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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 20:15:27 -0500
From: Kathy Crandall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Change At Disarmament Clearinghouse/ Position Available

Dear  Abolition Advocates and Friends of the Disarmament Clearinghouse:

ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND:
1) Kathy leaves Clearinghouse Position
2) Resource People for You to Contact on  Urgent Issues
3) Job Announcement for New Coordinator
****************************************************
I am leaving my position as Coordinator for the Disarmament
Clearinghouse on Monday March 8, 1999.

I will continue to work for a  nuclear weapons-free world as the
Associate Director for Security Programs at Physicians for Social
Responsibility. I hope to continue working with many of you in my new
job.

The Disarmament Clearinghouse is working hard to find a new Coordinator
(see the enclosed job announcement - please distribute it far and wide
to any qualified applicants). In the meantime, there will be a break in
the news and action alerts posted from from the Disarmament
Clearinghouse, and while we will be checking the [e-mail]
account occasionally,  we won't check it daily -( so I will probably
take this account off of the Abolition-USA list at least temporarily.)

You may have urgent/ important questions or news to share on some
disarmament related topics. These resource people from the sponsoring
organizations of the Disarmament Clearinghouse may be useful contacts.
*******************************************************************
On STAR WARS (National Missile Defense) & Yes there are votes expected
this week:
****************************************************************
 Bob Tiller at PSR, [e-mail] [phone] ext. 220
Fran Teplitz at Peace Action, [e-mail] [phone] ext. 3004
Kimberly Robson at WAND, [e-mail]  [phone]
**************************************************************
On the CTBT - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty NOW Campaign
**************************************************************
If you haven't already done so, subscribe to CTBT-Organize, an
interactive list where anyone can post the latest information. (Send a
message to [e-mail] this week)
Also contact:
Marie Rietmann, 20/20 Vision  [e-mail],  [phone]
and for information and assistance on the Interfaith Petition Drive
contact:
Kathy Guthrie, FCNL,  [e-mail] [phone]
********************************************************
On De-Alerting and START Moving disarmament progress
********************************************************
Bob Tiller at PSR [e-mail]  [phone] ext. 220
Fran Teplitz & Bruce Hall at Peace Action  (Fran) [e-mail],
(Bruce) [e-mail] , 202 862 9740 (Fran -ext.3004) (Bruce -ext.
3038)
**Also don't miss out on the Alliance For Nuclear Accountability's Theme
Month Activist Kit on De-Alerting: contact Christina Malecka, ANA,
[e-mail] (or  Peace Action and PSR can tell you how to get
one)
*********************************************************
On the Emerging US Nuclear Abolition Campaign and intiatives such as
theWoolsey
Resolution on a  Nuclear Weapons Convention:
**********************************************************
Bob Tiller at PSR [e-mail]  [phone] ext. 220
Fran Teplitz & Bruce Hall at Peace Action  (Fran) [e-mail],
(Bruce) [e-mail] , 202 862 9740 (Fran -ext.3004) (Bruce -ext.
3038)
***********************************************************
On Stockpile Stewardship Issues - including this year's Markey
Resolution to be introduced in the next coming weeks:
***********************************************************
Bob Tiller at PSR [e-mail]  [phone] ext. 220
Fran Teplitz & Bruce Hall at Peace Action  (Fran) [e-mail],
(Bruce) [e-mail] , 202 862 9740 (Fran -ext.3004) (Bruce -ext.
3038)
***********************************************************
You can best reach me now at [phone] ext. 222.  The e-mail
account is not quite set-up yet. I'll let you all know when I'm
officially on line.

I cannot fully express my thanks to all of you - who have taught me so
much about how to be effective and inspired me with your dedication and
hard work.

