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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:51:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Invitation to the October Meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS -  NATIONAL MEETING
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TO: All activists who are working for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a
positive peace and justice policy in the United States

FROM: The Facilitator's Group and Working Group Convenors of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (partial list depleted by August
vacations, including but not limited to):
John Burroughs, Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, New York; Jackie
Cabasso and Andy Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation,  California;
Alan Haber, Peace and Environment Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project,  Michigan; Odile Haber, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section; Jan Harwood,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section and
Abolition 2000 Coalition, Santa Cruz, California; Sally Light, Tri-Valley
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, California; Pamela Meidell,
The Atomic Mirror, California; Bob Musil and Bob Tiller, Physicians for
Social Responsibility, Washington, DC; Carah Ong, Abolition 2000 Global
Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Esther Pank, Peace Links, Washington,
DC; Richard Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Hawaii; Susan
Schaer, Women's Action for New Directions, Washington, DC; Alice Slater,
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, New York

WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to participate in a national meeting of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS which will take place on October 9, 10
and 11, 1999, in Ann Arbor, Michigan in connection with a nuclear abolition
teach-in and community forum at the University of Michigan.  We also
encourage you to come early and stay late for the teach-in and related
community forum activities! (see below)

We are continuing to develop plans for a coordinated US campaign in
furtherance of the MISSION STATEMENT and DECLARATION adopted at the
February 1999 meeting of some 60 organizations in Santa Barbara,
California, (see enclosed), and in recognition of the linkages between
democracy, power and nuclear weapons. The campaign will utilize the working
groups identified in Santa Barbara and resources provided by the
cooperating organizations. A brief outline of the working groups is
included.  We encourage you to contact the convenors if you are interested
in getting involved.

We hope that you and your organization will join us in this unified effort to
eliminate nuclear weapons and build towards a more peaceful and just future.
Please return the enclosed registration form right away! If you have questions
or would like to offer proposals for the agenda or the campaign's structure or
activities, or if you'd like to submit a working paper, please respond to Carah
Ong by September 15, if possible.  A follow-up mailing is planned, which will
include a meeting agenda, proposals, and final teach-in schedule. (Carah's
contact information can be found on the registration form.)

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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FORUM/TEACH-IN
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1999
12:45 p.m. - Panel: Nuclear Proliferation Peace Science Society
             Panelists: Russell Leng, Middlebury College; Mike Simon,
University
                        of Iowa
             Moderator: J. David Singer, University of Michigan.

2:45 p.m.- Presentation: Chances of Accidental Nuclear Launch
           Speaker: Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution

3:30 p.m. - Presentation: Environmental and Public Health Hazards of Nuclear
                          Weapons Production
            Speaker: Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy & Environmental
                     Research

4:15 p.m.-  Presentation: Serpent River First Nation People (tentative)

7:15 p.m.-  Presentation: The Case Against Nuclear Weapons Abolition
            Speaker: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution at Stanford
                     University

8:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Need for International Agreements to Abolish
                         Nuclear Weapons.
           Speaker: Merav Datan, International Physicians for the
Prevention of
                    Nuclear War

9:00 p.m.- Panel Discussion
           Panelists: Blair, Makhijani, Bueno de Mesquita, and Datan

For information on the October 8 Community Forum:
www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu

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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS - NATIONAL MEETING
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9: 9 a.m. - meeting activities begin; meeting continues all
day.  Agenda will include introductions, updates and reports, including
from the working groups, and reflections on the responses of the government
to questions from the community. The goal of the meeting is to lay the
foundation for and develop a national campaign for the abolition of nuclear
weapons. A full agenda will follow in a separate mailing. An informal
reception is scheduled in the evening at an historic building in downtown
Ann Arbor

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10: meeting continues all day

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY: 2 p.m. - meeting ends
(afternoon activity may follow)

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COMMUNITY FORUM WITH LYNN RIVERS
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 11:

 Forum on Nuclear Weapons - Monday evening October 11, 7-9 p.m. at the
community college.  This not part of our program but a separate event hosted by
Representative Lynn Rivers. Questions about the Monday evening forum should be
directed to Lynn Rivers office, [phone]; [e-mail]

The local Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons is working to organize other events and activities prior to and during
the weekend of October 8-10.
Beginning October 4, programs are projected to include the politics of
abolition, the international abolition movement, nukes in space, stockpile
stewardship, new weapons,  weapons and energy, ethics, the environment,
affected peoples,  international law and terms of an abolition treaty, low
level radiation, health questions, depleted uranium, Israel, the bomb and
Mordechai Vanunu, India-Pakistan, Korea, Russia, NATO, new frontiers of peace
research,  the science of peace, and others.  Many schools and departments of
the University have been asked to host programs relevant to their areas of
knowledge. A film and video program is also being planned. (Suggestions
welcomed.)  Opportunities will be sought for the various working groups of the
US CAMPAIGN to 'report to the community' the state of thought and work on
particular aspects of the nuclear question, such as direct action, civil
society, and indigenous people's concerns.  For further information and
inquiries about participation, please contact Alan Haber, [phone],
[e-mail]. A fuller schedule will be circulated in our follow up
letter.

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LODGING IN ANN ARBOR
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HOTEL: A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hampton Inn at the
rate of $65 + tax per night, either single or double occupancy, including
continental breakfast. A shuttle will provide transportation to and from the
conference.

