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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NRC admits deaths from reactor relicensings
Date: 01 Aug 2001 13:41:12 -0400

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>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:40:59 -0400
>Subject: Fwd: NRC admits deaths from reactor relicensings
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>>>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:39 -0400
>>>From: michael mariotte <[e-mail]>
>>>
>>>
>>>Subject: NRC admits deaths from reactor relicensings
>>>
>>>Dear Friends: We encourage you to send this release to your local media
>>>and to your elected officials.
>>>
>>>Michael Mariotte
>>>NIRS
>>>
>>>NEWS FROM NIRS/WISE-AMSTERDAM
>>>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>>>1424 16th Street NW, #404, Washington, DC 20036
>>>202-328-0002; f: 202-462-2183; [e-mail]; www.nirs.org
>>>
>>>
>>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   Contact: Michael Mariotte, Paul
>>Gunter
>>>July 31,
>>>2001                                                      202-328-0002
>>>
>>>
>>>GOVERNMENT ADMITS EACH NUCLEAR REACTOR RELICENSING EXPECTED TO KILL 12
>>>PEOPLE
>>>
>>>MORE THAN 1,200 COULD DIE UNDER BUSH RELICENSING PROGRAM
>>>
>>>The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday acknowledged that 12
>>>people are expected to die as a direct result of each commercial nuclear
>>>reactor that is relicensed and operates for its 20-year license
>>>extension period.
>>>
>>>The admission came in a correction to its 1996 relicensing regulation,
>>>which was published in the Federal Register July 30. According to the
>>>Federal Register notice, each relicensing is expected to be responsible
>>>for the release of 14,800 person-rem of radiation during its 20-year
>>>life extension. The figure includes releases from the nuclear fuel chain
>>>that supports reactor operation, as well as from the reactors
>>>themselves. The NRC calculates that this level of radiation release
>>>spread over the population will cause 12 cancer deaths per reactor.
>>>
>>>However, this figure understates the ramifications of continued reliance
>>>on nuclear power. Additional releases from the storage, transportation
>>>and disposal of high-level radioactive waste created by the reactors
>>>would cause additional deaths. The purpose of the Federal Register
>>>correction notice was to except the effects of high-level waste from the
>>>previously published but little-noticed 14,800 person-rem figure.
>>>
>>>Accidents and non-routine radiation releases are not included in the
>>>NRC's figure, and could cause still higher casualties. The NRC only
>>>calculated likely cancer deaths, so deaths from other radiation-induced
>>>diseases and non-fatal cancers are not included in its calculations.
>>>
>>>There currently are 103 commercial reactors operating in the U.S. The
>>>Bush administration and nuclear power industry have made relicensing the
>>>vast majority of these reactors a centerpiece of their strategy to
>>>maintain and increase reliance on nuclear power. The NRC has said it
>>>expects as many as 100 reactors to apply for license extensions; this
>>>would result in some 1200 cancer deaths among the U.S. population.
>>>
>>>"This admission by the federal government gives the lie to the
>>>administration and nuclear industry's claim that nuclear power is
>>>somehow an 'emissions-free' technology," said Michael Mariotte,
>>>executive director of the Washington-based Nuclear Information and
>>>Resource Service. "Not only does the nuclear fuel chain result in
>>>meaningful greenhouse gas releases, but the deadly radiation emitted at
>>>every step of the process kills people directly. The Bush administration
>>>thinks killing more than 1,000 people is an acceptable price to pay for
>>>continued use of nuclear power. We think it's a national scandal."
>>>
>>>(Mariotte noted that the only operating uranium enrichment plant in the
>>>U.S., at Paducah, Kentucky, is the nation's largest emitter of CFC-114,
>>>which was banned by the Montreal Protocol for being a major ozone
>>>destroyer and greenhouse contributor.)
>>>
>>>Paul Gunter, director of NIRS' Reactor Watchdog Project, pointed out,
>>>"The NRC's notice implicitly admits that the 103 reactors now
>>>operating-if they last only until the end of their original license
>>>period-will be responsible for more than 2,400 cancer deaths in the
>>>U.S., even without all of the dozens of accidents and 'incidents' that
>>>have plagued the industry over the years and caused additional releases
>>>of lethal radiation."
>>>
>>>"Instead of relicensing atomic reactors," said Gunter, "we should be
>>>closing them and accelerating implementation of clean, sustainable,
>>>energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies."
>>>
>>>#30#
>>>
>>>To see the Federal Register posting of July 30, 2001 by the U.S. Nuclear
>>>Regulatory Commission:
>>>
>>>http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgibin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=915531559
6+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
>>>
>>>See Table B-1
>
>Rosemary Bassilakis & Sal Mangiagli
>Citizens Awareness Network
>54 Old Turnpike Road
>Haddam, CT 06438
>
>Ph/fax [phone]
>[e-mail]
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:39
-0400<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Dear Friends: We encourage you to send this release to your local
media<br>
and to your elected officials.<br>
<br>
Michael Mariotte<br>
NIRS<br>
<br>
NEWS FROM NIRS/WISE-AMSTERDAM<br>
Nuclear Information and Resource Service<br>
1424 16th Street NW, #404, Washington, DC 20036<br>
202-328-0002; f: 202-462-2183; [e-mail];
<a href="http://www.nirs.org/" eudora="autourl">www.nirs.org</a><br>
<br>
<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE<x-tab>   </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Contact:
Michael Mariotte, Paul Gunter<br>
July 31,
2001<x-tab>   </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>
202-328-0002<br>
<br>
<br>
GOVERNMENT ADMITS EACH NUCLEAR REACTOR RELICENSING EXPECTED TO KILL
12<br>
PEOPLE<br>
<br>
MORE THAN 1,200 COULD DIE UNDER BUSH RELICENSING PROGRAM<br>
<br>
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday acknowledged that
12<br>
people are expected to die as a direct result of each commercial
nuclear<br>
reactor that is relicensed and operates for its 20-year license<br>
extension period.<br>
<br>
The admission came in a correction to its 1996 relicensing
regulation,<br>
which was published in the Federal Register July 30. According to
the<br>
Federal Register notice, each relicensing is expected to be
responsible<br>
for the release of 14,800 person-rem of radiation during its
20-year<br>
life extension. The figure includes releases from the nuclear fuel
chain<br>
that supports reactor operation, as well as from the reactors<br>
themselves. The NRC calculates that this level of radiation release<br>
spread over the population will cause 12 cancer deaths per reactor.<br>
<br>
However, this figure understates the ramifications of continued
reliance<br>
on nuclear power. Additional releases from the storage,
transportation<br>
and disposal of high-level radioactive waste created by the
reactors<br>
would cause additional deaths. The purpose of the Federal Register<br>
correction notice was to except the effects of high-level waste from
the<br>
previously published but little-noticed 14,800 person-rem figure.<br>
<br>
Accidents and non-routine radiation releases are not included in
the<br>
NRC's figure, and could cause still higher casualties. The NRC only<br>
calculated likely cancer deaths, so deaths from other
radiation-induced<br>
diseases and non-fatal cancers are not included in its
calculations.<br>
<br>
There currently are 103 commercial reactors operating in the U.S.
The<br>
Bush administration and nuclear power industry have made relicensing
the<br>
vast majority of these reactors a centerpiece of their strategy to<br>
maintain and increase reliance on nuclear power. The NRC has said
it<br>
expects as many as 100 reactors to apply for license extensions;
this<br>
would result in some 1200 cancer deaths among the U.S. population.<br>
<br>
"This admission by the federal government gives the lie to the<br>
administration and nuclear industry's claim that nuclear power is<br>
somehow an 'emissions-free' technology," said Michael
Mariotte,<br>
executive director of the Washington-based Nuclear Information and<br>
Resource Service. "Not only does the nuclear fuel chain result
in<br>
meaningful greenhouse gas releases, but the deadly radiation emitted
at<br>
every step of the process kills people directly. The Bush
administration<br>
thinks killing more than 1,000 people is an acceptable price to pay
for<br>
continued use of nuclear power. We think it's a national
scandal."<br>
<br>
(Mariotte noted that the only operating uranium enrichment plant in
the<br>
U.S., at Paducah, Kentucky, is the nation's largest emitter of
CFC-114,<br>
which was banned by the Montreal Protocol for being a major ozone<br>
destroyer and greenhouse contributor.)<br>
<br>
Paul Gunter, director of NIRS' Reactor Watchdog Project, pointed
out,<br>
"The NRC's notice implicitly admits that the 103 reactors now<br>
operating-if they last only until the end of their original license<br>
period-will be responsible for more than 2,400 cancer deaths in the<br>
U.S., even without all of the dozens of accidents and 'incidents'
that<br>
have plagued the industry over the years and caused additional
releases<br>
of lethal radiation."<br>
<br>
"Instead of relicensing atomic reactors," said Gunter, "we
should be<br>
closing them and accelerating implementation of clean, sustainable,<br>
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies."<br>
<br>
#30#<br>
<br>
To see the Federal Register posting of July 30, 2001 by the U.S.
Nuclear<br>
Regulatory Commission: <br>
<br>
<a href="http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgibin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=9155315596+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve" eudora="autourl">http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgibin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=9155315596+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve</a><br>
<br>
See Table B-1</blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Rosemary Bassilakis & Sal Mangiagli <br>
<font size=5><b>C</b></font>itizens <font size=5><b>A</b></font>wareness
<font size=5><b>N</b></font>etwork <br>
54 Old Turnpike Road <br>
Haddam, CT 06438 <br>
<br>
Ph/fax [phone] <br>
[e-mail] <br>
<a href="http://www.nukebusters.org/" eudora="autourl">www</a>.nukebusters.<a href="http://www.nukebusters.org/" eudora="autourl">org</a></html>

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Colombia Mobilization in DC September 27&28
Date: 01 Aug 2001 17:50:17 -0400

>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:40:20 -0400
>Subject: Colombia Mobilization in DC September 27&28
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> >3. NATIONAL MOBILIZATION ON COLOMBIA
> >September 27-28, 2001
> >Washington, DC
> >
> >This event marks the start of a large, national mobilization against US
> >militarization of the Andean Region.  It is sponsored by organizations
> >including: human rights groups, labor groups, environmental groups,
> >peace groups, religious groups, Latin America solidarity groups,
> >indigenous rights groups, and groups interested in populations of the
> >African Diaspora=F3among others!  Please send this to your lists and come
> >join the action in DC:
> >
> >Thursday:
> >Hear Personal Testimony at Workshops and Panels!
> >Meet with Key Policy Makers and Experts!
> >Lobby Your Congresspersons!
> >Reunion of Witness For Peace Returned Colombia-Delegates!
> >
> >Friday:
> >More Workshops!
> >Nonviolent Demonstration/Vigil on the Capitol Steps!
> >Strategy Sessions To Build a Local and National Movement!
> >Fiesta to Celebrate Colombia!
> >
> >Thursday and Friday morning WORKSHOPS:
> >
> >=85 The "War on Drugs"
> >=85 Displacement and Refugee Issues
> >=85 The Situation of Human Rights Defenders
> >=85 Labor in Colombia
> >=85 Immigration/TPS
> >=85 Quagmires: Is Colombia another Vietnam?
> >=85 Aerial Eradication: Environmt & Health Impacts
> >=85 Impacts on Indigenous peoples
> >=85 The hidden face: Afro-Colombians
> >=85 Globalization: The Role of Oil, Trade, TNCs, & IFIs
> >=85 And more!
> >
> >The Colombia Mobilization is a national coalition of organizations and
> >individuals working to transform U.S. policy toward Colombia and the
> >Andean region.  We share the following principles.
> >
> >1. We call for an end to U.S. military aid to Colombia and the Andean
> >region.  Current U.S. military aid to Colombia, including military
> >training and private contracting, is a failed policy.  As part of the
> >"War on Drugs," U.S. military assistance is inflaming a violent conflict
> >and contributing to increased human rights abuses, including massive
> >displacement.  Afro-Colombians, indigenous groups, trade unionists, the
> >rural poor, human rights defenders, social organizations, and others
> >working for peace and justice in Colombia are suffering
> >disproportionately from these human rights violations.
> >
> >2. We call for an end to U.S. funding of counter-narcotic aerial
> >eradication in Colombia and the Andean region.  We recognize that
> >U.S.-funded aerial eradication, or fumigation, of coca and poppy crops
> >is destroying critical biodiversity throughout the Amazon region and is
> >creating health and food-security crises among the local populations.
> >Aerial eradication is a destructive tool that largely fails to achieve
> >U.S. policy goals, without addressing the real development needs that
> >drive people to cultivate coca leaf and poppy.
> >
> >3. We call for dramatic expansion of drug treatment and prevention in
> >the United States.  Any sincere effort to curb illegal drug use in the
> >United States must seriously address the issue of demand, and must
> >de-emphasize the destructive and ineffective supply-side policies,
> >including punitive and racist mandatory minimum drug sentencing.
> >
> >4. We call for the United States to support comprehensive sustainable
> >economic development alternatives throughout the Andean region, as well
> >as efforts for peace that include the full participation of civil
> >society. U.S.-supported international financial institutions, such as
> >the World Bank and IMF, have promoted development and trade policies in
> >the Andean region that have failed to address the region's growing
> >poverty and need for long-term social investment.  Proposed U.S.-led
> >free trade agreements will further contribute to economic injustice if
> >they favor large corporations over the needs of the general population.
> >For the United States to make a positive contribution in Colombia, the
> >development and human rights needs
> >of Colombian people and an emphasis on the peace process must be
> >incorporated into the policy-making process.
> >
> >5. We call for the United States to help alleviate the conditions of
> >refugees and those people internally displaced because of the conflict.
> >With over 300,000 Colombians internally displaced in 2000, and thousands
> >of refugees spilling into neighboring countries, US policy is
> >aggravating a staggering humanitarian crisis that is militarizing
> >borders and threatening regional stability.  The United States should
> >increase humanitarian assistance, prevent further displacement by
> >safeguarding communities' human rights, and provide temporary protected
> >status (TPS) to Colombians living in the United States whose lives are
> >in danger because of the conflict.
> >
> >6. We are committed to nonviolence in our own actions as well as
> >supporting exclusively nonviolent, negotiated political solutions to the
> >conflict in Colombia.  We do not support or endorse any armed actor in
> >the Colombian conflict.
> >
> >Sign-ons to date:
> >
> >Amazon Watch
> >Carolina Interfaith Taskforce on Centra America (CITCA)
> >Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
> >Church of the Brethren, Washington Office
> >Colombia Human Rights Committee
> >Colombia Support Network
> >Common Sense Drug Policy
> >Disarm Education Fund
> >Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA)
> >Fellowship of Reconciliation
> >Global Exchange
> >Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA
> >Drug Policy Project & The Peace and Security Program
> >Institute for Policy Studies
> >International Labor Rights Fund
> >International Rivers Network
> >Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
> >Nicaragua Network
> >Peace Action
> >Rainforest Action Network
> >Rights Action
> >School of the Americas Watch
> >Global Ministries/Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
> >United Church of Christ
> >Public Life and Social Policy Office
> >United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
> >United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
> >U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP)
> >Witness for Peace
> >
> >For more information www.ColombiaMobilization.org
> =20

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) New items on Tri-Valley CAREs' website
Date: 01 Aug 2001 17:58:52 -0700

Greetings. Tri-Valley CAREs has new information up on its website at
www.igc.org/tvc that may interest you. Sorry for any cross-postings. Check
out the website, and you will find:

*       HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION AT LIVERMORE LAB (AT 7 AM), BENEFIT CONCERT
IN BERKELEY (AT 7 PM) WITH SINGER-SONGWRITER JESSE COLIN YOUNG. You are
invited! See web for details.

*       FORMER LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTIST GOES ANTI-NUKE, TOURS JAPAN TO STOP
NIF-- Read all about Issac Trotts' work with colleagues in Gensuiken on the
campaign to convince Hoya Corporation to stop producing glass for the
National Ignition Facility mega-laser.

