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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:48:09 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Three Ways You Can Help Get Nukes Off Alert

There are three ways that people in the US (not that I am in Australia) can
help to take nuclear weapons off alert.

1)You can support the Markey Resolution, H Con Res 177. (See previous email
letter to Congress), with free faxing website courtest Carol Moore).
Call Jeff Duncan in Ed Markey s office at 202-225-2836
Congressional Switchboard 202-224-312

2)You can sign on to the electronic petition,  coordinated by NAPF.

It's at Http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/intlpetition.html

3) You can send a fax direct to the US energy secretary William S. Cohen,
on [phone],
or to Clinton on [phone]
(Sample Letter below).

free faxing can be done according to Crol Moore, on  http://www.fax4free.com

Happy lobbying, signing, and emailing.

TO:
WILLIAM COHEN, US SECRETARY OF DEFENCE,
[phone],

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON,
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, US,
[phone]


Dear President Clinton and Secretary for Defence Cohen,
I am writing  to urge your administration to take US nuclear forces off
'hairtrigger alert' even if only during the Y2K rollover period.

It is particularly disturbing that you are reported as having stated in
Moscow that de-alerting of nuclear forces is 'off the table' as a stability
building measure. You have also been quoted as saying  that 'The better
course is reduction, limiting the number of weapons, and establishing
shared early warning centers'.

These measures are not in competition with each other. All of them -
reductions in the number of weapons, the establishment of shared early
warning centers and de-alerting - are  vital to the reduction of tension
and the establishment of strategic stability.

This is particularly the case in view of the uncertainties posed by the
millennium date change (Y2K).

As you are well aware, the largest and oldest computer system complexes in
the world are those that control nuclear weapons systems.

The very nature of the Y2K problem makes it impossible to be sure
everything has been fixed until well into the new year.

Russia has, until recently, made little effort to even  acknowledge the Y2K
problem, let alone fix it. It is therefore quite possible that Russian
computerized control systems are not Y2K compliant and that they will
experience widespread failures during the Y2K rollover period.

Even more disquieting is the fact that that the Russians have constructed
the system known as 'Perimeter', or the 'dead hand'. This system seems to
include additional ways in which Y2K failure might lead to an accidental
launch.

The establishment of a Y2K strategic stability center in Colorado is
certainly an advantageous move and an absolutely essential one.

However, it does not entirely remove the danger of an accidental launch of
nuclear weapons.

The fact that the Center is scheduled, as far as we the public are aware,
to come into operation only on December 27th, four days prior to the
rollover, is far from reassuring. A four day delay will render it useless.

Similarly, the center itself will depend on the availability of
ultra-reliable hotlines between it and Moscow. The  Y2K vulnerabilities
discovered in six of the seven hotlines established during the cold war
period are also cause for deep concern.

If nuclear weapons are removed from a status in which they can be launched
within minutes, and placed in one which would require at least days to
launch, the risk of an accidental missile launch induced by Y2K or other
errors in command and control systems will be virtually eliminated.

This  has been done by the UK, which has moved the 'notice to fire' for its
missile forces from minutes to days.

De-alerting of nuclear forces was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission in 1996 as a way to develop strategic stability and build trust
between the US and Russia. It has also been incorporated into last year's
and  this years text of the New Aganda Resolution in the UN General
Assembly.
In addition it has been the subject of two resolutions passed by the
Australian Senate on 12 August and 20September.

In taking De-alerting 'off the table', the United States is making a
serious error. Failure to take nuclear forces off hairtrigger alert over
the Y2K 'rollover' period is an error that has the potential of causing
unthinkable consequences.

The probability of this may be low,  but it  will never be zero as long as
nuclear forces remain on hair-trigger alert.

In a previous administration, President Bush took strategic bomber forces
off alert. We urge you to do this with all US nuclear forces.

(SIGNED)
etc.


John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html


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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:03:30 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Three Ways You Can Help Get Nukes Off Alert

There are three ways that people in the US (though I am writing from
Australia) can help to take nuclear weapons off alert.

