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abolition-usa-digest     Friday, February 26 1999     Volume 01 : Number 084




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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:42:53 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Addendum to Santa Barbara Report

Dear Friends,
I thought it was important to add this message from David Krieger about our
Santa Barbara meeting, to the report which I just posted.  A drafting
committee for the Santa Barbara Declaration could not include an issue
which many of us thought should be noted in our Campaign, because of time
pressures which did not permit the full group to review an expanded
Declaration.  In solicitng our approval for the Santa Barbara Declaration
through email, the drafting committee wrote as follows:

>The Committee also believes that a separate statement should be developed
>over the next few months on the subject of "Democracy, Power and Nuclear
>Weaponry."  We felt that these issues are too complex to go into this
>Declaration and deserve far more consideration.  This will, therefore, be
>referred to the Facilitating Committee.

If you wish to work with David on this, contact him at [e-mail]
Many thanks,
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: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:39:19 -1000
From: Richard N Salvador <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Santa Barbara Report, US Abolition Campaign

Dear Alice,

Thank you for posting the report of the SB meeting.
Just to let you know, Michele's last name (she also
serves in the Indigenous Peoples' worging group) is
Xenos. Michele Xenos. Thanks for noting correction.
Best wishes to this new campaign!

Richard

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawai'i




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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:27:18 -0000
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Santa Barbara Report, US Abolition Campaign

Dear Alice -  Thank you for posting the report.  I noticed that the e-mail
address given for me was the Tri-Valley CAREs' address, but my own e-mail
is preferable: [e-mail].

All the best,

Sally

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:08:08 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Santa Barbara Report, US Abolition Campaign

Sally, I'll correct it in the hard copy report which I will mail. Regards,

At 10:27 PM 2/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Alice -  Thank you for posting the report.  I noticed that the e-mail
>address given for me was the Tri-Valley CAREs' address, but my own e-mail
>is preferable: [e-mail].
>
>All the best,
>
>Sally
>
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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]
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: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:57:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) NYC area only / hedemann case

In a message dated 2/19/99 5:28:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Subj:     hedemann case
 Date:    2/19/99 5:28:48 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:    [e-mail] (War Resisters League)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 U.S. v. Hedemann Strategy Meeting
 Feb. 17, 1999

 After a review of the case and some discussion, we focused on what to do
 for the hearing on Friday, March 5, and came up with the following plan:

 * On March 5, At 11 am we will gather at the military recruiting
 storefronts on Flatbush Avenue (across from BAM near Fourth Avenue),
 leafletting there, and then walking from there to the courthouse - taking
 our time and leafletting along the way. We will make a short detour off
 Flatbush to the IRS building on Fulton Street, continue along Fulton Street
 through the downtown Brooklyn shopping area, turn right onto Court Street,
 and walk to the Supreme Court building on Cadman Plaza, finally to the
 Federal courthouse (about a mile)--all the while leafletting and carrying
 signs/banners.

 * We decided to get a crew together for a "night before" guerilla graffiti
 action. If you are a person who is interested in painting late at night,
 please give us a call at the WRL office. Several people either volunteered
 or were suggested for the "paint crew." Vicki Rovere agreed to do a design
 for it as well as track down paint. Anyone who would like to join this
 action, should contact Ruth Benn at WRL (212-228-0450).

 * If we have enough folks to do this, it would be great to leaflet outside
the
 Supreme Court building at Court and Montague streets in Brooklyn much of
 the day, beginning at about 8 or 8:30 am to about 10 am. Volunteers needed.

 * Because the hearing is at 1 pm at the Federal courthouse (225 Cadman
 Plaza E.), we'll go into the building by 12:45. A clerk in the judge's
 office thinks the hearing will only last a half hour.

 A flyer advertising all the above will be put together this week by WRL.

 A press release will be issued by WRL a few days before March 5.

 A leaflet to give out to the public on March 5 will be a modification of
 the one used on February 1.

 We need people to help make posters and banners.

 The final meeting before the action will be next Wednesday (Feb. 24) at 5
 pm.

