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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:54:42 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Report on War Powers Vote--Call Congress!!!

From: Carol Moore <[e-mail]>
To: Peace list from <[e-mail]>
Subject: Report on War Powers Vote--Call Congress!!!
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 6:40 PM

From: Carol Moore, member, D.C. Stop the War Now
and Washington D.C. Area War Tax Resistance

I don't know if this made the TV news--didn't see it on the newswires.
The resolutions debated by the House Committee on International
Relations for forwarding to the House floor were:
**House Joint Resolution 82 calls on the President "to remove United
States
Armed Forces from their positions in connection with the present
operations
against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."  (CALL CONGRESS AND
TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT IT!!)
**House Joint Resolution 44 declares "a state of war between the United
States and the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
     Both were introduced by Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA).
Both Democratas and Republicans agreed that there is a Constitutional
issue since technically only Congress can declare war.  (Under the War
Powers Act, the President must, within a maximum of 90 days of reporting

to Congress that he has placed US troops "into hostilities or into
situations
where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the
circumstances"-- to withdraw those troops unless Congress has
declared war or voted to grant a specific authorization for the use
of armed forces.  Clinton ignored the law in Bosnia and Congress
did not make him obey, defeating a 1998 Campbell Resolution. So
the War Powers issue may yet be fought again.)
   As an ex-Democrat, I found it disgusting to watch the Democrats
mostly supporting Clinton's right to make war or peace without Congress
getting very involved--the two standout exceptions being Reps. Barbara
Lee and Cynthia McKinney who called for an immediate end to
the bombing, negotiations and a UN or other peacekeeping role.
    The Republicans were all over the place on the issue, though most
were
critical of Clinton and the military as either too aggressive or not
aggressive enough.
The biggest fireworks occured when Rep. Chabot (R) declared that
the bombing had made the refugee problem much worse.  Rep. Lantos
(D) (who continuously reminds everyone he is a holocaust survivor)
tried to bully Chabot into taking the statement back but he refused.
Rep. Gejdenson (D) then ranted in the same vein.  However, Ms.
Lee and McKinney both later made the same points
as did Chabot (though more subtly) without having to suffer such taunts.

   Mr. Campbell was asked what he would do if both his resolutions fail.

He said he would do what Representative Dellums did in the Iraq War
situation, and sue claiming the war is illegal.  Dellums lost that case
in
District Court.
   The Committee did vote to send both resolutions to the floor of the
House, but also recommended the House vote *against* both.
The vote could be as early as tomorrow, but the Committee did
not specify when. While Congress will not vote to declare war,
the Democrats obviously were a bit worried it might vote to
bring the troops home.  But that would take a massive citizens
effort, which is not likely in the next few days.
    One moment of drama was when Rep. Curt Weldon of the
Armed Services Committee asked to speak about his plan to
meet with a Russian representative Friday in Vienna, along with Reps.
Steny Hoyer and (unintelligible) another representative.  He emphasized
the only problem the Russians had with NATO's demands was
that NATO should not be the peacekeepers.  It would be nice
if Rep. Weldon and his crew could singlehandly resolve the issues,
but I don't think we should hold our breaths.
   Overall, the hearings gave me the feeling that we live in a
dictatorship
where the president has complete power of life and death over all
of us, via war, world war and nuclear war.  Happily, the House guards
were nowhere to be seen so I wore my peace buttons and gave out
my article "Four Reasons We May See Nuclear War in 1999"
http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/4-reasons-nuke-war.hmtl
to press, public and congresspersons without interference.
(Only mention of nuke war at the hearing!)  One can only hope
that one's being there makes some small difference!!
=====================================
Call, fax, email your senators and congressperson. 202-224-3121
Tell them you support House Joint Resolution 82 to bring the troops
home.
Also, there is a new webpage that will email them for you easily.
http://www.StoptheWarNow.com

Also call President Clinton at White House Comment line
202-456-1111 and say you are  against bombing and ground
troops.  (Go straight to Operator since as of yesterday it was
not a question on the menu.)  Or email [e-mail]
And don't forget Madeline Albright <[e-mail]>
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:37:15 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) MMMayDay March to Stop Bogus Wars, "Belly up to The Barr" in the Belly of The Beast

MMMayDay March to Stop Bogus Wars, "Belly up to The Barr"
in the Belly of The Beast