*       LAWSUIT DOUBLES STATE INSPECTIONS AT LIVERMORE LAB -- Tri-Valley
CAREs, Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians for Social
Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter reach a settlement with the
State of California over hazardous waste regulation at Livermore Lab.

*       FIVE STORIES: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER IN WASHINGTON, DC -- Hear
about five Tri-Valley CAREs members adventures in the "halls of power"
during the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability's "DC Days."

*       ON LASERS, TOXIC WASTE AND THE BUDGET -- Get an update on some of
the good, the bad and the ugly in the fiscal year 2002 budget process.

*       GOVERNMENT AUDIT ADDS $200 MILLION TO NIF, DISCLOSES PLUTONIUM
PLANS -- Read a summary of the latest General Accounting Office analysis of
the National Ignition Facility mega-laser.

*       SOARING COST OF THE NIF MEGA-LASER MAY TOP $30 BILLION -- Get the
facts on Tri-Valley CAREs' latest report on the hidden costs of the NIF.
Then, download the entire report (including very cool cover art!) from our
website.

*       AND MORE. Check it out at http://www.igc.org

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
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From: Tim Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Why Republicans Should Oppose Star Wars
Date: 01 Aug 2001 22:04:29 -0700

Dear Abolition Caucus:

Below is a sample letter about why Republicans should oppose Star Wars.
What do you think of my letter?

I believe that Republicans should oppose Star Wars for the following
reasons:

I. Only 2 of the last 4 tests have been successful, and those tests had
unrealistically easy conditions.  The targets in the tests had only one
decoy, as opposed to the multiple decoys in a real life attack.  Also,
the interceptor was told where the target missile would be.  How can
Republicans advocate deploying a weapons system which hasn't been proven
to work against realistic attacks and doesn't even consistently pass
easy tests?  Moreover, a missile defense system wouldn't stop terrorist
attacks.

II. National Missile Defense and Theater Missile defense would cost
hundreds of billions of dollars.  How can Republicans favor spending
hundreds of billions on a system which doesn't work?  Isn't that against
their philosophy of small government?

III. Missile defense systems would violate the ABM treaty, and provoke
the Russians and Chinese into resuming the nuclear arms race, increasing
the threat of nuclear war, undermining our security, and forcing
increased U.S. military spending.  How can Republicans support something
that violates treaties, undermines national security, and forces
increased government spending?

Please contact President Bush (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20502;
[phone]; [e-mail]) to urge him to put missile
defense on the back burner and go for a treaty to abolish nuclear
weapons.  Please also contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington,
D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553;
[e-mail]), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington,
D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; [e-mail]), and
Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.,
20515; 202-225-5716; [e-mail]) to urge them to vote to
stop spending money on missile defense, and sponsor a resolution urging
Bush to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons.


Sincerely,

Timothy Bruening
1439 Brown Drive
Davis, CA 95616

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From: carol wolman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Why Republicans Should Oppose Star Wars
Date: 02 Aug 2001 10:23:20 -0700

Dear Tim,  The best summary I have seen so far is from an email by Edward
Perry.  He states: "
> My argument has been that the main concern should be that there is a better
> way to handle the missile threat. President Kennedy had a real immediate
> threat not a predicted future threat and he did not propose a missile
> defense system He eliminated the threat with negotiated mutual
> disarmament.We should look to diplomacy not technology to solve the problem.
>
> The book from Robert McNamara entitiled Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of
> Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century is more than critical
> of missile defense -- "McNamara and Blight put forth a multi-faceted action
> program for realizing Wilson's dream in our new century"
> I would like to transform the fight betwee Senate Democrats and President
> Bush opver NMD into a political confrontation between Wilson's Democratic
> dream of a world without war and the Republican isolationism of President
> Bush.
> Democrats in the Senate would kill NMD if the thou
    Peace,  Carol
Tim Bruening wrote:

> Dear Abolition Caucus:
>
> Below is a sample letter about why Republicans should oppose Star Wars.
> What do you think of my letter?
>
> I believe that Republicans should oppose Star Wars for the following
> reasons:
>
> I. Only 2 of the last 4 tests have been successful, and those tests had
> unrealistically easy conditions.  The targets in the tests had only one
> decoy, as opposed to the multiple decoys in a real life attack.  Also,
> the interceptor was told where the target missile would be.  How can
> Republicans advocate deploying a weapons system which hasn't been proven
> to work against realistic attacks and doesn't even consistently pass
> easy tests?  Moreover, a missile defense system wouldn't stop terrorist
> attacks.
>
> II. National Missile Defense and Theater Missile defense would cost
> hundreds of billions of dollars.  How can Republicans favor spending
> hundreds of billions on a system which doesn't work?  Isn't that against
> their philosophy of small government?
>
> III. Missile defense systems would violate the ABM treaty, and provoke
> the Russians and Chinese into resuming the nuclear arms race, increasing
> the threat of nuclear war, undermining our security, and forcing
> increased U.S. military spending.  How can Republicans support something
> that violates treaties, undermines national security, and forces
> increased government spending?
>
> Please contact President Bush (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20502;
> [phone]; [e-mail]) to urge him to put missile
> defense on the back burner and go for a treaty to abolish nuclear
> weapons.  Please also contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington,
> D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553;
> [e-mail]), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington,
> D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; [e-mail]), and
> Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.,
> 20515; 202-225-5716; [e-mail]) to urge them to vote to
> stop spending money on missile defense, and sponsor a resolution urging
> Bush to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Timothy Bruening
> 1439 Brown Drive
> Davis, CA 95616
>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter to Times
Date: 06 Aug 2001 16:29:50 -0400

Hi Friends,
Here's my letter to the Times editor.  Try to swamp then with letters.


                                                               August 6, 2001

Editor, New York Times
BY FAX :  [phone]

Now that the New York Times Magazine has fully revealed that the current focus
on national missile defense ô has obscured its larger purposeö to field an
offensive array of weapons in space, (ôThe Coming Space Warö, August 5, 2001),
isnÆt it essential that your various reports about ômissile defenseö, for
example, ôConservative Coalition Pushes Missile Shield on Capitol Hillö,
August
6, 2001,  acknowledge that there is more to the ôshieldö or ôdefenseö than
meets the eye?

Characterizing the current plans to dominate and control the military use of
space as a ôshieldö or ôdefenseö plays into the hands of the Bush
AdministrationÆs  ôspinö to allay public concerns against starting an
explosively expensive program to turn the heavens into a battlefield, trashing
years of carefully negotiated arms control agreements and starting a new
nuclear arms race with Russia and China.  The Times should be commended for
its
Magazine expose of what the space warriors are really up to.  This new
information should be reflected in all Times reporting on space warfare
programs. Without including this context, an uninformed and misguided public
will fail to demand an honest debate about whether we really want our country
to be the leader in turning the heavens into a battlefield.

The irony is, that should we decide to take an offensive position in space
without a full airing of the implications of ômissile defenseö, we will be
making our country much less secure. Other countries are bound to follow us
into space, just as they followed our lead in building nuclear bombs.  We
should be considering more viable options, such as supporting efforts to
strengthen the biological and chemical weapons treatiesÆ inspection and
monitoring provisions, working for a verifiable missile ban, and moving more
swiftly towards nuclear disarmament as we promised more than 25 years ago in
the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Sincerely,



Alice Slater
President




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Dear friends:

Please comment on this, it's about a CTBT monitoring station.  Are there
any possible health effects from maintaining such stations.

Hope we get some info on this.

In solidarity,

Myrla Baldonado
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  betmarcelo <[e-mail]> wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:00:30 -0700 (PDT)
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marcelo - 7/24/01

PHILIPPINES HOSTS MONITORING

STATIONS TO DETECT NUKE TESTS



SUBIC BAY FREEPORT û Nuclear tests and accidents will be detected from the Philippines through three monitoring stations to be established as part of the global network that will monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty [CTBT].

The CTBT prohibits all nuclear weapon test explosions and any other nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. Under the CTBT, a preparatory commission based in Vienna is establishing the International Monitoring System [IMS], a global network consisting of 321 monitoring stations and 16 radionuclide laboratories spanning some 90 countries.

The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute [PNRI] said the Philippines is hosting one of 80 radionuclide stations and two auxiliary seismic stations out of 170 seismic monitoring stations in the IMS.

The PNRI has informed the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority [SBMA] of its plan to establish the radionuclide station in this former US naval base. One auxiliary seismic station will be put up at the Manila Observatory in Davao while the other will be placed at the disposition of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology [PHIVOLCS].

The PNRI is sending a team to Subic Bay Freeport this week to gather additional data prior to a survey that would identify the exact site of the radionuclide station.

A memorandum of agreement has to be drawn up between the two agencies. The SBMA Ecology Center said the PNRI has requested that the SBMA provide the site, power and security for the radionuclide station.

The IMS is the first and most important component of the elaborate global verification regime provided in the treaty. The verification process includes clarification and consultation, on-site inspections and confidence-building measures.

The IMS monitoring stations will be capable of registering vibrations from a possible nuclear explosion underground, in the seas and in the air, as well as detecting radioactive debris released into the atmosphere.

These stations will transmit, via satellite, the data to the International Data Centre (IDC) in Vienna, where the data will be used to detect, locate and characterize events. These data and IDC products are made available to the States Signatories for final analysis.

To date, some 100 stations are continuously transmitting data to the IDC, which began operating on February last year.

The primary task of the Vienna-based Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization [CTBTO] is to ensure that the global verification regime provided in the treaty is operational by the time the CTBT comes into force.

Since its adoption on Sept. 10, 1996, the CTBT has been signed by 161 states. As of this writing, the Holy See became the 78th state to ratify the treaty. The Philippine Senate ratified it last February.

The CTBT will enter into force 180 days after it has been signed and ratified by the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty. These are countries with nuclear power and research reactors that formally participated in drafting the CTBT in the 1996 session of the Conference on Disarmament.

Among the Annex 2 states, 41 have signed, of which 31 have ratified the treaty. The first signatories include the so-called "five nuclear states": China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and the US, however, have not ratified the CTBT.

The three states that have not signed the treaty are India, Pakistan and North Korea û all Asian countries known to be engaged in the development of nuclear weapons. India and Pakistan confirmed in 1998 that they conducted nuclear tests.

This makes the monitoring stations in the Philippines crucial, especially the radionuclide station in Subic, which hosted a major US military facility in the Asia-Pacific.

A PNRI official said SubicÆs location is strategic, not just for trade and commerce or regional defense and security, but also for the purpose of monitoring explosions from nuclear tests or accidents in the Asia-Pacific region.

Radionuclide stations use air samplers to detect radioactive particles released from atmospheric explosions and vented from underground or under water explosions. The verification technology can distinguish from explosions caused by nuclear reactors or nuclear tests, depending on the volume of different radioactive particles, the presence of specific particles and noble gases.

"Subic is very near the South China Sea, [and] the surrounding areas û like Japan, China and Taiwan û all have nuclear facilities," the PNRI official said.

The PNRI also considered as important the setting up of the radionuclide station in "a place undisturbed by industries" since the air sampler can catch a lot of industrial debris if located in an area with a heavy concentration of industries.

The seismic stations detect and locate seismic events and, through the verification system, distinguish between those caused by nuclear explosions and by the many earthquakes that occur worldwide. [30]





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<P>  <B><I>betmarcelo <[e-mail]></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:00:30 -0700 (PDT)<BR>From: betmarcelo <[e-mail]><BR>Reply-to: [e-mail]<BR>Subject: nuke monitoring <BR>To: [e-mail]<BR><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>
<P>marcelo - 7/24/01</P></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=3></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=4>
<P align=center>PHILIPPINES HOSTS MONITORING </P>
<P align=center>STATIONS TO DETECT NUKE TESTS</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma>
<P align=justify></P><B><FONT size=3>
<P align=justify>SUBIC BAY FREEPORT </B>û Nuclear tests and accidents will be detected from the Philippines through three monitoring stations to be established as part of the global network that will monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty [CTBT].</FONT></P><FONT size=3>
<P align=justify>The CTBT prohibits all nuclear weapon </FONT><FONT face=Verdana></FONT><FONT size=3>test explosions and any other nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. Under the CTBT, a preparatory commission based in Vienna is establishing the International Monitoring System [IMS], a global network consisting of 321 monitoring stations and 16 radionuclide laboratories spanning some 90 countries. </FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute [PNRI] said the Philippines is hosting one of 80 radionuclide stations and two auxiliary seismic stations out of 170 seismic monitoring stations in the IMS.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The PNRI has informed the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority [SBMA] of its plan to establish the radionuclide station in this former US naval base. One auxiliary seismic station will be put up at the Manila Observatory in Davao while the other will be placed at the disposition of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology [PHIVOLCS].</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The PNRI is sending a team to Subic Bay Freeport this week to gather additional data prior to a survey that would identify the exact site of the radionuclide station.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>A memorandum of agreement has to be drawn up between the two agencies. The SBMA Ecology Center said the PNRI has requested that the SBMA provide the site, power and security for the radionuclide station.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The IMS is the first and most important component of the elaborate global verification regime provided in the treaty. The verification process includes clarification and consultation, on-site inspections and confidence-building measures.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The IMS monitoring stations will be capable of registering vibrations from a possible nuclear explosion underground, in the seas and in the air, as well as detecting radioactive debris released into the atmosphere.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>These stations will transmit, via satellite, the data to the International Data Centre (IDC) in Vienna, where the data will be used to detect, locate and characterize events. These data and IDC products are made available to the States Signatories for final analysis.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>To date, some 100 stations are continuously transmitting data to the IDC, which began operating on February last year.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The primary task of the Vienna-based Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization [CTBTO] is to ensure that the global verification regime provided in the treaty is operational by the time the CTBT comes into force.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>Since its adoption on Sept. 10, 1996, the CTBT has been signed by 161 states. As of this writing, the Holy See became the 78<SUP>th</SUP> state to ratify the treaty. The Philippine Senate ratified it last February.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The CTBT will enter into force 180 days after it has been signed and ratified by the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty. These are countries with nuclear power and research reactors that formally participated in drafting the CTBT in the 1996 session of the Conference on Disarmament.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>Among the Annex 2 states, 41 have signed, of which 31 have ratified the treaty. The first signatories include the so-called "five nuclear states": China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and the US, however, have not ratified the CTBT. </FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The three states that have not signed the treaty are India, Pakistan and North Korea û all Asian countries known to be engaged in the development of nuclear weapons. India and Pakistan confirmed in 1998 that they conducted nuclear tests.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>This makes the monitoring stations in the Philippines crucial, especially the radionuclide station in Subic, which hosted a major US military facility in the Asia-Pacific.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>A PNRI official said SubicÆs location is strategic, not just for trade and commerce or regional defense and security, but also for the purpose of monitoring explosions from nuclear tests or accidents in the Asia-Pacific region.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>Radionuclide stations use air samplers to detect radioactive particles released from atmospheric explosions and vented from underground or under water explosions. The verification technology can distinguish from explosions caused by nuclear reactors or nuclear tests, depending on the volume of different radioactive particles, the presence of specific particles and noble gases.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>"Subic is very near the South China Sea, [and] the surrounding areas û like Japan, China and Taiwan û all have nuclear facilities," the PNRI official said.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The PNRI also considered as important the setting up of the radionuclide station in "a place undisturbed by industries" since the air sampler can catch a lot of industrial debris if located in an area with a heavy concentration of industries.</FONT></P>
<P align=justify><FONT size=3>The seismic stations detect and locate seismic events and, through the verification system, distinguish between those caused by nuclear explosions and by the many earthquakes that occur worldwide.<B></FONT><FONT size=3> [30]</FONT></P>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: "SC might block borders to plutonium"
Date: 10 Aug 2001 13:17:54 -0400