1)You can support the Markey Resolution, H Con Res 177. (See previous email
letter to Congress), (with free faxing website courtesy Carol Moore).
Call Jeff Duncan in Ed Markey s office at 202-225-2836
Congressional Switchboard 202-224-312

2)You can sign on to the electronic petition,  coordinated by NAPF.

It's at Http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/intlpetition.html

3) You can send a fax direct to the US energy secretary William S. Cohen,
on [phone],
or to Clinton on [phone]
(Sample Letter below).

free faxing can be done according to Crol Moore, on  http://www.fax4free.com

Happy lobbying, signing, and emailing.

TO:
WILLIAM COHEN, US SECRETARY OF DEFENCE,
[phone],

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON,
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, US,
[phone]


Dear President Clinton and Secretary for Defence Cohen,
I am writing  to urge your administration to take US nuclear forces off
'hairtrigger alert' even if only during the Y2K rollover period.

It is particularly disturbing that you are reported as having stated in
Moscow that de-alerting of nuclear forces is 'off the table' as a stability
building measure. You have also been quoted as saying  that 'The better
course is reduction, limiting the number of weapons, and establishing
shared early warning centers'.

These measures are not in competition with each other. All of them -
reductions in the number of weapons, the establishment of shared early
warning centers and de-alerting - are  vital to the reduction of tension
and the establishment of strategic stability.

This is particularly the case in view of the uncertainties posed by the
millennium date change (Y2K).

As you are well aware, the largest and oldest computer system complexes in
the world are those that control nuclear weapons systems.

The very nature of the Y2K problem makes it impossible to be sure
everything has been fixed until well into the new year.

Russia has, until recently, made little effort to even  acknowledge the Y2K
problem, let alone fix it. It is therefore quite possible that Russian
computerized control systems are not Y2K compliant and that they will
experience widespread failures during the Y2K rollover period.

Even more disquieting is the fact that that the Russians have constructed
the system known as 'Perimeter', or the 'dead hand'. This system seems to
include additional ways in which Y2K failure might lead to an accidental
launch.

The establishment of a Y2K strategic stability center in Colorado is
certainly an advantageous move and an absolutely essential one.

However, it does not entirely remove the danger of an accidental launch of
nuclear weapons.

The fact that the Center is scheduled, as far as we the public are aware,
to come into operation only on December 27th, four days prior to the
rollover, is far from reassuring. A four day delay will render it useless.

Similarly, the center itself will depend on the availability of
ultra-reliable hotlines between it and Moscow. The  Y2K vulnerabilities
discovered in six of the seven hotlines established during the cold war
period are also cause for deep concern.

If nuclear weapons are removed from a status in which they can be launched
within minutes, and placed in one which would require at least days to
launch, the risk of an accidental missile launch induced by Y2K or other
errors in command and control systems will be virtually eliminated.

This  has been done by the UK, which has moved the 'notice to fire' for its
missile forces from minutes to days.

De-alerting of nuclear forces was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission in 1996 as a way to develop strategic stability and build trust
between the US and Russia. It has also been incorporated into last year's
and  this years text of the New Aganda Resolution in the UN General
Assembly.
In addition it has been the subject of two resolutions passed by the
Australian Senate on 12 August and 20September.

In taking De-alerting 'off the table', the United States is making a
serious error. Failure to take nuclear forces off hairtrigger alert over
the Y2K 'rollover' period is an error that has the potential of causing
unthinkable consequences.

The probability of this may be low,  but it  will never be zero as long as
nuclear forces remain on hair-trigger alert.

In a previous administration, President Bush took strategic bomber forces
off alert. We urge you to do this with all US nuclear forces.

(SIGNED)
etc.


John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html



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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:03:30 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Three Ways You Can Help Get Nukes Off Alert

There are three ways that people in the US (though I am writing from
Australia) can help to take nuclear weapons off alert.

