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abolition-usa-digest      Wednesday, May 3 2000      Volume 01 : Number 298




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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:55:18 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) new president plans to grant a full pardon

Article on front page Local section was titled:

"Tehachapi man never short on words for presidential run"

http://www.bakersfield.com/bak/i--1255074667.asp

The Bakersfield Californian

Sunday, April 30, 2000

by Robert Price, Staff Columnist, [e-mail]


As soon as he's inaugurated, the new president plans to grant a full pardon
to a certain infamous political figure.

The president doesn't care how that gesture might affect his approval
ratings because he has already planned his second official act: He's going
to resign from office, paving the way for the pardoned man to seize control
of the Oval Office in a coup the likes of which these shores have never
seen.

Sound like a Bill Clinton-hater's worst nightmare? A dirty little rumor
emanating from the George W. Bush camp? The latest hard-cover conspiracy
theory from Tom Clancy? A fresh subject for Rush Limbaugh, finally tiring of
the Elian saga?

It's none of the above.

It's the inauguration-day game plan of one David Crockett Williams -
Tehachapi resident, self-styled metaphysicist, futurist, advocate for peace
and unlikeliest of presidential candidates.

What makes Williams' plan particularly unusual is his choice of running
mate: It's none other than Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life terms at
Leavenworth for killing a pair of FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota in 1975.

Apparently, Williams is not actively pursuing the cop vote.

Amnesty International considers Peltier, an Anishinabe-Lakota Indian, a
political prisoner for two reasons: Peltier's leadership role in the
pseudo-separatist American Indian Movement, and allegations of perjury and
prosecution misconduct before and during Peltier's 1977 trial.

Williams, a Caucasian, sees Peltier's unorthodox journey to the White House
as a sort of American Nelson Mandela story, in which the incarcerated
dissident walks out of prison and heals the nation's wounds.

Peltier, needless to say, won't be doing much active campaigning.

And that's OK, because Williams (who has never met Peltier personally) won't
be doing much either. Not unless you count the electronic missives he fires
around the country from his 12-by-12 home office.

Williams is a 55-year-old chemist-turned-financial planner-turned fulltime
visionary. At the age of 29 he shaved his head and declared that, until
world peace is achieved, he would never again apply a razor to his skin. We
all know how the world-peace thing is going, so it should be no surprise
that, 36 years after taking his hair vow, Williams has a salt-and-pepper ZZ
Top beard, thick, black-framed Allen Ginsberg reading glasses and a pony
tail he wears in a tight bun. If elected, he would be the hairiest U.S.
chief executive since Rutherford B. Hayes.

Not much chance of that. Williams, running as an independent (he has about
3╜ months, starting this week, to collect enough signatures to qualify for
the various state ballots), would be the first to admit that his odds are
none and none. He may take issue with much of what passes for conventional
thinking in physics, religion and politics, but he's enough of a realist to
know a sinking rowboat when he sees one.

He ran for president in 1996, too, and heard all the questions many readers
might be asking themselves now.

"That was the hardest part, listening to some of the reactions," Williams
says. " 'Are you trying to be funny or are you just stupid?   Or are you
just really egotistical?'

"It's none of those things. I don't want to be president but I have a
responsibility as an American citizen to stand up and talk about what I know
to be an environmental and social emergency. I'll be more than happy to back
somebody else who can get my message out better than I can."

David Crockett Williams Jr. is the son of a Walt Disney Co. accountant and
World War II veteran who died in 1985. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley
and spent much of his adult life in Santa Barbara, coming to Tehachapi four
years ago to care for his widowed mother, with whom he now lives.

When he's not running for president, Williams occupies his time with an
array of daunting (some might say odd) pursuits. Among them:


Refuting Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity with his own Tetron Natural
Unified Field Theory.

Studying new commercial energy sources. He's written extensively about the
relationship of electricity, gravity, magnetism and inertia.

Working toward the legalization of marijuana. Ann McCormick, the mother of
cancer patient Todd McCormick, who was recently sentenced to prison for
"medical" marijuana possession, is the new volunteer staff coordinator for
Williams' presidential campaign.