Inspired by the need to avert potential nuclear catastrophe in Yugoslavia,
grassroots activists will target Congressman Bob Barr, and support former
LAPD narcotics investigator Michael Ruppert, by joining the DC MayDay
(Saturday, May 1, 1999) "March on Washington '99" ( http://www.march99.com ,
see speakers schedule below), to demonstrate against bogus US wars like the
war on Yugoslavia and the war on drugs, as part of the international Million
Marijana March ( http://www.cures-not-wars.org/mmm ) being held that day in
over a dozen cities worldwide to overcome the historical fraud on the US
Congress by which hemp/cannabis has been outlawed as marijuana (since
hemp/cannabis prohibition began in 1937 to protect financial interests in
the paper and chemical industries) and has been targeted by Federal
authorities with a cynical Drug War in which the truth has been censored
from the public and this valuable natural medicine is outlawed while the CIA
has by its own admission been complicit in smuggling cocaine and heroin into
the US and while health authorities continue to stonewall legalization of
the
Ibogaine antidote to addiction, a biochemical analog to marijuana proving it
is anti-addictive.

Meanwhile the US and NATO are bombing Yugoslavia in support of the KLA which
evidence indicates is collaborating with the CIA drug smuggling to fund
covert guerilla warfare to destabilize populations for transnational
corporate exploitation of mineral, energy, and agricultural resources on the
lands from which they are removed (see details below).

Medical marijuana has been legalized in numerous States by ballot initiative
but in California police have stepped up arrests and property forfeitures to
profit the US prison/industrial complex and to fund increasing police
brutality while in Washington, DC, a misguided Congress pushed by Barr has
passed specific legislation to prohibit the counting of the vote last
November to legalize medical marijuana in which exit polls showed 70%
passage.  Mr. Ruppert is scheduled to speak at 2:30PM to the "March on
Washington '99" and is expected to detail the CIA confession and to mention
the need to end the cynical war on drugs by facing the truth about the
marijuana issue.

The CIA Inspector General's Report Volume 2, held secret for a year and
released to Congress one hour after impeachment procedings started,
acknowledges CIA involvement in hard drug smuggling but Congressional
hearings called for by Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters have been
stalled and the report obscured from public view, first by the impeachment
process and now by the War against Yugoslavia. (details on this report at
http://www.copvcia.com )

Grassroots activists on Saturday have vowed to "get in Barr's face" during
his scheduled speech at 12:10 PM at the Ellipse near the White House.  They
will be carrying Million Marijuana March and I-59 (DC's medical marijuana
initiative) signs at the Ellipse gathering and some patients will be
provoking arrest by ingesting medical marijuana using vaporizers recommended
by the recent report from the Institute of Medicine, the latest in a number
of Federally commissioned reports favorable to marijuana which have been
disavowed by the US Government that sponsored them. (more info at
http://www.jackherer.com and http://www.chrisconrad.com )

The secrecy policies of our society on these issues not only contribute to
growing domestic violence and wars around the world, but by now also
endanger the future of all life on Earth due to environmental degradation
from deforestation and combustion of fossil fuels.  The obscured facts
clearly prove the need for a global scale revival of the USDA 1941-45 Hemp
for Victory program for the environmental-emergency-level widespread
cultivation of this most valuable plant in human history for its superior
bioefficiency to heal the atmosphere, to save the remaining trees from
deforestation, and for the overall majority of Earth's paper, fiber, food,
biofuels to replace fossil fuels, medicines, chemical feedstocks, and
composite construction materials.  The fraudulent drug policies against
hemp/cannabis/marijuana are an incidental obstacle to saving life on Earth
from increasingly devastating climate change and the ozone layer depletion
(exacerbated by reduction of oxygen levels due to fossil fuel combustion)
that threatens destruction over the next nine years of all oceanic
phytoplankton (the one-celled plants at the beginning of the oceanic
foodchain that produce over half of Earth's oxygen supply).  (more info and
links at  http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 )

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity"

- --Robert Heinlein, 'Logic of Empire'

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MARCH ON WASHINGTON '99 - SPEAKER LIST
Sat. May 1st, 12-5 p.m.     White House Ellipse, 17th & E St.
For Truth, Justice, Peace, Security & Freedom

12:00-12:10 p.m.  Introductions and Benediction

12:10-12:30 p.m. Bob Barr- China, Kosovo and our National Security;
U.S. Congressman, (7th-GA), House Manager, author of  H. Res. 304

