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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:16:40 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO

Dear Friends,
Although this message may not appear to directly affect our issue, it is clear
that we are all effected.  The WTO NGOs have successfully organized to have a
substantial impact on globalization.  Already the counterforces are rallying.
Activists from Seattle are coming to Washington and will have a huge
demonstration on April 16th to protest the practices of the World Bank and
IMF.  I plan to be there and I urge you to join in if you can--either by going
to Washington, or supporting the action in your local communities.  For more
information see www.a16.org  We need to make the links between the global war
system and its nuclear guns and terrorism, with the corporate takeover the
world.  Peace, Alice Slater

>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:52:06 -0400
>Subject: On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>WTO Activist ([e-mail])    Posted: 04/06/2000  By
>[e-mail]
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>
>Report from Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public Interest
>On plans to "de-legitimize" NGO critics of WTO
>[e-mail]
>
>
>In response to protests over the operations of the World Trade Organization
>(WTO) the Cordell Hull Institute, a Washington DC based think tank
>dedicated to rebuilding public support for free trade, recently sponsored a
>day long seminar entitled AAfter Seattle: Restoring Momentum in the WTO.@
>The meeting was called in light of recent protests in Seattle and
>anticipated protests in Washington, D.C. by organizations who believe that
>the rules of international commerce set by the WTO are leading to lower
>consumer, environmental, and labor standards around the world.
>
>In attendance at the seminar was an invitation only group of about 50
>present and former international trade officials from federal government
>agencies, congressional staff, representatives from embassies of major
>trading partners of the US, and lawyers and consultants representing
>multinational companies involved in trade disputes such as the recent row
>between the U.S. and the European Union over meat and banana exports.  The
>speakers were high level.  They included Clayton Yeutter (former Secretary
>of Agriculture), Robert Litan (former Associate Director of the White House
>Office of Management and Budget), Lawrence Eagleburger (former Secretary of
>State), and Luiz Felipe Lamreia, the foreign Minster of Brazil.
>
>I was disappointed that only one representative like myself, from a
>non-profit organization concerned about the impact of the WTO on food
>safety regulation, was invited.  But I was pleased that the door had been
>opened and I looked forward to the high level event aimed at addressing
>concerns about the WTO=s impact on consumer and environmental protection
>raised by my organization and many other non-governmental organizations
>(NGOs) -- the international term for what is referred to in the U.S. as
>public interest groups.
>
>I anticipated that the group would discuss how to give credence to
>President Clinton=s remarks at the Seattle WTO meeting that trade
>proceedings should be more open to the public.  The President had stated
>there that AWe can do it a little bit now and little bit later. We can drag
>our feet, or we can run through an open door.  But my preference is to open
>the meetings, open the records, and let people file their opinions.@   The
>Office of the U.S. Trade Representative was represented at the meeting, and
>I eagerly anticipated what the agency would say about following up on the
>President=s remarks.
>
>As it turned out, I got a lot more than I bargained for.  The seminar that
>I was invited to, by a think tank whose mission it is to build public
>support for free trade, turned out to be a strategy session on how to
>defeat those opposed to the current WTO system.  Apparently, no one knew
>who I was (perhaps my graying temples and dark suit helped me blend in with
>the overwhelming older male group of attendees) and I did not speak up
>until the end of the meeting.
>The meeting was kicked off by a gentleman named Lord Patterson who was
>Margaret Thatcher=s Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.  He began by
>stating that AOur number one job is to restore confidence in the WTO before
>embarking on any new rounds@ of trade negotiations.  So far, so good, I
>thought.
>
> But he then proclaimed that non-profit groups have no right to criticize
>the WTO as undemocratic because the groups themselves do not represent the
>general public.  (I wondered which groups he was talking about because
>organizations that are gravely concerned about the impact of the WTO on
>environmental and consumer protection, like the Sierra Club and Public
>Citizen, have hundreds of thousands of members).  He then stated that we
>must never have another WTO meeting on U.S. soil because it was too easy
>for advocacy groups to organize here and security could not be assured.
>Was this for real I thought?  He added that President Clinton's speech
>during the WTO meeting in Seattle, in which the President acknowledged the
>protesters concerns, was "disgraceful" and stated that it was also
>disgraceful that delegates to the WTO meeting in Seattle had to survive on
>sandwiches and couldn=t get a decent meal during three days of social
>protest by 40,000 people.  The Lord finished his speech by recalling better
>times, having tea with AMaggie,@ and stating that the staff of the WTO
>Secretariat (the general administrative office of the WTO responsible for
>its day-to-day operations) should not be balanced with people from
>developing countries just Abecause of the color of their skin.  After a few
>words with the Chairman of the meeting, Lord Patterson added Oh, I hope I
>have not offended anyone.
>
> I thought I was hearing an arcane viewpoint from someone from another
>country and eagerly anticipated a response from some of the American
>officials attending the seminar.  But the largely American audience of
>trade officials and policy wonks took the Lord=s pronouncements seriously.
>The first comment, by an American, picked up on the criticisms and asked
>AHow can we de-legitimize@ the NGOs?  The questioner from the audience
>claimed that these groups are usually supported by just a few charitable
>foundations and if the foundations could be convinced to cut off funding,
>the groups would be forced to cease operations.  Mr. Litan, the former
>White House budget official, had another approach.  He stated ACan=t we
>give the NGOs other sandboxes to play in@ and have them take their concerns
>to groups like the International Labor Organization (a toothless United
>Nations sponsored group in Geneva Switzerland).  The representative from
>the U.S. Trade Representative=s office said nothing.
>
>I was hoping for a more enlightened approach from Clayton Yeutter, the
>former Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S.  I knew that Mr. Yeutter was a
>conservative, but I presumed that his speech would be more in tune with
>reality than those of the speakers who preceded him.  After all, this was
>supposed to be a seminar on how to rebuild public confidence in the WTO,
>not transform the agency into the former Soviet KBG.  I was again shocked
>at what I heard.  Under the banner of rebuilding public confidence in the
>WTO, Mr. Yeutter concurred with his British colleague=s suggestion that the
>next WTO meeting be held in some place other than the U.S. Awhere security
>can be assured.  He further suggested that the WTO give the public Alittle
>advance notice@ of where the meeting would be held so as to Akeep the
>protesters off balance.  He said that the protesters= demands for greater
>transparency in WTO proceedings was a Amisnomer@ because the protesters
>didn=t really want to participate in WTO proceedings -- all they wanted was
>to get TV coverage and raise money for their organizations.@  There was a
>reprise from the questioner in the audience who had suggested earlier that
>everyone should just find a way to cut off the NGOs foundation grants.  The
>representative for the U.S. Special Trade Representative=s office was again
>silent.
>
> I really had about all I could take.   Even if these guys really wanted to
>save the WTO, they were going about it precisely the wrong way.  However, I
>decided to keep my true feelings in and instead simply tried to give the
>group some advice.  I stated that it would be a mistake to write off the
>NGOs and attempt to de-stabilize them.  I explained that this approach was
>tried in the early 1950s at the time of the civil rights movement, it was
>tried again in the 1960s during the anti-Vietnam war movement, and it was
>tried once more in the 1970s at the beginning of the modern environmental
>movement.  Each time the strategy failed.  The NGOs that arose during these
>periods grew in size and ended up making a very major impact on public
>policy, but only after a long battle during which those who tried to
>de-legitimize@ them lost credibility.  I told the group that it would be
>unfortunate to have to repeat this battle on an international level, and
>even more unfortunate to lose the battle on terms not favorable to those
>who support free trade.  I said that I did not have a crystal ball, but
>that if we are at the beginning of a new social movement, simply Adrawing
>the wagons in a circle@ would exacerbate, not alleviate, public mistrust of
>the WTO and would ultimately be self-defeating.  Let us learn from history,
>not repeat it, I said, and let=s bring the NGOs into the WTO process
>instead of trying to keeping them out.
>
>A young trade lawyer from a major Washington DC law firm put it this way "I
>don't have as much experience as you people, but I can tell you that the
>days of going to a seaside resort and negotiating trade agreements in
>secret are over."
>
> The day ended with the usual Washington reception but which this meeting
>agenda fittingly identified as Drinks. After the Drinks, several appetizers
>and a heavy entree was served along with fine wines.  During desert, the
>foreign minister of Brazil spoke and lamented that if the next WTO meeting
>had to be held in an out of the way place, he preferred that it be held on
>a cruise ship instead of in the middle of the desert.  He then gave an
>impassioned speech in which he opposed writing core labor standards into
>the WTO agreement and defended child labor by describing how in one region
>of Brazil, more than 5,000 children help their families earn a little extra
>money" by hauling bags of coal from a dump yard to a steel mill.  He
>stressed, however, that the children do not work directly in the steel
>mill.  He was greeted by a hearty round of applause.
>
>On the way home, I thought of children hauling coal on their backs and had
>trouble digesting my meal.  I thought -- these guys just don=t get it!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Mark Ritchie, President
>Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
>2105 First Ave. South
>Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404  USA
>612-870-3400 (phone) 612-870-4846 (fax)
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:20:54 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [corp-focus] A Dozen Reasons to Come to DC for April 16

