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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 01/01/01
Date: 31 Dec 2001 10:18:05 -0500

Dear friends,

Happy New Year!  NucNews Archives have been posted through December 25, 2000
(http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews).  I trust 2001 will be a lively (and
hopefully healthy) time for all - looking forward to seeing how many people
show up in Washington D.C. against the inauguration.  Will be a fascinating
study of power stolen and (hopefully) power defused.  Thanks for your good
work....

Ellen Thomas

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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) the passing of a true leader, Alan cranston
Date: 03 Jan 2001 13:44:32 -0500

The following message is from the Global Security Institute to
friends and colleagues of Alan Cranston. Among the many hats Alan wore
was co-chair of Project Abolition, and GSI serves as the fiscal sponsor
of Project Abolition.
The only thing I'd add to the words below is that in his energy and
dedication to the cause of ridding the world of the scourge of nuclear
weapons, Alan was one of a kind. A memorial service will be held in San
Francisco January 16.

Kevin Martin
Project Abolition

============================

Senator Alan Cranston died standing up.

While preparing to start a new day, the 86 year old father, grandfather,

friend, and leader passed away standing at his kitchen sink on the
morning
of New Year's Eve, gracefully exiting at the dawn of the new millennium.

The staff, board, and friends of the Global Security Institute, which he

founded to further the cause of the total elimination of nuclear
weapons,
will deeply miss his wit, vision, strength and unwavering determination.


Alan Cranston used as a guide for leadership a quote by the Chinese
philosopher Lao-Tzu, which he carried in his wallet for years:

"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, less good when

they obey and acclaim him, worse when they fear and despise him. Fail to

honor people and they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, when his
work
is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'
"

Those who knew him and worked with him remember his utter humility and
complete commitment to the task at hand.

Alan Cranston looked with hope toward the future. We reaffirm our
profound
commitment to completing the work that he began; our work continues
undiminished and strengthened by his memory. We hope you will join with
us
in honoring his memory by helping complete the task.

In the near future, it is our intention to host, along with the Cranston

family, a memorial celebration, honoring his life and work. We hope you
will
participate.

Alan Cranston did not want honor for himself, but honored life itself by

serving the cause of peace. We shall follow in his large footsteps.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Granoff
CEO, Global Security Institute

Tyler Stevenson
Projects Director, GSI

Zachary Allen
Program Director, GSI

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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) details on memorial service for Alan Cranston
Date: 03 Jan 2001 14:45:06 -0500

Please send this message to Senator Cranston's friends, colleagues and
loved ones on your email lists.

Please note that many airlines have bereavement rates, and friends
should therefore mention the memorial service when
booking flights.

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                                          The Family of

                            ALAN MacGREGOR CRANSTON (1914-2000)

                                          Invites You to

                                 A Memorial Celebration of His Life


                                     January 16, 2001, 3:00 PM
                                   Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
                                        Reception to Follow


               For more information about the memorial celebration,
please call 415-561-6686.

 In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the Global Security
Institute on Alan=B9s behalf to further his work
                         and goals.  P.O. Box 475160, San Francisco, CA
94147


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: American Mantra
Date: 03 Jan 2001 14:52:26 -0500

>Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:51:53 -0500
>Subject: American Mantra
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>
>American Mantra: Free Market Capitalism
>
>By Peter Phillips
>
>Free Market Capitalism has become the dominant American ideological truth.
>The decline of communism opened the door for unrepentant free marketers to
>boldly espouse market competition as the final solution for global harmony.
>According to the American mantra, if given the opportunity to freely
>develop the marketplace will solve all evils. We will enjoy economic
>expansion, individual freedom, and unlimited bliss by fully deregulating
>and privatizing society's socio-economic institutions.
>
>The recent selection of G.W. Bush as the U.S. President has placed into
>power the party that is the strongest supporter of this American mantra.
>The business/government revolving-door cabinet will be comprised of more
>corporate CEO's than any presidency in recent history. The new government
>elite will work to see that the American mantra remains safe, globalized,
>and unchallenged.
>
>Pesky socialist or nationalist leaning governments will be undermined,
>pressured into compliance or even invaded if they dare to resist the
>American mantra. The full force of U.S. dominated global institutions -WTO,
>World Bank, IMF, NAFTA-will focus on maximizing free market circumstances
>and corporate access to every region of the world. Economic safety nets,
>environmental regulations, labor unions, human rights, become second place
>to the free flow of capital and investments. Indigenous resisters face
>overt repression, disappearance, or imprisonment by governments fully armed
>and supported by the American dominated New World Order.
>
>So what is the underlying rationale for this American mantra? Are its
>dogmatic beliefs based on specific socio-economic facts? Are free market
>forces clearly the best mechanism for human betterment? Do these mechanisms
>work cross-culturally and are they efficient under all circumstances?
>A closer examination of the American mantra reveals that "free market"
>essentially means constant international U.S. government intervention on
>behalf of American corporations. A public-private partnership that utilizes
>U.S. embassies, the CIA, FBI, NSA, U.S. Military, Department of Commerce,
>USAID, and every other U.S government institution to protect, sustain, and
>directly support our vital interest-U.S. business.
>
>This public-private partnership means that the government of Guatemala is
>pressured to withdraw laws that forbid Gerber foods from marketing their
>chubby baby image on infant formula. Peasants see the baby and believe that
>formula will make their infants healthy and chubby as well. Yet breast
>feeding is considerable healthier in a country where unsafe water mixed
>with formula results in high infant mortality.
>
>The American mantra claims that prices will reach their lowest levels and
>consumers will benefit from free market competition. Yet living essentials,
>food, water, housing, health care, all have the international tendency to
>increase more rapidly than products that are non-essential. Even in the U.S
>we can get a great deal on a computer, but try buying emergency health care
>on a middle income paycheck. Americans are often amazed to find out that
>prescription drugs are significantly cheaper in other countries, a fact
>that discredits the benefits of an unregulated market.
>
>American mantra institutions push market deregulation that transforms
>foreign economies for the benefit of U.S. businesses. Post-NAFTA Mexicans
>are now importing U.S. grown corn for their tortillas, as millions of
>formally subsidized peasant farmers leave the land to seek minimum wage
>work in the cities of United States. Los Angeles has become the center for
>new American sweatshops, as "illegals" compete for poverty jobs, citizens
>cannot afford to accept.
>
>Government-assisted foreign market penetration by U.S firms often results
>in the buying out of successful indigenous companies and the competitive
>overwhelm of others. This situation leaves U.S. multinationals in dominate
>positions in foreign domestic markets and creates win-fall profit taking
>opportunities.
>The free market mantra carries with it shock treatment policies of lowering
>public expectations, forced austerity measures, and dismantled human
>services. A privately run water system is deemed superior to a public
>system because the profit motive will create maximum efficiency. Yet there
>is absolutely no research that systematically compares public verses
>private efficiency levels, only the dogmatic assertion that this is so.
>
>The American mantra affects the U.S. population as well. We are still
>riding on the betterments from the first three/quarters of the 20th
>century, and have not faced the full impacts of the economic bifurcation
>that has occurred the past 25 years. Poverty levels are rising, the working
>poor expanding and homelessness one pay check away for many. In the last
>quarter century the bottom 60 million Americans have economically declined,
>and most of the next 100 million have barely held their own, while the
>dot.com generation elites have socked away fortunes.
>
>It is time to re-examine the American mantra and speak for global humanity.
>We must establish business socio-economic accountability standards and
>reacquaint our government with its responsibility for maintaining the
>common good.
>
>Peter Phillips is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State
>University and director of Project Censored a media research group.
>
>
>Peter Phillips Ph.D.
>Sociology Department/Project Censored
>Sonoma State University
>1801 East Cotati Ave.
>Rohnert Park, CA 94928
>707-664-2588
>

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Silver linings?
Date: 04 Jan 2001 11:01:37 -0500

>>> Message fromMichael Moore
>>> "Let's Look At the Bright Side of Life!"
>>>
>>> December 14, 2000
>>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> Hail to the Thief!
>>>
>>> On this dark, dark day in American history, I prefer to see the next
>>White
>>> House as half-full instead of half-empty! That's just the kind of kooky
>>> optimist I am.
>>>
>>> Instead of brooding over the antics of our Supreme Court Jesters, I'd
>>> rather focus on what makes this country great. Such as all that hooey
>>our
>>> 7th grade civics teacher told us about how ANYONE can become President
>>of
>>> the United States. She was right! It's true! ANYONE just became
>>president.
>>> Let this be a lesson to my younger readers -- listen to your teachers!
>>>
>>> You know, I always like it when life is a win-win situation. Gore won
>>the
>>> "popular" vote, so I guess that means George W. won the unpopular vote!
>>> Everyone goes home with something.
>>>
>>> OK, put away that Gillette double-edged razor and flush those sleeping
>>> pills down the toilet -- tonight is a night for celebration! It's time
>>to
>>> count our blessings, to thank the Lord for what we have been given, to
>>> reach out and touch someone, to....
>>>
>>> To make a list! A list of all the silver linings in this cloud on its
>>way
>>> from Austin to D.C. Yes, there are a number good things that will come
>>out
>>> of all this madness.
>>>
>>> Consider these silver linings:
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #1: Ralph Nader QUADRUPLED the Number of Votes He Got in
>>96!
>>> Continue to ignore his supporters, continue to trash him, and the
>>Democrats
>>> will lose AGAIN in 2004. If there is one lesson that had better be
>>learned
>>> after all the acrimony dies down it's that the Democratic Party can no
>>> longer elect a President without the millions of disgruntled voters who
>>> demand an end to the death penalty, a law that provides free health
>>> coverage for all, prison time for corporate crooks, a doubling of the
>>> minimum wage, a cut in Pentagon spending, and a host of other issues.
>>You
>>> don't have to agree with all these positions, but if you choose to
>>ignore
>>> them, you do so at your own peril. These last five weeks have done more
>>to
>>> turn off millions of Americans to BOTH the Republican and Democratic
>>> parties than a hundred Nader super rallies on C-Span could ever hope to
>>do.
>>> Trust me, Nader will quadruple his vote again in 2004. That's 12
>>million
>>> voters next time. Count on it.
>>> Come home, Democratic Party, come home.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #2:  Someone Is Going to Count Those Votes In Florida.
>>>
>>> That's right. Thanks to one of the best Freedom of Information Act laws
>>in
>>> the country, any citizen or media outlet in Florida may demand to have
>>the
>>> ballots hand-counted. The Miami Herald has already filed their request.
>>If
>>> they don't do it, I will. Within the next month or so, this one truth
>>will
>>> be proven and revealed: Gore got more votes than Bush in Florida. Gore
>>won.
>>> Which will lead us to our next silver lining...
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #3: The Bush Presidency Will Be Crippled.
>>>
>>> The nation will know Baby Bush only as an illegitimate president. He
>>will
>>> be nothing more than an illegal squatter in the Oval Office. Not only
>>will
>>> he have no mandate, he will have no business being there. He will get
>>> little or nothing done. Put a fork in his administration. It's cooked
>>> before they even have the parade.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #4: George W. Bush Likes Naps, Video Games and Taking the
>>Day
>>> Off To Go Fishing.
>>>
>>> Just in case the hubris of Silver Lining #3 is slightly off, we can be
>>sure
>>> that Bush is just lazy enough and just dumb enough so that he won't
>>find
>>> the time to do too much damage to the country or the world. The people
>>to
>>> keep  an eye on will be the cabal he brings to Washington with him.
>>They
>>> will require the rest of us to give up napping or going fishing. The
>>video
>>> games we keep.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #5: Strom Thurmond Is Not Long for This World.
>>>
>>> I say this with absolutely no animosity or disrespect. I hope he lives
>>an
>>> even longer life. But I think even Strom would agree -- if you make it
>>to
>>> 98, you get the brass ring, and you also know that your days are
>>numbered.
>>> Whether forced to retire due to ill health or having to leave the
>>Senate
>>> because of a higher calling, when Thurmond goes, the Democratic
>>governor of
>>> South Carolina is going to appoint a Democratic senator and that will
>>give
>>> the Democrats a 51-49 majority. When that happens, more chaos for Bush,
>>> more roadblocks, more trouble for his agenda (though not THAT much
>>trouble,
>>> considering that the same rich guys who fund Bush also fund most of
>>these
>>> Democrats).
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #6: Thank You, United States Supreme Court!
>>>
>>> By being so blatantly partisan, you can bet that a post-Thurmond
>>> Democratically-controlled Senate is sufficiently ticked off to stop any
>>> Bush nominee who is too extreme.
>>>
>>> And, thanks to this week's 5-to-4 blunder, you have been tricked into
>>doing
>>> something none of us ever thought we would get you to do. You have
>>taken a
>>> stand against "states' rights!" Yes, that evil concept that the
>>founding
>>> fathers agreed to in order to keep the slave states happy has just been
>>> dealt a death blow -- by you! We expect to hold you to this new
>>standard.
>>>
>>> You also made clear your strong support for the equal protection clause
>>in
>>> the Constitution. Great! You can prove your new allegiance to equality
>>for
>>> all by ordering an investigation as to why one in three black voters in
>>> some Florida precincts were not allowed to vote.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #7: We Will Now Have a Nationwide Uniform Ballot.
>>>
>>> No more chads, no more Karnack. No more the rich getting the foolproof
>>> high-tech vote scanners, and the poor getting antiquated machines that
>>> don't work. May I make a radical suggestion? A piece of paper and a
>>Number
>>> 2 pencil that one uses to mark an "X" in a square, and then a cardboard
>>box
>>> with slit on top that you put the piece of paper into! That's the
>>Canadian
>>> way. Last month, they hand-counted thirteen million paper ballots in
>>under
>>> 4 hours! We look like idiots. This has to be the first bill passed by
>>> thenew Congress.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #8: Everyone Finally Knows the Awful Truth: "One Person,
>>One
>>> Vote" Is a Lie.
>>>
>>> Good. Now we can do something about it. We need a system of
>>proportional
>>> representation. That would guarantee that everyone's voice is heard.
>>> Remember that other civics lesson -- "majority rule, minority rights"?
>>> Proportional representation means if your party got 10% of the vote,
>>you
>>> get10% of the seats. A number of local governments in the U.S. have
>>> switched to this much fairer and representative system. In the
>>meantime, we
>>> have our best chance now to dump the Electoral College (or, at the very
>>> least, reform it so that every states' electors are proportioned to the
>>> percentage each candidate got).
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #9: We Will Never Have To Look at James Baker or Warren
>>> Christopher Again.
>>>
>>> 'Nuff said.
>>>
>>> Silver Lining #10: With Bush In the White House, Evil Has No Mask.
>>>
>>> From now on, unlike during the Clinton/Gore years, when the poor are
>>forced
>>> into greater hardships, when the innocent are executed, when our First
>>> Amendment rights are stripped from us, when our family's jobs are
>>shipped
>>> to sweatshops overseas, when a record number of personal bankruptcies
>>> continues to rise, when abortion remains unavailable in 86% of the
>>counties
>>> in the country, the liberals and Democrats will not sit silently by.
>>It's
>>> hard for them to organize any real opposition to a Democrat in the
>>White
>>> House -- "I mean, he's one of US! At least he's not a REPUBLICAN! We
>>MUST
>>> support him against those EVIL REPUBLICANS!"
>>>
>>> And then he does nearly everything a Republican would do -- and gets
>>away
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Bush won't get away with it. Liberals and Democrats will be forced to
>>> finally take a stand. All will be well until the next election.
>>>
>>> Sleep tight, my friends, and don't let the bogeyman scare you. It's
>>only a
>>> dream... it's only a dream...
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> Michael Moore
>>> [e-mail]
>>>
>
>
>
>
>

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 01/01/05 - D.U./NATO/Pentagon; CTBT Study Results;
Date: 05 Jan 2001 00:47:25 -0500

Hi, folks, NucNews archives are posted through December 31, 2000
(http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews).  Here are some significant stories
from the past two days:

1. EU Demands Truth From NATO Over Uranium Shells
2. Pentagon Denies Balkan Uranium Worry
3. Nuclear Test Ban Report Sought by Clinton Urges Ratification
4. U.S. Agency Seeks Approval to Recycle Radioactive Metals

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EU Demands Truth From NATO Over Uranium Shells

Updated 2:05 AM ET January 5, 2001 By Anna Baker
http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/010105/02/international-health-balk
ans-dc

LONDON (Reuters) - European Commission President Romano Prodi demanded to know
the truth behind claims that depleted uranium used in NATO weapons had caused
death or illness among Balkan peacekeepers.

Several European nations including the current holders of the European Union
presidency, Sweden, echoed Prodi's concerns, intensifying pressure on NATO to
investigate the so-called "Balkan Syndrome."

In Bosnia, the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) dismissed the claims, saying
ammunition with depleted uranium used during the 1992-95 war there posed only a
"negligible hazard."

The syndrome came under the spotlight following reports that six Italian
soldiers who served in the former Yugoslavia had developed leukemia and died
after exposure to spent ammunition.

France became the latest country Thursday to announce that it was conducting
its own inquiry into the syndrome, after four of its Balkan veterans contracted
leukemia. It noted that as yet no link to spent ammunition was apparent.

Depleted uranium is used in the tips of missiles, shells and bullets to
increase their ability to penetrate armor and can be pulverized on impact into
a toxic radioactive dust, defense experts say.

NATO SAYS NO PLANS TO CHANGE

Prodi said that even if there were the slightest risk from the munitions, they
should be abolished.

"I want the truth to be ascertained, not only concerning the soldiers, but also
for the people who lived near them, the population," Prodi told Italian state
radio.

U.S. attack jets fired some 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium ammunition
against Serbian tanks and armored vehicles during NATO's 1999 Kosovo campaign,
according to a United Nations expert. Some 10,000 were fired in neighboring
Bosnia in 1994-95, NATO officials reported only last month.

NATO spokesman Mark Laity ruled out any immediate plans to destroy stocks of
depleted uranium munitions.

"The onus is on those who call ill health to prove it, rather than on us, who
don't," he told CNN.

"If things change, NATO will change."

In a bid to establish the facts, Belgium has urged EU defense ministers to
analyze and debate peacekeepers' health problems for the first time at EU
level.

Sweden welcomed the proposal and said it would be discussed at a meeting next
Tuesday of the interim Political and Security Committee. "It is important that
we act," Swedish Defense Minister Bjorn von Sydow said in a statement Thursday.

He said that Sweden's ambassador to NATO would consult with the alliance,
although the country is not itself a NATO member.

    NATO ambassadors are expected to discuss the issue at their regular meeting
next Wednesday, NATO sources said.

MYSTERY AILMENTS

Belgium has reported that five peacekeepers who were in Bosnia and other parts
of the former Yugoslavia have died from cancer.

It said that other soldiers who had been on Balkan peacekeeping missions during
the 1990s reported a variety of unexplained ailments, including headaches and
insomnia.

The Netherlands reported that two soldiers who served in Kosovo and Bosnia had
died from leukemia and Portugal has raised concerns over the death of one of
its Balkans veterans.

Both countries, along with Bulgaria, Finland and Greece, said tests were being
conducted among troops who served in the Balkans and who are still in Kosovo.

Germany and Spain said tests among their peacekeeping troops had so far turned
up no evidence of "Balkan Syndrome."

CONCERNS GROW FOR CIVILIANS

Concerns over the risks of depleted uranium shells during the Kosovo campaign
have been voiced by civilian aid workers in Britain, the Netherlands and Italy.

An umbrella group called the Italian Consortium for Solidarity, comprising some
100 non-governmental organizations active in the Balkans since 1992, cited a
study by British scientist Roger Coghill which estimated some 10,000 possible
future deaths from cancer due to use of uranium in the Balkans.

"I think the local people are in most danger," said Martina Iannizzotto, the
Belgrade-based coordinator of the group's activities in Yugoslavia.

Italian fishermen urged their government to investigate whether any of the
bombs dumped by planes during the Kosovo campaign and dredged up in nets
contained depleted uranium.

A U.N. report in May warned that much of Kosovo's water could be so
contaminated as to be unfit to drink, and that a clean-up of the province could
cost billions of dollars. It warned U.N. staff not to approach any target which
might have been hit by a depleted uranium weapon.

Prodi proposed setting up immediate contact with the governments of Bosnia and
Serbia to discuss pollution and problems linked to depleted uranium.

SFOR said a U.N. Environmental Program was due to report early in 2001 on any
possible risks after measuring radiation levels in soil samples

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Pentagon Denies Balkan Uranium Worry

Excite News Updated 4:32 AM ET January 5, 2001, By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military
Writer
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010105/04/us-uranium

WASHINGTON (AP) - Responding to a growing chorus of European suspicions, the
Pentagon denies that U.S. and allied peacekeepers in the Balkans face a health
hazard from remnants of American weapons that contain depleted uranium.

"We have not found any link between illnesses and exposure to depleted
uranium," Kenneth Bacon, spokesman for Defense Secretary William Cohen, said
Thursday. "We're pretty confident of what we've said, which is we have found no
direct link."

The Pentagon has been investigating the question since the 1991 Gulf War, when
such weapons were used in combat for the first time.

The United Nations sent a team of experts last year to take samples of soil and
water in Kosovo, where Air Force A-10 aircraft fired depleted uranium munitions
in missions against Serb armored vehicles. Bacon said the samples are being
evaluated at five laboratories, and the U.N. work is expected to be completed
this spring.

In several European countries, questions are being raised about whether
depleted uranium exposure may pose cancer risks.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the European Union said the 15-nation group would
conduct an inquiry, and Bacon said the United States expects the issue to be
raised at a NATO meeting next week. Last week, Italy began investigating
possible links between depleted uranium munitions and about 30 cases of serious
illness among soldiers who served in Kosovo and Bosnia.

Bacon said 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium weapons were fired by American
aircraft during the 1999 war in Kosovo. In U.S.-led NATO airstrikes against
Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, about 10,800 rounds were fired around Sarajevo, he
said.

Questions about possible health risks have persisted, particularly within
veterans groups, since shortly after the Gulf War.

Some in Europe have raised the possibility that exposure to depleted uranium
could cause cancers such as leukemia.

Noting this, Bacon said "a logical starting point" for addressing that question
would be an epidemiological study to determine if an unusually high incidence
of leukemia occurred among soldiers who served in either Bosnia or Kosovo.

"That's something that could be done by European allies, it could be done by
us, but it hasn't been done yet," Bacon said. "And until people do that basic
type of epidemiological work, which involves comparison groups, et cetera, I
think it's premature to talk about any link between depleted uranium and
leukemia. We have found nothing to link the two in our research."

Uranium is best known in its enriched form, which is used to power nuclear
plants and in nuclear weapons. A byproduct of the enrichment process is
depleted uranium which, as its name implies, is depleted of much of its
radioactivity. Because depleted uranium is extremely dense, it is an unusually
effective penetrator of conventional tank armor.

A 1999 Rand Corp. review of scientific literature on uranium found no studies
indicating adverse health effects on humans from exposure to or ingestion of
uranium compounds. Rand, which analyzes national security issues for the
Pentagon, recommended more research, because the use of depleted uranium
munitions is expected to grow.

On the Net: Pentagon studies on depleted uranium: http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/

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Nuclear Test Ban Report Sought by Clinton Urges Ratification

By MICHAEL R. GORDON, New York Times, January 5, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/world/05NUKE.html?pagewanted=all

    A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who conducted a
comprehensive study of the nuclear test ban treaty at the request of President
Clinton has concluded that the United States must ratify it in order to mount
an effective campaign against the spread of nuclear weapons.

The assessment by Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint
Chiefs from 1993 to 1997, is part of a last-ditch attempt by Mr. Clinton to
build support for the treaty, which Senate Republicans rejected in 1999 and on
which President- elect George W. Bush's own top aides have sharply disagreed.

General Shalikashvili's report outlines measures intended to assuage critics of
the treaty, including increased spending on verification, greater efforts to
maintain the United States nuclear arsenal and a joint review by the Senate and
administration every 10 years to determine whether the treaty is still in
American interests.

President-elect Bush assailed the treaty as unverifiable and unenforceable
during the campaign, but he has also promised to continue the Clinton
administration's moratorium on nuclear testing for the time being. And some
Republican lawmakers have suggested that they might reconsider their votes
against the accord if the treaty was modified or accompanied by new safeguards
and if the new Republican administration supported it.

Mr. Bush's advisers have been deeply divided on the merits of a test ban. Like
most top military men, Gen. Colin L. Powell, the secretary of state-designate,
backed the treaty after he retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1993,
even urging India to sign the accord during a trip there.

"The treaty is necessary for the safety and reliability of the world because it
will reduce the threat of nuclear weapon attacks," General Powell said at the
time.

But Donald Rumsfeld, the conservative defense secretary-designate, has heatedly
opposed the treaty, saying it would preclude the United States from developing
new generations of nuclear weapons.

"By weakening confidence in existing U.S. weapons designs, and by inhibiting
the development of new designs to respond to a changing world, the C.T.B.T., in
my view, would have begun a slow erosion of U.S. and allied confidence in our
stockpile," Mr. Rumsfeld has said, using the abbreviation for the Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, as the agreement is formally known.

Mr. Bush's aides declined to comment yesterday on General Shalikashvili's
assessment, which is to be presented to Mr. Clinton today.

But it comes at a sensitive juncture in the arms control debate. With Mr.
Bush's vow to develop an antimissile defense and uncertainty over Washington's
position on nuclear testing, there is considerable concern in allied capitals
that the broader framework of arms control may be in jeopardy. If Mr. Bush
proceeds with the antimissile defense, despite the allies' concerns, he could
find himself under pressure to make some gestures on the testing issue, some
arms control supporters say, to ease that opposition, particularly in Europe.

The nuclear test ban treaty was rejected by the Senate in October 1999 by a
vote of 51 to 48, a decisive setback for the Clinton administration given the
constitutional requirement that treaties be approved by a two-thirds vote.

President Clinton responded by proclaiming the United States' intention to
observe a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing and by asking General
Shalikashvili to meet with Senate critics, nuclear arms designers and other
experts to see if it was possible to work out a way to win eventual approval by
the Senate. The retired general was assisted by James E. Goodby, a senior arms
control official in Republican and Democratic administrations.

The test ban treaty was completed in 1996. By December, it had been signed by
160 countries and ratified by 69. But the treaty cannot take effect until it
has been approved by the United States and 43 other nations that have nuclear
research or power reactors.

Of these, Britain, France and Russia have signed and ratified the accord. China
has signed the agreement, but has yet to ratify it. India and Pakistan, which
have engaged in a nuclear arms race in South Asia, have not signed. Nor has
North Korea.

General Shalikashvili and other recent military leaders have argued that United
States' ratification is essential to persuade other nations to accept the
treaty and strengthen other measures to curtail the spread of nuclear arms,
like the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty under which nonnuclear states forgo
the right to develop nuclear weapons.

"The view of the chairman and the chiefs has been that while there are risks
with this treaty, as with most treaties, the advantages in helping the fight
against proliferation outweigh the disadvantages," General Shalikashvili said
in a telephone interview.

Given his harsh criticism of the treaty during the campaign and the passions
the treaty has stirred up in Washington, Mr. Bush may be tempted to let the
treaty languish unratified. But General Shalikashvili asserted in his report
that postponing American approval of the accord could be risky.

General Shalikashvili's assessment turns on several key points. The former
military chief argues that the United States has a military stake in
instituting a formal ban on testing to slow the nuclear arms race.

Stopping China from conducting nuclear tests, he said, would prevent Beijing
from fielding a new generation of mobile, multiple warhead missiles. More
generally, he argued, it is in the Pentagon's interest to discourage other
nations from developing tactical nuclear weapons that could be used as a
counterweight to the United States' huge advantage in nonnuclear arms.

"Any activities that erode the firebreak between nuclear and conventional
weapons or that encourage the use of nuclear weapons for purposes that are not
strategic and deterrent in nature would undermine the advantage that we derive
from overwhelming conventional superiority," he wrote.

Addressing worries about verification, General Shalikashvili argued that the
kind of low-level clandestine nuclear tests that Russia or China might try to
carry out would be of little use in developing militarily decisive weapons.
Further, he argued, it would be easier to detect such testing if the
verification provisions in the accord, including on-site inspections, were in
effect.

In submitting the treaty for approval, the Clinton administration instituted a
number of safeguards, including a $4.5 billion a year program to maintain the
reliability of nuclear weapons through computer simulations, the disassembly of
nuclear weapons and other measures.

While General Shalikashvili said that the program was adequate, he urged
several new measures. The United States should step up intelligence efforts to
monitor test activities, including the use of new satellite-based sensors, he
said in an interview. It should also expand efforts to assure the reliability
of the United States nuclear arsenal. One measure, he said, would be the
construction of a new factory to remanufacture the plutonium "pits," or
triggers, for nuclear bombs.

Some critics of the treaty said it might be more acceptable if it had a 10-year
time limit instead of lasting indefinitely.

General Shalikashvili said it was unrealistic to think the accord could be
renegotiated now, but suggested a procedure to address the anxieties of the
treaty's opponents on this point. Ten years after ratification, the Senate and
the executive branch would jointly review compliance with the treaty and
efforts to ensure the viability of the nuclear arsenal. If there were doubts
about the value of the treaty, the United States could withdraw from the
accord.

General Shalikashvili conceded that wining support for the treaty would not be
easy, but said that most of the measures he proposed were needed in any event.

"These are things we need to do regardless of the treaty," he said.

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4. U.S. Agency Seeks Approval to Recycle Radioactive Metals

Environmental News Service 01/01/03, By Brian Hansen
http://ens-news.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-03-15.html

WASHINGTON, DC, January 3, 2001 (ENS) - The manufacture of consumer products
out of radioactively contaminated materials discarded from commercial nuclear
power plants and government bomb factories could become a fact of American
life. In an extraordinary move, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission today
asked the National Academy of Sciences to sanction the controversial practice.

Dr. Richard Meserve, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), made
the request during the public portion of a special National Academy of Sciences
committee meeting in Washington.

Meserve asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel to examine the
practice of releasing radioactively contaminated solid waste materials into
everyday commerce. He said this type of recycling is necessary to insure the
continued viability of the commercial nuclear power plant industry and the Cold
War decommissioning activities of the U.S. Department of Energy.

"There has basically been no guidance as to how those problems should be
addressed," Meserve said to the panel of NAS scientists. "It is our hope that
we will get your findings and recommendations as to how we should proceed in a
timely manner."

Meserve's request of the NAS panel is the latest development in a long standing
government and industry led effort to establish a consistent system governing
the release of solid materials from NRC licensed facilities.

The nuclear power industry and the Department of Energy (DOE) are currently
saddled with tens of thousands of tons of solid materials contaminated with low
levels of radioactivity, which they once disposed of in specially designed
nuclear waste disposal facilities.

That practice changed beginning in the 1970s, when the NRC, its licensees, and
the DOE began searching for a more cost effective method of disposing of the
enormous volume of steel girders, pallets, machinery and other solid materials
tainted with tiny amounts of radioactivity.

The NRC and the DOE now allow their licensees and contractors to recycle some
solid materials, but there is currently no national health based standard or
generally applicable criteria governing the release of solid materials from
commercial nuclear power plants or government nuclear weapons facilities.

Radioactive scrap ready for sale (Photo courtesy Environmental Assessment
Division Argonne National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy)

Meserve said that the current "ad-hoc" recycling system is not sufficient for
the NRC and its licensees, which he noted must spend large amounts of money to
dispose of their low level solid wastes.

Meserve said that the DOE has encountered the same costly solid waste disposal
problem "in spades" as it proceeds with decommissioning a number of Cold War
nuclear weapons facilities.

"That's why we're here - to seek your advice on these matters," Meserve told
the NAS panel.

At the NRC's request, the National Academy of Sciences' panel has agreed to
examine the question of whether or not there are sufficient technical bases to
establish a consistent system for controlling the release of what it is terming
"slightly contaminated" solid materials.

The panel is expected to evaluate a number of factors in making its
recommendations regarding the release of these materials, including studies of
critical groups, exposure pathways and scenarios, and individual and collective
doses.

Meserve asked the panel to consider a number of other factors in reaching its
conclusion, including rulemaking actions taken by federal agencies, states, and
the European Union.

Meserve outlined four conclusions that he said the NAS panel could reasonably
reach.

Permitting the release of radioactively contaminated solid materials if the
potential dose is less than a specified level.

Restricting the release of such materials for only certain authorized uses,
which could prohibit recycling.

Prohibiting the release of materials that were stored in areas where
radioactive materials were present.

Segregating reused materials for public and nonpublic use.

Meserve added that his list of alternatives was not intended to "constrain [the
NAS panel] from being more inventive" in its recommendations.

 Meserve acknowledged the controversial nature of the solid waste recycling
initiative, which environmental and public health groups have vehemently
criticized.

Processing radioactive materials (Photo courtesy Manufacturing Sciences
Corporation)

"This is a difficult issue where the emotional currents run strong," he said.

Still, Meserve implored the NAS panel to resist putting a "spin" on its
findings to address - or to avoid - the controversial nature of the NRC's solid
waste recycling initiative.

"Call it the way you see it - we'll worry about the political fallout," Meserve
said. "We want your best advice - give it to us straight."

Some members of the NAS panel did just that, as they wasted little time in
peppering the NCR chairman with a host of probing questions.

Dr. Robert Budnitz, president of the California based Future Resources
Associates, wanted to know why the NRC had requested the panel's
recommendations at all.

"Where did this come from? What's going on?" Budnitz asked Meserve.

Budnitz, a former NRC official, said he suspects the request came about because
the agency could no longer deal with the myriad individual recycling cases that
it is currently juggling.

Meserve acknowledged the point, saying that "it's a licensee need," and that it
is "extraordinarily expensive" for nuclear power plant operators to dispose of
their radioactively contaminated solid materials through other means.

Radioactive metal pallets (Photo courtesy DOE Oakridge Operations)

Meserve added that, "There's a lot of decommissioning underway [at DOE nuclear
weapons facilities] that we need to deal with somehow."

Bunditz pressed the point, asking Meserve if the Energy Department has
"formally or informally" approached the NRC about pushing for a national
standard for the recycling of contaminated solid materials.

"Is that part of this or not?" Bunditz asked.

Meserve acknowledged that he did "personally meet" with Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson about this problem, and that Richardson had encouraged the National
Academy of Sciences' involvement in the matter.

Andrew Wallo, director of the DOE radiation division's office of environment,
safety and health, was on hand Wednesday to report the agency's perspective on
the contaminated solid materials disposal problem.

