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abolition-usa-digest       Friday, July 9 1999       Volume 01 : Number 145




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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:00:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NEW! On Web! From Tri-Valley CAREs!

New! On the Web! From Tri-Valley CAREs! Greetings peace and enviro friends
and web browsers. We are happy to announce that the following NEW items are
up on our web site at http://www.igc.org/tvc.

FIRST:  Our June newsletter is now on our web site, including:
                        (1) "Livermore Lab to Build Nuclear Waste Complex
Without Environmental Review." *** Action Alert *** We are asking
Californians to write our new Governor Gray Davis to ask that the permit be
reconsidered and an Environmental Impact Report be required before the new,
$23 million facility is built. Details on our web site, or contact us by
phone or email. Letters are needed in the month of July!
                        (2) "Newly Discovered Accidents Give Lie to
Livermore Lab Safety Claims." This articles details accidents wherein a
chemical waste container explodes and burns worker, and another where
wastes are inappropriately "bulked" together and sent off-site without
proper treatment.
                        (3) "On the Job." Get reports from Tri-Valley CAREs
members from the Hague Appeal for Peace and the Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability's "DC Days" in Washington, DC.

SECOND:         The international petition to stop two new nuclear weapons
facilities -- the National Ignition Facility in the United States and the
French Laser Megajoule is now on our web site. It is easily downloadable.
Please help us gather signatures!

THIRD:  Read our analysis of the current lab security scandal. Learn how
conservatives are using this for their own agenda, and why giving the
weapons labs more autonomy and less oversight is exactly the wrong
prescription! Additional articles from our hot-off-the-press July
newsletter will be up on the web soon.


++ 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: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:36:55 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Now it's only 181 days!

Thanks, Jan, for your message! I am pleased to hear that another group is
really serious about taking the Abolition 2000 message to the people. And I
am very impressed with your signature count of nearly 10,000. Our group had
originally planned to petition for Abolition 2000, but changed to de-alerting
because it is a much less complex issue with a simple solution and a critical
deadline for action before Y2K. Unfortunately, not many others in the USA
appear to be concerned about it. They must still be pacified by the knowledge
that all US and Russian nuclear missiles are "de-targeted" as I was for far
too long, until I realized that re-targeting takes about one second!

When de-alerting has been accomplished, we will work for Abolition 2000, but
we see de-alerting as an essential, crucial first step.

If you would like, I will be glad to s-mail you a copy of our petition and
information brochure, or send them as e-mail attachments in Word 97 format.
I'll need a mailing address for s-mail.

Tell me briefly, what has worked well in your campaign, and what has not?

Peace!

Bill Santelmann
Metro-Boston Committee to De-alert Nuclear Weapons
2600 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA 02421-6798

In a message dated 1999/06/29 5:13:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> Here in Santa Cruz, CA, we've been getting signatures on the Abolition 2000
>  petition to abolish all nuclear weapons worldwide for over a year now,
>  every Saturday downtown, and have gathered nearly 10,000 of them.  Our
>  group, a committee of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
>  has also held public meetings, made talks at churches, and got as much as
>  we could into the local media. De-alerting may be our next big push.
>
>  Now we're doing radio spots, and your clear and eloquent letter is going to
>  be a take-off point for one of them.  Thanks for your efforts and your
>  energy.  Peace, Jan Harwood
>

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 19:48:08 -0700
From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Now it's only 181 days!

Dear Bill:  A very encouraging response!  We would love to have a
snail-mail copy of your brochure and petition, or you could send it email
by cutting and pasting--but I probably couldn't open that kind of
attachment you mention.

We had a public meeting, like a town-hall meeting last November, with
speakers and songs and Q&A, and that seemed really successful, although
only about 70 people came.  Tomorrow we're marching in a local 4th of July
parade, lots of signs and banners, as we did last year, and we are
undertaking a small speakers' bureau project, getting dates to talk to
various church and other organizations, and to get them signed on as Ab
2000 members. Also, on Tax Day (April 15th) we had a table with lots of
graphs and leaflets showing expenditures on nuclear weapons versus how
little we spend on useful things, and on Mother's Day, we dressed up in
long skirts and flowered hats (the women, that is), and gave out copies of
the original Mother's Day disarmament proclamation by Julia Ward Howe.

