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From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest)
To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com
Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #292
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abolition-usa-digest Monday, April 17 2000 Volume 01 : Number 292
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:47:04 EDT
From: LCNP@aol.com
Subject: (abolition-usa) A2000 Annual Business Meeting - time, location
Coordinates for April 30 Abolition 2000 Annual Business Meeting, New York,
in connection with NPT Review Conference:
Time: Sunday April 30: 9:00 - sign-in and coffee; 9:30 - meeting begins;
6:00 pm (or earlier if we choose) - meeting closes
Location: 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan
(west side)
Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N, R)
John Burroughs, Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204
New York, New York 10017 USA
tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857
e-mail: johnburroughs@earthlink.net
website: www.lcnp.org
Part of the Abolition 2000 Global
Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:07:20 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <prop1@prop1.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MOX is NOT dead in U.S.!
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Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham Zerriffim.
I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews list.... Sorry for jumping to
conclusions, everybody.... Must be wishful thinking. Ellen
At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson <nirs.se@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE has decided to adopt a "melt
> and dilute" strategy for their weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly,
> MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US. Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in
> the US and Russia would use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined
> weapons grade plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that
> this use of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium
> separation from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue
> making more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in
> use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX
> still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear
> power industry that it is!
>
> Mary Olson
> Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast
> P.O. Box 5647
> Augusta, Georgia 30916-5647 USA
> 706-722-8968 706-722-3506 fax
> nirs.se@mindspring.com www.nirs.org
>
>At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to ship weapons
>>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there. fab.
>>
>>Francis A. Boyle
>>Law Building
>>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
>>Champaign, Ill. 61820
>>217-333-7954 (voice)
>>217-244-1478 (fax)
>>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>
At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote:
>MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate programs. One is
>dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other is
>dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to reprocess the
>spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has nothing
>to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or not.
>This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and plutonium
>fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors. Please do not
>lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of the
>disposition program can be slackened.
>
>Hisham Zerriffi
>Senior Scientist
>p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a test of
>Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is nowhere near
>the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use in
>Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of the Russian
>and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and am
>outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely clear as
>to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves.
>>
At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:
>The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons grade
>Plutonium to Canada as part of a MOX Program. During our hearing last
>Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a scientist who
>under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could kill
>about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not dispute
>that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to happen.
>Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab
>
>Francis A. Boyle
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ellen Thomas [mailto:prop1@prop1.org]
>>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM
>>To: NucNews@onelist.com
>>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.!
>>
>>
>>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel
>>
>>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000
>>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html
___________________________________________________
NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm
Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Editor)
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Subscribe: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe)
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DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com | http://members.aol.com/doewatch
Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com | http://downwinders@onelist.com
EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org|http://www.envirolink.org/environews
Planet Ark - mailto:anna@planetark.org|http://www.planetark.org/news/
Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org
Distributed without payment for research and educational
purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all,
in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.
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Thanks for the corrections, Mary Olson, Francis Boyle, and Hisham
Zerriffim. I'll forward them to the rest of the NucNews
list.... Sorry for jumping to conclusions, everybody.... Must
be wishful thinking. Ellen<br>
<br>
At 03:53 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Mary Olson <nirs.se@mindspring.com>
wrote: <br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Dear Ellen -- while I am very pleased that DOE
has decided to adopt a "melt and dilute" strategy for their
weapons-related irradiated fuel mess -- sadly, MOX IS NOT DEAD in the US.
Far from it!!!! The program to make MOX fuel in the US and Russia would
use already separated plutonium -- indeed, refined weapons grade
plutonium for reactor fuel, to start. It is a grave danger that this use
of plutonium would result in the future in further plutonium separation
from civilian and military irradiated fuel in order to continue making
more MOX plutonium fuel after the initial weapons plutonium is in
use....but this article has NOTHING to do with that program directly. MOX
still lurks as the 2 billion + taxpayer subsidy to the commercial nuclear
power industry that it is! <br>
<br>
Mary Olson <br>
Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast <br>
P.O. Box 5647 <br>
Augusta, Georgia 30916-5647 USA
<br>
706-722-8968 706-722-3506 fax <br>
nirs.se@mindspring.com
<a href="http://www.nirs.org/" eudora="autourl">www.nirs.org</a> <br>
</blockquote>>At 11:54 AM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle
wrote:<br>
>>Yes, but Richardson and the DOE are still paying Russia to
ship weapons<br>
>>grade plutonium to Canada for use in a MOX Program there.