Dear Friends,
Just some background on the Washington demo.  Also, you can register your
organization's support at the www.a16.org site.  Regards, Alice

A Dozen Reasons to Come to DC for April 16
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The next citizen showdown against corporate globalization will be on April
16 and 17, when thousands of people come to Washington, D.C. to protest --
through legal demonstrations and/or civil disobedience -- the politics of
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. For details on
events, see www.a16.org. Here's a dozen reasons why you should join the
protests:

1. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs have increased poverty
around the world.

Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which
calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up
countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has
deepened poverty around the world. In the two regions with the most
structural adjustment experience, per capita income has stagnated (Latin
America) or plummeted (Africa). Structural adjustment has also contributed
to rising income and wealth inequality in the developing world.

2. IMF/World Bank "debt relief" for poor and indebted countries is a sham.

Many poor countries must devote huge portions of their national budgets to
paying back foreign creditors -- often for loans that were made to or for
dictators, wasteful military spending or boondoggle projects. The money
used to pay back debt subtracts from essential expenditures on health,
education, infrastructure and other important needs.

The IMF/World Bank plan to relieve poor countries' debt burden will leave
most poor countries paying nearly as much as they currently do. And all of
the debt relief is conditioned on countries undergoing years of closely
monitored structural adjustment.

3. The IMF has helped foster a severe depression in Russia.

Russia in the 1990s has witnessed a peacetime economic contraction of
unprecedented scale -- with the number of Russians in poverty rising from
2 million to 60 million since the IMF came to post-Communist Russia. The
IMF's "shock therapy" -- sudden and intense structural adjustment --
helped bring about this disaster. "In retrospect, it's hard to see what
could have been done wrong that wasn't," says Mark Weisbrot of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research.

4. The IMF helped create and worsen the Asian financial crisis.

The IMF encouraged Asian countries to open their borders to "hot money" --
speculative finance invested in currency, stocks and short-term
securities. That was an invitation to trouble. The Asian financial crisis
resulted from the hot money brokers' herdlike decision to leave Asian
countries en masse.

Once the crisis hit, the IMF made things worse by requiring structural
adjustment as a condition for IMF loans. The result was a surge in
bankruptcies, layoffs and poverty. In Indonesia, poverty rates rose from
an official level of 11 percent to 40 to 60 percent, depending on the
estimate. At one point, Indonesia's food shortage became so severe that
then-President Habibie implored citizens to fast twice a week. Many had no
choice.

5. The IMF bails out big banks.

The IMF bailouts in Asia, like those in Russia and Mexico, directed money
to those countries largely for the purpose of paying off loans to foreign
banks. Thanks to the IMF, the banks escaped significant losses for
imprudent lending decisions. Citigroup, Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan
were among the beneficiaries of the "Korean" bailout.

6. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs devastate the
environment.

Structural adjustment demands an increase in exports and foreign exchange
earnings. As a result, explains Friends of the Earth, "Countries often
over-exploit their resources through unsustainable forestry, mining and
agricultural practices that generate pollution and environmental
destruction."

7. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs contribute to the spread
of HIV/AIDS.

Here's how Dr. Peter Lurie and collaborators explained the problem in the
journal AIDS: The displacement of the rural sector under structural
adjustment programs -- as imports undermine local farmers and the shift to
large-scale plantations for exports further displaces the rural population
- -- contributes to migration and urbanization. Many men leave rural
villages for work in big cities or in mines, contract HIV/AIDS from casual
sex partners or sex workers, and then spread the disease to spouses in
their home village. The displacement of children and young women into the
cities has led to a sharp increase in commercial sex work and heightened
rates of HIV/AIDS.

8. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs harm women.

Cuts in budget spending, mandated by structural adjustment programs, leave
women to pick up the pieces -- with government services eliminated, women
are forced to provide informal social supports for the sick and disabled.
The IMF/Bank emphasis on exports has pushed women farmers to switch from
growing food for family consumption to crops for exports -- and left them
poorer in the process. The high interest rates associated with structural
adjustment have made credit less accessible, undermining the viability of
small women-owned businesses.

9. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs and Bank project loans
have led to deforestation worldwide.

The export orientation demanded by structural adjustment policies has led
to more forest cutting. And World Bank forest sector loans to countries
around the world have done nothing to improve the situation.

"Although the [1991 Bank Forest] policy had dual objectives of
conservation of tropical moist forests and tree planting to meet the basic
needs of the poor, Bank influence on containing rates of deforestation of
tropical moist forests has been negligible in the 20 countries with the
most threatened tropical moist forests." Who said that? The World Bank's
own Operations Evaluation Department, in November 1999!

10. World Bank policies have displaced millions of people around the
world.

World Bank loans for dams and major infrastructure projects routinely
require removal of massive numbers of people from their homes and
destruction of their communities. In addition to the emotional hardship of
leaving their land, the displaced people almost always find their quality
of life diminished after the move. The Bank itself agrees. A 1994 report
from the World Bank's Environmental Department found that, "Declines in
post relocation incomes are sometimes significant, in certain cases
reaching as much as 40 percent for people who were poor even before their
displacement."

11. The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) provides
corporate welfare for environmentally destructive projects.