I'm afraid I don't know how successful any of our efforts are in terms of
concrete results, but we have faith that keeping the issues in the public
mind as much as possible has got to be helpful and gradually build up a
grassroots movement.

Will you please send me your email address, as I don't want to pollute the
Abolition-usa list with too much correspondence?  Thanks, and peace.  Jan



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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:07:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Typo alert. It's a $32 million waste facility

Dear peace and enviro friends:

In my note, titled, NEW! On the web! I typed that Livermore Lab had been
granted a permit to build and operate a new $23 million hazardous and
radioactive waste facility. OOPS. That's $32 million, folks. One more proof
we need smart keyboards and not smart bombs!

Peace,
Marylia

++ 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: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) New brochure

At 04:46 PM 3/5/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Our Abolition 2000 Committee (WILPF, Santa Cruz) would like 50 of your
>brochures.  We've reviewed them and think they're a vivid introduction to
>the subject.  Please send them to Jan Harwood, 312 Elm St., Santa Cruz, CA
>95060.  Thanks very much, and good work!

Please send me some too at 1439 Brown Drive, Davis, CA 95616
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:05:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Activists Appeal Livermore Lab Permit + action alert

Note the address of the govenor's office, and the request for you to write
a very needed, short letter in support of our appeal follow the text of
this local news story. Thanks. Peace, Marylia

ALAMEDA NEWSPAPER GROUP
(from the TRI-VALLEY HERALD web site at herald-ang.com)

Activists appeal lab's waste permit
Saturday July 03, 1999

By Glenn Roberts Jr.
STAFF WRITER

A Livermore-based watchdog group has appealed to a state regulatory agency
in an effort to block a permit allowing a $32 million hazardous waste
treatment facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Physicians for Social Responsibility's San Francisco chapter also supports
the appeal.

Marylia Kelley, director of Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive
Environment, said that she hopes the appeal will spur the state Department
of Toxic Substances Control to conduct a more thorough environmental
review.

She said the environmental report should provide an "in-depth analysis" of
all hazardous waste operations at the lab -- to help protect the community,
the lab's workers and the environment.

There should be more public involvement in the process, she added.

The state department approved the permit allowing treatment of a variety of
hazardous materials, including some waste with low levels of radioactivity.
The 10-year operating permit won't let the lab generate more waste.

Some waste operations in other areas of the lab will be consolidated if the
permit is issued. The permit also will allow an existing lab building to be
used for the storage of hazardous and "mixed waste," which includes
low-level radioactive waste. Portions of another building would be used as
a temporary waste storage area.

"We are not convinced that the treatments are the most benign possible,"
Kelley said. The appeal will give the state another chance to change the
way the lab handles waste, she added.

Michael Veiluva, a Walnut Creek lawyer representing Tri-Valley CAREs, said
the study prepared by the toxic substances department for the lab facility
is "the slimmest environmental document that the law allows."

Ideally, the agency will reverse its decision and hold a public review;
otherwise, the group may sue, he said.

Kelley said several accidents at the lab within the past three years
highlight the dangers of handling hazardous waste. The problems may
continue with the new plant unless a more thorough review is conducted, she
said.

Ron Baker, a spokesman for the Department of Toxic Substances Control, said
the deputy director for the department will consider the appeal and
determine whether to issue the permit.

end of article
- --------------
ALERT: Please write a short note to Governor Gray Davis asking that the
state of California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control grant the appeal and
conduct an Environmental Impact Report. Write to: Governor Gray Davis,
Attn: Lynn Schenk, Chief of Staff, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA
95814. Thank you.

++ 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: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 03:15:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Call for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day Action

In a message dated 7/6/99 2:06:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     Call for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day Action
 Date:    7/6/99 2:06:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (antiatom)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 Dear friends,

 We call on you to join the "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days International Joint
 Action for Nuclear Free 21st Century" on Aug.6 and 9, 1999.

 The action will take place at all corners of Japan and around the world in
 solidarity with the 1999 World Conference against A & H Bombs which will be
 held from Aug. 3 to 9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, appealing for the
 elimination of nuclear weapons.

 Please send your solidarity message supporting the 1999 World Conference,
 and your plans, if any, for the commemoration of this year's Hiroshima and
 Nagasaki Days.