fab.<br>
>> <br>
>>Francis A. Boyle<br>
>>Law Building<br>
>>504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue<br>
>>Champaign, Ill. 61820<br>
>>217-333-7954 (voice)<br>
>>217-244-1478 (fax)<br>
>>fboyle@law.uiuc.edu
<<a href="mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu" eudora="autourl">mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu</a>>
<br>
<br>
At 03:30 PM 4/13/2000 -0400, Hisham Zerriffi wrote:<br>
>MOX is not dead!!!! These are two entirely separate
programs. One is<br>
>dealing with spent reactor fuel from research reactors and the other
is<br>
>dealing with plutonium from weapons. This decision not to
reprocess the<br>
>spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched URANIUM has
nothing<br>
>to do with whether surplus weapons PLUTONIUM is used in a reactor or
not.<br>
>This is not a decision to forgo MOX (a mixture of uranium and
plutonium<br>
>fuel) in US reactors or to forego MOX in Russian reactors.
Please do not<br>
>lead people to think that the efforts to change the direction of
the<br>
>disposition program can be slackened.<br>
><br>
>Hisham Zerriffi<br>
>Senior Scientist<br>
>p.s. One more point of clarification. The DOE is paying for a
test of<br>
>Russian plutonium in CANDU reactors in Canada. The program is
nowhere near<br>
>the stage of making a decision to proceed with full scale MOX use
in<br>
>Canada. This is not to minimize the implications and impact of
the Russian<br>
>and American Pu tests in Canada (FYI, I grew up mostly in Canada and
am<br>
>outraged at their actions), I think it important to be absolutely
clear as<br>
>to what is going on or we risk doing a disservice to ourselves.<br>
>><br>
<br>
At 02:35 PM 4/13/2000 -0500, Francis Boyle wrote:<br>
>The DOE is paying the Russians to ship about 5 ounces of weapons
grade<br>
>Plutonium to Canada as part of a MOX Program. During our
hearing last<br>
>Friday in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo, we produced a
scientist who<br>
>under oath and subject to cross-examination testified that this could
kill<br>
>about 1 million people in the event of an accident. The DOE did not
dispute<br>
>that number. They just argued that an accident was not going to
happen.<br>
>Despite Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. fab<br>
><br>
>Francis A. Boyle<br>
<br>
>>-----Original Message-----<br>
>>From: Ellen Thomas
[<a href="mailto:prop1@prop1.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:prop1@prop1.org</a>]<br>
>>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:35 AM<br>
>>To: NucNews@onelist.com<br>
>>Subject: (abolition-usa) MOX is dead in U.S.!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>Energy Department Opts Against Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel<br>
>><br>
>>By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, April 12, 2000<br>
>><a href="http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html" eudora="autourl">http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-12-06.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
___________________________________________________<br>
<br>
<font size=2>NucNews Archives:
<a href="http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm" eudora="autourl">http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm</a><br>
Today's Newspapers:
<a href="http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm" eudora="autourl">http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm</a><br>
Submit Letter/Notice/Article:
<a href="mailto:prop1@prop1.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:prop1@prop1.org</a>
(NucNews-Editor)<br>
About NucNews: <a href="http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm" eudora="autourl">http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm</a><br>
E-Mail Archive: <a href="http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews" eudora="autourl">http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews</a><br>
Subscribe: <a href="mailto:prop1@prop1.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:prop1@prop1.org</a> (NucNews-Subscribe)<br>
<br>
Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.):<br>
<br>
DOE Watch - </font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>doewatch@onelist.com</font></u><font size=2> | </font><a href="http://members.aol.com/doewatch" eudora="autourl"><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>http://members.aol.com/doewatch</a></font></u><font size=2> <br>
Downwinders - </font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>downwinders@onelist.com</font></u><font size=2> | </font><a href="http://downwinders@onelist.com/" eudora="autourl"><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>http://downwinders@onelist.com</a></font></u><font size=2> <br>
EnviroNews - </font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>environews@envirolink.org</font></u><font size=2>|</font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.envirolink.org/environews</font></u><font size=2> <br>
Planet Ark - <a href="mailto:anna@planetark.org%7Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.planetark.org%2Fnews%2F" eudora="autourl">mailto:anna@planetark.org|</a></font><a href="mailto:anna@planetark.org%7Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.planetark.org%2Fnews%2F" eudora="autourl"><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.planetark.org/news/</a><br>
</font></u><font size=2>Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - <a href="mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org<br>
<br>
</a></font> Distributed without payment for research and educational <br>
purposes only, by subscription, and archived for the use of all,<br>
in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.<br>
<br>
<br>
</html>
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:19:23 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <wslf@earthlink.net>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UPDATE AND INVITATION!
