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abolition-usa-digest     Saturday, August 26 2000     Volume 01 : Number 364




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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:14:09 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Please sign and return to: [e-mail]

  Dear Friends,

  We are used to the multiple reincarnations of the nuclear industry, trying
  to save the world at all costs (at our costs!). We have seen the "peaceful
atom", food irradiation, the covert recycling of nuclear wastes in our pots
  and pans, etc. Nowadays, those of you working on the climate issue know
  that nuclear plants have been suggested as appropriate projects for the
Kyoto flexible mechanisms. The European Union has expressed its opposition,
  but the last word will be spoken at COP6 in The Hague or possibly even at
  SB-13 in France, a country  which can boast of having the most nuclearised
  electricity sector in the world.

  To obtain its clean bill of health as a climate change solution, nuclear
  energy lobbyists needed to get nuclear accepted as a sustainable form of
  energy. One way this is being attempted is by diverting the mandate the
  Commission for Sustainable Development. Canada, another nuclear strong
country, is trying to include nuclear in a side-exhibition planned for
  CSD9!

  We are therefore calling upon all NGOs of all fields to express their
  opinion and tell CSD to keep to its mission. We propose the following
petition for your endorsement. Please distribute it via your networks, make
  it accepted by as many representatives of civil society as you can and
  e-mail us your agreement immediately. we would like to publicise the first
  results of this petition at SB-13 (September 4-14, 2000) in Lyon.

  Thank you for your help in preventing the latest assault of this bankrupt
  industry on our health and environment!

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

  PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER BY EMAILING HELIO INTERNATIONAL <[e-mail]>

  PETITION ADDRESSED TO THE CHAIR AND MEMBER STATES OF THE U.N. COMMISSION ON
  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  Your Excellencies,

  We the undersigned NGOs active in development, environmental, disarmament
  and human rights issues express our deepest regret and extreme concern that
  nuclear
  energy seems to have been included in the draft agenda of CSD-9 and that
this
  declining and unsustainable industry might be allocated space in the
  related exhibition.

  We consider any focus on nuclear energy to be both against the spirit of
  Agenda 21 and the mandate of the U.N. CSD. Moreover it is contrary to the
  interests of developing countries which require sustainable, mostly
  decentralized, low-cost energy systems, adapted both to their needs and
  their endownments in capital, resources and labour.

  Most countries are now committed to phasing out, or not developing nuclear
  energy. They also formally oppose the inclusion of nuclear energy into the
  projects of the Clean Development Mechanism to be established under the
  Kyoto Protocol.

  At its last meeting, the G-8 stated its commitment to "encourage and
  facilitate investment in the development and use of sustainable energy,
  underpinned by enabling domestic environments, (which) will assist in
  mitigating the problems of climate change and air pollution. To this end,
  the increased use of renewable energy sources in particular will improve
  the quality of life, especially in
  developing countries." .......

  Non-G8 countries are also taking similar stances. Turkey has just cancelled
  plans initiated in 1992 for a nuclear plant at Akkuyu. Prime Minister
  Bulent Evecit said in official public statement that, "the world is
  abandoning nuclear power". Worldwide, nuclear power has been plagued by
  high cost, erratic performance, endemic technical problems, the risk of
  catastrophic accidents, and environmental problems such as routine
  radiation releases, radioactive waste management and the high cost of
  decommissioning.

  However, hardpressed nuclear vendors, mainly U.S., Canadian, French and
  German corporations, are eyeing the developing world as a 'last gasp'
  market for their products and are stepping up their lobbying efforts at
  U.N. conferences, including the Climate Change negotiations.

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

  Therefore, we, the undersigned NGOs, urge you to preserve the integrity of
  the CSD process by ensuring that all non-sustainable energy technologies,
  particularly nuclear energy, are excluded from CSD9 debates, exhibitions
  and other activities. The CSD should focus on promoting clean, secure and
  sustainable forms of energy for the welfare of present and future
  generations as per the aim of Agenda 21.

  Signatures:

  NAME            ORGANISATION            FULL ADDRESS

  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  ****************************************
            HELIO INTERNATIONAL
           Observatoire  mondial
        de la viabilit$B7 8\(Jerg$B8f(Jique
          SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WATCH
  56, rue de Passy   France - 75016  PARIS
  Tel:[phone] Fax: -42 24 86 33
        E-mail: [e-mail]
  Website:   http://www.globenet.org/helio
  ****************************************

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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:39:32 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Bread Not Stones Bus Tour