 We will be posting the list of "International Joint Action for Nuclear Free
 21st Century" on our website: http://wwwtwics.com/~antiatom/

 For your information, please find attached the Call by Organizing Committee
 of the World Conference released February 10, 1999.

 In peace,

 Yuki SATO
 Staff
 Organizing Committee
 World Conference against A & H Bombs


 *******************************************
 Call on the Friends in Japan and the Rest of the World
 to Join and Cooperate with the 1999 World Conference
 against A & H Bombs for a Nuclear Weapons-Free 21st Century

 February 10, 1999
 Organizing Committee, World Conference against A & H Bombs


      As the new century approaches, the call for "a 21st century free of
 nuclear weapons" is being heard throughout the world.  Our task now is to
 further develop solidarity and cooperation based on grassroots action in
 Japan and the rest of the world to develop the road for getting nuclear
 weapons abolished.
      As part of this effort, the 1999 World Conference against A & H Bombs
 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will take place from August 3 to 9 (the
 International Meeting on Aug. 3-5 in Hiroshima; Hiroshima Rally on Aug.
 5-6; the World Conference - Nagasaki on Aug. 7-9).  We call on our friends
 in Japan and abroad to support and participate in the World Conference.

 Friends,
      Last year's nuclear tests by India and Pakistan increased the danger
 of yet another nuclear arms race and the possibility of nuclear war, which
 evoked great fear and criticism among the people.  These tests also showed
 that the continuing nuclear weapons monopoly by 5 nations is irrational and
 constitutes the root cause of such danger, and give proof that there can be
 no end to nuclear threats unless nuclear weapons are abolished.
      In spite of this the pro-nuclear forces are adamant about maintaining
 their nuclear arsenals well into the 21st century.  In particular, the
 United States maintains a dangerous preemptive strike strategy as shown by
 its unilateral preemptive attacks on Iraq last year without regard for the
 United Nations.  The U.S. has openly declared its strategy of first-use of
 nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states on the pretext of
 preventing the "proliferation" of weapons of mass destruction, and is
 continuing its subcritical nuclear tests.
      We cannot allow such a tyrannical policy to continue to prevail.  Let
 us grasp the opportunity of increasing opinion and movement for nuclear
 weapons to be abolished and strengthen grassroots action throughout the
 world to turn the tide in favor of a nuclear-weapons-free world.
      This is an achievable goal, as has been shown in international
 politics. The 53rd United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution by
 an overwhelming majority, proposed by the New Agenda Coalition, a coalition
 of some of non-nuclear nations, which "called upon the nuclear-weapon
 states to demonstrate unequivocal commitment to the speedy and total
 elimination of their nuclear weapons," alongside resolutions proposed by
 non-aligned states calling for the total elimination of nuclear weapons
 within a set time. Criticism of U.S. nuclear policy and calls for it to be
 reviewed is even developing among some U.S. allies.
      And in Japan, criticism is increasing of the Japanese government's
 pro-nuclear policies, which ignore what the people of the only A-bombed
 country want.
      The Japanese government not only refuses to support U.N. resolutions
 calling for nuclear weapons to be eliminated but has gone as far as arguing
 that proposing the "abolition of nuclear weapons within a set-time" will
 impede nuclear disarmament.  Japan's government is also moving towards
 committing itself deeper to the dangerous U.S. preemptive strike and
 nuclear strategy by their new "Guidelines" for Japan-U.S. military
 cooperation related bills which represent measures for war.  The Japan's
 movement against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs has over the years conducted
 various activity, including the campaign to collect signatures to the
 "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Appeal" which calls for the total elimination of
 nuclear weapons, and for which almost half Japan's population has now
 expressed support. This movement is also promoting the idea of
 municipalities declaring themselves nuclear-free (so far this has been done
 by 2,407 municipalities) and resolution for an international treaty to
 eliminate nuclear weapons (adopted in 1,451 municipalities), plus making
 ports nuclear weapons-free. We believe that we play a greater role to
 achieve peace for Japan and in the world without nuclear weapons.