>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:43:13 -0400
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>The State (Columbia, SC)
>August 10 2001
>S.C. might close its borders to plutonium
>By LEE BANDY   Staff Writer
>
>Gov. Jim Hodges ordered his public safety director Thursday to  evaluate
>options for closing the state's borders to plutonium  shipments to the
>Savannah River Site near Aiken.
>"We must be prepared to stand up to Washington," he said in a  memo to
>Boykin Rose, director of the Department of Public Safety.
>"My hope is the federal government will come to its senses and allow  us to
>avoid this step, but we cannot take a chance."
>Hodges asked Rose to consider options for highway roadblocks or  "other
>measures."
>Asked if this might mean stationing Highway Patrol troopers at the  borders
>or calling out the Army National Guard, Hodges replied, in  an interview,
>"Whatever it takes."
>And if it precipitates a national crisis, so be it, he said.
>The U.S. Justice Department declined comment on what legal action,  if any,
>it might take to stop South Carolina from shutting down its  borders to
>trucks or trains that deliver the plutonium.
>S.C. Attorney General Charlie Condon had no immediate comment.
>In 1988 and 1991, Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus used state police to  block
>railroad cars filled with radioactive waste from entering a  federal
>storage site.
>Lawsuits that arose from those actions ultimately led to a settlement
>agreement that set deadlines for shipping nuclear waste out of Idaho.
>During the Clinton administration, South Carolina worked out an
>arrangement with the Department of Energy whereby the state  agreed to
>accept temporary custody of surplus plutonium at SRS in  return for a
>promise to ship the deadly fuel to Nevada for final burial  and to convert
>plutonium to an energy fuel.
>DOE, however, has "reneged" on the deal, Hodges said. What was  to be
>temporary storage now may turn into long-term or even  permanent storage,
>the governor fears.
>He met with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at the National  Governors'
>Association conference in Rhode Island Monday and  asked him to delay
>shipments until the department agrees to a legally  enforceable long-term
>plan for removing the material. The secretary  declined to commit to that,
>Hodges said.
>"My concern is that we're weeks away from seeing plutonium from  across the
>nation shipped to our state with no idea of what they're  going to do with
>it or when they're going to ship it out in a safer form  to another
>location. And that's unacceptable," the governor said.
>Abraham was in the state Thursday touring SRS. He toured the  facility
>south of Aiken to announce a $5 million contribution to an  industrial park
>adjacent to the site and meet with community leaders.
>He described discussions with Hodges as "very frank." Abraham said  a top
>assistant met Thursday with a representative from the  governor's office.
>He said the dialogue "can lead to positive results,  and we're anxious to
>work with the state to achieve that."
>Shipping is to begin sometime this month, mostly from a federal  facility
>in Rocky Flats, Colo., Hodges said.
>Hodges painted a scenario where DOE or the president might say  "no" to the
>Yucca Mountain burial site in Nevada, which has yet to  receive high-level
>nuclear waste.
>"And then we have all the plutonium here and no place to stick it. It
>terrifies me," the governor said.
>In his memo to Rose, the governor said that once the plutonium from  other
>states arrives in South Carolina, "it will no longer be an issue of
>concern for other states. We will be left holding the proverbial bag,"
>In its agreement with the state, DOE promised to build facilities at  SRS
>to immobilize plutonium to make it safe for shipment to its final  burial
>ground, and to convert it to fuel for commercial nuclear energy
>facilities. Both would have created hundreds of job opportunities.  The
>projects now are doubtful. The Bush administration cites  budgetary
>concerns.
>That's not good enough, Hodges said. When it comes to the issue of  health
>and safety of the state's citizens, money shouldn't be an issue.
>"We will not allow the health and safety of our citizens to be  threatened
>by storage of plutonium without a definite timetable for  conversion and
>disposition in another state," he said.
>U.S. Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., a senior member of the House  Armed Services
>Committee, has proposed legislation to bar  shipments of plutonium after
>Feb. 1, 2002, if no agreement has been  reached with the state.
>Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., included language in an energy bill that  says
>DOE must consult with the state on this matter and submit a  report to
>Congress on how it plans to address plutonium disposition  at SRS for the
>long term.
>What worries Hodges is that a lot of plutonium could be shipped  between
>now and when legislation passes.
>"Once they begin the shipments, they won't stop. A lot could be  shipped
>between now and February. And once that process starts,  it's difficult to
>stop," Hodges said.
>Staff Writer Kenneth A. Harris contributed to this report.
>http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/08/10/front/websrs10 .htm
>
>**************************************
>Susan Gordon, Director
>Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
>www.ananuclear.org
>1914 N 34th, Suite #407, Seattle, WA 98103
>ph 206-547-3175  fax [phone]
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>issues of nuclear weapons production and waste clean-up.
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Thwartnuke/Original anti-nuke video game on TVC website
Date: 10 Aug 2001 23:12:09 -0700

Thwartnuke 1.0
An Anti-Nuclear Video Game
designed and developed by Tri-Valley CAREs' Issac Trotts
available, downloadable and playable on our website at www.igc.org/tvc
___________________________________________

In this fanciful game, Einstein defends the Earth against the latest
productions of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.  The action
takes place in space, with the National Ignition Facility hurling
B83 and B61-11 nuclear bombs at the Earth.  As Einstein, you valiantly
protect the planet by throwing an unlimited supply of paper cranes
at the weapons, which turn into sunflowers if touched by cranes.
When you pacify a sufficient number of nukes, peace prevails.
Score bonus points by tagging a nuke advocate (such as George W.
Bush, "Dick" Cheney, LLNL director Bruce Tarter, or New Mexico
Senator "Pete" Domenici) with a paper crane.

The game comes with source code and is in the public domain.
Suggestions, hacks, and ports to non-PC systems are solicited.
___________________________________________
Play it -- and let us know what you think. Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Building links from the peace movement to the
Date: 13 Aug 2001 10:57:22 -0400

Dear Friends,
Below is a very disturbing message from a friend who is working to put
reasonable brakes on the privatization and commodification of the very genetic
material which makes us human.  It seems that our traditional allies in the
peace movement and other liberal-progressives are on the wrong side of this
issue--blindly supporting science--instead of questioning whether we have the
maturity or wisdom to handle what man hath wrought in the laboratory.
Certainly, from the point of view of nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and star
wars, we know that scientists are not always up to the task.  Also--I find it
very interesting that the human genome project started at Los Alamos--from the
boys who brought us the bomb!!  Those of you who read Bill Joy's essay in
Wired
Magazine, "Does the Future Need Us?"  must be aware that it is probably
best to
put a stop to this kind of "science" until we know we will have the
know-how to
handle the results without doing further harm to our species and the
environment.

Hope you will think about these issues and start a dialogue in your
community.
If you'd like a copy of Bill Joy's article, I have extras. (He's Chief of
Science at Sun MicroSystems and invented the Java program.)
>
>From: chris desser <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning
>
>
>You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both
>reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the
>House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162.  An attempt to substitute the
>weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178.
>
>This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning,
>inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology.
>
>But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands.
>
>Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social
>conservatives and religious pro-lifers.  Seeing this, many liberal and
>progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at
>stake, reflexively took the other side.
>
>In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about
>the
>dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human
>beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of
>letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for
>science to operate within social and ethical norms.
>
>And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national
>leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic
>justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the
>arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts:  that there's no way we can
>stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that
>only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere
>with
>scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling
>future of genetic improvement, and more.
>
>If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political
>liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and
>hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the
>conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big,
>because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic
>technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before
>in human history.
>
>We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new
>human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing
>pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can
>have universal appeal.
>
>More soon.
>
>In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston
>University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from
>Species-Altering Procedures", now is the  time.  It will be an important
>occassion for building the movement we need to build. See
>http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Chris Desser
>Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies
>2151 Pacific Avenue
>San Francisco, CA 94115
>415-561-2627
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>Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning
>
>
>You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both
>reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the
>House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162.  An attempt to substitute the
>weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178.
>
>This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning,
>inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology.
>
>But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands.
>
>Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social
>conservatives and religious pro-lifers.  Seeing this, many liberal and
>progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at
>stake, reflexively took the other side.
>
>In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about
>the
>dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human
>beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of
>letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for
>science to operate within social and ethical norms.
>
>And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national
>leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic
>justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the
>arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts:  that there's no way we can
>stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that
>only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere
>with
>scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling
>future of genetic improvement, and more.
>
>If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political
>liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and
>hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the
>conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big,
>because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic
>technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before
>in human history.
>
>We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new
>human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing
>pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can
>have universal appeal.
>
>More soon.
>
>In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston
>University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from
>Species-Altering Procedures", now is the  time.  It will be an important
>occassion for building the movement we need to build. See
>http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
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>Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies
>2151 Pacific Avenue
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) apologies for full mailbox; please resend if important
Date: 15 Aug 2001 14:26:15 -0700

Dear friends -- Due to travel complications my e-mail box filled up.
Consequently, messages sent to me between August 11 and August 15 were
bounced back.  Please re-send anything important.  I apologize for the
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival
Date: 16 Aug 2001 08:08:02 -0400

Dear Friends,
Please add your endorsement to this Festival of Creative NonViolence during
the
NATO parliamentary assembly in Ottawa.  There will also be a Teach-in the day
before on October 5th: Global Cops: The Corporate Security State's Assault on
Democracy.  You can sponsor that event as well by emailing Peter Coombs,
[e-mail], and asking him to add you to his list.  The teach-in
will feature speakers who can make the links between NATO and
globalization--the iron fist that supports corporate rule.  Hope you can
endorse both events and that lots of your will come to Ottawa.  Regards, Alice

>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:14:17 -0400
>Subject: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
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>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival
>
>As of August 15, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade has received 40
>endorsements from various NGOs for our Festival of Creative NonViolence, to
>be held in Ottawa on October 6.  These endorsements have mostly come in
>over just the past few days.
>
>PLEASE help us to get even more endorsements by circulating the request for
>endorsements to any NGOs that you believe may be interested in supporting
>this effort.  You can get a copy of our "call to endorse" the festival at
><http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/205>
>
>Antiwar.com, USA
>Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children, France
>Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
>Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
>Befriending the Earth network
>Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
>British Columbia Voice of Women
>Canadian Auto Workers
>Centre for Social Justice
>Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>Father's Day Coalition for Peace
>Gerald and Maas
>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
>Green Party of Ontario
>Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
>Hamilton Action for Social Change
>Homes not Bombs - Toronto
>Illinois Peace Action, USA
>Island Catholic News
>Jonah House, USA
>Kashmiri-Canadian Council
>Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
>M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
>National Union of Public and General Employees
>Nukewatch, USA
>OPIRG - McMaster
>Peace and Disarmament Working Group/
>  Social Responsibility Cttee., First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
>Peace Alliance Winnipeg
>Project Peacemakers
>Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
>Raging Grannies - Ottawa
>Rainforest Raging Grannies, Vancouver
>Sierra Youth Coalition
>St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
>Toronto Action for Social Change
>VANA - Manitoba
>Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Canada
>Woodstock Raging Grannies
>Zero Tolerance Network
>
>
>Notes:
>* Unless otherwise stated, these NGOs in Canada.
>
>* We will eventually list all endorsing organizations on the Coalition to
>Oppose the Arms Trade website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>  We will include
>contact information and a 30-or-so word description which we are asking
>each organization to provide.
>
>* Further updates to this list of endorsing NGOs will be available in the
>archive of the no_to_nato list serve which you can check by visiting the
>COAT website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat> or <http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/>
>
>
>                          Richard Sanders
>       Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>
>              A national peace network supported by
>           individuals and organizations across Canada
>
>          541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2  Canada
>            Tel.:  [phone]      Fax: [phone]
>     Email: <[e-mail]>   Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
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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] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) New NIF billboard to debut Mon/media adv.
Date: 16 Aug 2001 18:33:28 -0700

for more information, contact:
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, [phone]

media advisory
MONDAY, AUGUST 20, BILLBOARD UNVEILING FOR CAMPAIGN TO URGE LIVERMORE LAB
SCIENTISTS TO QUIT WORK ON THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY AND OTHER NUCLEAR
WEAPONS PROJECTS

WHAT:           Tri-Valley CAREs has purchased space on the only billboard
in the City of Livermore to appeal to scientists and engineers at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), asking them to forswear work
on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser and other nuclear
weapons programs.

WHEN:           11 AM, Monday, August 20, 2001, for an "unveiling" and
press conference.

WHERE:          At the 24-foot billboard, corner of Portola Ave. and
Murrieta Blvd., Livermore (at the Portola Ave. on ramp to I-580).

WHO:            Speakers include

                * Issac Trotts, former LLNL Computer Scientist in the
Stockpile Stewardship program, on the broad-based campaign, of which the
billboard is a key element, urging scientists and engineers to renounce
work on nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Trotts has been
speaking to young scientists in colleges and Universities on the nuclear
weapons applications of NIF and the Stockpile Stewardship program since
leaving his position at LLNL earlier this year.

                * Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, former nuclear chemist in the
LLNL Stockpile Stewardship program, on the responsibility of scientists to
refuse to work on nuclear weapons. Dr. Toupadakis left LLNL's weapons
program last year for reasons of conscience.

                * Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs,
the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog" organization, on why the group purchased
the billboard and what else is planned for 2002 in the group's campaign to
reach LLNL workers.

                * Also present and available for interviews will be
physicist Marion Fulk, LLNL retired, Tri-Valley CAREs' Ann Seitz, who
helped design the billboard, Don King, Martha Priebat and other community
representatives.

WHY:            The new billboard, a lighted, high-quality vinyl creation
in brilliant reds and yellows, will be seen by 24,100 drivers each day,
including many of the Livermore Laboratory staff who live in town or
commute home to other communities in the Tri-Valley or East Bay. The
billboard artistically features part of the target chamber of the National
Ignition Facility and invites the viewer to ponder NIF's relationship to
advancing nuclear weapons science. Concludes the billboard, "Your Mind Is A
Terrible Thing To Waste."

The international Scientists and Engineers Pledge to Renounce Weapons of
Mass Destruction, recently launched by Tri-Valley CAREs and three colleague
organizations, and other relevant materials about NIF, Stockpile
Stewardship and nuclear weapons are available on Tri-Valley CAREs' web
site, which is listed on the billboard (www.igc.org/tvc) along with the
group's phone number.

The new Livermore billboard is similar to one placed by the Los Alamos
Study Group near the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, and is part of a
coordinated campaign.

Tri-Valley CAREs will be creating postcards using the new billboard image,
and will be corresponding in 2002 with all 8,000 Livermore Lab employees.

--end--

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

<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: Tim Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars Test Rigged!
Date: 19 Aug 2001 17:48:35 -0700

Dear Abolition Caucus:

Below is a letter I wrote to my local newspapers about the rigging of
the missile defense test.  Please send similar letters to your
newspapers and Congressional representatives expressing your outrage as
a taxpayer and demanding a full investigation.

As a taxpayer, I was outraged to read (August 5 Sacramento Bee Forum
Section) that the target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
for the July 14 missile defense test carried a beacon which guided the
kill vehicle toward it, as did the target missiles for the previous 3
tests (2 of which failed anyway).  I'm outraged that missile defense
tests are being rigged.  I feel that the missile defense proponents are
attempting to trick us taxpayers into supporting a deeply flawed missile
defense system to fatten the pocketbooks of defense contractors.

I believe that the missile defense program should be frozen and that
Congress and the Justice Department should conduct a full scale
investigation of the rigging of missile defense tests.

Please contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510;
202-224-3553; [e-mail]), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; [e-mail]),
and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.,
20515; 202-225-5716; [e-mail]) to urge them to demand a
full Congressional and Justice Department investigation of the rigging
of missile defense tests and to urge them to vote to freeze the program
until the investigation is finished.

