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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:36:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: AFSC Yugoslavia War Action June 3rd Support Needed

In a message dated 6/1/99 8:45:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     AFSC Yugoslavia War Action June 3rd Support Needed
 Date:    6/1/99 8:45:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Sandra Schwartz)

 DEar Friends:  I thought you might be interested in this upcoming action.
 Sandra
 >Dear AFSC Executive Committee and staff members:
 >
 >    Late Friday we received word that the Board Executive Committee has
 >decided to bring our concern about the war in the Balkans to the White
 >House and to the Yugoslavia Mission in Washington, D.C.  Ann Scott, of
 >Redwood Forest Meeting in Santa Rosa, along with many others, brought this
 >concern to bear upon AFSC, to the extent that many from the National
 >Coalition for Peace in Yugoslavia (listing at end of email) at the DC
 >witness will risk arrest and suffer penalty to bring the message to stop
 >the violence to the powers that be.
 >
 >    On June 3rd those who have undergone nonviolence training in
Washington,
 >DC (contact either Jim Matlack at Davis House- 202-483-3341 or Mike Yarrow
 >at Philadelphia 215 523-5693 to let them know if you are intending to
 >participate)will worship in Lafayette Park and in front of the Yugoslavian
 >Mission and then try to present our concerns about the escalating violence
 >directly.
 >
 >    Please consider joining in the weekly vigil in San Francisco at noon
on
 >June 3rd to pray and witness in solidarity with these folk and Friends.
 >Their press release will have been delivered to local media and our local
 >comments might be welcomed.  The vigil usually lasts for one hour and is at
 >450 Golden Gate Avenue.  We wear black in solidarity with the
 >Belgrade-based anti-war activists, Women in Black.
 >
 >    For more information, please call Sandra at [phone] x 24.
 >
 >In the Spirit,
 >
 >Stephen McNeil
 >Associate Regional Director
 >
 >May 28, 1999 Email from Mike Yarrow, special AFSC Staff Person in Peace Ed
 >Division (formerly on Board):
 >
 >Dear Staff Sisters and Brothers,
 >
 >    At a teleconference of the Board Executive Committee this morning,
May 28,
 >1999, it was decided that the AFSC will participate as an organization in
 >an interfaith rally at the White House on Thursday, June 3,1999.  Jim
 >Matlack of our DC office will also organize a demonstration at the Yugoslav
 >mission which may be joined by other members of the National Coalition for
 >Peace in Yugoslavia in order to visibly demonstrate our concern for the
 >ethnic violence perpetrated by the Yugoslavs as well as the devastation of
 >the US/NATO bombing.  The BEC has approved participation in the civil
 >disobedience aspect of this public witness.  We would like to encourage as
 >many staff as are able to attend this rally.  At this time we are not sure
 >how many people will be encouraged to get arrested on the sidewalk in front
 >of the White House or the Yugoslav mission.  If you plan to attend and also
 >if you would be open to participating in civil disobedience, please contact
 >me, Mike Yarrow at 215 523-5693 or on internal e-mail.  We hope that
 >regional and area offices will be able to organize some kind of public
 >witness event that day and distribute press releases from the Washington
 >witness.  The BEC only approved CD in the two Washington witnesses of June
 >3rd.
 >
 >Executive Committee Draft Minute 5/28/99
 >
 >The Board Executive Committee, in behalf of the Board, approved AFSC
 >participation in the National Coalition for Peace in Yugoslavia, an newly
 >formed group.  They also approved AFSC participation in a proposed
 >protest/possible civil disobedience by this group on June 3, 1999, in
 >Washington, DC, regarding the escalating violence in Yugoslavia.  While the
 >Coalition's plans call for a protest at the White House, approval was given
 >for a simultaneous protest at the Yugoslavia Embassy in DC, and an urging
 >for other members of the Coalition to join us in this action.  The AFSC
 >staff were directed to prepare a statement for distribution outlining what
 >is AFSC's affirmative response to this crisis.
 >
 >
 >Below is the memo I sent to BEC members as briefing for the teleconference.
 >
 >At its April, 1999 meeting the AFSC Board accepted a minute after a soulful
 >discussion instructing staff as follows:  "We believe that the AFSC should
 >play a pivotal role in bringing together religious leaders, peace groups
 >and other allies to map out a strategy of public advocacy for the cessation
 >of all violence in the region, the implementation of nonviolent responses
 >to the ethnic conflict, and for the reconciliation and reconstruction that
 >will be essential to achieving a just and lasting peace in Yugoslavia.  We
 >affirm staff in moving forward to realize this vision with the guidance of
 >appropriate committees."
 >Susan Segall hired Mike Yarrow as Kosovo Peace Education Coordinator for a
 >period of three months.  On May 6 a group of traditional peace groups and
 >faith-based organizations with a concern for peace met in New York and
 >decided to form the National Coalition for Peace in Yugoslavia (see