12:30-12:50 p.m. Bill Triplett - How Bill Clinton Compromised American
Security for Chinese Cash;  U.S. Senate Investigator, co-author of the Year
of the Rat,

12:50- 1:10 p.m. Herb Titus - The Unconstitutional President ;
1996 Vice Presidential Candidate for U.S. Taxpayers Party

1:10 - 1:30 p.m. Cliff Kincaid (for Accuracy in Media) - Unreported Crimes
Against the Constitution; Founder, America's Survival; co-author, Michael
New: Mercenary or American Soldier

1:30 - 1:50 p.m. Bob Djurdjevic -  Five Weeks of America's Infamy: Why
Clinton Cannot Win the Illegal War He Started;  Founder, Truth in Media,
author and columnist; global, geopolitical and economic affairs expert

1:50 - 2:10 p.m. Steve Meyers -  Are You or Have You Ever Been a Member of
the New World Order/Council on Foreign Relations? ;  Editor of Exegesis,
British Foreign Affairs Committee Secretary during the  Thatcher
Administration

2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Garland Favorito - The Protectors of Bill Clinton Exposed;
Citizens for Honest Government, Georgia Chapter Coordinator

2:30 - 2:50 p.m. Michael Ruppert - The Real Impeachment Scorch;
Editor of From the Wilderness, Former L.A.P.D. Narcotics Officer
<http://www.copvcia.com> <[e-mail]>

2:50 - 3:10 p.m. Pat Matrisciana - Arkansas' Dirty Little Secret;
Produced Clinton Chronicles, Death of Vince Foster, Mena Cover-up, 60
Minutes Deception

3:10 - 3:30 p.m. Steve Miroy - How Bill Clinton Can Stay in Office After the
Year 2000;  Clinton Investigative Commission

3:30 - 3:50 p.m. Tom Adkins -  How We Lost America and How We Can Save It;
Founder, CommonConservative.com, author of 25 Snappy Comebacks to Stupid
Impeachment Soundbites

3:50 - 4:10 p.m. Andrew Amirault - America's Future;
Journalist, activist and organizer of the March on Washington '99

4:10 - 4:30 p.m. Steve Ulrey - A New Campaign; A Concerned American Citizen

4:30 - 4:50 p.m. Pat Cooksey - Speak Out for the Sake of Freedom
Founder, True Blue Patriots

4:50 - 5:00 p.m. Some Historically Important Announcements
<http://www.march99.com>

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Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 8:46 PM

From: "Mike Ruppert" <[e-mail]>

The Following is an article from the April 24 edition of my newsletter, From
The Wilderness, which is sent via U.S. Mail to paid subscribers. The April
issue also contains a detailed discussion of covert operative Richard
Armitage's role in the current crisis and how CIA operatives with a long
tradition of drug dealing have planned this new Vietnam for a long time. For
subscription information please visit the web site at www.copvcia.com .



Kosovo Liberation Army and Albanian Sponsors Have Well Documented Roots in
The Heroin Trade

The Drug Trade is an Entrenched Part of the World Economy and NATO Politics

by Michael C. Ruppert

(c) COPYRIGHT 1999 Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness at
www.copvcia.com . All rights reserved. Permission to quote or reprint for
non-profit purposes only if the preceding appears.

An exceptional record of respected media sources from the U.S. and Europe
have documented that the Kosovo Liberation Army and their Albanian sponsors
are heroin financed organized crime groups struggling to dominate the flow
of middle eastern heroin into Europe and even the Eastern United States.
The Christian Science Monitor reported on Oct. 20, 1994: "Disrupted by the
Yugoslav conflict, drug trafficking across the Balkans is making a comeback
as Albanian mafia barons carve out a new smuggling route to Western Europe,
bypassing the peninsula's war zones, according to United Nations and other
narcotics experts." To document the increase in traffic through the Albanian
Kosovar region The Monitor continued, "For example, just 14 pounds of hard
drugs were seized by Hungarian police in 1990, but by August this year
[1994] the figure had risen to 1,304 pounds." In describing the then
evolving trade, which was coming to be dominated by Kosovar Albanians The
Monitor added, "But European police chiefs fear the conduit will strengthen
Kosovo Albanian drug syndicates - some of the most powerful on the
continent - whose tentacles have stretched as far as the East coast of the
United States...

"From their base in Velki Trnovac in southern Serbia, dubbed the 'Medellin
of the Balkans,' Albanian mafia chiefs oversee their European drug operation
and are suspected of masterminding the new Balkan route."