HOME STAYS: The local coalition is arranging home stays. Those
who would like to stay as a guest in the home of an Ann Arbor peace activist
should contact Shana Milkie by e-mail at [e-mail] or by phone at
734-332-1106.  E-mail is preferred.

A $25 suggested minimum donation is requested to help cover material and
location expenses, although no one will be turned away for inability to
contribute to conference costs.  Please include a check or money order with
your registration form. Make your check payable to the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation or NAPF, and write "conference fee" on the memo line.


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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS OCTOBER 9,10 and 11, 1999
            MEETING REGISTRATION FORM
**********************************************************************


__  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  I have enclosed
a check or money order for $25 and my complete registration information is
below.
- --- Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor and am enclosing an
additional contribution of  $__ to help expand diversity at the meeting and
defray additional meeting expenses.

- ---  No, I cannot attend the meeting, but enclosed is my contribution of $___
for a successful meeting and campaign launch.

Name                  ______________________________
Organization          ______________________________
Address               ______________________________
                      ______________________________
Phone                 ______________________________
Email                 ______________________________

__ Please reserve a room for me at the group rate of $65.00 s/d at the Hampton
Inn.  I understand that there is limited availability at the group rate so I
have provided my credit card number to reserve my room.  I understand that
there will be no charges to my credit card until I check
into my room but there is a 72 hour cancellation policy, so I must send Carah
Ong my cancellation notice at least three days prior to my scheduled arrival.

__ I would like to share a room with:

(name)____________________________________________.

__ Please help me find a room mate, if possible.

I plan to arrive on (date)________ and leave on (date)________.  Please reserve
my room for (number)_____ nights.

Credit Card (circle one):  Visa  Mastercard  American Express  Discover
Diner's Card

Number______________________________________

Expiration Date___________________

Authorized Signature______________________________________

__ I will contact Shana Milkie by E-mail [e-mail] or by phone at
(734)332 -1106 and let her know I am interested in a home stay arranged by the
local coalition of Ann Arbor peace activists.

__ I will make my own arrangements for accommodations.

PLEASE RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM, WITH YOUR VOLUNTARY
CONTRIBUTION, TO:

Carah Ong
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Rd., Suite 1
Santa Barbara, California 93108
Phone [phone]
Fax [phone]
E- mail: [e-mail]




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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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MISSION STATEMENT

To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children,
grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to  educate
public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the  United
States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to eliminate nuclear
weapons.

These actions must include halting continued development of new and modified
nuclear weapons, de-alerting nuclear forces, addressing the environmental
degradation and human suffering arising from testing, production, deployment
and use of nuclear weapons, and undertaking negotiations with other countries
on a treaty for their elimination.

Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and
enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.

SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION

 From all corners of this land, representing diverse constituencies and
traditions, including indigenous nations, we have come together in common
cause, determined to end the threat to all life posed by nuclear weapons.

We recognize that nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle have caused
widespread suffering, death and environmental devastation.  We further
recognize that resources used for nuclear arms need to be redirected to meeting
human and environmental needs.

The United States bears special responsibility as the only country to use
nuclear weapons in war.  It continues to spend vast sums on its massive nuclear
weapons complex, and its current policies would upgrade and maintain a huge
nuclear arsenal far into the future.

The conference has initiated a campaign tailored to address the unique
obstacles in the United States to achieving nuclear weapons abolition.  Our
campaign builds upon the foundations laid by Abolition 2000 and other efforts
to abolish nuclear arms.  We commit our hearts, our spirits, and our energy to
achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and invite all people of
goodwill to join us.
                                           --  Santa Barbara, February 14, 1999

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WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN?
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STATEMENT BY ALAN HABER, US CAMPAIGN LIAISON TO THE MICHIGAN PEACE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Our purpose in initiating and hosting this community forum, teach-in and
national action meeting is to assert the relevance and urgency  of public
education and policy change on the nuclear question.

We seek to bring the full intellectual, and knowledge resources of the
university and the community generally to the consideration of the nuclear
question, especially the urgency to embrace a policy change, directed to the
elimination of nuclear weapons, their removal from the world's arsenals,
along with all other weapons of mass destruction, as well as adopting  more
affirmative peacemaking policies.

Leading work has gone on at the university in the study of peace and war,
conflict resolution, and transformation, general systems theory, social
organization, etc. an opportunity should be made available, in and of itself to
showcase this work, and  especially so in the  context of considering changes
in America's current strategic defense policies

The weapons side of the nuclear question is our first focus. Ultimately all
aspects of the nuclear question are related.  The University of Michigan is
eminent in nuclear engineering; our previous president is a nuclear engineer.
The post war  idea of "atoms for peace" virtually began at the University
of Michigan  and continues in the Phoenix laboratories on north campus.
This is an appropriate,  knowledgeable environment in which to consider and
debate the nuclear question.

Nuclear waste is a byproduct of nuclear weapons, a well as of nuclear energy.
And how to deal with nuclear waste and clean it up is a matter of national
debate and  made especially urgent and relevant by the continuing concern about
nuclear waste and leaky kegs by Lake Michigan, and  the distressed, dangerous
Fermi2 plant by Lake Erie,  and also  the citizen initiative for restoring the
Great Lakes nuclear free zone embracing the whole great lakes area in which
Michigan is central.

