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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:32:49 +0100
From: Sally light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Minutes of the 4/12/00 conference call of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Coordinating Committee

Minutes of the April 3, 2000 conference call of the Coordinating
Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Those on the call:  Dave, Odile, Anthony, Sally, Alan, Bev, Jackie, Pam,
John and Carah.

Facilitator:  Odile
Note taker:  Sally

1. CAMPAIGN Booklet =96 distribution and follow-up.
The new booklet was recently mailed by the Peace and Environmental
Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (in Michigan).  Of the
1,000 printed, 600 were mailed.  Several Coordinators also requested
additional booklets:  100 to WILPF, 25 to Tri-Valley CAREs, 25 to AAV,
20 to Pax Christi USA, and 50 to Western States Legal Foundation.  The
remainder will be mailed to John at the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear
Policy in New York , for distribution at the NPT Review Conference.
Alan & Odile will mail these off.

Jackie has received 3 responses to the booklet mailing so far =96 2
congratulatory emails and one RSVP from an organization.  Also, our own
groups should remember to return the RSVP forms to her.

2. Job Description.
Dave will re-post to us his analysis of the job description (based on
Alan=92s original description and Sally=92s draft job announcement), and =
he
requested this be put on the agenda of our April 28th meeting in NY.
Basically, he believes we need 1 campaign coordinator with additional
staffers such as field organizers.

3. Report from ad hoc planning group for meeting/action at NPT.
The ad hoc group consists of John, Dave, Jackie, Sally, Anthony and
Pamela.
April 28th is the date of our day-long meeting in NY during the NPT.  It
will be in Conference Room D at the UN.    The schedule is as follows:
10am-12pm and 1-3pm --  Coordinating Committee meeting;  3-6pm --
General Membership meeting (i.e., for member organizations).

Carah will include our General Membership meeting notice in a mailing
next week to the New York area, and Jackie will write and post our
meeting notice to the US Abolition listserve.

The ad hoc planning group will set the meeting agenda, and then it can
be reviewed by our entire Coordinating Committee over dinner at Alice=92s
on April 27th.  Dave will draft and send it to the others in the ad hoc
group this week.

There was general discussion about whether we should do an action at the
NPT Review Conference.  We agreed that we will participate in the
Abolition 2000 demonstration planned for April 25 at 9am.  Pam will also
speak on behalf of the US CAMPAIGN at an 11am press conference that day.

If the huge banner listing all US nuclear tests, with striking graphics,
now in production in the Bay Area, Calif., is ready by the time of the
NPT, we will use it, along with any other creative touches we come up
with (e.g., sunflower hats), as well as our booklet, at the
demonstration.

4  .Agenda items and process for dinner meeting and meeting at NPT April
27-28.
This has been deferred until the subgroup meets, etc.  (see #3 above).

5.  Other groups=92 actions and activities at NPT.
For a complete events listing, see the web site -  www.igc.org/disarm.

Some events are:
April 25 =96 Abolition 2000 demonstration.
April 27 =96 Abolition 2000 5-year report card (morning).  Panel on
Stockpile Stewardship (afternoon).
April 28 =96 Abolition 2000 5-year Celebration Dance (evening)
April 30 =96 Annual meeting of international Abolition 2000
May 4 -  Panel on The Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Age:  Waste, Health,
and Environmental Racism,
               1-3 pm.

6. Participation in FOR=92s =93People=92s Campaign for Non-violence.=94
One date remains open =96 July 16 (=93Trinity=92s=94 anniversary).  After
discussion, we decided that we will request that day be reserved for our
CAMPAIGN.  A subgroup for this was formed:  Pam, Dave and Jackie.  Pam
volunteered to be the organizer and to be the liaison with FOR.  So far,
there is no planned civil disobedience, but there will be workshops and
vigils.  As small numbers will be involved throughout all the events
(targeting the White House, the Capitol and the Pentagon), the subgroup
should be able to put together something in time, especially calling on
those on the East Coast to be there.  The subgroup will  also encourage
Ibrahim to attend our NY meeting on April 28.

7. Bottom-Up organizing.
This is deferred until the NY meeting.  Also, Andy Lichterman will be on
our calls when this topic is on the agenda, as convener of the Bottom-Up
Organizing Working Group.

Michelle Xenos has informed Jackie that she will take our booklet to the
Indigenous Environmental Network and will make a formal proposal that
IEN join our CAMPAIGN, and, specifically, that they become conveners of
the Indigenous People Organizing and Concerns working group.