Studying religion and spirituality. He has followed Buddhism but sees
correlations and intertwined truths among many of the world's great
religions, including the Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Hopi faiths.

Helping organize the Global Walk for Peace, which is presently moving across
the North American continent. Williams was the national coordinator of the
1995 event.

He can talk about any or all of those subjects for as long as people are
willing to listen.

"Once," he says, "a friend told me, 'David, you are the kind of guy who,
when someone asks you what time it is, you tell them how to build a watch?'"

Which brings us to what might be the most difficult and challenging aspect
of a David Crockett Williams administration, brief through it might
otherwise be: The inauguration speech could go on for weeks.

For more on David Crockett Williams:
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

- --------------end newspaper article------



David Crockett Williams, C.L.U.
General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail  415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

USCampaign  [e-mail]
DCWilliams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

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

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html

FreeService: Money by Email
https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=gear2000%40lightspeed.net









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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:46:45 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Peace Walk 2000 through New Mexico

Readers are invited to add their web links and to use the self-serve
searchable directory of progressive and related organizations,
approximately 7000 listed, Macrocosm USA http://www.macronet.org

Many thanks to all the people in New Mexico (including the Global Circle
webmaster for his New Mexico site with photos, below) for their help and
participation with Global Peace Walk 2000 in the last weeks.

Global Peace Walk Benefit Concert, Albuquerque NM Friday, May 5th.
For latest details always check 415-267-1877 walkers' voicemail.

The walkers will also be joining the Millennium Marijuana March in
Albuquerque this Saturday, May6th, for medical cannabis relegalization and
legalization of the ibogaine African rainforest root extract to help end
drug addictions.  http://www.cures-not-wars.org

The Global Peace Walk event in Taos on April 22nd has inaugurated "A Year
for The Earth Campaign" (April 22, 2000 -- April 22, 2001) for an annual
"Earth Month" from the original Earth Day date of the Spring Equinox, on
March 21st in 2001, to the April 22nd popular Earth Day date.  The
co-coordinator of this annual Earth Month campaign will be David M. Seaborg,
an evolutionary biologist and environmental organizer listed in "Who's Who
In America", and the son of Glenn Seaborg, the Nobel Prize winning chemist.
http://www.egroups.com/group/earth-month

The walk will be in New Mexico areas doing local events for the next couple
of weeks before walking from Taos to Oklahoma City for a Monday May 29th
Memorial Day Holiday Ceremony at the newly dedicated National Memorial
at the Federal Building Bombing Site.

From July 1-4, the walkers will be fasting at a camp close to Leavenworth
Penitentiary near Lawrence, Kansas, in support of Freedom for Leonard
Peltier http://www.freepeltier.org

August 6-15 will be main events in the St. Louis, Missouri area.


Preliminary, Apr26, report about the Taos, NM, area events
from local coordinator Mrs. Standing Deer of Drums2000
and Medicine Bird Gallery:  http://www.newmex.com/drum2000

The Global Peace Walk in Taos was fantastic!

Pba-Quen-Nee-e and I went out to meet them in the canyon outside Talpa and
we each walked about 5 miles with the group, many of whom had tired of
walking through the mountains and retired to the bus.

About 10 friends and relatives from Taos Pueblo were there waiting including
our cousin , Annette McHorse and Mrs. Romero. They carried the peace pipe
for the walkers.

The walk got slowed down on US Hill when the bus had minor mechanical
problem but some of the Rez boys drove up and before long they were back on
the road. We got to the Visitor Center in Taos about 6:30 PM and Dr. Yamato
said a prayer at sunset.

On Saturday morning we went to Kit Carson Park a little after sunrise and
about 6 or 8 town folk were waiting including Mayor Fred Peralta. About 8
o'clock we got concerned and sent out scouts. The mayor had to leave but
returned later. They got to the park at somewhere close to 9 and the tree
planting was beautiful.