 Friends,
      Let's overcome any differences there may be in belief, creed and
 political position to work together to develop far-reaching cooperation for
 common goals in order to push the pro-nuclear forces into destroying their
 nuclear arsenals.  Let us work together to make this year's World
 Conference a success and to develop the movement and a consensus of opinion
 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
      On the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we call on you to use it to conduct various
 activities at grass roots level on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days of Aug.6
 and 9, in Japan and throughout the world.  Let us achieve an advance with
 wider cooperation in the campaign to collect signatures to the 'Hiroshima
 and Nagasaki Appeal," and in the campaign to make the damage and
 after-effects of the atomic bombing and nuclear tests known to the people,
 and in the Nationwide Peace March against A and H Bombs.
      We once again call for your support and participation and for greater
 cooperation and solidarity with the 1999 World Conference against A and H
 Bombs.

 ************************
  >>

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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:45:20 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NEW! On Web! From Tri-Valley CAREs!

Congratulations, it looks great!

Colby Lowe

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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:00:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nukes/NIF Target Chamber dedication

Dear Friends: The following short article details the involvement of the
French and British governments in the building of a new nuclear weapons
facility in the U.S. -- the National Ignition Facility. Will the 21st
century become an era of ever more sophisticated nuclear weapons research
and development tools, or will we move to abolition? Everything is at stake
here. Read on, and then do whatever you can to stop this new nuclear
weapons facility. Peace, Marylia

Megalaser Officials Cheer Proliferation

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' July 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Picture an elaborate stage, a video screen and newly laid artificial grass
dotted by 800 chairs, mostly filled with Livermore Lab employees and
officials from various federal agencies, like the Strategic Air Command. As
backdrop, visualize a huge, 130 ton spherical target chamber designed to
contain thermonuclear, or fusion, explosions suspended behind the stage.
The  sphere spans 30 feet across. Its aluminum-alloy walls are 4 inches
thick, constructed of 18 welded plates. The sphere is pockmarked by 118
holes of various sizes intended to accommodate 192 focused laser beams and
a plethora of sophisticated diagnostic instruments. Eerily, as the giant
object's dedication ritual begins, Lab laser chief Mike Campbell compares
it to the Death Star from Star Wars. On this day, June 11, 1999, the
National Ignition Facility (NIF) target chamber is pure theater.

Soon, however, it will be lowered into a hole 3 stories deep. The sphere is
the reactor vessel, the "business end" of NIF. Pellets stuffed with
radioactive tritium and deuterium will be placed in its bowels, one at a
time, to be detonated by an intense x-radiation field generated by NIF's
multiple lasers.

The football stadium-sized NIF machine will stand about 8 stories tall at
its peak. The installation of the target chamber now marks the half-way
point in NIF construction. It will be completed in 2003, says the Lab. NIF
will be used to advance nuclear weapons design knowledge and to train a
"new generation" of nuclear weaponeers, according to Lab and Dept. of
Energy documents.

Furthermore, these enterprising young weapons scientists will not all work
for the U.S. government; some will be employed by the nuclear establishment
of Great Britain and some by France.

Generally speaking, when one nation shares information and technology that
could allow another nation to upgrade its nuclear arsenal, that is called
nuclear proliferation. Yet, during the NIF target chamber dedication,
staged to boost Lab employee morale and garner "gee whiz" science
publicity, the sharing of nuclear weapons secrets-to-come "shows the
importance of international cooperation," according to U.S. Energy
Secretary, Bill Richardson.

Graham Jordan, acting Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom's
Ministry of Defence and Jacques Bouchard, Director of Military Applications
for the French Atomic Energy Commission stood on the ceremonial center
stage with Richardson and Livermore Lab Director Bruce Tarter.

Jordan called NIF an "international resource." The U.K. will invest several
million dollars in NIF, and will share directly in its nuclear experiments,
he confirmed. British money will make it possible to increase the number of
"shots" using the current target chamber, he said. Moreover, his country
will look into the feasibility of also building a second target chamber, in
order to increase NIF's "flexibility." A second target chamber has long
been the desire of U.S. weapons designers. NIF's  rising price tag, now
standing at $1.2 billion for construction alone, had made Lab and DOE
management leery of asking Congress for this expensive "add on."
Apparently, they found an alternate funding source.

Bouchard said France has anted up 200 million Eurodollars to share in NIF.
This Fall,  the Parliament will take up the question of funding the French
Laser Megajoule, a near replica of NIF to be built in the Bordeaux region.
The French megalaser effort is dependent on the U.S. sharing key
technologies, including, say news reports, a computer prohibited as too
"sensitive" for export by the U.S. Commerce Dept.

