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abolition-usa-digest    Wednesday, January 6 1999    Volume 01 : Number 055




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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:28:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) My First Message of 1999!

Happy New Year, Happy 40th Anniversary for Fidel Castro, and Happy New
Millenium 365 Eve!


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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Peace Action - National Office <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you

You should respond to me at <panukes>  how many do you want and do you
want them with a 'disarmament clearinghouse'return address or a blank
return address.

Bruce

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 > From: [e-mail]
 > Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:25:00 EST
 > To: [e-mail]
 > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
 > Sender: [e-mail]
 > Reply-To: [e-mail]
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > With children home (can I blame it on them?) I have lost the address to
 > request postcards. Do you still have it and if so can you forward it to me??
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Colby Lowe
 > member, National Board, Peace Action
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you

Bruce,
I think we've run out of time on this.  We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not
willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them.
Thanks anyway.
Francis Chiappa

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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:42:19 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you

Hi Bruce,

I think I hav edone this already. Anyway 10 please wlith Dis. Clearing house
in return label.

Did you know that 1999 is the last year in the UN 3rd disarmament decade?
Here's hoping it proves fruitful.

All the best in the new year to you,

Colby

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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:51:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: VitW Outreach letter

In a message dated 1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< ubj:     VitW Outreach letter
 Date:    1/4/99 6:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Kathy Kelly)
 To:    [e-mail]

 January 4, 1998

 Dear Friends,

 Following is a letter we have just sent off to our entire database.  You may
 already be familiar with some of the info that follows--sorry for reruns.
 We'll be very grateful for any help you can give us in circulating the
 "Declaration" form, (newly modified), and in publicizing our forthcoming
 "Walk Away From the Pentagon."

 Our 19th delegation to Iraq left Chicago on December 17 1998, grateful to
 three Palestinians who have up their seats on a Royal Jordanian flight to
 Amman so that we could reach Baghdad as soon as possible.  Enroute, many
 people anxiously wondered aloud, with us, "Would the US continue to bomb
 Iraq on the first night of Ramadan?"  On December 19, arriving in Baghdad,
 the answer became clear as explosions pierced the night sky.

 We are astonished at the dignity and graciousness Iraqi people sustained
 through four days of bombardment.  Yet make no mistake about it, people we
 met experienced stark terror and fear, each night.  Now they wait, anxious
 and vulnerable, for the next attack.  Meanwhile, the deadly embargo
 continues to devastate and destroy people.

 On December 7 1998, Voices in the Wilderness received a Prepenalty Notice
 from the
 Department of the Treasury in Washington DC.  The notice included Proposed
 Penalties directed at Voices and four individual delegates: Bert Sacks,
 Randall Mullins, Dan Handelman, and Joe Zito.  We are charged with violating
 the embargo on Iraq through "exportation of donated goods, including medical
 supplies and toys, to Iraq."  The proposed penalty for Voices is $120,000,
 with individual delegates' proposed penalties ranging from $10,000-$12,000.

 Ironically, the 'notice' has allowed us to reach many hundreds of new
 supporters.  At a December 30 1998 press conference in Washington DC, we
 announced our response to the penalty notice, acknowledging through a letter
 to the Treasury Department that we violated the embargo by bringing
 "medicine and toys" to Iraqi children and families.  Our letter explains why
 we are determined to continue nonviolently resisting the pitiless embargo
 laws and invites government officials to join us.  Attachments include an
 international law argument by Professor Richard Falk, an historical argument
 by Professor Howard Zinn and a moral argument by Rev. Simon Harak, SJ, along
 with statements by the four individuals who've been served pre-penalty
 notices. Believing that money entrusted to us must be spent to help end the
 sanctions and alleviate misery in Iraq,  we assured the Treasury Department
 that we won't pay any fines and will do all that we can to prevent them from
 seizing or freezing our funds.

 C-Span aired the entire press conference several times.  The response has
 been overwhelmingly positive.  People from all over the country have
 contacted us to learn how they can become involved in the campaign, and many
 have asked to be included as co-conspirators, (see enclosed "Declaration"
form.)


