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abolition-usa-digest Saturday, August 8 1998 Volume 01 : Number 008
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:46:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tina Bell <tinabell@walrus.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) WILPF (NY Metro) public meeting on nuclear reactors and cancer
WILPF (New York Metro) Public Meeting
NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE KILLING US....
New research on NY having the highest rates of cancers in the U.S.
Speaker: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8th
JOSEPH MANGANO 12 Noon
Autor, Low Level Radiation & UN Church Center
Immune System Damage: An Atomic 777 UN Plaza
Legacy (44th St & 1st Ave)
Bring a friend * Socialize * Bring a sandwich * Coffee and cake provided
COME & COMMEMORATE HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI DAYS
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (NY Metro)
339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 (212) 533 2125.
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 12:45:49 -0400
From: Norm Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) WILPF (NY Metro) public meeting on nuclear reactors and cancer
Tina, could you send us information on your speaker & how to contact him. We're
working to close down the Salem nukes here in south jersey & his topic would be
interesting to alot of people.
Thanks
Norm Cohen
Exec. Dir
Coalition for peace and justice
po box 2344 cape may nj 08204
609-886-7988
Tina Bell wrote:
> WILPF (New York Metro) Public Meeting
>
> NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE KILLING US....
> New research on NY having the highest rates of cancers in the U.S.
>
> Speaker: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8th
> JOSEPH MANGANO 12 Noon
> Autor, Low Level Radiation & UN Church Center
> Immune System Damage: An Atomic 777 UN Plaza
> Legacy (44th St & 1st Ave)
>
> Bring a friend * Socialize * Bring a sandwich * Coffee and cake provided
>
> COME & COMMEMORATE HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI DAYS
>
> Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (NY Metro)
> 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 (212) 533 2125.
>
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 09:57:35 -0700
From: nukeresister@igc.org (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: A wonderful, moving essay by Arundhati Roy]
Dear Peter,
Thank you for sharing this - what a powerful piece of writing.
Coincidentally, a friend just lent me The God of Small Things a couple of
nights ago, but I haven't had time to begin reading it yet. Would you
happen to have any contact info for Arundhati Roy?
Peace,
Felice
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:35:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com (Robert Smirnow)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) WILPF (NY Metro) public meeting on nuclear reactors and cancer
Norm,
Joe Mangano works with Jay Gould & Sternglass. He lives in
Brooklyn & you can get him via phone at:718-857-9825, via E-mail at:
odiejoe@aol.com Keep up the great work with the Salem Nukes. One
other thing, the CRAC-2 report [which I spent 3 hours posting part of
Sunday night only to have it not go through] on page 16, middle of the
page, [got copy from NIRS] states:"The authors of the reactor safety
study concluded that changing the LD-50/60 from 510 Rads to 340 Rads
would increase the number of eary fatalities by a factor of 3 to 4
depending upo circumstances [NUREG-0340]."
Also, CRAC-2 does NOT look at the possibility of the accident
spreading to the spent fuel pool. Nor of an accident spreading to
another reactor [& possibly ITS spent fuel pool]. There have been other
criticisms, relating to underestimate of the potential disaster which
escape me for the time being.
SALEM, UNITS 1&2, SALEM, N.J.
"Peak Early Fatalities" "Peak Early Inj."
Unit#1 100,000 70,000
Unit#2 100,000 75,000
"Peak Cancer Deaths" "Property Damage"
Unit#1 40,000 $135.0 BILLION[1982$]
Unit#2 40,000 $150.0 BILLION [1982$]
So, simply multiplying the stated "Peak early Fatalities" by a
factor of 3-4 times, you come up with:
"Peak Early Fatalities"
Unit#1 300,00- 400,000
Unit#2 300,000-400,000
This obviously EXCLUDES other potential scanarios just
mentioned- the accident spreading to spent fuel pools & other
reactors.STAGGERING NUMBERS THAT THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY & NEIGHBORING
STATES ARE POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY.
Best/No-Nukes,
Bill Smirnow
>
>Tina, could you send us information on your speaker & how to contact
him. We're
>working to close down the Salem nukes here in south jersey & his topic
would be
>interesting to alot of people.
>
>Thanks
>
>Norm Cohen
>Exec. Dir
>Coalition for peace and justice
>po box 2344 cape may nj 08204
>609-886-7988
>
>Tina Bell wrote:
>
>> WILPF (New York Metro) Public Meeting
>>
>> NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE KILLING US....