The IFC finances and provides advice for private sector ventures and
projects in developing countries in partnership with private investors.
Among its private sector partners: ExxonMobil, BP, Coca-Cola,
Kimberly-Clark and Marriott. There's no reason for a public development
institution, supposedly working to fight poverty, to lend its support to
these well-endowed multinationals. Making matters worse, many of the
private sector projects supported by the IFC, especially in the oil and
gas sector, are environmentally destructive.

12. April 16 is a chance to make history.

While massive protests against IMF and World Bank policies are commonplace
in the developing world -- from Jordan to Indonesia, Venezuela to Zambia
- -- the IMF and World Bank are not accountable to populations in those
countries. In contrast, there has never been a demonstration of more than
a few hundred people to challenge IMF and Bank policy in the United States
- -- the largest and most influential shareholder in the institutions.

That's going to change on April 16. The thousands of people who will
attend the April 16 protests will forever change the political context of
debates on IMF and the World Bank -- the best hope for billions in the
developing world who have been subjected to the IMF and Bank's brutal
policies with no recourse.

Special bonus reason to come to D.C.: With large puppets, colorful
pagaentry, militant protests, Emcee Michael Moore at the legal
demonstration on the Ellipse, and lots of great music, the protests will
be a fun-filled festival of resistance.


Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime
Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
Multinational Monitor, and co-director of Essential Action, one of the
sponsors of the April 16 Mobilization for Global Justice. Mokhiber and
Weissman are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits
and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999,
http://www.corporatepredators.org)

(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman




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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:32:03 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: FW: poorly reported survey on n-weapons

Dear Daryl,
You might try to get Celinda Lake and/or Mellman to draft a response.  Lake
was
very effective in describing the results of the Lake and Mellman polls on US
attidudes towards nuclear weapons at the VOA/Peace Links program we attended.
The Lake poll is at our website,
www.gracelinks.org/gracelinks/nuke/poll.html
Thanks for following up on this.  Regards,
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:31:23 EDT
From: Charles F Hilfenhaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Oboe 4 Subcritical

Mercury,  Nevada, U.S.A. 4-6-2000  3:30 p.m. PDT

    The United States Department of Energy has just conducted the
subcritical nuclear test "Oboe 4"  at the LYNER facility on the Nevada
Test Site.  This, following "Thoroughbred" on March 22 and "Oboe 3" on
February 3, is the third subcritical nuclear test of 2000 by the United
States.  This is more tests than United States has averaged per year in
recent years.  John Hallum and Friends of the Earth are absolutely
correct, these tests are a deliberate insult to all the other
participants in the NPT Review Conference.

    Twenty-one people gathered at sunrise in protest this morning at
the Mercury entrance to the Nevada Test Site.  Under the banner of
Shundahai Network and lead by Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin
Harney they conducted a ceremony following which six individuals entered
onto the Test Site and were arrested.  They were subsequently cited for
trespass and released.

    Additional protests are planned this afternoon in Las Vegas at
the Department of Energy offices from 3-5p.m..

Charlie Hilfenhaus
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Director, Atomic Workers Division
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:35:19 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) -NM Gov. Johnson's Global Peace Walk Day proclamation

Following is the text of
New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson's proclamation of support for Global
Peace Walk 2000 designating April 7, 2000, as Global Peace Walk Day in New
Mexico.  A copy of the signed proclamation is posted as efax attachment at
bottom of post archived at
http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/319

The Global Peace Walk ceremony (& speeches) starts in Santa Fe at 11AM
Friday April 7th at the Children's Peace Statue (behind downtown Post Office
in Plaza at Paseo de Peralta and Old Taos Highway) with the walk from there
leaving at Noon to walk by City Hall (Santa Fe mayor has previously
proclaimed Santa Fe as a Global Peace Zone) and ending at the State Capitol
Rotunda.


- ---------text of proclamation:

STATE OF NEW MEXICO
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

Proclamation

Whereas, The Global Peace Walk represents people from around the world
gathering together to spread the message of "Global Peace Now"; and

Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 is being conducted across America to mark
the 55th anniversary of the United Nations; and

Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 is composed of people from many different
races and backgrounds gathering together to spread The Message of Peace; and

Whereas, Global Peace Walk 2000 seeks to unite all of humanity for a
worldwide Global Peace Zone;

Now, Therefore I, Gary E. Johnson, Governor of the State of New Mexico, do
hereby proclaim the 7th of April 2000 as

"GLOBAL PEACE WALK DAY"

Throughout the State of New Mexico and urge all citizens to recognize the
importance of Global Peace.

Attest:
[signature]
Rebecca Vigil-Giron
Secretary of State

Done at the Executive Office this 5th day of April, 2000.

Witness my hand and the Great Seal of The State of New Mexico,

[signed]

Gary E. Johnson
Governor

[State Seal affixed]

- ---------------end text of proclamation


For text of Governor Johnson's 1995 letter of support for the UN50th Global
Peace Walk see http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/johnson.html

For text of Governor Johnson's 1999 speech:
BEYOND PROHIBITION: THE CASE FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/drugreform.html


David Crockett Williams  [e-mail]
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

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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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:20:03 +0100
From: Sally light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action at Bechtel HQ in San Francisco to Protest "Oboe 4" Subcritical Test

Today at noon about 20 activists gathered at the international
headquarters of the Bechtel Group in San Francisco to protest the
detonation of the =93Oboe 4=94 subcritical nuclear test at the Nevada Tes=
t
Site today at 3:30pm.  Bechtel operates the Nevada Test site for the
Department of Energy.

The protesters carried out a =93chalk action=94 by writing names of the m=
ore
than 1,000 nuclear tests the US has conducted since the first one in
1945.  The sidewalks around the front entrance of the Bechtel office
building were covered with these names, leaving a strong, visual impact
after the action itself was over.

Speakers took turns at the bullhorn, while others passed out
information.  Flyers were quickly distributed, and passersby stopped to
engage in dialog with the activists.

Organizations represented included Tri-Valley CAREs, Western States
Legal Foundation, Livermore Conversion Project, California Peace Action,
Nevada Desert Experience, and American Friends Service Committee.

Reporters from two radio stations, KPFA in Berkeley (Pacifica Radio),
and San Francisco Liberation Radio recorded interviews and both stated
the coverage would be broadcast later today by their respective
stations.

There were no arrests.


Sally Light
Nuclear Program Analyst
Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)



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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:09:43 -0700
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Dear Friends,


    We are sad to announce that the Department of Energy completed subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 4" at 3:30 pm (PST) today.

    This morning more than twenty people gathered for Sunrise Ceremony at the gates of the Nevada Test Site.  Many nations were represented at the circle.  Shortly after dawn, six people walked into the test site, three men and three women.  They were taken to the pens for a brief period and then cited and released, court date to be announced.


This afternoon there was a colorful enthusiastic gathering at DOE in North Las Vegas.  Members of Shundahai Network, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, and local Las Vegans brought many voices, and many bullhorns to amplify those voices- singing, speaking to the DOE workers as they left the building, and speaking to the passersby on the street.


Today's test was to answer questions about what they call "ejecta and spall".  What that means is that they bombard the plutonium so hard, pieces of it shatter into miniscule dust.