8. Minutes.
Minutes of today=92s meeting will be posted along with Dave=92s draft job
description.

9. Finances.
Jackie reported that it took approximately $1,900 to print and mail the
booklet, leaving a general fund balance of approximately $600.

10.  Next call.  Will be on Weds., April 12 at 2pm EST and 11am PST.
Carah will set up the call and confirm by email.  Facilitator will be
Sally, and Dave will be note taker.

11. Conference call evaluation.
Jackie -  very pleasant group to work with.  Will see what=92s up with
AFSC about participating on calls.
Sally -  I miss Ibrahim and Gilbert (or Michelle as his stand-in).
Gilbert has been traveling a lot and sends his regrets about missing
some calls.
Anthony -  I have also missed some calls due to working in the
Caribbean.  Sorry I=92ve been away.

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************



Draft Job Description for National Coordinator
US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Submitted by Dave Robinson


Coordination/Management

1.  Support ongoing work of the Campaign's Facilitators Group
2.  Maintain database of US Campaign supporting groups
3.  Maintain Campaign website
4.  Maintain financial records and provide regular reports to
Facilitators Group
5.  Supervise Campaign staff and volunteers
6.  Provide regular reports on Campaign status and activities to the
Facilitators Group

Outreach

1.  Maintain relationships with Campaign organizations/groups
2.  Work with college campus networks and groups
3.  Develop new relationships with national and regional groups with an
emphasis on those representing labor and people of color.

Fundraising

1.  Develop and submit grant proposals
2.  Develop and maintain a direct mail donor program
3.  Coordinate fundraising events nationally and regionally as
appropriate

Programmatic

1.  Develop campaign outreach/educational materials
2.  Represent the Campaign at national and regional meetings and events
3.  Maintain a liaison with Abolition 2000
4.  Coordinate the annual meeting of the US Campaign
5.  Support the ongoing efforts of the Campaign Working Groups
6.  Produce and distribute periodic mailings to Campaign members
7.  Act as media contact for the Campaign and provide media releases on
Campaign activities




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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:05:56 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New Enrollments...keep it coming

Dear Friends and Activists,

    The NPT 2000 Review and Extension Conference is less than 2 weeks
away!  To date, there are 1817 organizations and municipalities who have
endorsed the Abolition 2000 Statement.  We can reach our goal of 2000
endorsers with your help.  Please commit to enrolling a new organization
this week!  Also, you may consider passing a resolution on your
college/university campus or in your municipality.  Abolition 2000 has
prepared some guidelines to assist you in passing a municipal resolution.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to receive a copy.

    Thank you for your continued support.  I hope to hear from you
soon!  Below are the organizations which recently edorsed the Abolition
2000 Statement during the week of 3-10 April:

Third Millennium Foundation, Auburn/Washington
Zambia peace Confederation, Zambia/South Africa
Gabon Environnement et Developpement sans Frontieres, Gabon/Africa
Civil Solidarity in Anyang, Anyang City/Korea
Christian Institute of Social Studies, Seoul/Korea
Korea Sustainable Development Network, Seoul/Korea
Korean Eco-Club, Seoul/Korea
Sarangbang Group for Human Rights, Seoul/Korea
Religous Society of Friends of Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania
Green Cross International, Geneva/Switzerland
Friends of the Earth Western Australia, Laverton/Western Australia
People Against Uranium, Geraldton/Western Australia
Socialist Party of New Jersey, Saddlebrook/New Jersey
NGO Committee on Women and Religion, Bronx/New York
Global Green USA, Santa Monica/California
Young Power in Social Action, Chittagong/Bangladesh
Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids Michigan
North Dakota Peace Coalition, Bismarck/North Dakota
Call to Action, San Juan Capistrano/California
International Christian Fellowship (Association for Child Care), Ghana/West
Africa
Networks Productions, Inc., Santa Fe/New Mexico
Silkworm Peace Institute, Lafayette/California
Memphis Women's Political Caucus, Memphis/Tennesee
Food Not Bombs, Atlanta/Georgia

In Peace and Solidarity,
Carah


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

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conversation on nuclear-related issues.  Important articles and information
relating to nuclear issues are also circulated to keep interested
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To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following:

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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:25:08 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Call for Petitions

Dear Friends and Activists,

    Have you been collecting signatures on the Abolition 2000
International Petition?  Has your organization been collecting signatures
on a similar nuclear weapons abolition petition?