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From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: DOD AWARDS ALASKA STAR WARS CONTRACT
Date: 19 Aug 2001 19:56:31 -0500

=20

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 8/19/2001 5:30 PM

 "We're looking to do possible silo construction and
other stuff next April at Fort Greely," Lt. Col. Rick
Lehner, spokesman for the Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization in Washington D.C., told the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner.  =20
Most legal experts agree that once they start pouring concrete the ABM
Treaty will be violated. so, if we are lucky, we have until the Spring
thaw in Alaksa to head this off--assuming they are really telling the
truth about what they are going to do between now and December. fab.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 8/19/2001 4:34 PM

Government awards missile defense contract in Alaska
http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/63883p-916101c.html
<http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/63883p-916101c.html>=20
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Politics:  Government awards missile defense contract
in Alaska=20
=20
The Associated Press=20

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (August 19, 2001 9:26 a.m. EDT) - In
the government's latest move to build a missile
defense shied, the Department of Defense awarded a
contract worth nearly $5 million to a Point Hope
Native corporation to prepare Fort Greely to become a
national missile defense test site.

The award is the most concrete step yet in
transforming the shuttered base outside Delta Junction
into the eventual core of the Pentagon's desired
missile shield.

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded the site
preparation contract Friday to Aglaq Construction
Enterprises, a subsidiary of Tikigaq Native Corp.
Aglaq will subcontract with a Fairbanks firm, Brice
Inc.

The contract calls for the company to clear trees to
allow for the future installation of interceptor
missile silos, build a main access road, drill two
water wells, and conduct other work, including soil
excavation and grading.

The Army Corps of Engineers plans to issue a formal
notice of the contract next week and work could start
immediately afterward. The contract calls for the site
work to be completed by mid-December.

The Pentagon hopes to subsequently construct up to
five missile silos at Fort Greely as part of an
expanded Pacific "test bed" for the proposed national
missile defense system.

Proposed funding for that work awaits congressional
approval.

"We're looking to do possible silo construction and
other stuff next April at Fort Greely," Lt. Col. Rick
Lehner, spokesman for the Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization in Washington D.C., told the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner.  =20
=20
Copyright =A9 2001 Nando Media
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Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, FL 32607
[phone]
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From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Helms to announce retirement Wednesday
Date: 21 Aug 2001 13:17:09 -0400

HELMS TO ANNOUNCE RETIREMENT WEDNESDAY

The Hill, Tuesday, August 21

By Allison Stevens

Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) will announce Wednesday that he will not seek
reelection to a sixth term next year, The Hill has learned.

The 79-year-old conservative icon will make the announcement tomorrow
night on WRAL-TV, the Raleigh television station where he first gained a
statewide following as a political commentator for 12 years before
winning his Senate seat in 1972.

Helms, who stepped down as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
in June after Democrats took control of the Senate, has been plagued by
health problems in recent years.

Sources close to Helms said he had tentatively decided earlier this year
against seeking reelection, but put the decision off because he felt
pressured by fellow Republicans to step aside for a younger candidate.
The sources said Helms was angered when Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who
heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, urged him to step
aside earlier this year after showing him a poll that indicated he would
be vulnerable.

Frist reportedly suggested that Elizabeth Dole would be a stronger
candidate. Dole, a North Carolina native and former Cabinet member who
ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, has indicated
a strong interest in running, and would be regarded as the top candidate
for the GOP nomination.

However, at least three other candidates are also eyeing Helms' Senate
seat, including Reps. Richard Burr and Robin Hayes; former Sen. Lauch
Faircloth, who was defeated in 2000 by Democrat John Edwards; former
Charlotte Richard Vinroot and trial attorney Jim Snyder.

At least two Democrats have said they plan to run, including Secretary
of State Elaine Marshall and state Rep. Dan Blue. Rep. Bob Etheridge is
also said to be mulling a bid. State Sen. Eric Reeves, however, withdrew
his name from consideration last week.

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From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Respond to [e-mail]
Date: 22 Aug 2001 09:51:53 -0600

Hello,

I represent an educational film distributor with a new film about the
history of nuclear proliferation.  I have several questions which members of
the list may be able to answer.

1 Are there any up-coming conferences or symposia on anti-nuclear issues
that might be interested in screening the film during their program?

2 We are seeking established historians, anti-nuclear activists and
scientists based in
  the US or Canada to write a usable review.  This would consist of a couple
  of sentences to a paragraph of sparkling prose aimed at fellow professors,
  discussing the merits of the film as well as any valid criticism. These
comments would be used in our catalog & postcard review copy and would  be
credited to by whatever designation seems most appropriate (such as "author
of ____" "Director of _____" etc.)

Anyone interested can contact me by emailing [e-mail].  In
addition, free previews for purchase evaluation are available to funded
media buyers at organizations and institutions.  Contact us for details.

Here is a description of the film:

NUCLEAR DYNAMITE

In the 1950s Edward Teller, the co-inventor of the H-bomb proposed using
"the great and violent power" of the atom bomb for peaceful purposes.
NUCLEAR DYNAMITE explores the Soviet-American race to develop nuclear
explosives for gigantic megaprojects.  Scientists planned to harness the
power of the bomb to launch huge spaceships, dig an instant harbor in
Alaska, blast out oil and gas deposits, cut through mountain ranges, and dig
a new Panama canal with 300 explosions.  More than 150 nuclear blasts were
carried out between 1958 and 1988 before this bizarre and extraordinary
atomic dream was destroyed by the emergence of the environmental movements
in both countries.  For more information about this film go to:
www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/nd.html

Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.

All the best,
Lori Kata
Bullfrog Films

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From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent Action on Yucca Mountain
Date: 22 Aug 2001 13:01:49 -0600

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Your action is needed now.  The Department of Energy (DoE) is taking
the next step to make Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a permanent high-level
radioactive waste repository.  The site is situated on sacred Western
Shoshone land.  The DoE has just released a new report entitled "The
Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation" (YMP PSSE).
You can visit http://www.ymp.gov to request a copy of the full
report.  Citizens can write in comments about the report and the
Yucca Mountain project or attend public hearings on the issue before
the Secretary of Energy makes his recommendation to the President
George W. Bush.

This email contains the announcement from the Office of Civilian
Radioactive Management on the release of the YMP PSSE and the
scheduled public hearing dates and times.  For more background
information on the YMP, visit http://www.shundahai.org and
http://www.ymp.gov.

Even if you can't attend the public hearings, you have the
opportunity to write in your comments on the project before the
comment period closure.  Written comments must be received by
September 20, 2001.

Carah Ong



[Federal Register: August 21, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 162)]
[Notices]
[Page 43850-43851]
 From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr21au01-54]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management


Site Recommendation Consideration Hearings and End of Public
Comment Period; Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation

AGENCY: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of
Energy.

ACTION: Notice of public hearings and public comment period closure;
document availability.


SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (the Department) announces the
scheduling of public hearings on the possible recommendation by the
Secretary of Energy to the President of the Yucca Mountain Site in
Nevada for development as a spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear
waste geologic repository, pursuant to Section 114(a)(1) of the Nuclear
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), as amended. The Department also
announces the availability of the Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site
Suitability Evaluation (PSSE) for the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada and
the date for the closure of the public comment period on the
Secretary's consideration of a possible site recommendation.

DATES: Public Hearings are scheduled for the following dates, locations
and times:
     September 5, 2001: Suncoast Hotel and Casino, 9090 Alta Drive, Las
Vegas, Nevada, 89144, 5:00 pm--9:00 pm--

[[Page 43851]]

Poster Session; 6:00 pm--9:00 pm--Hearing.
     September 12, 2001: Longstreet Inn and Casino, Highway 373,
Armagosa Valley, Nevada 89020; 5:00 pm--9:00 pm--Poster Session; 6:00
pm--9:00 pm--Hearing.
     September 13, 2001: Bob Ruud Community Center, 150 Highway North
#160, Pahrump, Nevada 89048, 5:00 pm-9:00 pm--Poster Session; 6:00 pm-
9:00 pm--Hearing.
     The public also may submit written comments on the Secretary's
consideration of Yucca Mountain for a potential site recommendation to
the President. Written comments will be accepted for consideration if
received by September 20, 2001. Comments received after September 20,
2001, will be considered to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to Carol Hanlon, U.S.
Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, (M/S
#025), P.O. Box 30307, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89036-0307, or provided
by electronic mail to <mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]. Written
comments should be
identified on the outside of the envelope, and on the comments
themselves, with the designation: ``Possible Site Recommendation for
Yucca Mountain.'' Comments can also be submitted by facsimile to 1-800-
967-0739.
     Copies of any written comments, and documents referenced in this
notice may be inspected and photocopied in the Department's Freedom of
Information Act Reading Room located at the Yucca Mountain Science
Center, 4101B Meadows Lane, Las Vegas, Nevada, [phone], between
the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, except for Federal holidays. Documents
referenced in this notice may also be found on the Internet at
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ymp.gov>http://
www.ymp.gov and at
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.rw.doe.gov>http://www.rw.doe.gov.
For more information
concerning public participation, please refer to the Opportunity for
Public Comment section of this notice.
     Copies of the PSSE and other supporting technical documents may be
requested by telephone [phone]) or over the Internet via the
Yucca Mountain Project website using the document ordering form at
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ymp.gov>http://www.ymp.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Yucca Mountain Site
Characterization Office, (M/S #025), P.O. Box 30307, North Las Vegas,
Nevada 89036-0307, 1-800-967-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

     On May 7, 2001, the Department announced in the Federal Register
(66 FR 23013-23016) the initiation of a public comment period on the
Secretary's consideration of the Yucca Mountain site for recommendation
as a spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste repository. In conjunction
with the initiation of the comment period, the Department issued a
report, the Yucca Mountain Science and Engineering Report (YMS&ER),
summarizing the scientific and technical information compiled by the
Department to date outlining the preliminary design and performance
attributes of a potential geologic repository at the Yucca Mountain
site. This report was provided to inform the public and facilitate
public comment and review on the technical and scientific information
and analyses forming the basis for the Department's consideration of a
possible site recommendation.
     With this notice, the Department announces the issuance of another
report, the PSSE, that also is intended to inform the public and
facilitate public review and comment on a possible site recommendation.
The PSSE contains a preliminary evaluation of the suitability of the
Yucca Mountain site for development as a geologic repository based on
the Department's proposed site suitability regulations, to be codified
as 10 CFR part 963. The preliminary evaluation described in the PSSE is
based on information contained in the YMS&ER, supplemented by the most
recent available technical information.

II. Opportunity for Public Comment

A. Participation in Comment Process

     Interested persons are invited to participate in the comment
process by submitting written data, views, or comments with respect to
the possible recommendation of the Yucca Mountain site. The Department
encourages the maximum level of public participation possible in this
process. Individuals, coalitions, states or other government entities,
and others are urged to submit written comments on technical, policy or
other issues related to the possible recommendation of the Yucca
Mountain site.

B. Written Comment Procedures

     The Department invites the public to comment on a possible
recommendation for the Yucca Mountain site. Written comments should be
identified on the outside of the envelope, and on the comments
themselves, with the designation: ``Possible Site Recommendation for
Yucca Mountain.'' In the event any person wishing to submit written
comments cannot provide them directly, alternative arrangements can be
made by calling 1-800-967-3477. All comments postmarked by the closing
date of the public comment period will be considered by the Department
before a decision is made on the potential site recommendation.
Comments postmarked after the closing date will be considered to the
extent practicable. All comments submitted will be available for
examination at the Yucca Mountain Science Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting
information or data that is believed to be confidential, and which may
be exempt by law from public disclosure, should submit one complete
copy, as well as two copies from which the information considered
confidential has been deleted. The Department of Energy will make its
own determination of any such claim and treat it accordingly.

C. Public Hearings

     At the beginning of this notice, the Department has indicated where
and when there will be public hearings for the site consideration
process. As required by the NWPA, the Department will hold these
hearings in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain to inform and receive
comments from those in the vicinity of the site. These hearings will
not be trial-type evidentiary hearings that require a lawyer. They will
be informal, and the Department intends to use a facilitator in an
effort to ensure they are fair and productive.