>
>PLEASE FORWARD
>
>Bread Not Stones Bus Tour ~ Driving Home the Truth About Military Spending
>Sponsored by Pax Christi USA
>
>"Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a
>stone?" - Matthew 7:9
>
>Goal of the Campaign
>
>The Bread Not Stones Bus Tour is part of Bread Not Stones: A National
>Catholic Campaign to Redirect Military Spending sponsored by Pax Christi
>USA. The campaign seeks to redirect exorbitant military spending to funding
>for social needs like health care, education, and job training.  Pax
>Christi USA initiated the campaign in response to a statement by its bishop
>members in which they said, "In a time of unprecedented economic prosperity
>and budget surpluses, our political leaders cannot find the resources to
>provide a good education and reliable health care for tens of millions of
>our nation's children and we are told that we cannot afford targeted tax
>relief for millions of struggling families.  We view the federal budget as
>a moral document that must reflect our degree of compassion for those who
>are poor and suffering in our own society.  During this budget and election
>cycle we must marshal our resources and summon our moral courage to say
>"no" to a bloated military budget which robs those who are poor and
>vulnerable and "yes" to a budget which helps lift people out of poverty."
>
>Public Education on Wheels
>
>The bus tour will be the highlight of the public education phase of the
>Bread Not Stones campaign.  The tour features the 40-foot long Moneymobile,
>painted with piles of money and a sign that says "MOVE OUR MONEY... INVEST
>IN OUR KIDS."  Beginning in early September and lasting two months, the bus
>will begin in Los Angeles and travel from coast to coast, stopping in 30
>cities on its intended route.  Using giant inflatable props and theatrics,
>the Moneymobile will be featured at college campuses, high schools,
>churches and public parks.  Giant, colorful inflatable graphs and charts,
>some as high as 27 feet, will tell the story of U.S. military spending,
>revealing the consequences of spending too much money on the military and
>not enough on social needs.  Consequences like 11 million children without
>health insurance... or the U.S. ranking 13th  worldwide in infant mortality
>and 18th in student test scores.  The props also show that the U.S. grossly
>exceeds all other countries in military spending and how the defense
>industry provides millions of dollars to political campaigns.  As election
>campaigns heat up, our bus tour will give people the tools they need to
>make military spending an election issue which cannot be ignored.  The
>Moneymobile is a creation of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and
>it's being leased to Pax Christi USA to promote our campaign.
>
>Bus Tour Route (subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances)
>
>Anticipated Cities      Anticipated Schedule
>
>Los Angeles, CA September 5-6
>Gallup, NM              September 8-9
>Amarillo, TX            September 11
>San Angelo, TX  September 12-13
>San Antonio, TX September 14
>Houston, TX             September 15
>Dallas, TX              September 16-17
>Travel day              September 20
>St. Louis, MO           September 21-22
>New Ulm, MN     September 24
>Crookston, MN   September 25-26
>St. Cloud, MN           September 27
>Minneapolis, MN September 28-29
>Travel day              October 2
>Chicago, IL             October 3-4
>South Bend, IN  October 5
>Grand Rapids, MI        October 6
>Lansing, MI             October 7
>Saginaw, MI             October 8
>Detroit, MI             October 9-10
>Ann Arbor, MI   October 11
>Columbus, OH    October 14-15
>Cleveland, OH           October 16-17
>Pittsburgh, PA          October 18-19
>Baltimore, MD   October 20
>Washington, DC  October 21-22
>Philadelphia, PA        October 23-24
>New York, NY    October 27-28
>Boston, MA              October 29-30
>Portland, ME            October 31-Nov. 1
>Burlington, VT  November 2
>
>How to Get Involved
>
>If the bus tour is coming to your city, we need you!  Help us organize a
>Bread Not Stones Bus Tour event at a church, school, or other public
>place...get the word out around your community... contact the media... and
>much more!  Complete the attached form and send it to us today!
>
>If the bus tour isn't coming to your city, you can still get involved!  The
>Bread Not Stones campaign is much bigger than the bus tour.  Our brand new
>Bread Not Stones education/organizing packet has everything you need to
>participate in the campaign and organize others at the grassroots
>level.  Available from the Pax Christi USA national office for $8.50,
>including postage and handling.
>
>The Bread Not Stones campaign is sponsored by Pax Christi USA and endorsed
>by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Conference of Major
>Superiors of Men's Institutes, NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice
>Lobby, the National Black Sisters' Conference, the Maryknoll Office for
>Global Concerns and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.
>
>Response Form
>
>YES, I want to get involved in the Bread Not Stones campaign!
>
>Name ____________________________________
>
>Address____________________________________
>
>City _________________  State ______  Zip ___________
>
>Phone ___________________ Fax __________________
>
>E-mail ____________________
>
>Congressional District # ______________________
>
>_____ Please keep me updated on the Bread Not Stones bus tour (requires
>e-mail).
>
>_____ I'd like to help organize the Bread Not Stones bus tour in my city.
>
>_____ I'd like to make a financial contribution to the Bread Not Stones bus
>tour.
>
>             _____ $100   _____ $75       _____ $50       _____
>$25       _____other $ ______
>
>(if making a financial contribution, please print out this form and send to
>the national office at address below).
>
>_____ I'd like to receive a Bread Not Stones education/organizing
>packet.  Enclosed is $8.50 to cover the cost of the packet plus postage and
>handling (please send form to national office at address below).
>
>Return to Pax Christi USA, 532 West 8th Street, Erie, PA 16502-1343,
>814-452-4784 (fax).
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:03:25 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: FYI Disarmament in the General Assembly