Dr.Yamato spoke, Mayor Peralta, Pba-Quen-Nee-e spoke briefly and said a
prayer in Tiwa and Annette McHorse said a prayer.

Also present was an Elder, Selo Blackcrow, the second principle chief
of the Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota and a spiritual leader.
He spoke also and was quite candid about the State of Turtle Island (the
U.S.).

The Peace Walkers dug three holes into which went water, poured by Dr.
Yamato, some sage and tobacco and many prayers. Three young evergreens were
lovingly planted by many hands, one Ponderosa Pine and the other two I'm not
sure but perhaps a Pinon and a Spruce or Fir tree.

Afterward we did a little drumming but Pba-quen-Nee-e and I had to leave
about 10:30 as many stayed for a few hours of knowledge sharing and music
making.

The group stayed on the mesa a couple of nights since and did a sweat in
Ranchos De Taos. Some members stayed at our cousin Annette's just down the
road from us here on the Rez, where they parked the bus. The guys planted
flowers, built a fence and cleaned up the area...looks great!  Some gathered
empty aluminum cans and made a little extra cash for gas. Today we took over
some socks, shirts, jeans, jackets, soap , toothpaste, etc and delivered the
messages you sent for Crispin who had gone somewhere to pick up his
instruments, Annette said. We saw them packing the Bus about 5 this evening.
Today was beautiful...about 80 degrees and a little windy but it was still
tonite with a fantastic sunset!!!

I understand they were leaving tonight or maybe in the morning. I think
Crispin said they're going back toward Albuquerque. I hope they got their
much needed rest.

Wish you could have been here...I'm sure we'll meet someday. There should be
an article in the Taos News tomorrow, maybe I can get a copy to you.

     Gotta run. More later.
           Ah-sa-mu-ya,
              Pha-Tuhl-Pupp-Yah


- --- Global Peace Walk co-coordinator Crispin Clarke reported by phone that
Mayor Peralta patiently took part for a long time in the event April 22nd --
the five year anniversary of his being the first city mayor to proclaim his
city as a Global Peace Zone in support of the walk and its mission to bring
out the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve for a
worldwide Global Peace Zone -- and this year, the sixth annual Global
Peace Walk in Taos, Mayor Peralta took part in the prayer circle-of-hands
ceremony and added his voice to the great common cry to the heavens for
"Global Peace Now!"   Crispin will spend two weeks at home in Washington DC
after May 6th to do advance work for the walk's arrival there for events
October 6-12 ---


One of the participants created a special website for the walk with photos
and special information which is reformatted and excerpted below:

http://globalcircle.net/peace1.htm

Global Peace Walk 2000 through New Mexico

Webmaster's Message:

"We were honored to take part in the ceremonies, and the photos we we took
on this page cannot convey the meaning of the Tewa and Sioux rituals and
Buddhist prayers for peace

"We also join with Global Peace Walk in supporting
the Dine' against forced relocation from Big Mountain"

http://globalcircle.net/native.htm#Resisting
[great link, info/resources on Big Mountain
and other global indigenous issues]


[photos; captions:]

Tree planting in Taos, sunrise ceremony Apr 22

We caught up with the Peace Walkers coming
into Taos early morning, Apr 22

Selo Blackcrow of the Pine Ridge Ogalala Sioux speaks
to the sunrise gathering in Taos

above: Marian and Selo Blackcrow
right: Taos Pueblo elder in ceremony
below:  Taos Mayor takes part

[other photos are shown, accompanying text:]


Remembering Thomas Banyaca -- NY Times reporter Robert Thomas, Jr.
wrote that Banyaca "spent half a century on a tireless and often thankless
Hopi spiritual mission to save the planet from the ravages of modern
materialism and greed."
http://www.sonic.net/~kerry/banyacya/thomas.htm [photos & message]


The annual activity of GPW is the walk from Taos to Santa Fe, New Mexico,
from April 22 (Earth Day*) to April 26, Global Peace Walk Day in Santa Fe.