     Issued in Washington, DC on August 16, 2001.
Lake Barrett,
Acting Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
[FR Doc. 01-21088 Filed 8-20-01; 8:45 am]
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<div>Your action is needed now.  The Department of Energy (DoE)
is taking the next step to make Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a permanent
high-level radioactive waste repository.  The site is situated on
sacred Western Shoshone land.  The DoE has just released a new
report entitled "The Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability
Evaluation" (YMP PSSE).  You can visit http://www.ymp.gov to
request a copy of the full report.  Citizens can write in
comments about the report and the Yucca Mountain project or attend
public hearings on the issue before the Secretary of Energy makes his
recommendation to the President George W. Bush. </div>
<div><br></div>
<div>This email contains the announcement from the Office of Civilian
Radioactive Management on the release of the YMP PSSE and the
scheduled public hearing dates and times.  For more background
information on the YMP, visit http://www.shundahai.org and
http://www.ymp.gov.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Even if you can't attend the public hearings, you have the
opportunity to write in your comments on the project before the
comment period closure.  Written comments must be received by
September 20, 2001.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Carah Ong</div>
<div><tt><br></tt></div>
<div><tt><br></tt></div>
<div><tt><br></tt></div>
<div><tt>[Federal Register: August 21, 2001 (Volume 66, Number
162)]<br>
[Notices]          <span
></span>    <br>
[Page 43850-43851]<br>
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]<br>
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></span
>           <span
></span>     <br>
<br>
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></span>==<br>
></span>--<br>
<br>
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY<br>
<br>
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management<br>
<br>
 <br>
Site Recommendation Consideration Hearings and End of Public<br>
Comment Period;<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Preliminary Site Suitability
Evaluation<br>
<br>
AGENCY: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department
of<br>
Energy.<br>
<br>
ACTION: Notice of public hearings and public comment period
closure;<br>
document availability.<br>
<br>
></span>--<br>
<br>
SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (the Department) announces the<br>
scheduling of public hearings on the possible recommendation by
the<br>
Secretary of Energy to the President of the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Site
in<br>
Nevada for development as a spent nuclear fuel and high-level
nuclear<br>
waste geologic repository, pursuant to Section 114(a)(1) of the
Nuclear<br>
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), as amended. The Department also<br>
announces the availability of the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Preliminary
Site<br>
Suitability Evaluation (PSSE) for the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> site in
Nevada and<br>
the date for the closure of the public comment period on the<br>
Secretary's consideration of a possible site recommendation.<br>
<br>
DATES: Public Hearings are scheduled for the following dates,
locations<br>
and times:<br>
    September 5, 2001: Suncoast Hotel and Casino, 9090
Alta Drive, Las<br>
Vegas, Nevada, 89144, 5:00 pm--9:00 pm--<br>
<br>
[[Page 43851]]<br>
<br>
Poster Session; 6:00 pm--9:00 pm--Hearing.<br>
    September 12, 2001: Longstreet Inn and Casino,
Highway 373,<br>
Armagosa Valley, Nevada 89020; 5:00 pm--9:00 pm--Poster Session;
6:00<br>
pm--9:00 pm--Hearing.<br>
    September 13, 2001: Bob Ruud Community Center, 150
Highway North<br>
#160, Pahrump, Nevada 89048, 5:00 pm-9:00 pm--Poster Session; 6:00
pm-<br>
9:00 pm--Hearing.<br>
    The public also may submit written comments on the
Secretary's<br>
consideration of<b> Yucca Mountain</b> for a potential site
recommendation to<br>
the President. Written comments will be accepted for consideration
if<br>
received by September 20, 2001. Comments received after September
20,<br>
2001, will be considered to the extent practicable.<br>
<br>
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to Carol Hanlon,
U.S.<br>
Department of Energy,<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Site Characterization
Office, (M/S<br>
#025), P.O. Box 30307, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89036-0307, or
provided<br>
by electronic mail to</tt> <a
href="mailto:[e-mail]"><tt>[e-mail]</tt></a><tt>. Written
comments should be<br>
identified on the outside of the envelope, and on the comments<br>
themselves, with the designation: ``Possible Site Recommendation
for</tt></div>
<div><tt><b>Yucca Mountain</b>.'' Comments can also be submitted by
facsimile to 1-800-<br>
967-0739.<br>
    Copies of any written comments, and documents
referenced in this<br>
notice may be inspected and photocopied in the Department's Freedom
of<br>
Information Act Reading Room located at the<b> Yucca Mountain</b>
Science<br>
Center, 4101B Meadows Lane, Las Vegas, Nevada, [phone],
between<br>
the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and
10:00<br>
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, except for Federal holidays.
Documents<br>
referenced in this notice may also be found on the Internet at</tt> <a
href=
"http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ymp.gov"><tt><span
></span>http://<br>
www.ymp.gov</tt></a><tt> and at</tt> <a
href=
"http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.rw.doe.gov"><tt><span
></span>http://www.rw.doe.gov</tt></a><tt>. For more information<br>
concerning public participation, please refer to the Opportunity
for<br>
Public Comment section of this notice.<br>
    Copies of the PSSE and other supporting technical
documents may be<br>
requested by telephone [phone]) or over the Internet via
the<br>
<b>Yucca Mountain</b> Project website using the document ordering form
at</tt></div>
<div><a
href=
"http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ymp.gov"><tt><span
></span>http://www.ymp.gov</tt></a><tt>.<br>
<br>
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Department of Energy, Office
of<br>
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management,<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Site<br>
Characterization Office, (M/S #025), P.O. Box 30307, North Las
Vegas,<br>
Nevada 89036-0307, 1-800-967-3477.<br>
<br>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:<br>
<br>
I. Background<br>
<br>
    On May 7, 2001, the Department announced in the
Federal Register<br>
(66 FR 23013-23016) the initiation of a public comment period on
the<br>
Secretary's consideration of the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> site for
recommendation<br>
as a spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste repository. In
conjunction<br>
with the initiation of the comment period, the Department issued a<br>
report, the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Science and Engineering Report
(YMS&ER),<br>
summarizing the scientific and technical information compiled by
the<br>
Department to date outlining the preliminary design and
performance<br>
attributes of a potential geologic repository at the<b> Yucca
Mountain</b><br>
site. This report was provided to inform the public and facilitate<br>
public comment and review on the technical and scientific
information<br>
and analyses forming the basis for the Department's consideration of
a<br>
possible site recommendation.<br>
    With this notice, the Department announces the
issuance of another<br>
report, the PSSE, that also is intended to inform the public and<br>
facilitate public review and comment on a possible site
recommendation.<br>
The PSSE contains a preliminary evaluation of the suitability of
the<br>
<b>Yucca Mountain</b> site for development as a geologic repository
based on<br>
the Department's proposed site suitability regulations, to be
codified<br>
as 10 CFR part 963. The preliminary evaluation described in the PSSE
is<br>
based on information contained in the YMS&ER, supplemented by the
most<br>
recent available technical information.<br>
<br>
II. Opportunity for Public Comment<br>
<br>
A. Participation in Comment Process<br>
<br>
    Interested persons are invited to participate in
the comment<br>
process by submitting written data, views, or comments with respect
to<br>
the possible recommendation of the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> site. The
Department<br>
encourages the maximum level of public participation possible in
this<br>
process. Individuals, coalitions, states or other government
entities,<br>
and others are urged to submit written comments on technical, policy
or<br>
other issues related to the possible recommendation of the<b>
Yucca</b><br>
<b>Mountain</b> site.<br>
<br>
B. Written Comment Procedures<br>
<br>
    The Department invites the public to comment on a
possible<br>
recommendation for the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> site. Written comments
should be<br>
identified on the outside of the envelope, and on the comments<br>
themselves, with the designation: ``Possible Site Recommendation
for<br>
<b>Yucca Mountain</b>.'' In the event any person wishing to submit
written<br>
comments cannot provide them directly, alternative arrangements can
be<br>
made by calling 1-800-967-3477. All comments postmarked by the
closing</tt></div>
<div><tt>date of the public comment period will be considered by the
Department<br>
before a decision is made on the potential site recommendation.<br>
Comments postmarked after the closing date will be considered to
the<br>
extent practicable. All comments submitted will be available for<br>
examination at the<b> Yucca Mountain</b> Science Center in Las Vegas,
Nevada.<br>
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 1004.11, any person
submitting<br>
information or data that is believed to be confidential, and which
may<br>
be exempt by law from public disclosure, should submit one
complete<br>
copy, as well as two copies from which the information considered<br>
confidential has been deleted. The Department of Energy will make
its<br>
own determination of any such claim and treat it accordingly.<br>
<br>
C. Public Hearings<br>
<br>
    At the beginning of this notice, the Department has
indicated where<br>
and when there will be public hearings for the site consideration<br>
process. As required by the NWPA, the Department will hold these<br>
hearings in the vicinity of<b> Yucca Mountain</b> to inform and
receive<br>
comments from those in the vicinity of the site. These hearings
will<br>
not be trial-type evidentiary hearings that require a lawyer. They
will<br>
be informal, and the Department intends to use a facilitator in an<br>
effort to ensure they are fair and productive.<br>
<br>
    Issued in Washington, DC on August 16, 2001.<br>
Lake Barrett,<br>
Acting Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.<br>
[FR Doc. 01-21088 Filed 8-20-01; 8:45 am]<br>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Bad news: RI Peace Action's meeting w/ Sen. Jack Reed
Date: 24 Aug 2001 13:56:02 -0400

>Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:57:19 -0400
>Subject: Bad news: RI Peace Action's meeting w/ Sen. Jack Reed
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>Subject: a wake up call on NMD
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>I had a very disheartening meeting with Senator Reed this morning here
>in Rhode Island. There is virtually no fight in him against Bush's Star
>Wars and the demise of the ABM Treaty. This is not exactly a surprise,
>but he was worse than I thought, and as he is the Senate Democrats' main
>man on Star Wars (he is currently drafting the provision on Star Wars
>for the 2002 Senate Defense Authorization Bill) I believe his responses
>are very instructive for Project Abolition's work, so read on if
>interested...
>
>Meeting with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) on Star Wars missile defense
>Thursday, August 23, 2001
>Cranston district office, Rhode Island
>
>Notes by Karina Wood, Fourth Freedom Forum and Rhode Island Peace Action
>
>Rhode Island Peace Action (RIPA) arranged this meeting with Senator
>Reed, in person, to discuss Star Wars missile defense.
>
>Attendees:
>Karina Wood, RIPA
>Ned Hastings, RIPA
>Sue Hastings, RIPA
>Rev. Sharon Key, Interim Executive Minister, Rhode Island State Council
>of Churches
>Diana Burdett, Chair, Department of Advocacy/Justice and Service, Rhode
>Island State Council of Churches
>
>        Karina opened the meeting with a general statement emphasizing our
>organizations' strong political and moral opposition to Star Wars, and
>referred to Under Secretary of Defense Bolton's reckless November
>deadline ultimatum to Russia on the ABM Treaty as raising the issue to a
>new crisis level which demands urgent action.
>
>We urged Reed and Senate Democrats to:
>=B7 call Senate hearings on the imminently threatened US withdrawal from
>ABM Treaty;
>=B7 advocate deep cuts in the 2002 defense budget for Star Wars;
>=B7 go on the offensive against the Administration's proposals and
>articulate an alternative security model to Star Wars based on
>international cooperation, negotiating agreements with so-called rogue
>states banning testing, development and sale of ballistic missiles, and
>nuclear disarmament;
>=B7 mount a high-profile public relations campaign against the
>Administration's proposals, with hard-hitting TV and billboard ads that
>call attention to the Bush tax cut that has squandered the budget
>surplus, how we cannot afford to spend money we do not have on a system
>that does not work to meet a threat that does not exist, the rigged
>missile tests, and how breaking the ABM Treaty is a reckless and
>dangerous approach, etc, etc.
>
>        Reed's responses were depressing. He did not express interest in
>pursuing any of the above recommendations. He shot them all down.
>        He talked about the ABM Treaty almost in the past tense, as if he=
 has
>resigned himself to its dissolution. He said he thought it was fairly
>likely (he mentioned a 30% chance) that Russia would agree to amend the
>ABM Treaty or agree to work out an alternative security arrangement with
>the US, and spoke as if this was not necessarily a bad thing.
>        He does not believe that continued testing of Star Wars and
withdrawal
>from the ABM Treaty will spark an arms race; he said that China will
>likely upgrade their nuclear arsenal regardless of Star Wars, and he
>doesn't believe Russia will follow through on their rhetoric about
>bolstering their nuclear arsenal if we pursue Star Wars.
>        He buys into the Bush Administration's premise of a real and=
 looming
>missile threat. He favors a "robust testing" program, and will advocate
>funding more tests next year, saying that it would be "irresponsible" of
>Democrats to oppose testing of a system that might be proven to work one
>day and which the US might need to deploy in the future to protect us
>from the "very real" missile threats that are being developed.
>        He seeks to distinguish Star Wars funding for testing from funding
for
>deployment, and wants to cut the deployment funds. When we asked him how
>much he will advocate cutting from next year's $8.3 billion, he waffled
>quite a bit and when pressed, he said probably somewhere between $1 - 3
>billion.
>        When pressed about why the Democrats weren't doing more to oppose=
 the
>President's plan, he said that (and this is pretty much verbatim) when a
>president, who is the Commander in Chief, has set his mind to a policy
>in such a determined way as President Bush has set his mind on Star
>Wars, then there is very little the Senate can do to stop him. (can you
>believe this statement?!) He reminded us that the Democrats have only a
>one vote majority in the Senate and that there is little they can do
>beyond what they are doing already. He reminded us that speeches have
>been made and hearings have been held.
>        He kept emphasizing what a "technologically complicated" issue this
is,
>and how it is difficult to convey to and convince the American public
>that we shouldn't build a missile shield. He stated that the American
>public wants a missile defense. (We argued this assumption, of course,
>pointing out that the Democrats haven't given the public a strongly
>argued, convincing alternative, and that polls show support dropping for
>Star Wars when people are told of the huge costs, the fact that the
>technology doesn't work, the arms race danger etc.).
>        He called the most recent missile test "a success", and when we
argued
>that the test was rigged, and was even admitted to as such by the
>Pentagon, he said "that is an argument that has been made." He's not
>even willing to criticize the Administration's blatant test rigging!
>
>        So, basically, if Reed is representative of Senate Democrats who
>present themselves as critical of Bush's Star Wars - and I believe he is
>- then we are in more trouble than I thought. We should not characterize
>the Democrats in Congress as our "allies" or "supporters" in the
>campaign against Star Wars. The vast majority are spineless apologists,
>unwilling to mount a real fight, wary of being called "weak on defense"
>if they challenge the testing program, content to counter with a
>Clintonesque "Star Wars Lite," they will huff and puff a little and
>sound off righteously about the ABM Treaty's imminent demise, but we
>cannot count on them to actually do anything to seriously damage or halt
>the program.
>
>        We need to continue to develop and intensify our grassroots=
 campaign
>against Star Wars, and exert serious political pressure (through
>grassroots lobbying and a targeted media campaign) upon Democrats who,
>like Reed, Levin, Daschle and co, have made some promising public
>statements against Star Wars, but who are not committed to following
>through with action.
>
>--
>=D0=CF=E0=A1=B1
> =20

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From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nevada Desert Experience Media Advisory - For Immediate Release
Date: 24 Aug 2001 18:48:20 +0100

NEVADA DESERT EXPERIENCE

AUGUST 24, 2001 - MEDIA ADVISORY =96 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:  Sally Light, Executive Director, Nevada Desert Experience,
[phone]

PEACE ACTIVIST ARRESTED AT NEVADA TEST SITE.  AUTHORITIES PROSECUTE THIS
TYPE OF =93TREPASS=94 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ABOUT TEN YEARS.

Erik Thompson, 44, of Las Vegas, NV, was arrested for trespass within 5
feet of the perimeter fence of the US Department of Energy=92s Nevada Tes=
t
Site early on the morning of August 6.  He is facing a trial date of
Oct. 4, the first time in about ten years that the authorities have
decided to prosecute such a charge rather than to dismiss it.

Thompson and a small number of other citizens had gathered there to
commemorate the 56th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in
WWII and to call attention to US Government activities at the Test Site
which could result in similar nuclear destruction.  At least 250,000
people (more than 4 times greater than all American deaths in Vietnam)
were killed as the result of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and, three
days later, of Nagasaki, in 1945.  Since then, more than 1,000 nuclear
weapons have been detonated at the Test Site, most of which were 100=92s
or 1,000=92s of times more powerful than either of those two bombs.
Currently, =93subcritical=94 nuclear tests are still being done at the Te=
st
Site.

Thompson was asked by Nye County Sheriffs Office personnel to cross back
through the fence to =93legal=94 territory, but he refused.

=93Erik, are we going to play this game?=94 asked Capt. Mike Bordner.  =93=
It
is not a game,=94 responded Thompson, who has been detained at the Test
Site on numerous occasions.

The authorities offered to drag him off the Test Site, but Thompson
offered to accompany a Wackenhut security officer on a walk to =93the
cage=94, a 100 foot by 300 foot enclosure built near the entrance to the
Test Site for the specific purpose of holding protestors.

A short while later, Bordner returned to cite and release the activist.
=93First you want me in, and then you want me out,=94 countered Thompson,
who frequently refuses to leave detention.  Bordner agreed to allow
Thompson to remain in custody.  Thompson subsequently refused two more
offers of release.

 On the fourth attempt by authorities to release Thompson, Bordner was
accompanied by four Wackenhut officers.  =93We will give you the same
choice as always.  You can walk out or we will drag you out,=94 said
Bordner.  =93I don=92t think I can walk off the Test Site today [the
anniversary of Hiroshima],=94 said Thompson, =93but if you want to transp=
ort
me, I will walk to your vehicle.=94  =93If we transport you, it will be t=
o
(the jail in) Beatty,=94 replied the officer.  Thompson indicated that an=
y
of the options presented were acceptable, and Bordner decided to have
him taken to the jail in Beatty, about one hour north of the Test Site.

At Beatty, Thompson refused to post bail and continued to refuse to
provide personal information needed to appear before a judge.  Thompson
has frequently expressed outrage that authorities are able to detain
people at the Test Site, but detainees are never allowed to appear in
court.  Other protestors have gone so far as to call this being
=93kidnapped=94 by the authorities.  On one occasion a few years ago,
Thompson locked himself in the portable toilet in the cage and demanded
that a magistrate be brought to him. Authorities eventually forced the
door open and drove Thompson to nearby Indian Springs.

This time, however, after almost a day and a half in custody, Thompson
was brought before a judge.  The judge indicated that, since Thompson
was not represented by an attorney, he would not impose jail time for a
guilty plea at that hearing.  It was unclear whether the judge was aware
that the over 100 =93arrests=94 for simple trespass at the Test Site in t=
his
year alone are not likely to be prosecuted by the Nye Country District
Attorney.

Thompson knew that if he had allowed the officers to drag him from the
cage, he would not likely have faced any prosecution.  However, for
years he has been trying to have a court revisit the issues that the
citizen protestors are trying to raise, i.e., that nuclear weapons are
illegal and that the US must comply with international law and end its
nuclear weapons development program, of which the Test Site is a part.
This citizens=92 effort has intensified since the 1996 opinion of the
International Court of Justice which stated that nuclear weapons are
essentially illegal under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, to which the US is a party state.

After entering a not guilty plea, Thompson was given a September 20th
court date and released on his own recognizance.  The date has now been
pushed back to October 4th.

Sally Light, Executive Director of Nevada Desert Experience, the
faith-based organization that organized the August 6 protest at the Test
Site, said, =93We view this prosecution as significant, perhaps reflectin=
g
a sharp change of policy in how authorities plan to treat peaceful
protestors at Department of Energy sites, now that the US under Bush is
pursuing a much more aggressive direction re: nuclear weapons
development, so-called missile defense and =93Star Wars.=94  We condemn t=
he
US=92 illegally pursuing nuclear weapons development & =93Star Wars=94 in=
 this
so-called =93post cold war era.=94  We condemn the prosecution of a
peaceful, faith-based demonstrator attempting to right this wrong.=94

For more information, please call Sally Light at [phone].
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Date: 24 Aug 2001 21:09:47 -0400

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NucNews archives are caught up to date and posted through August 19, 2001 at
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Delegate to the World Conference Against A & H Bombs in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.  My report, which will continue to develop, is at
http://prop1.org/japan/japanlv.htm.

