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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:54:28 -0400
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: India/Pakistan Trip Cancellation - Clinton Lies Again?

This strikes me as another lie.  I think Clinton doesn't want to talk to
India/Pakistan about global abolition of nuclear weapons.  If you decide to
write a letter to the editor of the Washington Post
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/edit/front.htm#letters), or to the
president <[e-mail]>, I'd sure appreciate a copy!

Ellen Thomas
[e-mail]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-09/30/025l-093098-idx.html

Clinton Set to Cancel Scheduled Trip to India, Pakistan

              By Peter Baker
              Washington Post Staff Writer
              Wednesday, September 30, 1998; Page A18

              President Clinton has decided to cancel his November
              trip to India and Pakistan after concluding that the two
              nations have not done enough to rein in the nuclear arms
              race they started with a series of atomic tests in the
              spring, administration sources said yesterday.

              Clinton scrubbed the long-planned visit even though
              prime ministers of both countries last week said they
              were prepared to sign a worldwide treaty banning
              nuclear testing. U.S. officials described the move as a
              positive step, but insufficient to undo the damage caused
              by the exchange of underground nuclear explosions.

              "You don't want to look like you're doing anything that
              rewards them for breaking out of the international [arms
              control] regime," said a senior administration official.
              "But at the same time you want to use a presidential visit
              to coax the nonproliferation agenda ahead."

              The decision, while widely expected, is the latest
              setback in attempts to forge closer relations with the
              subcontinent, which has long felt neglected by the United
              States. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary
              of State Madeleine K. Albright both have traveled to the
              region, but this is the second time plans have been put off
              for the first presidential visit in two decades.

              Aides said Clinton will try to reschedule next year after
              more work on regional tensions such as the dispute over
              Kashmir and on nonproliferation issues such as
              controlling missile deployment, technology exports and
              the production of fissile materials used for nuclear
              weapons.

              "This isn't cancellation as punishment; this is
              postponement because of progress," said an
              administration official. "We have to have more time to
              lower tensions significantly. We just don't have that
              between now and November."

              The White House has not formally announced the
              decision and the governments in New Delhi and
              Islamabad were being notified this week. But sources
              confirmed the decision after White House press
              secretary Michael McCurry all but said so during a
              briefing yesterday. "It's been widely reported that there's
              not likely going to be a trip," he said. "I don't have any
              reason to dispute that."

              The Pakistanis expressed measured disappointment.
              "Pakistan was eagerly awaiting President Clinton's
              visit," said embassy spokesman Malik Zahoor Ahmad.
              "We hope that he would be able to visit us at the first
              available opportunity."

              The Indian Embassy did not return a telephone call, but
              during a speech in New York this week Prime Minister
              Atal Behari Vajpayee lashed out at the United States for
              its "reluctance to accept us as a responsible member of
              the international community."

              Both Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz
              Sharif indicated at the United Nations that they would
              sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty if the
              other does. But Sharif conditioned his approval on the
              lifting of U.S. sanctions imposed after the nuclear tests.
              A provision attached to an appropriations bill and
              approved by a congressional conference committee this
              week would grant Clinton the ability to waive most of
              those sanctions.

              The trip had been scheduled to coincide with Clinton's
              Nov. 17-18 visit to Malaysia for the annual meeting of
              the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

              In scrapping India and Pakistan, the White House also
              put off a visit to Bangladesh.
_______________________________________________________________________

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:36:46 -0400
From: Peter Weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) the new abolition campaign

Dear Kevin et all:

    Sorry Cora and I can't be in Chicago for the big meeting. Previous
family engagement.

    I agree with everything you say and offer a few additional thoughts:

    1. It's going to be difficult to organize around nuclear weapons
abolition as a single issue, particularly for the under 30 crowd.
Conncections need to be made to the folly of nuclearism in a
comprehensive way, including the unsolved problem of nuclear waste
disposal (See the feature article, "Nuclear Spoons", in the current
Progressive).

    2. Another necessary connection, which could greatly enlarge the
circle, is with militarism; not just because of bloated defense budgets,
which many people are against, but because the time has come to oppose
war as an institution. But as long as people believe that war is in
human nature and that the world is crawling with enemies, seen and
unseen (thanks a lot, Colin Powell), they'll believe that those who have
the most powerful weapons must hold on to them.