 >statement and list of member organizations below).  The meeting was
 >attended by Jack Patterson, Joe Volk, Michael Simmons, Mike Yarrow and
 >Michael Poulshock from Friends organizations.  We decided to have a press
 >conference in Washington DC on May 20.  At that conference Carolyn Matthews
 >of the Europe Program testified to our work in the region and our concern
 >for peace.  The conference was attended by approximately 10 news
 >organizations.  There was an article in the LATimes but we are not aware of
 >other significant coverage.  After the meeting we met and decided in view
 >of the escalating bombing and threat of a ground war we would organize an
 >civil disobedience protest at the White House on Thursday June 3rd.  We
 >decided to not postpone the action too long because of the urgency of the
 >crisis. So far Bishop Gumbleton of Detroit, John Dear, Director of FOR and
 >Ann Scott, a Quaker from the bay area committed themselves to be arrested.
 >On Wednesday, May 26 the Program Team decided to recommend that the AFSC
 >participate in the civil disobedience.  Last evening, May 27 there was a
 >conference call which included Jim Matlack and Mike Yarrow from AFSC and
 >Kathy Guthrie from FCNL to plan the civil disobedience.   John Dear of FOR
 >wrote a letter to the president asking for a meeting on June 3rd.  If our
 >interfaith delegation is invited to meet with the president, we would not
 >commit civil disobedience.  If we are not invited , the plan is to meet in
 >LaFayette Park (we have a permit for this rally), across from the White
 >House, at 11 a.m. and after statements from leaders, the leaders will walk
 >to the sidewalk in front of the White House or up the drive way and be
 >arrested, others would then follow and get arrested separately.  We are
 >planning that people participating in the civil disobedience will contact
 >one of the sponsoring organizations before hand and have non-violence
 >training.  It is evidently illegal to stop on the sidewalk in front of the
 >White House.  A press liaison has been hired to maximize the coverage of
 >our message.
 >
 >    It is our sense that we are in a very critical period.  Nato has
 >approved 50,000 ground troops in countries neighboring Yugoslavia and
 >Milosevic has been indicted as a war criminal.  We are afraid the US is
 >turning its back on the possibility of a negotiated settlement and is
 >pursuing total "victory."  On the other hand, there is increasing
 >opposition to the war in this country, in congress and in Europe.  If the
 >AFSC, through this action, can strengthen the voices of opposition to this
 >war, encourage staff, board and committee members to a strenuous effort to
 >effective public witness against all the violence, we may play an important
 >role.  During the conference call last night, the participants approved a
 >series of future actions including sending delegations or individual
 >communications to members of congress during the week of June 7-11,
 >protesting commencement speeches by Albright and Clinton in the Chicago
 >area in mid June and a variety of local actions on June 24, at the end of
 >the 3rd month of bombing.
 >    Mike Yarrow has made presentations about our efforts and the
coalition to
 >the IDEC, NWPEC and a joint session of NCRC and NPEDEC.
 >
 >
 >
 >"An Appeal for Peace in Yugoslavia"
 >
 >We speak out of deepening concern and anguish over the continued bloodshed
 >and human suffering in Yugoslavia.  We call for an immediate end to NATO
 >bombing and intensified efforts to bring a just peace in Kosovo.  We condemn
 >the atrocities and human rights abuses committed by Serbian forces in
 >Kosovo, and we do not believe that NATO bombing will solve the problem.  We
 >are also horrified by the environmental degradation caused by the bombing,
 >with its long-term consequences for all the people of the region.
 >
 >We seek a solution that ends the killing and destruction on the ground and
 >from the air.  Proposals for diplomatic settlement have been put forth by a
 >number of governments and institutions of the international community.  We
 >encourage all efforts made in good faith toward a diplomatic solution and
 >strongly urge our nation's leaders to pursue nonviolent alternatives.
 >
 >We urge an immediate cease-fire; a halt to NATO air attacks; and
 >negotiations involving all interested parties.  An end to the bombing is a
 >prerequisite for any peace process to begin.  We support the return of OSCE
 >monitors in conjunction with the introduction of a truly international
 >peacekeeping operation that would monitor the activities of the Serbian
 >military force and the Kosovo Liberation Army.
 >---
 >
 >
 >
 >Members of the National Coalition for Peace in Yugoslavia
 >as of 5/20/99
 >
 >American Friends Service Committee
 >Church of the Brethren, Washington Office
 >Episcopal Peace Fellowship
 >Fellowship of Reconciliation
 >Fourth Freedom Forum
 >Friends Committee on National Legislation
 >Fund for New Priorities in America
 >Mennonite Central Committee
 >National Priorities Project
 >NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
 >Pax Christi USA
 >Peace Action
 >Sojourners
 >US-Indochina Reconciliation Project
 >Veterans for Peace
 >War Resisters League
 >Women's Action for New Directions
 >Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
 >
 >
 >
 >