The first "teach-in" occurred at the University of Michigan, March 24, 1965,
and spread the debate about foreign policy, then concerned with the Vietnam
war,  across the country's campuses, and then to Washington, to debate the
government.  The high government officials we sought to reach  subsequently
acknowledged in their memoirs and tapes that the questions, the
inter-university committee for debate on foreign policy, as it had come to
be called, were asking were the right questions  and they, the government,
should have faced them more honestly, and directly then.

We hope this occasion also will propel debate across the country, and a
continuing interrogation of the government, on why it holds to a dangerous
destabilizing deterrence policy of nuclear and space age high tech weapons in
violation of treaty obligations , common sense and common humanity. We
believe the end of the cold war gives us a gift of time to get rid of these
weapons, before they somehow or other, bring catastrophe. Holocaust still
haunts the horizon.

The overwhelming leadership of the United States gives us opportunity here to
turn the tide.  America now is the main block to adopting a comprehensive
convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons.  We call on the United
States government to take a leadership in the world campaign for the abolition
of nuclear weapons.

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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUPS
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STAR WARS/ABM WORKING GROUP: This group was formed initially to respond quickly
to the legislation pending at the time of the Santa Barbara meeting authorizing
further research and limited  deployment of an anti-ballistic missile
system by the United States.  Ballistic missile defense continues to be a
key issue of concern for advocates of nuclear weapons abolition, due to
continuing development of the system, its potential to revive a
multilateral nuclear arms race,  and the controversy over its possible
extension in the Western Pacific.

*Convenor: Janet Michelle Cuevas (Promoting Enduring Peace, New York)
   [e-mail]

=====================================================================

CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO ENROLL ORGANIZATIONS IN A BRIEF ABOLITION STATEMENT
AND CITY DIALOGUES ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT WITH PROMINENT MOVERS AND SHAKERS
WORKING GROUP: This working group covers several related efforts aimed at
mobilizing opinion via existing groups in civil society and campaigns aimed at
elected officials in municipalities.  It includes various efforts to get mayors
and city and town governing bodies to endorse abolition statements, as well as
similar efforts aimed at non-governmental civic groups.  Campaigns represented
within this working group include A campaign aimed at creating discussion
forums among "opinion leaders" in major cities on nuclear weapons and their
abolition; a campaign aimed at convincing a wide range of civic groups to
endorse an abolition statement; and the campaign to obtain endorsement of the
Abolition 2000 statement by municipalities.

*Convenors: Pamela Meidell (The Atomic Mirror) [e-mail]; [phone];
Ed Aguilar (Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Philadelphia)[phone]

=====================================================================

CONGRESSIONAL FOCUS (Originally Congress and Administration, now split in
two):        This working group will focus on initiatives relevant to nuclear
weapons abolition in the US Congress.  Examples include the pending Markey
and Woolsey resolutions, aimed respectively at scaling back US nuclear
weapons research and production programs and at encouraging the Administration
to engage in meaningful negotiations to achieve abolition. Its work encompasses
grassroots efforts to mobilize widespread attention to particular measures and
issues pending in Congress.
*Convenors: to be determined.

=====================================================================

ADMINISTRATION FOCUS:  This group will work to focus attention on the nuclear
weapons policies and activities of the Executive branch, trying in particular
to create forums for discussion and criticism of nuclear weapons policies.  Its
current initiative is a teach-in at the University of Michigan on nuclear
weapons issues, with the organizers hoping to get administration officials to
participate and to publicly debate critics of existing nuclear weapons
policies.  If the teach-in model works the hope is to extend it to other
campuses.

*Convenor: Alan Haber (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations)  [e-mail]; [phone]

====================================================================

YOUTH/CAMPUSES: This working group aims to raise the level of awareness among
young
people about nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them.  It will work on the
teach-ins discussed in the Administration focus working group above.  It will
also attempt to gather and broaden the distribution of existing nuclear weapons
abolition materials aimed at a youth and campus audience.

*Convenor: Odile Haber  (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations) [e-mail]; [phone]

=====================================================================

DIRECT ACTION:  Nonviolent direct action long has been a central part of the
movement
to abolish nuclear weapons.  Despite a lack of media coverage, direct action
continues at weapons and government  facilities around the country, from the
Nevada Test Site, to the weapons laboratories in Livermore, California and Los
Alamos, New Mexico, to Washington D.C. and the  newly opened Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant, also in New Mexico.   This working group will be a place for
people involved in particular direct action campaigns to raise national
awareness of their activities and  to exchange ideas and information.  It also
will try to provide resources which will be broadly useful, for example
nonviolence training materials and lists of nonviolence trainers.

*Convenor: Matteo Ferreira (Shundahai Network) [e-mail];
[phone]

====================================================================

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ORGANIZING AND CONCERNS: The cycle of nuclear materials
mining and nuclear weapons testing and production always has had a
disproportionate impact on indigenous people world-wide.  Nuclear weapons
testing has occurred for the most part on the
lands of indigenous peoples, without regard for their sovereign rights, and
with devastating effects on people and their lands.  Indigenous people have
taken the lead in many parts of the globe both in making the connections
between nuclear weapons and the effects of the entire cycle of nuclear
materials, nuclear power, and nuclear weapons production, and in advocating for
nuclear weapons abolition.  This working group will provide a focus for making
these voices heard both inside and outside the movement.

