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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:06:33 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Query: MOX Tests Canada

- -----Original Message-----
From: Boyle, Francis
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:03 PM
To: '[e-mail]'; [e-mail]
Subject: RE: MOX Tests Canada
Importance: High


If anyone can send me technical literature on the Canadian stockpile of
weapons grade plutonium, I can use it at the Federal District Court Hearing
in Kalamazoo MI on April 7 to stop this. Thanks.
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Ill. 61820
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>


- -----Original Message-----
From: Peter Diehl [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:01 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: MOX Tests Canada


New at the AECB site:

Canadian Regulations Regarding MOX Parallex Tests and Possible Use of MOX
Fuel in Canadian Power Reactors

<http://www.aecb-ccea.gc.ca/announce/statemen/mox_e.htm>

An interesting detail: AECB authorized the air transport of the MOX
samples...

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:30:54 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Write  Judge Smith& New addresses for DU plowshares

27 March 2000

Judge James T. Smith, Jr.
Circuit Court for Baltimore County
400 Bosley Ave.
Towson MD 21204, USA

Dear Judge Smith,
    Re: Ploughshares vs Depleted Uranium
    You must be somewhat disturbed over the trial of Philip Berrigan,
Susan
Crane, Stephen Kelly, SJ, and Elizabeth Walz. Your sentencing was so
excessively vindictive that I would guess that the action of these men
and women deeply challenged your "faith" and belief that Catholic
doctrine supported US military activity, regardless of the judgement of
the Church?s more prophetic members.
    By eliminating expert witnesses in this case, you eliminated my
testimony. I am a Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart (Motherhouse in Yardley
Pennsylvania), and also President of the North American Association of
Contemplative Sisters. I am also an Epidemiologist with 30 years
experience with communities exposed to uranium mining and milling, and
related polluting activities. I have been working for the last three
years with the veterans of the Gulf War who are seriously ill. It was in
recognition of my expertise in the health effects of radiation,
especially from uranium compounds, that I was asked by the defendants to
testify to the rationality of their actions.
    In your better moments, you must find that shooting radioactive
waste
at one?s enemy is outrageous behaviour. How much more outrageous is it
to undermine the health of one?s own military personnel, and the women
and children of the land which you have polluted. There is no war theory
which condones indiscriminate poison. By the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission regulations, depleted uranium can be handled only by licensed
and trained personnel, and all releases to the environment must be
cleaned up. It is legally recognized as a poison.
    I hope that even though you expressed your moral distress and
confusion
in an inappropriate way in the court, you will on sober reflection
realize that your silencing of the defendants did not make the depleted
uranium problem go away. As a Catholic Judge, you should be prepared to
hear unwanted truth, and respect the righteous actions of those who
clearly see and denounce a wrong. I will pray that you find a way
quickly to redress the wrong which you have done and reduce the
sentences of the Ploughshares defendants. Silencing the messengers and
prophets has long been the pattern of behaviour of false leaders. Do not
continue on this wrong path.

Sincerely, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, GNSH
President


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Ill. 61820
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>


- -----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth McAlister [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:01 AM
To: Abolition-USA
Subject: New addresses for plowshares


New addresses and numbers for 3 of the 4 plowshares:
    We heard today from all 4 of the plowshares vs depleted uranium. Liz
called from Towson early to say that Susan was moved out at about 6:00
a.m. Then Susan called from Jessup to announce arrival and address.
    This afternoon Phil called from downtown Baltimore to say that he
and
Steve were in the Diagnostic Center. For the time being (and this will
definitely change for Phil and Steve) here are their new addresses and
numbers:
    Susan Crane #916-999
    Maryland Correctional Institution for Women
    PO Box 535
    Jessup MD 20794
    (mail is sent to that address; if you happen to want to enclose a
money
order that need to be addressed to PO Box 306; the rest of the address
remains the same)
    Philip Berrigan #292-139 and Rev. Steve Kelly S.J. #292-140
    MRDCC (Diagnostic Center)
    550 E. Madison St
    Baltimore MD 21202

    Liz Walz remains #995-376
    200 Court House Court
    Towson MD 21204

Sr. Rosalie Bertel shared with us the letter she wrote to Judge Smith. I
append it here; you may want to write in similar or different fashion; I
don't put much store by his willingness to change his mind but there is
value in letting him know that people know about what he did and are
outraged. As the spirit moves you...