- --- See An important message about the
real "*Earth Day" and Global Peace Walk 2000 ---
 http://globalcircle.net/peace6.htm


In the year 2000, the Global Peace Walk will be from San Francisco, January
15th (Martin Luther King's birthday) walking to Washington, DC, for a
ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument as a symbol of peace
(following the example of The Peace Pole as a symbol of The Message of
Peace) and the UN in NY arriving on United Nations Day, October 24 the 55th
anniversary of the ratification of the creation documents of the UN, signed
on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco, before the July 16, 1945 first atomic
bomb test. The theme will be "Global Nuclear Disarmament as the First Step
Towards Global Peace Now and General Disarmament to End All Wars".

The route of the Global Peace Walk 2000 will include Taos and Santa Fe, New
Mexico, April 22 & 26, and other cities including (CA) San Jose, Santa Cruz,
Bakersfield, Keene (Cesar Chavez Foundation at La Paz), Tehachapi; (NV) Las
Vegas and the Nuclear Test Site at Mercury; (AZ) Flagstaff, Hopi and Navajo
(Dineh) territory including Big Mountain; (NM) Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos;
(OK) Oklahoma City, Tulsa; (KS) Lawrence, Kansas City; (MO) Kansas City,
Columbia, St. Louis (this is the rendezvous city for all branch routes to
join together and walk together onward); (IN) Indianapolis; (OH) Dayton,
Springfield, Columbus; (PA) Pittsburgh, Harrisburg; (MD) Baltimore


From Global Peace Walk 2000 History
http://www.globalpeacenow.org/history.html

The Global Peace Walk was initiated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the United Nations and to remember and empower its original purpose to
remove the scourge of war from the future generations. The inspiration for
the initiation of the Global Peace Walk came through the person of a
contemporary colleague of Fujii Guruji, one of the last generations of
Buddhist Monks schooled in the traditional system and culture of Japan, Rev.
Yusen Yamato, a Zen Shiatzu Meditation Practitioner, who received the
personal blessing of His Holiness Dalai Lama for this project.


The Global Peace Walk, Pathway to Global Peace Zone 2000,

By Zen Shiatzu [Meditation Practitioner] Rev. Yusen Yamato

"We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life.
Living on the Globe with All my friends."

"In 1991, I visited the United Nations with the Hopi (people praying for
peace) prophecy spokesperson, Thomas Banyaca. The Hopi Nation ancestors left
a message that stated that the Hopi would visit the "house of mica" (the
prophesied glasslike building found to be the United Nations) four times, to
open the door of the UN to the Spiritual Message of Peace. Before 1991 Hopi
had tried already three times to open the door of the UN, but the UN did not
communicate with Hopi.

"Prior to this UN visit with Mr. Banyaca, I pilgrimaged to India. In India I
offered prayers in Leh, Ladakh, and Rajgir. I walked and prayed in Naranda,
Buddha-Gaya, Sarnat, Baishari, and Kushinagar. In Kushinagar, Namgyo
Monastery's monks offered me an invitation to His Holiness Dalai Lama's
Namgyo Monastery in Dharamsala. I honorably met H.H. Dalai Lama to inform
him of Hopi Prophecy. He offered me a message, "Future Generations must
develop a greater sense of global responsibility".  Also H.H. Dalai Lama
invited me and the Hopi Prophecy spokesperson, Thomas Banyaca, to the New
York City Central Park Sunrise Ceremony and Kalachakra Ceremony at Madison
Square Garden. This ceremonial event was to fulfill part of both the Hopi
Prophecy, and also the Tibetan Prophecy of "When iron birds fly in the sky
and iron horses run on the land, the Red robe people will spread to the four
directions and then the Dharma will come to the land of the Red people". I
was honored to witness and participate in this spiritual ceremony.

"After this ceremony Mr. Banyaca and I, and some representatives from Bahai,
went to the UN building. In front of the entrance of the UN, the first UN
secretary was waiting for us and officially accepted the Hopi Sovereign
Nation passport, for the first time in history. Mr. Banyaca performed sacred
ceremony, and he offered the Hopi message, eagle feather and prayer to the
UN.

