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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:10:17 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (Save Ward Valley)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Apologies

This morning I received a fax from Bernice Kring, Grandmothers for Peace in
Sacramento.  Berinice explained all that see and others had done to try and
garner support for opposition to the shipments by train of spent fuel rods
to Idaho.  I am posting my reply to her.

Bernice,

I received your fax and feel I owe you and others an apology.  I know how
hard you and many others in the Bay Area and Sacramento worked to try to get
people to at least get out and show their anger at these shipments.  I
apologize for not saying that in the first place and for not making myself
more clear at who I feel so frustrated with.

It is the "people" I feel frustration with.  You ask how many years it took
for us here at Ward Valley to get local support.  We don't have local
support!!!  We have the support of the Tribes but not the "locals".  The
people in Needles (at least most of them) are not involved in trying to stop
this dump in their back yard; they have been bought off by US Ecology and/or
simply don't care.

I agree that trying to actually stop this train would have been a far too
dangerous thing to do.  I do believe that people could have stood next to
the tracks along the route with signs, banners, etc.

My question is this:  How do we get our friends, neighbors and community
members to realize what is happening and to elicit some kind of response
from them?  How do we instill the same dedication and passion for making
changes that so many of us have?

I don't have the answers; maybe no one does.  In the meantime, I will not
give up no matter how frustrating it gets.  I know that you won't either.

Again, my apologies for not giving credit where credit is due to those who
worked so very hard and are still working to educate people about the
nuclear chain.

Love,

Molly


Save Ward Valley
107 F St.
Needles, CA  92363
ph. 760/326-6267
fax [phone]
http://www.shundahai.org/SWVAction.html
http://earthrunner.com/savewardvalley
http://www.ctaz.com/~swv1
http://banwaste.envirolink.org
http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/wardvly4.html
http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr
http://www.greenaction.org


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:29:41 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) From Bernice Kring re: NUCLEAR WASTE MOVES QUIETLY THROUGH NEVADA

RE: NUCLEAR WASTE MOVES QUIETLY THROUGH NEVADA

From Bernice Kring, Citizens Along the Tracks and Grand Mothers for Peace.
    Along the railroad tracks in Sacramento (or should I say the FRONT LINES!)

(This is a faxed letter that I recieved from Bernice Kring in response to
my posting yesterday. I appreciate all of the ffedback. I will be posting a
follow up letter with the subject; Building a movement of resistance)

For at least the last four years I have been trying to get the City Council
in Sacramento to listen to me regarding irradiated fuel rods comming
through Sacramento. My letters to the Mayor, Joe Serna, and my city
councilman Steve Cohn have only recieved responses with a referal to the
Sacramento Fire Department and the chief of HAZ?MAT Jan Dunbar. Mr.
Dunbar's response is: "We can handle any emergency within a 100 mile radius
of Sacramento. No exceptions. We have more dangerous material then fuel
rods going throught Sacramento everyday. Why are you worried about spent
fuel rods?"

When a scoping meeting was held on Yucca Mountain was held in Sacramento, I
spoke to the Mayor and city council at a council meeting about the
necessity of fighting these shipments through downtown Sacramento. The
mayor's response was a puzzled "What do you want me to do about it?" I told
him - "Speak at the scoping hearing and tell the DOE you will not allow
that transport through your city!" His response - "I'm busy that day."

About two years ago, when I first heard about the foriegn research reactor
fuel rods scheduled to come through Concord, I decided we needed to get a
resolution in the city and county of sacramento against the transport of
irradiated fuel rods throught the area. As a grandmother for Peace, I spoke
to the board of directors of Sacramento / Yolo Peace Action, asking them to
join the grannies and could we get PSR and some other groups to support
this effort. One person signed on early and came to the meetings when he
and I were the only ones present. Other 'joiners" came to a meeting and
dissapeared never to be seen again. We tabled at the Thrusday Night Market
in Sacremento to get signatures on petitions to the city council and county
board of supervisors. An Abolition meeting in Davis in 1997 finally brought
out some real supporters. The mock cask tour (No mobile Chernobyls) in
February 1998 put us in touch with activists in Colfax, Grass Valley, Chico
and other communties in Butte County and QUincy.

