The U.S. Department of Energy has scheduled the subcritical nuclear test
Oboe 4 for the afternoon of 4-6. Local activists led by Shundahai
Network plan to protest Thursday morning at the Nevada Test Site and in
the afternoon in Las Vegas.
Charlie Hilfenhaus
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Director, Atomic Workers Division
chilfenhaus@juno.com
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:05:47 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <kmartin@fourthfreedom.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) local media work around Fail Safe
Dear Friends,
Project Abolition's media consultant reports that CBS is very interested
in our watch party campaign around this Sunday's live CBS-TV re-make of
the anti-nuclear classic "Fail Safe" (9:00 eastern, 8:00 central, 7:00
mountain, 9:00 pacific times). It's not too late to organize a house
party with eight to ten of your friends. Contact me via email or call me
at 800/233-6786, ext. 21 for last-minute assistance in organizing a
house party. Even if you aren't organizing a watch party, I think it's
still worth contacting your local CBS station. You can offer yourself
or someone from your local peace group for interviews commenting on
"Fail Safe" and the issues the show raises on the ongoing nuclear
threat. This show represents a rare opportunity -- 20 to 30 million
people are expected to watch -- when the mainstream media addresses the
issue of nuclear weapons. Let's not miss the chance to get our message
out in the media.
In Peace,
Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:25:55 -0700
From: erippy@jps.net
Subject: (abolition-usa) SGI to push for CTBT ratification, hard look at 'subcritical' tests
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Daisaku Ikeda, pres. of the Buddhist lay org
Sokka Gakkai International (SGI), wrote in his
most recent peace proposal:
<<www.sgi.org/activity/peace/00peace.html>
[Quote]
The SGI intends to promote an international
network for the promotion of CTBT
ratification, consistent with our long-held stance
in support of nuclear disarmament. Such a
network would generate momentum to press
states that have not yet ratified the Treaty, using
the New Diplomacy technique of working
together with other NGOs and those
governments that are committed to promoting
ratification.
I believe that this campaign should not only
encourage each state to ratify the CTBT, but
also advocate two additional points in order to
enhance the CTBT's effectiveness.
The first of these two points is to seek the
understanding and cooperation of all
states toward obtaining the financing required to
create the kind of verification regime stipulated
in the CTBT. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-
Ban Treaty Organization is currently setting up a
verification regime that includes facilities,
scattered throughout the globe, for detecting
nuclear tests. These efforts, which work to the
common advantage of all signatory states,
should be continued regardless of the status of
progress toward ratification.
The second point is to build consensus for the
establishment of a mechanism to determine if
subcritical experiments, not explicitly prohibited
by the CTBT, run counter to the Treaty's intent.
(The CTBT's preamble clearly states that its
intention is to take effective measures toward
nuclear disarmament and against the
proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its
aspects.) With many nonnuclear weapon
states frustrated with the carrying out of
subcritical experiments, the establishment
of such a mechanism would go a long way
toward responding to these frustrations
and enhancing the effectiveness of the CTBT.
[End quote]
- -- Since David </color>Krieger<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param> knows Ikeda fairly well (I
gather) I wdn't be surprised to see NAPF broach
this project. I'm talking to the E. Bay Peace
Action board abt it next week -- we'd love to see
a CTBT w/ 'nuclear test' defined as any test
which produces n-wpns design data.
Speaking of subcriticals, I'll get this Thur's out
on KPFA News -- hope to see lots of y'all @
Bechtel!
- -- Ed Rippy
<nofill>
Any time religion renders people passive and powerless,
it deserves the dishonorable title of 'opiate.'
- -- Daisaku Ikeda, 'Peace Through Dialogue: A Time to Talk'
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:36:47 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <shundahai@shundahai.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT Nuclear Weapons Test Thursday!!! ALERT
Derek Scammel of DOE Nevada Operations Office just confirmed that Subcritical Nucear Weapons Test "Oboe 4" will be detonated THURSDAY.
This is the 11th subcritical nuclear weapons test conducted since 1997. "Oboe 4" is part of a series of tests, manufactured at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, operated by Bechtel. These "experiments" test the sanity of U.S. policy, they wreak havoc on international politics, they violate the NPT treaty, break the Treaty of Ruby Valley, and they cause other nations to conduct nuclear weapons tests of their own.
If you live in Las Vegas:
Come to Sunrise Ceremony at the Nevada Test Site (65 miles northwest of vegas on US 95, mercury exit) followed by a creative non-violent direct action.
Then join us in the afternoon between 3 and 5 pm at the Department of Energy building, 232 Energy Way just off Lossee road (north of Lake Mead blvd) as we vigil DOE workers.
Call Shundahai 702-647-3095 for more info.
If you live in the Bay Area there will be an action at the Bechtel Building 50 Beale Street (1 block south of Market). Call Sally Light for more info: 510-527-2057.
There will also be actions held in Japan, Australia and Europe.
We must continue to pressure the U.S. government and their corporate sponsors to stop this insanity. These subcritical nuclear weapons tests are a direct threat to our planetary health. They leave the deadliest substance ever created, only a hundred feet from our water table. This water has already been contaminated and is moving off of the Nevada Test Site. These deadly plumes will poison all life, and mutate the genes of our future generations. We must stop further contamination!!! The best cure for radiation is prevention.
Please, please take action to stop these atrocities.
Contact your Congress members and demand they ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Demand they work to uphold international law and stop these atrocities.