"The following year 1992, the UN invited representatives from many
indigenous nations around the world to come for a conference which turned
into the "Beyond Treaty" ceremony during the big storm of New York City,
December 12-13, 1992. In 1993, at the World Indigenous Conference in the UN,
indigenous people accused the spirit of the UN for only supporting
governments. They suggested that the UN support more the survival of human
beings, The Way of Life, and The Tree of Life. I was there to witness this
whole ceremony as an inspiration for the Global Peace Walk of 1995."


The official site for the Global Peace Walk.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

Here is the detailed schedule from San Francisco to New York
(January 15 to October 24 2000)
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html

The walkers' needs and fundraising.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org/needs.html

[please support the walkers and send donations to:]

GLOBAL PEACE WALK
c/o Yucca Foundation [501(c)3]
P.O. Box 170245
San Francisco, CA 94117-0245

Phone: [phone]
Voicemail & Updates: 415-267-1877
e-Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
web: www.globalpeacenow.org


The mailing list for the Global Peace Walk at eGroups.com (email)
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk

This is from their introduction to the mailing list:

This email list is for those involved in the planning and participation in
the ongoing UN Global Peace Walk Project initiated by the 1995 United
Nations 50th Anniversary Global Peace Walk from New York to San Francisco
(Jan15--June20) to bring out the prayer of Global Peace Now as a universal
human resolve.

The most important activities for 1999 are the organizing of regular local
Global Peace Walks in communities everywhere possible and the raising of
awareness and financial support for the Global Peace Walk 2000.


Website design, content, and hosting
donated by GlobalCircle of Santa Fe
All pages ⌐ GlobalCircle 1999-2000
[e-mail]


[homepage:] http://www.globalcircle.net

A progressive portal from Santa Fe NM - networking and research
resources on local and global issues of sustainability and survival:

While some issues have other roots besides corporate globalization, the
corporate connection lurks behind almost every social and economic issue on
the planet today.

From ecology to schools to military interventions to native peoples,
corporate profit is increasingly seen as the driving force behind the loss
of community and self determination.

Yet there have always been alternatives.

This site offers thousands of resources to uphold the highest ideals of
democracy and liberty.

[titles of (-- links) on http://www.globalcircle.net]

The big picture:
      -- Global issues linked to corporate domination
      -- WTO-IMF activism &  background

Issues of sustainability and survival  environment:
       -- agriculture & industry
       -- worker injury and illness worldwide
       -- political process
       -- media
       -- education
       -- native peoples
       -- natural spirituality, ecopsychology, & human rights


 ----------end   globalcircle.net   website abstract------


Readers are invited to add their web links and to use the self-serve
searchable directory of progressive and related organizations,
approximately 7000 listed, Macrocosm USA http://www.macronet.org


Thanks very much for reading this email and noting links below.

David Crockett Williams, C.L.U.
Tehachapi, CA USA --- 661-822-3309
Global Peace Walk 2000 co-coordinator
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Chemical Physics of Consciousness Researcher

General Agency Services  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Updates/Voicemail  415-267-1877

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

USCampaign  [e-mail]
D C Williams for President, Leonard Peltier for VP->President
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy List
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

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

Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

Easy way to Email Media and Government
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd

"An Agenda for Peace", one Global Peace Walk support letter
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html








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Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 13:27:58 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/02

1) NucNews archives have been posted through April 25, 2000.
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.

2) At the meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons last
Friday, April 28, 2000, I promised I'd try to ascertain and distribute the
presidential candidates' speaking schedules.  Today I submitted requests to
both Gore and Bush campaigns for schedules of their upcoming speeches.
I'll send the lists out to you as soon as received.  I hope this will help
you bring the question of Nuclear Abolition to the Town Halls during this
year's campaign for President.  Until I hear from the campaigns, I must
rely on the day's news.  Today, VICE PRESIDENT GORE travels to Atlanta and
Atlantic City, N.J.