 Along with circulating and collecting the "Declaration" forms, please
 consider the following urgently needed actions:

 * Publicize, support or join the January 15 - January 31  1999 Voices in the
 Wilderness Pentagon - UN Walk, urging the United Nations to walk away from
 the Pentagon, to no longer allow US foreign policy to pervert the UN into
 becoming an instrument of warfare.  Beginning on Martin Luther King's
 birthday, members will leave the Pentagon behind, headed toward the UN, via
 stops in Maryland,  Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.  For
 details and itinerary, call Beth La Voie, at 404-753-9337 (Atlanta, GA).

 * Help organize a National Call-In Week January 11 - 15, 1999

         Monday, January 11, Call President Clinton with message "Don't Bomb
 Iraq:
            Lift the Sanctions Now!" 202-456-2580/202-456-1111

         Tuesday, January 12, Call Sec of State Albright
 202-647-4000/202-647-5291

         Wednesday, January 13, Call the OFAC, Mr. Newcomb, to tell your
 opinion about                imposing sanctions on Voices in the Wilderness
 202-622-2510

         Thursday, January 14, Call your Senators 202-225-3121

         Friday, January 15, Call your Representatives 202-224-3121

 * Organize an outreach and education event in your area--contact us for
 speakers, videos (recent C-Span coverage, footage from Dec. '98 VitW action
 in which Iraqi children sing verses of  "We Shall Overcome" in Arabic, or
 other educational videos), enlarged pictures, and/or suggestions about other
 people you can connect with in your area.

 * Help us build our campaign by sending a donation to Voices in the
 Wilderness at the address listed below.

 Please let us know if you would like to receive copies of the pre-penalty
 notice and our response along with the attachments.  Alternatively, you
 could visit our website at:

 www.nonviolence.org/vitw

 and there you will find all of the documents along with recent reports and
 updates.

 In a January 3, 1999 New York Times article, Steven Kinzer described the
 effect of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis as "an almost surreal descent into a
 poverty they believe they do not deserve."  He closes his article with this
 quote:  "First I sold my television, then my furniture, then my car, then my
 house," said Mohammed Abdul Razaq, a retired office worker. "Everything that
 I built up over a lifetime is gone. A bomb is something you hear far away,
 or at worst, it kills you in a second. Sanctions kill you every day."

 We look forward to joining our voices with yours as we cry out for an end to
 this humanitarian disaster.  May we live in peace with Iraqi people.

 Mike Bremer     Jeff Guntzel     Kathy Kelly     Rick McDowell
 for Voices in the Wilderness



 DECLARATIONS,  1999

 In January of 1996, the Voices in the Wilderness campaign sought commitments
 from supporters which included signing a letter of intent to violate the
 sanctions and help send medical relief supplies to children and families in
 Iraq.  In light of  recently proposed penalties amounting to $163,000 which
 the Office of Foreign Assets Control
 may impose on members of this campaign, we invite you to sign the form below
 to indicate your wish to be included as a member of this campaign who has
 intentionally violated the UN/US economic sanctions against Iraq.

 Please return your signed form to the address above.  We will collect the
 forms and submit them to the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets
 Control, which has already received several hundred such Declarations.

 Please be aware that by signing this form  and filling in any other
 information,  you may face future consequences for your involvement in this
 effort to publicly violate the sanctions.  The Treasury Department notified
 us that we would have 30 days in which to respond to a pre-penalty notice
 which arrived on December 3, 1998.  We
 have already submitted a letter that explains what we did, along with an
 invitation to OFAC and Treasury Department members to join our continued
 efforts to bring medicine and toys to children and families in Iraq.

 We believe that the proposed monetary penalties should not be assessed
 against us, because the small amount of money in our accounts is badly
 needed to buy medicines for children in Iraq.  Citizens of the United States
 have given us this money in trust to buy medical supplies for these
 children, and to cover the costs of bringing them to
 Iraq, and to campaign for an end to the embargo.

 I have intentionally violated the UN/US sanctions against Iraq by one of the
 following actions:

 (  ) Traveling to Iraq

 (  ) Bringing medicines and toys to children in Iraq

 (  ) Raising money to buy medicines and toys for distribution in Iraq

 (  ) Donating money to assist the Voices in the Wilderness campaign in its
 efforts

 (  ) Donating medicines for transport to Iraq.