 Please note a new web address about the case which will be immediately
 update with any changes in the case:
 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hedemann/IRS_court_case.htm


 **********
 War Resisters League
 339 Lafayette St.
 New York, NY 10012
 212-228-0450
 212-228-6193 (fax)
 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
 [e-mail]
 web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
  >>

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:35:32 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Minuteman 3 Plowshares Activists sentenced

Sorry - this got lost in my back mail and should have gone out a week ago.

David McReynolds

<< Subj:     Minuteman 3 Plowshares Activists sentenced
 Date:    2/19/99 2:04:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:    [e-mail] (War Resisters League)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 >February 18, 1999: Anti-Nuclear Activists Sentenced for "Sabotage"
 >Contact: Bill Sulzman [phone]; Byron Plumley [phone]
 >
 > Peace activists Daniel Sicken, Brattleboro, Vermont and Sachio Ko-Yin,
 Ridgewood, New Jersey were sentenced on
 >February 18 in Denver Federal District Court.  Sicken was sentenced to 41
 months and Ko-Yin to 30 months in federal
 >prison. The court imposed standard conditions for payment of restitution.
 The government has claimed damages of
 >$21,299.40.
 >
 >The Plowshares activists commemorated the 53rd anniversary of the atomic
 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, last August 6 by
 >using sledgehammers to symbolically disarm an active U.S. Air Force
 Minuteman III nuclear missile silo in northeast
 >Colorado.  They also painted images of a gravestone and a broken rifle(the
 international symbol of disarmament) on the
 >underground silo's concrete cap.
 >
 >Sicken, 57, an Air Force veteran, is self employed in electrical and
 plumbing home repairs.  Ko-Yin, 26. is a nursery
 >school teacher.  They represented themselves in a three day trial,
 November 2-4, 1998 and were found guilty of
 >sabotage, conspiracy, and destruction of government property.  A formal
 defense was prohibited, such as the "necessity
 >defense" or "Nuremberg defense".  Immediately following the trial, the
 activists were incarcerated at Englewood Federal
 >Detention Center outside Denver.  Sicken was assigned to federal detention
 at Ft. Devens, MA and Ko-Yin at Allenwood,
 >PA.
 >
 >Arguments made for downward departure from the sentencing guidelines were
 accepted by Judge Walker Miller, basing his
 >decision on the principle of "gradations of offense".  Thus the sentencing
 guidelines of 63-97 months became 30-41
 >months. Sicken and Ko-Yin repeated their earlier assertions that their
 actions were morally and legally justified.
 >Byron Plumley, American Friends Service Committee, said "the outcome
 represented the reality that legal and moral
 >action are not the same; as the court upheld the nuclear policy of the
 United States."
 >
 >This act of beating swords into plowshares is one of over 60 similar
 Plowshares actions that have occurred since 1980,
 >largely inspired by the biblical prophecy of Isaiah 2:4.  500 Minuteman
 III and 50 MX missiles are just one leg of the
 >first strike nuclear triad of hydrogen bombs deployed in the U.S. arsenal.
  The other 2 legs are comprised of 18
 >Trident submarines and a bomber fleet.  A single Minuteman III missile has
 the equivalent destructive power of 58
 >Hiroshima type bombs.  Bill Sulzman, representing the Minuteman III
 Plowshares support group stated his strong
 >disappointment that Judge Miller chose to put his personal stamp of
 approval on America's (Colorado's) weapons of mass
 >destruction.  Sulzman said, "unfortunately nice men like Judge Miller keep
 the nuclear system functioning smoothly."
 >--  end  --
 >
 >
 **********
 War Resisters League
 339 Lafayette St.
 New York, NY 10012
 212-228-0450
 212-228-6193 (fax)
 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
 [e-mail]
 web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
  >>

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:11:15 -0000
From: "Janet Bloomfield" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Mar 1 book launch at UN on nuclear effects

Dear Friends,
greetings and solidarity from England. May the book launch be a great
success and bring the voices of the Pacific into the hearts and minds of all
at the UN.
Yours in peace,
Janet Bloomield.

