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abolition-usa-digest    Tuesday, September 28 1999    Volume 01 : Number 188




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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Paying UN Dues

Since Clinton hasn't yet been able to persuade Congress to appropriate the
funds needed to pay our back dues to the UN, I ask the following question:
Is there anyway to pay the dues without Congress' specific approval?  Could
the Treasury Secretary divert the necessary funds via creative accounting?


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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:59:47 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) FREE VANUNU VIGILS WORLDWIDE

 PLEASE POST

On September 30, 1986, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was
kidnapped from Rome and taken to Israel for a secret trial.  He was
convicted on charges of treason and espionage and has been in Ashkelon
Prison ever since.

There will be world-wide vigils on September 30 demanding the immediate and
unconditional release of this prisoner of conscience in the following
cities -  Jerusalem, Toronto, Sydney, Wellington, Helsinki, Stockholm,
Oslo, London, Leicester,
Sheffield, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston.  If you live in or near one of
the locations, please join in calling for Vanunu's freedom!

For more information about Mordechai Vanunu and the international campaign
for his release, please visit the following websites:
www.nonviolence.org/vanunu
www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk



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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter believed to be lost (fwd)

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network
PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607
Web site:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
[phone]


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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:58:17 -0400
From: Karl Grossman <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter believed to be lost

>>From [e-mail] Thu Sep 23 15:24:33 1999
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter believed to be lost
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>
>MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
>JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
>CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
>NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
>PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109.  TELEPHONE [phone]
>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        September 23, 1999
>
>NASA'S MARS CLIMATE ORBITER BELIEVED TO BE LOST
>
>     NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter is believed to be lost due to a
>suspected navigation error.
>
>     Early this morning at about 2 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time the
>orbiter fired its main engine to go into orbit around the planet.
>All the information coming from the spacecraft leading up to that
>point looked normal.  The engine burn began as planned five
>minutes before the spacecraft passed behind the planet as seen
>from Earth.  Flight controllers did not detect a signal when the
>spacecraft was expected to come out from behind the planet.
>
>     "We had planned to approach the planet at an altitude of
>about 150 kilometers (93 miles). We thought we were doing that,
>but upon review of the last six to eight hours of data leading up
>to arrival, we saw indications that the actual approach altitude
>had been much lower.  It appears that the actual altitude was
>about 60 kilometers (37 miles). We are still trying to figure out
>why that happened," said Richard Cook, project manager for the
>Mars Surveyor Operations Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion
>Laboratory.  "We believe that the minimum survivable altitude for
>the spacecraft would have been 85 kilometers (53 miles)."
>
>     "If in fact we have lost the spacecraft it is very serious,
>but it is not devastating to the Mars Surveyor Program as a
>whole.  The program is flexible enough to allow us to recover the
>science return of Mars Climate Orbiter on a future mission. This
>is not necessarily science lost; it is science delayed," said Dr.
>Carl Pilcher, science director for Solar System Exploration at
>NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. "We have a robust program to
>explore Mars that involves launching on average one mission per
>year for at least a decade. It began with the launch of Mars
>Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor in 1996, continued with Mars
>Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander and will be followed by
>more missions in 2001, 2003 and 2005. In fact, Mars Polar Lander
>will arrive in just over two months and its mission is completely
>independent of the Mars Climate Orbiter.  The science return of
>that mission won't be affected."
>
>     Flight controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
>Pasadena, CA and Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, CO will
>continue their efforts to locate the spacecraft through the Deep
>Space Network during the next several hours.  A special
>investigation team has been formed by JPL to further assess the
>situation.
>
>     Mars Climate Orbiter is one of a series of missions in a
>long-term program of Mars exploration known as the Mars Surveyor
>Program that is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for
>NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.  JPL is a
>division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
>
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:58:25 -0400
From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Paying UN Dues

There are major barriers to such a step, both legal and political.   It's never
going to happen.

Bob Tiller



Timothy Bruening wrote:

> Since Clinton hasn't yet been able to persuade Congress to appropriate the
> funds needed to pay our back dues to the UN, I ask the following question:
> Is there anyway to pay the dues without Congress' specific approval?  Could
> the Treasury Secretary divert the necessary funds via creative accounting?
>
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:54:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 33 Year-old Yellow-Green

Dear Peaceniks:

Today, I am a 33 Year Old Yellow-Green.  I have a Yellow Belt in Taekwondo
Karate, and I am a member of the Green Party. I am also 12,053 days old.

Sincerely,

Tim.


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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:51:35 -0400
From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement

 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
broad areas:

1. Research and Policy:
     *Provide research and expertise on a broad range of nuclear weapons
issues, including: plutonium disposition, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, nonproliferation, de-alerting, and the
ABM treaty.
     *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
developments in issue areas.
     *Prepare fact sheets, articles and other materials for
decision-makers and for activists.
     *Assist in developing action strategies and advocacy initiatives.
     *Conduct special projects.

