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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:41:49 -0500
From: Coalition for Peace Action <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Municipal Resolution on Abolition Passes

On Tuesday night, February 16, the Lawrence Township, NJ municipal
council became the seventh municipality in New Jersey to adopt a
resolution in support of the Abolition Treaty 2000 Campaign. The vote
was 4 in favor, 1 abstention. Seventeen members of the Coalition for
Peace Action were present in support of the resolution. Copies will be
sent to our Representative, Senators, members of the N.J. Assembly and
Senate, and to President Clinton.

Over the past year, six other New Jersey municipalities passed
resolutions: Roosevelt, Princeton Borough, Princeton Township,
Lambertville, Trenton and Cherry Hill.

If anyone wants a sample resolution and/or a list of suggestions based
on our experience, contact me as indicated below.

- --
Rev. Robert Moore, Executive Director, Coalition for Peace Action
40 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ  08542
[phone] voice, [phone] fax
[e-mail]



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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:19:36 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Correction: NO Navajo Nuclear Free Zone

>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:16:46 -0500
>Subject: NO Navajo Nuclear Free Zone
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>In a last-minute change that isn't fully explained, the Navajo Nation
>president did NOT sign the Nuclear Free Zone Declaration!  Ostensibly, it's
>because the Navajo Acting Attorney General raised some legal questions
>about
>some of the implications -- including the impact of calling radiation
>exposure "a number one" public health problem when the Nation is going to
>sue the tobacco industry.
>
>Anyway, there's a great newspaper article, entitled "Nuclear War!" about
>how
>the president "is poised to sign a sweeping proclamation that would declare
>nuclear radiation as the Navajo Nation's number one environmental and
>health
>problem."  But it hasn't happened.  Once again, the press is not always
>right!
>
>It appears that it's either possible or likely that a "toned down" version
>will be signed eventually, and one that leaves out opposition to
>transportation to WIPP, Yucca Mountain, etc.
>
>So stay tuned!  Sorry about giving some of you glad tidings and now giving
>you a letdown!
>Don Hancock
>Southwest Research and Information Center
>PO Box 4524
>Albuquerque, NM 87106
>505/346-1455
>505/346-1459 - Fax
>http://www.sric.org
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:11:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Mar 1 book launch at UN on nuclear effects

On March 1, Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day, the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear
Policy and the Marshall Islands Mission to the United Nations will be
launching the book "Pacific Women Speak Out" at the United Nations in New
York. This coincides with the opening day of the Commission on the Status of
Women.

"Pacific Women Speak Out" describes the catastrohpic effects of nuclear
testing, uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on the peoples of the
Pacific, and calls for a nuclear free world. It is dedicated to Darlene Keju-
Johnson from the Marshall Islands who died of cancer at the age of 45. Darlene
said "The story of the Marshallese people since the nuclear weapons tests has
been sad and painful. Allow our experience to save others such sadness and
pain."

The launch will include presentations from Kate Dewes (Aotearoa-New Zealand),
Tonya Gonnella Frichner (American Indian Law Alliance) and a delegate from a
Pacific Island State, and video footage from Pacific Women including Darlene
Keju-Johnson. It will take place from 1:30 - 3 pm at the Dag Hammarskjold
Library Auditorium.

If you would like to go and need a UN pass, please contact [e-mail] as
soon as possible.

Peace
Alyn Ware

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:11:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Mar 1 book launch at UN on nuclear effects

On March 1, Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day, the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear
Policy and the Marshall Islands Mission to the United Nations will be
launching the book "Pacific Women Speak Out" at the United Nations. This
coincides with the opening day of the Commission on the Status of Women.

"Pacific Women Speak Out" describes the catastrohpic effects of nuclear
testing, uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on the peoples of the
Pacific, and calls for a nuclear free world. It is dedicated to Darlene Keju-
Johnson from the Marshall Islands who died of cancer at the age of 45. Darlene
said "The story of the Marshallese people since the nuclear weapons tests has
been sad and painful. Allow our experience to save others such sadness and
pain."

The launch will include presentations from Kate Dewes (Aotearoa-New Zealand),
Tonya Gonnella Frichner (American Indian Law Alliance) and a delegate from a
Pacific Island State, and video footage from Pacific Women including Darlene
Keju-Johnson. It will take place from 1:30 - 3 pm at the Dag Hammarskjold
Library Auditorium.

If you would like to go and need a UN pass, please contact [e-mail] as
soon as possible.

Peace
Alyn Ware

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:49:29 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: FWB: Nuclear Y2K Symposium March 8th in Washington, D.C.