    As you may know, Abolition 2000 will have a large presence at the
upcoming NPT Review and Extension Conference, being held at the UN from 24
April to 19 May.  On 25 April, Abolition 2000, in conjunction with Earthday
2000, is having a large demonstration at  Dag Hammarsjold Plaza at 47th
Street and First Avenue.  Additionally, the Chairman of the 2000 NPT
Conference has agreed to accept petitions from Abolition 2000.  We need
your help to determine how signatories there are on  the Abolition 2000
International Petition.  Also, if your organization has been circulating a
similar nuclear weapons abolition petition, please let us know how many
signatures have been collected so we can give your organization credit and
include those numbers in our presentation.  We must let the nuclear weapons
states know that their irresponsibility and reluctance to rid the world of
nuclear weapons is unacceptable and we will not stand for it.

    Please send your Abolition 2000 International Petitions to:

    Abolition 2000
    PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
    Santa Barbara, California 93108  USA

    or, please send the number of signatories you may have collected on
NON-Abolition 2000
    International Petitions to:

    [e-mail]

    If you have any questions, please feel free to telephone or email
me.  I look forward to hearing from you.

In Peace and Solidarity,
Carah


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website http://www.abolition2000.org


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individuals and activists informed about nuclear issues.

To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, please do one of the following:

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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:26:15 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) PREVENTING AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE

The United States Government explicitly states that it wants to "control"
space to protect its economic interests and establish superiority over the
world.  These efforts could produce a nuclear arms race in outer space
and/or a nuclear catastrophe.  The Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space is challenging these plans.   We invite you to attend
a panel discussion on:

PREVENTING AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE

April 25, 2000
1:15- 2:45 PM

United Nations
Conference Room 4
45th and 1st Avenue
(enter through visitors' entrance)
(You will need a pass to attend this event.
 Please contact 212-223-7520 to obtain a pass before April 15th)

Speakers:

Karl Grossman, Convenor
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Rashmi Mayur, Director
International Institute for a Sustainable Future

Facilitator:

Alice Slater, Executive Director
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment


Sponsors:
Abolition 2000 NY
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
Promoting Enduring Peace
War and Peace Foundation









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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:32:49 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Thanks to All,  re Heads of State letter

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

Dear Felicity Hill, Ellen Thomas, Merav Datan, Clare, George Farebrother,
Rob Green, Kate Dewes, Clare Poyner, Dayrl Kimball, Alisa Nikoulina, Allan
phillips, Ak Malten, Irene, Carah, and all,

A very big thank you for all each one of you have done with the 'Heads of
State' letter.

It was launched on Monday in a senate committee room in Canberra by Senator
Lyn Allison, Senator Bob Brown, and MP Carmen Lawrence.

There was a respectable turnup of TV cameras and the thing was covered in
the Age, (probably Australias most respectable paper with some pretensions
to be progressive), and two west australian papers.

Given that it was competing with a number of other issues this is not too bad.

It was a pleasure to be able to name each of you in front of the media
there as part of a global effort:

Thanks to
Felicity for releasing it in NY and for getting it to NY and geneva UN
missions, as well as for putting much attention and valuable input into its
drafting,

To  Carah Ong for sending it to a largish swag of foreign ministers

To Rob for very careful and very patient input to what was at times a
trying editing process, for releasing it to Christchurch media and for
sending it to another largiish batch of foreign ministers,

To Ellen thomas for sending the whole thing to the US Congress by fax

To Ak Malten for getting  it to the Dutch parliament by hand, for putting
it on his website and for faxing it to european media,

To George Farebrother for getting it to many UK Parliamentarians and
getting them to sign it,

To Clare Poyner of Abolition2000 UK for getting it to UK media,

To Alisa Nikoulina for getting it to Moscow and regional Russian media, and
for chasing many Russian signatures that has made the Russian section very
healthy,

To Merav Datan for her patient input in the early stages of the letter,

To Dayrl Kimball for his patient and constructive input,

To Alice Slater for her input and for not concluding that I had joined with
the terrible 'arms control' community,

To Allan Phillips for his input and for getting it (with PSR) to the
Canadian parliament,

To Kate Dewes for getting Irish and Japanese organisations to sign,

To Clare Henderson for organising the Canberra press conference when we
were seriously worried that maybe no- one at all might show up and when she
had to take Denniss Halliday around Canberra, for sending copies of the
letter to foreign ministers and the Canberra press corps and for her input
to the letter,

To Cathy Picone for her creative input to press releases,

To anyone else I have missed out,

My thanks for helping make all this happen.