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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 02:37:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) make a call! resolution!

Dear abolitionists. A quick and easy phone call to your Representative's
office in DC is NEEDED. Please check the list below. If your Rep. has NOT
signed on to the Markey Resolution to cut Stockpile Stewardship -- CALL
IMMEDIATELY. Talking points are provided below for your convenience. Thank
you. Peace, Marylia
ACTION ALERT!
CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION TO CUT "STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP"

The Markey Resolution: House Concurrent Resolution 74

On March 24, 1999, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and 17 other members of the U.S.
House of Representatives had the courage and foresight to call for a less
provocative, less wasteful, and more responsible, custodianship program for
the U.S. nuclear arsenal. By May 3, 1999 House Concurrent Resolution 74 had
already gathered 25 cosponsors. If your member of the U.S. House is a
co-sponsor, please thank him or her. If your member of the House is not
listed below, ask him or her to join the others and co-sponsor the Markey
Resolution.

Co-sponsors of H. Con. Res. 74 as of 5/3/99:

Rep. Thomas Allen
Rep. Robert Andrews
Rep. Thomas Barrett
Rep. Lois Capps (CA)
Rep. John Conyers
Rep. Diana DeGette
Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA)
Rep. Barney Frank
Rep. Luis Gutierrez
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA)
Rep. Nita Lowey
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Ed Markey
Rep. James McGovern
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Rep. Martin Meehan
Rep. George Miller (CA)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep. Major Owens
Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
Rep. Donald Payne
Rep. Lynn Rivers
Rep. Pete Stark (CA)
Rep. John Tierney
Rep. Mark Udall
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA)

Urge your Rep. to co-sponsor today.

To reach your Rep., call 202-224-3121. Your Rep. can contact Markey's
office at 202-225-2836.

TALKING POINTS

The Markey Resolution: A Necessary Antidote to Nuclear Weapons Forever

The "Stockpile Stewardship" program is the new name for nuclear weapons
research, development, testing, and production at the Dept. of Energy's
labs and other nuclear weapons facilities. At a price tag of $4.5 billion
annually, "Stockpile Stewardship" involves dozens of upgraded and new
research facilities and supercomputers, enhanced weapons production
capabilities, fusion devices and explosive tests using nuclear weapons
material including uranium and plutonium. The nuclear weapons establishment
claims that this program is needed to ensure the safety and reliability of
existing nuclear weapons. However, the program has little to do with
ensuring safety of the arsenal (preventing accidental detonations) or
verifying reliability (assuring the bombs explode as predicted). "Stockpile
Stewardship" is intended to maintain the capability to design new weapons
and to train a new generation of nuclear bomb makers.

The proliferation-provocative nature of U.S. "Stockpile Stewardship" was
demonstrated last year when India cited this program to justify its own
detonation of several underground nuclear tests. Pakistan followed suit.

