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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:49:16 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) American Platform2000 suggestions

Dear Joy,

Thanks for the positive feedback on the idea of public collaboration on an
"ideal" American Platform 2000 that everyone can contribute to and help
publicize to seek media coverage of important issues and compel their
acceptance by the mainstream politicial candidates for all offices this
election year.

To start this process I have created an American Platform Committee egroups
list at http://www.egroups.com/amplcom to which I am copying this post and
where a few previous ones on this topic are archived for public view at that
site.

My suggestion would be to encourage anyone interested to submit their ideas
to that list and then for some who step forward for this purpose to
gradually refine the ideas in the coming weeks into "American Platform 2000
drafts" which can also be posted at that site by those who will take the
responsiblity as "editors".

I think a good general timeframe would be to see what kind of final drafts
can be created by the end of June so that these can be publicized widely in
the last month or so before the Republican and Democratic National
Conventions.

Obviously it will be extremely difficult for "everyone" who might join in
this project/list to "unanimously agree" on all points that everyone else
might submit for such American Platform 2000.  There may, however, be
numerous points on which everyone would agree.  There may then develop a
"basic" platform and several different "supplementals" to include the
various points and when promoting the idea each issue group activist could
promote the basic and whatever supplemental format they prefer?

The basic idea is to popularize the idea that the "people" themselves in
this election cycle are composing/submitting the issues they think most
important for the candidates to address and those who take up the most
important ones are the only ones who will get elected this year.

For the time being I think the best plan is just to invite anyone interested
to submit their ideas to this egroup list by either forwarding them to a
list member to post to the list as they see fit, or by joining the list and
posting it themselves.  Egroups has many choices of how list members can
receive posts to lists or just view on the web.  I have set up the list so
that members only can post to it but anyone can view messages and files
attached to them.  Currently it is set up so anyone can join the list
without moderator approval, but if it gets out of hand the moderator(s) can
unsub any member.  It is currently set up so that "reply" function sends
replies to the member who posted the idea being replied to, so if the reply
is intended to go to the list members, it (as any posts to list) should be
addressed by list members to [e-mail]  Any non-list-member posts
to list will just bounce but anyone, list member or not, may view the posts
to the list at list website.  This is how the list is set up as of now and
can be changed as needs be in coming weeks.

To subscribe to the American Platform 2000 egroup list one can send a blank
email to [e-mail] or subscribe at the list website
where posts may also be viewed by anyone
http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom

I will be abstracting ideas that I favor from posts to that list for
incusion also in the Williams-Peltier Independent US Presidential/VP
Candidacy Platform which will be posted with other info relevant to this
candidacy at its egroup list http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier
but I would prefer others take the initiative on editing American Platform
2000 drafts which I will most likely of course also endorse.  I would also
prefer someone(s) else to take over moderating this American Platform
Committee list as soon as the right folks step forward to do so (also a
"co-chair" team to guide this informal "e-committee" so I can bow out of
that interim function.

So first task would be to publicize the opportunity to submit ideas for
American Platform 2000 to its egroup list, then to identify folks who want
to put some time into the idea by studying the submissions and perhaps
weekly offering compilation drafts to the list for review.  An American
Platform 2000 Committee should be formed in the next couple of weeks who can
use polling functions, chat, etc. of the egroups list to make decisions on
finalizing draft ideas and wordings, etc.

If this idea catches on I suspect it will be an ongoing process into the
Fall and perhaps even after November 2000 elections.  If the list gets
enough support and publicity, the polls of its members could carry some
weight with the media, especially if each of the members indicates they
represent numbers of people in their respective issue groups.

For this reason I strongly suggest that each list member complete the
"member profile" information at egroups site so that other list members can
click to their profiles and see who it is that is posting and about their
interests, groups represented, etc.

Let's see where this idea goes after this posting to you and a few of my
lists.

David Crockett Williams
Interim Chairman, American Platform 2000 Committee
http://www.egroups.com/group/amplcom


From: "jcrocker" <[e-mail]>
To: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: CIA drugs articles etc
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:02 AM

Dear David,
     YOUR PLATFORM 2000  idea is sheer genius.
     I'm disseminating the "idea" to the various E-groups that send me
stuff,
but I'm wondering what progress you've made to put  a draft document out
there.