>From:    Scott <[e-mail]>
>Subject:    Nuclear Y2K
>Date:    Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:40:20 -0500
>
>NUCLEAR Y2K SYMPOSIUM
>Monday, March 8, 1999
>9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
>Canon Caucus Room (Room 345)
>Canon House Office Building
>"Probably one out of every five days I wake up in a cold sweat thinking Y2K
>is much bigger than we think, and then the other four days I think maybe we
>are on top of it.  Everything is so interconnected, it's very hard to know
>with any precision that we have got it fixed."  --John  Hamre, Deputy
>Assistant Secretary of Defense, October, 1998.
>
>There is wide-ranging uncertainty about the degree to which nuclear power
>facilities and nuclear arsenals will be impacted by the erroneous
>information generated by computer systems at the turn of the year (the Y2K
>problem).  The Nuclear Y2K Symposium will discuss potential and predicted
>computer problems involving both nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.
>It seeks to educate elected officials, the public and the media on the
>integrity of nuclear safety systems.
>
>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
>Unconfirmed presentations are italicized
>MORNING SESSION  (9:00 - 1:00)
>* OVERVIEW OF Y2K AS A MANAGERIAL AND TECHNICAL PROBLEM
>Introduction: Ed Markey (Moderator) U.S. House of Representatives
>Speaker:  Bill Ulrich        President, Political Strategy Group, Inc.
>* THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF COMPUTER-GENERATED
>FAILURES FOR SAFETY AND BACK-UP SYSTEMS
>Speakers: David  Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists
>Michio Kaku     Professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNY
>Rick Cowles    President, CS America
>Paul Gunter    Nuclear Information and Resource
>Service Presenter to be announced: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
>
>Panel: Michael Murphy: Nuclear Engineer, Pennsylvania Dept. of
>Environmental
>Protection
>Judith Johnsrud, Director, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power
>LUNCH BREAK    (1:00-2:00)
>AFTERNOON SESSION  (2:00 - 5:30)
>* Y2K AND NUCLEAR ARSENALS: WEAPONS AND OPERATIONS
>Moderators:   Sam Nunn, CSIS Year 2000 Taskforce, and Tom Harkin, U.S.
>Senate
>Speakers:   Tom Harkin  (Introductory Remarks)
>           Sam Nunn    (Introductory Remarks)
>Ted Taylor    Visiting Fellow, Princeton University Center
>Energy and Environmental Studies
>Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution
>Michael Kraig, British American Security Information Council
>Stephen Young, British American Security Information Council
>Presenter to be announced    Department of Defense
>
>* QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION PERIOD: 5:00-5:30
>
>
>At 04:41 AM 1/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>------Begin forward message-------------------------
>>>
>>>Y2K ALERT 1/13/1999
>>>WAITING FOR YOU IN TODAY'S ALERT...
>>>___________________________________
>>>
>>>* The majority of America's 103 nuclear power plants have not
>>>even finished the assessment stage (step one)
>>>* 20 out of 66 nuclear power plants are expected to miss the
>>>June 30 remediation deadline
>>>* Both the NERC and the NEI are avoiding the term, "compliant."
>>>* US Secretary of Energy is concerned about lagging power
>>>utilities
>>>* Rick Cowles says the industry is painting a (false) rosy
>>>picture
>>>* The power industry is on a 15-70-15 curve. That means 85%
>>>would have problems
>>>* Isolating from the power grid can cause blackouts in some areas
>>>* Going back to manual operation of most power plants is
>>>impossible
>>>* Supplies of critical replacement parts are backlogged, and
>>>some companies might not get them in time
>>>* Emergency response technicians will be spread thin when power
>>>failures occur in 2000
>>>* Power in other countries is likely to be worse-off than the
>>>United States
>>>* The NRC will be forced to shut down nuke plants if they can't
>>>certify safe operation
>>>* Y2K will likely bankrupt some electric utilities
>>>* The Y2K-related loss of electricity will definitely have some
>>>economic impact
>>>
>>>Find it all at:
>>>http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990113.htm
>>>
>>>Get ready for Y2K, read the Y2K Sourcebook
>>>Only offered through January 15th
>>>http://www.y2ksupply.com/index.asp?pageid=sourcebook
>>>
>>>Tell a friend about the free Y2KNEWSWIRE.COM e-mail alert:
>>>http://www.y2knewswire.com/tellafriend.htm
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>>>To be removed from this e-mail list, simply go to
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Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
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email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:07:59 -0800
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Anti-nuke activists fined,  must help homeless

Hello Friends,=20


We just wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes regarding our "Nevada=
 Sweethearts" Federal Court trial  and give a brief report.


Overall we thought the trial was a very positive and emotional experience.=
 We were surrounded by over 20 of our close friends and family.They all said=
 it was an amazing experiencea nd we apreciate the support of everyone=
 there. Before the trial we were blessed with a prayer by Corbin Harney, a=
 Newe Spiritual Leader and founder of Shundahai Network.=20


We had over 50 pieces of evidence that we wanted to submit to the court=
 during our trial that detailed U.S. violations of international, national=
 and Nevada state laws through its ongoing nuclear weapons programs at the=
 Nevada Test Site. The judge stopped us, but did allow us to enter the=
 Treaty of Ruby Valley, A map of Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone Nation) that=
 shows the Nevada Test Site clearly within traditional Newe terretory as=
 laid out under the treaty. We were also able to enter in the Department of=
 Energy's own Environmental Impact  Statement  for the Stockpile and=
 Stewardship and Management program (of which the subcritical nuclear=
 weapons tests at NTS are an important part) which clearly detailed present=
 contamination to the ground water to the largest aquifer in Southern Nevada=
 and the possible impacts of the subcritical tests.


Corbin took the stand and testified that the Newe are an independent Nation=
 governed by the Western Shoshone National Council and that there has never=
 been any money taken or transfer of any sovereignty of Newe Sogobia to the=
 U.S. Government and that the Nevada Test Site, the nuclear weapons program=
 and other military bombing and test ranges are in direct violation of the=
 Treaty of Ruby Valley and are an act of Genocide against the Newe. (We had=
 evidence that the Western Shoshone Nation has petitioned the United Nations=
 Human Rights Commission to investigate ongoing acts of U.S. genocide=
 against the Western Shoshone but the judge cut us off at this point.)=
 Corbin was able to express his understanding of the damage to Mother Earth=
 and all life through the nuclear weapons.


Susi and I both testified at length about our motivation for our nonviolent=
 direct action to stop the subcriticals. In our closing statements we were=
 able to cover pretty much all of the topics that were not allowed during=
 the trial naming exact laws and environmental regulations that are being=
 broken by the tests.=20


The judge found us guilty of Nonconformity with Direction of a Federal=
 Officer and not guilty of Disturbance since we were on the roof of entrance=
 and not blocking the entrance itself. We were each sentenced to a $10 fine=
 and 12 hours of community service. All in all I felt the judge and indeed=
 even the rest of the court was sympathetic. I feel that many hearts were=
 touched and perhaps changed during this trial.


We had articles in both daily newspapers and articles coming up in the two=
 leading alternative weeklies. Here are the two articles from our daily=
 papers.


Again thank you to everyone who sent their prayers and positive energy to=
 us, and to the many people who sent in legal advice before the trial,=
 special thanks to Joey Turco, for all his help.


Peace, Reinard and Susi


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     Thursday, February 18, 1999

     Copyright =A9 Las Vegas Review-Journal


     Anti-nuke activists fined,

     must help homeless=20


     A couple had wanted to stop subcritical nuclear

     experiments


     By Keith Rogers=20

     Review-Journal=20


           Two demonstrators who climbed on top of an overhang

     Sept. 8 at the Foley Federal Building to protest U.S. nuclear

     weapons experiments were found guilty Wednesday of

     disobeying orders but were cleared of a second

     misdemeanor charge, disrupting the performance of

     government workers.=20


           U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Johnston said the

     government's representative in the case, Federal Protective

     Services officer Linda Glowacki, provided no evidence that

     the protesters, Reinard Knutsen and Susi Snyder, disrupted

     the duties of federal employees.=20


           Glowacki arrested the two Las Vegans after she

     ordered them to come down from their perch atop the

     awning of the building's main entrance. When they refused,

     she summoned a ladder truck from the Las Vegas Fire

     Department to reach them while police blocked part of Las

     Vegas Boulevard in front of the building.=20


           Johnston, after listening to two hours of testimony and

     the examination of one witness -- Western Shoshone spiritual

     leader Corbin Harney -- fined Knutsen and Snyder $10 each

     and ordered them both to complete 12 hours of community

     service at homeless shelters.=20


           Knutsen, a member of the Shundahai Network, an

     international anti-nuclear organization based in Las Vegas,

     claimed he scaled the building with his "sweetheart," hoping

     to stop subcritical nuclear experiments at the Nevada Test

     Site.=20


           The experiments, which the Energy Department

     continues to conduct, use small amounts of plutonium but

     don't erupt into nuclear chain reactions like what occurred

     during full-scale tests.=20


           Glowacki argued that the protesters' actions could have

     diverted firefighters from being available to respond to

     emergencies.=20


           In his closing statement, Knutsen, referencing the threat

     posed by nuclear weapons, said, "I was responding to an

     emergency that would make a burning building look like a

     grain of sand on a big beach.=20


           "The subcritical nuclear testing does have a direct effect

     on preparing for nuclear war," he said.