>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:00:33 -0400
>Subject: FYI Disarmament in the General Assembly
>To: [e-mail]
>Cc: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>@igc.apc.org
>web: www.wilpf.int.ch  www.reachingcriticalwill.org
>
>*******       *******       *******       *******
>APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>If you would like to be on an email list to receive reports and updates
>from the Disarmament Committee of the General Assembly (starting October
>3), this email is useful to you.
>
>Please send an email to me at [e-mail]  to get on this short term,
>single purpose list which will provide a weekly update, or more as
>activity in the 1st Committee reaches a peak towards the start of
>November.
>
>
>
>As you know, after opening statements from many of the 188 UN member
>governments, the General Assembly splits up into 6 Committees
>
>FIRST COMMITTEE Disarmament and International Security
>SECOND COMMITTEE Economic and Financial
>THIRD COMMITTEE Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
>FOURTH COMMITTEE Special Political and Decolonization
>FIFTH COMMITTEE Administrative and Budgetary
>SIXTH COMMITTEE Legal
>
>A group of NGOs based in New York are getting together to brainstorm the
>best way of reporting what is happening in the FIRST COMMITTEE to
>disarmament NGOs all over the world. It is our aim to reinforce and
>provide quick information to groups monitoring and lobbying their
>governments on disarmament. But of course, people physically in New York
>can only reinforce the work done in capitals, where the actual policies
>and positions are formed.
>
>Over the past two years, there has been a lot of excellent NGO activity
>around supporting the New Agenda Coalition Resolution which has been
>ESSENTIAL in building the strength and credibility of this innovative
>grouping that also really helped produce the results of the NPT.
>
>Putting pressure on governments before and during the FIRST Committee on
>Disarmament, starting this year on October 3, is an important part of our
>disarmament work.  If we don't do it, who will?  This question inspires
>many people to make contact and build relationships and especially put
>pressure on parliamentary representatives or people in foreign ministries.
> Speaking up in the media is also useful and important, if it is possible.
>
>This year, there will probably be a few topical resolutions on which you
>can write, or lobby your governments on, simply asking the way they intend
>to vote and why and including some of your views on how you would like to
>be represented.
>
>Don't be afraid to ask basic questions - force them to be fully
>accountable to you, and if you can, find out who your representatives will
>be in New York this year voting on:
>
>1.   the resolution on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Russia
>introduced last year to rouse some opposition to the US plans for an NMD
>
>2.   the New Agenda Coalition Resolution, now in its third year
>
>3.   the resolution on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
>
>4.   the resolution on the follow-up to the advisory opinion of the
>International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of
>Nuclear Weapons
>
>5.   the resolutions on small arms and the illicit traffic in small arms
>
>6.   the resolution on convening a fourth special session of the General
>Assembly devoted to disarmament
>
>
>All First Committee Resolutions from 1999 can be found at
>http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/r54c1.htm
>This page is a list of all 47 resolutions passed, with links to the texts.
>
>
>So you can refer to the exact General Assembly Agenda Item when you write,
>or speak to your reps, please see the  Provisional Agenda for the 2000 -
>2001  55th General Assembly at
>http://www.un.org/ga/55/a55150.html
>
>
>The agenda contains the following disarmament related items:
>
>Item 66. Reduction of military budgets (resolution 35/142 B of 12 December
>1980).
>
>
>68. Maintenance of international security (resolutions 53/71 of 4 December
>1998 and 54/62 of 1 December 1999):
> (a) Prevention of the violent disintegration of States (resolution
>53/71);
> (b) Stability and development of South-Eastern Europe (resolution 54/62).
>
>
>
>73. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (resolution 54/53 of 1
>December 1999).
>
>
>
>74. General and complete disarmament (resolutions 42/38 C of 30 November
>1987, 53/77 A, D, H and L of 4 December 1998, 54/54 A and B, E to U of 1
>December 1999
>and 54/54 V of 15 December 1999; and decision 54/417 of 1 December 1999):
>
>(a) Notification of nuclear tests (resolution 42/38 C);
>
>(b) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia
>(resolution 53/77 A and decision 54/417);
>
>(c) Mongolia's international security and nuclear-weapon-free status
>(resolution 53/77 D);
>
>(d) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol
>(resolution 53/77 L);
>
>(e) Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of
>Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (resolution 54/54 A);
>
>(f) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use,
>Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their
>Destruction (resolution
>54/54 B);
>
>(g) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
>Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on
>Their Destruction (resolution
>54/54 E);
>
>(h) Missiles (resolution 54/54 F);
>
>(i) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda
>(resolution 54/54 G);
>
>(j) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures
>(resolution 54/54 H);
>
>(k) Transparency in armaments (resolutions 54/54 I and O);
>
>(l) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and
>collecting them (resolution 54/54 J);
>
>(m) Reducing nuclear danger (resolution 54/54 K);
>
>(n) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas (resolution
>54/54 L);
>
>(o) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
>(resolution 54/54 M);
>
>(p) Regional disarmament (resolutions 53/77 H and 54/54 N);
>
>(q) Nuclear disarmament (resolution 54/54 P);
>
>(r) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of
>Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
>(resolution 54/54 Q);
>
>(s) Illicit traffic in small arms (resolution 54/54 R);
>
>(t) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation
>of agreements on disarmament and arms control (resolution 54/54 S);
>
>(u) Relationship between disarmament and development (resolution 54/54 T);
>
>(v) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly
>devoted to disarmament (resolution 54/54 U);
>
>(w) Small arms (resolution 54/54 V).
>
>
>
>
>75. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth
>Special Session of the General Assembly (resolutions 53/78 E and G of 4
>December 1998 and 54/55 A to F of 1 December 1999):
>
>(a) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United
>Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central
>Africa (resolution 54/55 A);
>
>(b) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
>(resolution 54/55 B);
>
>(c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and
>the Pacific (resolution 54/55 C);
>
>(d) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
>(resolution 54/55 D);
>
>(e) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament (resolution
>54/55 E);
>
>(f) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development
>in Latin America and the Caribbean (resolution 54/55 F);
>
>(g) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme (resolution 53/78 E);
>
>(h) United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services
>(resolution 53/78 G).
>
>
>
>
>
>76. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions
>adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session (resolutions
>38/183 O of 20 December
>1983, 39/148 H of 17 December 1984, 50/72 B of 12 December 1995 and 54/56
>A and B of 1 December 1999):
>
>(a) Report of the Disarmament Commission (resolution 54/56 A);
>
>(b) Report of the Conference on Disarmament (resolution 54/56 B);
>
>(c) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (resolution 38/183 O);
>
>(d) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (resolution 39/148
>H);
>
>(e) Disarmament Week (resolution 50/72 B).
>
>
>
>
>77. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (resolution 54/57
>of 1 December 1999).
>
>
>
>
>78. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
>Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to
>Have Indiscriminate
>Effects (resolution 54/58 of 1 December 1999).
>
>
>
>79. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
>(resolution 54/59 of 1 December 1999).
>
>
>
>80. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
>Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty
>of Tlatelolco) (resolution 54/60
>of 1 December 1999).
>
>
>
>81. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
>Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
>Destruction (resolution
>54/61 of 1 December 1999).
>
>
>
>82. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (resolution 54/63 of 1 December
>1999).
>
>
>
>83. Effects of atomic radiation (resolution 54/66 of 6 December 1999).
>
>
>
>84. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
>(resolutions 54/67 and 54/68 of 6 December 1999).
>
>
>
>For basic information about the General Assembly see
>http://www.un.org/ga/54/session/kit.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>*******       *******       *******       *******
>Felicity Hill,
>Director, United Nations Office
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
>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: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:39:55 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) WRITE YOUR GOVT NOW TO STOP NMD/STAR WARS (sample letters)

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


Dear All,

A decision on NMD MAY  be imminent- which can mean anything from days to a
couple of weeks.

Most likely the Pentagon will present reccommendations to Clinton by
early/mid September.

THE TIME TO PRESSURE YOUR GOVERMENT ON STAR WARS IS NOW.