Wallo noted that there are hundreds of tons of metals and other slightly
contaminated materials at DOE nuclear weapons facilities that must be removed
if the sites are to be cleaned up and closed down.

"It's a valuable commodity excepting the radioactivity in it," Wallo said of
the materials.

Wallo told the panel that most of the scrap metal that has been released from
DOE facilities is either not contaminated at all, or has surface contamination
well below the agency's current standard. However, the pubic and the steel
industry has not been accepting of those very low exposure risks, Wallo
acknowledged.

Wallo recalled the furor that erupted when the DOE allowed contractor British
Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) to release 110,000 tons of radioactive metals -
including 6,000 tons of volumetrically contaminated nickel - from the DOE's
K-25 nuclear weapons plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Public health and environmental groups vehemently objected to the contract,
saying that there was no law prevent the metals from being used to make
silverware, orthodontic braces, hip joint replacements, and even intrauterine
devices.

The steel industry also opposed the release of the contaminated scrap metal,
saying that it would erode public confidence in the industry and cost steel
companies tens of million of dollars should radioactive materials somehow find
their way into production furnaces.

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (Photo courtesy DOE)

The public outcry forced Energy Secretary Richardson to block the sale of the
radioactive nickel. Richardson later issued a moratorium restricting the
release of such materials until a national policy could be devised.

Gary Visscher, vice president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, watched
with interest on Wednesday as the NRC and the DOE asked the National Academy of
Sciences to sanction the practice of recycling radioactively contaminated
metals.

"Anything that diminishes the public's confidence in the safeness of steel is
going to hurt our companies," Visscher told ENS.

Lisa Gue, a policy analyst with the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, was
also on hand on Wednesday to keep tabs on the two federal agencies and their
industry contractors.

"We have an ongoing concern with federal agencies that appease industry by
setting rules that facilitate the release of radionuclides into the
environment," Gue said. "If the nuclear industry cannot afford to protect the
public and the environment from its waste products, then it's not a viable
industry."

Gue and other observers said they are concerned with the large block of time
that was devoted to closed sessions during the three day meeting. According to
the official agenda, a total of 12 and a half hours of meeting sessions are to
be closed to the public, though officials pledged to post a summary of the
private sessions on the Internet.

For more information on this week's meeting, log on to:
http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/BEES-J-00-02-A?OpenDocument
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Rumsfeld
Date: 05 Jan 2001 18:28:13 -0500

Here's my letter to the editor.


                                                      January 3, 2001

To the Editor,  New York Times
BY FAX:  [phone]

Donald Rumsfeld, who shamelessly opposes ratification of the Comprehensive
Test
Ban Treaty on the grounds that it would it preclude the United States from
developing new generations of nuclear weapons, would flout the recent US
agreement given by the nuclear weapons states at the 2000 Non-Proliferation
Treaty Conference for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.  He would also
defy the International Court of Justice, which ruled in 1996 that there is an
international obligation to conclude negotiations for the elimination of
nuclear weapons.

Rumsfeld testified against the chemical weapons convention, opposed the
SALT II
arms agreement, and lobbied for the B-2 Bomber and the MX Missile.  He
supports
US efforts to take military control of outer space by developing technology to
attack other nationsÆ satellites with new generation weapons like the
space-based laser.  He is the driving force for a new ôSon of Star Warsö which
is causing a new arms race with Russia and China.  He chaired a Congressional
Commission which inaccurately characterized North Korea as a ôrogue nationÆ
capable of threatening the US with a missile attack.  This cooked up story
would benefit his contractor friends at Lockheed Martin, Boeing and TRW
enabling them to feed on more than $60 billion at the public trough to the
detriment of international peace.  The Senate should scrutinize his
relationships to the Star Wars lobby and refuse to confirm him as Secretary of
Defense.

Sincerely,



Alice Slater
President


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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Rumsfeld
Date: 06 Jan 2001 20:51:24 -0500

Thanks, Alice, cogent and to the point.  Will forward.

Ellen
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) bounced email messages/full in box
Date: 07 Jan 2001 19:17:12 -0800

Dear colleagues:

Over the holidays, while I was away, my incoming message capacity became
overloaded. Many recent email messages were returned to the author, and
were not delivered. So, If you sent me a personal email message and it
"bounced" back, and if it's still relevant, please re-send it now -- or
call or snail mail me the info. Thanks.

Peace,
Marylia

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

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Inauguration Protests-Jan 20th
Date: 08 Jan 2001 11:01:16 -0500

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INAUGURATION SPECIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . .Issue #14

Many are calling 2000 the "year of the protest,"
after people took to the streets from Seattle to
Belgrade and beyond to demand fundamental change.
Now, in the United States at least, the year 2001
promises to begin with an outright insurrection.

The upcoming demonstrations against the inauguration
of GOP coup leader George W. Bush will bring together
an unprecedented mix of movements-on-the-rise,
heralding yet another surge in activism in this
already volatile time.

Public outrage over the Republican theft of
America's presidential election and the systematic
denial of African-American voting rights has sparked
a vast array of organizing efforts by everyone from
revolutionary anarchists opposing "the entire state
system" to Democratic voters questioning the fairness
of American democracy for the first time. Most
significantly, Bush's coronation is sparking a
revival of grassroots organizing by the black
civil rights movement.

The players in the unfolding inauguration drama
are so numerous and varied, and the pace of
preparations so harried, that it hasn't been easy
to get a handle on what will go down on January 20.
Here, then, is a guide to the scenario and
cast of characters for the inauguration protests.

SCENARIO

Many of the details concerning the actual Inauguration,
like the exact parade route, have yet to be announced,
but the basic outline of the day is set. The
swearing-in ceremony will take place on the west side
of the U.S. Capitol building beginning at 11:30 AM.
Bush is scheduled to take the oath of office at noon.
The ceremony will be followed by the traditional
inaugural parade, which begins at 2:00 PM.

For more information on official preparations,
see the official web site, www.inauguration-2001.org.
Other good resources are www.presidential-inaugural.com
and the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee's "frequently
asked questions" page:
www.afic.army.mil/FAQs/FAQs_page1.htm.
If you've got many hundreds of dollars to spare,
you can buy a scalped ticket to one or more
inaugural events, from the swearing-in ceremony to
various inaugural balls; one source for these is
www.inauguralevents.com.

There are three different announced meeting points
and times for anti-inaugural protests.

1) At 10:00 AM, people will meet at Dupont Circle
for the Voter March rally and protest (www.votermarch.org),
which will culminate in a march to the Supreme Court.
The organizers of this event, which has a moderate tone
and good-government agenda, have received a permit
from the D.C. police.

2) Also at 10:00 AM, folks of a more radical disposition
will meet at Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street,
responding to calls put out by the socialist
International Action Center (www.iacenter.org) and the
anarchist Revolutionary Anti-Authoritarian Block
(www.infoshop.org/coronation.html). The anarchists will
meet beneath a "Class War" banner. Presumably this march
will also go to the Supreme Court, though there's been
no public announcement of the route.

3) At noon, the Reverend Al Sharpton, with the support
of other African-American leaders, has called for people
to meet at Stanton Park, at 4th and Maryland. From there,
there will be a march to the Supreme Court for a "Shadow
Inauguration," in which Sharpton will administer a
"Citizen's Oath" pledging action to safeguard voting rights.

But these are not the only protest plans. Many
direct-action-oriented activists organized into small
groups hope to jeer and/or disrupt inaugural events
including the 2:00 parade.

The Partnership for Civil Justice is strongly urging
protesters to form into groups of no more than 25 people.
The group's guide to the inauguration protests -
essential reading for anyone who will be out on
the streets - explains:

"Demonstrations in groups of 25 people or less may be held
without
a permit on Pennsylvania Avenue or other federal land subject
to the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. See, 36 C.F.R.
Section(s) 7.96(g)(2)(i). Based on this provision, the U.S. Circuit
Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that it is unlawful
for the U.S. Government to fine or arrest Inaugural protesters
in groups of 25 or less on the asserted grounds that such
protesters are demonstrating without a permit."
(www.InaugurAuction.org/training.asp)

As it happens, this regulation dovetails perfectly with
the way that direct action protests are organized these days.

The groups behind the rallies and marches, the anarchists
excepted, favor an old-style mass mobilization model.
In this type of protest, people attend as bodies in a
crowd, individuals in a mass. Sometimes they form contingents
based on shared identity or membership in an organization
(like "gays against Bush" or "schoolteachers for democracy"
or "National Organization for Women"). Everyone follows
the direction of the protest leadership, whether that's a
prominent individual like Reverend Sharpton, or a
behind-the-scenes group of organizers, like the folks
from VoterMarch who are making their event happen.

Direct-action radicals - like the people who shut down
the WTO meetings in Seattle - organize themselves
quite differently. They often view themselves as "anti-mass"
(www.spunk.org/library/misc/sp001304.txt), and generally
take part in large actions as members of "affinity groups,"
small assemblages of like-minded folks who act and make
decisions collectively (see
www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/Affinity.html).

There is much less coordination among direct actionists
for the inauguration than there was in Seattle or during
the April 2000 protests against the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund in D.C. The Justice Action
Movement (JAM), www.j20.org, is arranging nonviolence
trainings, legal support, and other key matters to the
extent it can, given the severe time constraints.

So the bottom line is, affinity groups are pretty much
going to have to figure out for themselves what to do.
Most will focus on finding creative, in-your-face ways
of expressing their dissent, from street theater to
colorful signs and banners (check the protest guide,
www.InaugurAuction.org/training.asp for details about
what size these must be according to federal regulations).

There are no plans for large-scale civil disobedience,
at least as far as I know. There's some talk of people
doing sit-ins in the path of the inaugural parade, but
it's not clear whether that will even be physically
possible, given the massive police presence that's
expected.

Then too, the parade route will also be lined with
Republicans, including many of the budding right-wing
street activists who staged their own in-your-face
protests against the Florida recount. In fact, January 20
will also witness a scary "Patriot's March on D.C.:
Celebrating Constitutional Victory," which begins
in front of the Supreme Court at 9:00 AM
(www.loudcitizen.com/million/index.asp). One organizer told
The Washington Times, "I think we will present a real
contrast from a bunch of kids all dressed in black
who dislike America, what the country stands for,
and are waving big puppets."
www.washtimes.com/metro/default-20011422140.htm

The D.C. police have been making menacing pronouncements
about their preparations.
(www.commondreams.org/headlines/121300-02.htm)
If the recent past is a guide, there will be a huge
law enforcement presence, and the real possibility
of police violence against protesters. Be aware that
you run some risk of arrest if you attend any of
these protests, except perhaps the permitted Voter March.
There's also a chance that you will encounter
pepper spray or other chemical weapons; prepare yourself
by reading an excellent guide on the subject from the
current Earth First! Journal
(www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=16539).

ADDITIONAL LINKS

To keep up with protest plans, check
www.infoshop.org/news.html
and www.dc.indymedia.org regularly.

Great posters for the Inauguration protests:
www.bradkayal.com/i20

Coming up the weekend after the inauguration is the
Conference on Organized Resistance
www.organizedresistance.org


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NW: Energy companies contributions to Spence
Date: 08 Jan 2001 11:57:29 -0500

>Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:04:33 -0500
>Subject: NW: Energy companies contributions to Spence
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Energy companies contributions to Spence (as of August 3, 2,000)
>
>Center for Responsive Politics has a list of PAC contributions to Spencer
>Abraham at this website:
>http://www.opensecrets.org/candidates/pac/S4MI00165.htm
>
>   Abraham, Spencer
>PAC Contributions, 1999-2000 (as of August 3, 2000)
>Total PAC contributions to candidate: $1,473,629
>
>[Listed below are just the Energy & Natural Resources businesses that
>contributed. There are many more categories.]
>
>Energy & Natural Resources: $153,009
>Oil & Gas $90,171 Exxon Mobil Corp $11,000
>Michigan Petroleum PAC $9,000
>Occidental Petroleum $6,000
>Chevron Corp $5,000
>El Paso Energy $5,000
>Enron Corp $4,500
>Koch Industries $4,500
>Union Pacific Resources Group $4,500
>Coastal Corp $4,000
>BP Amoco Corp $3,000
>Marathon Oil $3,000
>MCN Energy Group $2,921
>American Gas Assn $2,000
>Halliburton Co $2,000
>Kerr-McGee Corp $2,000
>National Propane Gas Assn $2,000
>Tenneco Inc $2,000
>USX Corp $2,000
>Peoples Energy Corp $1,500
>Anadarko Petroleum $1,000
>Ashland Inc $1,000
>Burlington Resources $1,000
>Columbia Gas System $1,000
>HOUPAC $1,000
>Interstate Natural Gas Assn $1,000
>National Fuel Gas Corp $1,000
>Petroleum Marketers Assn $1,000
>Phillips Petroleum $1,000
>Public Service Electric & Gas $1,000
>Society of Indep Gasoline Marketers $1,000
>Texaco $1,000
>UtiliCorp United $1,000
>KN Energy $500
>Northern States Power $500
>Nicor Inc $250
>Mining $19,660 National Mining Assn $5,160
>Ohio Valley Coal $5,000
>Cleveland-Cliffs Iron $2,000
>Consol Inc $2,000
>Arch Coal $1,000
>Cyprus Amax Minerals $1,000
>Drummond Co $1,000
>Newmont Mining $1,000
>Phelps Dodge Corp $1,000
>North American Coal Corp $500
>Misc Energy $2,300 Asea Brown Boveri Inc $2,000
>Philadelphia Suburban Corp $1,000
>National Assn of Water Companies -$700
>Electric Utilities $40,878 DTE Energy $5,000
>Florida Power & Light $3,000
>American Electric Power $2,000
>Baltimore Gas & Electric $2,000
>Carolina Power & Light $2,000
>CMS Energy $2,000
>Commonwealth Edison $2,000
>Dominion Resources $2,000
>Nuclear Energy Institute $2,000
>Southern Co $2,000
>Texas Utilities Co $2,000
>Wisconsin Electric Power $1,750
>Edison Electric Institute $1,628
>Arizona Public Service Co $1,500
>Allegheny Energy $1,000
>Duke Energy $1,000
>Edison International $1,000
>Entergy Operations Inc $1,000
>FirstEnergy Corp $1,000
>General Atomics $1,000
>General Public Utilities $1,000
>Northeast Utilities Service Co $1,000
>PECO Energy $1,000
>Keyspan Energy $500
>New York State Electric & Gas Corp $500
>
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) opportunity for electronic activism on test ban treaty
Date: 08 Jan 2001 12:03:59 -0500

Dear Friends,

Vote.com, an internet site founded by former Clinton adviser Dick Morris
(insert giggling here)
to promote electronic dialogue on public policy
has a question asking whether President-elect Bush (more giggling)
should support the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  Currently, the votes
are running 84% no and only 16% yes.

The site says it will send the results to Bush.  It only takes a few
minutes to "vote", and you can get airline miles (isn't e-democracy
great?).  Go to www.vote.com if interested.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Speakers Needed at Jan 20 Rally
Date: 08 Jan 2001 11:05:11 -0500

   From: "Louis Posner" <[e-mail]>
list


Jan 20 Counter-Inaugural Voter March/Rally at Dupont Circle
                       www.votermarch.org


Tentative Speakers List:



1.       Mike Malloy, Our Emcee, ( http://www.mikemalloy.net/ Talk show
host,
Atlanta, syndicated) Confirmed!

2.       Sen. Paul Wellstone, (D MN) INVITED, contact with scheduler

3.       NOW President, Patricia Ireland. Confirmed!  www.now.org

4.       Michael Moore(Michigan: Director Of http://www.michaelmoore.com/ :
Producer, "Roger And Me", "The Awful Truth") Confirmed!

5.       Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, (D Tx) INVITED, contact with scheduler.

6.       Lou Posner, Esq. (Chairman, www.votermarch.org : NYC &
Washington, DC Trust The
People activist/organizer) Confirmed!

7.       Sen. Charles Schumer, (D NY) INVITED, contact with scheduler.

8.       Miami Herald(waiting to hear, they are counting the undervotes in
FLA) INVITED

9.       Zak Exley, (Founder, www.countercoup.org ,Trust The People, Union
Organizer) Confirmed!

10.    Granny D, (N.H. : http://grannyd.com/ Captured the nation's heart
as she marched across the US for Campaign Finance Reform) Confirmed!

11.    Mayor Tony Williams, (DC "I will give it every consideration, and be
ensured, I support the cause -- every vote does count!" -Mayor) INVITED

12.    Carol Levy, ( LA & GA, Director of www.wethepeople.org :
speaker/organizer at "We The People" Rally) Confirmed!

13.    Molly Ivins,(Texas,  Author/Journalist/Columnist) INVITED

14.    Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., (D Illinois) INVITED

15.    Juliet Stewart, (Ohio: Director of
http://members.aol.com/JULIET067/ :
speaker/organizer at "We The People" Rally) Confirmed!

16.    Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D, DC) INVITED, contact with scheduler

17.    Les Souci(sioux-si'), (Director:
http://www.geocities.com/forjustice.geo :
http://www.mp3.com/LesSouci , http://lessouci.iuma.com : speaker/organizer
at "We The People" Rally: Nat'l Speaker coordinator for Jan 20
www.votermarch.org
Rally) Confirmed!

18.    Sue Wilson, (Director, http://www.truthinamerica.org : former
television
journalist, host of California NPR's "On The Liberty Watch":
co-founder/organizer at

       "We The People" Rally) INVITED

19.    Bob Kunst, (Miami Organizer www.votermarch.org : The Oral Majority)
Confirmed!

20.    Mike Collins (Georgia, Director,
http://homepage.mac.com/onecitizenonevote/  GA Organizer,
www.votermarch.org: United Progressive Athens & Athens Free Press Founding
Member)

       Confirmed!

21.    Jenny Hurwitz activist, Musician: Music coordinator for Jan 20
www.votermarch.org Rally). Confirmed!

22.    Cathy Danielson(Director of
http://www.nashvilleinsanity.com/NPbreakingnews.html ,
investigating Vote Fraud in Tennessee) Confirmed!

23.    Elaine Van De Linden, (S. Carolina: Founder, www.mollysmilitia.org,
S.Carolina Organizer, www.votermarch.org : speaker/organizer at "We The
People" Rally) Confirmed!

24.    Bob Rogers, (Vice chairman, Chief Marshall, www.votermarch.org )
Confirmed!



*Note: the list above, does not include performers being scheduled by
Jenny Hurwitz, (Entertainment Coordinator)



If you are interested in being a Speaker at the Dupont Circle Rally,
contact Les Souci at [e-mail].   Please include a short bio
and an outline of your proposed speech.

We are also planning on full C-Span coverage, as well as national and
international news coverage.  We still need to collect additional
contributions for our stage and sound system  at Dupont Circle which  may
be made online at www.VoterMarch.org or mailed to Voter March LLC, P. O.
Box 731, Grand Central Station, New York, New York 10163-0731.  Thanks.



Louis Posner, Esq.

[e-mail]





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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: U.S. PLANS FOR NEW, WARFIGHTING USES OF
Date: 08 Jan 2001 21:56:52 -0800

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 9, 2001
CONTACT: Andrew Lichterman or Jackie Cabasso (510) 8395877

U.S. PLANS FOR NEW, WARFIGHTING USES OF
NUCLEAR WEAPONS REVEALED

Documents Obtained under Freedom of Information Act Show=20
National Ignition Facility to Host "laser/fireball" Tunnel Tests

OAKLAND, CA =97 Department of Defense (DOD) plans obtained by the Western=
 States
Legal Foundation through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the U.S.=
 is
conducting research to make nuclear weapons more useable against a variety=
 of
targets.  This work is continuing despite U.S. claims in international=
 treaty
fora that it is de-emphasizing its nuclear arsenal.

        According to the DOD=92s =93Defense Science and Technology and=
 Strategy and
Plans,=94 dated February 2000, the U.S. is actively pursuing research to=
 develop
lowyield nuclear weapons effective against underground targets.  A stated=
 goal
for 2001 is to =93Demonstrate the effectiveness of nuclear weapons=
 capabilities
in defeating deep structures using precise, lowyield attacks by HE [High
Explosives] simulation.=94=20
  =20
        The documents were made public by the Western States Legal=
 Foundation
(WSLF), an Oaklandbased public interest group critical of U.S. nuclear=
 weapons
policy.  WSLF Program Director Andrew Lichterman explained: =93These plans=
 make
clear that the U.S. =91Stockpile Stewardship=92 program, portrayed to the=
 public as
designed solely to preserve the existing stockpile, is part of a continuing
effort to expand the role of nuclear weapons in warfare.=94=20

        One project DOD plans is to =93conduct laser/fireball test in=
 National
Ignition Facility (NIF) to improve understanding intunnel airblast.=94  The=
 NIF
is also slated to be used for =93nuclear effects xray testing.=94  Now under
construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California,=
 the
NIF has been criticized for its multibillion dollar price tag and=
 questionable
scientific merit.
=20
        Lichterman concluded: =93The opportunity to escape the constant=
 threat of
nuclear destruction,
which arrived with the end of the Cold War, is slipping away.  The U.S. is
preparing to continue the nuclear arms race into the 21st century.  It=92s=
 time
for a real national debate on these issues before it is too late.=94

        The U.S. committed itself to =93a diminishing role for nuclear=
 weapons in
security policies to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used=
 and
to facilitate the process of their total elimination,=94 earlier this year=
 at the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.  That commitment=
 was
reaffirmed in a November 20, 2000 United Nations General Assembly vote.

        Citations and additional details from DOD=92s =93Defense Science and
Technology Strategy and Plans=94 are available from Western States Legal
Foundation on request.
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</font><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D4>OAKLAND, CA</b> =97 Departme=
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of Defense (DOD) plans obtained by the Western States Legal Foundation
through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the U.S. is conducting
research to make nuclear weapons more useable against a variety of
targets.  This work is continuing despite U.S. claims in
international treaty fora that it is de-emphasizing its nuclear
arsenal.<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>According
to the DOD=92s <b>=93Defense Science and Technology and Strategy and
Plans,=94</b> dated February 2000, the U.S. is actively pursuing research
to develop lowyield nuclear weapons effective against underground
targets.  A stated goal for 2001 is to =93Demonstrate the
effectiveness of nuclear weapons capabilities in defeating deep
structures using precise, lowyield attacks by HE [High Explosives]
simulation.=94 <br>
   <br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>The
documents were made public by the Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF),
an Oaklandbased public interest group critical of U.S. nuclear weapons
policy.  WSLF Program Director <b>Andrew Lichterman</b> explained:
=93These plans make clear that the U.S. =91Stockpile Stewardship=92 program,
portrayed to the public as designed solely to preserve the existing
stockpile, is part of a continuing effort to expand the role of nuclear
weapons in warfare.=94 <br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>One
project DOD plans is to =93conduct laser/fireball test in National Ignition
Facility (NIF) to improve understanding intunnel airblast.=94  The NIF
is also slated to be used for =93nuclear effects xray testing.=94  Now
under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California, the NIF has been criticized for its multibillion dollar price
tag and questionable scientific merit.<br>
 <br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><b>Lichterman=
</b>
concluded: =93The opportunity to escape the constant threat of nuclear=
 destruction,<br>
which arrived with the end of the Cold War, is slipping away.  The U.S.=
 is preparing to continue the nuclear arms race into the 21st century. =
 It=92s time for a real national debate on these issues before it is too=
 late.=94<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab>The U.S.=
 committed itself to =93a diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security=
 policies to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to=
 facilitate the process of their total elimination,=94 earlier this year at=
 the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.  That=
 commitment was reaffirmed in a November 20, 2000 United Nations General=
 Assembly vote.<br>
<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><b><i>Citatio=
ns and additional details from DOD=92s =93Defense Science and Technology=
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Yucca and other waste horror scenes!
Date: 09 Jan 2001 10:46:45 -0500

>Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:06:51 -0500
>Subject: Yucca and other waste horror scenes!
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
> 1 DOE lacks funds for Test Site nuke storage
>
>December 27, 2000
>
>BY MARY MANNING
>LAS VEGAS SUN
>
>If Congress next year approves temporarily storing nuclear waste
>in Nevada, the Department of Energy won't have funds for
>developing a storage facility at the Test Site.
>
>The DOE had $85 million of taxpayers' money tucked away in the
>Defense Department fund to pay for temporary high-level nuclear
>waste storage near Yucca Mountain, the nation's only site under
>study as a permanent radioactive waste dump.
>
>The money, which was dedicated for temporary storage, was the
>Defense Department's share earmarked for nuclear weapons waste.
>
>But during this year's prolonged budget negotiations, $75 million
>of the funds were stripped from the DOE's budget, leaving $10
>million for completing a site recommendation report next year.
>
>Congressional staffers credit Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the second
>most powerful Democratic senator, for removing the bulk of the
>funds.
>
>Congress first attempted to approve a plan to ship thousands of
>tons of highly radioactive waste to Nevada for temporary storage
>in 1996. The money was set aside in one of two funds, but never
>spent, because President Clinton vetoed any temporary storage
>bill that managed to pass.
>
>Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., who was not in Congress at the time the
>original legislation was passed, said the remaining funds should
>go for transmutation, the process that converts deadly nuclear
>wastes into less harmful materials, or for recycling research,
>"either of which benefit the environment and the health of Nevada
>citizens."
>
>The $85 million was contingent on Congress passing a temporary
>storage bill, said Michael O'Donovan, spokesman for Rep. Shelley
>Berkley, D-Nev., who opposed the funding.
>
>Instead of having the money ready to construct the temporary
>facility, Congress must appropriate it again, giving Nevada's
>congressional members another area to fight the project. Without
>the money sitting in the fund, the process will be further
>delayed even if Congress gives the OK.
>
>Transmutation did receive $4 million, given to UNLV for further
>research. Reid secured the funding in the Senate while Berkley
>protected the funding in the House.
>
>The DOE has been under pressure from nuclear utilities to remove
>spent nuclear fuel from reactor sites.
>
>Nuclear power plants have generated more than 40,000 tons of
>waste, most of it sitting in storage pools near nuclear power
>reactors at 76 sites in 34 states.
>
>In addition to the 2,000 tons of waste generated each year by
>utilities, 100,000 gallons of nuclear waste from defense
>activities are stored in Idaho, Washington and South Carolina.
>
>The DOE missed a 1998 deadline to take nuclear wastes off power
>plant sites, resulting in 13 lawsuits. A recent federal appeals
>court ruling allows the utilities to sue the DOE.
>
>Although the DOE still has not completed studies for a permanent
>nuclear waste tomb at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las
>Vegas, the $85 million was set aside so environmental studies at
>the site could begin immediately if and when Congress approves
>temporary storage in Nevada.
>
>The money for nuclear waste management is collected in two funds.
>In order for the money to go to temporary storage, Congress must
>request it on an annual basis.
>
>The first fund is fed by nuclear power customers, who pay
>one-tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour on their monthly utility
>bills. As of this year, $9.1 billion was available from nuclear
>electricity consumers.
>
>The second fund comes from taxpayer dollars and covers
>radioactive wastes from Defense Department activities that
>contractors are cleaning up at hundreds of former nuclear weapons
>sites across the country. A total of $1.1 billion has accumulated
>in that fund to date.
>
>The DOE cannot spend these funds without annual congressional
>approval for studies at Yucca Mountain, the proposed permanent
>nuclear repository for 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste,
>or for temporary nuclear waste storage.
>
>Congress has attempted to send nuclear waste from commercial
>reactors to either the Nevada Test Site or to a location nearby
>Yucca Mountain since 1996, although interim storage is against
>current federal law in a state under study as a permanent waste
>repository.
>
>For the past five years Nevada's congressional delegation blocked
>temporary nuclear waste storage, so the $85 million stayed in the
>defense fund, the DOE's annual reports to Congress said.
>
>Congress has considered how much money to give the DOE each year
>for its nuclear waste activities. For 2001 the DOE has roughly
>$351 million for scientific studies at Yucca Mountain.
>
>ALL CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2000 AND 2001 LAS VEGAS SUN, INC.
>*******************************************************
> 9  Waste storage plan called risky
>
>STATE Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:21 AM
>
>ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>LAS VEGAS - The health of Nevada residents could be at risk if
>the Energy Department implements a plan to store high-level
>nuclear waste above ground outside Yucca Mountain while a
>permanent repository is being built, according to state
>officials.
>
>The DOE is weighing storing nuclear waste above ground near Yucca
>Mountain to save money on a permanent repository at Yucca now
>estimated at $58 billion, the Las Vegas Sun reported Tuesday.
>
>Construction of a permanent repository designed to bury 77,000
>tons of radioactive commercial and defense waste would be
>stretched out over two decades - with completion sometime after
>2030 - to make it more affordable, according to a DOE plan.
>
>Meanwhile tons of waste would be shipped to Midway Valley, a
>stone's throw from Yucca Mountain, in a section of the Nevada
>Test Site not contaminated by nuclear testing. There it could be
>stored in shielded containers on the valley's surface or in pools
>of water, similar to the pools at the nation's 110 nuclear
>reactor sites.
>
>Two Nevada officials see safety as the major problem with the DOE
>plan. There's a question of protecting the environment from
>radiation releases, and the potential for earthquakes in Midway
>Valley could stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from allowing
>the DOE to store waste there.
>
>A 5.6 magnitude quake on June 29, 1992, rattled Little Skull
>Mountain, less than 12 miles from Midway Valley, and damaged a
>field office in the area, said Joe Strolin, administrator of the
>planning division for the state's Agency for Nuclear Projects.
>
>''The big issue is whether the site could be licensed for storage
>under current regulations,'' Strolin said.
>
>Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is the only site
>being studied to become the nation's high-level nuclear waste
>repository. The DOE is in charge of studying the site's
>suitability and would oversee the construction of the repository,
>if it is approved.
>
>The plan to temporarily store waste above ground, offered by TRW
>Environmental Safety Systems Inc., the primary Yucca Mountain
>contractor, is tucked within two technical reports on the rising
>cost of the project, dated May and December 1999.
>
>But TRW's proposals would likely not be approved, said Bob Loux,
>director of the state's Agency for Nuclear Projects.
>
>''The DOE could not meet the current Nuclear Regulatory
>Commission requirements for siting nuclear (waste storage) at the
>Test Site, '' Loux said.
>
>Copyright, tahoe.com. Materials contained within this site may
>*******************************************************
>14  OPINIONS DIFFER ON POSSIBLE NUCLEAR REACTIONS
>
>The Times-News Online--Twin Falls, Idaho
>
>Original Publication Date - 12/27/2000
>
>By N.S. Nokkentved
>Times-News writer
>
>TWIN FALLS--A small runaway nuclear reaction might have gone
>unnoticed years ago in radioactive waste buried willy-nilly in
>eastern Idaho, some experts suggest.
>
>Federal energy officials assert that the risk of such an event is
>not credible.
>
>"We have found no evidence of a criticality ever having occurred
>out there," INEEL spokesman Nick Nichols said.
>
>Yet state and federal environmental regulators say they have seen
>no evidence that would rule out an accidental nuclear reaction --
>known as a criticality--in the buried waste, either in the past
>or in the future.
>
>Recent concerns about a criticality were raised when data
>gathered from radioactive waste in INEEL's controversial Pit 9
>suggested some barrels might contain enough plutonium to support
>a spontaneous nuclear reaction.
>
>In a worst-case scenario, an uncontrolled criticality might
>release radioactive materials into the air. It also could ignite
>other radioactive waste, and the resulting fire might lead to
>additional radioactive releases.
>
>Consultants to the EPA wrote in a May report that "no conclusive
>evidence has been presented to date that places the future risk
>of nuclear criticality in the (burial waste site) at an
>insignificant level."
>
>In early December, Energy Department and regulatory officials met
>to discuss the issue of criticality risks in the waste buried at
>the INEEL's Subsurface Disposal Area. Following that meeting, one
>consultant wrote that the INEEL assertions that no criticality
>happened while the burial ground was flooded should be supported
>by calculations, and monitoring data from before, during and
>after the event.
>
>Sue Stiger, head of environmental cleanup at INEEL, said
>monitoring was in place that would have showed the evidence of a
>nuclear reaction.
>
>"We would have been able to detect it," she said.
>
>Plutonium-contaminated waste has been stored at INEEL for almost
>50 years. More than 2 million cubic feet of such waste was dumped
>in pits and trenches--including Pit 9--between 1954 and 1970.
>
>INEEL officials are confident that the plutonium is spread out
>through the waste and doesn't present a risk of a spontaneous,
>uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
>
>But that assertion is based on data from electronic probes sunk
>into Pit 9. That data is open to interpretation, said Wayne
>Pierre of the Seattle office of the Environmental Protection
>Agency and project manager for INEEL cleanup. Energy Department
>assertions about the waste are based on supposition, not on
>physical data, and the department has been reluctant to take
>actual physical samples, he said.
>
>The possibility of a spontaneous, uncontrolled nuclear reaction
>becomes a regulatory concern when a barrel of waste has 267 grams
>of plutonium. And the sampling data suggests some barrels might
>have 200 to 1,000 grams of plutonium.
>
>In a previous interview, Jerry Paulson, director of criticality
>safety at INEEL, said a nuclear criticality would require
>sufficient water in addition to the right amount of plutonium.
>
>Water acts as a moderator, increasing the effectiveness and
>concentrating the reaction. Without the water, small amounts of
>plutonium are not likely to sustain a nuclear reaction, Paulson
>said.
>
>But the buried waste pits and trenches at INEEL have flooded
>three times in the past, and those floods may have provided
>enough water.
>
>The first flood was in February 1962, when two inches of rain
>fell on eight inches of snow in three days. With the topsoil
>still frozen, water collected in open waste pits and trenches.
>
>Then in January 1969, snowdrifts blocked a drainage ditch dug
>following the earlier flood. Melting snow and rain once again
>filled open pits and trenches.
>
>Again in 1982, flood waters inundated pits and trenches.
>
>Chuck Broscious, head of the Environmental Defense Institute in
>Troy, suggests that two fires in a trench in 1966 and another
>fire in 1970 might have been the result of criticalities. Efforts
>to douse the third fire failed until a bulldozer operator covered
>the waste pile with dirt.
>
>The fire was the result of spontaneous combustion of uranium
>waste, not a criticality, Stiger said.
>
>INEEL's early decades of waste dumping are known for spotty
>record keeping. Inventories were incomplete, and radioactivity
>levels often were estimates rather than measurements.
>
>Officials now have better records about what was actually sent to
>INEEL then they did a few years ago, Stigar said.
>
>Criticality is something officials take very seriously, but
>officials at the December meeting agreed a criticality is not a
>concern at the INEEL radioactive waste disposal site, Stiger
>said.
>
>
>
>Times-News writer N.S. Nokkentved can be reached at 733-0931,
>Ext. 237, or by e-mail [e-mail]  What is a
>criticality?
>
>A criticality is an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. In such an
>accident, nuclear materials sustain a reaction--or "go critical,"
>in the parlance of nuclear science. This is not the same as a
>nuclear explosion, but it releases energy, a characteristic blue
>glow and potentially lethal levels of radiation.
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars on the Fast Track
Date: 09 Jan 2001 13:27:33 -0500

Dear Friends,

Today's front-page article in the New York Times on President Bush's
meeting with congressional leaders in Austin yesterday confirms, yet
again, that the new administration is fast-tracking Star Wars National
Missile Defense. The article reports that the Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization is pushing for a decision by March to begin construction
this summer of the Star Wars radar system in Alaska. The article is at
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/09/politics/09BUSH.html.