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



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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:07:48 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: (Fwd) Student call to action

From the Mennonite Community comes this:

<< Subj:=09 (Fwd) Student call to action
 Date:=092/25/99 1:27:26 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:=[e-mail] (Mennonite Church Peace and Justice Committ=
ee,
Orrville Ohio)
 Sender:=[e-mail]
 Reply-to:=[e-mail] (Mennonite Church Peace and Justice
Committee, Orrville Ohio), [e-mail]
 To:=[e-mail]

 ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
 Date sent:      =09Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:09:22 -0800 (PST)
 To:             =09(Recipient list suppressed)
 From:           =09International/Interfaith <[e-mail]>
 Subject:        =09Student call to action

 STUDENT CALL TO ACTION AGAINST THE SANCTIONS ON IRAQ
 STATEMENT SIGNED AND DELIVERED;
 YOUR HELP NEEDED TO MAKE SURE PAPERS PUBLISH THE STATEMENT!

 1. Statement and Signatures
 2. Where do we go from here?
 3. What is the Student Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition?

 1. Statement and Signatures

 STUDENT CALL TO ACTION AGAINST U.S. / U.N. IMPOSED SANCTIONS UPON
 IRAQ

 Dear Editors and Students:

 For more than a century, student movements have had an important place
 among the agents of social change.  Students have a history of fighting
 for peace and justice.  In the 1960s, students spurred debates in Congres=
s
 about the war in Vietnam and led the protests for peace. Students also
 struggled against discrimination and racism -- both in the civil rights
 movement in the U.S. and in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa.
 Now, in the 1990s, there is another war we must end; another struggle for
 peace and justice in which we, as students, must make our voices heard.

 For more than eight years, our government has been waging a silent war
 against the people of Iraq.  This month, the US-led sanctions will kill
 4,500 infants and toddlers, according to UNICEF reports.  Today, this
 policy will kill 250 people in Iraq, as it did yesterday... and as it wil=
l
 tomorrow.  Since 1991, more than one million people have died due to the
 scarcity of food and medicine and the spread of water-borne diseases - al=
l
 direct consequences of the sanctions.

 Since 1991, United Nations agencies and independent human-rights
 organizations have been reporting on the devastating impact of the
 sanctions on human life in Iraq.  Four years ago, UNICEF reported that:
 "Sanctions are inhibiting the importation of spare parts, chemicals,
 reagents, and the means of transportation required to provide water and
 sanitation services to the civilian population of Iraq. =85 What has beco=
me
 increasingly clear is that no significant movement towards food security
 can be achieved so long as the embargo remains in place."

 And what is our government's response?  When asked on "60 Minutes" about
 the death of half a million children in Iraq - more children than died in
 Hiroshima, Madeline Albright responded "we think the price is worth it."

 We say NO!  The death of one child is a death too many.

 As Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, and Edward Said recently
 stated, in their national call for action, "The time has come for a call
 to action to people of conscience. We are past the point where silence is
 passive consent -- when a crime reaches these proportions, silence is
 complicity."

 We refuse to be silent in the face of this war.

 We denounce the trade sanctions against the people of Iraq as immoral,
 illegitimate and contrary to fundamental principles of humanity and human
 rights. We demand that Congress and the President immediately end the
 ongoing sanctions war against the people of Iraq.

 We support the University of Michigan's Student Assembly which passed a
 resolution in January condemning the sanctions against the people of Iraq=
.

 We call upon all students dedicated to peace to join the growing
 movement to end the war against Iraq. Get more information on how you can
 help end the war by sending an e-mail to [e-mail]
 <mailto:[e-mail] >.  Check our website at at
 http://leb.net/iac/students.html .

 It was the collective voice of the students that woke our nation to the
 horror of the Vietnam War.  We must once again issue the wake up call to
 the conscience of our nation.