>> New research on NY having the highest rates of cancers in the U.S.
>>
>> Speaker: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8th
>> JOSEPH MANGANO 12 Noon
>> Autor, Low Level Radiation & UN Church Center
>> Immune System Damage: An Atomic 777 UN Plaza
>> Legacy (44th St & 1st Ave)
>>
>> Bring a friend * Socialize * Bring a sandwich * Coffee and cake
provided
>>
>> COME & COMMEMORATE HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI DAYS
>>
>> Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (NY Metro)
>> 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 (212) 533 2125.
>>
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:18:15 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: NYC - August 12, Local meeting on Day Without the Pentagon
Subj: NYC - August 12, Local meeting on Day Without the Pentagon
Date: 8/6/98 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: DavidMcR
Those in the New York Metroplitan area who want to work on, help organize
for, the DAY WITHOUT THE PENTAGON please note the meeting for next Wednesday,
August 12, 6:30, p.m. Place: Center for Independent Living for the Disabled,
841 Broadway, second floor. (This is on Broadway between 13th and 14th St.)
For full info on the project view the web page:
www.nonviolence.org/wrl/nopentagon.htm
Or call Chris or Linda at the War Resisters League office, 212 / 228.0450.
Hope to see you there,
David McReynolds
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 09:32:20 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: Kashmiri Activist - NY Times 8/6/98
Question: Is there anyone in Connecticut or New York who c/sh/would go
talk to M. Farooq Kathwari about helping to lobby Wall Street
about conversion of nuclear industries and Abolition 2000?
Perhaps he c/would help with HR-827 (see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm)
Ellen Thomas
prop1@prop1.org
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New York Times August 6, 1998 -
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-profile.html
PUBLIC LIVES
Promoter of Peace for a Himalayan Paradise
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
KASHMIR, the Himalayan paradise ravaged by nine
years of guerrilla war, has for centuries inspired
passionate (and florid) description, but none more so than
from its most famous son, Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first
Prime Minister.
"Like some supremely beautiful woman, whose beauty is
almost impersonal and above human desire, such was
Kashmir in all its feminine beauty of river and valley and
lake and graceful trees," Nehru rhapsodized in his
autobiography. "It was like the face of the beloved that one
sees in a dream and that fades away on awakening."
Which brings us, oddly enough, down to earth in Danbury,
Conn., and the very American executive suite of M. Farooq
Kathwari, 53, the Kashmir-born chief of Ethan Allen Inc. In
the last five years, Kathwari has transformed the company
from a dowdy maker of Colonial furniture into a successful
purveyor of country French sleigh beds and computer
hutches.
That's one story about Kathwari. Here is another one, made
more urgent by recent developments. Briefly, the plot runs
like this:
Onetime cricket-playing princeling of prominent Kashmiri
business family becomes a student activist in his homeland,
protests Indian rule, is jailed briefly, then arrives in the
United States in 1965 at 20, a political refugee. Peddles
$10,000 of his family's handicrafts (sent to him in wicker
baskets by his grandfather) as he climbs on Wall Street.
Now he runs a company of 7,000 employees and an
estimated $670 million in annual revenue as he tries to
broker a solution between India and Pakistan over their
disputed border region and his beloved homeland, suddenly
a potential flash point for nuclear war.
"I don't want either India or Pakistan to fight," Kathwari
said last week. "They should sit down and control their
egos and their emotions and find a solution that they can
live with. And also an honorable solution for the people of
Kashmir."
Asked if he considers himself Indian or Kashmiri,
Kathwari, an American citizen, responded swiftly:
"Oh, a Kashmiri.
Never an Indian."
In 1996, Kathwari formed the Kashmir Study Group, an
influential team of American scholars, politicians, business
executives and former diplomats that is trying to provide
"constructive ideas" for the Kashmiri dispute. The dispute
started a half-century ago, when the British Empire was
carved up into India and Pakistan and Kashmir was
literally caught in the middle.
Kashmir, predominantly Muslim, went to India, and two
wars resulted. Today India still controls Kashmir, Pakistan
rejects the possession and most Kashmiris want
independence. Since 1989, Kashmiri rebels, some backed
by Pakistan, have sought their own state in an insurgency
that has cost 40,000 lives. This spring, the nuclear tests of
India and Pakistan made the world pay a lot more attention.