Depleted uranium news today:

WHO Team Will Study A Weapon's Toll in Iraq

By Colum Lynch
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, August 24, 2001; Page A20

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54710-2001Aug23?language=printer

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 23 -- The World Health Organization will send a team of
physicians to Iraq Monday to determine whether depleted uranium shells used by
U.S. troops during the Persian Gulf War have caused an increase in Iraqi cancer
rates.

The eight-member team hopes to lay the groundwork for the first major
international study since the Gulf War into Iraqi patterns of cancer, kidney
diseases and other congenital disorders, according to WHO spokesman Gregory
Hartl.

"The Iraqis have been saying for a while that there has been an increase in
cancers caused by depleted uranium," Hartl said. "If we have determined there
has been an increase, then we will look at possible causes."

The United States used depleted uranium in tens of thousands of munitions
during the 1991 Gulf War and the 1999 NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia. The
metal's extreme density helps projectiles penetrate armor.

The Pentagon maintains that depleted uranium, which is only 40 percent as
radioactive as naturally occurring uranium, poses no radiation threat to
humans.

Hartl said the WHO has found no evidence linking leukemia to depleted uranium.
But he said the U.N. health organization, which is based in Geneva, would try
to determine whether Iraq's concerns about an upswing in cancer are legitimate.

He said the team would seek to establish a national cancer registry to obtain
accurate statistics on cancer victims. Then, he said, the WHO might examine a
wide range of possible causes, including Iraqi lifestyle, diet and
environmental factors.

The success of the study, which could take years to complete, hinges on the
agency's ability to secure funding from donor countries and gain complete
access to health facilities from Iraqi authorities, he said.

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<br>
WHO Team Will Study A Weapon's Toll in Iraq <br>
<br>
By Colum Lynch<br>
Special to The Washington Post<br>
Friday, August 24, 2001; Page A20 <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54710-2001Aug23?language=printer" eudora="autourl">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54710-2001Aug23?language=printer</a><br>
<br>
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 23 -- The World Health Organization will send a team
of physicians to Iraq Monday to determine whether depleted uranium shells
used by U.S. troops during the Persian Gulf War have caused an increase
in Iraqi cancer rates.<br>
<br>
The eight-member team hopes to lay the groundwork for the first major
international study since the Gulf War into Iraqi patterns of cancer,
kidney diseases and other congenital disorders, according to WHO
spokesman Gregory Hartl.<br>
<br>
"The Iraqis have been saying for a while that there has been an
increase in cancers caused by depleted uranium," Hartl said.
"If we have determined there has been an increase, then we will look
at possible causes."<br>
<br>
The United States used depleted uranium in tens of thousands of munitions
during the 1991 Gulf War and the 1999 NATO air campaign against
Yugoslavia. The metal's extreme density helps projectiles penetrate
armor.<br>
<br>
The Pentagon maintains that depleted uranium, which is only 40 percent as
radioactive as naturally occurring uranium, poses no radiation threat to
humans.<br>
<br>
Hartl said the WHO has found no evidence linking leukemia to depleted
uranium. But he said the U.N. health organization, which is based in
Geneva, would try to determine whether Iraq's concerns about an upswing
in cancer are legitimate.<br>
<br>
He said the team would seek to establish a national cancer registry to
obtain accurate statistics on cancer victims. Then, he said, the WHO
might examine a wide range of possible causes, including Iraqi lifestyle,
diet and environmental factors.<br>
<br>
The success of the study, which could take years to complete, hinges on
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Global Cops program and registration
Date: 27 Aug 2001 11:35:51 -0400

Dear Friends,
The conference in Ottawa during the NATO parliamentary assembly, is
co-sponsored by the Abolition 2000 Military-Industrial Working Group,=
 convened
by Steve Staples.  This is a breakthrough for our nuclear abolition=
 organizing
as we are making the links to the leadership in the anti-corporate
globalization movement.  We must all understand that nuclear weapons are the
ultimate enforcers of the will of the elite hegemony of NATO and some of its
other allies like Japan and Australia.  That's what nuclear weapons are=
 for!!=20
To terrorize the world into bowing to NATO's will.   I hope you will all
try to
come to Ottawa for the teach in and the demonstration the following day.=
 Let's
have a Seattle in Ottawa!!  (The city of Victoria in Canada, already=
 rejected
the NATO meeting since they didn't want to be hassled by us.  Let's make=
 sure
lots of us show up in Ottawa!!)   Regards, Alice Slater


At 07:42 AM 8/25/2001 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>Dear Andrew,
>>
>>It may be that I owe you an apology, or half of an apology - This came
>>after a number of people had posted material that really either has
>>nothing
>>at all to do with the abolition agenda, or else that is actually
>>antipathetic to that agenda.
>>
>>However, I really do feel that -even though the relationships you point to
>>undoubtedly exist - that the issues of globalisation and corporate
>>control,
>>important as they are, really should not be dealt with on this list.
>>
>>I am particularly aggrieved that people such as Bill, whose posts are
>>(mostly) clearly within the abolition agenda have been taken to task for
>>the sheer volume of their posts.
>>
>>Others seem to be allowed to get away with  almost any kind of post.  I
>>think there is an real double standard.
>>
>>I really do think that we need to be less critical of those whose posts
>>have been truly useful in promoting the abolition agenda, and try to keep
>>the focus of the group.
>>
>>Posts that are basically to do with other issues really shouldn't be here.
>>Posts that reflect the core purpose of the abolition caucus SHOULD be
>>here,
>>and we could have done with a whole lot less criticism of them a few
>>months
>>back.
>>
>>Perhaps as you say there is a relationship between what was advertised and
>>the abolition agenda, but it really looked just like another
>>globalisation/militarism thing.
>>
>>
>>At 4:51 PM +1000 25/8/2001, Andrew Lichterman wrote:
>>>      The conference announced in the message you see as inappropriate is
>>an attempt to increase our collective understanding
>>of the connections between corporate globalization and the continuing
>>pursuit of high-tech weapons, and of nuclear
>>weapons, ballistic missile defense, and weapons operating through and from
>>space in particular.  It also addresses the
>>intensified repression we are seeing in response to emerging global
>>movements, which already is being experienced
>>directly by anti-nuclear protesters in the U.S. and elsewhere.  Abolition
>>2000 will be well represented at this event,
>>and nuclear weapons issues will be featured on at least one of the panels
>>(as should be clear if one reads the entire
>>announcement).
>>
>>       Many of us believe that nuclear weapons abolition will not be
>>possible without addressing  broader issues of
>>militarism, and the fundamental economic and political forces which are
>>leading to renewed arms racing as we enter the
>>21st century.  This is a legitimate perspective for expression on this
>>list, which after all is intended in part to
>>promote strategic discussion.
>>
>>Andrew Lichterman
>>Program Director
>>Western States Legal Foundation
>>1504 Franklin St. Suite 202
>>Oakland, CA 94612
>>USA
>>
>>phone:  [phone]
>>fax:      [phone]
>>web site: www.wslfweb.org
>>
>>FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign wrote:
>>>
>>> This may be interesting and worthy, but it is not within the focus of=20
>the
>>> abolition caucus list.
>>>
>>> Please do not post material such as this, which is not directly related
>to
>>> the abolition of nuclear weapons and/or the nuclear fuel cycle.
>>>
>>> Please respect the central focus of this list.
>>>
>>> At 4:33 AM +1000 23/8/2001, Peacewire wrote:
>>> >Global Cops Program
>>> >The Corporate Security State=EDs Assault on Democracy
>>> >Go to Peacewire http://www.peacewire.org to register and to get more
>>> >information.
>>> >
>>> >October 5, 2001
>>> >Ottawa Canada
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Global Cops - The Corporate Security State=EDs Assault on Democracy
>>> >http://www.peacewire.org
>>> >DRAFT AGENDA
>>> >
>>> >Co-Chairs Mel Watkins, Science for Peace and Arciris Garay, Campaign
>for
>>> >Nuclear Phaseout
>>> >
>>> >9:00 am The Military Enforcer of the Free Market
>>> >   * Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute
>>> >   * Steve Staples, The Council of Canadians and the International
>Network
>>> >on Disarmament and Globalization
>>> >   * Diana Johnstone, Researcher and author
>>> >
>>> >10:00 am Corporate Economic Warfare
>>> >   * Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians
>>> >   * Chief Art Manuel, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
>>> >   * Jerry Mander, Public Media Center
>>> >
>>> >11:00 am Private wars: Defending Corporate Interests
>>> >   * Emmanuel Rozental-Klinger, The Canada Columbia Solidarity Campaign
>>> >   * Owens Wiwa, AFRIDA
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >
>>> >1:00 pm Subversion of Popular Movements
>>> >   * Aziz Choudra, APEC Monitoring Group
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >
>>> >2:00 pm The Criminalization of Dissent
>>> >   * Lyndsay Poaps, Check Your Head
>>> >   * Jaggi Singh, Researcher and Activist
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >
>>> >3:00 pm NATO: The World Police & the Global War System
>>> >   * James Bissett, Former Ambassador to Yugoslavia
>>> >   * Senator Doug Roche, Author and Former Ambassador to Disarmament
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >
>>> >4:00 pm Master of Space with a Nuclear Fist
>>> >   * Karl Grossman, Author of Weapons in Space, Investigative reporter
>>> >   * Alice Slater, Global Resources Action Center on the Environment
>>> >   * Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation
>>> >
>>> >Evening Panel 7:00 pm
>>> >The Corporate Security State
>>> >   * Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians
>>> >   * Jean-Claude Parrot, Canadian Labour Congress
>>> >   * Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons in Space
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >   * TBA
>>> >
>>> >Saturday morning (Round table 9:00 am to 12:00 noon)
>>> >Strategy for a historic era: the Global Democracy Movement
>>> >Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute (Chair)
>>> >  * This is an historical moment
>>> >  * Building the movement for the long-term
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) thwartnuke 1.0 tech difficulty resolved
Date: 28 Aug 2001 21:21:30 -0700

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are happy to introduce a working version of our anti-nuclear video game
"Thwartnuke 1.0 : Einstein Saves the World from the Stockpile Stewardship
Program."

Fatal technical difficulties, appearing in the previously announced version
of this game, have been resolved according to our test players. You will
find the game on Tri-Valley CAREs' web site at http://www.igc.org/tvc.

The game is downloadable and playable on PCs (not Macs, unless you have a
compiler). Please let us know what you think of it -- and whether you saved
the earth.

Let the games begin...

Peace,

Marylia Kelley and Issac Trotts (game designer and producer)
______________

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: Request to Endorsers for Solidarity Messages to Festival
Date: 29 Aug 2001 12:39:59 -0400

>X-Sender: [e-mail]
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>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:06:14 -0400
>To: [e-mail]
>From: Richard Sanders <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Request to Endorsers for Solidarity Messages to Festival of
>  NonViolence
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by freenet.carleton.ca id
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>Dear friends,
>
>We would very much like to receive from you a brief message of solidarity
>that we can share with the participants in our "No to NATO: Festival of
>Creative NonViolence" on October 6 in Ottawa.
>
>These expressions of support and solidarity from around the world will be a
>great encouragement to everyone who attends!  It is also an opportunity for
>you to convey a message to the crowd concerning your support for
>nonviolence and/or your opposition to NATO.
>
>These messages -- from representatives of endorsing NGOs -- will be printed
>into a booklet and distributed at our event.  Some of the solidarity
>statements will also be read from the stage.  We will also post all the
>messages on our website afterwards and make them available to the media.
>
>The statements can be anything from a few sentences in length to a maximum
>of 150 words.
>
>Thanks for your role in arranging for the endorsement of your organization.
> We really appreciate your support and solidarity for this event.
>
>Looking forward to reading your message!
>
>In solidarity!
>Richard Sanders
>Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Here is the list of endorsing NGOs (as of August 28):
>
>Antiwar.com, USA
>Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children - France
>Association of Serbian Women
>Australian Peace Committee (S.A. Branch), Australia
>Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
>Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
>Befriending the Earth
>Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
>Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
>British Columbia Voice of Women
>Canadian Auto Workers
>Canadian Federation of Students
>Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
>Central Alberta Raging Grannies
>Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University)
>Centre for Social Justice
>Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>Council of Canadians
>Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee
>Enviro-Clare
>FatherÆs Day Coalition for Peace
>Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA
>Fredericton Raging Grannies
>Friends of Gabriola Island
>Gerald and Maas
>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
>Green Party of Ontario
>Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
>Hamilton Action for Social Change
>Homes not Bombs - Toronto
>Illinois Peace Action, USA
>Industrial Workers of the World - Ottawa-Outaouais
>International Institute of Concern for Public Health
>International Society for Peace and Human Rights
>International Volunteers for Peace, Australia
>Island Catholic News
>Jonah House, USA
>Kashmiri-Canadian Council
>Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico
>Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
>Lethbridge Network for Peace
>M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
>MAMA TERRA / For Mother Earth - Romania
>Mauritius Action for Disarmament and Peace, Mauritius
>Nanoose Expropriation Objectors
>National Union of Public and General Employees
>New Democratic Party - Canada
>Nicaragua-United States Friendship Office, USA
>Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition, Philippines
>Nukewatch USA
>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton
>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - McMaster
>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Windsor
>Peace & Disarmament Working Group/Social Responsibility
>  Cttee., of the First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
>Peace Alliance Winnipeg
>Peaceful Parks Coalition
>peacemedia
>Project Peacemakers
>Project Ploughshares - Edmonton
>Project Ploughshares - Fraser Valley
>Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
>Raging Grannies - Ottawa
>Rainforest Raging Grannies - Vancouver
>Science for Peace
>Sierra Youth Coalition
>Social Justice Committee of Montreal
>Social Justice Ministry Group at First United Church
>St. ClareÆs Multifaith Housing Society
>Students for a Free Tibet - Canada
>Sunshine Coast Peace Group
>The Atomic Mirror, USA
>The Canadian Orthodox Church
>The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
>The Nuclear Resister, USA
>Third World Forum
>Toronto Action for Social Change
>Vancouver Island Earth Works Society
>Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
>Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
>Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Manitoba
>Voices in the Wilderness, USA
>Washington Peace Center, USA
>WomenÆs International League for Peace & Freedom - Canada
>Woodstock Raging Grannies
>Zero Tolerance Network
>
>
>                          Richard Sanders
>       Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>
>              A national peace network supported by
>           individuals and organizations across Canada
>
>          541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2  Canada
>            Tel.:  [phone]      Fax: [phone]
>     Email: <[e-mail]>   Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
>
>----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
> Help build opposition to NATO PA meetings in Ottawa, Oct. 5-8, 2001!
>                  Join the "no_to_nato" list serve:
> Send the message:  subscribe no_to_nato   to   <[e-mail]>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The Press: Who's a prostitute?
Date: 29 Aug 2001 12:20:02 -0400

>From: Ann Curran [mailto:[e-mail]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:08 AM
>To: College & University Editors
>Subject: Who's a prostitute?
>
>
>One of our alums sent me the following:
>
>Thanks to <[e-mail]>
>-
>Herein we see how they decided on what was "all news that's fit to
>print".
>-
>In 1953 John Swinton, the former chief of staff of the New York Times
>spoke to the New York Press Club. Here is what he had to say: "There is
>no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an
>independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you
>who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
>beforehand that it would never appear in print. . . .I am paid weekly
>for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
>Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of
>you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on
>the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to
>appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be
>gone.
>The business of the journalist is to destroy truth; to lie outright; to
>pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
>country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and
>what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and
>vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they
>pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our
>lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual
>prostitutes."
>Swinton was called by his peers the "dean" of his profession.
>
>Ann Curran, Editor
>Carnegie Mellon Magazine
>Carnegie Mellon University
>Bramer House
>Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890
>Phone: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>e-mail: [e-mail]
>

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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New Research on BMD
Date: 29 Aug 2001 11:03:24 -0700

The following articles have just been published by Pacific Life Research
Center about Ballisitic Missile Defense.