1)You can support the Markey Resolution, H Con Res 177. (See previous email
letter to Congress), (with free faxing website courtesy Carol Moore).
Call Jeff Duncan in Ed Markey s office at 202-225-2836
Congressional Switchboard 202-224-312

2)You can sign on to the electronic petition,  coordinated by NAPF.

It's at Http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/intlpetition.html

3) You can send a fax direct to the US energy secretary William S. Cohen,
on [phone],
or to Clinton on [phone]
(Sample Letter below).

free faxing can be done according to Crol Moore, on  http://www.fax4free.com

Happy lobbying, signing, and emailing.

TO:
WILLIAM COHEN, US SECRETARY OF DEFENCE,
[phone],

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON,
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, US,
[phone]


Dear President Clinton and Secretary for Defence Cohen,
I am writing  to urge your administration to take US nuclear forces off
'hairtrigger alert' even if only during the Y2K rollover period.

It is particularly disturbing that you are reported as having stated in
Moscow that de-alerting of nuclear forces is 'off the table' as a stability
building measure. You have also been quoted as saying  that 'The better
course is reduction, limiting the number of weapons, and establishing
shared early warning centers'.

These measures are not in competition with each other. All of them -
reductions in the number of weapons, the establishment of shared early
warning centers and de-alerting - are  vital to the reduction of tension
and the establishment of strategic stability.

This is particularly the case in view of the uncertainties posed by the
millennium date change (Y2K).

As you are well aware, the largest and oldest computer system complexes in
the world are those that control nuclear weapons systems.

The very nature of the Y2K problem makes it impossible to be sure
everything has been fixed until well into the new year.

Russia has, until recently, made little effort to even  acknowledge the Y2K
problem, let alone fix it. It is therefore quite possible that Russian
computerized control systems are not Y2K compliant and that they will
experience widespread failures during the Y2K rollover period.

Even more disquieting is the fact that that the Russians have constructed
the system known as 'Perimeter', or the 'dead hand'. This system seems to
include additional ways in which Y2K failure might lead to an accidental
launch.

The establishment of a Y2K strategic stability center in Colorado is
certainly an advantageous move and an absolutely essential one.

However, it does not entirely remove the danger of an accidental launch of
nuclear weapons.

The fact that the Center is scheduled, as far as we the public are aware,
to come into operation only on December 27th, four days prior to the
rollover, is far from reassuring. A four day delay will render it useless.

Similarly, the center itself will depend on the availability of
ultra-reliable hotlines between it and Moscow. The  Y2K vulnerabilities
discovered in six of the seven hotlines established during the cold war
period are also cause for deep concern.

If nuclear weapons are removed from a status in which they can be launched
within minutes, and placed in one which would require at least days to
launch, the risk of an accidental missile launch induced by Y2K or other
errors in command and control systems will be virtually eliminated.

This  has been done by the UK, which has moved the 'notice to fire' for its
missile forces from minutes to days.

De-alerting of nuclear forces was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission in 1996 as a way to develop strategic stability and build trust
between the US and Russia. It has also been incorporated into last year's
and  this years text of the New Aganda Resolution in the UN General
Assembly.
In addition it has been the subject of two resolutions passed by the
Australian Senate on 12 August and 20September.

In taking De-alerting 'off the table', the United States is making a
serious error. Failure to take nuclear forces off hairtrigger alert over
the Y2K 'rollover' period is an error that has the potential of causing
unthinkable consequences.

The probability of this may be low,  but it  will never be zero as long as
nuclear forces remain on hair-trigger alert.

In a previous administration, President Bush took strategic bomber forces
off alert. We urge you to do this with all US nuclear forces.

(SIGNED)
etc.