Kathwari's study group recommends, for starters, that India
relax its military presence in Kashmir.
O N the one hand, you look at the problem and it is so
difficult it is almost futile to get involved," Kathwari, a
Muslim, said. "But the common people of Kashmir are
suffering." His parents, his two brothers and his sister still
live in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar, and he knows a
dozen families that have seen husbands, wives, children or
other relatives die in the crossfire. "The youth of Kashmir
has been lost," he said.
Kathwari is an elegant, self-contained man who speaks in
the clipped, vaguely British cadences of the Indian upper
class. He said he was motivated to create the study group
out of "a sense of responsibility" -- not guilt -- over his
successful American life. He spoke carefully from a deep
chair in his office, decorated with Ethan Allen's best, at the
company's Danbury headquarters. He said a two-month trip
to India and Pakistan by five study group members last year
was financed by his Irfan Kathwari Foundation, named for
his 20-year-old son who died in an accident in 1992.
Kathwari said it was too painful to talk more about it. He
has two other grown children, is married to a woman from
Kashmir and lives in New Rochelle, N.Y.
He got his start at a company in Queens that he thinks made
shower stalls. Whatever it was, the captain of the cricket
team at Kashmir University had never before worked for a
living, and it was not an auspicious beginning. "My job was
to help the foreman," he said. "After two weeks he called
me in, gave me a check, and said, 'Please don't come in on
Monday.'"
He did better at New York University's business school,
then got a job as a financial analyst at Bear Stearns, worked
at New Court Securities (now Rothschild Inc.), where he
was introduced to the chairman of Ethan Allen, who
complained that he couldn't get good Kashmiri
crewel-work fabric for his furniture.
Through cousins in Kashmir, Kathwari set up a cottage
industry in crewel of consistent standards, began supplying
Ethan Allen, then formed KEA International (for Kathwari
Ethan Allen), a joint venture in lamps, carpets and so forth.
In 1980, Ethan Allen bought KEA and Kathwari became an
Ethan Allen vice president. He was made chairman and
chief executive in 1988, took the company public in 1993
and reinvented it as a young and fresh furniture version of
the Gap.
Although Kathwari does not express the passions of Nehru
about Kashmir, he does have pictures in his office of his
sons on horses at Gulmarg, the beautiful Kashmiri resort.
Kathwari used to go every summer, before the recent
troubles.
Related Article
Public Lives: A Wedding Gown and Combat Boots
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-public-profile.html
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 09:55:26 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Congressional access website: NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/politics/congress.html
CONGRESS TODAY - http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/index.html
Today's House Schedule - http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/sced_house.html
Today's Senate Schedule - http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/sced_sen.html
This Week's Committee Hearings -
http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/sced_comm.html
CONGRESSIONAL GUIDE
Congressional Directory - http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/congdir.html
Complete guide to the Members of the 105th
Congress. Biographies, photos, committee
assignments, and staff members.
ZIP Code Matching - http://congress.nw.dc.us/nyt/search.html
Don't know your Member? Find out who
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 10:13:05 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: Sacramento Business Journal 8/3/98 (needs response)
This needs expert replies. =20
(Letters: http://www.amcity.com/sacramento/lettertotheeditor.html)
et
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=20
August 3, 1998=
http://www.amcity.com/sacramento/stories/080398/editorial3.html
Sacramento Business Journal - "Notebook" :
It was mostly just a train in the night
by Bill Buchanan=20
As a spectacle of terror, the nuclear train that rolled
through town last week was a big dud. If the ones that
follow are equally uneventful, then there's not much here to
worry about.=20
The train was supposed to be spooky, a rolling and fragile
cask of radiation, a menace to shut the windows against
when you first heard it whistle in the distance.=20
Instead it was a short, swift train of two ordinary engines
towing a few businesslike flatcars with blue containers,
followed by a couple of cars to carry guards. The cargo
was spectacularly risky -- no one denies that -- but was
extremely well-protected to compensate.=20
It arrived in Greater Sacramento well before dawn on July
22. It passed so quickly that the protesters in Davis arrived
at the station too late to picket it. It soon left the Central
Valley for the Feather River Canyon and Idaho.=20