Colombia in the Balkans

The highly respected Jane's Intelligence Review from Great Britain went much
deeper in predicting the coming crisis in a February 1, 1995 article
entitled The Balkan Medellin. Three paragraphs from that article are so
compelling we reprint them here in their entirety.  "The Albanian-dominated
region of western Macedonia accounts for a disproportionate share of
Macedonia's (FYROM) shrinking GDP. This situation has strengthened
Albanophobic sentiments among the ethnic Macedonian majority, especially as
a great deal of revenue is thought to derive from Albanian narco-terrorism
as well as associated gun-running and cross-border smuggling to and from
Albania, Bulgaria and the Kosovo province of Serbia.  Although its extent
and forms remain in dispute, this rising Albanian economic power is helping
to turn the Balkans into a hub of criminality.  "Previously transported to
Western Europe through former Yugoslavia, heroin from Turkey, the
Transcaucus and points further east is now being increasingly routed to
Italy via the Black Sea, Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. This is a
development that has strengthened the Albanian mafia which is now thought to
control 70% of the illegal heroin market in Germany and Switzerland. Closely
allied to the powerful Sicilian mafia, the Albanian associates have also
greatly benefited from the presence of large numbers of mainly Kosovar
Albanians in a number of western European countries;
Switzerland alone now has over 100,000 ethnic Albanian residents. As well as
providing a perfect cover for Albanian criminals, this diaspora is also a
useful source of income for racketeers...

"If left unchecked, this growing Albanian narco-terrorism could lead to a
Colombian syndrome in the Southern Balkans, or the emergence of a situation
in which the Albanian mafia becomes powerful enough to control one or more
states in the region. In practical terms, this will involve either Albania
or Macedonia, or both. Politically, this is now being done by channeling
growing foreign exchange (forex) profits from narco-terrorism into local
governments and political parties. In Albania, the ruling Democratic Party
(DP) led by President Sali Berisha is now widely suspected of tacitly
tolerating and even directly profiting from drug-trafficking for wider
politico-economic reasons, namely the financing of secessionist political
parties and other groupings in Kosovo and Macedonia." These four-year-old
evaluations, along with an abundance of other evidence of Albanian-Kosovar
mafia expansion paint a whole new picture of what is really happening in
Kosovo. Clearly Serbia is legitimately defending itself from an organized
crime syndicate taking control of one of its provinces.  How powerful is the
Albanian mafia? Well, as far back as 1985 it was powerful enough to frighten
New York U.S. attorney Rudy Giulliani who, according to a Wall Street
Journal story dated September 9, was receiving special personal protection
after prosecuting a heroin case in New York City connected to a ring of
powerful Albanian traffickers.  The Journal wrote, "But it is drug
trafficking that has gained Albanian organized crime the most notoriety.
Some Albanians, according federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials, are key
traders in the 'Balkan connection' the Istanbul-to-Belgrade heroin route.
While less well known than the so-called Sicilian and French connections,
the Balkan route in some years may move 24% to 40% of the U.S. heroin
supply, officials say.  If the Albanians were moving 24 to 40% fourteen
years ago then, given their growing control over the traffic through the
region, their access to Western Europe and mobility throughout the world,
they may well control more than half of the heroin now entering the United
States and law enforcement sources indicate that they control 75% of the
heroin entering Western Europe.


A Brilliant Voice From Canada

Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa has
written an absolutely brilliant article on the Kosovo war which decimates,
in its entirety, the U.S. government's stated version of events and lays
bare a plan to re-colonize the region on behalf of Germany and the United
States. The meticulously footnoted article sums up the entire Kosovo
nightmare in one sentence by saying, "The west was relying on its KLA
puppets to rubber-stamp an agreement which would have transformed Kosovo
into an occupied territory under Western administration." After describing
in detail the heroin-financed, organized crime, political power structure of
the region, and noting carefully that there are other organized political
entities not involved in the drug trade speaking on behalf of ethnic
Albanians from Kosovo, Chossudovsky documents the military and intelligence
alliance between Bonn (now Berlin) and Washington to create the KLA.
"Since the early 1990s, Bonn and Washington have joined hands in
establishing their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans. Their
intelligence agencies have also collaborated. According to intelligence
analyst John Whitley, covert support to the Kosovo rebel army was
established between the CIA and Germany's [BND]...The task to create and
finance the KLA was initially given to Germany: "They used German uniforms,
East German weapons and were financed, in part, with drug money. According
to Whitley, the CIA was subsequently instrumental in training and equipping
the KLA in Albania."