John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html


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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:30:15 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base

In my book Defending Civil Resistance under International Law, see Chapter 4
on the case of People v.Jarka, where we successfully defended a group of
people for sitting down on the road  in front of the Pentagon's Great Lakes
Naval Training Center, successfully  impeding ingress to and egress from the
base. They were protesting the Reagan administration's war against Nicaragua
and their offensive nuclear weapons build-up. We got them off charges of mob
action and resisting arrest. One of the jurors publicly stated after the
trial that he was so incensed about what the Reagan administration was doing
that he was going to go out and protest himself! FAB

- -----Original Message-----
From: TP2000 [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 7:11 AM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]
Subject: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base


Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Trident Ploughshares 2000

Press Briefing   15th November 1999

Ploughshares "Crimestoppers" Hold up Nuke Base

This morning (Monday 15th November) a group of Trident Ploughshares
activists managed for over an hour to prevent workers entering the Royal
Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, Loch Long, where Britain's Trident
nuclear warheads are stored. There were 13 arrests, mostly for Breach of
the Peace.

Among those arrested were Morag Balfour and Roz Bullen, both Scottish
wheel-chair users and long-time peace activists. They formed part of a
linked obstruction across the road.

Sylvia Boyes from Birmingham, Marjan Willemsen from the Netherlands and
Jenny Gaiwyn from Faslane Peace Camp locked-on to three separate buses to
blockade a second gate before being removed and arrested.  This was
Sylvia's second arrest this weekend and she was due in court this morning
for a previous peace-related charge, as was Jenny.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"This morning with 30 activists we were able to disrupt the criminal
activities of the base for over an hour. The Gimblett ruling in Greenock is
helping more and more people to realise that Trident is deployed and is
actively threatening genocide and that they have a perfect right to take
peaceful and accountable direct action against it. We are looking forward
to February 14th, when we expect to have hundreds of people ready to act to
uphold the law."

Contacts:    Coulport Campsite:             01436 850448
Maggie Charnley or Jane Tallents     01436 679194

Trident Ploughshares website:
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/
Scottish CND website (Especially useful on Trident):
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/cndscot/

Hi-8 video footage available of this morning's action. Also of yesterday's
actions: pre-sunrise vigil at Coulport; religious service outside Faslane
North gate; walk across the moors above Kilcreggen to put a placard on a
Trident-related communications mast.

ENDS

Trident Ploughshares 2000, 42-46 Bethel Street,
Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1NR, UK

tel + 44 (0) 1603 611953
fax + 44 (0) 1603 633174
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/

Email :    [e-mail]

Nuclear weapons are immoral, dangerous, polluting, a terrible waste of
resources and were found to be generally illegal by the International Court
of Justice on 8th July 1996.

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:30:15 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

In my book Defending Civil Resistance under International Law, see Chapter 4
on the case of People v.Jarka, where we successfully defended a group of
people for sitting down on the road  in front of the Pentagon's Great Lakes
Naval Training Center, successfully  impeding ingress to and egress from the
base. They were protesting the Reagan administration's war against Nicaragua
and their offensive nuclear weapons build-up. We got them off charges of mob
action and resisting arrest. One of the jurors publicly stated after the
trial that he was so incensed about what the Reagan administration was doing
that he was going to go out and protest himself! FAB

- -----Original Message-----
From: TP2000 [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 7:11 AM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]
Subject: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base


Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Trident Ploughshares 2000

Press Briefing   15th November 1999

Ploughshares "Crimestoppers" Hold up Nuke Base

This morning (Monday 15th November) a group of Trident Ploughshares
activists managed for over an hour to prevent workers entering the Royal
Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, Loch Long, where Britain's Trident
nuclear warheads are stored. There were 13 arrests, mostly for Breach of
the Peace.

Among those arrested were Morag Balfour and Roz Bullen, both Scottish
wheel-chair users and long-time peace activists. They formed part of a
linked obstruction across the road.