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US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network
*************************************************************************=
***
********************************
UPDATE AND PLEA: Most of you reading this message should have recently re=
ceived
in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Reso=
urce
Booklet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the Re=
sponse
Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of Abolition 20=
00.=20
We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN, and we want you in it=
!=20
Donations are voluntary but very welcome! NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a=
US
CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which includes our National Campaign Meeting a=
nd
Launch Report from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and
Background Materials; and How to Get Involved, and would like one, please
contact Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US
CAMPAIGN). Contact information will be found at the bottom of this messag=
e.
RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: (1) PLEASE ADD the ELEANOR HO=
LMES
NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill (H.R.2545, text a=
t
http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm) to the list of legislative initiative=
s US
CAMPAIGN groups are working on! (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Th=
omas
is the convener of the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the =
Norton
Bill to the Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the=
phone
number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the=
US
CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong! The correct number=
is
(510)839-5877.
US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE INVITED!=20
HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW
CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA.
*FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating
Committee=92s meeting, there will be a =93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAI=
GN groups
attending the NPT Review Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1)=
to
update folks on the status of the Campaign through a report from the
Coordinating Committee; and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and
organizations can take regarding the NPT while in New York and when they =
return
home. A meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on tha=
t day
to allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The cauc=
us
meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN. =20
AFTER THE MEETING: *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the
Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will take plac=
e
FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance Space, 611 Broad=
way,
9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested. Take B,D,F or Q train to Bro=
adway
Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker Street. Entrance to 611 Broadway is on t=
he
west side of Broadway just north of Houston.
OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS: *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10 AM Aboli=
tion
2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza, 47th Street and =
First
Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM, Abolition 2000 will hold its
Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W. 48th St., between 8th and 9th
Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west side). Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C=
, E,
1, 9), 49th St. (N, R). All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome. N=
etwork
business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating
Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups;
affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will
serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review Confere=
nce
world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to host an Aboli=
tion
2000 meeting next fall.
FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW CONFER=
ENCE:
http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html
******************************************************
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +(510)839-5877
Fax: +(510)839-5397
E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net
******************************************************
Western States Legal Foundation is part of ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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<font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica"><b><div align=3D"center">
US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS<br>
Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network<br>
</b></div>
*************************************************************************=
***********************************<br>
<b>UPDATE AND PLEA:</b> Most of you reading this message should have
recently received in a the mail a bright yellow US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH
NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet.<br>
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take moment to cut out, fill in, and return the
Response Form on p. 3. Do this even if you are already an endorser of
Abolition 2000. We are creating a NEW database for the US CAMPAIGN,
and we want you in it! Donations are voluntary but very welcome!