- -Kathy

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                           POSITION AVAILABLE
                  DISARMAMENT CLEARINGHOUSE COORDINATOR


The Disarmament Clearinghouse is a joint project of major national
grassroots membership organizations, Friends Committee on National
Legislation, Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility and
Women's Action for New Directions. The Clearinghouse provides
information, assistance, resources, and action tools to grassroots
activists and policy makers working on nuclear disarmament, and develops
and coordinates campaigns on nuclear disarmament measures such as the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
*************************************************
We are looking for someone with the following qualifications:
*************************************************
1)   Commitment to promoting a nuclear weapons-free word and knowledge
of nuclear
disarmament issues including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the
nuclear weapons abolition movement, and other nuclear disarmament
measures.

2)   Strong writing and oral communication skills, especially for an
activist audience.

3)   Strong organizing skills with at least one year's experience
organizing national issue/ policy campaigns and experience working with
peace activists.

4)   Knowledge of the legislative process and key policy makers on
nuclear weapons issues.

5)   Computer skills - Familiarity with e-mail list maintenance, word
processing, desk top
publishing,  database management, and basic web design.

6)   Ability to work efficiently and carry-out several projects
simultaneously

7)   Ability to work effectively in coalitions, and be accountable to
the Steering Committee
organizations.

8)   Ability to work independently.

9)   B.A./B.S. degree is required. Advanced degree in international or
public policy helpful
****************************************************
The tasks of the Coordinator will include:
****************************************************
1)   Provide   via e-mail, mailings, fax, phone, and web postings
timely news and analysis of  nuclear disarmament issues to grassroots
activists and policy makers.

2)   Produce educational and organizing resources such as sample letters
to the editor, flyers,action alerts,   news letters, resource kits etc.

3)   Maintain and develop two web sites (CTBT Action Site, Disarmament
Site).

4)   Inform, mobilize, and coordinate national, and regional events such
as call-in days, strategysummits.

5)   Maintain and build a database of over 500 activists, organizations,
and policy maker contacts.

6)   Coordinate Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Now (CTBT) activities - includes
maintaining lists of key contacts, maintaining a calendar of activities,
maintaining the interactive e-mail list "CTBT-Organize" and assisting to
develop strategy for the field campaign.

7)   Respond to daily requests for information and assistance.

8)   Working with the Steering Committee to prepare funding proposals
and progress reports for funders.

9)   Conduct meetings of the Clearinghouse Steering Committee, including
agendas and minutes.

Terms:
Full-time position. Salary in mid -$20,000 range depending on
experience, with health coverage, and annual leave.

Start date - Early May

Please send resume, cover letter and brief (no more than 1-4 pages)
writing sample by March 26th

to:
                    Disarmament Clearinghouse Search
              1101 14th Street NW #700 Washington DC 20005
                         Via FAX: [phone]
                     Via E-mail: [e-mail]
                          NO phone calls please

An Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially
encouraged to apply.

- --
DISARMAMENT CLEARINGHOUSE
Nuclear Disarmament Information, Resources & Action Tools
Kathy Crandall, Coordinator (Until March 8, 1999)
1101 14th Street NW #700, Washington DC 20005
TEL: [phone] ext. 232 FAX: [phone]
E-MAIL: [e-mail]
http://www.psr.org/Disarmhouse.htm
http://www.psr.org/ctbtaction.htm

A project of: Friends Committee on National Legislation
     Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility
     and Women's Action for New Directions



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DISARMAMENT CLEARINGHOUSE
Nuclear Disarmament Information, Resources & Action Tools
Kathy Crandall, Coordinator
1101 14th Street NW #700, Washington DC 20005
TEL: [phone] ext. 232 FAX: [phone]
E-MAIL: [e-mail]
http://www.psr.org/Disarmhouse.htm
http://www.psr.org/ctbtaction.htm

A project of: Friends Committee on National Legislation
     Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility
     and Women's Action for New Directions



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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:53:43 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) REPORT:  Global Crisis Solutions Conference on behalf of Global Peace Walk 2000

The Global Crisis Solutions Conference at UC Berkeley Alumni House on
March 1, 1999, was a successful conclusion to three days of events to
help the Global Peace Walk with its international efforts to unite all
survival issue messages in the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal
human resolve --- the first step towards redirecting human and natural
resources away from war, and the preparations for war, to the known but
ignored solutions to today's global social and environmental emergency.