3)  At the International Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting last Sunday, April
30, 2000, the dangers of Ballistic Missile Defense and the plight of the
islanders of Vieques, were issues all agreed deserve our active attention.
  See http://prop1.org/calendar.htm for links to relevant websites.

4)  Intern(s) needed:  If you're a student who has or wants experience
editing web pages, we could sure use your help making NucNews more
user-friendly.  You don't have to live in Washington D.C. to help.

     ___________________________________________________

NucNews Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
Today's Newspapers: http://prop1.org/nucnews/links.htm
Submit Letter/Notice/Article: mailto:[e-mail] (NucNews-Editor)
About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm
E-Mail Archive: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews
Subscribe:  mailto:[e-mail] (NucNews-Subscribe)

Here are excellent e-mail news resources (free, by subscription, for
educational purposes, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107.):

DOE Watch - [e-mail] | http://members.aol.com/doewatch
Downwinders - [e-mail] | http://[e-mail]
EnviroNews - [e-mail]|http://www.envirolink.org/environews
Planet Ark - mailto:[e-mail]|http://www.planetark.org/news/
Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - mailto:[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:31:56 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) ASK YOUR GOVT TO SUPPORT NEW AGENDA COALITION NOW AT NPT REVIEW

PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT USE IT

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 All who recieve this email,

As you may be aware both from emails from me and from the media, the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is being discussed right now at
United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is a kind of 'bargain' or 'deal'
between the nuclear weapon states,  signed in 1968 and in force since 1970,
whereby the nuclear weapon states agreed to work to get rid of their
nuclear weapons 'at an early date' and everybody else agreed not to get any
of them.

Article VI of the NPT obliges the nuclear weapon states to negotiate to
eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

The 'New Agenda Coalition' is a group of countries (New Zealand, Ireland,
Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa), who have a commonsense
program aimed at pushing the nuclear weapons states to fulfil their legal
obligations under the NPT.

They ask the nuclear weapon states to:
- --Make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of
their nuclear arsenals and to engage in an acellerated process of
negotiation  taking steps to nuclear disarmament in the coming five years

- --They ask the US and Russia to implement START-II and immediately commence
negotiation in START-III

- --They want all five nuclear weapon states to be integrated into the
process of elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Interim steps include taking nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert, 'no
first use' guarantees,  reduction and elimination of tactical nuclear
weapons, and other commonsense measures.

All governments should support this program.

It is vital that governments over the next weeks (From April 24-May19th)
recieve as many faxes and letters as possible, asking them to support the
New Agenda Coalition's program during the NPT Review.

That could make the difference between whether our world moves toward more
and more nuclear weapons, or toward the elimination of these devices of
omnicide.

Felicity Hill of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has
published an appeal to the whole world to support the New Agenda
Coalition's efforts.  There's just a month to do this. (text at end, please
read it)

Do please write your foreign minister and if possible your UN mission at
the fax number below.

If your government is NOT part of the New Agenda Coalition, ask them to
join it, or to actively support its aims. If your government IS a member of
the New Agenda Coalition, let them know (no matter what other faults that
government may have), that you support them, at least in this.

Ask them to redouble their efforts at the NPT Review, and congratulate them
on what they have already done.  If your government is the Mexican, South
African, New Zealand, Irish, Swedish, Brazilian or Egyptian government,
please congratulate them and support them strongly for their efforts at the
NPT Review and in the UN, to eliminate nuclear weapons (no matter what
other faults they may have).

If your government is a nuclear weapons state (US, Russia, france, China,
UK, India, Pak, Israel), ask them to do what the New Agenda Coalition want
them to do.

Tell them the NPT requires them to get rid of nuclear weapons 'at an early
date' and not 'ultimately'.

It really will make a difference as to whether we move to eliminate nuclear
weapons, or down the slippery slope to a possible nuclear catastrophe.

Do it now.

The original appeal sent by Felicity Hill of the Womens international
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is after these fax numbers. I urge you
to read it and use its points.