What is the alternative? The Markey Resolution calls for an end to
"Stockpile Stewardship" and for a more responsible custodianship program
that is far smaller, less expensive and requires fewer facilities than the
current program. Moreover, the Markey Resolution provides for the
maintenance needs of the U.S. arsenal in a manner that is consistent with
U.S. obligations under the long-standing nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which is awaiting ratification by
the U.S. Senate.

Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the 1999 House Concurrent Resolution
74 to redirect the DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship" program.

++ Please note that my email address has changed to <[e-mail]>
on 3/1/99 ++

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!
Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
changed on 3/1/99.

[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: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 02:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Two for One! Abolition Special!

Hi Abolitionists: Please check the list below. If your Rep. has not signed
on to the Woolsey Resolution to eliminate nuclear weapons, CALL
IMMEDIATELY. You can talk up both the Markey and Woolsy Resolutions in the
same call. They go together like tea and scones. Peace, Marylia

ACTION ALERT!
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

for cosponsors, how to contact your Representative and "talking points"
read on...

The Woolsey Resolution: House Resolution 82

On Feb. 24, 1999, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and 21 others took a giant step
toward lifting the specter of nuclear annihilation from future generations
by calling on the President to initiate multilateral negotiations on a
treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons world-wide. By May 3, House Resolution
82 had already attracted 33 co-sponsors. If your Rep. is a co-sponsor,
please thank him or her. If your Rep. is not listed below, please ask him
or her to join the others and co-sponsor the Woolsey Resolution.

Co-sponsors of House Res. 82 as of 5/2/99:

Rep. Robert Andrews
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Rep. Peter DeFazio
Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA)
Rep. Eni Faleomavaega
Rep. Bob Filner (CA)
Rep. Barney Frank
Rep. Charles Gonzalez
Rep. Earl Hilliard
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA)
Rep. Bill Luther
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Ed Markey
Rep. Jim McDermott
Rep. James McGovern
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Rep. George Miller (CA)
Rep. Patsy Mink
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep Eleanor Holmes Norton
Rep. John Olver
Rep. Lynn Rivers
Rep. Bobby Rush
Rep. Bernie Sanders
Rep. Louise Slaughter
Rep. Pete Stark (CA)
Rep. Rep. John Tierney
Rep. Edolphus Towns
Rep. Robert Underwood
Rep. Henry Waxman (CA)

Call your Rep. at 202-224-3121.
Your Rep. can contact Woolsey's office at 202-225-5161.

TALKING POINTS

The Woolsey Resolution: Calling for a Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

A huge majority in the U.S. no longer sees any reason for maintaining a
nuclear arsenal, according to a 1997 nation-wide poll conducted by Lake,
Sosin, Snell & Associates. Of the 1,006 people polled, 87% wanted the U.S.
to negotiate an agreement to abolish nukes. And, 84% said they would feel
safer if no country, including the U.S., had such weapons. 77% responded
that the U.S. spends too much on its arsenal. Unlike similar surveys
conducted in decades past, this poll found no significant gender gap or
regional variation. Support for eliminating nuclear arms was shared equally
by Democrats and Republicans.

Former head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, General Lee Butler and more
than 60 other retired general and admirals from 17 countries issued a 1996
statement that the creation of a nuclear weapons-free world is both
"necessary" and "possible." Former President Jimmy Carter and more than 100
former and current heads of state and civilian leaders from 46 countries
said in 1998 that there exists a "moral imperative" for the abolition of
nuclear weaponry.

The time has come for abolition. The Woolsey Resolution urges the President
to initiate multilateral negotiations leading to the early conclusion of a
global treaty on nuclear weapons elimination. The U.S. has a vital security
interest in promoting the nonproliferation and disarmament of nuclear
weapons, states the Woolsey Resolution. Cited are the United States' duties
to pursue disarmament under Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and
the 1996 World Court opinion that the threat or use of nuclear arms is
essentially illegal.

Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the 1999 House Resolution 82 to help
create the political climate for a nuclear weapons-free 21st century.

++ Please note that my email address has changed to <[e-mail]>
on 3/1/99 ++

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!
Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
changed on 3/1/99.

