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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:13:04 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Harris Poll on Nuclear Disarmament at Excite.com today!

Dear friends,

Here's an opportunity for some electronic organizing.  Today's Harris
Poll on the website of the search engine Excite asks the question:

Should the world's five key nuclear powers eliminate their nuclear
arsenals?

Currently, of over 26,000 "votes" cast, 45% said "yes", 50% said "no",
4% said "don't know".

Never mind why they excluded Israel, India, and Pakistan (actually, you
can post that question on the webpage after you vote). Go to
http://news.excite.com/news/poll/  and cast your "vote" for for nuclear
abolition.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!


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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 07:36:59 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook

May 4, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200054215436.htm

    Kissinger speech =97 7:30 p.m. =97 Henry Kissinger, former secretary of
state, addresses the prospects of peace in the Middle East during a lecture
at the University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development.
Location: Tawes Theatre, University of Maryland, College Park. Contact:
301/405-4625.

      Small-arms trafficking conference =97 9 a.m. =97 The Eminent Persons
Group holds a conference to discuss small-arms trafficking. A news
conference will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW,
at 2 p.m. Location: School of International Service Lounge, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/885-5950 or=
 703/855-5556.

      Handgun Control briefing =9710 a.m. =97 Handgun Control holds a news
briefing to focus on the gun-control records of prominent elected
officials. Location: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets
NW. Contact: 202/898-0792.

    U.N. report discussion =9712:30 p.m. =97 The National Press Club hosts a
panel discussion, "The U.N. Secretary-General's Millennium Report: A Vision
for the 21st Century." Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th
and F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7500.

      Iraqi sanctions news conference =97 2 p.m. =97 Reps. Joseph Crowley, N=
ew
York Democrat, and John E. Sweeney, New York Republican, hold a news
conference to announce a letter to President Clinton urging that the United
Nations maintain sanctions against Iraq. Location: Capitol, House Triangle.
Contact: 202/225-3965.

     Youth violence discussion =97 7 p.m.  =97 The Creative Coalition holds =
a
panel discussion, "Youth Violence in America: The Reel Story?" Location:
National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/778-1251.

(etc.)

Ralph Nader's schedule:  http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html

Gore and Bush schedules unknown.=20
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Downwinders - mailto:[e-mail] |=
 http://[e-mail]=20
EnviroNews -
mailto:[e-mail]|http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20
Planet Ark - mailto:[e-mail]|http://www.planetark.org/news/
Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! -
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:01:53 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) sample letters to the editor on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and missile defense

Dear Friends:

Following are two sample letters to the editor for use with your local
newspaper on U.S. nuclear policy, particularly regarding the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference currently meeting at
the U.N. and plans to deploy a national missile defense.  Project
Abolition Field Coordinator Karina Wood drafted the first, I drafted the
second (as you'll see, hers is much better).  Feel free to use or adapt
as you see fit, and let us know of any success you have in getting
letters published.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition
####

Letter #1

To the editor,

Question: What sounds like disarmament, but isn't? Try this: "We
reiterate our unequivocal commitment to the ultimate goal of a complete
elimination of nuclear weapons." A statement from the five major nuclear

powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) at the
2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), currently
taking place at the UN in New York.

You have to love that phrase "ultimate goal." That's diplomat-eeze for
"not for a very, very long time, and probably not in your lifetime if we

can help it." The nuclear weapons-owning countries remind me of a group
of old alcoholic drinking buddies, who, in the height of their
drunkenness regale us with promises of their "unequivocal commitment" to

the "ultimate goal" of sobriety. Who do they think they're kidding?

Their statement was immediately and quite rightly lambasted by many
non-nuclear nations and disarmament advocates at the conference as
inadequate, vague and contradictory. Inadequate, because the statement
simply reiterated the commitment of the nuclear powers to the 1970
treaty's original goals, to which they are already legally bound - that
the nuclear weapons owning countries will give up their nukes in return
for non-nuclear countries agreeing never to acquire them. Vague, because

the statement neglects to mention any new undertakings to actually
achieve disarmament. Contradictory, because while US diplomats mouth
reassuring platitudes at the UN, back in Washington, DC, their
Administration bosses are colluding with Congress on a missile defense
plan that will surely spark a new nuclear arms race. And there's also
the little problem of the Senate's rejection of the test ban treaty, and

the nearly $5 billion the US is spending every year on experimental new
nuclear
weapons research and development.

