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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 22:46:53 -0400
From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!

marylia wrote:
>
> Hi. We NEED your sign-on to help stop the U.S. Dept. of Energy from
> INCREASING its nuclear weapons activities and moving nuclear material and
> programs around between the weapons labs and the test site. Please take a
> moment to read the LETTER and initiate whatever action is required to get
> your group's sign on. IT IS IMPORTANT. Then, email me your name, title,
> group name and full address before Sept. 28.  Thank you, Marylia Kelley,
> executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs.
>
> PS -- If you are among the 35 groups that have already signed the letter --
> thank you! If not, please sign on today! We need about 100 groups! Please
> help! Read on...
>
> September 28, 1999 [Prospective send date]
>
> US Department of Energy
> 1000 Independence Avenue, SW
> Washington, D.C. 20585
>
> Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research &
> Development
>
> Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons Complex
>
> Dear Mr. Weigand,
>
> We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
> Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians
> for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  All
> three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safety
> issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other
> facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.
>
> Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
> LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Agency
> Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
> Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
> nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 1982.
> The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has kept
> watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.
>
> Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the public
> interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, listed on
> signatory pages that follow.
>
> We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Energy's
> (DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects of
> the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities within
> the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
> obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
> understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration officials on
> the DOE plan.
>
> Changes proposed by DOE include the following:
>
> 1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
> Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
> briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
> far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
> preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remains
> in the arsenal.
>
> 2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission
> and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is to
> give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
> weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
> will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of the
> surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermore
> Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
> "destructively tested" at Livermore.
>
> Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
> pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks and
> plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recently
> shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
> Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
> proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public health
> and safety.
>
> 3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-name
> for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate bomb
> cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
> above-ground tanks.
>
> 4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
> Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
> hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
> under construction at Livermore.
>
> 5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.
>
> 6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
> the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
> additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."
>
> 7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
> (ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus an
> older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the technology
> allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
> nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
> underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
> experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
>
> 8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
> components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF&F
> (arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reported to
> cost $300 million.
>
> Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
> activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
> justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferation
> impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
> intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.
>
> This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
> inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
> Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
> officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermore
> Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermore
> Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
> review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not to
> think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meeting.
>
> We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
> Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with
> full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
> whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS must
> be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
> There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, where
> both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations about
> plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.
>
> Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
> Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent on
> this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
> contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
> stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before moving
> forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congress
> to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
> Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
> necessary as well.
>
> We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should have
> any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director,
> Tri-Valley CAREs
>
> Robert Gould, M.D.
> President,
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area
>
> Jacqueline Cabasso
> Executive Director,
> Western States Legal Foundation
>
> 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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    Marylia, Add my name - Helen Caldicott Founding President Physicians
for Social Responsibility, and Founder Womens Action for NUclear
Disarmament



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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:54:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) McReynolds' Press Conference Speech 9/7/99

Looking over this post from my campaign manager, I realized it was an item
that did fit the guidelines of Abolition 2000 USA - if nominated by the
Socialist Party this October, I would be one candidate helping to push others
to take similar stands. Read down to the discussion of nuclear weapons.

Peace,
David McReynolds

From:   [e-mail] (Shaun Richman)

    [David McReynolds formally declared his candidacy for the Socialist
    Party's nomination for President of the United States on September 7,
    1999. The following is the text of his speech.]

    Let me keep these remarks brief, so that if there are questions there
    will be time to ask them.

    Let me note that while I think the media has every right to ask
    questions about the personal life of a candidate, as it might relate to
    job performance, and while I am prepared to respond fully to questions
    about any past or current drug use, legal or illegal, the media missed
    the key point about Governor Bush and the allegations he may once have
    used cocaine.

    Anyone seeking the nomination for President on the Democratic or
    Republican ticket must raise so much money that the real question is not
    the drugs used in the past, but, to put it bluntly, which corporate
    forces have bought and paid for the candidate. Neither Governor Bush nor
    Vice President Al Gore are free agents. They represent corporate
    America.

    If anyone wants to know what interests I represent I respond simply that
    if I'm nominated at the Socialist Party convention in October I will
    represent a group of concerned citizens with little in the way of
    financial resources. I will represent their hopes, and the platform and
    beliefs of a Party, which I joined in 1951, while a student at UCLA. And
    I will work to limit the kind of obscenity we see today when the
    corporations openly bid for the candidates. Campaign financing laws must
    be enacted that provide a level playing field, with no special favors to
    large donors.