NOTE: If you didn=92t receive a US CAMPAIGN Resource Booklet, which
includes our National Campaign Meeting and Launch Report from Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Oct. 9 - 11, 1999, Supporting and Background Materials; and How
to Get Involved, and would like one, please contact Western States Legal
Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN). Contact
information will be found at the bottom of this message.<br>
<br>
<b>RESOURCE BOOKLET ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS:</b> (1) PLEASE ADD the
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Bill
(H.R.2545, text at
<a href=3D"http://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm" eudora=3D"autourl"><u>http=
://prop1.org/prop1/hr254ab.htm</a></u>)
to the list of legislative initiatives US CAMPAIGN groups are working
on! (See p. 13 of Resource Booklet. Ellen Thomas is the convener of
the Congressional Focus Working Group, please add the Norton Bill to the
Working Group description on p. 20.) (2) PLEASE NOTE that the phone
number for Western States Legal Foundation (interim clearinghouse for the
US CAMPAIGN) at the bottom on the cover letter is wrong! The
correct number is (510)839-5877.<br>
<br>
<b>US CAMPAIGN MEETING AT THE NPT (and other events) - YOU ARE
INVITED!</font></b> <br>
<font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica">HEADS UP! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO WIL=
L
BE ATTENDING THE NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE
WHO LIVE IN THE NEW YORK AREA. *FRIDAY APRIL 28, FROM 3 - 6 PM, following
the US CAMPAIGN Coordinating Committee=92s meeting, there will be a
=93caucus=94 open to all US CAMPAIGN groups attending the NPT Review
Conference. The focus of the meeting will be: 1) to update folks on the
status of the Campaign through a report from the Coordinating Committee;
and 2) to brainstorm actions that the group and organizations can take
regarding the NPT while in New York and when they return home. A
meeting with the US delegation will be requested for 6 pm on that day to
allow US CAMPAIGN members to dialogue with the US delegation. The caucus
meeting will take place in one of the conference rooms in the UN.
<br>
<br>
<b>AFTER THE MEETING:</b> *A PEACE DANCE to celebrate the 5th Anniversary
of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons will
take place FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FROM 8:30 PM TO 12:30 AM at Limon Dance
Space, 611 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York. $8 donation requested.
Take B,D,F or Q train to Broadway Lafayette or 6 train to Bleeker
Street. Entrance to 611 Broadway is on the west side of Broadway
just north of Houston.<br>
<br>
<b>OTHER ABOLITION 2000 NPT EVENTS:</b> *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, FROM 9 - 10
AM Abolition 2000 will hold a demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza,
47th Street and First Avenue. *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, FROM 9 AM - 6 PM,
Abolition 2000 will hold its Annual General/Business Meeting at 322 W.
48th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, midtown Manhattan (west
side). Nearby subway stops: 50th St. (C, E, 1, 9), 49th St. (N,
R). All Abolition 2000 member groups are welcome. Network
business will include annual reports from the international Coordinating
Committee, Staff, Global Council, and Regional and Working Groups;
affirming/modifying our structure for the next year and deciding who will
serve; and beginning to look ahead to the post- 5 year NPT Review
Conference world, including an invitation from the City of Nagasaki to
host an Abolition 2000 meeting next fall.<br>
<br>
<b>FOR AN UPDATED CALENDAR OF NGO AND PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE NPT REVIEW
CONFERENCE</b>:
<a href=3D"http://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html" eudora=3D"autourl"><u>h=
ttp://www.igc.org/disarm/nptcal.html</a></font></u><br>
<div align=3D"center">
******************************************************<br>
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director<br>
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION<br>
1440 Broadway, Suite 500<br>
Oakland, California USA 94612<br>
Tel: +(510)839-5877<br>
Fax: +(510)839-5397<br>
E-mail: wslf@earthlink.net<br>
******************************************************<br>
Western States Legal Foundation is part of ABOLITION 2000<br>
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS</html>
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:47:49 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@lightspeed.net>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "Abolish Nuclear Weapons"
Dear Friends,
I have just read and signed the online petition:
"Abolish Nuclear Weapons"
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:00:04 -0400
From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Long term-Low dose
>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:06:09 -0400
>Subject: Long term-Low dose
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: rbassilakis@snet.net (rbassilakis@snet.net)
>
>New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of
>nuclear workers
>
>EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 9 APRIL 2000 AT 17:00 ET US
>
>Contact: David Williamson
> 919-962-8596
>
>
>Increasing exposure to ionizing radiation boosts the risk of
>multiple myeloma, a rare but often fatal cancer of blood-forming
>tissues, especially among people exposed later in life, according
>to a new study of workers at four U.S. Department of Energy
>plants.
>
>The study, conducted by University of North Carolina at Chapel
>Hill researchers, analyzed radiation exposures among plant
>employees and compared them to health records. Older workers with
>cumulative radiation doses of five rem or more were almost
>three-and-a-half times more likely to die from multiple myeloma
>than workers at the same plants whose cumulative exposures were
>less than one rem.