*Convenors: Michele Xenos (Shundahai Network), [e-mail];
[phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands Association of NGOs)
[e-mail]; [phone]

====================================================================

NATO: This working group initially focused on the NATO 50th anniversary meeting
in Washington, D.C. in April, and the likelihood that NATO nuclear weapons
policies would be debated there. There has been interest in continuing this as
a working group, since the controversy over NATO nuclear weapons policies,
including a refusal to renounce first use, a potential counter-proliferation
role for nuclear weapons, and the expansion of NATO's
military scope to include broad out-of-area combat roles is likely to continue
for a long time.

*Convenors: to be determined

=====================================================================

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ISSUES: This working group aims at coordinating
the abolition campaign in the United States with efforts world-wide, including
Abolition 2000 and other efforts in particular nations and regions to eliminate
nuclear weapons.  With the emergence of a new nuclear weapons and ballistic
missile race in South Asia, growing controversy over possible theater and
domestic ballistic missile deployments, and the stagnation of arms control
negotiations, this working group will help the abolition campaign in the US
remain aware of the effects US nuclear weapons and military policies have on
efforts to achieve abolition in other nuclear weapons states and globally.

*Convenors: Alice Slater (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment)
[e-mail]; [phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands
Association of NGOs) [e-mail]; [phone]or 3691; David Krieger
(Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) [e-mail]; [phone]

====================================================================

AFFECTED COMMUNITIES:  Communities across the country have been affected by
half a century nuclear weapons research, testing, and production. They range
from workers at
DOE facilities to people who live downwind from those facilities to armed
services veterans exposed to nuclear tests.  Many of these groups already have
organized to put pressure on the Federal government to clean up the
environmental damage, to perform meaningful health and environmental studies,
and to provide compensation.  These groups share many of our concerns, and
often already are committed to abolition of nuclear weapons.  This working
group will focus attention on the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons, and
will work to integrate these communities and their concerns into the broader
campaign.

*Convenor: Joseph Gerson (American Friends Service Committee) [e-mail];

[phone]

=====================================================================

RESEARCH FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: This group will
focus on the activities of the nuclear weapons and production complex, and will
explore the impacts of continuing nuclear weapons research on the global test
ban and nonproliferation regime and on efforts to achieve abolition.   It will
also examine the overlap between nuclear weapons research technologies and
other emerging arms races which affect chances for
abolition, including anti-ballistic missile technologies, space weaponry, and
possible next-generation nuclear weapons.  The group will be both a means to
coordinate research efforts and to distribute relevant information within the
campaign and to a wider public.

*Convenors: Jackie Cabasso  (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail],
[phone]; Sally Light (Tri-Valley CAREs), [e-mail],
[phone]

=====================================================================

MEDIA/CAMPAIGN LAUNCH:  This working group will be a place to develop and share
media strategies.  An initial  focus will be efforts to coordinate a campaign
launch that is cohesive and nationally visible.

*Convenor: Steve Kent (Kent Communications) [e-mail];
[phone]

====================================================================

BOTTOM UP ORGANIZING (local movement building and making the connection to
other issues):  Through discussing and organizing around the way nuclear
weapons are connected to other social ills and injustices, from local
ecological
devastation, distorted government spending priorities,  and a culture of
violence which stretches from the state to the street to global inequality, we
can deepen our own understanding of what must be done to achieve abolition of
nuclear weapons,  as well as the understanding of those we hope to persuade.
We then open up the possibility that we will become part of a larger movement
which can make the changes which could make abolition possible.   This working
group will explore ways to make connections on the local level with other
organizing efforts which share some of our concerns, and by doing so to help
create the social movement needed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons.


*Convenor: Andrew Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail]; [phone]

====================================================================

DEMOCRACY, POWER AND NUCLEAR WEAPONRY DRAFTING COMMITTEE: This working group
has taken responsibility for following through on the commitment made in Santa
Barbara to develop a carefully thought out statement on the relationships
between democracy, power and nuclear weapons. A draft statement is currently
being prepared, to be circulated for comment in the near future.

*Temporary convenor: Carah Ong (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation),
[e-mail];  [phone]


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

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:43:53 -0400
From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Invitation to the October Meeting of the US Campaign  to AbolishNuclear Weapons

Unfortunately, in early October I will be on a long-planned, long-awaited,
long-needed vacation.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller




Nuclear Age Peace Foundation wrote:

> ***********************************************************************
> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS -  NATIONAL MEETING
> ***********************************************************************
>
> TO: All activists who are working for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a
> positive peace and justice policy in the United States
>
> FROM: The Facilitator's Group and Working Group Convenors of the US
> CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (partial list depleted by August
> vacations, including but not limited to):
> John Burroughs, Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, New York; Jackie
> Cabasso and Andy Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation,  California;
> Alan Haber, Peace and Environment Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
> Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project,  Michigan; Odile Haber, Women's
> International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section; Jan Harwood,
> Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section and
> Abolition 2000 Coalition, Santa Cruz, California; Sally Light, Tri-Valley
> Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, California; Pamela Meidell,
> The Atomic Mirror, California; Bob Musil and Bob Tiller, Physicians for
> Social Responsibility, Washington, DC; Carah Ong, Abolition 2000 Global
> Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Esther Pank, Peace Links, Washington,
> DC; Richard Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Hawaii; Susan
> Schaer, Women's Action for New Directions, Washington, DC; Alice Slater,
> Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, New York
>
> WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to participate in a national meeting of the US
> CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS which will take place on October 9, 10
> and 11, 1999, in Ann Arbor, Michigan in connection with a nuclear abolition
> teach-in and community forum at the University of Michigan.  We also
> encourage you to come early and stay late for the teach-in and related
> community forum activities! (see below)
>
> We are continuing to develop plans for a coordinated US campaign in
> furtherance of the MISSION STATEMENT and DECLARATION adopted at the
> February 1999 meeting of some 60 organizations in Santa Barbara,
> California, (see enclosed), and in recognition of the linkages between
> democracy, power and nuclear weapons. The campaign will utilize the working
> groups identified in Santa Barbara and resources provided by the
> cooperating organizations. A brief outline of the working groups is
> included.  We encourage you to contact the convenors if you are interested
> in getting involved.
>
> We hope that you and your organization will join us in this unified effort to
> eliminate nuclear weapons and build towards a more peaceful and just future.
> Please return the enclosed registration form right away! If you have questions
> or would like to offer proposals for the agenda or the campaign's structure or
> activities, or if you'd like to submit a working paper, please respond to Carah
> Ong by September 15, if possible.  A follow-up mailing is planned, which will
> include a meeting agenda, proposals, and final teach-in schedule. (Carah's
> contact information can be found on the registration form.)
>
> **********************************************************************
> TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
> UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FORUM/TEACH-IN
> **********************************************************************
>
> FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1999
> 12:45 p.m. - Panel: Nuclear Proliferation Peace Science Society
>              Panelists: Russell Leng, Middlebury College; Mike Simon,
> University
>                         of Iowa
>              Moderator: J. David Singer, University of Michigan.
>
> 2:45 p.m.- Presentation: Chances of Accidental Nuclear Launch
>            Speaker: Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution
>
> 3:30 p.m. - Presentation: Environmental and Public Health Hazards of Nuclear
>                           Weapons Production
>             Speaker: Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy & Environmental
>                      Research
>
> 4:15 p.m.-  Presentation: Serpent River First Nation People (tentative)
>
> 7:15 p.m.-  Presentation: The Case Against Nuclear Weapons Abolition
>             Speaker: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution at Stanford
>                      University
>
> 8:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Need for International Agreements to Abolish
>                          Nuclear Weapons.
>            Speaker: Merav Datan, International Physicians for the
> Prevention of
>                     Nuclear War
>
> 9:00 p.m.- Panel Discussion
>            Panelists: Blair, Makhijani, Bueno de Mesquita, and Datan
>
> For information on the October 8 Community Forum:
> www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu
>
> ************************************************************************
> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS - NATIONAL MEETING
> ************************************************************************
>
> SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9: 9 a.m. - meeting activities begin; meeting continues all
> day.  Agenda will include introductions, updates and reports, including
> from the working groups, and reflections on the responses of the government
> to questions from the community. The goal of the meeting is to lay the
> foundation for and develop a national campaign for the abolition of nuclear
> weapons. A full agenda will follow in a separate mailing. An informal
> reception is scheduled in the evening at an historic building in downtown
> Ann Arbor
>
> SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10: meeting continues all day
>
> MONDAY, OCTOBER 11/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY: 2 p.m. - meeting ends
> (afternoon activity may follow)
>
> ************************************************************************
> COMMUNITY FORUM WITH LYNN RIVERS
> ************************************************************************
>
> MONDAY, OCTOBER 11:
>
>  Forum on Nuclear Weapons - Monday evening October 11, 7-9 p.m. at the
> community college.  This not part of our program but a separate event hosted by
> Representative Lynn Rivers. Questions about the Monday evening forum should be
> directed to Lynn Rivers office, [phone]; [e-mail]
>
> The local Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
> Weapons is working to organize other events and activities prior to and during
> the weekend of October 8-10.
> Beginning October 4, programs are projected to include the politics of
> abolition, the international abolition movement, nukes in space, stockpile
> stewardship, new weapons,  weapons and energy, ethics, the environment,
> affected peoples,  international law and terms of an abolition treaty, low
> level radiation, health questions, depleted uranium, Israel, the bomb and
> Mordechai Vanunu, India-Pakistan, Korea, Russia, NATO, new frontiers of peace
> research,  the science of peace, and others.  Many schools and departments of