    It is good that a range of views be offered to the electorate. There is
    very little to choose between Bush and Gore, very little real debate of
    substance on our domestic and foreign policy. The arena of debate must
    be broadened, the range of issues discussed extended. That would be my
    job as the candidate of the Socialist Party.

    Having seen our government engage in wars without Congressional
    approval, in open violation of the UN Charter, whether in Panama under
    George Bush, or in Kosova under Bill Clinton. I believe this nation must
    not go to war without the full consent of Congress, after debate. The
    theory of Executive Wars must end.

    Watching our military with its almost hallucinatory budget, I urge the
    Pentagon budget be cut immediately by 50%, with radical further cuts
    each year. We face no military threat from our immediate neighbors,
    Mexico and Canada, and are protected by vast oceans from invasion. The
    American military now extends into every area of our lives, and I pledge
    to resist the militarization of this nation, this obscene continuation
    of a Garrison State so sharply denounced by the late President Dwight D.
    Eisenhower when he left office and warned of the military/industrial
    complex. Given the ads taken out in the New York Times by
    concerned business leaders worried over the misuse of our tax funds for
    unneeded military spending, my position only seems radical because
    neither major party is prepared to speak to it.

    Nuclear weapons remain a grave danger and we must strive for an
    immediate end of all further nuclear testing and take immediate steps to
    scale down our own arsenals of nuclear weapons even as we engage with
    other nuclear powers to reduce theirs until we have zero nuclear
    weapons, and a sense of trust and verification which will give us
    assurance that no new weapons are tested and the list of nuclear states
    diminishes to zero rather than expanding to disaster.

    I call for the closing of all foreign U.S. bases, including the base in
    Guantanamo, Cuba. I call for the end of sanctions against Iraq, Cuba and
    Libya.

    Even as we meet today, people are being killed in East Timor by the
    government of Indonesia, armed and supported by the United States. And
    even as we appeal to President Clinton to take immediate action to
    pressure the Indonesian government to respect the accords on
    self-determination, we also know that from the time of Henry Kissinger
    until today, the United States has been a patron of Indonesia, and has
    close military and economic ties to it. We pledge to oppose with our
    full might any further trade in arms by this government. The manufacture
    and sale of land mines, military air craft, guns, etc., must end
    immediately.

    The war on drugs has resulted in an explosion of our prison population
    so that we now have the greatest number of prisoners of any nation in
    the world - something in which none of us should take pride. We have
    seen the creation of virtual prison industrial complex in which the
    ultimate victims are those men and women jailed, their families and
    friends, and the society which pays vast sums on incarceration rather
    than treatment and rehabilitation. In the city of New York it is easier
    to be arrested for the sale of heroin than it is to gain admittance to
    the drug rehabilitation programs.

    The war on drugs is a costly, inhumane failure which has caused vast
    human suffering here, and resulted in exporting American problems to
    Latin America. Most drugs should either, as with marijuana, be
    decriminalized, or as with heroin, be available to addicts from a
    medical doctor.

    There is talk of raising the minimum wage - I am more inclined to
    suggest a maximum wage in which the lowest wage paid in any industry
    would be not less than one fourth the highest wage paid to any CEO in
    that industry. There is a gross injustice when corporate leaders pull
    down wages in the millions of dollars while working American families
    often must work two jobs to keep food on the table.

    It is urgent that the benefits of working Americans not be cut. They
    have declined sharply. We demand that the benefits of American workers
    be defended against every effort by the corporate structure to slice
    them.

    We need a single payer system of medical care now. We are the only
    industrial nation which does not have such a program, so that ordinary
    people are often uncovered, or only partially covered, for the most
    basic health needs.

    We have seen a spread of violent extremism and racism as well as a
    disturbing level of violence on the campus. The Socialist Party will
    continue to defend the full range of civil liberties and the Bill of
    Rights, as we have done over the decades. But the right to own firearms
    is not protected by the Bill of Rights, which refers to the right of
    each state to maintain a militia - not to the right of any citizen to
    own a loaded automatic weapon. I will work for a system of lincensed gun
    ownership and an end in the sale of automatic weapons which cannot meet
    any reasonable standard for hunting. The National Rifle Association may
    control Congress but it does not control the Socialist Party.