Giving the overall economic perspective, Chossudovsky notes the effect of
often brutal economic sanctions imposed by the IMF and other banking
institutions which so often presage a region's descent into apparent anarchy
before its rescue by the "benevolent" industrial powers.  "The application
of strong 'economic' medicine' under the guidance of the Washington based
Bretton Woods institutions had contributed to wrecking Albania's banking
system and precipitating the collapse of Albania's economy. The resulting
chaos enabled American and European transnationals to carefully position
themselves. Several western oil companies [some represented by Richard
Armitage] including Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum had their eyes
riveted on Albania's abundant and unexplored oil deposits. Western investors
were also gawking Albania's extensive reserves of chrome, copper, gold
nickel and platinum..." Given these undeniable facts, and a well documented
history which the Internet and publications like this will not forget, the
current propaganda and very real war being fought in Kosovo takes on a new
and unforgivable light. Ronald Reagan's comparison of the Contras in Central
America to America's Founding Fathers is today as comical as it is offensive
in light of what we know about the Contra war and how the Contras were
financed. The Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters of Afghanistan and Pakistan who we
financed with heroin from the same fields which now supply the KLA have
become terrorists who attack embassies and target American citizens. The
forgotten Meo tribesman of Laos, who Ted Shackley created with heroin from
the Golden Triangle are now basically forgotten - those who survived having
been resettled in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the warlords remain in
Washington, Berlin, London, the Golden Triangle, the Golden Crescent,
Albania and Kosovo.

This writer has said many times and in many places that these wars,
destabilizations and "economic cleansings" are planned and orchestrated
years, even decades in advance. It was a bittersweet affirmation for me to
read Chossudovsky's own analysis:

"The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully laid out prior to the signing
of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO had entered an unwholesome 'marriage of
convenience' with the mafia. "Freedom Fighters were put in place, the
narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to "finance the Kosovo conflict"
with the ultimate objective of destabilizing the Belgrade government and
fully recolonizing the Balkans."

What remains to be seen is whether or not a badly misled American public
will be willing to sacrifice the blood of her sons in this utterly dishonest
conflict. I read somewhere once that the historical memory of a nation lasts
only about one generation. Funny, Vietnam doesn't seem that long ago.

Suggested Reading:
KOSOVO FREEDOM FIGHTERS FINANCED BY ORGANIZED CRIME
by Michel Chossudovsky, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Voice Box 1-613-562-5800 ext. 1415, e-mail [e-mail]
[The full text of Professor Chossudovsky's article will be placed on the web
by April 24, with permission, at www.copvcia.com.]

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:50:48 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL

>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:14 -0400
>From: Michael Ratner <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re:WAR IS ILLEGAL
>
>CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
>666 BROADWAY
>NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012
>
>CONTACT: David Lerner, Riptide Communications, Inc. [phone] or
>Michael Ratner [phone] or [e-mail]
>
>CCR SAYS WAR IN KOSOVO IS FLATLY ILLEGAL
>
>Failure to Obtain Congressional or UN Approval Violates Domestic and
>International Law, Says Leading Rights Group as Congress
>Prepares to Vote on Declaration of War
>
>New York, April 27th, 1999 - Legal experts associated with the New York-
>based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today said that the NATO
>bombing of Kosovo is flatly illegal and that it violated both the U.S.
>Constitution and the United Nations Charter. CCR issued its statement as
>Representative Tom Reynolds (R.CA) prepares to introduce resolutions
>requiring the House to vote up or down on the war.
>    CCR has litigated numerous cases challenging the legality of war
>making including Dellums v. Bush, which forced the Bush Administration
>to obtain congressional consent for the 1991 Gulf War. According to CCR
>attorney Michael Ratner, "By bypassing Congress and the UN, the U.S. and
>NATO have jeopardized the entire system of international restraints on
>war-making.Under this standard any Nation can go to war whenever it
>wants."
>Ratner also pointed out that in this case, had the President sought
>congressional approval before bombing, members might have pointed out
>the consequences such as the refugee crisis in Kosovo and the
>destabilization of the region.
>Furthermore, Congress might have required that all peaceful means of
>resolving the crisis, such as a joint NATO and Russia peacekeeping
>force, be explored.
>        Representative Campbell is expected to bring two resolutions
>before the House this week in an effort to force an up or down vote on
>the war.  If neither resolution succeeds then the US will be continuing
>to fight the war without any legal authority.
>        This is the first major war since WWII that has neither the UN
>nor congressional consent.  Korea had UN consent, Vietnam was arguably
>authorized under the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and Congress also
>approved the Gulf War. Additionally, under the War Powers Resolution,
>the president must withdraw all troops within 60 days of the
>commencement of hostilities. This means that they must be out by
>approximately May 26th unless Congress affirmatively approves their
>engagement.
>-30-