     There are of course several suggestions for "What-the-World-Needs" in
existence. I know we signed one in Holland, and one at a Post-Hague Appeal
meeting.  I don't have them at my finger tips. )

     I'm appending :
1. Your list from our letter--reformatted a bit.
2.  The "Irreducible Minimum" decisions that I submitted to the Hague Appeal
for Peace Agenda committee (without immediate results).
3. An abbreviated letter from Doug Hunt (a leader in the A-16 Washington
World
Bank protests.) At the end is a list of the Big Sponsors of A-16.

Blessings,
Joy

======================================================================
                              1.

 ABSOLUTE NATURE OF TRUTH.  Recognition that truth is not
 just what people are made to believe but what is factually correct.

ABOLISH  NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND REDIRECT THEIR BUDGET TO PEACEFUL  PURPOSES.
(HR  2545  http://www.prop1.org).

STOP CIA DRUG SMUGGLING.    http://www.copvcia.com and end the drug war.

 RELEGALIZE HEMP/CANNABIS For all purposes and end the fraud by which it was
outlawed as marijuana in
 937, so that this most  useful and bioefficient plant  can be widely
globally
cultivated on a global  emergency scale level to save the  trees and heal
the
atmosphere to  ameliorate global climate change
http://www.jackherer.com        http://www.chrisconrad.com .

NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.  Adequate funding for a "crash program" to
    quickly finish the research and development on the new energy
technologies
    ($108 million/year says O'Leary http://www.maui.net/~oleary -- phone
number

    on that site).

AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL  PRISONERS like Leonard Peltier who embrace and
champion
the teaching of     nonviolence;  etc. etc.

RELEASE OF NONVIOLENT DRUG PRISONERS -- funding prevention training and
rehab
centers to help those with crippling addictions and problems.
                        =============
Joy:
With a preamble to the effect that we are entering a new millennium where
decisions will be derived from principles of

    **ALL LIFE IS SACRED.
    **BOTH/AND (not either/or)   and WIN/WIN (not I win, you lose)

============================================================================
                                2.
   Suggestions (to the Hague Appeal for Peace) for "Irreducible Minim"
Decisions

UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO SUBSISTENCE: Investment of the 80 Billion dollars that
the
UN Development Program says would bring  universal access to basic
education,
clean-water-and- sanitation, basic health-and nutrition. (re-investing a
droplet of the military arms-budget.)

GLOBAL DISARMAMENT.

DEMOCRACY: People's Assembly in the U.N.
( Revocation of veto powers in the United Nations.?
( Proportional representation of political parties in the
  congress?)

TREATIES:PARLIAMENTARY RATIFICATION by each country Of the international
treaties we have have signed. (Especially disarmament and banning nukes.)

PEOPLE CLAIMING OUR  RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE AIR WAVES.
  so that campaign-financing by Big Bucks could be  eliminated;
  so that violence and consumer-driven TV programming could
 be  changed;  so that "alternative" media could have access to mass
 media and thus a tool to raise consciousness and   political will.

PEOPLE/GOVERNMENT RE-TAKING THE HISTORIC RIGHT TO CHARTER CORPORATIONS--and
revoke charters when the 'common welfare' is not served.

ZERO INTENTIONAL DEATHS:A year's experiment with a moratorium on  war and
capital punishment.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE--moving to change the 'penal code' to re-integrative,
restorative, healing paradigms. Reduce drastically the number of citizens in
prisons.

LIFT THE EXISTING SANCTIONS AND EMBARGOES (unless asked for by the people
themselves). Against Iraq, Cuba,Libya and some 30 other nations. (A one
year's
experiment?)

============================================================================

                            3. G-77


From:
                                    Doug <[e-mail]>


Our children will gaze back aghast upon us and our time as a
period of waste, war, abandon, and oppression on a scale so vast
it screwed up the planet and humanity for a millennium.