And that's about it, until the next nuclear train visits. Up to
four more shipments are scheduled to pass through
California in the next decade.=20
Like anyone, I'd rather not have enriched uranium roll
through town. Same for caustic chemicals, flammables,
weapons and doped-up criminals -- or, at the low end of
the scale, truckloads of stinking pigs during a heat wave
and ice-cream trucks endlessly warbling "Turkey in the
Straw" on maximum.=20
But living in a prosperous and infinitely intricate economy,
I accept that some nasty stuff gets lugged around as part of
the deal. Not every industrial activity can be green.=20
The useful question isn't whether Sacramento can stick
some other community with shipments like these. The
question is how to handle them safely.=20
Common courtesy says every city should shoulder its share
without whining. In Sacramento, the task comes with living
in a transportation corridor.=20
The used nuclear rods on this train came from South Korea,
where the United States had sent them years ago as part of
the Atoms for Peace research program.=20
A few critics said this batch of rods should have stayed
where they were -- an odd idea, if the train was genuinely
supposed to be scary. If the encased rods' merely fleeting
presence here was intolerable, then it would have been
dumber to leave them in a country bordered to its north by
an erratic, overarmed, paranoid and starving police state
aching to reunite with the south. North Korea's acquisition
of extra nuclear material would trouble the West more than
last week's train did.=20
So to maximize safety and fulfill an old pledge to bring
them back to the United States, the rods were shipped
stateside. Then they were scheduled for temporary storage
at the Idaho National Environmental and Engineering
Laboratory. Once the Department of Energy chose to bring
them ashore at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a train
was the safest option to take them the rest of the way.=20
Add it up. This train, and any of its caliber that follows,
was the best way to conclude a process that had to be
completed.=20
Railroads are optimal for jobs like these. Most have their
own rights of way, which improves security. Most don't
carry passengers, which lowers the risk to people. Keeping
the shipment off freeways minimizes the chance that a drunk
or sleepy driver will drift into it at 70 mph.=20
Most mainline railroads are well-maintained and safe.
With a few added precautions the Union Pacific Corp.'s
Feather River route is too, even though for this episode it
gained an image as a gelatinous slide zone where trains
spontaneously tumble into canyons at whim.=20
And finally, railroad employees have years of experience
handling large, bulky loads. That's what trains are.=20
The irony is that for all the attention paid to one train, load
after load of materials that aren't as infamous as nukes, but
are still dangerous enough to ignite, injure or kill up close
-- products like industrial chemicals and gasoline --
routinely pass through local neighborhoods on trains and
trucks. Few people seem to care about them.=20
These loads aren't as dangerous as the rods were. (Nor are
they as generously guarded.) But there's no need to lose
sleep because, thanks to capable workers, laws and
common sense, they reach their destinations without harm.=20
Just like the nuclear train did.=20
Bill Buchanan is an associate editor of the Business
Journal.=20
=A9 1998, Sacramento Business Journal=20
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 10:33:38 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: DOE plutonium hearings 8/4 to 8/20/98 (need eyewitness reports)
Anyone at the DOE public hearings near Hanford August 4th? Upcoming
hearings need to be attended in Texas, South Carolina, and Oregon. Copy of
any reports, audiotapes or videotapes appreciated! Note (aksi at end of
article) list of upcoming hearings:
"Other DOE hearings on plutonium disposal will be
Aug. 11 in Amarillo; Aug. 13 in North Augusta, S.C.;
Aug. 18, Portland; and Aug. 20, Idaho Falls."
et in dc <prop1@prop1.org>
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http://www.oregonlive.com/todaysnews/9808/st080409.html
Public's views on plutonium sought
The Department of Energy schedules a number
of hearings on plans to dispose of weapons-grade
plutonium
Tuesday, August 4 1998, Oregon Live
By Linda Ashton of the Associated Press
YAKIMA -- People in the Northwest
will get a chance today to comment on a
plan to dispose of weapons-grade
plutonium by converting it to commercial
reactor fuel.
The U.S. Department of Energy has
scheduled a hearing -- the first of five
across the nation -- from 1 to 4 p.m. and
6 to 9 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel in
Richland, near the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation.
Earlier this summer, then-Energy
Secretary Federico Pena said the
government planned to build a
processing plant at South Carolina's
Savannah River weapons complex,
where plutonium would be fabricated
into a mixed-oxide fuel - also known as
MOX -- usable in commercial reactors.