 Name: ____________________________      Contact Information:
 ______________________

 ____________________________________________________________________________
 __________







 Voices in the Wilderness
     A Campaign to End the US/UN Economic Sanctions Against the People of Iraq
 1460 West Carmen Ave.
 Chicago, IL 60640
 ph:773-784-8065; fax: [phone]
 email: [e-mail]
 website: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw
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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:45:45 -0800
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering 99

Healing Global Wounds
PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389
phone: [phone]     fax: [phone]
[e-mail]      http://www.shundahai.org/HGW

Re: Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10,
1999, Nevada Test Site

Dear Friends,

We are writing to you to invite your participation in and endorsement of
the largest, most exciting and unique gathering at the Nevada Test Site in
many years. Already organizations, community groups and activists from
around the world are preparing themselves to join us at the Test Site so
that we may unite ourselves together to break the nuclear chain, learn to
heal ourselves and protect Mother Earth. Others are organizing events in
their own local areas in order to visibly demonstrate the links in the
nuclear chain and show widespread solidarity and respect for mothers
standing in defense of their lands, families and cultural rights.

Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10,
1999, will be a celebration of mothers and their contribution to the
environmental and Native Sovereignty movements. In the 1950's it was the
mothers that were the backbone of the international protest against nuclear
testing that resulted in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and in the late 80's
it was the Mothers Day events that created a huge and successful movement
to stop full scale nuclear weapons testing that resulted in the
Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. It is not over yet.

We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to stand with us as we
demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and an immediate
halt to the dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Native Sacred lands.  The
epicenter for the nuclear industry is in Nevada at the Nuclear Test Site.
This is where we will come together Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10 1999.
Standing united we will say No more! No more to Waste and Weapons, No more
to poisons in our Water, Earth and Air.

Enclosed you will find some material about this exciting gathering.
Included is a: Calender announcement for Web pages and newsletters; an
email flyer and an article about the Honoring the Mother Gathering. We hope
that you will help us in our outreach endeavors by including this material
in your local grassroots newsletters, magazines and web. If you would like
to recieve a full hardcopy packet with photo ready flyers and ads please
contact us at [e-mail]

Thank you for your strength and spirit in this struggle to defend and
protect Mother Earth. We hope to see you at the Nevada Test Site!

We need you to:

1)    Endorse this important and herstoric event. (Please email your
endorsement to Jennifer Viereck at [e-mail] or mail in the enclosed
form)
2)    Help Sponsor this event by sending in a group donation to help cover the
costs of Native and low income activists. (Donations can be made to Healing
Global Wounds and mailed to HGW, PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389)
3)    Help publicize this event by putting in a Calender Announcement or
article in your local alternative papers or orgazational newsletters.
4)    Join one of the collectives set up to work on this gathering: Logistical
camp set up; Youth Empowerment; Health Care and First Aid; Outreach; Media;
Community Life; Parking; (Please send a brief email message to  Jennifer
Viereck at [e-mail] or call her at [phone], explaining your
skills and interests.)
5)    Bring a carload, a van load, or a bus load of friends and family to the
Nevada Test Site to join our amazingly diverse community
6)    Send a banner from your school, community organization, church or family
to symbolize your participation.
7)    If you are not able to join us at the Nevada Test Site you can organize
solidarity events in your local area.
8)    If you have a website please consider linking to the Healing Global
Wounds page at  http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/

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Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, May 7-10, 1999
at the Nevada Test Site

We need you, your voice, your body and your spirit to unite with us as we
demand an end to all nuclear weapons development programs and a halt to the
dumping of deadly nuclear waste on Sacred Native land. Together we will:
Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and
around the world;  Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all
beings great and  small; Create alliances and strategies to break the
nuclear chain - protect  the future generations of all life; Celebrate the
unique and powerful gifts women bring to the entire  human family;  Occupy
Western Shoshone lands stolen for the creation of the Test  Site, in
healing prayer and celebration. This Spring Gathering will include:
Community building, cultural events and performances; Programs to honor all
ages; Daily Sunrise Ceremony and Sweat Lodges; Information sharing; Atomic
Cafe, campfires and drumming; Nonviolence training's and action planning;
Mother's Day brunch and rally at the Nevada Test Site gates; Reclaiming
Shoshone Land and Shutting Down the NTS!!!