[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: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:14:13 -0400
From: Norm and Karen Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) UNPLUG Salem 6/10 'Peoples Hearing'

- --
 Coalition for Peace and Justice and the
UNPLUG Salem Campaign
PO Box 2344, Cape May, NJ 08204
609-886-7988 or 609-889-8667
UNPLUG SALEM WEBSITE: http://members.aol.com/robvfp/page4/index.htm
COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE WEBSITE:  http://members.bellatlantic.net=
/~norco/
The Coalition for Peace and Justice is a chapter of Peace Action

To everyone receiving this message. Apologies for the inevtiable duplicat=
ions.
If you don't live near the Salem Nukes, please pass the word to any frien=
ds you have.
The event below is a follow-up to our 3/27 rally at Salem.

Thanks
Norm Cohen
Executive Director

>
>
>                                   COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
>                                       PO BOX 2344, CAPE MAY NJ 08204
>                                                 609-886-7988/889-8667
>                                                  [e-mail]=

>
>  Date: 06/2/99
>
>  For Immediate Release and Community Calendars
>
>                          Environment Groups to Hold Salem Nukes =93Peop=
le=92s Hearing=94
>
>        Groups comprising the =93Stop the Salem Fish Slaughter Campaign=94=
 will be holding the =93People=92s Hearing=94 on the environmental effect=
s of the Salem Nuclear Plants on Thursday, June 10th, at 6:30 PM at the S=
alem Quaker Meetinghouse, E. Broadway & Walnut Sts., in Salem,  NJ Four e=
nvironmental =93people=92s experts=94 will speak on the nuclear plants=92=
 impacts on the Delaware Estuary, and then area citizens will testify, as=
k questions, or make comments..
>       Our experts will be: Maya von Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper, Delaw=
are Riverkeeper Network, who will speak on the Salem Nuclear Plants=92 ov=
erall devastating impact to the Delaware River and Estuary, and on issues=
 concerning the Clean Water Act and the upcoming New Jersey Department of=
 Environmental Protection=92s permit renewal process. This permit has all=
owed the two Salem Nukes to slaughter billions of fish, fish eggs, and la=
rvae, in return for allowing PSE&G, the operator of the Salem Nukes,  to =
attempt an experiment in creating new wetlands along the Delaware Bayshor=
e.
>        Tony Totah, marine biologist for Clean Ocean Action, will descri=
be in detail the Salem Nuclear Plants massive fishkills due to the plants=
=92 lack of cooling towers and subsequent use of three billion  gallons o=
f Delaware Bay water every day for cooling the plant. Totah will also des=
cribe PSE&G=92s Thompson=92s Beach debacle that led to the deaths of hund=
reds of thousands of horseshoe crabs.
>       Jane Nogaki, Toxics Coordinator for the New Jersey Environmental =
Federation, the largest environmental group in New Jersey, with over 90,0=
00 members statewide, will discuss the toxic threats PSE&G=92s massive he=
rbiciding poses to our communities and environment. PSE&G has used massiv=
e amounts of herbicide in a vain effort to kill off phragmites as part of=
 PSE&G=92s estuary experiment.
>      And Joe Mangano, Associate Director of the Radiation Public Health=
 Project, will speak about the threats radiation, both low-level and high=
- -level, pose to ordinary citizens living near the Salem Nukes.
>  Mangano will present the results of additional studies that will updat=
e his last study that showed infant mortality downwind from the Salem Nuk=
es rising higher when the nuke plants were running, and falling lower whe=
n the nuke plants were off-line.
>      Many other citizens and environmental activists will be at the Peo=
ple=92s Hearing to testify during the public testimony part of the evenin=
g. Hearing organizers will be making an official record of the People=92s=
 Hearing, and will present this record to the NJ DEP, the US EPA, our US =
Senators, Congressmen, and to our local officials so that they too can un=
derstand the true facts about the environmental impacts of the Salem Nucl=
ear Plants.
>       Citizens who are unable to attend the hearing, and anyone who has=
 information but who is concerned about testifying in public, are urged t=
o put their testimony in writing. All evidence, including anecdotal evide=
nce, whistleblowing evidence, and evidence of NJDEP errors or bias in the=
ir enforcement of the current permit, are all welcomed.
>      This event is free and open to the public, who are strongly urged =
to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Carpools are available from=
 throughout the South Jersey and Delaware area for anyone needing a ride.=
 Please call the Delaware Riverkeeper Network at 1-800-8-DELAWARE for inf=
ormation, rides, or to present testimony in writing for the Hearing.
>
>                                                          Norm Cohen,
>                                                          Executive Dire=
ctor, Coalition for Peace and Justice
>
>  Contacts: Maya von Rossum:    800-8-DELAWARE
>                  Jane Nogaki:                609-767-1110
>                  Tony Totah:               609-729-3383
>                  Joe Mangano              718-857-9825
>                  Norm Cohen              609-886-7988
>
>   UNPLUG SALEM and STOP THE SALEM FISH SLAUGHTER CAMPAIGNS:
>  NJ ACORN; Affordable Housing Network; American Littoral Society (fish =
campaign only); Asian American Political  Coalition; Citizens=92 Energy C=
ouncil; Consumers League of New Jersey; Coalition for Peace and Justice; =
Craft=92s Creek Coalition; Cumberland Conservation League; C.H.O.R.D.; De=
laware Riverkeeper Network (fish campaign only); Energy Photovoltaics (EP=
V); Environmental Response Network; First Hopewell Baptist Church; Friend=
s of Pinebrook; Grassroots Environmental Organization (GREO); Grey Panthe=
rs, NJ Chapter; Ironbound Committee Against Toxic Waste; Jersey Coast Ang=
lers Association; Latino Community Land Trust; Monmouth Citizens for Clea=
n Air; NAACP- Paterson Branch; NJPIRG Citizen Lobby; NJ State Federation =
of Sportsmen=92s Clubs; NJ Environmental Federation; Paterson Task Force =
for Community Action; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Republicans f=
or Environmental Protection; Seaville Friends Meeting; Urban Women=92s Ce=
nter; Green Delaware; NIRS (Nuclear Information & Resource Service); Dela=
ware Valley Peace Action; Salem Quaker Quarterly Meeting; SJ Campaign for=
 Peace and Justice; Clean Ocean Action; Philadelphia Greens; EAGLE; Anne =
Arundel Peace Action; Pennsylvania Environmental Network; GEO (Glassboro =
Environmental Organization, Rowan College); Stockton Peace Action; SAVE (=
Stockton Action Volunteers for the Environment); Fish Unlimited; Mercer G=
reens; Philadelphia Solar Association; SEAC-Region 13; Natural Law Party;=
 CATA; Coalition Against Toxics; Zero Waste America; NJ Sierra Club; Publ=
ic Citizen;
>