    3. Organize around specific projects: The Markey and Woolsey
resolutions, opposition to subcritical tests, Sierra Blanca, citizen
inspections of nuclear weapon sites, support for Plowshares defendants.

    4. Make Arundhati Roy's piece required reading. Get somebody to write
as powerful a piece from the U.S. viewpoint.

    5. As she says: "We have to reach within ourselves to find the strength
to think. To fight."

    Let me take this opportunity to call attention to two very important
and useful recent publications: One, which I'm sure will be on hand in
Chicago, is the MPI Briefing Book, "Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons".
It's to be launched officially in New York October 27, but is already
available. The other is a pamphlet by the Institute for Policy Studies
and Transnational Institute, "Testing the Limits: The India-Pakistan
Nuclear Gambit." It contains the full text of Roy's essay, as well as
articles by Phyllis Bennis, Praful Bidway & Achin Vannik, Eqbal Ahmad,
Marcus Raskin and myself.

    Contact Susan Pearce at MPI, ph 617 492 9189, fx 617 868 2560, =20
[e-mail] about the briefing book and Phyllis Bennis at IPS,=20
 ph 202 234 9382, fx 202 387 7915, [e-mail] about the pamphlet.

    Have a great meeting.
                        Peter

=09

=09

[e-mail] wrote:
>=20
> A few thoughts on organizing the new national campaign to abolish nucle=
ar
> weapons
> --Kevin Martin, Illinois Peace Action, 9/23/98
>=20
> The organizers of the October 9th and 10th meetings on nuclear abolitio=
n in
> Chicago invited subscribers to the U.S. abolition list serve to start
> circulating proposals and ideas in preparation for those meetings, both=
 to
> begin the discourse on important issues ahead of time, and to allow tho=
se
> who won't be coming to Chicago to participate in the discussion of how =
to
> build a U.S. campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.  Since only one perso=
n has
> posted something on this (thanks Jack Cohen-Joppa!), I guess as the hos=
t for
> the 9th and 10th I'll throw a pebble in the pond and see if any ripples
> spread. Nothing brilliant, I promise, just a few thoughts to get discus=
sion
> going.
>=20
> IMPORTANCE OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
>=20
>         For many of us on the list serve, the importance of grassroots =
organizing
> is self-evident.  And so far, the talk of how this new campaign (for wh=
ich
> we need a name, and soon) will knit together elite, "opinion leader", p=
olicy
> analysis work with grassroots organizing and a sustained media campaign=
 is
> very promising.
>=20
> I recently saw a quote by one of my heroes, Cesar Chavez. He said, "The=
 only
> way I know to organize is to talk to one person, then another, and then
> another=85"  I think if we are honest about it, we don't do enough of t=
his.
> We talk to ourselves endlessly (which is of course what I'm doing right
> now), but not to enough regular folks.
>=20
>         I want to underscore a point made by Paul Warnke, former U.S. a=
rms control
> negotiator, and by former U.S. Senator Alan Cranston, who has done fant=
astic
> work organizing at the policy elite level: we'll only get real progress
> toward abolition when we are able to make it a political issue, and tha=
t
> means organizing regular old voters to pressure the politicians.
>=20
>         Most grassroots organizations working for abolition - the ones =
whose
> members will pass the petitions, bird-dog and lobby the politicians,
> organize the demonstrations, commit civil disobedience, etc. -- live on=
 a
> shoestring budget (and a gnarly old fraying shoestring at that).  So if=
 this
> new campaign is serious about the grassroots component, there will have=
 to
> be plans made to get some resources ($) to the grassroots organizations=
 that
> can translate the excellent policy recommendations from the opinion lea=
der
> level into real political pressure on the powers that be.  There have
> already been discussions about this, and obviously, the more integrated=
 and
> coordinated a strategy we come up with for this campaign, the more
> successful we'll be in raising money from individuals and foundations.
>=20
> THE NEED FOR A LONG-TERM STRATEGY
>=20
> The short-term goal of forcing abolition onto the political agenda for =
the
> presidential and congressional elections in 2000 is good, as are many o=
ther
> projects already underway, but we also need to think about the long ter=
m.
> If we're really good, and a bit lucky, this campaign will take 10, 12, =
15
> years. Many of us have already worked for nuclear disarmament for much
> longer than that, so that long of a timeline shouldn't scare us, but we
> might not all be around to see the glorious day when the scourge of nuc=
lear
> weapons is removed from the Earth.  Where is the next generation of
> abolition organizers going to come from?  This issue isn't exactly on t=
he
> radar screen of activists under 30.
>=20
> At the upcoming meeting in Chicago, we will need to focus mostly on
> near-term strategy in order to build support for a coordinated U.S.
> abolition campaign.  However, I hope we can spend at least some time on
> long-term strategy, or at least discussing a process to come up with on=
e.
>=20
> STRUCTURE
>=20
>         To me, the structure of this abolition campaign is less importa=
nt than a
> clear commitment to a coordinated strategy.  I think the U.S. Campaign =
to
> Ban Landmines is a fine structural model, though from where we at Illin=
ois
> Peace Action sit as a grassroots member of USCBL, I think it has not ha=
d a
> strong, coordinated strategy that its members are bought into.  Obvious=
ly,
> the Abolition 2000 network, which hundreds of groups have already signe=
d
> onto, needs to be built upon and strengthened, and can play a crucial r=
ole
> in building the national abolition campaign.
>=20
>         If we are clear that we are not creating a new organization, an=
d I hope we
> are, we need a structure that promotes identification with and commitme=
nt to
> the new national abolition campaign (boy, do we need a name soon - how =
about
> "Jane" for now) while also allowing member organizations to build thems=
elves
> -- recruit new members, raise more money, etc. - through participation =
in
> the campaign.
> Check out our website at http://www.webcom.com/ipa
>=20
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:32:14 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) the new abolition campaign