To us, Rosalie wrote: "This letter may be too "soft", but perhaps it
will touch this vindictive judge.á I will send you a hard copy with our
letterhead stationery." Rosalie

27 March 2000

Judge James T. Smith, Jr.
Circuit Court for Baltimore County
400 Bosley Ave.
Towson MD 21204, USA

Dear Judge Smith,
    Re: Ploughshares vs Depleted Uranium
    You must be somewhat disturbed over the trial of Philip Berrigan,
Susan
Crane, Stephen Kelly, SJ, and Elizabeth Walz. Your sentencing was so
excessively vindictive that I would guess that the action of these men
and women deeply challenged your "faith" and belief that Catholic
doctrine supported US military activity, regardless of the judgement of
the Church?s more prophetic members.
    By eliminating expert witnesses in this case, you eliminated my
testimony. I am a Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart (Motherhouse in Yardley
Pennsylvania), and also President of the North American Association of
Contemplative Sisters. I am also an Epidemiologist with 30 years
experience with communities exposed to uranium mining and milling, and
related polluting activities. I have been working for the last three
years with the veterans of the Gulf War who are seriously ill. It was in
recognition of my expertise in the health effects of radiation,
especially from uranium compounds, that I was asked by the defendants to
testify to the rationality of their actions.
    In your better moments, you must find that shooting radioactive
waste
at one?s enemy is outrageous behaviour. How much more outrageous is it
to undermine the health of one?s own military personnel, and the women
and children of the land which you have polluted. There is no war theory
which condones indiscriminate poison. By the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission regulations, depleted uranium can be handled only by licensed
and trained personnel, and all releases to the environment must be
cleaned up. It is legally recognized as a poison.
    I hope that even though you expressed your moral distress and
confusion
in an inappropriate way in the court, you will on sober reflection
realize that your silencing of the defendants did not make the depleted
uranium problem go away. As a Catholic Judge, you should be prepared to
hear unwanted truth, and respect the righteous actions of those who
clearly see and denounce a wrong. I will pray that you find a way
quickly to redress the wrong which you have done and reduce the
sentences of the Ploughshares defendants. Silencing the messengers and
prophets has long been the pattern of behaviour of false leaders. Do not
continue on this wrong path.

Sincerely, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, GNSH
President


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:04:01 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DU Plowshares: For National Catholic Reporter

By PATRICK O'NEILL
TOWSON, MD. - Not much has changed about Philip Berrigan since 1968 when his

anti-Viet Nam War protests landed him on the cover of Time Magazine with his

brother, Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan. At age 76, Berrigan welcomed in year
2000 from a Baltimore County jail cell. By his own account, Berrigan has
spent more than nine years in jail and prison for acts of civil
disobedience.
 On March 23, Circuit Judge James T. Smith, Jr. made sure Berrigan will
spend
at least another New Year's Day - perhaps two - in a Maryland prison after
he
sentenced the former Josephite priest and three other Catholic pacifists for

using hammers and blood to damage two Air National Guard A-10 Warthog
warplanes last December to protest the United States' use of depleted
uranium
in recent wars against Iraq and Yugoslavia.
 Smith, who was once named "Man for All Seasons" by the St. Thomas More
Society of Maryland, Inc., a Catholic lawyers group, shocked courtroom
observers by sentencing Berrigan to 30 months in prison for malicious
destruction of property and conspiracy. Smith far exceeded the 6-to-12 month

guidelines Assistant State's Attorney Mickey Norman requested for Berrigan.
Also sentenced: Elizabeth Walz, 33, a Catholic Worker from Philadelphia
(guidelines, 0-to-1 month; sentence, 18 months), Susan Crane, 56, of
Baltimore, and Fr. Stephen Kelly S.J., 50 of New York. (guidelines, 2-to-9
months; sentence, 27 months each). Smith also ordered the defendants to
share
in paying $88,622.11 in restitution for the damage. The large damage total
justified stiff sentences, Smith said. The judge imposed a cash bail of
$90,000 each, "to be paid by the defendants only" in the event the four seek