Sylvia Boyes from Birmingham, Marjan Willemsen from the Netherlands and
Jenny Gaiwyn from Faslane Peace Camp locked-on to three separate buses to
blockade a second gate before being removed and arrested.  This was
Sylvia's second arrest this weekend and she was due in court this morning
for a previous peace-related charge, as was Jenny.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"This morning with 30 activists we were able to disrupt the criminal
activities of the base for over an hour. The Gimblett ruling in Greenock is
helping more and more people to realise that Trident is deployed and is
actively threatening genocide and that they have a perfect right to take
peaceful and accountable direct action against it. We are looking forward
to February 14th, when we expect to have hundreds of people ready to act to
uphold the law."

Contacts:    Coulport Campsite:             01436 850448
Maggie Charnley or Jane Tallents     01436 679194

Trident Ploughshares website:
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/
Scottish CND website (Especially useful on Trident):
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/cndscot/

Hi-8 video footage available of this morning's action. Also of yesterday's
actions: pre-sunrise vigil at Coulport; religious service outside Faslane
North gate; walk across the moors above Kilcreggen to put a placard on a
Trident-related communications mast.

ENDS

Trident Ploughshares 2000, 42-46 Bethel Street,
Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1NR, UK

tel + 44 (0) 1603 611953
fax + 44 (0) 1603 633174
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/

Email :    [e-mail]

Nuclear weapons are immoral, dangerous, polluting, a terrible waste of
resources and were found to be generally illegal by the International Court
of Justice on 8th July 1996.


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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:30:15 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

In my book Defending Civil Resistance under International Law, see Chapter 4
on the case of People v.Jarka, where we successfully defended a group of
people for sitting down on the road  in front of the Pentagon's Great Lakes
Naval Training Center, successfully  impeding ingress to and egress from the
base. They were protesting the Reagan administration's war against Nicaragua
and their offensive nuclear weapons build-up. We got them off charges of mob
action and resisting arrest. One of the jurors publicly stated after the
trial that he was so incensed about what the Reagan administration was doing
that he was going to go out and protest himself! FAB

- -----Original Message-----
From: TP2000 [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 7:11 AM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]
Subject: PB 15.11.99 Ploughshares Hold Up Nuke Base


Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Mailinglist 'Citizens Inspections to Prevent War Crimes'
- -------------------------------------------------------

Trident Ploughshares 2000

Press Briefing   15th November 1999

Ploughshares "Crimestoppers" Hold up Nuke Base

This morning (Monday 15th November) a group of Trident Ploughshares
activists managed for over an hour to prevent workers entering the Royal
Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, Loch Long, where Britain's Trident
nuclear warheads are stored. There were 13 arrests, mostly for Breach of
the Peace.

Among those arrested were Morag Balfour and Roz Bullen, both Scottish
wheel-chair users and long-time peace activists. They formed part of a
linked obstruction across the road.

Sylvia Boyes from Birmingham, Marjan Willemsen from the Netherlands and
Jenny Gaiwyn from Faslane Peace Camp locked-on to three separate buses to
blockade a second gate before being removed and arrested.  This was
Sylvia's second arrest this weekend and she was due in court this morning
for a previous peace-related charge, as was Jenny.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"This morning with 30 activists we were able to disrupt the criminal
activities of the base for over an hour. The Gimblett ruling in Greenock is
helping more and more people to realise that Trident is deployed and is
actively threatening genocide and that they have a perfect right to take
peaceful and accountable direct action against it. We are looking forward
to February 14th, when we expect to have hundreds of people ready to act to
uphold the law."

Contacts:    Coulport Campsite:             01436 850448
Maggie Charnley or Jane Tallents     01436 679194

Trident Ploughshares website:
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/
Scottish CND website (Especially useful on Trident):
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/cndscot/

Hi-8 video footage available of this morning's action. Also of yesterday's
actions: pre-sunrise vigil at Coulport; religious service outside Faslane
North gate; walk across the moors above Kilcreggen to put a placard on a
Trident-related communications mast.

ENDS

Trident Ploughshares 2000, 42-46 Bethel Street,
Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1NR, UK

tel + 44 (0) 1603 611953
fax + 44 (0) 1603 633174
http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/

Email :    [e-mail]

Nuclear weapons are immoral, dangerous, polluting, a terrible waste of
resources and were found to be generally illegal by the International Court
of Justice on 8th July 1996.