In the words of Joe Hill, and the spirit of Alan Cranston, don't mourn,
organize. One place to start:  if you have a senator on the Armed
Services Committee, call his/her office and encourage hard questions of
Secretary of Defense designate Donald Rumsfeld at his confirmation
hearing this Thursday.  A few issues to raise would include projected
cost of a land-, sea-, and space-based NMD system, why we are moving
ahead with even a limited system that has not been adequately tested,
and breaking the ABM and Outer Space treaties. Following are members of
the Armed Services Committee:

=B7 Democrats -  Levin (MI), Kennedy (MA), Bingaman (N.M.), Byrd (W.V.),
Lieberman (CT), Cleland (GA), Landrieu (LA), Reed (R.I.)

=B7 Republicans -  Warner (VA), Thurmond (S.C.), McCain (AZ), Smith
(N.H.),
Inhofe (OK), Santorum (PA), Snowe (ME), Roberts (KS), Allard (CO),
Hutchinson (AR), Sessions (AL)

Please excuse duplicate postings.

Kevin Martin, Director
Project Abolition

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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Greens slam Energy chief nomination
Date: 09 Jan 2001 20:16:46 -0800

*See last paragraph for important clue*

Greens slam
 Energy chief nomination

Oakland Tribune
 January 07, 2001

 They cite Abraham's efforts to scuttle U.S. department

 By Glenn Roberts Jr.
 STAFF WRITER

 Several environmental groups are opposing President-elect George W. Bush's
nomination of former  Michigan Sen. Spencer Abraham as Energy Secretary.

 The League of Conservation Voters handed Abraham, 48, a Republican, its
worst rating for his voting  record on environmental issues: a zero.
Abraham lost his bid for re-election in November.

 The Natural Resources Defense Council, another national environmental
group, issued a statement  calling attention to Abraham's repeated attempts
to banish the department he would now direct.

 "Ironically, Abraham tried three times in five years to abolish the
department he is now slated to lead --  no surprise, given his consistent
hostility to environmental and energy regulations," the statement reads.

 Sierra Club criticism

 Dan Becker, a Sierra Club official in Washington, said Abraham's "voting
record has been singularly  hostile to the environment."

 And Jackie Cabasso, executive director for the Oakland-based Western
States Legal Foundation, an  antinuclear group, said Abraham appears to
have "virtually no background in either nuclear weapons or  energy policy,"
adding that his inexperience could be dangerous to nuclear weapons policy
and the  environment.

 "It certainly looks like (Abraham) is going to give the entrenched nuclear
bureaucracy a freer hand than  ever," Cabasso said Friday.

 Change of heart

 The Washington Post quoted Bush's transition team as saying Abraham no
longer wants to kill the  Energy Department because of the "energy
challenges facing the country."

 His previous legislative efforts against the Energy Department -- the
latest in 1999 -- were "a means of  reducing federal spending," transition
team members told the Washington Post.

 As a senator, Abraham supported oil-drilling in an Alaskan wildlife
refuge, opposed an international  treaty to reduce global-warming
pollution, opposed the temporary use of a Nevada mountain site for
radioactive waste before a more comprehensive site study was completed, and
favored the pursuit of a  national missile-defense system to counter a
barrage of nuclear, chemical or biological missiles.

 During his acceptance speech for the Energy Secretary appointment, he said
the new administration will  be "good stewards of the land, the air and the
water."

Beleaguered department

 Cabasso, who said she has not been satisfied with the performance of
previous energy secretaries,  including outgoing Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson, said job performance may have more to do with  the nature of
the job than the quality of the secretaries.

 "It is more about the department itself and the mission of the department
itself than it is (the Energy  secretary). The job is impossible," she said.

 If he is confirmed by the Senate, Abraham will inherit an energy crisis
when he takes office, with major  hikes in the cost of electricity, natural
gas and heating oil prices.

 Also, he will take command of a nuclear weapons complex that has been
rocked over the past two  years by espionage scares, a tightening of
security at the nation's three nuclear labs and a laser project  at
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory that is $1 billion over budget.

 While many people realize the Energy Department's role in the nation's
energy supply and policy, the  actual function of the department is much
broader, said John S. Herrington, 76, a Walnut Creek  resident who served
as Energy Secretary for former President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.

 "I think (the department) is misnamed. It's really a department of science
and technology --
 cutting-edge American research and technology," Herrington said.

 He said he expects Abraham to adopt much more aggressive nuclear weapons
defense policies than  Richardson. "He's strong on defense," Herrington said.







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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Rumsfeld Reconsidered
Date: 10 Jan 2001 11:25:57 -0500

>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:52:59 -0500
>Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Rumsfeld Reconsidered
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>WORLD  POLICY  INSTITUTE
>
>For Immediate Release
>Contact: Bill Hartung, 212-229-5808, ext. 106
>Frida Berrigan, 229-5808, ext. 112 or
>
>RUMSFELD RECONSIDERED:
>AN IDEOLOGUE IN MODERATE'S CLOTHING
>
>        New York, January 10th, 2001:  With the Senate Armed Services
>Committee set to begin hearings tomorrow on the nomination of Donald
>Rumsfeld for Secretary of Defense, new information has emerged which
>casts doubt on his reputation as a solid, non-ideological manager who
>can bring the Pentagon into the 21st century.
>
>        "When it comes to issues like missile defense and nuclear arms
>control, Donald Rumsfeld is an ideologue in moderate's clothing,"
>asserts William D. Hartung, a Senior Fellow at the World Policy
>Institute and the author of the May 2000 report, Tangled Web: The
>Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000.  "His longstanding ties with
>right-wing think tanks like Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy
>raise serious questions about whether he has the temperament required
>to
>evaluate whether or not this nation should embark upon a complex,
>provocative, and costly National Missile Defense (NMD) program.  Don
>Rumsfeld is every bit as ideological on missile defense as John
>Ashcroft
>is on the issue of abortion," notes Hartung.
>
>TIES THAT BIND: Rumsfeld's Connections With Right-Wing Think Tanks
>
>        The most troubling aspect of Rumsfeld's background lies in his
>close connections with the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a small,
>extremely effective missile defense advocacy organization founded by
>former Reagan Pentagon official Frank Gaffney.  Since at least 1996,
>Rumsfeld has routinely been singled out as a "trusted advisor and
>faithful supporter" in CSP's annual reports.  He has also been a
>regular
>donor to the Center. Rounding out the picture, in 1998 Rumsfeld
>received
>the Center's "Keeper of the Flame" award in recognition of his role in
>chairing the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the
>United States.  The award was presented to Rumsfeld at the Center's
>annual fund-raising dinner.  During his acceptance speech, Rumsfeld
>acknowledged the commission's debt to CSP, whose advisory board
>members
>William Graham and William Schneider served on the panel.
>
>        Rumsfeld has also served on the board of Empower America, a
>conservative lobbying group that has vigorously attacked members of
>the
>Senate who questioned the wisdom of deploying a National Missile
>Defense
>system at this time.
>
>        "Donald Rumsfeld was already a card-carrying member of the
>missile defense lobby before he chaired the Congressionally-mandated
>commission on the ballistic missile threat to the United States,"
>notes
>Hartung.  "While he claims to have done a careful assessment of the
>evidence on missile threats to the United States, it is now clear that
>Rumsfeld and his conservative cohorts had decided well in advance of
>his
>appointment to use the commission as an opportunity to press the case
>for missile defense."
>
>THE COMPANY HE KEEPS: Why Rumsfeld's Conservative Links Matter
>
>        It would be one thing if Donald Rumsfeld had affiliations with
>non-partisan think tanks which were carefully assessing the national
>security threats to the United States in the light of changing
>circumstances.  But the Center for Security Policy is an
>ideologically-driven advocacy organization disguised as a think tank.
>Ever since CSP Director Frank Gaffney convinced Newt Gingrich and Dick
>Armey to make National Missile Defense a plank in the Contract With
>America in 1994, his organization has served as the de facto nerve
>center of the missile defense lobby.  CSP's board is a virtual
>executive
>committee of major missile defense boosters, with representatives of
>right-wing foundations such as Heritage, Empower America, and High
>Frontier; weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin; Star Wars 'true
>believers' such as Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), and Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA);
>and
>Reagan era Star Warriors like weapons scientist Edward Teller and
>former
>Reagan science advisor George Keyworth.  CSP Board members have been
>in
>the forefront of shaping U.S. policies on missile defense over the
>past
>few years.  Jon Kyl led the charge against the Comprehensive Test Ban
>in
>the U.S. Senate, while Curt Weldon  sponsored the amendment that
>created
>the Rumsfeld Commission.
>
>        "This is an extremely partisan, hard-right organization," notes
>Hartung, "Moderate Republicans like Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell
>need not apply."
>
>        Funders for Gaffney's Center in recent years have included
>right-wing philanthropists like Richard Mellon Scaife and the Coors
>family, self-interested weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin,
>Boeing, and TRW, and prominent conservatives like Donald Rumsfeld,
>Elliott Abrams, and Howard Phillips.
>
>        Stripped of their pseudo-objective rhetorical overlay, the
>views
>routinely expressed by CSP are quite extreme. For example, the Center
>is
>opposed to virtually every arms control agreement of the past two
>decades, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to the recent
>international agreement to ban anti-personnel land mines.  CSP
>Director
>Frank Gaffney has already urged his "trusted advisor and faithful
>supporter" Donald Rumsfeld to begin deployment of a sea-based missile
>defense system by June 2001, despite the fact that the interceptor
>missile for such a system has not even been designed yet, much less
>tested.  Gaffney has also harshly criticized Secretary of State
>nominee
>Colin Powell's quite reasonable suggestion that the new Defense
>Secretary will need to "make an assessment" of the technological
>capabilities available to the United States before moving to deploy an
>NMD system.
>
>        In public statements on the missile defense issue, Rumsfeld has
>echoed the absurd argument crafted by CSP and its inner circle that
>because the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 was signed with the
>Soviet Union, not Russia, it is no longer valid.  This dangerously
>distorted view flies in the face of standard international legal
>understandings of the obligations inherited by Russia as the successor
>state to the former Soviet Union.  But that hasn't stopped Gaffney and
>his conservative cohorts from putting forward this argument at every
>opportunity.
>
>        CSP and Empower America are not above twisting the truth in
>their efforts to promote immediate deployment of a National Missile
>Defense system.  In a 1998 radio ad targeting Nevada's Democratic
>Senator Harry Reid, Empower America suggested that he was unwilling to
>protect Nevada's families from the threat of ballistic missiles by a
>rogue state or terrorist group because he didn't happen to support the
>Republican version of National Missile Defense that was then being
>championed by Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi.  Rumsfeld was on
>Empower
>America's board at the time, so he presumably approved of this unfair
>and misleading piece of propaganda. The ad made numerous
>mis-statements
>of fact, not the least of which was its implication that there may be
>terrorist organizations out there with access to ballistic missiles--
>a
>claim no credible analyst has made to date.
>
>        Similarly, during the run-up to the year 2000 elections, CSP
>director Frank Gaffney chaired the Coalition to Protect Americans Now,
>which put up a web site purporting to demonstrate the threat posed to
>each American neighborhood by ballistic missiles.  The web site
>encourages visitors to punch in their zip code to see which foreign
>missiles are poised to attack them; but when one does so, many of the
>systems referenced, such as medium-range Iranian missiles, are not
>capable of coming within thousands of miles of U.S. soil.  It is a
>classic bait-and-switch exercise, where the seeming specificity of the
>information offered ("punch in your zip code for a customized threat
>assessment") is backed up with shoddy and misleading information.
>
>        "Given Donald Rumsfeld's close ties to organizations with a
>documented history of bending the truth to promote missile defenses,
>how
>can we trust him to make an objective assessment of NMD as Secretary
>of
>Defense?" Hartung asks.  "Will he distance himself from the extreme
>views of his conservative cronies and take a fresh look at the
>problem,
>or will he move full speed ahead with no questions asked?  That's the
>$100 billion question, and American taxpayers are the ones who will
>pay
>the price if the U.S. Senate picks the wrong answer."
>
>THE RUMSFELD COMMISSION REVISITED: Politicizing the Intelligence
>Process
>
>        As President-select George W. Bush noted at the press
>conference
>announcing his nomination to run the Pentagon, Rumsfeld's claim to
>expertise in missile defense matters is closely tied to his
>chairmanship
>of the Rumsfeld commission.  But stripped down to its essentials,
>Rumsfeld's commission was an exercise in politicizing intelligence to
>promote predetermined beliefs, not an objective assessment of the
>realities facing the United States.  Much like the conservative "Team
>B"
>report which was established at the request of the conservative
>Committee on the Present Danger to second guess the CIA's estimates of
>Soviet military spending in the 1970s, the Rumsfeld Commission
>basically
>massaged existing U.S. intelligence data to come up with new
>conclusions
>that fit the political needs of its creators, Rep. Curt Weldon and
>then
>House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
>
>        Rumsfeld's commission uncovered no new data.  It merely applied
>an extreme worst-case scenario to existing data by suggesting that if
>nations like North Korea received substantial help-- up to and
>including
>the possibility of a transfer of a complete ballistic missile from a
>nation like China-- they would get a long-range ballistic missile
>capability more rapidly than if they did not receive such assistance.
>
>
>        As former House Armed Services Committee analyst Joseph
>Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has
>pointed
>out, the Rumsfeld Commission diluted the standards by which the U.S.
>intelligence community measures the ballistic missile threat to the
>United States.  Cirincione argues persuasively that it was this shift
>in
>standards, not any major change in the real world, that allowed
>Rumsfeld
>to assert "somewhat hysterically . . .  that a new nation could field
>an
>ICBM with little or now warning."  The commission's tactics included
>reducing the range considered necessary to reach U.S. territory by
>roughly 5,000 kilometers (by using the Aleutian islands as a benchmark
>rather than the continental United States); and considering what
>"could"
>happen rather than "what is likely to happen."
>
>        The Rumsfeld panel's extreme worst-case approach means ignoring
>economic and political factors that would deter a country from
>pursuing
>a missile defense capability.  Given that North Korea has agreed to a
>moratorium on new missile tests, has begun a rapprochement with South
>Korea, and has expressed a willingness to cap its nuclear and
>ballistic
>missile programs (exports and production) as part of a framework
>agreement with the United States, Rumsfeld's alarmist position of two
>years ago seems to be quite wide of the mark.  In fact, Cirincione
>argues, by some measures the United States is under considerably less
>threat of attack by ballistic missiles now than it was a decade ago,
>and
>the threats that do exist are focused in a handful of countries like
>Iran, Iraq, and North Korea that could undergo considerable political
>change over the next 5 to 15 years.
>
>        Finally, as U.S. intelligence analyst Robert Walpole has
>pointed
>out in testimony to Congress, a ballistic missile is the least likely
>way a foreign nation would choose to deliver a weapon of mass
>destruction to U.S. territory, because ballistic missiles have a
>"return
>address" which would allow swift and devastating retaliation on the
>part
>of the United States.
>
>        "The Rumsfeld Commission report is a landmark in political spin
>control, not a landmark in objective analysis of the threats facing
>our
>nation," asserts Hartung.  "Just as we learned after the fall of the
>Soviet Union that our estimates of Moscow's military capabilities had
>been greatly exaggerated, we will learn in time that the Rumsfeld
>Commission has hyped the threat posed to our country by ballistic
>missiles."
>
>QUESTIONS FOR RUMSFELD
>
>        At a minimum, the Senate Armed Services Committee should ask
>Mr.
>Rumsfeld the following questions:
>
>1) As Secretary of Defense, will you adhere to the United States
>commitment to international arms control agreements such as the
>Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, the Strategic Arms Reduction
>Treaty, and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, all of which were
>negotiated and approved under past Republican administrations?
>
>2) Given your publicly stated opposition to the Strategic Arms
>Limitation Treaty (SALT) in the 1970s and the Chemical Weapons
>Convention and Comprehensive Test Ban treaty in the 1990s, are there
>any
>major agreements for the control of weapons of mass destruction that
>you
>do in fact support?  If not, why should we trust you to abide by our
>existing treaty commitments?
>
>3) Given your longstanding ties to conservative organizations like the
>Center for Security Policy and Empower America which have put out
>misinformation in their efforts to promote a National Missile Defense
>system, how can we be assured that you will make an objective
>assessment
>of the technical, economic, and strategic factors which will determine
>whether it makes sense for our nation to deploy an NMD system?
>
>4) Given the recent history of fraud and failure in the NMD testing
>program, would you support calls by scientific experts at MIT and the
>Union of Concerned Scientists for an independent technical review of
>your proposed missile defense system, carried out by scientists and
>engineers who have no financial stake in missile defense research or
>production?
>
>5) As a candidate, George W. Bush indicated that he would pursue a
>missile defense system that could involve interceptors on land, at
>sea,
>in the air, and in outer space.  Given that the Clinton
>administration's
>limited, land-based system had an estimated price tag of $60 billion,
>what is your ballpark estimate of what President-elect Bush's proposed
>system might cost?  What military and domestic priorities would you be
>willing to sacrifice to make way for this multi-billion dollar,
>multi-year investment?
>
>6) Given the strong support in Russia, China, and among our NATO
>allies
>for preserving the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability,
>how do you intend to convince these nations - particularly our own
>NATO
>allies - that fielding a massive missile defense system will not
>simply
>provoke a new nuclear arms race?
>
>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
>
>        Joseph Cirincione, "Assessing the Assessment: The 1999 National
>Intelligence Estimate of the Ballistic Missile Threat," The
>Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2000, Volume 7, Number 1, available
>from
>the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, Monterrey Institute for
>International Studies, or on the web at
>http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/circ71.htm  See also Joseph Cirincione,
>"Colin Powell Versus the Hawks," available on the web site of the
>Non-Proliferation Project of the Carnegie Endowment for International
>Peace, at www.ceip.org/files/Publications/ColinPowellvsHawks.asp
>
>        Michael T. Klare, "Rumsfeld: A Star Warrior Returns," The
>Nation.  Note: This article will be available online at
>www.thenation.com no later than 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 11th.
>
>        William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca, Tangled Web: The
>Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000, World Policy Institute Special
>Report, May 2000.  For this and other Institute reports on missile
>defense and nuclear weapons issues, consult our web site at
>www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms
>
>        For background on Rumsfeld's ties to the Center for Security
>Policy, you can access the Center's most recent annual report and
>Rumsfeld's speech at the 1998 "Keeper of the Flame" awards ceremony on
>the CSP web site at www.security-policy.org/flame1998remarks.html
>
>        For a prime example of distortion in service of the missile
>defense cause, check out the web site of the Coalition to Protect
>Americans Now, at www.protectamericansnow.com
>
>        For a lively, informative, and entertaining debate on the
>missile defense issue between William D. Hartung of the World Policy
>Institute and Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, see
>"What
>Is Really Driving the Missile Defense Debate?," Global Beat Issue
>Brief
>#59, June 2, 2000, Global Reporting Network, Center on War, Peace, and
>the News Media at New York University, available on the web at
>www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/pubs/ib59.html
>
>
>
>
>William D. Hartung
>World Policy Institute
>65 Fifth Ave.  Suite 413
>New York, NY  10003
>(212)-229-5808, ext. 106
>(212)-229-5579 (fax)
>[e-mail]
>

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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Feb. 5-6 National Call-in Days to the White House on de-alerting nuclear
Date: 10 Jan 2001 14:19:05 -0500

Dear Friends,

The following message is from the Back from the Brink de-alerting
campaign on their February 5 - 6 call-in days.  I hope you'll act on
this important initiative, and please forward to interested parties.
Contact the Brink campaign (information listed below) for fliers,
postcards, or with any questions. Please excuse duplicate postings.

Kevin Martin, Director
Project Abolition
*****

Dear Friends of the Brink Campaign.

There are only 4 weeks left before the NATIONAL CALL-IN DAYS TO THE
WHITE
HOUSE, February 5-6, 2001 to urge President-elect George W. Bush to
reduce
the danger of accidental nuclear war by working with the Russians to
TAKE
ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS OFF HAIR-TRIGGER ALERT.

The campaign is building rapidly with over 100 national, regional and
local
organizations participating. If there was ever a time to let a president

know we want action on nuclear weapons, it is now and February 5 and 6
are
the days to do it.

The Campaign has several resources available to promote the Call-In Days

among your friends, contacts, members and e-groups. Contact us at the
e-mail
address above for printed flyers available FREE in bulk, a  downloadable

flyer in .pdf format; a text announcement available via e-mail, and,
after
January 21st ,a pop-up e-mail announcement.

If everyone contacts just 5 more friends, we can flood the switchboard
and
make the White House take notice.

Thanks for being part of this fast growing movement to take nuclear
weapons
off hair-trigger alert. Let me know how things are going and how I can
be of
help.

***********************************************************************
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Back from the Brink Campaign
6856 Eastern Avenue, NW, # 322
Washington DC 20012
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From: John Burroughs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Jan 16 Cranston UN Memorial
Date: 11 Jan 2001 17:33:21 -0500

The NGO Committee on Disarmament
invites you to a

UN Memorial of Appreciation
to honor the life of

Senator Alan Cranston
(1914-2000)

Tuesday, January 16, 2001, 12:00 pm
UN Department for Disarmament Affairs
Conference Room 3170B

Senator Cranston died on December 31. Please join us in celebrating his life
and achievements, particularly with respect to nuclear disarmament. Jayantha
Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General of the UN DDA, Vernon Nichols, President of
the NGO Committee on Disarmament, and others will make remarks. The UN event
will parallel a Memorial Celebration at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to be
held on the same day. Please R.S.V.P. by January 15 to the NGO Committee on
Disarmament at 687.5340 or at [e-mail]. A UN pass is needed. For
information about Senator Cranston's life and work, see www.gsinstitute.org.

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From: Brian McDermott <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: U.S. PLANS FOR NEW, WARFIGHTING USES OF  NUCLEAR WEAPONS REVEALED
Date: 14 Jan 2001 12:21:08 -0800 (PST)


--- Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]> wrote:
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 9, 2001
> CONTACT: Andrew Lichterman or Jackie Cabasso (510)
> 8395877
>
> U.S. PLANS FOR NEW, WARFIGHTING USES OF
> NUCLEAR WEAPONS REVEALED
>
> Documents Obtained under Freedom of Information Act
> Show
> National Ignition Facility to Host "laser/fireball"
> Tunnel Tests
>
> OAKLAND, CA ù Department of Defense (DOD) plans
> obtained by the Western States
> Legal Foundation through the Freedom of Information
> Act reveal that the U.S. is
> conducting research to make nuclear weapons more
> useable against a variety of
> targets.  This work is continuing despite U.S.
> claims in international treaty
> fora that it is de-emphasizing its nuclear arsenal.
>
>         According to the DODÆs ôDefense Science and
> Technology and Strategy and
> Plans,ö dated February 2000, the U.S. is actively
> pursuing research to develop
> lowyield nuclear weapons effective against
> underground targets.  A stated goal
> for 2001 is to ôDemonstrate the effectiveness of
> nuclear weapons capabilities
> in defeating deep structures using precise, lowyield
> attacks by HE [High
> Explosives] simulation.ö
>
>         The documents were made public by the
> Western States Legal Foundation
> (WSLF), an Oaklandbased public interest group
> critical of U.S. nuclear weapons
> policy.  WSLF Program Director Andrew Lichterman
> explained: ôThese plans make
> clear that the U.S. æStockpile StewardshipÆ program,
> portrayed to the public as
> designed solely to preserve the existing stockpile,
> is part of a continuing
> effort to expand the role of nuclear weapons in
> warfare.ö
>
>         One project DOD plans is to ôconduct
> laser/fireball test in National
> Ignition Facility (NIF) to improve understanding
> intunnel airblast.ö  The NIF
> is also slated to be used for ônuclear effects xray
> testing.ö  Now under
> construction at the Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory in California, the
> NIF has been criticized for its multibillion dollar
> price tag and questionable
> scientific merit.
>
>         Lichterman concluded: ôThe opportunity to
> escape the constant threat of
> nuclear destruction,
> which arrived with the end of the Cold War, is
> slipping away.  The U.S. is
> preparing to continue the nuclear arms race into the
> 21st century.  ItÆs time
> for a real national debate on these issues before it
> is too late.ö
>
>         The U.S. committed itself to ôa diminishing
> role for nuclear weapons in
> security policies to minimize the risk that these
> weapons will ever be used and
> to facilitate the process of their total
> elimination,ö earlier this year at the
> Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review
> Conference.  That commitment was
> reaffirmed in a November 20, 2000 United Nations
> General Assembly vote.
>
>         Citations and additional details from DODÆs
> ôDefense Science and
> Technology Strategy and Plansö are available from
> Western States Legal
> Foundation on request.
> # # #


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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Mini-nuke tests go virtual
Date: 15 Jan 2001 17:21:58 -0800

http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=nukes.0114



Monday
Jan 15, 2001

Mini-nuke tests go virtual
By Michael Stoll
Of the Examiner Staff

    Sometime around 2008, physicists at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory plan to spark a fusion reaction in a large dome, using the
world's most powerful laser array to heat a BB-sized pellet to 100 million
degrees -- hotter than the core of the sun. This will be no academic
exercise: the data could lead them someday to a source of clean and
plentiful power. But it will also demonstrate what happens the instant a
thermonuclear bomb ignites, which the Department of Defense hopes will aid
the design of miniature, ground-penetrating nuclear weapons that can take
out an underground bunker without also killing everyone for miles around.
Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden beware: America is looking at ways to
make small-scale nuclear "smart bombs" practical.

    One hurdle for our military had been the end of testing. The United
States has not exploded a nuclear bomb since 1992, and the 1996
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty signed by United States and 159 other
countries, would, if ratified, prohibit nuclear testing forever. So
government scientists are trying to show, through elaborate physics
experiments and computer simulations, that new weapons and new uses for old
weapons will work. As long as those bombs do not actually exist, the
military can avoid running afoul of the test ban or Congressional
prohibitions on building "low-yield" nuclear warheads.

    Anti-nuclear activists angrily object, saying that smaller nuclear
weapons would be more likely to be used in battle. But defense officials
justify this line of research by saying they need a new generation of
weapons to maintain a technical edge over rogue nations and terrorists.

    Though the experiments at the half-finished $3.9 billion National
Ignition Facility at Livermore will be the most ambitious, they are just a
small part of this effort. Similar research is happening right now at more
than a dozen other national labs, as computer programmers and technicians
piece together an elaborate model of the damage hypothetical new munitions
could do to tunnels, buried command-and-control centers and other so-called
"hard targets."

    The Livermore lab, 35 miles east of San Francisco, is also home to the
world's fastest supercomputer, IBM's ASCI White, which can produce 12
trillion calculations per second and will be used to simulate
three-dimensional models of nuclear explosions of any size. At the Nevada
Test Site, where 928 nuclear bombs were exploded above and below ground
over 41 years, scientists are carving tunnels into the desert to test
nuclear shock patterns using high-yield conventional explosives. And at
Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee they use the Decade Radiation Test
Facility to expose bomb parts to levels of x-rays found only in a nuclear
blast.

    All this research is being done in the name of the Science-Based
Stockpile-Stewardship program, the $5.1 billion-per-year Department of
Energy effort to ensure that the U.S. nuclear weapons remains "safe, secure
and reliable." Proponents of the program say its goal is merely to make
sure existing weapons work and are refurbished when they age.

    But internal Defense Department documents, released to the Western
States Legal Foundation, an Oakland-based anti-nuclear group, show that the
military's view of future uses of the program includes the creation of new
weapons systems.

    "Precision engagement requires development of more discriminate weapons
that have the lethality needed to hold difficult-to-kill targets at risk
with minimized collateral effects," defense officials wrote in the Defense
Technology Area Plan, dated February 2000.

    Testifying before Congress this fall in hearings on funding for the
Stockpile Stewardship program, Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Gioconda, acting deputy
administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security
Administration, said the Department of Energy has so far dismantled 12,000
nuclear weapons. And he insisted that Army and Navy are not creating any
new weapons, nor have they done so for 11 years. In 1994, Congress
specifically prohibited research and development on low-yield nuclear
weapons, which produce a blast of five kilotons or less -- about a third
the power of the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.

    But another senior defense official familiar with nuclear strategy said
part of stockpile stewardship is the ability to design new weapons quickly
if the United States were to change policy and authorize low-yield weapons
development.

    "It's really a 'what-if,'" the defense official said on the condition
his name not be used. "We'd be prepared to have the answer, if and only if
we were given permission in the future to proceed on such a course. They're
only concepts and we don't have any permission to ask the Department of
Energy to build new weapons."

     Andrew Lichterman, a researcher at Western States, said that while
this research does not seem to violate any law, it treads close to the line
that Congress drew in 1994. He also said it undercuts efforts to achieve a
viable non-proliferation treaty, which calls on existing nuclear powers to
de-emphasize, and eventually eliminate, nuclear weapons.

    "The broad representation to the U.S. public of the Stockpile
Stewardship program is that it is merely to maintain the existing stockpile
as we move toward their elimination," Lichterman said. "This is the
clearest and most specific evidence we have found that they are using this
program to make nuclear weapons more usable."

    The Defense Technology Area Plan, an annual internal policy review,
became restricted as of three years ago. Lichterman filed a request with
the Defense Department through the Freedom of Information Act last July.

    The documents also discuss other weapons, such as the B61-11 gravity
bomb, which has been modified to work as a ground penetrator. The senior
defense official said that was permitted because it was not a "new" weapon.

    "The nuclear part of the B61 was unchanged," the official said. "So the
fact that we put a new case on an existing weapon, I don't consider that a
new weapon. I think it's permissible to create a capability with an
existing weapon."

    Pentagon critics say this contradicts public statements about what
Stockpile Stewardship is all about.

    "If we were just maintaining the existing stockpile until such time as
we could eliminate nuclear weapons pursuant to an international agreement,
would we need the current Stockpile Stewardship program?" said Christopher
Paine, who has researched the program for the Natural Resources Defense
Council. "The answer is no. We would want something that is far smaller and
simpler. It was sold to a cadre of Democrats and liberals who supported the
test ban as an essential ingredient of the U.S. capability to maintain
weapons under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The truth is the stockpile
program is the capacity to maintain weapons -- and a lot more."

    Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group in Santa Fe, N.M.,
said the Department of Energy is misleading the public about the work of
the program.

    "There is definitely active deception going on with respect to Congress
and ordinary folks and employees," he said. "The lab people know what to do
to sell their bombs. They've adopted an industrial paradigm, and they have
an industrial culture that searches for new niches for nuclear bombs."

     The Department of Energy, which runs the National Laboratories and
builds nuclear weapons for the military, says it has no plans to build new
bombs anytime soon.

    "We are not developing any new nuclear weapons," said Floyd Thomas, a
spokesman for the department's National Nuclear Security Administration.
"If somebody's up in some other agency thinking of new weapons, we wouldn't
know about it."

     Some scientists, while sympathizing with activists' political
complaints, dismiss their attacks on experimental and computational
modeling of nuclear explosions. Wolfgang Panofsky, the retired director of
the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, said that even though
he and other physicists are opposed to producing low-yield nuclear bombs,
he sees nothing wrong with basic research short of designing new weapons
for production.

    Raymond Jeanloz, a professor of Earth and planetary science at the
University of California at Berkeley and a Stockpile Stewardship consultant
for the Energy Department, said the program is also necessary to train a
new generation of nuclear scientists. In the next 10 years, most government
physicists with experience in nuclear testing and design will retire, so a
large part of nuclear weapons research is meant to keep that nuclear
know-how alive. U.S. scientists must practice their skills, he said, lest
they forget how to maintain and build new weapons systems in a time of need.

    "If we as a nation have nuclear weapons, the scariest thing would be to
let the weapons decay and the expertise of the people who are handling them
decay," he said. Yet he questions whether secrecy about the research is the
best policy for the long term.

    "This is a fact of our country and we have to keep examining this,"
Jeanloz said. "We are participants as taxpayers. The worst thing would be
for the public to forget that we have nuclear weapons."




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From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Protest at NSA Menwith Hill - 10 January 2001
Date: 16 Jan 2001 02:01:49 -0000

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Dear Ffriends

On the evening of Wednesday 10 January 2001 Lindis Percy and Anni =
Rainbow (Co-coordinators of the Campaign for the Accountability of =
American Bases(CAAB)) quietly obstructed traffic going in and out of NSA =
Menwith Hill for approximately two hours.

Lindis held an American Stars and Stripes flag bearing the words 'STOP =
STAR WARS' and walked backwards and forwards across the Main Entrance. =
She was warned that she would be arrested for Obstruction of the Highway =
under Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980 if she continued. She was not =
arrested.
=20
Anni spent some time trying to get past the MOD guards at the entrance =
barrier in an attempt to convey the message to the US military.  She was =
warned that if she continued she would be arrested under Section 68, =
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 for the offence of Aggrevated =
Trespass (on instruction from 'higher up'). She was not arrested. =20

Anni also sat by the exit barrier holding a flag similar to the one =
Lindis was holding. While she was there the MOD guards would only let =
vehicles out of the base in batches of three.=20

On this occasion neither Lindis nor Anni were arrested although charges =
have been brought against them previously for similar actions. An MOD  =
police officer agreed that Anni was in breach of the Military Land Act =
Byelaws but although the Byelaws were in force he refused to arrest her =
for the admitted breach.