A very good (and brief) post from Peter Weiss. Excellent points.
Peace,
David McReynolds

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:01:59 +0100 (BST)
From: Janet Bloomfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) INDIA/PAKISTAN: How to send educational materials

APPEAL FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON NUCLEAR ISSUES FOR GROUPS IN SOUTH
ASIA.

October Ist, 1998.

Dear Friends,
we have finally been able to co-ordinate with colleagues in India and
Pakistan for them to receive educational material from groups around the
world. The movement in South Asia for nuclear disarmament is growing and
this is something very practical that can be done to support it.

The main need is for educational material on nuclear weapons and nuclear
power, in the form of videos, slides, pamphlets, books, .... anything and
everything that can be used by activist groups directly or after
translation.
Material that can be used by schools and colleges would be particularly
welcome.

We are therefore putting out this appeal to groups everywhere asking for
them to donate whatever educational material they have, or are willing to
collect, buy etc. to help support South Asian peace movement activity.
Nobody is asking for money, nor should money be sent. If people want to
spend a little of their money to buy a video or a book that they can send,
that would be great.
Please forward this appeal to anyone you know of who may be able to help.
Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours in peace,
Zia Mian, M.V.Ramana and Janet Bloomfield.

p.s Abolition 2000 UK is preparing two packages of the same material, one
for our Indian contact and one for our Pakistan contact. Perhaps you might
consider doing the same.

FOR MATERIALS TO INDIA:
Praful Bidwai,  on behalf of MIND (MOvement in INdia for
Nuclear Disarmament) has agreed to take responsibility for handling any
material you have for them.
His address:
Praful Bidwai
1 Jaipur Estate
Nizamuddin East
New Delhi 110 013
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
e_mail: [e-mail]


FOR MATERIALS TO PAKISTAN.
The address to send material to in Pakistan is
Dr. Shahrukh Rafi Kahn
Executive Director
Sustainable Development Policy Institute
Peace Education Resources
P.O. Box 2342
Islamabad
Pakistan
Tel: + 92-51 278134,
SDPI is on the web at www.sdpi.org.

It would be very useful if the material could be in Pakistan in  time for
planned travelling exhibition of pictures from Hiroshima and hibakusha
(a-bomb witness survivors) testimonies (Dec 26-Jan 5) and the public
meetings in a number of cities probably around that time. There is also a
discussion of a national peace movement
conference to follow this up.