Reinard, you are being unfair to the people who were in Martenez. They were
working in shifts from noon Tuesday, July 21 till after midnight. They had
specific instructions to call me in Sacramento when they saw the train come
from Concord so we could activiate ourphone trees. That call came in at
1:20 am on Wednsday morning. We had no idea how long it would take for the
train to get to each communityu since we had hear d it would be traveling
at 15 - 35 miles an hour. The DOE lied. Surprised? That train barreled past
us in Sacramento around 3:15 am doing about 60 mph! It took only an hour
for the train to get from Sacramento to Oroville a distanc eof 75 miles.
Still want to stand on the tracks?

Regarding our quotes in the newspapers - you know we have no control over
that. I was asked how I felt after the train went by. My response was
angry. Very Angry! Our government lies to us, ignores us, and continues to
pollute the environment. My daughter also told a reporter she was angry
that this shipment had come here. Did that get in the paper? Of course not.

Stopping this train would have only held irradiated fuel rods in one of our
communities. As long as it was moving, we felt better to let it go to
Idaho. We are having a demonstration and rally tommorrow in Sacrmaneto to
stop the next 4 shipments.

If you think we have not been telling the media, the DOE, the neighbors,
EVERYONE that theree are alternatives to bringing the rods back here, you
do us a disservice......

The thousands of people protesting in Gorberlen last year was an exciting
story to read. But it was not the first shipment. Did it stop future
shipments? No. The german governemnt did it again this year- with a smaller
turnout of protesters. Their efforts were outstanding - but the
government's agenda ruled.

.....If you are outraged, think how we feel up here that we did not get a
better result. Should we throw up our heands in dispair? We wont, but
having our friends berate us is pretty depressing. We look on this shipment
as an educational experience for the communities that never knew this was
happening before. DO you think it was tempting to hope for a disaster so we
could say "I told you so?" Personally I think that is the only thing that
will wake people up to what we are trying to tell them. Standing in front
of a speeding train would not have ellicited one word of sympathy from an
apathetic community.

We do what we can where we are. Will we really change the world? I doubt
it. We can only change ourselves, and hope to be a positive role model for
those who follow.

Peace and Love to both of you.

Bernice Kring

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:30:17 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Building a movement of nonviolent resistance

From Reinard Knutsen

Dear Bernice and others,

Thank you for your letter Bernice. I hope that you don't mind I reprinted
it and posted it on the nuke lists. I felt like it would be good for others
to see.

Let me start out by thanking you for your dedication and focused organizing
efforts. I met you in 1996 on the first "Don't Waste America!" nuclear cask
tour when we stopped in Sacramento. Your efforts have always been
inspirational to me (and others as well, I know) because you are an elder
who has  struggled so hard with sometimes no support from your community. I
do know how hard it is. I do understand the struggle.

When I wrote my letter yesterday I was feeling very emotional about the
situation. And I still am. I do want to apologize as well as Molly for
upsetting the organizers who worked so hard to achieve such a small turnout.

I want to reiterate what I said in my first letter posted yesterday. " I
know that all of the organizers out there are swamped responding the many
crisis of our time and this is certainly not a critique of personal
efforts. I know that many people worked long and hard on education and
outreach before the shipments. It is a statement on our movement in general
and American society." I also want to reiterate that I think Shundahai
Network is just as responsible as any other organization for the low public
turn out.

I know that many people worked very hard to educate and mobilize opposition
to these shipments. But I think that there is a difference between
opposition and nonviolent resistance. I am hoping that through these
discussions we begin to build the movemtn that will stop future shipments.

Bernice wrote: "Stopping this train would have only held irradiated fuel
rods in one of our communities. As long as it was moving, we felt better to
let it go to Idaho.
That train barreled past us in Sacramento around 3:15 am doing about 60
mph! It took only an hour for the train to get from Sacramento to Oroville
a distance of 75 miles. Still want to stand on the tracks?"