This tri-national nuclear cooperation "is going to be the key to preventing
proliferation in the future," Secretary Richardson, told the crowd.

Indeed.


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

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

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

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



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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:02:02 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US Campaign Facilitators' Group call notes: 6/14/99

US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20
Facilitators' Group Conference Call Minutes, 6/14/99

Facilitator and timekeeper, Jackie Cabasso; Note taker, Jan Harwood.
Present on call: Dave Robinson, Alan Haber, Esther Pank, Sally Light, Ali=
ce=20
Slater, John Burroughs, Jackie Cabasso, Jan Harwood

Jackie reviewed the agenda. Minutes from 5/28 and 6/7/99 were accepted an=
d=20
approved.

Old Business:

1. Lori has sent Jackie a list of Santa Barbara conference participants w=
ho=20
are not on the Abolition Caucus list-serve, about thirty people. Jackie w=
ill=20
make a =93nickname list=94 of those people and send them the minutes and =
other=20
important information.

2. Responses to Working Group posting: Alice got one from Janet Cuevas of=
 =20
Promoting Enduring Peace, who volunteered to convene the Star Wars group.=
=20
Andy Lichterman, convenor of the =93bottom-up=94 working group, has  had =
a lot=20
of requests for his strategy paper on organizing an abolition movement in=
=20
the U.S. No other responses were received by people on this call; convene=
rs=20
will be asked if they had  responses and a report will go out to the=20
list-serve.=20

3. Next meetings: Jackie summarized that we had come close to an agreemen=
t=20
about a plenary meeting in October at Ann Arbor, in connection with a=20
teach-in there, but we were unsure about a "facilitators and friends"=20
meeting prior to that. Jackie had not yet drafted a proposed  agenda for=20
such a meeting, but gave some ideas: we would have as many members of the=
=20
Facilitators=92 Group and Working Group conveners there as possible, we w=
ould=20
start with our Mission Statement and our Democracy Statement; try to figu=
re=20
out what structures and resources we need to carry out our mission. She=20
suggested we might select five priorities to work on during the next=20
year--activities in addition to the working groups--and fashion a structu=
re=20
to carry them out. We would also develop a structure for fund-raising.

John noted that campaign planning would justify a face-to-face meeting. H=
e=20
added that we could plan the Ann Arbor meeting; plan for staff or organiz=
e=20
ourselves to carry out the campaign without staff; try to find a structur=
e=20
to help all the groups work together. He suggested we could break into sm=
all=20
groups to work on these different aspects.

4. It was noted that Kevin Martin and Karina Woods have been hired by the=
=20
Abolition Project of the Fourth Freedom Forum to work on abolition issues=
. A=20
discussion followed about how best to work with them. Alan will talk with=
=20
Kevin Martin about the Michigan teach-in, and Alice, as a=20
representative of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, will talk w=
ith=20
David Cortright to see if resources could be made available for the teach=
- -in=20
and if they think that's a good venue to launch a US Campaign. They will =
try=20
to get this done before our next call, July 7th.=20

5. Campaign or Network?: John noted that an established organization, suc=
h=20
as Project Abolition, NAPF, AFSC or Pax Christi, would need to take the l=
ead=20
in a national campaign, doing a lot of the basic work, or that we would h=
ave=20
to hire staff ourselves; otherwise, we should recognize ourselves as a=20
network, rather than a campaign. Alan notes that there's space to house=20
staff at Ann Arbor. Sally suggests we put together two "strategy and=20
structure" models, campaign and network, before we "launch" ourselves at =
the=20
October meeting. She will try to come up with drafts of these.

6. Staff Job Description: Alan has written a first draft of a job=20
description for hired staff, which was agreed to be wide-ranging and full=
 of=20
important ideas for a campaign. Staff would, among other things, do=20
coordination, financial planning, delegate duties, "hold everything toget=
her."

7. John asked if, in planning a campaign, we want to focus on a particula=
r=20
issue, such as de-alerting? He suggests we find a way to plug people who=20
come to any of our events into meaningful work for abolition.

8. Alan will write up a report on the planning and development of the Ann=
=20
Arbor teach-in and post it on the list-serve.

9. Next Conference Call: July 7th, 1 P.M. eastern, l0 A.M. western time.=20

Jackie, John and Alice will be freshly back from Russia--and bon voyage!