The plutonium would be separated from
warheads and prepared for disposition
either at Savannah River or the Pantex
complex near Amarillo, Texas, Pena
said.
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation and
the Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory at Idaho Falls
also were considered.
Hanford, established in 1943 as part of
the Manhattan Project to build the atomic
bomb, processed plutonium for nuclear
weapons. It is now the
most-contaminated nuclear site in the
country, and its modern-day mission is
cleaning up the radioactive and
hazardous materials there.
Of the 50 metric tons of plutonium
designated for disposal, about 30 tons
could be converted to MOX fuel, said
Guy Schein, an Energy Department
spokesman in Richland. The other 20
tons -- "scrap" plutonium -- is unsuitable
for the MOX program and would likely
be encased in glass through a process
known as vitrification for storage.
Hanford could still end up being part of
the plutonium-disposal process, although
Savannah River and Pantex have been
designated the preferred sites, Schein
said.
A final decision on the MOX fuel project
is expected next year.
"Hanford is one of the sites that is
capable of doing this work," he said.
"They would not hold a public meeting
here if it was not a viable option."
But in announcing DOE's preferred sites,
Pena said he wanted Hanford to continue
to focus on its cleanup mission.
A new energy secretary, Bill
Richardson, formerly U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, was confirmed by
the Senate on Friday.
Proponents of bringing the project to
Hanford offer as one of the biggest
incentives the Fuels and Materials
Examination Facility which was
designed for MOX fuel fabrication. The
facility was built in the 1980s and has
never been used.
"It's like a brand new building sitting
there waiting for someone to recognize
its greatness," Schein said.
The disposal effort is estimated to cost
$1.8 billion to $2.3 billion over 25
years, much of it for building and
operating the plutonium conversion
plant. The plant is expected to produce
its first MOX fuel sometime in 2007,
according to the department's current
plans.
Other DOE hearings on plutonium
disposal will be Aug. 11 in Amarillo;
Aug. 13 in North Augusta, S.C.; Aug. 18,
Portland; and Aug. 20, Idaho Falls.
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:21:50 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) peaceful spam for WRL's 75th
This fall, as I suspect most of you know by now, the War Resisters League
celebrates (or regrets) its 75th anniversary. I suggest "regrets" because we
wish the need for our existence -- war, violence, economic oppression, etc.,
had gone.
The September/October issue of our magazine - Nonviolent Activist - is a
special one, and will reach 10,000 readers. The deadline for ads is August
14th. One column inch greeting is $30, one-sixth of a page is $90, full page
is $500. Groups that have already taken ad space include the American
Committee on Africa, Committees of Correspondence, FAIR, Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Peace Action, the Socialist Party of Iowa, WILPF, etc.
For full info and to take an ad, phone or email: War Resisters League, 212 /
228.0450, wrl@igc.apc.org.
Peace,
David McReynolds
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:01:18 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Our reflection
For those who missed it -- someone sent this on to me and it is good news from
India and Pakistan.
David McReynolds
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Filed at 3:57 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
CALCUTTA, India (AP) -- A demonstration by 250,000 Indians to mark the
anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing signaled that initial euphoria over
India's nuclear tests is waning amid heightened tensions with Pakistan.
The demonstrators jammed the streets of Calcutta on Thursday -- the
world's largest gathering to mark the day the first atomic bomb was
dropped -- to show they don't want a similar tragedy to befall South
Asia.
The huge protest contrasted with the initial rush of nationalist pride in
May, when Indians celebrated exuberantly in the streets after the test
blasts.
``We don't want the bomb! We want peace!'' the crowd chanted
Thursday in a Calcutta stadium. Celebrities and writers joined a throng of
factory workers and students in a three-mile march.
Smaller anti-nuclear demonstrations were held throughout India. ``Bread,
not bombs!'' shouted demonstrators in New Delhi, where spiraling food
prices and electricity shortages have dampened enthusiasm over the
nuclear tests.
In Hiroshima, Japan, 50,000 people clasped hands in prayer and
observed a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m. -- the exact time the United
States dropped the bomb that devastated their city Aug. 6, 1945.
Peace activists in Oak Ridge, Tenn., marked the anniversary with a
demonstration outside the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant that supplied
uranium for the bomb.