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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:06:07 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) from: Scientists Against NATO War

Friends,
It may be this already appeared on one of the Abolition lists. If not, this
seemed to me the best place to send it, knowing there are solid experts out
there.

Peace,
David McReynolds

<< Subj:     from: Scientists Against NATO War
 Date:    6/2/99 10:41:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Alex Chis & Claudette Begin)
 To:    [e-mail]
 CC:    [e-mail]

 Hi David,

 I got this (probably about some forward of mine) and thought you might be
 more informed as to how to help these people.

 Thnaks,

 alex chis

 >X-Sender: [e-mail]
 >Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:42:25 +0200
 >To: [e-mail]
 >From: luca nencini <[e-mail]>
 >Subject: from: Scientists Against NATO War
 >Mime-Version: 1.0
 >
 >Dear friend,
 >
 >We belong to a group of scientists trying to assess the long term effects
 >of the bombings on environment and human health. Our aim is to break the
 >courtain of silence of official media and let the Italian public opinion
 >understand the size the havoc of this so-called humanitarian war.
 >
 >We found in in the net your "Peacelink news". We wonder if you have more
 >detailed information on:
 >1) the (approximate) quantity of VCM, ethylene dichloride, ammonia and
 >chlorine lost in the atmosphere in Pancevo and/or in other plants;
 >2) the quantity of lost naphta, gas oil and gasoline, in general or at
 >least in some particular case, to be brought as an example. How much oil is
 >burned in a bombing and how much of it remains unburned and is spilled in
 >the environment?
 >3) we understand that Nato is bombing also transformers. How much
 >dielectric oil is spilled? How much is burned?
 >
 >sincerely yours,
 >
 >Lucio Triolo
 >senior scientist
 >Lab. of Agriculture and Environment
 >ENEA-Casaccia
 >via Anguillarese 301
 >00060 Roma
 >tel. [phone]
 >
 >Luca Nencini
 >scientist
 >Lab. of Environmental Toxicology
 >ENEA-Casaccia
 >via Anguillarese 301
 >00060 Roma
 >tel. [phone]
 >