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Today: February 18, 1999 at 11:18:08 PST=20


Anti-nuclear sweethearts convicted of lesser misdemeanor after

September protest


By Ed Koch=20

<<[e-mail]>

LAS VEGAS SUN


A pair of lovebird anti-nuclear activists who locked themselves together to=
 the awning of the Foley Federal Building were found innocent of that

act but guilty of refusing to come down from their perch when ordered by=
 federal agents.


U.S. Magistrate Robert Johnston, following a two-hour trial Wednesday on=
 four misdemeanor charges, sentenced Reinard Knutsen and his

"partner and sweetheart" Susi Snyder to 12 hours each of community service=
 at area homeless shelters for their Sept. 8 actions.


They also were ordered to each pay $10 court assessment fees. Unable to pay=
 the $20, the couple turned to their two dozen supporters in the

audience, who passed around a hat and collected enough to not only cover the=
 fees that go to a fund for crime victims but also pay for dinner

for the couple to celebrate their half-victory.


The trial was longer than the average misdemeanor trial, because Johnston=
 gave the couple some latitude in airing their protests against the

U.S. government's subcritical nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.


Although that was the motivation for their protest, it had little to do with=
 the charges for which they were found guilty: not conforming to a

direction given by a federal authority. They were acquitted of a charge each=
 of disturbance that impedes the operation of government.


The couple, volunteer members of the Shundahai Network, an international=
 nonprofit anti-nuclear organization known for its numerous protests

and subsequent arrests at the Test Site, had faced up to six months in jail=
 and $5,000 fines for each count.


"I am surprised that we were found not guilty," Knutsen said after the=
 trial.


Federal officer Linda Glowacki of the General Services Division, who acted=
 as the prosecutor and sole witness against the couple, proved to

Johnston that Knutsen and Snyder refused to come down from the concrete=
 awning after both she and a Metro Police sergeant had asked

them to do so.


She was unable, however, to meet the burden of proof that the couple impeded=
 the operation of the government, given that federal agents

called the fire department, shut down the street and closed off the front=
 entrance to the building.


Johnston also didn't buy the argument that the commotion caused government=
 employees to stop working and look out the window, further

impeding operations.


"I hope the workers did look out the window and hear that weapons tests need=
 to be stopped and went home and talked about it," Snyder

said in her closing comments after testifying that subcritical tests poison=
 underground water and cause risks of birth defects.


Subcritical experiments are tests that are done without a nuclear chain=
 reaction, which is prohibited by a moratorium since 1992.


Supporters say subcritical testing is necessary so that scientists can study=
 how aging plutonium reacts in an explosion so that the U.S.

stockpile of nuclear weapons can be safely kept.


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SHUNDAHAI NETWORK

"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"

<paraindent><param>out,out</param>5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV
89108-1304 =20

Phone:[phone] (FAX)647-9385 =20

</paraindent>Email: [e-mail]

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</color></underline>Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:


Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to=20

foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and


Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons


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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:10:10 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Anti-nuke activists fined,  must help homeless

At 12:07 PM 2/20/99 -0800, you wrote:

>
> The judge found us guilty of Nonconformity with Direction of a Federal
> Officer and not guilty of Disturbance since we were on the roof of entrance
> and not blocking the entrance itself. We were each sentenced to a $10 fine
> and 12 hours of community service. All in all I felt the judge and indeed
> even the rest of the court was sympathetic. I feel that many hearts were
> touched and perhaps changed during this trial.


Congrats.

I'm still having a hard time figuring out how you disobeyed a "lawful order" if
your actions weren't interferring with any substantial government interest.

Thomas

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:48:23 -0500
From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Vet Appeals for Help - Results of DU Exposure (Forward)

Reply To: Mitchell Lambert <[e-mail]>

To All:

I am a Persian Gulf Vet, considered by DOD as Level II for exposure to
DU.  I do not wish do discuss the specifics of my exposure, suffice it
to say that DU was inhaled as well as absorbed trans-dermally.  As a
result, I have a number of undiagnosed or unexplained ailments, the most
significant of which is a large number of subcutaneous tumors.  VA
initially diagnosed these as Neurofibromatosis-1, a hereditary/genetic
disease.  I insisted on a gene test to either prove or disprove this
theory.  I received the results from the test yesterday, needless to say
they can find no genetic defect.  The physician I have been dealing with
at VA now believes that these tumors were/are caused by exposure to DU
and further believes that the tumors will cease appearing/growing after
the DU has been completely secreted from my system.  He has also
indicated that there is nothing else that either can or should be done,
I beg to differ.  I would appreciate any suggestions or assistance
concerning where I should go from here.  I am 26 years old, I have a
wife and a 20 month old son.  For their sake, I must pursue this to the
very end.  Please help.

Sincerely,
Mitchell J. Lambert
reply to: [e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:46:54 -0500
From: "John M. Miller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert: Resist Military Recolonization of Philippines

Below is a revised version of the Action Alert we sent out earlier this
month on the Visiting Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Philippine
governments. Letter and faxes are still needed to wavering Filipino
Senators. Please note our friends in the Philippines have asked us to
target one additional Senator.

For those wanted additional background an article prepared by Prof. Roland
Simbulan, "Why the Senate Should Reject the VFA," is available on the web at
http://www.boondocksnet.com/sctexts/simbulan99a.html

I have an additional speech by R. Francisco "Dodong" Nemenzo which I can
e-mail. Just put VFA Speech in the subject line.


Feb. 21, 1999

Friends,

We have received an appeal from the Nuclear Free and Independent
Philippines Coalition to assist them in their campaign to turn back U.S.
efforts to recolonize the Philippines. For those of you who have not
followed these developments, under the guise of a "Visiting Forces
Agreement" (An Access/Bases agreement by yet another name), the return of
U.S. military forces was negotiated between the U.S. and the Philippines in
the last days of the Ramos government. The VFA has been scheduled for
Senate debate in March with voting expected March 22-24.

    The agreement will allow the U.S. to return to the Philippines, expanding
its access to 2 ports across the nation (initially to number 22!) As with
the new "Guidelines" for U.S.-Japan Military Cooperation, the U.S. will
have access to the entire nation during "crises". The air and sea port at
General Santos in Mindinao (near Indonesia and the strategic Malacca
Strait), built with U.S. AID money, is larger than were the U.S. bases at
Subic Bay and Clark Airfield - COMBINED.