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/plrc/0108BMD-1%20General1.pdf

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/plrc/0108BMD-2%20Boost1.pdf

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/plrc/0108BMD-3%20Midcourse1.pdf

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/plrc/0108BMD-4%20Terminal1.pdf

Each paper talks about different aspects of the actual defense systems and
also provides background on the evolution of BMD.


www.wagingpeace.org
www.nuclearfiles.org


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From: "Joan Russow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Request to Endorsers for Solidarity Messages to Festival  of  NonViolence
Date: 29 Aug 2001 22:28:07 -0000


Please add my name and organization

Joan Russow (PhD)
Global Compliance Research Project
1230 St Patrick St.
Victoria, B.C. V8S4Y4
Canada

I think that there should be a call for the disbanding of NATO for violation
of International law. I circulated a petition of the 50th Anniversary of NATO
calling for the disbanding of NATO; The petition is probably more than 150 words.


Joan Russow
1 250 598-0071
>>X-Sender: [e-mail]
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>>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:06:14 -0400
>>To: [e-mail]
>>From: Richard Sanders <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: Request to Endorsers for Solidarity Messages to Festival of
>>  NonViolence
>>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by freenet.carleton.ca
id
>KAA20961
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>>
>>Dear friends,
>>
>>We would very much like to receive from you a brief message of solidarity

>>that we can share with the participants in our "No to NATO: Festival of
>>Creative NonViolence" on October 6 in Ottawa.
>>
>>These expressions of support and solidarity from around the world will be
a
>>great encouragement to everyone who attends!  It is also an opportunity for

>>you to convey a message to the crowd concerning your support for
>>nonviolence and/or your opposition to NATO.
>>
>>These messages -- from representatives of endorsing NGOs -- will be printed

>>into a booklet and distributed at our event.  Some of the solidarity
>>statements will also be read from the stage.  We will also post all the
>>messages on our website afterwards and make them available to the media.
>>
>>The statements can be anything from a few sentences in length to a maximum

>>of 150 words.
>>
>>Thanks for your role in arranging for the endorsement of your organization.

>> We really appreciate your support and solidarity for this event.
>>
>>Looking forward to reading your message!
>>
>>In solidarity!
>>Richard Sanders
>>Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------
>>Here is the list of endorsing NGOs (as of August 28):
>>
>>Antiwar.com, USA
>>Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children - France
>>Association of Serbian Women
>>Australian Peace Committee (S.A. Branch), Australia
>>Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
>>Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
>>Befriending the Earth
>>Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
>>Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
>>British Columbia Voice of Women
>>Canadian Auto Workers
>>Canadian Federation of Students
>>Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
>>Central Alberta Raging Grannies
>>Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University)
>>Centre for Social Justice
>>Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>>Council of Canadians
>>Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee
>>Enviro-Clare
>>Father=92s Day Coalition for Peace
>>Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA
>>Fredericton Raging Grannies
>>Friends of Gabriola Island
>>Gerald and Maas
>>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
>>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
>>Green Party of Ontario
>>Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
>>Hamilton Action for Social Change
>>Homes not Bombs - Toronto
>>Illinois Peace Action, USA
>>Industrial Workers of the World - Ottawa-Outaouais
>>International Institute of Concern for Public Health
>>International Society for Peace and Human Rights
>>International Volunteers for Peace, Australia
>>Island Catholic News
>>Jonah House, USA
>>Kashmiri-Canadian Council
>>Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico
>>Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
>>Lethbridge Network for Peace
>>M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
>>MAMA TERRA / For Mother Earth - Romania
>>Mauritius Action for Disarmament and Peace, Mauritius
>>Nanoose Expropriation Objectors
>>National Union of Public and General Employees
>>New Democratic Party - Canada
>>Nicaragua-United States Friendship Office, USA
>>Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition, Philippines
>>Nukewatch USA
>>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton
>>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - McMaster
>>Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Windsor
>>Peace & Disarmament Working Group/Social Responsibility
>>  Cttee., of the First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
>>Peace Alliance Winnipeg
>>Peaceful Parks Coalition
>>peacemedia
>>Project Peacemakers
>>Project Ploughshares - Edmonton
>>Project Ploughshares - Fraser Valley
>>Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
>>Raging Grannies - Ottawa
>>Rainforest Raging Grannies - Vancouver
>>Science for Peace
>>Sierra Youth Coalition
>>Social Justice Committee of Montreal
>>Social Justice Ministry Group at First United Church
>>St. Clare=92s Multifaith Housing Society
>>Students for a Free Tibet - Canada
>>Sunshine Coast Peace Group
>>The Atomic Mirror, USA
>>The Canadian Orthodox Church
>>The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
>>The Nuclear Resister, USA
>>Third World Forum
>>Toronto Action for Social Change
>>Vancouver Island Earth Works Society
>>Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
>>Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
>>Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Manitoba
>>Voices in the Wilderness, USA
>>Washington Peace Center, USA
>>Women=92s International League for Peace & Freedom - Canada
>>Woodstock Raging Grannies
>>Zero Tolerance Network
>>
>>
>>                          Richard Sanders
>>       Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>>
>>              A national peace network supported by
>>           individuals and organizations across Canada
>>
>>          541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2  Canada
>>            Tel.:  [phone]      Fax: [phone]
>>     Email: <[e-mail]>   Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
>>
>>----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
>> Help build opposition to NATO PA meetings in Ottawa, Oct. 5-8, 2001!
>>                  Join the "no_to_nato" list serve:
>> Send the message:  subscribe no_to_nato   to   <[e-mail]>
>>----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
>>
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Action Alert: Yucca Mountain site characterization
Date: 30 Aug 2001 09:41:15 -0400

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>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:13:30 -0400
>From: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Action Alert: Yucca Mountain site characterization hearings
>        should be canceled!
>To: [e-mail]
>X-Loop-Detect: 1
>
>* Apologies for cross-posting. *
>* Please circulate widely! *
>* For more information see media alert below. *
>
>DOE should discontinue Yucca Mountain site recommendation activities and
cancel the September hearings!
>
>Please call Robert Card, Department of Energy Undersecretary for Energy,
Science, and Environment at [phone].  Leave a message if it's after
hours.
>
>Talking point suggestions:
>
>-The DOE should not be proceeding with hearings on the proposed Yucca
Mountain
nuclear waste repository at this time, since the agency lacks the required
basis for a site recommendation (see media alert below).
>
>-The DOE's short-notice scheduling of the Yucca Mountain site recommendation
hearings in Nevada is unacceptable!
>
>-The DOE's incompetence in scheduling these hearings further discredits the
ill-conceived proposal to establish a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain,
Nevada.
>
>
>
>KANGAROO COURT COUNTDOWN ALERT
>
>Aug.29, 2001
>Contact: Lisa Gue [phone]
>
>Confusion Reigns; Suncoast Casino Sends DOE Packing
>
>Seven Days to Yucca Mountain Hearing in Las Vegas
>
>NOTE: The U.S. Department of Energy is holding a Sept. 5 hearing in Las Vegas
on the government's intention to establish a high-level nuclear waste
repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Public Citizen will issue "Kangaroo
Court Countdown Alerts" each day until the hearing.  For more information
about
Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste, visit www.citizen.org/cmep.
>
>With just one week remaining until the Department of Energy's (DOE) scheduled
Yucca Mountain site recommendation hearing in Las Vegas, the DOE is looking
for
a venue to hold the event. Although the DOE's  Web site continues to list the
Suncoast Casino as the location for a Sept. 5 hearing, the casino has declined
to host the event. It is unclear where the DOE will try to hold the
controversial hearing; the agency has not said it will cancel or reschedule
it.

>
>Also on Wednesday, Public Citizen sent a letter to Energy Secretary Spencer
Abraham urging the department to cancel the agency's three September hearings
in Nevada, all of which were called on short notice, until the agency
addresses
outstanding technical and regulatory issues and provides the public with more
notice. The letter is available at
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/RAGE/radwaste/DOESRhearings.htm
>
>"Clearly, the Department of Energy lacks a basis for consideration of site
recommendation at this time," wrote Wenonah Hauter, director of Public
Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program.  "To prematurely hold
hearings now makes a mockery of the process for public participation mandated
by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and dangerously undermines public
confidence in
the DOE as a fair and unbiased arbiter of the Yucca Mountain repository
proposal."
>
>The DOE's close-minded determination to plow forward with site recommendation
hearings at the expense of meaningful public participation is
characteristic of
the agency's conduct surrounding the Yucca Mountain project, which has been
marred by contractor scandals and governmental investigations. The DOE now
appears to be more concerned with sidestepping widespread public dissent than
with the integrity of its process for evaluating the Yucca Mountain nuclear
dump proposal.
>
>The Suncoast Casino's decision to deny the DOE access to hold the hearing
indicates the extent of public opposition to the Yucca Mountain repository
proposal and the DOE's highly flawed process. The Las Vegas Chamber of
Commerce, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors, and the Nevada Resort
Association have passed resolutions opposing the storage of nuclear waste in
Nevada.
>###
>
>Lisa Gue
>Policy Analyst
>Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program
>215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
>Washington, DC  20003
>ph: [phone]; fax: [phone]
>www.citizen.org/cmep
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Yucca hearings, premature and flawed
Date: 30 Aug 2001 10:20:04 -0400


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> Howdy y'all,
>          The Sept. 5th hearing will no longer be held at the Suncoast
because
> of political pressure.  The new place and time is yet to be decided.  Look
> out for further details.
>
> Kalynda
>
>
> Wednesday, August 29, 2001
> Las Vegas Review-Journal
> Yucca hearings to be televised
> Nevada officials' angry demands met
> By KEITH ROGERS
> REVIEW-JOURNAL
>
> With their confidence in "sound science" all but evaporated, Nevada
> officials have fired off a flurry of letters that call for televising next
> month's Yucca Mountain hearings and that set the stage for the state to
> file another lawsuit over federal plans to bury nuclear waste there.
> "I request that you provide video conferencing at the Sept. 5 public
> hearing," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote in a letter Tuesday to Energy
> Secretary Spencer Abraham.
> "Remote video sites should be provided around the State of Nevada for
> interested members of the public, local governments, and other affected
> parties to participate in the hearing and to comment on this very important
> decision which impacts all citizens of the state," Reid's letter said.
> Three hearings are scheduled to field comments on the recently released
> Yucca Mountain Preliminary Site Suitability Evaluation and related federal
> documents.
> The first one is Sept. 5 in Las Vegas.
> Late Tuesday, an Energy Department spokesman said the agency would grant
> Reid's request and go beyond what the senator asked by providing live, Web
> camera coverage on the Internet.
> "We are going to do videoconferencing in Reno, Elko and Carson City and
> we're also going to try to do the Web cam," said Yucca Mountain Project
> spokesman Allen Benson.
> Meanwhile, State Nuclear Projects Agency chief Bob Loux has written the
> Energy Department's waste-manage- ment head, Lake Barrett, arguing that the
> public participation process is flawed. The evaluation of the Yucca
> Mountain site should be conducted under existing guidelines, not ones that
> haven't been finalized, he said.
> The Energy Department in 1996 proposed amendments to make the siting
> process consistent with current scientific knowledge in assessing how the
> repository would perform, according to the site evaluation document.
> But Loux's letter argued that "changing regulations for the Yucca Mountain
> site at the eleventh hour not only violates the public trust, but it also
> shows the lengths to which the department is prepared to go in attempting
> to salvage a project that, under any truly objective and scientific
> criteria, would have long since been abandoned."
> "They're denying the public meaningful opportunity to participate," Loux
> said in a telephone interview from Carson City. He said under existing
> guidelines the site would be disqualified.
> "We believe these hearings legally can't take place until after the final
> environmental impact statement is out and the final guidelines are
> published," he said.
> Loux said state lawyers have sought answers from federal officials about
> whether next month's public hearings will be the final opportunity to
> comment on the government's plans to entomb 77,000 tons of high-level
> radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain.
> "Depending on what those answers are, we may or may not litigate. If we're
> right about our belief and successful in a court case, that could force DOE
> to do this (public hearing) process over in the future," Loux said.
> Benson said the DOE intends to have its siting guidelines published "in the
> next couple weeks," preceded by final siting guidelines from the Nuclear
> Regulatory Commission, the agency that would conduct a licensing review. He
> said the process being followed is consistent with federal nuclear waste
> laws.
> The volcanic-rock ridge, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is the only site
> federal scientists are studying to dispose of the nation's most lethal
> radioactive waste, most of which are rods of spent nuclear fuel pellets
> currently stored at commercial power reactor sites across the nation.
> Abraham is expected to decide late this year or early next year whether to
> recommend that a repository be constructed at Yucca Mountain.
> But Loux said if the Energy Department follows its current course for
> public participation, the state could sue in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
> Appeals in San Francisco on grounds that Abraham's expected recommendation
> is based on a faulty environmental impact statement, faulty siting
> guidelines, faulty radiation protection standards "and hearings that were
> done prematurely."
> Nevada's Nuclear Projects Agency and a consortium of environmental groups
> filed separate federal lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency
> in June challenging the adequacy of the EPA's standards for the proposed
> repository.
> Anti-nuclear groups Tuesday called the scheduled hearing in Las Vegas "a
> kangaroo court" and said it should be canceled because citizens don't have
> enough time to prepare for it.
> "The Department of Energy has abandoned all pretense of integrity and
> objectivity in announcing these crucial hearings at such short notice
> during a holiday season," according to Wenonah Hauter of Citizen Alert, a
> Washington, D.C.-based government watchdog that released a statement.
>
>
> This story is located at:
> http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Aug-29-Wed-2001/news/16876129.html
> --
> Kalynda Tilges
> Nuclear Issues Coordinator
> Citizen Alert - Las Vegas
> P.O.Box 17173
> Las Vegas, NV   89114
> 702-796-5662
> 702-796-4886 Fax
> [e-mail]
> http://www.citizenalert.org
>
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> ALERT
>
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> Nevada"
>
>
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From: Joseph Gerson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) catching up
Date: 30 Aug 2001 12:49:43 -0400

Aug. 30
Dear Alice,
    I'm sorry I didn't follow up on your phone or e-mail messages. In
part, I've been swamped and digging out after returning from Asia.
    The other reason was that with the possibility that we'll be able to
fully fund Kevin for most of the next couple of months (waiting for
confirmation of this by the end of the week), the purpose of the call seemed
mooted.
    Hope all is well with you in these awful times,
    jg

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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) catching up
Date: 30 Aug 2001 13:15:31 -0400

Thanks Joe.  Kevin is simply wonderful and has unleased extraordinary new
energy in the NY Abolition Network.  He actually enrolled Al Sharpton's
Network
into participating in our Star Wars demo, and he managed to have Bruce Gagnon
invited to speak at a Sharpton rally on Racism, Materialism, and Militarism at
the UN on the eve of the UN Conference on Racism.  So we're on a roll!! Did
you
see yesterday's op-ed by the Yale law professor asserting that the Senate has
the power to stop Bush from pulling out of the ABM Treaty? How about getting
Lennedy and Kerry to take on Bush in the Senate on the ABM Treaty?  Any
connections?  I've been talking to Suzie Pearce about that.  I'm also
trying to
get to my NY Senators.  Warmest regards, Alice

At 12:49 PM 8/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Aug. 30
>Dear Alice,
>        I'm sorry I didn't follow up on your phone or e-mail messages. In
>part, I've been swamped and digging out after returning from Asia.
>        The other reason was that with the possibility that we'll be able to
>fully fund Kevin for most of the next couple of months (waiting for
>confirmation of this by the end of the week), the purpose of the call seemed
>mooted.
>        Hope all is well with you in these awful times,
>        jg
>
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Date: 30 Aug 2001 13:37:56 -0400