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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:05:29 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 2000 Looms for US Nuclear Plants

 http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19419.html

2000 Looms for US Nuclear Plants
by Declan McCullagh

3:00 a.m.  30.Apr.99.PDT
One-third of US nuclear plants will not be finished with Y2K repairs in time
to meet the industry's self-imposed summer deadline, says a report due for
release on Friday.




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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:06:34 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "Honoring the Mother," Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering.

Healing Global Wounds, PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389

Phone: [phone]     Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]    Web: http://www.shundahai.org/HGW


MEDIA ADVISORY                                CONTACT:

April 30, 1999                                    Linda Micciche [phone]



HONORING THE MOTHER


Arise then Women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts... From
the bosom of the devestated earth, avoice goes up with our own. It say,
"Disarm, Disarm!" Let (women) solemnly take counsel with each other as
the means whereby the great human family can live in peace....

- -Julia Ward Howe, 1870


Mothers and others from around the world answer the call of this original
Mothers Day proclamation. Far from the sentimental Sunday of Hallmark
cards and roses, the original proclamation was a powerful call to action.
129 years later women from around the world unite in nonviolent
resistance at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) to demand an end to war and
nuclear colonialism.


WHAT:    "Honoring the Mother," Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering.


WHEN:    May 7-10, 1999


WHERE:    Peace Camp, NTS.  US Hwy. 95-Mercury exit, 65 miles northwest of
Las Vegas.


WHO:        Healing Global Wounds (HGW) seeks a respectful and sustainable
living relationship with Mother Earth. Our primary focus is radiation
contamination and closing the Nevada Test Site.

A multi-cultural alliance, HGW events and strategies are planned with the
guidance of the Western Shoshone and other Elders. Since 1991, HGW has
addressed the entire nuclear chain and exposes "nuclear colonialism":
issues of racism and class in international nuclear policies.


WHY:        HGW holds bi-annual spiritual, educational and nonviolent direct
action encampments at NTS, which is the epicenter of the U.S.
government's nuclear weapons and waste programs.

Celebrations, Workshops and Healing Ceremonies scheduled will:

* honor women in the struggle for their lands and rights in Newe Segobia
(Western Shoshone Nation) and around the world;

* heal and honor Mother Earth who provides life for all beings great and
small;

* create alliances and strategies to break the nuclear chain and protect
the future generations of all life;

* celebrate the unique and powerful gifts women bring to the entire human
family;

* occupy Western Shoshone lands stolen for the creation of the Test
Site.


DAILY GATHERING SCHEDULE


May7:  Delegations from many nations will share cultural visual and
spoken presentations. Also, the Youth Program begins today.

May 8:  Nonviolence training and action planning is today. Major portion
of Youth Program takes place, also.

May 9:  Mother's Day Brunch will be served. A rally will follow the
brunch at the gates of the Nevada Test Site. Scheduled speakers include
women affected by the nuclear chain and nonviolent direct action. This is
a primary event and photo opportunity; media are invited to attend.

May 10:  Nonviolent Occupation of NTS reclaiming Western Shoshone land.


Peace Camp is located on Western Shoshone land at the gates of the Nevada
Test Site. Each day, Healing Global Wounds begins with a Sunrise Ceremony
led by Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney. Sweat Lodges are
available for all wishing to join in healing prayers. The program for the
main portion of each day is followed by a community dinner and cultural
events.


Interviews with women and mothers who are leaders in the Native Rights,
Environmental Justice and Anti-Nuclear Movements will be
available-excellent video, photo and audio opportunities. To schedule a
pre-gathering or on-site interview please call 760-852-4175. Please visit
our web site at http://www.shundahai.org/HGW for updated information.