appeals.
 Calling themselves "Plowshares vs. Depleted Uranium," the four admitted to
using bolt cutters to gain access to Warfield Air National Guard Base in
Middle River, MD. during the predawn hours of Dec. 19. Citing Isaiah 2:4
("They shall beat their swords into plowshares ..."), the activists hammered

and poured blood on two A-10s, which use Gatling guns to fire various types
of depleted uranium shells.
 "This criminal plane fired 95 percent of the depleted uranium deployed by
the U.S. during the Gulf War ... poisoning humans and the elements in Kuwait

and Iraq," the four wrote in a statement.
 During his opening argument, prosecutor Norman said the four had taken
hammers to property not belonging to them, something you couldn't do "unless

of course there is a legally justifiable reason. The defendants might
believe
there is a moral justification, but this is a court of law. There wasn't a
legal justification."
 Smith agreed to Norman's pretrial Motion in Limine, which prohibited "the
defense from introducing evidence and/or propounding argument concerning
depleted uranium."
 The motion, upheld for most of the trial, essentially prevented the
defendants from using a defense based on international law or necessity. The

motion also kept the defense from calling various expert witnesses to
bolster
their case.
 On the third day of the four-day trial, the defense called depleted uranium

expert Doug Rokke as a witness (see sidebar), but the Jacksonville State
University professor and Army Reserves major, himself stricken from exposure

to depleted uranium, was only permitted to give his name and academic
credentials.
  Immediately following Rokke's limited testimony the four defendants stood
and turned their backs on the bench as Crane read a statement.
   "We cannot put on a defense about the dangers of depleted uranium and our

rights and duties under international law," Crane said. Smith ordered her to

cease and desist, but Crane persisted. "We have been denied our right to
testify about these topics. We have been denied our expert witnesses.
Therefore, we can't go forward. We will not participate in what amounts to a

legal gag order."
  Earlier in the day Crane had refused to answer the prosecutor's questions
about who drove the van that left the four activists off outside the base
gates the morning of the action.
 During the disruption a woman in the gallery stood and yelled out, "I drove

the van." Seconds later, others joined in shouting, "I drove the van." Soon,

more than 100 spectators were openly proclaiming conspiratorial ties to the
four as a red-faced Smith screamed for order. When Crane was finished, Fr.
Kelly, a former missionary in Sudan and Central America, began reading aloud

the day's scripture passage from Jeremiah.
  Smith ordered sheriff's deputies to clear the courtroom of everyone except

reporters. After a recess, only Berrigan returned to the courtroom to tell
the judge the four intended no disrespect for Smith or Norman, but they
would
no longer participate in an unjust trial.
 "The courts of this country are identified with the Pentagon and the
Government," Berrigan said outside the presence of the jury, "and there's no

way that nonviolent resistance can get a serious hearing in this country."
  On the final day of the trial none of the defendants were in the courtroom

when Norman made his closing arguments. The jury deliberated more than four
hours before reaching verdicts. Crane had been charged with assault because
a
guard said he felt threatened by her hammer, but the jury could not reach a
verdict on the charge and it was dropped. Crane's defense against the
assault
charge was likely bolstered by the character testimony of Detroit Bishop
Thomas J. Gumbleton, who said Crane "had a deep commitment to nonviolence.
Her integrity to me is beyond question." When Norman asked the bishop if
destroying property was evidence that
Crane was violent, Bishop Gumbleton replied: "I don't see damaging property
as a violation of peacefulness."
  After sentencing, Berrigan's wife, Elizabeth McAlister told supporters:
"They were prepared for the worst, and they got it."


SIDEBAR:
 Prof. Doug Rokke is the U.S. Army's premier expert on the dangers of
depleted uranium. Unfortunately, Rokke, 50, didn't learn enough about the
dangers of DU to prevent his own exposure to the radioactive substance that
he believes has caused illness and death to scores of his military
colleagues, and to perhaps thousands of others in countries where the U.S.
has used DU munitions.
 "DU munitions are solid uranium 238 and are not coated nor tipped with it,"

he said. "This makes a big difference."
 Rokke, who lives in Alabama and teaches at Jacksonville State University,
is
a major in the Army Reserves. He was exposed to radiation from depleted
uranium "while cleaning up the DU mess" in Iraq during Operation Desert
Storm. He may have also been exposed twice more while conducting research
for
the Army in 1994 and 1995.
  "Mine was all inhalation or absorption," said Rokke, who came to Maryland
last week hoping to testify as an expert witness at the trial of four
Catholic pacifists charged with damaging two A-10 Warthog aircraft, the type