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

Janet Bloomfield
25, Farmadine, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3HR, England.
Tel/Fax: [phone].
e-mail: [e-mail]



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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:06:44 -0400
From: Kathy Crandalll <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Interactive Action  Alert

Nuclear Abolition Advocates:

Don't miss CNN's "Cold War Experience" Special web coverage
Go to: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/

You can join  discussions on topics such as:
Are you worried about Russia's nuclear arsenal considering that
country's political crisis?
Did the U.S. spend too much money to "win" the arms race?
Should research and developpment of nulcear weaponry continue?
What will be the next nuclear flashpoint?

Kathy


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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 12:56:06 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) our computers were down

Hello Friends,


The day after "Bagpipe" was exploded our email computer exploded as well.

Unfortunately we lost over a years archive of computer email messages and

three months of our SHUNDAHAI E-NEWS and ACTION ALERT lists.


We were not following the golden rule of weekly back ups. Everyone

out there, please back up your work on a regular basis. And do not become so

dependant on your computer or email.


Anyhow we are just getting going here on a borrowed computer and will have to

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If any one signed up on our SHUNDAHAI E-NEWS and ACTION ALERT since

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E-NEWS subscribers will receive a monthly newsletter of action alerts and updates

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FOR CHICAGO MEETING; PLEASE REVIEW (2 of 3)

Dear US Abolitionists (part 2),

    Following is the text of the Moorea Declaration, which was adopted by
consensus of the participants to the January 1997 annual meeting of
Abolition 2000 in Tahiti, as a supplement to the Abolition 2000 Statement.
(About 100 people from 20+ countries participated in the meeting. The Moorea
Declaration was drafted by NGOs from the Pacific Island nations.)  The
Moorea Declaration can help us in our outreach efforts to diverse
constituencies in the US.
- -- Jackie
=====================================================================
Abolition 2000

MOOREA DECLARATION

Supplement to the Abolition 2000 Founding Statement

Adopted at the Abolition 2000 Conference, Moorea, Te Ao Maohi (French
Occupied Polynesia) 25 January 1997

    This conference reaffirms the commitments and the vision of the Abolition
2000 Founding Statement initiated in 1995 - the 50th  anniversary of the
atomic bombing of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - to work for the
definite and unconditional abolition of nuclear weapons, and redress the
environmental degradation and human suffering that is the legacy of fifty
two years of nuclear weapons usage, testing, and production.

    However, this meeting, held in Te Ao Maohi a year after the end of French
nuclear testing, has highlighted the particular  suffering of indigenous and
colonised peoples as a result of  the production and testing of nuclear
weapons. The anger and tears of colonised peoples arise from the fact that
there was no consultation, no consent, no involvement in the decision when
   their lands, air and waters were taken for the nuclear build-up,  from
the very start of the nuclear era.

    Colonised and indigenous peoples have, in the large part, borne the brunt
of this nuclear devastation - from the mining of  uranium and the testing of
nuclear weapons on indigenous peoples land, to the dumping, storage and
transport of plutonium and nuclear wastes, and the theft of land for nuclear
infrastructure.

    The founding statement of Abolition 2000 states that "the participation of
citizens and NGO's in planning and monitoring the abolition of nuclear
weapons is vital."  We reaffirm this, in spirit and action, but also state
that indigenous and colonised peoples must be central to this process. This
can only happen if  and when they are able to participate in decisions
relating to      the nuclear weapons cycle - and especially in the abolition
of nuclear weapons in all aspects. The inalienable right to
self-determination, sovereignty and independence is crucial in      allowing
all peoples of the world to join in the common struggle to rid the planet
forever of nuclear weapons.

    Therefore this conference agrees that this Moorea Declaration becomes a
supplement to the Abolition 2000 Founding Statement.



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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FOR CHICAGO MEETING; PLEASE REVIEW (3 of 3)

Dear US Abolitionists (part 3),

    A national petition drive has been proposed by several groups as an element
of our US Abolition Campaign.  Following is the existing Abolition 2000
Petition, which was carefully thought through and circulated widely for
input before being finalized. This petition is already being used by local
Abolition groups around the US, and by many groups in other countries.  It
is currently the centerpiece of a national petition drive in France.
Amazingly, in just 3 months, groups in Japan collected 13 million signatures
on this petition! (Those signatures were presented to the President of the
NPT Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva this spring.)  Note that point
#1 is relevant to both "dealerting" and stockpile stewardship; point #2
concerns the treaty;  and point #3 is useful in making the link between
nuclear abolition and issues of concern to other constituencies. -- Jackie
=====================================================================
ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