We hope that you will join us. For more information about this unique and
exciting culturally diverse event pleas contact: Healing Global Wounds
office @ PO BOX 420, Tecopa CA 92389 hone: [phone] fax: (760)
852-4151  [e-mail] website http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/

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HONORING THE MOTHER
HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS SPRING GATHERING
May 7-10, 1999, Nevada Test Site


In 1870, women in the United States proclaimed the first Mother's Day.  Far
from the sentimental Sunday of Hallmark cards and roses, the original
proclamation was a powerful call for women everywhere to unite in
nonviolent resistance to a world of warfare.  129 years later, we ask you
to answer that original call.

People all over the world are living with nuclear threats, whether you live
near a uranium mine, a nuclear power plant, a nuclear weapons stockpile, or
a nuclear waste dump, or if you live along one of the many nuclear waste
transportation routes.  We can put a stop to this madness.  We must unite
ourselves together and build a better and safer world for our families and
future generations.

Mother's Day weekend, May 7-10, 1999, should be the best Nevada Test Site
Gathering ever. We are planning workshops and ceremonies that will:

Honor women in struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Sogobia and
around the world;
Heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all beings great and small;
Create alliances and strategies to break the nuclear chain and to protect
the future generations;
Occupy Western Shoshone lands stolen for the Test Site, in healing prayer
and celebration.

Each day, Healing Global Wounds begins with a Sunrise Ceremony led by
Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney.  Sweatlodges are available
for all wishing to join in healing prayers, followed by breakfast.  The
program for the main portion of each day is followed by a community dinner.

The camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the gates of the Nevada
Test Site.  You can experience the beautiful and fragile desert first hand.
 Join in an incredibly rich and culturally diverse community from all over
the world.  Learn about nuclear and indigenous land rights issues.
Participate in traditional and multi-faith ceremonies.  If so inspired,
join us in nonviolent direct action to shut down the Nevada Nuclear Test
Site and Reclaim Newe (Western Shoshone) Land!

Please come as self sufficiently as possible, with plenty of food and
water. Be prepared for desert camping where there can be hot days and cold
nights. The suggested donation of $30 will help cover the expenses of
meals, portable toilets and first aid. No one will be turned away for lack
of funds.

Healing Global Wounds is an alliance of organizations and individuals
working to break the nuclear chain, and restore respectful sustainable
living with the Earth.  For the latest Healing Global Wounds Newsletter and
information packet, please contact:

Healing Global Wounds, P.O. Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
[e-mail] website: http:\\www.shundahai.org\HGW

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Healing Global Wounds Article for newsletters and web pages
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Health and Survival Near the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
By Michelle Xenos,

On May 7th  thru 10th,  1999, at the gates of the Nevada Test Site, the
seventh annual Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering, Honoring the Mother,
will nurture a multi- cultural community effort to break the nuclear chain.
The goal of the gathering is to: Honor women from around the world in their
struggle to protect their lands and rights; Celebrate our strength and
community; to Heal our Sacred Mother Earth and strengthen our commitment to
defend her.

The nuclear cycle has put us in a spiral that threatens all the living
things on Earth.  People are getting very sick in areas around the mining,
processing, research, production, and implementation of nuclear weapons and
energy. The world faces an environmental challenge that it cannot turn the
clock back on and will in fact last for tens of thousands of years.
Associated Press articles refer simultaneously to the scientific evidence
invalidating the Yucca Mountain Project (a proposed high level nuclear
waste repository on Sacred Western Shoshone land), as well as the billions
of dollars being won by the nuclear industry in Federal court rulings
because of high level nuclear waste stockpiles around the country which the
government is legally responsible for.  We know that there is a
proliferation of interest in nuclear weaponry by India, Pakistan, Korea,
and other countries, because of the U.S.'s disregard for the disarmament
process and the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty. Everyday here in Las Vegas,
we are reading about the radioactivity found in the groundwater around the
valley, which by natural law, flows into the Colorado River. All the while,
many of us know that most stories are not told in the newspapers.

We are the ones responsible for the health and wellness of our families and
communities. And we as mothers bear the weight of this burden, it is our
role to speak for our children when they cannot yet speak for themselves.
Many of us understand the things that are happening right now to the earth
and her children.  There were times that I did not go to the test site
gates in protest, to protect the health of my son and I. There are health
risks in going near the test site, most significantly if you're downwind
(to the northeast). There are many radioactive particles still in the soils
and sands around Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and further
towards the east. The city water is questionably contaminated in the Las
Vegas Valley and down into the Colorado River. Buildings, tools, and
materials exposed to radioactivity at the test site can be found throughout
Nevada. These are the risks that we face living near the test site. Along
the entire nuclear cycle, communities face these realities. Contaminated
water, radioactive tailings, trucks carrying hot materials, particles in
the air falling down onto their communities and into their soil, all
attributing to the wide spread and serious health problems that many face
today.