I think the speed of the train is an important safety issue that needs to
be raised to the public. Why was such a dangerous load traveling so fast
without a chance of slowing down had there been any emergencies? I almost
feel like having a stopped train carrying radioactive waste is a safer
train then one moving at 75 mph through a downtown area or through the
Feather River Canyon. We are all going to have to deal with radioactive
materials in our communities, there is no way of getting around it in
today's society. The risks of delaying a shipment for several minutes or
hours match letting these shipments go through with no resistance. Because
they will only increase in frequency in the future if we do not do more to
stop them today.

But I also think that if there were organized groups of citizens along the
route who had publicly alerted the DOE and media and local police forces,
that they were going to be standing in the tracks, the train would have
been forced to start out slow and continue slow. My fantasy would have been
if groups of 10 - 20 had blockaded the tracks all along the route in waves
of one hour each, these folks would have been arrested safely before the
train passed but still would have sent a strong message of resistance to
our nuclear waste policies rather then just opposition.

I know that after what happened to Brian Wilson many people are opposed to
even attempting to blockade train shipments and I do understand these
sentiments.

But I still feel that this could have been done safely with opportunity to
get off the tracks before the train reached the blockade. I also feel that
because of the public focus on this shipment the cops would have cleared
anybody off the tracks before the train reached that position.

Trains have been stopped before, but it takes a lot of planning and the
notification of the media and police to pull off an action like that. I
realize that the people who are most involved with radical nonviolent
actions like this were not involved in this movement or planning for these
actions.

I hope that we at least consider these alternative actions for future
shipments rather then silent vigils to witness to its passing. There are
also other nonviolent direct actions which could have been taken like
occupations of the DOE or government offices along the route.

Some people might say "Why should we do actions like this when it is all
symbolic because we cant actually stop the shipments." Every action we take
is symbolic, but we have to choose what symbol we want to portray as a
movement.

Bernice wrote : "If you think we have not been telling the media, the DOE,
the neighbors, EVERYONE that there are alternatives to bringing the rods
back here, you do us a disservice......"

I do realize now that alternatives were mentioned in all of the press
releases that went out. I also realize we do not control the media. I am
sorry if you feel that I did a disservice. But it is important to
understand collectively how the media did portray us and figure out what
changes we can make in the future.

Bernice Wrote: "The thousands of people protesting in Gorberlen last year
was an exciting story to read. But it was not the first shipment. Did it
stop future shipments? No. The German government did it again this year-
with a smaller turnout of protesters. Their efforts were outstanding - but
the government's agenda ruled."

I do think that the actions in Germany were very successful regardless of
if the shipments actually made it to their destination. My understanding is
that because of the two years of resistance to those shipments and the
economic cost of responding to this movement of resistance, the government
is rethinking its nuclear waste policies. I don't know if this will stop
future shipments, but I think the movement in Germany has a lot more weight
behind it because of these actions and the threat of future actions. NOTE:
The German shipments were forced to go at a crawl the whole way because of
the blockades.

Bernice Wrote: ".....If you are outraged, think how we feel up here that we
did not get a better result. Should we throw up our hands in despair? We
wont, but having our friends berate us is pretty depressing. We look on
this shipment as an educational experience for the communities that never
knew this was happening before. DO you think it was tempting to hope for a
disaster so we could say "I told you so?" Personally I think that is the
only thing that will wake people up to what we are trying to tell them.
Standing in front of a speeding train would not have elicited one word of
sympathy from an apathetic community.

We do what we can where we are. Will we really change the world? I doubt
it. We can only change ourselves, and hope to be a positive role model for
those who follow."

Bernice and others involved, please do not feel that i was berating any
one. I do feel the issues I raised are important and do need to be raised.
Of course we all have to deal with our feelings of disappointment and
despair, myself as well, but we do need to move on into the future and
learn what we can from this shipment and begin planning right away for the
next shipment.

I look forward to working with you all in the future. We are planning the
1999 crosscountry nuclear waste cask tour from Feb 8 - April 1. Besides
doing demonstrations we will be organizing town meetings alon gthe route to
discuss these issues and help enable local organizers to plan effective
actions. The government has to realize that we mean business when we say
"Nuke Waste No Way!"