In Pakistan, which followed India into the nuclear age with tests of its
own, a few hundred people held protests in the three largest cities,
Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
The smaller size of the demonstrations reflected most Pakistanis' belief
that a nuclear bomb is their only defense against their more powerful
rival.
The rivalry between Pakistan and India has led to three wars in the past
50 years, and the subcontinent is considered the world's most likely
nuclear flashpoint. Two of the three wars have been over the disputed
Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:17:05 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: brief report on Livermore Hiroshima action
Jackie,
Very good to have this report -- one of several from across the country which
show there are positive, creative, and also sometimes risky and inconvenient
and even illegal ways to mark a moment in human history when we had to learn
how to change. I hope we can carry this spirit forward October 19th at the
Pentagon. Resistance and affirmation. Anger and love.
Peace,
David McReynolds
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:00:38 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) short, but about a long (and good) paper, Iraq, India, Pakistand related
Some months ago I had an email from Hugh Gusterson at Stanford University
asking if he could use a quote of mine in a paper he was doing. I said sure.
Later he sent me an email file of the paper, I couldn't download it, and he
kindly sent me the full text, all 60 triple spaced pages of it. The original
title was: Iraqnophobia: America's Racist Discourse on Nuclear Proliferation.
I get papers from time to time, I'm a poor student, they tend to gather dust
at home or the office. My intentions are good (whose aren't?) but my time is
badly organized (whose isn't?). However when I went to the War Resisters
League National Committee meeting in Oakland a couple of weeks ago I took this
with me and when I ran out of mysteries, I started to read it.
It is, in my view, a first rate paper, raising a number of questions bearing
on the recent nuclear tests of India and Pakistan, and U.S. (and Western)
phobias about Iraq. It is worth reading just for learning of his debt to Ike
Jeans or (pages 27-29) the horrifying list and documentation of just how very
very close the West has come to major nuclear accidents.
I called David Krieger when I was in Santa Barbara after the Oakland meeting,
and promised David I'd copy the paper for him but that proves a rather large
and time consuming (sixty pages) task - in checking with Hugh, whom I phoned
while in Santa Barbara, he said that if people want to see the paper he can
send it as an attachment - the things I never seem to know how to open but
I'm sure others do.
Not everyone will agree with the points (if we all agreed there would be no
point in reading it), but I think all of us will find much that is helpful.
It does not apologize for the decisions by India or Pakistan - or the
continued efforts by Iraq - but rather puts them in a very helpful context.
My suggestion is that a number of folks may want to write to Hugh Gusterson
(guster2@leland.stanford) and ask for it. It is being published in an
academic publication, but not immediately, and not of wide circulation. (Let
me add that it is well written, and an easy read, not common when dealing with
heavy stuff.)
Peace,
David McReynolds
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:23:11 -0700
From: Allison Macfarlane <allison1@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: (abolition-usa) short, but about a long (and good) paper, Iraq, India, Pakistand related
Dear All,
I just noticed David McReynolds very supportive letter about
"Iraqnophobia," a paper written by my partner, Hugh Gusterson. I just
wanted to point out that Hugh's address quoted in David's letter was
incomplete. To communicate with Hugh, add a ".edu" onto the end, as in:
guster2@leland.stanford.edu.
Thanks,
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane
Visiting Scholar
Center for International Security and Arms Control
320 Galvez St
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
ph: 650/725-6296
Fax: 650/723-0089
NEW email address: allison1@leland.stanford.edu
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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 00:11:36 EDT
From: <DavidMcR@aol.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days in NYC (brief)
There have been so many strong, courageous, and large actions that I hesitate
to even post this. But in Manhattan (NYC), Peace Action and War Resisters
League and - I think - Physicians for Social Responsibility have been using
the powerful graphic exhibit the War Resisters League produced in 1995 (large
panels which show the history of the development and use of the nuclear bomb
- -- a few complete sets of this are still available and if you want to buy one,
contact the WRL office, wrl@igc.apc.org).
WRL and Peace Action staff set this up in Washington Square Park in Greenwich
Village starting on August 6th, and have continued with it each day through
tomorrow. There have been tables set up for literature, organizing material
on the October 19th Day Without the Pentagon, etc. I wouldn't say public
reaction was overwhelming -- rather too mild, in fact. But we were there and
will be through tomorrow, as much in witness of a crime as anything else. To
forget the past is to lose control of the future.
Peace,
David McReynolds
Peace,
David McReynolds
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