Abolition 2000 International Petition
Missiles to Sunflowers: A New Commitment for a New Century

       We call upon all states, and particularly the nuclear weapons states,
to make the following commitments:

     1. END THE NUCLEAR THREAT. End the nuclear threat by dealerting all
nuclear weapons, withdrawing all nuclear weapons from foreign soil and
international waters, separating warheads from delivery vehicles and
disabling them, committing to unconditional no first use of nuclear weapons,
and ceasing all nuclear weapons tests, including laboratory tests and
"subcriticals."

     2. SIGN THE TREATY. Sign a Nuclear Weapons Convention by the year 2000,
agreeing to the elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework

     3. REALLOCATE RESOURCES. Reallocate resources to ensure a sustainable
global future and to redress the environmental devastation and human
suffering caused by nuclear weapons      production and testing, which have
been disproportionately borne by the world's indigenous peoples.


Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________Email*:______________

Address:______________________________________________________________________
*To sign the petition electronically go to
http://www.wagingpeace.org/intlpetition.html

        The results of this petition will be delivered to the United Nations
General Assembly, the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review       Conferences, the Human Rights
Commission, and the governments of nuclear weapons states and nuclear
threshold states.

          Please return Abolition 2000 International Petitions to:
Abolition 2000, c/o Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 1187 Coast Village Road,
Suite 123, Santa Barbara, CA 93108
Tel: [phone] ;  Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
Web site:  http://www.wagingpeace.org

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              Fax: [phone]
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:52:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FOR CHICAGO MEETING; PLEASE REVIEW (1 of 3)

Dear US Abolitionists (part 1),

    In preparation for the October 9 Organizing Meeting on a US Campaign for
Nuclear Weapons Abolition, and on behalf of the planning committee, I'm
posting the Abolition 2000 Statement for your review.  It is our assumption
going into this meeting, that the Abolition 2000 Statement reflects our
shared goals and vision for a US Abolition campaign, and thus forms the
basis for our cooperative strategizing and planning.

    As of September 28, 1998, 1,122 organizations in 76 countries have endorsed
the Abolition 2000 Statement.  In the US, 384 organizations have endorsed
the Statement, including major national groups such as Peace Action,
Physicians for Social Responsibility, American Friends Service Committee,
Pax Christi and Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom, and many
of their local chapters. It is likely that most, if not all of the groups
participating in the October 9 meeting, have signed the Abolition 2000
Statement.

    A quick overview: The Abolition 2000 Statement calls for immediate
negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention (treaty) that requires the
phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with
provisions for effective verification and enforcement.  It also outlines a
set of specific measures to be undertaken immediately and along the way to
abolition. (Note, for example, that point 4, "commence to withdraw and
disable deployed nuclear weapons systems," is relevant to the current
discussion of dealerting.  Also, note that the year 2000 is cited as the
target date for completion of the treaty, which will include a timetable for
disarmament, not the target date for the actual elimination of all nuclear
weapons.)

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) in Santa Barbara serves as the
clearinghouse for the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear
Weapons, a task which includes updating and maintaining the list of
endorsing organizations.  You can see who's on the list and find lots of
useful information, action suggestions, and organizing tools by visiting the
NAPF's Abolition 2000 home page at: www.wagingpeace.org/abolition 2000

    I will post the Moorea Declaration, which was adopted as a supplement to
the Abolition 2000 Statement at the 1997 meeting in Tahiti, as well as the
Abolition 2000 Petition, in separate messages.  I look forward to seeing you
in Chicago! -- Jackie Cabasso
====================================================================
Abolition 2000
A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

    In April 1995, during the first weeks of the  Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) Review and Extension Conference at the United Nations in New York, NGO
activists from around the world recognized that the issue of  nuclear
abolition was not on the governments' agenda. Together they drafted the
following statement, which became the founding document of the Abolition
2000 Network. By now, over 1,000 NGOs on six continents have signed the
Abolition 2000 Statement, and the list is growing every day!

ABOLITION 2000 STATEMENT

         A secure and livable world for our children and grandchildren and
all future generations requires that we achieve a world free of nuclear
weapons and redress the environmental degradation and human suffering that
is the legacy of fifty years of nuclear weapons testing and production.