The action was part of CAAB's continuing campaign of protest against the =
American National Missile Defense (NMD) system. A formal request from =
the US Government to the UK Government for the use of NSA Menwith Hill =
(and Fylingdales) for NMD is expected. The new Spaced Based Infra Red =
System (SBIRS) satellite dishes/radomes at NSA Menwith Hill will be =
crucial to NMD.
=20
On Saturday 20 January, the day George W Bush is to be inaugurated  as =
US President, CAAB will be protesting peacefully again at NSA Menwith =
Hill from 10am - 2pm ... please come (fully self sufficient) and show =
your opposition to NMD.=20

Contact: Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow
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]
email: [e-mail]
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."    =20
                                                                         =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dear Ffriends</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>On the evening of Wednesday 10 =
January 2001=20
Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow (Co-coordinators of the Campaign for the=20
Accountability of American Bases(CAAB)) quietly obstructed traffic =
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hours.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D3>Lindis held an American Stars and =
Stripes flag=20
bearing the words 'STOP STAR WARS' and walked backwards and forwards =
across the=20
Main Entrance. She was warned that she would be arrested for Obstruction =
of the=20
Highway under Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980 if she=20
continued. She was not arrested.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D3></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D3>Anni spent some time trying to =
get past=20
the MOD guards at the entrance barrier in an attempt =
to convey=20
the message to the US military. </FONT><FONT face=3DArial =
size=3D3>=20
She was warned that if she continued she would be =
arrested=20
under Section 68, Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 for the =
offence of=20
Aggrevated Trespass (on instruction from 'higher up'). She was not=20
arrested.  </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anni also sat by the exit barrier holding a flag similar to =
the one=20
Lindis was holding. While she was there the MOD guards would =
only let=20
vehicles out of the base in batches of three. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>On this occasion neither Lindis nor Anni were=20
arrested although charges have been brought against them =
previously=20
for similar actions. An MOD  police officer agreed =
that Anni was=20
in breach of the Military Land Act Byelaws but although the =
Byelaws=20
were in force he refused to arrest her for the admitted=20
breach.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>The action was part of CAAB's continuing =
campaign of=20
protest against the American National Missile Defense (NMD) =
system. A=20
formal request from the US Government to the UK Government for the =
use of=20
NSA Menwith Hill (and Fylingdales) for NMD is expected. =
The new Spaced=20
Based Infra Red System (SBIRS) satellite dishes/radomes at NSA =
Menwith Hill=20
will be crucial to NMD.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>On Saturday 20 January, the day George W Bush is =
to be=20
inaugurated  as US President, CAAB will be =
protesting peacefully again=20
at NSA Menwith Hill from 10am - 2pm ... please come (fully self =
sufficient)=20
and show your opposition to NMD. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Contact: Lindis Percy and Anni =
Rainbow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF =
AMERICAN=20
BASES</FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> (CAAB) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 =
1HQ,=20
England, U.K.<BR>Tel/fax no: [phone]R +44 (0)1482=20
702033</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>email: <A=20
href=3D"mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</=
A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Website: <A=20
href=3D"http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/">http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyo=
rks/caab/</A></FONT><FONT=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><STRONG>"Never doubt that a small group =
of=20
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only thing=20
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From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Two extra charges for protest at NSA Menwith Hill
Date: 16 Jan 2001 12:59:43 -0000

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Following on from a peaceful  action at NSA Menwith Hill on 13 December =
2000 when Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow were arrested and charged with =
Obstructing the Highway under Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980:=20
=20
Lindis has now been informed by the Crown Prosecutor (David Tucker) that =
he is adding two further charges.
=20
The charges are:

1.  that you on 13th December 2000 at Menwith Hill in the County of =
North Yorkshire used abusive or insulting behaviour or disorderly =
behaviour, namely trailing a United States of America flag on the ground =
in front of cars driven by American citizens, with in the sight of =
persons likely to be caused harassment alarm or distress thereby, namely =
American citizens and the offence was motivated (wholly or partly) by =
hostility towards members of the United States of America based on their =
membership of that group

contary to section 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

2.  that you on 13th December 2000 at Menwith Hill in the County of =
North Yorkshire used abusive and insulting behaviour, namely trailing a =
United States of America flag on the ground in front of cars driven by =
American citizens with in the sight of persons likely to be caused =
harassment alarm or distress thereby

contary to section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 as amended

The new charges relate only to Lindis and the flag, not to Anni and the =
flag.

 =20
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
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."     =
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arrested and charged with Obstructing the Highway under Section 137 of=20
the Highways Act 1980: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Lindis has now been informed by the =
Crown=20
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charges.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D3>The charges are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>1.  that you on 13th December 2000 at =
Menwith=20
Hill in the County of North Yorkshire used abusive or insulting =
behaviour or=20
disorderly behaviour, namely trailing a United States of America flag on =
the=20
ground in front of cars driven by American citizens, with in the =
sight of=20
persons likely to be caused harassment alarm or distress thereby, =
namely=20
American citizens and the offence was motivated (wholly or partly) by =
hostility=20
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membership of=20
that group</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>contary to section 31 of the Crime and Disorder =
Act=20
1998</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>2.  that you on 13th December 2000 at =
Menwith Hill in=20
the County of North Yorkshire used abusive and insulting behaviour, =
namely=20
trailing a United States of America flag on the ground in front of cars =
driven=20
by American citizens with in the sight of persons likely to be caused =
harassment=20
alarm or distress thereby</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>contary to section 5 of the Public Order Act =
1986 as=20
amended</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial>The new charges relate only to Lindis and =
the flag,=20
not to Anni and the flag.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> =20
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF =
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(CAAB)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 =
1HQ,=20
England, U.K.<BR>Tel/fax no: [phone]R +44 (0)1482=20
702033</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>email: <A=20
href=3D"mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</=
A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Website: <A=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><STRONG>"Never doubt that a small group =
of=20
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the =
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Radiation & Health Conf
Date: 16 Jan 2001 08:47:02 -0500

>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:36:45 -0500
>Subject: Radiation & Health Conf
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Hi All,
>
>Just wanted to pass this along, but with the warning that registration fees
>are high ($ 500 per person for the whole event or $ 375 for one day).   PSR
>will be attending if folks want to coordinate travel plans.  Check out the
>ACPM website for more info.
>
>Kimberly
>
>
>
>
>>> The American College of Preventive Medicine is sponsoring a Case Study
>>in
>>> Environmental Medicine on the "Public Health Implications of Exposure to
>>> Radiation from Nuclear Weapons Production and Testing" at its upcoming
>>> annual meeting in Miami, FL (Feb. 22-25).  Information on the session
>>and
>on
>>> ACPM's meeting, Preventive Medicine 2001: Science and Systems for
>>Health,
>>> can be accessed at www.PreventiveMedicine2001.org.
>>>
>>> The session will focus on Iodine-131 (I-131) as a hazardous substance
>>> resulting from nuclear testing and weapons production during the 1950s
>>and
>>> 60s and will target children as group that is particularly susceptible
>>to
>>> thyroid disorders and thyroid cancer as a consequence of I-131 exposure.
>>>
>>> Presenters will provide an overview of case-studies in environmental
>>> medicine, introduce the link between nuclear testing and thyroid cancer,
>>> discuss the clinical and psychological effects of exposure to radiation,
>and
>>> speak on patient/physician education efforts.
>>>
>>> Presenters at the session include Oscar Tarrago, MD, MPH, Robert
>>Spengler,
>>> Ph.D., and Pamela Tucker, MD with the Agency for Toxic Substances and
>>> Disease Registry.  Peter Wald, MD, MPH, with Workcare, Inc., Clare
>Collins,
>>> MA, CHES, with the National Cancer Institute, and Michael Tuttle, MD,
>>with
>>> Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
>>>
>>> Please contact Jessica Cafarella, ACPM Health Policy Analyst, at
>>> [e-mail] or 202-466-2044, ext. 107 with questions about the session
>>or
>>> for registration information.  Additional information and a registration
>>> form also are available at www.PreventiveMedicine2001.org.
>>>
>

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From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Heritage Foundation on Nuclear Weapons Policy
Date: 16 Jan 2001 09:00:52 -0500


Below are excerpts on nuclear weapons policy from The Heritage Foundation's
new policy briefing book for the Bush administration.

Armed Forces," chap. 10, Priorities for the President, Washington, D.C.: The
Heritage Foundation, January 2001.
http://www.heritage.org/mandate/priorities/chap10.html
<http://www.heritage.org/mandate/priorities/chap10.html>

A post-Cold War nuclear deterrent policy. The U.S. nuclear arsenal and
nuclear policy were developed to deter the Soviet Union from using its
nuclear weapons. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has taken control of
the Soviet warheads and China is engaged in a program of nuclear
modernization. Nations like Iran, Iraq, and North Korea are edging closer
and closer to becoming nuclear states. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Pakistan and India have detonated nuclear devices. Today's world is far
different from the world of the Cold War, yet the United States still relies
on the same (albeit smaller) nuclear arsenal that it relied on then. This is
not right.The next Administration should reevaluate the purpose of nuclear
weapons in the post-Cold War world. It will likely find that the need for
thousands of high-yield strategic nuclear warheads is no longer valid,
especially when supplemented with strategic defenses. Instead of focusing on
quantity or the huge "city busters" whose sole purpose is deterrence, the
United States should concentrate on the quality and diversity of its
weapons. Future warfare scenarios may require low-yield nuclear options.

Arms-control agreements with the Russians will bring the number of deployed
U.S. strategic nuclear warheads down from over 10,000 to 3,500. The next
round of talks will attempt to bring them down even further, to 2,000 to
2,500, which could be followed by even deeper cuts. But arms control will
not eliminate nuclear weapons from the world at large; nor should America
give up its nuclear deterrent unless the circumstance arises that the United
States no longer depends on nuclear deterrence to ensure international
security and stability. Protecting U.S. security will require a minimum
level of nuclear forces into the foreseeable future, specifically:

1.  To deter Russia if a political reversal in Moscow brings a hostile
communist or hard-line nationalist regime to power.

2.  To deter lesser but growing nuclear powers like China as well as rogue
regimes like North Korea, Iran, and Iraq that are trying to acquire nuclear
weapons programs.

3.  To deter other countries that may acquire other weapons of mass
destruction (chemical or biological). Some 15 developing nations have
biological or chemical weapons programs today.

The central mission of a tactical nuclear force is to counter any
battlefield advantage an adversary may gain from striking U.S. and allied
forces with weapons of mass destruction. Also, low-yield nuclear weapons are
the best way to target large biological weapons production facilities.
Unlike a conventional bomb, which would destroy the facility but spread the
biological agent, a nuclear device would incinerate the agent as well.

Adversaries of the United States understand that America would gain
unprecedented battlefield advantage by deploying an array of satellite
sensors that would give its armed forces the ability, with precision-guided
munitions, to target almost anything, anywhere, at any time. America's
enemies are beginning to adapt to this advantage by placing their troops,
weapons, command and control, and other combat elements underground. Until
adequate conventional forces can be developed to kill these underground
targets, the United States must maintain a low-yield tactical nuclear
option.

Furthermore, several nations retain very large standing armies. Given the
expeditionary nature of U.S. forces, the United States must prepare for the
possibility of being overwhelmed by sheer manpower in future combat
scenarios. To counter the most potent army fielded by any regional adversary
the United States could face, the tactical U.S. nuclear force structure
needs to include adequate numbers of low-yield weapons. The United States
also must reserve the right to develop new tactical nuclear weapons to
counter emerging threats as they arise. These weapons will be the
cornerstone of deterrence in a world where biological, chemical, and nuclear
weapons are proliferating at a dangerous pace.

. . .

Assumptions Underlying the Quadrennial Defense Review

Before the next QDR [Quadrennial Defense Review], the President should issue
a directive outlining that protecting the national interest requires:

. . .

*    Tactical nuclear weapons to deter the use of nuclear, chemical, and
biological weapons against U.S. troops, regardless of where they are
located.




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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: wilpf-news US Elections:  Compromises of 1876 & 2000
Date: 16 Jan 2001 09:38:20 -0500

>Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:05:28 -0500
>Subject: wilpf-news US Elections:  Compromises of 1876 & 2000
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>THIS IS REPOSTED FROM [RWWATCH] 1/15/2001.
>_____________________________________
>
>
>[Along the Color Line column -- December 2000]
>
>Stealing the Election: The Compromises of 1876 and 2000
>
>By Prof. Manning Marable <[e-mail]>
>
>        We have just witnessed, in the United States,
>the massive and wholesale theft of the presidency. Yet the
>fraudulent political dynamics that propelled loser George W.
>Bush into the White House have happened before. A political
>philosopher once observed that history always repeats itself
>twice -- the first time as tragedy, and the second time as
>farce. The seeds of the current electoral debacle are
>found in the past.
>
>        Back in 1876, the Civil War had been over for only
>eleven years. Black men had finally won the right to vote,
>but Southern whites were vigorously attempting to regain
>their power over their state legislatures. Deep sectional
>antagonisms still divided the nation, with the industrial
>and commercial North mostly supporting Republicans, and
>the White South supporting the Democrats. The Republican
>presidential candidate in 1876 was Rutherford B. Hayes,
>the governor of Ohio. Hayes was widely viewed as being
>handicapped by the governmental scandals and corruption
>during the administration of two-term President Ulysses
>S. Grant.
>
>        The Democratic challenger, Governor Samuel J.
>Tilden of New York, was widely favored to defeat Hayes. In
>the general election in November 1876, Tilden appeared to be
>the victor. He carried the national popular vote by 300,000.
>In the Electoral College, Tilden won 184 votes, to only 165
>votes for Hayes, with twenty disputed electoral votes hanging
>in the balance. If Tilden had received only one of the
>disputed electoral votes, he would have been declared
>the winner. Hayes needed to win all 20 disputed
>electoral votes to become president.
>
>        Compounding the national crisis were widespread
>allegations of voter fraud, especially in Florida. There was
>evidence of ballot tampering, with hundreds of ballots being
>destroyed or never counted. The political stalemate over who
>would become president threatened to plunge the country into
>a second Civil War. Only several days prior to the date set
>for the presidential inauguration, a deal was reached
>between Republicans and Democrats.
>
>        The "Compromise" of the election of 1876 actually
>represented a kind of electoral coup d'etat. The Republican
>candidate Hayes was selected to become president. The
>Federal government pulled thousands of Union troops out of
>the South, where they had been stationed since the fall of
>the Confederacy more than a decade earlier. The Compromise
>stated that the principle of states' rights would determine
>the future legal and political status of African Americans.
>In the language of that era, the so-called "Negro Question"
>was to become a "Southern Question." The white South was
>given a free hand to set the parameters of black freedom.
>
>        The consequences of the Compromise of 1876-1877 were
>profound and long-lasting. A Civil Rights Act which had been
>passed by Congress in 1875 was repealed in 1883. Jim Crow
>segregation was soon institutionalized throughout the South.
>Hundreds of thousands of African American men were purged
>from voters rolls, or were denied the right to cast ballots
>by local police intimidation and literacy restrictions. White
>vigilante violence was widely employed to suppress the black
>community, as five thousand African Americans were lynched
>in the South over the next four decades. The Supreme Court
>confirmed the racist principle of "separate but equal" with
>its legal decision Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. It would take
>nearly a century for black America to recover.
>
>        Now consider the political parallels between 1876
>and last year's presidential election. Once again, deep
>sectional and demographic divisions were reflected within
>the national electorate. The industrial Northeast and Midwest,
>and the Pacific states were heavily Democratic; the South,
>West, and rural America were overwhelmingly Republican. Al
>Gore, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2000, had
>served nearly his entire adult life as a public official
>-- first as Congressman and Senator from Tennessee, and
>subsequently as Vice President. He was, however, widely
>viewed as being handicapped by the scandals connected with
>the two-term president then in office, Bill Clinton. George
>W. Bush, the Governor of Texas, was chosen as the Republican
>presidential candidate, and was largely assumed to be the
>favorite to win.
>
>        In the presidential election of 2000, most exit
>polls indicated that Gore had won. He carried the national
>popular vote by nearly one half million votes over Bush.
>Gore's lead in the Electoral College was 267 to 246
>votes, with Florida's 25 electoral votes in dispute.
>
>        It was as if two distinctly separate nations had
>voted in America in November 2000. There was a "gender gap,"
>as Gore received 12 percentage points more from women that
>male voters. The "racial gap" was even more profound. Ninety
>percent of all African-American voters supported Gore, versus
>a meager eight percent endorsing Bush. About two-thirds of
>all Latinos and the majority of Asian Americans voted for
>Gore. By contrast, white America clearly saw Bush as its
>favorite son. Fifty-three percent of all whites supported
>Bush. More than seventy percent of all Southern whites
>voted for Bush and religious conservatives endorsed the
>Republicans by a four to one margin. Neither Gore nor
>President Clinton, a former Governor from Arkansas,
>were able to carry their own states.
>
>        Just as in the election of 1876, there was evidence
>of massive voter fraud, especially in Florida. In Florida's
>Palm Beach County, 19,000 ballots were thrown out. In Duval
>County, 27,000 ballots were declared void. Over 12,000 of
>these discounted votes came from only four districts that
>have over 90 percent African-American voters. In some
>majority black precincts, over 30 percent of all votes were
>actually thrown out! Thousands of African Americans who had
>registered and were legally qualified to vote were not
>permitted to do so, because they were erroneously listed
>as having been convicted of a felony. There were dozens
>of documented cases of blacks going to the polls who
>were stopped or harassed by local cops.
>
>        Over thirty percent of all African-American adult
>males in Florida are disenfranchised for life, because of
>the anti-democratic restrictions against ex-felons. Most
>Florida Republicans would like to restrict the voting
>rights of the other 70 percent as well. In fact, Florida
>State House Speaker Tom Feeney, who had insisted that the
>Republican-controlled legislature should select a Bush slate
>of Electors no matter who actually won the state's popular
>vote, also suggested the reinstatement of "literacy tests,"
>the legal tool of segregationists. Feeney stated to reporters:
>"Voter confusion is not a reason for whining or crying or
>having a revote. It may be a reason to require literacy
>tests."
>
>        The election of 2000 was decided not by the popular
>will of voters, but in Washington, D.C., by a narrow
>five-four conservative majority of Supreme Court justices.
>Chief Justice William Rehnquist's refusal to acknowledge
>evidence of blatant voter fraud against African Americans
>was no surprise. Back in 1962, when Rehnquist was a young
>attorney in Arizona, he led a group of Republican lawyers
>who systematically challenged the right of minority voters
>to cast their ballots in that state. Called "Operation Eagle
>Eye," Rehnquist successfully disenfranchised hundreds of
>black and brown voters in Phoenix's poor and working
>class precincts. In 2000, Rehnquist supervised the
>disenfranchisement, in effect, of the majority of
>American voters.
>
>        Under no conditions can George W. Bush be considered
>the legitimate president of the United States. The Supreme
>Court has certified an electoral robbery in Florida. Gore
>was elected by the plurality of America's voters, but Bush
>was selected by the courts. As columnist Julianne Malveaux
>has quipped, perhaps instead of saying "Hail to the Chief,"
>we should salute the faux President with "Hail to the Thief."
>History has repeated itself, and it is up to us to challenge
>this "Compromise of 2000," which threatens to usher in a new
>period of racial inequality.
>
>--
>
>Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political
>Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in
>African-American Studies, Columbia University. He is also a
>National Co-Chair of the Black Radical Congress. The views
>and opinions expressed in this article are his own.
>
>"Along the Color Line" is distributed free of charge to over
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>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) In the The Nation: "Star Wars Boosters"
Date: 16 Jan 2001 17:12:35 -0500

Appearing in the current issue of
The Nation, January 29, 2001

Star Wars Boosters

         As soon as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney take up the reins of
government,
they'll give a big boost to waging war in and from space. Under their
leadership, right-wing advocates of US global dominance and corporations
eager for contracts will join forces with a military eager to make space
the battleground of the twenty-first century.

         Indeed, Star Wars--"missile defense" in the current Newspeak--is
emerging
as a central goal of the new Bush Administration. It is "an essential part
of our strategic system," declared Colin Powell immediately upon being
named as Bush's Secretary of State.

         "I wrote the Republican Party's foreign policy platform," declared
Bruce
Jackson, vice president of corporate strategy and development at Lockheed
Martin, the world's largest weapons manufacturer [see William D. Hartung
and Michelle Ciarrocca, "Star Wars II," June 19, 2000], which is deeply
involved in space military programs. In a recent interview, Jackson said
that although he was "the overall chairman of the Foreign Policy Platform
Committee" at the Republican National Convention, he hasn't led the
advocacy for the full development of Star Wars because "that would be an
implicit conflict of interest with my day job" at Lockheed Martin.

         Such advocacy, he said, has fallen to Stephen Hadley, George W.
Bush's
pick for deputy director of the National Security Council. Hadley, Bush
Senior's assistant secetary of defense for international security policy
and a member of his National Security Council, is a proud member of the
Vulcans, an eight-person foreign policy team formed during the Bush
campaign that includes future National Security Council director
Condoleezza Rice and Reagan administation superhawk Richard Perle. The
Vulcans named themselves after the Roman god of fire and metalwork and for
a statue in Rice's hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, commemorating its
steelmaking history.

         Besides being a Vulcan, Hadley is a partner in Shea & Gardner, the
Washington law firm representing Lockheed Martin. Hadley has also worked
closely with Jackson on the Committee to Expand NATO--based in the offices
of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute--Jackson as president,
Hadley as secretary. The committee sought to enlist Eastern European
countries into NATO and, of course, build the client base for Lockheed
Martin weapons.

         "Space is going to be important. It has a great future in the
military,"
Hadley told the Air Force Association Convention in a September 11 speech.
Introduced as "an advisor to Governor George W. Bush," Hadley said that
Bush's "concern has been that the [Clinton] Administration... doesn't
reflect a real commitment to missile defense. This is an Administration
that has delayed on that issue and is not moving as fast as he thinks we
could."

         To remedy that, Bush has named as Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld--a
man
whom
the Washington Post calls the "leading proponent not only of national
missile defenses, but also of U.S. efforts to take control of outer space"
[see Michael T. Klare, page 14]. In 1998 Rumsfeld's commission reversed a
1995 finding by the nation's intelligence agencies that the country was not
in imminent danger from ballistic missiles acquired by new powers,
declaring that "rougue states" did pose such a threat. The answer? Missile
defense. Trusted adviser to and financial supporter of
the right-wing Center for Security Policy, Rumsfeld has been awarded its
Keeper of the Flame prize. The center's advisory board includes such Star
Wars promoters as Edward Teller--and, of course, Lockheed Martin
executives, including Bruce Jackson.

         "This so-called election was a victory for putting weapons in space,
at
enormous cost to US taxpayers and to world stability," declares Bruce
Gagnon, coordinator of the Florida-based Global Network Against Weapons &
Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4peace.org). He points to Bush  campaign
statements about deploying "quantum leap weapons" and about Los Alamos and
Sandia National Laboratories playing a major role in the development of
"weapons that will allow America to define how wars are fought." Both labs
have been deeply involved in space-based lasers, an integral part of Star
Wars. In 1998 the Defense Department signed a multimillion-dollar contract
for a "Space-Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator" and this past November
solicited final comments on development of the program, estimated to cost
between $20-$30 billion. Lockheed Martin, TRW and Boeing are the
contractors. (Lynne Cheney has just resigned from the board of Lockheed
Martin, Dick Cheney has been a member of the board of TRW.)

         The military's would-be space warriors, meanwhile, are bullish. The
U.S.
Space Command's top general, Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, exhorts the Air Force to
"be the space warfighters our nation needs today...and will need even more
tomorrow." The Air Force command's "Almanac 2000" touts "defending America
through the control and exploitation of space." The Air Force in the 2lst
Century must be "globally dominant -- Tomorrow's Air Force will likely
dominate the air and space
around the world."

         The Vulcans, Keepers of the Flame and Lockheed Martin et al. will be
cheering them on.

                                    Karl Grossman and Judith Long

Karl Grossman is the author of the forthcoming Weapons in Space (Seven
Stories) and the new TV documentary Star Wars Returns (EnviroVideo
800-ECO-TV46). Judith Long is The Nation's copy editor.




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From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: [abolition-caucus] Re: Two extra charges for protest at NSA M
Date: 16 Jan 2001 19:04:44 -0600

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Here in the United States Lindis would have had a perfect constitutional
right under the First Amendment to the US Constitution to do what he did
with the US Flag. It is ludicrous to believe that the UK government is going
to give more protection to the US Flag in the UK than the United States
government itself could constitutionally do here in the US.
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of Law.


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954(voice)
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  I, as an American born & bred citizen find Lindis' actions trailing a US
flag on the ground to be absolutely appropriate & good. NOT doing so I would
find inappropriate & a  source of respect[or at least lack of disrespect]
for a terrorist super power  that in an incredibly arrogant, imperialistic
manner does whatever it wants whenever it wants if it can get away with it.
This, irrespective of how much of a threat to peace & democracy that may be.

  I find Section 31 of the Crime And Disorder Act of 1998 to be an abusive &
insulting law that causes me & probably many peace loving citizens
harrasment, alarm & distress. Is the threat of nuclear war, the diversion of
MASSIVE  sums of $ from real national security issues- education, a clean
environment, housing & a decent standard of living- to war or war
threatening/enabling purposes worthwhile? I say not. Most people within &
without the United States would find this unnacceptable, despicable behavior
if they knew the facts.

  I encourage all American citizens reading this to write in supporting
Lindis' behavior & to have these statements of support shown to Crown
Prosectur David Tucker.


   -Bill Smirnow




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Following on from a peaceful  action at NSA Menwith Hill on 13 December 2000
when Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow were arrested and charged with
Obstructing the Highway under Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980:

Lindis has now been informed by the Crown Prosecutor (David Tucker) that he
is adding two further charges.

The charges are:

1.  that you on 13th December 2000 at Menwith Hill in the County of North
Yorkshire used abusive or insulting behaviour or disorderly behaviour,
namely trailing a United States of America flag on the ground in front of
cars driven by American citizens, with in the sight of persons likely to be
caused harassment alarm or distress thereby, namely American citizens and
the offence was motivated (wholly or partly) by hostility towards members of
the United States of America based on their membership of that group

contary to section 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

2.  that you on 13th December 2000 at Menwith Hill in the County of North
Yorkshire used abusive and insulting behaviour, namely trailing a United
States of America flag on the ground in front of cars driven by American
citizens with in the sight of persons likely to be caused harassment alarm
or distress thereby

contary to section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 as amended

The new charges relate only to Lindis and the flag, not to Anni and the
flag.


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in the United States Lindis would have had a perfect constitutional right under
the First Amendment to the US Constitution  to do what he did with the US Flag.
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  PM<BR><B>To:</B> Abolition-Caucus; Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow; Abolition
  2000 UK; Abolition2000 Pacific Region; [e-mail];
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1>  I, as an American born & bred citizen
  find Lindis' actions trailing a US flag on the ground to be absolutely
  appropriate & good. NOT doing so I would find inappropriate & a
  source of respect[or at least lack of disrespect] for a terrorist super
  power  that in an incredibly arrogant, imperialistic manner does whatever
  it wants whenever it wants if it can get away with it. This, irrespective of
  how much of a threat to peace & democracy that may be.</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1>  I find Section 31 of the Crime And
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  probably many peace loving citizens harrasment, alarm & distress. Is the
  threat of nuclear war, the diversion of MASSIVE  sums of $ from real
  national security issues- education, a clean environment, housing & a
  decent standard of living- to war or war threatening/enabling purposes
  worthwhile? I say not. Most people within & without the United States
  would find this unnacceptable, despicable behavior if they knew the
  facts.</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1>  I encourage all American citizens reading
  this to write in supporting Lindis' behavior & to have these statements of
  support shown to Crown Prosectur David Tucker.</FONT></DIV>
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    AM</DIV>
    <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [abolition-caucus] Two extra
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    arrested and charged with Obstructing the Highway under Section 137 of
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    behaviour or disorderly behaviour, namely trailing a United States of
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    American citizens, with in the sight of persons likely to be caused
    harassment alarm or distress thereby, namely American citizens and the
    offence was motivated (wholly or partly) by hostility towards members of the
    United States of America based on their membership of that
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    <DIV><FONT face=Arial>2.  that you on 13th December 2000 at Menwith
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    cars driven by American citizens with in the sight of persons likely to be
    caused harassment alarm or distress thereby</FONT></DIV>
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Global 'Star Wars' Fax Campaign - SAY NO TO NMD/STAR WARS, FAX
Date: 17 Jan 2001 17:33:21 +1000

SAY NO TO NMD/STAR WARS, FAX BUSH AFTER 20 JAN

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


Dear Everyone,

National Missile Defence/Star Wars is the single largest obstacle to
continued progress toward the elimination of nuclear weapons, and threatens
to re-ignite a global nuclear arms race.

Vital initiatives such as de-alerting (see alert for US National Call - In
Days Feb 5-6 at the end of this email), and deep cuts in warhead numbers
under START-II and III will be destroyed by NMD.

Yet Bush, in spite of initial hopes that he might proceed in a bipartisan
fashion,  is proceeding rapidly down a path that will be set by cold- war
hawks such as Rumsfeld, and NMD enthusiasts such as Condoleeza Rice.

President Bush needs to hear from you urgently that you don't want National
Missile Defence/Star Wars.

Two sample letters are below.

The first is for US citizens to send direct to Bush.

If you are in a country outside the US, especially if you live in the UK,
France, Germany, Japan or Australia, your country's governments views will
be vital.

Urge your government to reject Missile Defence/Star Wars.

The second letter is for that.  If you are from outside the US, especially
if you are in a US-Allied country, Please ask your government to tell the
US government that your country does not support NMD/Star Wars.

If you are in France or Germany, you need to ask your government to keep on
with telling the US not to proceed with NMD/Star Wars, and not to back down.

Then if you still have energy, you can fax President Bush - But write to
your own government first.

Yorkshire CND has initiated a  postcard campaign against National Missile
Defence.  CND's postcard comes after the two sample letters, and then comes
an appeal from the US 'Back from the Brink' campaign to call the white
house to take nuclear weapons off alert.


1) Letter to Bush, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld.

TO:
GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201,

COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE, [phone],
CONDOLEEZA RICE,
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER,  1-202-456-2883,
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,
[phone],

RE: PLEASE CANCEL MISSILE DEFENCE SCHEME

Dear President George Bush, Secretary for Defence Rumsfeld, Security
Adviser Condoleeza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell,

I am writing to you to convey my dismay that your administration may
proceed with an enlarged version of  the ill-concieved 'National Missile
Defence' ('Star Wars') scheme.

The deployment of NMD will make it much harder, if not impossible, to
achieve vital arms control objectives. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in order
to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear weapons
severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

National Missile Defence in its current form,  has failed two out of its
three operational tests and has been critiqued by the US scientific
establishment as fundamentally flawed.

More importantly, Russia and China as well as the US's own allies have made
it clear that they regard the preservation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty as paramount.   The ABM treaty cannot be modified in a way that
would allow the deployment of NMD, and the US should not walk away from it.

NMD has been opposed by groups ranging from 354 major NGOs representing
millions of people worldwide, to 50 of the US's Nobel prizewinners in
physics, to generals and church people.

Non-US governments  worldwide,  including close US allies, have strongly
opposed NMD.

NMD is a scheme  that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that is in any case better dealt with in other ways.
It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make further
progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons -
an objective to which the US as well as all other governments are committed
- much more difficult if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to drop the NMD proposal and to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and reductions
in the alert status of weapons, to which you committed yourself during your
campaign.
(Signed)  (Your name)


2) Letter to Governments other than the US Government

TO:
PRESIDENTS, FOREIGN MINISTERS, DEFENCE MINISTERS AND PRIME MINISTERS OF US
ALLIES


RE: PLEASE ASK US GOVT TO CANCEL MISSILE DEFENCE SCHEME

Dear President, Prime minister or Foreign minister [use whichever appropriate]
I am writing to you to convey my dismay that the Bush administration may
proceed with an enlarged version of  the ill-concieved 'National Missile
Defence' ('Star Wars') scheme.

I urge you to use all the diplomatic influence at your disposal to persuade
the Bush administration not to proceed with this scheme, and urge the
government of this country to refuse to cooperate in any way with the NMD
scheme, [and thank you for the steps you have already taken in this
direction] [If they are already doing this you need to thank them for doing
it]

The deployment of NMD will make it much harder, if not impossible, to
achieve vital arms control objectives. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in order
to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear weapons
severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

National Missile Defence in its current form,  has failed two out of its
three operational tests and has been critiqued by the US scientific
establishment as fundamentally flawed.

More importantly, Russia and China as well as the US's own allies
[including this country [if appropriate]] have made it clear that they
regard the preservation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty as paramount.
The ABM treaty cannot be modified in a way that would allow the deployment
of NMD, and the US should not be permitted to  walk away from it.

NMD has been opposed by groups ranging from 354 major NGOs representing
millions of people worldwide, to 50 of the US's Nobel prizewinners in
physics, to generals and church people. It has also been opposed by every
major international grouping represented in the UN General Assembly.

NMD is a scheme  that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that is in any case better dealt with in other ways.
It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make further
progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons -
an objective to which the US as well as all other governments are committed
- much more difficult if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to drop the NMD proposal and to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and reductions
in the alert status of weapons, to which you committed yourself during your
campaign.
(Signed)
(Your name)


IMMEDIATE USE 17/1/2001
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE
GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TARGETS BUSH OVER MISSILE DEFENCE

Antinuclear groups worldwide have targeted President Bush over the National
Missile Defence/Star Wars scheme, with a global fax campaign starting on
Jan 20.

According to campaign coordinator John Hallam of Friends of the Earth Sydney,
"National Missile defence, otherwise known as 'Star Wars', will create a
storm of opposition from the US's own allies,  from the United Nations as a
whole,  and from citizens groups worldwide. Star Wars will  cause
irreparable damage to US relations with Russia and China.

NMD/Star Wars will set back  attempts to decrease the number and lower the
alert status of the roughly 5-6,000 land-based intercontinental ballistic
missiles on hairtrigger alert in the US and Russia, whose use can still end
civilization,  if not most life. It will replace hopeful possibilities of
eliminating nuclear weapons with a new nuclear arms race, making the world
much more dangerous.