of plane used to fire DU shells during the Gulf War and more recently in
Yugoslavia. "Inhalation has caused confirmed reactive airway disease."
 Rokke, who referred to himself as a warrior in an interview for this story,

said he had reservations about what the plowshares had done. Since his
exposure, Rokke said he has lost most of his fine motor skills, his vision
is
damaged and he has only 60 percent lung function. "I live with continuous
pain," he said.
 After years of unsuccessfully challenging the Pentagon to tell the truth
about DU, and implement safeguards to prevent further exposures, Rokke went
public with his story. Recently, he was interviewed on 60 Minutes, and by
media outlets throughout the world.
  "The United States deliberately used depleted uranium munitions in Iraq,
Kuwait, Okinawa, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Puerto Rico and within the United
States," Rokke said. "Thousands of individuals have been exposed and today
many are sick or dead. DU is a health hazard if it is inhaled, ingested, or
gets in wounds."
 Department of Energy documents released January 29 confirm the hazards of
uranium exposures, Rokke said. "Respiratory and skin protection must be worn

by everyone within 80 feet of any DU-contaminated equipment to prevent
exposures. DU contamination will make food and water unusable. Today
unrefutable evidence suggests that adverse health and environmental effects
occur unless all contamination is removed."
 Rokke, who was not permitted to testify about DU at the trial, said he was
warned by many - including emails from the Pentagon - to not attend the
trial.
 In a statement released after the trial, Rokke said: "Everyone should
consider if they want thousands and thousands of radioactive heavy metal
poison bullets in their own backyard. If not, then it should not be left
anywhere in the world where children may be exposed. The response to this
crime against God and humanity is simple:
1. All individuals who may have inhaled, ingested, or had wound
contamination
must receive medical care.
2. All depleted uranium penetrator fragments, contaminated equipment and
oxide contamination must be removed and disposed of properly.
3.The use of depleted uranium munitions must be banned."



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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:04:29 -0600
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Second Call: MOX press release

Once again, anyone who has produced any analysis of Parallex and/or MOX
with respect to the NPT, please send me that analysis immediately by fax or
Fedex. Thanks. fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Ill. 61820
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>


- -----Original Message-----
From: michael mariotte [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 2:38 PM
To: Mary Olson
Cc: Terry Lodge; [e-mail]; Ed Arnold; kathie brosemer; Kay
Cumbow; Anabel Dwyer; Gordon Edwards; Alice Hirt; Char Johnston; Kevin
Kamps; Michael Keegan; Brennain Lloyd; Kary Love; Chris McCormick; Don
Moniak; Kristen Ostling; Kimberly Roberts; lawrence white; Francis Boyle
Subject: MOX press release


All,

Attached is the final version of the MOX lawsuit press release, for
release on Wednesday morning.

Michael Mariotte
NIRS


>
> Mary Olson
> NIRS Southeast
> P.O. 5647
> Augusta, Georgia 30916-5647 USA
> 706-722-8968
> [e-mail]
>
> other key contacts:
>
> Kevin Kamps
> Nuclear Information & Resource Service
> 1424 16th St. NW Suite 404
> Washington,  DC  20036
> 202-328-0002   202-462-2183
> [e-mail]
> www.nirs.org
>
> Janet and Lou Zeller
> Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
> PO BOX 88
> GLENDALE SPRINGS,  NC  28629
> 336-982-2691   -2954
> [e-mail]
>
> Ed Arnold
> Physicians for Social Responsibility / Atlanta
> 421 CLIFTON ROAD
> Atlanta,  GA  30307
> 404-378-9078   404-371-9880
> [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:38:01 -0500
From: Proposition One Committee <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/03/30:  DC Hearings

1) NucNews archives have been updated to March 22, 2000; easy search of
today's news sources:  http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.