A sample letter to President Clinton and defence Secy Cohen, which can also
be sent to Bush and Gore is below.

I am also including a letter to prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK, and to
Schroeder of Germany, and a brief letter to the prime minister of Denmark.

The relevant fax numbers are at the top of the letters.

You are very much urged to send one of these letters to your government as
soon as you can.

If you are outside the US, please write to your own goverment first, then
only send a letter to Clinton and Cohen.

Please customise these letters as much as you can.
Be creative - DONT just send it exactly as it is here. Shorten or add to
taste.
Handwritten is also best.
Don't email them, its a waste of time.

If you are an organisation (NOT an individual unless you are an MP or
Congressperson), you are urged also to sign on to the large sign on letter
to Clinton, Cohen, Gore, Bush, Putin, Jiang, and US NATO allies on star
wars.

If you are outside the US as most of the world is, I urge you to send
letters (preferably fax) to both your own goverment  and to Clinton, Bush
and Gore.

If you are in Australia you may like to  fax this letter, suitably
modified, to foreign minister Downer on

02-6273-4112   and then copy it to Clinton. (1-202-456-2461)

The attitude of non - US governments will be crucial.

Send it now.

1) Sample Letter to Clinton, Cohen, Bush, Gore
2) Sample letter to Tony Blair
3) Sample letter to Schroeder
4)Sample letter to Prime Minister of Denmark
5)Sample Letter to President Chirac or France



1) Sample letter to Clinton, Bush, Gore

PRESIDENT CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461 1-202-456-6218
DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN 1-703-695-1149
SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT 1-202-647-6047
GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 1-512-637-8800
AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 1-202-456-2461


Dear President Clinton, Defence Secy William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, and
Presidential candidates,

In the light of reports that a decision by you on National Missile Defence
(NMD)  may be imminent, I am writing to urge you not to proceed with
proposals for an NMD system.

Missile defence schemes respond to a nonexistent or exaggerated threat,
are not the solution to real threats, make the rest of the US's security
environment less safe, sabotage nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US
is legally committed along with the rest of the world, and show contempt
for the opinions of US allies and the rest of the world.

At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other
countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal
undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal.
Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which
the US is legally committed.

At the very same conference, the UN Secretary General, and representatives
of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European community, the New
Agenda Coalition and the Non- aligned movement have all expressed strongly
that they believe the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic
stability. They do not think it should be modified to allow a missile
defence system,  still less abrogated unilaterally.  On your recent
European trip, leaders of Europe and Russia have made the same point.
America simply cannot ignore the strongly repeated opinion of the whole
world, that the ABM treaty should not be modified to permit BMD.

Since that time, the NMD system has failed a test, and 50 US nobel
laureates have asked for it not to proceed.

There are serious doubts as to whether this system can work at all, or as
to whether any missile defence system can ever work.  The problems posed
even by relatively simple decoys may well be technically insoluble.

Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US  focus on real
solutions to global  strategic security.  The highest priorities have to be
the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III
agreement with Russia, and  the removal of  strategic missile forces from
high alert status.

I urge you not to deploy NMD, and not to modify or withdraw from the ABM
Treaty.

Yours Sincerely,
Signed [your name]


2)SAMPLE LETTER TO TONY BLAIR, ROBIN COOK

TO:
PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR  [phone]
=46OREIGN MINISTER ROBIN COOK [phone]  [phone]

Dear Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Minister Robin Cook,

I am writing to you to urge your government to take a strong stand against
US plans to build a ballistic missile defence system, and to maintain and
strengthen the ABM treaty.  The attitude of your government will be crucial
in any US decision. A decision of some kind by the US now appears to be
coming soon.

At the recent Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference in New
York, the UN secretary general, the governments of Russia, China, France,
and the UK, the Non-Aligned movement, the New Agenda Coalition, and the
European Union all expressed strong support for the maintenance and
strengthening of the ABM treaty.

This cannot be interpreted to mean modifying it to allow a ballistic
missile defence system.

The missile defence systems currently under discussion in the US seek to
protect the US (but not Europe) against  a threat that either does not
exist at all, or for which missile defence is a completely inappropriate
response.   In addition the options proposed in the US may in fact not work
at all, while causing those countries with whom the US is legally obliged
under the final declaration of the NPT Review Conference to seek to
negotiate the elimination of its nuclear arsenal, to abandon arms control
measures altogether.

The very discussion by the US of missile defence options is itself
destabilizing and puts progress toward the global goals of elimination of
nuclear arsenals in doubt.

We/I urge you to put to the US government in the very strongest terms that
it should no longer contemplate missile defence options, and to make it
clear that the UK will not in any way cooperate with such options.

=46acilities located in the UK must not be permitted to be used for NMD
related purposes.

Your government has said it wants to maintain and strengthen the ABM
treaty. It must follow on from this good beginning by making it clear that
it is absolutely opposed to BMD.

The US government should instead be strongly urged to accept the very
lowest warhead numbers on offer from Russia and to stand down its nuclear
weapons systems from 'launch on warning' status.

Signed.....etc.


3) SAMPLE LETTER TO GERHARDT SCHROEDER, JOSCHKA FISCHER,

ATTN
GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARDT SCHROEDER
[phone], [phone].

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER,
[phone], [phone], [phone], [phone],

RE: BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE AND THE ABM TREATY

Dear Chancellor Schroeder and Foreign Minister Fischer,

I am writing to express  my support of the position you have taken with
respect to US plans to deploy a ballistic missile defence system and to
modify, or possibly to abrogate,  the ABM treaty in order to allow the
deployment of this system.

I note that you have already made clear to US President Clinton your strong
disapproval of any such moves.  I urge you to continue in your opposition
to this highly destabilizing scheme.

Ballistic missile defence in the form in which the US now seeks to deploy
it, (either national missile defence or theater missile defence),

a) Seeks to defend against a threat that either does not exist or which if
it exists, will strike in ways that missile defence systems cannot affect.

b)Is likely   to be wholly ineffective because of the problem posed by
relatively simple decoys,  and at the same time will be seen as threatening
by those with whom the US is legally obliged to negotiate for the
elimination of nuclear arsenals. Missile defence therefore acts to sabotage
vital arms control efforts.

c) National missile defence as currently proposed by the US administration,
in no way helps the security position of US allies, who are thus likely to
be exposed to whatever threat NMD seeks to counter - if that threat is
real.