TRADE-SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki Attempts To Secure A United Bloc

By William Dhlamini

JOHANNESBURG May 12 (IPS) - South African President Thabo Mbeki is
attempting to secure a united bloc of developing nations as a counterweight
to the G7 of most industrialised countries to push for the interests of
developing countries, ahead of the next round of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) trade negotiations.

This bloc, it is hoped, will constitute the major emerging economies:
China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.
SA's Erwin is a playing a key role in trying to get the next round of
global trade talks on track which stalled after they came to an abrupt end
at Seattle.

The argument in SA is that developing nations should now use their muscle
within the world trading system to kick-start global trade talks.

SA secured a coup when developing nations Group 77 body adopted a
resolution at the presidential summit in Havana, Cuba, last month calling
for the group to speak, for the first time, in one voice at the WTO.

To give form to the resolution, the heads of State and senior ministers
from the G77 countries agreed to create a new political directorate in the
bloc to give practical effect to its decisions.

The directorate, whose powers are still being defined, includes Mbeki,
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malaysian President Mahathir
Mohamad.


"The Party's Over" for Corporate Lackeys in Both "Parties"
     Republicans: Philadelphia, PA -
        July 30th - MArch and Rally - http://www.unity2000.com
        July 31st / August- http://www.thepartysover.org
     Democrats: Los Angeles - August 14-17th - http://www.d2kla.org
  __________________________________________________

  On the Web:
    Mobilization for Global Justice, site for protesters: http://www.a16.org
    Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF
http://Religiouswg.org
    50 Years is Enough! http://www.50years.org
    Justice Calendar http://www.justicecalendar.org
    WhirledBank http://www.whirledbank.org
    Jubilee 2000/USA http://www.j2000usa.org


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From: "jcrocker" <[e-mail]>
To: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: More platform 2000 material
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:02 AM

Our Terrorist platform: We demand transparent, accountable and wholly
democratic government and financial institutions that put the needs of the
planet and all of its' people before the short-term interests of
multi-national
corporations. Things to expect after the revolution: Fair allocation of
resources for social security, health-care, education and environmental
stewardship along with accountability from those who claim to know what we
want
and need. Sound radical? It is. It's called Democracy.

DEAR DAVID,
This is the final paragraph from a letter from Han Shan of the Ruckus
Society.
I told him of you and Platform 2000, and enclosed below is our  exchange of
letters--for your skim-reading.
Peace, Joy







Dear Han Shan and fellow Terrorists,
Great opt-ed.
Is there anything we can do to help it get published--like if a number of us
wrote the Sun, perhaps?

You forgot a couple of neat quotes, though  they  are implied:
    "One man's terrorist is another man's hero" (to wit: Patrick Henry & the
Boston Tea party people)

    "Today's hero may be another day's terrorist."   (to wit: Ben Laden "our
man" in helping us fight the Russians in Afghanistan; Noriega "our man" in
helping with the drug supply and with bases against the Sandinistas....)

AS WE BUILD THESE GREAT COALITIONS, DAVID CROCKETT WILLIAMS (presidential
candidate with Leanard Pelletier as his VP) IS SUGGESTING THAT WE ALL GET
TOGETHER ON A LANDMARK "PLATFORM 2000" --FIRST AGREEING ON IT (with our
great
concensus techniques) -- then GETTING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
- --WHICH WILL OF COURSE REALIZE THAT GUSH AND BORE'S PLATFORM LEAVES
SOMETHING
OUT.


Looks like youv'e got the essence of a PLATFORM 2000 draft in your final
paragraph!