My apologies too!  Alice

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [globenet] Treaties Don't Belong to Presidents Alone
Date: 30 Aug 2001 18:17:01 -0400

Hi Friends,
I don't think we need an injunction. The whole point of the Ackerman
article is
that the Courts ruled that this is to be determined between the Executive=
 and
Legislative branches of our government.  The Court will not rule on this
issue.   We need some Senators with spines to call for a hearing and debate=
 on
the necessity for the ABM Treaty, the nuclear proliferation implications of
withdrawing from the ABM Treaty and how it will undermine the effectiveness=
 of
the NPT where we just promised at the 2000 NPT Review to maintain the
strategic
stability of the ABM Treaty, the legality of the President's unilateral=
 action
as outlined below in the Ackerman op-ed, etc. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CONVINCE
YOUR SENATORS THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE A STAND?  IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS THE PATH
AHEAD. If you can't get to your Senators, get to your Member of Congress.=20
Apparently there were Joint Resolutions in the past that released our
government from treaty obligations.   Please send the Ackerman article to=
 your
Senators and Congressmembers and ask them to take a stand.  Regards, Alice=
=20

At 01:56 PM 8/30/2001 -0700, carol wolman wrote:
>  Dear Friends,  The following article seems very relevant to our
>discussion of an injunction to stop the president from withdrawing from
>the ABM Treaty without the participation of Congress.   Peace,  Carol
>
>August 29, 2001- NY TIMES op-ed
>
>By BRUCE ACKERMAN-  professor of constitutional law at Yale and
>              co-author of "Is Nafta Constitutional?''
>
>                  NEW HAVEN -- President Bush has told the Russians that
>he will
>                  withdraw from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which
>gives both
>              countries the right to terminate on six months' notice.
>But does the president
>              have the constitutional authority to exercise this power
>without first obtaining
>              Congressional consent?
>
>              Presidents don't have the power to enter into treaties
>unilaterally. This
>              requires the consent of two-thirds of the Senate, and once
>a treaty enters
>              into force, the Constitution makes it part of the "supreme
>law of the land" =97
>              just like a statute.
>
>              Presidents can't terminate statutes they don't like. They
>must persuade both
>              houses of Congress to join in a repeal. Should the
>termination of treaties
>              operate any differently?
>
>              The question first came up in 1798. As war intensified in
>Europe, America
>              found itself in an entangling alliance with the French
>under treaties made
>              during our own revolution. But President John Adams did
>not terminate these
>              treaties unilaterally. He signed an act of Congress to
>"Declare the Treaties
>              Heretofore Concluded with France No Longer Obligatory on
>the United
>              States."
>
>              The next case was in 1846. As the country struggled to
>define its northern
>              boundary with Canada, President James Polk specifically
>asked Congress
>              for authority to withdraw from the Oregon Territory Treaty
>with Great
>              Britain, and Congress obliged with a joint resolution.
>Cooperation of the
>              legislative and executive branches remained the norm,
>despite some
>              exceptions, during the next 125 years.
>
>              The big change occurred in 1978, when Jimmy Carter
>unilaterally terminated
>              our mutual defense treaty with Taiwan. Senator Barry
>Goldwater responded
>              with a lawsuit, asking the Supreme Court to maintain the
>traditional system of
>              checks and balances. The court declined to make a decision
>on the merits of
>              the case. In an opinion by Justice William Rehnquist, four
>justices called the
>              issue a political question inappropriate for judicial
>resolution. Two others
>              refused to go this far but joined the majority for other
>reasons. So by a vote
>              of 6 to 3, the court dismissed the case.
>
>              Seven new justices have since joined the court, and there
>is no predicting
>              how a new case would turn out. Only one thing is clear. In
>dismissing
>              Senator Goldwater's complaint, the court did not endorse
>the doctrine of
>              presidential unilateralism. Justice Rehnquist expressly
>left the matter for
>              resolution "by the executive and legislative branches."
>The ball is now in
>              Congress's court. How should it respond?
>
>              First and foremost, by recognizing the seriousness of this
>matter. If President
>              Bush is allowed to terminate the ABM treaty, what is to
>stop future
>              presidents from unilaterally taking America out of NATO or
>the United
>              Nations?
>
>              The question is not whether such steps are wise, but how
>democratically they
>              should be taken. America does not enter into treaties
>lightly. They are solemn
>              commitments made after wide-ranging democratic debate.
>Unilateral action
>              by the president does not measure up to this standard.
>
>              Unilateralism might have seemed more plausible during the
>cold war. The
>              popular imagination was full of apocalyptic scenarios
>under which the
>              nation's fate hinged on emergency action by the president
>alone. These
>              decisions did not typically involve the termination of
>treaties. But with the
>              president's finger poised on the nuclear button, it might
>have seemed
>              unrealistic for constitutional scholars to insist on a
>fundamental difference
>              between the executive power to implement our foreign
>policy commitments
>              and the power to terminate them.
>
>              The world now looks very different. America's adversaries
>may inveigh
>              against its hegemony, but for America's friends, the
>crucial question is how
>              this country will exercise its dominance. Will its power
>be wielded by a single
>              man =97 unchecked by the nation's international obligations
>or the control of
>              Congress? Or will that power be exercised under the
>democratic rule of
>              law?
>
>              Barry Goldwater's warning is even more relevant today than
>20 years ago.
>              The question is whether Republicans will heed his warning
>against "a
>              dangerous precedent for executive usurpation of Congress's
>historically and
>              constitutionally based powers." Several leading senators
>signed this statement
>              that appeared in Senator Goldwater's brief =97 including
>Orrin Hatch, Jesse
>              Helms and Strom Thurmond, who are still serving. They
>should defend
>              Congress's power today, as they did in the Carter era.
>
>              If they join with Democrats in raising the constitutional
>issue, they will help
>              establish a precedent that will endure long after the ABM
>treaty is forgotten.
>              Congress should proceed with a joint resolution declaring
>that Mr. Bush
>              cannot terminate treaty obligations on his own. And if the
>president proceeds
>              unilaterally, Congress should take further steps to defend
>its role in foreign
>              policy.
>
>              We need not suppose that the president will respond by
>embarking on a
>              collision course with Congress. His father, for example,
>took a different
>              approach to constitutionally sensitive issues. When
>members of Congress
>              went to court to challenge the constitutionality of the
>Persian Gulf war,
>              President George H. W. Bush did not proceed unilaterally.
>To his great
>              credit, he requested and received support from both houses
>of Congress
>              before making war against Saddam Hussein. This decision
>stands as one
>              precedent for the democratic control of foreign policy in
>the post-cold war
>              era. We are now in the process of creating another.
>
>
>
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: RE: [abolition-caucus] Re: [globenet] Treaties Don't
Date: 30 Aug 2001 18:28:57 -0400

>From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
>To: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>, 'ASlater'
>        <[e-mail]>, "'[e-mail]'"
>        <[e-mail]>, 'abolition-us' <abolition-us>,
>        "'[e-mail]'"
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>Subject: RE: [abolition-caucus] Re: [globenet] Treaties Don't Belong to Pr
>        esidents Alone
>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:20:21 -0500
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>by the way, concerning a lawsuit, as Ackerman correctly pointed out, and as
>previously argued here, Goldwater v. Carter is no obstacle, and the Court
>has changed. So again, it is still a viable option to be considered. Even if
>we got as far as Senator Goldwater did --all the way to the Supreme
>Court--that would certainly elevate the issue around the country, and serve
>as an organizing tool. So Hearings and a Lawsuit would both be good. But as
>Alice correctly pointed out, the REAL problem is that  we need a Senator
>with some guts. fab.
>
>Francis A. Boyle
>Law Building
>504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>Champaign, IL 61820 USA
>217-333-7954(voice)
>217-244-1478(fax)
>[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Boyle, Francis
>Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:10 PM
>To: 'ASlater'; [e-mail]; abolition-us;
>[e-mail]
>Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
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>Subject: RE: [abolition-caucus] Re: [globenet] Treaties Don't Belong to
>Presidents Alone
>
>
>Hearings are fine too. Hearings by Senator Sam Nunn, then  Chair of the
>Senate Armed Services Committee, demolished the Reagan administration's
>reinterpretation of the ABM Treaty out of existence in order to justify Star
>Wars. See my Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy,
>Amazon.com. fab
>
>Francis A. Boyle
>Law Building
>504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>Champaign, IL 61820 USA
>217-333-7954(voice)
>217-244-1478(fax)
>[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ASlater [mailto:[e-mail]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:02 PM
>To: [e-mail]; abolition-us;
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>Subject: [abolition-caucus] Re: [globenet] Treaties Don't Belong to
>Presidents Alone
>
>
>Hi Friends,
>I don't think we need an injunction. The whole point of the Ackerman
>article is
>that the Courts ruled that this is to be determined between the Executive
>and
>Legislative branches of our government.  The Court will not rule on this
>issue.   We need some Senators with spines to call for a hearing and debate
>on
>the necessity for the ABM Treaty, the nuclear proliferation implications of
>withdrawing from the ABM Treaty and how it will undermine the effectiveness
>of
>the NPT where we just promised at the 2000 NPT Review to maintain the
>strategic
>stability of the ABM Treaty, the legality of the President's unilateral
>action
>as outlined below in the Ackerman op-ed, etc. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CONVINCE
>YOUR SENATORS THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE A STAND?  IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS THE PATH
>AHEAD. If you can't get to your Senators, get to your Member of Congress.
>Apparently there were Joint Resolutions in the past that released our
>government from treaty obligations.   Please send the Ackerman article to
>your
>Senators and Congressmembers and ask them to take a stand.  Regards, Alice
>
>At 01:56 PM 8/30/2001 -0700, carol wolman wrote:
>>  Dear Friends,  The following article seems very relevant to our
>>discussion of an injunction to stop the president from withdrawing from
>>the ABM Treaty without the participation of Congress.   Peace,  Carol
>>
>>August 29, 2001- NY TIMES op-ed
>>
>>By BRUCE ACKERMAN-  professor of constitutional law at Yale and
>>              co-author of "Is Nafta Constitutional?''
>>
>>                  NEW HAVEN -- President Bush has told the Russians that
>>he will
>>                  withdraw from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which
>>gives both
>>              countries the right to terminate on six months' notice.
>>But does the president
>>              have the constitutional authority to exercise this power
>>without first obtaining
>>              Congressional consent?
>>
>>              Presidents don't have the power to enter into treaties
>>unilaterally. This
>>              requires the consent of two-thirds of the Senate, and once
>>a treaty enters
>>              into force, the Constitution makes it part of the "supreme
>>law of the land" -
>>              just like a statute.
>>
>>              Presidents can't terminate statutes they don't like. They
>>must persuade both
>>              houses of Congress to join in a repeal. Should the
>>termination of treaties
>>              operate any differently?
>>
>>              The question first came up in 1798. As war intensified in
>>Europe, America
>>              found itself in an entangling alliance with the French
>>under treaties made
>>              during our own revolution. But President John Adams did
>>not terminate these
>>              treaties unilaterally. He signed an act of Congress to
>>"Declare the Treaties
>>              Heretofore Concluded with France No Longer Obligatory on
>>the United
>>              States."
>>
>>              The next case was in 1846. As the country struggled to
>>define its northern
>>              boundary with Canada, President James Polk specifically
>>asked Congress
>>              for authority to withdraw from the Oregon Territory Treaty
>>with Great
>>              Britain, and Congress obliged with a joint resolution.
>>Cooperation of the
>>              legislative and executive branches remained the norm,
>>despite some
>>              exceptions, during the next 125 years.
>>
>>              The big change occurred in 1978, when Jimmy Carter
>>unilaterally terminated
>>              our mutual defense treaty with Taiwan. Senator Barry
>>Goldwater responded
>>              with a lawsuit, asking the Supreme Court to maintain the
>>traditional system of
>>              checks and balances. The court declined to make a decision
>>on the merits of
>>              the case. In an opinion by Justice William Rehnquist, four
>>justices called the
>>              issue a political question inappropriate for judicial
>>resolution. Two others
>>              refused to go this far but joined the majority for other
>>reasons. So by a vote
>>              of 6 to 3, the court dismissed the case.
>>
>>              Seven new justices have since joined the court, and there
>>is no predicting
>>              how a new case would turn out. Only one thing is clear. In
>>dismissing
>>              Senator Goldwater's complaint, the court did not endorse
>>the doctrine of
>>              presidential unilateralism. Justice Rehnquist expressly
>>left the matter for
>>              resolution "by the executive and legislative branches."
>>The ball is now in
>>              Congress's court. How should it respond?
>>
>>              First and foremost, by recognizing the seriousness of this
>>matter. If President
>>              Bush is allowed to terminate the ABM treaty, what is to
>>stop future
>>              presidents from unilaterally taking America out of NATO or
>>the United
>>              Nations?
>>
>>              The question is not whether such steps are wise, but how
>>democratically they
>>              should be taken. America does not enter into treaties
>>lightly. They are solemn
>>              commitments made after wide-ranging democratic debate.
>>Unilateral action
>>              by the president does not measure up to this standard.
>>
>>              Unilateralism might have seemed more plausible during the
>>cold war. The
>>              popular imagination was full of apocalyptic scenarios
>>under which the
>>              nation's fate hinged on emergency action by the president
>>alone. These
>>              decisions did not typically involve the termination of
>>treaties. But with the
>>              president's finger poised on the nuclear button, it might
>>have seemed
>>              unrealistic for constitutional scholars to insist on a
>>fundamental difference
>>              between the executive power to implement our foreign
>>policy commitments
>>              and the power to terminate them.
>>
>>              The world now looks very different. America's adversaries
>>may inveigh
>>              against its hegemony, but for America's friends, the
>>crucial question is how
>>              this country will exercise its dominance. Will its power
>>be wielded by a single
>>              man - unchecked by the nation's international obligations
>>or the control of
>>              Congress? Or will that power be exercised under the
>>democratic rule of
>>              law?
>>
>>              Barry Goldwater's warning is even more relevant today than
>>20 years ago.
>>              The question is whether Republicans will heed his warning
>>against "a
>>              dangerous precedent for executive usurpation of Congress's
>>historically and
>>              constitutionally based powers." Several leading senators
>>signed this statement
>>              that appeared in Senator Goldwater's brief - including
>>Orrin Hatch, Jesse
>>              Helms and Strom Thurmond, who are still serving. They
>>should defend
>>              Congress's power today, as they did in the Carter era.
>>
>>              If they join with Democrats in raising the constitutional
>>issue, they will help
>>              establish a precedent that will endure long after the ABM
>>treaty is forgotten.
>>              Congress should proceed with a joint resolution declaring
>>that Mr. Bush
>>              cannot terminate treaty obligations on his own. And if the
>>president proceeds
>>              unilaterally, Congress should take further steps to defend
>>its role in foreign
>>              policy.
>>
>>              We need not suppose that the president will respond by
>>embarking on a
>>              collision course with Congress. His father, for example,
>>took a different
>>              approach to constitutionally sensitive issues. When
>>members of Congress
>>              went to court to challenge the constitutionality of the
>>Persian Gulf war,
>>              President George H. W. Bush did not proceed unilaterally.
>>To his great
>>              credit, he requested and received support from both houses
>>of Congress
>>              before making war against Saddam Hussein. This decision
>>stands as one
>>              precedent for the democratic control of foreign policy in
>>the post-cold war
>>              era. We are now in the process of creating another.
>>
>>
>>
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Re: Articles
Date: 30 Aug 2001 18:38:56 -0400


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> <http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0105/china.missile.defense/frameset.
> exclude.html>CNN.com - Missile Defense Plan
> Is this a paid advertisement of Lockheed Martin? Is this news? Do we have a
> right to another opinion? How did this get placed on CNN's site? Whose
> missile defense plan is this? Is this the limited theater plan proposed? Is
> this the same plan proposed to NATO, to Putin, to Laura? What can and
should
> we do about this blatant propoganda? Jonathan




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