We know that plutonium clings to moisture and will easily move from a dusty chamber into our groundwater, and ever closer to us.  We know these tests must be stopped.  It's an election year, let's make this an issue.



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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:57:57 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT 'HEADS OF STATE LETTER FAXED TO HEADS OF STATE

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

The following letter has been faxed and mailed to the Presidents, Prime
Ministers, and Foreign Ministers of the US, Russia, France, China, Uk,
India, Pakistan and Israel,  Canada, Belgium, Germany, and Japan,and faxed
to their Geneva or NY UN missions.

It is also being faxed and mailed to the Canberra Diplomatic Corps, all NY
and Geneva UN missions, and to selected groups of foreign ministers of NPT
signatory countries by organisations in NZ, Santa Barbara, and Canberra.

It has been signed by some 374 NGOs, Parliamentarians and Church groups
including Friends of the Earth International,  Greenpeace International,
Pax Christi International, WILPF, IPPNW, BASIC, Gensuikin, Gensuikyo, The
Anglican Synod of Canada, the Uniting Church of Australia, 42
parliamentarians including 17 from Australia, 13 MEPs, and 3 members of the
UK and Belgian parliaments.

It is to be released formally to media on Monday10 in Canberra, New York,
Christchurch NZ, London, and Moscow.


TO:
PRESIDENT  BILL CLINTON, (US)
[phone], 1-202-456-2883, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201
MADELEINE ALLBRIGHT, DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[phone] UN-1-212-415-4443 Geneva -41-22-749-4880

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, (RUSSIA)
[phone], [phone],
=46OREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV(RUSSIA)
[phone], [phone] (Geneva)[phone]  (UN)[phone]=
2

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, (UK)
[phone]
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS  [phone] or 270 2833
UN-1-212-745-9316 Geneva41-22-918-23-33

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC (FRANCE)
[phone],
PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN(FRANCE)
[phone]
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 33 1 4317 5203

PRESIDENT JIANG XEMIN (CHINA)
UN-1-212-634-7626 Geneva 41-22-793-7014

CC
PRIME MINISTER A.B. VAJPAYEE, (INDIA)
[phone]
MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS [phone]

PRESIDENT MOHAMMED RAFIQ DARAR(PAKISTAN)
011-9251-920-3938,
=46OREIGN MINISTER ABDUL SATTAR (PAKISTAN)
[phone]  [phone] or 820-420

PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK (ISRAEL) [phone],
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [phone]

ALL HEADS OF STATE AND FOREIGN MINISTERS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NUCLEAR
NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT)

UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADORS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NPT

RE: ENSURING A SUCCESSFUL NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE=
=2E


Dear Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, and Ambassadors,

The undersigned organizations, representing many millions of deeply
concerned people worldwide, are writing to you regarding the  Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the United
Nations in New York,  April 24-May 19, 2000. This meeting has crucial
implications not only for NPT member states, but also for non-member
states, especially India,  Pakistan and Israel.

We believe the 2000 Review Conference could and should be a catalyst in
breaking the deadlock in the nuclear disarmament arena. It represents an
opportunity to make real progress toward nuclear disarmament, and nuclear
weapons abolition, which is essential to the achievement of common security
based on human and ecological values and respect for international
institutions and law. Failure in this regard could lead to the unraveling
of the NPT regime.

This is exactly opposite to the wishes and expectations of the majority of
the people of the world. It is clear from recent polls, that the
overwhelming majority of the world's people expect no less than immediate
commencement of multilateral negotiations leading to the elimination of
nuclear weapons through a global treaty in fulfillment of Article VI.

Crucial to the outcome of this Review Conference will be the extent to
which the nuclear weapon states are willing to act on their unambiguous
legal obligation and commitment to the elimination of their nuclear weapons
as called for by Article VI, which states:
"Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in
good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms
race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on
general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international
control."

Since the 1995 Review and Extension Conference, the importance of Article
VI and the NPT itself has been reinforced by the International Court of
Justice (ICJ),   which concluded unanimously in its 1996 Advisory Opinion
that:
"there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control"

While some progress has been achieved over the last decade in the reduction
of the total number of nuclear weapons deployed by the nuclear weapon
states, these states maintain their commitment to highly dangerous nuclear
military doctrines as a cornerstone of their defence and security policy,
some for the indefinite future. Progress on fulfilling Article VI
obligations is thus stalled, and the development of new nuclear dangers is
encouraged.

The following developments represent a growing peril that challenges
international and human security, and to which NPT states parties and
especially nuclear states must respond creatively:

- --Ten years after the end of the Cold War, over 30,000 nuclear weapons
remain worldwide, and India and Pakistan have both tested nuclear weapons.

- --Though UN and European Parliament  resolutions have drawn attention to
the Article VI obligations and to the ICJ Advisory Opinion, NATO has
jeopardized the NPT by its re-affirmation in April 1999 that nuclear
weapons are 'essential' to its security. While the NATO nuclear policy
review is welcome, it is preempted and undercut by this reaffirmation.

- -- The US and Russia failed to respond to worldwide pressure to de- alert
by December 1999, and each maintain over 2000 nuclear warheads on permanent
'launch on warning' status. This continues in spite of the incorporation of
de-alerting into the 1996 recommendations of the Canberra Commission, into
two resolutions  passed by massive majorities in the UN General Assembly in
1998, and again in 1999, and a unanimous resolution of the European
Parliament of November 18,  1999.

- --Key states have failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
(CTBT), opened for signature in 1996.  The US Senate in October 1999  voted
down ratification, in spite of the nearly unanimous endorsement of that
treaty by the international community and overwhelming US public support
for nuclear disarmament and the CTBT.

- --The clear aim of the CTBT is to constrain weapons development:  yet the
US, Russia, and other nuclear states still proceed with the development of
new nuclear weapon types and modifications in computer-simulated 'virtual
reality', with the aid of sub-critical underground nuclear testing, which
undermines both the spirit and purpose of the treaty. In particular, US
activities at the National Ignition Facility and the French Megajoule laser
project enable further weapons development.

- --In 2000, the US may decide to deploy a National Ballistic Missile Defence
(NMD) system which would violate the existing Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
of 1972, which is fundamental to the existing strategic arms restraints
between the United States and Russia. NMD deployment could set back
progress on Article VI objectives for years to come.

- --Presidential Decision Directive 60 has reaffirmed US use of nuclear
weapons as a 'cornerstone' of its security policy. Meanwhile, Russia has
steadily moved toward a more ready use of nuclear weapons in recent years.
The potential dangers in this are extreme.

In light of the above developments, lack of progress on Article VI
obligations poses the increasing danger that some non-nuclear states will
conclude that it is in their interests to acquire nuclear weapons, while
those that have already tested them will proceed to further weaponisation
and expansion of their arsenals.

A positive and creative response to the above, and commitment and
leadership on behalf of both human life and all other life is urgently
demanded.

Of critical importance in addressing the currently unacceptable situation
are interim measures such as de-alerting,  and the removal of weapons from
delivery systems, aimed at decreasing the possibility of accidental nuclear
war and at increasing mutual trust and establishing a momentum toward
nuclear weapons elimination.

NPT states parties should resolve,  as a first step,  that all nuclear
forces be immediately stood down from high alert status.