Blessings,
Joy Crocker

===============================================

> Greetings Terrorist friends,
> In response to the afore-posted editorial from the Calgary Sun, I wrote:
> (hope it gets printed)
>
> Calgary Sun
> To the Editor:
>
> In the United States, Europe and Canada, journalists have ruminated since
> last fall about this 'new face of protest' which walked onto the world's
> stage in Seattle. Never mind that for decades throughout the 'developing
> world,' there have been demonstrations numbering in the hundreds of
thousands
> against the economic colonialism represented by the WTO, World Bank and
IMF.
> "But where did this new protest movement come from?", the media has
wondered
> aloud. Never mind that the Group of 77 Nations, the countries exclusively
> impacted by IMF and World Bank policies (and comprising 80% of the human
> population), released a statement strongly supporting the DC protesters.
>
> But Paul Jackson finally nailed it when he wrote that we are in fact
> [drumroll please...] international terrorists (parading very cleverly as
> steelworkers, religious people, teachers, human rights advocates,
> tree-huggers and Tibetans-in-exile). Since we started working to
democratize
> the world economy, seeking equality and environmental sustainability in
the
> global economic system, the support has been pouring in from the Middle
East!
> Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are our biggest fans! And I for one
never
> realized they had such good senses of irony.
>
> Oh, and Calgary. Yes, we in the "International Terrorist" community are
now
> turning our attention to the World Petroleum Congress, coming in June. The
> practices of the oil industry are responsible for widespread environmental
> devastation, human rights abuses, and global warming and, well... that
just
> really burns us. So with drug money-financing and training by
eco-terrorists
> such as Co-motion and the Ruckus Society, we'll once again descend on
> Calgary. We'll pave the way for Islamic world domination by attacking an
> event characterized by some DC insiders as the "turban and ten-gallon hat"
> meeting. Yes, we will come to Alberta to represent our facsist
puppetmasters
> in Beijing and the Middle East. We zealots will make unreasonable demands
> that oil exploration cease and that the billions of dollars saved be
invested
> in research and development of sustainable energy resources. Note new
> terrorist lingo: sus-tain-a-bil-ity.
>
> Yes, we are only getting started. Our Terrorist platform: We demand
> transparent, accountable and wholly democratic government and financial
> institutions that put the needs of the planet and all of its' people
before
> the short-term interests of multi-national corporations. Things to expect
> after the revolution: Fair allocation of resources for social security,
> health-care, education and environmental stewardship along with
> accountability from those who claim to know what we want and need. Sound
> radical? It is. It's called Democracy.
>
> Han Shan
> Berkeley (aha!) California, USA
>
> Han-shan
> Rocket Scientist
> The Ruckus Society
> phone: [phone]
> cell: 510-772-3166
> fax: [phone]
> e: [e-mail]
> http://www.ruckus.org
>
> "Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly
> exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses"
> -Gary Snyder


- ---------------end forwarded posts------

David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html

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
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




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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:47:41 -0400
From: Hisham Zerriffi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) India & nuclear disarmament

>Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)
>
>India & nuclear disarmament
>
>By Arjun Makhijani
>
>THERE HAS been notable silence on the issue of nuclear apartheid
>from the Indian nuclear establishment after the May 11, 1998,
>nuclear tests. Not that nuclear apartheid has disappeared, of
>course. Of 187 parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
>(NPT), 182 do not have nuclear weapons; five do. Having broken
>down the door to the nuclear club, India has been seeking
>legitimacy from its charter members, most notably the United
>States. India knows that this cannot be achieved by accession to
>the NPT as a nuclear weapons state, because most countries would
>not stand for it. Rather, India's hope seems to be that it will
>be recognised as a weapon state in other ways, such as being a
>party to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that will
>engage in new weapons design through American-style stockpile
>stewardship, and by acquiring nuclear technology from members of
>the Nuclear Suppliers Group, who have heretofore restricted
>exports to India.
>
>Before going farther down this road, India should ask itself, as
>it did before the Pokhran tests, why the U.S. Government should
>be accorded special status as the provider of legitimacy. After
>all, the U.S. is in the process of violating its commitments to
>the 182 non-nuclear weapon states. It has not accepted the
>legitimacy of the World Court's opinion, which held that nuclear
>weapons are illegal and that Article VI of the NPT requires all
>nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty to actually achieve
>nuclear disarmament in all its aspects. The U.S. Senate rejected
>the CTBT breaking another commitment to the NPT parties in the
>name of maintaining U.S. superiority. Even the defence of the
>CTBT by the Clinton administration was made on the basis that it
>would lock in U.S. advantages (which the $ 60 billion, 13-year
>U.S. stockpile stewardship programme would do). It seems
>prepared, if necessary, to abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile
>Treaty to achieve what it believes would be unilateral security
>advantages. It led the 1998 and 1999 bombings of Iraq and
>Yugoslavia (respectively) without obtaining the necessary
>authorisation from the United Nations Security Council. This
>dismal catalog of illegitimacy can, unfortunately, be quite
>easily extended.
>
>The positions of the vast majority of countries being expressed
>at the NPT Review Conference going on now in New York, are not in
>accord with U.S. policy. Indeed, on ballistic missile defences,
>the U.S. is practically isolated. Even its NATO partners have
>grave reservations about the direction of the U.S. on this issue.
>Moreover, U.S. claims that it is attending to its NPT disarmament
>obligations by reducing weapons systems ring hollow in the halls
>of the U.N. Most are aware that the U.S. is designing new weapons
>and that its real policy is to maintain nuclear weapons as a
>principal feature of its military arrangements for the future.
>India would be far better off seeking legitimacy in a different
>direction. The ratification by the Russian Duma of the CTBT even
>in the face of its rejection by the U.S. Senate was a bold and
>refreshing departure from the politics of reaction to the U.S.
>Coming on the heels of Russian ratification of the START II
>nuclear arms reduction treaty, and just before the NPT Review
>Conference, Russia put the U.S. on the defensive, newly unsure
>how to pursue its agenda. In contrast, Russia has been applauded
>at that conference for its ratification actions. The strength of
>the Russian position derives from the fact that it acted in a way
>that was at once in its own interest, for instance, it can hardly
>afford to spend vast sums on testing readiness, and
>simultaneously in the interests of disarmament. Russia's asking
>the U.S. to stick to the ABM Treaty gained additional credibility
>because it proposed a way to address missile proliferation
>threats by intensifying missile non- proliferation policies,
>rather than by unilateral installation of national missile
>defenses that could also serve as part of a first-strike nuclear
>arsenal.
>
>Russia has taken some bold actions, but they are in the context
>of promulgating a doctrine that increases the role of nuclear
>weapons. It is still partly locked in a dangerous battle of
>nuclear wills with the U.S. India can further its own security
>and that of the whole world by being even more bold on the CTBT,
>but without condoning Russia's nuclear doctrine.
>
>The CTBT could be a sound instrument for disarmament, since it
>bans all nuclear explosions. Its disarmament goal is being
>vitiated not by its provisions, but by non-treaty factors. One of
>the principal problems is the flagship enterprise of the U.S.
>stockpile stewardship programme a huge laser-driven device,
>called the National Ignition Facility (NIF), designed to create
>laboratory thermonuclear explosions. These explosions, which are
>intended to reach ten or more pounds of TNT equivalent, would be
>illegal under the CTBT, according to the analysis done by my
>institute. Planning for them is also prohibited under Article I
>of the CTBT. Interestingly, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
>has so far failed to respond to a letter from the U.S. Senator
>from iowa, Mr. Harkin, for the basis on which laboratory
>thermonuclear explosions are considered legal, even though the
>DOE states that smaller fission explosions (four pounds TNT
>equivalent) are banned.
>
>France is similarly violating the CTBT, since it is building a
>device of the same type and size as NIF near Bordeaux. Britain is
>cooperating with the U.S. in the NIF program and such
>collaboration is also prohibited by Article I. The French and
>British actions are all the more egregious, since both countries
>have ratified the CTBT.
>
>Further, the U.S. is developing new low-yield nuclear weapons,
>and may develop pure fusion weapons, the latter by using NIF as a
>scientific proving ground (though not for detailed weapon
>design). Pure fusion weapons would have essentially no
>radioactive fallout. It may be undertaking these activities with
>one eye on the World Court opinion, which found that nuclear
>weapons are illegal, in part because they cause indiscriminate
>damage. This path of seeking to legitimise nuclear weapons
>increases the chances of nuclear war.
>
>In 1996, the Government of India frequently voiced the objection,
>quite legitimately, that the nuclear weapons powers, notably the
>U.S., were converting the CTBT into an instrument of non-
>proliferation to the exclusion of the long-cherished goal of
>disarmament. India now has the chance to help make the CTBT into
>a disarmament treaty, especially since Russian ratification has
>left the U.S. more vulnerable to international pressure.
>
>India should sign the CTBT, with the announcement that it
>intends, as a signatory, to ensure that it will be an instrument
>of disarmament and that its letter and spirit will be completely
>respected. India should announce that it will seek an end to
>design of new weapons by all nuclear weapon states, as well as
>clarification of Article I to ensure that laboratory
>thermonuclear explosions are explicitly banned. India could
>invite Pakistan to sign the CTBT and to join it in this effort.
>It could also enlist the support the vast majority of other
>signatories, possibly including Russia and China, to make the
>CTBT a true disarmament treaty.
>
>India should note that most Governments as well as non-
>governmental organisations at the NPT Review Conference have
>given pride of place to Russian treaty ratifications as well as
>to the disarmament proposals of the New Agenda Coalition (Egypt,
>Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil).
>Rather than seeking legitimacy in the nuclear arena from the one
>nuclear weapon state that is increasingly isolated and seen as an
>obstacle to nuclear disarmament, India should act independently
>in accord with its best traditions. It should sign the CTBT and
>work hard to convert it into an instrument of disarmament. That
>would be a historically fitting task for the Government of a
>country whose Prime Minister was the first world leader to call
>for such a treaty.
>
>Copyrights: 2000 The Hindu & Tribeca Internet Initiatives Inc.