BELOW IS HOW TO FAX, FAX NUMBERS.

NEXT THE ORIGINAL APPEAL.


FAX NUMBERS OF SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS

A URL where the fax numbers of every head of state and foreign minister in
the world is listed plus lots of information is this:
Http://www.abolition2000.org.

(Another URL that has the fax numbers of heads of state, foreign ministers
and UN missions and also has lots of information on the NPT Review is:
Http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org )

Some of the relevant fax numbers are listed below. If your country is not
on this list, you can find your foreign minister or head of state on one of
the two URLs above.
(The + in front stands for whatever your countrys ISD access code may be.
You only really need it if you are faxing some other country. I hope
however, that  people may like not only to fax their own foreign minister
but also those of Russia and the US.)

Some of these numbers may have changed. If any of them don't work, let me
know at <[e-mail]>  and check the number on the URL or with
your own telephone system.

If you are in the US, President Clintons fax number is 1-202-456-2461
The US United Nations mission is on  Fax. + 1 212 415 4443

If you are in Russia, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's fax number is
[phone] or [phone]. (You need to be persistent with these
numbers)
The general Kremlin fax number is [phone]. (This is the slowest fax
in the universe)
Russia's UN mission is on 1-212-628-0252

If you are in France, your foreign ministers fax number is [phone],
Jacques Chirac's fax number is [phone].
France's UN mission is at: Fax. + 1 212 421 6889

If you are in the UK, Tony Blairs fax number is [phone].
The Foreign Minister, Robin Cook's fax number is:  [phone]
The United Nations mission is on Fax. + 1 212 745 9316

If you are in Germany, the Chancellors fax number is: [phone],  or
[phone]
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischers number is any of these: 49-228-168-6662,
49-30-20186-252,
[phone], [phone]
The German UN mission is on: Fax [phone]

Here are the fax numbers of some foreign ministers and UN missions:
If you are in Canada, your foreign ministers fax number is: [phone].
Canada, UN Mission -Fax.+ 1 212 848 1195
If you are in Japan, you need to fax [phone] UN Mission -  Fax. +1
212 751 1966
If you are in Italy please fax [phone], or 39-6-3222-850 or 39-6-3222-734
Italy UN Mission - Fax. [phone]
If you are in Hungary, please fax your foreign minister on [phone]
If you are in Korea, try  your minister of foreign affairs on
[phone], [phone]
If you are in Brazil, your foreign ministers fax should be [phone]
Brazil UN Mission - Fax.+ 1 212 371 5716 or + 1 212 758 9242
If you are in Mexico, try [phone]
If you are in Greece try 30-1-645-0094 (or 0095)
If you are in Thailand, try [phone], or 66-2-226-1374

BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL BY FELICITY HILL, DIRECTOR OF THE WILPF - UN
OFFICE.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL NETWORKS

Dear Colleagues,

One month is a long time in politics.

The nuclear disarmament movement has been given one month to support the
activities of the New Agenda Coalition at the Non Proliferation Treaty
Review Conference April 24 - May 19, 2000.

As you know, the New Agenda Coalition is a post Cold War grouping of states
that have proposed a practical, reasonable, achievable programme for
nuclear disarmament since 1998.  Building on the language contained in
treaties, legal opinions and consensus language developed over the 55 year
dialogue on nuclear weapons through the UN system, the New Agenda Coalition
have presented a brief four page programme of action to the NPT Review
Conference called WORKING DOCUMENT ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.

Although this forward looking action plan does not go as far as many in the
NGO community may, when advocating abolition, the ideas contained in the
New Agenda Coalitions Working Document are something that we can all agree
are the obvious first steps to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
Think of it as a platform of consensus rather than a compromise.