Accordingly, antinuclear groups around the planet have decided to mount a
global fax campaign  to ram home a simple message to president Bush as soon
as he is inaugurated:

The World Says No To Missile Defence/Star Wars.

We urge the Australian government to reject NMD/Star Wars, and not to
permit the use of Australian facilities for it.
We urge US allies to tell the US not to proceed with NMD/Star Wars.
We urge President Bush and Don Rumsfeld to drop their enthusiasm for this
dangerous scheme, and instead to opt for deep cuts in warhead numbers and
to take missiles off hairtrigger alert as pledged by Bush in his campaign."

Contact:
John Hallam 61-2-9517-3903
Bruce Thompson 61-3-9419-8700 0417-318-368

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



INTERNATIONAL STAR WARS POSTCARD CAMPAIGN


The Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has initiated a
postcard campaign throughout the United Kingdom urging George W. Bush to
back away from Star Wars.  One side of their card has a photo of a Star Wars
protest at Fylingdales (U.S. radar facility in their country.)

Groups all over the world are urged to create similar postcards to Bush for
distribution in your nation.

Not only would this effort help to flood the White House with messages from
all over the world, but it would also help to focus attention on the issue
in your country as the cards are distributed.  (Please let us know if you
decide to join this effort from overseas.)

The Global Network has produced such a postcard for distribution throughout
the U.S.  The cards contain a "Ban War in Space" photo message on one side
and a written message to Bush on the other.

Bulk postcard orders can be made as follows (prices include postage):

*  25 cards           $3.00
*  60 cards           $7.00
*  120 cards         $12.50
*  240 cards         $25.00
*  more                 Negotiable

Send your order, along with check made out to GN, to address below:

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
[e-mail]


The following is a priority action alert.

*************************************************************
Dear Friends of the Brink Campaign.

There are only 4 weeks left before the NATIONAL CALL-IN DAYS TO THE WHITE
HOUSE, February 5-6, 2001 to urge President-elect George W. Bush to reduce
the danger of accidental nuclear war by working with the Russians to TAKE
ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS OFF HAIR-TRIGGER ALERT.

The campaign is building rapidly with over 100 national, regional and local
organizations participating. If there was ever a time to let a president
know we want action on nuclear weapons, it is now and February 5 and 6 are
the days to do it.

The Campaign has several resources available to promote the Call-In Days
among your friends, contacts, members and e-groups. Contact us at the e-mail
address above for printed flyers available FREE in bulk, a  downloadable
flyer in .pdf format; a text announcement available via e-mail, and, after
January 21st ,a pop-up e-mail announcement.

If everyone contacts just 5 more friends, we can flood the switchboard and
make the White House take notice.

Thanks for being part of this fast growing movement to take nuclear weapons
off hair-trigger alert. Let me know how things are going and how I can be of
help.

***********************************************************************

Esther Pank
Back from the Brink Campaign
6856 Eastern Avenue, NW, # 322
Washington DC 20012
202.545.1001 ph
202.545.1004 fax
[e-mail]
www.backfromthebrink.org

James C. Bridgman
Research & Resource Coordinator
Peace Action Education Fund
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.peace-action.org
202.862.9740x3041
fax: [phone]
1819 H St., NW, #425
Washington, DC 20006


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





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From: Charles F Hilfenhaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 50th Anniversary of Nevada Nuclear Testing
Date: 17 Jan 2001 12:04:57 EST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    The Alliance of Atomic Veterans invites the public to a free
forum on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Operation Ranger, the first
series of atmospheric nuclear tests in Nevada.
.
January 25 (Thu.) 15:11 arrive at Las Vegas  UA2317
International Delegation members:
Mr. Takamitsu Nakayama  A-bombed in Nagasaki, Executive Director of
Hidankyo
Ms. Mayumi Nakayama
Mr. Yasuo Endo  A-bombed in Hiroshima,
                Secretary General of Aichi Prefectural Hibakusha
association
Ms. Kiyoko Kajiwara
Ms. Fujiko Sasaki  Witness of battle in Okinawa WWII

 January 26 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m  Free public forum honoring three
generations of atomic veterans at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation
of Las Vegas, 3616 E. Lake Mead Blvd (This is in North Las Vegas NOT Lake
Mead Drive in Henderson!!!) Topics include: The experience of the bomb,
nuclear submariners, depleated Uranium, Yucca Mountain and other nuclear
waste issues, and a history of AAV at the Nevada Test Site.

January 26, 7-9 p.m.  Special forum on the experience  of the bomb.
Panelists: Anthony Guarisco, founding director of the Alliance of Atomic
Veterans, veteran of Operation Crossroads 1946; Mr Takamitsu Nakayama,
and Mr Yasuo Endo.

January 27 Noon-3p.m.  Rally and action at the Nevada Test Site Mercury
turnoff.

January 28th Planning for the Future a session for AAV members and guests

location TBA

Charlie Hilfenhaus
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Director, Atomic Workers Division
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Say No To Star Wars/NMD Letters on Abolition, BASIC, websites.
Date: 18 Jan 2001 09:32:46 +1000

The letters I have been urging you all to send to President Bush (if you
are in the US) and your own governments (if you are outside the US), are
now to be found on the websites of Abolition2000 and BASIC.

You are strongly urged, if you are outside the US, to write in the manner
suggested below to your government, taking care, if your government has
already taken a position against NMD, to acknowledge and thank them for it
and to ask them to keep doing it.

(If you are in Australia, there is a national model letter being
circulated, as well as an organisational sign- on letter)

If you are within the US, do write as per the model letter below and on the
Abolition website, to Bush, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld. You may also wish
to copy it to your congressperson.

Of course, if you are outside the US there is no reason not to write to
Bush also, but it is important to write first to your own government.

The abolition 2000 website is:

http://www.abolition2000.org/action/saynotostarwars.html

The BASIC website is:

http://www.basicint.org

BASIC's revised version of the letter for non-US folks is also reproduced
below, followed by the letter to Bush.

Thanks to Mark Bromley.


Minisiters of US Allies [Delete as appropriate]
Re: Please Convey Opposition to Missile Defence Scheme


Dear President, Prime Minister or Foreign Minister [Delete as
appropriate],

I am writing to you on the occasion of the inauguration of the new U.S.
President, George W. Bush, to express my dismay at his administration=92s
desire to proceed with an enlarged version of the ill-conceived
'National Missile Defence' (NMD) network.

The deployment of NMD will have serious implications for the
proliferation of nuclear weapons. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in
order to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear
weapons severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

In addition, the deployment of NMD will either completely destroy or
fundamentally weaken the Anti- Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, seen
internationally as the cornerstone of international arms control. This
would have serious consequences for maintaining and strengthening other
international agreements such as Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NMD has been opposed by a wide range of organisations and groups,
ranging from 354 major NGOs representing millions of people worldwide,
to 50 of the US Nobel prize-winners in physics, to generals and church
congregations. It has also been opposed by every major international
grouping represented in the UN General Assembly.

=46or all of these reasons, I urge you to use all the diplomatic influence
at your disposal to impress upon the incoming Bush administration your
opposition to the NMD system. I also urge you to make clear to the
incoming Bush administration that your government will refuse to
cooperate in any way with the NMD scheme. [If they are already doing
this you may wish thank them for doing it]

NMD is a scheme that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that, in any case, is better dealt with in other
ways. It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make
further progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear
weapons - an objective to which the United States as well as all other
governments are committed - much more difficult, if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to oppose NMD, and instead to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and
reductions in the alert status of weapons, to which you are committed.

(Signed)

(Your name)


1) Letter to Bush, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld.

TO:
GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201,

COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE, [phone],
CONDOLEEZA RICE,
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER,  1-202-456-2883,
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,
[phone],

RE: PLEASE CANCEL MISSILE DEFENCE SCHEME

Dear President George Bush, Secretary for Defence Rumsfeld, Security
Adviser Condoleeza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell,

I am writing to you to convey my dismay that your administration may
proceed with an enlarged version of  the ill-concieved 'National Missile
Defence' ('Star Wars') scheme.

The deployment of NMD will make it much harder, if not impossible, to
achieve vital arms control objectives. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in order
to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear weapons
severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

National Missile Defence in its current form,  has failed two out of its
three operational tests and has been critiqued by the US scientific
establishment as fundamentally flawed.

More importantly, Russia and China as well as the US's own allies have made
it clear that they regard the preservation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty as paramount.   The ABM treaty cannot be modified in a way that
would allow the deployment of NMD, and the US should not walk away from it.

NMD has been opposed by groups ranging from 354 major NGOs representing
millions of people worldwide, to 50 of the US's Nobel prizewinners in
physics, to generals and church people.

Non-US governments  worldwide,  including close US allies, have strongly
opposed NMD.

NMD is a scheme  that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that is in any case better dealt with in other ways.
It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make further
progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons -
an objective to which the US as well as all other governments are committed
- much more difficult if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to drop the NMD proposal and to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and reductions
in the alert status of weapons, to which you committed yourself during your
campaign.
(Signed)  (Your name)



INTERNATIONAL STAR WARS POSTCARD CAMPAIGN


The Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has initiated a
postcard campaign throughout the United Kingdom urging George W. Bush to
back away from Star Wars.  One side of their card has a photo of a Star Wars
protest at Fylingdales (U.S. radar facility in their country.)

Groups all over the world are urged to create similar postcards to Bush for
distribution in your nation.

Not only would this effort help to flood the White House with messages from
all over the world, but it would also help to focus attention on the issue
in your country as the cards are distributed.  (Please let us know if you
decide to join this effort from overseas.)

The Global Network has produced such a postcard for distribution throughout
the U.S.  The cards contain a "Ban War in Space" photo message on one side
and a written message to Bush on the other.

Bulk postcard orders can be made as follows (prices include postage):

*  25 cards           $3.00
*  60 cards           $7.00
*  120 cards         $12.50
*  240 cards         $25.00
*  more                 Negotiable

Send your order, along with check made out to GN, to address below:

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
[e-mail]


The following is a priority action alert.

*************************************************************
Dear Friends of the Brink Campaign.

There are only 4 weeks left before the NATIONAL CALL-IN DAYS TO THE WHITE
HOUSE, February 5-6, 2001 to urge President-elect George W. Bush to reduce
the danger of accidental nuclear war by working with the Russians to TAKE
ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS OFF HAIR-TRIGGER ALERT.

The campaign is building rapidly with over 100 national, regional and local
organizations participating. If there was ever a time to let a president
know we want action on nuclear weapons, it is now and February 5 and 6 are
the days to do it.

The Campaign has several resources available to promote the Call-In Days
among your friends, contacts, members and e-groups. Contact us at the e-mail
address above for printed flyers available FREE in bulk, a  downloadable
flyer in .pdf format; a text announcement available via e-mail, and, after
January 21st ,a pop-up e-mail announcement.

If everyone contacts just 5 more friends, we can flood the switchboard and
make the White House take notice.

Thanks for being part of this fast growing movement to take nuclear weapons
off hair-trigger alert. Let me know how things are going and how I can be of
help.

***********************************************************************

Esther Pank
Back from the Brink Campaign
6856 Eastern Avenue, NW, # 322
Washington DC 20012
202.545.1001 ph
202.545.1004 fax
[e-mail]
www.backfromthebrink.org

James C. Bridgman
Research & Resource Coordinator
Peace Action Education Fund
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.peace-action.org
202.862.9740x3041
fax: [phone]
1819 H St., NW, #425
Washington, DC 20006


John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd




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From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill- 20 January 2001
Date: 19 Jan 2001 01:48:06 -0000

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THIS SATURDAY - 20 JANUARY........

GEORGE BUSH becomes the next PRESIDENT OF THE USA........

CAAB will be at the American base at Menwith Hill near Harrogate North =
Yorkshire - we ask that as many people as possible come to protest and =
show your opposition to the American National Missile Defense (NMD) =
system........it is expected that George W Bush will deploy NMD/TMD/BMD =
as soon as possible.........

Come self sufficient (the weather may be bad), bring banners, the US =
flag with your own message written on and do whatever peacefully moves =
you..........STOP STAR WARS............................

or if you can't come and live near an American base or the US =
Embassy..........go there to say NO TO STAR WARS...........

Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy
Co-Coordinators

CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Galbraith on Bush
Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:39:11 -0500

>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:16:07 -0500
>Subject: Galbraith on Bush
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Dear friends,  I am encouraged by this voice of sanity and wanted to
>share it with you.  Peace, Carol
>
>        Famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith on Bush's coronation:
>"With the events of late in the year 2000, the United States left behind
>
>constitutional republicanism, and turned to a different form of
>government.
>It is not, however, a new form. It is, rather, a transplant, highly
>familiar  from a different arena of advanced capitalism. This is
>corporate
>democracy.  It is a system whereby a Board of Directors (read Supreme
>Court
>) selects the  Chief Executive Officer. The CEO in turn appoints new
>members of the Board.  The shareholders, owners in title only, are
>invited
>to cast their votes in  periodic referenda. But their franchise is only
>symbolic, for management  holds a majority of the proxies.  On no
>important
>issue do the CEO and the  Board ever permit themselves to lose.
>
>The Supreme Court clarified this in a way that the Florida courts could
>not
>have. The media have accepted it, for it is the form of government to
>which
>they are already professionally accustomed. And the shameless attitude
>of
>the  George W. Bush high command merely illustrates, in unusually
>visible
>fashion,  the prevalent ethical system of corporate life.
>
>Al Gore's concession speech was justly praised for grace and humor.  It
>paid  due deference to the triumph of corporate political ethics, but
>did
>not  embrace them. It thus preserved Gore for another political day, the
>
>obvious  intention. But Gore also sent an unmistakable message to
>American
>democrats:  Do not forget.
>
>It was an important warning, for almost immediately forgetting became
>the
>media order of the day. Overnight, it became almost un-American not to
>accept  the dictate of the Court. Or to be precise, Gore's own
>distinction
>became  holy writ: One might disagree with the Court, but not with the
>legitimacy of  its decision. Press references from that moment forward
>were
>to  President-elect Bush, an unofficial title and something that the
>Governor  from Texas (President-select? President-designate?) manifestly
>is
>not.
>
>The key to dealing with the Bush people, however, is precisely not to
>accept  them. Like most Americans, I have nothing personal against Bush,
>
>Dick Cheney,  nor against Colin Powell and the others now surfacing as
>members of the new  administration. But I will not reconcile myself to
>them. They lost the  election. Then they arranged to obstruct the count
>of
>the vote. They don't  deserve to be there, and that changes everything.
>They have earned our civic  disrespect, and that is what we, the people,
>
>should accord them.
>
>In social terms, civic disrespect means that the illegitimacy of this
>administration must not be allowed to fade from view. The conventions of
>
>politics remain: Bush will be president; Congress must work with him.
>But
>those of us outside that process are not bound by those conventions, and
>to
>the extent that we have a voice, we should use it.
>
>In political practice, civic disrespect means drawing lines around the
>freedom of maneuver of the incoming administration. In many areas,
>including  foreign policy, there will be few major changes; in others,
>such
>as annual  budgets and appropriations, compromises will have to be
>reached.
>But Bush sho uld be opposed on actions whose reach will extend beyond
>his
>actual term.
>
>First, the new president should be allowed lifetime appointments only by
>
>consensus. The public should oppose,  and 50 Senate Democrats should
>freely
>block,  judicial nominations whenever they carry even the slightest
>ideological taint. That may mean most of them, but no matter. And as for
>
>the  Supreme Court especially, vacancies need not be filled.
>
>Second, the Democrats should advise Bush not to introduce any
>legislation
>to  cut or privatize any part of Social Security or Medicare.
>
>Third, Democrats should furiously oppose elimination of the estate tax ,
>a
>social incentive for recycling wealth to the non-profit sector, to
>foundations and universities, that has had a uniquely powerful effect on
>
>the  form of American society. Once gone, this ingenious device will
>never
>be  reenacted.
>
>Fourth, the people must unite to oppose the global dangers of National
>Missile Defense, a strategic nightmare on which Bush campaigned, that
>threatens for all time the security of us all.
>
>Fifth, Congress should enact a New Voting Rights Act, targeted precisely
>at
>the Florida abuses. This should stipulate: mandatory adoption of
>best-practice technology in all federal elections; a 24-hour voting day;
>a
>ban on private contractors to aid in purging voter rolls; and mandatory
>immediate hand count of all under-votes in ape that emerged from this
>election.
>
>Outside of Florida, Democrats are finished in the South. But they have
>excellent prospects of consolidating a narrow majority of the Electoral
>College, so long as, in the next election, there is no Ralph Nader
>defection.
>
>What can prevent such a thing? Only a move away from the main Clinton
>compromises that so infuriated the progressive left. Nader's voters were
>
>motivated passionately by issues like the drug war, the death penalty,
>consumer protection and national missile defense, issues where New
>Democrats  took Republican positions in their effort to woo the South.
>Clinton the  Southerner succeeded at this, but against Republicans who
>were
>only weakly  "Southern" at best.
>
>Gore, on the other hand, was principally a Northern candidate, strongly
>backed by the core Democrats, who ran against, and defeated so far as
>ballots  were concerned, a wholly Southern Republican.  Future
>Republicans
>almost  surely also will be "Southern" for that is where the base of
>the
>party now  lies. And future Democrats, if they are Northern candidates
>too,
>can beat  them,  all the more so if they bring the Greens back into the
>Democratic fold.
>
>In short, Al Gore's campaign proved that there is an electoral majority
>in
>the United States for a government that is truly a progressive
>coalition,
>and  not merely an assemblage of sympathetic lawyers, professors and
>investment  bankers. Rather, Americans will elect a government that
>firmly
>includes and  effectively represents labor, women, minorities and
>Greens.
>This is the  government we must seek to elect, IF we get another chance.
>
>And for that, the first task is to assure that the information
>ministries
>of  our new corporate republic do not successfully cast a fog of
>forgetting
>over  the CRIME that we have all just witnessed, with our own eyes."
>

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From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CNN confirms story of Peltier clemency
Date: 19 Jan 2001 11:44:10 +0000

Friends,

Although this is not on point re: nuclear abolition, nonetheless I'm
posting this great news about Leonard Peltier, knowing that few if any
on our listserves would object.

Today, after Gregor of Shundahai informed us that per CNN this morning,
Peltier has received clemency from Clinton, I called CNN's HQ in
Atlanta.  They did confirm this news.

Please pass this wonderful news along.

Peace...

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience
Bay Area Office:  P.O. Box 7849, Oakland, CA 94601, Tel.: [phone]

Las Vegas Office:  P.O. Box 46645, NV 89114, Tel.: [phone]
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From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CNN now says Peltier NOT yet pardoned
Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:33:59 +0000

Friends,

Although earlier today I telephoned CNN and got verbal confirmation that
Leonard Peltier's clemency was granted, upon a second confirmation call
just now, CNN said that he was being considered for clemency, but that
the final decision has not yet been made.  The final decision is to be
made by noon tomorrow (I presume East Coast Time).  Someone at CNN was
premature.

Sally Light
Executive Director
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From: Andrew Lichterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) new web site
Date: 19 Jan 2001 22:15:26 -0800

Apologies if you received this already-- there were some difficulties with the first
posting.

We are pleased to announce the new Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF)
web site, which can be found at www.wslfweb.org.

 A few highlights:

        -The documents library, which has a number of recent WSLF
publications available as acrobat pdf files.

        -Our web links page, which we hope will provide a useful starting
point for internet  research on nuclear weapons and related issues.

        -Our New Document Finds page, which has links to documents which we
have obtained via the Freedom of Information Act when those are available in
electronic form, plus links to government documents available on the
Internet which have not received much public notice and which may be of
interest to activists.  Available in Acrobat pdf format is the February
2000 U.S. Department of Defense "Defense Science and Technology Plans," recently
obtained by the Freedom of Information Act.

-Our Organizing for Abolition page, which includes links to:

--The Abolition 2000 Northern California Region page, which provides
information about meetings and other activities of the regional network.
Its address is http://www.wslfweb.org/abolition/ncal.htm.

--The new US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons web site, which can be
found at http://www.wslfweb.org/abolition/uscamp.htm.   The US Campaign,  part of the
Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, was initiated at a meeting in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, in October 1999.  WSLF is the interim clearinghouse for the US
Campaign.

Our apologies if you receive several postings of this notice, it is being
sent to several lists with some overlap in membership.

Andrew Lichterman
Program Director
Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin St. Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

phone:  [phone]
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--
Andrew Lichterman
Program Director
Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin St. Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill - 20 Jan 2001
Date: 21 Jan 2001 23:08:38 -0000

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While the assembled guests sat in their plastic-issued rainwear in =
Washington DC for the Inauguration of George W Bush as President of the =
USA, we gathered in the winter sunshine at the American National =
Security Agency (NSA) base at Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire, UK.  This =
base (and also Fylingdales) is crucial to George W Bush and his insane =
ideas to develop and deploy the National Missile Defense (NMD) system. =20

We were once again at the Main entrance of NSA Menwith Hill with banners =
and placards to show our deep concern at the use of this base in the NMD =
system.  We demonstrated with the US flag which had a simple message =
written on it:  'STOP STAR WARS'.  Another placard, resting on top of =
the sandbag defences in front of the control box, said 'George W =
Bush......Oh dear!'  There was a substantial press presence and filming =
by a French TV crew.
=20
Chris Dean once again accompanied a group of eight people on a walk =
inside the base they freely roamed all along the alarmed, razor-wired =
security fence line with no interference from the MoD police (we have =
been frequently arrested for doing this in the past). At one point the =
group came within a few metres of the two new Space Based Infra Red =
System (SBIRS) radomes. The walk inside the base took about one and a =
half hours and for a while a corner of the Yorkshire Dales was =
peacefully reclaimed.  =20

It was good to be there......it was essential to be there......and we =
will continue to be there to make sure that Menwith Hill, Fylingdales or =
any other US base in this country are not allowed to be used for the =
scary American NMD/TMD or BMD system.

The demonstration was organised by:

CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
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

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use of=20
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box,=20
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for=20
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few metres of=20
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for a=20
while a corner of the Yorkshire Dales was peacefully =
reclaimed.  =20
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It was good to be there......it was =
essential to be=20
there......and we will continue to be there to make sure that =
Menwith Hill,=20
Fylingdales or any other US base in this country are not allowed to be =
used for=20
the scary American NMD/TMD or BMD system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The demonstration was organised =
by:</FONT></DIV>
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702033</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>email: <A=20
href=3D"mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</=
A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Website: <A=20
href=3D"http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/">http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyo=
rks/caab/</A></FONT><FONT=20
face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><STRONG>"Never doubt that a small group =
of=20
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the =
only thing=20
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From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Vigil at USAF Feltwell, UK -20 Jan 2001
Date: 22 Jan 2001 01:02:28 -0000

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Dear Ffriends

As part of the George W Bush Inauguration Day Protests on 20 January =
four members of Norwich CND went to the American Deep and Near Space =
Tracking Facility USAF Feltwell, Norfolk, UK on Saturday. They held a =
vigil with placards (including some with Bush's picture on) for an hour =
and then leafletted in the local village. They got some toots of support =
from passing cars, and had some interesting conversations with the MoD =
police.
=20
The group is stepping up it's actions at USAF Feltwell due to it's =
possible implication in the American NMD system.
=20
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy (Co-coordinators)
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/
=20
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(including some with Bush's picture on) for an hour and then =
leafletted in=20
the local village. They got some toots of support from passing =
cars,=20
and had some interesting conversations with the MoD=20
police.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The group is stepping up it's actions =
at USAF=20
Feltwell due to it's possible implication in the American NMD=20
system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy=20
(Co-coordinators)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
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(CAAB)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>email: <A=20
href=3D"mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</=
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From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Consequences of French Nuclear Tests
Date: 21 Jan 2001 22:59:55 -0800



http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/pireport/2001/January/01-22-21.htm

Monday, January 22, 2001

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai'i



                         OBSERVATOIRE DES ARMES NUCL╔AIRES'
                    THE MONITORING GROUP OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

                                          Lyon, France

PRESS RELEASE
January 18, 2001

                       CONSEQUENCES OF FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS

The dossier on the consequences of the French nuclear tests will be put
before the French Parliamentary Office for evaluations of scientific and
technological decisions.

On January 17, the Defense Commission of the French National Assembly
proposed that the dossier on the consequences of the French nuclear tests be
put before the Parliamentary Office for evaluations of scientific and
technological decisions. This proposal followed on the request of the Green
deputy, Marie-Helene Aubert, and ten other Members of Parliament to install
a Commission of Inquiry.

"Although this return of the dossier to the Parliamentary Office shows the
embarrassment of the Defense Commission with 30 years of French nuclear
history, this proposal is also an indication that the Parliament is open
towards a serious examination of the consequences of the nuclear tests,"
says Bruno Barrillot of the Observatoire des armes nuclΘaires franτaises.

Moreover, a number of socialist MPs, including Jean-Marc Ayrault, the
president of the socialist group in the National Assembly, have expressed
their support for the transfer of the dossier to the parliamentary office.

The next step for them is to concretise this decision according to the
procedures of this parliamentary institute.

"The Office can receive the request to look into a dossier from the Bureau
of one of the two assemblies (by it's own initiative, at the request of the
president of a political group, or at the request of 60 deputies or 40
senators) of by a special or permanent commission".

The Observatoire des armes nuclΘaires franτaises, in co-operation with the
Comity Moruroa and Us in Tahiti and the Europe-Pacific Solidarity network
will remain alert and will see to it that the decision of 17 January will be
followed by concrete next steps. They are ready to contribute to the
parliamentary reflections and will open their own files and offer their
expertise on the consequences of the nuclear tests for the health and
environment.

The Obervatoire des armes nuclΘaires franτaises is a department of the
Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la paix et les Conflits (Centre
for the Documentation and Research on Peace and Conflicts).

Internet: www.obsarm.org

CDRPC
187, montΘe de choulans
69005 Lyon
TΘl: 04.78.36.93.03
Fax : [phone]
E-mail : [e-mail]
Contact : [e-mail]

ComitΘ de Suivi Moruroa et Nous
John Doom, co-ordinator
BP 5456
Pirae
Tahiti, Polynesie Francaise
Ph: +689-42.15.69

E-mail: [e-mail]

Europe Pacific Solidarity Network
C/ ECSIEP
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From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) fellowships for scholars to teach courses on the nuclear threat
Date: 22 Jan 2001 13:48:27 -0500


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Dear Friends of Nuclear Disarmament,

Following is an announcement I hope you'll be
interested in and will help disseminate to interested members of the
academic community. The Center on Violence and Human Survival in New
York City
organized a terrific conference last November entitled "The Second
Nuclear Age and the Academy". As part of the follow-up to the
conference, the Center secured a grant from the W. Alton Jones
Foundation to set up these fellowships for faculty to
design and teach courses on the nuclear threat.

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
****

Dear friend, I am pasting into this email notice of a fellowship program
that
I hopeyou will spread to your colleagues.  Best, Chuck Strozier

    The Nuclear Threat Fellowship Program
    The W. Alton Jones Fellows of the Center on Violence and Human
Survival

January, 2001

    The Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons of the Center on Violence and

Human Survival at John Jay College, in collaboration with the Office of
Continuing Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New
York, funded by the W. Alton Jones Foundation, is pleased to announce
eight
fellowships of $2,500 each for younger professors to teach a new course
in
the general area of nuclear threat.  No discipline is excluded from
consideration, and we encourage young faculty from all the arts and
sciences
to think about issues of ultimate destruction from within their
traditions.
We are especially committed to courses that examine nuclear threat from
a
humanistic and ethical perspective.

    Applications are being accepted until the end of March, 2001, and
consist
of a letter describing a proposed course, along with a draft syllabus,
to be
taught in the academic year 2001-2002 at some American college or
university.
 Please write Charles B. Strozier, Center on Violence and Human
Survival,
John Jay College, 555 West 57th Street, New York NY 10019.  The
selection
committee consists of Robert Jay Lifton, Jonathan Schell, Richard Falk,
Lawrence Wittner, and Merav Datan, with Strozier as the chair.  When
fellows
have been selected, we plan a general meeting in New York with members
of the
Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons for a broad discussion of nuclear
issues.

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<tt>Dear Friends of Nuclear Disarmament,</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>Following is an announcement I hope you'll be</tt>
<br><tt>interested in and will help disseminate to interested members of
the academic community. The Center on Violence and Human Survival in New
York City</tt>
<br><tt>organized a terrific conference last November entitled "The Second</tt>
<br><tt>Nuclear Age and the Academy". As part of the follow-up to the conference,
the Center secured a grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation to set up
these fellowships for faculty to</tt>
<br><tt>design and teach courses on the nuclear threat.</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>Kevin Martin</tt>
<br><tt>Director, Project Abolition</tt>
<br><tt>****</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>Dear friend, I am pasting into this email notice of a fellowship
program that</tt>
<br><tt>I hopeyou will spread to your colleagues.  Best, Chuck Strozier</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>    The Nuclear Threat Fellowship Program</tt>
<br><tt>    The W. Alton Jones Fellows of the Center on
Violence and Human Survival</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>January, 2001</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>    The Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons of the
Center on Violence and</tt>
<br><tt>Human Survival at John Jay College, in collaboration with the Office
of</tt>
<br><tt>Continuing Education at the Graduate Center of the City University
of New</tt>
<br><tt>York, funded by the W. Alton Jones Foundation, is pleased to announce
eight</tt>
<br><tt>fellowships of $2,500 each for younger professors to teach a new
course in</tt>
<br><tt>the general area of nuclear threat.  No discipline is excluded
from</tt>
<br><tt>consideration, and we encourage young faculty from all the arts
and sciences</tt>
<br><tt>to think about issues of ultimate destruction from within their
traditions.</tt>
<br><tt>We are especially committed to courses that examine nuclear threat
from a</tt>
<br><tt>humanistic and ethical perspective.</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>    Applications are being accepted until the end
of March, 2001, and consist</tt>
<br><tt>of a letter describing a proposed course, along with a draft syllabus,
to be</tt>
<br><tt>taught in the academic year 2001-2002 at some American college
or university.</tt>
<br><tt> Please write Charles B. Strozier, Center on Violence and
Human Survival,</tt>
<br><tt>John Jay College, 555 West 57th Street, New York NY 10019.
The selection</tt>
<br><tt>committee consists of Robert Jay Lifton, Jonathan Schell, Richard
Falk,</tt>
<br><tt>Lawrence Wittner, and Merav Datan, with Strozier as the chair.
When fellows</tt>
<br><tt>have been selected, we plan a general meeting in New York with
members of the</tt>
<br><tt>Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons for a broad discussion of nuclear
issues.</tt></html>

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) New on Tri-Valley CAREs' web site!
Date: 22 Jan 2001 20:44:44 -0800

Dear peace and environmental advocates:

Tri-Valley CAREs has new information up on its web site. Visit us at
http://www.igc.org/tvc. You will find:

The January 2001 edition of Citizen's Watch, including

        * De-Alerting: The Time is Now -- an article on taking nuclear
weapons off hair-trigger alert and information about the national call-in
days, Monday and Tuesday, February 5 and 6. READ ALL ABOUT IT IN CITIZEN'S
WATCH. THEN, CALL THE WHITE HOUSE AT 1-202-456-1414.

        * Nagasaki Appeal -- excerpts from the statement of the Nagasaki
Global Citizen's Assembly, held Nov. 20, 2000. This statement sets the tone
for much of our peace and disarmament work in the new millennium.

        * Happy Birthday to You, Martin Luther King, Jr. --  read and
reflect on the six principles of nonviolence and the six steps for
nonviolent social change. These selections about Dr. King's work were taken
from the publication, "Active Nonviolence: A Way of Life, A Strategy for
Change," by Richard Deats, Shelley Douglass and Melinda Moore.

        * Pollution at Livermore Lab's site 300, the Citizen's Alerts
calendar section, Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming Diversity Training, thank yous
to our donors -- and more!

On our web site, you will also find our latest report on the Dept. of
Energy's Stockpile Stewardship program, the job listing for our Community
Organizer position (thinking of moving to the Livermore area? Know someone
else who would be perfect for the job?), a 4-page fact sheet on health
impacts of Livermore Lab operations, easy to click-on links to other
groups' web sites, and much, much more.

Check out our web site, and use the "send email" function there to let us
know how you like it and/or any suggestions you have.