We urge all  nuclear weapons states leaders, and all NPT Review
participants, as a matter of the highest priority and urgency, as well as a
clear legal obligation, to take action to complete unfinished disarmament
objectives and to begin urgent negotiations toward a treaty to eliminate
nuclear weapons.

Immediate steps (both in the CD and other fora)  must be taken by the
nuclear states that will lead clearly and swiftly toward negotiations in
fulfillment of Article VI.

You, as a world leader,  have the fate of the world  in your hands during
these discussions.  We therefore  strongly urge you to attend this review
conference, as you have the authority to commence negotiations to eliminate
nuclear weapons.  By doing so, you can to alter the course of history and
leave a legacy of a more secure future for this generation and for those to
come. Failure to do so risks a revived nuclear arms race that ultimately
could destroy civilization.

(Organisational Signatures)

(International Organizations)
Maj-Britt Theorin, MEP, President, (Kate Dewes, Vice-President,)
International Peace Bureau,  Geneva,
Bruna Nota, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, (WILPF),
Geneva/NY,
Ian Maddocks (Chair), Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President,  Merav Datan,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW),
Cambridge, Mass,
Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers
Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), The Hague, Netherlands,
William Peden, Disarmament Campaign, Stephanie Mills, Nuclear Campaign,
Greenpeace International, Canonbury Villas, London, UK.,
Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council,
London/Washington, UK/US,
Bertrand Charrier, Executive Director, Green Cross International, Geneva,
Switz,
Paul Lansu, Pax Christi International Secretariat, Brussells,
Rosalie Bertell, GNSH., President, International Institute of Concern for
Public Health, Toronto, Canada,
Peer de Rijk.,World Information Service on Energy.(WISE) International,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.,
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium.,
Roland Schutzbach, President, David Schmitter, Vice-President, Global
Initiative, Solothurn, Switzerland,
Jim Morgan, ARC-Peace, International Architects, Designers, and Planners
for Social Responsibility, Stockholm, Swed, /NY., USA.,
Professor Eugen Eichhorn, Taichiro Kajimura, German/Japanese Peace Forum,
Japan/Germany
=46iona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam,

(Friends of the Earth Groups)
Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International
Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador.,
Roque Pedace, Friends of the Earth Argentina, Cordoba/Buenos Aires,
Nnimmo Bassey, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria,
Benin City, Nigeria,
Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth U.S., Washington., Dr.
Patrick Green, Senior Nuclear and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth
England Wales and Northern Ireland, London, UK.,
Dr. Victor Khazan, Friends of the Earth Ukraine (Zelenyi Zvit),
Prof. Vladimir Koklyukhin, Friends of the Earth Belarus, Brest, Belarus.,
Manana Kochladze, Friends of the Earth Georgia/CEE Bankwatch Georgia,
Daniela Stojanova, Secy General, Friends of the Earth Macedonia.,
Dr. Maria Minkova, 'Ekoglasnost', Friends of the Earth Bulgaria, Sofia,
Juraj Zamkovsky, Friends of the Earth Slovakia, Ponicky, Slovakia,
Jan Beranek, Chair, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (Hnuti Duha) Brno,
Czech Republic,
Diderich Johny, LIFE-Luxembourg (Youth Friends of the Earth Luxembourg)
Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
Kim Ejlertsen, Secy, Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH)
Salla Tuomivaara, Friends of the Earth Finland,
Wendy Johnson, Friends of the Earth New Zealand,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia (Sydney,
Australia)

(Members of the European Parliament)
Dr. Caroline Lucas, MEP, Greens,UK, European Parliament,
Hiltrud Breyer, MEP., Greens, Germany, European Parliament,  Brussels,
Elizabeth Schroedter, MEP, Greens Group, Germany, European Parliament,
Brussells,
Gorka Knorr Borrass, MEP,  European Parliament, Brussells,
Pierre Jonkheer, MEP, Greens Group Belgium, European Parliament, Brussels,
Heidi Hautala, MEP Greens Group Finland, European Parliament,
Patsy S=F6rensen Member of The European Parliament, Greens Group,
Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Group, Ireland,
Nuala Ahern MEP Greens Group, Ireland,  European Parliament, Brussells,
Rolf Linkohr, MEP, Germany, Social-Democrats., European Parliament, Brussell=
s,
=46rancis Wurtz, MEP, President, Group GUE/NGL (Green-Left), European Parlia=
ment,
Marianne Eriksson, MEP,
Maj-Britt-Theorin, MEP, Social Democrats, Sweden (as President IPB)

(UK Organisations)
Commander Robert Green, RN (Retd.), Chair, George Farebrother Secretary,
World Court Project, UK,
Dave Knight, Chair, CND, UK.,
Janet Bloomfield, former chair CND, Saffron Walden Group Against Nuclear
Weapons, England,
Di Mc Donald., Nuclear Information Service., Southampton, UK.,
Liz Waterson, Douglas Holdstock,  MEDACT (IPPNW- UK)., Lond., UK,
Anni Rainbow, Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases,
Yorkshire, UK.,
Margaret Turner, WILPF-UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham.,
UK.,
Glen Lee, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, UK.,
Angie Zelter, Environment and Peace Campaigner, Cromer, Norfolk, UK.,
Dr. George Farebrother, Sussex Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament, UK,
Allan Cottey, International Week of Science and Peace, Norwich, UK.,
Pat Gaffney, Pax Christi British Section, London, UK.,
Nancy Zook, Christian CND., London, UK.,
David Morris, Chair, CND-Cymru,
John Thomas, Calderdale Green Party, Yorks, UK.,
Kevin Macnamara MP, House of Commons, UK.,
Dennis Canavan, MP,  Member of the Scottish Parliament,
Alice Mahon MP, House of Commons,UK Parliament,
Margaret Ewing MP, House of Commons, UK Parliament,
Llew Smith MP, (Blaenau Gwent), House of Commons, UK Parliament,

(Irish Organisations)
Roger Cole, Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Ireland,
Eugene Mc Cartan, Chair, Communist Party of Ireland,
Sister Mary O'Connor, Irish Commission for Justice and Peace, Ireland,

(German Organisations)
Ulla Loetzer, MdB,(German Parliament) PDS,
Xanthe Hall, IPPNW Germany, Berlin,
Bernd Frieboese (Berlin), Ole von Uexkull (Lund), Barsebacksoffensiv,
Germany/Sweden.,
Claus Biegert, Nuclear-Free Future Award., Munich, Germany.,
Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Germany.,
Ulf Panzer, District Court Judge, Judges and Prosecutors for Peace,
Hamburg, Germany.,
Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany.,
Henning Droege, Arzt fur Allgemeinmedizin, Allgau, Germany.,
Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council.,

(Austrian Organisations)
Josef Puehringer, Plattform Gegen Atomgefahr, Austria.,
Josef Puehringer, Centrum-Energie Ceske Budejovice(Czech Republic)
Josef Puehringer, Buergerinitiative Umweltschutz, (Czech Republic)
Hienz Stockinger, Chair, PLAGE., (Platform Gegen Atomgefahren), Salzburg,
Austria.,
Mathilde Halla, Chair, Uberpartlielice Platform Gegen Atomgefahren, Linz,
Austria.,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl,
Austria.,
Dr. Hildegard Faessler, Chairwoman, International Week of Science and
Peace, Innsbruck, Austria.,
Dr. Hildegard Zlabinger, Chairwoman, Eco-Ontological System for Human
Rights and Environmental Protection.,
Bernadette Koechl, Council of Eco-ontological Systems for Human Rights and
Environmental Protection.,

