Shundahai Network sponsored a group of 11 Nevadan activists (and Citizen Alert's Life Sized Mock Nuclear Waste Cask) who traveled to Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention and demonstrations. We were able to speak to thousands of people; protestors, delegates and media.  We did one radio interview and five newspaper interviews.  We generated articles in the Las Vegas papers, as well as inspiring a comic strip in the LA weekly.  With the mock nuclear waste cask continually moving around the city and participating in rallies, marches and parades, we were able to highlight nuclear issues facing the country today.  (You can see some of the media coverage we received by visiting our web page at http://www.shundahai.org)


Shundahai Network activists organized vigil and demonstration on August 18th to protest a subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 5" at the Nevada Test Site.


Corbin and other members of Shundahai Network participated in and helped facilitate the Seventh Generation Funds Sustainable Communities Gathering in Oklahoma and the Great Lakes Nuclear Free Action Training Camp in Michigan.


Shundahai Network was the driving force behind the successful campaign to get the City of Las Vegas to declare it's self a Nuclear Free Zone! on Sept 6. 2000.


Current News: Susi Snyder, community outreach coordinator for Shundahai Network, was singled out and arrested this spring during a nonviolent direct action at the Nevada Test Site to stop subcritical nuclear weapons test code named "Oboe 3". After a full trial before a Nye County Justice of the Peace she was found guilty and sentenced to 10 day in jail and $450 fine which is unheard of for an action at the test site, especially when Susi did not do anything differently then the other 8 activists arrested that day. Susi appealed her sentence but recently found out that her appeal was denied. To find out how you might help Susi, please call her at [phone]

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Date: 07 Sep 2000 22:51:04 -0700



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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DC preparations for Global Peace Walk 2000
Date: 08 Sep 2000 01:19:19 -0700

-----------important forwarded post from walk co-coordinator now in DC---

---[please forward to your lists, contacts, discussion and newsgroups]---


Dear friends,

   The Global Peace Walk 2000 has walked 2000 miles by reaching Columbus,
Ohio this last Friday.  We started from the UN's birthplace in San Francisco
January 15th...we have journeyed through and past Vandenberg Air Force Base,
CA, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, Las Vegas casinos,
Big Mountain and the Hopi land, AZ, the Glen Canyon Dam, Phoenix, AZ, New
Mexico, the Oklahoma City Federal Bombsite, Kansas, fasted for Leonard
Peltier for 4 days, prayed at Crow Dog's Paradise Sun Dance in South Dakota,
walked eastward through the Westward Expansion Monument in St. Louis, MO,
and received the keys to City of Indianapolis with Reverend Chief John Crow
Dog, and we are scheduled to arrive in Pittsburgh on September 15th.  We are
coming into Washington October 5th...and on the 12th we will begin walking
again north through Baltimore, Philly, and to NYC and to the UN for its 55th
Anniversary and bring emphasis back to its original charter...because what
has happened in these 55 years is not "United Nations": there is pollution,
war, relocations in all directions.  We carry a Future Generations' Prayer.

   We are concerned about our future.  We are concerned about our human
life.  The earth is suffering, the water is polluted, the fire has become
all gas and electricity (traditional cultures struggle to survive), now the
air is polluted, and the human being's higher mind is becoming noise.  Thus
a peace walk to restore the spiritual relationship between the human being
and the elements, to use the symbolism of Year 2000 AD in the right way.
Through the medium of walking for peace, we are carrying messages that the
walking enables us to communicate.  We are carrying All Our Relations Land
and Life survival issues raised to a prayer for Global Peace and respect for
old cultures' way of life.  Different individuals and groups have brought us
their messages and we serve to carry them across the country, gathering
energy in order to properly deliver them on the East Coast. This globe is
our house and altar.  Old and New culture's way of life in the sustainable
manner must be able to bring knowledge of mind and symbol of peace to
protect our Land and Life and keep balance and harmony: as human beings this
is our Global Responsibility.

   "Global Peace Now!" unites so many different issues.  We are relating
nuclear weapons, indigenous peoples' land and life cultural survival
(Leonard Peltier, Big Mountain, Chiapas, Burma, Vieques, Yucca Mountain,
U'wa, Ogoni), environmental pollution and degredation, animal species
extinctions, climate and geologic shifts, hemp and the drug war, as issues
that relate directly to Global Peace, as issues that violate Global Peace
and issues that taken all together and inextricably relate to a Global
Emergency.  There is an obvious parallel between the extinctions of
traditional cultures and the breakdown of ecological systems.  Leonard
Peltier is a man and he is a symbol of the separation of Land and Life.  His
freedom is our freedom as a society.  When we say Global Peace Now! this
also means Free Leonard!  We are going to the roots, to the consciousness,
to the society because the parts won't change without the whole because the
same problems are all over the world and also with your next neighbor.

   Our literature clearly states these issues and still we receive  the
endorsement of mayors and governors and senators from one side of the USA to
the other because we connect these issues to the need to develop spiritually
united nations and pray for Global Peace.  We also carry the support of many
NGO's and diverse spiritual communities.  Everybody thinks Global Peace is a
good idea and we are honored to broaden the debate!  This could be very
interesting especially if we could catch it on to the newsmedia, to make
paper promises into reality.  The Global Peace Walk is continuing the spirit
from other cross-continental walks: the Trail of Broken Treaties 1972, the
Longest Walk 1978, the Long Walk for Survival 1980, Great Peace March 1986,
the Walk Across America for Mother Earth, 1992, the UN's 50th Global Peace
Walk 1995.  This walk was initiated by a Soto-Zen Buddhist monk from Japan,
named Reverend Yusen Yamato. In the next week, the walk will be joined to
completion by Chief Leonard Crow Dog and 5 chiefs from Canadian tribes.
Many other chiefs and spiritual leaders will be joining closer to
Washington.  During the events in Washington and New York, it will be these
spiritual elders who will be leading because as Native American Indian
issues are addressed in this country, all related Global Peace issues will
also rise up.

   Tentatively we plan to make our opening ceremony at the National
Cathedral on October 6th, then we join the Global Network Against Weapons
and Nuclear Power in Space in LaFayette Park October 7th, then October 8th
at sunrise we are going to keep on a movement since 1992 to rededicate the
symbolic center of the Nation from the Washington Monument to the original
center of the Jefferson Stone and thus rededicate the center to balance and
peace.  There will be another sunrise ceremony on the 9th and a music
concert, and then on Indigenous Peoples' Day, the 12th, American Indian
Chiefs and Buddhist monks want to meet President Clinton.  All this energy
builds to walk up the East Coast having a series of gatherings and
conferences at Swarthmore College, PA and Princeton University, NJ, and then
culminate with a parade/vigil and Spiritual Environmental Summit at the UN
on October 23rd-24th.

   We need your material and spiritual help please!  We need help
coordinating, networking, publicizing, hosting, supporting, and fundraising.
We would like to arrange meetings with NGO's and the Government for elders
who wish to do so.  We would like to arrange a conference.  If somebody with
experience wants to stand up and take on a project like setting-up a
conference, please get in contact!  Many Indian people of Western tribes
could come to these events if resources could be raised (in just a short
time!), coming from Dine'h, Lakota, Shoshone, Ponca, Hopi, Iriquois, Pueblo
Nations.  A good way would be through donations of frequent flyers miles.
Eastern tribes can probably use cars which means we need to raise gas money
and also probably some plane tickets.  Donations can be done on-line: our
website is www.globalpeacenow.org.  (please link-it-up!)
  Thank you.
  Global Peace Now!
  All my relations,

  Your friend and supporter,

  Crispin Clarke, walk co-coordinator
 (staying on the East Coast through September and October)
  [e-mail]
  202 244 3407 and -7373 (fax)
  4841 Tilden St, NW
  Washington, D.C. 20016

  In NYC, Kylian Robinson  718 832 1963**

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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/08 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 08 Sep 2000 07:48:14 -0400

1)  Daybook, Washington Times and AFP, September 8, 2000
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200098212048.htm

     9:30 a.m. =97 Government Reform, national security, veterans affairs,
and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing on National
Missile Defense: Test Failures and Technology Development. Location: 2154
Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

2) Presidential Candidates

- Al Gore -      =20
    10:40 a.m. =97 Discusses the importance of job training, Student Life
Center, Building 7, Delgado Community College, New Orleans.
      7:10 p.m. =97 Addresses a Democratic National Committee dinner, Hyatt
Regency Hotel, Atlanta.

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- George W. Bush - Warrendale PA and Springfield MO
    8:30 a.m. - Social Security Reform, Marconi Communications, 1000 Fore
Drive, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, [phone]=20
    10:45 a.m. -  Missouri Victory 2000 rally, DMP (Digital Monitoring
Products) Hanger, Springfield/Branson Regional Airport, 2823 North General
Aviation Avenue, Springfield, Missouri, [phone]=20

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- Ralph Nader - Santa Fe and Farmington, New Mexico
    9:45 - 10:30 AM - Press Conference,  Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo De
Palarta, Santa Fe, NM=20
    4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Speech/Rally, Henderson Fine Arts Center, San Juan
College,  4601 College Blvd, Farmington, NM=20

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3)  Announcements

- PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Susi Snyder=20
September 6, 2000 702-647-3095

LAS VEGAS DECLARED NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE
This morning the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas passed resolution
R-85-2000, declaring Las Vegas a Nuclear Free Zone. This resolution opposes
legislation that would allow the transportation, storage or production of
spent nuclear fuel, high-level nuclear waste, and low-level radioactive
waste within the City of Las Vegas. The resolution also supports the on
site storage of spent nuclear fuel, a shift in federal funding for nuclear
waste disposal studies, and the research and use of alternative renewable
energy sources.


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From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) SURVEY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EXPOSES DIFFERENCES ON
Date: 08 Sep 2000 09:09:40 -0400

Dear Friends,

Alice Slater sent out the results of our survey by religious leaders of
presidential candidates on nuclear disarmament issues.  If anyone would
like the survey report as an attachment in Word format, please let me know.
We also have Ralph Nader's answers to the ten questions in the same format.

As you study the replies, you will note that Vice President Gore and
Governor Bush failed to answer

Howard Hallman


Howard W. Hallman, Chair
Methodists United for Peace with Justice
1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone/fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]

Methodists United for Peace with Justice is a membership association of
laity and clergy.  It has no affiliation with any Methodist denomination.

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Nuclear Story
Date: 08 Sep 2000 13:25:23 -0400

Dear Friends,
Here's a signficant shift in the law regarding burden of proof.

>>Nuclear Reaction
>>
>>  How a key ruling re-energized a firm's
>>  foundering cancer crusade
>>
>>  Gail Diane Cox
>>  The Recorder
>>  September 6, 2000
>>
>>
>>
>>  It's one thing to lose a case. It's another
>>  to lose after a six-week federal trial that
>>  took just three hours for a jury to decide
>>  -- unanimously.
>>
>>  Worse yet, this debacle in March 1998 was
>>  the third straight trial failure in a
>>  campaign by Los Angeles' Howarth &
>>  Smith to hold the San Onofre Nuclear
>>  Generating Station responsible for
>>  leukemia that had stricken a handful of
>>  people who had been in or around the
>>  plant in the mid-1980s.
>>
>>  "The jurors we interviewed afterward from
>>  all three juries told us exactly the same
>>  thing," litigator Don Howarth recalls. They
>>  could not -- as required by a jury
>>  instruction -- conclude that in a universe
>>  full of radiation, a particular ray from
>>  leaking fuel rods at San Onofre had
>>  actually caused the frequently fatal form
>>  of leukemia.
>>
>>  "We'd spent years of trying to prove the
>>  impossible," Howarth says. "Medical
>>  science can't prove exactly which of many
>>  potential causes triggers a cancer, and
>>  that's another way of saying that given
>>  those jury instructions, the plaintiff can't
>>  win."
>>
>>  After that third trial on behalf of cancer
>>  victims and their survivors, Howarth and
>>  his partner, Suzelle Smith, convened the
>>  plaintiffs, including those in four similar
>>  pending suits. They then laid out a
>>  double-or-nothing strategy: Unless they
>>  could convince the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
>>  of Appeals to change the jury instruction
>>  regarding causation, they would have to
>>  give up.
>>
>>  On July 20, climaxing Howarth's
>>  seven-year crusade, a 9th Circuit panel
>>  changed the instruction. The third case
>>  can be retried, and all future cases can go
>>  to trial, under a drastically lowered
>>  standard for tort liability.
>>
>>  "This is the first appellate ruling in a
>>  nuclear power plant case in 25 years --
>>  that is, the first since Silkwood -- that
>>  does not further insulate the industry
>>  from liability," Smith says.
>>
>>  "I remember opening the envelope from
>>  the court," Howarth adds, "and, when I
>>  quit going 'wow,' yelling out to her that
>>  justice delayed is still justice achieved."
>>
>>  The new instruction requires a plaintiff to
>>  show only that exposure to radiation "in
>>  reasonable medical probability was a
>>  substantial factor" contributing to the risk
>>  of developing cancer. At its broadest, it
>>  substitutes "risk" for "actual cause." And
>>  the court noted in Kennedy v. Southern
>>  California Edison Co., 98-56157, that the
>>  chance of increased risk theoretically
>>  could be as small as one in 100,000 for a
>>  jury to find liability.
>>
>>  Industrial concerns were quick to oppose
>>  the ruling. The California Chamber of
>>  Commerce, the American Chemistry
>>  Council and the National Association of
>>  Manufacturers are among those urging
>>  reconsideration.
>>
>>  "If unmodified, liability for alleged injury
>>  associated with exposure to chemical
>>  products will be virtually unlimited," reads
>>  an amicus brief that Los Angeles' Gibson,
>>  Dunn & Crutcher submitted on their
>>  behalf. Citing the risk to the California
>>  economy, the brief, also representing
>>  Lockheed Martin Corp., Phillips Petroleum
>>  and Pfizer Inc., concludes that Kennedy is
>>  a "fundamental reordering of ... a
>>  plaintiff's burden of proof."
>>
>>  If the unanimous panel headed by Judge
>>  Michael Hawkins holds its ground, and the
>>  9th Circuit doesn't intervene en banc,
>>  both sides agree the U.S. Supreme Court
>>  comes next.
>>
>>  Howarth insists he isn't worried about
>>  facing the combined forces of Los
>>  Angeles-based firms Paul, Hastings,
>>  Janofsky & Walker and Munger, Tolles &
>>  Olson, representing Southern California
>>  Edison Co. in addition to Gibson, Dunn.
>>  Ironically, years ago it might have been
>>  him, rather than Gibson, Dunn partner
>>  Robert Loewen, who wrote the amicus
>>  brief challenging the Kennedy ruling.
>>
>>  Loewen, from Gibson Dunn's Irvine, Calif.,
>>  office, notes that Howarth built a career at
>>  Gibson Dunn defending asbestos cases.
>>  "You can bet Don wouldn't have thought
>>  much of this jury instruction then," he
>>  says.
>>
>>  But in 1985, Howarth earned himself a
>>  footnote in the annals of law firm heresy
>>  when he became the first partner to leave
>>  Gibson Dunn to strike out on his own,
>>  taking three promising associates, one of
>>  whom was Smith. At the time, he didn't
>>  express a burning desire to represent
>>  plaintiffs but rather to escape big-firm
>>  bureaucracy, which he complained was
>>  "risk averse."
>>
>>  By 1993, the date of the first San Onofre
>>  filing, Howarth & Smith had a statewide
>>  reputation for beguiling juries. But with
>>  fewer than 20 lawyers, the decision to
>>  take on the nuclear power industry -- on
>>  contingency -- was a sizable risk. Each
>>  trial has cost about $500,000, Smith
>>  notes, and that doesn't include several
>>  million dollars worth of lawyer hours
>>  expended over the years.
>>
>>  No one disputes that San Onofre's
>>  operators identified some 100 defective
>>  fuel rods in 1983 and chose to wait 18
>>  months until the next scheduled overhaul
>>  to replace them. The Nuclear Regulatory
>>  Commission levied a $100,000 fine for
>>  safety violations. Located 40 miles north
>>  of San Diego, the Southern California
>>  Edison plant generates 20 percent of
>>  Southern California's electricity.
>>
>>  The first plaintiff was R.C. Tang, who
>>  worked for the Nuclear Regulatory
>>  Commission at San Onofre for two years.
>>  In her case, and the subsequent cases
>>  that Howarth & Smith filed, the cancer was
>>  chronic myelogenous leukemia. It is a
>>  blood disease seen in survivors of the
>>  atomic attacks on Hiroshima and
>>  Nagasaki. Although the only known cause
>>  is radiation exposure, the latency period
>>  can be so long that many victims have no
>>  record of contamination.
>>
>>  The Tang jury hung in February 1994. The
>>  case settled confidentially.
>>
>>  The second plaintiff was Glen "Jimmy"
>>  James, an electrical engineer at the plant.
>>  The defense argued in both cases that
>>  the plaintiffs' exposure was less than has
>>  been designated acceptable in
>>  industrywide standards. Howarth and
>>  Smith failed to score with their
>>  counterargument that the exposure was
>>  underestimated because it didn't include
>>  "fuel fleas" -- microscopic but dense
>>  fragments that are a byproduct of leaking
>>  rods and that arguably can lodge in hair
>>  and clothing, and even meandering cats,
>>  to follow workers home and irradiate their
>>  families and neighborhoods.
>>
>>  In the Kennedy case, the victim was
>>  married to a man who worked at San
>>  Onofre. She died of chronic myelogenous
>>  leukemia in 1996. The widower and their
>>  four children sued, and if this summer's
>>  9th Circuit opinion holds, they qualify for
>>  a second chance to show that Southern
>>  California Edison as well as the
>>  manufacturer of the rods are to blame for
>>  her death.
>>
>>  The four remaining lawsuits on file are a
>>  mix of claims by former workers with
>>  cancer and their widows.
>>
>>  Next time, Howarth and Smith won't have
>>  to rely so heavily on fuel fleas. As the
>>  amicus brief notes, "acceptable" risk
>>  levels established in 1986 by regulators
>>  for operating nuclear power plants --
>>  formerly a slam-dunk defense -- exceed
>>  the one-in-100,000 range the court
>>  articulated in Kennedy.
>>
>>  Led by John Reding at the San Francisco
>>  office of Los Angeles-based Paul
>>  Hastings, the defendants are focusing on
>>  the Price-Anderson Act, in which Congress
>>  said nuclear power plant cases are to be
>>  tried in federal courts under the
>>  substantive law of the state where the
>>  alleged tort took place. Congress
>>  intended uniformity. The defense argues
>>  that other federal courts have required
>>  actual causation for radiation tort liability.
>>
>>  The amicus brief opposing the 9th Circuit
>>  ruling focuses on the court's reliance on
>>  Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois Inc., 16 Cal.
>>  4th 953, an asbestos case that sets a
>>  strict liability standard. Rutherford was
>>  different from Kennedy, they maintain,
>>  because in Rutherford, causation was
>>  already established, and the jury used
>>  risk merely to allocate blame among
>>  multiple manufacturers.
>>
>>  And what if, as Don Howarth maintains,
>>  medical science can't be definitive enough
>>  to prove causation for radiation-linked
>>  cancers?
>>
>>  "Sounds like a reason not to assign
>>  liability," Loewen replies.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                                   Howarth & Smith's Dan
>>                                   Howarth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: DOEisms from DNFSB weeklies, Hanford's laissez faire
Date: 08 Sep 2000 18:05:27 -0400

>Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 16:48:44 -0400
>Subject: DOEisms from DNFSB weeklies, Hanford's laissez faire management, Oak
Ridge's fait
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>U.S.A. Today's three part series exposing more nuclear negligence in the
>U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program properly points out that today's nuclear
>weapons production activities are far safer than those found at commercial
>contractor sites. However, a casual review of recent Department of Energy
>Nuclear Weapons Complex oversight reports suggests that not as much has
>changed in terms of attitude since the 1950's as DOE would have us believe.
>At best, safety attitudes have certainly not kept pace with progress in
>safety technology.
>
>The last month of weekly reports from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
>Board (http://www.dnfsb.gov/weekly.html) shows resistance to meeting safety
>criteria for storing plutonium, reluctance to incorporate undesirable data
>at Oak Ridge, nuclear safety oversight from cushy offices at Hanford,
>
>From Hanford, 8/4/00, is a narrative that suggests that office safety is
>taken as seriously, or more seriously than nuclear safety, and engineers
>overseeing safety are comfortable with procedures that do not require
>hands-on safety checks:
>
>"A Site Rep review of all the assessments, appraisals, and surveillances,
>performed by DOE-Richland over the last 3 quarters found that nearly all
>the reviews had been conducted by facility representatives. The Office for
>Engineering and Standards did not perform any reviews. The Analysis and
>Evaluation (A&E) division only conducted 11 reviews. Lack of resources is
>the
>excuse for the low number of reviews. With resources so tight, it was
>surprising that reviews of
>office safety and a safety leadership course were among the highest
>priorities. Many of the
>technical reviews were in response to Board inquiries (i.e., readiness
>reviews, welding quality
>assurance). The absence of field assessments is reflected in the scarcity
>of facility entries by
>DOE engineering staff. During the last 10 months, the average Engineering
>staff had only 1.8
>entries, and the Occupational Health and Safety and the Nuclear Safety team
>members were
>considerably lower. Unfortunately, a review of Engineering procedures found
>that nearly all the
>responsibilities can be met without ever leaving the Federal building. The
>repeated response
>from the Engineering organization is that they will go to the field if
>asked, but will not do so on their own initiative to oversee their area of
>expertise. (1-B,1-C)"
>
>go to http://www.dnfsb.gov/weekly/hanford/hd2000.htm
>
>Also at Hanford, 8/11/00, it has been discovered that Transuranic Waste
>Drums that are unvented can reach explosive concentrations at a frequency
>more than ten times greater than Hanford's official estimates. The official
>estimate is 0.46% of drums while the real world shows 5%.
>
>From Oak Ridge, The Defense Boad reported on July 28 in regard to the
>ongoing efforts to startup Enrich Uranium Operations (EUO) Reduction
>Operations that management "is practicing what can best be described as
>ôfaith-based managementö and seems resistive to exercising technical
>inquisitiveness and operational formality...Underlying the above symptoms
>appears to be a deep-seated belief that there is no safety hazard
>associated with this operation and the above questions/concerns are
>superfluous." The Rep cites three instances where safety managers are only
>using data that supports their contentions while ignoring conflicting
>data.
>
>From Savannah River Site is the ongoing saga of reduced efforts to make
>plutonium storage as safe as possible. On 8/11/00 the site rep reported
>that, "DOE-Savannah River is currently unwilling to commit to meeting the
>Interim Safe Storage Criteria (ISSC)" regarding the storage of plutonium
>metal and oxides at SRS. DOE jettisoned plans for new safe storage
>facilities about a year ago, and has pursued storing plutonium metals and
>oxides in shipping containers within the old K Reactor as well as upgrading
>a storage facility in the F Canyon (Building 235-F).
>The Defense board rep noted that "The long-term lack of a technical basis
>for current storage conditions was a DOE finding in the recent FB-Line Type
>B Investigation." SRS was just fined $222,000 for  contaminating several
>workers with plutonium last year during FB Line plutonium operations.
>
>
>--- Donald Moniak
>--- [e-mail]
>--- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
>

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/09 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 09 Sep 2000 18:18:50 -0400

[NucNews archives have been updated through August 31, 2000 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.  et]

Announcements

- Message from Andres Thomas Conteris <mailto:[e-mail]>, who's
been fasting for Vieques since July 25th.  "Please take action by coming to
Washington on Friday, Sept. 22, 2000 at noon, Lafayette Park across from the
White House for the National Day in Solidarity with the People of Vieques.=
 If
President Clinton does not grant the long-requested meeting prior to then,=
 the
fast will enter Day 60 with 40 on water-only. If you cannot make it to
Washington, plan to go to New York City on Saturday October 21, 2000 for a
March for Peace in Vieques. For details see: www.viequesfast.org "=20

- Coordinating meeting for the Global Peace Walk 2000 - D.C.- next=
 Wednesday,
September 13th at 6pm @ The Gray Panther Office, 711 8th St., NW. The
submission deadline for many publications is Sept. 15th and so we need to
ground the schedule. We need help!=20
        Around October 4th or 5th, the walk will be arriving, crossing over=
 the
Memorial Bridge. Thus we will be discussing how to gather people to walk
together and how to best communicate the many messages/angles that comprise
"Global Peace Now!"=20
        We will also talk of a big ceremony/action/prayer day for Columbus=
 Day,
October 9th...how to get a big circle of people to hold hands around the
Washington Monument in a universal human resolve for "Global Peace Now!" We
would also like to put on a concert.=20
        After October 12th, Indigenous Peoples' Day, we will head up the=
 East
Coast Corridor to the UN by October 23rd and 24th and create a Spiritual
Environemental Summit of indigenous elders and environmental NGO's.  --
[Crispin Clarke, walk co-coordinator, 202 244 3407, -7373 fax,
mailto:[e-mail]]

- WILPF NY Metro is organizing a seminar on  National Missile Defense: From=
 the
Local to the Global - WHEN: September 16, 2000; 11:00am - 4:00pm=20
WHERE: New School Graduate Faculty Building, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 5th
Avenue, New York City  - [Stephanie Fraser <mailto:[e-mail]>=20

- LAS VEGAS DECLARED NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE
On September 7, 2000, the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas passed=
 resolution
R-85-2000, declaring Las Vegas a Nuclear Free Zone. This resolution opposes
legislation that would allow the transportation, storage or production of=
 spent
nuclear fuel, high-level nuclear waste, and low-level radioactive waste=
 within
the City of Las Vegas. The resolution also supports the on site storage of
spent nuclear fuel, a shift in federal funding for nuclear waste disposal
studies, and the research and use of alternative renewable energy sources.=
=20
[Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:47:34 -0700 <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- The Institute of Medicine report which includes a discussion of depleted
uranium can be read online by going to http://www.nap.edu, entering 'Gulf=
 War'
in the title search, and then clicking on the title of the report. The=
 report
recommends a substantial amount of research on the health effects of DU, in
addition to better exposure estimates. And so the debate continues. [From:
Daniel Fahey <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- SURVEY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EXPOSES DIFFERENCES ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS;
Bush and Gore Fail to Answer Morality Question
        WASHINGTON, DC =AD On behalf of 48 religious leaders from a=
 cross-section
of faith groups, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and United Methodist=
 Bishop
C. Dale White have released a new ten question survey of presidential
candidates on nuclear weapons and disarmament. Replies from George W. Bush,=
 Al
Gore, and Ralph Nader reveal policy differences on several issues. Only=
 Nader
answered all ten questions of the survey. Neither Reform Party candidate
responded. The complete survey results are available online at
http://www.umc-gbcs.org/whatsnew.htm . [CONTACT: Adam Eidinger or Howard
Hallman, 202-986-6186 or 301-896-0013.]

- Harry Browne for President, Libertarian Party
http://www.harrybrowne2000.org/ [Carol Moore=
 <mailto:[e-mail]>]


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/11 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 11 Sep 2000 08:52:00 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 11, 2000, Agence France Presse
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000911212517.htm
(No "nuclear" events.)

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES --

- George W. Bush
        12:30 p.m. - Visit with senior citizens, Top of the World Senior
Center,
Reaction Center, 2069 World Parkway Boulevard, Clearwater, Florida 33763
        6:15 p.m. - Airport welcome, Galaxy Aviation, 3800 Southern  Boulevard,
West Palm Beach, 561-683-4121

- Al Gore - Schedule unknown; You may fax scheduling requests to [phone]

- Ralph Nader next two weeks
Tuesday, Sept 12:
        Ralph Nader on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Wednesday, Sept 13 - Los Angeles , CA
        6:00 - 8:00 PM - Fundraising Reception with Ralph, Home of Carol and
Frank Biondi,110 North Rockingham Avenue,  Los Angeles, CA
mailto:[e-mail]
        8:00 PM - Nader Speech at University of Southern, California,  Bovard
Auditorium, doors open at 7:30 PM, Campus Contacts: Minta Ershaghi,
310-245-0255 and  Todd Chretien, 510-333-4604

Thursday, Sept 14 - San Francisco and San Jose CA
         2:00 PM - Nader Speech at San Francisco State University, McKenna
Theatre Campus;  Contacts: Leticia Arellano, 415-346-8418 and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604
        7 PM - Nader Speech at San Jose State University, Morris Dailey
Auditorium; Campus Contacts: Dale Weaver, 408-504-5504  and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604

Saturday, Sept 16 - Mystic, CT
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Talk on Renewable Energy and  Reception with Winona
LaDuke,  CT Coalition Against Millstone Storefront, 13 Water Street, Contact:
860-572-7551

Sunday, Sept 17 - Boston, MA
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Reception with Winona LaDuke, Boston, Massachusetts,
For more info and to RSVP mailto:[e-mail]

Wednesday, Sept 20 -  Madison, WI
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Reception with Ralph Nader, Madison Civic Center
Starlight Room, 211 State Street,  Madison, WI, RSVP to Robert McChesney
mailto:[e-mail]

Friday, September 22 - Minneapolis, MN
        5:30 - 7 PM - Reception with Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, Target
Center Hospitality Suite, for more info and to RSVP mailto:[e-mail]
        7:00 PM - The Target Center - SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader with Michael
Moore, 600 First Avenue North (downtown Minneapolis), Doors open 5 pm.  For
tickets contact: [phone] or visit the  campaign office, evenings, at
1029 Washington Ave. South http://www.MNGreens.org

Saturday, Sept. 23 - Seattle, WA
        5:30 to 7 PM - Reception with Ralph Nader & Jim Hightower, Private Room
at Key Arena Seattle, WA, For more info mailto:[e-mail]
        7:00 PM - The Key Arena - SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader with Jim Hightower,
Doors open 5 pm. - To order tickets by phone: [phone], To buy in person:
2215 E. Union Street (23rd and,  Union) in Seattle or call [phone] for
other,   distribution outlets. Visit the Seattle Super Rally Webpage!
http://www.voters.net/nader/seaevent.htm

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

-- D.C.

- Help Stop DoE's Plutonium Development for Space by Monday
        Please act by Monday to place your statements on record to the U.S.
Department of Energy (DoE) to stop their development of Plutonium-238 for
space. This direction continues, like Cassini, so clearly stated by Dr. John
Gofman as an act of "organized insanity." With problems like Global Warming,
under nourished people and political instability, this direction for plutonium
is simply irresponsible.         Please place your statements on record by
E-mail, fax and/or telephone by this Monday, September 11.
        SEND COMMENTS TO:  Colette E. Brown, U.S. Department of Energy, NE-50,
19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290; by fax (toll-free) at
1-877/562-4592; by phone (toll-free) at 1-877/562-4593; or by electronic mail
to: [e-mail]
        Please send a copy of your comments to GlobeNet
<[e-mail]>.

- Human Rights in the U.S.: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims
of COINTELPRO, Thursday, September 14, 2000, 1:00 - 5:00 PM, Room 2200 Rayburn
House Office Building
        1:00 - 1:10 Opening of Braintrust and introduction of participants by
Ms. McKinney
        1:10 - 1:45 PM First section of presentations
        Nketchi Taifa, professor of law, Howard Univ. Law School "Overview of
COINTELPRO"
        Kathleen Cleaver, attorney and former Communications Secretary of
Black
Panther Party "Importance of Political Prisoners"
        Michael Tarif Warren, criminal defense attorney, NYC "COINTELPRO
operations against political supporters"
        1:45 - 2:25 PM Video clips of interviews with prisoners ALL POWER
TO THE
PEOPLE interviews with political prisoners Leonard Peltier, Mutulu Shakur, and
Mumia Abu Jamal
        2:30 - 3:30 Presentations about individual political prisoners -
                Bruce Ellison, defense attorney for Leonard Peltier
                Geronimo ji Jaga, former Black Panther leader imprisoned for 28
years due to COINTELPRO action
                Laura Whitehorn, released prisoner engaged in anti-war and
anti-racist
struggles
        3:30 - 5:00 PM Moderator, Ms. McKinney Discussion with audience &
panelists
Audience members who are families of political prisoners, working with
prisoners committees, or attorneys on political cases will be introduced and
allowed to participate in answering questions and making statements as well.

- LET'S BEGIN THE MARCH HOME!
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urges you, your family
and friends to join the Palestine Refugee Return March/Rally in Washington, DC
on September 16, 2000.
To demand an end to five decades of exile;
To demand that Palestinian refugees return to their homes & lands;
To mark the 18th Anniversary of the 1982 Sabra & Shatila massacres
WHEN:
Saturday, September 16, 2000
11-00 AM - 4:00 PM
WHERE: (Freedom Plaza)
For more information contact: Right of Return Task Force Tel:[phone],
e-mail <[e-mail]> or Palestine Right to Return Coalition
http://www.al-awda.org

-- ELSEWHERE:

- NUNS PLOWSHARE ACTION AT SPACE COMMAND
Five women , Carol Gilbert OP, Jackie Hudson OP, Anne Montgomery RSCJ, Liz
Walters IHM, and Ardeth Platte OP, representing three religious orders in the
Catholic Church, naming themselves the SACRED EARTH AND SPACE PLOWSHARES
entered Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs for the purpose of
"hammering swords into plowshares" (Micah 6:8.) Their prophetic action which
commenced at about 10:15 AM, consisted of all five women acting in concert
against a mockup of the Milstar communications satellite and a Warthog A-10
aircraft. In each case the activists hammered on and then poured blood on the
objects of war in question. As they were being arrested they unfurled two
banners which contained an earth -sky logo and an inscription reading "Sacred
Earth & Space Plowshares 2000". They then began to read their statements (cf.
statement below) They were detained by Air Force security and were later taken
into custody by local police and taken to the El Paso County jail. Charges are
pending.  [Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 19:50:33 +0100, From: Elizabeth McAlister
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- NRC OFFICIALS, INDIAN POINT 2 MANAGERS TO DISCUSS PERFORMANCE ISSUES - New
York, September 11, 7 p.m.
     Two high-ranking Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials will meet with
senior managers of the Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant on September 11 to
discuss performance issues at the Buchanan, N.Y., facility. The meeting of
Hubert J. Miller, the NRC's Region I administrator, and Roy Zimmerman, deputy
director of the agency's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, with
Consolidated Edison Company of New York managers follows a decision by NRC
senior managers in May to classify the plant as one that warrants "agency
focus," or heightened scrutiny.
    The meeting, which will be open for public observation, will begin at 7
p.m. at the plant's Energy Education Center, at Broadway and Bleakley Avenue in
Buchanan. NRC officials will remain afterward to answer questions and receive
comments from members of the public.

- http://www.sightings.com
Monday September 11, 10:00pm eastern, the Jeff Rense program will interview Jim
Phelps and me on nuclear weapons workers exposures and other nuclear matters.
You can listen to the show on syndicated radio or via Real Player or Windows
Media from the link above.  [Scott Portzline <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Support the Philly protesters in court on 9/16
     The 400 protesters who were arrested during the Republican Convention will
be appearing in court on three Saturdays in September- the 16th, 23rd, and
30th. We would greatly appreciate any support on those dates. We are scheduled
to appear at the Criminal Justice Building (1301 Filbert) starting at 8am. Many
of the arrests were part of a preemptive strike by the police. We are
essentially being charged with conspiracy to attend a protest. This effort to
criminalize protest effects everyone. Most people who attend protests are given
summary citations. But the city says that we will be prosecuted fully. That's
in addition to being abused in jail and having our property destroyed or
stolen. If you have any questions please feel free to call the R2K Legal
Collective at 215-704-0911, or visit www.phillyimc.org.

- BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY?
A public dialogue on Violence/Non-Violence: Tactics, Strategy and Perspectives
in Political Action
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 7:00 PM AT THE NEW COLLEGE THEATER
777 Valencia Street (between 18th and 19th -- 16th Street BART) in San
Francisco
     Panel presentation with: Alli STARR, Art and Revolution; David HILLIARD,
Black Panther Party; Jackie CABASSO, Western States Legal Foundation; John
SELLERS, Ruckus Society; Rod CORONADO, Animal Liberation Front
     Moderator: Kris WELCH, KPFA Radio
     JOIN us for a public dialogue about non-violence and violence in social
change movements. What is non-violence? When (if ever) is violence justified?
What are the most effective strategies and tactics? What beliefs are in play?
What are the risks? Is property destruction violence?
      Join in a discussion with speakers representing diverse viewpoints and
activist experiences -- from the WTO protest in Seattle to the battles against
whale slaughter on the high seas, from the legacy of the Black Panther Party to
anti-nuclear protests and the practice of non-violent direct action.
     This program is the first in a series of public events exploring movements
for global justice and the environment presented by New College's Center for
Education and Social Action. For more information call [phone] or
contact Philip Klasky at [phone]

- The Fourth Freedom Forum is pleased to announce the publication of IN SEARCH
OF THE FOURTH FREEDOM, by Howard Brembeck.The culmination of twenty years of
reflection on the need for a more lawful, peaceful world, this book offers a
timely and provocative prescription for reducing the threat posed by nuclear
and other weapons of mass destruction.
     I believe that your constituency will be interested in learning about this
book, and I invite you to link to the information page about the the book on
the Fourth Freedom Forum's website. The URL is:
www.fourthfreedom.org/about/insearchof.html
     You may prefer instead to link to the Fourth Freedom Forum's home page at
www.fourthfreedom.org.

- NATIONAL CONVENTION for NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT and PEACE, 11-13 November 2000,
Delhi
     On behalf of the Organising Committee, we would like to invite you/a
representative of your organisation to the National Convention that is going to
be held in New Delhi from 11 to 13 November 2000. Your presence at the
Convention would be especially valuable as a representative of the global peace
movement and the world-wide effort for nuclear restraint and disarmament. It
will give you and peace activists from here an opportunity to share ideas and
experiences. We will provide board, lodging and transport during your stay in
Delhi, including some home-stays.  In Solidarity,
N.D.Jayaprakash, On behalf of the Organising Committee,
National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace,
C/o Delhi Science Forum, B -1, Second Floor, L.S.C., J - Block, Saket, New
Delhi 110017, INDIA
Tel. nos.+91-11-652-4324; [phone]; Telefax: [phone]
E-mail: mailto:[e-mail]

- The winners of the Nuclear Free Future Award 2000:
Resistance: Eugene Bourgeois, Normand de la Chevrotiere, and Robert McKenzie
(Ontario)
Education: Yuri I. Kuidin (Kazakhstan) [who died a few weeks ago]
Solutions: The Barefoot College of Tilonia (India)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Klaus Traube (Germany)
The award ceremony will be held on October 15, 2000, in Berlin, Germany.
See also <http://www.nuclear-free.com> [From: Peter Diehl
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- ACTION ALERT:
Contact NBC and CNN to Call for Inclusive Debates
     A previous FAIR action alert (8/25/00) called on citizens to urge the
Commission on Presidential Debates to include viable third-party presidential
candidates. Now, media activists and pro-democracy advocates need to speak out
promptly.ACTION: Call on NBC/Meet the Press and CNN/Larry King Live to invite
qualified third-party candidates to join Bush and Gore in the debates.  As
always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if you
maintain a polite tone. Please cc [e-mail] with your
correspondence.
CONTACT:
Tim Russert,
Moderator, "Meet the Press" and NBC News Senior Vice President
4001 Nebraska Ave. NW,
Washington DC 20016
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
mailto:[e-mail]
Andrew Lack
NBC News President
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Phone: [phone]

CNN's "Larry King Live"
Larry King, Host
6430 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
mailto:[e-mail]
Frank Sesno
CNN Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief
820 First St. NE
Washington DC 20002
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
----------
Feel free to respond to FAIR ( [e-mail] ).

- High Court Challenge to Trident Warheads
A legal case challenging the UK Government's continued manufacture of Trident
warheads will take place at the High Court, London on 13th -15th September
2000.
[From: Stephen Kobasa <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- The Sunflower is a free, monthly e-newsletter providing educational
information on nuclear weapons abolition and other issues relating to global
security. Back issues are available at http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html
EVENTS for the year 2000 are now listed at
Http://www.wagingpeace.org/calendar/events_current.html
[From: Abolition 2000 <mailto:[e-mail]>]

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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.)

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Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nader Criticizes Health Hazards of Nuclear Development
Date: 11 Sep 2000 13:42:24 -0800

http://votenader.org/press/000907nucleardevel.html

Sept. 7, 2000
Nader Criticizes Health Hazards of Nuclear Development
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, - Ralph Nader today criticized the cavalier manner
in which health and environmental concerns have been handled in
uranium mining and nuclear development in New Mexico since the 1940s.
Nader, the Green Party candidate for President, said the state
continues to suffer from the fallout from the nation's drive to gain
nuclear supremacy during the Cold War. Nader said declassified
documents reveal that the government knew from the beginning of the
dangers of working with uranium, but did nothing to reduce the
dangers or inform the workers.
The mines employed thousands of Navajo men desperate for work and
unaware of the health dangers stemming from uranium's radiation. As a
result, workers wore no protective clothing, breathed air and drank
water clogged with radioactive dust and exposed their families to
contamination when they returned home from work.
Nader said there are now proposals to revive uranium mining in the
state by developing three new mines near Crown Point and Church Rock.
The mines would contaminate the sole drinking water supply for 15,000
people, mostly Navajos. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has
licensed the mines to a subsidiary of Uranium Resources, Inc.
Nader also criticized plans to expand a nuclear waste disposal
facility - the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which opened in
1999 despite strong citizen opposition.
The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to turn the facility into a
long-term surface nuclear waste storage facility in addition to its
present function as an underground repository.
Several citizen action groups including the Southwest Research and
Information Center, Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping,
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, and Nuclear Watch of New
Mexico oppose the expansion.
DOE is now asking the New Mexico Environmental Department (NMED) to
grant "temporary authorization" so that the expansion could begin
even before the public comment period ends on September 26.
"This is not a project that should be undertaken in haste without
full public input," Nader said. "DOE is out of bounds in urging that
the comment period be cut short."