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: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: War Crimes Against Koreans
Date: 24 Jan 2001 13:16:19 -0500

>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:14:53 -0500
>Subject: War Crimes Against Koreans
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Dear friends:
>
>Below is an appeal from the Korea Truth Commission on U.S. Military
>Massacres of Civilians.  We are sending this to you because of your
>endorsement of the ICPJ  DECLARATION AND CALL TO ACTION FOR SOLIDARITY WITH
>THE KOREAN PEOPLE,FOR REUNIFICATION OF KOREA, FOR REMOVAL OF U.S. TROOPS
>AND
>BASES FROM KOREA or because of concern you have otherwise expressed about
>this issue.
>
>We urge you to endorse support the important initiative described in the
>following Appeals. (Please respond and return to [e-mail]) Among many
>groups that have endorsed initially, are: International Center for Peace
>and
>Justice; International Peace Bureau; Pax Romana, Geneva; Austrian
>Fellowship
>of Reconciliation (FOR).
>
>The International Jurists so far include among others: Edith Ballantyne,
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Swiss);Ismael
>Guadalupe,
>Committee for Rescue and Development of Vieques (Puerto Rico); Thomas
>Gumbleton, Bishop, Detroit Diocese of the Catholic Church of USA; George
>Hage MP, French National Parliament (France); Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace
>Laureate (Guatemala); Peter Shaw, Korean War Vet, Veterans for Peace (USA);
>Elmar Schmaehling, former German Navy Admiral, PDS (Germany);Dr. Dave
>Dellinger, Co-chair, Toward Freedom (USA); Ambassador Benjamin Dupuy, Haiti
>Progres (Haiti); Chen Jifeng, Secretary General, Chinese People's
>Association for Peace and Disarmament (China); Anselmo Lee, Secretary
>General, Pax Romana (Korea); Angeles Maestro, Spanish National Parliament
>(Spain); Michiel Maertens, Federal Parliament of Belgium Senate (Belgium);
>Rae Street, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (England); Dr. Rosalie
>Bertell,
>Founder, Int'l Institute of Concern for Public Health (Canada); Eun Young
>Chung, chairperson, Nogun Ri Massacre Task Force (South Korea);=20
>Henry Alleg, former co-editor of French Daily, Lumanite (Algerie); Karen
>Talbot, International Center for Peace and Justice (USA); Lucius Walker,
>Pastors for Peace (USA); Brian Willson, Veterans for Peace (USA); Suh Sung,
>a South Korean long-term (20years) political prisoner, Professor of Law,
>Ritsumeikan University in Japan (Korean-Japanese.=20
>
>Sincerely,
>Karen Talbot
>International Center for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
>-------------
>
>Help the People's Investigation of U.S. War Crimes
>Against Korea=20
>
>Join International Grass Roots Groups Organizing for
>War Crimes Tribunal,=20
>June 23rd, NEW YORK CITY
>
>           LIST YOUR GROUP AS AN ENDORSER!
>
>        Since September of 1999, evidences of more than 160
>instances of US-led military attacks on more than 2.5
>million Korean non-combatants (Washington Post, June
>13, 2000 ) during the Korean War have surfaced.=20
>Hundreds of thousands of children, women, and elderly
>people are believed to have been massacred as a result
>of orders from the top U.S. military leadership. =20
>Because of the anti-communist/right wing atmosphere
>whipped up during the McCarthy era, an anti-war
>opposition in the United States never developed, and
>the U.S mass media never revealed these horrific
>crimes.  Consequently, Washington and its long series
>of south Korean client regimes have been able to
>suppress the Korean people's cry for justice.
>
>        On June 23rd, 2001 Koreans (including some who are
>survivors of such attacks) from both north and south
>Korea, and from Canada, Europe, Japan, the United
>States and other Korean communities around the world,
>will meet in New York City to take part in a war
>crimes tribunal.  The tribunal will be the culmination
>of a people's investigation of the role of the US-led
>military in massacres of civilians during the war. =20
> =20
>       The investigation has included a series of
>trips to south Korea during which activists visited
>massacre sites, interviewed survivors, and saw
>evidences that refuted the U.S. contention that the
>numbers of  Korean civilians killed by US-led troops
>during the war have been exaggerated, and that any
>killings were not due to commanders=92 orders but to
>panic and  inexperience of the troops. =20
>       =20
>        The investigation teams to south Korea also attended
>demonstrations protesting the continued division of
>Korea and the continued presence of 37,000 U.S. troops
>who have committed more than 100,000 crimes against
>civilians since 1953.  Due to the notorious U.S.=92
>arbitrary agreement with its client south Korean
>regimes on the status of U.S. troops, only less than 1
>% of those despicable crimes have been brought to
>Korean legal systems.
>
>        The participants from both Koreas and overseas Korean
>communities will be joined by former US Attorney
>General Ramsey Clark and other progressive and anti
>war activists throughout the country.  Representatives
>from the 15 other countries that participated in the
>war will also be present.  They will put the U.S.
>government, particularly the Washington DC war-makers,
>on trial for their crimes against the Korean people.
>
>        TO ENDORSE THE CALL for the June 23rd War Crimes
>Tribunal=20
>        e-mail [e-mail]
>        [e-mail] (and type Korea War Crimes
>Tribunal in the subject line.)
>
>
>CALL TO ACTION
>
>       =20
>        In September of 1999, the Associated Press began
>publishing a series of articles resulting from a long
>investigation of a massacre that took place at the
>south Korean village of NoGun-ri in July of 1950. =20
>Hundreds of villagers were pinned beneath a bridge for
>3 days as US military forces strafed them from
>aircraft, mowed them down with machine gun fire, and
>fired mortars at them.  It is believed that some 400
>villagers were massacred.  This My Lai-like episode
>was only the most prominent among many that were
>brought out by the AP in the ensuing months.  There is
>evidence that the mass executions of perhaps 100,000
>prisoners by the south Korean regime were carried out
>with the complicity of their commanders/sponsors in
>Washington DC.   What emerged in the AP series and
>from other sources was not "mistakes by panic stricken
>troops" as the current US investigation of NoGun-ri
>implies - but rather a systematic campaign of
>extermination that targeted the broad and progressive
>Korean resistance movement.  What happened in Korea is
>scarcely different than  the carnage at the Highway of
>Death during the U.S. war against Iraq in 1991, the
>U.S. bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in August of
>1998 in Sudan, or the bombing of civilians in Panama
>or Yugoslavia.
>=20
>
>        The Korea Truth Commission, and International Action
>Center to investigate U.S. War Crimes, have jointly
>called for this important war crimes tribunal in order
>to expose the true nature of the U.S. war against
>Korea.  However this call for action is not for the
>sake of accusation regarding the past, but for a TRUE
>RECONCILIATION which will be possible only after the
>truth is fully told.
>=20
>        Only a people's campaign in solidarity with the
>Korean fight for truth, self-determination and justice
>can succeed in revealing the whole truth about the war
>the U.S. illegally waged 50 years ago, and  end the
>division of Korea and the continued presence 37,000
>U.S. troop in south Korea.  We invite your
>organization to endorse this historic event and join
>us  in New York City, on June 23rd.
>
>
>        TO ENDORSE THE CALL for the June 23rd War Crimes
>Tribunal=20
>        e-mail : [e-mail]
>                     [e-mail]=20
>                           (and type Korea War Crimes
>Tribunal in the subject line.)
>
>      Or fill out the following form:
>      ___ Yes, add my name/my organization's name to
>the endorsers' list for June 23rd.
>      Name:
>_____________________________________________________
>      Name of organization:
>_____________________________________
>      (* if for identification purposes only)
>       =20
>      ____ Yes, I can contribute to help this
>mobilization (suggested donation for endorsing
>organizations: $100, $50, or $25 depending on ability;
>donations can be sent to the KTC)
>           Korea Truth Commission
>              #255071981-27434129
>           Chevy Chase Bank, 2351
>           Randolp Road, Silver Spring
>           MD 20906, U.S.A
>
>      ____ Yes, I can organize transportation to NYC
>and be an organizing center for the mobilization.
>      ____ Please send me literature by mail to help
>promote the June 23rd Tribunal.
>
>     =20
>     Yours in solidarity,
>=20
>   =20
>   Rev. Kiyul Chung, Secretary General          =20
>   Korea Truth Commission
>   733, 15th St. NW, Suite 515, Washington DC, 20005
>   email: [e-mail]         =20
>   web: http:// www.koreatruthcommission.org      =20
>          (will be available by the end of Jan.)   =20
>   phone: [phone]=20
>   fax : [phone]                       =20
>
>  Mr. Ramsey Clark (former US Attorney General)=20
>  International Action Center
>  39 West 14th Street, Room 206=20
>  New York, NY 10011 =20
>  email: [e-mail]
>  web: http://www.iacenter.org
>  phone: [phone]     =20
>  fax: [phone]
>
>CALL TO ACTION
>BY
>KOREA TRUTH COMMISSION / INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
>   =20
>
>Help the People's Investigation of U.S. War Crimes
>Against Korea=20
>
>Join International Grass Roots Groups Organizing for
>War Crimes Tribunal,=20
>June 23rd, NEW YORK CITY
>
>WE INVITE YOU/YOUR ORGANIZATION=92S DELEGATION TO JOIN
>US IN THIS HISTORIC PEOPLE=92S TRIBUNAL
>
>        Since September of 1999, evidences of more than 160
>instances of US-led military attacks on more than 2.5
>million Korean non-combatants (Washington Post, June
>13, 2000 ) during the Korean War have surfaced.=20
>Hundreds of thousands of children, women, and elderly
>people are believed to have been massacred as a result
>of orders from the top U.S. military leadership. =20
>Because of the anti-communist/right wing atmosphere
>whipped up during the McCarthy era, an anti-war
>opposition in the United States never developed, and
>the U.S mass media never revealed these horrific
>crimes.  Consequently, Washington and its long series
>of south Korean client regimes have been able to
>suppress the Korean people's cry for justice.
>
>        On June 23rd, 2001 Koreans (including some who are
>survivors of such attacks) from both north and south
>Korea, and from Canada, Europe, Japan, the United
>States and other Korean communities around the world,
>will meet in New York City to take part in a war
>crimes tribunal.  The tribunal will be the culmination
>of a people's investigation of the role of the US-led
>military in massacres of civilians during the war.=20
>
>         The investigation has included a series of
>trips to south Korea during which activists visited
>massacre sites, interviewed survivors, and saw
>evidences that refuted the U.S. contention that the
>numbers of  Korean civilians killed by US-led troops
>during the war have been exaggerated, and that any
>killings were not due to commanders=92 orders but to
>panic and inexperience of the troops. =20
>       =20
>        The investigation teams to south Korea also attended
>demonstrations protesting the continued division of
>Korea and the continued presence of 37,000 U.S. troops
>who have committed more than 100,000 crimes against
>civilians since 1953.  Due to the notorious U.S.
>arbitrary agreement with its client south Korean
>regimes on the status of U.S. troops, only less than 1
>% of those despicable crimes have been brought to
>Korean legal systems.
>
>        The participants from both Koreas and overseas Korean
>communities will be joined by former US Attorney
>General Ramsey Clark and other progressive and anti
>war activists throughout the country.  Representatives
>from the 15 other countries that participated in the
>war will also be present.  They will put the U.S.
>government, particularly the Washington DC war-makers,
>on trial for their crimes against the Korean people.
>
>JOIN US IN THE HISTORIC EFFORT TO BRING TRUTH TO LIGHT!
>                =20
>        In September of 1999, the Associated Press began
>publishing a series of articles resulting from a long
>investigation of a massacre that took place at the
>south Korean village of NoGun-ri in July of 1950. =20
>Hundreds of villagers were pinned beneath a bridge for
>3 days as US military forces strafed them from
>aircraft, mowed them down with machine gun fire, and
>fired mortars at them.  It is believed that some 400
>villagers were massacred.  This My Lai-like episode
>was only the most prominent among many that were
>brought out by the AP in the ensuing months.  There is
>evidence that the mass executions of perhaps 100,000
>prisoners by the south Korean regime were carried out
>with the complicity of their commanders/sponsors in
>Washington DC.   What emerged in the AP series and
>from other sources was not "mistakes by panic stricken
>troops" as the current US investigation of NoGun-ri
>implies - but rather a systematic campaign of
>extermination that targeted the broad and progressive
>Korean resistance movement.  What happened in Korea is
>scarcely different than  the carnage at the Highway of
>Death during the U.S. war against Iraq in 1991, the
>U.S. bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in August of
>1998 in Sudan, or the bombing of civilians in Panama
>or Yugoslavia.
>=20
>
>        The Korea Truth Commission, and International Action
>Center to investigate U.S. War Crimes, have jointly
>called for this important war crimes tribunal in order
>to expose the true nature of the U.S. war against
>Korea.  However this call for action is not for the
>sake of accusation regarding the past, but for a TRUE
>RECONCILIATION which will be possible only after the
>truth is fully told.
>=20
>        Only a people's campaign in solidarity with the
>Korean fight for truth, self-determination and justice
>can succeed in revealing the whole truth about the war
>the U.S. illegally waged 50 years ago, and  end the
>division of Korea and the continued presence 37,000
>U.S. troop in south Korea.  We invite your
>organization to endorse this historic event and join
>us  in New York City, on June 23rd.
>
>
> TO JOIN THE TRIBUNAL in the June 23rd War Crimes
>Tribunal,  Please let us know by email that you want
>to join US:=20
>       =20
>                   [e-mail]
>                             Or
>                   [e-mail]=20
>                    (and type Korea War Crimes
>Tribunal in the subject line.)
>
>      Or fill out the following form:
>      ___ Yes, add my name/my organization's name to
>the participant' list for June 23rd and Peace March
>June 24th =AD 25th.
>      Name:
>_____________________________________________________
>      Name of organization:
>_____________________________________
>      (* if for identification purposes only)
>       =20
>      ____ Yes, I can contribute to help this
>mobilization (suggested donation for endorsing
>organizations:$100, $50, or $25 depending on ability;
>donations can be sent to the KTC)
>             Korea Truth Commission
>             #255071981-27434129
>             Chevy Chase Bank, 2351
>             Randolp Road, Silver Spring
>             MD 20906, U.S.A
>      ____ Yes, I can organize transportation to NYC
>and be an organizing center for the mobilization.
>      ____ Please send me literature by mail to help
>promote the June 23rd Tribunal.
>
>     =20
>     Yours in solidarity,
>=20
>   =20
>   Rev. Kiyul Chung, Secretary General          =20
>   Korea Truth Commission
>   733, 15th St. NW, Suite 515, Washington DC, 20005
>   email: [e-mail]         =20
>   web: http:// www.koreatruthcommission.org      =20
>          (will be available by the end of Jan.)   =20
>   phone: [phone]=20
>   fax : [phone]                       =20
>
>  Mr. Ramsey Clark (former US Attorney General)=20
>  International Action Center
>  39 West 14th Street, Room 206=20
>  New York, NY 10011 =20
>  email: [e-mail]
>  web: http://www.iacenter.org
>  phone: [phone]     =20
>  fax: [phone]
>
>
>As the No gun-ri massacre incident was unraveled via the Associated Press
>in
>September 1999, cries of victims, relatives and witnesses of U.S. soldier's
>atrocities against Korean civilians exploded after fifty years of silence
>and fear. =20
> =20

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your Senators
Date: 24 Jan 2001 13:39:20 -0500

>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:22:07 -0500
>Subject: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your Senators Today!!
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Dear Friend of Democrats.com,
>
>If you listen to the media reports on the Ashcroft nomination, you would
>conclude that he emerged from four days of hearings without a scratch, and
>will sail through his confirmation vote by the Senate.
>
>We assure you - nothing could be further from the truth!
>
>Here is just one indication: today, the New York Times joined us in urging
>Senate Democrats to filibuster Ashcroft.
>
>Sensing that the tide is turning against Ashcroft, Republicans on the
>Judiciary Committee - led by anti-choice zealot Orrin Hatch - are trying
>to force a quick vote to send Ashcroft's nomination to the full Senate.
>
>But the Democrats have just submitted a list of detailed questions that
>are crucial to consider before voting. Ashcroft will not have time to
>answer these questions before Wednesday. Moreover, Ashcroft's answers are
>bound to raise further questions, because his testimony has been full of
>contradictions - and worse.
>
>During the hearings, Senators were given important new information about
>Ashcroft's extreme positions on the issues. And they were also exposed
>directly to Ashcroft's repeated evasions and outright lies - yes, the same
>actions that caused the Republican Congress (led prominently by Ashcroft)
>to impeach our last elected President, Bill Clinton.
>
>The Attorney General of the United States is the nation's chief law
>enforcer, civil rights officer and government ethics watchdog. The
>Attorney General should be someone who is distinguished by his or her
>ethics, integrity, and impartiality. But as the hearings proved, John
>Ashcroft meets NONE of these qualifications. He is a die-hard and
>cutthroat partisan, a rabid ideologue, and - worst of all - a serial liar.
>
>In the final analysis, we believe the single most important reason
>Ashcroft should be defeated is because of his lies, as we have documented
>in detail at:
>http://ashcroftlied.com
>
>1. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about Judge Ronnie White when he
>blocked his nomination to the Federal judiciary, and lied again to the
>Senate about his reasons for doing so
>
>2. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing James
>Hormel for Ambassador to Luxembourg
>
>3. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing David
>Satcher for Surgeon General
>
>4. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate four times about his role in
>Missouri's school desegregation struggle
>
>5. John Ashcroft lied to the American people when he said he didn't know
>the teachings and practices of Bob Jones University
>
>6. John Ashcroft lied to the people of Missouri about his misuse of his
>government employees for his re-election campaigns
>
>These lies were not simple misstatements of facts. They were calculated
>lies, intended to punish individuals who disagreed with him on his core
>ideological issues, namely opposition to abortion rights, gay rights, and
>civil rights. John Ashcroft has no integrity - he will do anything to
>defeat his chosen enemies.
>
>With your help, we have been gathering feedback on the positions of the 50
>Democratic Senators. At this point, here is how the votes look. If you
>have a Democratic Senator or two, see where they stand - and take
>appropriate action.
>
>We cannot believe that any Democrats are even considering voting for
>Ashcroft. The reasons for rejecting him are so overwhelming that there is
>absolutely no reason why any Democrat should support him.
>
>We have identified 12 Democrats who are solidly opposed to Ashcroft. They
>should be thanked by their constituents.
>
>All of the other Democrats - as well as the five pro-choice Republicans -
>should be called EVERY DAY by their constituents. While they should be
>urged to vote against Ashcroft on principle, they should also be persuaded
>of the crucial POLITICAL reasons for voting against Ashcroft.
>
>None of these Senators would have been elected - or will be re-elected -
>without the support of key Democratic constituencies in their own states.
>In particular, that means women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans,
>Asian Americans, gays, environmentalists, gun control supporters,
>liberals, and progressives. ALL of these groups are united in their solid
>opposition to Ashcroft. It is time for these Senators to recognize and
>honor their obligations to these groups.
>
>If you are a local leader in one of these groups, please remind your
>Senator of the important constituency you represent, and get your members
>to make calls. If you know the leaders of these groups, make sure they are
>making calls, and urging their members to do so.
>
>If you see an * before a name, that means they are up for re-election in
>2002. These individuals will need every ounce of support from progressive
>activists, and should be especially responsive to our appeals. Similarly,
>an ^ indicates a Senator who has been mentioned as a potential
>Presidential candidate in 2004.
>
>1. Democrats Opposed to Ashcroft
>
>If they represent you, call them to thank them.
>
>CA: Barbara Boxer 202-224-3553 415-403-0100
>*^DE: Joseph Biden 202-224-5042 302-573-6345
>*IL: Richard Durbin 202-224-215 2217-492-4062
>IN: B. Evan Bayh 202-224-562 3317-554-0750
>MA: Edward M. Kennedy 202-224-4543 617-565-3170
>MD: Barbara Mikulski 202-224-4654 301-263-1805
>*MI: Carl Levin 202-224-6221 313-226-6020
>NJ: Jon Corzine 202-224-4744
>NY: Hillary Clinton 202-224-4451
>*RI: John F. 'Jack' Reed 202-224-4642 401-943-3100
>VT: Patrick Leahy 202-224-4242 802-863-2525
>
>2. Nervous Democrats
>
>These Senators should be solidly in the "opposed" column, but they are not
>there yet so we need to convince them to do the right thing. In addition
>to Ashcroft's lies, we must also stress his grotesque unfairness to James
>Hormel, Judge Ronnie White, and Clinton judicial nominee Alex Bartlett,
>who Ashcroft admitted he blocked for reasons having nothing to do with
>Bartlett's qualifications for the job. The important argument is
>Ashcroft's inability and refusal to see and do what is right and just.
>Ashcroft used his post as a Senator to take positions - such as his
>virulent opposition to Hormel simply because he was gay - that in a normal
>hiring process wouldn't even be legal. Finally, these Senators should be
>questioned about Ashcroft's crazy attempt to reconcile Roe v. Wade with
>his anti-abortion record and agenda.
>
>CA: Dianne Feinstein 202-224-3841 619-231-9712
>*MN: Paul David Wellstone 202-224-5641 651-645-0323
>WI: Russ Feingold 202-224-5323 608-828-1200
>
>3. Silent Democrats
>
>These Senators have not sent signals either way. That means these are the
>most important Senators for us to reach, because they are the swing votes.
>They should vote against Ashcroft both on principle and on politics -
>namely, they need our support to win.
>
>AR: Blanche Lambert Lincoln 202-224-4843 501-375-2993
>CT: Christopher Dodd 202-224-2823 860-240-3470
>CT: Joseph Lieberman 202-224-4041 860-549-8463
>DE: Tom Carper 202-224-2441
>FL: Bob Graham 202-224-3041 305-536-7293
>FL: Bill Nelson 202-224-5274
>*GA: Joseph Maxwell Cleland 202-224-3521 404-331-4811
>HI: Daniel Inouye 202-224-3934 808-541-2542
>HI: Daniel Kahikina Akaka 202-224-6361 808-522-8970
>*IA: Tom Harkin 202-224-3254 515-284-4574
>LA: John Breaux 202-224-4623 504-589-2531
>*LA: Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824 504-589-2427
>*^MA: John Forbes Kerry 202-224-2742 617-565-8519
>MD: Paul Sarbanes 202-224-4524 410-962-4436
>MI: Debbie Stabenow 202-224-4822
>MN: Mark Dayton 202-224-3244
>MO: Jean Carnahan 202-224-6154 314-531-2006
>*MT: Max Baucus 202-224-2651 406-329-3123
>NC: John Edwards 202-224-3154 919-856-4245
>NE: Ben Nelson 202-224-6551
>*NJ: Robert Torricelli 202-224-3224 973-624-5555
>NM: Jeff Bingaman 202-224-5521 505-988-6647
>NV: Harry Reid 202-224-3542 775-885-9111
>NY: Charles Schumer 202-224-6542 212-486-4430
>OR: Ron Wyden 202-224-5244 503-326-7525
>SC: Ernest Hollings 202-224-6121 803-765-5731
>SD: Thomas Daschle 202-224-2321 605-225-8823
>*SD: Tim P. Johnson 202-224-5842 605-332-8896
>WA: Patty Murray 202-224-2621 206-553-5545
>WA: Maria Cantwell 202-224-3441
>WI: Herbert Kohl 202-224-5653 414-297-4451
>*WV: Jay Rockefeller 202-224-6472 304-347-5372
>
>4. Lost Democrats
>
>These Democrats have announced their support for Ashcroft. That suggests
>that these Senators are have lost their way. Perhaps their constituents
>can help them find their way back to the side of Truth, Justice, and the
>American Way.
>
>GA: Zell Miller 202-224-3643 404-347-2202
>ND: Kent Conrad 202-224-2043 701-232-8030
>ND: Byron Dorgan 202-224-2551 701-250-4618
>WV: Robert Byrd 202-224-3954 304-342-5855
>
>5. Pro-choice Republicans
>
>These Republicans ran as strong supporters of a woman's right to choose
>and as environmentalists. They received key support and funding from pro-
>choice PACs, such as WISH List and NARAL, and environmental groups like
>the Sierra Club. Ashcroft lied under oath when he swore that he would not
>look for opportunities to outlaw abortions - it's the first thing he will
>do every morning, and the last thing he will do at night. It is the single
>most important goal in his life, as he stated repeatedly during his
>career. No Republican who votes for Ashcroft can continue to call
>themselves "pro-choice" - and future pro-choice Democrats will use a pro-
>Ashcroft vote as Exhibit A in their campaigns. This argument should be
>especially persuasive with Susan Collins, who is up for re-election in
>2002.
>
>ME: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) 202-224-5344 207-780-3575
>*ME: Sen. Susan M. Collins (R) 202-224-2523 207-945-0417
>PA: Sen. Arlen Specter (R) 202-224-4254 215-597-7200
>RI: Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R) 202-224-2921 401-528-5294
>VT: Sen. Jim Jeffords (R) 202-224-5141 802-658-6001
>
>
>We urge you to do four things:
>
>1. CALL your Senators, especially if they are on one of the above lists.
>If you can, visit their district offices and leave them a hand written
>note. Keep trying until you reach a human being who appears to be paid to
>listen to you.
>
>2. FORWARD this message to other Democratic activists, especially people
>active in African American, pro-choice and gay/lesbian advocacy. But do
>not leave this to others to do your work for you. We ALL have a stake in
>this.
>
>3. SIGN-UP for our daily newsletter by sending a blank e-mail message to
>[e-mail].
>
>4. STOP BELIEVING TOM BROKAW. And that goes for Dan Rather and Peter
>Jennings, too. Those guys will be the last people in America to know when
>Ashcroft is toast. Remember, their job is not to get it right. Their job
>is to attract eyeballs to sell laxatives, drugs and automobiles - and to
>maximize profits for their Republican corporate owners. We can make the
>news. They're entertainers and Republican flaks.
>
>We are convinced like never before that we can win this battle and turn
>back the forces of reaction. We can make it very, very difficult for the
>Republicans to secure the support of 10 Democratic Senators. Far more than
>Bush's inauguration, this vote is the start of the new government. If we
>support one another and light a fire under our Senators, then we can set
>the stage for some very significant progressive victories on the crucial
>battles to come.
>
>-- Bob Fertik and David Lytel
>
>Democrats.com: The Aggressive Progressives
>
>
>
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From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: List of Top 100 Defense Contractors Now Available
Date: 24 Jan 2001 12:22:42 -0700

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>
>PRESS ADVISORY from the United States Department of Defense
>
>No. 025-P
>PRESS ADVISORY  January 24, 2001
>The Department of Defense announced today that the fiscal year 2000
>listing of the 100 companies receiving the largest dollar volume of
>prime contract awards is now available on the Web at <a
>href="http://web1.whs.osd.mil/peidhome/procstat/p01/fy2000/top100.htm">http://web1.whs.osd.mil/peidhome/procstat/p01/fy2000/top100.htm</a>
>.
>The top ten defense contractors for fiscal year 2000 and the dollar
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your
Date: 25 Jan 2001 09:51:07 -0500

I am disturbed that the abolition-usa e-mail list is being used to
promote
partisan political positions and, in particular, to promote the
pro-choice agenda.
Pax Christi USA, which I represent in the nuclear abolition movement,
takes no
position on the election or selection of particular political
candidates, so I won't
comment on the Ashcroft appointment here.

Let me remind you that the nuclear abolition movement includes a whole
sub-network called the Seamless Garment Network, composed of many
organizations and individuals of different religious traditions and some
with no religious tradition. Pax Christi is a member of that network,
which supports a consistent ethic of life that opposes war, preparations
for war, capital punishment,
abortion, and other evils that threaten human life. When you promulgate
your pro-choice
views on the abortion-usa list, you offend pro-life progressives like me
and my friends.

More importantly, if our common cause of nuclear abolition is to
succeed, I submit that
we need to avoid divisive actions. We need to be welcoming to people who
disagree with us
on other issues. That means accepting and not offending both pro-choice
and pro-life people;
Democrats, Republicans, Greens; liberals, conservatives, and
progressives; gays and straights;
and folks of different religions or no religion. In short, all of
humanity is threatened by
weapons of mass destruction and need to rally together to abolish those
weapons.

Respectfully,
Frank Dworak
Pax Christi USA Representative


ASlater wrote:
>
> >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:22:07 -0500
> >Subject: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your Senators Today!!
> >Priority: non-urgent
> >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
> >To: [e-mail]
> >From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
> >
> >Dear Friend of Democrats.com,
> >
> >If you listen to the media reports on the Ashcroft nomination, you would
> >conclude that he emerged from four days of hearings without a scratch, and
> >will sail through his confirmation vote by the Senate.
> >
> >We assure you - nothing could be further from the truth!
> >
> >Here is just one indication: today, the New York Times joined us in urging
> >Senate Democrats to filibuster Ashcroft.
> >
> >Sensing that the tide is turning against Ashcroft, Republicans on the
> >Judiciary Committee - led by anti-choice zealot Orrin Hatch - are trying
> >to force a quick vote to send Ashcroft's nomination to the full Senate.
> >
> >But the Democrats have just submitted a list of detailed questions that
> >are crucial to consider before voting. Ashcroft will not have time to
> >answer these questions before Wednesday. Moreover, Ashcroft's answers are
> >bound to raise further questions, because his testimony has been full of
> >contradictions - and worse.
> >
> >During the hearings, Senators were given important new information about
> >Ashcroft's extreme positions on the issues. And they were also exposed
> >directly to Ashcroft's repeated evasions and outright lies - yes, the same
> >actions that caused the Republican Congress (led prominently by Ashcroft)
> >to impeach our last elected President, Bill Clinton.
> >
> >The Attorney General of the United States is the nation's chief law
> >enforcer, civil rights officer and government ethics watchdog. The
> >Attorney General should be someone who is distinguished by his or her
> >ethics, integrity, and impartiality. But as the hearings proved, John
> >Ashcroft meets NONE of these qualifications. He is a die-hard and
> >cutthroat partisan, a rabid ideologue, and - worst of all - a serial liar.
> >
> >In the final analysis, we believe the single most important reason
> >Ashcroft should be defeated is because of his lies, as we have documented
> >in detail at:
> >http://ashcroftlied.com
> >
> >1. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about Judge Ronnie White when he
> >blocked his nomination to the Federal judiciary, and lied again to the
> >Senate about his reasons for doing so
> >
> >2. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing James
> >Hormel for Ambassador to Luxembourg
> >
> >3. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing David
> >Satcher for Surgeon General
> >
> >4. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate four times about his role in
> >Missouri's school desegregation struggle
> >
> >5. John Ashcroft lied to the American people when he said he didn't know
> >the teachings and practices of Bob Jones University
> >
> >6. John Ashcroft lied to the people of Missouri about his misuse of his
> >government employees for his re-election campaigns
> >
> >These lies were not simple misstatements of facts. They were calculated
> >lies, intended to punish individuals who disagreed with him on his core
> >ideological issues, namely opposition to abortion rights, gay rights, and
> >civil rights. John Ashcroft has no integrity - he will do anything to
> >defeat his chosen enemies.
> >
> >With your help, we have been gathering feedback on the positions of the 50
> >Democratic Senators. At this point, here is how the votes look. If you
> >have a Democratic Senator or two, see where they stand - and take
> >appropriate action.
> >
> >We cannot believe that any Democrats are even considering voting for
> >Ashcroft. The reasons for rejecting him are so overwhelming that there is
> >absolutely no reason why any Democrat should support him.
> >
> >We have identified 12 Democrats who are solidly opposed to Ashcroft. They
> >should be thanked by their constituents.
> >
> >All of the other Democrats - as well as the five pro-choice Republicans -
> >should be called EVERY DAY by their constituents. While they should be
> >urged to vote against Ashcroft on principle, they should also be persuaded
> >of the crucial POLITICAL reasons for voting against Ashcroft.
> >
> >None of these Senators would have been elected - or will be re-elected -
> >without the support of key Democratic constituencies in their own states.
> >In particular, that means women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans,
> >Asian Americans, gays, environmentalists, gun control supporters,
> >liberals, and progressives. ALL of these groups are united in their solid
> >opposition to Ashcroft. It is time for these Senators to recognize and
> >honor their obligations to these groups.
> >
> >If you are a local leader in one of these groups, please remind your
> >Senator of the important constituency you represent, and get your members
> >to make calls. If you know the leaders of these groups, make sure they are
> >making calls, and urging their members to do so.
> >
> >If you see an * before a name, that means they are up for re-election in
> >2002. These individuals will need every ounce of support from progressive
> >activists, and should be especially responsive to our appeals. Similarly,
> >an ^ indicates a Senator who has been mentioned as a potential
> >Presidential candidate in 2004.
> >
> >1. Democrats Opposed to Ashcroft
> >
> >If they represent you, call them to thank them.
> >
> >CA: Barbara Boxer 202-224-3553 415-403-0100
> >*^DE: Joseph Biden 202-224-5042 302-573-6345
> >*IL: Richard Durbin 202-224-215 2217-492-4062
> >IN: B. Evan Bayh 202-224-562 3317-554-0750
> >MA: Edward M. Kennedy 202-224-4543 617-565-3170
> >MD: Barbara Mikulski 202-224-4654 301-263-1805
> >*MI: Carl Levin 202-224-6221 313-226-6020
> >NJ: Jon Corzine 202-224-4744
> >NY: Hillary Clinton 202-224-4451
> >*RI: John F. 'Jack' Reed 202-224-4642 401-943-3100
> >VT: Patrick Leahy 202-224-4242 802-863-2525
> >
> >2. Nervous Democrats
> >
> >These Senators should be solidly in the "opposed" column, but they are not
> >there yet so we need to convince them to do the right thing. In addition
> >to Ashcroft's lies, we must also stress his grotesque unfairness to James
> >Hormel, Judge Ronnie White, and Clinton judicial nominee Alex Bartlett,
> >who Ashcroft admitted he blocked for reasons having nothing to do with
> >Bartlett's qualifications for the job. The important argument is
> >Ashcroft's inability and refusal to see and do what is right and just.
> >Ashcroft used his post as a Senator to take positions - such as his
> >virulent opposition to Hormel simply because he was gay - that in a normal
> >hiring process wouldn't even be legal. Finally, these Senators should be
> >questioned about Ashcroft's crazy attempt to reconcile Roe v. Wade with
> >his anti-abortion record and agenda.
> >
> >CA: Dianne Feinstein 202-224-3841 619-231-9712
> >*MN: Paul David Wellstone 202-224-5641 651-645-0323
> >WI: Russ Feingold 202-224-5323 608-828-1200
> >
> >3. Silent Democrats
> >
> >These Senators have not sent signals either way. That means these are the
> >most important Senators for us to reach, because they are the swing votes.
> >They should vote against Ashcroft both on principle and on politics -
> >namely, they need our support to win.
> >
> >AR: Blanche Lambert Lincoln 202-224-4843 501-375-2993
> >CT: Christopher Dodd 202-224-2823 860-240-3470
> >CT: Joseph Lieberman 202-224-4041 860-549-8463
> >DE: Tom Carper 202-224-2441
> >FL: Bob Graham 202-224-3041 305-536-7293
> >FL: Bill Nelson 202-224-5274
> >*GA: Joseph Maxwell Cleland 202-224-3521 404-331-4811
> >HI: Daniel Inouye 202-224-3934 808-541-2542
> >HI: Daniel Kahikina Akaka 202-224-6361 808-522-8970
> >*IA: Tom Harkin 202-224-3254 515-284-4574
> >LA: John Breaux 202-224-4623 504-589-2531
> >*LA: Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824 504-589-2427
> >*^MA: John Forbes Kerry 202-224-2742 617-565-8519
> >MD: Paul Sarbanes 202-224-4524 410-962-4436
> >MI: Debbie Stabenow 202-224-4822
> >MN: Mark Dayton 202-224-3244
> >MO: Jean Carnahan 202-224-6154 314-531-2006
> >*MT: Max Baucus 202-224-2651 406-329-3123
> >NC: John Edwards 202-224-3154 919-856-4245
> >NE: Ben Nelson 202-224-6551
> >*NJ: Robert Torricelli 202-224-3224 973-624-5555
> >NM: Jeff Bingaman 202-224-5521 505-988-6647
> >NV: Harry Reid 202-224-3542 775-885-9111
> >NY: Charles Schumer 202-224-6542 212-486-4430
> >OR: Ron Wyden 202-224-5244 503-326-7525
> >SC: Ernest Hollings 202-224-6121 803-765-5731
> >SD: Thomas Daschle 202-224-2321 605-225-8823
> >*SD: Tim P. Johnson 202-224-5842 605-332-8896
> >WA: Patty Murray 202-224-2621 206-553-5545
> >WA: Maria Cantwell 202-224-3441
> >WI: Herbert Kohl 202-224-5653 414-297-4451
> >*WV: Jay Rockefeller 202-224-6472 304-347-5372
> >
> >4. Lost Democrats
> >
> >These Democrats have announced their support for Ashcroft. That suggests
> >that these Senators are have lost their way. Perhaps their constituents
> >can help them find their way back to the side of Truth, Justice, and the
> >American Way.
> >
> >GA: Zell Miller 202-224-3643 404-347-2202
> >ND: Kent Conrad 202-224-2043 701-232-8030
> >ND: Byron Dorgan 202-224-2551 701-250-4618
> >WV: Robert Byrd 202-224-3954 304-342-5855
> >
> >5. Pro-choice Republicans
> >
> >These Republicans ran as strong supporters of a woman's right to choose
> >and as environmentalists. They received key support and funding from pro-
> >choice PACs, such as WISH List and NARAL, and environmental groups like
> >the Sierra Club. Ashcroft lied under oath when he swore that he would not
> >look for opportunities to outlaw abortions - it's the first thing he will
> >do every morning, and the last thing he will do at night. It is the single
> >most important goal in his life, as he stated repeatedly during his
> >career. No Republican who votes for Ashcroft can continue to call
> >themselves "pro-choice" - and future pro-choice Democrats will use a pro-
> >Ashcroft vote as Exhibit A in their campaigns. This argument should be
> >especially persuasive with Susan Collins, who is up for re-election in
> >2002.
> >
> >ME: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) 202-224-5344 207-780-3575
> >*ME: Sen. Susan M. Collins (R) 202-224-2523 207-945-0417
> >PA: Sen. Arlen Specter (R) 202-224-4254 215-597-7200
> >RI: Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R) 202-224-2921 401-528-5294
> >VT: Sen. Jim Jeffords (R) 202-224-5141 802-658-6001
> >
> >
> >We urge you to do four things:
> >
> >1. CALL your Senators, especially if they are on one of the above lists.
> >If you can, visit their district offices and leave them a hand written
> >note. Keep trying until you reach a human being who appears to be paid to
> >listen to you.
> >
> >2. FORWARD this message to other Democratic activists, especially people
> >active in African American, pro-choice and gay/lesbian advocacy. But do
> >not leave this to others to do your work for you. We ALL have a stake in
> >this.
> >
> >3. SIGN-UP for our daily newsletter by sending a blank e-mail message to
> >[e-mail].
> >
> >4. STOP BELIEVING TOM BROKAW. And that goes for Dan Rather and Peter
> >Jennings, too. Those guys will be the last people in America to know when
> >Ashcroft is toast. Remember, their job is not to get it right. Their job
> >is to attract eyeballs to sell laxatives, drugs and automobiles - and to
> >maximize profits for their Republican corporate owners. We can make the
> >news. They're entertainers and Republican flaks.
> >
> >We are convinced like never before that we can win this battle and turn
> >back the forces of reaction. We can make it very, very difficult for the
> >Republicans to secure the support of 10 Democratic Senators. Far more than
> >Bush's inauguration, this vote is the start of the new government. If we
> >support one another and light a fire under our Senators, then we can set
> >the stage for some very significant progressive victories on the crucial
> >battles to come.
> >
> >-- Bob Fertik and David Lytel
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your
Date: 25 Jan 2001 09:51:55 -0500

I am disturbed that the abolition-usa e-mail list is being used to
promote
partisan political positions and, in particular, to promote the
pro-choice agenda.
Pax Christi USA, which I represent in the nuclear abolition movement,
takes no
position on the election or selection of particular political
candidates, so I won't
comment on the Ashcroft appointment here.