Peace and Love, Reinard

***************************************************************
                   SHUNDAHAI NETWORK
          "Peace and Harmony with all Creation"
              *Breaking the Nuclear Chain*

        5007 Elmhurst Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304
ph(702)647-3095 Fax: [phone]  Email: [e-mail]
                    http://www.shundahai.org

     Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:
Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to
foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and
Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:42:46 +1000
From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NUCLEAR WASTE MOVES QUIETLY ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA

Save Ward Valley wrote:
>
> I fully agree with Reinard from Shundahai--WHERE WAS EVERYBODY?  We all
> scratch our heads and wonder how it is the nuclear industry and government
> run all over us.  Well, here's a good example of why.  There are more than
> enough people in the Bay Area and Sacramento to have lined the tracks with
> people all the way to the Sierras.  No one need have made a move; just the
> sight of thousands of people along the tracks standing in protest would have
> made national news.  Instead, the first of these shipments goes "quietly
> across Northern Nevada."
>
> Each day I read my e-mail from many different lists regarding nuclear
> weapons, power, waste, and testing.  I tend to be a positive thinker but all
> of this is really starting to make me wonder whether it may really be just
> plain too late!!!!   The nuclear industry and military complex have almost
> single- handedly destroyed this planet.  Having learned of all the leaking
> dumps, Russian dumping of radioactive materials into rivers and the ocean,
> the contamination at weapons plants, and problems at places like Sellafield
> I have discovered that all we can do now is damage control.  If we were stop
> all of this NOW we still could not stop the continuing damage that will be
> done by the radioactive materials already contaminating this earth--remember
> some of these materials are deadly for a QUARTER OF A MILLION YEARS!!
>
> We've got to stand up and fight, folks.  We've got to take a lesson from
> Europe where thousands showed up to try to stop waste shipments.  WE'VE GOT
> TO START TO CARE!!!!!!!
>
> It's all up to us--we can sit and complain or stand and fight.  What will it be?
>
> For Environmental Justice,
>
> Molly Johnson
> Office coordinator, Save Ward Valley
> Save Ward Valley
> 107 F St.
> Needles, CA  92363
> ph. 760/326-6267
> fax [phone]
> http://www.shundahai.org/SWVAction.html
> http://earthrunner.com/savewardvalley
> http://www.ctaz.com/~swv1
> http://banwaste.envirolink.org
> http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/wardvly4.html
> http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr
> http://www.greenaction.org
>
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Mariotte <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: NUKE-WASTE: NUCLEAR WASTE MOVES QUIETLY ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA

Reinard,

Just a brief comment from vacation...

As someone who has participated in the waste train blockades in Germany, and
advocates the same in the U.S. when the time comes, I can only say that the
time has not yet come... While I too am disappointed that only 15 people
came out to Martinez, the fact is that these shipments are much more
controversial within our own ranks than later shipments of commercial waste
will be. The issues aren't as clear, some non-proliferation people actively
support these shipments, and there was no way to reach a consensus on them,
or even to organize effectively.

One thing we'll be doing at the Northeast Action Camp this August is talking
about future waste shipments and preparing a more effective response (though
the most effective response of all is to stop them from happening in the
first place....). So don't be too downhearted, when it matters most, we WILL
be there...