 Sincerely,
 (Organizations listed for identification purposes only.)
 Rania Masri, [e-mail], NCSU, Raleigh, Doctoral Candidate, NC, Iraq
 Action Coalition Will Youmans [e-mail], UMI, MI, Class of: 2000=
,
 Michigan Student Assembly Edward Qubain [e-mail], UTX,
 Austin, TX, Graduate student Todd Williams [e-mail] ,
 Fresno City College, CA Dennis Markatos=[e-mail] , UNC,  =
NC,
 Chapel Hill, SURGE Charles Michael Brown [e-mail] , Western
 Washington U, Bellingham, WA Bob Witanek, [e-mail], Cook College,
 RU, NJ (Alum - 1982) Byron Philhour  [e-mail] , Caltech,
 Pasadena, CA, Graduate Robyn Oetinger, =[e-mail] , CSU=
,
 Chico, CA, Class of: 1999 Adam Ritscher  [e-mail] , SFSU,
 CA Osama Qasem [e-mail] , UC, Berkeley, CA, Class of: 1999
 Leila Masry [e-mail] , UC,  Davis, CA, Class of: 2002, Amer
 Salim Al-Yahmadi [e-mail] , UC, Davis, CA, Class of: 1995
 Matthew Levy [e-mail] , UC, Irvine, CA Mohamed El Beih,
 [e-mail] ,USC, Los Angeles, CA, Class of: 2000 Este Paskausky
 [e-mail] , UTC, Storrs, CT, Class: 1999 Ryan-Kate
 Shanahan [e-mail], UTC, Storrs, CT, Class: 1999 Katie
 Ming Chow [e-mail], U IL, Class of:  2002 Joshua Paulson
 [e-mail] , Earlham College, Richmond, IN, Class of: 2000
 Carrie Albright [e-mail] Manchester College,
 North Manchester,  IN, Class of: 2002 Gustavo Herrarte [e-mail]=
t
 , ISU, Ames, IA, Class of: 2000 Michael Gillespie [e-mail],
 ISU, Ames, IA, Class of:  1999 Kobi Snitz [e-mail] , UMD at
 College Park, College Park, MD, Grad Student Sinan Antoon
 [e-mail], Harvard U, Cambridge, Class of: 2002 Chris
 Swartley, [e-mail] , Harvard University, Cambridge, Clas=
s
 of:2000 Amanda Vogel, [e-mail] , Harvard U, School of
 Public Health, Class of: 2000 Ian Burke [e-mail], Lesley College=
,
 Cambridge, Class of:  1999 Kimberly Haddad  [e-mail],
 Wellesley College, MA, Class of: 2000 George Katsiaficas,
 [e-mail] , Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Drew W
 Hempel [e-mail], UMN, Minneapolis/St. Paul,  MN Jessica Marley
 Curtin [e-mail], UMI, Ann Arbor, MI, Class of 2001 Amer Kasim
 Ardati [e-mail] , University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Class of:
 1999 Micah Holmquist [e-mail], University of Michigan, Ann Arbor=
,
 Class of: 2000 Geoff Mcnamara=[e-mail] , High Mowing School (Hig=
h
 School), Wilton, NH Sawsan Muaddi [e-mail], Rutgers U., Camden, N=
J
 Daniella Leifer, [e-mail] , Cornell University, Ithaca, New York,
 Class of: 2000 Jesse Alt, [e-mail] Cornell University, Ithaca,
 New York, Class of: 2001 Ethan Wells, [e-mail] , Cornell
 University, Ithaca, New York, Class of: 1999 Yadira Torres
 [e-mail] , SUNY Albany, Class of: 2000 Mike Schade
 [e-mail] , SUNY, Buffalo, NY, Class of 2000, Student
 Assembly Fariha Samad [e-mail] , State University of New
 York at Buffalo, Class of: 2001, MSA Eric Bebernitz  [e-mail]=
u
 , University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Class of: 2000, Laila M. El-Haddad,
 [e-mail] Duke University, Durham, Class of 2000 David Headman
 =[e-mail] , Guilford Collge, Greensboro, NC, Class=
 of
 2001 Sarah Edith Jacobson, [e-mail] , U of Oregon,
 Eugene, Class of: 2000 Karla Nyreen Solheim [e-mail] , Bryn
 Mawr College,  Bryn Mawr, PA, Class of: 1999 John P. Lacny,
 [e-mail] , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Class of:  2001
 Neil A Chudgar [e-mail] ,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
 PA, Class of:  2001 Myrna Atalla  [e-mail] , Brown
 University, Providence, Class of: 2001 Livia Wick [e-mail] ,
 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Class of:1999 Katherine
 McMorran, [e-mail] , Brown University, Providence, Class of: 2000
 Rachel Dick [e-mail] , University of Texas at Austin, Class
 of:  2002 David Ferguson [e-mail] , Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Afifa
 Ahmed [e-mail] , Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Class
 of:2000 Andres Felipe Vergara [e-mail] , George
 Washington University, DC, Class of 2002 Barak Epstein
 [e-mail] , George Washington University, DC, Class of:
 2000 Melanie Stibick  [e-mail] , U WI,  Madison, Class of:
 2000 (MA), ASM Member Sarah Knopp [e-mail] , University o=
f
 Wisconsin, Madison, Class of: 1999 Gary Grass [e-mail] ,
 Manpower Business Training Institute and Kaplan Educational Centers,
 Milwaukee, WI, Class of: 1999 (MBTI) Zakia Halbouni [e-mail]