(d) These proposals make more difficult, and may reverse, nuclear
disarmament efforts, decreasing the security of the whole world while
violating US obligations under the NPT.

I urge you to make the most vigorous representations to the US government
not to decrease global security by  proceeding with plans for NMD/BMD or
TMD,or weakening  the ABM treaty, but rather to increase global security by
accepting the lowest of the warhead totals on offer by Russia in START-III
negotiations, and by standing down nuclear missiles from 'launch on
warning' status.

(Signed)

etc

4) SAMPLE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK

(you may wish to add some of the points in the other letters here to this
very short sample letter. Be creative.)


Mr Poul Nyrup Rasmussen,
Prime Minister
=46ax no. :   + 45 33 11 16 65

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

Re:  The US  NMD  star war project, the Thule radar station.

Considering the immeasurable very dangerous consequences
of the US  NMD  arms race project I / we  hereby urgently
request that you respect the will of the people of Greenland
and refuse allowance for expansion and use of the Thule radar
station for this purpose.

Respectfully,


5) SAMPLE LETTER TO GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC [phone]
PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [phone]-45-51-60-12

Dear President Chirac, Prime Minister Jospin, and Minister for Foreign
Affairs Hubert Vedrine,

I am writing to you to urge you to express strongly your support for the
1972 ABM treaty, and your opposition to the US proposal to deploy a
ballistic missile defence scheme.

The US seems now to be poised to make a decision that could have profound
negative consequences for nuclear arms control for many years.

I am happy to see that at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review
conference, France expressed strongly its support for the ABM treaty and
opposition to ballistic missile defence, and that France has continued to
forcefully express its opposition to this ill-considered scheme since that
time.

I urge you to continue doing this.

I urge you  to make the most vigorous representations to the US not to
decrease global security by proceeding with plans for missile defence, or
weakening the ABM treaty. I ask you to instead urge the US to increase
global security by accepting the lowest of the warhead totals on offer by
Russia in START-III negotiations, and by standing down nuclear missiles
from 'launch on warning' status.

(Signed)






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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:42:54 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Final Faxing  NMD/Star Wars Letter in 7 Days sign now

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

Over 286 organisations so far have signed this letter to stop NMD/Star Wars.

Has yours signed it yet?

(note that some very recent signatures may not be on this text yet)

It has already been faxed once to Clinton, Cohen, Bush, Gore, and NATO
prime ministers and foreign ministers.

The final faxing is in exactly 7 days.

It will be released to media on september 6th in Sydney, washington, London
and Berlin.

PLEASE  BY EMAILING
=46oE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

With your name, position, and organisational details including city AND
COUNTRY.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,  1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201,

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
[phone], [phone], [phone],

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, [phone],

PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]

GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
[phone],

CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
[phone], [phone],

PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
[FAX NO?]

JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
[phone],

KOSTAS SIMITIS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE, [phone]

POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK,  [phone]

PRIME MINISTER DAVID ODDSSON, OF ICELAND, [phone],

PRIME MINISTER MASSIMO D'ALEMA,  OF ITALY,  [phone]

PRIME MINISTER JENS STOLTENBERG
OF NORWAY,  Fx:[phone]. [phone]

PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK, OF THE NETHERLANDS, [phone],

CC
US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT  [phone],

US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN [phone],

=46OREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
[phone],   [phone],

ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, [phone],
[phone],

HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE,  [phone],

JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY [phone],
[phone],
[phone], [phone],

YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, [phone]

LLOYD AXWORTHY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,  [phone],
[phone]

LOUIS MICHEL, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BELGIUM,  [phone],

THEODOROS PANGALOS, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GREECE, [phone]

George Bush Presidential Candidate, [phone].
Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, [phone]

Dear Presidents and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Defence Ministers=
,

The undersigned NGO groups and Parliamentarians, representing  millions of
people,  are writing:

1) To urge the US not to proceed with proposals for a National Missile
Defence System (NMD),

2) To urge  US allies to make the strongest representations in appropriate
forums or bilaterally, to press the US government not to proceed with the
deployment of NMD, and to maintain the integrity of the ABM Treaty.

Proceeding with National Missile Defence threatens to undermine the basis
of existing and future offensive nuclear arms reduction measures.

We note the strong statements made on NMD by the Governments of France,
Germany and Sweden, and the expressions of concern by other US allies
including the UK, Canada, and the European Union.

At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other
countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal
undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal.
Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which
the US is legally committed, together with all other NPT signatories. The
final declaration of the NPT Review Conference expressly calls for:
"the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and conclusion
of START-III as soon as possible while preserving and strengthening the
Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability
and as a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons in
accordance with its provisions."

We do not believe it is possible for this to be interpreted in a way that
will allow the deployment of an NMD system, nor should it be so
interpreted. We therefore  urge the US and Russia instead to proceed to the
negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels and to the
immediate implementation of START-II.

We note that the UN Secretary-General, and representatives of Russia,
China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European Community, the New Agenda
Coalition and the Non-Aligned movement have expressed the view that the ABM
treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability.

The recent meeting of G8 foreign ministers has also expressed strong
concern over the possibility that the ABM treaty may be abrogated to allow
NMD to proceed, and has stated that they are 'deeply concerned' over
missile proliferation as a result of NMD.

The Australian Senate on June 29th, passed a motion in which it called on
the US not to proceed with the deployment of an NMD system and in which it
called for the implementation of START-II as soon as possible, and the
negotiation of START-III at the lowest possible force levels.

We note also recent expressions of concern within the US, by
Congresspeople, Nobel laureates, and other distinguished and influential
people and organizations.


America should not simply ignore the strongly repeated opinion of
governments and NGOs of the whole world, that NMD should not proceed,  and
that the integrity of  the ABM treaty should be maintained.