>
>The current occupational limit for radiation workers is five rem
>per year. Average background radiation is between a tenth and a
>third of a rem per year depending on what is being counted, such
>as radon.
>
>
>A report on the findings appears in the April issue of Annals of
>Epidemiology, a scientific journal. UNC-CH School of Public
>Health authors are Dr. Steve Wing, associate professor; Dr. David
>Richardson, postdoctoral fellow; Suzanne Wolf, research
>associate; and programmer Joy L. Wolf, all of epidemiology, and
>Drs. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown, professor, and Gary Mihlan,
>research assistant, both of environmental sciences and
>engineering.
>
>"Workers exposed to ionizing radiation at older ages appeared to
>be more sensitive than younger workers," Wing said. "However,
>that does not mean that it is safe for young workers to be
>exposed to radiation. Exposures during the child-bearing ages
>might lead to genetic mutations that could affect children and
>future generations."
>
>
>UNC-CH researchers identified 98 workers who died of multiple
>myeloma and 391 age-matched controls from a combined roster of
>115,143 people hired before 1979 at the Hanford (Wash.), Los
>Alamos National Laboratory (N.M.), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>(Tenn.) and the Savannah River (S.C.) nuclear facilities, he
>said. Information on work history, smoking, medical X-rays and
>exposure to physical and chemical agents came from personnel,
>medical, industrial hygiene and health physics records, including
>readings from radiation badges known as dosimeters.
>
>
>The study included workers who died through 1990 or, among
>Hanford emp
>
>loyees, through 1986. Male workers and those hired before 1948
>died of multiple myeloma at about twice the rate of women and
>workers hired after 1948, the scientists found. Blacks were
>almost five times as likely as whites to have developed the
>illness, although only five cases were found among blacks.
>
>The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
>requested and paid for the study because of previous reports
>suggesting a link between exposure to ionizing radiation and
>cases of the cancer at the Hanford site, Wing said.
>
>"Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in
>U.S. nuclear workers, was intended to include more cases of the
>disease, better evaluation of radiation doses and measurement of
>other occupational exposures not available in the Hanford
>studies," he said.
>
>Investigators also tried to determine whether workers exposed to
>solvents, metals, welding fumes asbestos and other agents faced
>increased risks of multiple myeloma, Wing said. Records of such
>exposures, however, were inadequate to enable the scientists to
>calculate increased risks accurately.
>
>Because exposures to ionizing radiation were almost entirely
>below what government regulations currently allow, the findings
>could affect federal occupational exposure standards, the
>scientist said. He and his colleagues initially hoped to extend
>their research to other cancers of the blood-forming organs but
>were required by their contract to limit the study to multiple
>myeloma.
>
>"One important element of this work is that it comes at a time
>when the U.S. Department of Energy is expressing greater concern
>for workers' health and the history of radiation exposures in the
>nuclear weapons complex," Wing said.
>
>###
>*****************************************************
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
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New York, NY 10010
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:46:35 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <a2000@silcom.com>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New organizations
Dear Friends and Activists,
One one week remains until the NPT Review Conference begins at the
UN in New York! With less than 7 days left, there are now 1840
municipalities and organizations in 93 countries that endorse the Abolition
2000 Statement. We only 160 additional organizations and municipalities to
reach our goal of 2000! My sincere thanks to all those who are working to
help and achieve this goal. Please support the work of Abolition 2000 by
enrolling a new organization this week. We can only reach our goals if we
work together!
Please join me in welcoming the following organizations who endorsed the
Abolition 2000 Statement during the week of 10-16 April:
Vrije Bond Algemene Ledenvergadering, Utrecht/The Netherlands
De Haagse Stadspartij, The Hague/The Netherlands
Centre for Peacemaking & Community Development, Moscow/Russia
The Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania
Citizens' Budget Campaign, Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Saskatchewan/Canada
Raging Grannies, Saskatchewan/Canada
Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Seattle Mennonite Church,
Seattle/Washington
ICUCEC (Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative)
Saskatoon/Canada
Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition, Toronto/Ontario
Fawcett North London, Leytonstone/London
Older Feminists Network, Leytonstone/London
Fremantle Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), Fremantle/Western Australia
Abolition 2000 Network Kyoto, Kyoto/Japan
Benitengu, Tokyo/Japan
NEPA Coalition of Japan, Yokosuka/Japan
Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), Wellington/Aotearoa
Auckland District Council of Social Service, Auckland/Aotearoa
Anti-Bases Campaign, Christchurch/Aotearoa
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), Christchurch/Aotearoa
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship of New Zealand, Auckland, Aotearoa.