It's high time the United States and company quit their dangerous
addiction to nuclear weapons. I want to see their 12 step recovery
program for ridding the world of the nuclear threat. Here's some
concrete actions to back up their wiley words. Step one: reject the
misguided, unworkable waste of taxes known as "missile defense." Step
two: take missiles off hair-trigger alert. Step three: accept Russia's
lowest offer for mutual reductions in our two countries' nuclear
stockpiles. Step four: convene multilateral negotiations on a convention

to abolish all nuclear weapons.

Sincerely,


#####

Letter #2

To the editor:

According to documents made public last week by the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists,
the U.S. is working hard to gain Russian acquiescence to an American
limited
missile defense system to protect the U.S. against a small missile
attack by a "rogue state".  This is necessary to convince Russia to
amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which limits missile
defenses on the theory such systems would provoke an offensive nuclear
missile buildup by the other side. A Pentagon
document reassures Russia, "Both the United States and the Russian
Federation
now possess and, as before, will possess under the terms of any possible
future arms reduction
agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive
weapons=85"

How wonderful. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, which should
have removed any rationale for such a thing, the U.S. wants to extend
indefinitely the ability of our country and of Russia to destroy each
other.

The U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain, and France are bound by the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, currently being reviewed at a United
Nations conference in New York, to negotiate the elimination of nuclear
weapons.  Those states, which are also the permanent members of the U.N.
Security Council, released a joint statement the other day re-affirming
their commitment to disarmament that is directly contradicted by the
U.S.=92s =93Dr. Strangelove=94statement to Russia.

So which is it? Do we hold sacred the Cold War doctrine of =93mutual
assured destruction=94 =96 MAD =97 or are we serious about abolishing nuc=
lear
weapons?  Clearly, U.S. policy-makers are confused. They need to hear,
from we the people, loud and clear: stop the MADness, abandon plans for
a missile defense system that will provoke a new arms race, and get
serious about negotiating a treaty to rid the planet of the scourge of
nuclear weapons.
>
> Sincerely,



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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:49:33 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global Connections

(1) Vieques Arrests and Upcoming Actions
(2)  Italian DU in Iraq TV Series
(3)  Global Connections

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(1) Urgent-U.S. Arrests Vieques Demonstrators - Actions Listed Below

From: "Marco Saba" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 01:51:47 -0000

Today, Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 5:30 A.M. federal authorities began to arrest
the people conducting Civil Disobedience in Vieques. For more details, please
access news media.

This is the moment to put forward the planned activities. Today and tomorrow
protests will take place in U.S. and Puerto Rico, please access
(http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm) for scheduled protests.

For more information: wwww.ViequesLibre.org

The time to act is NOW QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO y VIEQUES LIBRE. NOT ONE MORE BOMB
!!!

Contact: Anthony Cruz   -  [e-mail]

Condemn the U.S. invasion of Vieques by attendingthese protests events that
will be held in the following areas. (See
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm for times and places.)

So far protests May 4th and 5th have been scheduled for:

Boston, Massachusetts
Burlington, Vermont
Cornell University
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Hartford, Connecticut
Miami, Florida
Minnesota, Minneapolis
Montpelier, Vermont
New Orleans, Louisiana
New York City
Orlando, Florida
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Francisco, California
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Seoul, South Korea
Springfield, Massachusetts
Toronto, Canada
Tucson, Arizona
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C. --

On May 5 there will be a mobilization in Lafayette Park, in front of the White
House at at noon. Please, contact the media and call your people.
DC Contact: David Santiago 202-223-3915 ext. 308

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(2) 15 TV-programs about DU in Iraq

From: "Marco Saba" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 01:51:47 -0000
To: [e-mail]

Today, Father Benjamin (onorary member of the italian NGO Ethical Environmental
Observatory) is in Bagdad were he will stay 15 days with a troupe of the
italian TV - Canale 5.

Each day, starting from 6 May, there will be a 5 to 8 minutes program
(broadcasted in real time) for a total of 15 evenings, during "Striscia la
Notizia",  a program with an audience of about 10 million people. In this
program, the effects of the UN embargo on Iraqi population are shown, with a
special attention on DU. During the same time, we will campaign here in Italy
to put an end to the embargo on Iraq.