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:06:04 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) NYC area / Poets Against the War

In a message dated 6/2/99 10:20:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Subj:     Poets Against the War
 Date:    6/2/99 10:20:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (War Resisters League)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 >Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
 >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:26:57 -0400 (EDT)
 >From: Eliot Katz <[e-mail]>
 >To: War Resisters League <[e-mail]>
 >Subject: Re: for Chris Ney
 >Errors-To: [e-mail]
 >
 >A Poets Gathering Against the War
 >
 >with readings by:
 >
 >Dot Antoniades * Katherine Arnoldi * Brett Axel *
 >Anselm Berrigan * Harold A. Bowser III * Steve Cannon *
 >Stacey Ann Chin * Mitchel Cohen *  Marc Desmond *
 >Reg E. Gaines * Guy LeCharles Gonzalez * Steve Hirsch *
 >Bob Holman * CD Johnson * Eliot Katz *  Loki Kevorkian *
 >Patrick Kowalchuk * Tony Medina * Nancy Mercado *
 >Tom Obrzut * Onome * Amy Ouzoonian *
 >Pedro Pietri * Aileen Reyes * Keith Roach * Bob Rosenthal *
 >Susan Sherman * Dan Shot * Hal Sirowitz *
 >Suzanne Solomon * Miriam Stanley * Eileen Sutton *
 >Kyrce Swenson * Meaghan Williams * Maggie Zurawski *
 >plus a speaker from the War Resisters League
 >& more
 >
 >Sunday, June 13th, 1999  *  4-8pm  *  Free
 >
 >A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
 >285 E. 3rd Street (betw. Avenues C & D), 2nd Floor
 >Website: www.tribes.org   *  Email: [e-mail]
 >Phone: [phone]
 >
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 00:07:17 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) So they blew up a bridge, big deal?

This was relayed to me by Mitchell Cohen. It is one of many small stories.=20
But the situation - the bombing in daylight, the return of the planes to bom=
b=20
gain - give this story the kind of horror we feel when we hear about=20
Albanians being shot in Kosova.  This is not any longer an accident of war.=20
It is what NATO is doing and what the bloody British NATO spokesman keeps so=20
cheerfuly defending - Jamie whatever his name is. I think if I hear him make=20
one more excuse for the murder of civilians . . . . David McReynolds

<<=20
 VARVARIN, May 31=20
 The bridge struck on Sunday by NATO had crossed the river at a small Serb
 town, Varvarin --
 whose name happens to mean Barbarian in Serbian. The following day, a group
 of reporters visited the scene of devastation.  Here are some excerpts from
 a story filed by an Irish reporter, Lara Marlowe, published by the Irish
 Times on May 31. But we have to warn you, the text is not for the faint of
 heart:=20
=20
 "Father Milevoj Ceric's headless body lay on the mortuary slab, just hours
 after he said Mass. His black shoes were polished and his pale blue shirt
 was still neatly tucked into the trousers of the black suit he had worn to
 celebrate his villagers' feast day (Sunday).=20
=20
 Father Milevoj's parishioners said he was about 50 years old, but it was
 impossible to know what he looked like because his head - blown off in the
 NATO air raid - was not found.=20
=20
 The man lying next to him on the slab had his guts torn out by the
 explosion, and his waxy, white arms were thrown back over his head as if in
 panic or in horror. A handsome young man was one of eight bodies laid out
 in the morgue, someone had put his legs beside him on the stretcher.=20
=20
 NATO aircraft dropped their first bomb on the rusty old bridge across the
 Morava River at 12.53 p.m. They came back 14 minutes later - as townspeople
 including Father Milevoj, rushed out to help the victims of the first
 explosion - and dropped two more bombs.=20
=20
 "Ten people were killed. We don't know how many more have found graves in
 the waters of the Morava", said Mr. Dragan Cavnic, the mayor of this pretty
 town of 5,000. Forty people were still missing.=20
=20
 Varvarin is famous for its ros=E9 wine and vegetables. "Everybody knows tod=
ay
 is a religious holiday here. This has been our market day for centuries.
 People from surrounding villages gather. They bombed as people were=20
leaving."=20
=20
 The NATO spokesman, Mr Jamie Shea, said: "Our policy hasn't changed.
 Everything we attack is a military target. Just because there wasn't a tank
 on the bridge, doesn't mean it wasn't a military target."=20
=20
 But the bridge was too narrow for a tank to cross. Villagers said the two
 NATO aircraft flew low. They believe that NATO planned to kill the maximum
 number of people.=20
=20
 Mr. Dragoljub Stanojevic, the principal of a local school, said: "If they
 had bombed the bridge at night, I could believe it was a military target,
 but on a Sunday when it was full of people?"
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 04:59:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter about NATO War Crimes