Municipality
Chofu City Council (Tokyo)
Thank you again for your continued support. My best wishes to you in our
common endeavors.
In Peace and Solidarity,
Carah
Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:55:07 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@lightspeed.net>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE & Earth Day Expansion Call: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001"
For Immediate Release (Dear Editor), Monday, April 17, 2000
Contact: David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309
Call for Earth Day Expansion: "Earth Month" and "A Year for The Earth"
The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to my request, in respect
of Earth Day 2000 and its call for "Clean Energy Now!", to extend
the public comments deadline on its new Stategic Plan draft until
April 24th. Details are at http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan
To further the Earth Day Network's efforts to "Make Every Day Earth Day" as
a way to awaken public activism for timely amelioration of today's critical
environmental problems and for the cause of global peace, the Taos, NM,
annual April 22nd new Earth Day event, organized by the Global Peace Walk
Project, is initiating a call for expanding the original goals of Earth Day
with "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" campaign to inaugurate an annual
"Earth Month" from the Spring Equinox of March 21st to April 22, 2001.
We hope everyone who has embraced the vision of Earth Day will in their own
ways make the most of this campaign by applying a deeper understanding of
the Earth Day 2000 "Clean Energy Now!" message by releasing their own
minds and, as Global Peace Walk initiator Reverend Yusen Yamato says
in his zen-speak way, to let the "dust out".
In his letter of support for this spiritual walk across America to bring out
"Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve, Earth Day Network's
national coordinator Chris Curtis says, "Supporting the work of the Global
Peace Walk 2000 and its Earth Day celebration is vitally important. I
strongly encourage your organization to actively participate in planning and
funding activities associated with this educational, action-oriented
effort".
Everyone should be proud of how Senator Gaylord Nelson's call for a national
"Environmental Teach-In" on April 22, 1970, has been so well implemented by
the Earth Day Network for over thirty years since the "natural" Earth Day
idea itself was presented by John McConnell, at the San Francisco UNESCO
Conference on the Environment in November 1969, as an annual Spring Equinox
event to unite people of all faiths to solve environmental problems that
have by today reached global emergency proportions.
On the phone Saturday, McConnell shared his disappointment that the value of
his initially proposed symbolic annual date for Earth Day as the Spring
Equinox, originally accepted by the United Nations, has been largely
overlooked but he expressed respect for the work of the April 22nd
Earth Day Network.
This proposal for "A Year for The Earth 2000-2001" (April 22, 2000 to April
22, 2001), and an annual "Earth Month" starting next year, includes the
suggestion that event organizers opt for whatever date(s) make the most
sense to them to celebrate Earth Day, even "Every Day as Earth Day".
Global Peace Walk 2000 will conduct a ceremony to mark the midpoint of this
Year for The Earth, in New York City before arriving at the United Nations,
walking from San Francisco since January 15th, for the UN 55th
anniversary October 24th to help inaugurate this UN Year and Decade
of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century".
We hope that Denis Hayes, John McConnell, and Gaylord Nelson and all Earth
Day Networks will participate, and support Global Peace Walk 2000 carrying
these messages across country to Washington DC and to the United Nations.
Happy Earth Day to You, Happy Earth Day to you.....
"Living on The Globe with All Our Friends"
"Natural Earth Day" site: http://www.earthsite.org
"New Earth Day" (Network) site: http://www.earthday.net
Global Peace Walk site: http://www.globalpeacenow.org
"I am glad to offer my support for 'Global Peace Now!', as an initiative
that all earthlings can support and to add An Agenda For Peace to those
messages that will allow Global Peace Walk 2000 to find resonance with the
many hearts it will touch as it proceeds upon its journey...an agenda we
must all adopt if we are to create a world in the next century that we can
be proud to live in", says 1970's Philadelphia Earth Day organizer Ira
Einhorn in his letter/message of support for Global Peace Walk 2000.
For The Global Peace Walk Project and "Global Peace Now!",
David Crockett Williams, C.L.U.
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