 , University of Western Ontario, London,Ont,CA, Class of: 2001 Noha
 El-Shareif, [e-mail] , University of Western Ontario,
 London, Ontario, Canada, Class of:1999 Mike Zmolek, [e-mail] , Yor=
k
 University, Toronto, Canada, PhD Candidate Steve Pollard
 [e-mail], University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex
 Christopher Mitchell, [e-mail] Macalester College, St.
 Paul, MN Class of 2001 John Hering,  Humboldt State University, Arcata,
 CA, Class of: 2001. Narjes Misherghi, Stanford U, CA, Class of 2001
 Rebecca Berhanu, Stanford U, CA Elizabeth Ribet, UC, Irvine, CA Graduate
 Student Marisa Nadolny, UTC, Storrs, CT, Class of: 1999 Jennifer Mattera,
 UCT, Storrs, CT Ali Wick, Yale U, New Haven CT, Class of 2002 Stefanie
 Dion, UCT, Storrs, CT, Class of: 2000 Aqsa Farooqui, Agnes Scott College,
 Decatur, GA 30030 Elias L. Khalil, U of Chicago, Chicago, IL, PhD
 Candidate Leslie Boby, U IL, Urbana , IL, Class of:  1999 Reuben Kirksey,
 U IL, Urbana-Champaign Alex Bonick, U IL, Urbana-Champaign, Class of: 200=
0
 Eliska Champagne-Veselka, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, Class of:  2000
 Allison Michel Levinsky, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Class of
 2002 Dawn Budd, Manchester College, North Manchester, Class of: 2001
 Abdoulkarim Ibrahim, ISU, Ames, IA, Class of: 2001 Vanessa Lutz, ISU,
 Ames, IA Sean Pelkey, BU, Boston, Class of: 2001 Christopher Vaeth,
 Harvard Divinity School/Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Class of:  1999=
,
 Nina Shapley, MIT, Cambridge, MA Nicole Wood, Roxbury Community College,
 Boston, International Action Center Erin Bower, Simmons College, Boston,
 Graduate Student Mazen Boriny University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
 Jennifer Perry, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, Class of: 1999 Jenny
 Schlanser, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Class of: 2000 Aiman Mackie=
,
 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Class of: 2000 Michael Mosallam,
 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Class of: 2001 Nancy Sundell, Cornell
 University, Ithaca, NY, Graduate Student Jessica Moore,  Jamestown
 Community College,  Jamestown, New York Ellen Davidson, New School
 University, New York City, Class of: 2000 Karen Gau, New York University,
 NYC,  Class of: 2001 Alan Lowenschuss, New York U, NYC, Graduate student
 Ya-Chung Chuang, Duke University, Durham, NC Michael Leonardi, University
 of Toledo, OH Joannie Tang,  University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Class
 of: 2001 Andy Herzing, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Class of: 2002 Joshu=
a
 Ferguson, Messiah College,  Grantham, PA, Class of:2002 John Bracken,
 UPENN, Annenberg School of Communication,  Philadelphia, Class of: 1999
 Nora Shalaby, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Class of: 2000 Samuel B
 Williamson, Class of: 1999, Students in Solidarity Leila Khan, Brown
 University, Providence, Class of: 1999 Brian Carnes, University of South
 Carolina, Columbia, SC, Class of: 1999 Mono Aguilar, Our Lady of the Lake
 University, San  Antonio, Texas Meagan Smith, University of Washington
 School of Law, Seattle, WA Class of:  2000 Jennifer Brown, Eastern
 Washington University, Cheney, Washington, Class of: 2001 Adam
 McConnel,Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Tamam Barhoush,
 Georgetown University, Washington DC Mark Whitaker, University of
 Wisconsin-Madison, Class of: 2002 Kevin Cullen, University of
 Wisconsin-Madison, Class of 2001, Member ASM Michael Lauer, U WI, Madison=
,
 Class of: 1999 James Loughery, University of Northern British Columbia,
 Prince George, B.C., Canada Uri Strauss, University of British Columbia,
 British Columbia (Canada) Class of: 1999, UBC Graduate Student Society
 (Councillor Monika Dutt, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
 Class of:1999 Yasmine Rifaat, Mcgill University, Montreal, Quebec Class
 of:2001 Michele Tan, University of Leeds, UK, Leeds, West Yorkshire
 Takeshi Higuchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Chemical Engineering in
 Graduate Student SHIGEMATSU Tomohiro, Kunitachi City,Tokyo, Japan, Studen=
t
 of Hitotsubashi Univ., Member of Student Government of Hitotsubashi Univ
 Michiya Kitada, Sophia University, Tokyo,Japan