Below is my draft of a letter about NATO war crimes against Yugoslavia.
Please suggest additions or ways to improve this letter.

On May 27, Yugoslav President Milosevic was indicted for war crimes by the
UN War Crimes Tribunal.  I believe that the US/NATO should be indicted for
war crimes also.  In particular, I believe that the US/NATO should be
indicted on the following charges:

I. That the US/NATO attacked a sovereign nation (Yugoslavia) at a time when
it wasn't attacking any other nation.  This violates Article 2 of the UN
Charter.

II. That the US/NATO has bombed many civilian targets, including bridges
(including bridges with trains and buses on them and/or "human shields"
under them), refugee convoys, hospitals, homes, schools, universities, TV
stations, power and water treatment plants, factories, oil refineries
(dumping oil into the Danube) and the Chinese Embassy.  In the past few
days, (May 30-31), US/NATO has bombed a sanitarium, a retirement home, and a
crowded bridge near a market.

III. That the US/NATO has continued to recklessly bomb urban areas in spite
of all the accidental bombings of civilians.

IV. That the US/NATO has dropped cluster bombs on Yugoslavia.

V. That the US/NATO has dropped bombs containing depleted uranium (DU) on
Yugoslavia.  DU is great at penetrating armor, but it is both radioactive
and a chemical poison.  When bombs containing DU hit, the DU bursts into
flame and powders, spreading radioactivity all over the place.  I believe
that DU violates international law against poisoned weapons.


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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:13:53 -0400
From: Rich Conti <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) The Hague Appeal Conference a black mark on peace activism:

Where is the "carefully crafted" statement on Kosovo? I attended 3
evening sessions on Kosovo and I am unaware of any statement coming out
of the discussions. I would like to see this statement, if you can tell
me where to find it.


    Thanks


        ----Rich Conti




At 08:36 AM 5/25/99 -0600, you wrote:

>The Hague Appeal Conference: a black mark on peace activism

>

>Not only the Dutch Embassy was remiss in not granting visas to
Yugoslavian

>peace groups but also the organizers of the Hague Peace appeal were

>derelict in their duty to ensure that a strong statement related to

>Yugoslavia be issued at the conference. <bold>Why did the organizers
prevent the

>carefully crafted statement on Kosovo from  being presented at the
plenary?

</bold>>Why did Bill Pace, who is purported to support the NATO bombing,
be

>allowed to prevent the organizers from allowing a statement? Why were
two

>Albanians- the most ardent supporters of NATO  allowed to speak at the

>plenary? Why did Cora Weiss, when asked at a press conference about a

>statement on Kosovo state that there was division within the peace

>movement? Why was RAmsay Clarke who was asked to participate by the
Dutch

>Peace groups,  prevented from speaking at the conference? Why did the

>organizers describe the request to have a large protest in front of
the

>International Court of Justice during the NATO presentations to the ICJ
as

>being "too political"?

>

>

>The Hague Peace conference organizers have seriously erred and have

>discredited the peace movement. I was told that the US even used the
fact

>that there was no statement from the peace movement in the Hague to be
an

>indication that there was support for the NATO intervention.

>

>Which groups were involved with the decision making, and whose
interests

>are they really serving?

>

>

>

>Joan Russow

>

>

>

>

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