John Hallam





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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 06:16:49 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/04/13 - DC Hearings Today

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April 12, 2000 Daybook (etc.)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000412214430.htm

HOUSE COMMITTEES=20

   11:00 a.m. - Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations hearing focusing on a review of U.S. Enrichment Corporation
privatization and its impact on the domestic uranium industry. 2322 Rayburn
House Office Building=20

     Resources hearing =97 11 a.m. =97 House Resources Committee holds a=
 hearing on
"Compromising our National Security by Restricting  Domestic Exploration and
Development of our Oil and Gas Resources." Location: 1324 Rayburn House=
 Office
Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.

    Noon =97 Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the legal=
 authority
of the National Security Agency. George J. Tenet, director of Central
Intelligence, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building.=
 Contact:
202/225-4121.

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

     10 a.m. =97 Appropriations' defense subcommittee holds hearing on=
 fiscal
2001 Defense appropriations, focusing on missile defense programs. Location:
192 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3471.

GENERAL AGENDA=20

     World Bank-International Monetaryfund news conference =97 8:30 a.m.=
 =97The
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold a news conference.
     Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael Mussa, economic counselor and=
 director of
the International Monetary Fund's Research Department.
     11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn, World Bank president.
     Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St. NW. Contact: 202/473-1796,=
 202/473-6313
or 202/473-2243.
         =20

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m</a></div>
<br>
<div>HOUSE COMMITTEES </div>
<br>
<div>   11:00 a.m. - Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations hearing focusing on a review of U.S.
Enrichment Corporation privatization and its impact on the domestic
uranium industry. 2322 Rayburn House Office Building </div>
<br>
<div>     Resources hearing =97 11 a.m. =97 House
Resources Committee holds a hearing on "Compromising our National
Security by Restricting  Domestic Exploration and Development of our
Oil and Gas Resources." Location: 1324 Rayburn House Office
Building. Contact: 202/225-2761.</div>
<br>
<div>    Noon =97 Select Intelligence Committee holds
hearing on the legal authority of the National Security Agency. George J.
Tenet, director of Central Intelligence, testifies. Location: 2118
Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4121.</div>
<br>
<div>SENATE COMMITTEES </div>
<br>
<div>     10 a.m. =97 Appropriations' defense
subcommittee holds hearing on fiscal 2001 Defense appropriations,
focusing on missile defense programs. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-3471.</div>
<br>
<div>GENERAL AGENDA </div>
<br>
<div>     World Bank-International Monetaryfund news
conference =97 8:30 a.m. =97The World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund hold a news conference.</div>
<div>     Highlights =97 8:30 a.m. =97 Michael Mussa,
economic counselor and director of the International Monetary Fund's
Research Department.</div>
<div>     11 a.m. =97 James Wolfensohn, World Bank
president.</div>
<div>     Location: Room B-702, 700 19th St. NW.
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:50:11 -0500
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: CONFIRMED!Environmental Racism!: Humanity v MOX/Parallex

"DOE could have completely avoided the Chicago
Metropolitan Area if they had wanted to by shipping it up I57, to I80, to
I94, then up to Michigan. Instead, they maliciously and deliberately shipped
weapons grade plutonium on I55 into Chicago, then routed it around the
Chicago interstates out into Michigan. Of course these interstates went
through Chicago neighborhoods where people of color and the poor live. So
much for Clinton's Executive Order and "Environmental Equity"."
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before i went up to Kalamazoo i had discussed some of the issues involved
with my friend and colleague, Fred Harris, who teaches environmental law
here. When I got back, I sent Fred a copy of this post, and we talked about
it a bit. Fred then discussed this in one of his classes as an example
environmental racism, and criticized Richardson for routing weapons grade
plutonium through Latino and Black neighborhoods in Chicago. Immediately
after class, a well intentioned white student from a central Illinois
farming town south of here on I57(where i have visited) whose inhabitants
are predominantly white came up to Fred and said basically the following: "
You are right. DOE was going to ship this stuff right near our town. but
when we found out about it, our city politicians went over to Springfield
(The State Capitol) and enlisted the support of State Legislators over
there. They in turn pressured DOE in Washington to re-route and divert the
shipment away from our town."
 Notice of course that due to the pressure exerted by sparsely populated
white farming communities and their politicians, DOE diverted a shipment of
5 ounces of weapons grade plutonium directly into the southside of the
Chicago Metro Area (including Gary and Hammond Indiana ) where there might
be a million Latinos and Blacks living. In federal district court in
Kalamazoo last Friday, we produced a scientist who testified that in the
event of an accident 5 ounces of weapons grade plutonium could kill one
million people. The DOE and USG never disputed that estimate, just opined
that such  an accident would never happen. We responded with Three Mile
Island, Chernobyl, etc.