Pressure placed on governments NOW to support this realistic and doable
programme, WILL MAKE AN IMPACT on this four-week meeting of 187
governments.  You are urged to make a concerted effort at this critical
time of international political tension wherein treaty regimes are
weakening and a new arms race is brewing.

o  Please send letters and visit your elected representatives
o  Please send letters and visit your departments of Foreign Affairs and
Defence
o  Please send letters to the editor
o  Please create press releases and direct actions around this opportunity

Following you will find:
* Some points to use in your letters, lobbying and press work

Lobbying Points

o  The Working Document on Nuclear Disarmament was presented on Monday 24
by Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green at the United Nations.  Mexico is
speaking on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition at the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference.

o  Taking place every five years, these Review Conferences bring together
187 governments to discuss the most widely supported disarmament treaty
ever, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which became international law
in 1970.

o  The five Nuclear Weapon States have signed the NPT and in doing so, they
committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapon under Article 6.  "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."

o  The New Agenda Coalition is made up of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico,
New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.  Their resolution at last years
General Assembly adopted on December 1, 1999 was co-sponsored by 60 states
and enjoyed the support of 111 countries.

o A precise understanding of the fact that nuclear disarmament is a
complicated process that will not happen overnight informs the forward
looking plan of action crated by New Agenda Coalition which is doable,
practical and reasonable and realistic.

o  If your government has any resistance to the following measures
identified by the NAC for the implementation of the NPT, ask them
specifically what points could possibly object to in the following:

1.   the five nuclear-weapon States make an unequivocal undertaking to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and engage in
an accelerated process of negotiation, taking steps leading to nuclear
disarmament in the coming five year period;

2.  the USA and the Russian Federation undertake to fully implement START
II and begin negotiations on START III;

3. all five nuclear weapon-states are integrated into the process leading
to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons.

Six interim steps were identified:

1.  an adaptation of policy and posture to preclude the use of nuclear
weapons;
2. de-alerting;
3. the reduction of tactical nuclear weapons towards their elimination;
4. a demonstration of greater transparency regarding arsenals and fissile
materials;
5. further development of the Trilateral Initiative; and
6. the application of the principle of irreversibility in all nuclear
disarmament, arms reduction and arms control measures.
*******       *******       *******       *******
Felicity Hill, Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Office
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA

Ph:  1 212 682 1265
Fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org

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






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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:12:56 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/03 - (1) Presidential Candidates (2) Congress

(1) Presidential Candidates' whereabouts: =20

Ralph Nader (http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html):=20

Wednesday, 5-3-00 - 5:45 pm Speech
Columbia, SC - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2701 Haywood St.

Friday, 5-5-00 -  6:00 pm Speech
Charleston, WV - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 520  Kanawha Blvd W,
Charleston  WV 25302

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Al Gore:

     9:15 a.m. =97 Addresses the AFL-CIO 25th Constitutional Convention,
Bally's  Park Place Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J.

     12:45 a.m. =97 Addresses a Democratic National Committee luncheon,
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City.

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George Bush and Pat Buchanan - unknown.


2) May 3, 2000 Washington Times Daybook
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200053214843.htm

      Energy policy discussion =97 noon =97 The Heritage Foundation holds a
discussion on "How America's Energy Policy Undermines Our National
Security." Participants include Denise Bode, Oklahoma Corporation
Commission, and Donald Hodel, former energy secretary. Location: Lehrman
Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, DC. Contact: 202-608-6143.
Broadcast live on web at www.heritage.org.

      Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers briefing =97 9 a.m. =97 The Coalit=
ion
to Reduce Nuclear Dangers holds a briefing on the upcoming U.S.-Russia
summit, the national missile-defense debate and the future of nuclear arms.
Location: Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th St. NW. Contact: 301/384-4338.

      Iraqi sanctions briefing =97 3 p.m. =97 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio
Democrat, holds a briefing on the current U.N. sanctions policy against
Iraq, its effect on the Iraqi civilian population, and its impact on the
Iraqi regime. Location: 2203 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-5871.

SENATE COMMITTEES=20

      9:30 a.m. =97 Appropriations defense subcommittee holds a hearing on
fiscal 2001 defense appropriations. Location: 192 Dirksen Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-3471.

      3 p.m. =97 Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal Authorization
Act. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.


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