Missile defence schemes respond to an exaggerated perception of the missile
threat from so-called 'Rogue States', (now termed 'States of Concern')  are
not the solution to missile proliferation,  sabotage nuclear disarmament
efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the rest of the
world, and decrease overall US and international security.

There are serious doubts  whether this system, or  whether any missile
defence system,  can ever work.  The problems posed even by relatively
simple decoys are probably technically insoluble. The Welch Panel, an
independent team of scientists,  released a report outlining the
probability of NMD systems failure due to time and schedule constraints.

Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US  focus on
practical solutions to global  strategic security.  We therefore urge the
US and Russia,  as the highest priority, to proceed to the elimination of
as many warheads as possible under any START-III agreement, the removal of
obstacles to the implementation of START-II,  and  the removal of
strategic missile forces from high alert status as advocated by the
Canberra Commission, subsequent UN resolutions and the final NPT
declaration.

Yours Sincerely,
(Signed)

Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition 2000, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA.,
Ian Maddocks, Chair, Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President, Dr. John Loretz,
Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War (IPPNW), BC Canada/Cambridge, USA.,
Colin Archer, Secretary-General, Kate Dewes, Vice-President, International
Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva/NZ
Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers
Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Neth.,
Dan Plesch, Director, British-American Security Information Council
(BASIC), Washington/London,
Bruna Nota, International President, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva/NY.,
Dr. John Burroughs,Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
(LCNP), NY/NZ.,
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
Michael L. Gold, VP North American Affairs, UN Envoy, International
Association of Educators for World Peace,(IAEWP) (100 countries),
Karen Talbot, International Centre for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)

Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), El
Salvador/Amsterdam,
Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador,(CESTA) El Salvador,
Jarna Pasaren, Friends of the Earth Finland, Turku, Finland,
Peep Mardiste, Friends of the Earth Estonia, Tartu, Estonia,
Victor Khazan, MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Member, Ukrainian Parliamen=
t.
Kika Kapela, Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
Lonnenga Ginting, Campaign Director, Friends of the Earth Indonesia
(WALHI), Jakarta, Indonesia,
=46ahmi Rizal, WALHI-Acheh,
Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana, Madrid, Spain,
Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth United States,
Washington, DC., USA.,

Commander Robert D. Green, RN (Retd.) Chair, World Court Project UK., NZ/UK.=
,
Dave Knight, Chair, Rae Street, Vice-Chair, CND UK.,
Dave Webb, Yorkshire CND, Yorks, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, Birmingham, UK.,
R. Ralph Say, Woking Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
Jill Stallard, CND-Cymru, Wales,
Peter Nicholls, Acting Chair, Abolition-2000 UK, London, UK.,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases,
(CAAB), Yorkshire, UK.,
Dr. Chris Busby, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, UK.,
Liz Waterson, Gillian Reeve, Executive Director, MEDACT, UK.,
Jane Tallents, Trident-Ploughshares, UK.
Caroline Nursey, Clerk, Quaker Peace and Service Central Committee, London,
UK.,
=46rank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair,
Defence and Security Committee,
David Drew MP, House of Commons., London, UK.,
Malcolm K. Savidge MP House of Commons, London, UK.,

Stephen Mc Closkey,  One World Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland,

Dr Heinz-Peter Romberg, Xanthe Hall, IPPNW-Germany, Berlin,
Regina Hagen, Darmstadter Friedensforum, Darmstadt, Germany,
Claus Biegert, Nuclear Free Future Award, Munich, Germany,
Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Berlin, Germany,
Manfred Stenner, Director, Network of the German Peace Movement, Bonn, Germa=
ny,
Wolfgang Schupp-Hauck, Friedens und Begegungsstaette Mutlangen, Mutlangen,
Germany,
Roland Blach, Non-Violent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Kornwesthiem,
Germany,
Jan Gildemiester, Director, Action Committee Service for Peace (AGDEF),
Bonn, Germany,

Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounter and Non-Violence, Bad Ischl, Austria,
Plattform Gegen Atomgefahr, Linz, Austria,

Daniel Durand, Secy, Mouvement de la Paix, Paris, France,
Bruno Barrilot, Director, L'Obervatoire des Armes Nucl=E9aires Francaises,
Lyons, France,
Helene Connor, Director, HELIO International, Paris, France.,

Dr Josep Puig, Chair, Dr Joaquim Corominas, Vice-Chair, Scientists and
Technologists Group for a Non-Nuclear Future, Barcelona, Spain,

Grupo Autonomo di Volontariato Civile in Italia (GAVCI), Bolongna, Italy,
Dr Joachim Lau, Italian Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA-Italy),
=46lorence, Italy,

Martin Schwander, Swiss Peace Movement, Basel, Switz.,
David Schmitter, Global Initiative for Immediate Disarmament, Switz,
Dr Arthur Muhl, IPPNW Switzerland,

Malla Kantola, Secretary-General, Committee of 100 in Finland, Helsinki,
=46inland,
Ulla Lehtinen, President,  First Peoples, Turku, Finland.,
Bjorn Hilt, Chair, Kirsten Osen, Vice-Chair, Anne Grieg MD, IPPNW Norway,
Horten, Norway.,
Thor Magnusson, Peace 2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,

Gunnar Westberg, President,Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear War (SLMK)
Sweden,
Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, 'Living Future', Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Committee,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Swedish Womens Left Association,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Peace in Kurdistan,Sweden,
Agneta Norberg, Peace in Iraq,Sweden,

Poul-Eck S=D8rensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg, Denmark.,
=46inn Eckman, Liason Committee for Peace and Security, Copenhagen, Denmark,

Karel Koster, Project on European Nuclear Nonproliferation (PENN
- -Netherlands), Neth.,
Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Antwerp, Belgium,
Eloi Glorieux, MP, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP, Member of the Belgian Parliament, Brussells, Belg,