    In any event, notice the profound environmental racism here.
Richardson and his DOE deliberately and needlessly  exposed about a million
People of Color in the Chicago Metro Area to a catastrophe, rather than
expose low density white farmers in Central Illinois to the same risk.
    There are also some interesting pedagogical issues here. I discussed
this case in my human rights course and pointed out that environmental
racism is also an issue of human rights law. I asked the students if they
knew anything about environmental racism. Those who had studied
environmental law with Fred Harris knew about Environmental Racism. Those
who had studied environmental law with our white professor knew nothing
about it. according to Fred, generally speaking the upper middle class white
professors who usually teach environmental law do not believe in
environmental racism. so i proceeded to give my human rights class a lecture
on environmental racism and what it has done to Blacks, Latinos and worst of
all, Native Americans, whose reservations have become dumping grounds for
large-amounts of radioactive wastes from all over the country.  Part of the
problem here is that the environmental lawyers travel in their own circles;
the human rights lawyers travel in their own circles; and there are any a
handful of lawyers with the guts to take on anti-nuclear weapons cases.This
case is interesting because the coalition of Plaintiffs includes human
rights organizations, environmental organizations, anti-nuclear weapons
organizations, and Native American nations in Canada upon whose lands these
dangerous  activities will take place.I concluded the lecture by pointing
out that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination could be useful in representing People of Color who
have been the victim of environmental racism.
    As for Richardson, this Latino Nuclear Emperor wears no clothes.
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]>


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From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:[e-mail]]
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Subject: Environmental Racism!: Humanity v MOX/Parallex


this is 3 for me today, so nothing more to say. but an interesting element
here. The Clinton administration had adopted that Executive Order mandating
an "Environmental Equity" review of all federal programs. In other words, an
assessment for Environmental Racism--a result of your scholarship. But in
this case, the DOE had never gotten around to adopting any Regulations on
the subject. but they say they performed it anyway and did not find any
adverse differential  effects on people of color and the poor from this
shipment of weapons grade plutonium from the United States to Canada. well i
had a look at the DOE Map for the shipment. They deliberately routed this
shipment of weapons grade plutonium on Interstate 55 into the Chicago
Metropolitan area, then around and  out to Michigan. As we native Chicagoans
know, I55 goes through neighborhoods lived in by the poor and people of
color, and then the same for the Chicago Interstates taking the weapons
grade plutonium out to Michigan. It was a totally bogus environmental racism
review by the DOE. DOE could have completely avoided the Chicago
Metropolitan Area if they had wanted to by shipping it up I57, to I80, to
I94, then up to Michigan. Instead, they maliciously and deliberately shipped
weapons grade plutonium on I55 into Chicago, then routed it around the
Chicago interstates out into Michigan. Of course these interstates went
through Chicago neighborhoods where people of color and the poor live. So
much for Clinton's Executive Order and "Environmental Equity". About as
bogus as Clinton himself and his Secretary of Energy Richardson. Richardson
is supposed to be a Latino. Does Richardson know that his DOE was shipping
weapons grade plutonium through a Latino neighborhood in Chicago? Does
Richardson even care? I doubt it.
fab




"Kalamazoo federal judge won't stop plutonium

shipment"

Saturday, April 8, 2000

By LISA SINGHANIA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A federal judge Friday rejected an anti-nuclear

coalition's motion to block an American-funded

shipment of Russian plutonium to Canada, saying he

lacked the jurisdiction to act on its newest legal

argument.

The group of Canadian and American activists had

argued that the Parallex Project violated an arms

control agreement signed by the U.S government, but

Chief Judge Richard Enslen said the issue was

irrelevant.

"The judicial courts have nothing to do with this,"

Enslen said, after pointing out that treaties are

between governments, not private citizens and

governments.