Stefan Fuglister, Greenpeace Switzerland, Zurich.,

(Finnish Organisations)
Malla Kantola, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland,
Laura Lodenius, Peace Union of Finland, Helsinki, Finland,
Ulla Lehtinen, First Peoples, Finland.,
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Finland.,
Pirkko Lindberg, Women Against Nuclear Power, Finland.,
Lea Rantanen, Grandmothers Against Nuclear Power, Finland.,
Anita Hagman, Grandmothers for Peace, Finland.,
Anna-Liisa Mattsoff, No More Nuclear Power Movement, Finland.,

(Scandinavian Organisations)
Claudia Behrens, Norwegian Green Party,
Bjorn Hilt, Norske Leger Mot Atomkrieg, (IPPNW Norway) Trondhiem, Norway.,
Gunnar Westberg, President, Vendela Englund Burnett, SLMK (IPPNW
affilliate) Goteborg, Sweden,
Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
Poul-Eck Soerensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark,

Aungiira Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth Romania,
=46undatia Pentru Partenariat Comunitar., Romania,
Alba Circle Nonviolent Movement, Budapest, Hungary,
Peace Tax Payers, Budapest, Hungary.,

(French Organisations)
Solange Fernex, President, WILPF France, Paris, France,
Dominique Lalanne, STOP-ESSAIS, La Ville, France.,
Daniel Durand, National Secy., Mouvement de la Paix, Paris France.,
Harsh Kapoor, South Asians Against Nukes, Combaillaux, France.,
G=E9rard Levy, National Secy, The Greens, (Les Verts) France.,
Elizabeth Lavier, The Greens, Paris, France.,

(Netherlands Organisations)
Ak Malten, Global Anti Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands.,
Krista Van Velzen, Socialist Party, Netherlands.,
Berrie Kollau, Stichting Vredesbureau Eindhoven (Peace Office Foundation
Eindhoven), Netherlands.,
Marjan Willemsen, For Mother Earth Netherlands,
David Boerma, Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples, Neth.,
Hans Taselar, INZET, Association for North-South Campaigns, Amsterdam,

(Belgian Organisations)
Lode Vanoost, MP, Green Party/AGALEV, Chamber of Representatives,
Brussells, Belgium,
Peter Vanhoutte, Member of the Belgian Parliament, Brussells, Belgium,
Eloi Gloriuex MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium, Brussells, Belg.,
Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Brusssells, Belgium,
=46ranklin de Vrieze, Pax Christi Flanders,

Joachim Lau, Italian Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Florence,
Italy,
Gruppo Autonomo de Volontariato Civile in Italia, Bolongna, Italy,

Jordi Armadans, Fundacio per la Pau, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain,

(Greek Organisations)
Kostas Valiotes, Domcetzoglou Kyriakos, Pan-Hellenic Network of Ecological
Organisations, Greece.,
Stefanos Stamellos, Friends of the Forest, Lamia, Greece,
Ecological Movement of Patras, Greece,

Biljana Stevanovska, Association for Information, Training, and Sustainable
Development, Skopje, Macedonia,
Konstantina Pekevska, Environmental Association Opstanok, Skopje, Macedonia,

(Russian Organisations)
Vladimir Slivyak, Alexey Yablokov., Social-Ecological Union, Moscow, Russia,
Vera Brovkina, Chair, St Petersburg Peace Council, Russia.
Boris Bondarenko, IPPNW-Russia, St Petersburg Russia.,
Oleg Bodrov, Chair, 'Green World', Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast, Russia,
Andrey Sukhnev, Ecotourism Centre, Lake Baikal, Russia,
Dr. Vyacheslav Sharov, Chelyabinsk-Hanford Project, Chelyabinsk, Russia.,
Alisa Nikoulina, Antinuclear Campaign in Ex-USSR., Moscow, Russia.,
Natalia Raghouzhina, Centre for Public Health, Novosibirsk, Russia.,
Elena Perfilyeva, Ecological Information Agency, Novokuznetsk, Russia,
Larisa Gurova, Movement for Ecological Safety, Ozersk, Russia,
Nadezhda Kutepova, Regional Social-Ecological Organisation 'HOPE', Ozersk,
Russia,
Aleksey Kozlov, Civil Initiatives Development Centre, Voronezh, Russia,
Galina Raghouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia,
Natalia Kanyashkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexander Koroleva, Ecodefense, Russia.,
Anatoly Korolyov, Baltic Resource Information Centre, Russia.,
Marina Roubtsova, Central Forest Biosphere Reserve, Russia/Ecologia Scotland=
,
Prof Anatoly Shahbad, Foundation Civilisation, Moscow.,
Michael Pushkunov, Centre for Citizens Initiative Cooperation,
Dimitrovgrad, Russia,
Oxona Barkalova, Boris Fomin, Valentina Glavcheva, 'ECOTOK', Moscow,
Dmitry Pantin, Ecological Movement 'Epizentr' Murmansk, Russia,
Ashat Kyumov, Ecological Centre 'DRONT', (Social Ecological Union) Nizhni
Novgorod,
Sergei Baranovsky, Chair, Green Cross Russia, Moscow,
Valery Pimenov, Director, Russian Environmental Congress,

(Ukrainian Organisations)
Alla Shevchuk, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine.,
Alexey Svetikov, Zelenyi Zvit, Severodonetsk, Ukraine.,
Vadim Diukhanov, Chair, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable Development,

(CIS Organisations)
Dr. Lado Mirianashvili., Director, 'Udabno' fund, Georgia.,
Natalie Kirvalidze, Environmental and Sustainable Development Centre 'RIO',
Tblisi, Georgia.,
A.F. Garapov, Tatarstan Antinuclear Society,
Andrey Aranbaev, Ecology Club CATENA, Turkmenistan,
Prof. Vladimir Koklyukhin, Political Sciences Association, Belarus,

(Japanese Organisations)
Hiroshi Taka, Secy. General, Japan Council Against A and H-Bombs (Japan
Gensuikyo)
Iwamatsu Shigetoshi, Chair, Japan Congress Against A and H-Bombs,
(Gensuikin), Tokyo, Japan.,
Sadao Kamata, Director, Nagasaki Peace Institute,
Senji Yamaguchi, Nihon Hidankyo, (Japan Confederation of A-Bomb and H-Bomb
Sufferers Organisation)
Dr Hideo Suchiyama, Former President, Nagasaki University,
Steve Leeper, Transnet, Hiroshima, Japan.,
Hiro Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
Disarmament and Security, Yokohama, Japan.,
Nichigu Asanga, (Buddhist Monk), Peace Office, Tokyo.,

(East Asian Organisations)
Aditi Chowdhury, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), Hong
Kong.,
Jong Won, National Secy., Green Korea United, South Korea.,