         Further, the inextricable link between the "peaceful" and warlike
uses of nuclear technologies and the threat to future generations inherent
in creation and use of long-lived      radioactive materials must be
recognized. We must move toward reliance on clean, safe, renewable forms of
energy production that do not provide the materials for weapons of mass
destruction and do not poison the environment for thousands of centuries.
The true "inalienable" right is not to nuclear energy, but to life, liberty
and security of person in a world free of nuclear   weapons.

         We recognize that a nuclear weapons free world must be achieved
carefully and in a step by step manner. We are convinced of its
technological feasibility. Lack of political will,      especially on the
part of the nuclear weapons states, is the only true barrier. As chemical
and biological weapons are prohibited, so must nuclear weapons be prohibited.

         We call upon all states particularly the nuclear weapons states,
declared and de facto to take the following steps to achieve nuclear weapons
abolition. We further urge the states      parties to the NPT to demand
binding commitments by the declared nuclear weapons states to implement
these measures:

1) Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations on a
nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of
all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for
effective verification and enforcement.*

2) Immediately make an unconditional pledge not to use or threaten to use
nuclear weapons.

3) Rapidly complete a truly comprehensive test ban treaty with a zero
threshold and with the stated purpose of precluding nuclear weapons
development by all states.

 4) Cease to produce and deploy new and additional nuclear weapons systems,
and commence to withdraw and disable deployed nuclear weapons systems.

5) Prohibit the military and commercial production and reprocessing of all
weapons-usable radioactive materials.

6) Subject all weapons-usable radioactive materials and nuclear facilities
in all states to international accounting, monitoring, and safeguards, and
establish a public international registry of all weapons-usable radioactive
materials.

7) Prohibit nuclear weapons research, design, development, and testing
through laboratory experiments including but not limited to non-nuclear
hydrodynamic explosions and computer       simulations, subject all nuclear
weapons laboratories to international monitoring, and close all nuclear test
sites.

8) Create additional nuclear weapons free zones such as those established by
the treaties of Tlatelolco and Raratonga.

9) Recognize and declare the illegality of threat or use of  nuclear
weapons, publicly and before the World Court.

10) Establish an international energy agency to promote and support the
development of sustainable and environmentally safe energy sources.

11) Create mechanisms to ensure the participation of citizens and NGOs in
planning and monitoring the process of nuclear weapons abolition.

    A world free of nuclear weapons is a shared aspiration of  humanity. This
goal cannot be achieved in a non-proliferation regime that authorizes the
possession of nuclear weapons by a      small group of states. Our common
security requires the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Our objective
is definite and unconditional abolition of nuclear weapons.

     * The convention should mandate irreversible disarmament measures,
including but not limited to the following: withdraw and disable all
deployed nuclear weapons systems; disable and dismantle warheads; place
warheads and weapon-usable radioactive materials under international
safeguards; destroy ballistic missiles and other delivery systems. The
convention could also incorporate the measures listed above which should be
implemented  independently without delay. When fully implemented, the
convention would replace the NPT.
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If your group or organization wishes to sign on to this  statement, please
send an e-mail stating contact name, organization name, address, fax,
telephone and E-mail address to:

 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 123; Santa Barbara, California; 93108;
 Tel.: [phone]; Fax [phone];
 e-mail: [e-mail]
OR sign electronically at: http://www.wagingpeace.org/orgapledge.html





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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) the new abolition campaign

Dear Peter Weiss et al,

re your:
> few additional thoughts:

>        2. Another necessary connection, which could greatly enlarge the
>circle, is with militarism; not just because of bloated defense budgets,
>which many people are against, but because the time has come to oppose
>war as an institution.

Yes!

>        3. Organize around specific projects: ... citizen
>inspections of nuclear weapon sites, support for Plowshares defendants.

& perhaps other defendants as well, when citizen inspections and other
forms of nonviolent direct action result in trial and/or jail.  I
appreciate recognition of the necessity to support those who risk arrest at
the hands of officials who don't yet understand international law.

>        4. Make Arundhati Roy's piece required reading.

Well, at least highly recommended. It is superb.  But 'requiring' anything
of THIS movement's participants would probably trigger some reflexive
rejection...! :-)

Jack



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