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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:23:01 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Canada GPW2000 Support Letter

Thanks, Paul, it's a very good letter and should be posted soon at
http://www.globalpeacenow.org.   Thanks for taking the time to do it so we
can expand the survival issue messages being carried by Global Peace Walk
2000 and inspire others to submit their letters/messages of support with
their most important survival issues to be publicized and carried by GPW2000
from San Francisco to Washington DC to the United Nations next year.  Based
on responses so far, the nuclear abolition activists are not responding as
well as others including the anti-war and anti-drug-war activists.  We do
not ask or expect supporters of Global Peace Walk 2000 to all endorse every
survival issue message being carried by the walk, just to unite all messages
and activists in the cause of "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human
resolve and then to share the messages with the public, media, and
governments, which those committed to this cause feel are most important for
consideration to accomplish this goal.

From: Paul Giroux <[e-mail]>
To: David Crockett Williams <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Your letter/message
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 6:01 AM


To David Crockett Williams and all other organizers and supporters of the
Global Peace Walk 2000:

I will admit from the beginning that I am not the best of letter writers,
but this is one cause that deserves to be promoted and encouraged.  With the
3rd mellenium fast approaching and wars of one sort or another still going
on in all parts of our world, we must find a way to end them.  For now we
are trying to limit the effects of war by decreasing the amount of nuclear
weapons.  Though this will decrease the destruction caused by war, it will
not keep the war from starting in the first place.  We fight for human
rights, but how will we ever keep our human rights, when we as people are
giving them all away in the name of the "War on Drugs".  We no longer feel
safe talking over the phone, or the computer or some of us even to have
private conversation in our own homes.  For me the best way to stop nuclear
weapons is to stop the need for war in the first place.  The best way to
stop most of the wars, is to end the drug war that is going on now.  Only
when people can feel safe from government persecution, will it be possible
to gain any sort of true human rights.  And one of the best ways to end the
drug war, is to end the prohibition that causes the drug war in the first
place.  It has already been shown the harms and ills that prohibition
causes, one of them being the vast military and prison complexes that are
being built all over the world.  Isn't it sad that one of the most booming
investments at this time is prisons and prison suppliers?  Wouldn't it be
much better if we were using all that money to build housing for the
homeless, producing food for the poor, better schools for our kids, and many
more things to that effect.  Yes the 3rd millennium is fast approaching, but
if it means I will not be free, I think I would rather skip it.  End
prohibition, after that everything will fall back into place, including the
abolishment of nuclear weapons.

Peace, Love and Light shine on all,

Paul Giroux
windofchange

P.S.  My name is Paul Giroux, I live in Quebec.  I am trying to organize a
Canadian branch of the GPW 2000.  I would like to emphasize the ending of
prohibition on the march.  I would like to get all the smokers to just stand
up for their rights in order to end prohibition.  Everything else for now is
secondary to me.

Remember May 6th, 2000 is Mayday and it will be time to stand up.
http://www.cures-not-wars.org

GPW 2000 will help to drive it home.  This is the year to make
prohibition go away and start the new millennium with acceptance of others'
way of life.  If you would like to help out let me know.  Email address is:
[e-mail]






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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:23:01 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [abolition-caucus] Canada GPW2000 Support Letter

Thanks, Paul, it's a very good letter and should be posted soon at
http://www.globalpeacenow.org.   Thanks for taking the time to do it so we
can expand the survival issue messages being carried by Global Peace Walk
2000 and inspire others to submit their letters/messages of support with
their most important survival issues to be publicized and carried by GPW2000
from San Francisco to Washington DC to the United Nations next year.  Based
on responses so far, the nuclear abolition activists are not responding as
well as others including the anti-war and anti-drug-war activists.  We do
not ask or expect supporters of Global Peace Walk 2000 to all endorse every
survival issue message being carried by the walk, just to unite all messages
and activists in the cause of "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human
resolve and then to share the messages with the public, media, and
governments, which those committed to this cause feel are most important for
consideration to accomplish this goal.