> the University have been asked to host programs relevant to their areas of
> knowledge. A film and video program is also being planned. (Suggestions
> welcomed.)  Opportunities will be sought for the various working groups of the
> US CAMPAIGN to 'report to the community' the state of thought and work on
> particular aspects of the nuclear question, such as direct action, civil
> society, and indigenous people's concerns.  For further information and
> inquiries about participation, please contact Alan Haber, [phone],
> [e-mail]. A fuller schedule will be circulated in our follow up
> letter.
>
> ************************************************************************
> LODGING IN ANN ARBOR
> ************************************************************************
>
> HOTEL: A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hampton Inn at the
> rate of $65 + tax per night, either single or double occupancy, including
> continental breakfast. A shuttle will provide transportation to and from the
> conference.
>
> HOME STAYS: The local coalition is arranging home stays. Those
> who would like to stay as a guest in the home of an Ann Arbor peace activist
> should contact Shana Milkie by e-mail at [e-mail] or by phone at
> 734-332-1106.  E-mail is preferred.
>
> A $25 suggested minimum donation is requested to help cover material and
> location expenses, although no one will be turned away for inability to
> contribute to conference costs.  Please include a check or money order with
> your registration form. Make your check payable to the Nuclear Age Peace
> Foundation or NAPF, and write "conference fee" on the memo line.
>
> **********************************************************************
> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS OCTOBER 9,10 and 11, 1999
>             MEETING REGISTRATION FORM
> **********************************************************************
>
> __  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  I have enclosed
> a check or money order for $25 and my complete registration information is
> below.
> --- Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor and am enclosing an
> additional contribution of  $__ to help expand diversity at the meeting and
> defray additional meeting expenses.
>
> ---  No, I cannot attend the meeting, but enclosed is my contribution of $___
> for a successful meeting and campaign launch.
>
> Name                  ______________________________
> Organization          ______________________________
> Address               ______________________________
>                       ______________________________
> Phone                 ______________________________
> Email                 ______________________________
>
> __ Please reserve a room for me at the group rate of $65.00 s/d at the Hampton
> Inn.  I understand that there is limited availability at the group rate so I
> have provided my credit card number to reserve my room.  I understand that
> there will be no charges to my credit card until I check
> into my room but there is a 72 hour cancellation policy, so I must send Carah
> Ong my cancellation notice at least three days prior to my scheduled arrival.
>
> __ I would like to share a room with:
>
> (name)____________________________________________.
>
> __ Please help me find a room mate, if possible.
>
> I plan to arrive on (date)________ and leave on (date)________.  Please reserve
> my room for (number)_____ nights.
>
> Credit Card (circle one):  Visa  Mastercard  American Express  Discover
> Diner's Card
>
> Number______________________________________
>
> Expiration Date___________________
>
> Authorized Signature______________________________________
>
> __ I will contact Shana Milkie by E-mail [e-mail] or by phone at
> (734)332 -1106 and let her know I am interested in a home stay arranged by the
> local coalition of Ann Arbor peace activists.
>
> __ I will make my own arrangements for accommodations.
>
> PLEASE RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM, WITH YOUR VOLUNTARY
> CONTRIBUTION, TO:
>
> Carah Ong
> Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
> 1187 Coast Village Rd., Suite 1
> Santa Barbara, California 93108
> Phone [phone]
> Fax [phone]
> E- mail: [e-mail]
>
> ************************************************************************
> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
> ************************************************************************
>
> MISSION STATEMENT
>
> To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children,
> grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to  educate
> public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the  United
> States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to eliminate nuclear
> weapons.
>
> These actions must include halting continued development of new and modified
> nuclear weapons, de-alerting nuclear forces, addressing the environmental
> degradation and human suffering arising from testing, production, deployment
> and use of nuclear weapons, and undertaking negotiations with other countries
> on a treaty for their elimination.
>
> Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and
> enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.
>
> SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION
>
>  From all corners of this land, representing diverse constituencies and
> traditions, including indigenous nations, we have come together in common
> cause, determined to end the threat to all life posed by nuclear weapons.
>
> We recognize that nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle have caused
> widespread suffering, death and environmental devastation.  We further
> recognize that resources used for nuclear arms need to be redirected to meeting
> human and environmental needs.
>
> The United States bears special responsibility as the only country to use
> nuclear weapons in war.  It continues to spend vast sums on its massive nuclear
> weapons complex, and its current policies would upgrade and maintain a huge
> nuclear arsenal far into the future.
>
> The conference has initiated a campaign tailored to address the unique
> obstacles in the United States to achieving nuclear weapons abolition.  Our
> campaign builds upon the foundations laid by Abolition 2000 and other efforts
> to abolish nuclear arms.  We commit our hearts, our spirits, and our energy to
> achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and invite all people of
> goodwill to join us.
>                                            --  Santa Barbara, February 14, 1999
>
> ************************************************************************
> WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN?
> ************************************************************************
>
> STATEMENT BY ALAN HABER, US CAMPAIGN LIAISON TO THE MICHIGAN PEACE AND
> ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
>
> Our purpose in initiating and hosting this community forum, teach-in and
> national action meeting is to assert the relevance and urgency  of public
> education and policy change on the nuclear question.
>
> We seek to bring the full intellectual, and knowledge resources of the
> university and the community generally to the consideration of the nuclear
> question, especially the urgency to embrace a policy change, directed to the
> elimination of nuclear weapons, their removal from the world's arsenals,