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/12 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 12 Sep 2000 08:12:05 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 12, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000912214049.htm

    2:30 p.m. =97 Governmental Affairs international security, proliferation=
 and
federal services subcommittee holds a hearing on Iranian missile=
 proliferation.
Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4751.

    India briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Brookings Institution holds a=
 briefing, "The
Vajpayee Visit: Defining the U.S.-Indian Relationship," regarding Indian=
 Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Washington visit, which begins Thursday.
Location: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. Contact: 202/797-6105.

    Arrival ceremony =97 =97 11 a.m. =97 Defense Secretary William S. Cohen=
 hosts a
full-honors arrival ceremony to welcome Japanese Defense Agency General
Director Kazuo Torashima to the Pentagon. Location: River Parade Field,
Pentagon. Contact: 703/695-0169.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES --

- George W. Bush - Orlando, FL and St. Louis, MO
        9:30 a.m. - Discussion on seniors' health care, Florida Hospital=20
Barker Conference Room, 601 East Rollings Street, Orlando, Florida, (407)
303-1917
        2:00 p.m. - One-on-one with Governor Bush, WestPort Playhouse, 600=
 West
Port Plaza, St. Louis, Missouri, [phone]=20

- Al Gore - this week
Tuesday, Sept. 12 - Travels through Miamisburg, Middletown and Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Camden, N.J.=20
        1:00 PM - CINCINNATI, OH: State Technical & Community College, 3520
Central Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio (please arrive early) - [phone] or
mailto:[e-mail]

Wednesday, Sept 13 -=20
        8:30 PM - MANCHESTER, NH: City Hall Plaza, Corner of Elm and Hanover=
 in
Downtown Manchester - 603-225-6699 or send email to mailto:[e-mail]

Thursday, Sept. 14 - Watch Al Gore on the David Letterman show

- Ralph Nader this week
Tuesday, Sept 12:=20
        Ralph Nader on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Wednesday, Sept 13 - Los Angeles , CA
        6:00 - 8:00 PM - Fundraising Reception with Ralph, Home of Carol and
Frank Biondi,110 North Rockingham Avenue,  Los Angeles, CA
mailto:[e-mail]
        8:00 PM - Nader Speech at University of Southern, California, =
 Bovard
Auditorium, doors open at 7:30 PM, Campus Contacts: Minta Ershaghi,
310-245-0255 and  Todd Chretien, 510-333-4604=20

Thursday, Sept 14 - San Francisco and San Jose CA
        2:00 PM - Nader Speech at San Francisco State University, McKenna
Theatre Campus;  Contacts: Leticia Arellano, 415-346-8418 and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604
        7 PM - Nader Speech at San Jose State University, Morris Dailey
Auditorium; Campus Contacts: Dale Weaver, 408-504-5504  and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604=20

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Nader Criticizes Health Hazards of Nuclear Development=20
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, - Ralph Nader today criticized the cavalier manner=20
in which health and environmental concerns have been handled in=20
uranium mining and nuclear development in New Mexico since the 1940s....
DOE is now asking the New Mexico Environmental Department (NMED) to grant
"temporary authorization" so that the expansion could begin even before the
public comment period ends on September 26. "This is not a project that=
 should
be undertaken in haste without full public input," Nader said. "DOE is out=
 of
bounds in urging that the comment period be cut short."  Sept. 7, 2000
http://votenader.org/press/000907nucleardevel.html

- A study of U.S. nuclear sites by the National Academy of Sciences claims=
 that
more than two-thirds of them will never be completely cleaned of
contamination.  http://www.solidwaste.com and http://www.pollutiononline.com=
=20
[From: Mike Ewall <[e-mail]>]

-- D.C. Area

- 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 12th, 2000
You are cordially invited to a Celebration Nuclear Information & Resource
Service (NIRS) and World Information Service on Energy (WISE) Formally
Affiliate and Go Global!  Where: NIRS office, 1424 16th Street NW, Suite=
 404,
Washington, D.C.=20
Call [phone] for more information.  [From: "diane d'arrigo"
<[e-mail]>]

- IRAQ EMERGENCY PLANNING MEETING TO STOP THE BOMBING=20
Thurs 14th Sept at 7pm - at Luna Books, 1633 P St NW, above Skewers=
 Restaurant=20
Will form an ad hoc emergency group to plan for broad-based, democratically
decided action to oppose threatened escalation of US military violence=
 against
Iraq.=20

- Maryland activists have arranged a meeting with Senator Barbara Mikulski=
=92s
office on September 18th to talk about the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and=
 the
need to lift economic sanctions, and are asking you to call the Senator=92s
office in support of this meeting at 202-224-4654. Please mention that
humanitarian activists are coming to meet with the Senator=92s office on
September 18th. Say that these activists share your concerns and that the
Senator should work with them to find ways to improve U.S. policy towards=
 Iraq.
Questions: call or email Andrew Cameron, at 301 891 3312 or
[e-mail]. For more talking points or information about the
sanctions, check out these websites:
http://www.saveageneration.org/
http://www.peace-action.org/iraq.html
http://www.afsc.org/conscience/Default.htm
http://www.iraqaction.org/

- WASHINGTON GATHERING TO FREE MORDECAI VANUNU
Three Days of Solidarity and Support for Israel's Nuclear Whistleblower and=
 for
a Nuclear-Free World, September 26-28
**Tuesday, September 26 - THE CONFERENCE
        9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Aloysius Church, 900 N. Capitol St. NW (at K
St.)
        6:30, evening program and dinner at St. Aloysius Church.  - Louise
Franklin-Ramirez, a Washington area social activist for 83 years, will=
 receive
a "Pioneer for Peace" award.
**Wednesday, September 27 - THE VIGIL
Dawn to dusk vigil for Vanunu's freedom and for a nuclear-free Middle East=
 and
world at the Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive, NW. Come for all or
part. While not at the vigil, activists can call on their Senators and
Congressional Representatives on Capitol Hill.
**Thursday, September 28 - THE ACTION
Noon-hour mass rally in front of the Israeli Embassy to mark the 14th
anniversary of Vanunu's kidnapping by Israeli agents in Rome after telling=
 his
story to a British newspaper. Speeches, songs, prayers and action demanding=
 the
prisoner's immediate and unconditional release and the abolition of nuclear
weapons. Meet at 11:45 a.m. at Connecticut Ave. and Van Ness St. at Van
Ness/University of the District of Columbia stop on the Metro red line to
assemble for the three block walk to the Israeli embassy.
For more information and childcare reservations, contact Kathy at Dorothy=
 Day
House, [phone], or the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu, (608)
257-4764, email <[e-mail]>.

- The Washington Peace Letter is now accepting calendar announcements for=
 the
September issue. Send the who, what, when, where, why, and how much of your
upcoming fundraisers, organized meetings, readings, demonstrations, campaign
drives, rallies, forums, and more. Reply by email to [e-mail] with=
 September
Calendar Submission in the subject line, or fax us at [phone]. The
deadline is Friday, September 15h.


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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
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DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons -
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/13 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 13 Sep 2000 07:56:54 -0400

[NucNews archives are posted through September 5, 2000 -
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Important! -- Today, 6 p.m., come help prepare for the pending arrival of=
 the
Global Peace Walk in Washington, D.C.  Please COME to the planning meeting=
 at
the Gray Panthers' office this evening at 6 p.m., 711 G St NW, basement. =
 For
details, contact Crispin Clarke <mailto:[e-mail]>.  Walk URL:
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

Washington Times Daybook, September 13, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000913222442.htm

    10 a.m. =97 House Government Reform national security, veterans affairs=
 and
international relations subcommittee holds hearing to examine the status of
negotiations to develop an enforcement protocol to the Biological Weapons
Convention prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of such
weapons. Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:=
 202/225-5074.

      2 p.m. =97 House Science space and aeronautics subcommittee holds=
 hearing,
"The State of NASA's Space Science Enterprise." Location: 2318 Rayburn House
Office Building. Contact: 202/225-6371.

     Global privacy summit =97 all day =97 Privacy Council, Privista and the
Roosevelt Group present "The Global Privacy Summit." The opening keynote
speaker is Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican. The luncheon speakers are
Reps. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat, and Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas
Republican. Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW. Contact:
703/683-5004, Ext. 107.

      Indonesia discussion =97 12:30 p.m. =97 The Johns Hopkins University=
 Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies hosts a discussion on the
current foreign policy of the government of Indonesia. The speaker is
Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alwi Shibab. Location: Kenney
Auditorium, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact:=
 202/663-5626.

      Land-mine detector news conference =97 1:30 p.m. =97 Rep. Ron Klink,
Pennsylvania Democrat, hosts a news conference to demonstrate a new portable
land mine detector that will revolutionize land-mine detection technology.
Officials from Loch Harris participate. Location: Capitol, House Triangle.
Contact: 202/225-2565.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES --

- George W. Bush -=20
        4:30 p.m. -  Victory 2000 Rally, Asian Garden, Market, 9200 Bolsa
Avenue, Westminster, California=20
        6:30 p.m. - California Republican Party Reception, Hyatt Regency
Irvine,
17900 Jamboree road, Irvine, California, [phone], Salons C, D, and E=
=20

- Al Gore - this week
Wednesday, Sept 13 -=20
        4:00 pm - Rally welcoming Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman=
 to
Boston, Rose Kennedy Garden at Christopher Columbus Park (Next to the=
 Marriott
Long Wharf on Atlantic Ave.)  Tickets to preferred standing area are=
 available
Wednesday 9/13/00, 9 am to 3 pm, Massachusetts Democratic Party, 129=
 Portland
St., 3rd fl (North Station area, one block from the Fleet Center), Boston,=
 MA
02114
        8:30 PM - MANCHESTER, NH: City Hall Plaza, Corner of Elm and Hanover=
 in
Downtown Manchester - 603-225-6699 or send email to mailto:[e-mail]

Thursday, Sept. 14 - Watch Al Gore on the David Letterman show

- Ralph Nader this week

Wednesday, Sept 13 - Los Angeles , CA
        6:00 - 8:00 PM - Fundraising Reception with Ralph, Home of Carol and
Frank Biondi,110 North Rockingham Avenue,  Los Angeles, CA
mailto:[e-mail]
        8:00 PM - Nader Speech at University of Southern, California, =
 Bovard
Auditorium, doors open at 7:30 PM, Campus Contacts: Minta Ershaghi,
310-245-0255 and  Todd Chretien, 510-333-4604=20

Thursday, Sept 14 - San Francisco and San Jose CA
        2:00 PM - Nader Speech at San Francisco State University, McKenna
Theatre Campus;  Contacts: Leticia Arellano, 415-346-8418 and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604
        7 PM - Nader Speech at San Jose State University, Morris Dailey
Auditorium; Campus Contacts: Dale Weaver, 408-504-5504  and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604=20

[As I write this, the TV news is announcing that the Bush campaign included=
 a
subliminal "RATS" in its latest anti-Gore message, so I burst into laughter
when I simultaneously read that Lynn Cheney will testify today in the Senate
about "HOW THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY MARKETS VIOLENCE TO CHILDREN."   Mrs.
Cheney is quoted as saying, "The time has long passed when we can shrug off
violence in the entertainment industry by saying it has no effect. It=
 debases
and degrades the culture our children are growing up in and the leaders of=
 the
entertainment industry have to face up to that and understand their
responsibilities."  Amen, and I hope Bush catches on. et]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Report from Sydney (September 12, 2000)
by Linda Gale, Australian Peace Committee (SA Branch) Inc.,=20
Web: www.peacecourier.com - mailto:[e-mail]
        Well, I think I've been living in a parallel universe, because when=
 I
got home last night and watched the television news, I learned that the
peaceful protest I'd attended for most of the day was in fact the scene of
"mounting violence" as the "protest got out of hand". Strike me pink! Could
this possibly be the same S11 protest that I'd been at?
        Yes and no. The clashes between police and protesters did happen. In
every case, the police charged the demonstrators with little or no warning,
using force as a first option.  Presumably they had decided that a warning=
 to
the crowd would more likely have led to the boosting of numbers at the=
 pressure
points rather than an orderly dispersal of the crowd. I think this was a=
 fair
assumption. Does it justify charging a crowd in a surprise attack? It seems
that depends who you ask.... For those whose sisters, daughters, sons,
relatives are there, don't worry. People are being sensible. There is lots=
 of
solidarity and support to spare. And there are many, many, many, many more
people there than you'll see in the brief snatches of "violence" on TV=
 tonight,
all going about a peaceful protest.  [Am I the only one who sees the
similarities in training, tactics, and attitudes among police and press in
Seattle, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and now Sydney.....? Full
report will  be posted in NucNews archives under September 11th, "Activists'
News."  et]


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Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -=
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Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/14 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 14 Sep 2000 09:19:50 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 14, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000914213158.htm

    2 p.m. =97 Defense readiness =97 The Senate Budget Committee holds a=
 hearing on
a review of the Congressional Budget Office's unreleased new study,=
 "Budgeting
for Defense: Maintaining Today's Forces." Dan Crippen, CBO director,=
 testifies.
Location: 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-0642.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a=
 hearing
on the transportation of Alaska North Slope natural gas to market and to
investigate the cost, environmental aspects and energy security implications=
 to
Alaska and the rest of the nation for alternative routes and projects.
Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4971.

    Vajpayee visit =97 all day =97 The Embassy of India sponsors a visit by=
 Indian
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
    Highlights =97 9:25 a.m. =97 Meets with House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert,
Capitol, Room H-210.
      10 a.m. =97 Addresses a joint session of Congress, Capitol, House=
 Chamber.
      10:45 a.m. =97 Meets with Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, Missouri Democrat,
Capitol, Room H-201.
      11 a.m. =97 Meets with Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, New York Republican,=
 and
members of the House International Relations Committee, Capitol, Room H-139.
      11:15 a.m. =97 Meets with Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican,=
 and
members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Capitol, Room S-116.
      1 p.m. =97 Attends luncheon hosted by Reps. Gary L. Ackerman, New York
Democrat, and James C. Greenwood, Pennsylvania Republican, and members of=
 the
Congressional Caucus on India, 345 Cannon House Office Building.
      7 p.m. =97 Meets with think-tank representatives, Jackson Place=
 Conference
Center, Blair House, off Lafayette Square. Contact: 202/232-1540,=
 202/232-1543,
202/232-1543 or 202/232-1558.

      1 p.m. =97 Issues forum, "Human Rights in the United States: The=
 Unfinished
Story =97 Current Political Prisoners =97 Victims of COINTELPRO," with Rep.=
 Cynthia
A. McKinney, Georgia Democrat, 2200 Rayburn House Office Building.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES --

- George W. Bush -=20
September 14 - Santa Ana, Pomona, and San Diego, CA
        9:45 a.m. - Discuss education reform and closing the achievement=
 gap,
Santa Ana High School, 520 Walnut street, Santa Ana, California, (714)=
 567-4900

        3:00 p.m. - Los Angeles County fair, Heritage Farm, 1101 West=
 McKinley
Avenue, Pomona, California, [phone]
        7:15 p.m. -  Victory 2000 Republican Party Reception, U. S. Grant
Hotel,
326=20
Broadway, San Diego, California - 619-232-3121=20

Friday, September 15 - San Diego, CA and Albuquerque, NM
        8:30 a.m. - Remarks on education, Central Elementary School, 4063=
 Polk
Avenue, San Diego, California, [phone]=20
        10:00 a.m. - POW/MIA Day Observance, Veterans Memorial Center and
Museum, 2115 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California, (in Balboa Park), (619)
239-2300=20
        5:00 p.m. - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Education: Closing the=
 Achievement
Gap, The University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center,=
 1634
University Boulevard, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, [phone]=20

- Al Gore - September 14 -
Watch Al Gore on the David Letterman show

- Ralph Nader - This Week
Thursday, September 14 - Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose CA
        12:00 - 1:00 PM - Nader Press Conference with California Nurses
Association, 2000 Franklin St., Oakland , CA
San Francisco , CA
        3:00 - 4:00 PM - Nader Speech at San Francisco State University,
McKenna
Theatre Campus Contacts: Leticia Arellano, 415-346-8418 and Todd Chretien,
510-333-4604
        5:30 - 6:30 PM - San Jose, CA, Press
Conference,                                                     Wyndham=
 Hotel
1350 North First Street (crossroad Gish), Room: Salon BNC
        7:00 - 8:30 PM - Nader and Medea Benjamin Rally, Morris Daley
Auditorium, San Jose State University -  For more info, 415-701-1389=20

Friday, September 15 -  Las Vegas, NV
        11 AM - 12 PM - Nader Speech at UNLV, Moyer Student Union Ballroom
(Capacity 800)
        12:30 - 1:15 PM - Press Conference Over Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste
Site, Moyer Student Union Ballroom, UNLV=20

Saturday, Sept 16 - Mystic, CT - Washington, DC=20
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Talk on Renewable Energy and  Reception with Winona
LaDuke, CT Coalition Against Millstone Storefront, 13 Water Street, Contact:
860-572-7551=20
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Rally for DC Statehood,  UDC Main Auditorium

Sunday, Sept 17 - Boston, MA=20
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Reception with Winona LaDuke,  Boston,=
 Massachusetts.
For more info and to RSVP mailto:[e-mail]

 Wednesday, Sept 20 - Milwaukee and Madison, WI=20
        1:00 PM - Milwaukee Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,
Meeting w/
African-America and Latino Community Leaders, UW Milwaukee University,=
 Student
Union
        5:00 PM - Madison Reception with Ralph Nader and  Michael Moore,=20
Madison Civic Center Starlight Room, 211 State Street - RSVP to Robert
McChesney mailto:[e-mail]
        7:00 PM - Rally for Open Debates  with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Orpheum, 216 State Street

Thursday, Sept 21 -  Ann Arbor, Flint, and East Lansing, MI=20
        12:30 PM - Ann Arbor Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael  Moore,=20
Michigan Theatre, 603 East Liberty  For more information: Michigan Greens=
 (248)
398-8104
        5:00 PM - Flint Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore, James H.
Whiting Auditorium, 1241 East Kearsley St., For more,  info:810.234.1984
         7:00 PM - East Lansing Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,
Michigan State University Auditorium at Farmlane and Auditorium Road, For=
 more
information: (248)  398-8104

Friday, September 22 - Minneapolis, MN=20
        5:30 PM - Reception with Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, Target=
 Center
Hospitality Suite; for more info and to RSVP mailto:[e-mail]

- Pat Buchanan - various media events this week -
http://www.gopatgo2000.com/schedule/

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO RETURN! GET ON THE BUS SEPTEMBER 16 TO
WASHINGTON DC! Meet 11 am @ Freedom Plaza, March along Pennsylvania Ave.,=
 Rally
in Lafayette Park
        This Saturday, thousands from around the country will march and
rally in
Washington DC demanding the right of return for the more than 5 million
Palestinian refugees who are still denied the basic human right to return to
their homeland. This historic demonstration is organized by The Palestinian
Right to Return Coalition, known by the Arabic name Al-Awda.  There are
coalitions organizing in many cities around the country who are also sending
buses.  Information: International Action Center,
mailto:[e-mail] -
web: www.iacenter.org - phone: [phone] - fax: [phone].

CORRECTION from Australia: yesterday's message about the S11 demonstration=
 was
not from Sydney, but from Melbourne, forwarded by activists in Adelaide, all=
 in
different states of Australia. Thanks to Ron Gray <[e-mail]> for
correcting the confusion.


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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/15 - Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 15 Sep 2000 08:30:12 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 15, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000915215142.htm

    (India's Prime Minister) Vajpayee visit =97 all day =97 The Embassy of=
 India
sponsors a visit by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
      5 p.m. =97 Meets with Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, Lee=
 Drawing
Room, Blair House, Lafayette Square.
      7 p.m. =97 Attends a dinner hosted by the National Association of
Manufacturers, Ballroom, Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania=
 Ave.
NW. Contact: 202/232-1540, 202/232-1543, 202/232-1543 or 202/232-1558.

      Ethiopia discussion =97 9 a.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a=
 Morning
Newsmaker news conference featuring a discussion of "Ethiopia's Dispute with
Eritrea, U.N. Peacekeepers in the Region and the Humanitarian Crisis in the
Horn of Africa." The speaker is Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia.
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES --

- George W. Bush -  San Diego, CA and Albuquerque, NM
        8:30 a.m. - Remarks on education, Central Elementary School, 4063=
 Polk
Avenue, San Diego, California, [phone]=20
        10:00 a.m. - POW/MIA Day Observance, Veterans Memorial Center and
Museum, 2115 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California, (in Balboa Park), (619)
239-2300=20
        5:00 p.m. - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Education: Closing the=
 Achievement
Gap, The University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center,=
 1634
University Boulevard, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, [phone]=20

[NY Times, 9/14/00:  Bush Accepts Debate Schedule Proposed by Bipartisan=
 Group
Backing away from its original objections, the campaign of Gov. George W.=
 Bush
agreed today to three presidential debates with Vice President Al Gore under
the plan suggested by a bipartisan commission.  The campaigns reached=
 agreement
after a four and a half hour meeting in Washington. The dates and places=
 have
been set, but the sides still must settle on a format, said Douglas=
 Hattaway, a
spokesman for the Gore campaign.]=20

- Al Gore - Washington DC
      10:45 a.m. =97 Promotes his plans to make college tuition and fees
tax-deductible, Crampton Auditorium, Howard University.
      12:55 p.m. =97 Greets Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee,=
 State
Department, 2201 C St. NW.
      1 p.m. =97 Hosts a luncheon for Mr. Vajpayee, State Department.
      2:25 p.m. =97 Meets with Mr. Vajpayee, State Department.

- Ralph Nader - This Week
Friday, September 15 -  Las Vegas, NV
        11 AM - 12 PM - Nader Speech at UNLV, Moyer Student Union Ballroom
(Capacity 800)
        12:30 - 1:15 PM - Press Conference Over Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste
Site, Moyer Student Union Ballroom, UNLV=20

Saturday, Sept 16 - Mystic, CT - Washington, DC=20
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Talk on Renewable Energy and  Reception with Winona
LaDuke, CT Coalition Against Millstone Storefront, 13 Water Street, Contact:
860-572-7551=20
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Rally for DC Statehood,  UDC Main Auditorium

Sunday, Sept 17 - Boston, MA=20
        5:00 - 7:00 PM - Reception with Winona LaDuke,  Boston,=
 Massachusetts.
For more info and to RSVP mailto:[e-mail]

- Pat Buchanan - various media events this week -
http://www.gopatgo2000.com/schedule/

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Plowshares charges=20
[Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:03:05 From: Elizabeth McAlister]
Received this communication from Bill Sulzman in Colorado Springs re: the
Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares.=20
"Have just returned from the Advisement hearing for Liz, Jackie, Ardeth,=
 Carol
and Ann. They were advised by Judge Rebecca Bromley of the state charges
against them:=20
        Felony Criminal Mischief a class 4 felony punishable by a prison
sentence of 2-8 years; conspiracy to commit criminal mischief a class 5=
 felony
punishable by 1-4 years;=20
        Obstructing government operations a class 3 misdemeanor punishable=
 by 0
- 6 months in jail; and=20
        Conspiracy to commit obstruction of government operations also a
class 3
misdemeanor 0-6 months. Each received one count of each charge.=20
        They are next scheduled to appear on Sep 18 in division 14 of=
 District
Court in front of Judge Samuelson, who then will be in charge of trying=
 their
case. Judge Bromley is a lower ranking County Court Judge...." =20
        They do not want people writing them where they are feeling that=
 they
will not be there long.=20

- Peace Action's Peace Voter Guides were created from incumbants' voting
records and questionnaires submitted to challengers. For further questions=
 on
how the Guides were created, please consult our website or contact Derek R.
Burrows, Assistant Campaign Director, Peace Voter 2000, 202-862-9740 ext.=
 3038
(voice), 202-862-9762 (fax)=20
mailto:[e-mail] -- The Peace Voter website is
http://www.peace-action.org/pv2000.html and the state Voter Guides are=
 located
at http://www.peace-action.org/voter-guides.html.=20

- At least a hundred conscientous and outraged citizens gathered at the New
Hampshire Avenue NW office building housing the Commission on Presidential
Debates, demanding an end to the currently-planned corporate media sham, and=
 a
real debate including other viewpoints outside the Demopublican and
Republicratic parties.=20
Fotos and video by Mike Flugennock <mailto:[e-mail]> :=20
http://www.sinkers.org/DCdebatedemoSep1400=20
Washington, DC, a veritable chicken coop, 09.14.00 --=20
"When you exclude candidates from the debate, it's not just that you're
suppressing the ego ambitions of the particular candidates who want to get=
 on
the stage; you are silencing important, significant, indispensible points of
view in the body politic. When they keep Ralph Nader out of the debates in=
 the
year 2000, they are excluding the only candidate who would be opposing the
death penalty on the stage. They are excluding the only candidate on the=
 stage
who would be opposing NAFTA and GATT and corporate free trade. They are
excluding the only candidate who would be on the stage who would be favoring=
 a
national health insurance plan, the only candidate who would be on the stage
favoring total public financing of our elections, and the only candidate on=
 the
stage who would be opposing farces like the Commission on Presidential=
 Debates
rip-off of the 2000 Presidential Elections!"=20
--Jamie Raskin, Professor of Law,=20
American University, Washington, DC=20

- JOIN US IN WASHINGTON, DC ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2000 for the NATIONAL=
 DAY
OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO
12:00 NOON, LAFAYETTE PARK, in front of the White House
        On Friday September 22, 2000, hundreds of individuals and=
 organizations
who are part of the struggle for peace in Vieques, from dozens of cities in=
 the
U.S., and from Vieques and other municipalities in Puerto Rico, will gather=
 in
Washington, DC for the National Day of Solidarity with the People of=
 Vieques,
Puerto Rico and the struggle to get the U.S. Navy to immediately and
permanently stop bombing and leave Vieques. The events will start at 12:00=
 noon
on Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, and will include an=
 ecumenical
service, a picket and demonstration, speeches from several Viequense leaders
and other prominent figures, and a powerful and peaceful act of Civil
Disobedience for Peace in Vieques, right in front of the official residence=
 of
the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed=
 Forces.
        Everyone is invited to participate in these events, which will send=
 a
loud and clear message to the U.S. Government that the struggle for peace in
Vieques continues, is stronger than ever, and will prevail. For more
information, please call 773-276-1257 or access the following websites:
www.viequeslibre.org and www.viequesvive.com.

- Time Extension - until Monday September 18 - Help Stop DoE's Expansion of
Plutonium Development
The deadline for placing your statement on record to the DOE by a toll-free
telephone call, fax or E-mail, has been extended until this coming Monday,
September 18. Please take the time to reply with your response to their=
 plans
for plutonium development. Radiactive Plutonium is one of the most toxic
substances known to human life, for space exploration?!?=20
        The following talking points were received from the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Please send them a copy of your
comments <[e-mail]> .=20

ACTION ALERT!
DoE PLANS FOR EXPANDED PRODUCTION OF PLU-238 FOR FUTURE SPACE MISSIONS
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON DRAFT PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (PEIS)=
 -
COMMENTS DUE BY: SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
SEND COMMENTS TO:
Colette E. Brown, U.S. Department of Energy, NE-50, 19901 Germantown Road,
Germantown, MD 20874-1290; by fax (toll-free) at 1-877/562-4592; by phone
(toll-free) at 1-877/562-4593; or by electronic mail to:
[e-mail]

BACKGROUND:
In the Draft PEIS the DoE states that they must "assess the need of=
 expansion
of its existing nuclear infrastructure" due to growing demand for space=
 nuclear
power.

DoE maintains that "NASA has yet to identify or demonstrate technologies=
 that
can visibly replace plu-238-fueled radioisotope power systems for use in=
 deep
space missions."
        DoE further states that "Because the supply of plu-238 produced at
Savannah River Site (S.C.) to support NASA space missions is limited, DoE
signed a 5-year contract in 1992 to purchase plu-238 from Russia. The=
 political
and economic climate in Russia creates uncertainties as a source of plu-238=
 to
satisfy future NASA space mission requirements."
        DoE thus proposes to "re-establish a domestic capability for=
 producing
and processing this material. Since the SRS facilities previously used for
plu-238 production are no longer available, DoE needs to evaluate other DoE
irradiation and chemical processing facilities, as well as potential=
 commercial
light water reactors for this mission. Unless an assured domestic supply of
plu-238 is established, DoE's ability to support future NASA space=
 exploration
missions may be lost."
        DoE states that the targets for plu-238 production would be=
 fabricated
in one of three facilities at:
* Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory (TN)=20
* Hanford Site (WA)=20
* Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Laboratory
Among the space missions requiring space nuclear power in coming years are:
* Pluto/Kuiper Express (16 pounds)=20
* Europa Orbiter & Solar Probe (6.6 pounds)=20
* NASA Mars Surveyor series=20
* Nuclear Powered mining colonies on Moon/Mars=20
* Nuclear Powered rockets to Mars
TALKING POINTS TO DoE
1) NASA is not doing enough to develop environmentally benign power sources=
 for
space missions. European Space Agency (ESA) has now developed=
 high-efficiency
solar cells for deep space missions.
2) The plutonium production/fabrication process for space nuclear power
missions has recently led to several worker contamination accidents. An
expansion of production will only worsen this problem.
3) Expanding the number of launches of nuclear powered space devices from=
 Cape
Canaveral on rockets with 10% failure rates will only increase the=
 possibility
of a deadly mishap.
4) The massive cost of expanded production of plu-238 can not be justified=
 at a
time when DoE admits it needs over $300 billion to clean-up existing=
 problems
at DoE facilities.
5) The military is promoting the use of nuclear power in space for=
 space-based
weapons technology. Using nuclear power for space war will have severe
environmental implications for life on Earth.
YOU MUST ACT BY MONDAY -- SEPTEMBER 18 -- TO HAVE YOUR STATEMENT GO ON=
 RECORD

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Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -=
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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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

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Thank you for the excellent newsletter.

Do you (or anyone else receiving this message) have any details regarding the recent amendments to the ABM Treaty prohibiting TMD testing against
ICBMS, and any analysis of how we can best utilize these amendments to prevent US from going forth with TMD?  I would think that an immediate
application of pressure, at home and abroad, on the US to ratify them should be done.

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space wrote:

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> Newsletter # 10
>
> Fall 2000
>
> CLINTON DELAYS NMD, TMD SWELLS:  On September 1, President Clinton, speaking
> at Georgetown University, declared that he could "not conclude that we have
> enough confidence in the technology.to move forward to deployment" of
> National Missile Defense (NMD) at this time.  Clinton did though state that
> the Pentagon would continue with 16 more NMD tests at $100,000 each.
> Clinton maintained that there was not a net loss in his decision because a
> "delay won't affect the 2006-2007 timetable for deployment."  The NMD
> testing program has slipped behind it's scheduled 2005 deployment date
> anyway as a result of recent test failures.  The President's decision means
> the Pentagon will not award contracts this year for initial construction
> work on a new missile-tracking radar in Shemya, Alaska.
>
> BEHIND THE SCENES:  There were essentially two main factors behind Clinton's
> decision to delay NMD deployment.  First was the embarrassing reality of the
> two most recent test failures.  If the July 7 test had succeeded, the
> Pentagon wanted to press forward with an initial deployment of 20
> interceptor missiles in Alaska by 2005.  (Work on the Shemya radar now
> cannot begin before 2002, which ensures that NMD could not be completed
> before 2006 at the earliest.)  The second factor was the strong opposition
> to deployment by European allies.  In fact, in Clinton's speech he
> acknowledged that European opposition was key to the delay and made clear
> that his administration, and the next, would need to "complete" efforts to
> get the consent of the allies on the necessary upgrades to U.S. radar
> systems that will coordinate a new Star Wars program.  Fearing the
> diplomatic repercussions, Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel
> Berger, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and her deputy, Strobe
> Talbott, opposed moving forward with deployment.  Secretary of Defense
> William Cohen was the most forceful advocate of fielding NMD as soon as
> possible and recommended to Clinton that he go ahead with initial
> construction of the Shemya radar.
>
> MORE TESTS:  "The President's decision does not affect development and
> testing, which will continue.  Raytheon continues its confidence in our
> radars and hit-to-kill technology," said a spokesman for the aerospace
> corporation.  Raytheon built the 121-pound (55kg) "vehicle" that is supposed
> to intercept and destroy "enemy" missiles.  The NMD testing program has been
> plagued by controversy in recent months with several reports citing fraud by
> the contractors as they faked tests and computer simulations.  The various
> problems with the testing program have done their share to drive up NMD's
> cost.  In August the Pentagon reported that the program would require
> another $6 billion to complete.  The next flight test of NMD will rocket
> from Vandenberg AFB in California, with an interceptor launch from Kwajalein
> Atoll, in January 2001.  NMD war games will continue as well.  On August 24,
> the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) ran a joint Battle
> Planning Exercise at their National Test Facility at Schriever AFB in
> Colorado Springs.  According to one military official who participated, the
> exercise "gave those of us in the operational community a chance to practice
> making critical operational decisions using the current version of NMD
> battle management software."  Practice makes perfect!
>
> FROM THE GRASSROOTS:  Between June 24 - July 7 dozens of events called by
> the Global Network (GN) were held throughout the U.S. and in Europe to
> protest the most recent NMD test on July 7.  International grassroots
> opposition to Star Wars has been steadily building in recent months and must
> be given recognition as having contributed to the enormous pressure on
> Clinton and governments around the world to slow down the push for early
> deployment of Star Wars.  It was a tremendous joy for us to watch groups all
> over the world working together to keep space for peace.  In England, a very
> public debate within the government over NMD must have been enlivened by the
> hard work of groups protesting at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales, the two U.S.
> spy satellite bases that are undergoing upgrades for Star Wars.  In Germany,
> the protestors gave great visibility to the issue as they stood at the
> entrance to the Berlin Air Show handing out helium balloons to the kids with
> GN messages on them.  At Vandenberg, the efforts by the back country
> protestors trying to get on the launch pad and those standing at the gate
> prior to the July 7 NMD flight test brought important international
> exposure.  In Washington DC, after having voted in 1999 by a margin of 97-3
> for deployment of NMD, 31 senators composed a letter to Clinton on July
> 26 calling on the president to delay deployment.  This would not have
> happened except for the strong local pressure generated
> on the politicians.  Keep it going!
>
> STATEMENTS FROM OVERSEAS:  Russia, which has been publicly stating that NMD
> is a program intended to give the U.S. a first strike capability, met
> Clinton's delay decision with a new call for massive elimination of nuclear
> weapons.  Vladimir Putin has called for new talks on a Start III arms
> reduction treaty but recently reminded the U.S. that further cuts would only
> be possible if the 1972 ABM Treaty was honored.  And, at the U.N.'s recent
> Millennium Summit in New York, Putin called for an end to the
> "militarization of space."  (He must be reading our web site!)  China has
> renewed its long stated call for "negotiation and conclusion of an
> international legal instrument or instruments on the prevention of the
> weaponization of and an arms race in outer space."  So far the U.S. has
> refused to participate in any negotiations calling for such a space weapons
> ban.  The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, the Secretariat of the Nuclear
> Free & Independent Pacific based in the Fiji Islands, released an important
> statement following the July 7 failed NMD test.  In the statement PCRC
> asked, "How can the U.S. government justify this expensive missile testing
> program when it refuses to face its responsibility for past nuclear tests?
> The Nuclear Claims Tribunal in the Marshall Islands has promised
> compensation to hundreds of Marshallese affected by the U.S. nuclear tests
> at Bikini and Enewetak.  The Marshall Islands' government is currently
> asking the U.S. to pay extra compensation for Marshall Islanders who were
> irradiated by 67 U.S. nuclear tests.between 1946-1958."  One of the few
> governments to criticize Clinton's delay decision was Taiwan.  Lee
> Wen-Chung, a member of President Chen Shui-bian's party, said the NMD delay
> was regrettable and he hoped the new U.S. president would push the program
> forward more aggressively.  Taiwan is being considered as a host site for
> deployment of U.S. TMD systems.
>
> BUSH/GORE/NADER/McREYNOLDS:  George W. Bush has often stated that the U.S.
> must design and deploy "quantum leap weapons" that would dominate the
> battlefields of the future.  Many believe he was talking about space-based
> lasers when he predicted laboratories like Sandia and Los Alamos in New
> Mexico would play a critical role in the development of "weapons that will
> allow America to define how wars are fought."  When told of Clinton's delay
> decision Bush stated that, "Should I be president, I'll seize the moment and
> develop an effective antiballistic missile system."  Al Gore supported
> Clinton's decision saying that a delay allowed more time for "additional
> testing" and would "allow the next President time to conduct updated
> discussions with other countries."  But Gore concluded, "If I am elected
> President, I would also plan to use the extra time.for a serious bipartisan
> dialogue about defensive systems aimed at establishing a consensus that
> clearly does not exist at this time."  Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and
> Socialist Party candidate David McReynolds both have taken the position that
> Star Wars deployments are destabilizing and are a waste of taxpayer dollars.
>
> TMD SUPPORT GROWING:  Theater Missile Defense (TMD) now appears to be the
> favored system for deployment.  Also called boost-phase intercept, the
> Pentagon is accelerating its testing program as political support mounts.
> Among those now calling for full speed ahead on TMD are:  Richard Garwin, a
> senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Sen. Joseph Biden (D-RI);
> Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense under Carter; MIT Professor Ted
> Postol; Frank Gaffney, Director of Center for Security Policy; Rep. Curt
> Weldon (R-PA); the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and ex-CIA directors John Deutch
> and R. James Woolsey.  The $5.1 billion that the U.S. will spend on missile
> defense in FY2001 will be equally divided between TMD and NMD.  Recent
> amendments to the ABM Treaty, which have not been ratified by Congress,
> prohibit testing TMD against intercontinental ballistic missiles.  Even
> though TMD systems are "intended" to be forward deployed into regions of
> tension like the Middle East or Asia to protect troops, the TMD system could
> function as the same NMD system that Clinton decided to delay.  According to
> Dr. Dean Wilkening, director of the science program at Stanford University's
> Center for Int'l Security & Cooperation, "There's no clear, technical
> distinction between theater and NMD systems."  Lt. Col Rick Lehner, a
> spokesman for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) put it even
> more clearly when he told the New York Times that, "All of these systems can
> have applicability to both TMD or NMD.  It just depends on which direction
> the nation wants to go."
>
> TMD COMPONENTS:  TMD systems are basically broken down into three
> sub-components: ground launched, sea launched, and air/space launched.  The
> Army's ground launched programs, coordinated at the Redstone Arsenal in
> Huntsville, Alabama include the Patriot (PAC-3), Theater High Altitude Area
> Defense (THAAD), Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL), and the Army Kinetic
> Energy Anti-Satellite (KE ASAT) weapons.  Added together these systems would
> give the Army the capability to destroy incoming missiles or satellites in
> either lower earth atmosphere (low tier) or above earth atmosphere (upper
> tier).  The Navy has also recently become more involved in TMD and has
> created a new Office for Missile Defense Operations.  The new office will
> take command of all "testing and deployment" of Naval missile defense
> systems and will be based in Hawaii.  According to one Naval spokesman, "The
> creation of this office is a clear, unequivocal statement that the U.S. Navy
> is committed to deploying a sea-based missile defense."  The Navy system,
> outfitted on Aegis destroyers home ported in Japan, could sit 100 miles off
> the coast of North Korea or China and shoot down missiles headed for the
> U.S. while still in their boost-phase.  Proponents of this system argue that
> Naval TMD systems would provoke less diplomatic fallout (especially from
> European allies) than the proposed NMD system.  The Navy has stated that if
> given this mission they will need at least 4-7 more ships in their arsenal.
> A sea-based TMD system would add at least $10 billion more to the military
> budget and would require new advanced ground and/or space-based sensors for
> targeting.  The Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) program would put a
> powerful laser aboard a modified Boeing 747 and begin shooting down missiles
> by 2003.  The $11 billion program is being developed at Kirtland AFB in
> Albuquerque, N.M.  The Air Force has also begun to study whether the ABL
> could  "defend" against cruise missiles of the sort the U.S. fired at Iraq
> and Yugoslavia.  By doing so, the Air Force hopes to protect the ABL from
> funding cuts.  The Pentagon is assessing the vulnerability of all satellites
> in orbit to possible collateral damage from the ABL when fired at "enemy"
> targets.
>
> SPACE-BASED LASER:  The Senate Armed Services Committee in May ended its
> FY2001 budget authorizations by adding $30 million more to the space-based
> laser (SBL) program which is now being developed by Lockheed Martin, Boeing
> and TRW.  The SBL lifecycle budget is estimated at $30 billion.  The BMDO is
> presently doing an Environmental Assessment of the program and a decision
> will be made at any time on the test site for the SBL program.  Currently
> three testing sites are in the running:  Kennedy Space Center, Redstone
> Arsenal in Huntsville, and the Stennis Test Center in Mississippi.
> According to a BMDO spokesman, "The new testing complex would consist of
> hot-fire prototype development and production facilities.that would be
> valued at over $300 million."  Los Angeles AFB in California is the program
> office running the SBL program.  The Airborne laser and space-based laser
> would be most effectively used as anti-satellite weapons.
>
> SPREADING TMD AROUND:  The Pentagon is telling Taiwan that it needs to
> improve its military capability, including missile defense.  The U.S. is
> being encouraged by right-wing organizations to sell the most advanced
> Patriot interceptor missiles to Taiwan.  Japan and Taiwan already have basic
> Patriot defense systems, and the U.S. has deployed Patriot in South Korea.
> America's TMD systems are just as objectionable to China as NMD is.  China
> fears a TMD-equipped Taiwan would be more tempted to assert its independence
> from the mainland.  Because of recent U.S. - Taiwan weapons sales China is
> likely to conclude that the U.S. is restoring a mutual defense pact with
> Taiwan.  That treaty fell by the wayside in 1979 when Washington normalized
> diplomatic relations with Beijing and adopted a "one-China" policy, which
> recognized the Chinese government.  A powerful laser developed by Israel and
> the U.S. to shoot down missiles passed its first test at the White Sands
> Missile range near El Paso, Texas last May.  Designed and built by TRW, the
> Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) cost taxpayers $190 million from
> development through the first test.  Israel has said it plans to deploy the
> system along its northern border with Lebanon.  "The technology has come a
> long way since the early 'Star Wars' days in terms of developing lasers that
> could in the future destroy a ballistic missile," says a spokesman from
> BMDO.  A team of Israeli engineers and defense planners also defended the
> NMD program against an April report by the Union of Concerned Scientists
> that challenged the program's ability to defend against decoys and counter
> measures.  Lastly, it appears that the U.S. is also trying to get NATO into
> the TMD act.  On June 20 a Pentagon spokesman, in a news briefing, admitted
> that the U.S. will award NATO armaments directors funding in 2001 to do two
> feasibility studies on a NATO - U.S. TMD program.
>
> NEW ASIAN PENTAGON STRATEGY:  Since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the
> resulting eastward expansion of NATO, the U.S. has been able to essentially
> "lock down" its once great rival now called Russia.  Increasingly, the major
> war games of the Pentagon take place in Asia.  According to a Pentagon study
> called Asia 2005, "The threats are in Asia."  The effort now underway,
> according to the Washington Post, is for the U.S. to "manage the rise of
> China as a great power."  This, of course, will require a "bigger" military
> budget as the Pentagon puts an emphasis on expanding their naval, air and
> space power in the Pacific region.  Already the Air Force is upgrading bases
> in Guam and on Wake Island to handle more B-1 and B-2 bombers.  Cruise
> missiles are being prepositioned in Guam and TMD is being widely promoted
> throughout the region.  The Navy is expected to nearly double its presence
> in the Pacific in coming years.  The U.S., with over 230,000 military
> personnel (including the Pacific fleet) assigned to the region, is worrying
> about recent South Korean and North Korean reunification talks.  In a news
> briefing on July 5, Secretary of Defense William Cohen stated that, "I don't
> think we should consider pulling troops out of South Korea.I think our
> troops should remain there, even if there were to be a unification."
> According to an article printed in The Japan Times by Larry Wortzel of the
> right-wing Heritage Foundation, "The U.S. acts as an honest broker with no
> territorial designs for hegemony, its military presence is perceived as a
> benign counterbalance to the mistrust that followed recent war experiences
> in the region."  China sees things differently.  Presently with only 20
> nuclear missiles capable of hitting the continental U.S., they believe that
> the U.S. is encroaching on their nation, preparing for battle with the last
> great Communist power.  After the shock of the U.S. bombing of the Chinese
> embassy in Yugoslavia, there was a serious debate in China about whether to
> accelerate the growth in their military spending.  A recent Pentagon report
> though stated that China's Central Committee decided last summer to reaffirm
> their priority emphasis on economic development, foregoing major military
> expansion.  China is exploring the development of space-based
> reconnaissance, primarily to monitor the movements of U.S. Naval carrier
> battle groups.  Secretary of Defense Cohen visited Australia in late July,
> after having just met with Chinese leaders, and urged the Aussies to
> increase their military spending to ensure their forces could support the
> U.S. if there was a war with China over Taiwan.  Cohen also told Australia
> that the U.S. wants to test TMD from bases it intends to build in Western
> Australia and reminded the Aussies that their joint base, the Pine Gap
> satellite station, was a key installation in the new Star Wars system.  To
> top it all off, House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX) recently boasted to
> reporters how he had confronted the Ambassador of China on Meet the Press.
> Delay grabbed his hand as if to shake it, but instead squeezed it as hard as
> he could and yanked the Ambassador up close to him, warning him not to
> underestimate the resolve of the American people.  The Ambassador, deeply
> humiliated, immediately left the national TV news set.  The message was
> clear.
>
> SPACE FORCE:  In order to ensure space "control and domination" in the 21st
> Century, Sens. Bob Smith (R-NH) and Wayne Allard (R-CO) have taken the lead
> to establish a Space Commission to determine how best to strengthen America'
> s use of space.  In recent remarks to aerospace leaders, Sen. Smith stated
> that, "Whoever controls space will win the next war."  The 13-member Space
> Commission will include seven retired senior military officers, including
> two former heads of the U.S. Space Command.
>
> BIG EARS OF ECHELON:  The European parliament announced in July plans to
> investigate the U.S. Nat'l Security Agency's (NSA) highly classified
> electronic spy network called Echelon.  The goal of the European Union's
> 36-member committee is "to verify the existence of Echelon and determine
> whether such an intelligence system is compatible with the EU's laws,
> including the right to be protected against secret service activities."  A
> report on the committee findings is expected in early 2001.  The U.S.
> high-powered listening post operated by the NSA in Bad Aibling, Germany is
> one such facility causing the controversy in Europe.  Like Menwith Hill and
> Fylingdales in England, Bad Aibling is conducting economic espionage against
> European firms for the U.S. government who pass the information on to
> American corporations.  Besides the U.K., Canada, Germany and New Zealand
> the U.S. has a major listening post stationed in Australia called Pine Gap
> which has been operated since 1968.  Its precise functions remained
> classified until the arrest of a U.S. spy revealed it was a CIA intelligence
> base.  Just last July Australians learned that Pine Gap, along with the
> British facilities, will be a front line of the planned tracking and missile
> "defense" network for Star Wars.
>
> COLORADO HOOK-UP:  Duncan Campbell, one of the first journalists to uncover
> European space-intelligence sites, visited Colorado recently for an informal
> tour around Buckley Air National Guard Field with members of Citizens for
> Peace in Space.  According to CPIS member Loring Wirbel, "Buckley is slated
> to get a name-change in October to Buckley Total Force Base.  This is as
> close as the federal government will come to admitting that Buckley is the
> largest consolidated electronic intelligence base in the Western Hemisphere,
> combining functions of the NSA and National Reconnaissance Office.  For
> several years CPIS has been arguing that the struggle against elements of
> the BMD system and the struggle against global intelligence networks are
> part of the same fight.  Campbell told us how the base at Pine Gap,
> Australia will be home to a new set of radomes (radars) that support
> SBIRS-High (a key satellite system for Star Wars) and that members of the
> Australian parliament are not allowed to visit Pine Gap to learn more about
> its role.  The ties Campbell made between intelligence and BMD not only show
> us how interlinked these missions are, but stress how the federal government
> may well try to 'sneak in' radar and infrared facilities used for Star Wars
> under false pretenses."
>
> NUCLEAR ROCKET TO MARS:  NASA and Dept. of Energy (DoE) have recently
> undertaken a major public relations effort to sell the nuclear rocket to the
> people.  Because it would take conventional rockets a full year to get to
> Mars, NASA wants the nuclear rocket in order to cut travel time in half.
> "It's continually talked about.  Whenever you start seriously contemplating
> human missions to the moon and Mars in an economical way with reuse
> potential, nuclear always comes to the foreground," says Stanley Borowski,
> with NASA in Cleveland, Ohio.  NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
> Huntsville, AL. will be coordinating work on the nuclear rocket along with
> Los Alamos National Labs, NASA in Cleveland, and the Univ. of Florida's
> Nuclear Engineering Dept.
>
> MORE SPACE NUKES:  The DoE recently held a public comment period on their
> Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) concerning the expansion of
> plutonium-238 production for future space nuclear powered missions.
> Claiming that they don't have enough Pu-238, DoE intends to reopen
> previously closed production facilities at either Hanford, WA., Oak Ridge,
> TN, or at INEL in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  Please write to DoE protesting the
> expanded plutonium production and ask for a summary copy of the final EIS.
> Write to Colette Brown; DoE; Office of Space & Defense Power Systems; NE-50;
> 19901 Germantown Rd; Germantown, MD 20874 or e-mail her at:
> [e-mail]
>
> GN REPS ON THE ROAD:  In June, two of the GN's Board members Regina Hagen
> (Darmstadt, Germany) and Dave Webb (Leeds, England) were asked to testify
> before the EU Parliament's Peace Intergroup.  The meeting consisted of
> members of parliament, assistants, and advisors.  Regina spoke about the
> U.S. BMD system, ABM Treaty, as well as positive suggestions for
> alternatives for global security.  Dave gave an outline of the U.K.
> involvement through Menwith Hill and Fylingdales and the other needed radars
> in Greenland and Norway to make BMD work.  He also emphasized the importance
> of strengthening the Outer Space Treaty.  Both gave the EU committee
> information on the growing work of  GN affiliates all over the world and the
> meeting ended with Caroline Lucas, a member of  Parliament joining the GN.
> Regina also represented the GN in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland in early
> September and was the keynote speaker at the 13th General Assembly of the
> Int'l Association of Peace Messenger Cities.  Regina will also be speaking
> on our behalf throughout Germany during the remainder of 2000.   GN Board
> Convener Karl Grossman spoke at Nuclear Free Action Camps in Vermont and
> Michigan in August and will represent the organization at an October 14
> demonstration in Toronto, Canada opposing the militarization of space.  Karl
> will also speak at a major WILPF space event in New York on September 16.
> GN Coordinator Bruce Gagnon has been on a two week per month speaking tour
> for most of the past year that has recently taken him to Virginia, New
> Hampshire, Florida,Maine, Alabama, and a nine-city tour in California.  In
> coming
> months Bruce will do a five-city tour of Pennsylvania, and will speak in
> Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, North Carolina, California,
> Japan, and England.  Our message is getting out to people all over the world
> and they are getting involved.  Thanks to all who help us make this
> organizing work possible.
>
> OCTOBER 7 ACTIONS:  While we realize the information in this newsletter may
> seem a bit overwhelming it is our goal to show that in spite of Clinton's
> deployment delay, there is still much work to be done.  When we each do
> our bit we can create a massive global movement that will have an impact!
> We now have over 40 actions planned around the world on our Int'l Day of
> Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.  Check our web site for the
> up-to-date list.  Events will be held throughout the U.S. and in Australia,
> England, Azerbaijan, Nepal, Romania, Germany, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean,
> India, South Korea, Canada, and France.  Please let us know if you are going
> to hold an action on October 7 as well so that we can add you to the list.
> If your community does not hold an event please use the day to organize
> people to contact Congress opposing the nuclearization and weaponization of
> space or write a letter to the editor of your local paper.  The GN's October
> 7 actions are being held in collaboration with the War Resisters League's
> Day without the Pentagon set for October 14-16.
>
> NEW MEXICO DEMO:  On February 10, 2001 the GN will hold a demonstration in
> Albuquerque, N.M. at the 18th Annual Symposium on Space Nuclear Power &
> Propulsion.  For the second year in a row, we will greet this event of those
> promoting space nuclear power with a protest vigil.  The 12-3 pm action at
> the Hyatt Regency Hotel will target plans for the nuclear rocket, nuclear
> reactors for space mining colonies, nuclear powered rovers on Mars, as well
> as nuclear power devices for space-based weapons technologies.  Come and
> help us say no to more worker contamination at DoE labs and no to potential
> space nuclear power accidents.
>
> NAT'L SPACE ORGANIZING CONFERENCE:  On March 16-18, 2001 the GN will hold a
> National Space Organizing Conference and protest in Huntsville, Alabama at
> the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center.  This important event,
> coming soon after the inauguration of a new president, will give space
> activists a chance to meet, strategize, and share the latest information
> available on what our government's next step concerning Star Wars will be.
> We promise to have a full slate of great speakers at the event and guarantee
> a good time for all.
>
> NASA & NAZIS:  During WWII, Nazi Germany tested and used the V-2 rocket to
> attack cities in England and France.  The V-2 program, led by Werner von
> Braun, was created at a site in northern Germany called Peenemunde.  At this
> site slave labor was used to construct the rockets.  In her book Secret
> Agenda, Linda Hunt (former executive producer of CNN's investigative unit)
> tells the horrid story of "Operation Paperclip" that brought over 1,600 Nazi
> scientists, largely escaping the Nuremberg trials, to the U.S. after the war
> to develop the U.S. space program.  Von Braun, who had been a member of the
> Nazi SS, and his "team" were sent to Huntsville, Alabama where he eventually
> became the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.  Peenemunde's
> V-2 flight test director, Kurt Debus, was eventually named the first
> director of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  After the allies began
> bombing Peenemunde, the Nazi's moved the V-2 operation underground in
> Central Germany to a place called Mittelwerk and they created a
> concentration camp nearby called Dora to supply slave labor to Von Braun's
> rocket team.  Flight testing continued at Peenemunde.  Von Braun's brother
> Magnus, who also came to Huntsville, was in charge of gyroscope production
> at Mittelwerk.  Slave laborers at Mittelwerk began to sabotage the V-2
> rockets and Werner Von Braun sent his staff to Mittelwork to find out why
> the rockets were not working correctly.  More than 200 prisoners suspected
> of sabotage were hanged at Mittelwerk.  Mittelwerk's head of production,
> Arthur Rudolph, was later named project director of NASA's Saturn V rocket
> program that took the U.S. to the moon.  By the time the allies liberated
> Mittelwerk and Dora, over 60,000 prisoners had been interned and over 20,000
> never made it out alive.  Former New York governor Hugh Carey, 18 years old
> at the time, was one of the American liberators who witnessed over 6,000
> dead bodies at Dora upon their arrival.  Linda Hunts says that "exactly 40
> years after the liberation of Dora, in April 1985, the Alabama Space &
> Rocket Museum paid tribute to 40 Germans who stood surrounded by the press,
> in front of the old V-2s and the Saturn V rocket they helped build for the
> U.S.  Inside the museum, dozens of awards lay encased in glass as a memorial
> to Werner von Braun."  Thus the U.S. space program was born.  And similar to
> Hitler's slogan "Germany over all," the U.S. Space Command's motto today is
> "Master of Space."  Linda Hunt will be among the speakers at our March space
> organizing conference in Huntsville.  If you'd like a copy of one of her
> articles send a SASE to the GN.
>
> NEXT GN INT'L MEETING:  The next international membership meeting of the GN
> will be held on May 4-6 in Leeds, England.  This meeting, hosted by
> Yorkshire CND, will feature a conference, protests at nearby U.S. spy
> satellite bases, and our annual business meeting.  More details later.
>
> STICKERS/PACKET/VIDEOS:  We have bumper stickers for sale at $1 each (12 for
> $10).  Pick either KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE or NO WEAPONS IN SPACE.  We also
> have space organizing packets (which include a color copy of the Space
> Command's Vision for 2020) at $5 each.  We also now have two different
> videos for sale at $13 each (includes s/h).  One is the keynote speech by
> Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filmed at our international conference in
> Washington DC last April which offers a powerful moral and political
> argument against BMD.  The second video is a recent speech by GN Coordinator
> Bruce Gagnon that serves as a good educational tool of the basic space
> issues.
>
> AFFILIATION:  The GN is able to do its work only because individuals and
> organizations join and pay dues.  We do not receive any major foundation
> support.  Our annual membership fee is $10 - $100 (pay what you can best
> afford within the sliding scale.)  Donations to the GN are tax deductible.
> Also, let us know if you'd like to get on our e-mail list for future
> information and alerts.
>
> SPACE PLOWSHARES:  As we go to press, we have learned that five Catholic
> nuns, calling themselves the "Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares" entered
> Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs on September 9 for the purpose of hammering
> swords into plowshares.  While at Peterson (HQ of the U.S. Spae Command)
> they poured their blood on a Milstar warfighting satellite.  The women
> religious stated that they "reject the Space Command's Vision for 2020" and
> its call to "control and dominate" space.
>
> Bruce K. Gagnon
> Coordinator
> Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
> PO Box 90083
> Gainesville, FL. 32607
> [phone]
> http://www.space4peace.org
> [e-mail]
>
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>
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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter September 2000 Vol. II
Date: 15 Sep 2000 14:17:50 -0800

Abolition 2000 Grassroots Newsletter
September 2000
Vol. II  Number 6

*********************
IN THIS EDITION
*********************
I.        Articles
II.        Abolition 2000 Organizations in the Year 2000
III.        Announcements
IV.        Calendar Events
V.        Resources

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ARTICLES
*************

International Conference Addresses Crucial Steps Towards a Nuclear-Free Worl=
d

    On 1-4 September 2000, an international conference entitled
"Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones: Crucial Steps Towards a Nuclear-Free
World" was held in Uppsala, Sweden.  The seminar was attended by more
than 50 scholars, experts, activists and diplomats from six
continents and called for Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones (NWFZs) to be
established all over the world as a transitional step towards the
complete abolition of nuclear weapons.  Underscoring the urgency to
establish such zones in South Asia, Northeast Asia, the Middle East
and Central Europe, the seminar deliberated on the moral, political,
legal and security imperative of nuclear weapons abolition,
highlighting the need for both comprehensive and incremental measures
of disarmament.

    At the opening of the conference, Jayantha Dhanapala
delivered a keynote address in which he stated, "At a time when some
30,000 nuclear weapons remain, NWFZs offer one of the few activities
open to non-nuclear-weapon States not just to quarantine themselves
from the nuclear contagion, but to pool their efforts to resist it."
NWFZs, which ban the manufacture, deployment and transit of nuclear
weapons in specific regions, and make them safe from nuclear attacks
and threats from the nuclear weapons-states, are an important step
towards nuclear abolition.  NWFZs have already been established by
treaties in Latin America (1967), South Pacific (1985), Africa (1996)
and Southeast Asia (1997).

    Participants at the conference dedicated themselves to
campaigning for NWFZs in different forums, global, regional and
national.  Those attending the conference also adopted the Uppsala
Declaration, outlining a program of future activities, including
regional-level campaigns, publications and creation of a Website.

=46or more information, please contact:
Dag Hammarskj=F6ld Foundation
=D6vre Slottsgatan 2
753 10 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel: [phone]
=46ax: [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

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Chelyabinsk Authorities Speak out Against Nuclear Waste Import

        A Russian anti-nuclear camp was held from 23 July to
5 August and organized by ECODEFENSE!, Anti-nuclear campaign of the
Socio-Ecological Union and several Chelyabinsk environmental groups
including Pravosoznanie and Techa.  Campers from dozens of Russian
cities organized a non-violent direct action on 3 August to protest
the importation of nuclear waste into Russia. Earlier in 2000,
Chelyabinsk authorities supported the plan.  The non-violent action
included blockading the entrance to the Chelyabinsk governor's
office, during which demonstrators were violently attacked by the
police.  As a result of the action, however, authorities agreed to a
meeting with environmentalists on 7 August.

    During a press conference on 9 August 2000 in Chelyabinsk,
leaders of the four environmental groups announced positive results
of a meeting with Andrey Kosilov, the Vice-Governor of the
Chelyabinsk region.  During the meeting, environmentalists and
Kosilov agreed that no nuclear waste should be imported to Russia for
storing at the Mayak facility. Moreover, Kosilov agreed that the
issue of the nuclear waste import to Russia must not be discussed
before the social rehabilitation program for Chelyabinsk region is
approved by the government and included in the federal budget for
2001.  The Vice-Governor also stated that he already ordered an
expert group to look into the proposals given by the anti-nuclear
camp organizers to improve the social protection of citizens living
in radioactively contaminated areas of Chelyabinsk region.

    Historically, Chelyabinsk authorities have supported the
Ministry of atomic power (Minatom) in its projects at Mayak, which is
the only Russian facility reprocessing nuclear waste located in the
Chelyabinsk region.  Since 1998, Minatom has been supported by
members of the Russian Duma who are actively working to amend a law
on environmental protection, which would ban the import of nuclear
waste into Russia.  The most recent proposal on such an amendment was
submitted to the government on 18 July 2000.  The opinion of
Chelyabinsk authorities will greatly influence the outcome of such an
amendment.

    Vladimir Slivyak, an anti-nuclear campaigner, and director of
ECODEFENSE stated, "We are welcoming the position of vice-governor of
Chelyabinsk.  Storing of the foreign nuclear waste in Russia is the
craziest idea of the Minatom businessman."  Vladimir Slivyak was also
one of organizers of the anti -nuclear camp and participated in the
meeting with vice-governor Kosilov.

=46or more information, please contact:
Vladimir Slivyak
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

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CAAB Continues Struggle Against NMD in the UK

    Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy of the Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases CAAB continue to be arrested for
peaceful actions at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales in the United
Kingdom, opposing the US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and
the crucial role of these bases in the proposed National Missile
Defense system.

    On 8 August 2000 Anni quietly opened a gate of the new
high-security perimeter fence and entered the "operations area"
before being arrested by the Ministry of Defense police (MDP) under
the controversial and legally unsafe military land bylaws.  Anni was
subsequently released without charge.  A legal action is underway to
address the bylaws.

    CAAB is paying weekly attention to any new planning
applications which may be submitted to Harrogate Planning office.
CAAB is particularly monitoring Fylingdales for any new developments.
By regularly checking the plans at Menwith Hill, CAAB discovered in
1996/7 that two Space Based Infra Red System (SBIRS) radomes were to
be built and that the base was to be a crucial part of the BMD
program.  After a long struggle to get the issue raised in the media,
NMD is now discussed almost daily.

    CAAB is also pursuing a legal action in the High Court of
London.  A claim was filed in October 1999 arguing that building two
SBIRS radomes at Menwith Hill violates international law.   Lindis
Percy will be represented by a Queens Councilor in upcoming hearings
scheduled to begin in October 2000.

    On Saturday, 7 October 2000, CAAB will be organizing another
demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill to protest the controversial NMD
system.  The demonstration is part of the International Day to
protest the weaponization and nuclearization of Outer Space being
organized by the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in
Space.

=46or more information, please contact:
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, UK
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email:  [e-mail]
URL:  Http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/

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Las Vegas Declared Nuclear-Free Zone

    On 6 September 2000, the Mayor and City Council of Las Vegas,
Nevada passed resolution R-85-2000, declaring the City of Las Vegas a
Nuclear Free Zone.  This resolution opposes legislation that would
allow the transportation, storage or production of spent nuclear
fuel, high-level nuclear waste, and low-level radioactive waste
within the City of Las Vegas.  The resolution also supports the on
site storage of spent nuclear fuel, a shift in federal funding for
nuclear waste disposal studies, and the research and use of
alternative renewable energy sources.

    Susi Snyder of the Shundai Network stated, "The majority of
the people of Las Vegas are against radioactive waste being shipped
through the city.  A Nuclear-Free Las Vegas is a great step towards a
Nuclear-Free Great Basin."

    The passage of this resolution is just in time for "Nevada Is
Not A Wasteland Day, being held on 30 September from 12-8pm at
Morrell Park in Henderson.  There will also be a Nuclear Free Great
Basin Gathering from 6-9 October, at the Peace Camp in Newe Sogobia.
=46or more information, please contact the Shundahai Network at:
Shundahai Network
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]
URL:  Http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

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Abolition 2000 Needs your Financial Support Now and on a Regular Basis!
=46rom the Coordinating Committee

    In July, every member organization of Abolition 2000 received
an information-packed mailing about Abolition 2000's recent
activities at the NPT Review Conference including our Annual General
Meeting, the upcoming Global Citizens=92 Assembly for the Elimination
of Nuclear Weapons in Nagasaki, and other exciting developments.  (We
even included photos!)  With all that
important and useful information, perhaps you overlooked the
fundraising appeal.  No problem, here it is again!

    IT'S TIME TO GIVE FOR ABOLITION!

    Now that we have enrolled over 2000 groups in Abolition 2000
and have become the third largest NGO network in the world, we need
to ensure that we can continue to develop and become THE most
influential movement in the world!  To do this we need all kinds of
resources, including money.  When we established the Abolition 2000
network we asked participating groups to send donations, but did not
establish a regular giving scheme.  In order to support the next
phase of our work we need to be assured of a regular reliable income.
(Unfortunately, so far the big foundations don't seem to understand
the incredible value of our network.)  That's why we're asking EVERY
endorsing group to make annual donation to Abolition 2000.  Abolition
2000 is made up of all kinds of groups, of all sizes.  We're asking
your group to commit anywhere from 10 to 1000 (US) dollars a year,
based on your own financial circumstances.  If each endorsing group
gives a minimum, Abolition 2000 will have a guaranteed annual income
of 20,000 dollars!  IMAGINE, if we can rely on our own members to
provide the basic resources necessary to sustain Abolition 2000,  we
can pursue our own agenda without worrying about the priorities of
outside funders.  PLEASE GIVE AS GENEROUSLY AS YOU CAN.  Skip to the
end of this message for information about how and where to send your
donation. OR, if you need more convincing, read on . . .

    Just 5 years ago, at the NPT Review and Extension Conference
in New York, frustrated by a lack of progress on nuclear disarmament,
a small group of determined NGOs got together in the basement of the
United Nations to draft a statement that expressed their vision of
how to get to a world without nuclear weapons. The Abolition 2000
Statement resonated around the world and launched an unprecedented
global movement.  Fueled by a common, uncompromising commitment to
the prompt and total elimination of nuclear weapons, but with minimal
financial resources, the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons has grown into a dynamic network of more than 2000
NGOs and municipalities in 95 countries!

    With a tiny budget, Abolition 2000 maintains an international
clearinghouse (at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in California) and
one paid staff person (Coordinator, Carah Ong), who works closely
with the Abolition Coordinating Committee and the Global Council,
keeps in touch
with Regional Contacts the world over, moderates our very active
e-mail list serve, maintains our award-winning website, produces
inspiring and information-filled monthly updates, fills constant
requests for information, and handles a myriad of organizing details.
And that's just the beginning!  PLEASE MAKE AS GENEROUS A
CONTRIBUTION AS YOU CAN, but note that this is not a membership fee.
Whether you're able to give or not, you are a welcome and valuable
member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear
Weapons!

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION!!  We look forward to
hearing back from you soon.  =97 your Abolition 2000 Coordinating
Committee: John Burroughs (US); Jacqueline Cabasso, (US); Akira
Kawasaki (Japan); David Krieger (US); Lars Pohlmeier (Germany); Alice
Slater (US); Hiro Umebayashi (Japan); Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New
Zealand); Ross Wilcock (Canada); Carah Ong (US/Abolition 2000
Coordinator)

P.S. Individual contributions are also welcome!  And, if you have any
promising fundraising ideas or contacts, please let us know!!

Please send your contribution to:
Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd, Suite 121
Santa Barbara, California  93108
Tel:  [phone]  Fax:  (805)  568-0466

or wire transfer*:

Montecito Bank and Trust
1000 State Street
Santa Barbara, California  93101
Routing # ABA-122234783
Account# 192 036 100

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 121
Santa Barbara, CA 93108

*If you choose to send a donation via wire transfer, please send a
message to Carah Ong to inform her of the transfer to the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation account for Abolition 2000.

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ABOLITION 2000 PETITION COUNT
September 2000

Aotearoa/NZ        70,000 (Soka Gakkai)
            65,012 (Peace Movement Aotearoa)
            135,012 Total
Argentina        163
Austria            12,000 (Soka Gakkai)
Australia        9140
Bangladesh        8
Belgium        1175
Canada            1031
Costa Rica        1360
Czech Republic    10
Denmark        6
=46rance            50,000 (Mouvement de la Paix)
            17,000 (Soka Gakkai)
              5,388    (Stop Essais)
                    28 (WILPF)
                      1
            72,417 Total
Gabon, Afrique    8
Germany        4080
Greece            17
India            260
Italy            55,819 (Soka Gakkai)
                 968 (in house)
            56,787 Total
Japan            13,016,568 (Soka Gakkai)
                     4,113 (in house)
            13,020,681 Total
Malaysia        80
Netherlands        25
Norway        110 (IPPNW)
            112
            222 Total
Palestine        8
Philippines        11
Puerto Rico        486
Romania        8
Russia            10
Singapore        15
South Africa        70
Spain            17
Sweden        67
Switzerland        7,941
Ukraine        40
UK            981
US             34,648 (in house)
            13,617 (from Santa Cruz but in house)
            10,000 (Maine)
            58,275 Total
Miscellaneous (on-line + conferences)    4,759

Total:  370,602
Total including Japan SGI:  13,391,283

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Northampton, Pennsylvania Passes Resolution Opposing NMD

    On 7 September 2000, the Northampton City Council passed a
resolution calling upon the governments to take all nuclear weapons
off high alert status and begin negotiations to prohibit the use and
eliminate all nuclear weapons.  Additionally, the resolution called
upon the US government to not deploy a ballistic missile defense
system and to reprioritze federal spending in support of health,
education, housing, improving the infrastructure of US cities, public
transportation and the quality of the environment.
=A8
    Anti-nuclear activist Frances, one of the lead resolution
organizers, stated of the success, "The value is that we have
educated a whole section of community leaders about the impact of
military spending on their local human services, including:
education, housing and public transportation.  We addressed all the
issues that the Millennium Summit addressed - war poverty and the
environment - all wrapped up in the resolution."

=46or more information about the Northampton resolution, please contact:
=46rances Crowe
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail].


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ABOLITION 2000 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE YEAR 2000
******************************************************************

Liga Internacional de Mujeres Pro Paz y Libertad, Costa Rica (WILPF)
Mitzi Stark
Apartado 8295
1000 San Jose
Costa Rica
Email:  [e-mail]

    La Liga Internacional de Mujeres Pro Paz y Libertad (LIMPAL)
ha sido muy activa durante este ano.  LIMPAL ha colectado mas de 1500
firmas en la petici=F3n de Abolici=F3n 2000.  Costa Rica es comitido al
disarme nuclear y en 1997 present=F3 la Convenci=F3n Modela de las Armas
Nucleares (CMAN) a la Asemblea General de las Naciones Unidas.
Ahorita, la CMAN es un documento oficial de las Naciones Unidas.  En
mayo, Mitzi Stark, la contacta regional de Abolici=F3n 2000 en Costa
Rica, habl=F3 en la radio de la Conferencia Repaso del Tratado de
Non-Proliferaci=F3n.  Tambi=E9n, Kim Alphandari, Radio por Paz
Internacional, intereg=F3 el Ministerio de Relaciones Internacionales
sobre la posici=F3n de Costa Rica y prospectos por el futuro de disarme
nuclear.  Durante el principio del a=F1o, Oscar Arias, ganador del
Nobel Peace Prize, firm=F3 la petici=F3n de Abolici=F3n 2000.

    The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF), Costa Rica Chapter, has been very active during the year.
WILPF has collected more than 1500 signatures on the Abolition 2000
petition.  Costa Rica is committed to nuclear disarmament and in 1997
it introduced the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (MNWC), now an
official United Nations document, to the UN General Assembly.  In
May, Mitzi Stark, the Abolition 2000 regional contact in Costa Rica,
spoke on the radio about the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference.  Also, Kim Alphandari, Radio for Peace International,
interviewed the Minister of Foreign Relations concerning Costa Rica's
position on nuclear disarmament and prospects for the future of
nuclear disarmament.  At the beginning of the year, Oscar Arias,
former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner, signed
the Abolition 2000 petition.

***********************
ANNOUNCEMENTS
***********************

Mondialisons la Paix / Globalization of Peace

    Tout le monde parle de mondialisation, et si l'on
mondialisait la Paix?  Ces demi=E8res dix ann=E9es ont vu de terribles
massacres, de vraies guerres et de v=E9ritables g=E9nocides:  Rwanda,
Bosnie, Sri Lanka, Soudan, Afganistan, Angola...pour se limiter aux
pires conflits.  Mais ces dix ann=E9es ont aussi =E9t=E9 des ann=E9es
d'actions pour la paix et de progr=E9s dans certaines directions:
trait=E9 sur les mines terrestres, Tribunal P=E9nal International,
d=E9cision de la Cour Internationale de justice sur les armes
nucl=E9aires, r=E9glements pacifiques en Afrique du Sud, en Irlande, au
Guatemala, affaire Pinochet...  Le mouvement pacifiste a
consid=E9rablement =E9largi son horizon:  il agit non seulement dans le
domaine du d=E9sarmement et de la r=E9solution des conflits, mais aussi
des droits humains, du d=E9veloppement durable, de la justice, de la
d=E9mocratie, des normes internationales...  Toutes ces questions,
d'autres encore font =E0 juste titre l'objet de toutes sortes de
r=E9flexions et d'actions non violentes.  Nous ne constiuons plus un
mouvement pacifiste unique, mais nous faisons partie d'une famille de
mouvements et de r=E9seaux.

    Cette conference est un =E9v=E9nement important dans la mise en
oeuvre de l'Appel de la Haye pour la Paix (mai 1999) et aussi une
contribution =E0 l'Ann=E9e internationale pour une Culture de la Paix.
Contact a Paris:
Anick Sicart
Appel des Cent pour la Paix
17-19 place de l' Argonne
75019 Paris
Tel:  [phone]
=46ax:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

    Everyone is talking about globalization, but the
globalization of peace?  The last ten years have seen terrible
killing and some serious wars and acts of genocide:  Rwanda, Bosnia,
Sri Lanka, Sudan, Afganistan, Angola...to name only the worst.  But
they have also seen ten years of peacemaking and progress in certain
areas:  the landmines treaty, criminal court, the World Court
decision of 1996 on the legality of nuclear weapons, peace
settlements in South Africa, Ireland, Guatemala, the Pinochet case,
etc..., not only covering disarmament and conflict resolution, but
also human rights, sustainable development, justice, democracy,
global governance...all these and more are rightly the subject of
reflection and non-violent actions of all kinds.  We can no longer
say we have one peace movement, rather, we belong to a family of
movements and networks.

    This conference is a major follow-up event to the Hague
Appeal for Peace (May 1999) and also a contribution to the
International Year for a Culture of Peace.  There will be
English-French interpretation in plenaries and hopefully all
workshops.  For more information, please contact:
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau
41 rue de Zurich
1201 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel:  [phone]
=46ax:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

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International Conference on US National Missile Defense

    The Annual Conference and Meeting of the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space will be held 4-6 May 2001
in Leeds, UK.  The Conference will include a protest, inspiring
speakers and discussion.  There will also be a chance to talk, eat
and enjoy entertainment together.

Conference themes:
1. The reality of National Missile Defense
2. The context of National Missile Defense and further development of space
weaponization.
3. The issues and campaigns addressed around the world.
4. The alternatives to Missile Defense.

=46ull details of the program and registration fees will be available
in the near future.

To register your interest please contact Yorkshire CND email:
[e-mail]

=46or information on the Global Network please visit the website at:
Http://www.space4peace.org

=46or information on visa's to visit the UK please visit website
http://visa.fco.gov.uk


**********
EVENTS
**********

September

1-4  "Walk for Saner Solutions" to END nuclear weapons production,
nuclear power and nuclear dumping and to bring international
attention to the desecration of the land and people in New Mexico.
=46or more information, please contact:
Citizens for Alternatives to Nuclear Dumping (CARD)
144 Harvard SE
Albuquerque, NM  87106
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

6-8  Millennium Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

19  International Day of Peace Http://www.worldpeace.org/peaceday
       Special Millennium Day of Peace sponsored by Pathways to Peace
Http://pathwaystopeace.org

28  San Francisco  Noon to 1 p.m.  Vigil at the Israeli Consulate,
456 Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, to mark the 14th
anniversary of Vanunu's kidnapping by Mossad. For more information
contact Jeanie Shaterian at [phone] or visit our web site at
www.nonviolence.org/vanunu.

26 - 28  Washington, DC  Three days of support for Israel's nuclear
whistle-blower sponsored by the US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu.
Includes a conference, a vigil, and an action. Speakers include
Daniel Ellsberg; Mary and Nicholas Eoloff, Mordechai's adoptive
parents; Rabbi Philip Bentley, president of the Jewish Peace
=46ellowship; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton; and Elizabeth McAlister, nuclear
resister and Jonah House co-founder. For more information contact Sam
Day at [phone] or visit our web site at
www.nonviolence.org/vanunu.

October

7  International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space
     Demonstration at Vandenberg Air Force Base

6-9  Nuclear Free Great Basin Peace Camp.  For more information,
please contact:
Shundahai Network
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

9   Nuremberg Day (Leaders held to account for crimes against peace,
war crimes and crimes against humanity, 1946)

12-15  International Peace Bureau Triennial Assembly on
"Globalization of Peace" at Nanterre Town Hall, near Paris France.
=46or more information, contact:
International Peace Bureau
Tel:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]

16  A Day without the Pentagon. Regional nonviolent direct actions.
In Las Vegas, NV there will be an event at Nellis Air force Base
including prayers for peace and safety and a Citizen Inspection Team.
=46or more information please call Nevada Desert Experience (702)
646-4814

19  Indigenous Peoples' Day (Indigenous peoples have suffered
disproportionate effects of nuclear mining and testing)

20-21  Asia-Europe Meeting III (ASEM III) will be held in Seoul,
South Korea.  For more information, please contact:  Gyung-Lan Jung
[e-mail]

24  Disarmament Week

24  United Nations Day

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November

4-5  International conference against depleted uranium will be held
in Manchester, UK
Register soon! Limited places available!  The conference will be
hosted by the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium.  For more
information, please contact:
CADU
One World Centre, 6 Mount St.,  Manchester, M2 5NS  England
Email:  [e-mail]
=46ax:  [phone]
Tel:  [phone]; or 834-8176

17-20  Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons will be held in Nagasaki, Japan.  The Assembly is hosted by
the Organizing Committee of Global Citizens' Assembly for the
Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in Nagasaki (Nagasaki Prefecture,
Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace, and
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Year 2000 Nagasaki Citizens' Council).  For
more information, please contact:
Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace
7-8 Hirano-machi, Nagasaki, 852-8117  Japan
Tel:  [phone]
=46ax:  [phone]

December

10  Human Rights Day

12  Free world peace prayer event in Hiroshima, Japan.  For more
information, please visit:  http://www.nttl-net.ne.jp/hiroshima2001


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suggestions for improvement or comments, please send to Carah Ong at
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The latest edition of Disarmament Diplomacy (No. 49, August 2000) is
now available on the website of the Acronym Institute at:
Http://www.acronym.org.uk

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The Fourth Freedom Forum is pleased to announce the publication of
"In Search of the Fourth Freedom" by Howard Brembeck.  The book
offers a timely and provocative prescription for reducing the threat
posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.

Information about the book is available on the Fourth Freedom Forum's
website at:
www.fourthfreedom.org/about/insearchof.html

You may prefer instead to link to the Fourth Freedom Forum's home
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    "The Women Who Knew too Much:  Alice Stewart and the Secrets
of Radiation," a new book by Gayle Green, is now available from the
University of Michigan Press.  The book recounts Stewart's long
struggle as an isolated woman scientist battling the nuclear
establishment and details the ways in which the nuclear establishment
seeks to stonewall information that challenges its public
pronouncements.  Alice Stewart is a British epidemiologist and her
discoveries about radiation have revolutionized medical practice and
challenged international safety standards.

=46or more information, please contact:
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P.O. Box 1104
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA  48106-1104
Tel:  [phone]
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RAND Report summary on Plutonium
Date: 15 Sep 2000 20:22:05 -0400

For those of us looking at the "inextriciable link" between nuclear weapons
and
nuclear power, here's an interesting publication.  Alice Slater
>
>http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB7405/index.html
>
>is where you will find link to summary and how to purchase $15 report
>called
>
>"Controlling the Flow of Weapon-Usable Fissile
>Materials"
>
>It is not dated anywhere in summary and I am sure it is not new, but there
>are
>some interesting tidbits to be found that always need repeating:
>
>"Any country that can obtain 15 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, 5
>kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium, or 7 kilograms of reactor-grade
>plutonium from a sensitive nuclear facility can build a bomb in a few days
>or weeks. No safeguard scheme, including that of the International Atomic
>Energy Agency, can protect the world if such sensitive materials and
>facilities are widely available."
>
>"To build a more proliferation-resistant future for civilian nuclear power
>worldwide would require that the use of plutonium as fuel be postponed
>indefinitely because it creates no economic benefits but much proliferation
>risk. More specifically, the
>following four-point plan should be enacted:
>
>     Terminate or drastically reduce both military and civilian plutonium
>activities worldwide.
>
>     Prolong the world's reliance on existing nuclear reactors that operate
>in the once-through mode. Doing so entails
>     improving reactor efficiency and identifying additional uranium
>resources.
>     Encourage the development of advanced nuclear reactors[3] that will be
>even more efficient and proliferation-resistant
>     than current reactors.
>     Confine, to the extent possible, sensitive nuclear materials and
>facilities within the five declared nuclear weapon states
>     while agreeing to share the benefits of sensitive nuclear activities,
>if any, with non-nuclear weapon states.
>
>This four-point program will enable countries to use nuclear energy
>peacefully, well into the future, with far less risk of nuclear
>proliferation."
>
>"Because weapon-grade plutonium is difficult to render unusable for
>weapons, it poses a hazard if it remains in Russia and the political
>situation there takes a turn for the worse. And because weapon-grade
>plutonium is uneconomical to use in commercial
>nuclear power plants and is costly to store, it has very little value for
>Russia. Therefore, the United States, alone or with help from France and
>the United Kingdom, should encourage Russia to sell its surplus
>weapon-grade plutonium by offering $1
>billion. Then the United States can remove the plutonium from Russia for
>safekeeping or disposal."
>
>Instead, we are offering billions to make more.
>
>Don Moniak
>
>
>and dated
>--- Donald Moniak
>--- [e-mail]
>--- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
>

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) schedule for Washington, D.C., Global Peace Walk 2000
Date: 15 Sep 2000 18:15:10 -0700

This Tuesday past a letter to President Clinton on behalf of the Global
Peace Walk 2000 was hand delivered to the President by our helper in DC who
spoke to him about the letter and it was well received.  We hope he will
accept our invitation to meet with the walkers' representatives to accept
the compilation of global peace and survival issue messages that the walk is
carrying to DC and to the UN.