    The Socialist Party will speak out against racism in any form, as we
    move toward a new century in which before the year 2050 non-whites will
    constitute a majority of our people. We will also speak out against
    police brutality and demand independent citizen's review boards. Events
    in this very city have indicated the dangers of a police force out of
    control, commanded by a Mayor who shows signs of mental instability.

    While I have listed some of the immediate demands, some of the urgent
    issues which I hope to address, let no one think the Socialist Party has
    abandoned the goal of social ownership of the commanding heights of
    industry, combined with democratic control, and decentralization and
    community involvement. The corporation is an artificial creation which
    has no inherent rights. If we won control of Congress we would place
    such vast corporate structures under social ownership. Capitalism as we
    know it is not a vision of the future in which we can take comfort, in
    which all things have a price, and all things are on the market place.
    For us, the unit of measurement is the human being, not the rate of
    profit. Just as we seek an economic system which draws on our best
    instincts.

    There is much in America which is good, much that we are proud of -
    including the long struggle for labor's rights, civil rights, women's
    rights, gay and lesbian rights, etc. Some of the proudest moments in our
    history, moments which helped to define us as a democracy, have been
    when the citizens opposed their own government when it was wrong,
    whether that was opposition in the South by African Americans fighting
    segregation, or the mass peace movement which helped end the Vietnam
    War. We honor that history of struggle which has made our democracy
    fuller and freer. We will continue to take part in that struggle,
    viewing our society as one in which there is a conflict between workers
    and owners. We speak for the working class.

    There are many problems still facing us, as our society seems
    overwhelmed by raw materialism, too often devoid of any values beyond
    consumerism. Let me say that there is a spiritual dimension to our
    common life, a dimension of respect for each person, a dimension of
    striving to fulfill our own lives and of helping others, not in terms of
    cash flow but of lives well and truly lived, lives engaged in a sense of
    justice and community.

    That is what the Socialist Party stands for and, if nominated, I will
    seek to represent it across the nation, in the tradition of Eugene
    Victor Debs, Norman Thomas, Michael Harrington and Frank Zeidler. We
    want an America in which working people can fully and responsibly share
    in democratic planning and control of their own economy.

    The words of Eugene Victor Debs are as revolutionary today as they were
    when spoken to a court in Ohio during World War I - they ring with
    biblical force calling us to tasks not yet done: "While there is a
    working class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it,
    while there is a soul in prison I am not free."

    --
    Shaun Richman
    Young People's Socialist League
    339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012
    phone/fax: [phone]
    http://sp-usa.org/ypsl

    McReynolds 2000 Committee
    "Building a Movement for Jobs, Peace and Freedom"
    P.O. Box 91, Floral Park, NY 10012
    phone/fax: [phone]
    http://votesocialist.org/


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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:04:51 -0400
From: Norm and Karen Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!

Hi, marylia, sign on the Coalition for Peace and Justice, 321 Barr Ave, L=
inwood
NJ 08221
609-601-8583, Norm Cohen Executive Director

peace
norm

marylia wrote:

> Hi. We NEED your sign-on to help stop the U.S. Dept. of Energy from
> INCREASING its nuclear weapons activities and moving nuclear material a=
nd
> programs around between the weapons labs and the test site. Please take=
 a
> moment to read the LETTER and initiate whatever action is required to g=
et
> your group's sign on. IT IS IMPORTANT. Then, email me your name, title,
> group name and full address before Sept. 28.  Thank you, Marylia Kelley=
,
> executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs.
>
> PS -- If you are among the 35 groups that have already signed the lette=
r --
> thank you! If not, please sign on today! We need about 100 groups! Plea=
se
> help! Read on...
>
> September 28, 1999 [Prospective send date]
>
> US Department of Energy
> 1000 Independence Avenue, SW
> Washington, D.C. 20585
>
> Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research =
&
> Development
>
> Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons C=
omplex
>
> Dear Mr. Weigand,
>
> We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
> Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physician=
s
> for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  Al=
l
> three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safe=
ty
> issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and oth=
er
> facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.
>
> Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
> LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Age=
ncy
> Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
> Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
> nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 198=
2.
> The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has k=
ept
> watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.
>
> Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the publi=
c
> interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, liste=
d on
> signatory pages that follow.
>
> We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Ener=
gy's
> (DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects=
 of
> the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities withi=
n
> the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
> obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
> understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration official=
s on
> the DOE plan.
>
> Changes proposed by DOE include the following:
>
> 1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
> Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
> briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
> far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
> preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remai=
ns
> in the arsenal.
>
> 2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance missio=
n
> and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is t=
o
> give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
> weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
> will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of=
 the
> surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermor=
e
> Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
> "destructively tested" at Livermore.
>
> Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
> pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks=
 and
> plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recen=
tly
> shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safet=
y
> Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
> proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public he=
alth
> and safety.
>
> 3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-=
name
> for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate =
bomb
> cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
> above-ground tanks.
>
> 4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
> Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
> hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
> under construction at Livermore.
>
> 5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.
>
> 6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests f=
or
> the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
> additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."
>
> 7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
> (ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus=
 an
> older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the techno=
logy
> allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
> nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
> underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
> experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
>
> 8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
> components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF=
&F
> (arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reporte=
d to
> cost $300 million.
>
> Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
> activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
> justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferati=
on
> impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
> intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.
>
> This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
> inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
> Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
> officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermor=
e
> Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermo=
re
> Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmen=
tal
> review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not=
 to
> think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meet=
ing.
>
> We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
> Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory w=
ith
> full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
> whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS =
must
> be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
> There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, w=
here
> both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations abou=
t
> plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.
>
> Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
> Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent =
on
> this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
> contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
> stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before movin=
g
> forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congr=
ess
> to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
> Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
> necessary as well.
>
> We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should h=
ave
> any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director,
> Tri-Valley CAREs
>
> Robert Gould, M.D.
> President,
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area
>
> Jacqueline Cabasso
> Executive Director,
> Western States Legal Foundation
>
> 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-Va=
lley
> 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 t=
he
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:52:17 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Micheal Moore Citizens' Weapons Inspection?

I ran across this on Micheal Moore's page on the Bravo
TV page <http://www.bravotv.com/MM/index.html>:

MM WEAPONS INSPECTION TEAM
Michael Moore enlists the help of an Iraqi cab driver from
New York to inspect America's weapons of destruction.
- - FRIDAY, 9/10 @ 10:00pm ET & 11:00pm PT

- -- there is a page called 'clips' which purports to contain
(Quicktime(r) ?) video clips including one titled 'MM
WEAPONS INSPECTION TEAM' which has a film-frame
icon with a caption to its right saying, '1. As usual, if you
want to get something done, you have to do it
yourself...' and clicking this downloads a file which I
can't,run!  But given Micheal Moore's satiric genius I'm
glad to see it turned on our WMD.  I hope he visited Los
Alamos.  Has anybody heard of this or seen the show?

- -- Ed Rippy




Only human will and action can create
history and open up new horizons.

- -- Daisaku Ikeda, in his peace proposal
submitted to the UN in 1999

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:30:37 -0700
From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS-NATIONAL MEETING

I haven't received my paper invitation yet, but consider me registered; I'm
sending a check today for $50, registration and a small contribution.
Thanks and peace, Jan



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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:02:22 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!

Hi Marylia,
Please sign me on if I'm not on already.  Thanks
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
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GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:09:07 +0100
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEARWEAPONS-NATIONAL MEETING

Looking forward to seeing you, Jan.

Peace ...

Sally

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:44:45 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) BERLIN Y2K DECLARATION

This declaration was passed unanimously at a Y2K WASH-World Atomic Safety
Holiday Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum in Berlin, Germany, on 20 September
1999. The Forum was attended by representatives from NGOs in Japan,
Germany, USA, Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France.

It was presented to the delegates at the G8 special conference on Y2K
contingency planning in Berlin today, Sept. 21st.

_____________________________________________________


Berlin Declaration
International Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum
Y2K WASH - World Atomic Safety Holiday
Berlin, Germany - 20 September 1999


The Occasion: The G-8 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Russia, UK, US), recognizing their responsibility to the world community, are
holding the G-8 Seminar on Contingency Planning for Y2K in Berlin on
September 21 and 22, 1999. The title of this meeting indicates that the G-8
nations have accepted that Y2K compliance cannot be accomplished in time
for the Year 2000 rollover, and that contingency plans are essential.