(Indian Organisations)
S.P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and Research,
Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India.,
Thomas Matthew, SEEDS-India, Punnakadu, Kerala
Sukla Sen, EKTA, Santacruz, Mumbai,
Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Mumbai, India.,

(Bangladeshi Organisations)
M.W. Faruque, for:
- --Society for Legal Rights, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Youth Approach to Development and Cooperation Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines
- --Bangabandhu Gabeshana & Pathgar Parishad, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
- --Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noahkhali, Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
- --Muktijoddah Jadhurgar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Bangabandhu Research Organization,
- --Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
- --Bashurhat Club, Noahkhali,
- --Thikana Sambaya Samiti.,
- --Suganda Sanskritik Kendra
- --Institute for Comprehensive Healthcare, Research, and Rehabilitation of
Addicts and Psychopaths, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Dr. M.A. Bari, Integrated Child Health Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,

(Other Asian/Middle Eastern Organisations)
Naseef Mu'Allem / Hilda Issa, Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy
Asif Rasheed, Executive Director., Awami Committee for Development, Multan,
Pakistan.,
Ramesh Man Tuladhar, Centre for Community Development and Environment
Research., Kathmandhu, Nepal.,

Nouri Abdul Razak Hussain, Secretary-General, Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity
Organisation, Egypt,
Harley, WALHI-SULTENG, (Indonesian Forum for Development),
Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War, (IPPNW Malaysian
Affiliate), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.,
Cora Fabros, Secy. General, Nuclear- Free Phillipines Coalition,
Roy Cabonegro, Youth For Sustainable Development Phillipines,
(YSDA-Pilipinas)  Quezon City, Phillipines,

(Latin-American Organisations)
Julia Grace, LIHUE Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
Prof. Raul A. Montenegro, FUNAM, Cordoba, Argentina.,
Luis Guttierez., President, Latin American Circle for International
Studies., Mexico City, Mexico.,

(African Organisations)
Ayesha Imam, Baobab for Womens Rights, Nigeria.,
Dr. Jenks Okwari, Program Officer, Community Development Project., Bukuru,
Jos, Nigeria.,
Patrick Eyinla, Justice Development and Peace, Nigeria.,
Diana Nyonyinotono, Single Mothers Association, Uganda.,
Jean-Clautaire Frerys Pouele, Earth Action Congo., Brazzaville, Republique
du Congo,

(United States Organisations - National Nuclear Lobby Groups)
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, Calif,
Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment,
(GRACE) New York,
Carah Ong, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, Calif=
,
Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC, USA.,
Bob Musil, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, (IPPNW
USA), Washington DC., USA.,
Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carrol Jr, USN(Retd),  Deputy Director, Centre for
Defence Information,(CDI), Washington DC, US.,
Christpher Paine, Natural Resources Defence Council, Washington DC.,
Jesse James,  Director, National Nuclear Dangers Dialogue, Washington DC.,
USA.,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy,
(LCNP) N.Y., USA.,
War and Peace Foundation, UN Plaza, New York.,
Gordon S. Clark, Executive Director, Peace Action USA, UN Plaza, NY, USA.,
Paxus Calta, Board member, International Campaigner, Nuclear Information
and Research Service, (NIRS) Washington, DC.,
Charles Ferguson, Director, Nuclear Policy Project., Federation of American
Scientists,
Arjun Makhijani PhD, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
(IEER), Tacoma, US.,
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York/Y2K WASH., Huntingdon, NY.,

(US Organisations- Other Lobby Groups)
Richard N. Salvador, Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, Honolulu, Hawaii,
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA,(Engaged Democracy for the Nuclear
Age), Brooklyn, NY.,
Donald C. Whitmore, President, Third Millenium Foundation, USA.,
Joe Katz, President, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Metro
Detroit, USA.,
Dana L. Richter PhD, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Mich, USA.,
Troy Davis, President, World Citizen Foundation, Harvard, USA.,
Alastair Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum, Washington DC., USA.,

(US Religious Organisations)
Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, President, Pax Christi USA,
Bob Kinsey, Chair, Peace and Justice Task Force, United Church of Christ,
Rocky Mountain Conference, Colorado, USA.,
Steve Ito, United Church of Christ Justice and Peace Ministry Coordinator,
Ryan Kurakawa, Office for Church in Society, United Church of Christ, USA.,
Howard W. Hallman, Chair, Methodists United for Peace and
Justice.,Washington, DC.,
Rosemary Everett, Sisters of the Holy Name, Justice and Peace Coordinator.,
Mary Ellen Gordeck, SSJ., Office of Peace and Justice, Sisters of St
Joseph, Nazareth, MI., USA.,
Vivienne E. Perkins, Christ Church Episcopal., Castle Rock, Colorado., USA.,
Joe Volk, Executive Secy, Friends Committee on National Legislation.,
Washington, DC.,

(Other US Groups)
Rob Wheeler, Global Peoples Assembly/Millenium Peoples Assembly, NY., USA.,
Michele Bisonette Robbins, Executive Director, Youth for Environment and
Sanity (YES), Soquel, Ca, USA.,
Ruth Garbus, Director, New York Women of Vision and Action., NY., USA.,
Shiela Blaker, Blaine Metcalf, War Resisters League, San Luis Obispo, CA.,
USA.,
Harvey Wasserman, Citizens Protecting Ohio.,
Bruce K. Gagnon., Coordinator., Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power In Space., Florida USA.,
Letitcia Aguilar, Inter American Development Bank.,
Loren Finkelstien, Program Director, Free The Planet.,
Andrew Beath, Earthways Foundation, Malibu., Calif.,
Mary JoChristian,Monmouth County Citizens for Clean Air and Water.,
Phyllis S. Yingling., WILPF- US., Philadelphia., USA.,
Jan Harwood, Celia Freeman, Don Larkin, Harriet Blue, Paul Blue, Elena
Leland, Marilyn Lucier, Lilly Litsky, Alice Davis, Committee of Santa Cruz,
CA Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Cruz, CA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility.,
Rochelle Beckers., San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace., Calif., USA.,
Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM., USA.,
Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group.,(LASG) Santa Fe, NM., USA.,
Marsha Feinland, Chair, California Peace and Freedom Party,
Patricia Birnie, GE Stockholders Alliance for a Sustainable Nuclear-Free
=46uture, USA.,
Betty Schroeder, Arizona Safe Energy Coalition, Ariz, USA.,
Norm Cohen, Unplug Salem Campaign,
Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Womens Action for New Directions,
Arlington, MA.,
Prof Dennis Brutus, Co-President, Jubilee-2000 Afrika, Univ of Pittsburg, US=
A.,
Michael John Corley, Un-NGO Rep, Veterans for Peace,
Zia Mian, Centre for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton, NJ.,
Jim Boland,Peace Resource Centre, Wilmington, Ohio,
Marc P. Blaise Paige, Nevada Desert Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada.,
J. Truman, Director,  Downwinders, USA,
Michael Stowell, Arcata Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission, Arcata,
California, USA.,
ECO (Environmentally Conscious Organisation) Indiana, USA.,
Kathy Hutton, Executive Director, Ecology Centre, Berkley, California,
Stella M. Paton, WILPF - San Francisco, USA.,
Ernest Gotien, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards, Calif, USA.,
Scott Miller, Director, Peace Action Maine, USA.,
Matt Petersen, Green Cross USA,
Cathy Lemar, Military Toxics Project, USA.,
Jim Puckett, Director, Asia-Pacific Environmental Exchange, Seattle, Wash,
USA.,
Susan Stansbury, Director, Bay Area Action, Calif, USA.,
Joshua Blier, Green Party of San Mateo County, USA.,
Robert B. Lepley, Executive Director, Long Island Alliance for Peaceful
Alternatives, NY.,
Janet Michelle, Promoting Enduring Peace, New York, USA.,
Mary Beth Branagan, Nuclear Democracy Project, Bolinas, Calif.,