Marco Saba
Osservatorio Etico Ambientale
via F.lli Cervi Res. Idra, 20090 Segrate (MI)
Tel. [phone] - GSM 0338 5838282

http://stop-u238.i.am

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(3) For those looking for activists in your region, check out Global
Connections:  An International Roster of Prominent Non-Government Organizations
Advocating Abolition, Containment, or Cleanup  of Nuclear Weapons.  Incomplete,
but a good idea, and your additions to the list invited.....

http://members.home.net/globalconxion/index.htm

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Downwinders - mailto:[e-mail] | http://[e-mail]
EnviroNews -
mailto:[e-mail]|http://www.envirolink.org/environews
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Radbull (Radiation Bulletin for Activists) - Great! -
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:05:30 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops! re NucNews 000504-2 - Vieques Actions; Italy DU Programs; Global Connections

Oops.  Sorry.

Marco Saba wrote about Italy, not Vieques.

Contact: Anthony Cruz -  [e-mail] - about Vieques.
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/emergency.htm

Ellen

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Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:47:27 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Supporting New Agenda Coalition In 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: Fri, 05 May 2000 06:13:09 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/04 - Daybook

Nuclear Accountability for the New Millennium
DC Days 2000=20
May 7-10, 2000 Washington, DC

Co-sponsored by Friends Committee on National Legislation & Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability=20

Contact:  mailto:[e-mail], 202/833-4668
http://www.ananuclear.org/dcdays.htm

What is DC Days?

 In each of the past eleven years, ANA has hosted four days of training,
education, and political advocacy that bring activists from around the
country to Washington, DC, to explain the concerns of their constituencies.
It is an opportunity to make your voice heard at the national level and to
network with people and organizations working on similar issues.

 Why should you participate?

 This year the administration is set to make major decisions concerning the
nuclear weapons complex. Our national priorities can be for health, safety,
and the environment, or they can be for more waste and new weapons. Your
participation in DC Days will make a difference in the outcome. Join us and
be part of the solution....

Several Alliance for Nuclear Accountability groups have used DC Days to
organize effectively in their communities and are available to talk to you
about their successes. Please call the ANA offices or call the experienced
grassroots activists directly if you need some assistance.

 ANA Seattle Office - 206-547-3175, [e-mail]

 ANA Washington, DC Office - 202-833-4668, [e-mail]

 Margaret Stewart, Snake River Alliance, ID - 208-726-7271 -
[e-mail]

 Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, CA - 925-443-7148 - [e-mail]

 Tom Marshall, Rocky Mountain Peace Center, CO - 303-444-6981 -
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May 5, 2000 Washington Times / Agence France Presse Daybook

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200055224049.htm

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Travels to Lansing, Mich., and Farmington, Pa. Today

[RALPH NADER  - 6:00 pm Speech
Charleston, WV - Unitarian  Universalist Fellowship, 520  Kanawha Blvd W,
Charleston  WV 25302
http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html]

In D.C.--

    Russia discussion =97 8:30 a.m. =97 The National Press Club holds a Morn=
ing
Newsmaker news conference featuring Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of
the Council of Europe (COE), discussing "Russia's Relations with the West
Under President Putin, the COE Role in Southeast Europe, Chechnya, and
U.S.-Council on Foreign Relations." Location: National Press Club, 14th and
F streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.
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      Highlight =97 12:30 p.m. =97 Walter Schwimmer, secretary-general of th=
e
Council of Europe, "The Ascent of the Far Right in Europe." Location:
Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K streets NW. Contact: 212/751-4000, Ext.=
 271.

    "Clean" cars briefing =97 noon =97 The Sierra Club hosts a luncheon
briefing to discuss the future of "clean" cars and hold a demonstration of
the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, the first commercially available
"clean" cars. The speakers are Jim Motavalli, author of "Forward Drive,"
and Shirley Smith, a Honda Insight owner. Location: 408 C St. NE. Contact:
202/675-2383.

      China and Taiwan discussion =97 2:30 p.m. =97 The American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research sponsors a panel discussion, "China
and Taiwan: The Linkage Between Trade and Security." Location: Wohlstetter
Conference Center, 1150 17th St. NW. Contact: 202/862-5800.
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   China trade conference =979:15 a.m. =97 The Brookings Institution, the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage
Foundation, the Institute for International Economics, the Nixon Center for
Peace and Freedom, and the Rand Corporation co-sponsor a conference,
"China's Bid for Permanent Normal Trade Relations: A Hearing on the Debate."
      Highlights =97 9:30 a.m. =97 Panel One: "The Deal, Its Economic
Implications and Prospects for Chinese Compliance."
      10:30 a.m. =97 Panel Two: "Labor, Environmental and Human Rights=
 Concerns."
      11:50 a.m. =97 Panel Three: "The Geopolitical Stakes."
Location: 902 Senate Hart Office Building. Contact: 212/434-9544.