"We're disappointed, but I'm not sure what we'll do

next," said Terry Lodge, a lawyer for the coalition.

The government said it was pleased with the decision

and the project would go forward.

This was the anti-nuclear coalition's second attempt

to block a shipment associated with the joint

American-Russian $20 million experiment to determine

whether commercial nuclear reactors in Canada can use

material from decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons

as fuel.

For the project to go forward, both the United States

and Russia have to send plutonium to Canada. The

United States sent its plutonium - about 4 ounces in

all - to Canada via Michigan and several other states

in January after winning a court fight with the same

group.

The U.S. government says the project is key to

reducing the spread of nuclear weapons. But the

anti-nuclear activists believe it will do the

opposite, while creating potential for nuclear

accidents during transport.

In December, the activists had asked Enslen to block

the shipment on the grounds the Department of Energy

had violated the law by doing an insufficient

environmental study of the project.

The judge said that although the plaintiffs'

contentions that the government violated the law

appeared to have merit, the DOE's assertions that an

injunction would hurt nuclear disarmament talks were

more important.

On Friday, the group went back to court to try to

block the transport of the Russian plutonium - about

1.5 pounds total - which is expected to be shipped

early this summer. Several Canadian groups also joined

the complaint, in addition to the original plaintiffs:

six individuals and Citizens for Alternatives to

Chemical Contamination.

In addition to arguing the project violated arms

control agreements signed by the U.S. government, the

group's lawyers reiterated an argument made in the

December hearings - the contention Parallex should be

blocked until more environmental study has been done.

Although the Russian plutonium shipment is not

expected to cross U.S. territory, the plaintiffs

argued it still falls under U.S. law since the DOE is

picking up the entire tab and the Canadian test site

is near the U.S. border.

Enslen said Friday he remains convinced the Department

likely violated the law by conducting a limited

environmental study, but that violation would not be

enough to stop the project given its importance to

national security.

The anti-nuclear activists aren't sure what they'll do

next. The case could still go to trial, but that

likely would not happen before the shipments were

completed.

A lawsuit in Canada is also possible. Some of the

Indian tribes in Ontario, the province where the

experiment will take place, say the Canadian

government did not consult with them sufficiently

before approving the shipments.

There were demonstrations against the U.S. shipment

last year.

"There is more unity on this issue in Canada," says

Grand Chief Larry Sault of the Association of Iroquois

and Allied Indians. "We will fight this."



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Dear Friends: I regret to report that i struck out in federal district court
in Kalamazoo last Friday. I had spent over   two weeks working full time to
prepare my testimony on this extremely technical, complicated and detailed
matter involving gross violations by the US Department of Energy of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act
of 1978, the Nuclear  Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994, 1998 Amendments,
and a good deal of the Atomic Energy Act, the World Court Advisory Opinion
on Nuclear Weapons, international environmental law, etc. I presented over a
2 hour oral argument to the Judge. When everything was over, he took out an
Opinion that he had already prepared, read it, and denied our motion. In
other words,his mind was made up before we went in there. At this point in
time we are investigating the feasibility of filing similar litigation in
Canada. We will be trying to get my oral argument on-line so that people can
use it to oppose MOX in any one of the 182 or so State Parties to the NPT
whose governments decide to go for MOX.
Francis.

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]>



Nuclear Information & Resource Service

1424 16th St. NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

P.O. Box 88 Glendale Springs, NC 28629

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Atlanta Chapter 421 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30307

March 22, 2000

For Immediate Release

Contact: Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast 706-722-8968

Janet Zeller, BREDL 336-982-2691

Kevin Kamps, NIRS National Office 202-328-0002

Ed Arnold, PSR/Atlanta 404-378-9078



Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Physicians for Social
Responsibility and Nuclear Information and Resource Service Join Legal
Challenge to U.S. Nuclear Proliferation-Prone Plutonium Plan

Citing grave concerns about the potential spread of plutonium for bombmaking
throughout the world, three organizations, two national and one regional
have joined the plaintiffs who have sued to stop a U.S.-Russian-Canadian
plan to use nuclear weapons plutonium as fuel in nuclear power reactors.