Below is schedule for DC events.



Dear Friends,

This is the schedule for Washington, D.C. area.  Also included are some of
the dates as we walk up the East Coast Corridor to NYC.  Members of the
Global Peace Walk 2000 will have walked over 3000 miles by reaching
Washington, D.C.  This has been done to energize the communication of All
Our Relations Land and Life issues as a prayer for "Global Peace Now!"  We
are concerned about our future.  We are concerned about our human life.

We would firstly like to bring attention to a very important event happening
October 2nd and 3rd.  The Indigenous Environmental Network, Greenpeace, and
Alaska Community Action on Toxins are bringing a delegation of 12 native
people from the Great Lakes region and Alaska to Washington, D.C. to speak
out against Persistent Organic Pollutants in the environment.  Global Peace
Now! means Clean Environment Now!  Call 218 751 4967 for details.

October 5th: Grand Entrance.  9am, We will gather at the Balston Commons
Metro Stop in Virginia and walk along Wilson Blvd, through downtown
Arlington, through the Iwo Jima park down to Memorial Bridge Circle on the
west side of the Potomac River.  11 am, there will be a ceremony and we will
walk across the bridge to the Meridian Hill Park (Malcolm X Park) via Dupont
Circle for 2 pm gathering and pot-luck (please bring food!).  We are honored
that the World Peace Flame will be carried with the walk.  Please bring your
banners, flags, drums, puppets, songs, prayers, and messages!!!  That
evening there will be an East Coast opening ceremony and lecture TBA.

October 7th:  We will join the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space in solidarity with 45 demonstrations worldwide.  We will meet
2pm at Meridian Hill Park and walk to Lafayette Park 3pm for vigil and
speakers.

October 8th:  Sunrise Ceremony at the Jefferson Stone, close to Washington
Monument, rededication of the Nation's Center to balance and peace.

October 9th:  Columbus Day Sunrise Ceremony at Washington Monument.  12 noon
prayer circle for rededication as a symbol of peace.

October 12th:  12 noon, Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Gathering in
Lafayette Park with Global Peace Ambassador.  Co-sponsored by Grey Panthers
and others.

October 13th:  Start walking 8 am up Route 1.

October 17th:  Swarthmore College, ceremony and lecture.

October 19th:  Princeton University, ceremony and lecture.

October 22nd:  Join with National March Against Police Brutality,  12 noon
at Union Square, NYC.

October 23rd:  All-night vigil, ceremony, conference, concert.  TBA.

October 24th:  Walk down to UN Headquarters on 55th Anniversary.  Take part
in official ceremonies and then hold independent Spiritual Environmental
Summit at the Baha'i Center, 7pm-11pm.

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/16 - Activist Announcements
Date: 16 Sep 2000 08:32:39 -0400

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- TODAY - GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RALPH NADER TO SPEAK OUT FOR
D.C. STATEHOOD
WHERE: UDC Auditorium, 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW, Building 46
WHEN: Saturday, September 16, at 7 pm
The D.C. Statehood Green Party: www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
Nader 2000 Campaign: www.votenader.org
Contact: Gail Dixon [phone]
Martin Thomas, [phone]

- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE
Committee forming to Support Fast For Vieques
Tuesday night, September 19 at 6:30 pm, we are asking those who support
Andres Thomas Conteras' Fast for Peace in Vieques to make a special effort
to join him at Peace Park, across the street from the White House.  Our
agenda is twofold. First, to engage in a process of prayer, reflection and
dialogue so that a shared wisdom can guide the conduct of the Fast,
providing Andres with concrete resources to base his discernment on.
Second, to discuss the work we can do to support and amplify the Fast and
accomplish its goals. This effort requires participation by committed
people of conscience who can stand with and act with Andres as he witnesses
for Peace in Vieques. Please feel free to contact me at 202-842-1112 - in
Peace, Paul Magno

- Schedule for Washington, D.C., Global Peace Walk 2000
This Tuesday past a letter to President Clinton on behalf of the Global
Peace Walk 2000 was hand delivered to the President by our helper in DC who
spoke to him about the letter and it was well received. We hope he will
accept our invitation to meet with the walkers' representatives to accept
the compilation of global peace and survival issue messages that the walk
is carrying to DC and to the UN.  Schedule for DC (and later) events at
http://prop1.org/currevnt.htm.

- New Yorkers - NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL
Saturday, September 16th
11 AM- 4 PM
Graduate Faculty Building, Swayduck Auditorium
65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th streets)
The NY Metro Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and
the World Policy Institute are have brought together a great line up of
speakers, experts in a wide range of fields addressing economic, legal,
congressional, media and local organizing aspects of NMD. This event will
explain the history, the present and the future of the Star Wars plans,
including the plans for militarizing outer space (with the U.S. dominating
the heavens in the 21st century like the British dominated the seas in the
19th century). This seminar promises to be informative and exciting.


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/18 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 18 Sep 2000 09:05:37 -0400

[Today's daybook is non-nuclear, but focuses on Israel, Russia, and the
Balkans.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 18, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000918215432.htm

     Peres speech =97 9:30 a.m. =97 The Georgetown University Center for=
 Arab
Studies presents a lecture by Shimon Peres, regional cooperation minister=
 and
former prime minister of Israel, on "Middle East: Prospects for Peace in the
New Millennium." Location: Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW,
Washington, DC. Contact: 202/687-4328.

      8 p.m. =97 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Delivers keynote=
 speech at
a tribute to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Waldorf-Astoria,=
 New
York.

    Russia discussion =97 noon =97 The National Press Club hosts a Noon=
 Newsmaker
news conference featuring a discussion on "Russia at the Crossroads." The
speaker is Boris Berezovsky, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. Location: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 14th and F
streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.

    Balkans discussion =97 4 p.m. =97 The Georgetown University Center for
Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies hosts Warren Zimmerman, former=
 U.S.
ambassador to Yugoslavia, for a discussion of "U.S. Policy in the Balkans:
Priorities for a New Administration." Location: Room 205, Old North=
 Building,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. Contact: 202/687-4328.

     Biorefineries seminar =97 1 p.m. =97 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosts=
 a
biorefineries seminar, regarding private sector efforts to develop bio-based
fuels and chemicals. Irshad Ahmed, Pure Energy Corp., participates.=
 Location:
1615 H St. NW. Contact: 202/463-5682.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

     Presidential appointments briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The Brookings=
 Institution
hosts a presidential appointee initiative news briefing on how appointments=
 and
the selection process help shape the image of a new president and his team.=
 The
participants include: Stephen Hess, Brookings; Mike McCurry and Sheila Tate,
former White House press secretaries; and R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times
reporter. Location: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact:
202/797-6105.

- George W. Bush - Arkansas and Missouri
        11:00 a.m. - Remarks on tax cuts for families, St. Vincent's=
 Infirmary,
2 St. Vincent Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, [phone]=20
        2:45 p.m. -  One-on-One with local citizens, Gem Theater, 1615 East
18th
Street, Kansas City, Missouri, [phone]=20
        7:45 p.m. - Meeting with the Chicago, Fraternal Order of Police=
 Lodge
#7, 1412 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois=20

- Al Gore - Las Vegas, Nevada
      4 p.m. =97 Accepts the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas.

- Ralph Nader - unknown

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Today is DAY 56 of the Vieques Fast - 36 days on water only.  See
www.viequesfast.org.

- A Force More Powerful - Just reminding everyone of the upcoming=
 documentary
on PBS...  Premiere Broadcast:  September 18 and 25, 2000, 9:00 pm (check=
 local
listings)=20
        The PBS website announces two upcoming public television programs=
 about
the use of nonviolent action in India (Gandhi), South Africa=
 (anti-apartheid),
the U.S. (civil rights), Denmark (WWI against Nazis), Poland (Solidarity)=
 and
Chile (democratization). It is said to be particularly useful for training
purposes since it gives an extensive behind-the-scenes look at=
 *preparations*
for nonviolent actions.=20
        A Force More Powerful tells the story of how nonviolent power=
 overcame
oppression and authoritarian rule in many pivotal conflicts during the last=
 100
years. The two 90-minute television programs show how popular movements=
 using
nonviolent sanctions toppled tyrants, thwarted occupying armies, and secured
justice and human rights. The series profiles Mohandas Gandhi's civil
disobedience campaign against the British in India; the sit-ins and boycott
that desegregated downtown Nashville, Tennessee; the nonviolent campaign
against apartheid in South Africa; Danish resistance to the Nazis in World=
 War
II; the rise of Solidarity in Poland; and the momentous victory for=
 democracy
in Chile.=20
        The companion Web site, including extended interviews, maps,
photographs
and an interactive timeline will allow viewers to explore these and other
nonviolent conflicts in depth. As an educational tool, the site will feature
lesson plans built around the major themes addressed in the series and a
comprehensive list of print and online resources. An interactive forum will
offer site visitors from around the world the opportunity to pose questions=
 or
to report on their personal experiences with nonviolent social change.=20
        A co-production of York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA, Washington, D.C.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful - [From: Carol Moore
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- THE CLOTH OF MANY COLORS - TWENTY-FOUR HOURS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD -=
 The
Cloth of Many Colors goes to the UN, the US Capitol, and the Pentagon.=20
        Hundreds of thousands of people from nearly every country in the=
 world
have contributed small swatches of cloth to be sewn into a peace quilt that=
 is
nearly a mile long. The project, called "Cloth of Many Colors," is a living
prayer, and this September it will be presented at the United Nations in New
York, hen wrapped around the US Capitol in Washington, DC, then finally the
Pentagon. Please join millions of people for a twenty-four hour peace vigil
beginning 10 am New York time on September 19th continuing to the same time=
 on
September 20th.  The project began when James Twyman, renowned musician and
author of the best-selling book Emissary of Light, was performing at a=
 refugee
camp on the border of Kosovo and Macedonia during the Kosovo war two years=
 ago.
Thirty thousand displaced people were present when Twyman helped lead a
worldwide prayer vigil to bringing an end to the conflict. That night, in a
dream, he saw those prayers being made into tangible realities, forming an
enormous quilt that would someday be presented at the United Nations=
 building.
That dream is about to become a reality, and we invite you to be part of=
 this
amazing event. Hundreds of people have taken the small swatches of fabric=
 and
sewn them together into the Cloth of Many Colors. And yet there has still=
 been
no real marketing or exposure for the project, only the excitement and=
 energy
of people all over the world.=20
        The Details: On September 19 at approximately 11:00 am the mile long
quilt will be presented during a ceremony at the UN, part of Millennial=
 Peace
Day. Children from around the world will hold the cloth inside the UN, then
walk with it outside to the UN Rose Garden where hundreds or even thousands=
 of
people will gather to pray. The World Peace Prayer Society will then present
the flags of every nation of the world using the prayer "May Peace Prevail=
 on
Earth" as each country is named. A Prayer Shawl from the quilt will then be
presented to the wife of Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, a Nobel=
 Peace
Prize Laureate, and a special shawl to honor John Denver.
        The next day, September 20, at approximately 8:30 am, the same cloth
will be wrapped around the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Thousands of people will gather there to hold the quilt as it symbolically
embraces the nation, and all nations. The Cloth of Many Colors will then be
wrapped around members of Congress who will join in a ceremony of peace and
forgiveness during a special breakfast in their honor.
        Two days later, on September 22, the Cloth of Many Colors will be
presented at the Pentagon in Washington, DC by both James Twyman and elders
from many Native American Nations. One of these elders will be Chief Looking
Horse who was present at the UN during the famed prophecy James Twyman
recounted in several books. It was on April 23rd, 1998 when Twyman, Gregg
Braden and Doreen Virtue sponsored "The Great Experiment," a prayer vigil=
 that
brought millions from around the world together in prayer. Mr. Twyman was at
the UN with forty ambassadors when the prophesy was recounted by Betsy=
 Stang:
"Four years, four months, four weeks and four days ago, a group of native
elders came to the UN to give their vision of the New World. One of the=
 things
they said was that four years, four months, four weeks and four days later
something would happen at the UN that would change the world. This is the=
 day
these great men saw in their dreams." We believe that the Cloth of Many=
 Colors
is part of the fulfillment of this prophecy.    =20
        Join us in New York or Washington for the events that will unfold.=
 If
you are in the New York area on September 19 join us at the United Nations
Plaza in the Rose Garden around 11:00 am. If you are in the Washington DC=
 Area
on September 20, meet us on the West Side of the US Capitol at 8 am. (for
updated information go to: http://clothofmanycolors.com/) - [James Daniel
McManis, Project Director]


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Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) You are invited to the Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering
Date: 18 Sep 2000 17:20:09 -0700

<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>

NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia
Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest
of Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.

For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai
Network, and Citizen Alert
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>I<>

Dear friends,

We hope that this letter finds you in good health and spirit.

We are writing to invite your participation as a representative of your
region or local environmental organization in the upcoming Nuclear Free
Great Basin Gathering. As someone who is working on nuclear and
environmental issues in California, Nevada, Idaho or Utah, your unique
perspective and input is needed.

For over 20 years activists from around the world have come to the
beautiful but fragile desert at the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain, to
demand an end to the nuclear weapons testing programs and nuclear waste
dumping. These annual encampments and demonstrations have brought together
an incredibly diverse movement bridging the gap between the environmental,
peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities. These encampments
and the movement captured the attention of our media and government helping
to bring a moratorium to full scale nuclear weapons testing and a broader
understanding of nuclear waste dumping programs.

The Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering is planned for organizations and
activists to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues
within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns,
celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and look at the possibility of
building a strong and unified Nuclear Free Great Basin Alliance.

The Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering will be divided into three basic
program parts. We invite you to come for the entire gathering or for which
section would interest you most.

During the first part we will hear panel discussions followed by questions
and answer periods on: National & International Nuclear Free Campaigns;
Nuclear Issues in the Great Basin; and Indigenous Issues in the Great Basin.

The second part will be focused on facilitated workshops and discussions
including: Working towards building and Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great
Basin (Concepts and ideas); Strategy proposals to create a Nuclear Free
Great Basin. (What does a Nuclear Free mean to you?); and Creating a time
line for a Nuclear Free Great Basin

The third part includes a rally and ceremony at Yucca Mountain and a
nonviolent citizen inspection team action at the entrance to the Yucca
Mountain tunnel.

During the course of the gathering, daily sunrise ceremonies led by Corbin
Harney will be held. Some Native American Sweat Lodge ceremonies might be
held as well. Meals and water will be provided. Be prepared for desert
camping, hot days and cool nights. Some tent space will be available for
elders and those with out proper camping gear. Motel rooms are available in
Indian Springs (18 miles away), in Pahrump (35 miles away) and Las Vegas
(62 miles away). We can help provide and coordinate transportation to and
from Las Vegas, Greyhound Bus Station and McCarran International Airport.

Donations will be accepted to cover the costs of the gathering.

We really hope to see you at this Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering. We
feel that the gathering will be enriched and strengthened by your presence.

In Peace, Susi Snyder and Reinard Knutsen, Shundahai Network

A) Current Schedule for Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering
B) Some Nuclear issues within and around the Great Basin bio-region
C) Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team
D) Email Flyer for Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering

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A) Current Schedule for Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering
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Thursday, Oct 5th
Camp Set Up
Dinner
Orientation for first comers

Friday, Oct 6th
Sunrise Ceremony, Peace Camp
Breakfast
Finish camp set-up
Welcoming and Camp Orientation
Lunch
Panel: National & International Nuclear Free Campaigns
Dinner
Yucca Mountain Citizen Inspection Team Action planning meeting  (these will
go on each night, after dinner for those interested in participating)
Campfire Music at the community area

Saturday, Oct 7th
Sunrise Ceremony
Breakfast
Panel: Nuclear Issues in the Great Basin
Panel: Indigenous Issues in the Great Basin
Lunch
Workshop:  Strategy proposals to create a Nuclear Free Great Basin. (What
does a Nuclear Free Great Basin mean to you?)
Dinner
Community Talent Show and Music
Yucca Mountain Citizen Inspection Team Action planning meeting

Sunday, Oct 8th
Sunrise Ceremony (Possibly on the Test Site)
Breakfast
Workshop: Working towards building and Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great
Basin (Concepts and ideas)
Lunch
Workshop: Creating a time line for a Nuclear Free Great Basin
Dinner
Raffle
Yucca Mountain Citizen Inspection Team Action planning meeting

Monday, Oct 9th
Sunrise Ceremony (at Peace Camp)
Breakfast
Caravan to Yucca Mountain
Rally @ Yucca Mountain
Citizens Inspection Team Action
Final Gathering Evaluation Meeting for those who are interested
Snacks at Yucca Mountain
Lunch at Peace Camp
Camp Clean Up and Take Down

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B) Some Nuclear issues within and around the Great Basin bio-region
<I><I><I><I><I><I><I><I><I><I>

Idaho: Idaho National Environmental Engineering Laboratory (nuclear weapons
design, processing and nuclear waste dumping including all of the navy
nuclear reactors)

Utah: Goshute Shoshone Skull Valley (proposed "high-level" nuclear waste
storage facility);  Dugway Proving Grounds (depleted uranium weapons
testing site);  Enviro Care ("low-level nuclear waste dump), Uranium mining

California: Sierra Army Depot (depleted uranium weapons testing site); Ward
Valley (proposed "low-level" nuclear waste dump, ); Uranium mining,

Nevada: Hawthorne Weapons Depot (nuclear and depleted uranium weapons
storage); Project Shoal Nuclear Test Site; Tonapah Test Range (nuclear test
weapons test site); U.S. Ecology ("low-level" nuclear waste dump): Nevada
Test Site (nuclear weapons testing and "low-level" nuclear waste dumping as
well as proposed interim "high-level" nuclear waste storage); Yucca
Mountain (proposed "high level" nuclear waste dump); Nellis Air Force
(nuclear weapons storage and depleted uranium weapons testing and storage);
Las Vegas (industrial research and development of radioactive materials by
UNLV and private contractors)

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C) Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team

The Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team is still in the conceptual
stages. There are several different proposals floating. The basic idea is
that on the morning of Oct 9th, a group of self chosen people would hike
(about four hours) to the entrance of Yucca Mountain to perform a Citizens
Inspection which could be as simple as asking the workers and management if
they have permits from the Western Shoshone Nation to be working on Newe
Sogobia or looking for evidence of some of the scientifically disqualifying
points for Yucca Mountain. This plan will probably not be finalized until
the beginning of the Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering. Nightly planning
meetings and a Citizen Inspection Team training will be held from Oct 6-8.

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Email text flyer: NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
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NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia
Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest
of Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.

For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai
Network, and Citizen Alert
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

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You are invited to join us in the heart of the beautiful but fragile Great
Basin Desert to learn about and strategize on nuclear and indigenous issues
within our bio-region. Study the successes of other anti-nuclear campaigns,
Celebrate our uniqueness and diversity and help build a strong and unified
Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin.

The Great Basin bio region is a beautiful, diverse and fragile areas
stretching through five states. Home to strong indigenous people and
cultures, high mountainous alpine lakes and forests, as well as many
endangered and threatened plants and wildlife. Sadly, this land has
experienced the deadly effects of nuclear weapons testing as well as the
disposal of radioactive and toxic waste in leaking dumps.

Man made low level radiation causes cancer, premature aging, immune system
suppression, birth defects and genetic mutations. Daily shipments of
nuclear and hazardous materials travel on our roads and railways to be
dumped in the Great Basin.

A serious nuclear accident could cause deaths and sickness, irreversibly
contaminating large areas, and the U.S. has plans to continue and expand
the radioactive assault on our air, water and land.

Now is the time to create a Nuclear Free Great Basin. Together we can work
effectively with other regional Nuclear Free alliances to change nuclear
policies, protecting Mother Earth and our future generations.

NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
Current Schedule

FRIDAY, OCT 6TH:  Registration; Welcome to Newe Sogobia and Nevada Test
Site and weekend orientation; National and International Nuclear Free
Campaigns, successes and failures. Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection
Team Action

SATURDAY, OCT 7TH: Nuclear issues within the Great Basin, panel discussion
and strategizing workshop; Indigenous issues within the Great Basin, panel
discussion and workshop; Strategy proposals for Great Basin Nuclear Free
Campaign, discussion; Concert and Celebration

SUNDAY, OCT 8TH: Create time-line for Great Basin Nuclear Free Campaign,
workshops; Building an Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great Basin,
workshop; Plan Yucca Mountain Citizens Inspection Team Action

MONDAY, OCT 9TH: Convoy to Yucca Mountain Sunrise Ceremony at the base of
Yucca Mountain Rally and Yucca Mountain Citizens
Inspection Team Action; Final plenary evaluation meeting held at Yucca
Mountain

During the course of the gathering, daily sunrise ceremonies led by Corbin
Harney will be held. Some Native American Sweat Lodge ceremonies might be
held as well. Meals and water will be provided. Be prepared for desert
camping, hot days and cool nights. Some tent space will be available for
elders and those with out proper camping gear. Motel rooms are available in
Indian Springs (18 miles away), in Pahrump (35 miles away) and Las Vegas
(62 miles away). We can help provide and coordinate transportation to and
from Las Vegas, Greyhound Bus Station and McCarran International Airport.

Donations will be accepted to cover the costs of the gathering.

For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai
Network, and Citizen Alert
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

The Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering will be held in solidarity with the
October 7th Actions to stop the Ballistic Missile Defense system.
http://www.space4peace.org/http://www.space4peace.org/


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SHUNDAHAI NETWORK
"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"
5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304
Phone:[phone] (FAX) 647-9385
Email: [e-mail]
http://www.shundahai.org  ---once again, updated daily


Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:
US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities

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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Registration form for Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering
Date: 18 Sep 2000 17:26:43 -0700

If you plan on attending the Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering, Oct 6 -
9th, 2000, please take a moment and fill out this registration form and
email it back to [e-mail] ASAP. Thank you and we look
forward to seeing you.

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NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN GATHERING
October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia
Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest
of Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.

For more information please call: 702-647-3095 Sponsored By: Shundahai
Network, and Citizen Alert
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

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Name('s):

Organization:

Address:

Contact phone #:

Fax #:

Email address:

Could you please write a very brief sentence or paragraph about why you
plan on coming to this gathering?

Would you like any information packets and flyers to be mailed to you?

Will you need transportation from Las Vegas to Peace Camp? IF yes please
give details with arrival information and schedule.

Will you need any tent space for camping?

Can you offer any rides from your area?

Please put an X beside each of the panel discussions or workshops that most
interest you

    Panel: National & International Nuclear Free Campaigns
    Panel: Nuclear Issues in the Great Basin
    Panel: Indigenous Issues in the Great Basin
    Workshop:  Strategy proposals to create a Nuclear Free Great Basin. (What
does a Nuclear Free Great Basin mean to you?)
    Workshop: Working towards building and Alliance for a Nuclear Free Great
Basin (Concepts and ideas)
    Workshop: Creating a time line for a Nuclear Free Great Basin

Do you have any expertise or skills that you would like to share with the
gathering concerning one of these panel discussions or workshops?

Do you have any interest in participating in the Yucca Mountain Citizen
Inspection Team Action?

Would you like to attend the legal ralley at the base of Yucca Mountain

Do you have any thing you would like to present during the Community Talent
Show and Music Festival?

Would you like to participate in a Native American Sweat Lodge Ceremony if
it is offered?


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SHUNDAHAI NETWORK
"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"
5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304
Phone:[phone] (FAX) 647-9385
Email: [e-mail]
http://www.shundahai.org  ---once again, updated daily


Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:
US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/19 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 19 Sep 2000 08:07:32 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 19, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000919211429.htm

    9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on U.S.=
 policy
toward Iraq. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact:=
 202/224-3871.

    Cuban sanctions hearing =979:30 a.m. =97 The U.S. International Trade
Commission holds a public hearing, "The Economic Impact of U.S. Sanctions=
 with
Respect to Cuba." Location: Main hearing room, 500 E. St. SW. Contact:
202/205-1819.

    Human rights briefing =97 10 a.m. =97 The U.S. Commission on Security=
 and
Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) presents a briefing, "Human=
 Rights
in Russia Today." Location: 2255 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-1901.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush=20
        Tuesday morning, September 19 - Oprah Winfrey Show, which will be
broadcast across the country on Tuesday afternoon.
        11:00 a.m. - Chicago, Illinois - Improving School Safety Discussion,
Beethoven Academic center, 25 west 47th Street
        6:15 p.m. - Lexington, Kentucky - One-on-One Discussion, Henry Clay
High
School, 2100 Fontaine Road, [phone]=20
        Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: There will an open press airport arrival=
 at
the Pittsburgh International Airport on Hanger Road in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Members of the media must be on site and set up at the Av=
 Center
by 8:30 p.m.

- Al Gore - Unknown

- Ralph Nader - This week
        - Wednesday, Sept 20,=20
        1:00 PM - Milwaukee, WI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,=
 UW
Milwaukee University, Student Union=20
        5:00 PM - Madison, WI - Reception with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Madison Civic Center, Starlight Room, 211 State Street, RSVP to Robert
McChesney (mailto:[e-mail])
        7:00 PM -  "A Wisconsin Night with Nader" Rally for Open Debates,=
 With
Ralph Nader, Ed Garvey, and Michael Moore, Followed by The Great=
 Mobilization:
DJs, Bands, & Videos, Orpheum, 216 State Street
        - Thursday, Sept 21 -
        12:30 PM - Ann Arbor, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,
Michigan Theatre, 603 East Liberty; For more information: Michigan Greens=
 (248)
398-8104
        5:00 PM - Flint, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore, =
 James
H. Whiting Auditorium, Doors Open at 4:00 PM, 1241 East Kearsley St.
        7:00 PM - East Lansing, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Michigan State University Auditorium at Farmlane and Auditorium Road, For=
 more
information: [phone]
        - Friday, September 22 -
        5:30 PM - Minneapolis, MN - Reception with Ralph Nader and Winona
LaDuke, Target Center Hospitality Suite, for more info and to RSVP
(mailto:[e-mail])  - SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke,
with Special Guests Michael Moore and Granny D,  600 First Avenue North
(downtown Minneapolis), Doors open 5 PM. Event begins 7 PM.
To order tickets by phone: [phone], For more info, www.MNGreens.org.
        - Saturday, Sept. 23 -
        5:30 to 7 PM. - Seattle, WA - Reception with Ralph Nader & Jim
Hightower, Private Room at Key Arena Seattle, WA, For more info
(mailto:[e-mail]).  The Key Arena - SUPER RALLY,  Ralph Nader=
 with
Jim Hightower, Doors open 5 PM. Event starts 7 PM.
        - Tuesday, Sept 26 -
        3:00 - 5:00 PM - Pittsburgh, PA - Dinner and reception with Ralph
Nader,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Shadyside. RSVP to Paul Colaiaco,=
 412-951-6181

- Others -

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SCHEDULE: Tuesday, September 19=20
Evening: Attends reception in advance of a performance of "Speak Truth to
Power," a new play, based on a book by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, by playwright=
 Ariel
Dorfman. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, 2100 F St. NW. =20

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Don't forget September 28th is International Nix-MOX Action Day.  Please=
 sign
and send the following statement to: mailto:[e-mail] (Mary
Olson).
Questions? call 828-251-2060=20
------------------------=20
Statement by World Nongovernmental Organizations Opposing=20
the Use of Plutonium (MOX) Fuel
        We, the undersigned representatives of nongovernmental organizations
around the world, call on the governments of the United States and Russia to
forego the fabrication and use of plutonium (mixed oxide) fuel as a means to
render surplus weapons plutonium unsuitable and unavailable for reuse in
weapons, and demand that they pursue safer and=20
more proliferation-resistant disposition methods.
        We acknowledge that each country's declaration of roughly 50 metric
tons
of plutonium as surplus to military needs is a positive step toward=
 worldwide
nuclear disarmament and support the goal of preventing this plutonium from
being diverted, stolen, or reused in weapons.
        In an attempt to achieve this goal, the US and Russian governments=
 have
agreed to a plan to convert most of this plutonium into mixed oxide (MOX)
plutonium fuel for use in commercial nuclear power reactors (mainly light=
 water
reactors) in both Russia and the United States and possibly Canada or other
countries. Russia also plans to use weapons MOX in plutonium breeder=
 reactors,
which are capable of producing more plutonium than they consume (though=
 during
the life of the program they will operate the reactors in such a way as not=
 to
produce more plutonium).
        We oppose the MOX plan for the following reasons:
-> It would create a proliferation threat particularly while it is being
transported to or stored at reactor sites, as the plutonium in fresh MOX=
 fuel
can be separated and used for weapons purposes.
-> It would establish a MOX infrastructure, thus encouraging reprocessing of
plutonium-bearing spent fuel both in the US and Russia. Reprocessing=
 generates
vast amounts of high level liquid radioactive waste and increases stockpiles=
 of
separated plutonium. (Russia has specifically stated that it would reprocess
and re-extract the plutonium at the=20
end of the disposition program.)
-> It raises many unresolved technical and safety questions as weapons-grade
plutonium has never been used as a fuel in commercial reactors. At minimum,=
 it
would complicate safe reactor operation and increase the consequences of a
severe nuclear reactor accident.
-> It is likely to take longer and cost more to dispose of plutonium using=
 MOX
compared to the current alternative, immobilization.
-> It would not prevent plutonium from entering the environment. It would
merely incorporate it into high-level radioactive waste.
-> It would breach the barrier between civil and military nuclear activities
and undermine=20
global nonproliferation efforts.
        We believe that immobilization is a far better option for plutonium
disposition. It involves putting plutonium into a non-weapons usable form by
mixing it with other materials and making the resultant waste form
proliferation resistant, that is, resistant to theft and re-extraction by
non-governmental parties or nuclear-capable states.
        Under current US-Russian agreements, only the US will pursue
immobilization and just for a portion of its surplus plutonium not deemed
suitable for MOX. At this time, Russia is not planning on pursuing this=
 option
at all, and must be pressed by the international community to reverse its
position.
        We believe the full amount of plutonium declared surplus by each
country
should be immobilized and that research and development for immobilization,
along with the necessary funding, should be increased to improve and further
develop this technology. In the period before immobilization technologies=
 are
available, all plutonium should be stored securely and safely and placed=
 under
international safeguards.
        Further, we believe that any plutonium disposition program must=
 ensure
public access to information including, but not limited to: adequate
notification of decision timelines, information on program costs, knowledge=
 of
operating records of the various actors involved, detailed data on projected
environmental impacts, and reliable data on=20
safety and health risks. The public in the communities most directly=
 affected
in both countries should have ample opportunity for meaningful input into=
 the
decision-making process, including the right to intervene legally.
        In both countries there should be sound independent oversight of the
program and all aspects of the program should adhere to all relevant
environmental or public process laws.
        Therefore, we, as concerned colleagues across the globe who embrace
efforts to reduce nuclear arms and safely dispose of surplus weapons=
 plutonium,
declare International Nix MOX Action Day, September 28, 2000. We pledge to
expand a united international movement that will challenge every effort to
develop, encourage, or use MOX fuel as a means of plutonium disposition,=
 will
work toward the goal of having all plutonium declared surplus, and vow to
continue our efforts to ensure the isolation of plutonium from the
environment.  Signed,  [your name / organization]=20
------------------------=20

- The following are a few of the current environmental job listings in
EnviroOne's database. To view details of these and other current job=
 openings,
please visit http://www.EnviroOne.com.
- Industrial Waste Enforcement Supervisor (Promotional), Chicago IL.=20
2000 Salary range: $67,527.20 - $97,643.52/yr
- Environmental Policy Specialist, USEPA, Washington DC. Salary: GS 9-12.
- Environmental Scientists, USEPA (2 Vacancies), Washington DC. Salary:=20
GS 11-13.
- International Program Specialists, USEPA (3 Vacancies), Washington DC.=20
Salary: GS 9-13
- Environmental Health & Safety Supervisor, Colton CA. Competitive=20
compensation plus excellent benefits package.
- Assistant Professor of Rangeland Watershed Management, Las Cruces, NM.=20
Salary commensurate with training and experience.
- Country Director, Moscow and Khabarovsk, Russia. Salary: Applicants=20
should send salary requirements
[From: "EnviroOne.com" <[e-mail]>]

- The interview by The Freedom Channel of Organizing Director, Van Gosse, on
Peace Voter and Star Wars can be found from their website at
http://www.peace-action.org/pvmedia.html or directly at
http://www.freedomchannel.com/todays/index.cfm . James C. Bridgman
<mailto:[e-mail]> - http://www.peace-action.org

 =20
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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "New Berlin Wall Issue", O'Leary: why not Gore and why Nader --
Date: 19 Sep 2000 07:33:25 -0700

Brian O'Leary, PhD, was science and energy policy advisor to four US
presidential candidates before he found out about the new energy
technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power (see
http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan for overviews) and the need for
widespread hemp cultivation to ameliorate both global climate change and the
ozone layer depletion threatening destruction of all the oceanic
phytoplankton (the beginning of the oceanic food-chain and over half of
Earth's oxygen supply) by the year 2008 according to Project Earth
projections of 1988 said on target in 1997 by Adam Trombly
http://www.projectearth.com

O'Leary has since written several books on new science and consciousness
topics including Miracle in the Void about these technologies, the foreword
to Jeane Manning's overview on these called The Coming Energy Revolution,
and they are featured in his upcoming book along with a chapter promoting
hemp to save the environment by its widespread cultivation for all its
economic uses/incentives.
His website is http://www.maui.net/~oleary

Dr. O'Leary was one of the featured speakers at Global Peace Walk 2000's
"Global Crisis Solutions Conference" at his Alma Mater, UC Berkeley, on
March 1, 1999, along with former LAPD narcotics officer Michael Ruppert
whose research on the CIA involvement in the hard drug trade has recently
been excerpted by the national press on an increasing basis.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gcsc2.html

Ruppert maintains this rampant institutionalize corruption has compromise to
the core both the Democratic and Republican Parties.  His writings may be
found at http://www.copvcia.com and http://www.suppressedwriters.com

Below is info on latest ciadrugs symposium, in Los Angeles on Sept 23, and
O'Leary's commentary on related Nader v. Gore v. Bush factors in this year's
presidential race.


Cc: "Ralph Nader" <[e-mail]>;
"Nader2000- Carolyn Danckaert" <[e-mail]>

Brian,

It is great that Nader is taking up the hemp and new energy issues and that
you are supporting his campaign and comparing his winning the White House to
the Berlin Wall coming down.

The still-missing ingredient in his campaign that can actually knock down
this wall of secrecy and corruption to put Nader in the White House is his
public championing of the need to end the CIA involvement in the hard drug
trade, such involvement that was actually acknowledged by the DoJ Inspector
General's report volume II -- although that report was whitewashed recently
by the House Select Intelligence Committee (what a name :-)

[kind of like "selective hearing" or hearing only what you want to hear?]

There will be the second national symposium on this issue coming in LA on
Sept23 and I am copying this to Nader's office in hopes that their people
will be there to get the details on how vast is this corruption in terms of
its financial influences deep to the core of democratic and republican
parties.   References and details are at http://www.copvcia.com ,
http://www.suppressedwriters.com , and on the symposia at
http://www.cia-drugs.org/



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> Dear David,
>
> I'll have to be succinct:
>
> First, I am so totally fed up with media pundits who
> have convinced my very best friends that "a vote for
> Nader is a vote for Bush".  That's like going for the
> first lifeboat in the Titanic rather than warning the
> captain about the iceberg.
>
> I have a thousand reasons not to vote for Gore; gosh,
> they're so obvious.  He stands for business as usual,
> and for him to revert to the Earth in Balance after
> all is said and done is like smoking opium--wishful
> thinking.  Mr. Gore wants a bigger defense
> budget--why, is way beyond me.  He supports a new
> pipeline to the pristene Arctic Wildlife Refuge.  He
> touts Kyoto, which is too little too late anyway, and
> knows the U.S. Senate wouldn't ratify it anyway.  In
> short, he's more of the same old stuff while the
> Titanic sinks.  His quest for the media-perceived
> political middle is a plan to rearrange the deck
> chairs.  His political middle is like right wing
> republicanism during my old Udall days in Congress
> during the 1970s.  Mr. Gore is a superhawk for World
> Trade and I vehemently oppose him and his almost every
> policy, including the environment, in which he is
> silent.  I'm discgusted with the whole thing.
>
> In contrast I heard Ralph Nader give an impassioned
> speech about the environment, about labor, about
> justice, and about the public role long missing in
> policymaking.  His talk was excellently researched and
> sourced.  He has all the right qualifications to be
> President, excellent track record in Washington, and
> most of all, won't be bought out like all the other
> clowns, of whom I have the lowest opinion I've perhaps
> ever had of politicians in my sixty years here.  He
> has recently come out publically and strongly pro-hemp
> (calling present laws "medieval") and is listening to
> all new energy options, ending once and for all the
> special interests of the oil and military-industrial
> lobbies.  He's sharp, articulate, and yes, even
> passionately charismatic on stage.  He's our man.
>
> So, I ask your network to help me promote this man
> into the Oval Office.  I'll stump for him passionately
> and tirelessly.  My travels take me to eastern
> Colorado this week, to Houston, this weekend, back
> here to do the book, then on Oct. 26 or so to Florida.
>  The Fla. trip could be combined with D.C. either
> before or after my gigs.  But I'll need others to join
> me; it's not an alone job.  I need co-workers who
> believe with me that only Nader can make a difference;
> that Gore is too effete for the job that needs to be
> done here.  Even a strong Nader showing could lead to
> victory in 2004; if per chance he's a Gore spoiler,
> let Mr. Bush stumble us into a need for Mr. Nader
> next.
>
> Let's do it!  I'm starting with a speech to the Forum
> on Converting to a Hydrogen Economy in Ft. Collins
> this Friday.  We need a charismatic team to get this
> man into the Oval Office, then we'll get change.
>
> Brian
>
>

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nader opposes Yucca Mountain
Date: 19 Sep 2000 11:54:20 -0400

NADER 2000
Press Release
SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
CONTACT:  Jake Lewis or Laura Jones
[phone]

NADER DENOUNCES PLAN TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE IN NEVADA

LAS VEGAS, NV, Sept. 15--Ralph Nader today denounced plans to transport
70,000 tons of nuclear waste to a permanent storage site in Nevada=92s
Yucca Mountain 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Nader said the project puts at risk the health and safety of 50 million
people in 43 states who would be in the path of the cross-country
nuclear waste transports.  He said each truck could hold up to 40 times
the long-lasting, deadly radiation that was released by the Hiroshima
bomb.  If the waste is transported by rail, a single train cask could
hold more than 200 times the radiation released at Hiroshima.

Nader, the Green Party candidate for President, warned that the
Department of Energy and the nuclear power industry are intensifying
efforts to get the Yucca Mountain site approved.  He noted that DOE had
recently attempted to persuade Congress to strip the State of Nevada of
its power to enforce federal and state environmental and other
regulations.  The state government opposes the project on the basis of
concerns about the public health, safety, environmental and financial
risks. There is also concern about fairness to Western Shoshone whose
land would be occupied by the project.

Nader said he agreed with local groups which are arguing that it is in
public=92s best interest to keep the country=92s nuclear waste on site
instead of transporting it across the nation to Nevada. The sites around
the nation where the waste is currently located have been licensed for
nuclear reactors and this should mean that they are on solid, stable
ground with no serious earthquake risks.

In contrast, Nader said, the Yucca Mountain site is affected by geologic
faulting. As recently as 1992 an earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale
struck an area less than 12 miles south of Yucca Mountain followed by
several hundred aftershocks.

Nader said the major push for the nuclear repository comes from
lobbyists for the nuclear industry who are nervous about keeping the
waste on their property and retaining liability for accidents.

=93It is much more to the advantage of these corporations to abdicate
their responsibility by turning the waste over to the federal government
and letting it be a problem for Nevada,=94 Nader said.

     ###

--

Tom Adkins
Assistant Press Secretary
Nader 2000
P.O. Box 18002
Washington, DC 20036
ph) 202-265-4000 ext.21
fax) 202-265-0183
cell) 202-345-1215




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Message: 3
Organization: Nader 2000

Press Release
September 15, 2000
CONTACT:  Jake Lewis or Stacy Malkan
[phone]

JUDGE ORDERS STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA TO PUT RALPH NADER AND WINONA LADUKE
ON BALLOT

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, September 15 =AD Federal District Court Judge
Charles H. Haden, II today granted a preliminary injunction that orders
the state of West Virginia to put Green Party presidential candidate
Ralph Nader and vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke on the
November ballot.

=93This is a victory not only for the First Amendment and the Nader
campaign, but most importantly for the voters of West Virginia, who will
now have a real choice at the polls this November,=94 said Nader=92s
campaign manager Theresa Amato.

The ruling is a victory of the First Amendment right of free
association, which was threatened by West Virginia=92s burdensome
requirement that petition circulators must be registered voters of the
state. =93The public interest is best served by unrelenting protection of
the First Amendment rights of all its citizens,=94 Judge Haden wrote in
the decision, which also said that the Nader campaign=92s complaint
against West Virginia raised =93serious and substantial questions of law=94
in regard to the state=92s ballot-access requirements.

The state recently raised the bar for ballot access by increasing the
required number of signatures from one percent of the votes cast in the
last election to two percent, a requirement that went into effect in the
midst of the current election cycle. Thus, the state required
third-party candidates to turn in 6,365 signatures prior to June 11,
1999, or 12,730 signatures after that date. Nader supporters turned in
7,111 valid signatures after the cutoff date.