Although the attendance at the conference was only a portion of capacity,
the program was an unprecendented collaboration of so many and varied
survival issues and it was professionally videotaped so that it can be
viewed by a wider audience in the future.

Copies of the six hour conference videotape documentary are available for a
nominal donation to help cover conference expenses and support our work.

For a summary of the speakers and messages with details on ordering the tape
see http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gcsc2video.html

For future projects and events, check back regularly for updates at:
    http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
*********************************************************
Global Emergency Alert Response:  GEAR2000
David Crockett Williams                661-822-3309
20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 USA
*********************************************************
        CAMPAIGN for a BETTER AMERICA
              with General Agency Services
*********************************************************
      UNITED NATION   Global  Peace  Walk
1999:   22apr Taos, NM, --->  Santa Fe 26apr
              Global Peace Walk 2000:
15jan  San Francisco --> New York  24oct
             16sep Washington, DC
     ONE HUMAN FAMILY:  Love All, Serve All.
       GLOBAL PEACE NOW !!     Help Now !!!
*********************************************************
http://www.egroups.com/list/global-peace-walk








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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:59:02 -0700
From: swesterly <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Three American Activist Murdered in Columbia

http://www.ran.org/info_center/aa/uwa_update.html

On the Murders of Three American Activists in Colombia

                                      Urgent Action Alert: February 1999


             Ministry to Decide on Oil License for U'wa
                                        Land in Colombia

             As early as Friday, February 26, 1999 the Colombian
             Minister of the Environment will announce his decision
             on Occidental Petroleum's application for a drilling
             license for the Samor=E9 Block located on the U'wa
             people's traditional territory. ACT NOW! Please use the
             fax letter system below to send an immediate message
             to the Minister urging him to deny Occidental
             Petroleum's permit and protect the U'wa and their
             rainforest homeland.

             Under Colombian law, the Ministry of the Environment's
             granting a drilling license requires a prior "consultation"
             with the local indigenous peoples, which in the case of
             the U'wa, who are opposed to the project, is clearly
             lacking. However, according to anonymous officials
             inside the Ministry, the decision on this particular
             drilling permit will be a political one. For this reason it is
             critical that the Colombian government know that the
             U'wa have many supporters internationally who remain
             vigilant to the case.

             Background

             The sustained U'wa resistance on the ground and swelling of
international support have
             paralyzed the 2-billion barrel Samor=E9 oil project which
California-based Occidental
             Petroleum hopes to push forward in Colombian rainforest. The
U'wa, a traditional
             people numbering some 5,000, are adamantly opposed to the
project and have
             threatened to commit collective suicide if Occidental moves
forward with oil drilling. Once
             again in December 1998, the U'wa people reaffirmed their
opposition to oil development
             on their traditional territory through a communique released
following their fifth
             Congress. "More than one thousand times in more than one
thousand distinct forms we
             have told the white man that the Earth is our mother, that we
cannot sell her, but it
             appears that he does not have the ability to understand...."

             The U'wa's position has gained additional support in Colombia
in recent months. On the
             25 of October, 1998, the Presidents of 28 farming unions from
the surrounding Sarare
             area unanimously declared, "We are not in agreement, we will
not help, nor share in
             the project of oil exploration or exploitation within the
Samor=E9 block... To let this project
             go forward would be to take part in the destruction of our
ecosystem that is fragile..."

             For Occidental's part, the company continues with plans to
drill, even if against the will
             of the U'wa people. While the company relinquished 75 percent
of the oil block last year,
             in the final quarter of 1998 the company also submitted its
environmental impact report
             to the Ministry of the Environment for exploration drilling in
the last 25 percent which
             falls within the U'wa's ancestral territory. While the
government is expected to approve
             the report, giving a green light to the project, the new
Pastrana administration also
             appears to be more open to a meaningful dialogue with the U'wa
to resolve this
             protracted conflict. Both the U'wa and the Colombian
government are still engaged in a
             third party resolution process being spearheaded by the
Organization of American
             States (OAS). Occidental, on the other hand, remains in
violation of the OAS's first
             recommendation for resolution issued more than a year ago and
which calls on the oil
             company to suspend all operations during the mediation process.