    The nuclear-free provisions of the Philippine constitution require that
this agreement be ratified by the Philippine senate if it is to go into
force. The U.S. has been exploiting both the regional/global economic
crisis and the recent escalation of Chinese claims to the Spratley Islands
to win ratification.

    The outcome of the Philippine Senate vote is in doubt. After several
tactical victories, the Philippine anti-bases movement is mobilizing to
defend the independence and nuclear freedom regained after four centuries
of Spanish and U.S. military colonialism. Our friends and counterparts in
the Philippines are urging people to write to four undecided Philippine
senators (of whom Juan Ponce Enrile is the most critical) urging them to
vote against the VFA.  Please send letters to:

    Senator Juan Ponce Enrile
    Room 401 Marsman Bldg.
    Muelle de San Francisco
    Gage 1, Port Area
    Manila, Philippines
    Fax: [phone]

    Senator Anna Dominique M.L. Coseteng
    Room 1202, Sunset View Tower
    2230 Roxas Blfd
    Pasay City, Philippines
    Fax: [phone]

    Senator Teofisto T. Guingona
    Fax: [phone] or [phone]

    Senator Vincente C Sotto III
    Room 306 Diplomat Bldg.
    Roxas Blvd., Baclaran
    Paranaque, Philippines
    Fax: [phone]

Added:     Sen. Robert Jaworski
    5th Floor GSIS Financial Center
    PICC Complex, Pasay City
    PHILIPPINES
    Telephone/fax:  [phone]

    Thank you,

    Joseph Gerson



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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:11:56 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Santa Barbara Report, US Abolition Campaign

REPORT FROM SANTA BARBARA
MEETING ON US NUCLEAR ABOLITION CAMPAIGN

Dear Friends,

In Santa Barbara, on February 12-14, about 60 organizations working for
nuclear
weapons abolition gathered in Santa Barbara, California to continue the work
begun in New York and Chicago last year to launch a US Nuclear Weapons
Abolition Campaign.  The Chicago group, in October, agreed to broaden our
diversity before making any decisions for the Campaign and it was worth
waiting
for!  An Interim Coordinating Committee was set up in Chicago to plan the
Santa
Barbara meeting and we raised some funds that enabled us to include more
indigenous peoples, Afro-Americans, and downwinders who made enormous
contributions to our understanding.  Not to mention the wonderful sunrise
service on St. ValentineÆs Day conducted by Corbin Harney, the spiritual
leader
of the Western Shoshone Nation, which only the week before endured the
abuse of
yet another US sub-critical test on their land.

We  adopted a mission statement and a related "Santa Barbara Declaration"
which
follows. Participants volunteered to be the contact people for twelve working
groups to develop a number of strategies that were discussed during the
meeting  Those groups are listed below and you are invited to join them.
There
was a sense of urgency at the meeting to begin immediate work to halt the
development of ClintonÆs $6.6 billion proposal for son of Star Wars, which, if
it goes ahead will make our efforts to abolish nuclear weapons even more
difficult.  Additional people volunteered to serve with those original members
of the Interim Coordinating Committee who wished to continue on a
Facilitation
Committee to help move our organizing efforts ahead in the next six months
when
we will to meet again.  We prepared a timeline of events, and discussed
various
structure and strategy proposals and names for the Campaign. Listed below are
reports and information from various participants with special thanks to David
Krieger, Susan Gordon, Kathy Crandall, Lori Beckworth, and Andy Lichterman for
forwarding the various sections of this report.  Peace, Alice Slater

Mission Statement

To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children,
grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to educate
public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the United
States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to eliminate nuclear
weapons.

These actions must include halting continued development of new and modified
nuclear weapons, de-alerting nuclear forces, addressing the environmental
degradation and human suffering arising from testing, production, deployment
and use of nuclear weapons, and undertaking negotiations with other countries
on a treaty for their elimination.

Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and
enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.

SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION

From all corners of this land, representing diverse constituencies and
traditions, including indigenous nations, we have come together in common
cause, determined to end the threat to all life posed by nuclear weapons.

We recognize that nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle have caused
widespread suffering, death and environmental devastation.  We further
recognize that resources used for nuclear arms need to be redirected to
meeting
human and environmental needs.

The United States bears special responsibility as the only country to use
nuclear weapons in war.  It continues to spend vast sums on its massive
nuclear
weapons complex, and its current policies would upgrade and maintain a huge
nuclear arsenal far into the future.

The conference has initiated a campaign tailored to address the unique
obstacles in the United States to achieving nuclear weapons abolition.  Our
campaign builds upon the foundations laid by Abolition 2000 and other efforts
to abolish nuclear arms.  We commit our hearts, our spirits, and our energy to
achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and invite all people of good
will to
join us.
                               Santa Barbara, February 14, 1999

Facilitators Group
(See Below For Contact Information For All Participants)

John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation
Gordon Clark, Peace Action
Kathy Crandall, Disarmament Clearinghouse
Alan Cranston, World Forum
Matteo Ferreira, Shundahai Network
Joe Gerson, American Friends Service Committee
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Alan Haber, Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental Organizations
Jan Harwood, WILPF
Steven Kent, Kent Communications
Pelulaw Khus, Coastal Band of Chumash Nation
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Sally Light, TriValley Cares
Mark Mebane, Fourth Freedom Forum
Pamela Meidell, Atomic Mirror
Robert Musil, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Claudia Peterson, Utah Downwinders
Joe Peterson, Nebraskans for Peace
Clayton Ramey, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Dave Robinson, Pax Christi
Jonathan Schell, The Nation Institute
Susan Shaer, WomenÆs Action for New Directions
Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
Jonathan Granoff, Lawyers Alliance for World Security

Working Groups
STAR WARS/ABM (URGENT)
Kathy Crandall: [e-mail];
[phone] ext. 232

NATO 50TH ANNIVERSAY MEETING, APRIL 23 (URGENT)
Mark Mebane: [e-mail]; 219-543-3402

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ISSUES
Richard Salvador:[e-mail]; [phone] or 3691
Alice Slater:[e-mail]; [phone];
David Krieger: [e-mail]; [phone]

AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
Joseph Gerson:  [e-mail]; [phone]

RESEARCH FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
Arjun Makhijani: [e-mail]; [phone]

CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO ENROLL ORGANIZATIONS IN A BRIEF ABOLITION STATEMENT
AND CITY DIALOGUES ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT WITH PROMINENT MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Pamela Meidell: [e-mail]; [phone]
Ed Aguilar: [phone]

CONGRESS/ADMINISTRATION FOCUS
Alan Haber: [e-mail]; [phone]

MEDIA/CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
Steve Kent: [e-mail]; ([phone]

YOUTH/CAMPUSES
Odile Haber: [e-mail]; [phone]

DIRECT ACTION
Matteo Ferreira: [e-mail]; [phone]

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE   ORGANIZING AND CONCERNS
Pilulaw Khus:[phone]
Michele [e-mail]; [phone]
Richard Salvador: [e-mail]; [phone]

BOTTOM UP ORGANIZING (LOCAL MOVEMENT BUILDING AND MAKING THE CONNECTION TO
OTHER ISSUES) -- Andrew Lichterman:  [e-mail];
[phone] AFTER MARCH 1 [e-mail]



STRUCTURE DISCUSSION (notes from Kathy Crandall)

A total of 5 structure proposals were made

1)To ask for organizations to volunteer to serve on a U.S.  Abolition
Campaign Committee.