US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20
Facilitators' Group Conference Call Minutes, 6/14/99



******************************************************
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +[phone]
Fax: +[phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
******************************************************
Western States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:49:25 -0400
From: "William F. Santelmann, Jr." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US Campaign Facilitators' Group call notes: 6/14/99

Jackie Cabasso wrote:

> 7. John asked if, in planning a campaign, we want to focus on a particular
> issue, such as de-alerting? He suggests we find a way to plug people who
> come to any of our events into meaningful work for abolition.
>
Hey, get with it, please!! DE-ALERT NOW!! THERE ARE ONLY 176 DAYS BEFORE Y2K.
Do you know what the Russian (or our) nuclear missiles will do then? The risk
is simply unacceptable. PLEASE, WORK TO DE-ALERT....

Bill Santelmann
Metro-Boston Committee to De-Alert Nuclear Weapons
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:44:47 -0400
From: Peacework <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Kosova Analysis / nuclear link

I'd like to see it.  Attachments are always tricky (sometimes they do,
sometimes they don't). Can you just paste it into the body of a message,
please.  thanks, patricia



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Date: Fri,  9 Jul 1999 14:07:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Events Commemorating the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

                                                    July 9th, 1999
Dear Friends and Activists,

     The following is a list of events that will be taking place in
rememberence of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on or around the
dates of August 6th through 9th.  This is by no means an extensive list.  I
ask that you please send me any information that you may have on other
events so that we can post them on the list- serves, in newsletters and
circulate the information as much as possible in order to encourage
support.   I thank you for your continued support of Abolition 2000.  I
hope that during this time of rememberence we can all reflect on the
implications of a just world without nuclear weapons and be encouraged to
renew our efforts to strive for a more peaceful world.

Yours In Peace,

Carah Ong

3rd-9th-The World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs will be held
in Tokyo.  For more information, please contact:  [e-mail]

3rd-8th-Tromp Trident Trek III is a 52 mile peace walk commemorating the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It begins in Ashland and ends at
Project ELF.  For more information, contact Nukewatch at 715-472-4185 or
email at [e-mail].

6th-Hiroshima Commemoration at Livermore Lab. It begins at
2:30 PM at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where nuclear
weapons are designed and a new weapons facility is currently under
construction that is intended to create thermonuclear blasts in a reactor
vessel, called the National Ignition
Facility. The gathering will be at the corner of East Avenue and Vasco
Road. After a program of speakers and music, there will be a procession to
the gates of the Laboratory. This annual commemoration is sponsored by many
San Francisco Bay Area peace and
environmental organizations, including the Livermore-based Tri-Valley
CAREs. For more information, call  925-443-7148.

6th-9th-Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund National Congress are
calling for students, activists and concerned citizens form across the
nation and from around the world to join them in Albuquerque, New Mexico to
commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  For more information,
please contact:
Peace Action  www.peace-action.org 202-862-9740 ext. 3038
1819 H St. NW Suite 420 Washington, DC 20006

For the 17th consecutive year, a fast on water will take place from 6 to 9
of August in Tavery, North of Paris, headquarters of the french "force de
frappe".
Please, send by mail your own information, support and projects to the
fasters :
je√ne du 6 au 9 ao√t 1999
Maison de Vigilance
135, rue de BΘthemont
95150 - Taverny
France
The fasters demand an end to the MΘgajoule project for the modernization of
nuclear bombs, and an really independent and thourough environment and
health survey in Polynesia and in the Sahara, with compensations for the
victims.

Brandywine Peace Community is commemorating the bombings of Hirsoshima on
Friday August 6th, with a vigil from 8am til Noon at Lockheed Martin, Mall
Blvd in Valley Forge, PA.  At Noon, friends and activists are invited to
participate in "Through Hiroshima Eyes", a nuclear age remembrance and
nonviolent civil disobedience.
On Monday, August 9th, there will be a vigil from 7:30am til 11am at the
Lockheed Martin Aegis warship site on Centerton Rd. in Moorestown, NJ.  A
ceremony for the victims of US war-making will follow at 11am.  For more
information please contact:
Brandywine Peace Community
P.O. Box 81
Swarthmore, PA  19081
610-544-1818
email:  [e-mail]