Citizens around the world are concerned that the potential effect of
Y2K-related system failures on nuclear facilities poses serious threats to
the world community and to the life of the planet. Therefore, we convened an
International Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum the day before the G-8 meeting to
give voice to our concerns about this critical issue. We, the participants
in this forum, recognizing that governments derive their authority from
their citizens, require that the G-8 place on the meeting agenda the Y2K
threats to the nuclear infrastructure. We forward the following conclusions to
the G-8 representatives, and call upon them to be implemented immediately.


The Context: The nuclear age is nearly as old as the computer age. Nuclear
weapons and their delivery systems, as well as nuclear power plants and other
nuclear installations, rely on computers. 4,400 of the world's nuclear weapons
are still held on "hair trigger alert." Early warning and communication
systems are liable to be severely affected by Y2K, thereby risking a
misreading of nuclear weapons data, and increasing the danger of an
unauthorized or accidental use of nuclear weapons.

The world's 1000+ nuclear facilities (1) depend on electrical energy to
operate. As reported by regulatory agencies and independent experts, a
failure in computer or embedded microchip systems may cause a
breakdown in energy transmission, with consequences that could result
in a nuclear accident, or even a meltdown. (2) The generators that supply
back-up power for nuclear installations depend on fuel supplies that may
also be interrupted by the Y2K bug.


The Risk: No one knows what will happen on or after January 1, 2000 or
beyond that date  because of the Y2K problem. The potential for humanitarian
and ecological disasters is self-evident. We cannot afford to take risks
that could prove catastrophic and irreversible. While some contingency plans
have been initiated, the public needs documented evidence that they will be
safe from such potential catastrophes.


The Solution: We therefore call upon all governments, the international nuclear
industry, and all citizens to support a World Atomic Safety Holiday, and to
work together to implement the following steps:

1.    Take all nuclear weapons off "hair trigger alert" from 1 December
1999 onwards, and remove all nuclear warheads from their delivery systems so
that they cannot be launched immediately.

2.    Shut down all nuclear installations by 1 December 1999, and not
bring them back online after 1 January 2000, until they are tested,
transparently verified for Y2K compliance, and the electrical grid stability
is re-established.

3.    Provide reliable and redundant back-up systems, with adequate fuel
supplies for worst case scenarios, in every nuclear installation by 1 December
1999, to ensure that critical nuclear facilities are stable and under control.

4.    Ensure that contingency plans are in place in every community where
a nuclear facility is located. To prepare for "worst case scenarios", we
call on local governments in communities with nuclear installations to set up
emergency procedures that inform and protect the public, and to assess
the companies operating the nuclear facilities for the costs of these
precautions.  These procedures should include but not be limited to:

(a)    producing and distributing leaflets educating the public about the
danger to the community of nuclear accidents, the long-term dangers to health
of radioactive material in the environment, and recommended actions in case
of meltdown or accident to minimize the danger to health.

(b)    supplying iodine tablets and instructions for their use to every
household, with storage in central areas for rapid distribution in emergencies.

(c)    conducting evacuation exercises on a regular basis, and regularly
testing emergency services, such as hospital emergency rooms and fire
department procedures.

5.    Institute a worldwide moratorium on transport of all nuclear
materials from 1 December 1999.

6.    To monitor, assess, and make recommendations about the unfolding
global situation, provide for ongoing expert discussion and evaluation between
G-8- appointed and independent Y2K-Nuclear Forum experts, to be disseminated
through the internet and printed media.


The Opportunity: The challenge of meeting the Y2K problem offers the
opportunity for all of us to face the reality of the nuclear dangers we
live with every day. Y2K shows us that our control over technology is
limited and accidents can happen; governments need to be mindful of the
ever-present threat of nuclear accidents in the future, as long as nuclear
weapons and nuclear energy continue to exist. Together in the next days
and weeks, we can take steps to create a safer world, provide for our common
security and minimize the risk of nuclear catastrophe.


"Probably one out of five days I wake up in a cold sweat thinking [Y2K] is
much bigger than we think, and then the other four days I think maybe we
really are on top of it. Everything is so interconnected, it's hard to know
with any precision whether we have got it fixed."

- --U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre


(1) 433 commercial nuclear power plants, 591 research reactors, all nuclear
fuel facilities containing significant quantities of nuclear material, and all
nuclear-powered submarines.

(2) The French Atomic Energy Commission reports that it will keep most of
its nuclear facilities shut down through the Year 2000 rollover until 3
January 2000; in the U.S. the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported
in July 1999 that 6 of the 8 major fuel cycle facilities in the U.S. will be
offline at the rollover.




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