I meet so many people from different communities who are directly impacted
by the cycles of the nuclear chain. Who am I to say that one part of the
earth is more important than another, or that one life should bear more
than their share of the burden of exposure. The gatherings that we have at
the gates of the test site have touched so many lives in so many ways,
these circles are all interconnected. Through building our Healing Global
Wounds community we are learning how to live sustainably with the Earth.
Through the movement of our energies together we renew ourselves. In these
natural cycles we will continue to grow, heal and live in defense of Mother
Earth.

I hope that you will be able to join us for the Spring Honoring the Mother
gathering at the Nevada Test Site, May 7-10, 1999. But if you are not able,
don't let that discourage you! We urge you to join with us in solidarity by
creating an action, vigil or ceremony in your own home communities. Be a
part of Healing Global Wounds everywhere by breaking the nuclear chain one
link at a time.

For more information about Healing Global Wounds please contact us at: HGW,
PO Box 420, Tecopa, CA, 92389, ph: [phone] fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail] web: www.shundahai.org/HGW

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500
From: Nisha Baliga <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote

Hello all,

Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on
nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners.
A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by
someone.

Here it is:

" Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,
hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment
by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be
abolished before they abolish us."
            -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President

I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of
this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it.

Thanks and Happy New Year !

Nisha Baliga
PSR

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Nisha Baliga
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1101 14th Street NW Suite 700
Washington DC 20005
[e-mail]
[phone] ext. 231

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:11:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) N.Y. Times on Iraq Sanctions

For those of you who have not thrown out this week's N.Y. Sunday Times, note
page 5 in the New of the Week - an excellent half page by Stephen Kinzer
reporting from Baghdad: "Smart Bombs, Dumb Sanctions".

Because the N.Y. Times is in so many ways a voice of the Establishment,
Kinzer's stream of reports from Iraq are interesting. This is a real break to
have a solid, on-the-spot reporter really covering things. Does this perhaps
indicate an effort to shift public opinion away from sanctions? (I don't mean
to be cynical about Kinzer's reports which are solid reporting - I just am
always curious about when, where, etc. the N.Y. Times carries stories on
issues such as Cuba, Libya, etc.).

If you still have the News of the Week, don't toss it out but look it up. (And
on the Op Ed page is a nice piece on our truly hateful Mayor here in NYC).

Peace,
David McReynolds

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:43:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Peace Action - National Office <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you

Thanks!
   I should have your order in UPS ground today/tomorrow at the latest.

Bruce
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:06:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Peace Action - National Office <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you

Francis,
   I'm sorry the Disarmament Clearinghouse did not get back to you.
The cards will not fit in a normal letter envelope.  I am waiting for
the news on their weight right now...

They weigh less than 2 oz.

We have these back from the printer today.  January 5.  If you still
want them I can have them in your hands by the end of the week via UPS.

Bruce
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 > From [e-mail]  Mon Jan  4 10:00:04 1999
 > From: [e-mail]
 > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:05:39 EST
 > To: [e-mail]
 > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) A present for you
 > Sender: [e-mail]
 > Reply-To: [e-mail]
 >
 > Bruce,
 > I think we've run out of time on this.  We do the mailing on 1/12 and I'm not
 > willing to plan for them to arrive by then, and risk not receiving them.
 > Thanks anyway.
 > Francis Chiappa
 >
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:27:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Peace Action - National Office <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (abolition-usa) JFK quote

I believe that is the June 10, 1963 speech at the American University
in Washington, DC.  This was considered one of Kennedy's finest and
most pivotal moments.  Shortly after his call for a renewed effort on
behalf of the test ban, a limited test ban treaty was initialed in July
and ratified by the US Senate in the fall.

I might take this opportunity to offer an interesting historical
perspective.