Hiroshima Day Bike Tour to Livermore Labs will be held on Friday, August
6th and to be followed by a rally and Non-violent Direct Action at the
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory.  For more information, call
510-832-4347 or visit the web site at:
http://www.bikesummer.org


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website http://www.abolition2000.org

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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 16:14:27 -0500
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Events Commemorating the Bombings of Hiroshim a and Nagasaki

The Asahi Shimbun Newspaper will be running a special edition on the
bombings, with some new findings by a team of investigative reporters. =
I
spent Saturday morning with one of them. Maybe people can keep their =
owns
open and try to post it. fab.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 4:08 PM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Events Commemorating the Bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki



                                                    July 9th, 1999
Dear Friends and Activists,

     The following is a list of events that will be taking place in
rememberence of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on or around the
dates of August 6th through 9th.  This is by no means an extensive =
list.  I
ask that you please send me any information that you may have on other
events so that we can post them on the list- serves, in newsletters and
circulate the information as much as possible in order to encourage
support.   I thank you for your continued support of Abolition 2000.  I
hope that during this time of rememberence we can all reflect on the
implications of a just world without nuclear weapons and be encouraged =
to
renew our efforts to strive for a more peaceful world.

Yours In Peace,

Carah Ong

3rd-9th-The World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs will be =
held
in Tokyo.  For more information, please contact:  [e-mail]

3rd-8th-Tromp Trident Trek III is a 52 mile peace walk commemorating =
the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It begins in Ashland and ends at
Project ELF.  For more information, contact Nukewatch at 715-472-4185 =
or
email at [e-mail].

6th-Hiroshima Commemoration at Livermore Lab. It begins at
2:30 PM at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where nuclear
weapons are designed and a new weapons facility is currently under
construction that is intended to create thermonuclear blasts in a =
reactor
vessel, called the National Ignition
Facility. The gathering will be at the corner of East Avenue and Vasco
Road. After a program of speakers and music, there will be a procession =
to
the gates of the Laboratory. This annual commemoration is sponsored by =
many
San Francisco Bay Area peace and
environmental organizations, including the Livermore-based Tri-Valley
CAREs. For more information, call  925-443-7148.

6th-9th-Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund National Congress =
are
calling for students, activists and concerned citizens form across the
nation and from around the world to join them in Albuquerque, New =
Mexico to
commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  For more =
information,
please contact:
Peace Action  www.peace-action.org 202-862-9740 ext. 3038
1819 H St. NW Suite 420 Washington, DC 20006

For the 17th consecutive year, a fast on water will take place from 6 =
to 9
of August in Tavery, North of Paris, headquarters of the french "force =
de
frappe".
Please, send by mail your own information, support and projects to the
fasters :
je=FBne du 6 au 9 ao=FBt 1999
Maison de Vigilance
135, rue de B=E9themont
95150 - Taverny
France
The fasters demand an end to the M=E9gajoule project for the =
modernization of
nuclear bombs, and an really independent and thourough environment and
health survey in Polynesia and in the Sahara, with compensations for =
the
victims.

Brandywine Peace Community is commemorating the bombings of Hirsoshima =
on
Friday August 6th, with a vigil from 8am til Noon at Lockheed Martin, =
Mall
Blvd in Valley Forge, PA.  At Noon, friends and activists are invited =
to
participate in "Through Hiroshima Eyes", a nuclear age remembrance and
nonviolent civil disobedience.
On Monday, August 9th, there will be a vigil from 7:30am til 11am at =
the
Lockheed Martin Aegis warship site on Centerton Rd. in Moorestown, NJ.  =
A
ceremony for the victims of US war-making will follow at 11am.  For =
more
information please contact:
Brandywine Peace Community
P.O. Box 81
Swarthmore, PA  19081
610-544-1818
email:  [e-mail]

Hiroshima Day Bike Tour to Livermore Labs will be held on Friday, =
August
6th and to be followed by a rally and Non-violent Direct Action at the
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory.  For more information, call
510-832-4347 or visit the web site at:
http://www.bikesummer.org


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website http://www.abolition2000.org

To subscribe to the abolition-usa listerve, send a message (no subject) =
to
[e-mail]
To post to the list, mail to: [e-mail]

To subscribe to the international abolition-caucus, send a message (no
subject) to [e-mail]
To post to the list, mail to: [e-mail]



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