 2. Where do we go from here?

 Thank you to all who have responded to sign the letter, offer advice,
 provide e-mail addresses, etc. The above statement with the list of
 signatories has been forwarded to approximately 400 campus newspapers
 around the U.S.  If the statement can be printed in 300 - 400 papers, it
 will be read by literally several million students, faculty, staff and
 community members.  Of those millions, thousands will contact the Student
 Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition, giving us the potential to
 coordinate with you, a movement that can have national impact on this
 issue.

 In order for us to maximize the impact of this statement, we invite you t=
o
 continue your support in these ways: A. Get your campus organizer  starte=
r
 kit by sending an e-mail to [e-mail] and visit the web site of
 the Student Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition:
 http://leb.net/iac/students.html .  Please consider the organizing
 suggestions we make therein and provide appropriate feedback.  It is only
 with your participation that our efforts can bear fruit. B. Help assure
 that the statement appears in your campus newspapers.  If nobody from you=
r
 campus has signed the statement, you can add your signature.  Then
 approach the editors of the various papers at your campus and request tha=
t
 they print the statement.  Even if you can not sign the statement or if
 students at your campus have already signed, you can still urge the
 editors to print the statement.  Be encouraged to visit your newspaper
 offices with the statement and / or to forward a copy of the statement to
 them.  You can also request that we forward the statement to your paper b=
y
 filling out this coupon and sending it to us at [e-mail] : =3D =
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 University.: City / State of College: E-Mail of paper: Your name:
                            University / City / State: Do you wish to add
 your name to the statement: Yes _______  If so, then provide: University =
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 Town / State: Town / State of residency: Class of: Student Government /
 Other student organization affiliation: Phone Number: Can we list you as =
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 send a message to [e-mail] and [e-mail] to report any
 success you have had with this effort and in which papers you have seen
 the statement printed. F. Forward this message within your various
 networks and discussions. G. You can feel free to print the following lin=
e
 in your publications or include in your e-mail messages as often as you
 would like:

 For more information about the student effort to end the sanctions on
 Iraq, send an e-mail message to [e-mail] and visit
 http://leb.net/iac/students.html .

 3. What is the Student Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition?

 The Iraq Action Coalition (IAC) is an independent grassroots
 clearinghouse dedicated to ending the war on the people of Iraq. IAC
 provides information and analysis on the devastating effects of the
 continuing war. IAC supports an immediate lifting of the illegitimate
 blockade on the people of Iraq.

 IAC is not affiliated with any government, political party, or religious
 institution.

 Information on the impact of the sanctions war, and on the voices of
 peace working to end the war, is available on the IAC website
 http://leb.net/IAC    The website also provides fact-sheets, pictures,
 action alerts, and additional resources for activists.