From: Paul Giroux <[e-mail]>
To: David Crockett Williams <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Your letter/message
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 6:01 AM


To David Crockett Williams and all other organizers and supporters of the
Global Peace Walk 2000:

I will admit from the beginning that I am not the best of letter writers,
but this is one cause that deserves to be promoted and encouraged.  With the
3rd mellenium fast approaching and wars of one sort or another still going
on in all parts of our world, we must find a way to end them.  For now we
are trying to limit the effects of war by decreasing the amount of nuclear
weapons.  Though this will decrease the destruction caused by war, it will
not keep the war from starting in the first place.  We fight for human
rights, but how will we ever keep our human rights, when we as people are
giving them all away in the name of the "War on Drugs".  We no longer feel
safe talking over the phone, or the computer or some of us even to have
private conversation in our own homes.  For me the best way to stop nuclear
weapons is to stop the need for war in the first place.  The best way to
stop most of the wars, is to end the drug war that is going on now.  Only
when people can feel safe from government persecution, will it be possible
to gain any sort of true human rights.  And one of the best ways to end the
drug war, is to end the prohibition that causes the drug war in the first
place.  It has already been shown the harms and ills that prohibition
causes, one of them being the vast military and prison complexes that are
being built all over the world.  Isn't it sad that one of the most booming
investments at this time is prisons and prison suppliers?  Wouldn't it be
much better if we were using all that money to build housing for the
homeless, producing food for the poor, better schools for our kids, and many
more things to that effect.  Yes the 3rd millennium is fast approaching, but
if it means I will not be free, I think I would rather skip it.  End
prohibition, after that everything will fall back into place, including the
abolishment of nuclear weapons.

Peace, Love and Light shine on all,

Paul Giroux
windofchange

P.S.  My name is Paul Giroux, I live in Quebec.  I am trying to organize a
Canadian branch of the GPW 2000.  I would like to emphasize the ending of
prohibition on the march.  I would like to get all the smokers to just stand
up for their rights in order to end prohibition.  Everything else for now is
secondary to me.

Remember May 6th, 2000 is Mayday and it will be time to stand up.
http://www.cures-not-wars.org

GPW 2000 will help to drive it home.  This is the year to make
prohibition go away and start the new millennium with acceptance of others'
way of life.  If you would like to help out let me know.  Email address is:
[e-mail]






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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:56:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert!

November 17, 1999

To date, the following cities will hold demonstrations this Friday, Nov.
19 in support of Vieques and to send a message that WE ARE MORE UNITED
THAN EVER in the struggle to get the US Navy out of Vieques and not allow
one more bomb to be dropped or one more bullet to be fired in
Vieques. (For updates, visit "Events" in viequeslibre.org):

Vieques, Puerto Rico
Washington, DC
New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Providence, RI
Jersey City, NJ
Hartford, CT
Cleveland, OH
Cambridge, MA
Baltimore, MD
Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia, PA

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Vieques, Puerto Rico

"Todo Puerto Rico Pa' Vieques"

Habra movilizacion para Vieques desde el viernes 19 de Noviembre. Para
informacin  llamar al 250-1588 o al localizador 333-3997.

WE ARE MORE UNITED THAN EVER!
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR VIEQUES

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Jersey City, NJ

Thursday November 18
Time: 6 pm
Comite Pro Vieques, Puerto Rico de Hudson County is organizing a March
On November 18, 1999 6pm from Roberto Clemente Little League Field (6th
and Manila Avenue) to Jersey City Hall (280 Grove Street.)

Contact: Anthony Cruz 201-7927609
Vieques Support Campaign - [e-mail]

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New York City, NY

Friday November 19
Time: 5 pm sharp
Demonstration and picket in an afternoon of world-wide solidarity for
The immediate removal of the U.S. Navy from the island municipality of
Vieques, Puerto Rico!