In the late summer of 1963 Kennedy was on a tour of
Western states toting his administration's conservation policies.  This
was sort of the equivalent to a safe good will tour and had little of
interest for either the president (he wasn't really much of a
conservationist) or the media.  In one state, during a routine talk on
conservation, the president also mentioned his desire to see improved
relations with Russia and that the first step was ratification of the
test ban treaty being negotiated (it may have already been completed by
this time I'm winging it here) with Russia and the U.K.  At these words
the president was met with genuine, as opposed to polite or
perfunctory, applause and enthusiasm.  Being the savy politican,
Kennedy went with the 'peace' theme to rave reviews for the rest of his
western tour.  The president became more engaged and realized that he
had a 'winner' on his hands.

Many in the administration or closely observing the administration
believe that had he lived and been re-elected, improving relations with
Russia and halting the arms race would have been a major objective of
President Kennedy.

You can double check the source by contacting the Kennedy library via
the web.

Bruce
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 > From [e-mail]  Tue Jan  5 07:04:48 1999
 > Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:02 -0500
 > From: Nisha Baliga <[e-mail]>
 > Organization: Physicians for Social Responsibility
 > To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
 > Subject: (abolition-usa) JFK quote
 > Sender: [e-mail]
 > Reply-To: [e-mail]
 >
 > Hello all,
 >
 > Physicians for Social Responsibility is putting together of brochure on
 > nuclear abolition and is in need of some help from fellow abolitioners.
 > A few months ago a good quote by JFK was posted on abolition caucus by
 > someone.
 >
 > Here it is:
 >
 > " Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,
 > hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment
 > by accident or miscalculations or by madness. The weapons of war must be
 > abolished before they abolish us."
 >             -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Former US President
 >
 > I would really appreciate it if anyone who knows the source and date of
 > this quote could pass on the information or where I could find it.
 >
 > Thanks and Happy New Year !
 >
 > Nisha Baliga
 > PSR
 >
 > ------------
 > Nisha Baliga
 > Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow
 > Physicians for Social Responsibility
 > 1101 14th Street NW Suite 700
 > Washington DC 20005
 > [e-mail]
 > [phone] ext. 231
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 14:10:54 -0500
From: Stephen Young <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Attention please

Dear friends,

Please do not use either Abolition listserv for contacting individuals unless
absolutely necessary. This also would include requests for copies of documents
available, sign-ons to letters, etc. (Originators of sign-on letters should post
lists of those that have signed, fyi.)

Note that, normally, if you reply to an email from a listserv, it goes not to the
original sender, but to the ENTIRE listserv. This is most annoying.

We all get enough emails as it is, and even though it only takes a second to delete,
those seconds add up.

Thanks much for a more effecient new year!

Stephen Young
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:07:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Contributing Editor

On of my goals this year is to become a contributing editor to the Davis
Enterprise.  How do I do so, and without having to work under tight deadlines?


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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:13:09 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews-US: 1/6/99 -

1. Groups hit Seabrook over deaths of seals
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/004/metro/Groups_hit_Seabrook_over_deaths_
of_seals+.shtml

2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - Ward Valley
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0

3. Clinton will request military base closures
http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

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http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

3. Clinton will request military base closures

Boston Globe, 01/04/99

As plant awaits federal exemption, critics ask  officials to impose fines
By Alice Giordano, Globe Correspondent, 01/04/99  SEABROOK, N.H. - Some 54
federally protected  seals have been trapped and killed in underwater
tunnels at the Seabrook nuclear power plant over the past  five years and
environmental groups want the plant fined  up to $25,000 for each seal
killed.

But the National Marine Fisheries Service, which  enforces endangered
species laws, has imposed no fines  and is considering exempting the plant
from the Marine  Mammals Protection Act of 1972 and allowing up to 34
seals a year to be killed.

''It's an outrage,'' said Bill Smith, executive director of  Fish
Unlimited, a New York-based group that monitors  the impact of power plants
on marine wildlife. ''If this  was an average commercial fisherman, he'd
have the  National Fisheries [Service] all over him. ... But because  it's
a utility company, they're given a clean slate.''

Officials from both Seabrook Station and the Fisheries  Service say that no
one wants to prevent the seals from  being killed more than they do, but so
far it's been  impossible to find a solution.

Chris Mantzaris, chief of the protected resource division  at the Fisheries
Service in Gloucester, said plant officials  have ''bent over backwards''
trying to solve the problem  and were willing to spend $2 million to
install a sonic  device to deter the seals from entering the tunnels.

But the Fisheries Service, he said, determined the device  would not be
effective.  The plant is served by three 19-foot-wide underwater  intake
tunnels that pull in ocean water to help cool its  reactor. The tunnels are
3 miles long.