The campaign argued that being barred from using regular, experienced
circulators from other states unreasonably handicapped efforts to
satisfy the new, higher signature requirement.

Lawyers for the campaign also argued that West Virginia=92s two-percent
requirement is one of the most burdensome ballot-access laws in the
country. The West Virginia lawsuit was filed on the Nader campaign's
behalf by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

=93I=92m very pleased with the judge=92s ruling,=94 Nader said from Nevada,
where he is on a campaign tour. =93Most of the state ballot access laws
are crafted to make it as difficult as possible for anyone other than
those with the blessing of the Democratic and Republican parties to put
their names before the voters.=94

- MORE -
Nader is currently on the ballot in 44 states. A recent court victory in
Illinois led to Nader=92s inclusion on the ballot in that state, and the
campaign is awaiting a decision on a lawsuit in South Dakota.

=93Our ability to overcome the ballot-access barriers in state after state
speaks to the amazing grassroots support behind this campaign, support
that is much more tangible and significant than people just answering
poll questions over the phone,=94 Amato said. =93We=92re bringing this=
 energy
straight to the polls in November and plan to blow every poll prediction

out of the water.=94

Nader=92s inclusion on the West Virginia ballot is significant to local
voters, because Nader is talking about issues the other candidates won=92t
touch, Amato said. When Nader campaigned in Charleston in May, Nader
criticized mountaintop removal, which he called a prime example of the
problem of unchecked corporate control over our political system.

Mountain top removal is the technique in which the tops of Appalachian
mountain tops are literally blown away with dynamite to reach coal seams
below, dumping rubble into the water ways, burning thousands of miles of
streams in Appalachia and destroying one of the most productive
temperate forests in the world. Nader denounced government decisions
that have considered the profits of absentee corporations over the needs
of the environment and West Virginians.

###

Paid for by the Nader 2000 General Committee, Inc.
PO Box 18002 =A8 Washington, DC 20036 =A8 www.votenader.org =A8 (202)=
 265-4000
=A8 fax [phone]


--
Stacy Malkan
Assistant Press Secretary
Nader 2000 Campaign
202.265.4000 ext. 42
202.265.0183 (fax)
www.votenader.org

Paid for by the Nader 2000 General Committee, Inc.
P.O. Box 18002, Washington, D.C. 20036






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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) TV program on History of Nonviolence
Date: 19 Sep 2000 14:02:28 -0400

According to a column by Nat Hentoff, PBS is showing a documentary on:

                       Sunday Nights September 18 and 25
            A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict

Narrated by Ben Kingsley, it covers Gandhi, American civil rights leader
Rev. James Lawson and anti-apartheid activist Mkhuseli Jack.  Another
section covers Lech Walesa and Solidarity, anti-Pinochet activist Sergio
Bitar and the Danish resistance to the Nazis.  Hentoff, himself an
activist and author of a biography of minister and non-violent activist
A.J. Muste, speaks glowingly of the program.

Peace,
Frank Dworak

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) correction - date of TV program
Date: 19 Sep 2000 14:04:22 -0400

CORRECTION:

The PBS special on a century of nonviolence is NOT on Sunday nights...it
is actually Monday nights
(September 18 and 25 - as reported earlier).  The original message I
passed on was in error.

Please check your local TV listings for time.

Frank Dworak

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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy
Date: 19 Sep 2000 16:13:02 -0800


The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy
A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000
Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue


     The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College is hosting
this major, national conference.  The co-sponsors are the Nation Institute
and the Office of Continuing Education of the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Financial support for the conference has been provided by the Ford
Foundation, Lifebridge Foundation, the Simons Foundation, a number of
individual donors, as well as many small but vital contributions from members
of the Center on Violence and Human Survival.  This description is still
preliminary and some changes may occur during October and November, though
the program is mostly in place.  For specific information, contact Charles B.
Strozier, Center Co-Director, at [e-mail], but to register for
the conference itself see the information at the end of this message.  Please
share this email widely with your colleagues and friends.

     The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing
regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general public,
as well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to American and
international security.

     There are many possible ways to awaken civil society about the issue of
nuclear threat.  The strategy we are adopting in this conference is to focus
on the audience we know best, the academy, which once served as the principle
arena for the generation of critical new ideas about nuclear weapons.  The
university, we believe, should be the place where committed scholars and
students reflect-and act--on the moral, philosophical, and psychological
meanings of nuclear weapons.  Growing concerns within universities between
the 1950s and 1970s helped create a generation of activism that peaked in the
1980s.  Now there is a general torpor among young people and few scholars are
seriously reflecting on the issue.  We seek to break through the silence and
to arouse intellectual energies in ways that will connect university concerns
with national policy.  We hope to help create the next generation of student
and faculty activism.


The Conference Program

     Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, will address the
conference at a special session late Friday afternoon, November 17.  There
may be other prominent public figures as well who will participate in the
conference.  For the rest, a series of panels will be organized around
significant topics.  We will include on each panel those who have thought
deeply about nuclear weapons, along  with colleagues who have not focused on
the subject but are interested in joining the conversation.  Workshops will
be led by younger faculty and activists and will explore specific topics.




Human Confusions About Contemporary Weapons (Friday morning, Nov. 17))

     The first panel will begin with a presentation by Robert Jay Lifton on
"The New Psychic Numbing."  Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and
Director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival.  He has been writing
about nuclear threat for nearly half a century, including his classic study,
Death in Life, and, more recently, Destroying the World to Save It, and (with
Greg Mitchell) Hiroshima In America.

     One panelist is Zia Mian of the Center for Energy and Environmental
Studies, Princeton University, and the author of Making Enemies, Creating
Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society, and (with Ashis Nandy), The
Nuclear Debate.  Mian joins a background in physics with one in journalism, a
familiarity with the sub-continent, and a passionate commitment to peace.

     The second panelist (probable) is Patricia Williams, Professor of Law,
Columbia University Law School.  Williams is one of the country's leading
essayists and writes a regular column on issues of politics and social
justice for the Nation.  She is the author of The Rooster's Egg and The
Alchemy of Race and Rights.

     The third  panelist is Todd Gitlin, professor in the departments of
culture and communication, journalism, and sociology at New York University
and one of the leading interpreters of contemporary culture.  Gitlin is the
author of, among other works, the classic history of the 1960s, The Sixties:
Years of Hope, Days of Rage, and, more recently, The Twilight of Common
Dreams, as well as two novels, The Murder of Albert Einstein and Sacrifice: A
Novel.  From 1992 to 1999, Gitlin was a biweekly columnist for the New York
Observer.

     James Oakes, professor and chair of the history department of the CUNY
Graduate Center, will chair the session.  Oakes has written Slavery and
Freedom and The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders.


Lunch which is optional and at an additional, though nominal, fee.  Speaker
to be announced.



The Second Nuclear Age (early Friday afternoon, Nov. 17)

     The second panel will begin with a presentation by Jonathan Schell on
"The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons."  Schell teaches at Wesleyan University
and is at the forefront of those thinking in new ways about the world after
the end of the cold war.  He has also been instrumental in conceptualizing
this conference.  Schell recently wrote "The Folly of Arms Control" for
Foreign Affairs, and is the author of The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition,
and The Gift of Time.  He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker.

     One panelist is Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of
International Law and Practice at Princeton University.  Falk is one of the
most important and informed voices about nuclear threat among specialists in
international relations.  Two of his most recent of numerous books are Law in
an Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective and Predatory
Globalization: A Critique.

     The other panelist is Craig Wolff, a professor in the Columbia School of
Journalism.  For many years Wolff was a staff writer for the New York Times
and won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Twin Towers bombing, was
commended for his stories of the Tawana Brawley case, and well known for his
scores of other articles.

     The chair of the session will be Lawrence Wittner, professor of history
at SUNY/Albany. Wittner is writing a three-volume history of the antinuclear
movement of which two volumes have appeared: Resisting the Bomb and One World
or None.



Presidents Panel (late afternoon, Friday, Nov. 17)

     The central challenge of the conference is to figure out ways of
redirecting the academy toward a serious consideration of nuclear threat.
This "President's Panel" convenes several university presidents to address
this issue from the point of view of academic and institutional leadership.
In 1945 Robert Hutchins supported the continuing discussion of nuclear threat
and world peace by concerned Chicago scientists such as Eugene Rabinowitch
and Hyman Goldsmith, along with scholars such as Edward Shils.  Hutchins
followed their conversations, decided it was important for the University of
Chicago to take a lead on this issue, and was himself instrumental in
bringing the attention of the whole world to this issue.  It is exactly this
kind of interaction between universities and national consciousness that this
panel will address.

     The panel will be chaired by Frances Degen Horowitz, president of the
Graduate Center of CUNY.  Other members of the panel include Barbara Mosberg,
president of Goddard College;  Peter Gabel, president of the New College of
California; and Christopher Breiseth, president of Wilkes University in
Pennsylvania.


Special Session (5:30-6:15, Friday, November 17): Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.


Evening Panel: Stars Wars (NMD) and A Human Future (Friday, Nov. 17)

     This discussion will begin with a presentation by Theodore Postol,
Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, MIT.  Postol
has been a fearless critic of the continuing NMD program from among those
with technical scientific knowledge of how it works, or doesn't.  He has
written many articles and reports and a book, with Altmann and Morel,
Anti-Tactical Missile Defenses and West European Security.
     The second panelist will be Frances Fitzgerald, author of the remarkable
book about President Ronald Reagan and the history of Star Wars, Way Out
There in the Blue.  Fitzgerald is a widely respected journalist and the
author, as well, of Cities on a Hill and Fire In the Lake.

     The other panelist will be Rolf Ekeus, former Swedish Ambassador to the
United States and before that Executive Chairman of the United Nations
Special Commission for Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1997.  He was a member of
the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo
Forum on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.  He received the Wateler
Peace Prize from the Carnegie Foundation in 1997 and has published articles
and essays on foreign policy, international economy, nuclear and chemical
weapons, and disarmament and arms control.


Saturday Workshops (Saturday morning, November 18)

     A number of simultaneous two-hour workshop sessions will led by younger
faculty and activists on topics including:  The Legality and Morality of
Nuclear Weapons (John Burroughs and Alan Lichterman);  Gender and Weapons
(Myriam Miedziam);  Teaching an Antinuclear Curriculum (Michael Flynn and
John Broughton);  Developing an Antinuclear Movement;  Nuclear Weapons and
the Environment (Karl Grossman);  Creating Coalitions Between Antinuclear and
Social Justice Movements (Merav Datan and Kevin Martin);  Nuclear Weapons and
the War System (Diane Perlman);  Following the Money Trail of Nuclear Weapons
(Stephen Schwartz).



Nuclear Ethics and Citizen Responsibility

     This panel will begin by a statement by Randall Forsberg, "Weapons and
the People."  Forsberg is the director of the Institute for Defense and
Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of
Nonproliferation Primer and Arms Control in the New Era.

     One panelist is Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at
Princeton University.  Singer has helped re-shape contemporary ethical
thinking about many issues and is the author, among other books, of Democracy
and Disobedience, How Are We To Live? and Animal Liberation.

     The other panelist is David Tracy, Distinguished Service Professor, The
Divinity School of the University of Chicago.  Tracy's is a leading voice of
humanism among Catholic theologians and the author of Plurality and Ambiguity
and The Analogical Imagination.

     The chair of the panel is Jennifer Simons, the President of The Simons
Foundation in Vancouver, Canada.  Simons has taken an important role in the
funding of grassroots efforts to develop a consciousness of nuclear threat.
Her foundation produced a video, "Countdown to Hope," and she has
participated in many United Nations forums and programs.
Registration

     Registration for the conference is being handled by the Office of
Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
While the conference is free, a contribution of $35 would help defray our
costs.  Lunch on Friday is optional but costs $11 and payment must be
received in advance.  We ask that you register for the conference, as space
will be limited.

     Mail your registration form and check if there is one to "Continuing
Education and Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY," 365 Fifth Avenue,
Suite 8111, New York NY 10016-4309.  You may also call the office and pay
with your credit card: [phone] or email at [e-mail].
Please also check our web site, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/.  Remember to
request a free catalog of additional programs on topics such as:
Globalization, Genetic Engineering, Woman & Incarceration, Participatory
Design, and much more.

     The conference itself will begin at 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 17, at
the Graduate Center of CUNY, located at the corner of 34th Street and Fifth
Avenue, across from the Empire State Building.  It can be reached by the N,
R, B, D, F, 1, 9, 2, 3, or A, C, E to 34th Street, and the 6 to 33rd Street.
By bus, take the M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, 16, M34, and O32.


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/20 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 20 Sep 2000 07:45:10 -0400

[NucNews archives are posted through September 10, 2000 --
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 20, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
.http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000920211633.htm

    Transnational organized-crime conference =97 all day =97Jane's=
 Information
Group holds a conference, "Transnational Organized Crime." Location: Ronald
Reagan Building/International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.=
 Contact:
703/683-3700, Ext. 204.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush and Al Gore - unknown

- Ralph Nader -=20
        - Wednesday, Sept 20,=20
        1:00 PM - Milwaukee, WI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,=
 UW
Milwaukee University, Student Union=20
        5:00 PM - Madison, WI - Reception with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Madison Civic Center, Starlight Room, 211 State Street, RSVP to Robert
McChesney (mailto:[e-mail])
        7:00 PM -  "A Wisconsin Night with Nader" Rally for Open Debates,=
 With
Ralph Nader, Ed Garvey, and Michael Moore, Followed by The Great=
 Mobilization:
DJs, Bands, & Videos, Orpheum, 216 State Street

NADER DENOUNCES PLAN TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE IN NEVADA
        LAS VEGAS, NV, Sept. 15--Ralph Nader today denounced plans to=
 transport
70,000 tons of nuclear waste to a permanent storage site in Nevada=92s Yucca
Mountain 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.Nader said the project puts at risk
the health and safety of 50 million people in 43 states who would be in the
path of the cross-country nuclear waste transports. He said each truck could
hold up to 40 times the long-lasting, deadly radiation that was released by=
 the
Hiroshima bomb. If the waste is transported by rail, a single train cask=
 could
hold more than 200 times the radiation released at Hiroshima.
        Nader, the Green Party candidate for President, warned that the
Department of Energy and the nuclear power industry are intensifying efforts=
 to
get the Yucca Mountain site approved. He noted that DOE had recently=
 attempted
to persuade Congress to strip the State of Nevada of its power to enforce
federal and state environmental and other regulations. The state government
opposes the project on the basis of concerns about the public health,=
 safety,
environmental and financial risks. There is also concern about fairness to
Western Shoshone whose land would be occupied by the project.
        Nader said he agreed with local groups which are arguing that it is=
 in
public=92s best interest to keep the country=92s nuclear waste on site=
 instead of
transporting it across the nation to Nevada. The sites around the nation=
 where
the waste is currently located have been licensed for nuclear reactors and=
 this
should mean that they are on solid, stable ground with no serious earthquake
risks.
        In contrast, Nader said, the Yucca Mountain site is affected by
geologic
faulting. As recently as 1992 an earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale=
 struck
an area less than 12 miles south of Yucca Mountain followed by several=
 hundred
aftershocks.
        Nader said the major push for the nuclear repository comes from
lobbyists for the nuclear industry who are nervous about keeping the waste=
 on
their property and retaining liability for accidents. "It is much more to=
 the
advantage of these corporations to abdicate=20
their responsibility by turning the waste over to the federal government=20
and letting it be a problem for Nevada,=94 Nader said.

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Implementing Plan Colombia: The U.S. Role
DATE: Thursday, September 21, 2000, TIME: 9:30 AM
OPEN meeting of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere to be held=
 in
Room 2172 Rayburn HOB

- Don't forget September 28th is International Nix-MOX Action Day.  Please=
 sign
and send the following statement to: mailto:[e-mail] (Mary
Olson). Questions? call 828-251-2060 - http://www.nirs.org/mox/moxtrit.htm -
NIRS home page: http://www.nirs.org/

- INVITATION TO ISSUE AN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO PRAYER, FASTING AND ACTION=
 FOR
PEACE IN VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO =96 OCTOBER 2, 2000
        This date marks Gandhi=92s birthday and is the day following a=
 "Grand
March" in Vieques. It also takes place just as the U.S. Navy plans another
round of bombing. Many who signed the June 28 letter, including religious
leaders in Puerto Rico, have already decided to co-sponsor this call. The
invitation is open to all who want to co-sponsor.
        Please inform us by Thursday, September 21 if you plan to be part
of the
initial group of leaders and others who issue the call. We will announce the
call in a Press Conference across from the White House soon thereafter.
Forthcoming announcements will be made as more sponsors sign-on.=20
        For more information contact: Fast for Justice and Peace in Vieques,
Puerto Rico,=20
1804 S Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20009, tel: [phone], fax:
202-328-0627

- You are invited to the Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering=20
October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia=20
Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of
Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.=20
For more information please call: 702-647-3095=20
Sponsored By: Shundahai=20
Network, and Citizen Alert=20
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

- CALL Gore Campaign HQ - Nashville, TN - 615-341-0230, 615-340-2000
and Democratic National Committee HQ - Washington DC, 202-863-8000
WHAT TO SAY:
Stop bombing Iraq! Bombing Iraq will not help Gore out in the polls, and=
 could
embarrass him with coordinated, noviolent protests at Gore Campaign HQs=
 across
the country. The Democratic party should think twice if they believe killing
thousands of Iraqi civilians will help elect their candidate President.=
 [From:
"Ramsey Kysia" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Fax Congress your objections to radiating food --=20
Now available on the Public Citizen web site is a way for you to send faxes
directly to Congress at no cost to you. By going to the following page:=20
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm=20

- Ever wonder where the peace symbol came from?  CND -
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/pea-cnd.html

- And while you're at it, have you seen Shundahai's website lately?  Good=
 work,
guys!  Especially liked the picture of Ralph Nader and Corbin Harney.  Had=
 no
idea Ralph was so tall.  http://www.shundahai.org/

- RAND Report summary on Plutonium
For those of us looking at the "inextriciable link" between nuclear weapons=
=20
and nuclear power, here's an interesting publication. [Alice Slater
<mailto:[e-mail]>]
http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB7405/index.html

- Deregulation for Dollars details the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
Nuclear Energy Institute's plans for gutting nuclear safety regulations.=20
Now you can view Deregulation for Dollars on our website at this address:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/nuclearsafety/dereg%20pamphlet.PDF=20
The pamphlet is saved in Adobe Acrobat. You can download Adobe Acrobat for=
 free
at=20
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
[From: "Noel Petrie" <mailto:[e-mail]>]



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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Archival Article
Date: 20 Sep 2000 10:43:46 -0400

>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:27:16 -0400
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>TRUCK CARRYING RADIOACTIVE WASTE STRUCK; NO CONTAMINATION FOUND=20
>Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000=20
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>Health officials found no contamination yesterday after a tractor-trailer
>hauling low-level radioactive waste was rear-ended yesterday afternoon
>near I-270 and Rt. 33 on the Southeast Side.
>
>The crash occurred just after noon when a garbage truck struck the rear
>end of a flatbed trailer hauling radioactive sludge. Neither driver was
>injured.
>
>The truck was hauling three large steel crates filled with radioactive
>sludge, including uranium and thorium compounds, said Jim Colleli, a
>health physicist with the Ohio Department of Health.
>
>The shipment, from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, was traveling
>to the Alaron company in Pennsylvania, where it was to be processed.
>
>A liquid, thought to be water, was found leaking from the side of one of
>the crates and health officials were notified. They found no
>radioactivity, Colleli said.
>
>Eastbound traffic on I-270, which runs parallel to stretches of the Big
>Walnut Creek, was backed up for more than seven hours.
>
>The Portsmouth plant produces enriched uranium used as fuel for the
>nuclear-power plants that supply about 20 percent of the country's
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Public mtg. on nuclear transport regs
Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:55:55 -0700 (PDT)

Dear colleagues: Here is a short news article on the upcoming public
meeting (in Oakland, CA) on the question of changing nuclear transportation
safety standards. For more information, see the web address below or
contact the NRC at [phone]. Peace, Marylia

Tri-Valley Herald - Wednesday, September 20, 2000
=46orum to review shipping rules for nuke materials

Oakland public reviews nuclear shipping rules
By Glenn Roberts Jr.
STAFF WRITER

Nuclear regulators will host a meeting in Oakland next week to collect
public comment on a proposal for shipping and packaging radioactive
materials.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting will be held from 6-10 p.m. at
the Edward R. Roybal Auditorium and Conference Center in the Oakland
=46ederal Building, 1301 Clay St.

The NRC is considering some major revisions that would make transportation
and packaging regulations more compatible with the International Atomic
Energy Agency, which helps set radiation transportation standards for the
world's nuclear community.

Testing requirements for radioactive materials packaging, package design
for transport by aircraft and containment standards for plutonium shipments
are among the topics that will be discussed at the meeting.

The impact of the proposed changes on radiation exposure and transportation
and packaging costs will also be open for comment.

NRC's Oakland meeting is the third and final meeting planned across the
nation on the new rules. The proposed changes to nuclear policy are
available on the Web at
http://ruleforum.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/rulemake/source=3DIAEA--RFC.

Written comments can be submitted electronically at the Web site or
addressed to: Rulemaking and adjudications staff, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555.

General Electric's Vallecitos Nuclear Center in Sunol accepts some highly
radioactive shipments of spent fuel rods, taken from the core of nuclear
reactors for study. Vallecitos workers also work with radioactive
pharmaceuticals and maintain a small nuclear reactor for research.

Proposed changes in NRC regulations could impact shipments to and from the
Vallecitos center and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
        -------------------------------------------------------------
             =A9 2000 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - 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
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From: Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/21 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 21 Sep 2000 08:58:54 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 21, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200092121136.htm

    9 a.m. =97 House Armed Services' military procurement subcommittee holds=
 a
hearing on the Defense Department chemical agents and munitions destruction
program. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:=
 202/225-4151.

        1 p.m. =97 Energy hearing =97 The House Government Reform Committee=
 holds a
hearing to seek answers from top government officials and affected=
 businesses
about soaring energy prices. The witnesses include Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson; Carol Browner, Environmental Protection Agency administrator;=
 and
James Hoecker, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman. Location: 2154
Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

     2:30 p.m. =97 Senate Armed Services's personnel subcommittee holds a=
 hearing
to receive testimony on the recruiting initiatives of the Defense Department
and the military services and to receive an update on the status of=
 recruiting
and retention goals. Location: 222 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/224-3871.

     8:45 a.m. =97 Military strategies conference =97 Georgetown University=
 hosts a
day long conference, "Alternative U.S. Military Strategies." Location:
Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets=
 NW.
Contact: 202/687-4328.

    9:30 a.m. =97 Debt relief news conference =97 Members of Congress hold a=
 news
conference on debt relief for Third World countries. Treasury Secretary
Lawrence H. Summers, White House chief economic adviser Gene Sperling and
musician Bono of U2, participate. Location: Capitol, House Triangle.=
 Contact:
202/225-5355 or 202/226-7270.

    9:45 a.m. =97  Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Act news conference =97 Sens.
Richard G. Lugar, Indiana Republican, and Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont=
 Democrat,
host a news conference to urge passage of the proposed Hunger Relief Tax
Incentive Act to encourage family farmers, small businesses and restaurant
owners to donate food otherwise wasted to food banks for the poor. Location:
Capitol, Room S-207. Contact: 202/224-2079 or 202/224-7435.

    10:30 a.m. =97 Debt reduction news conference =97 Members of Congress=
 hold a
news conference to discuss recent House initiatives on reducing the debt and
the repeal of the tax on telephones. Location: Capitol, House Triangle.
Contact: 202/225-5107.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - Unknown

- Al Gore -=20
        10:30 a.m. =97 Discusses energy independence, Burch Oil, 45370=
 Clarke's
Landing Road, Hollywood, Md.

- Ralph Nader - Thursday, Sept 21 -
        12:30 PM - Ann Arbor, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,
Michigan Theatre, 603 East Liberty; For more information: Michigan Greens=
 (248)
398-8104
        5:00 PM - Flint, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore, =
 James
H. Whiting Auditorium, Doors Open at 4:00 PM, 1241 East Kearsley St.
        7:00 PM - East Lansing, MI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Michigan State University Auditorium at Farmlane and Auditorium Road, For=
 more
information: [phone]

- You Met Nader--Meet Harry Browne-Libertarian 4 Prez - Thursday, September=
 21=20
Marriott Crystal Gateway*, 1700 Jefferson Davis Hwy. (Rt. 1), Arlington, VA
(hotel fronts Eads St.) - 7:00-7:30 p.m.: Reception/Cash bar=20
7:30-9:30 p.m.: Harry Browne: "Libertarians Want You to Be Free."
Which candidate will end US imperialism (bring home all the troops, end
military aid to rich democracies and poor dictatorships alike*), totally gut
big corporate welfare and privileges (including monopolistic privileges),=
 give
100% tax credits for all money spent on or contributed to health benefits,
social welfare/charity contributions, end the social security scam against=
 the
younger generation, abolish the IRS/FBI/ BATF/DEA/etc. and federal support=
 for
militarization of law enforcement, totally end the war on drugs, and lots of
other good things? It's Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate. Meet=
 him
this week in Arlington.  [From: Carol Moore=
 <mailto:[e-mail]?]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- ACTION ALERT! THE US SENATE IS SET TO APPROVE A $300 MILLION/YR INCREASE=
 IN
TAX SUBSIDIES FOR ARMS EXPORTS AS PART OF A $4 TO $6 BILLION CORPORATE=
 WELFARE
GIVEAWAY.
The Foreign Sales Corporations Repeal and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion=
 Act
of 2000 (H.R. 4986) which passed the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday,
September 19, is an example of the worst kind of corporate welfare, and a
substantial threat to public health and safety. Your Senators need to hear=
 that
you OPPOSE H.R. 4986 AND ITS EGREGIOUS=20
SUBSIDIES for the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and defense industries. =20
        H.R. 4986: *Doubles the available tax benefit for arms exporters-
amounting to a $300 million dollar increase in subsidies. Though the US=
 already
corners the market on arms sales, this bill would encourage greater sales of
weapons abroad, strengthening military dictatorships and threatening global
stability...."
        At present it appears that H.R. 4986 may come up for a floor vote
in the
Senate as early as this week. H.R. 4986 is a flawed response to a WTO ruling
that our current FSC scheme is an unfair trade practice. Although the EU,=
 the
complainant in the original suit, has already stated that it will not accept
this new legislation, proponents of the bill are using a putative WTO Oct 1
deadline to pressure Congress into passing the bill without any amendments.=
 In
fact, the US and EU are now engaged in negotiations that have thus far=
 resulted
in the EU effectively rescinding the Oct 1 deadline....
[From: "Jim Bridgman" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Congrats! Clinton says "NO" to Star Wars!
Recently, President Clinton announced that the US would NOT move forward in
constructing a Star Wars anti-missile system that could provoke a news arms
race with Russia and China. Because of growing public concern and its faulty
technology, the President made the right move. Congratulations! You helped=
 make
this happen.  Your help, however, is still needed. Star Wars is not over=
 yet!
In fact, the President left the door open for his successor to either put an
end to this dangerous program - or deploy it as soon as possible. Please=
 send a
free postcard to presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore at:
www.DontBlowIt.org =20
[From: "DontBlowIt.org" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- 384 reactor accidents in Russia
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0918/russianukes.html
A confidential report prepared by a group of experts earlier this year for=
 the
Russian government said that during the past 50 years there have been 384
reactor accidents with release of radiation, causing 58 deaths and 214 cases=
 of
acute radiation poisoning - and that does not count the Aug. 12 sinking of=
 the
nuclear submarine Kursk.
[TIME EUROPE September 18, 2000, Vol. 156 No. 12]

- This is an exceptionally good op-ed on Pentagon waste and corporate=
 welfare,
I urge you to reprint it and forward it and generally get it out there.=20
Van Gosse, Peace Action <mailto:[e-mail]>
The Defense Contractor Welfare King=20
http://commondreams.org/views/092000-104.htm=20
Published Weds., September 20, 2000 in the Seatlle Post-Intelligencer

- Am-Bushed on Oprah (September 20, 2000)
Greetings from Chicago, where Voices members visited with Oprah Winfrey's
audience before the show and then were able to pose questions to George W.
Bush. Below are Danny Muller's and Andrew Mandell's accounts which we'd be=
 glad
to circulate further with your help. Also, should you need talking points in
response to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's recent remarks about=
 Iraq,
please visit the commondreams.org website which has posted "Through the=
 Looking
Glass," - our response to Ms. Albright's suggestion that those who protest
economic sanctions against Iraq hold "Alice in Wonderland" fantasies.=20
Kathy Kelly
--

Am- Bushed on Oprah
Or What Time Do you get up in the Morning?
        September18- Five AM is early. Early enough to make you really=
 question
what merits getting out of bed at such an ungodly hour. But today was
different. I was surrounded by others who felt called to provide a voice for
children half way around the planet who are being ravaged by the effects of=
 our
sanctions and our bombs. People who feel that our foreign policy in Iraqis
genocide and that it must change.=20
        Andrew Mandell and I had tickets for the Oprah show today, an event
that
would not normally be on our list of events to attend. But George W. Bush=
 was
being interviewed in the aftermath of his call for increased militarism and=
 a
vow that he would "get tougher on Iraq." As we stood in line to enter,=
 members
of the Voices affinity group offered each audience member a rose affixed to=
 a
postcard, urging that the flower be worn to commemorate children who have=
 died
due to economic sanctions on Iraq. The cards also suggested questions to=
 raise
with Mr. Bush. We felt gratified that so many people took the rose, read the
card, thought for a minute and then pinned the rose on their clothing as=
 they
waited to enter the studio.=20
        But other forces were also in motion. As we stood to pass through=
 the
metal detector, a bewildered voice, in an almost apologetic tone, announced
that everyone must remove their flowers "for some reason, don=92t ask me."=
 An
image I will not forget for a long time was people lining up to hand over=
 their
roses as they approached the metal detector. In a society where free speech=
 and
free expression are so prized, the regular infringement on the right to free
speech is almost as surprising as the complacency of those who are prevented
from speaking.
        Three hundred Oprah fans and a couple of non-complacents sat down to
watch Oprah interview Bush on a variety of topics. None of these topics
addressed the roots of problems affecting most of the world=92s population,=
 like
hunger. Or poverty. Or trying to fall asleep as warplanes screech across=
 night
skies, over villages that lay in rubble and filth, with children condemned=
 to
death by people they will never know. And I wonder What is more frightening?
The few who profit from US policy toward Iraq, the handful who set the=
 rules,
sell the guns, dominate the oil sales=97or the millions who stand by and=
 pay,
through their taxes and their silence, for crimes that afflict children?=
 Will
any of those who excuse governments for their crimes at least understand why
people get up at 5AM for any other reason than to laugh on cue to rehearsed
answers to even more rehearsed questions...
        Standing up, about halfway through the show, I asked "Mr. Bush,=
 would
you continue the Democrats=92 policy of bombing and sanctions that kill=
 5,000
children a month in Iraq?"    Cutting to commercial on cue, Bush was spared
having to answer. But he was not spared the question. Andrew stood and asked
about what Iraqi children burdened by sanctions can expect, a reference to
Bush=92s earlier remarks about great expectations for those who support his
campaign. Mr. Bush stared directly at Andrew while Ms. Winfrey rebuked me,
saying "You can=92t do this." I explained to Ms. Winfrey that I felt=
 compelled to
speak, that after traveling to Iraq and witnessing children die for lack of
medicine, I needed to act. The room was silent. Ms. Winfrey gave me a=
 momentary
look of concern before I was escorted out. In the fleeting moments of what=
 many
might perceive as a stark confrontation, Andrew and I locked eyes with Ms.
Winfrey and Mr. Bush, and I felt that there was a chance we reached two=
 people
who wield tremendous influence in our society.
        To see people who create nonviolent change by creating beauty and
asking
questions that are not asked is a lesson in nonviolence. I hope we as a=
 country
can learn this lesson before it is too late. After our action, though, what
lingers is sorrow. Sorrow and overwhelming sadness. That good people, like=
 the
audience members today, can remain complacent in the face of tremendous=
 evil.
That people like the beautifully attired young Bush supporter outside the=
 Oprah
show could say, when she was asked whether Bush, if elected president, would
support the murderous sanctions regime, "Oh, I don=92t know anything about=
 that,
I=92d need to know more." Sorrow that disruption is necessary to address=
 basic
facts about mortality rates and body totals that we are responsible for.=
 Sorrow
that the other 300 people in that room were not on their feet, that millions=
 of
Americans joined them on their couches and not on the streets speaking a=
 simple
message - do not kill our brothers and sisters in Iraq and around the world.=
=20
        So with 6 weeks before we vote in this democracy of ours, if life=
 were
an Oprah show, would you sit or would you stand?=20
        - Danny Muller

Roses in September
        We brought flowers in the name of the lost children of Iraq. The
lady in
front of me carefully attached one to her dress. Her companion was much too
enlightened for that. She knew that this sort of thing was "politically
motivated" and therefore suspect. One has to be careful when rallying behind
dying children. There is no telling whose they might be. The flowers didn=92=
t
make it in. At the doorway into America=92s living room, which looked
surprisingly like a common metal detector, these red roses were collected=
 and
bagged. They, as well as the questions on the hearts of the Iraqi people,=
 were
not part of the script.
        Bush is speaking about forgiveness. Not regarding the offering of=
 grace
on any international scale or even in regards to the domestic questions that
seem to swirl around the hanging governor from Texas. He stays on the=
 receiving
end of forgiveness and even there leaves any detail aside. "I am running for
President" is his excuse for this ducking of substance. Like the knowing,
well-trained acting troupe the room feigns amusement and puts on its best=
 "we
know what it takes to rule the world" face. Danny is going to interrupt as=
 it
seems clear now that this head-to-head confrontation is a long commercial=
 for
the discerning impaired. First, a commercial break and then a video clip of
George W. offering to be the pilot of our Great Expectations. This is the=
 last
straw. Dickens=92 rolls in his grave and when we return to the show Danny=
 Muller
stands up and asks Mr. Bush about the children of Iraq and their=
 expectations.
I try to follow up but the risk of empathy is avoided by a commercial break.
The crowd is of course shocked. Not because our policy and economic=
 sanctions
are crushing a civilian population against a tyrant but because anyone might
consider such everyday activities the basis to interrupt the grown- ups. My
daughter understood the interruption if not the response, when she hears us
speak of the suffering in Iraq. She writes letters in crayon to the leaders=
 and
in all faith asks them to intervene. I have to go home and tell her that not
only does the next-in-line refuse to imagine anything higher than the price
offered so coldly by Ms. Albright, but that George W Bush cannot be bothered=
 by
such questions. They are not "part of the format". I never liked grown-ups.=
=20
        -Andrew Mandell

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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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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

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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) on-line poll for presidential debates
Date: 21 Sep 2000 11:22:11 -0500

Dear Friend of Project Abolition:

The Commission on Presidential Debates is conducting a Harris on-line
poll to help determine the topics addressed at the debates.  Now that
the
presidential debates proposed by the commission are back on, this is an
excellent opportunity to help put nuclear weapons on the national screen
via
cyber-organizing. The poll is at www.debates.org.

Please note: mid-way through the poll you will be asked to pick 3 (out
of six) broad topics that are most important to you.  You will only be
allowed to comment in-depth on those three topics, so be sure to pick
Foreign
Policy and Defense if you want to register your opinion on nuclear
weapons
elimination.

There is no option immediately given for nuclear weapons, but if you
select "Other" within the Foreign Policy and Defense list, you'll be
allowed to
write-in.  Missile defense is listed as a topic.

The "What question would you ask if you were moderator?" section is also

a good spot to bring up nuclear issues.

There does not appear to be any limit as to the number of times you can
take the survey.

For your convenience and reference, a list of possible nuclear "comment
points" follows for the write-in section.  Feel free to call the Global
Security Institute (415 561 6686) or Project Abolition (219 535 1110)
for elaboration on any of these points.

Tyler Stevenson
Global Security Institute

Kevin Martin
Project Abolition

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD AND RE-POST!
--------------

Pax and facts -- samples for you to use and adapt:

1. U.S. obligation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation,
reaffirmed this May, to the "unequivocal undertaking" of nuclear weapon
elimination.

2. The Cold War level of weapon readiness (hair-trigger), targeting
(thousands in Russia alone), and the danger of accidental launch.

3. Continued existence of nuclear weapons, especially with deteriorating

command-and-control in Russia, makes nuclear terrorism an increasing
likelihood.

4. At any given point in the past ten years, in any given country on
earth, well over half the population has supported nuclear weapon
abolition.

5. Aggregate nuclear weapon spending in the United States alone is $35
billion annually, or $1000 every second.

6. Some of our most powerful and loyal allies--Ireland, Brazil, Sweden,
New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, and Egypt--have formed a New Agenda
Coalition to urge international disarmament.

7. A major overhaul in U.S. leadership is needed to recover from the
disastrous Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty rejection in the U.S. Senate
last October.

8. The current debate over National Missile Defense misses the point:
the only true security from nuclear ballistic missiles is the
elimination of
nuclear weapons.  In the meantime, our government is pandering to
defense industry lobbyists and soundbite populism in its willingness to
construct a missile defense that doesn't work, costs AT LEAST $60
billion, and
antagonizes our allies and enemies alike.

9. The use of nuclear weapons, or threat thereof, is anathema to every
religious, moral, and legal norm on the planet.  They are unworthy of
the United States or any nation.

ALL OF THIS MEANS FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT: The United States should take a

leadership role in the multilateral, transparent, verifiable, and
irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: on-line poll for presidential debates
Date: 21 Sep 2000 12:27:02 -0400

>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:22:11 -0400
>Subject: on-line poll for presidential debates
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Dear Friend of Project Abolition:
>
>The Commission on Presidential Debates is conducting a Harris on-line
>poll to help determine the topics addressed at the debates.  Now that
>the
>presidential debates proposed by the commission are back on, this is an
>excellent opportunity to help put nuclear weapons on the national screen
>via
>cyber-organizing. The poll is at www.debates.org.
>
>Please note: mid-way through the poll you will be asked to pick 3 (out
>of six) broad topics that are most important to you.  You will only be
>allowed to comment in-depth on those three topics, so be sure to pick
>Foreign
>Policy and Defense if you want to register your opinion on nuclear
>weapons
>elimination.
>
>There is no option immediately given for nuclear weapons, but if you
>select "Other" within the Foreign Policy and Defense list, you'll be
>allowed to
>write-in.  Missile defense is listed as a topic.
>
>The "What question would you ask if you were moderator?" section is also
>
>a good spot to bring up nuclear issues.
>
>There does not appear to be any limit as to the number of times you can
>take the survey.
>
>For your convenience and reference, a list of possible nuclear "comment
>points" follows for the write-in section.  Feel free to call the Global
>Security Institute (415 561 6686) or Project Abolition (219 535 1110)
>for elaboration on any of these points.
>
>Tyler Stevenson
>Global Security Institute
>
>Kevin Martin
>Project Abolition
>
>PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD AND RE-POST!
>--------------
>
>Pax and facts -- samples for you to use and adapt:
>
>1. U.S. obligation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation,
>reaffirmed this May, to the "unequivocal undertaking" of nuclear weapon
>elimination.
>
>2. The Cold War level of weapon readiness (hair-trigger), targeting
>(thousands in Russia alone), and the danger of accidental launch.
>
>3. Continued existence of nuclear weapons, especially with deteriorating
>
>command-and-control in Russia, makes nuclear terrorism an increasing
>likelihood.
>
>4. At any given point in the past ten years, in any given country on
>earth, well over half the population has supported nuclear weapon
>abolition.
>
>5. Aggregate nuclear weapon spending in the United States alone is $35
>billion annually, or $1000 every second.
>
>6. Some of our most powerful and loyal allies--Ireland, Brazil, Sweden,
>New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, and Egypt--have formed a New Agenda
>Coalition to urge international disarmament.
>
>7. A major overhaul in U.S. leadership is needed to recover from the
>disastrous Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty rejection in the U.S. Senate
>last October.
>
>8. The current debate over National Missile Defense misses the point:
>the only true security from nuclear ballistic missiles is the
>elimination of
>nuclear weapons.  In the meantime, our government is pandering to
>defense industry lobbyists and soundbite populism in its willingness to
>construct a missile defense that doesn't work, costs AT LEAST $60
>billion, and
>antagonizes our allies and enemies alike.
>
>9. The use of nuclear weapons, or threat thereof, is anathema to every
>religious, moral, and legal norm on the planet.  They are unworthy of
>the United States or any nation.
>
>ALL OF THIS MEANS FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT: The United States should take a
>
>leadership role in the multilateral, transparent, verifiable, and
>irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.
>

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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) update on Project Abolition activities
Date: 21 Sep 2000 16:09:54 -0500

Dear Friends:

Here's some news from Project Abolition:

APPEAL FOR RESPONSIBLE SECURITY TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 3 IN BOSTON
BEFORE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

The Appeal for Responsible Security, a simple two paragraph statement on
nuclear abolition that will form the linchpin of Project Abolition's
civil society strategy to build mainstream support, will be released by
an impressive list of endorsers at a luncheon event in Boston a few
hours before the first presidential debate.  Details:

"Bush & Gore At The Nuclear Crossroads: Nuclear Policy, National
Security & the Next Presidency"
October 3, 12:00 Noon - 3:30 p.m.
Pre-debate luncheon briefing
Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Stanbro Room
64 Arlington St. (between St. James and Columbus), Boston, MA
Sponsored by the Global Security Institute and the Fourth Freedom Forum

Speakers will include (please note, not all of these individuals have
endorsed the Appeal for Responsible Security):
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
Theodore Postol, MIT
Jonathan Schell, Author/Activist
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems
Sen. Alan Cranston, Global Security Institute
Janne Nolan, Century Foundation
Ambassador Richard Butler, Diplomat in Residence at the Council Foreign
Relations
Jack Mendelsohn, Ex. Dir., LAWS
and others

Project Abolition staff and Boston area activists are also working to
organize a demonstration, possibly featuring Peace Action's 50-foot
inflatable mock missile, outside the debate venue at UMass-Boston.