QUOTES FROM MOTHERS ATTENDING HGW GATHERING


- -Interviews are Available Please Call: 760-852-4175


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


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


"As Women we are the bringers of life. Whether it begins in the womb or
as a sacred seed in the soil, all life begins in darkness ands emerges in
to the light. It is our hope, as an alliance to emerge from the darkness
of the nuclear age into the light of a new millennium free of nuclear
weapons and the unwanted spread of nuclear waste." -Jennifer Viereck.


"We mothers are the ones responsible for the health and wellness of our
families and communities. And we as mothers bear the weight of this
burden, it is our role to speak for our children when they cannot yet
speak for themselves. Through building our Healing Global Wounds
community we are learning how to live sustainably with the Earth. Through
the movement of our energies together we renew ourselves. In these
natural cycles we will continue to grow, heal and live in defense of
Mother Earth." -Michelle Xenos


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:


Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870, by Julia Ward Howe


Arise, then, women of this day!

Arise, all women who have hearts,

whether your baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly:

"We will not have great questions

decided by irrelevant agencies.

Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking

 with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us

to unlearn all that we have taught them

of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country

will be too tender of those of another to

allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth,

a voice goes up with our own.

It says,

"Disarm, Disarm!"

The sword of murder is not

the balance of justice.

Blood does not wipe out dishonor,

nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the

plow and the anvil at the summons of war,

 let women now leave all that may be left of home

for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women,

to bewail & commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other

as the means whereby the great human family

can live in peace,

and each bearing after his own time

the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Other Mother's Day Events will be held simultaneously


Whole Earth Festival-in Davis, CA


SF Abolition 2000 Event-Honor the original meaning behind Mothers' Day.
Music, speeches, reading of original proclamation, and closing ceremony.
San Francisco Mother's Day Weekend Events, at Civic Center from 12:00 to
1:30 p.m. For more information contact Bill McCarthy at Unity Foundation
744 Treat Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110.  Phone-415-643-0270,
fax-415-206-1622, [e-mail]


Sonoma Abolition 2000 Event-Renew the true beginning of the first
Mothers' Day observance from 1870. Gather at the Sonoma Courthouse
Square, Santa Rosa from 4-5:30 p.m. for more information contact Robert
Manning at Sonoma Center for Peace and Justice, 540 Pacific Avenue, Santa
Rosa, CA 95404.  Phone -707-575-8902, fax-707-575-8903, or
[e-mail], or web address www.sonic.net/~peacentr


Mother's Day Celebration in Berkeley-Meet at UC Berkeley march to MLK,
Jr. Park. Music, short speeches. Celebrate mothers, children and families
working hard to teach real family values.  Contact Women for Peace at
510-849-3020.


Grandmother's Circle: A Gathering of Women Healers-Garden of the Gods &
Manitou Springs, Southern Colorado will include Ceremony, Workshops,
Healing Circles, and Community Building. For more information contact
Allison Smith at the
website-www.exploremaine.com/~whtknt/grandmotherscircle/Main.html or
email-spiritreki@juno


Mothers' Day at Anathoth Farm to protest Project Elf-Camp at Anathoth
farm Friday and Saturday, May 7&8, Caravan to Project ELF on Sunday, May
9. Noon lunch followed by multi-faceted program and action to protest the
Navy's nuclear submarine launch system. For more information contact
Nukewatch or Anathoth 740 Round Lake Road, Luck, WI 54853.
Phone-715-472-4185 or 715-472-8721, [e-mail] or
[e-mail]


4/30.99: Media Advisory Additional Materials-Healing Global Wounds Spring
Gathering May 7-10, 1999

760-852-4175-phone            [phone]-fax


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Info about Spring Mother's Day Gathering, May 7-10, 1999 at

http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/


Healing Global Wounds: PO Box 420, Tecopa CA 92389-0420 USA

Phone [phone]  Fax [phone]   email: [e-mail]

Coordinator: Jennifer Olaranna Viereck

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    HGW is a multi-cultural alliance of organizations and individuals

seeking restoration of respectful sustainable living with the Earth. We

coordinate a Spring and Fall Gathering at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.

Events combine education on issues, community and skills building,
daily

spiritual ceremony and taking personal nonviolent action to break every

link in the nuclear chain.


HGW is proud to be a member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network.

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"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"

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Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to

foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and

Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons



Honoring the Mother, Healing Global Wounds Spring Gathering,

May 7-10, 1999 at the Nevada Test Site  http://www.shundahai.org/HGW

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