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

2) From Peace Action, PSR, WAND, Disarmament Clearinghouse & Susan
Gordon

Campaign Structure Proposal
We are proposing that the emerging US nuclear abolition campaign have a
12 member Coordinating Committee, that is broadly representative of the
organizations that are focused on nuclear disarmament.  We will probably

struggle to identify who will fill these seats, but this can be
accomplished.  This Committee should include diverse representation of
national grassroots membership organizations, geographic diversity,
people of color, and be conscious of gender balance.  National
membership groups should hold half of the seats on the committee, and
organizations with verifiable constituencies should hold the other half
of the seats on the committee.  The Committee would have two co-chairs
to convene meetings and share the work-load.

This body would meet together twice a year, face-to-face, to share one
year time-lines, identify actions and hopefully move toward agreement on
coordinated efforts and messages.  This would allow each organization to
continue to do their work but increase opportunities to amplify messages
and actions, coordinate targets, and serve as beginning steps in working
together.  The Coordinating Committee would be looking out one year at a
time, but working specifically on coordinated actions during the next
six months.  They would not be able to dictate decisions, rather they
would be recommending message and actions.

At one of the meetings each year, the broader community would be invited
for a separate day of activities.  We could provide training workshops
on issues, organizing, campaign actions, fund-raising, etc.  This would
help to build relationships, serve to broaden the base, and help to
amplify the campaign.

The Coordinating Committee would be responsible for setting agendas for
meetings, for developing and forwarding any grant proposals or funding
requests and provide oversight for staff.  It would not be able to speak
on behalf of other groups.  The Campaign will only have organizational
members, not individual members.  The Web page would be primarily a link
to organizations participating in the Campaign.  No newsletter is needed.
A single staff person would serve in a coordinating role that would
support the campaign and work to aid communication between the
participating organizations, coordinate meetings, maintain the web page
and convene conference calls.

Fund-raising efforts will focus on projects that will collectively help
our work and is not something that any individual organization can do on

its own, i.e.: media campaigns, postcard campaigns, etc.  The campaign
will coordinate its fund-raising with and be supportive of fund-raising
efforts of its constituent organizations.
**********************************************************
3) -From the Floor
Geographically Based
- -regional offices (existing orgs.) responsible for Campaign in region
- -regional offices represented on Coordinating Committee

*********************************************************
4)  -From the Floor (Marylia Kelley)

- -Would operate as described in proposal #2 -with the below
modifications-
12 member  Facilitators Group - a "Board"
- -Limited Mandate
    -Business
    -Coordinator
    -Communication
    -fund-raising

- -Working Group Structure
- -self-selected
- -open membership
- -susbtantive programs/ projects
********************************************************************
5. From the Floor (Dave Robinson)

1. Coordinating Committee (12 is ok)

2. Coordinator for Campaign (one) and work groups

3. Coordinator & Committee raise money to convene "congress"  (once or
twice per year.)

This money may come from groups in network and/ or independent sources

4.Member groups at "Congress" are part of determining  priorities,
actions and messages

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

Following discussion, we then discussed strategy, and on Sunday
morning / and afternoon we came up with the following interim structure:

A Facilitation Committee will continue for 6 months. All of the
former ICC members are welcomed to participate in the continuing ICC
(Susan Gordon noted that she will not continue on the ICC). In addition
several others volunteered to join. (SEE LIST OF FACILITATORS, ABOVE)

The tasks of the Facilitation Committee will be to
1)Formulate a longer-term structure,
2)Bring forward strategic activities
3) Suggest  a name for the campaign
4) Plan the next meeting
Following further strategy discusstion working groups were also formed
to begin work in different strategy areas.
********************************************************************

STRATEGY (Andrew Lichterman)

A number of proposals for both general approaches and particular
campaigns were put forward, but there was little time available for
discussion of strategy by the group as a whole.  Most the meeting was
occupied by other matters, including drafting of a mission statement,
choice of a name, and structure for continuing the process of forging a
national campaign. No conclusions on strategy were reached by the
gathering, but preliminary working groups were identified to facilitate
the development of strategy proposals for the next meeting.

There was a small group break out and report back on Saturday which
produced a number of good ideas about strategy, but there was no time
available for further general discussion on Saturday.  On Sunday afternoon
those who remained, recognizing that many had left and that hence no
substantive decisions could be made, divided the remaining time among
various matters.  Strategy issues were sent to a small group to develop a
list of subjects which could be the focus of working groups.  These
working groups would then be able to continue to develop strategy
initiatives between now and the next general meeting.   Unfortunately,
there was time only for a report back without further general discussion.
The report back included both a list of possible working groups and some
general ideas about the relationship between the working groups and the
program set forth in the previously agreed upon Mission Statement.

The strategy small group used the Mission Statement (which was agreed
upon by the entire meeting) as a guide for its discussions.  It generally
concluded that the purpose of the  working groups would be to implement
the substantive goals set forth in the mission statement, including
seeking a more just world, commencement of negotiations with other
countries on a treaty for abolition, halting the development of new and
modified nuclear weapons, and addressing the continuing ecological and
human toll of nuclear weapons testing, production, and deployment.  Other
areas not specifically addressed in the mission statement identified by
the strategy group included raising awareness of the dangers of current
nuclear weapons policies and of the impact on the economy of nuclear
weapons spending and of the nuclear weapons industry.

Some working groups by their nature would work on particular aspects of
the general program expressed in the mission statement, while others (for
example, those which focus on particular venues or means of communication,
like the "media" and "legislative/federal government" groups) would likely
work on using particular means to advance all facets of the campaign
program.  The strategy small group also identified some general themes,
particularly the need to give the campaign a "human face," for example by
focusing on the people affected by a half century on the nuclear road,
from atomic veterans and downwinders in the United States to the
indigenous peoples worldwide whose land and communities have been
devastated from one end of the nuclear weapons cycle to the other, from
uranium mining to nuclear weapons testing.  It was also noted that this
"human face" should include the "whodunnit," the people who have made and
sustained the nuclear weapons complex.