2) Some Congressional hearings today (3/30/2000):

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

                        9:30 a.m. =97 Foreign
                   Relations Committee holds
                   hearing, "The Need for
                   Non-proliferation Policy
                   Innovations." Donald Rumsfeld,
                   former defense secretary,
                   testifies. Location: 430 Dirksen
                   Senate Office Building. Contact:
                   202/224-4651.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

                        11 a.m. =97 Ways and Means
                   Committee holds hearing on
                   continued U.S. membership in
                   the World Trade Organization.
                   Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
                   testifies. Location: 1100
                   Longworth House Office
                   Building. Contact:
                   202/225-3625.

                   =20
________________________________________________________________

  * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! *

Don't Forget! Online Petition -
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:45:08 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe action alert

PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY!

On Sunday, April 9, over 20 million Americans are expected to watch the
live CBS television remake of the anti-nuclear drama "Fail Safe"
starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, Brian Dennehy,
and Noah Wyle. Thousands of concerned citizens will gather in homes,
churches, colleges and universities for Fail Safe "watch parties" to
discuss the movie and raise their voices to demand the abolition of
nuclear weapons. Even if you can't organize or attend a watch party, we
need you to participate.  Here's how:

1.  Watch Fail Safe on your local CBS television station, Sunday, April
9. CBS says the show will air at 9:00 p.m. in all time zones, but check
your local listings to be sure.

2.  Flood the White House with calls on Monday, April 10, a national
call-in action the day after Fail Safe airs, to demand that President
Clinton take leadership for the abolition of nuclear weapons.  For a
call-in day flier to distribute to your organization or to friends,
family, and co-workers, go to
http://www.fourthfreedom.org/hottopic/fail_safe_poster.htm
If you can make more than one call, call the Bush and Gore campaign
headquarters to demand that they address the abolition of nuclear
weapons as a campaign issue. Bush HQ: [phone], Gore HQ: (615)
340-2000.

3.  Write to President Clinton -- letters are still better than phone
calls.  For samples, go to www.disarmament.org/presltr.htm

4.  Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.  Samples were
sent out last week via email.  If you didn't receive one, contact me at
<[e-mail]>.

As the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes
nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Let's not
miss this opportunity, when millions of Americans will be re-awakened to
the danger of nuclear weapons, to raise our demand to wipe this scourge
off the face of the earth.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition


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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:18:10 -0700
From: California Peace Action <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe action alert

Hi Kevin.
I hope everything is going great with family and work. We are doing a
viewing party and inviting CBS and CNN to come and cover it. Andrew is in
charge. Unfortunately we aren't doing one in LA becasue Danielle is on a
long vacation.
I have one big question though. How do we know this won't be a big Star
Wars woop 'em up. The plot of Fail Safe somewhat lends itself to the
current limited Star Wars rhetoric.
Inquiring minds want to know...
- -ptf
_____________________________________________________________________________
California Peace Action
2800 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703
tel:[phone] fax:[phone]
email: [e-mail]
www.capa.org

"No social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitablity. It comes through
the tireless efforts and persistent work of dedicated individuals."

                                    - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:09:10 EST
From: Charles F Hilfenhaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Where have all the nukes gone?

    This information appeared in the 3-27 las Vegas Review Journal
with a Washington Post byline.

THE WASHINGTON POST
    The Energy Department plans to renovate more than 6000 aging
nuclear warheads during the next 15 years, almost double the number the
United States is allowed to deploy under the START II arms reduction
treaty according to senior U.S. officials.
    The plan to keep an "inactive reserve" of 2,500 to 3,000 more
warheads than permitted to be deployed under START II is the product of a
little-publicized Clinton administration nuclear policy called "lead and
hedge."  It was described to Congress in 1996 by Harold Smith, Jr., then
assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and
biological defense programs.
    He said that while the administration "leads"by pushing for force
reductions in arms-control negotiations, the United States has to "retain
the ability to hedge by returning to START I levels."
    Smith said the policy was approved by President Clinton in
September 1994 as part of a Nuclear Posture Review, an annual document
setting guidelines for america's nuclear forces.