 The Student Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition aims to follow suit,
 providing networking services for campus anti-sanctions organizers and th=
e
 means to communicate and coordinate the student movement around this
 issue.  For this purpose, we have set up http://leb.net/iac/students.html
 .  The web site includes a wide range of suggested activities for campus
 organizers as well as a directory of campus organizers and committees on
 this topic.  You can help us make the directory more comprehensive by
 adding your organization.  The directory will also advertise the various
 activities of organizations on this topic.  WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ADD LINKS
 TO THIS URL at your locations!

 Ideally, signers of the statement and other interested students would for=
m
 an initial steering committee of the Student Committee of the Iraq Action
 Coalition. Proposals for nationally and regionally coordinated action
 would be fielded through that body. A discussion group for that purpose i=
s
 being devised.  Please contact us at [e-mail] or
 [e-mail] to become part of that discussion.  As well, feedback
 can be sent to those addresses.

 Meanwhile, we recommend that you subscribe to the ADC-ITF, a discussion
 group sponsored by the Iraq Task Force of the American-Arab
 Anti-Discrimination Committee.  To do so, send this message: Subscribe
 adc-itf To this address: [e-mail] . Traffic on this group is
 about 5 messages per day.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:26:17 -0000
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Name

Dear David (cc to Sally): While I share your desire to get on with the
campaign, I am concerned about the assumption that no negative feedback
within 48 hours via email means consensus or agreement. this may cause the
campaign unnecessary problems and delay down the road. For example, with
the name, there was no clear favorite emanating from the meeting. Moreover,
Mateo mentioned to me that while we who were at the meeting may have
understood the U.S. in names with "U.S. Campaign" to be directed at U.S.
weapons, that was not likely how it would be interpreted by some who would
later hear the name in Newe Segobia and other native nations. He was
concerned that the U.S. in "U.S. Campaign" and other similar formulations
would be interpreted as excluding those folks who did not consider their
territory as part of the U.S. geographically. Therefore, I recommend two
things. (1) The interim steering committee discuss the name on its
conference call next week. That way there is some process, and hence some
additional legitimacy behind what is chosen; and (2) If Abolition USA is
chosen as the name, the tag line should be ammended so that the name says
more simply -- "Abolition USA: The Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons,"
as that makes the name somewhat less focused on the U.S. as geography, and
more clearly focused on its weapons. The whole name also sounds less
redundant that way. Further, while I recommended Abolition USA at the
meeting, and I still favor its snappy ring, I would be content with
something else if the steering group can come up with something better.
Peace, Marylia     P.S. - this is not posted to the abolition-usa list
serve because I have never been able to post to it for some strange and
mysterious reason. --mk

Dear Friends,
>        I've had many responses to my message regarding the name--none
>have been negative.  I believe there is general agreement with the name:
>"Abolition USA: The U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons."  I suggest
>that we consider the name adopted, and move on to issues of strategy.
>        I've listed below some of the comments received.
>
>                                        David Krieger
>
>"GO WITH THE NAME!!!!   LET'S GET IT ROLLING........."
>--Jackie Hudson
>
>"I'm hoping over time, as we get better known, we will be referred to as
>ABOLITION USA."
>--Inga Olson
>
>"I think the name is great.  Go for it."
>--Bob Musil
>
>"I'm OK with Abolition USA and the subtext.  Hope we can nail it down."
>--Alice Slater
>
>"Indeed, go with it! It is straight-forward and unambiguous, especially
>with the subtitle."
>--Sue Ablao
>
>"AAV was in support of the name "Abolition USA when it was first
>introduced.  It's catchy and has a lot of zzzip.
>--Anthony from AAV
>
>
>
>*********************************************************
>NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION
>International contact for Abolition 2000
>a Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
>**********************************************************
>1187 Coast Village Road, Box 121
>Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794
>Phone [phone] * Fax [phone]
>e- mailto:[e-mail]
>URL http://www.wagingpeace.org
>URL http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/
>**********************************************************

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.