Because of the short time available for discussion and the fact that the
group remaining Sunday afternoon was not empowered to make decisions, the
set of working group topics settled upon is preliminary.  The topics range
from particular campaign proposals which had attracted interest to more
general approaches.  For each working group at least one individual
present Sunday afternoon agreed to be the initial convener so that the
groups could get going.   These groups will exist only to the extent that
people and organizations participate, so contact the convener of groups you
are
interested in. The future shape of these groups is in the hands of those who
choose to participate.  This list is not exhaustive; there could be others if
people want to constitute them. Conveners might wish to circulate descriptions
of their current visions for the various working groups.

WORKING GROUPS: LISTED ABOVE


1999 TIMELINE OF UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS (Susan Gordon)
(not complete listing of all activities, but a pretty good start)

FEBRUARY
Feb 19          Briefing for House staff on de-alerting and abolition by
Nuclear
Weapons Working Group
Feb 20          IPPNW delegation to India & Pakistan
Feb 22          STOP the STAR WARS REVIVAL Action & Resource kit- distribution
by
Disarmament Clearinghouse [phone] ext. 232
Senate vote on Star Wars Deployment Bill
Misc.       Peace Action - Now through 2000 - Gathering signatures on
Abolition
petitions, with plans to pressure on candidates on disarmament issues
[phone]
Interfaith Petition Drive - Howard Hallman, Methodists United for Peace With
Justice [phone]
Disarmament Clearinghouse - continue to pitch "It's Our Move Mailersö ( second
run of approximately 20,000) [phone] ext 232
20/20  - postcard action alert [phone]
US & Russian begin negotiations on a plutonium disposition agreement
Distribution of Alliance for Nuclear Accountability De-alerting Theme Month
materials [phone]
Physicians for Social Responsibility Abolition slide shows & new brochures
available [phone]

MARCH
Mar 2           Vermont Town Meetings - votes on nuclear weapons abolition
resolutions
House vote on Star Wars Deployment Bill
Mar 6           Nebraskans for Peace Annual Conference - Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton keynote, Abolition 2000 workshop - [phone]
Mar 8       Y2K CongressionalBriefing on Capitol Hill  by Helen Caldicott,
BASIC, NIRS & STAR 516-324-0655, [e-mail]
Mar 15          Dept. of Defense reports to Congress on Russian tactical
nuclear
weapons
Mar 18          House Appr. Sub-committee on Energy & Water Hearing on Dept.
of Energy's Defense programs
Mar 25          10th Global Kids Conference - Human Rights - Right On! (212)
226-0130
Mar 26-Apr 12 Senate Recess - coordinated  lobbying in home states
misc.           Possible vote in Russian Duma on START II ratification
ANA De-Alerting Theme Month participation encouraged
[phone]
Introduction of resolution in VT State Legislature to
reduce the risk of an accidental nuclear weapons attack -  WAND
campaign to work with state women legislators [phone]
AFSC begins organizing regional & national US Hibakusha
speaking tours [phone]
New England Nuclear Abolition Network meets in Maine [phone] - Wells
Staley-Mays

APRIL
Apr 2           Good Friday Action at Livermore Lab - Tri-Valley CAREs
[phone]
Apr 9-10        Japanese meeting in NY on nuclear non-proliferation &
disarmament (closed to NGOs)
Apr 12-23       Nonproliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting at
UN,  NY
New Agenda Coalition activities
Y2K workshop by Helen Caldicott  STAR & Abolition 2000 [phone]
Apr 16-29        Megiddo Project - "Transforming Armageddon" - peace
pilgrimage
in Israel and
                         Palestine(734)761-7967
Apr 23          NATO's 50th Anniversary/Conference in DC
                Fourth Freedom Foundation Alternative Citizens Summit in DC
[phone]
Apr 22 - 25     PSR Student Conference in Seattle - [phone]
Apr 25-28       Interfaith Legislative Briefing - lobby days  Friends
Committee
on National
Legislation [phone]
Apr 25-28       ANA DC DAYS  [phone]
(4 days of training & lobbying for grassroots activists)
Apr 26          Chernobyl Anniversary Day
Apr 26/May 14 UN Disarmament Commission Annual Meeting

MAY-AUG
Opportunity for grassroots activists to table at street fairs,
events, etc.
Disarmament Clearinghouse will have It's our Move Mailers & CTBT
Flyer
20/20 plans radio call-in on CTBT
Plan for house parties
MAY
May 1           Dept. of Def. reports to Congress on counter-proliferation
programs
May 7-10        Healing Global Wounds Action at the Nevada Test Site
[phone]
May 7-10        Nuclear Gambling: Who Wins? - Episcopal Peace Fellowship
[phone]
May 8-9 Mother's Day Weekend - Missiles to Sunflowers' Campaign - US, in
Sarasota, CA [phone]
May 10  Conference on Disarmament begins second session in Geneva
May 11  Anniversary of India's nuclear weapons tests
May 11- 16      Hague Appeal for Peace 1999 Conference  [phone]
May 13-14       Pittsburgh Coalition for Abolition 2000 is holding a
simultaneous conference to
coincide with Hague Appeal for Peace, Gen Butler to speak PSR - Dan & Anita
Fine [phone]
May 17      International NIX MOX Day  - Nuclear Information Resource Service
[phone]
May 28  Anniversary of Pakistan's nuclear weapons tests

JUNE
June 10 Key CTBT Date - Kennedy Speech
(encourage floor speeches on CTBT)
misc.           Center for Defense Information releases video on CTBT
                        [phone]
                        Disarmament Clearinghouse will be organizing house
parties
                        [phone] ext 232
                        Phila. Project, Leadership Dialogue on Nuclear
Abolition
                        Ed Aguilar, Lawyers Alliance for World Security
[phone]

JULY
July 16         Trinity 54th Anniversary
July 23-25      4th Tokyo Forum on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament
July 26         Conference on Disarmament 3rd session begins

AUGUST
Aug 6           Hiroshima Day
                        Mayors Letter supporting abolition to be released
- -State of
the World Forum [phone]
WAND will be coordinating the Utah release [phone]
Aug 6                   Livermore Lab Action, risk arrest, Tri-Valley CARES
[phone]
Aug 6- 9                Peace Action National Congress, Abolition
Conference and
Nonviolent Protest in New Mexico. All are welcome to attend!
[phone]
Aug 7           2nd Missiles of Sunflowers' Campaign - US [phone]
Aug 7-9 Resistance Action to Trident at Bangor Submarine Base, WA
[phone]
Aug 9           Nagasaki Day
Aug 9           Peace Action organized Nonviolent demonstration and civil
disobedience at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico. All are welcome to attend!
                        [phone]