ATOMIC VETERANS RESPOND
    The timing of these past decisions and the start of subcritical
testing at the Nevada Test Site proves, if anyone needed proof, that
these tests never had any purpose not related to nuclear weapons.  Much
of the renovation work could take place in Nevada at  the DAF (Device
Assembly Facility) complex on the Nevada Test Site built during the
1990's but never used.
    From a purely military standpoint the existence of an "inactive
reserve" of nuclear weapons combined with the U.S. dependance on cruise
missiles, which have always been designed to be used as either
conventional or nuclear delivery systems,  leaves the U.S. with the
option to double its nuclear force overnight.
    Senate rejection of the CTBT, threats to abrogate the ABM Treaty,
congressional prohibitions on cutting US forces below START I levels
until the Duma ratifies START II, even though the Russians are
unilaterally moving toward a 1,500 warhead arsenal that they propose for
START III, all question the United States commitment to observe any arms
control treaty unless there is some military advantage to do so.
    The military industrial complex DOES run the United States

Charlie Hilfenhaus
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Director, Atomic Workers Division
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:15:34 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Back From the Brink Job Listings

Dear peace and enviro advocates:
Below are two job descriptions for positions on our de-alerting campaign,
called "Back From the Brink." Please post and share them with potential
candidates, and/or consider applying yourself. Ira Shorr is the person to
whom replies or inquiries should be sent.

Thanks, Marylia

 Reply to: Ira Shorr
>Back From the Back
>301-588-8923
>
>
>Back From the Brink has the following Job Openings
>
>
>Constituency Outreach/Organizer Position
>
>Back From the Brink is a new, national public education campaign, whose goal
>is to get nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.  We are seeking a full time
>program person for constituency outreach and to facilitate grassroots public
>education efforts.  Responsibilities will include: networking with a wide
>range of national constituency organizations to involve them in the effort to
>de-alert nuclear weapons; helping individuals and local organizations promote
>public education activities; traveling to promote the campaign; and writing
>resource materials on de-alerting.  Person should have  good speaking,
>writing skills and computer skills, and preferably, some background in
>nuclear weapons issues.  Three years minimum experience in organizing and/or
>outreach required.  Salary: $30,000 and up (depending on experience) plus
>benefits. Back From the Brink is currently envisioned to be a two to four
>year project, and will be based in the Washington, D.C. area.
>
>
>
>Administrative Position
>
>Back From the Brink is a new, national public education campaign, whose goal
>is to get nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. We are seeking a half-time
>(20 hours a week) administrative person.  Responsibilities will center on
>handling administrative functions for a small office (three person staff)
>including: phone and written correspondence, mailings, computer data base
>management, accounts, outreach to individuals and organizations.  Person must
>be well organized, have good internet/computer and word-processing skills and
>excellent communication skills.  Three years minimum experience in
>administrative work.  Salary: $15-16,000 (plus benefits) Back From the Brink
>is currently envisioned to be a two to four year project, and will be based
>in the Washington, D.C. area.
>
>
>Send a cover letter and resume by April 30 to:
>
>Ira Shorr
>Back from the Brink
>105 E. Franklin Avenue
>Silver Spring, MD 20901
>
>Ph: 301-588-8923
>e.mail: [e-mail]

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

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

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

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



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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 15:11:59 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) New on Tri-Valley CAREs' website!

Dear peace and environmental advocates:

Have you visited Tri-Valley CAREs' web site lately? You can find us at
http://www.igc.org/tvc. Our webmeister has posted some new items for your
reading pleasure, including our March 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch with
articles about:

* Missile Defense -- how and why it puts the United States and, indeed, the
whole world at risk

* Superfund cleanup -- all about an important May 4th Public Hearing on the
proposed plan to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater resulting from
weapons activities at the Livermore Lab's site 300, located between
Livermore and Tracy, California

* Community calendar, events and more

Also conveniently posted for your reading and downloading pleasure are: (1)
an analysis of the Department of Energy fiscal year 2001 budget request for
nuclear weapons activities; (2) a spiffy graphic (easily downloadable) and
text from which to create your own de-alerting postcards; (3) information
on the National Ignition Facility and other so-called "Stockpile
Stewardship" projects, (4) the complete text of the Community Acceptance
Criteria we developed to guide the Livermore Lab site 300 cleanup, and much
more!

No shirt or shoes required. Nothing to buy. You are invited to visit our
web site anytime.

Peace, Marylia

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

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

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

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



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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:38:01 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NM Global Peace Walk April 4-22, 2000

For immediate release:  April 2, 2000
For more information:  David Crockett Williams  661-822-3309

Global Peace Walk 2000 from San Francisco to Washington DC and to New York
City, for the 55th anniversary of the United Nations and to help inaugurate
the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century,
is now in New Mexico for a month of events to help fulfill its mission of
bringing out the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human
resolve, the first step towards actually realizing true global peace.