Biljana Stevanovska, Association for Sustainable Development, Skopje,
Macedonia,

Vladimir Sliviak, 'ECODEFENSE', Russia,
Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union Antinuclear Campaign, Moscow,
Galina Ragouzhina, World Information Service on Energy(WISE) Russia,
Alexandra Koroleva, Baltic Research and Action Centre, Kaliningrad,
Professor A.V. Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental
Policy, Moscow, Russia,
Andrei Laletin, Chair, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia,
Nikolai Zubov, CEO, Krasnoyarsk Social-Ecological Union, Russia,

Alla Shevchuck, Chairwoman, Odessa Branch Social-Ecological Union, Odessa,
Ukraine,

Paul Saoke, IPPNW, Kenya,
Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGO's, Egypt,
Boaz Fyler, Campaign Director, Green Action, Tel Aviv, Israel,
Roy Cabonegro, Secy-General, YSDA Phillipines,
Losena T Salabula, Assistant Director Demilitarisation, Pacific Concerns
Resource Centre(PCRC)/Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP), Suva,
=46iji,

Jean P. Patterson, Heredia Disarmament Committee, San Jose, Costa-Rica.,
Luis Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin American Circle for International
Studies, Mexico City, Mexico,
Dr Carlos Puzos, IPPNW Cuba,
Grace De Haro, Suzanne Schultz, Lihue Association, Patagonia, Argentina,

Alfred Felix Perez Aruaza, Environmental Strategic Research Council, Uruguay=
,
Alfredo Felix Perez Aruaza, Instituto de Estudios Estrategicos No Alineado
Para la Paz Mundial, Uruguay,
Eusebio Garcia Varela, Mesa Ambientista de San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay,
Blanca Nivia Peirano, Corporacion Nacional de Ecologia y Turismo del Uruguay=
,
Gonzalo Ciganda, Instituto Naval de Arqueologica Subaciutica e
Investigaciones Marinas del Uruguay,
Psilink Uruguay,
Mesa Social Coordinadora de NGO Independientes del Uruguay,
Geovision Tercer Milenio,
Grupo de Derechos Civiles del Uruguay,
Comision Nacional de Solidaridad Uruguayo-Argentino,
=46elix Perez  Aruaza, South American Peace Committee, Uruguay,

S. P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and Research,
Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India,
Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Dr. Ronald Mc Coy, Chair, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War (IPPNW),
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,

Siti Maimunah, Kappala Indonesia, East Java, Indonesia.,
Syafryzaldi, Walhi Sumbar, Padang, Indonesia.,
Rally Syumanda, deputy Director, ULAYAT, Bengkulu, Indonesia.,
Tanty Thamrin, Yayasan Pendidikan Rakyat Bulukumbu, Sulawesi, Indonesia,
Berry Nahdian Forquian, Executive Director, Yayasan Cakrawala Hijau
Indonesia, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Iwamatsu Shigetoshi, Chair, Japan Congress Against A and H Bombs
(Gensuikin) Tokyo, Japan,
Hiro Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
Disarmament and Security (PCDS), Japan.,
Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
(JPPNW), Hiroshima, Japan,

Youk Kyung Sook, Coordinator, Green Korea United, Seoul, S. Korea,
Chauyen Lai Shrestha, President, Youth Alliance for Development,
Kathmandhu, Nepal,

Senator Doug Roche, Senator,  Ottowa, Canada.,
Niel Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival,(PGS) Canada.,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear
Responsibility,(CCNR), Canada,
Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public
Health,(IICPH) Toronto, Canada.,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Canada.,
Dr. Joan Russow, National Leader,  Green Party of Canada, Victoria, BC.,
Dave Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon Chapter,
Dr. Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver,
Linda Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Sask, Canada,
Niel Sinclair, New Green Alliance, Sask, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada,
Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President, Dr. Penelope Simons, Vice-President,
The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Carol Hodgson, Coordinator, OPIRG-Carleton, Ottowa, Canada.,
Jacques Boucher, Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada,
Project Peacemakers, Winnipeg, Canada,
Edward H. Schaffer, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms(VANA), Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jr, US Navy (Retd), Vice-President, Centre
for Defence Information,(CDI) Washington, USA.,
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Program Director, Federation of American
Scientists, (FAS), NY,
Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program Analyst, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore,
Calif., USA.,
Alice Slater, President, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment
(GRACE) NY, USA,
Michael Marriott, Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
(NIRS), Washington, USA.,
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA.,
Ellen Thomas, Executive Director, Proposition One Committee, Washington
DC., USA.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR), Washington DC, USA.,
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
Gainesville, Florida.,
Randall Forsberg, Director, Institute for Defence and Disarmament Studies,
Cambridge, Mass,
Michael D. Intriligator, Vice-Chair, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction
(ECAAR), UCLA, USA.,
Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Director, HOME, Tecopa, Calif..,
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountains Conference,
United Church of Christ, Colorado, USA.,
Rev H.J. Grapes, Sanctuary of Light Healing and Spiritual Centre, NY., USA.,
Don Reeves, General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,
Ruah Swennenfeldt/Stan Becker Clerk, Friends Committee on Unity with
Nature, Burlington Vermont USA.,
Steve Willey, Sandpoint Friends Meeting, Idaho, USA.,
Rev. William J. Morton SSC, Coordinator, Columban Mission Office, El Paso,
Texas, USA.,
Rev Leland P. Stewart, Unity-and Diversity World Council, Los Angeles, CA.,
Lori Redhair-Martin, Planetary Transformations, Grover Beach, CA, USA.,
Ross Mc Cluney PhD, Principal Research Scientist, Florida Solar Energy
Centre, Florida,(pers. capy)
Mark Colby, Office Manager, Solar Energy International, Colo, USA.,
John Reese, Community Action Network, Seattle, Wash, USA.,
Terry Gips, President, Alliance for Sustainability, Minneapolis, Mn,USA.,
John M. Laforge, 'Nukewatch', Wisconsin, USA.,
Paige Knight, Hanford Watch, Portland, Ore, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Grandmothers for Peace International, Calif..,
Alan Moore, Peace and Justice Commission, City of Berkley,
Alan Moore, Patch Adams Peace and Justice Centre,
Alan Moore, Butterfly Gardeners Association,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Phyllis S. Yingling, Chair, Kay Camp, Former Chair, Womens International
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA.,
Yoshiko Ikuta President, Women Speak out for Peace and
Justice,(WILPF-Cleveland), Cleveland Ohio,
Margo Schepart, Coordinator, NO ESCAPE, NY, USA.,
Lynn Sims, Don't Waste Oregon, Portland, Ore, USA.,
Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Shelburne, Mass, USA.,
Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project, Livermore, USA.,
Mary Byrd-Davis, Yggdrassil Institute, Georgetown, KY, USA.,
Paul Williams, Green Party of New Jersey, Atlantic City, NJ.,
Samara Dun, Just Act: Youth Action for Global Justice, San Francisco,
Calif., USA.,
Corrinne Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich, USA.,
Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Monroe, Mich.,
Keith Gunter, Citizens Resistance at Fermi-Two, Monroe, Michigan,
John M. Laforge, Nukewatch, Wisconsin, USA.,
Mary-Anne Zepettello, Peace Action Central New York.,
Susan Shaer, Womens Action for New Directions, (WAND), Arlington, MA, USA.,
Lt-Col WC Holmberg (Retd), President, Global Biorefineries, Wash, DC.,
Tracy Moavero, Peace Action Education Fund, USA.,
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA, Brooklyn, NY., USA.,
Corbin Harney, Shundahai Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.,
Jon Naar, New York Solar Coalition,
Steve Jambeck/Joan Flynn, Envirovideo, Queens, NY.,
Motoki Hashima., President, American University Coalition for a
Nuclear-Free World, American University, Washington DC.,
Alfred L. Marder, President, United States Peace Council,
Joanie Misrack, Pathways to Peace, Larkspur, CA., USA.,
Diane Bader, Grandmothers for Peace, Wilton, CA, USA.,
Dr Kathleen Sullivan, Project EDNA (Engaged Democracy for the Nuclear Age),
Brooklyn, NY, USA.,
Marcus P. Blaise-Paige, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Las Vegas,
Nev/Calif, USA,
Sandi Brockway, President/Founder, Macrocosm USA., Ca, USA.,
Richard L. Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Honolulu, Hawaii,
USA.,

Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ., Auckland, NZ,
Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, (DSC), Christchurch, NZ.,
Dr. R. E. White, Deputy Director, Centre for Peace Studies, University of
Auckland, NZ.,
Jim Holdom, CORSO, Hamilton, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, Secy, Dame Laurie Salas,  WILPF-Aotearoa, Wellington,
NZ/Aotearoa
Leona Fay, Womens International League for Peace (WILPF), Christchurch, NZ,
Carol-Anne Bradford, Coalition for Gun Control, Auckland, NZ.,
Richard Frizzell, Nelson Peace Group, Nelson, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Gerry Coates, Founder, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Wellington, NZ.,
Larry Ross, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, Christchurch,
NZ.,
Ian Shearer, Sustainable Energy Forum, Wellington, New Zealand,
Stewart Sontier, FAIR-NZ, Auckland, NZ.,
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition 2000 NZ.,
Dame Laurie Salas, National Consultative Committee on Disarmament NZ.,
John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa, Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Kieth Locke, MP, Greens, Aotearoa/NZ

Dr. Carmen Lawrence MP, ALP Federal Member for Fremantle, W.A.,
Anthony Albanese MP, ALP Federal Member for Grayndler, NSW.,
Tanya Plibersek, ALP Federal Member for Sydney, NSW.,
Allan Morris MP, ALP Federal Member for Newcastle, NSW.,
Daryl Melham MP, ALP Federal Member for Banks, NSW.,
Kelly Hoare MP, ALP Federal Member for Charlton, NSW,
Warren Snowdon MP, ALP Federal Member for the Northern Territory,
Jan Mc Farlane, ALP Federal Member for Stirling, W.A.,
Colin Hollis, ALP Federal Member for Throsby, NSW.,
Senator Bob Brown, Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson for the Democrats,
Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW,
Senator Chris Schacht, ALP Senator for SA.,
Senator Brian Grieg, Democrat Senator for W.A.,
Cheryl Davenport, MLC, Member for South Metropolitan, W.A.,
Norm Kelly MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A.,
Lee Rhiannon MLC (Greens) NSW.,
Richard Jones MLC, (Ind) NSW.,
Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens Member for Molonglo ACT,
Don Nardella MLA, ALP Member for Melton, Vic.,
Gis Watson MLC, Member for North Metropolitan, W.A.,
Ralph Clark, ALP State Member for Ross Smith, SA.,
Robyn Geraghty, ALP State Member for Torrens, SA.,
=46rank Pangallo, Mayor, Queenbeyan City Council,
Gareth Smith, Nuclear Disarmament Party, Vic.,
Dr. Susan Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW)
Canberra,
Dr Rachel Darken, MAPW Queensland,
Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA,
Babs Fuller-Quinn, Australian Peace Committee Sydney,
Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum,
Doreen Burrows, South Coast Peace Committee,
George Gotsis, Greek Peace Committee, (Sydney)
Brian Miller, Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney
Jo Vallentine, People For Nuclear Disarmament (PND) W.A.,
Scientists and Technologists Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND) W.A.,
Robin Chapple, Anti-Nuclear Alliance of W.A.,
Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign,
Denis Doherty, Pax Christi NSW
Reverend Professor James Haire, President, Uniting Church in Australia,
Rev. Greg Thompson, St Johns Anglican Church Darlinghurst, NSW.,
Anne Wharton, Christians for Peace, Darwin, NT.,
Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament,
(CICD) Melb, Vic.,
Jacob Grech, Earthworker, Trades Hall, Melb.,
Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology Australia,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory
(ECNT), Darwin, NT,
Rowena Skinner, Environment Centre of W.A.(ECWA), Perth, W.A.,
Glenn Marshall, Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Alice Springs, NT.,
Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF),
Melb.,
Alec Marr, Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society,(TWS), Canberra,
Hon. Dr Doug Everingham, Member, NCCPD, Qld,
Margaret Reynolds, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA),
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney,
Australia,

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
=46ax (61)(2)9517-3902  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd





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