The internationally-known Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS),
with nearly 6000 members, including more than 1000 U.S. grassroots groups
nationwide, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc. (BREDL),
headquartered in North Carolina with 30 chapters in five southern states,
and the internationally known Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR),
the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for educating about the dangers
of nuclear weapons, are the latest public interest advocates to formally
enter a federal lawsuit in Kalamazoo, Michigan which was brought by an array
of Canadian and U.S. First Nations tribes and other nuclear power and
weapons critics.

The lawsuit seeks to halt a test shipment of mixed oxide plutonium fuel, or
MOX, from being transported to a test nuclear reactor in Chalk River,
Ontario from the Russian Federation, as part of a bigger scheme to use MOX
as reactor fuel in light water reactors in the Southeastern United States,
Canada and Russia. Billed as a peaceful means of reusing nuclear weapons,
the plan would legitimize the commercialization and exportation of plutonium
and may allow many nations and even independent groups to develop nuclear
bomb capability.

The Chalk River test, named "Parallex," was first challenged in court last
December when plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Energy to halt shipment
of the U.S. MOX fuel from being trucked across Michigan to Canada until
there was a formal, public decision making process over the environmental
and nuclear weapons proliferation impacts of the program. Judge Richard Alan
Enslen ruled that while the Energy Department had acted in bad faith to
hasten the test of MOX, courts could not stop the Executive Branch from
conducting foreign policy. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to reconsider
that decision, and NIRS, PSR and BREDL are adding their weight to that
request.

"The Department of Energy has already begun to disregard the law and trample
our rights," said Janet Zeller, BREDL's Executive Director. "People from
across the country must join together to block this reckless and secretive
program and insure that the DOE obeys national and international law." BREDL
is campaigning against the planned use of MOX fuel in six Southeastern U.S.
reactors: Duke Power's Catawba 1&2 near Rock Hill, South Carolina; McGuire
1&2, near Charlotte, North Carolina; and Virginia Power's North Anna 1&2
reactors near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Physicians for Social Responsibility has actively opposed the MOX plan since
its inception, primarily on the grounds that it promotes nuclear
proliferation, rather than delivering the goal of making the plutonium from
dismantled nuclear weapons unavailable for further destructive purposes. The
Atlanta chapter of the national organization has led professionals in the
region in their action to oppose the commercialization of plutonium.

"Citizens everywhere want nuclear weapons abolished," said Ed Arnold,
Executive Director of PSR/Atlanta. "We don't accomplish that by
recirculating nuclear weapons material. And we don't abolish nuclear weapons
by shipping bomb-grade plutonium all over the planet. This MOX program
encourages nuclear proliferation and we must stop it."

NIRS, which launched a "NIX MOX" campaign in 1998, recently opened a
Southeastern office to assist BREDL and other grassroots groups opposing MOX
fuel usage and the spending of hundreds of millions in public funds to
subsidize MOX fabrication, utility acceptance and reprocessing.

"Nuclear power is the most expensive form of energy and under utility
deregulation is going to be subject to tough competition. The MOX program
provides direct tax dollars to underwrite more dirty, dangerous nuclear
waste production," said Kevin Kamps, nuclear specialist with NIRS. "This is
an unfair subsidy that will disadvantage safer and cheaper power sources
that have less hazardous byproducts. This is another reason that we are
committed to stopping the MOX mistake."

"The people in the Southeast have gotten the picture loud and clear from the
first shipment of MOX fuel to Canada that the US DOE will lie, cover their
actions, take a cloak of secrecy and act above not only the law of the land,
but also international treaty in order to accomplish their goals" affirmed
Mary Olson, Director of NIRS Southeast Office. She continued, "This is the
old National Security mythology applied to a so-called commercial
enterprise, but in the end it is taxpayer dollars that are funding this
program, so we are proud to support citizens in taking action to stop this
charade." The first MOX shipment to Canada included transport within Canada
by helicopter, despite DOE's acknowledgement that the MOX casks were not
certified for air transport and the agency's assurances that no air travel
would be involved

"The use of MOX creates more bomb possibilities around the world, not
fewer," said Terry Lodge, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "Instead of
rolling plutonium up in two-ton glass logs and disposing of it under heavy
guard, our government instead wants to show the world how to fuel
low-security civilian nuclear plants with it. There will be lots of scary
new members to the 'Nuclear Club' if we do this."

Trial activity will resume on April 7 on the issues of whether the Russian
shipment must be stopped because of claimed violations of federal
environmental law and violation of the international Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.

- -NIRS/BREDL/PSR-


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Ill. 61820
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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