             The U'wa struggle is at a crucial phase where any exploration
activity within the Samore
             block could ruin the fragile environment of mutual trust and
understanding that is
             beginning to be built between the U'wa and the Colombian
government.

                                            What You Can Do!

             Send a fax NOW to the Colombian Ministry of the Environment.

             Below is sample leter in Spanish. Or, please write your own in
English covering the
             following points:

                    Deny Oxy's permit as the area where they wish to drill
falls within the U'wa
                    traditional homeland.
                    The U'wa have not been consulted on the project and
have repeatedly expressed
                    their adamant opposition to the project.
                    There is significant international support for the
Minstry to make a decision in
                    support of environmental protection and indigenous right=
s.
                    You and other international observors and organizations
will be monitoring the
                    Ministry's moves.

             To send the letter, follow these steps:
                  1.Enter your personal information. Your email address is
required.
                 2.Enter a subject for your message. We have provided a
default, but feel free to
                     change it.
                 3.Write your letter. We have provided a sample letter
which you can send as-is or
                     edit the text if you wish. Please don't forget to sign
your name.




                        Personal information:
                            Your Email Address:

REQUIRED
                                    Real Name:

(optional)

                                       Subject





                              Fax Recipient: Ministro Juan Mayr Maldonado












                                                 Photo: Terence Freitas






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Suzanne Westerly
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
107 Cienega
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-470-2017
[e-mail]



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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:03:13 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fwd:_JRL_3081_#3_Russia=EDs_Relevance?=

>Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 18:45:46 -0500
>Subject: JRL 3081 #3 Russia=EDs Relevance
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
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>
>
>JRL 3081  #3
>Washington Post
>March 7, 1999
>[for personal use only]
>Russia's Relevance
>By Fred Hiatt
>The writer is a member of the editorial page staff.
>So loose nukes may be rolling through the taiga, the ruble may be in ruins,
>tuberculosis flares in Siberia.
>Who cares?
>Not so long ago it was assumed that Russia's health was essential to world
>stability.  Then Russia's troubles slid from bad to worse, and the rest of
>the world hardly seemed to notice.  Now some in Washington are suggesting
>that maybe Russia didn't matter so much after all.
>Certainly many Russian politicians believe that the United States has
>written them off.  (Most of the rest believe the United States is out to
>destroy them.)  Proof, for them, is everywhere.  When President Clinton
>launched Desert Fox on the eve of his impeachment, for example, Republicans
>in Congress smelled one rat, Russians another.  It was also the eve of a
>scheduled Duma vote on the START II arms control treaty.  The U.S. military
>action doomed the vote.  So if Clinton really cared about relations with
>Russia, many Russians reasoned, he would have postponed his bombing
>campaign.
>But it's not just Russians who suspect the Clinton administration has given
>up.  "The U.S.-Russian relationship has, in the last eight years, gone from
>a strategic partnership," Republican Sen. Dick Lugar said recently, "to a
>pragmatic one, to a relationship of benign neglect, to one that is lurching
>toward malign neglect."
>Administration officials feed this perception when they advocate, in Deputy
>Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's words, a policy of "strategic patience
>and persistence," or when Clinton visits Moscow and seems to have no idea
>what to do once he arrives.
>In fact, most administration officials have not concluded that Russia
>doesn't matter. They still believe, as Talbott also said, that "the stakes,
>for us, are huge." They just aren't sure what to do about it.
>Here's one way to look at their dilemma.  As Russia's post-Communist
>transition has stalled, the nation in fact has lost much of its ability to
>influence the world-at least in a positive way. Its economy now accounts
>for
>something like one percent of world output. Russia remains the world's
>biggest country, but territory has long since ceased to be a key indicator
>of power. It holds vast stores of oil and mineral wealth, but in a global
>economy based increasingly on knowledge and technology, those, too, are of
>dwindling value.
>Russia's declining population of 150 million is too impoverished to tempt
>many companies as a consumer market.  And despite a high level of
>education,
>its value as a labor pool is dimmed by the crime and uncertain laws and
>taxes that keep most foreign companies away.
>So Russia's potential influence is mostly negative. It can scare the world
>with the consequences of collapse: untended nuclear weapons, degraded
>missile-launch computers, the export of crime and pollution and contagious
>disease.
>U.S. policy has evolved in two ways as a result.  Not surprisingly, most of
>its aid is aimed at averting the bad, not promoting the good.
>Three-quarters of U.S. assistance dollars, Secretary of State Madeleine
>Albright said last fall, "are devoted to programs that diminish the threat
>of nuclear war and the danger that weapons of mass destruction will fall
>into the wrong hands."
>And, as Russia has moved "from the core of the international system to the
>periphery," as the Carnegie Endowment's Michael McFaul said, it has also
>moved to the periphery of U.S. foreign policy. On issue after issue-Kosovo,
>Iraq, Iran, NATO expansion, anti-missile defense-the message from the
>administration is that Russia matters, but not enough to derail U.S.
>policy.
>Excluded from policymaking, Russia then emphasizes even more its spoiler
>role: shipping dangerous technology to Iran, encouraging Serbian
>aggression,
>tweaking the United States wherever possible. And so the two nations find
>themselves in an unhealthy downward cycle-a long way from the strategic
>partnership envisioned at the opening of this decade.
>This, it should be stressed, is mostly Russia's fault. Until Russia gets
>its
>reforms on track, its influence will continue to diminish. A foreign policy
>that indulges Russian nostalgia and wishful thinking, as the United States
>did with its great-power summitry and its premature transformation of the
>G-7 into a G-8, can't change the reality. It's more likely, in fact, to
>bruise feelings and delay reform by convincing Russia that normal rules
>won't apply to it.
>Yet "strategic patience" isn't sufficient either.  Russia does matter.  If
>it takes its place as a democratic, free-market economy, pulling its
>neighbors in the same direction through force of successful example, one
>kind of world will result.  If it implodes or grows hostile, the world will
>be very different, and far more dangerous.
>That understanding motivates those who continue to search for a U.S. policy
>that will speak to Russia's potential and not just its pathologies.
>U.S.-Russian relations need "a new and dramatic high-profile program,"
>Lugar
>says.  His proposal: a U.S. commitment to help Russia produce 10,000
>masters
>of business administration and 10,000 certified public accountants.
>Inside the administration, some officials seek ways to turn
>ballistic-missile defense, at the moment one of the greatest irritants in
>the relationship, into something positive by proposing a cooperative
>undertaking.  And many arms control specialists continue to urge unilateral
>U.S. steps to reduce the nuclear arsenal and take it off trigger alert.
>This could encourage Russia to follow suit but would be free of the
>coercion
>and preaching that seem counterproductive these days.
>Some say all of this must wait-until a spent Boris Yeltsin and a U.S.
>administration identified with failed policies both pass from the scene.
>Perhaps so.  But two years in modern Russian history is a long time.  The
>next U.S. administration may find itself with even fewer, and less
>attractive, options than those available today.
>=20
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, 9 Mar 1999 15:09:52 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Peace Walk 1999-2000

I spent a week in the San Francisco area during our recent events and was
able to consult in more detail with the Global Peace Walk project's
initiator, Rev. Yusen Yamato, regarding his suggestions for strategy for
conducting next year's Global Peace Walk 2000 and preparatory activities
this year including the annual Global Peace Walk from Taos to Santa Fe, New
Mexico, April 22-26.

The general goal of the Global Peace Walk project is to instill the prayer
for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. This is the first
necessary step towards redirecting global resources from war and the
preparations for war to programs to solve today's social and environmental
crises (including global warming, ozone layer depletion, etc.) before it is
too late to save life on Earth from the otherwise certain destruction that
we are witnessing on an increasing scale in these times.