Where: The Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza
(Broadway & Reade St. Downtown Manhattan)

Take N,  R trains to City Hall or 4, 5, 6, J, M to Brooklyn Bridge or
Chambers

Contact: Vieques Support Campaign - [e-mail]

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Washington, DC

Friday November 19
Time: 6:00PM
Rally For Vieques in front of the White House
(Lafayette Park-SW Quadrant and the White House Sidewalk)

6:00PM this Friday in front of the White House, with drums, banners,
picket signs, bull horns, etc., and demand from President Clinton once
again, loud and clear, that he must order the US Navy out of Vieques now
and must not allow one more bomb to be dropped or one more bullet to be
fired in Vieques.

Contact: Flavio Cumpiano, Committee for the Rescue and Development of
Vieques, Washington, DC (202-721-4688) - [e-mail]

[Flyer- Ready to Print & Distribute]
In .doc format for Word

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Hartford, Connecticut

Friday November 19
Time:3:30 PM

Frente de a la Corte Federal de Hartford
In front of the Federal Court

Contact: Iv╖n Ramos - [e-mail]
Todo Connecticut con Vieques:[phone] /[phone]

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Baltimore, MD

Friday November 19
Time: 5:00PM
Join the Vieques Support Campaign this Friday -5PM-at the corner of
Hanover and Lombard Streets (Federal Building) for a picket of worldwide
solidarity with Vieques! Demand the U.S. Navy leave the island immediately.

Contact: Organized by the Vieques Support Campaign-Baltimore
475 St. Brides Ct., Severna Park, MD 21146
Phone: [phone]
[e-mail]

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Providence, Rhode Island

Friday November 19
Time: 6:00PM

Comit╚ Todo Rhode Island Con Vieques
(All of Rhode Island With Vieques Committee)
385 Westminster Street, Providence, RI  02903 [phone]

Rally For Vieques in front of the Federal Court
Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI this Friday November 19 at 6:00PM

Contact: Francisco J. Cruz [phone] - [e-mail]

[Flyer- Ready to Print & Distribute]

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Cambridge, MA

Friday November 19
Time: 6:00-7:30PM

PEACE FOR VIEQUES VIGIL

HARVARD YARD (IN FRONT OF JOHN HARVARD STATUE)

HARVARD PRESS EXPECTED TO ATTEND
HOT COFFE WILL BE SERVED-CAFE' CALIENTE

COME AND HELP US STOP THE BOMBING OF VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO!!!

Contact: Hans Perl-Matanzo - [e-mail]

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San Francisco, CA

Friday November 19
Mobilization called by the Vieques Solidarity Coalition.
Contact: Ed Rosario - [e-mail]

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Minneapolis, MN

Friday November 19
Time: 4:30 PM

Where: The new US NAVY Recruiting Station at 119 E Lake St, Minneapolis
(1 block west of K-Mart on Lake, by no coincidence in el coraz█n of the
Latino community.)

Contact: Committee for Vieques. For more info, e-mail
[e-mail]
or call [phone].

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Philadelphia, PA

Friday November 19
Time: 4-6PM

Where: Federal Building (6+Market)

Contact: Called by the US Navy Out of Vieques Now Coalition;
C/ Phila IAC
[phone] - [e-mail]

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Cleveland, OH

Sunday November 22
Time: 4:30 PM
There will be a Peace Walk for Vieques in Cleveland on Monday, November
22. People will gather at Massimo de Milano Restaurant on 1400 W. 25th
Street from 4:30. At 5:30 pm, people will walk over to the Peace Monument
for a Rally and then on to City Hall where a resolution on Vieques will be
presented to the City Council by Councilman Cintron.

Contact: [e-mail]

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liberaci█n de nuestros prisioneros pol╠ticos.

Vista en Calendario de Actividades en RedBetances e incluye tus
actividades.

Visita Paz para Vieques en RedBetances: http://www.RedBetances.com.

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