Let me remind you that the nuclear abolition movement includes a whole
sub-network called the Seamless Garment Network, composed of many
organizations and individuals of different religious traditions and some
with no religious tradition. Pax Christi is a member of that network,
which supports a consistent ethic of life that opposes war, preparations
for war, capital punishment,
abortion, and other evils that threaten human life. When you promulgate
your pro-choice
views on the abortion-usa list, you offend pro-life progressives like me
and my friends.

More importantly, if our common cause of nuclear abolition is to
succeed, I submit that
we need to avoid divisive actions. We need to be welcoming to people who
disagree with us
on other issues. That means accepting and not offending both pro-choice
and pro-life people;
Democrats, Republicans, Greens; liberals, conservatives, and
progressives; gays and straights;
and folks of different religions or no religion. In short, all of
humanity is threatened by
weapons of mass destruction and need to rally together to abolish those
weapons.

Respectfully,
Frank Dworak
Pax Christi USA Representative


ASlater wrote:
>
> >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:22:07 -0500
> >Subject: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your Senators Today!!
> >Priority: non-urgent
> >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
> >To: [e-mail]
> >From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
> >
> >Dear Friend of Democrats.com,
> >
> >If you listen to the media reports on the Ashcroft nomination, you would
> >conclude that he emerged from four days of hearings without a scratch, and
> >will sail through his confirmation vote by the Senate.
> >
> >We assure you - nothing could be further from the truth!
> >
> >Here is just one indication: today, the New York Times joined us in urging
> >Senate Democrats to filibuster Ashcroft.
> >
> >Sensing that the tide is turning against Ashcroft, Republicans on the
> >Judiciary Committee - led by anti-choice zealot Orrin Hatch - are trying
> >to force a quick vote to send Ashcroft's nomination to the full Senate.
> >
> >But the Democrats have just submitted a list of detailed questions that
> >are crucial to consider before voting. Ashcroft will not have time to
> >answer these questions before Wednesday. Moreover, Ashcroft's answers are
> >bound to raise further questions, because his testimony has been full of
> >contradictions - and worse.
> >
> >During the hearings, Senators were given important new information about
> >Ashcroft's extreme positions on the issues. And they were also exposed
> >directly to Ashcroft's repeated evasions and outright lies - yes, the same
> >actions that caused the Republican Congress (led prominently by Ashcroft)
> >to impeach our last elected President, Bill Clinton.
> >
> >The Attorney General of the United States is the nation's chief law
> >enforcer, civil rights officer and government ethics watchdog. The
> >Attorney General should be someone who is distinguished by his or her
> >ethics, integrity, and impartiality. But as the hearings proved, John
> >Ashcroft meets NONE of these qualifications. He is a die-hard and
> >cutthroat partisan, a rabid ideologue, and - worst of all - a serial liar.
> >
> >In the final analysis, we believe the single most important reason
> >Ashcroft should be defeated is because of his lies, as we have documented
> >in detail at:
> >http://ashcroftlied.com
> >
> >1. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about Judge Ronnie White when he
> >blocked his nomination to the Federal judiciary, and lied again to the
> >Senate about his reasons for doing so
> >
> >2. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing James
> >Hormel for Ambassador to Luxembourg
> >
> >3. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing David
> >Satcher for Surgeon General
> >
> >4. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate four times about his role in
> >Missouri's school desegregation struggle
> >
> >5. John Ashcroft lied to the American people when he said he didn't know
> >the teachings and practices of Bob Jones University
> >
> >6. John Ashcroft lied to the people of Missouri about his misuse of his
> >government employees for his re-election campaigns
> >
> >These lies were not simple misstatements of facts. They were calculated
> >lies, intended to punish individuals who disagreed with him on his core
> >ideological issues, namely opposition to abortion rights, gay rights, and
> >civil rights. John Ashcroft has no integrity - he will do anything to
> >defeat his chosen enemies.
> >
> >With your help, we have been gathering feedback on the positions of the 50
> >Democratic Senators. At this point, here is how the votes look. If you
> >have a Democratic Senator or two, see where they stand - and take
> >appropriate action.
> >
> >We cannot believe that any Democrats are even considering voting for
> >Ashcroft. The reasons for rejecting him are so overwhelming that there is
> >absolutely no reason why any Democrat should support him.
> >
> >We have identified 12 Democrats who are solidly opposed to Ashcroft. They
> >should be thanked by their constituents.
> >
> >All of the other Democrats - as well as the five pro-choice Republicans -
> >should be called EVERY DAY by their constituents. While they should be
> >urged to vote against Ashcroft on principle, they should also be persuaded
> >of the crucial POLITICAL reasons for voting against Ashcroft.
> >
> >None of these Senators would have been elected - or will be re-elected -
> >without the support of key Democratic constituencies in their own states.
> >In particular, that means women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans,
> >Asian Americans, gays, environmentalists, gun control supporters,
> >liberals, and progressives. ALL of these groups are united in their solid
> >opposition to Ashcroft. It is time for these Senators to recognize and
> >honor their obligations to these groups.
> >
> >If you are a local leader in one of these groups, please remind your
> >Senator of the important constituency you represent, and get your members
> >to make calls. If you know the leaders of these groups, make sure they are
> >making calls, and urging their members to do so.
> >
> >If you see an * before a name, that means they are up for re-election in
> >2002. These individuals will need every ounce of support from progressive
> >activists, and should be especially responsive to our appeals. Similarly,
> >an ^ indicates a Senator who has been mentioned as a potential
> >Presidential candidate in 2004.
> >
> >1. Democrats Opposed to Ashcroft
> >
> >If they represent you, call them to thank them.
> >
> >CA: Barbara Boxer 202-224-3553 415-403-0100
> >*^DE: Joseph Biden 202-224-5042 302-573-6345
> >*IL: Richard Durbin 202-224-215 2217-492-4062
> >IN: B. Evan Bayh 202-224-562 3317-554-0750
> >MA: Edward M. Kennedy 202-224-4543 617-565-3170
> >MD: Barbara Mikulski 202-224-4654 301-263-1805
> >*MI: Carl Levin 202-224-6221 313-226-6020
> >NJ: Jon Corzine 202-224-4744
> >NY: Hillary Clinton 202-224-4451
> >*RI: John F. 'Jack' Reed 202-224-4642 401-943-3100
> >VT: Patrick Leahy 202-224-4242 802-863-2525
> >
> >2. Nervous Democrats
> >
> >These Senators should be solidly in the "opposed" column, but they are not
> >there yet so we need to convince them to do the right thing. In addition
> >to Ashcroft's lies, we must also stress his grotesque unfairness to James
> >Hormel, Judge Ronnie White, and Clinton judicial nominee Alex Bartlett,
> >who Ashcroft admitted he blocked for reasons having nothing to do with
> >Bartlett's qualifications for the job. The important argument is
> >Ashcroft's inability and refusal to see and do what is right and just.
> >Ashcroft used his post as a Senator to take positions - such as his
> >virulent opposition to Hormel simply because he was gay - that in a normal
> >hiring process wouldn't even be legal. Finally, these Senators should be
> >questioned about Ashcroft's crazy attempt to reconcile Roe v. Wade with
> >his anti-abortion record and agenda.
> >
> >CA: Dianne Feinstein 202-224-3841 619-231-9712
> >*MN: Paul David Wellstone 202-224-5641 651-645-0323
> >WI: Russ Feingold 202-224-5323 608-828-1200
> >
> >3. Silent Democrats
> >
> >These Senators have not sent signals either way. That means these are the
> >most important Senators for us to reach, because they are the swing votes.
> >They should vote against Ashcroft both on principle and on politics -
> >namely, they need our support to win.
> >
> >AR: Blanche Lambert Lincoln 202-224-4843 501-375-2993
> >CT: Christopher Dodd 202-224-2823 860-240-3470
> >CT: Joseph Lieberman 202-224-4041 860-549-8463
> >DE: Tom Carper 202-224-2441
> >FL: Bob Graham 202-224-3041 305-536-7293
> >FL: Bill Nelson 202-224-5274
> >*GA: Joseph Maxwell Cleland 202-224-3521 404-331-4811
> >HI: Daniel Inouye 202-224-3934 808-541-2542
> >HI: Daniel Kahikina Akaka 202-224-6361 808-522-8970
> >*IA: Tom Harkin 202-224-3254 515-284-4574
> >LA: John Breaux 202-224-4623 504-589-2531
> >*LA: Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824 504-589-2427
> >*^MA: John Forbes Kerry 202-224-2742 617-565-8519
> >MD: Paul Sarbanes 202-224-4524 410-962-4436
> >MI: Debbie Stabenow 202-224-4822
> >MN: Mark Dayton 202-224-3244
> >MO: Jean Carnahan 202-224-6154 314-531-2006
> >*MT: Max Baucus 202-224-2651 406-329-3123
> >NC: John Edwards 202-224-3154 919-856-4245
> >NE: Ben Nelson 202-224-6551
> >*NJ: Robert Torricelli 202-224-3224 973-624-5555
> >NM: Jeff Bingaman 202-224-5521 505-988-6647
> >NV: Harry Reid 202-224-3542 775-885-9111
> >NY: Charles Schumer 202-224-6542 212-486-4430
> >OR: Ron Wyden 202-224-5244 503-326-7525
> >SC: Ernest Hollings 202-224-6121 803-765-5731
> >SD: Thomas Daschle 202-224-2321 605-225-8823
> >*SD: Tim P. Johnson 202-224-5842 605-332-8896
> >WA: Patty Murray 202-224-2621 206-553-5545
> >WA: Maria Cantwell 202-224-3441
> >WI: Herbert Kohl 202-224-5653 414-297-4451
> >*WV: Jay Rockefeller 202-224-6472 304-347-5372
> >
> >4. Lost Democrats
> >
> >These Democrats have announced their support for Ashcroft. That suggests
> >that these Senators are have lost their way. Perhaps their constituents
> >can help them find their way back to the side of Truth, Justice, and the
> >American Way.
> >
> >GA: Zell Miller 202-224-3643 404-347-2202
> >ND: Kent Conrad 202-224-2043 701-232-8030
> >ND: Byron Dorgan 202-224-2551 701-250-4618
> >WV: Robert Byrd 202-224-3954 304-342-5855
> >
> >5. Pro-choice Republicans
> >
> >These Republicans ran as strong supporters of a woman's right to choose
> >and as environmentalists. They received key support and funding from pro-
> >choice PACs, such as WISH List and NARAL, and environmental groups like
> >the Sierra Club. Ashcroft lied under oath when he swore that he would not
> >look for opportunities to outlaw abortions - it's the first thing he will
> >do every morning, and the last thing he will do at night. It is the single
> >most important goal in his life, as he stated repeatedly during his
> >career. No Republican who votes for Ashcroft can continue to call
> >themselves "pro-choice" - and future pro-choice Democrats will use a pro-
> >Ashcroft vote as Exhibit A in their campaigns. This argument should be
> >especially persuasive with Susan Collins, who is up for re-election in
> >2002.
> >
> >ME: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) 202-224-5344 207-780-3575
> >*ME: Sen. Susan M. Collins (R) 202-224-2523 207-945-0417
> >PA: Sen. Arlen Specter (R) 202-224-4254 215-597-7200
> >RI: Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R) 202-224-2921 401-528-5294
> >VT: Sen. Jim Jeffords (R) 202-224-5141 802-658-6001
> >
> >
> >We urge you to do four things:
> >
> >1. CALL your Senators, especially if they are on one of the above lists.
> >If you can, visit their district offices and leave them a hand written
> >note. Keep trying until you reach a human being who appears to be paid to
> >listen to you.
> >
> >2. FORWARD this message to other Democratic activists, especially people
> >active in African American, pro-choice and gay/lesbian advocacy. But do
> >not leave this to others to do your work for you. We ALL have a stake in
> >this.
> >
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> >
> >4. STOP BELIEVING TOM BROKAW. And that goes for Dan Rather and Peter
> >Jennings, too. Those guys will be the last people in America to know when
> >Ashcroft is toast. Remember, their job is not to get it right. Their job
> >is to attract eyeballs to sell laxatives, drugs and automobiles - and to
> >maximize profits for their Republican corporate owners. We can make the
> >news. They're entertainers and Republican flaks.
> >
> >We are convinced like never before that we can win this battle and turn
> >back the forces of reaction. We can make it very, very difficult for the
> >Republicans to secure the support of 10 Democratic Senators. Far more than
> >Bush's inauguration, this vote is the start of the new government. If we
> >support one another and light a fire under our Senators, then we can set
> >the stage for some very significant progressive victories on the crucial
> >battles to come.
> >
> >-- Bob Fertik and David Lytel
> >
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From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Stop Plutonium shipments, strengthen the Conventions - PCRC
Date: 25 Jan 2001 15:44:49 -0800


Hello, FYI:



From Pacific Concerns Resource Centre
Secretariat of the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Movement
Suva, FIJI

--

From Pacific Concerns Resource Centre <[e-mail]>
Cc:


MEDIA RELEASE

20 January 2001

Stop Plutonium shipments, strengthen the Conventions - PCRC

The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) has called on Pacific
governments to take concrete actions to halt the continued plutonium
shipments through the Pacific from France to Japan. PCRC Director
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini said Pacific countries must strenghten the Raratonga
Treaty for a South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone and the Waigani Convention on
Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes so that the Pacific is not exploited as a
highway for 'death shipments' of plutonium.

The Centre said the shipments posed grave danger to the Pacific environment
and socio-economic life and were of no benefit at all to Pacific peoples.

"It is urgent that efforts to strengthen the two conventions must begin now
to avoid us being exposed to these needless dangers," she stated.

Two vessels the 'Pacific Teal' and 'Pacific Pintail' have left Cherbourg,
France for Japan with weapons-usable and hazardous Plutonium/Mixed Oxide
(MOX) fuel. Whichever route the ships take, they will pass through the
Pacific.

Ms Lini said: "Pacific leaders over the years have expressed concern about
the dangers of plutonium shipments through the Pacific Ocean to Japan.
However we are concerned that our governments position could be compromised
by accepting Japan's offer to establish a $US10 million "good will" trust
fund to placate concerns about the plutonium shipments threats to Pacific
fisheries, tourism and other vital industries. $US10 million is peanuts. It
will not cover a tiny fraction of costs incurred by a nuclear accident at
sea."

"The damages caused to the environment and other industries would be
irreparable," Ms Lini said.

She further stated: "Japan and the nuclear companies are not addressing the
real issue, which is that the Pacific people do not want plutonium shipments
passing through, and that plutonium shipments should be banned. The
international nuclear industry is in trouble. They have not found a solution
for the long-term storage of plutonium and high level radioactive wastes
which lasts for thousands of years (though many nuclear corporations are
still pushing to use the vast "empty" spaces of the Pacific as a dumping
ground for nuclear wastes)."

For further information contact Stanley Simpson or Motarilavoa Hilda Lini on

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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 01/01/26 - Announcement; request for messages
Date: 25 Jan 2001 19:57:34 -0500

Hi, folks, NucNews archives are posted through January 23, 2001 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Please note that we have a link to
depleted uranium articles, since the first of the year.

Below is a request for letters of support on the anniversary of the Kobe
Nuclear-Weapons-Free Port in Japan.  We'll be sure to send one!

Ellen Thomas

--

Request for Messages to the 26th Anniversary Meeting of the Nuclear-free Kobe
Formula

Jan. 21, 2001

Dear Friends,

        We have a new millennium and the start of the 21st century. At the
beginning of this new century, we mark the 26th anniversary of the nuclear-free
Kobe Formula. On the 18th of March this year, we will be holding a meeting to
celebrate the anniversary and we look forward to receiving messages of support,
solidarity and encouragement.
        As many of you know, the Port of Kobe insists that any warship entering
the port to submit "non-nuclear certification" that there are no nuclear
weapons on board. This procedure, the nuclear-free "Kobe Formula", has been
enforced by the Kobe City local government for the past 26 years. In Japan,
only local municipalities have authority over their ports and harbors. The Kobe
Formula has been very successful in preventing the entry of nuclear weapons
into the port. US warships have been refused entry for the past 26 years
because they refuse to submit the non-nuclear certification because of their
policy not to confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on their ships.
Before the Kobe Formula, 432 US warships entered the port between 1960 and
1974.
        The Japanese Government has accepted the new "Guidelines for Japan-US
Defense Cooperation" and is making plans to enforce them. Under these
guidelines, if the US is involved in any war in the Asia-Pacific region, all
ports and harbors in Japan will be used predominantly for military purposes.
Concern of the spread of the Kobe Formula to other ports and harbors in Japan
has resulted in the Japanese and US governments putting pressure on local
government.       Recent remarks by the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, the U.S.
Consul General in Osaka, the US Navy chief and the US Navy commander of the 7th
Fleet, have clearly shown that they are determined to force Kobe to abandon the
nuclear-free Kobe Formula. They repeatedly state that U.S. warships be allowed
to enter the port. This is against world opinion seeking peace and nuclear
disarmament, and an attack on the NGO's Millennium Forum, which decided in the
United Nations in May last year to call on all states to accept the same method
as the Kobe Formula.
        We are fighting to keep the Kobe Formula. We are fighting to extend it
to all ports in Japan. We are fighting for a nuclear-free and non-aligned
Japan. We have received messages of support and encouragement for many years
from every corner of the globe, which has been a great source of energy for us.

        Please send messages of solidarity and encouragement for the success of
this year's meeting to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the Kobe Formula.
Please ask individuals and organizations to do the same. Messages from elected
officials from local state, government and local government are most welcome.
Please send messages before the end of February, 2001.
        Let us work together in the beginning of this new century to achieve a
nuclear-free world.
        With our deep respect and solidarity to your every effort for peace,

Shushi Kajimoto
(General Secretary)
HYOGO COUNCIL AGAINST A & H BOMBS(HYOGO GENSUIKYO)
Chamoto bldg. 6-7-6 Motomachi-dori, Chuo-ku Kobe 650-0022 Japan
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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Can you help this man? re: Fwd: Ali
Date: 27 Jan 2001 03:36:24 -0500

Hi, I've received distressing emails - I have no idea how to help the man - do
you?  Thanks!

Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>

hello benefactor and benevolent sir!
I hope you are happy in your life I pray for you-
Benefactoe sir !
Respectfully I submit as under -
1- I am Afghani I fled from brutal Taliban regime
My house charred and killed My two children I am temporary
living in Pakistan I have any problems Taliban want to
kill me I am not safe here I am human I have rights to live in earth but
Taliban just have ousted me but they want to oust me from life
I am educated Ican speak pashto Farsi Urdu Arabi and
English you are benefactor and merciful you are requested to have mercy on us
that either send me visa to work there or support me I hope you that you must
hear My request .

I replied:
Dear Qari Mangal,

What a terrible experience!  I don't know what I can do to help you, but I will
seek advice here in Washington DC about how you might apply for a visa.  Is it
possible for you to give dates and people involved in your tragedy, and a
resume of your work experience?

Ellen Thomas
NucNews Editor

He replied:

hello philanthropic and benevolent  Ellen Thomas
NucNews Editor !
I thank you from the core of My heart for your encouragement sympathetic sir -
I am living restlessly in cantonment  I cannot afford to pay rent but I am
forced the brutal taliban think about me that I am non muslim because I am
disagree with them I say to people that every body should have freedom  it is
rules of Islam and humanity but benighted taliban oust every body from his
human rights I want to fight against them but I cannot because Pakistan
supports them and does not allow any body against them to say and (supreme
commander)of Taliban commanded ) (O ye who believe !
 whose of you become a renegade from his religion ) he must be killed  dear sir
!
 If you help me  temporary in this problem I will be
thankful of  you- is the reward  of goodness aught save goodness ?

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground -
Date: 26 Jan 2001 16:08:44 -0500

Dear Friends,
I don't think that abolition usa is being used to promote a partisan political
position or to promote a pro-choice agenda.  While some may approve of
Ashcroft's position on choice, those in our network surely don't approve of
his
attitudes to civil liberties as it effects gays, and blacks; gun control;,
etc.
Our network made it clear that nuclear abolition should be linked to social
justice and equity. Ashcroft voted for every Star Wars bill and opposed the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  He is the awful nominee of an illegitimate
President who stole the election with the help of a biased unethical Supreme
Court--Thomas' wife was at the Heritage Foundation reviewing resumes for the
new Bush Administration and Scalia's son was an attorney at a law firm which
represented Bush in Bush v. Gore.  They should have recused themselves from
the
Court.  Defeating the Ashcroft nomination would send a signal to Bush that he
doesn't have a mandate for any of his programs including his provocative
son of
star wars which will trash all hopes for nuclear abolition.  Ashcroft's stand
on abortion is only one issue--on which reasonable people might disagree.  But
the Ashcroft package of despicable positions on civil rights enables our
abolition network to make links with the many outraged voters who object to
the
fraudulent election and the extreme objectionable positions he has taken on
many issues.  Alice slater

At 08:51 AM 01/25/2001 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>I am disturbed that the abolition-usa e-mail list is being used to
>promote
>partisan political positions and, in particular, to promote the
>pro-choice agenda.
>Pax Christi USA, which I represent in the nuclear abolition movement,
>takes no
>position on the election or selection of particular political
>candidates, so I won't
>comment on the Ashcroft appointment here.
>
>Let me remind you that the nuclear abolition movement includes a whole
>sub-network called the Seamless Garment Network, composed of many
>organizations and individuals of different religious traditions and some
>with no religious tradition. Pax Christi is a member of that network,
>which supports a consistent ethic of life that opposes war, preparations
>for war, capital punishment,
>abortion, and other evils that threaten human life. When you promulgate
>your pro-choice
>views on the abortion-usa list, you offend pro-life progressives like me
>and my friends.
>
>More importantly, if our common cause of nuclear abolition is to
>succeed, I submit that
>we need to avoid divisive actions. We need to be welcoming to people who
>disagree with us
>on other issues. That means accepting and not offending both pro-choice
>and pro-life people;
>Democrats, Republicans, Greens; liberals, conservatives, and
>progressives; gays and straights;
>and folks of different religions or no religion. In short, all of
>humanity is threatened by
>weapons of mass destruction and need to rally together to abolish those
>weapons.
>
>Respectfully,
>Frank Dworak
>Pax Christi USA Representative
>
>
>ASlater wrote:
>>>
>>> >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:22:07 -0500
>>> >Subject: Ashcroft Filibuster Gains Ground - Call Your Senators Today!!
>>> >Priority: non-urgent
>>> >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>>> >To: [e-mail]
>>> >From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>>> >
>>> >Dear Friend of Democrats.com,
>>> >
>>> >If you listen to the media reports on the Ashcroft nomination, you
>>would
>>> >conclude that he emerged from four days of hearings without a scratch,
>>and
>>> >will sail through his confirmation vote by the Senate.
>>> >
>>> >We assure you - nothing could be further from the truth!
>>> >
>>> >Here is just one indication: today, the New York Times joined us in
>>urging
>>> >Senate Democrats to filibuster Ashcroft.
>>> >
>>> >Sensing that the tide is turning against Ashcroft, Republicans on the
>>> >Judiciary Committee - led by anti-choice zealot Orrin Hatch - are
>>trying
>>> >to force a quick vote to send Ashcroft's nomination to the full Senate.
>>> >
>>> >But the Democrats have just submitted a list of detailed questions that
>>> >are crucial to consider before voting. Ashcroft will not have time to
>>> >answer these questions before Wednesday. Moreover, Ashcroft's answers
>>are
>>> >bound to raise further questions, because his testimony has been full
>>of
>>> >contradictions - and worse.
>>> >
>>> >During the hearings, Senators were given important new information
>>about
>>> >Ashcroft's extreme positions on the issues. And they were also exposed
>>> >directly to Ashcroft's repeated evasions and outright lies - yes, the
>>same
>>> >actions that caused the Republican Congress (led prominently by
>>Ashcroft)
>>> >to impeach our last elected President, Bill Clinton.
>>> >
>>> >The Attorney General of the United States is the nation's chief law
>>> >enforcer, civil rights officer and government ethics watchdog. The
>>> >Attorney General should be someone who is distinguished by his or her
>>> >ethics, integrity, and impartiality. But as the hearings proved, John
>>> >Ashcroft meets NONE of these qualifications. He is a die-hard and
>>> >cutthroat partisan, a rabid ideologue, and - worst of all - a serial
>>liar.
>>> >
>>> >In the final analysis, we believe the single most important reason
>>> >Ashcroft should be defeated is because of his lies, as we have
>>documented
>>> >in detail at:
>>> >http://ashcroftlied.com
>>> >
>>> >1. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about Judge Ronnie White when he
>>> >blocked his nomination to the Federal judiciary, and lied again to the
>>> >Senate about his reasons for doing so
>>> >
>>> >2. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing
>>James
>>> >Hormel for Ambassador to Luxembourg
>>> >
>>> >3. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate about his reasons for opposing
>>David
>>> >Satcher for Surgeon General
>>> >
>>> >4. John Ashcroft lied to the Senate four times about his role in
>>> >Missouri's school desegregation struggle
>>> >
>>> >5. John Ashcroft lied to the American people when he said he didn't
>>know
>>> >the teachings and practices of Bob Jones University
>>> >
>>> >6. John Ashcroft lied to the people of Missouri about his misuse of his
>>> >government employees for his re-election campaigns
>>> >
>>> >These lies were not simple misstatements of facts. They were calculated
>>> >lies, intended to punish individuals who disagreed with him on his core
>>> >ideological issues, namely opposition to abortion rights, gay rights,
>>and
>>> >civil rights. John Ashcroft has no integrity - he will do anything to
>>> >defeat his chosen enemies.
>>> >
>>> >With your help, we have been gathering feedback on the positions of
>>the 50
>>> >Democratic Senators. At this point, here is how the votes look. If you
>>> >have a Democratic Senator or two, see where they stand - and take
>>> >appropriate action.
>>> >
>>> >We cannot believe that any Democrats are even considering voting for
>>> >Ashcroft. The reasons for rejecting him are so overwhelming that there
>>is
>>> >absolutely no reason why any Democrat should support him.
>>> >
>>> >We have identified 12 Democrats who are solidly opposed to Ashcroft.
>>They
>>> >should be thanked by their constituents.
>>> >
>>> >All of the other Democrats - as well as the five pro-choice
>>Republicans -
>>> >should be called EVERY DAY by their constituents. While they should be
>>> >urged to vote against Ashcroft on principle, they should also be
>>persuaded
>>> >of the crucial POLITICAL reasons for voting against Ashcroft.
>>> >
>>> >None of these Senators would have been elected - or will be re-elected
>>-
>>> >without the support of key Democratic constituencies in their own
>>states.
>>> >In particular, that means women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans,
>>> >Asian Americans, gays, environmentalists, gun control supporters,
>>> >liberals, and progressives. ALL of these groups are united in their
>>solid
>>> >opposition to Ashcroft. It is time for these Senators to recognize and
>>> >honor their obligations to these groups.
>>> >
>>> >If you are a local leader in one of these groups, please remind your
>>> >Senator of the important constituency you represent, and get your
>>members
>>> >to make calls. If you know the leaders of these groups, make sure they
>>are
>>> >making calls, and urging their members to do so.
>>> >
>>> >If you see an * before a name, that means they are up for re-election
>>in
>>> >2002. These individuals will need every ounce of support from
>>progressive
>>> >activists, and should be especially responsive to our appeals.
>>Similarly,
>>> >an ^ indicates a Senator who has been mentioned as a potential
>>> >Presidential candidate in 2004.
>>> >
>>> >1. Democrats Opposed to Ashcroft
>>> >
>>> >If they represent you, call them to thank them.
>>> >
>>> >CA: Barbara Boxer 202-224-3553 415-403-0100
>>> >*^DE: Joseph Biden 202-224-5042 302-573-6345
>>> >*IL: Richard Durbin 202-224-215 2217-492-4062
>>> >IN: B. Evan Bayh 202-224-562 3317-554-0750
>>> >MA: Edward M. Kennedy 202-224-4543 617-565-3170
>>> >MD: Barbara Mikulski 202-224-4654 301-263-1805
>>> >*MI: Carl Levin 202-224-6221 313-226-6020
>>> >NJ: Jon Corzine 202-224-4744
>>> >NY: Hillary Clinton 202-224-4451
>>> >*RI: John F. 'Jack' Reed 202-224-4642 401-943-3100
>>> >VT: Patrick Leahy 202-224-4242 802-863-2525
>>> >
>>> >2. Nervous Democrats
>>> >
>>> >These Senators should be solidly in the "opposed" column, but they are
>>not
>>> >there yet so we need to convince them to do the right thing. In
>>addition
>>> >to Ashcroft's lies, we must also stress his grotesque unfairness to
>>James
>>> >Hormel, Judge Ronnie White, and Clinton judicial nominee Alex Bartlett,
>>> >who Ashcroft admitted he blocked for reasons having nothing to do with
>>> >Bartlett's qualifications for the job. The important argument is
>>> >Ashcroft's inability and refusal to see and do what is right and just.
>>> >Ashcroft used his post as a Senator to take positions - such as his
>>> >virulent opposition to Hormel simply because he was gay - that in a
>>normal
>>> >hiring process wouldn't even be legal. Finally, these Senators should
>>be
>>> >questioned about Ashcroft's crazy attempt to reconcile Roe v. Wade with
>>> >his anti-abortion record and agenda.
>>> >
>>> >CA: Dianne Feinstein 202-224-3841 619-231-9712
>>> >*MN: Paul David Wellstone 202-224-5641 651-645-0323
>>> >WI: Russ Feingold 202-224-5323 608-828-1200
>>> >
>>> >3. Silent Democrats
>>> >
>>> >These Senators have not sent signals either way. That means these are
>>the
>>> >most important Senators for us to reach, because they are the swing
>>votes.
>>> >They should vote against Ashcroft both on principle and on politics -
>>> >namely, they need our support to win.
>>> >
>>> >AR: Blanche Lambert Lincoln 202-224-4843 501-375-2993
>>> >CT: Christopher Dodd 202-224-2823 860-240-3470
>>> >CT: Joseph Lieberman 202-224-4041 860-549-8463
>>> >DE: Tom Carper 202-224-2441
>>> >FL: Bob Graham 202-224-3041 305-536-7293
>>> >FL: Bill Nelson 202-224-5274
>>> >*GA: Joseph Maxwell Cleland 202-224-3521 404-331-4811
>>> >HI: Daniel Inouye 202-224-3934 808-541-2542
>>> >HI: Daniel Kahikina Akaka 202-224-6361 808-522-8970
>>> >*IA: Tom Harkin 202-224-3254 515-284-4574
>>> >LA: John Breaux 202-224-4623 504-589-2531
>>> >*LA: Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824 504-589-2427
>>> >*^MA: John Forbes Kerry 202-224-2742 617-565-8519
>>> >MD: Paul Sarbanes 202-224-4524 410-962-4436
>>> >MI: Debbie Stabenow 202-224-4822
>>> >MN: Mark Dayton 202-224-3244
>>> >MO: Jean Carnahan 202-224-6154 314-531-2006
>>> >*MT: Max Baucus 202-224-2651 406-329-3123
>>> >NC: John Edwards 202-224-3154 919-856-4245
>>> >NE: Ben Nelson 202-224-6551
>>> >*NJ: Robert Torricelli 202-224-3224 973-624-5555
>>> >NM: Jeff Bingaman 202-224-5521 505-988-6647
>>> >NV: Harry Reid 202-224-3542 775-885-9111
>>> >NY: Charles Schumer 202-224-6542 212-486-4430
>>> >OR: Ron Wyden 202-224-5244 503-326-7525
>>> >SC: Ernest Hollings 202-224-6121 803-765-5731
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>>> >
>>> >4. Lost Democrats
>>> >
>>> >These Democrats have announced their support for Ashcroft. That
>>suggests
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>>> >and as environmentalists. They received key support and funding from
>>pro-
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>>pro-
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From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: [du-list] PROF CALLS DU ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
Date: 26 Jan 2001 15:15:41 -0600



and if you believe NATO on this, you also believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth
Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. fab.





  http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-25-15.html

NATO Says No Link Between Depleted Uranium, Cancer

BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 25, 2001 (ENS) - There is no link between the
depleted uranium munitions used in the NATO led Balkans wars and the rash of
cancers that have been reported by soldiers who fought in the conflicts,
according to the chairman of a multinational committee convened to study the
matter.