CNN TO AIR SLEEPWALKING TO ARMAGEDDON DOCUMENTARY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15

Thanks in no small part to Alan Cranston and his Global Security
Institute, the much-anticipated documentary Sleepwalking to Armageddon
will air on CNN Sunday, October 15 at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 p.m.
pacific time.  The documentary, produced by Richard Crile, was excerpted
as "The Missiliers" on the CBS-TV show 60 Minutes II earlier this year.
The full-length documentary will feature much more groundbreaking
footage of Russian and U.S. nuclear sites, and should be a great
organizing tool for house parties and election-related work, such as
candidate bird-dogging and local media outreach.
CNN may also air the show earlier in the week prior to October 15, we'll
notify you when the schedule is set.
An alert with more information on the show and how to organize around it
will be forthcoming shortly via email.

SUGGESTED READING

        Jonathan Schell's "The Folly of Arms Control" is the lead
article in the September/October issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
And, from the sublime to the, well, not ridiculous, but less sublime
anyway, yours truly along with my interns Rachel Glick, Rachel Ries, Tim

Nafziger and Mark Swier have an articled titled "The Real Rogues Behind
the Star Wars Missile Defense System" in the September issue of Z
Magazine.

SUGGESTED BROWSING

        Thanks to afore-mentioned intern and web wizard Tim Nafziger,
Project Abolition
now has its own stand-alone website at www.projectabolition.org.  It
features links to our member groups on the home page and lots of other
useful information and links.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
219/535-1110


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/22 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 22 Sep 2000 08:54:05 -0400

[NucNews Archives have been expanded through 9/10/00 to include subscriber
submissions at http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 22, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000922212212.htm

    Demonstration =97 noon =97 The National Boricua Human Rights Network=
 sponsors a
demonstration to protest the U.S. Navy's continued bombing of the island of
Vieques, Puerto Rico. Location: In front of the White House. Contact:
202/223-3915, 202/721-4688 or 202/237-2598.  (See details below)

[Meanwhile ...]=20

National Puerto Rican Coalition conference =97 all day =97 The National=
 Puerto
Rican Coalition Inc. holds its annual conference.
      Highlights =97 8:45 a.m. =97 Annual membership meeting.
      Noon =97 Corporate luncheon: "The Economic, Social and Political=
 Outlook
for Puerto Rico in the 21st Century."
      5 p.m. =97 Hispanic Heritage student reception.
      6 p.m. =97 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo,=
 Life
Achievements Awards ceremony, Southeast Pavilion, Library of Congress, First
Street and Independence Avenue SE.
      9 p.m. =97 Tito Puente Jr. Orchestra, "Tribute to Tito Puente."
      Location: Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth St. NW. Contact:
202/223-2469.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - Florida
        1:00 p.m. - One-on-one with local citizens, Kings Point Theater,=
 1900
Clubhouse Drive, Sun City Center, Florida, [phone]=20
        6:00 p.m. -  Republican Party Reception, Hyatt Regency Westshore
Ballroom, 6200 Courtney Campell Causeway, Tampa, Florida, [phone]=20
        9:00 p.m. - Miami Victory 2000 Rally, The Coconut Grove Convention
Center, 2700 South Bayshore Drive, Miami, Florida, [phone]=20

- Al Gore - Pennsylvania
      1 p.m. =97 Discusses his plans to take action to lower oil prices, IDW
Local 712 Hall, Vanport, Pa.

- Ralph Nader -=20
        - Friday, September 22 -
        5:30 PM - Minneapolis, MN - Reception with Ralph Nader and Winona
LaDuke, Target Center Hospitality Suite, for more info and to RSVP
(mailto:[e-mail]) - SUPER RALLY, Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke,
with
Special Guests Michael Moore and Granny D,  600 First Avenue North (downtown
Minneapolis), Doors open 5 PM. Event begins 7 PM.
To order tickets by phone: [phone], For more info, www.MNGreens.org.
        - Saturday, Sept. 23 -
        5:30 to 7 PM. - Seattle, WA - Reception with Ralph Nader & Jim
Hightower, Private Room at Key Arena Seattle, WA, For more info
(mailto:[e-mail]). The Key Arena - SUPER RALLY,  Ralph Nader=
 with
Jim Hightower, Doors open 5 PM. Event starts 7 PM.

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Demonstration for Vieques, Puerto Rico, Lafayette Park, in front of White
House, 12 Noon, Friday, September 22 - Day 60 of Fast for Peace in Vieques =
=96
Day 40 on Water-only
        Long-term Faster Will Risk Arrest in Civil Disobedience - Hundreds=
 of
individuals and organizations taking part in the struggle for peace in=
 Vieques
from dozens of cities in the U.S. and from Vieques and other municipalities=
 in
Puerto Rico, will gather in Washington, DC for the National Day of=
 Solidarity
with the People of Vieques, Puerto Rico =96 September 22, 2000. This=
 mobilization
builds on the struggle to get the U.S. Navy to immediately and permanently=
 stop
bombing and leave Vieques. Future protests will take place in Vieques on
October 1, 2000 and in New York City on October 21, 2000.
        The events will start at 12:00 noon at Lafayette Park, in front of=
 the
White House, and will include an ecumenical service, a picket and
demonstration, speeches from several leaders from Vieques, Members of=
 Congress,
and other prominent figures. Plans include a powerful and peaceful act of
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience for Justice and Peace in Vieques, directly in
front of the residence of the U.S. President and Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces. Members of the peace movement in Vieques seek 4 Ds:
Demilitarization of their island, Decontamination of their environment,
Devolution of their land and sustainable Development of their economy and
society.
        Andr=E9s Thomas Conteris, 39, Washington, DC member of the=
 Fellowship of
Reconciliation Task Force on Latin America & the Caribbean and United=
 Methodist
lay missioner, spent five days and nights on the Vieques bombing range in=
 early
May 2000 after the FBI and U.S Marshals evicted over 200 protesters. He and
others continued to serve as human shields, similar to the peace encampments=
 of
the previous year. Bombing resumed while protesters were still on the range.
According to Thomas Conteris, "It is utterly unconscionable that the U.S.=
 Navy
would engage in bombing with full knowledge that civilians were present."
        Thomas Conteris began fasting on liquids on July 25, 2000 and turned=
 to
a water-only, open-ended fast when the U.S. Navy renewed its bombing of the
island. He has lost 55 pounds and will continue to fast until the President
schedules the long-requested meeting. Many others are fasting in Vieques and=
 in
the U.S. on a rotating basis. Fasters urge President Clinton to meet=
 personally
with religious and community leaders of Vieques and Puerto Rico who seek a
permanent end to the bombing of the island.=20
Many protesters plan to risk arrest in a nonviolent fashion during the
activities of the National Day in Solidarity with the People of Vieques,=
 Puerto
Rico, including Thomas Conteris.
For more information: www.viequesfast.org [e-mail] 202-232-1999

- On-line poll for presidential debates -
The Commission on Presidential Debates is conducting a Harris on-line poll=
 to
help determine the topics addressed at the debates. Now that the=
 presidential
debates proposed by the commission are back on, this is an excellent
opportunity to help put nuclear weapons on the national screen via
cyber-organizing. The poll is at http://www.debates.org. Please note:=
 mid-way
through the poll you will be asked to pick 3 (out of six) broad topics that=
 are
most important to you. You will only be allowed to comment in-depth on those
three topics, so be sure to pick Foreign Policy and Defense if you want to
register your opinion on nuclear weapons elimination.  There is no option
immediately given for nuclear weapons, but if you=20
select "Other" within the Foreign Policy and Defense list, you'll be allowed=
 to
write-in. Missile defense is listed as a topic.  The "What question would=
 you
ask if you were moderator?" section is also a good spot to bring up nuclear
issues. There does not appear to be any limit as to the number of times you=
 can
take the survey.  [From: Kevin Martin - Project Abolition
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) has designed a website
<http://www.debatethis.org/> which seeks to open up the Presidential=
 Debates.
Recently updated, the website now includes A SIGN-ON LETTER TO TV NETWORKS -
visit http://www.DebateThis.org/tvalert.html and you can add your own=
 comments,
sign on to the letter and with the push of a button, your letter will be
emailed to 6 TV networks, asking that they don't bother to air the=
 presidential
debates unless they are open to third party candidates. [From: SEAC National
Office <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- CADU International Conference on Depleted Uranium - 4- 5 November 2000 -=
=20
The CADU Steering Group met today and we all decided that we would like to
extend an open offer to all Gulf War veterans to register for the conference
free of charge in recognition of what you all are going through. Can you=
 send
this message out please on the vets' email loop? We are also hoping that the
vets will be at the Veterans' Workshop on Sunday afternoon (5 Nov) with Doug
Rokke and Malcolm Hooper, to put together strategy recommendations that will=
 go
into the final report, that groups around the world can use in their=
 lobbying
efforts.  - Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU), One World Centre, 6=
 Mount
Street, Manchester, M2 5NS, UK, Tel: [phone], E-Mail:
mailto:[e-mail] -  http://www.cadu.org.uk For more information,
contact
Cat Euler, conference organiser at the CADU office. Should you wish to=
 receive
the quarterly CADU mailing by E-Mail please mailto:[e-mail]

- Amy Goodman of Democracy Now writes:=20
If you would like to hear Danny Muller's account of what happened on Oprah=
 with
George W. Bush, go to www.democracynow.org. Mulller was on Democracy Now on
Sept. 20. That same day, Amy also replayed John Strange's questioning of
Madeline Albright two years ago on Feb. 18, 1998, as albrightbergercohen=
 held
that CNN town meeting at Ohio State University in Colombus trying to drum up
support for another Iraq bombing. [From: "Max Obuszewski"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- APPEAL FOR RESPONSIBLE SECURITY TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 3 IN BOSTON BEFORE
FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
"Bush & Gore At The Nuclear Crossroads: Nuclear Policy, National=20
Security & the Next Presidency"=20
October 3, 12:00 Noon - 3:30 p.m. - Pre-debate luncheon briefing, Boston=
 Park
Plaza Hotel, Stanbro Room, 64 Arlington St. (between St. James and=
 Columbus),
Boston, MA=20
        The Appeal for Responsible Security, a simple two paragraph
statement on
nuclear abolition that will form the linchpin of Project Abolition's civil
society strategy to build mainstream support, will be released by an=
 impressive
list of endorsers at a luncheon event in Boston a few hours before the first
presidential debate. Sponsored by the Global Security Institute and the=
 Fourth
Freedom Forum Speakers will include (please note, not all of these=
 individuals
have endorsed the Appeal for Responsible Security): Jonathan Alter,=
 Newsweek;=20
Theodore Postol, MIT; Jonathan Schell, Author/Activist; Bill Joy, Sun
Microsystems; Sen. Alan Cranston, Global Security Institute; Janne Nolan,
Century Foundation; Ambassador Richard Butler, Diplomat in Residence at the
Council Foreign Relations; Jack Mendelsohn, Ex. Dir., LAWS; and others
        Project Abolition staff and Boston area activists are also working=
 to
organize a demonstration, possibly featuring Peace Action's 50-foot=
 inflatable
mock missile, outside the debate venue at UMass-Boston.  [From: Kevin Martin
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- CNN TO AIR SLEEPWALKING TO ARMAGEDDON DOCUMENTARY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 -=
 Thanks
in no small part to Alan Cranston and his Global Security Institute, the
much-anticipated documentary Sleepwalking to Armageddon will air on CNN=
 Sunday,
October 15 at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 p.m. pacific time. The documentary,
produced by Richard Crile, was excerpted as "The Missiliers" on the CBS-TV=
 show
60 Minutes II earlier this year. The full-length documentary will feature=
 much
more groundbreaking footage of Russian and U.S. nuclear sites, and should be=
 a
great organizing tool for house parties and election-related work, such as
candidate bird-dogging and local media outreach. CNN may also air the show
earlier in the week prior to October 15.  [From: Kevin Martin
<mailto:[e-mail]>]
     ___________________________________________________

Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
Submit URL/Article: mailto:[e-mail]
OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online)
Subscribe to NucNews Briefs:  mailto:[e-mail]

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.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

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

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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Report on the Military Situation on the Korean Peninsula
Date: 22 Sep 2000 11:13:01 -0800

>
>     No. 163-P
>PRESS ADVISORY  September 22, 2000
>REPORT ON THE MILITARY SITUATION ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA
>The FY2000 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1233) directs
>the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on the security
>situation on the Korean Peninsula.  This report provides an
>assessment of the warfighting capability of the Republic of
>Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command when compared to the armed forces
>of North Korea. It also provides an assessment of the North Korean
>threat to the Republic of Korea.  Finally, it examines the current
>status and future direction of North Korea's weapons of mass
>destruction and ballistic missile programs.
>         The report is now available on line at <a
>href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2000/korea09122000.html">http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2000/korea09122000.html</a>
>.
>-END-
>page 1

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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter Faxed Today to Foreign Minister Downer - Suggest you write
Date: 23 Sep 2000 14:32:22 +1000

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


The following letter from 36 Australian organisations and Parliamentarians
has been faxed today to Alexander Downer, DFAT, and our UN ambassador.

It is being posted in the hope that you will be inspired to write something
similar.

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA,
GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC,
AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION,
AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE S.A.,
AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE NSW,
CENTRAL COAST PEACE FORUM,
SOUTH COAST PEACE COMMITTEE,
CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (CICD),
PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT W.A.,
PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT NSW,
ANTI-BASES CAMPAIGN,
PAX CHRISTI NSW.,
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA,
ENVIRONMENT CENTRE OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (ECNT),
ARIDLANDS ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (ALEC),
ENVIRONMENT CENTRE OF W.A.,
SUTHERLAND SHIRE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE,
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY (TWS),
COALITION FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE AUSTRALIA, VIC,
COMMUNITY ANTI-NUCLEAR NETWORK OF W.A.,(CANNWA),
CANBERRA PROGRAM FOR PEACE,
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PARTY,
OUR COMMON FUTURE,
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNION,
WAYSIDE CHAPEL,
CARMEN LAWRENCE M.P.,
TANYA PLIBERSEK M.P.,
DARYL MELHAM M.P.,
ANTHONY ALBANESE M.P.,
JANN MC FARLANE M.P.,
KELLY HOARE M.P.,
HARRY JENKINS M.P.,
SENATOR ANDREW BARTLETT,
LEE RHIANNON M.L.C., NSW.

TO:

FOREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER DOWNER 02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166,

UN AMBASSADOR PENNY WENSLEY
1-212-351-6610

cc
LAURIE BRERETON MHR, 02-6277-8501 9349-8089
SENATOR LYN ALLISON, 02-6277-3087, 03-9417-1690
DR. CARMEN LAWRENCE MHR, 08-9336-1059
SENATOR BOB BROWN, 02-6277-3185, 03-6234-1577
DFAT 02-6261-2151

RE: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT RESOLUTIONS IN UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE

Dear Foreign Minister Downer,

The above and undersigned organizations are writing with respect to a
number of resolutions relating to nuclear weapons, which are  due to be
submitted to the United Nations General Assembly First Committee in early
October and the Sept 13 statement by the New Agenda group.

We believe these resolutions and the NAC initiative in particular are all
very much worthy of support and will help to further the objective of the
total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons, to which all NPT
signatories affirmed their commitment at the recent NPT Review Conference.

We particularly draw your attention to the 13 Sept. statement by the
foreign ministers of New Zealand, Sweden, Ireland,  South Africa, Mexico,
Brazil and Egypt, concerning the New Agenda resolution.

We believe that it is essential that the nuclear weapon states be strongly
pressed to implement the commitments made at the 24April - 19May 2000 NPT
Review Conference. This country as a key US ally has an important role to
play, which we will fail to play if we are unprepared to press the US in
particular to fulfill its disarmament obligations.

The most important of the resolutions before the First Committee is
undoubtedly the resolution:

(1)'Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World - The Need for a New Agenda', which
will be submitted for the third year running.(54/54G)

Other resolutions which we urge the government to support include:
(2) the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas
resolution, (54/54L)
(3)Convention on the prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons (54/55D)
(4)Follow-Up to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice
on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (54/54Q)
(5)Preservation and Compliance with the treaty on the Limitation of
Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (54/54A)
(6) Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space(PAROS) (54/53 1 Dec. 1999)
(7)Reducing Nuclear Danger (54/54K)

We note that Australia last year abstained on the New Agenda
resolution,(though not on OP-7),  that it abstained also on the ICJ
resolution (but was in favor of OP-1), that it voted against the resolution
on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, abstained on the ABM
resolution, voted against the Resolution on Reducing Nuclear Danger, and
voted in favor of the resolution on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer
Space and in favor of a nuclear weapons free zone in the southern
hemisphere and adjacent areas.

We applaud the votes in favor of the PAROS resolution and the Nuclear
Weapons-Free Southern Hemisphere, and urge that the government vote in
favor  of the New Agenda resolution, the ICJ resolution, the nuclear
weapons prohibition resolution, the ABM resolution, and the resolution on
reducing the nuclear danger.

The New Agenda Resolution in particular,  offers a way forward towards the
goal of a nuclear weapons-free world, while the New Agenda grouping has
proved that it has the support of the overwhelming majority of the world's
governments.  A vote by an important US ally such as Australia would also
send a strong signal toward the US itself that it must do more to achieve
concrete agreed measures to further reduce the operational status of
nuclear weapons systems, and a diminishing role for nuclear weapons in
security policies. This would include moves to de-alert all nuclear weapons
and to adopt a no-first-use policy.

It is deeply regrettable that, last year, in spite of resolutions in the
Australian Senate in favor of the New Agenda Resolution,  the government
chose not to vote in favor of the NAC. We hope that this year it will both
vote for the NAC Resolution and work with the NAC group.

A vote by Australia in favor of the resolution on the ABM treaty would
likewise do much to place pressure on the US not to proceed with what is
considered  by the overwhelming majority of the governments in the world to
be a destabilizing and unwise deployment of an NMD system.

The deployment of NMD by the US will in fact make impossible any of the
progressive steps, especially further movement on START-II and III, which
have been called for not only by successive New Agenda resolutions but also
by the final declaration of the NPT Revcon. Australia should indicate
clearly to the US that it does not support NMD and that it does support the
retention of the ABM treaty in its present form and without alterations
that would permit the deployment of NMD.  Your attention is drawn in this
context, to the 29 June 2000 resolution passed by the Australian Senate
against NMD.

A vote in favor of the resolution on the ABM treaty would also be
consistent with our vote in favor of the PAROS resolution. It is utterly
vital that space not become an arena in which conflict can take place, or
in which weapons platforms are stationed.

Finally, one would have thought that the next three resolutions (the ICJ
followup, the reduction of nuclear dangers and the prohibition of the use
of nuclear weapons) had no possible arguments against them.

The resolution on the reduction of nuclear dangers is a mild version of the
recommendations of Australia's own Canberra Commission, asking as it does
for the review of Launch on Warning policies and for de-alerting.  Given
the extreme long-term danger posed by the possibility of accidental nuclear
war if current alert status is maintained indefinitely, it is hard to
comprehend Australia's negative vote on this commonsense resolution.

Australia argued before the ICJ that the use of nuclear weapons would be a
violation of international law. Thus it is hypocritical for Australia to
oppose the resolution proposing that this be codified into an international
agreement. Australia also spoke in the ICJ of the obligation to negotiate
complete nuclear disarmament. The affirmation of this obligation by the ICJ
and the highlighting of this by the UN resolution on the ICJ opinion should
lead to active Australian support for this resolution.

It is argued that this is 'premature', but this means little beyond that
some countries still do not like the idea of fulfilling their legal
obligations.

We note that a large number of resolutions on nuclear weapons and related
topics are likely to be submitted to the first committee, including also
the Consolidation of Peace Through Practical Disarmament Measures. Some of
these you may have already decided to vote for.  In general however, the
resolutions we have pinpointed are the ones which if passed will produce
the most benefit and where a positive vote by this country will mean the
most.

If Australia confines itself to voting entirely for resolutions where a
positive vote by this country will make no waves at all and will be
entirely uncontroversial with powerful allies, we will have failed to make
a real contribution to the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Accordingly the undersigned organizations urge you to vote for and to
actively promote the New Agenda resolution, the ICJ followup resolution,
the Nuclear Weapons prohibition resolution, the resolution on the ABM
treaty, the resolution on reducing nuclear danger, the PAROS resolution and
the Nuclear-Free Southern Hemisphere resolution.

We urge you to consider these resolutions in a positive light and to vote
for them, and to work actively in cooperation with the governments of new
Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt to pressure the weapons
states to fulfill their NPT Article VI obligations as affirmed at the
recent NPT Review conference, and ask your government to state clearly how
it intends to facilitate the implementation of the commitments made at that
conference, and enshrined in its final declaration.

Yours Sincerely,

Signed

John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia
Loretta O' Brien,Nuclear Campaigner,  Friends of the Earth Fitzroy,
Steve Campbell, Nuclear Campaigner, Greenpeace Australia/Pacific
Dave Sweeney, Michele Mathews, Australian  Conservation Foundation (ACF),
Fitzroy, Vic,
Julie Mc Guinness, The Wilderness Society (TWS), Canberra, ACT,
Mark Wakeham, Environment Centre of the NT (ECNT) Darwin,
Glen Marshall, Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Alice Springs, NT,
Rowena Skinner, Environment Centre of W.A (ECWA).,. Perth, W.A.,
Michael Priceman, Sutherland Shire Environment Centre,
Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee S.A,.
Babs Fuller-Quinn, Australian Peace Committee NSW,
Doreen Burrows, South Coast Peace Committee,
Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum,
Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International Cooperation and Development
(CICD), Melb.,
Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament, W.A.,
Morrie Mifsud, People for Nuclear Disarmament, NSW.,
Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign,
Dennis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW,
Margaret Reynolds, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA),
Robin Chapple,  Rob Gulley, Brenda Conochie,  Community Anti-Nuclear
Network of WA,(CANNWA)
Jacob Grech, Secy, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia, (Vic),
Susan Hopgood, Deputy Secy, Australian Education Union, Melb, Vic.,
Gareth Smith, Chair, Canberra Program for Peace, ACT
Rev. Ray Richmond, Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross,
Greg Thompson, Anglican Priest, St Johns Darlinghurst, NSW.,
Michael Denborough, Chair, Nuclear Disarmament Party
Helen Caldicott, Our Common Future Party, Founder Physicians for Social
Responsibility,
Dr. Carmen Lawrence MP,  ALP Federal Member for Fremantle, W.A.,
Jann Mc Farlane, ALP Federal Member for Stirling, W.A.,
Tanya Plibersek MP, ALP Federal Member for Sydney,
Anthony Albanese, ALP Federal Member for Grayndler, NSW.,
Daryl Melham MP, ALP Federal Member for Banks, NSW.,
Kelly Hoare MP, ALP Federal Member for Charlton, NSW.,
Harry Jenkins MP, ALP Federal Member for Scullin, Vic,
Senator Andrew Bartlett, Democrat Senator for Queensland,
Lee Rhiannon MLC, Greens, NSW.,




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Subject: (abolition-usa) O'Leary on New Apollo Project
Date: 23 Sep 2000 22:09:56 -0700

Ideas on today's important challenge to save the Earth, from former NASA
scientist/astronaut, and former science and energy policy advisor and
speechwriter to US Presidential candidates Udall, McGovern, Mondale, Jesse
Jackson, now stumping for Ralph Nader's Presidency as a "Berlin Wall"
surprise analog, Dr. Brian O'Leary, who is pushing hemp for the environment,
new-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, new
science health and healing applications, and a global spiritual
reawakening --- to save the Earth and solve critical local, national, and
global problems that are manifest from stupid thinking and institutionalize
corruption, like wars, nuclear dangers, unjust imprisonments,
DrugWar/CIAdrugsmuggling, etc.

Plans are in the works for Dr. O'Leary to participate in Washington DC
events of Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org Oct6-12 and
to perhaps be joined by Ralph Nader at the walk's Oct9 ceremony to
rededicate the Washington Monument as a symbol of the global peace zone.
O'Leary has indicated his schedule open for speaking on a trip to Tehachapi
CA in late November to help further the new energy research and development
center here http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.html


[O'Leary's website, excerpts:]

http://www.independence.net/~oleary/

September 2000

Dear Friends,

          Meredith and I are are now in Colorado retreating, writing,
painting and lecture-touring. I just turned sixty and (gratefully) am
spending ever more time as a "nomad scientist" at places of renewal,
especially the Sivananda Yoga Ashrams. This has been a year of
simplification, (including this web site) with a focus on caring for our
91-year old mothers and stumping for our Mother Earth, and passionate
expression. While here, I am helping actor Dennis Weaver at the Institute of
Ecolonomics and Professor Maury Albertson at the International Association
for New Science to come up with clean energy solutions. I also await a
position as science editor of a new TV network. One I think will make a
difference in this crazy world.

     More than ever, I am convinced that conceptual solutions to our deepest
environmental, social and spiritual concerns do exist; that distraction,
denial and greed are preventing the information we really need to hear from
getting out.  Yes, the coming prospects of free energy, consciousness and a
sustainable future may seem uncomfortable for some, but it is time to
discuss and debate the issues about what could be done to eliminate
pollution, hunger, warfare, despair and unmitigated growth.

     To help fulfill this goal, I have a contract with  Gateway Books in
England to write a book "Re-Inheriting the Earth: Twelve Solutions for the
New Millennium", where I look at technological, personal and social
solutions.  I seek American publishing and non-profit structure to support
further study of these issues.  I would love to hear from you if you would
like to participate.

     With all best wishes,
     Brian O'Leary



http://www.independence.net/~oleary/environment_and_politics.htm

The Environment and Politics: Al Gore's Chance to Speak Out and Win
excerpt from "Re-Inheriting the Earth: Twelve Solutions for the due out
early 2001

Brian O'Leary, Ph.D. copyright 2000


The most environmental mainstream candidate we have for U.S. President in
2000 is Vice President Al Gore. Because of the unproeceded power of money,
Gore seems to be timid about speaking out from his heart and caught by the
media in gaffes which are eroding his campaign. The net effect of such pack
journalism may be forcing Gore to suppress the greatest issue of our time in
order to be politically correct in this age of spin-doctoring.

Neither Gore nor the media are talking about what must be the most urgent
issues of our time: ending the fossil fuel age, stabilizing the air from
pollution, global warming and climate change; switching to new and renewable
energy; growing hemp and straw to replace wood to preserve our forests; and
creating a sustainable future for food, water, materials recycling and
wilderness preservation.

For example, syndicated columnist George F. Will on May 2, 1999 glibly
dismissed Gore's contention that automobiles pose "a mortal threat to the
security of every nation that is more deadly than that of any military enemy
we are ever again likely to confront," by wondering if perhaps we might bomb
Detroit instead of Serbia, he totally misses the point. According to 2500
relevant scientists comprising the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the evidence is overwhelming that oil consumption leads the way in
creating global warming, catastrophic climate change and air pollution that
have already caused more death and misery than any bombing of Serbia or
secondhand smoke could do. Partnering with the first and only
trillion-dollar-per-year multinational industry (petroleum), the United
States leads the way in the Great Oil Glut of the 20th Century.

And for Will to say that Gore is wrong if 100 Senators may not be convinced
yet of the urgency of the matter supports the notion that any political
change is unwise. The airing of all great issues must begin somewhere, that
courageous first voice that cries out that the emperor wears no clothes. The
voices are multiplying: Diane Feinstein (D-CA) said on the Senate floor that
global warming is "the single greatest environmental threat facing our
planet."

In vivid contrast, Gore's Republican rivals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
oilmen, would like to see voluntary industrial emission controls. That is
like asking for the fox to guard the chicken coop, symptomatic of the
selling-out of environmentalism these days. The most important global
challenges of our time could begin to be met once we become aware of what we
need to do to embrace new and renewable energy and ecology options.

I am sometimes amazed at how complacent we are about solving the global
ecological crisis at this critical juncture. The public needs to know more
about these things, including solutions that would require a new Apollo
project for the Earth. We have unprecedented prosperity to do the job. But
that can only happen if we transcend the powerful vested interests and
fashionable Gore-bashing consciousness that are thwarting responsible
attempts to return our home planet to sustainability.

Al Gore or any other candidate has the opportunity to speak out passionately
about the environment, because I think the people are ready to do something
about it. But perhaps his strategists perceive that, since he already has
some of the Green vote, why rock the boat? But history shows that those who
have courage to speak out from solid personal conviction about pressing
issues have the best quality to lead. Gore has an unprecedented chance to
draw the line with his chief opponent, so this campaign can be about
substance and not appearance. Because he hasen't done so, my vote is for
Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader.


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The New Apollo Program

excerpt from "Re-Inheriting the Earth: Twelve Solutions for the
the New Millennium" due out early 2000

Click here for an article about: Al Gore and the Environment
Brian O'Leary, copyright 2000


http://www.independence.net/~oleary/earth.html

As the new millennium dawns, I see hope for us and for reversing the
human-caused pollution of the Earth. The changes and adventure will be
exciting and challenging for us, yet time is running out. I believe
solutions are there, and can be enhanced if we transcend our denial of
emerging truths based on suppressed experiments in new science, new energy,
healing, consciousness, hemp production and evidence for contact with
nonhuman intelligence and our eternal being. I believe we have the potential
to make the needed changes, but we are going to have to let go of many
worn-out, vested interests and begin to empower ourselves toward solutions.

The birth of this process, as almost always, comes from "necessity being the
mother of invention." It is clear to me that we as a species must begin to
come back into balance with the biosphere. We must create a sustainable
future so that we may once again inherit the Earth. Not to do so will be a
deterioration of the quality of life for our children at best, and global
extinction at worst.

As a little boy I always wanted to go into space. There was no space program
then. Many of my teachers thought I was just a dreamer. Then Sputnik went up
in 1957, when I first entered college. Ten short years later I became an
Apollo scientist-astronaut destined to go to Mars. Soon after, NASA
cancelled the Mars-exploration part of the program. I went on to other
things, but I got to experience the feeling of anticipating what it would be
like to go to the red planet.

The Apollo Moon program taught me many valuable lessons. I saw it as a
crowning human achievement, an example of what we can do as a culture when
we put our minds to it. This was an extraordinary, historic achievement --
"one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". To me, the Apollo program
epitomized the best of our collective human potential and authentic power.
It gave me a valuable reference point for the future, which I'll explain
soon.

Some years later, as a faculty member in the physics department at Princeton
University, I began to have some personal experiences that I couldn't
explain within the traditional science I was teaching. At some risk to my
credibility as a mainstream scientist, I began to dream again like the
little boy looking through the telescope at Mars and wanting to go there. I
questioned the beliefs of materialism and reductionism as being the most
general case of our reality. As I stepped ever further out of the cultural
box, I grew and groaned tremendously, losing my visibility and credibility
among colleagues.

I asked, "How can the scientific method be applied to studying experiences
such as psychic healing, transcendental consciousness, survival after death,
communication with nonhuman intelligence, crop circles, and many other
things that demand unbiased examination?" I was at first surprised to
discover that these fields were scientifically further developed than I had
imagined, but none of them had yet been integrated into the mainstream. Some
of them had, in fact, been suppressed.

I began to learn that many basic principles of consciousness and our
multi-sensory being are being confirmed by experiments in quantum mechanics,
psychokinesis, alternative healing, clairvoyance and zero point energy
generation. I am encouraged that more and more scientists are breaking ranks
with their materialistic biases to take the courageous stand that our
consciousness is the ground of all being. In my opinion, materialism is but
a limiting case of reality and we are on the threshold of a new paradigm
which will provide the means for a new renaissance in human affairs. We can
learn a lot from what many spiritual leaders and mystics have been talking
about for a long time.

My current passion is to release our enormous human potential to balance the
Earth's environment. This massive task needn't neccessarily force us to
immediately adopt radical new technologies before they are thoroughly
researched and debated. Free energy is a dramatic example of what could be
done to transcend our polluting ways, but we will need to learn to use this
resource wisely. Just in case this is abused by military interests, I would
go for low technology solutions as backup, for example, hemp biomass, solar,
and wind power.

I have witnessed and researched a dazzling array of solutions to our global
challenges. These will require an increasing awareness of clean
technologies, ever further probing our potentials as multisensory beings,
and socially inventing those structures and procedures with which to make
the necessary changes.

We in America inherit a revolutionary tradition of freedom, one which is
threatened by environmental neglect. Our people enjoy unprecedented
abundance. We therefore have an opportunity as never before to empower
ourselves into bold resolutions. Do we have the will to join in community to
dare to dream of a mega-Apollo project for the environment? I believe we do,
but we need to examine the ways in which we can come together to discuss and
debate our millennial solutions. This will require an inner-motivated
authentic power, free of the ego-traps of greed, denial and self-interest.

This new project could spin off many others, such as world peace, abundant
food, and the opportunity to evolve to higher states of being as citizens of
the universe. Many more of us may soon discover that we are not alone in the
cosmos as sentient beings, and that our awareness never dies.

Governments will have to change radically, and learn how, at last, to
convert swords to plowshares. Private industry will have to change, too, so
that the ecology and all humanity will profit from every successful business
endeavor. We must re-invent what is meant by the collective global interest,
and keep refining it so that our new direction will be felt enthusiastically
by all. We could convene a council of elders, based on an inspired
Declaration of Interdependence, to oversee this project.

I believe the global situation calls for decisive social action. It is time
to consider and debate all reasonable solutions. Then we will be on track.
Most of all, we need not be afraid to feel our feelings, to grieve the past
and then to look at transcendent solutions based on our greater essence.
They will require nothing less than our most inspiring, inner-directed
compassion and love for all creation. We are at a critical crossroads now,
and we must act now. It is time to walk through the void to the miracles
that lie ahead, together.

 Please take a moment to read:
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Peace Walk 2000 - Peace Time Newsletter #2
Date: 24 Sep 2000 12:11:18 -0700


RE: Global Peace Walk 2000 - Peace Time Newsletter #2

PLEASE RECYCLE AND PASS-IT-ON TO OTHERS...


GLOBAL PEACE TIME

GLOBAL PEACE WALK 2000
San Francisco - Washington DC - New York / U.N.
1/15/2000 - 10/5-12/2000 - 10/23-25/2000

voicemail & updates, and to contact on the road: 415-267-1877
fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

website: http://www.globalpeacenow.org

P.O. Box 170245
San Francisco, CA 94117

********************************************************
Current News

Global Peace Walk 2000 has traveled across the Western & Central United
States, and is presently in near Washington DC. The Peace Walkers have
walked
8 months, over 2500 miles, and through 12 states. The campaign is for
spiritual peace for the entire globe, and is now enroute to Washington DC
and
New York City and the United Nations.


Global Peace Walk 2000 Joined by Native American Chiefs,
Spiritual Leaders & Tribal Members

Financial Support Urgently Needed!

Global Peace Walk 2000 will be joined by Native American Chiefs in the
coming
weeks bringing Tribal Members to walk with us in Washington DC and onto New
York City. We are honored to help them in Washington DC as we lay the
groundwork for an audience with the President and members of Congress and
the
Senate.

Global Peace Walk 2000 is inviting Native American, Chiefs, Spiritual
Leaders, Traditional Leaders, and Ancient Storytellers from Lakota, Ponca,
Shoshone, Navajo, Pueblo, Hopi, Iroquois, and other tribes for ceremonies &
speeches during our events in Washington DC (October 5 - 12) and Ceremonies
at the UN in New York City on Ocotber 24th.

These Native American, Chiefs, Spiritual Leaders, Traditional Leaders have
also been invited to speak at the "Spiritual Environmental Summit" at
Princeton University (October 19th) and the "Spiritual Environmental Summit"
at the Baha'i Center 7-11pm in New York City (October 24th). Representatives
from many NGO's and environmental, social & political groups as well as
other
Governmental & Spiritual Leaders are also being invited to hear the
traditional elders' messages & share dialogue so that everybody can better
serve Mother Earth and Future Generations in a global spiritual-political
environment.

Financial support is urgently needed now to cover traveling and hospitality
expenses. Traditional elders are happy to come, and happy to go back if we
can help them. This is a future generation blessing. If you would like to
donate funds or frequent flyer miles to help these Native American spiritual
leaders to walk with us and attend these events, please contact us at
415-267-1877 or 202-244-3407, or send funds to: "Global Peace Walk/YUCCA",
4841 Tilden Street, NW, Washington DC 20016.

Financial Support can now be handled on-line through an on-line e-commerce
site with a credit card through our website: http://www.globalpeacenow.org

********************************************************

Tenative Schedule 9/24 - 10/24, 2000
(Stay tuned for updates...)
Call 415-267-1877 for exact dates & details, and to contact us on the road.

September 20th - Fri. - Cumberland, Maryland

September 21st - 24th - Walkers bus to DC to prepare for Prayer Vigil.
Walker
continues to walk down Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath Trail towards
Washington DC

September 23rd, - Sat. - Washington DC Prayer Vigil for The Earth - Start:
Sunrise Ceremony - 33 hours

September 25th - Mon. - Walk returns to walk down Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Towpath Trail towards Washington DC

October 2nd - 3rd (Mon.-Tues.) - Washington DC - The Indigenous
Environmental
Network, Greenpeace, and Alaska Community Action on Toxins are bringing a
delegation of 12 native people from the Great Lakes region and Alaska (of
Oneida, Menominee, Fonddulac of Ojibwe, Penobscot Nations) to Washington DC
to speak out against Persistent Organic Pollutants in the environment. Call
218-751-4967 or [e-mail] for details. Join the Breakfast Event at the
State Department Building 11am on Ocober 3rd and the video showing that
evening.

October 5th-12th (Thurs.-Thurs.) - Washington DC - Ceremonies & Events

Global Peace Walk through Washington DC (Thursday, Oct. 5)
Grand Entrance & March
INVITES ALL PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS
To Bring Your Prayers, Banners, Flags, Puppets, Drums and Messages!!!
MEET 9am @ Ballston Commons METRO
Walk to Memorial Bridge Circle - (3 miles) 11am ceremony
Walk by Dupont Circle - 1pm
Meridian Hill Park and concert - (3 miles) 2pm Gathering

October 6, Friday - Delivery of the Messages of Peace (Proclamations &
Support Letters) to the White House

October 7, Saturday - Nuclear Abolition and Demilitarization of Space -
Washington DC - Meet 2pm at Meridian Hill Park and walk to Lafayette Park
3pm
for vigil and speakers.

Sunday, Oct. 8 - Sunrise & Noon - Ceremonies at Jefferson Stone near
Washington Monument - Washington DC

Monday, Oct. 9 - Washington DC
Millennial Circle of Peace at Washington Monument
INVITES ALL PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS
To Bring Your Prayers, Banners, Flags, Puppets, Drums and Messages!!!
Sunrise Ceremony - Washington Monument
NOON circle around - Washington Monument for rededication as a symbol of
peace
SYLVAN Stage - ALL DAY - Concert / Speeches

October 10 - 11 (Tues. & Wed.),  - Delivery of the Messages of Peace
(Proclamations & Support Letters) to Congress & Senate

October 12, Thursday - Indigenous People's Day - Washington DC (Lafayette
Park)

October 14th, Sataturday - Baltimore, Maryland

October 17th, Tuesday -  Swarthmore College

Ocotber 18th, Wednesday - Philadelphia, PA

October 19th, Thursday - Princeton University, New Jersy - Spiritual
Environmental Summit

October 24, Tuesday - Sunrise Ceremony. Walk down to UN Headquarters on 55th
Anniversay of UN - Ceremony in front of UN. Meet with UN representatives
during official UN Ceremonies. Formally Deliver Messages and Proclamations &
Letters of Peace to UN Officials. World Peace and Prayer Society Event near
UN - 2pm - 5pm. Spiritual Environmental Summit at the Baha'i Center, 7pm -
11pm.

********************************************************

Global Peace Walk Project

Global Peace Walk was initiated in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the
creation of the United Nations and to help inaugurate the United Nations
Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. It began in 1995 by a group of
concerned individuals who walked from United Nations in New York City to San
Francisco's War Memorial Building.

Fifty five years ago at the end of World War II, the Charter of the United
Nations was created.  Its purpose states to "save succeeding generations
from
the scourge of war."  To "reaffirm faith in the dignity of human rights" and
to "live together in peace."

This year, Global Peace Walk 2000 is walking again across America to mark
the
United Nations 55th anniversary and the mid-point of this United Nations
Decade designation --and to help inaugurate the UN. Year and Decade of
"Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century".

Today we continue to carry the urgent message of "Global Peace Now", a
Future
Generations' Prayer. Throughout the United States, GPW has received letters
of support from the United States President, the Vice President, a United
States representative to the United Nations, mayors, governors, senators,
spiritual leaders, a political prisoner, cultural leaders, Tribal Nations,
environmental organizations, and many others.

To Present and Future Generations

    All over the world, people are fighting for land and life. The
exploitation of natural resources through short-sighted, out-of-balance
consumerism threatens the existence of all living beings that live on the
earth right now. We emphasize that we must do whatever we possibly can to
bring back the spiritual relationship with earth, water, fire and air. We
must hold our hands together and act together to correct these imbalances.
We
need to use our logic, wisdom and knowledge to remove all pollution and
chaos
that we face everyday. People must cooperate together as human-beings beyond
race, gender, class, religions, ideologies and countries.