Michael
NIRSAt 01:12 PM 7/23/98 -0700, Shundahai Network wrote:
>Las Vegas Review Journal Article posted below.
>
>Hello Friends,
>
>This is Reinard Knutsen. I wanted to post this article below because I have
>not seen too much coverage of these shipments on the net (see Las Vegas
>Review Journal article below).
>
>On a personal level, (not as a representative of Shundahai Network) I think
>the title for the article says it all. I feel the anti-nuclear movement has
>suffered a major setback by letting this shipment into the country and pass
>through from Concord  to INEEL with out any major demonstrations or
>blockades. I feel that Shundahai Network is as responsible for this setback
>as any of the other organizations organizing around nuclear issues, ( I
>know that we are bogged down with our own action preparations to stop the
>next subcritical tests, protest Yucca Mountain and interim storage and
>reclaim the Nevada Test Site, (Stay tuned for future alerts on these
>actions.) and we are 400 miles away from the shipment route) I know that
>all of the organizers out there are swamped respounding the many crisisis
>of our time and this is certainly not a critique of personal efforts. I
>know that many people worked long and hard on education and outreach before
>the shipments. It is a statement on our movement in general and American
>society.
>
>The fact is that we let this major shipment (299 spent nuclear fuel rods)
>pass without any major expression of outrage.
>
>The main anti-nuclear organizers that were quoted on this issue in our
>local papers over the past three days all had quotes that said things like
>"We do not plan to interfere with this shipment." "We certainly don't
>expect to be able to stop this shipment." "We are relieved that it passed
>safely." "We are upset that the DOE did not respond to our concerns"  "It
>didn't seem to attract a lot of attention."
>
>There were no quotes that expressed outrage other then to say we are upset.
>
>And I think that we should be outraged, just as we should be outraged when
>ever the U.S. government prepares to do a subcritical nuclear weapons
>tests. This shipment just like the subcritical nuclear tests is a crime,
>because it does nothing to solve the nuclear waste problem, it just
>contributes to the problem.
>
>I think in the wake of the thousands of people protesting in Germany,
>blockading a shipment, and the international outcry of the shipment from
>France to Japan, our response in this country was like a kittens meow when
>we should have been roaring like lions. I think the rest of the world which
>still has somewhat of a boooming nuclear industry (promoted by the US) are
>looking to see how our government handels our nuclear waste problems.
>
>I think that we have failed in our message to the media. The articles I
>have seen gave more area to the DOE to say how safe these shipments are
>while portraying anti-nuclear activists as whiny and paranoid when they
>should be showing that we are outraged.
>
>Also I did not see any media coverage of alternatives to this shipment. We
>have to let the media and press know that these shipments are not
>neccessary right now and that there are safer ways to deal with our
>radioactive material then shipping it half way around the world and moving
>it here and there until it finally gets dumped in a hole in the ground.
>
>I think it is a sad statement of the movement that in San Francisco, home
>to a huge number of environmentally concerned folks, that only 15 people
>showed up to vigil silently while the train passed through Martinez. There
>are stories of one man who was arrested for standing in the tracks at the
>Concord Navel Weapons Station hours before the shipment left. I am glad he
>was there, but i am sad that he was the only one. We should have had at
>least hundreds on the tracks and I do wish there had been some kind of
>resistance to the ship entering the port.
>
>I have heard organizers express concerns over the safety of such actions.
>As a direct actionist who has blockaded truck shipments of radioactive
>waste before, (and watched many videos of Greenpeace ship actions) I do
>belive that there are safe ways of blockading. Of course there is an
>inherent risk in any action, but it does not have to be  much more then say
>driving on a freeway in rush hour.
>
>I believe that we have to have people along each transportation route who
>are willing to say, "I will not let these shipments pass through my
>neighborhood, town or city. You will have to physically remove me." This
>statement would be much more effective then a silent vigil to witness the
>fact that these shipmetns are taking place.
>
>A couple of years ago the Shoshone Bannock Tribal police blocked the path
>of a nuclear waste train heading into Idaho. It can be done! And it can be