SEPTEMBER
Sept 24         CTBT signing anniversary
Sept 27                 Clinton addresses UN General Assembly in NY
Sept 29/Oct 1  The first conference of the CTBT Ratification States
misc.                   AFSC organizer packets available [phone]

OCTOBER
Oct 15                  University Teach-in
Oct 25                  NGO Committee on Disarmament week symposium in NY
misc.                   Conference on revising Entry-into-force rules of CTBT

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER
12/21                   Mass Civil Disobedience at Nevada Test Site

Upcoming fall events - Sleepwalking to Armageddon Film - The Clearinghouse
has been planning to do house parties

2000

April                   NPT Prepcom

Jun 30-Aug 9    People's Campaign for Nonviolence: A call to action -
Disarmament &
Justice Now (inviting all peace & justice groups/movements) just forming -
contact National Fellowship of Reconciliation [phone]



PARTICIPANTS EMAIL LIST

PEOPLE WITHOUT EMAIL ADDRESSES

Ed Aguilar: tel: [phone] fax: [phone]
435 E. Sedgwick St., Philadelphia, PA  19119
Pilulaw Khus: tel: [phone]
P.O. Box 718
Morro Bay, CA  93443
Keith Bush (Loulena Miles, who has email, said she would convey any
messages to him).
Jane Podesta: tel: [phone]
115 Majors St., Santa Cruz, CA  95060
(Jan Harwood said she would convey all messages to her).

<Bernice Kring> [e-mail],
<Inga Olson> [e-mail],
<Sally Light> [e-mail],
<Joseph Gerson> [e-mail],
<Marylia Kelley> [e-mail],
<Bruce Martin>  [e-mail],
<Steve Kent> [e-mail],
<Alan Cranston> [e-mail],
<Tad Daley> [e-mail],
<Susan Shaer> [e-mail],
<Sonya Ostrom>  [e-mail],
<Robert Manning> [e-mail],
<Alan Haber> [e-mail],
<Jackie Hudson> [e-mail],
<David Krieger> [e-mail],
<Jackie Cabasso> [e-mail],
<John Burroughs> [e-mail],
<Alice Slater> [e-mail],
<Don Larkin> [e-mail],
<Anthony Guarisco> [e-mail],
<Mark Mebane> [e-mail],
<Susan Gordon> [e-mail],
<Kathy Crandall> [e-mail],
<Robert Tiller> [e-mail],
<Bob Musil> [e-mail],
<Pamela Meidell> [e-mail],
<Claudia Peterson> [e-mail],
<Gordon Clark>  [e-mail],
<Dave Robinson> [e-mail],
<Jan Harwood> [e-mail],
<Jonathan Parfrey> [e-mail],
<Jonathan Schell> [e-mail],
<Arjun Makhijani> [e-mail],
<Jo Peterson> [e-mail],
<William Stuart-Whistler> [e-mail],
<Esther Pank> [e-mail],
<Dolores Cogin> [e-mail],
<Bob Alpern> [e-mail],
<Masaaki  Sakai> [e-mail],
<Kathryn Smick> [e-mail],
<Betty Burkes>  [e-mail],
<Abha Suhr> [e-mail],
<Esther Hilsenrad> [e-mail],
<Corbin Harney> [e-mail],
<Kevin Martin> [e-mail],
<Cecilia Freeman> [e-mail],
<Ian Zabarte> [e-mail],
<Matteo Ferreira> [e-mail],
<Richard Salvador> [e-mail],
<Lori Beckwith> [e-mail],
<Loulena Miles> [e-mail],
<Eleanor LeCain> [e-mail],
<Bob Downing> [e-mail],
<Wilson Riles> [e-mail],
<Peter Ferenbach> [e-mail],
<Lori Beckwith> [e-mail]


PARTICIPANTS LIST WITH FULL INFORMATION
Edward Aguilar  LAWS    435 E. Sedgwick St.     Philadelphia, PA
19119-1307      215-248-4760    fax: [phone]

Bob Alpern      Friends Committee on National Legislation       9280 Mill
Creek Rd.       Healdsburg, CA  95448   707-433-2236    [e-mail]

Lori Beckwith   NAPF    1187 Coast Village Rd. #123     Santa Barbara, CA
93108   805-965-3443    [e-mail]

Anne Beier      WSLF    1440 Broadway Suite 500 Oakland, CA  94612
        530-839-5877    [e-mail]

Betty Burkes    AFSC    P.O. Box 653    Wellfleet, MA 02667
        508-349-7988    [e-mail]

John Burroughs  WSLF    1440 Broadway Suite 500 Oakland, CA  94612
        530-839-5877    [e-mail]
Keith Bush                              831-457-2115

Jackie Cabasso  WSLF    1440 Broadway Suite 500 Oakland, CA  94612
        530-839-5877    [e-mail]

Gordon Clark    Peace Action    1819 H. St. NW Suite 640        Washington,
D.C. 20006      202-862-9740    [e-mail]

Doloris Cogan   Peace Links     666 11th St. NW #202    Washington, D.C.
20001   202-783-7030    [e-mail]

Kathy Crandall  Disarmament Clearinghouse       1101 14th Street NW #700
        Washington DC 20005     202-898-0150 ext. 232   [e-mail]

Alan Cranston   State of the World Forum        27080 Fremont   Los Altos
Hills, CA  94022        650-948-6556    [e-mail]

Tad Daley       State of the World Forum        4350 Beryman #2 Los
Angeles, CA  90066      310-2883544     [e-mail]

Bob Downing     United Farm Workers     18 W. Lake Ave. Watsonville, CA
95076   408-763-4904    [e-mail]

Matteo Ferreira Shundahai Network       5007 Elmhurst Ln.       Las Vegas,
NV 89108-1304   702-647-3095    [e-mail]

Cecilia Freeman Santa Cruz Abolition 2000       189 Hollywood Ave.
        Santa Cruz, CA  95060   831-457-2275    [e-mail]

Peter Ferenbach California Peace Action 3127 B Mission St.      San
Francisco, CA  94110    415-695-9077    [e-mail]

Joseph Gerson   AFSC    2161 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA  02140
        617-661-6130    [e-mail]

Susan Gordon    ANA     1914 N. 34th St. #407   Seattle, WA  98013
        206-547-3175    [e-mail]

Anthony Guarisco        Alliance of Atomic Veterans     P.O. Box 32
        Topock, AZ  86436       520-768-6623    [e-mail]

Alan Haber      Coalition of Peace and Environmental Orgs.      531 3rd St.
        Ann Arbor, MI  48103    734-761-7967    [e-mail]