Each tunnel is capped with a mushroom-shape dome, but  seals easily find
the large opening on the dome and swim  into the tunnels, most likely out
of sheer curiosity, said  Greg Early, a marine biologist at the New England
 Aquarium.

 The seals, said Early, then get disoriented and drown. He  agrees the
plant has a difficult problem to solve.

Among the seals that have died in the tunnels are harbor,  hood, and gray
seals, the most protected of the seal  species. Mantzaris said seal pups
have been the most  susceptible to getting caught in the underwater tunnels.

Smith suggested the plant could at the very least place  grates over the
entrances of the tunnels to keep the seals  out.

But David Barr, a spokesman for the power plant, said the  problem with
screening is that the holes have to be small  enough to keep seals out, but
large enough so they don't  become clogged with seaweed and other debris.
''That  could create even more serious environmental problems  because it
could interfere with the cooling of the plant's  reactor,'' he said.

The Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, a watchdog group  that monitors the
power plant, says that problem could be  remedied by having divers check
the grates.  Smith said allowing as many as 34 seals to be killed each
year at the plant is also suspect.  ''If they're reporting they had 54
seals in over a five-year  period, why do they need an exemption to kill 34
seals a  year,'' he said.

Mantzaris confirmed that the Fisheries Service recently  gave the plant
preliminary approval for an exemption  from the Marine Mammals Protection
Act that would  allow the taking of up to 34 seals a year. The number,
which was proposed by the Fisheries Service, he said,  represents 2 percent
of the area's seal population, a  number that can be lost without impacting
its population.  A final determination, he said, will be made in about six
weeks.

Both the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League and lawyers for  Fish Unlimited
have filed petitions opposing the  exemption.

Smith said the issue is all about an ''already financially  strapped
corporation not wanting to take money from their  shareholders to save a
couple of seals.'' He vowed, ''If that permit is issued, we're all going to
 court.''

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http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@^189324@.ee9deeb/0

2. NY Times WebX Forum: Environmental Hot Spots - A look at specific areas
of environmental controversy.

spot-ox - 11:15am Nov 14, 1997 EST (#1 of 2365)

Boy... I think I can hear the crickets in here....
Here's some new info I received yesterday: As you may or  may not know,
there is a fight going on to save Ward Valley, a  spot in the Mohave Desert
(southern California) about 13  miles from the Colorado River and above an
aquifer. The  nuclear industry wants to bury radioactive waste in unlined
dirt pits in this valley. This waste will include any  radioactive
material, just short of spent rods. Among the very  real, and reasonable,
fear that the waste will contaminate the  river and land, there is also the
issue that this land is sacred  for several Indian tribes in the area. It
is also a habitat for the  desert tortoise, and endangered species.

This is the new news: US Ecology (the company that has been  chosen to bury
the waste) has hired a scientist (for over  $100k) to study the tortoises.
She was supposed to watch and  learn, without intruding upon them. She was
caught digging  them up out of their burroughs. A complaint was filed
against  her by the coalition to save Ward Valley. She was later  caught
(and we have photos) putting transmitters on the  tortoises using epoxy.
These tortoises are given a transmitter  about one fourth the size of the
tortoise itself. It is wrapped up  (I'm not sure what with) and glued to
the back of the tortoise.  The epoxy is all over the transmitter, and
covers the tortoises  back in a circle. The tortoise is released before the
epoxy  dries. What you end up with is a tortoise who is covered with  dirt
that's glued on, and will probably die because the epoxy  will not allow
the shells on the tortoise to grow as it ages.

This is how the "caring" company studies the area and  animals. If it's any
clue, we should be scared about what they  will do if they ever get that
waste in the ground.

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http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm

3. Clinton will request military base closures

USA Today, January 6, 1998

...WASHINGTON - President Clinton's defense budget proposal to Congress
next month will include a request for authority to close more military
bases, a White House official said Tuesday. Clinton hopes Congress will
support the base closures to help offset the cost of military modernization
programs, said Robert Bell, senior director of defense programs at the
National Security Council. The administration is counting on saving $2-3
billion from new base closures through 2005. Bell would not say which - or
how many total - bases the administration would like to close. Although
some congressmen favor more closures, many fear the economic backlash felt
in communities dependent on the military.

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