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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:03:00 -1000
From: YourGoodFriend <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENT LEAVES FRANCE FOR JAPAN;           GREENPEACE DENOUNCES LIKELY PACIFIC TRANSPORT UNSAFE

fyi:

Richard Salvador

[a quote from the following piece: "Effectively, the governments of Japan,
France and Britain are saying that the operations of their plutonium
industries are more important than the health and well-being of the people
and environment along the transport routes."]

__

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT
Friday, February 26, 1999

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawaii at Manoa


            GREENPEACE PACIFIC
            Suva, Fiji Islands

NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENT LEAVES FRANCE FOR JAPAN;
GREENPEACE DENOUNCES LIKELY PACIFIC TRANSPORT UNSAFE

Cherbourg, France (February 25, 1999 - Greenpeace---Under intense
security, the UK flagged "Pacific Swan" departed the port of Cherbourg at
8:15 a.m. with a cargo of highly radioactive waste bound for Japan. The
route for the shipment, which has been dubbed a "floating Chernobyl,"
remains secret.

But previous shipments of similar material have been through South Pacific
waters.

Greenpeace has warned that the shipment poses immense dangers due to
outstanding safety and security problems. The environmental group has
condemned Japanese, French and British authorities for keeping the
shipment a secret from endangered en route nations, many of whom have
demanded prior notification and consultation on the route, emergency,
salvage and indemnity planning for such ultra-hazardous transports.

The nuclear freighter "Pacific Swan" entered the French port of Cherbourg
on Wednesday at 12.30 a.m. under cover of darkness. With an array of
French naval vessels in the water and hundreds of riot police deployed
around the port, the ship was loaded with 40 blocks of glassified, highly
radioactive nuclear waste contained in two transport containers. This
waste is a by product of plutonium separation from Japanese irradiated
nuclear fuel at the nearby La Hague reprocessing plant. The nuclear waste
is among the most radioactive material ever produced -- the glass blocks
are in fact so radioactive that a person standing within one meter of an
unshielded block would receive a lethal dose of radiation in less than one
minute. It is estimated that the two flasks on the Swan contain a
staggering 20,500,000 curies of radioactivity -- effectively making it a
floating Chernobyl.

Three other shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste have already
been sent from Europe to Japan, the first, in 1995 went via Cape Horn, the
second in 1997 went via South Africa, the Tasman Sea and the South
Pacific, and the third shipment, in 1998, went via the Caribbean Sea and
Panama Canal. In response to these shipments, some 50 countries condemned
the transports and moved to ban the shipments from their waters.

En route state concerns have been fed by the widely held belief that the
transport containers used for these dangerous cargoes have been
inadequately designed and tested to withstand the serious strains of
accidents at sea -- the affects of collision, fire and immersion appear
far beyond the design criteria used for the casks. In addition,
cost-cutting appears to have lead Japanese officials to use a form of
steel for the high level nuclear waste transport and storage containers
which has already been rejected for such use by the U.S. National Academy
of Science. Given these concerns, dozens of countries have demanded that
Japanese, French and British authorities provide prior notification and
enter into consultation regarding the route, emergency and salvage
planning.

Instead, French, British and Japanese authorities are pretending that they
only make their decisions on the route at the last moment and therefore
can only announce the transport route after the ship has left.

"It is a complete mockery to announce these shipments' routes after they
have left," said Mike Townsley of Greenpeace. "This is clearly part of a
strategy to make it possible to withhold information from concerned
nations. Effectively, the governments of Japan, France and Britain are
saying that the operations of their plutonium industries are more
important than the health and well-being of the people and environment
along the transport routes."

"Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing serves no purpose: it is an expensive,
dirty, dangerous and outdated technology. The world is awash with
plutonium that nobody really wants. It is utterly unjustifiable to
endanger millions of people simply to keep this dying industry alive. The
global trade in nuclear waste and weapons usable plutonium must be
stopped."

Greenpeace is calling on en route nations to enact national laws and
regional prohibitions against the transport of nuclear waste and
plutonium.

For further information contact

Mike Townsley - Greenpeace International - 00 44 1835 840 234

Yannic Rousselete -- Greenpeace Cherbourg -- 00 33 02 33 93 28 00
or mobile -- 00 33 6 85 80 65 59

Samantha Magick- Greenpeace Pacific- 679- 312861


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