The inspiration for the initiation of Global Peace Walk 2000 from San
Francisco to Washington, DC, and to the New York United Nations 55th
anniversary, comes from the report from Proposition One for Nuclear
Disarmament in Washington, DC, to the Nulear Abolition 2000 Coalition, which
called for a cross country peace walk in the year 2000 as part of the global
campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

With this lead issue in mind the Global Peace Walk seeks to unite in this
prayer all survival issue messages and carry them to the public and the
governments with Global Peace Walk 2000 which will end on October 24th,
shortly before the US national elections.

The Global Peace Walk is a continuation of the "walking as a prayer for
peace" spiritual practice adopted by Mahatma Gandhi and utilized in various
ways by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, the US
Continental Walk for Social Justice and Disarmament of 1976, the American
Indians' Longest Walk of 1978, the Long Walk for Survival of 1980, the World
Peace March of 1982 which started in Japan and walked around the world
ending with five routes across the US converging on the United Nations
Second Special Session on Disarmament with a million people gathering in
Central Park in New York, and the many walks since then across the US and
around the world inspired by the late most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii whom
Gandhi called his revered teacher (Guruji).

With the threat of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction
growing now even greater since the end of the "cold war", and with the
increasing effects of global climate change rendering untold damage and
suffering (as predicted by the Hopi and other spiritual prophecies being
voiced to deaf ears over the past five decades and explained as consequent
to errors in human thinking) it is past time now to take immediate and
decisive action to correct human thinking into harmony with the natural law
and order before it is too late to save all life on Earth.

For this reason we call upon all who understand this message to collaborate
with us now to mobilize local Global Peace Walks in communities across the
US and around the world, immediately, on a regular and increasing basis to
heal this affliction which has come upon humanity.  Even a one hour per week
regular local Global Peace Walk event in many communities, even if only
walking one mile from the library to city hall, if done with determination
and increasing numbers each week, will soon have an impact on reaching the
public and government policymakers with the known but suppressed solutions
to today's global crises.

If we recognize that all problems have the same root, this error in human
thinking, it will be easier to unite all survival issue messages into an
effective movement to correct thinking and resolve all the obstacles to
global peace and prosperity.   Historically, changes of this scope have only
occured resultant from massive public demonstrations as inspired and
exemplified by India's successful nonviolent spiritual revolution under
Gandhi's leadership.  To this end we must make these local peace walks a
popular activity and venue for the effective presentation of details on
survival issue messages and the nature and scope of today's global crisis
solutions.  Thusly can we begin to develop a culture of peace.

Not one person should doubt that we can have true global peace, justice and
prosperity
for less than half the cost of present day wars and preparations for wars.

Even if you cannot join one of the Global Peace Walk 2000 routes converging
next Summer on St. Louis to walk together to Washington, DC, or be at the
end of the walk for the rededication of the Washington Monument as a symbol
of peace (with perhaps more than a million people), you can help support
this effort by your networking and commitment to conduct regular local
Global Peace Walks in your community.

To help you in this regard we can make available copies of the many peace
messages, letters of support, and proclamations that we have received since
1995 from city mayors, other government officials, community and religious
leaders (including messages from the US President, Vice President, and US
representative to the United Nations).  Some of these are gradually being
posted on the website below including the most recent proclamations of
support from the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley, California.  With this
documentation you can secure a Global Peace Walk Day and/or Global Peace
Zone proclamation from your city mayor as has been issued by so many others
already.  In this way the resolve for "Global Peace Now!" may be propagated
all this year for a worldwide Global Peace Zone 2000.

The proposal for a Global Peace Walk 1999 route to start this year at the
United Nations in New York City on the day its General Assembly convenes,
September 15th, to arrive in Washington, DC, on United Nations Day, October
24th, will only be successful if activists in communities along the route
soon take the initiative to mobilize coordinated regular local peace walks
which can be then connected on a schedule this Fall along this route.

Our focus on the United Nations is to bring attention to the goals of its
original purpose to "remove the scourge of war from the future generations"
and to offer the way to eliminate the need for its continued involvement in
belligerent confrontations around the globe.