Daniel Speckhard, the U.S. Ambassador to Belarus and the chairman of NATO's
ad hoc committee on depleted uranium (DU), said Wednesday that "based on the
data today, no link has been established between depleted uranium and any
forms of cancer."

"To date, no nation has found evidence of an increase in incidence of
illness among peacekeepers [who served] in the Balkans compared with the
incidence of illness among armed forces not serving in the Balkans,"
Speckhard said at a news conference. "None of the nations reported finding a
link between health complaints of personnel employed in the Balkans and
depleted uranium munitions."



NATO Spokesman Mark Laity, third from left, discusses the possible health
effects of depleted uranium with several military experts at a recent news
conference in Brussels, Belgium (Photo courtesy NATO)
Speckhard's committee, which represents about 50 nations, was formed earlier
this month to investigate the alleged link between the adverse health
effects that have been reported by NATO soldiers and the DU munitions that
were used in the wars waged in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Kosovo. Speckhard
said on Wednesday that the committee intends to bring "maximum transparency"
to the inquiry, which he said was undertaken to ensure that there is "no
health risk to our troops or civilians in the Balkans" as a result of the DU
munitions used there.

The United States and a host of other allied nations have for years supplied
their armed forces with machine gun rounds and rocket like projectiles
tipped with depleted uranium, which by definition contains statistically
insignificant amounts of radioactivity. The Pentagon and NATO both maintain
that DU munitions are essential war fighting tools, because of their ability
to pierce through armor plated tanks and other heavily defended targets.



Depleted uranium munitions are effective at piercing heavily armored
vehicles, such as this tank (Photo courtesy NATO)
The Pentagon acquires much of its DU at no cost from nuclear weapons plants,
which are generally eager to get rid of the tens of thousands of tons of
wastes that are piling up at their facilities. Both the Pentagon and NATO
have long denied that DU munitions pose any health risks from residual
radioactivity.

DU munitions were used widely in the Persian Gulf War as well as the more
recent conflicts in the Balkans, and thousands of veterans who fought in
those campaigns disagree with NATO's conclusions. Many of these veterans
have been plagued by a rash of unexplained health effects, including chronic
fatigue, paralysis and death.



Gulf War veterans gathered in Washington, DC, last year to demand
recognition and treatment for their illness (Photo courtesy American Gulf
War Veterans Association)
DU, which is regulated in the United States by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, is supposed to contain no other radionuclides other than
uranium. But critics charge that the substance often contains other
dangerous elements associated with nuclear power plants, such as plutonium,
radium and americium.

That fear was at least partially borne out earlier this week, when a
Pentagon spokesman acknowledged that traces of plutonium were inadvertently
incorporated into DU munitions that were made some 30 years ago. The mistake
came about because of contaminated equipment at a domestic power plant, the
spokesman said.

NATO spokesman Mark Laity, appearing at the Brussels news conference on
Wednesday along with Speckhard, was quick to downplay the significance of
the Pentagon's revelation. Laity said that it was "quite possible" that
traces of plutonium or other radionuclides will turn up in soil samples now
being taken in the Balkans. But such findings, he said, would not constitute
a threat to public health or the environment.

"These contaminants are known about and are in minute amounts," Laity said.
"Those trace elements have been found to be too small to add to the existing
low level health risk that there is."

"If they find [traces of plutonium or other radionuclides], we will not be
surprised, and I will not be worried," added Laity, who delivered his
remarks with a DU round sitting nearby.

That point was echoed by NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, U.S. Air Force
General Joseph Ralston. Ralston, speaking in Athens, Greece, told reporters
that he would not hesitate authorizing the firing of DU rounds "tonight,"
should such action be called for.



U.S. Air Force General Joseph Ralston, NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe
(Photo courtesy NATO)
But a team of scientists at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Wednesday unveiled a study that found that DU of
the type used by the U.S. military can cause cancer in laboratory animals.

Fletcher Hahn, a senior scientist on the project, told the Reuters news
organization that the study represents a "warning flag that we shouldn't
ignore."

Still, Hahn emphasized that the study "doesn't mean that [DU] is
carcinogenic to humans."

Meanwhile, two international organizations today announced that they may
take action to assist the World Health Organization (WHO) team of
researchers, which is currently studying the matter of DU use in the Persian
Gulf. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may launch "fact finding missions" to the Balkan
region, their respective officials said.

UNEP officials will decide soon whether to dispatch a team of researchers to
Bosnia Herzegovina for the purpose of studying the public health and
environmental implications of the DU munitions used there, officials said.

The IAEA is considering holding a training course to help researchers in the
Balkan region to better understand the complex measurement and assessment
methods associated with conducting analysis on depleted uranium, officials
from the group said.

That is of little comfort to Francis Boyle, a professor of international law
at the University of Illinois at Urbanna/Champaign. Boyle, who consulted on
a 1994 documentary film that linked a host of health effects to DU, said
that the IAEA was only getting involved in the project to do "damage
control."

"The IAEA is a front organization for the nuclear power industry, so you
can't believe anything they say," Boyle said. "It is an unfortunate sign, in
my opinion, that the WHO and UNEP would be coordinating anything with the
IAEA. They're going to try and cover this whole thing up."

Boyle, like many critics, maintains that DU poses far greater risks to
public health and the environment than the Pentagon and NATO are letting on.
He said that DU munitions are teeming with plutonium and other radionuclides
that should not be exempted from regulatory oversight.

When DU munitions hit their targets, Boyle noted, they typically release
particles which can contaminate air and nearby water.

"Even a speck of plutonium can kill you," Boyle noted. "But there's a lot
more in DU munitions than just depleted uranium, and in any event, once it
vaporizes . and people are breathing it and eating it, it kills people."

Boyle, like many others, believes that DU played a causal role in mysterious
"Gulf War Syndrome" that affected tens of thousands of veterans who fought
in that war.

The Pentagon flatly denies such charges.

Boyle and other legal experts have also long maintained that DU munitions
are illegal under a host of international laws, such as the Hague Convention
of 1907. The U.S. government is party to the convention, which prohibits
weapons that are "unnecessary," as well as those that cause cruel, long
lasting or uncontrollable effects.

Boyle argues that DU munitions are "unnecessary" because weapons made with
another metal - tungsten - are equally as effective. The Pentagon does not
use tungsten, Boyle said, because it would have to pay for it.

"They get the DU for free, and this is basically a question of money," Boyle
said. "DU is an unnecessary weapon."

The Geneva protocol of 1925, to which the U.S. is also a signatory,
prohibits the use of radiation as a weapon, Boyle noted. And a protocol to
the 1977 Geneva Convention contains a provision that bans weapons and
techniques of warfare that cause severe, long term environmental impacts, he
noted.

The U.S. is not a signatory to that agreement.

NATO has posted a detailed map on its website showing where DU munitions
were targeted in Bosnia and Kosovo. The map can be viewed at
http://www.nato.int








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From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Navy Completes Successful Theater Wide Missile Defense Test
Date: 26 Jan 2001 16:20:51 -0700

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>NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense
>
>No. 043-01
>[phone](media)
>IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>January 26, 2001
>[phone](public/industry)
>NAVY COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL THEATER WIDE MISSILE DEFENSE TEST
>The U.S. Navy moved another step closer yesterday to developing a
>Navy Theater Wide (NTW) capability with a successful flight test of
>the newly developed Standard Missile-3 (SM-3).  The Aegis cruiser
>USS Lake Erie conducted the Aegis Light Exo-Atmospheric Projectile
>(LEAP) Intercept Flight Test Round (FTR-1A) mission in the
>mid-Pacific using the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii.
>Equipped with Aegis LEAP Intercept (ALI) computer programs and
>hardware, Lake Erie launched a SM-3 missile demonstrating third
>stage airframe stability and control through nominal kinetic warhead
>fourth stage separation.  The SM-3 is the Navy's new exo-atmospheric
>missile developed to counter theater ballistic missile (TBM) threats
>outside the atmosphere.  The primary mission of the Navy Theater
>Wide Ballistic Missile Defense system is to provide defense in depth
>from the threat of TBM attack for U.S. and allied forces overseas,
>including vital areas, critical military assets, population centers
>and large geographic regions.
>Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (ACNO) for Missile Defense, Rear
>Adm. Rodney P. Rempt, deemed the FTR-1A test "a major positive
>event" in the ALI program.  "It's time to deliver what we've
>promised on the test range," Rempt said. "The engineering data we'll
>derive from this test will definitely move us along the SM-3 path to
>intercept."
>The FTR-1A mission flew a guided trajectory within the range safety
>boundaries.  The test was strictly an evaluation of SM-3 airframe
>stability and control through nominal warhead separation. A target
>was launched to verify launch procedures for future firings; to
>verify Aegis Weapon System fire control data and tracking
>performance; and to collect engineering data from the missile,
>including the kinetic warhead infrared seeker, all in preparation
>for follow-on flight missions.  Program engineers will analyze the
>data and incorporate changes based on their findings, as required.
>Yesterday's test was the third in a planned series of nine test
>flights.  The ALI Project's ground test program has already
>conducted significant testing of elements of the SM-3 missile.  The
>ALI project, a part of the Navy Theater Wide Ballistic Missile
>Defense program, builds upon the well-proven SM-2 missile family and
>the Aegis Weapon System, including its vertical launch capability.
>In conjunction with the Area TBMD Program, the SM-2 Block IVA
>missile maintains the capabilities of earlier variants of the SM-2
>missile while adding a capability against short to medium range
>TBMs.  Both Aegis and other variants of the SM-2 missile are
>currently at sea in more than fifty Aegis cruisers and destroyers,
>with more than 25 ships in the production/planning pipeline.
>The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization is the sponsor of the
>Navy Theater Wide capability.  The Navy's ACNO (Missile Defense) is
>the Navy lead on requirements and related matters.  The program
>executive officer for Theater Surface Combatants manages the
>development of the NTW Program.  Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson,
>Ariz., is the prime contractor for the development and production of
>the SM-3 missile.  Lockheed Martin Naval Electronic and Surveillance
>systems manufactures the Aegis Weapon System installed onboard Aegis
>cruisers and destroyers and is also the prime contractor for the
>Vertical Launch System.
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Reminder - Say No To Star Wars/NMD Letters on Abolition, BASIC,
Date: 27 Jan 2001 17:03:05 +1000

SAY NO TO NMD/STAR WARS - WRITE/FAX BUSH NOW

(Apologies for multiple postings - delete the excess copies, but do pass
this on to all who might be interested)

Dear All who are concerned over NMD:

One of the best ways to say 'NO' to NMD/Star Wars is to send President
Bush, if you are in the US, a fax or a letter.  If you are outside the US,
especially in a US-Allied country such as the UK, France, Germany, or
Australia, the best way is to press your own government to make
representations to the US.

The letters I have been urging you all to send to President Bush (if you
are in the US) and your own governments (if you are outside the US), are
now to be found on the websites of Abolition2000 and BASIC.

You are strongly urged, if you are outside the US, to write in the manner
suggested below to your government, taking care, if your government has
already taken a position against NMD, to acknowledge and thank them for it
and to ask them to keep doing it.

(If you are in Australia, there is a national model letter being
circulated, as well as an organisational sign- on letter)

If you are within the US, do write as per the model letter below and on the
Abolition website, to Bush, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld.
You may also wish to copy it to your congressperson, or to the entire US
congress by email.  If you do, you will get lots of autoresponses back -
they should be deleted.

(There is a list of congressional emails at the VERY END of this email)

Of course, if you are outside the US there is no reason not to write to
Bush also, but it is important to write first to your own government.

The abolition 2000 website is:

http://www.abolition2000.org/action/saynotostarwars.html

The BASIC website is:

<http://www.basicint.org/NMDpage.htm#Debate in European Governments>

An online petition to stop star- wars is to be found at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Jules/

BASIC's revised version of the letter for non-US folks is also reproduced
below,(1) followed by the letter to Bush.(2)

A sample letter to Australian foreign minister Downer is also included for
those in Australia, or in other US Allies who might find it useful to adapt
to their own situation.(3)

The list of congressional emails is (4)

(Thanks to Mark Bromley of BASIC.)


(1) BASIC adaptation of letter to Non- US governments please customise
creatively

Ministers of US Allies [Delete as appropriate]
Re: Please Convey Opposition to Missile Defence Scheme


Dear President, Prime Minister or Foreign Minister [Delete as
appropriate],

I am writing to you after the inauguration of the new U.S.
President, George W. Bush, to express my dismay at his administration=92s
desire to proceed with an enlarged version of the ill-conceived
'National Missile Defence' (NMD) network.

The deployment of NMD will have serious implications for the
proliferation of nuclear weapons. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in
order to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear
weapons severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

In addition, the deployment of NMD will either completely destroy or
fundamentally weaken the Anti- Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, seen
internationally as the cornerstone of international arms control. This
would have serious consequences for maintaining and strengthening other
international agreements such as Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NMD has been opposed by a wide range of organisations and groups,
ranging from 354 major NGOs representing millions of people worldwide,
to 50 of the US Nobel prize-winners in physics, to generals and church
congregations. It has also been opposed by every major international
grouping represented in the UN General Assembly.

=46or all of these reasons, I urge you to use all the diplomatic influence
at your disposal to impress upon the incoming Bush administration your
opposition to the NMD system. I also urge you to make clear to the
incoming Bush administration that your government will refuse to
cooperate in any way with the NMD scheme. [If they are already doing
this you may wish thank them for doing it]

NMD is a scheme that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that, in any case, is better dealt with in other
ways. It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make
further progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear
weapons - an objective to which the United States as well as all other
governments are committed - much more difficult, if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to oppose NMD, and instead to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and
reductions in the alert status of weapons, to which you are committed.

(Signed)

(Your name)


(2) Letter to Bush, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld.   Customise and adapt this
creatively please.  You may wish to email it to the entire congress (email
list at the very end)

TO:
GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201,

COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE, [phone],
CONDOLEEZA RICE,
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER,  1-202-456-2883,
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,
[phone],

RE: PLEASE CANCEL MISSILE DEFENCE SCHEME

Dear President George Bush, Secretary for Defence Rumsfeld, Security
Adviser Condoleeza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell,

I am writing to you to convey my dismay that your administration may
proceed with an enlarged version of  the ill-concieved 'National Missile
Defence' ('Star Wars') scheme.

The deployment of NMD will make it much harder, if not impossible, to
achieve vital arms control objectives. Russia and China have made it clear
that they will increase their own nuclear offensive capabilities in order
to counter NMD. This will set back attempts to reduce nuclear weapons
severely and may lead to another nuclear arms race.

National Missile Defence in its current form,  has failed two out of its
three operational tests and has been critiqued by the US scientific
establishment as fundamentally flawed.

More importantly, Russia and China as well as the US's own allies have made
it clear that they regard the preservation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty as paramount.   The ABM treaty cannot be modified in a way that
would allow the deployment of NMD, and the US should not walk away from it.

NMD has been opposed by groups ranging from 354 major NGOs representing
millions of people worldwide, to 50 of the US's Nobel prizewinners in
physics, to generals and church people.

Non-US governments  worldwide,  including close US allies, have strongly
opposed NMD.

NMD is a scheme  that is unlikely ever to work, against a threat that may
never materialize and that is in any case better dealt with in other ways.
It will cost billions better spent elsewhere, and will make further
progress toward the total and unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons -
an objective to which the US as well as all other governments are committed
- much more difficult if not impossible.

I therefore urge you to drop the NMD proposal and to focus your efforts on
the vital objectives of deep reductions in warhead numbers, and reductions
in the alert status of weapons, to which you committed yourself during your
campaign.
(Signed)  (Your name)


(3) LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER DOWNER

(Even if you are not from Aust, you may wish to cannibalise parts of this
letter and adapt them to your own situation)

ATTN
=46OREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER DOWNER 02-6273-4112
MINISTER FOR DEFENCE PETER REITH 03-5979-3034   02-6273-4118
PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD, 02-9251-5454, 02-6273-4100
CC
SHADOW MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS LAURIE BRERETON 02-9349-8089

Dear Foreign Minister Downer, Minister for Defence Peter Reith and Prime
Minister John Howard,

I am writing to urge the Australian government to have nothing whatsoever
to do with the Bush administration's National Missile Defence (NMD) scheme.

NMD has been opposed by the US's own NATO allies, by the United Nations
Secretary General, by China and Russia, and by a large portion of the US's
own population, including by 50 Nobel laureates.

It has been opposed by a coalition of 354 NGOs and parliamentarians worldwid=
e.

NMD threatens to push Russia and even more so, China, into reversing the
reductions in nuclear armaments that have been happening over the past ten
years, setting back attempts to eliminate nuclear weapons by decades and
threatening a new nuclear arms- race.

Australia has at the last session of the United Nations General Assembly,
supported a series of resolutions aimed at facilitating nuclear arms
elimination.

Support by the Australian government for the US NMD scheme will undercut
these worthwhile and responsible efforts.

As a close and valued ally of the US, Australia's clear duty is to inform
our  ally that NMD is ill- advised, that it should drop the idea,  and that
the Australian government will in no way support it.

I urge you to ask  the US not to proceed with NMD, and not to do anything
that will facilitate it.

(Signed) (your name)

(4) EMAIL LIST FOR THE US CONGRESS

Warning! All of these emails have autoresponders, so you will recieve lots
of messages back.

Don't let that discourage you - just delete them.

[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
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17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) War Games in Space Against China
Date: 29 Jan 2001 17:35:13 -0500

Dear Friends,
What are we doing to stop this?  I think we need some inspiration!!  Alice

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58813-2001Jan28.html



Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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From: [e-mail] (Felice & Jack Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sam Day Dies
Date: 30 Jan 2001 12:05:17 -0700

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the death of my dear
friend and colleague, Sam Day; writer, activist, coordinator of the U.S.
Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu, past editor of the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists and past managing editor of the Progressive magazine,
past director of Nukewatch and recipient of the U.S. Fellowship of
Reconciliation's Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace Prize.

As a long-time activist who had himself spent time in prison as a result of
his anti-nuclear convictions, Sam felt the rightness of Mordechai Vanunu's
truth-telling to the very core of his being, and worked tirelessly on
Mordechai's behalf and for their common vision of a nuclear-free world,
with great dedication and hope.  Shortly before his death, he was in
Washington, D.C. for his trial with eight others who were arrested at the
Israeli embassy in September demanding nuclear abolition and Vanunu's
immediate release - this arrest being the last entry on a long rap sheet in
his distinguished activist career.

After several weeks of travel, he was home in Madison, Wisconsin for a week
before suffering a massive stroke on Friday, January 26.  His passing is a
tremendous loss for the peace and disarmament movement.

If anyone would like to send a message to put into a booklet at Sam's
memorial on Saturday, February 3, you can email it to me by Thursday night
at [e-mail], or to Nukewatch at [e-mail].

Peace,
Felice Cohen-Joppa

SAM DAY, Peace Activist

October 5, 1926 - January 26, 2001

        Samuel H. Day, Jr., was a reporter, editor, and political activist
whose exposures of governmental wrong-doing, as he saw it, brought
journalism awards and other citations, including police citations leading
to frequent jailings and months of imprisonment.

        Born October 5, 1926, at Media, Pennsylvania, into an American
diplomatic family posted to South Africa, he began his journalism career as
a copy boy at the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star in 1949. He went on to
become an Associated Press writer, a reporter and editor in Idaho, and
editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the mid-1970s.

        Day served as managing editor of The Progressive in 1979, when the
monthly political magazine based in Madison, Wisconsin was legally enjoined
from publishing an article about secrecy in the U.S. nuclear weapons
program. He was a defendant with Editor Erwin Knoll, free-lance writer
Howard Morland, and the magazine itself in what came to be a historic First
Amendment case.

        The U.S. Department of Energy, which designs and manufactures
nuclear weapons, secured a Federal Court injunction based on its claim that
Morland's article, "The  H-Bomb Secret," contained classified information
restricted by the Atomic Energy Act. The magazine insisted that all the
information came from public sources. After six months the Federal
Government dropped the case and the article was published intact.

        Day moved to The Progressive in 1978 after four years in Chicago as
editor of the Bulletin, a monthly journal established by World War II
scientists concerned about the failure of governmental leaders to
understand the dangers of atomic weaponry.

        He had been a crusading reporter and editor in Idaho in his earlier
years. His work on The Bulletin and later The Progressive shaped his later
career as a writer and activist focusing on the need for greater public
awareness of nuclear dangers.

        In 1990 he left The Progressive's staff to work on his own,
assisting the American Friends Service Committee and the U.S. Fellowship of
Reconciliation on a project organizing resistance to U.S. nuclear weapons
production. His work then and in later years often involved a combination
of reporting and political organizing.

        In 1982, traveling in South Africa on assignment from The
Progressive, Day reported without qualification that South Africa had
secretly built a small quantity of atomic weapons as a bulwark to protect
apartheid. Eleven years later, on the eve of Democratic elections in that
country his "scoop" was confirmed by the South African government.

        Through the 1980s, as a director of Nukewatch, a public interest
group now based in Luck, Wisc. he organized two national programs to raise
the visibility of nuclear weapons transportation and deployment.

        One program, the "H-Bomb Truck Watch," enabled anti-nuclear
activists to track and follow the unmarked convoys which transport nuclear
warheads and their ingredients on the nation's highways.

        The other Nukewatch program targeted the 1,000 Air Force Minuteman
intercontinental ballistic missiles in unmarked underground launch sites
scattered over the Middle West and Great Plains, each capable of raining
nuclear destruction around the world. Volunteers mapped the missile fields
and organized vigils and demonstrations at the fences of the underground
missile silos.

        As an outgrowth of the missile silo campaign, Day and others
occasionally risked arrest by entering the silo enclosures and standing on
the concrete silo lids in symbolic opposition to the launching of weapons
of mass destruction.

        In 1988 he joined 13 other Midwesterners in the simultaneous
occupation of ten missile launch sites in Missouri. For his part in the
"Missouri Peace Planting" he served six months in federal prisons.

        Day was imprisoned again for four months in 1991 for entering the
Fort McCoy army base in Wisconsin to distribute war crimes literature to
the troops the day after the start of the U.S. bombing of the Persian Gulf.
In 1993, he was jailed for six weeks for pulling up stakes at the
construction site of an Air Force communications tower near Medford,
Wisconsin.

        Day suffered a series of strokes in prison which left him partially
blind, unable to read or drive. But with the help of his family and friends
he continued his political activism.

        In 1992, following an international peace walk in Israel, he and
other peace activists formed the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu,
which he served as national coordinator. The campaign was part of an
international effort to secure the release of Vanunu, a former Israeli
nuclear technician serving 18 years in solitary confinement for telling a
British newspaper about Israel's secret nuclear weapons program. Day
believed, with others, that Vanunu should serve as a model for nuclear
weapons workers everywhere. In 1994 Day was arrested seven times for taking
part in sit-ins in support of Vanunu at Israeli diplomatic posts in the
United States.

        Day edited two books, "Nuclear Heartland," 1988, detailing the Air
Force's missile silo program, and "Prisoners On Purpose," 1989,
incorporating the prison writings of anti-nuclear activists, both published
by Nukewatch. His autobiography, "Crossing the Line: From Editor to
Activist to Inmate -- a Writer's Journey," was published by Fortkamp in
1990.

        Day received the Distinguished Reporting Award of the American
Political Science Association in 1962 for investigative stories in the
Lewiston (ID) Morning Tribune exposing abuses in Idaho's child welfare
program. In the 1960s and early '70s he was regularly honored by the Idaho
Press Association for his editorship of The Intermountain Observer, a
muck-raking Idaho weekly newspaper. He also served briefly as editor of the
Salmon Recorder-Herald, an Idaho country weekly.

        In 1992 the U.S. Fellowship of Reconciliation awarded him its
annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace Prize.

        A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Day served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean War. He edited "The Grape Leaf," newspaper of the 43rd
Infantry Division in Germany, and wrote for the European edition of the
army newspaper "Stars & Stripes."

        Day is survived by his wife Kathleen (Nee Hammond, married in March
of 1957), a teacher and Democratic
Party activist; a brother, Christopher R. Day, Barnegat Light, New Jersey;
a sister, Mayflower Day Brandt, Berkeley, California; three sons, Philip
and Joshua, both of Madison, and Samuel III, Chicago, and six
granddaughters.

        A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 3 at 3 p.m.
in the Pres House chapel on the University of Wisconsin Library Mall in
Madison, 731 State St.  In lieu of flowers, the family suggests
contributions to the Progressive, Nukewatch, or the U.S. Campaign to Free
Mordechai Vanunu.





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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [abolition-caucus] Assassinations by US OK by Congress!
Date: 30 Jan 2001 17:10:57 -0500

>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:09:57 -0500
>Subject: [abolition-caucus] Assassinations by US OK by Congress!
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>>>
>>> Subject: [House Bill Proposes Lifting Ban on Assassinations]
>>>
>>> Well, here it is: "compassionate conservatism," Texas style.  ("If you
>>> don't like 'em, kill 'em.")  Civilization has just taken a very big step
>>> backwards, and we must act to prevent it.  You know what to do.... Call
>>> your Congressman.  Call your local media.  Call your neighbor. A loud
>>> enough uproar can stop this criminal move in its tracks. Silence can
>>> only invite bloodshed.
>>>
>>> House Bill Proposes Lifting Ban on Assassinations. FTW 1/24/01
>>>
>>> HR 19, Introduced by Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr on January
>>> 3, 2001, the first day of the new 107th Congress, would legislatively
>>> repeal sections of three Executive Orders specifically prohibiting
>>> assassinations by the United States Government. Entitled the "Terrorist
>>> Elimination Act of 2001", the bill, submitted to the House International
>>> Relations Committee, would specifically nullify sections of three
>>> previous Executive Orders including one initiated by Ronald Reagan in
>>> 1981.It is interesting to note that acts of Congress are not required to
>>> nullify previous Executive Orders (EOs) which are, by definition, orders
>>> issued by the President and Commander in Chief to all federal employees
>>> (including military) under his authority.  All that is necessary to
>>> reverse one EO is another EO.  This is exactly what President George W.
>>> Bush did with respect to EOs issued by President Clinton on the
>>> environment in the last days of his administration.
>>>
>>> Section 3 of HR 19 specifically states that the following provisions of
>>> Executive orders shall have no further force or effect:
>>>     (1) Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905.
>>>     (2) Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12306.
>>>     (3) Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333." [By Ronald Reagan]
>>>
>>> Section 5 (g) of Executive Order 11905, signed by Gerald Ford on 2/18/76
>>> specifically prohibited "political" assassination.
>>> Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12036, signed 1/24/78 by Jimmy Carter
>>> renewed the ban.
>>> Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on
>>> 12/4/81 renewed the ban on assassinations, or conspiracy to commit
>>> assassinations, as part of a broader package which gave virtually
>>> complete control of the American National Security apparatus to then
>>> Vice President George H.W. Bush. The full text of HR 19 may be viewed at
>>> <http://thomas.loc.gov>. Enter a search in the 107th Congress for 19,
>>> and it will take you straight to the bill.
>>>
>>> The bold move, unreported and ignored by any major media, offers a
>>> chance for an early referendum on the new administration's full-speed
>>> run at a more violent and brutish foreign policy. The current bill,
>>> introduced by staunch Bush supporter and Clinton impeachment leader
>>> Barr, indicates that the Bush administration is seeking to add
>>> legitimacy to the move by implying that Congress and the American people
>>> support the action. This can only mean that there is quite likely a list
>>> of people the Bush Administration wants to start killing fairly
>>> quickly.  The appointment of career covert operative and Annapolis
>>> graduate Richard Armitage as Deputy Secretary of State under Colin
>>> Powell only underscores the clear message that the Bush Administration
>>> is sending to the world. Armitage, who was denied a 1989 appointment as
>>> Assistant Secretary of State because of links to Iran-Contra and other
>>> scandals, served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
>>> Security Affairs in the Reagan years.U.S. Government stipulations in the
>>> Oliver North trial specifically named Armitage as one of the DoD
>>> officials responsible for illegal transfers of weapons to Iran and the
>>> Contras. But Armitage's dirty past goes much deeper. A Vietnam veteran
>>> and graduate of Annapolis, Armitage's roots have been thoroughly
>>> intertwined with the likes of CIA veteran Ted Shackley, Richard Secord,
>>> Heine Aderholt, Elliot Abrams, Dewey Clarridge, Edwin Wilson and Tom
>>> Clines.
>>>
>>> All of these men have been directly linked to CIA covert operations, the
>>> drug trade, the abandonment of U.S. prisoners of War after Vietnam
>>> and/or Iran-Contra. Armitage has also been routinely discussed in FTW as
>>> a Bush-era covert functionary who has been linked to covert operations,
>>> drug smuggling and the expansion of organized crime operations in
>>> Russia, Central Asia and the Far East. In 1986 a private dispute between
>>> POW activist Ross Perot and Armitage went public as photos of Armitage
>>> with a topless Vietnamese nightclub owner Nguyen O'Rourke brought
>>> allegations of gambling and prostitution very close to Armitage's
>>> doorstep. The stories went public when TIME and "The Boston Globe" wrote
>>> lengthy stories on the feud in 1986 and 1987.
>>>
>>> That scandal arose as a result of 1984 investigations by President
>>> Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime in which the photo and
>>> documentation of gambling charges and prostitution led directly to
>>> Armitage's close association with O'Rourke. Then LAPD Assistant Chief
>>> Jesse Brewer, a former Commanding Officer of this writer, served on the
>>> Reagan Commission. The 1992 best-seller "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" by
>>> former "60 MINUTES" producer Monika Jensen-Stevenson details Armitage's
>>> role as Reagan point man on Vietnam POW-MIA issues and describes why
>>> Armitage has earned the enmity of many POW activists.
>>>
>>> However, in a 1995 interview with "The Washington Post", Colin Powell
>>> referred to Armitage as his "white son."  This, notwithstanding the fact
>>> that the 6-foot, balding, power-lifter, now 56, can still bench press
>>> 300 or more pounds and reportedly "enjoys killing." William Tyree,
>>> Special Forces Veteran who has provided much reliable information and
>>> documentation to FTW in the past said, "Armitage used to 'sit ambush' on
>>> the trails in Laos and Cambodia. He liked it. Now when Powell, 'the
>>> dove,' sits down at a table with Armitage 'the killer' beside him, the
>>> message will be that Armitage can reach across the table and deal with
>>> the other party on the spot." That message will not go unheard. [For
>>> more on Armitage we recommend using the search engine at
>>>    <http://www.copvcia.com> and also at The Progressive Review,
>>> <http://www.prorev.com>.]
>>>
>>> There is reason to believe that a repeal of the assassination ban would
>>> lead to an immediate series of deaths. Remember, the Iran-Contra team is
>>> coming back to power with a vengeance. The completion of a February 11,
>>> 1982 memorandum between Reagan Attorney General William French Smith and
>>> CIA Director Bill Casey removed any requirement for CIA to report drug
>>> trafficking by its agents, contractors and proprietary employees.
>>> Immediately thereafter cocaine consumption in the United States
>>> multiplied as imports rose from approximately 80 tons in 1982 to 600
>>> tons by 1989. [A copy of that memorandum, published by the CIA in 1998,
>>> is available in   FTW's Extracts and Commentary on Volume II of the CIA
>>> Inspector General's Report" originally published on 10/8/98.] There are
>>> no choices and this is no longer a convenient exercise of protected
>>> liberty. This is now a true struggle against tyranny.
>>>
>>> Special thanks to Mike Whybark and Jim Galasyn of Independent Media
>>> Centers for bringing this travesty to my attention. Please visit their
>>> site at:
>>>       <http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19541>.
>>>
>>> From: Michael C. Ruppert
>>>   Publisher/Editor
>>>   "From The Wilderness"
>>>   <http://www.copvcia.com>
>>>   ###
>>>   (c) Copyright 2001, From The Wilderness Publications and Michael C.
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>>>   sourcing appears." More on the new Bush Administration will appear in
>>> the January issue of
>>>   "From The Wilderness" for paid subscribers only.
>>>      *  =================  *  =================  *  =================  *
>>>
>>>   For a comprehensive treatment of the US Foreign Policy in the Americas
>>>
>>>   with a Focus on Cuba, see The Learning Community Web site at:
>>>
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From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: War Games in Space Against China
Date: 01 Feb 2001 03:19:17 -0000

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stop it, working with environmental groups (a new Act about the =
protection of areas of Special Scientific Interest comes into force =
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raising, public meetings, trying to get one of the TV/Radio channels to =
put on a public debate, continuing questions in Parliament and =
non-violent direct action plus organising demonstrations.

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of Menwith Hill and Fylingdales....we are convinced we can certainly =
hold it up and the prize in the end is to stop it.......together we can =
stop it.

With love and peace from the UK

Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow

Co-Coordinators
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can =
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