Last week's local events in Phoenix, AZ, included ceremonies and meetings
with representatives of Senator John McCain, and the Mayor of Phoenix who
offered his proclamation of Phoenix as a Global Peace Zone.  The Governor of
Arizona also offered a letter of support.  Both of these representatives
agreed that the first essential step for the cause of global peace is for
all of humanity to embrace this firm resolve for "Global Peace Now!".   A
new Independent US Presidential candidacy was formally announced at the
walk's ceremony outside Senator McCain's office and the scheduled new
clean-energy technology presentation by a local inventor was cancelled.

In Albuquerque, on the Tuesday, April 4th, anniversary of the assasination
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the local Global Peace Walk takes place
at 11AM from Robinson Park to the Mayor's office.

In Santa Fe, on Friday, April 7th the local walk begins at 12noon after an
11AM ceremony at the Children's Peace Statue located behind the downtown
Post Office in the Plaza at Paseo de Peralta and Old Taos Hwy.  The walk
will go by City Hall and end at the State Capitol Rotunda.   At Noon on
Saturday, April 8th, the traditional Buddha's Birthday anniversary, a
"Finishing Karma Ceremony" will be conducted by Global Peace Walk initiator
and Zen Buddhist Monk Yusen Yamato at the memorial gravestones in Rosario
Cemetery of the WWII Japanese Internment Camp whose entrance is located at
Paseo de Peralta and Hwy 285.  Mayor Delgado participated in a previous
ceremony at this site after proclaiming Santa Fe a Global Peace Zone.
Governor Johnson gave a support letter to the Global Peace Walk in 1995 and
he and Mayor Delgado have been invited to this April 8th ceremony.

On Friday evening, April 14th, the band called Big Mountain will headline a
benefit concert for the Global Peace Walk 2000 at Albuquerque's El Rey
Theater with tickets available at the theater or through Ticketmaster.

In Taos, on Saturday, April 22nd, the 6th annual Global Peace Walk EarthDay
gathering will take place in Kit Carson Park beginning with a sunrise
ceremony.   This EarthDay2000 event is among thousands worldwide expected to
involve 500 million people from nearly every country of the globe in support
of the "Clean Energy Now!" campaign.   In 1995 Taos became the first city to
become a Global Peace Zone by mayoral proclamation in support of the Global
Peace Walk project's goal of creating a worldwide Global Peace Zone.

"Supporting the work of the Global Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day
celebration is vitally important.  I strongly encourage your organization to
actively participate in planning and funding activities associated with this
educational, action-oriented effort", says Earth Day Network National
Coordinator Christopher J. Curtis in his support letter for Global Peace
Walk 2000.

Daily updates on the walk's location are recorded on the voicemail at
415-267-1877 where messages for the walkers may also be left.   Flyers and
latest details/updates for Global Peace Walk local coordinators may be found
at http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk .

Global Peace Walk 2000 took its first step from the War Memorial
Building in San Francisco, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Æs Birthday on
January 15, 2000, after a morning ceremony conducted by Western Shoshone
indigenous spiritual leader Corbin Harney <http://www.shundahai.org> and
Reverend Yamato.  The initiating route of the Global Peace Walk project took
place in 1995 from January 15th to June 20th from New York to San Francisco
for the UN50th anniversary.

Along the way Global Peace Walk 2000 has received letters and proclamations
of support from many religious, community and political leaders, including
the mayors of San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Cruz,
Monterey, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo (County Board of Supervisors), Santa
Barbara, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi, CA;  Las Vegas, NV;  Williams,
Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, AZ; Gallup, NM; and the Navajo Nation.

The number of walkers is being kept intentionally small (a few dozen) until
the main rendezvous of branch routes with peacewalkers from around the world
who may join the last ten weeks from the August 6th Hiroshima Day gathering
under the famous East-West Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Many survival issue messages are being collected by the walk for delivery in
Washington DC and to the United Nations.  Supporters of the walk, and its
"Global Peace Now!" message, may or may not support all of these survival
issue messages.