> along with all other weapons of mass destruction, as well as adopting  more
> affirmative peacemaking policies.
>
> Leading work has gone on at the university in the study of peace and war,
> conflict resolution, and transformation, general systems theory, social
> organization, etc. an opportunity should be made available, in and of itself to
> showcase this work, and  especially so in the  context of considering changes
> in America's current strategic defense policies
>
> The weapons side of the nuclear question is our first focus. Ultimately all
> aspects of the nuclear question are related.  The University of Michigan is
> eminent in nuclear engineering; our previous president is a nuclear engineer.
> The post war  idea of "atoms for peace" virtually began at the University
> of Michigan  and continues in the Phoenix laboratories on north campus.
> This is an appropriate,  knowledgeable environment in which to consider and
> debate the nuclear question.
>
> Nuclear waste is a byproduct of nuclear weapons, a well as of nuclear energy.
> And how to deal with nuclear waste and clean it up is a matter of national
> debate and  made especially urgent and relevant by the continuing concern about
> nuclear waste and leaky kegs by Lake Michigan, and  the distressed, dangerous
> Fermi2 plant by Lake Erie,  and also  the citizen initiative for restoring the
> Great Lakes nuclear free zone embracing the whole great lakes area in which
> Michigan is central.
>
> The first "teach-in" occurred at the University of Michigan, March 24, 1965,
> and spread the debate about foreign policy, then concerned with the Vietnam
> war,  across the country's campuses, and then to Washington, to debate the
> government.  The high government officials we sought to reach  subsequently
> acknowledged in their memoirs and tapes that the questions, the
> inter-university committee for debate on foreign policy, as it had come to
> be called, were asking were the right questions  and they, the government,
> should have faced them more honestly, and directly then.
>
> We hope this occasion also will propel debate across the country, and a
> continuing interrogation of the government, on why it holds to a dangerous
> destabilizing deterrence policy of nuclear and space age high tech weapons in
> violation of treaty obligations , common sense and common humanity. We
> believe the end of the cold war gives us a gift of time to get rid of these
> weapons, before they somehow or other, bring catastrophe. Holocaust still
> haunts the horizon.
>
> The overwhelming leadership of the United States gives us opportunity here to
> turn the tide.  America now is the main block to adopting a comprehensive
> convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons.  We call on the United
> States government to take a leadership in the world campaign for the abolition
> of nuclear weapons.
>
> ************************************************************************
> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUPS
> ************************************************************************
>
> STAR WARS/ABM WORKING GROUP: This group was formed initially to respond quickly
> to the legislation pending at the time of the Santa Barbara meeting authorizing
> further research and limited  deployment of an anti-ballistic missile
> system by the United States.  Ballistic missile defense continues to be a
> key issue of concern for advocates of nuclear weapons abolition, due to
> continuing development of the system, its potential to revive a
> multilateral nuclear arms race,  and the controversy over its possible
> extension in the Western Pacific.
>
> *Convenor: Janet Michelle Cuevas (Promoting Enduring Peace, New York)
>    [e-mail]
>
> =====================================================================
>
> CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO ENROLL ORGANIZATIONS IN A BRIEF ABOLITION STATEMENT
> AND CITY DIALOGUES ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT WITH PROMINENT MOVERS AND SHAKERS
> WORKING GROUP: This working group covers several related efforts aimed at
> mobilizing opinion via existing groups in civil society and campaigns aimed at
> elected officials in municipalities.  It includes various efforts to get mayors
> and city and town governing bodies to endorse abolition statements, as well as
> similar efforts aimed at non-governmental civic groups.  Campaigns represented
> within this working group include A campaign aimed at creating discussion
> forums among "opinion leaders" in major cities on nuclear weapons and their
> abolition; a campaign aimed at convincing a wide range of civic groups to
> endorse an abolition statement; and the campaign to obtain endorsement of the
> Abolition 2000 statement by municipalities.
>
> *Convenors: Pamela Meidell (The Atomic Mirror) [e-mail]; [phone];
> Ed Aguilar (Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Philadelphia)[phone]
>
> =====================================================================
>
> CONGRESSIONAL FOCUS (Originally Congress and Administration, now split in
> two):        This working group will focus on initiatives relevant to nuclear
> weapons abolition in the US Congress.  Examples include the pending Markey
> and Woolsey resolutions, aimed respectively at scaling back US nuclear
> weapons research and production programs and at encouraging the Administration
> to engage in meaningful negotiations to achieve abolition. Its work encompasses
> grassroots efforts to mobilize widespread attention to particular measures and
> issues pending in Congress.
> *Convenors: to be determined.
>
> =====================================================================
>
> ADMINISTRATION FOCUS:  This group will work to focus attention on the nuclear
> weapons policies and activities of the Executive branch, trying in particular
> to create forums for discussion and criticism of nuclear weapons policies.  Its
> current initiative is a teach-in at the University of Michigan on nuclear
> weapons issues, with the organizers hoping to get administration officials to
> participate and to publicly debate critics of existing nuclear weapons
> policies.  If the teach-in model works the hope is to extend it to other
> campuses.
>
> *Convenor: Alan Haber (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
> Organizations)  [e-mail]; [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> YOUTH/CAMPUSES: This working group aims to raise the level of awareness among
> young
> people about nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them.  It will work on the
> teach-ins discussed in the Administration focus working group above.  It will
> also attempt to gather and broaden the distribution of existing nuclear weapons
> abolition materials aimed at a youth and campus audience.
>
> *Convenor: Odile Haber  (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
> Organizations) [e-mail]; [phone]
>
> =====================================================================
>
> DIRECT ACTION:  Nonviolent direct action long has been a central part of the
> movement
> to abolish nuclear weapons.  Despite a lack of media coverage, direct action
> continues at weapons and government  facilities around the country, from the
> Nevada Test Site, to the weapons laboratories in Livermore, California and Los
> Alamos, New Mexico, to Washington D.C. and the  newly opened Waste Isolation