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Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 15:19:18 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical  Nuclear Weapons test "Oboe 3"

Activist sentenced to Ten days for trying to Stop Subcritical Nuclear

Weapons test "Oboe 3"


On Thursday, May 4, in an attempt to deter future nonviolent actions at
the

Nevada Test Site (NTS),  Nye County's Justice of the Peace Bill
Sullivan

found Susi Snyder guilty of Trespass, Resisting Arrest and Public
Nuisance.

This was for her nonviolent actions during a February 3rd early morning

blockade of the main road leading into NTS in an attempt to stop

subcritical nuclear weapons test "Oboe 3". Susi was one nine activists
that

linked arms and walked across the main entrance into NTS blocking
worker

traffic from entering the site, several hours before the planned
detonation

of Oboe 3. All of the activists carried permits issued by the Western

Shoshone National Council allowing them to be on Western Shoshone land.


NTS is located in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation known as
"Newe

Sogobia". For many decades the Western Shoshone Nation (the most bombed

nation on Earth with over 1000 nuclear devices exploded within their

traditional territory) have been stridently working to shut down NTS
and

begin immediate clean up and environmental remediation.


The nonviolent activists walked about 15 feet into the site until stopped
by a line of Nye

County Sheriffs and Wackenhut private security guards and then sat down
on

the roadway. At this time the sheriffs and Wackenhut began using

intimidation tactics and pain compliance holds while dragging the

demonstrators off the road into the holding pens built for just this

purpose. 3 of the activists agreed to walk with the guards. Soon Susi
and

Graham Sullivan (no relation to Justice Sullivan) were the only ones
left

on the road. Then the Sheriffs escalated their abuse of this nonviolent

duo. Grahams thumb was sprained while being twisted around and Susi was
hit

in the face and pushed roughly to the ground. After Graham had been
removed

from the roadway, the Sheriffs decided to separate Susi and send her to
the

county jail in Beatty. Susi and others believe that this was to single
her

out because of her vocal and effective efforts to raise public awareness
in

Las Vegas about what was going on at NTS and organize public opposition
to

the subcritical nuclear testing program as well as ongoing nuclear
waste

dumping and plans for the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste dump.


After a four hour trial presided over by Justice Sullivan during which
both

Sheriff and Wackenhut witnesses perjured themselves, and the five
defense

witnesses testified that they all did the same action and were not

prosecuted while  Susi who was totally nonviolent was singled out, she
was

found guilty and fined a total of $450 and thirty days in jail- 16

suspended for one year, and she was given credit for four days
time-served

for a total of ten days.  She has until May 15th to notify the court of
her

intent to appeal, or the sentence will be imposed on May 16 at that
time.

Susi plans on appealing the verdict and sentencing noting that the
judge

was very biased and nonobjective.


     "If the justice court thinks this is a deterrent," Susi said "they
are

sorely mistaken- now is the time for thousands to converge on the test

site, and SHUT IT DOWN."   These subcritical nuclear weapons test, one
of

which Susi was attempting to stop are detonated dangerously close to

Nevada's groundwater.  The plutonium in these tests- which is exploded
into

dust, travels quickly through to the water table- and is deadly to all

living things.  These tests violate the non proliferation treaty,
recently

under review at the United Nations.  They demonstrate the United States

military desire (driven by the greed for tax dollars of Lockheed
Martin,

Bechtel and others) to continue in the arms race.  These subcritical

nuclear weapons tests have been denounced by nations throughout the
world.


"With the lack of ratification of the CTB and expanded weapons research
at

the NTS this action by the Nye county officials is yet another
escalation

in their efforts to squash the opposition to the destruction occurring
at

all nuclear facilities.  I hope that folks will recognize that what the
DOE

is Doing at the Test Site is similar to taking the Test underground in

1963.  All of us that can should come down and support the effort to
close

the NTS as it is an icon of US Global dominance in a starving  world."
said

Mateo Ferreira, a "loser carpenter from Michigan".




(Next weekend, May 12 - 15th, a Mothers Day 2000 gathering will be held
at

the gates to the Nevada Test Site. People from around the world will
gather

to learn about nuclear abolition efforts and support the Western
Shoshone

Nation as they call for a closure to the test site. A Prayer walk
around

NTS has been organized by the Western Shoshone National Council and
will

end at the Mercury entrance on May 12.) more info
http://www.shundahai.org/momspring00.html

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SHUNDAHAI NETWORK

"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"

5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108 -1304

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Email: [e-mail]

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