    We have continually been addressing the United Nations to say that we
must reestablish the balance in our land and life. The nations of the world
must heed this warning now. Otherwise because of the destruction of nature
and belligerent confrontation (wars) that cover up the earth, catastrophe
that humanity has never experienced before potentially awaits.

Sincerely,
From All the Global Peace Walkers

The Message of Peace

We are concerned about our future!
We are concerned about our Human life!
We understand our Global Responsibility!

Our message is simple:  "No More War!"  "Global Peace Now!"  "The teaching
of
non-violence!"

Now is the time to follow a peaceful way of life. The universal principles
of
equality for all peoples must take precedence! "Peace to All Our Relations."
"Respect for All Cultures Way of Life!

Now is the time we must summon the spirit and the will of all peoples to
stand up!  Now we must rid ourselves and our world of the vicious cycle of
violence, greed and corruption.  The Machinery of war and violence is
intolerable!  Only our conscious acts of peace towards one another can
transform and relieve our sufferings.

We need your help!  We know how you feel.  Come join us to support the
creation of a sustainable Global Environment for All Living Beings.

********************************************************

"Spiritual Environmental Summit"
Princeton University (October 19th) and at the Baha'i Center 7-11pm in New
York City (October 24th)

Global Peace Walk 2000 will end on October 24, 2000 (United Nations Day) in
New York City with ceremonies at the United Nations. We feel that a
"Spiritual Environmental Summit" is a fitting culmination of Global Peace
Walk 2000, and is necessary at this time with the current "Global
Environmental & Political Emergencies."

The "Spiritual Environmental Summit" will be held at Princeton University
(October 19th) and at the Baha'i Center 7-11pm in New York City (October
24th) with this continent's traditional leaders offering their stewardship
and wisdom to the growing "deep ecology" movement and the UN General
Assembly
and NGO's.

Our prayer is to Develop a Spiritually United Nations on the 55th
Anniversary
of the United Nations Original Charter. This globe is our house and altar.
When we hold Land & Life as sacred, we won't pollute and destroy it. At this
time, we feel it is important for indigenous spiritual elders' messages to
be
up front & known in order to help guide us back to a sustainable pathway.

We are inviting elders from Lakota, Ponca, Shoshone, Navajo, Pueblo, Hopi
and
Iroquois tribes. Representatives from many NGO's and environmental, social &
political groups as well as other Governmental & Spiritual Leaders are also
being invited to hear the traditional elders' messages & share dialogue so
that everybody can better serve Mother Earth and Future Generations in a
global spiritual-political environment.

We are presently looking for a site for the Summit around New York City, as
well contacting possible participants. There is a need for speakers, both
religious leaders of multi-denomination values and of eco-wise groups, to
come with their interests and strengths. If you would like to be involved in
this Summit, please contact us! [e-mail]

********************************************************

Global Peace Walk 2000 Needs

Please join us in supporting Global Peace Walk 2000 to unify all ways of
thinking in this universal human resolve "Global Peace Now!".

Since the Global Peace Walk 2000 project began walking across the United
States on January 15th, 2000 from San Francisco, we have received numerous
letters and proclamations of support from religious, political, community
and
cultural leaders towards a creation of a worldwide Global Peace Zone 2000.

Please offer your support as well.

Walk with us in our final efforts especially in Washington DC and to New
York
City. Join us in prayers throughout the rest of the walk. Tell others about
our efforts. Link to our website.

We are soliciting all survival issue messages, and your support in any way
is
appreciated.

We need: More letters of support; walkers (local, long distance, branch
routes, etc); local, national, and cultural coordinators; e-mailers;
telephoners; writers; food; support vehicles; financial support; benefit
events; and most of all firm personal resolve for "Global Peace Now!"

Financial Support can now be done on-line as well with a credit card through
Acteva, an on-line e-commerce site through our website:
http://www.globalpeacenow.org. To make small contributions go further, get
groupings of peoples together, each donating $1 or more, and send the total
amount.

Tax deductible Offerings may also be made at the above address:

Global Peace Walk / YUCCA Foundation
P.O. Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117 - [phone]
[e-mail]
Global Peace Walk / YUCCA (a 501 (c) 3 California Association, for the
Spiritual Arts
A receipt with tax ID number will be sent by return mail upon request.

We are thankful to all who have helped so far, the numerous individuals,
organizations, churches and people along the way on this long journey.

Thank you so much for your hospitalities, support and personal efforts.  We
are grateful to have received such blessings all along the way.


********************************************************

"Living on the Globe with All Our Friends"

"Future Generations must develop a greater sense of a universal
responsibility."
H.H.Dalai Lama

"Spirituality is the highest form of politics."
Native Americans Elders' message - Longest Walk 1978

"It is important for people of every nation to come together and work toward
world peace."
Don LightningBow, Governor of Taos Pueblo

"The mission of the peace walk is to create a global environment, economy
and
culture that will protect our land and life for future generations."
Governor of Missouri

"Best wishes in your continued efforts at ending war forever."
John S. McCain, U.S. Senate

"People all over the world must come together in an effort to protect our
environment. Actions like the Global Peace Walk will help to bring this
about."
J. Majot, Executive Director, International Rivers Network

"Thank you for carrying the message of Abolition 2000, the global network
comprised of more than 1,420 organizations in 90 countries calling for a
treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons."
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000

"Greenpeace USA applauds your efforts and offers our support to the Peace
Walkers as they journey across the nation to promote a green and peaceful
planet."
Mike Harold, Campaign Director, GreenPeace USA

"The Global Peace Walk is about developing consciousness, bringing back
knowledge, and praying for peace."
Frederick A. Peralta, Mayor of Taos

Thank you for your interest in carrying the message throughout this Nation
and raising issues important to Native America. We are honored that you have
thought to include issues affecting indegenous peoples throughout the
world."
Edward T. Begay, Navajo Nation Council

"Now, THEREFORE I, SKIP RIMZA, MAYOR of the City of Phoenix, Arizona, do
hereby proclaim the City of Phoenix as a "Global Peace Zone," and urge all
citizens to work for the creation of a cultre of peace for the 21st
century."
Mayor Skip Rimza, Phoenix, Arizona

GLOBAL PEACE ZONES - TOTAL 11
Taos, NM - 4/22/95
San Francisco, CA - 1/24/97
Berkeley, CA - 2/27/99
Marin County, CA - 4/20/99
Rome, NY @ Woodstock - 7/30/99
Williams, AZ - 2/22/2000
Tuba City, AZ - 3/2/2000
Phoenix, AZ - 3/21/2000
St. Louis, MO - 8/12/2000
Cambridge, Ohio 9/8/2000
Wheeling, West Virginia 9/12/2000


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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/25 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 25 Sep 2000 08:47:27 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 25, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000925212645.htm

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - Oregon
        11:50 a.m. - One-on-one discussion of current education recession,
Bethany Elementary School, 3305 NW 174th Street, Beaverton, Oregon 97006,=
 (503)
533-1810=20
        5:30 p.m. - Airport Rally, Spokane International Airport, Spokane
Airways Flight Center, 3817 South Davison, Spokane, Washington 99224, (509)
747-2017=20

- Al Gore - Unknown

- Ralph Nader - This Week
        - Monday, Sept 25 - Washington, DC
    Nader 2000 news conference =97 1:30 p.m. =97 Nader 2000 holds a news=
 conference
with Ralph Nader, Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica; Lois
Gibbs of Love Canal Homeowners; and other prominent endorsers. Location:=
 Zenger
Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/265-0183.
        - Tuesday, Sept 26 -
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, Leland Room,
Downtown Hilton and Towers (1 North 2nd Street), Harrisburg, PA
        3:00 - 5:00 PM - Pittsburgh, PA - Dinner and reception with Ralph
Nader,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Shadyside. RSVP to Paul Colaiaco,=
 412-951-6181
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Nader Speech on Globalization and Free Trade: The
Human
Perspective Rangos Ballroom, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA
        - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - East Liverpool, OH
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, East Liverpool
School Administration Building, 500 Maryland Street
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ralph Nader Speech, same location
        - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - Youngstown, OH
        2:00 - 3:00 AM - Ralph Nader Speech, Chestnut Room, Kilcawley Center
Youngstown State University (Wick Avenue and Lincoln Street)
        3:00 AM - 3:45 PM - Press Conference same location
        - Saturday, Sept. 30 - Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT
        - Sunday, October 1 - Boston, MA
        4:00 - 5:00 PM - Fundraising Dinner and Reception with Ralph Nader,=
 To
RSVP, call Leslie Smith at 202-265-0633 or [e-mail]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- OPEN THE DEBATES! DC STUDENT PROTEST 9/28/00 5 pm
DC Students need your solidarity! We are angry with the commission on
presidential debates for shutting out issues that are important to us by
excluding third party points of view from the Presidential Debates and we=
 need
your support. We are calling a massive rally in front of the Commission on
Presidential Debates this Thursday Sept 28 at 5pm. The time is now. We need=
 all
your voices.  RALLY AT: The Commission on Presidential Debates, 1200 New
Hampshire (21st & M) THIS THURSDAY SEPT 28 at 5PM. [From: "Bernard Pollack"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- PRIORITY ALERT! possibly sneaky maneuver on weapons subsidies bill=20
        Here's the latest on The Foreign Sales Corporations Repeal and
Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000 (H.R. 4986) which would double
the available tax benefit for arms exporters. There are three possible ways=
 the
Senate will deal with this bill:
* Try to pass it by unanimous consent (unlikely due to some opposition to=
 the
bill)=20
* Bring to floor with amendments (Senate leadership may not go this route
because they don't want a bunch of amendments)=20
* Attach it to the continuing resolution on funding the federal government
(most likely, and a sneaky way to pass it as the Senate will want to quickly
pass the continuing resolution when FY2000 budget expires on Oct.1 and
appropriations for FY2001 are not complete).
        Timing: HR4986 could come to the floor Tuesday.
        Important fact for your calls: The media and others are saying the=
 US
has a third of the weapons exports market. This is roughly based on the=
 August
18 Congressional Research Service "Grimmett" Report which documents the US=
 as
leading in arms transfers AGREEMENTS in 1999 at nearly $11.8 billion (38.9 %=
 of
all such agreements). However, the figure for DELIVERIES is $18.4 billion,=
 over
54 percent of the world market. The latter is the more accurate figure as
agreements reflects agreements for future deliveries. So you should=
 emphasize
that the United States DOMINATES the world market for weapons exports, with
over 54 percent of the market! The second ranked exporter is the United=
 Kingdom
with $4.5 billion in deliveries, a quarter the US value.=20
        Figures for exports to the developing world are similar. First,=
 world
wide sales to developing nations comprised 68 % of all agreements in 1999.=
 The
US share of world wide weapons exports AGREEMENTS to developing nations in=
 1999
was 39.2 % at $8.1 billion. However, the US share of world wide weapons=
 exports
DELIVERIES to developing nations in 1999 was 50.1 % at $11.4 billion.
        Tell your Senators that we're ashamed of the United States being the=
 #1
weapons exporter and that U.S. weapons exporters do not deserve another tax
break!!
[Jim Bridgman, mailto:[e-mail] -=
 http://www.peace-action.org]

- LAWMAKERS, GUNS AND MONEY:=20
H.R. 4986 Boosts Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
New York, September 22nd: Under the guise of "leveling the playing field"=
 for
U.S. companies, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is set to ram through a
Senate counterpart to H.R. 4986, a bill which would provide $4 to $6 billion=
 in
tax subsidies to the arms, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries over the=
 next
decade. Supporters of the bill argue that it must be passed promptly to=
 protect
U.S. companies from a recent World Trade Organization ruling that held that=
 an
existing system of providing tax breaks to U.S. exporters through the use of
Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs) represents an illegal trade subsidy. =
 [From
William D. Hartung, a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New
School and the author of Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers: The Hidden=
 Costs
of Spending on Defense and Foreign Aid (Cato Institute, August 1999,=
 available
on the web at www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports).=20

- HELP SPREAD THE WORD TO FREE PELTIER!
There is an imminent opportunity to get the word out about the Dec. 10=
 Peltier
- Countdown to Clemency March to a great number of activists - this is at=
 the
Sept. 26th Global Day of Action against the IMF/World Bank. There are about=
 55
cities holding events on the 26th. See http://www.jwj.org for details. The=
 Day
of Action was adopted as an organizing project by Jobs with Justice. If any=
 of
you are or can attend the event in your area please help us create a "buzz"
about the impending march for Leonard Peltier by handing out flyers. Call=
 the
White House Comments Line Today - Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier!
202-456-1111
[From: "LPDC" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- New URL
Please consider adding the Vermont Public Interest Research Group site=20
http://www.vpirg.org to your site or database/links collection.
We have a section on our site that opposes Vermont Yankee, the Vermont Nuke
plant. Also, we promote research projects for testing the effects of power
plant radiation on children living near nuke plants. [From: Philip Bowman
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Foreign Relations Crossroad
Senator Jesse Helms is sponsoring legislation based on misguided fears=
 (and/or
powerplay plans) that would sabotage our potential involvement with an ICC.=
 If
this info. finds your interest, I recommend the official U.N. worded=
 overview.=20
United Nations - Statute of the ICC/ overview:=20
www.un.org/law/icc/general/overview.htm=20
Human Rights Watch - ICC Ratification Campaign:=20
www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/icc-main.htm=20
Campaign for U.N. Reform: www.cunr.org/ &=20
www.cunr.org/movement.html  - (quick link to wealth of U.N. Reform info.)=20
Jesse Helms' speech to U.N.: www.senate.gov/~foreign/
[From: William Anthony Self <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- INTERNATIONAL CALL MADE FOR DEMONSTRATIONS TO =91ABOLISH NATO=92=20
October 20 - 28, 2000
The International Action Center on Sept. 22 denounced U.S. and West European
interference in the Sept. 24 Yugoslav elections and announced it was calling
for actions across the United States for the week of October 20 to 28 to=
 demand
an end to U.S. intervention and to demand that the NATO military alliance be
abolished. [mailto:[e-mail]]

- Re: Open the Debates! (Response from PBS)
Thank you for writing to PBS regarding the inclusion of third party=
 candidates
in presidential debate coverage. We value your suggestions and comments.
As we have in the past, we will offer coverage of the presidential and vice
presidential debates through THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER. As you may now,=
 last
week the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed the debate schedule,=
 and
the commission has criteria that it uses to ascertain which candidates are
eligible to participate. Irrespective of which candidates participate in the
debates, however, third party candidates will be covered by THE NEWSHOUR in=
 its
regular election reporting. It may interest you to know that as part of the=
 PBS
Democracy Project Election 2000 lineup, last month we broadcast A THIRD=
 CHOICE,
Ben Wattenberg's history of third party efforts. Our fall schedule features=
 I'M
ON THE BALLOT, Award Productions=92 look at the significance of third party
campaigns and this year=92s major third party candidates, which airs on=
 October
12. Also, TIME TO CHOOSE - A PBS/NPR VOTER'S GUIDE, airing November 1, will
cover the issues raised by third party candidates. [22 Sep 2000 From: pbs
viewer services <mailto:[e-mail]>]=20

- 75 Arrested in Vieques Protest Outside White House=20
Seventy-five demonstrators protesting U.S. Navy presence on the Caribbean
island of Vieques were arrested by U.S. Park Police in front of the White=
 House
Friday afternoon as hundreds of supporters in nearby Lafayette Park chanted
anti-Navy slogans in Spanish.... By Christina Pino-Marina,=
 washingtonpost.com
Staff Writer, Friday, September 22, 2000=20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagena
me=3Dwpni/print&articleid=3DA62687-2000Sep22
For information, articles and photos of the National Day in Solidarity with=
=20
the People of Vieques, Puerto Rico, please access:
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/sept22/sept22.html

- A picture of Hanford=20
Thousands of photos being made available to public=20
Linda Ashton - Spokane Spokesman Review, September 5, 2000=20
http://www.spokane.net/NewsTrak/newstracks.asp?Direc=3Dlists&ID=3DL29
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=3D090500&ID=3Ds847346&cat=3D

- The Simultaneous Policy is a new international campaign to counter the=20
forces of globalisation and international competition.  Based on the premise
that all nations are subject to global competitive forces unleashed by the
ability of capital and transnational corporations to cross national borders,=
 no
nation nor group of nations can control global capital nor can they=
 implement
vital economic, social or environmental policies that might incur market or
corporate displeasure. To break the vicious circle of global competition,=
 both
between nations and between corporations, all nations need to act
simultaneously by implementing the Simultaneous Policy (SP); a range of
measures to re-regulate global markets and corporations in order to restore
genuine democracy, environmental protection and peace around the world.
www.simpol.org. [From: "John Bunzl" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Just reminding everyone of part two of the Nonviolence documentary on=20
PBS Premiere Broadcast: 25, 2000, 9:00 pm (check local listings) [From:=
 Carol
Moore <[e-mail]>]

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From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re:  Oct. 1 actions
Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:22:24 +0100

Dear Katri & Pol,

On Oct. 1, I will be traveling, and so won't be able to participate in
any of the events you posted, but of course I'll be sending you all my
very best wishes.

Peace...

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

p.s. I was unable to reply directly to your posting of earlier today.
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition Listserv
Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:36:26 -0800

  Dear Friends and Activists,

This is a friendly reminder that the Abolition Global Caucus is to be
used only to post items containing nuclear issues.

  Purpose:  The Abolition Global Caucus provides information on key nuclear
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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/26 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 26 Sep 2000 08:21:06 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 26, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000926211954.htm

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate=
 Judiciary
Committee holds a hearing on the Wen Ho Lee case. The witnesses include=
 Louis
Freeh, FBI director; Attorney General Janet Reno; George Tenet, CIA=
 director;
and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-1700 or 202/224-5225.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Report release =97 Business Leaders for Sensible=
 Priorities
holds a news conference to release a report, "A Realistic Defense Budget for
the New Millennium." Lawrence Korb, former assistant defense secretary and
current vice president and director or studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations, participates. Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th=
 and
F streets NW. Contact: 202/332-0600.

    9:30 a.m. =97 Oil hearing =97 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources=
 Committee
holds a hearing to receive testimony on the current outlook for supply of
heating and transportation fuels this winter. Energy Secretary Bill=
 Richardson
testifies. Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:=
 202/224-4971.

      10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on
"U.N. Inspections of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs: Has Saddam
Won?" Location: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021.

      10:30 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on a
review of U.S. foreign policy at the end of the Clinton administration.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright testifies. Location: 419 Dirksen
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651.

      1 p.m. =97 House Education and the Workforce's oversight and=
 investigations
subcommittee holds a hearing to investigate federal prison industries'
commercial sales. Location: 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-4527.

      1 p.m. =97 House Ways and Means' oversight subcommittee holds a=
 hearing on
whether federal tax laws are keeping pace with the "new economy." Location:
1100 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-3625.

      2 p.m. =97 House Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on=
 "Contacts
Between Northrop Grumman Corporation and the White House Regarding Missing
White House E-Mails." Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-5074.

      3 p.m. =97 House Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the=
 status
of the Energy Department investigations. Location: Capitol, Room H-405.
Contact: 202/225-4121.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - California Tuesday/Wednesday
        Tuesday, September 26 -
        8:20 a.m. - One-on-one discussion, Sequoia High School, 1201=
 Brewster,
Redwood City, CA, [phone]=20
        Wednesday, September 27 -
        8:45 a.m. - Discussion  on education recession, Ascension School,=
 517
111th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90044, [phone]=20

- Al Gore - Tuesday, September 26
      11:40 a.m. =97 Participates in "MTV and Time present: Choose or Lose=
 2000 =97
Town Hall Forum with Al Gore," Media Union Audio Studio, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

- Ralph Nader - Tuesday, Sept 26 -
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, Leland Room,
Downtown Hilton and Towers (1 North 2nd Street), Harrisburg, PA
        3:00 - 5:00 PM - Pittsburgh, PA - Dinner and reception with Ralph
Nader,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Shadyside. RSVP to Paul Colaiaco,=
 412-951-6181
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Nader Speech on Globalization and Free Trade: The
Human
Perspective Rangos Ballroom, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu Conference
        Date: Tuesday 26 September, Time: 9 a.m. - all day
        Place: various (see below)
Conference Speakers include Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit and Rabbi
Phillip Bentley, president of Jewish Peace Fellowship. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in the
main conference room of the Methodist Building, 110 Maryland Avenue NE. 6:30
p.m. dinner, 7:30 p.m. program with Daniel Ellsberg at the church of the
Bretheren, 4th Street North Carolina Avenue SE.=20
        Date: Wednesday 27 September
        Time: Dawn to dusk
        Place: Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW
For more information, e-mail [e-mail].

- Democracy 7 Trial Rally
        Date: Friday 29 September, Time: 8 a.m.
        Place: Superior Court, near Judiciary Square Metro, 500 Indiana=
 Avenue,
courtroom 112, Judge Broderick presiding.
Martin Thomas (Statehood Green Candidate for Shadow Rep), Karen Szulgit,=
 Debby
Hanrahan, Bette Hoover, Tanya Snyder, Queen Mother ShemaYah, and Steve=
 Donkin
are charged with disruption of Congress for speaking out against the DC
Appropriations bill with its anti-democratic riders. A massive pre-trial=
 rally
demanding "hands off DC" and full citizenship rights for DC residents will=
 take
place in front of the courthouse from 8 to 9 a.m.

- INTERNATIONAL ACTION ALERT: 1 October
Next Sunday 1 October will be an international Nuclear Weapons Abolition=
 Day,
and there will be direct action at several (NATO) nuclear weapon bases in
Europe and the USA. Below you'll find a contact list for the actions. If you
are organising an action 1 October and are not yet on the contact list,=
 please
contact For Mother Earth office <[e-mail]>.
[FOR MOTHER EARTH INTERNATIONAL <mailto:[e-mail]>,
http://www.motherearth.org] --
        Contact list actions Sunday 1 October 2000
        BELGIUM=20
Forum voor Vredesactie (Flemish section of the War Resisters International)=
 and
For Mother Earth are organising a 'photographic citizens inspection' out-=
 and
inside the NATO base of Kleine Brogel, where U.S. B-61 atomic bombs are
deployed. There will also be an action camp near Kleine Brogel 27 September=
 - 1
October. [Forum voor Vredesactie Attn. Hans Lammerant
<[e-mail]>]
Voor Moeder Aarde (For Mother Earth)
Attn. Hanna Jarvinen or Katri Silvonen=
 <mailto:[e-mail]>
http://www.motherearth.org
        ENGLAND=20
The Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp is organising an action at the Atomic
Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston. People are asked to bring their=
 cameras
to photograph the scene of the crime, and their favourite Police/detective
outfit. [Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp Attn. Helen
Phone: [phone]; or the camp 07808-553778]
There will soon be a new website http://www.gn.apc.org/aldermastonwpc
        the NETHERLANDS
Akties Tegen Kernwapens (Actions Against Nuclear Weapons) organises a=
 cultural,
political manifestation and citizens inspection at the NATO-base of Volkel,
where U.S. B-61's are deployed.
Akties Tegen Kernwapens Attn. Rob Boogert <mailto:[e-mail] >
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
        USA
Nukewatch organises a noon gathering with picnic provided by Food Not Bombs,
and non-violent direct action at the U.S. Navy Project ELF.There will also=
 be a
peace camp at Anathoth Community Farm 29 September - 1 October.
Nukewatch, P.O.Box 649, Luck WI 54853
<mailto:[e-mail]>
http://www.nukewatch.com



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From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: RRR Workshops: Sep. 28 & 30
Date: 26 Sep 2000 09:03:45 -0800

>Delivered-To: [e-mail]
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:37:24 -0400
>From: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>To: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RRR Workshops: Sep. 28 & 30
>
>RADIOACTIVE ROADS AND RAILS
>30 years of high-level nuclear waste shipments through southern California?
>
>
>Dear friends of Public Citizen:
>
>You are invited to attend the following public workshops and press events!
>
>San Bernardino:
>Thursday, September 28
>press event, 10:00 am at County Government Center (385 North Arrowhead Ave.)
>workshop 7:00 - 9:30 pm at Public Enterprise Building (1505 West
>Highland Ave.)
>
>Barstow:
>Saturday, September 30
>press conference at 10:00 am; workshop 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (includes
>a light lunch)
>Dana Park Building (850 Barstow Road)
>
>The interactive public workshops will address issues of health and
>safety, environmental sustainability, property values, emergency
>response preparedness, and other concerns related to the current
>proposal to transport high-level radioactive waste through San
>Bernardino County to a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain,
>Nevada.
>
>Presentations by:
>Lisa Gue, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment
>Program (Washington, D.C.)
>Judy Treichel, Nuclear Waste Taskforce (Las Vegas, Nevada) - Thursday only
>Steve Frishman, State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office (Las
>Vegas, Nevada) - Thursday only
>
>Everyone Welcome!
>No Charge.
>
>The Radioactive Roads and Rails campaign in San Bernardino is
>sponsored by People Against Radioactive Dumping (PARD), San Gorgonio
>Chapter Sierra Club, Environmentality, Women's Action for New
>Directions (WAND), and Public Citizen.
>
>For more information, contact Margery Mikels at [phone] or
>Public Citizen at [phone], e-mail [e-mail].
>Visit our website at www.citizen.org/cmep.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON
Date: 26 Sep 2000 14:12:46 EDT

Dear Friends,
We are asking for your group to support and sign on to the following=20
Resolution.  Please read carefully and sign on as soon as possible.  This=20
Resolution is intregal to the work for abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide.=
 =20
We urge groups to use any part of this resolution to further stopping nuclea=
r=20
weapons work in your area.  Also, please forward to other sympathetic groups=
.=20
 Thank you.
for Peace with Justice and Solidarity,
Peace Action New Mexico


The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following=20
Resolution on=20
June 11, 2000. Authored by: Peace Action New Mexico

Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up=20
the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affecte=
d=20
Communities, and Peoples.

WHEREAS:  Article 6 of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for total=20
nuclear disarmament and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking over=
=20
the role of Rocky Flats, escalating their production of plutonium 'pits' for=
=20
nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS: Outer Space Treaty requires States not to place nuclear weapons or=20
other weapons of mass destruction in orbit and states that space is not=20
subject to national appropriation and that LANL researches, develops, and=20
produces the plutonium Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) component=
s=20
and that its work contributes to fulfilling  the U.S. Space Command's =93Vis=
ion=20
for 2020=94 for dominating space; and

WHEREAS:  The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)  prohibits the development=
=20
of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develops=20
components for the NMD system; and

WHEREAS: LANL thus enables the United States to violate international=20
treaties; and additionally,

WHEREAS:  LANL has historically disposed of some of its plutonium, uranium,=20
depleted uranium, tritium, beryllium and heavy metals in a haphazard and=20
often unsafe manner, thus contaminating the soil, air, water, vegetation, an=
d=20
irresponsibly endangering the health and lives of people living in Los Alamo=
s=20
and the surrounding areas of New Mexico; and

WHEREAS: LANL has shown little regard for the health and safety of its=20
employees, accidents and releases on LANL property being a regular=20
occurrence; and

WHEREAS: LANL endangers the health, safety, environment, subsistence, and=20
sacred sites of the Pueblos and other Native American communities, and

WHEREAS: The Cerro Grande fire has shown that LANL took no precautions to=20
protect the firefighters or to monitor the effects of possible contamination=
=20
in communities downwind of the fire, including the farmers in this=20
agricultural area;

THEREFORE, PEACE ACTION DEMANDS, Los Alamos National Laboratory cease all bu=
t=20
necessary administrative operations and the Department of Energy and=20
Department of Defense budget allocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory be=20
redirected for cleaning up the environment and addressing health issues.

The U.S. government also must be required to make complete reparations to th=
e=20
communities historically damaged by the operations of LANL.

Therefore, let it be further resolved that this Resolution be sent to Member=
s=20
of Congress, the President, Secretaries of Defense, Energy and State, major=20
candidates for President, Secretary General of the U.N., Security Council=20
members and governments of the middle powers states. It is also to be sent t=
o=20
Abolition 2000 for endorsement by supporting organizations.


PEACE ACTION, formerly SANE/FREEZE, is the nation=92s largest grassroots pea=
ce=20
and justice organization.  Working for peace since 1957.

CONTACT: Peace Action New Mexico - [e-mail]
                                226 Fiesta St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501   Phone=
:=20
505.989.4812

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
Date: 26 Sep 2000 15:12:25 -0400

>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:53:15 -0400
>Subject: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>
>[Respond to [e-mail]]
>
>NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
>
>Dear Friends:
>
>Below is an urgent sign-on letter opposing the administration's current
>position on nuclear power and global warming for November's crucial COP6
>conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Please sign no later than noon
>Eastern Time, Wednesday October 4th--we intend to release it on
>International Global Warming Action Day, October 5. Organizations,
>please include name, title, organization, city, state. International
>organizations please include country as well. Individuals can simply
>send name, city, state, (country). To sign-on, simply hit reply to this
>message and include your information, or send to [e-mail], or
>fax to 202-462-2183. Please circulate this letter widely. For background
>information on these issues, you can check NIRS' website, www.nirs.org,
>in the nuclear power and global warming section. Thank you!
>
>At the bottom of this message is a call to action in The Hague. We hope
>some of you will be able to attend the actions there; we will send out
>more information on support actions soon.
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>
>Honorable William Jefferson Clinton
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
>Washington, DC 20500
>
>Dear President Clinton,
>
>We are concerned that, subsequent to the climate talks in Lyon, the
>Clinton/Gore administration is poised to support allowing nuclear power
>to receive clean air credits through the Clean Development Mechanism
>(CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. As a further blow to sustainable technology
>investment, your administration would not only allow nuclear power
>credits, but would also put it on par with truly sustainable energy
>sources such as wind and solar. Such a position is not only
>ill-conceived, but goes against the wishes of many individuals and
>organizations in "developing" countries who publicly have stated nuclear
>power should not be considered sustainable. This position would allow
>countries like the United States, Russia and Japan to receive credits
>for building reactors in other countries. All three of these countries
>have suffered serious nuclear accidents. The Clinton/Gore administration
>must abandon this position at once and adopt a position that
>specifically excludes nuclear power from the CDM and Joint
>Implementation (JI) of the Kyoto agreement.
>The U.S. claims it does not want to limit "developing" nations to
>certain technologies; that developing nations should decide for
>themselves which technologies are sustainable and which are not.
>However, implementation of the Kyoto agreement allows for very little
>equitable public participation, a situation many NGOs are currently
>working to remedy.
>In fact, western nuclear companies, unable to get contracts at home due
>to safety, environmental and cost concerns, would be attempting to dump
>their unwanted and failing technology on developing countries. The U.S.
>has recognized that countries would be dealing directly with the energy
>company, not the U.S. government. Considering the track records of these
>companies in the U.S., Japan and Europe, there is every reason to
>suspect they will not be fair players in "developing" nations either,
>often sacrificing democratic principles, such as public participation,
>for profit. Additionally, many smaller developing nations fear nuclear
>power CDM credits would favor high-growth nuclear projects in developing
>countries over smaller, sustainable projects in non-nuclear developing
>nations.
>Specifically excluding nuclear power from the CDM would not be
>neo-colonialism, in fact, it would be the opposite. As an Indonesia
>delegate commented: "I think it is simple colonialism to push nuclear
>power onto developing countries, leaving them with all the burdens that
>come with it". Citizens of many nations, including African, Indian, and
>Canadian NGOs, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Group of
>Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), have publicly stated
>their opposition to CDM credits for nuclear power.
>A 1999 Department of State document claims that "(t)he CDM should assist
>developing countries in achieving sustainable development" further, it
>states "(t)he CDM should be a flexible, market-based mechanism that
>ensures cost-effective reductions" Nuclear power is unsustainable and
>has been an economic boondoggle, meeting neither of these DOS criteria.
>        Nuclear power pollutes the environment with long-lived radionuclides
>from routine releases through normal operations and creates large
>quantities of radioactive waste. No country has yet been able to isolate
>these wastes from the environment by either man-made or natural barriers
>for even a fraction of their hazardous life. In the U.S. we have failed
>to find a way to safely store the first cup full of radioactive waste
>produced on April 24, 1942.
>        All nuclear power plants are vulnerable to serious accidents that
>could
>contaminate the environment and cause serious health impacts. Last
>year's accident at Tokaimura in Japan was just the latest to underline
>the dangers of nuclear technology. Previous accidents, including those
>at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the United States are
>still negatively impacting the health of countless individuals and their
>environment.
>        Nuclear power is a world security risk adding to the threat of
>nuclear
>proliferation. A 1000-megawatt reactor produces 40 bombs worth of
>plutonium per year. Handing a country a nuclear reactor is like handing
>it a nuclear bomb. The threat to global security posed by nuclear
>proliferation is equal to that of climate change. For the Kyoto Protocol
>to exacerbate this threat through its mechanisms would be a truly
>perverse and dangerous outcome to the Climate Convention negotiations
>and for your administration's own efforts to reduce nuclear
>proliferation.
>        The nuclear fuel chain does emit significant greenhouse gases.
>Should
>our use of nuclear energy increase, so will the amount of CO2 released
>at the front end of this energy source. As we mine more of the ore
>richest in uranium, we are left with uranium-poor ore. The extraction
>process then becomes more energy intensive to collect the same amount of
>concentrated uranium.
>        Nuclear power is the most expensive of all conventional energy
>sources
>and more expensive than almost all renewable energy. As proof of nuclear
>power's economic failure, no successful nuclear power reactor order has
>been placed in the U.S. since 1973. Ratepayers in the United States are
>bailing out nuclear reactors to the tune of $300 billion dollars.
>Nuclear energy costs an average of 12 cents/kWh compared with 7.6-9.1
>cents/kWh for solar thermal and 4-6 cents/kWh for wind. Because nuclear
>power actually reduces less greenhouse gas, dollar for dollar, than
>energy efficiency, investing in nuclear power will hurt our attempts to
>address climate change. Sadly, there is no officially recognized
>mechanism to credit for energy efficiency investment.
>Including nuclear power in the CDM could seriously jeopardize climate
>talks and ultimately derail Kyoto. At the very least, the U.S. position
>would support exporting nuclear power and its dangers (including nuclear
>waste, huge economic costs, nuclear weapons material, chronic
>radioactive releases, and abuse of democratic principles) all over the
>world. This is a legacy the Clinton/Gore administration would not wish
>to leave. Instead of giving credit to nuclear power, we must invest in
>energy efficiency and sustainable energy, which give more greenhouse gas
>reduction per dollar. We should learn from our mistakes, not export them
>to others. In order to make the CDM what the Department of State claims
>it should be, the U.S. must support excluding nuclear power from the
>CDM.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Executive Director
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>Washington, DC
>
>cc: Hon. Albert Gore, Vice-President of the United States
>Carol Browner, Administrator, EPA
>David Gardiner, Executive Director, White House Climate Change Task
>Force
>Frank Loy, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. State Department
>Roger Ballentine, Deputy Assistant to the President on Environmental
>Issues
>
>
>
>ACTION IN THE HAGUE, NOVEMBER 13-24
>Are we gonna nuke the climate?
>Stop the revival of the nuclear industry
>
>Nuclear should be explicitly excluded
>from the Clean Development Mechanism
>of the Kyoto protocol
>The decision will be taken at the conference of parties (COP6) in
>November in
>The Hague, the Netherlands
>WISE Amsterdam will take to the streets
>to make clear that nuclear is
>not a sustainable source of energy
>and should be explicitly
>excluded from the CDM
>
>Join our No-Nukes day on November 13th
>(the first day of COP6) in The Hague
>Preparatory meeting
>Sunday night 12 November
>Actions throughout the city of The Hague
>on Monday 13 november
>
>contact WISE Amsterdam
>tel [phone]
>fax  [phone]
>[e-mail]
>www.antenna.nl/wise
>PO.Box 59636
>1040 LC Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
>
>more actions throughout the COP6 meeting
>see www.climateconference.org for more info
>

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From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON
Date: 26 Sep 2000 12:21:40 -0700

Sign us on!

re:
>The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following
>Resolution on
>June 11, 2000. Authored by: Peace Action New Mexico
>
>Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up
>the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affected
>Communities, and Peoples.

Jack


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From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON
Date: 26 Sep 2000 23:25:52 -0400

You can add our organization.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
[e-mail]




-----Original Message-----
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of
[e-mail]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:13 PM


Dear Friends,
We are asking for your group to support and sign on to the following
Resolution.  Please read carefully and sign on as soon as possible.  This
Resolution is intregal to the work for abolishing nuclear weapons worldwi=
de.
We urge groups to use any part of this resolution to further stopping
nuclear
weapons work in your area.  Also, please forward to other sympathetic
groups.
 Thank you.
for Peace with Justice and Solidarity,
Peace Action New Mexico


The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following
Resolution on
June 11, 2000. Authored by: Peace Action New Mexico

Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning =
Up
the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to
Affected
Communities, and Peoples.

WHEREAS:  Article 6 of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for tot=
al
nuclear disarmament and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking o=
ver
the role of Rocky Flats, escalating their production of plutonium 'pits' =
for
nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS: Outer Space Treaty requires States not to place nuclear weapons =
or
other weapons of mass destruction in orbit and states that space is not
subject to national appropriation and that LANL researches, develops, and
produces the plutonium Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
components
and that its work contributes to fulfilling  the U.S. Space Command's
=93Vision
for 2020=94 for dominating space; and

WHEREAS:  The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)  prohibits the developm=
ent
of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develo=
ps
components for the NMD system; and

WHEREAS: LANL thus enables the United States to violate international
treaties; and additionally,

WHEREAS:  LANL has historically disposed of some of its plutonium, uraniu=
m,
depleted uranium, tritium, beryllium and heavy metals in a haphazard and
often unsafe manner, thus contaminating the soil, air, water, vegetation,
and
irresponsibly endangering the health and lives of people living in Los
Alamos
and the surrounding areas of New Mexico; and

WHEREAS: LANL has shown little regard for the health and safety of its
employees, accidents and releases on LANL property being a regular
occurrence; and

WHEREAS: LANL endangers the health, safety, environment, subsistence, and
sacred sites of the Pueblos and other Native American communities, and

WHEREAS: The Cerro Grande fire has shown that LANL took no precautions to
protect the firefighters or to monitor the effects of possible contaminat=
ion
in communities downwind of the fire, including the farmers in this
agricultural area;

THEREFORE, PEACE ACTION DEMANDS, Los Alamos National Laboratory cease all
but
necessary administrative operations and the Department of Energy and
Department of Defense budget allocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory =
be
redirected for cleaning up the environment and addressing health issues.

The U.S. government also must be required to make complete reparations to
the
communities historically damaged by the operations of LANL.

Therefore, let it be further resolved that this Resolution be sent to
Members
of Congress, the President, Secretaries of Defense, Energy and State, maj=
or
candidates for President, Secretary General of the U.N., Security Council
members and governments of the middle powers states. It is also to be sen=
t
to
Abolition 2000 for endorsement by supporting organizations.


PEACE ACTION, formerly SANE/FREEZE, is the nation=92s largest grassroots =
peace
and justice organization.  Working for peace since 1957.