> Pilot Plant, also in New Mexico.   This working group will be a place for
> people involved in particular direct action campaigns to raise national
> awareness of their activities and  to exchange ideas and information.  It also
> will try to provide resources which will be broadly useful, for example
> nonviolence training materials and lists of nonviolence trainers.
>
> *Convenor: Matteo Ferreira (Shundahai Network) [e-mail];
> [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ORGANIZING AND CONCERNS: The cycle of nuclear materials
> mining and nuclear weapons testing and production always has had a
> disproportionate impact on indigenous people world-wide.  Nuclear weapons
> testing has occurred for the most part on the
> lands of indigenous peoples, without regard for their sovereign rights, and
> with devastating effects on people and their lands.  Indigenous people have
> taken the lead in many parts of the globe both in making the connections
> between nuclear weapons and the effects of the entire cycle of nuclear
> materials, nuclear power, and nuclear weapons production, and in advocating for
> nuclear weapons abolition.  This working group will provide a focus for making
> these voices heard both inside and outside the movement.
>
> *Convenors: Michele Xenos (Shundahai Network), [e-mail];
> [phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands Association of NGOs)
> [e-mail]; [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> NATO: This working group initially focused on the NATO 50th anniversary meeting
> in Washington, D.C. in April, and the likelihood that NATO nuclear weapons
> policies would be debated there. There has been interest in continuing this as
> a working group, since the controversy over NATO nuclear weapons policies,
> including a refusal to renounce first use, a potential counter-proliferation
> role for nuclear weapons, and the expansion of NATO's
> military scope to include broad out-of-area combat roles is likely to continue
> for a long time.
>
> *Convenors: to be determined
>
> =====================================================================
>
> INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ISSUES: This working group aims at coordinating
> the abolition campaign in the United States with efforts world-wide, including
> Abolition 2000 and other efforts in particular nations and regions to eliminate
> nuclear weapons.  With the emergence of a new nuclear weapons and ballistic
> missile race in South Asia, growing controversy over possible theater and
> domestic ballistic missile deployments, and the stagnation of arms control
> negotiations, this working group will help the abolition campaign in the US
> remain aware of the effects US nuclear weapons and military policies have on
> efforts to achieve abolition in other nuclear weapons states and globally.
>
> *Convenors: Alice Slater (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment)
> [e-mail]; [phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands
> Association of NGOs) [e-mail]; [phone]or 3691; David Krieger
> (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) [e-mail]; [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> AFFECTED COMMUNITIES:  Communities across the country have been affected by
> half a century nuclear weapons research, testing, and production. They range
> from workers at
> DOE facilities to people who live downwind from those facilities to armed
> services veterans exposed to nuclear tests.  Many of these groups already have
> organized to put pressure on the Federal government to clean up the
> environmental damage, to perform meaningful health and environmental studies,
> and to provide compensation.  These groups share many of our concerns, and
> often already are committed to abolition of nuclear weapons.  This working
> group will focus attention on the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons, and
> will work to integrate these communities and their concerns into the broader
> campaign.
>
> *Convenor: Joseph Gerson (American Friends Service Committee) [e-mail];
>
> [phone]
>
> =====================================================================
>
> RESEARCH FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: This group will
> focus on the activities of the nuclear weapons and production complex, and will
> explore the impacts of continuing nuclear weapons research on the global test
> ban and nonproliferation regime and on efforts to achieve abolition.   It will
> also examine the overlap between nuclear weapons research technologies and
> other emerging arms races which affect chances for
> abolition, including anti-ballistic missile technologies, space weaponry, and
> possible next-generation nuclear weapons.  The group will be both a means to
> coordinate research efforts and to distribute relevant information within the
> campaign and to a wider public.
>
> *Convenors: Jackie Cabasso  (Western States Legal Foundation),
> [e-mail],
> [phone]; Sally Light (Tri-Valley CAREs), [e-mail],
> [phone]
>
> =====================================================================
>
> MEDIA/CAMPAIGN LAUNCH:  This working group will be a place to develop and share
> media strategies.  An initial  focus will be efforts to coordinate a campaign
> launch that is cohesive and nationally visible.
>
> *Convenor: Steve Kent (Kent Communications) [e-mail];
> [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> BOTTOM UP ORGANIZING (local movement building and making the connection to
> other issues):  Through discussing and organizing around the way nuclear
> weapons are connected to other social ills and injustices, from local
> ecological
> devastation, distorted government spending priorities,  and a culture of
> violence which stretches from the state to the street to global inequality, we
> can deepen our own understanding of what must be done to achieve abolition of
> nuclear weapons,  as well as the understanding of those we hope to persuade.
> We then open up the possibility that we will become part of a larger movement
> which can make the changes which could make abolition possible.   This working
> group will explore ways to make connections on the local level with other
> organizing efforts which share some of our concerns, and by doing so to help
> create the social movement needed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons.
>
> *Convenor: Andrew Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation),
> [e-mail]; [phone]
>
> ====================================================================
>
> DEMOCRACY, POWER AND NUCLEAR WEAPONRY DRAFTING COMMITTEE: This working group
> has taken responsibility for following through on the commitment made in Santa
> Barbara to develop a carefully thought out statement on the relationships
> between democracy, power and nuclear weapons. A draft statement is currently
> being prepared, to be circulated for comment in the near future.
>
> *Temporary convenor: Carah Ong (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation),
> [e-mail];  [phone]
>
> Carah Lynn Ong
> Coordinator, Abolition 2000
> Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
> 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
> Santa Barbara CA 93108
>
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> Email: [e-mail]
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