>done relatively safely.
>
>I think without actions like these to inspire others our movement will
>continue to wither.
>
>And each shipment they make without outraged vocal protests and physical
>nonviolent direct action is going to make it easier to make the final
>shipment to the big hole in Yucca Mountain, WIPP, Skull Valley Reservation....
>
>Well, I pledge to do all that I can to express my outrage at this shipmment
>and demand that all future shipments be stopped and that we work with the
>foriegn countries on designing and running above ground retrievable storage
>until there is an end to the generation of nuclear waste and that we work
>on this issue as a global issue not just one to be controlled by the U.S.
>government. I will start by writing a letter to the editor, and I will
>carry this message on in my nonviolent direct actions.
>
>I look forward to hearing from anyone on this subject.
>
>Peace, Reinard
>
>
>Las Vegas Review Journal, Thursday July 23, 1998
>
>NUCLEAR WASTE MOVES QUIETLY ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA
>
>RENO- (Associated Press) A train carrying spent nuclear fuel rods passed
>protesters in California on Wednesday and began a much quieter 400 mile
>trek across Northern Nevada desert in route to a laboratory in Idaho.
>
>"I haven't heard that much about it," said Chuck Duffy, bartender at
>bruno's Country Club in Gerlach, which sits fifty feet from the railroad
>tracks about 100 miles northeast of Reno.
>
>"It seems to have snuck up on everybody here," he said just before the
>train passed through the town of 350 at the edge of the Black Rock Desert
>about noon.
>
>The unusual presence of a dozen police officers and firefighters had been
>the only viable sign the train would be moving through Gerlach, home of
>land speed records and  the annual counter-cultural event known as 'Burning
>Man."
>
>The DOE refused to specify the trains location but confirmed that it was on
>it's way to Idaho on Wednesday.
>
>"I can only say that the shipment is safely underway and is continuing as
>planned." DOE spokesperson Jim Gaver said.
>
>About 15 protesters held a silent vigil as the train passed through
>Sacramento at 3:14 am. Two security helicopters hovered, joining forces on
>the train in keeping eyes on the demonstration.
>
>Only one formal protest was scheduled in Nevada but some residents along
>the route complained the about the secrecy of the trip.
>
>"This is a small community with a lot of children and everything in it,"
>said Bob Couch of Winnemucca, where the train was expected to pass later
>that day.
>
>"It would be nice for there to be something in the paper or something like
>that saying it really is going to happen."
>
>By mid morning the train had passed safely through California's Feather
>River Canyon, a mountainous region where washouts and landslides are
>common. Anti-nuclear activists had considered the canyon passage one of the
>most dangerous elements of the trip.
>
>The train entered into Nevada 40 miles north of Reno about 10:20am with no
>signs of anti-nuclear activists.
>
>Citizens Against Nuclear Waste in Nevada planned a protest at a library in
>Reno on Wednesday night long after the train had passed through the area.
>
>The train rolled through Winnemucca near the middle of the State about
>2:15pm with a sheriffs's helicopter hovering about 200 feet overhead. The
>engineer waved and gave a long blast of the whistle but didn't slow as the
>train made its way through the small Humboldt County town in less then two
>minutes.
>
>It arrived at Elko another 125 miles east about 6pm for refueling and a
>crew change. It was headed for Wendover, Utah, then on to Ogdon, Utah.
>
>"It's been real quiet through the state. It's going smooth, ahead of
>schedule," Lt Greg Petrie of the Nevada Highway Patrol said from Elko.
>
>He said there were no protests and the train was expected to be moving
>across Utah late Wednesday night or early today.
>
>John Hadder of Citizen Alert in Reno said his group was relieved that the
>train cleared the Feather River Canyon safely.
>
>"But we are upset that the DOE hasn't responded properly to our forecast of
>uncertainty," He Said. "We will continue to press DOE to respond."
>
>State officials in Nevada were playing down any safety threats.
>
>"Anyone within 100 miles of the rail line had training," said Steve Frady,
>a spokesperson for the Nevada Division of Forestry in Carson City.
>
>Northern Nevadans were more likely to be hit by a train trying to cross
>busy tracks in downtown Reno then they were to be exposed to radiation from
>a nuclear waste shipment, said Ralph Keeney, who teaches risk analysis at
>the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:02:33 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sincere apologies re: nuke train