2. Organizing and Education:
     *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's activist network on nuclear issues.
     *Produce educational materials for activists and chapters,
including voter education materials and a bimonthly newsletter.
     *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
physician experts.
     *Mobilize activists for action.
     *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
     *Maintain and update the nuclear portion of PSR's website.
     *Assist in drafting media statements.
     *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
and other education events.

Qualifications:
      -Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
      -Knowledge of nuclear weapons issues
      -Experience in working with grassroots activists
      -Strong writing and speaking skills
      -Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
      -Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
      -Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
      -Minimum of three years of relevant experience

PSR encourages applications from women and minorities.
Full benefits package.  Salary negotiable depending on expereience.  To
apply, send resume to Robert Tiller, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, 1101 14th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20005.  E-mail
<[e-mail]>



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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:56:47 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Michael Moore's weapons inspection

As fate would have it, a friend of a friend
recorded the 'Awful Truth' episode in question
and it's heartening -- I think he has a pretty
large following.  On his show he got two Arab-
Americans to go w/ him to various bases (he
rented a helicopter & flew over a sumbarine
base when they wouldn't let him in on the
ground).  He did get in to a chem wpn
storehouse which the PR people admitted had
enough of the same stuff we were looking for in
Iraq to kill everyone in  the Mideast 'if applied
properly.'   He also got some good shots of US
officials when he tried to show them his
findings.  As his punchline goes, 'It's ok to
inspect weapons of mass destruction as long
as they're somebody else's.'  I'll see if I can get
copies of this if anyone interested or maybe
someone can get the clips from
www.bravotv.com & sucessfully use them.

- -- Ed Rippy


By the end of the millenium 5 men
controled the world's media.
And the people rejoiced,
because their TVs told them to.

- -- Michael Moore

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 15:01:04 -0400
From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Job announcement

Bob Tiller wrote:
>
>  JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
> committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
> Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
> broad areas:
>
> 1. Research and Policy:
>      *Provide research and expertise on a broad range of nuclear weapons
> issues, including: plutonium disposition, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
> weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
> public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
> Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, nonproliferation, de-alerting, and the
> ABM treaty.
>      *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
> developments in issue areas.
>      *Prepare fact sheets, articles and other materials for
> decision-makers and for activists.
>      *Assist in developing action strategies and advocacy initiatives.
>      *Conduct special projects.
>
> 2. Organizing and Education:
>      *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's activist network on nuclear issues.
>      *Produce educational materials for activists and chapters,
> including voter education materials and a bimonthly newsletter.
>      *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
> physician experts.
>      *Mobilize activists for action.
>      *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
>      *Maintain and update the nuclear portion of PSR's website.
>      *Assist in drafting media statements.
>      *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
> and other education events.
>
> Qualifications:
>       -Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
>       -Knowledge of nuclear weapons issues
>       -Experience in working with grassroots activists
>       -Strong writing and speaking skills
>       -Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
>       -Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
>       -Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
>       -Minimum of three years of relevant experience
>
> PSR encourages applications from women and minorities.
> Full benefits package.  Salary negotiable depending on expereience.  To
> apply, send resume to Robert Tiller, Physicians for Social
> Responsibility, 1101 14th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20005.  E-mail
> <[e-mail]>
>
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    Bob, Please call me at 2026385900 ext 818 either today Monday or
tomorrow afternoon, Helen Caldicott



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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:23:28 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: S1287