CONTACT: Peace Action New Mexico - [e-mail]
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From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
Date: 26 Sep 2000 23:29:34 -0400

Add us please:

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
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PO Box 90083
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[phone]
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>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:53:15 -0400
>Subject: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
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>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>
>[Respond to [e-mail]]
>
>NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
>
>Dear Friends:
>
>Below is an urgent sign-on letter opposing the administration's current
>position on nuclear power and global warming for November's crucial COP6
>conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Please sign no later than noon
>Eastern Time, Wednesday October 4th--we intend to release it on
>International Global Warming Action Day, October 5. Organizations,
>please include name, title, organization, city, state. International
>organizations please include country as well. Individuals can simply
>send name, city, state, (country). To sign-on, simply hit reply to this
>message and include your information, or send to [e-mail], or
>fax to 202-462-2183. Please circulate this letter widely. For background
>information on these issues, you can check NIRS' website, www.nirs.org,
>in the nuclear power and global warming section. Thank you!
>
>At the bottom of this message is a call to action in The Hague. We hope
>some of you will be able to attend the actions there; we will send out
>more information on support actions soon.
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>
>Honorable William Jefferson Clinton
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
>Washington, DC 20500
>
>Dear President Clinton,
>
>We are concerned that, subsequent to the climate talks in Lyon, the
>Clinton/Gore administration is poised to support allowing nuclear power
>to receive clean air credits through the Clean Development Mechanism
>(CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. As a further blow to sustainable technology
>investment, your administration would not only allow nuclear power
>credits, but would also put it on par with truly sustainable energy
>sources such as wind and solar. Such a position is not only
>ill-conceived, but goes against the wishes of many individuals and
>organizations in "developing" countries who publicly have stated nuclear
>power should not be considered sustainable. This position would allow
>countries like the United States, Russia and Japan to receive credits
>for building reactors in other countries. All three of these countries
>have suffered serious nuclear accidents. The Clinton/Gore administration
>must abandon this position at once and adopt a position that
>specifically excludes nuclear power from the CDM and Joint
>Implementation (JI) of the Kyoto agreement.
>The U.S. claims it does not want to limit "developing" nations to
>certain technologies; that developing nations should decide for
>themselves which technologies are sustainable and which are not.
>However, implementation of the Kyoto agreement allows for very little
>equitable public participation, a situation many NGOs are currently
>working to remedy.
>In fact, western nuclear companies, unable to get contracts at home due
>to safety, environmental and cost concerns, would be attempting to dump
>their unwanted and failing technology on developing countries. The U.S.
>has recognized that countries would be dealing directly with the energy
>company, not the U.S. government. Considering the track records of these
>companies in the U.S., Japan and Europe, there is every reason to
>suspect they will not be fair players in "developing" nations either,
>often sacrificing democratic principles, such as public participation,
>for profit. Additionally, many smaller developing nations fear nuclear
>power CDM credits would favor high-growth nuclear projects in developing
>countries over smaller, sustainable projects in non-nuclear developing
>nations.
>Specifically excluding nuclear power from the CDM would not be
>neo-colonialism, in fact, it would be the opposite. As an Indonesia
>delegate commented: "I think it is simple colonialism to push nuclear
>power onto developing countries, leaving them with all the burdens that
>come with it". Citizens of many nations, including African, Indian, and
>Canadian NGOs, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Group of
>Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), have publicly stated
>their opposition to CDM credits for nuclear power.
>A 1999 Department of State document claims that "(t)he CDM should assist
>developing countries in achieving sustainable development" further, it
>states "(t)he CDM should be a flexible, market-based mechanism that
>ensures cost-effective reductions" Nuclear power is unsustainable and
>has been an economic boondoggle, meeting neither of these DOS criteria.
>        Nuclear power pollutes the environment with long-lived
radionuclides
>from routine releases through normal operations and creates large
>quantities of radioactive waste. No country has yet been able to isolate
>these wastes from the environment by either man-made or natural barriers
>for even a fraction of their hazardous life. In the U.S. we have failed
>to find a way to safely store the first cup full of radioactive waste
>produced on April 24, 1942.
>        All nuclear power plants are vulnerable to serious accidents that
>could
>contaminate the environment and cause serious health impacts. Last
>year's accident at Tokaimura in Japan was just the latest to underline
>the dangers of nuclear technology. Previous accidents, including those
>at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the United States are
>still negatively impacting the health of countless individuals and their
>environment.
>        Nuclear power is a world security risk adding to the threat of
>nuclear
>proliferation. A 1000-megawatt reactor produces 40 bombs worth of
>plutonium per year. Handing a country a nuclear reactor is like handing
>it a nuclear bomb. The threat to global security posed by nuclear
>proliferation is equal to that of climate change. For the Kyoto Protocol
>to exacerbate this threat through its mechanisms would be a truly
>perverse and dangerous outcome to the Climate Convention negotiations
>and for your administration's own efforts to reduce nuclear
>proliferation.
>        The nuclear fuel chain does emit significant greenhouse gases.
>Should
>our use of nuclear energy increase, so will the amount of CO2 released
>at the front end of this energy source. As we mine more of the ore
>richest in uranium, we are left with uranium-poor ore. The extraction
>process then becomes more energy intensive to collect the same amount of
>concentrated uranium.
>        Nuclear power is the most expensive of all conventional energy
>sources
>and more expensive than almost all renewable energy. As proof of nuclear
>power's economic failure, no successful nuclear power reactor order has
>been placed in the U.S. since 1973. Ratepayers in the United States are
>bailing out nuclear reactors to the tune of $300 billion dollars.
>Nuclear energy costs an average of 12 cents/kWh compared with 7.6-9.1
>cents/kWh for solar thermal and 4-6 cents/kWh for wind. Because nuclear
>power actually reduces less greenhouse gas, dollar for dollar, than
>energy efficiency, investing in nuclear power will hurt our attempts to
>address climate change. Sadly, there is no officially recognized
>mechanism to credit for energy efficiency investment.
>Including nuclear power in the CDM could seriously jeopardize climate
>talks and ultimately derail Kyoto. At the very least, the U.S. position
>would support exporting nuclear power and its dangers (including nuclear
>waste, huge economic costs, nuclear weapons material, chronic
>radioactive releases, and abuse of democratic principles) all over the
>world. This is a legacy the Clinton/Gore administration would not wish
>to leave. Instead of giving credit to nuclear power, we must invest in
>energy efficiency and sustainable energy, which give more greenhouse gas
>reduction per dollar. We should learn from our mistakes, not export them
>to others. In order to make the CDM what the Department of State claims
>it should be, the U.S. must support excluding nuclear power from the
>CDM.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Executive Director
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>Washington, DC
>
>cc: Hon. Albert Gore, Vice-President of the United States
>Carol Browner, Administrator, EPA
>David Gardiner, Executive Director, White House Climate Change Task
>Force
>Frank Loy, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. State Department
>Roger Ballentine, Deputy Assistant to the President on Environmental
>Issues
>
>
>
>ACTION IN THE HAGUE, NOVEMBER 13-24
>Are we gonna nuke the climate?
>Stop the revival of the nuclear industry
>
>Nuclear should be explicitly excluded
>from the Clean Development Mechanism
>of the Kyoto protocol
>The decision will be taken at the conference of parties (COP6) in
>November in
>The Hague, the Netherlands
>WISE Amsterdam will take to the streets
>to make clear that nuclear is
>not a sustainable source of energy
>and should be explicitly
>excluded from the CDM
>
>Join our No-Nukes day on November 13th
>(the first day of COP6) in The Hague
>Preparatory meeting
>Sunday night 12 November
>Actions throughout the city of The Hague
>on Monday 13 november
>
>contact WISE Amsterdam
>tel [phone]
>fax  [phone]
>[e-mail]
>www.antenna.nl/wise
>PO.Box 59636
>1040 LC Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
>
>more actions throughout the COP6 meeting
>see www.climateconference.org for more info
>

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/27 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 27 Sep 2000 08:46:28 -0400

Washington Times Daybook, September 27, 2000, Agence France Presse=20

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200092721328.htm

      9 a.m. =97 Military readiness =97 The Senate Armed Services Committee=
 holds a
hearing to receive testimony on the status of U.S. military readiness. Gen.
Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 216=
 Hart
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.
     =20
      9 a.m. =97 Senate Judiciary's administrative oversight and the courts
subcommittee holds a hearing on "Oversight on the Wen Ho Lee Case."=
 Location:
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Violence in movies =97 The Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee holds a hearing to examine the motion picture
industry's marketing of violence to children. Location: 253 Russell Senate
Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5115.

      10 a.m. =97 House Government Reform's national security, veterans=
 affairs
and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing to examine findings=
 of
Institute of Medicine's recent study on Gulf War veterans' illnesses.=
 Location:
2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

      10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on
"Russia: How Vladimir Putin Rose to Power and What America Can Expect."
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright testifies. Location: 2172 Rayburn
House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021.

      10 a.m. =97 House Joint Economic Committee holds a hearing to review=
 the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve's resources and the options available to
policy-makers. Location: 311 Cannon House Office Building. Contact:
202/224-5171.

      2 p.m. =97 House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on the state=
 of
the armed services and future military requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton,
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House=
 Office
Building. Contact: 202/225-4151.

      7 p.m. =97 Nitze tribute =97 The Johns Hopkins University Paul H.=
 Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) presents "America's Place in
the World: A Tribute to Paul Nitze," SAIS co-founder and principal author of
National Security Council Paper No. 68, adopted 50 years ago this month.=
 Deputy
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott delivers a keynote address. Location:
Colonial Room, Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact:
202/663-5626.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - California=20
        Wednesday, September 27 -
        8:45 a.m. - Discussion  on education recession, Ascension School,=
 517
111th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90044, [phone]=20

- Al Gore - Iowa today
        10 a.m. =97 Leads a discussion on the need for better prescription=
 drug
benefits in Medicare, Greater Altoona Community Services Center, Altoona,=
 Iowa.

- Ralph Nader - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - East Liverpool, and Youngstown, OH
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, East Liverpool
School Administration Building, 500 Maryland Street, East Liverpool, OH
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ralph Nader Speech, same location
        2:00 - 3:00 AM - Ralph Nader Speech, Chestnut Room, Kilcawley Center
Youngstown State University (Wick Avenue and Lincoln Street), Youngstown, OH
        3:00 AM - 3:45 PM - Press Conference same location

Thursday, September 28 - Nader on DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW;=20
        4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. - Rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre, 1697
Broadway (bet. 53rd & 54th Sts.) The show tapes at 5:30 PM and the studio
audience has to be at the theatre no later than 4:15, so please try to be=
 there
at 4 o'clock or even earlier to preach the good news of Nader's candidacy=
 and
the Green Party platform to the ticket-holders.=20

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Bad news - Plan to Aid Ill Nuclear Workers Is Rejected by House Leaders
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16506-2000Sep25.html
,,,Under the Senate aid plan, workers who suffered from certain cancers and
other occupational diseases would have been eligible for medical benefits as
well as compensation for lost wages or a lump-sum payment of $200,000. An
alternative plan crafted by House Republican leadership last week would have
allowed the nominal creation of a compensation program while withholding any
funding pending further studies.

- U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu Conference
        Date: Wednesday 27 September
        Time: Dawn to dusk
        Place: Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW
For more information, e-mail [e-mail].

- Tomorrow, September 28th is International Nix-MOX Action Day.  Questions?
call 828-251-2060 - <mailto:[e-mail]> (Mary Olson) - NIRS home
page: http://www.nirs.org/

- Appeal for full funding for international debt relief
Participate in a Call-in Day, this Thursday, September 28, to your
representatives in Congress, urging that they support full funding for=
 existing
debt relief programs, as step toward Jubilee 2000 goals. Call for:
        1) Full funding for debt relief, by appropriating at least $435=
 million
for debt relief in the conference report to accompany the Foreign Operations
Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001,=20
        2) The inclusion of legislation to permit the International Monetary
Fund to use the earnings from gold revaluation for the purposes of debt=
 relief=20
        3) NO conditions on the relief that harm people or the environment
Notice: Senators Gramm and Helms, backed up by Sens Lott and McConnell are
saying no funding for debt relief unless countries privatize all industries,
end all government subsidies, and meet strict (in fact, unrealistic)=
 criteria
for political freedom. 5 countries, at most, would qualify for debt=
 reduction,
if these=20
Senators get their way.LET'S MAKE THOSE PHONES RING OFF THE HOOK! Call=
 Senators
at 202/224-3121; Call Members of Congress at 202/225-3121
=3D=3D> we urgently need support from Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina and
Mississippi! Drop me a line if you live there :-) [From: David Bryden
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- Message from Nader Campaign -- DIRECT ACTION MISSION: The debate chickens
have appeared with great fanfare at protests all across the country. This=
 week
we would broaden the protest message to include the Issue Ducks. Let=
 everyone
know how you feel about the way Bush and Gore duck all the important issues.
Wave signs: "Universal Health Care: Ducking the Issue" or "Death Penalty:
Ducking the Issue" or "Living Wage: Ducking the Issue" or other issues that
matter to you. A chorus of duck calls complements a "let Ralph debate" chant
quite nicely. Remember: always civil, always peaceful, always polite, but=
 let's
get the point across, let's get the cameras' attention, and let's get Ralph
into the debates!

- =93STOP STAR WARS=94 RALLY AND NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION AT=20
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; part of an International Day of Protest to Stop=
 the
Militarization of Space
        WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2000; rally begins at 1 pm. Speakers
include:
Medea Benjamin, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate; Bruce Gagnon, Global
Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and Carah Ong, Abolition
2000. Main gate nonviolent direct action begins at 3 pm. Back country
occupation all day.
        WHERE: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; Main Gate, 8 miles north of=
 Lompoc,
California on Highway 1
        WHY: Vandenberg Air Force Base is the launch site for U.S. ballistic
missile flight tests and spy satellites. The next BMD interceptor test is
planned for January 2001 from Vandenberg. [From: Jackie Cabasso
<mailto:[e-mail]>]
- To get more details about the IMF/World Bank meeting in Prague, here are=
=20
some useful resources:
Full coverage at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Business/Global_Economy/=20
G7 Meets in Prague Ahead of IMF, World Bank
Read also at http://www.pbj.cz/pbj/imf/imfworldbank.asp
[From: mailto:[e-mail] (jean hudon)]

- Interesting article:
Key Players Control World Money Supply
By John M. Berry, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, June 28, 1998
http://www.newslibrary.com/download.asp?DBLIST=3Dwp98&DOCNUM=3D34001&TERMV=
=3D213:4
:217:1:219:5:
        BASEL, Switzerland - Ten times a year, the financial barons who=
 control
the world's supply of money gather here on the bank of the Rhine River for=
=20
drinks and dinner - and secret conversations that can shape the course  of=
 the
global economy.
         The 13 members of this economic cabal meet on the glass-walled 18th=
=20
floor of the round headquarters tower of an obscure institution known as the
Bank for International Settlements. From their seats at the conference =
 table,
they can look across the city and the river to Germany's Black Forest  or
farther west to French Alps on the horizon.
         As they arrive and greet one another by their first names, waiters=
=20
hover with drinks - they know each one's favorite. For privacy and candor, =
 no
staff members are present, only the principals and occasionally a  guest,=
 such
as Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International  Monetary Fund.
         The members of this secretive group are the governors of the=
 central=20
banks of the Group of 10 industrial nations, plus Switzerland. The most=20
powerful voice in the room is the U.S. representative - Federal Reserve=20
Chairman Alan Greenspan or, if he can't attend, Vice Chairman Alice M.=
 Rivlin.=20
As befits its power, the United States alone has a second seat at the =
 table,
occupied by William J. McDonough, president of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank. The 13th participant is the BIS's general manager, Andrew Crockett, a
former Bank of England official.
         This is how global finance does its most sensitive business, in=
 these=20
quiet Sunday-night meetings. The central bankers talk informally - with no=
=20
agenda other than what is on their minds. The financial intelligence that=20
emerges from these meetings - and perhaps more important, the personal trust=
 -
helps keep the international banking system steady in turbulent times, such=
 as
the financial crisis that has swept Asia over the past year.
         Roots in a War
         But what, exactly, is the strangely named organization that hosts
this=20
secret conclave?
         The BIS was established in 1930 to assist in the payments of=20
reparations owed by Germany and other losers in World War I to the victors.
Over the years it has become a central bank for central banks. It has also
emerged as a clearinghouse for regulators - helping them supervise=
 commercial
banks, oversee foreign exchange markets and protect the world financial
system.....


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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/28 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 28 Sep 2000 08:55:20 -0400

[NucNews archives have been updated through 9/15/00.  See
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 28, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000928214311.htm

       9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on U.S.
policy toward Iraq. Gen. Anthony Zinni, former U.S. Central Command=
 commander,
testifies. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Sierra Club news conference =97 The Sierra Club=
 announces a
major campaign to inform people where their congressional and presidential
candidates stand on environmental issues. Location: Salon B/C, JW Marriott,
1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/675-6698.

      10 a.m. =97 House Veterans' Affairs oversight and investigations
subcommittee holds a hearing on human subjects protections in VA medical
research. Location: 334 Cannon House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-9164.

      10:30 a.m. =97 Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on slavery
throughout the world. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/224-4651.

      3 p.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Energy=
 and
Natural Resources Committee hold a hearing, "Climate Change: Status of the
Kyoto Protocol After Three Years." Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-4971 or 202/224-4651.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush -=20
        11:50 a.m. - One-on-one, TOSCA, Limited, 1032 Bay Beach Road, Green
Bay,
Wisconsin 54302, [phone]=20
        4:20 p.m. - Pontiac, Michigan: There will be a photo opportunity=
 only
upon arrival at Daimler Chrysler Aviation, at Oakland County International
Airport. Be on site at 7310 Highland Road in Waterford, Michigan, by 4:20=
 p.m.
For directions call [phone].
        Evening - Troy, Michigan, reception for the Michigan Republican=
 party.

- Al Gore - Unknown

- Ralph Nader -=20
Thursday, September 28 - Nader on DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW;=20
        4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. - Rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre, 1697
Broadway (bet. 53rd & 54th Sts.) The show tapes at 5:30 PM and the studio
audience has to be at the theatre no later than 4:15, so please try to be=
 there
at 4 o'clock or even earlier to preach the good news of Nader's candidacy=
 and
the Green Party platform to the ticket-holders.=20

-- Note: Nader leads Gore in Time.com poll. [25% to 16% - Bush is at 54% as=
 of
8 a.m. 9/28/00.] Check it out and add your vote. (You have to scroll down to
nearly the bottom of the page.) http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/
BE HEARD!  [From: "Nader for Prez! www.votenader.org"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- PRESS CONFERENCE 10:00 AM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, LAFAYETTE PARK, IN FRONT OF
WHITE HOUSE WITH LONG-TERM FASTER, RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND OTHERS - Andr=E9s=
 Thomas
Conteris, 39, United Methodist lay missioner and member of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation enters the 10th week of fasting (65 days overall, 45 on
water-only) urging the President to schedule an audience with the Puerto=
 Rican
church and community leaders. The fast enters a very critical stage. He has
lost 59 pounds. Many others in Puerto Rico, across the U.S. and elsewhere=
 are
fasting on a rotating basis in support of peace in Vieques. The President=
 has
not responded directly to these pleas. In Vieques, on October 1, thousands=
 of
residents together with other Puerto Ricans will march in support of the=
 civil
disobedience campaign seeking to pressure the Navy to immediately and
permanently withdraw from their island. This follows a Sept. 22 event where
over 2000 gathered nonviolently in front of the White House and looks toward=
 a
Oct. 21 March in New York City. Visit www.viequesfast.org for details.  The
Navy
has scheduled a new round of bombing exercises for the month of October and=
 the
nonviolent campaign in Vieques will continue to enter the firing range to=
 try
to serve as human shields against the bombing.

- Today, September 28th, is International Nix-MOX Action Day.=20
<mailto:[e-mail]> (Mary Olson) - NIRS home page:
http://www.nirs.org/

- CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)=20
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]=20
email: mailto:[e-mail]=20
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/=20
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead=20

- Opposition uses baby rattles to defy Milosevic
http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=3Dsingapore=
/h
eadlines/000928/world/afp/Opposition_uses_baby_rattles_to_defy_Milosevic.htm=
l
...The sound of the small plastic, red, yellow and green toys could be heard
along the main Belgrade Terazije avenue where opposition activists were
distributing 10,000 baby rattles.  The use of the baby rattles was meant to
send a message to Milosevic that his regime was "broken like a baby rattle"=
 in
line with an old Serbian referring to utter destruction.

- PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES BETTY BUMPERS AS A MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF=
 DIRECTORS
FOR THE INSTITUTE OF PEACE.  [Wife of former Senator Dale] Bumpers, of=
 Little
Rock, Arkansas, she is founder of Peace Links....  The United States=
 Institute
of Peace is a bipartisan board established in 1948 by an Act of Congress to
promote international peace and the resolution of international conflict
without violence through education, training, research, and public
information.   [From: The White House
<[e-mail]>] =20

** {Note from ET:  I attended a meeting of the Institute of Peace in the=
 '80's
and was very unimpressed -- pale white males sitting on a stage conversing
drily about economics and other esoteric subjects more suitable to their
university days than to a real effort to achieve peace in the world.  Let's
hope Ms. Bumpers has some fresh ideas. I haven't been terribly impressed by
Peace Links, either - they don't return phone calls, respond to faxes, or
appear at any events in D.C.  I think their main success was arranging=
 cultural
exchange programs with the Soviet Union, swapping kids.  If anyone knows
otherwise, please let me know - mailto:[e-mail] (Ellen Thomas).}




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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NEW on TVC web site - NIF, NMD, more
Date: 28 Sep 2000 08:23:14 -0700 (PDT)

Dear peace and environmental colleagues:

Tri-Valley CAREs has NEW items on its web site for your reading pleasure.
Our web address is http://www.igc.org/tvc. There, you will find the
September 2000 issue of our newsletter, Citizen's Watch, with the following
stories --

        * Federal Audit Chronicles National Ignition Facility Deception,
Tri-Valley CAREs Seeks Criminal Investigation (get all the info on this,
the LATEST, of the ever-unfolding NIF scandals);

        * National Missile Defense Deployment Postponed (see what this will
mean, and what it doesn't mean);

        * Protect the Desert, Convert the Nevada Test Site (find out about
Livermore Lab's most recent subcritical nuclear test and what you can do);

        * Hiroshima at Livermore Lab (a report on the August 6 action);

        * What's New at Tri-Valley CAREs (our funding appeal, personnel
updates and the -- hooray -- announcement that we have won the EPA's first
national "Hazardous Waste Citizens Award" (complete with a link to the EPA
site and press release); and

        * Alerts, Calendar Section

You will also find

        * Our most recent report, "Managing the U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Stockpile: A Comparison of 5 Strategies," by Dr. Robert Civiak -- in simple
to download pdf format;

        * Press releases;

        * Postcards (a new one on subcritical testing to be added soon);

        * Back issues of Citizen's Watch, fact sheets, action alerts, links
to other group's web sites; and

        * MORE.

Happy web browsing.  Peace, Marylia

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - 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.



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From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) IEER newsletter, on Ionizing Radiation
Date: 28 Sep 2000 12:35:22 -0400

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Colleagues and friends,

The latest issue of  IEER's newsletter, Science for Democratic Action, is
on-line.  Its main theme is Ionizing Radiation (measuring it, health effects,
etc.).  It includes the following articles and features:
The Uranium Burden
Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation
Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units, Devices and Methods
Dear Arjun, What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste?
Check it out at http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html.
Suggestions
for improvement are welcome and appreciated.

(Apologies for multiple postings.)



=============================================
Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA
[phone]   fax: [phone]
http://www.ieer.org
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Colleagues and friends, <br>
<br>
The latest issue of  IEER's newsletter, <i>Science for Democratic
Action, </i>is on-line.  Its main theme is Ionizing Radiation
(measuring it, health effects, etc.).  It includes the following
articles and features:
<dl>
<dd>The Uranium Burden
<dd>Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation
<dd>Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units, Devices and Methods
<dd>Dear Arjun, What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste?
</dl>Check it out at
<a href="http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html</a>.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome and appreciated.<br>
<br>
(Apologies for multiple postings.)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>

=============================================<br>
Lisa Ledwidge<br>
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, <i>Science for Democratic Action<br>
</i>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)<br>
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204 <br>
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA<br>
[phone]   fax: [phone]<br>
<a href="http://www.ieer.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.ieer.org</a><br>
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/29 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist
Date: 29 Sep 2000 08:32:40 -0400

Friday Sept. 29 at 9:30am the NRC will webcast for the first time a meeting=
 on
nuclear plant component safety revisions!  You need the Real Player to=
 observe.
http://www.nrc.gov/live.html
[From: "Scott D Portzline" <[e-mail]>]

Washington Times Daybook, September 29, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000929211840.htm
[No "nuclear" news.]

      Ukraine discussion =97 9 a.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a=
 Morning
Newsmaker news conference on "The Perception of Ukraine in America: Time for=
 a
Fresh View." The speaker is Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, ambassador of Ukraine.
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.
     =20
      Arrival ceremony =97 11:30 a.m. =97 The Defense Department hosts a
full-honors arrival ceremony to welcome Slovenian Minister of Defense Janez
Jansa to the Pentagon. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen participates.
Location: River Parade Field, the Pentagon. Contact: 703/695-0169.

-- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- George W. Bush - Saginaw, Michigan
        10:00 a.m. - Remarks on energy policy, Wright-K Technology, 2025=
 East
Genessee Avenue, Saginaw, Michigan 48601, [phone]=20
        Dick Cheney - Jacksonville, Florida,=20
        11:40 a.m. - Remarks on Military Readiness; Jacksonville=
 Agricultural
Fair Complex, Exhibit Hall A, 510 Fairgrounds Place, Jacksonville, Florida,
[phone]=20

- Al Gore - DC
      10:55 a.m. =97 Walks the grounds of the Audubon Naturalist Society,=
 8940
Jones Mill Road, Chevy Chase.
      11 a.m. =97 Delivers remarks on his environment and energy policies,
Audubon Naturalist Society.

- Ralph Nader - Nothing till Sunday, October 1 -
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html

-- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- Tenth Anniversary of the Gulf War Memorial Service
In recognition of the many thousands of U.S. and Coalition service-members=
 and
Iraqi civilians who lost their lives and health during the Persian Gulf War=
 and
the resultant enforcement of sanctions and the no-fly zone over Iraq,=
 veterans
from all across America will host individual candlelight vigils on the=
 evening
of Feb. 28th, 2001, the 10th anniversary of the cessation of offensive=
 military
operations.  Candlelight vigils will be held at State Capitol/State House
buildings, across the U.S. The significance of the candles is in remembrance=
 of
those who died during the war, those who returned physically and emotionally
wounded, and those who remain sick, disabled, or who have died during the
decade following the war as a result of their Gulf War injuries and=
 illnesses.
        These are the facts:
        - By December 31, 1999, 136,031 Gulf War veterans were considered to=
 be
partially or completely disabled by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs=
 --
24% of those who served during the war.
        - An additional 60,000 had filed claims which have been denied.=20
        - 9,600 Gulf War veterans have died since the war.=20
        - Nearly six hundred Kuwaitis and one American are still missing=
 after
ten years
        - One million Iraqi civilians have died since the war.=20
[From: "Charles Sheehan-Miles" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- DU Study website - For inquiries regarding Depleted Uranium testing and=
 the
Uranium Medical Project see the website at www.umproject.org=20
or email mailto:[e-mail] - [From: Mary Guzman
<mailto:[e-mail]>
(new)]

- Rad-UK is a new discussion group and message board dealing with all issues
pertaining to the release of man-made ionising radiation, particularly in=
 the
UK, but also elsewhere in the world. Please use this space to post=
 information
about  legislation, licensing hearings, campaigns, personal testimonies,
conferences, useful scientific references, etc.  The group has been set up=
 with
the understanding that current dose-risk estimates do not accurately reflect
the real effects of internalised radionuclides. New egroup in the UK for=
 those
wanting to discuss general issues about radiation in the UK. To subscribe:=
=20
http://www.egroups.com/group/rad-UK

- Ancient text, "Art of War" by Sun Tzu - full text posted online by=
 Federation
of American Scientists.  This is required reading in military educational
institutions, and a good primer for those who want to learn how to wage=
 peace.=20
http://www.fas.org/man/artofwar.htm

- Vieques Fast update - Article following press conference=20
El Nuevo D=EDa, Thursday, September 28, 2000
by Jos=E9 A. Delgado
EFE Wire Service Agency=20
National Day of Prayer for Vieques Promoted=20
        WASHINGTON (EFE) - - Religious leaders and activist are calling this
Monday for an International Day of Prayer and Fasting for Vieques in support=
 of
the Navy ceasing its bombing excercises. In a press conference, US citizen
Andr=E9s Thomas Conteris, who has fasted for 66 days, communicated that the=
 2 of
October is a time for praying for peace for Vieques.=20
        This day will take place following the March called for this coming
Sunday in Vieques which will include acts of civil disobedience. Leaders of=
 the
Catholic, Methodist Churches and the National Council of Churches among=
 others
have supported the focus that this Monday be a time of prayer and fasting=
 for
peace in Vieques.=20
        Thomas Conteris indicated that he will travel tomorrow, Friday, to
Vieques to participate in the Sunday March and possibly take part in the=
 acts
of civil disobedience. Nevertheless, on Monday he will meet with civic and
religious leaders in the struggle against the US Navy to decide if he should
continue with his fast of 66 [70] days, for which he has been on water-only=
 for
50 [these will be accurate on Oct. 2].=20
        He has lost 60 pounds, since he started with 220 and now weighs 160.=
 He
is no longer focusing on the demand for President Clinton to hold a meeting
with religious leaders opposed to military training on Vieques. "After=
 speaking
with Jeffrey Farrow for an hour on Wednesday evening (the person responsible
for Puerto Rican affairs in the White House), I am convinced that the=
 President
will not grant a meeting.=20
        In any case, Thomas Conteris indicated that if the leaders of the
struggle against the Navy desire for him to continue the fast, the principle
demand will be that the US Navy leave Vieques.

- Forwarded from a US activist in Prague..
        On September 26, 2000, about twelve thousand people gathered in=
 Prague
to protest the policies of the IMF and the World Bank, demanding that the=
 two
institutions be shut down. It was a success - their meeting was seriously
disrupted and their blatently exploitative policies were further brought to
public attention.=20
        On the morning of Sept. 26, people from all over the world attempted=
 to
approach the conference to bring their views directly to the delegates, but
were blocked by an army of police. Clashes ensued, and many were arrested.
Throughout the following night police retaliation took place. Anyone=
 suspected
of being a protester was stopped, arrested, and often beaten. By morning 422
people had been arrested, often for nothing more than walking down the=
 street.
Police were assisted in their persecution by Czech nazis, who chased and
attacked anyone who looked like a protester, and helped to beat=
 demonstrators
while they were held in jail.
        Today, Thursday Sept. 28, massive arrests are continuing. A=
 non-violent
demonstration took place in front of the Ministry of Interior against the
police brutality and in solidarity with those arrested. Another 70 people=
 were
dragged away. Official police sources report 892 arrests so far. Many have=
 been
released, and their reports are horrifying. They activists are=
 systematically
beaten, denied access to phone, food, water, and bedding, and in at least at
one police station nazis have been allowed into the cells to brutalize those
being held. Often those released have been so traumatized that they try to=
 get
out of the country as soon as possible, preventing the recording of their
evidence. The mainstream media, as always, are focusing on the property
destruction, creating support for the police, shrouding the real issues, and
increasing repression. They report "angry youth" attacking police instead of=
 a
more accurate picture of concerned citizens of the world standing up for an=
 end
to the IMF and World Bank's deliberate undermining of social and=
 environmental
justice. And so we need your help. The situation here is critical. The=
 arrested
need international solidarity. We beg you to send faxes and E-mails=
 protesting
the treatment of those arrested. Keep in mind that the vast majority of=
 those
arrested were incarcerated only because of their political conviction. The
police must stop their brutality and release them immediately.If possible,
organize a protest in front of the Embassies of the Czech Republic, the=
 sooner
the better. If there4s no Embassy in your town, there may be a Czech=
 cultural
center.
        We thank you very much on behalf of the arrested activists, and on
behalf of all of us here who are fighting for truth and justice.
        Please send faxes and/or emails to -=20
        Office of Vaclav Havel, the President of the Czech Republic:=20
011 4202 24310855 (phone) - 011 4202 24373196 fax -=
 <mailto:[e-mail]>
        Ministry of the Interior=20
011 4202 61421115 (phone), 011-4202/6143 3552-3 (fax) -=20
Press + PR dep <mailto:[e-mail]>
        Ministry of Foreign Affaires / fax [phone]=20
<mailto:[e-mail]>
        Office of Government=20
<mailto:[e-mail]>
        US Embassy in Czech Republic:
011 4202 57530663 (phone) - 011 4202 57532059 (fax)
        Please send (e-)copies to mailto:[e-mail] (coordinator)=
 (enquiries
also) and fax [phone]
        - Yours, Initiative Against Economic Globalisation

- Shocking Human Rights Abuses Faced by Protestors in Jail=20
Police Brutality Widespread, most severe for Czechs & Israelis

PRAGUE - In addition to the mass denial of the legal rights, individuals=
 have
faced extreme brutality in Czech Jails. Paul Rosenthal from Seattle=
 Washington
who was released this morning from the Olsanska jail in Prague after forty
hours states, "What is happening inside the Czech jails is more than
frightening. People have no rights,they are being beaten severely, they are
disappearing. Women are being forced to strip in front of male guards and
perform exercises. People with serious medical problems have been denied=
 help."
The following are accounts confirmed by people that have been released from
jail:
        =B7 Women have been strip searched by male officers and have been=
 forced
to perform physical exercises for their enjoyment=20
        =B7 Many individuals are being denied water, food, and sleep; some=
 are
able to get food only if they pay guards, women and fascists are more likely=
 to
get water=20
        =B7 Many people released have reported that before reaching police
stations, officers took individuals to isolated areas and beat them=
 severely.=20
        =B7 Two Norwegians that went to a police station on Trisparni Street=
 near
Vlatavska to report a stolen mobile phone witnessed behind briefly opened=
 doors
that a number of people were handcuffed to the wall and being beaten=
 severely.
This has also been confirmed by many reports from released persons that in=
 the
processing rooms groups of 40 to 60 people were asked to spread eagle while
they were beaten, heads were knocked back, legs were kicked in, and numbers=
 of
men had their groins twisted or punched. Additionally people handcuffed were
tossed down stairs.=20
        =B7 There is one report that 22 people were crammed into a 4 square=
 meter
cell.=20
        =B7 30 People were detained at the Olsanska jail in an outdoor=
 courtyard
overnight with no blankets or food. They were later moved to Balkova near
Pilsen.=20
        =B7 Two Germans that were detained in Lupacova, Praha 3 on Wednesday=
 for
approximately eight hours were held with an Israeli, an American, a German,=
 and
an Italian. The Israeli had been beaten severely, had difficulty walking, a
black eye, and likely had a broken rib. He has been denied medical attention=
=20
        =B7 People with diabetes were not fed, people that needed medication=
 were
not given it, the British Embassy had to intervene to get medication into=
 the
jail.=20
        =B7 A Norwegian woman held in jail with 30 other women witnessed a=
 German
woman with a badly injured leg where medics were denied.=20
        =B7 Right to legal representation and advice, right to interpreters,
right
to food and water, right to basic medical attention, and the right to a=
 phone
call have all been ignored on a widespread scale.=20
        =B7 Czechs and Israelis are being beaten more drastically and are=
 being
detained longer=20
        =B7 Many internationals are being moved from local stations to=
 Balkova
near Pilsen which has one of the worst human rights records in the Czech
Republic.
Attention News and Assignment Editors FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE=20
September 28, 2000
        Contact: Chelsea Mozen 420 604 384452 or 02 6272349=20
        To arrange interviews with witnesses recently released, contact Cyan
IMMEDIATELY: 0605 879 504
###=20
INPEG International Press Agent - http://www.inpeg.org=20
Office: 4202 2320830=20
Mobile: [phone]=20
Press Center: Parizska 9, Praha 1=20
[phone] x2570 - US voicemail/fax=20
[Sender: [e-mail]]

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New Energy Technology Center & Global Peace Center (29Sept2000)
Date: 29 Sep 2000 10:36:40 -0700

Below is a current article from the local edition of a national "eNews"
site.  http://www.streetmail.com

In it and following article are discussed plans for the New-Energy
Technology Center in Tehachapi (to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power) to
be sited as a new centerpiece for the1000
acre Capital Hills Development north of the Mill Street (middle of 3) exits
off of Hwy 58 (soon to be designated part of Interstate 40) in the Tehachapi
Valley, southernmost of High Sierra Range.

To rapidly finish the research and development of these new technologies to
replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, on a crash program (like a "New
Apollo Project") to implement these technologies to ameliorate global
climate change and ozone layer depletion, this project is being coordinated
by David Crockett Williams of www.GeneralAgencyServices.com following the
initiative for such a "New Apollo Project" by Dr. Brian O'Leary, PhD, a
former NASA scientist/astronaut, physics teacher, space-station design
pioneer, science and energy policy advisor and speechwriter for four US
Presidential candidates, and for over a decade now a globally recognized
speaker, author and authority on New Science applications to revolutionary
understandings of new-energy technologies, solutions to our global
environmental emergency including widespread hemp cultivation to save the
forests and heal the atmosphere, the physics and spirituality of human
consciousness, autonomic healing processes, psi phenomena, as well as the
need to relax government secrecy about ufo's and present dangerous military
applications of this new science with related energy/consciousness
applications for technology transfer from military to commercial uses.
O'Leary travels and speaks globally and is featured on numberous videos on
these topics.  He is the author of several books including "Exploring Inner
and Outer Space", "The Second Coming of Science", "Miracle in the Void", and
his upcoming "".

We need your help to pass this post on throughout your networks so those who
want to collaborate on this new facility, be a part of it from here or on
the net from anywhere, can find out about it and connect with whatever human
or financial resources they want to offer.

There is a very strong land-based financial opportunity described in the two
articles  below, the StreetMail article and the following article by Capital
Hills owner John Guthrie on the Status of Capital Hills.  Funding proposals
are being accepted from both public and private sources.

Interim website address for Capital Hills New Energy Technologies Research
and Development Center is at http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.html

Updates list for collaborators on this project is at
http://www.egroups.com/group/capital-hills



http://www.streetmail.com/mostcurrent/catehachapi

____________S T R E E T M A I L______T E H A C H A P I________

Streetmail, Tehachapi
Sept. 29, 2000
Correspondent: Linda Matise
[e-mail] .

____________S T R E E T . T A L K

HIGH-TECH HAPPENINGS.

Capital Hills owners have spawned plans
for yet another high-tech facility on their rolling hills
north of Highway 58, the once-planned site for Technopolis.
John and Lyn Guthrie and Jim Crawford are donating several
acres for a "Global Peace Now!" theme park with walkways,
picnic tables and a garden for meditation and prayer.

A Global Peace Park Center and a New-Energy Technology Center
will become Capital Hills's pivot point for future development.

David Crockett Williams, a Tehachapi chemical physicist, has
proposed a $108 million budget to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) for the project, with a 10 percent allocation to
the Capital Hills park. Williams has worked for over 20 years
with scientists and inventors on research for this center and
will conduct community business meetings on Oct. 11, 18 and
25 at 7:30 p.m. at Denny's Restaurant to discuss the project.

The Global Peace Park Center will house a video media
production and viewing room and a video teleconferencing room
to communicate with other countries toward global peace and
inter-cultural understanding. New-energy sources like ZPE
(Zero Point Energy -- an essentially inexhaustible and
ubiquitous resource) will be researched at the New-Energy
Technology Center as an antidote to the greenhouse effect.

DOE experiments reveal ZPE as an enormous energy field that
exists in the same space that matter resides. Williams quoted
the agency as saying: "Any device that could harness ZPE
would be 'the Holy Grail of energy research'."

DOE recognition for ZPE is posted at
http://www.prop1.org/thomas/peacefulenergy/980512.khan.htm .
Additional information is available at
http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan .

Williams recommends two books to anyone wishing to know more
about these topics: "The Coming Energy Revolution" by Jeane
Manning, and "Miracle in the Void" by Brian O Leary, Ph.D.,
initiator of this project.

** This project is food for thought, globally and locally. In
the realm of economic growth, do you perceive this center as
putting Tehachapi on the world map?

Enter the Think Tank and let us know how you feel
about Capital Hills and this project. Send your responses to
http://www.streetmail.com/survey/catehachapi/streettalk/20000929 .

Include your FULL NAME and any thoughts on this issue so we
can let City Hall, Mr. Williams and his colleagues know what
the voices of Tehachapi have to say. (Remember: If you vote a
straight Yes/No, your vote will be added to a tally. If you
comment, your name and comment will be printed in next week's
issue.)

____________S T R E E T . M A I L . I N F O

Tehachapi Streetmail is produced by Streetmail.com, Inc.

Correspondent: Linda Matise
([e-mail])

For more information about Streetmail, to see other editions
of Streetmail, or to sign up a friend, check out our Web
site at http://www.streetmail.com .






Status of Capital Hills

Attended by our local congressman, business people and celebrities, in
August 1989 groundbreaking ceremonies were held for Phase One (121 acres) of
the planned 2000 acre Capital Hills Development located in the City of
Tehachapi at the middle exit of Freeway 58 (soon to be Interstate 40) at the
Mill Street off-ramp in the center of the northern edge of the Tehachapi
Valley,  the southernmost such mountain valley of the High Sierra range.

In cooperation with one of its strategic partners, AT&T, this Phase One
property at Capital Hills has facilities for fiber optic cables along with
all underground utilities already in place.

The intent is to create a planned business, commercial, and residential
development in this quiet semi-rural area, with latest information-age high
technologies employed throughout a "Technopolis" of research parks, light
industry, office and commercial facilities, etc., where workers can live
nearby and walk, bike, or even ride horseback to work in modern facilities
out of the hectic hubub of city life such as the Los Angeles and San
Francisco Bay Area busy and distractive lifestyles that many creative
companies now are subject to.

After the groundbreaking, the 121 acres of improvements (eg. streets, curb
and sidewalks, street lights, underground utilities, etc.) were installed
for Phase One, but several factors combined to stall the development which
to date has just a few new buildings including the new Tehachapi U.S. Post
Office, an ARCO am/pm gas station and mini-mart, and a Denny's Restaurant.

The real estate market in general "went soft" after Phase One subdivision
and the city made a mistake that was discovered too late to correct in their
red tape process, where the "Mello-Roos" bond payments were structured
incorrectly in 1989 by an expert subcontracted by the City of Tehachapi
whose fees were paid by the landowners and who made a gross mathematical
error discovered by the landowners, a mistake which the city was unable or
unwilling to correct and instead insisted must be perpetuated even after the
bonds were later refinanced.  Therefore, the bond payments are much higher
(~200%) than they should be. This situation has made it harder to interest
companies to build on Phase One lands which are heading for foreclosure
procedings initiated by the City in near future to be sold off parcel by
parcel unless quickly an understanding investor comes forward to make a deal
with the owners of Capital Hills to refinance these bonds, pay back taxes,
and get Phase One back on proper economic track.  As a matter of information
over $7 million was spent on improvements on Phase One that was MAI
appraised at up to $30 million with only about $4 million total debt at this
time.

The owners of Capital Hills have offered to donate land for a new energy
technology development center as the new centerpiece to revive the vision of
the Capital Hills Technopolis. This land is just outside the Phase One area.
They have also offered to donate some of the allocated parkland to be
dedicated as a Global Peace Park and Center. The suggested location for this
is on the eastern edge of the phase one property but just outside the
boundary of the area impacted by pending foreclosure procedings. This site
is ready to go and an interim peace and new energy research facility can be
located there very quickly by placing for up to six months a non-permanent
structure (but fully wired and plumbed to the street underground utilities)
while plans are being made for permanent construction of appropriate
facilities.

Introductory information on the Capital Hills New-Energy Research and
Development Center is at http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.html with
a link there to the Capital Hills Development website.

-------------end 29Sept2000 update-----------------

**
[e-mail]
David Crockett Williams, CLU
Chartered Life Underwriter
Scientist - Activist - Manager
GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES
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