From Reinard Knutsen        [e-mail]


Dear Friends,


This will be my last public message on this issue posted to these lists.
Any future correspondence will be done personally.


I have caused some good friends whom I highly respect pain and anger
because of my careless words and abuse of this communication medium
beginning with my email entitled NUKE WASTE MOVES QUIETLY.... I can not
change the past, but I do want to say I am extremely sorry. I let
emotional response and fatigue over ride sensible consideration of words
and message. I am truly sorry to Bernice and Marylia and any others I
offended. That was not my intent. I am especially sorry to Bernice for
publishing her letter without her approval. <italic> </italic>Bernice
asked me to remove her letter from the internet, but of course I cant do
that. I can only promise I will not do this in the future.


I am thankful for the years of dedicated hard and often unrewarding work
that all the organizers along the INEEL route have taken to stop these
shipments. I hope that we all can find the strength to continue in a good
way.


Here in Nevada we struggle with the fact that we can only get 300 - 500
people out to the test site any more, when Corbin Harney is telling us we
need to get 40,000 just like they did in Semipalitinsk in the early 90's
to close down their test site.


I do agree with Michael Mariotte of NIRS who said "As someone who has
participated in the waste train blockades in Germany, and advocates the
same in the U.S. when the time comes, I can only say that the time has
not yet come...." But I do hope for that day and will continue to work
towards it in my feeble manners.


I have received many emails on this subject and I do believe some good
discussion has begun amongst organizers on the WIPP route and east - west
highway corridors. I am thankful that it has stimulated discussion but am
sorry that it was at such cost to personal feelings.


I hope that any one who I have offended can forgive me and continue to
work with me so that we can build a strong movement together.


My next email posts will be on the upcoming subcritical nuclear test
"Bagpipe" and information I have received from DOE in Las Vegas yesterday
and some developing action plans here.


Peace and love to you all, Reinard



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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:22:01 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "Bagpipe" nuke test scheduled for September

"Bagpipe" nuke test scheduled for September

After talking with Marylia Kelly, I called the DOE office here in Las Vegas
and spoke with Derrick Scammell in their public relations department. I
urge every one to call him for more information. His number is 702-295-1000
(this is the switch board # but they can connect you.)

I asked him about any information he might be able to give me about the
upcoming nuclear test "Bagpipe." (It is interesting that he did not try to
correct the wording of my question.

He responded that it is scheduled for September and that it must be done
before October 1, when the new fiscal year begins. He did not know about
any test scheduled after Bagpipe. The DOE will release a public press
release 2 - 3 days before the event and that they plan on inviting the
media to witness the test.

I asked if the closing of the plutonium machining facility at Lawrence
Livermore has any affect on the test.

He replied that he did not think that was going to affect this test.

(He was returning my call and caught me in the middle of a late afternoon
meeting, so I was not able to pursue any other questions at the moment. I
do plan on calling him on Monday to ask some follow up questions)

We feel that through our monitoring of the situation at the test site we
should have at least a two week warning for this test and I will continue
to post updates. My gut level feeling is that it will exploded on the 21-22
or 28 -29 (These are both monday - Tuesday dates and would give them time
to redo the test if there was any problems since they are working on a four
day week schedule at NTS.

In Las Vegas on September 8 we are planning a huge (we will be lucky to get
50 folks) demonstration at the Federal Building to kick off our final local
fall campaign entitled "Action for Nuclear Abolition!" to stop these tests.
This demonstration will be followed by a nonviolent direct action at an
appropriate facility. If we have the media's attention as we believe we
will have, we will then hold a press conference to outline our continued
campaign and to announce the community support for this campaign.

If any other groups are able to do solidarity events on September 8th or
any time during September let us know. Any other suggestions or advice is
appreciated as well.

Peace, Reinard

PS: We are also planning a local benefit concert and nonviolent direct
action to celebrate September 30, the one year anniversary of NEVADA IS NOT
A NUCLEAR WASTELAND DAY proclaimed by the governor last year.

Then, on October 1st: we hope to do send a Citizen Inspection Team into
Nellis Air force Base to investigate the storage and handling of nuclear
weapons and bombs that might be used in a first strike. (Any advice on this
is greatly appreciated!)

October 9-12 is the Fall Healing Global Wounds Gathering at NTS. This will
mostly be an organizers retreat to plan the expanded Mothers Day Action at
the test site, May 7-10, 1999. We will do a nonviolent direct action on
Monday, October 12th. The weekend will be filled with Ceremony and
networking and music and great food in a beautiful desert surrounding. I
hope that you can join us!
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