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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:52:48 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Multi-Million Victims March & GPW2000

Dear Paula and Bill, et al,

I think your excellent suggestions warrant very serious and quick
consideration in light of the situation with the Los Alamos fire and
radioactive ash danger that will still have media and public attention in
the coming weeks with which your concept can be promoted.

I especially support Bill's idea to broaden the
issues/coalition for such an effort as he described below, and I would
suggest additional catagories of "victims" could include victims of wars and
police/prison violence/abuses, the millions of global indigenous people
victimized by various oppressions especially as related to the nuclear and
energy issues such as Big Mountain, the Shoshone people's land destruction
by nuclear testing and waste dumping in Nevada, Leonard Peltier's fraudulent
conviction over the uranium mining in the Black Hills pressures in the
1970's http://www.freepeltier.org, victims of unfair economic and world
trade policies and homelessness-poverty-hunger, victims of alcohol abuse
(drunk driving etc), prescription drug deaths, medical inequities, victims
of
the drug war and Inquisition-style forteiture laws and police abuse such as
nonviolent offenders especially medical marijuana users and victims of the
crack cocaine epidemic such as those plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the
DoJ and CIA filed on behalf of South Central Los Angeles and Oakland
California residents (with unanimous resolution of support from Oakland City
Council under mayor Jerry Brown) based on DoJ IG report vol2 acknowledging
CIA complicity in the illegal drug trade years ago (http://www.copvcia.com),
and also the victims of gun violence such as the recent Million Mom March in
DC (interesting that 12 of the 14 recent shootings by youth in schools etc
were cases where the perpetrators were prescribed users of the "youth
control drugs" [for "ADD"] such as Ritalin and Prozac which have indicated
behavioral abbherations side effects listed), victims of increasing levels
of storm damages due to global climate change, etc etc., ie, an "All Victims
March on DC" kind of thing in support of global peace, a "March of Millions
in Many Communities Globally Simultanteously on Behalf of All Victims of
Stupid Government Policies" kind of thing?