(Canadian Organisations)
Senator Douglas Roche OC, Parliament, Canada.,
Bill Blaikie, MP, (Winnipeg-Transcona), House Leader, New Democratic Party,
Canada.,
Barbara Birkett,M.D.,President, Physicians  for Global Survival Canada,
Dr Ross Wilcox, former President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada.,
Gordon Edwards PhD, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear
Responsibility, Montreal, Canada,
Bev Delong, President, Lawyers for Social Responsibility, Canada.,
Michael Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Educational Cooperative, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary, Synod, Anglican Church of Canada,
Prof. L. Terrell-Gardner, Past President, Science for Peace, Univ. of
Toronto, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada.,
Joyce Lydiard, Rainforest Raging Grannies,  Vancouver, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada.,
Dave Greenfield, New Green Alliance, Saskatchewan, Canada.,
Linda Murphy, President, Interchurch Uranium Committee
Jo Hayward-Haines., Victoria Peace Project., Ontario, Canada.,
Penelope Simons, The Simons Foundation, Canada.,
Victor Lau, Green Campus Society, Canada.,
Macha Mc Kay, Chair, Nuclear Issues, Carolyn Langdon, Co-Chair, Canadian
Voice of Women for Peace,
Mitchell Gold, International Association of Educators for World Peace, Canad=
a,
Ernie Regehr, Project Ploughshares Canada, Waterloo, Ontario,
Joanna Miller, Project Ploughshares Saskatoon, SK, Canada.,
Jacques Boucher, Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence, Montreal, Quebec,
Judith Berlyn,Coordinator, Reseau du Grand Montreal Pour La Paix, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.,

Kate Dewes, Director, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch,
Aotearoa/NZ
Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation Aotearoa/NZ, Auckland, NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Abolition2000, Auckland, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, Secy., WILPF, Aotearoa, (NZ).,
CND-New Zealand,
Kieth Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa (NZ), Parliament House, Wellington,
Carol Anne-Bradford, New Zealand Coalition for Gun Control, Auckland, NZ.,
Brian Campbell Maaroufi, Richard Frizzell, Nelson Peace Group, Nelson, NZ.,
Helen Kingston, Golden Bay Peace Group, NZ.,
Gary Ware, Peace Action Tuaranga, NZ.,
Miranda Bain, Psychology Works, Tuaranga, NZ.,
Rob Wilkinson, National President, Engineers for Social Responsibility, NZ.,
Ellen Mc Crae, New Zealand Federation of University Women, Canterbury Branch=
,
Jill Hawkey, Christian World Service, Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ
Kevin Mc Bride, Pax Christi NZ, Auckland, NZ.,
Daniela Bagozzi, President, Canterbury Workers Educational
Association,(WEA) Christchurch, NZ.,
Susanne Menzies-Culling, CORSO, NZ.,
Des Brough, Chair, Llelwyn Richards, Treasurer, National Consultative
Committee on Disarmament,
Derry Gordon, Yearly Meeting Clerk, Society of Friends (Quakers) Aotearoa/NZ
Roger Kemp, Peace Clerk, Quaker Peace and Service, Aotearoa/NZ


Peter Garrett, President, Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian
Conservation Foundation, Fitzroy, (Melb) Vic., Australia.,
Reverend John Mavor, President.,The Uniting Church in Australia, National
Assembly,
Irene Gale AM, Babs Fuller- Quinn, Australian Peace Committee,
Dr. Susan Wareham President MAPW (Medical Association for Prevention of
War) Canberra, Australia,
Chris White, Secretary, South Australian Trades and Labour Council,
Adelaide, SA.,
Bev Polzin, Secretary, Quaker Yearly Meeting,  Armadale, Vic.,
Rev Greg  Thompson,  St Johns Anglican Darlinghurst.
Rev. Ray Richmond, Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross,
Denis Doherty, Pax Christi Sydney.,
Moira Rowland, Convenor, Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future, Canberra.,
Cameron Edwards, People for Nuclear Disarmament NSW.,
Hannah Middleton, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign, Sydney.,
Kirsten Blair, Mark Wakeham, Coordinators, Environment Centre of the
Northern Territory,
Rowena, Environment Centre of W.A., Perth, W.A.,
Michael Priceman, Sutherland Shire Environment Centre, Sutherland, NSW,
Graeme Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Community Anti-Nuclear Network, W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Anti-Nuclear Alliance, W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Perth Anti-Nuclear Group.,
Grant Keady, Scientists and Technologists Against Nuclear Dumping, W.A.,
Angie Hartwig, Womens Refuge Group of W.A., Inc Perth, W.A.,
Susan Brennan and Lynda Poke, YWCA of Australia, Canb,
Bruce Nichols, Shine A Light for Peace Campaign.,
Institute for Global Futures Research(IGFR), Cairns, Qld.,
Sandra Williams, The Polyplan Network, Waterford, SA.,
Yolanda Lee, Vice Pres, Business and Professional Women of Australia,
Sydney, Aust.,
Judy Harrison, Convenor, National Womens Justice Coalition,
Dianne B. Alley, National Convenor, UNAA Status of Women Network, Toorak,
Vic., Aust.,
Betty Mc Clellan, Secy, Management Collective, North Queensland Combined
Womens Services, Townsville, Qld, Aust.,
Dr Daphne Elliot, President, Australian Federation of University Women,
Ruth Dunshea, Rockhampton Sexual Assault Prevention Program, Qld.,
Lynda Dunn, Womens Health Infomation and Referral Service, Qld.,

Senator Meg Lees,Democrat Senator for South Australia, Leader, Australian
Democrats,
Senator Vicki Bourne, Australian Democrats Senator for New South Wales,
Senator Lyn Allison, Australian Democrats Senator for Victoria,
Senator Andrew Bartlett, Australian Democrats Senator for Queensland,
Senator Brian Grieg, Australian Democrats Senator for  W.A.,
Senator Bob Brown, Greens Senator for Tasmania,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Julia Gillard, ALP Member for Lalor, Victoria.,
Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP, ALP Member for Fremantle, W.A.,
Jann Mc Farlane, Federal ALP Member for Stirling, W.A.,
Jill Hall, MP, ALP Member for, Shortland, NSW.,
Daryl Melham MP, ALP  Member for Banks, NSW., Aust.,
Anthony Albanese, ALP Member for Grayndler, NSW.,
Tanya Plibersek, ALP Member for Sydney, NSW,
Robin Geraghty, ALP  Member for Torrens, SA., Aust.,
Richard Jones MLC.,(Ind) NSW.,
Lee Rhiannon, Green MLC, NSW.,



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