The Global Peace Walkers are carrying petitions, messages, and information
to educate and network with people and groups on such survival issues as:
The Abolition2000 call to ban nuclear weapons worldwide;  Protecting Land &
Life and other environmental and social issues;  Native American issues
(e.g., Leonard Peltier clemency; Big Mountain Dineh relocation, AZ, Ward
Valley nuclear waste dump, CA; Nevada Nuclear Test Site and Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Waste Dump - Shoshone treaty violations);  Sustainable global
economy (e.g., permaculture, industrial hemp); Alternative healing/medicine;
medical cannabis/marijuana relegalization; Global conflict resolution by
creating a Culture of Peace and a Spiritual United Nations; the World
Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement; Peace Pagoda Project; Global
Peace Zone Project;  Proper funding to complete research and development
of the New Clean-Energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel
power and neutralize radioactive wastes; and other issues that people offer
to the walkers along the way.

For the New Mexico events, specially invited presenters include Hiroshima
A-Bomb survivor "Thomas" Takashi Tanemori of the Silkworm Peace Institute,
New Clean-Energy technology inventor Paul LeBreton of Laguna, and Ann
McCormick of Compassionate Moms and Cures-Not-Wars who joined the walk in
Phoenix and whose son Todd McCormick is a California cancer patient and
medical cannabis user sentenced to five years imprisonment in Los Angeles
Federal Court on March 27, 2000, in a case followed by the national media
because the Federal Government denied the validity of the California medical
use law (Proposition 215) and because of actor Woody Harrelson's posting of
Todd's half million dollar bail while awaiting trial and sentencing.

On Saturday, May 6th, the Global Peace Walkers will return to Albuquerque to
take part in the Medical Marijuana March event there, one of 79 cities
worldwide that day conducting such events in support of harm reduction
policies, medical cannabis relegalization, and legalization of the
anti-addiction rainforest vine root extract Ibogaine now in advanced stages
of government testing for its demonstrated ability to end heroin and cocaine
addiction for many people with one treatment.

On Saturday, October 7, 2000, the Global Peace Walk will arrive to The White
House in Washington DC bringing accumulated letters and messages (more
papers than Ken Starr delivered to Congress?) and "The Message of Peaceö to
US Government leaders.    On Sunday, October 8th, the walkers will conduct a
ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the construction of the US Capitol
and The White House, taking place at the original geographic center of the
Capitol complex (the "Jefferson Strone") where the Washington Monument was
to be sited before discovery that the ground would not support its weight.
On the Monday, October 9th Columbus Day Holiday (also John Lennon's 60th
birthday and, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the recognized 1000
year anniversary of the Vikings' landing in America) a "Millennial Peace
Ceremony" will be conducted with perhaps over one million people
participating, including major political figures and candidates, to
rededicate the Washington Monument as a "Symbol of The Message of Peace".

Global Peace Walk 2000 will end in New York City at the United Nations on
October 24th, 2000 (United Nations Day, 55th anniversary of ratification of
UN Charter created June 20, 1945) to deliver its accumulated letters and
The Message of Peace to the world government leaders, to reaffirm the
original principles of the United Nations Charter to ôsave succeeding
generations from the scourge of war...reaffirm faith in the dignity of human
rightsö to ôlive together in peaceö, and to help inaugurate the UN Year and
Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century.


"Living On the Globe with All Our Friends"

"Global Peace Now!"


                                                                  -30-


For the most recent reports on the walk, copies of letters and proclamations
of support, etc., and to subscribe to the Global Peace Walk 2000 local
coordinators email group list, see
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk

For printable typeset efax version of main walk flyer see
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/208.html

Master GPW2000 schedule with links to printable local flyers, maps
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html

Selected list of letters and proclamations of support linked to texts
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/listproc.html

Links to other New Clean-Energy researchers
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/10.html

For more information, contact:

David Crockett Williams  [e-mail]
661-822-3309

GLOBAL  EMERGENCY  ALERT  RESPONSE
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html
Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk  latest updates/releases

USCampaign:   Williams-Peltier for US Pres/VP
[e-mail]
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

The Vision of Paradise on Earth
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

**Support HR 2545:
Global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
Details & Email:  http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm
Sign letters to senators  http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate
and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter

Easy index to email Congress & Media
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd
(copy & paste email letters to media and Congress)

An Agenda for Peace
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html










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