My response/offer is to incorporate this idea for such a "victims march"
into the overall timeframe and plan of Global Peace Walk 2000 which will be
arriving from San Francisco to Washington DC for main activities over
Columbus Day holiday weekend with Saturday October 7 rally in Lafayette Park
across from the White House for special focus on that day
(http://www.prop1.org) with other events globally for abolition of weapons
in space, ABM, etc., as well of course as Abolition2000 which this cross-
country walk was inititiated in support of, to further global abolition of
nuclear weapons and to unite "all survival issue messages" under the banner
of its prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org

On Sunday, Oct8 will be a Global Peace Ceremony at the Jefferson Stone, the
original centerpoint site of the White House -- Capitol -- Memorials  and
where the Washington Monument was to be placed before it was discovered the
ground would not support its weight.  Many prayer ceremonies by indigenous
spiritual leaders etc have been conducted in recent years at this site being
re-energized as a Symbol of Peace Monument by Arthur Lisch who is
coordinating GPW2000 event there that day.

On the Mondy October 9th Columbus Day Holiday (Indigenous Peoples Day) the
main GPW2000 event will be a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument
as a Symbol of The Message of Peace, which we optimistically hope can reach
the "million people" target for participants including political candidates
for offices/election this year.  This date has a unique coincidental
symbolism this year because it is also, according to the Smithsonian
Institute, the observed 1000 year anniversary of the Vikings landing in
America (see increasing stories in coming months on this theme, eg,
May8th issue of Time Magazine cover story) and it is also John Lennon's
60th birthday (we are working on connection to invite Yoko's
participation/support), ie, a "Millennial Give Peace a Chance Ceremony".

During the following days in DC (after most folks who can only come for the
weekend leave) the walk and representatives of various issues will be
delivering the letters and messages gathered along the way to various
government agencies before the walk departs DC towards the UN after the
traditional October 12th indigenous peoples "Columbus Day" ceremony in DC
area.

Since the "momentum" of the Global Peace Walk 2000 has already been building
since the walk left SF on MLK birthday Jan15, I would invite and suggest
that the concept of a "(Million) Victims March on DC" would be an excellent
idea to
join with the GPW2000 DC events and thereby the victims message would also
be carried on with additional strength as the walk completes its journey to
end at the United Nations on its 55th charter ratification anniversary
("birthday") October 24th, to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of
Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century, and to mark the mid-point
of the UN Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:42 AM
Subject: [abolition-caucus] Multi-Million Victims March?