Please let me know directly if you will help coordinate these efforts in
your community.

For more information on this project, how you can help, and the video
documentary of our March 1st Global Crisis Solutions Conference at UC
Berkeley, see

    http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:16:20 -0500
From: Kathy Crandall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT STAR WARS VOTE

A quick ALERT to let you all know that it is very likely that the

SENATE STAR WARS VOTE IS LIKELY TOMORROW AFTERNOON (THURS.
MARCH 11)


The Senate Cochran-Iouye Bill calling for "deployment of National
Missile Defense (STAR WARS) as soon as technologically possible" is
opposed by all nuclear disarmament advocates

The intial vote will be on whether to debate/ consider the bill
(Cloture). Proponets of the measure must have 60 votes in order for
considertion to proceed. (Last year we were able to win twice by
blocking further consideration of the bills, but we only one by one vote
each time.)

Of course nothing is ever definite in the Senate until its over . . .
but It appears that there is an Unanimous Consent Agreement on the
Ed-Flex bill  that will mean that votes on this bill are concluded
tomorrow morning, and the Star Wars Bill is next on the agenda.

PLEASE FAX AND PHONE  YOUR SENATORS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
Capitol  Switchboard: [phone]

FOR MORE INFORMATION/ ASSISTANCE CONTACT:
Bob Tiller, PSR  [phone] ext. 220 [e-mail]
Fran Tepllitz, Peace Action [phone] ext. 3004
[e-mail]
Kimberly Robson, WAND [phone] [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:57:18 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT-STAR WARS

Dear Friends,
SON OF STAR WARS IS COMING UP FOR A FIRST VOTE TOMORROW. (see below).  If this
system goes through, we can kiss nuclear abolition good-by for another
generation!!  It will violate the ABM treaty, provoke the Russian Duma to dig
in its heels for good on further cuts in bombs, send a signal to the whole
world that a new arms race is beginning.  Please be sure to contact your
Senators tomorrow and tell them to oppose STAR WARS.  Spread this message far
and wide.  They need to hear from thousands of us.  Activate your networks.
It's probably the single most important thing we can do right now to get
rid of
nuclear weapons!! FIND YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS (go to
http://www.vote-smart.org/ce/) Peace, Alice Slater

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:40:03 -0500
>Subject: Firmer schedule of votes on missile defense
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>The schedule for the congressional votes on national missile defense
>deployment has become even clearer.
>
>Majority Leader Trent Lott announced on the Senate floor at about 2:00 P.M.
>today that the Cochran missile defense bill is next up on the Senate floor
>after completion of the Education Flexibility bill.  He announced his plan
>while trying to reach a unanimous consent agreement on the "EdFlex" bill.
>
>The unanimous consent agreement has now been reached (shortly after 3:00
>P.M.) providing for debate and votes on defined list of 10 amendments to
>the education bill.  Those amendments will be debated through this evening,
>followed tomorrow morning by votes on the amendments and final passage.
>
>Thus it is likely that some time tomorrow, the Cochran bill will be up,
>with the first vote expected on whether or not to proceed to the bill
>(cloture).
>
>Following the Cochran bill, Lott announced he hopes to bring up the fiscal
>1999 supplemental appropriations bill and the fiscal 2000 budget resolution
>in the next two weeks before the Senate Easter/Passover recess scheduled to
>begin on March 26.
>
>In the meantime, it looks more and more likely that the House will take up
>the Weldon-Spratt (H.R. 4) missile defense bill on Thursday, March 18. The
>House leadership first hopes to host the Rumsfeld commission on missile
>defense threats in a closed briefing for House members.
>
>When the Weldon-Spratt bill comes up, Rep. Tom Allen plans to offer a
>substitute measure -- subject to approval by the House Rules Committee --
>that places conditions on any national missile defense deployment.
>
>John
>
>John Isaacs, President
>Council for a Livable World
>110 Maryland Avenue, NE - Room 409
>Washington, D.C. 20002
>[phone] x.131
>FAX [phone]
>www.clw.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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