>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:41:00 -0400
>Subject: S1287
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
>
>"The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1999" (S1287) may be considered
>by the Senate as early as the week of October 5th. This legislation would
>amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (amended 1987), which set in
>motion a study to determine whether Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was a suitable
>repository for all of the nation's nuclear waste. So far, indications are
>that Yucca Mountain is unsuitable for many reasons, including frequent
>nearby earthquakes and  the strong possibility of contaminating the
>groundwater under Yucca Mountain. The nuclear industry has been pushing for
>passage of S1287, and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has said that it is
>on his "short list" of bills to be considered before the end of the fall
>legislative session.  S1287 would make the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1996
>even worse by:
>
>        -authorizing the federal government to take title and assume
liability
for
>all commercial nuclear waste in the United States, including all storage
>costs. This provision     places the burden of paying for nuclear waste
>storage, disposal, and liability squarely on the shoulders of the
>taxpayers-
>and takes it off of the nuclear industry.
>
>        -allowing "backup storage" at the Yucca Mountain once construction is
>authorized, or at a private licensed site. Backup storage at Yucca Mountain
>or another       "temporary" site will mean the absolutely needless and
terribly
>risky transportation of radioactive waste from 77 sites through 43 states
>before a definite decision         has been made regarding the permanent
storage
>of
>radioactive waste. This bailout of the nuclear industry is unacceptable,
>and
>it endangers more than 50 million  Americans in their homes, schools, and
>churches because the waste will be travelling directly through their home
>towns.
>
>        -violating U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy by setting up an
"Office
>of Spent Nuclear Fuel Research" to conduct research and development on
>plutonium and
>        reprocessing. Both reprocessing and transmutation allow for reuse of
>nuclear material.
>
>        -preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from setting
>"radiation safety standards"-the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would
>be responsible   for setting these standards instead. In addition, the NRC
>would be forbidden by law to set release limits for deadly nuclear waste or
>to specifically protect   groundwater resources.
>
>ACT NOW!
>
>        -Contact your senators and tell them why they should OPPOSE this
bill.
A
>sample letter follows.  You can also use the sample letter as talking
>points
>to call your senators.
>
>        -Contact the White House and tell President Clinton that he should
VETO S
>1287. As him to officially announce a veto threat. Tell him the EPA should
>set radiation standards, not the NRC. Also, tell him that "backup storage"
>is too similar to "interim storage".
>
>SAMPLE LETTER TO SENATOR..
>
>
>DATE
>
>The Honorable _____________
>United States Senate
>Washington, DC  20510
>
>
>Dear Senator ________:
>
>I am writing to urge you to OPPOSE the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act
>of 1999 (S 1287). This bill compounds the shortsightedness that has plagued
>
>our country since the nuclear age began.
>
>S 1287 threatens the environment and public health and safety. The waste
>would travel through 43 states, exposing 50 million people to
>cancer-causing
>radiation. This legislation takes the authority to set radiation release
>standards at the nuclear waste disposal site away from the Environmental
>Protection Agency and gives it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This
>action goes against current law, and it threatens public health and the
>environment because the NRC is willing to set any standard necessary to
>ensure the approval of a permanent repository site.
>
>S 1287 places the burden of paying for the mess made by nuclear waste
>generators on American taxpayers.  The bill's backup storage provision
>would
>allow for the absolutely needless and terribly risky transportation of
>nuclear waste  before final approval of a permanent repository. Further,
>the
>costs associated with transporting the waste and cleaning up the accidents
>will be borne by taxpayers.
>
>Finally, S 1287 violates U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy by
>establishing an office specifically to research and develop nuclear fuel
>reprocessing technologies and share this information with other countries.
>Developing these technologies could make reprocessed plutonium-used to make
>nuclear weapons-more available.
>
>Please OPPOSE S 1287. Do not compound the shortsightedness of the past 50
>years. Vote against this bill, and vote for a sustainable future. Thank you
>for your consideration.
>
>Sincerely,
>(signature)
>
>
>======================================================
>Questions about the CMEP-list can be directed to [e-mail]
>========================================================
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:26:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Day Without the Pentagon actions October 1st & 2nd

In a message dated 9/27/99 5:17:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

                     ************************************
                     *****DAY WITHOUT THE PENTAGON******
                     ************************************

         Join the War Resisters' League, the Socialist Party USA and others
in
 protest against the militarist priorities of our government in this year's
 local Day Without the Pentagon actions.

         On October 1st there will be a demonstration at Draper Labs at 4pm.
 Draper Labs is one of the hundred largest contractors of the Pentagon.  They
 spend millions of our tax dollars on military research for things such as
 missile guidance systems.  This same money could be going toward hirings
more
 teachers and educating students for a more prosperous future, or toward
 providing universal health care for all.

         We will continue the following day, October 2nd, at 1pm outside the
 Park Street T station.  We will join the CPHR (Committee for Peace and Human
 Rights) in their weekly vigil for the Iraqi people (and others) suffering
 from US sanctions and other beligerant foreign policies.  Then at 2pm we
will
 have a march to a nearby recruiting station where we will speak out about
 military recruitment in public schools (ROTC and JROTC) and the false
 promises of job training and tuition money that are often used to lure youth
 into joining.

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:27:10 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re-send: Michael Moore's weapons inspections

- -- Sorry if this is a duplicate, I got a strange
'bounce' msg & am not sure if it was from an
indiv. or the list server:

As fate would have it, a friend of a friend
recorded the 'Awful Truth' episode in question
and it's heartening -- I think he has a pretty
large following.  On his show he got two Arab-
Americans to go w/ him to various bases (he
rented a helicopter & flew over a sumbarine
base when they wouldn't let him in on the
ground).  He did get in to a chem wpn
storehouse which the PR people admitted had
enough of the same stuff we were looking for in
Iraq to kill everyone in  the Mideast 'if applied
properly.'   He also got some good shots of US
officials when he tried to show them his
findings.  As his punchline goes, 'It's ok to
inspect weapons of mass destruction as long
as they're somebody else's.'  I'll see if I can get
copies of this if anyone interested or maybe
someone can get the clips from
www.bravotv.com & sucessfully use them.

- -- Ed Rippy


By the end of the millenium 5 men
controled the world's media.
And the people rejoiced,
because their TVs told them to.

- -- Michael Moore

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:10:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Reminder of upcoming conference

Dear Friends and Activists,

This is a final reminder to return your registration form for the upcoming
meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  Please fill out the
registration form included below and return to Carah Ong as soon as
possible.  If you have any questions or need any assistance, please feel
free to contact Carah at either by phone [phone] or by email
[e-mail].  Thank you for your continued support and participation
in this important effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.  We look
forward to meeting and discussing the future of the US effort.

In Peace,
The Facilitator's Group





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.)









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)


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












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 "Abolition USA", and
write "conference donation" 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
PMB 121, 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: 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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