> On 05/13/00 12:46:56 you wrote:
> >
>
>
>    Dear Paula & Susan,
>                         Apologies for any multiple postings. I like your
idea of a  Multi-Million Victims March in Washington. My take on it
> is that it's doable but it will take a lot of outreach. First, most
Americans are downwinders as the vast majority of us born before the
> Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 were bombed/irradiated by our own
goverment. That's about 150 to 200 MILLION Americans that are victims
> right off the bat. Not to mention what got into the gene pool. Atmospheric
testing continued as late as October 16, 1980 when the Chinese
> detonated their last open air nuclear weapon. Fallout contaminated the USA
that late.
>
>
>    Then there are the myriad of victimizations ranging from those
perpetrated by DOD,DOE, NRC, FDA, all corporate media that hides these
> crimes/victimizations from WE THE PEOPLE. The pharmeceutical industry &
medical industry through their criminal negligence and funding of
> medical schools on a massive scale and the massive drug/allopathic
ideology they continue to dissemenate at the expense of vastly more
> effective, non-toxic treatments and preventative approaches to health have
murdered [LITERALLY murdered] tens of millions of US citizens
> see  http://www.garynull.com  and will continue to do so until stopped.
The [mis]use of DU, pesticides, the tobacco industry's lies & cover-
> ups, the auto industry. Not to mention victims of racism, sexism &
homophobia. And on & on & on. My suggestion is to approach as broad a
> coalition of these groups, their leaders & all victims as possible and to
organize a VICTIMS MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
>
>
>    Such leaders that immediately come to mind are U.N. Secretary General
Kofi Annan, Ralph Nader[Phone:[phone]] and Jesse Jackson.
> Also, Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Congresspersons Cynthia
McKinney of Georgia & Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A number of
> celebrities like Martin Sheen, Dick Gregory, Ted Turner & Michael Douglas
should be approached, too. I'd suggest you call Nader & Jesse
> Jackson first thing Monday morning and raise the idea of such a march.
It's time for both a stop to many of these ongoing practices and a
> legal accounting and exposing of these crimes and their perpetrators.
>
>
>     See  Dr Rosalie Bertell's study of 1.3 BILLION victims globally from
the nuclear industry which appearred in the November 1999 "The
> Ecologist" at: http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/victims.html
>
>
>     Victims To Come?
http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/nuclearwar.html
>
>
>    If enough people take this seriously & get active organizing &
communicating, this IS doable.
>
>
>    -Bill Smirnow
>
>
>
> >Dear ALL,
> >
> >My apologies to anyone that receives multiple copies of this from any
cross
> >posting. Our hearts go out to the people of the Los Alamos area. This was
a
> >completely preventable tragedy. Repeated calls to cease the practice of
> >"prescribed burns" near or around DOE/DOD radioactive or hazardous waste
> >sites has fallen upon deaf ears. Our government officials that should be
> >overseeing such practices have failed to recognize the dangers of burning
> >vegetation that holds radioactive and hazardous waste within it -
releasing
> >it to local residents to inhale, possibly to become quite ill from it
later
> >on. These are valid concerns.
> >
> >There was a "prescribed test burn" at Rocky Flats here in Colorado
> >immediately upwind of 3.5 million people just over a month ago, despite
> >multiple protests against it (see email & photos below). The arrogance of
the
> >DOE, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Parks Service has been staggering in
this
> >regard. The U.S. EPA has failed to protect us, as have local health
> >departments.
> >
> >This utter disregard and failure to respect our breathing space needs to
be
> >addressed in a national forum hosted by the Governors, Congressional
> >Senators, Representatives, State Rep's from impacted "DOE host" states.
They
> >could turn this into a win/win situation by taking this issue in hand and
> >working with affected or concerned citizens.
> >
> >This monstrous situation must be brought back to being "for and by the
> >people". Do we have to have a "Multi-million Victim's March" in
Washington to
> >get their attention? Who can afford to do this, or who would like to
sponsor
> >such an event?  Let's get started. I can be reached at [phone].
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >Paula Elofson-Gardine
> >Executive Director
> >Environmental Information Network
> >From the Fallout Zone of Rocky Flats and now Los Alamos


From: <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [abolition-caucus] FIRE-ALERT: Global Peace Walk 2000
Date: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:52 AM

On 05/13/00 15:51:44 you wrote:
>


   Dear David,
               Concerning the media, I'd like to suggest that you and/or
those working closely on this issue contact the media watchdog
group FAIR {Phone:[phone],  http://www.fair.org] who are expert at
media work & will probably have both tips as to how best to go about
approaching media & in supplying media sources, both domestically &
internationally.


    You're doing an excellant job & those people going to the Los Alamos
area to help have a lot of guts.


   -Bill Smirnow


[earlier GPW post excerpt]:

>"We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life."
>-- Global Peace Walk 2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org
>
>
>Today again I spoke to Reverend Yamato on the phone from New Mexico
>about the Global Peace Walk plans concerning what he feels is a Global
>Emergency Situation resulting from the fire that has ravaged the Los Alamos
>area including outlying areas of the Nuclear Weapons Lab reportedly
>aerosolizing in the smoke decades of radioactive contamination from areas
>surrounding the Lab, smoke now settling as potentially very dangerous ash
>over several States so far and moving eastward. (details/evidence on this
>point below)
>
>Yamato has asked me to sound a Global Emergency Alert on this matter to
call
>on supporters everywhere to take media publicity actions to get the facts
>known to ameliorate potential present dangers, to prevent any future
>such dangerous nuclear radioactivity threat situations, and to focus the
>current national and global public attention on this tragedy towards
>increasing public support and activism for the global abolition of
>nuclear weapons.
>
>Please forward this post to your lists.

[full text of above excerpted GPW post with info links is archived at
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/364.html with additional
subsequent posts documenting evidence and concerns about Los Alamos fire
somke/ash radioactivity danger posted since May 12th at
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams ]


David Crockett Williams
Chartered Life Underwriter
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/prepaidlegal.html

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
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





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