Odile Haber     Coalition of Peace and Environmental Orgs.      531 3rd St.
        Ann Arbor, MI  48103    734-761-7967    [e-mail]

Corbin Harney   Shundahai Network       5007 Elmhurst Ln.       Las Vegas,
NV 89108-1304                   702-647-3095    [e-mail]

Jan Harwood     WILPF   312 Elm St.     Santa Cruz, CA  95060
        831-471-9992    [e-mail]

Esther Hilsenrad        Global Kids     561 Broadway, 6th floor New York,
NY  10012       212-226-0130    [e-mail]

Jackie Hudson   Ground Zero     3495 Dyes Inlet Rd.     Bremerton, WA
98312   360-377-2586    [e-mail]

Marylia Kelley  Tri-Valley CARE 2582 Old First Street   Livermore, CA
94550   925-443-7148    [e-mail]

Steve Kent      Kent Communications     P.O. Box 431    Garrison, NY  10524
        914-424-8382    [e-mail]

Pilulaw Khus    Costal Band of Chumash Nation   P.0. Box 718    Morro Bay,
CA  93443       805-771-8922

David Krieger   NAPF    1187 Coast Village Road Suite 123       Santa
Barbara, CA  93108      805-965-3443    [e-mail]

Bernice Kring   Grandmothers for Peace  1724 H St. #1   Sacramento, CA
95814   916-443-4553    [e-mail]

Don Larkin      Santa Cruz Abolition 2000       189 Hollywood Ave.
        Santa Cruz, CA  95060   831-457-2275    [e-mail]

Eleanor LeCain          43 Samoset Street       Boston, MA  02124
        617-436-4875    [e-mail]

Andrew Lichterman       WSLF    1440 Broadway Suite 500 Oakland, CA  94612
        530-839-5877    [e-mail]

Sally Light     Tri-Valley CARES        2582 Old 1st St.        Livermore,
CA  94550       925-443-7148    [e-mail]

Arjun Makhijani IEER    6935 Laurel Ave.        Takoma Park, MD  20812
        301-270-3029    [e-mail]

Robert Manning  Unity Foundation        4731 Stoetz Lane        Sebastopol,
CA  95472       707-874-9133    [e-mail]

Bruce Martin    AFSC/CT 55 Van Dyke Ave.        Hartford, CT  06106
        860-522-5985    [e-mail]

Kevin Martin    Illinois Peace Action   202 S. State St. #1500  Chicago, IL
60604   312-939-3316    [e-mail]

Mark Mebane     Fourth Freedom Forum    803 North Main St.      Goshen, IN
46528   219-534-3402    [e-mail]

Pamela Meidell  Atomic Mirror/EarthWays Foundation      P.O.B. 220,
        Port Hueneme, California, USA 93044     805-985-5073
        [e-mail]

Loulena Miles   WILPF-USCS      615 Poplar Ave. Santa Cruz, CA  95062
        831-457-2115    [e-mail]

Bob Musil       PSR     1101 14th St. NW, Suite 700     Washington, D.C.
20005   202-898-0150    [e-mail]

Inga Olson      Grandmothers for Peace  1400 Commons Drive      Sacramento,
CA  95825       415-973-5618    [e-mail]

Sonya Ostrom    Metro New York Peace Action     475 Riverside Dr. #549  New
York, NY  10015 718-377-7788    [e-mail]

Marion Pack     WAND/Aliance for Survival       230 E. 17th St. #201
        Costa Mesa, CA  92627   949-722-7574    [e-mail]

Esther Pank     Peace Links     666 11th St. NW #202    Washington, D.C.
20001   202-783-7030    [e-mail]

Jonathan Parfrey        PSR     1316 Third Street, Promenade, Suite B!
        Santa Monica, CA  90401 310-458-2694    [e-mail]

Claudia Peterson        St. Geroge Utah Downwinder      2042 West Moonglow
Pl.     St. George, UT  84770   435-673-2972    [e-mail]

Jo Peterson     Nebraskans for Peace    4924 Aucago St. Omaha, NE  68132
        402-556-9057    [e-mail]

Jane Podesta    WILPF   115 Majors St.  Santa Cruz, CA  95060
        831-423-9232

Wilson Riles    AFSC    65 Ninth St.    San Francisco, CA  94103
        415-565-0201    [e-mail]

Dave Robinson   Pax Christi     532 West 8th St.        Erie, PA  16502
        814-453-4955    [e-mail]

Masaaki  Sakai  Southern California Federation of Scientists    3318
Colbert Ave.    Los Angeles, CA  90066  310-390-3898    [e-mail]

Richard Salvador        PIANGO  2424 Maile Way  Honolulu, HI  96822
        808-956-8537    [e-mail]

Jonathan Schell The Nation Institute    33 Irving Place New York, NY
        202-209-5417    [e-mail]

Susan Shaer     Womens Action for New Directions        691 Massachusetts
Avenue  Arlington, MA  02476    781-643-6740    [e-mail]

Alice Slater    GRACE   15 East 26th St. Rm. 915        New York, NY  10010
        212-726-9161    [e-mail]

Kathryn Smick   PSR-San Fransisco       2288 Fulton Street #307 Berkeley,
CA  94704       925-284-7689/510-845-8395       [e-mail]

William Stuart-Whistler Episcopalian Peace Fellowship   620 S. Orange St.
        Media, PA  19063-4012   610-567-7806    [e-mail]

Abha Suhr       South Asian Forum       131 Antrim Street #3    Cambridge,
MA  02139       617-576-2388    [e-mail]

Robert Tiller   PSR     1101 14th St. NW, Suite 700     Washington, D.C.
20005   202-898-0150 ext. 220   [e-mail]

Brian Watson    Ground Zero     2132 NE Sunset Ln.      Bremerton, WA
98310   479-698-3113

Ian Zabarte     Western Shoshone National Council       P.O. Box 210
        Indian Springs, NV  89018       702-879-5203    [e-mail]


ACTIVE MEMBERS WHO COULDNÆT ATTEND THE MEETING

Alyn Ware
[e-mail]
211 E. 43rd St. #1204
New York, NY 10017
212-818-1857

Lachlan Forrow
[e-mail]
330 Brookline Ave.
Boston, MA  02215
617-667-3095

Tom Roderick
[e-mail]
475 Riverside Drive, Rm 554
New York, NY  10115
212-870-3318

David Cortright
[e-mail]
Fourth Freedom Forum
803 N. Main St.
Goshen, IN  46528
800-233-6786

Peter and Cora Weiss
[e-mail]
5022 Waldo Ave.
Bronx, NY  10471

New Volunteer for Facilitators Group not at meeting
Jonathan Granoff
[e-mail]
124 Colwyn Lane
Bala Cynwyd, PA  19004
610-668-5470



Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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