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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:33:25 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) "New Berlin Wall Issue", O'Leary: why not Gore and why Nader --

Brian O'Leary, PhD, was science and energy policy advisor to four US
presidential candidates before he found out about the new energy
technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power (see
http://www.egroups.com/group/strategic-plan for overviews) and the need for
widespread hemp cultivation to ameliorate both global climate change and the
ozone layer depletion threatening destruction of all the oceanic
phytoplankton (the beginning of the oceanic food-chain and over half of
Earth's oxygen supply) by the year 2008 according to Project Earth
projections of 1988 said on target in 1997 by Adam Trombly
http://www.projectearth.com

O'Leary has since written several books on new science and consciousness
topics including Miracle in the Void about these technologies, the foreword
to Jeane Manning's overview on these called The Coming Energy Revolution,
and they are featured in his upcoming book along with a chapter promoting
hemp to save the environment by its widespread cultivation for all its
economic uses/incentives.
His website is http://www.maui.net/~oleary

Dr. O'Leary was one of the featured speakers at Global Peace Walk 2000's
"Global Crisis Solutions Conference" at his Alma Mater, UC Berkeley, on
March 1, 1999, along with former LAPD narcotics officer Michael Ruppert
whose research on the CIA involvement in the hard drug trade has recently
been excerpted by the national press on an increasing basis.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gcsc2.html

Ruppert maintains this rampant institutionalize corruption has compromise to
the core both the Democratic and Republican Parties.  His writings may be
found at http://www.copvcia.com and http://www.suppressedwriters.com

Below is info on latest ciadrugs symposium, in Los Angeles on Sept 23, and
O'Leary's commentary on related Nader v. Gore v. Bush factors in this year's
presidential race.


From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
To: "Brian O'Leary"
Cc: "Ralph Nader" <[e-mail]>;
"Nader2000- Carolyn Danckaert" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: elect Nader!
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:06 AM

Brian,

It is great that Nader is taking up the hemp and new energy issues and that
you are supporting his campaign and comparing his winning the White House to
the Berlin Wall coming down.

The still-missing ingredient in his campaign that can actually knock down
this wall of secrecy and corruption to put Nader in the White House is his
public championing of the need to end the CIA involvement in the hard drug
trade, such involvement that was actually acknowledged by the DoJ Inspector
General's report volume II -- although that report was whitewashed recently
by the House Select Intelligence Committee (what a name :-)

[kind of like "selective hearing" or hearing only what you want to hear?]

There will be the second national symposium on this issue coming in LA on
Sept23 and I am copying this to Nader's office in hopes that their people
will be there to get the details on how vast is this corruption in terms of
its financial influences deep to the core of democratic and republican
parties.   References and details are at http://www.copvcia.com ,
http://www.suppressedwriters.com , and on the symposia at
http://www.cia-drugs.org/



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian O'Leary"
To: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: elect Nader!


> Dear David,
>
> I'll have to be succinct:
>
> First, I am so totally fed up with media pundits who
> have convinced my very best friends that "a vote for
> Nader is a vote for Bush".  That's like going for the
> first lifeboat in the Titanic rather than warning the
> captain about the iceberg.
>
> I have a thousand reasons not to vote for Gore; gosh,
> they're so obvious.  He stands for business as usual,
> and for him to revert to the Earth in Balance after
> all is said and done is like smoking opium--wishful
> thinking.  Mr. Gore wants a bigger defense
> budget--why, is way beyond me.  He supports a new
> pipeline to the pristene Arctic Wildlife Refuge.  He
> touts Kyoto, which is too little too late anyway, and
> knows the U.S. Senate wouldn't ratify it anyway.  In
> short, he's more of the same old stuff while the
> Titanic sinks.  His quest for the media-perceived
> political middle is a plan to rearrange the deck
> chairs.  His political middle is like right wing
> republicanism during my old Udall days in Congress
> during the 1970s.  Mr. Gore is a superhawk for World
> Trade and I vehemently oppose him and his almost every
> policy, including the environment, in which he is
> silent.  I'm discgusted with the whole thing.
>
> In contrast I heard Ralph Nader give an impassioned
> speech about the environment, about labor, about
> justice, and about the public role long missing in
> policymaking.  His talk was excellently researched and
> sourced.  He has all the right qualifications to be
> President, excellent track record in Washington, and
> most of all, won't be bought out like all the other
> clowns, of whom I have the lowest opinion I've perhaps
> ever had of politicians in my sixty years here.  He
> has recently come out publically and strongly pro-hemp
> (calling present laws "medieval") and is listening to
> all new energy options, ending once and for all the
> special interests of the oil and military-industrial
> lobbies.  He's sharp, articulate, and yes, even
> passionately charismatic on stage.  He's our man.
>
> So, I ask your network to help me promote this man
> into the Oval Office.  I'll stump for him passionately
> and tirelessly.  My travels take me to eastern
> Colorado this week, to Houston, this weekend, back
> here to do the book, then on Oct. 26 or so to Florida.
>  The Fla. trip could be combined with D.C. either
> before or after my gigs.  But I'll need others to join
> me; it's not an alone job.  I need co-workers who
> believe with me that only Nader can make a difference;
> that Gore is too effete for the job that needs to be
> done here.  Even a strong Nader showing could lead to
> victory in 2004; if per chance he's a Gore spoiler,
> let Mr. Bush stumble us into a need for Mr. Nader
> next.
>
> Let's do it!  I'm starting with a speech to the Forum
> on Converting to a Hydrogen Economy in Ft. Collins
> this Friday.  We need a charismatic team to get this
> man into the Oval Office, then we'll get change.
>
> Brian
>
>

**
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:54:20 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nader opposes Yucca Mountain

NADER 2000
Press Release
SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
CONTACT:  Jake Lewis or Laura Jones
[phone]

NADER DENOUNCES PLAN TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE IN NEVADA

LAS VEGAS, NV, Sept. 15--Ralph Nader today denounced plans to transport
70,000 tons of nuclear waste to a permanent storage site in Nevada=92s
Yucca Mountain 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Nader said the project puts at risk the health and safety of 50 million
people in 43 states who would be in the path of the cross-country
nuclear waste transports.  He said each truck could hold up to 40 times
the long-lasting, deadly radiation that was released by the Hiroshima
bomb.  If the waste is transported by rail, a single train cask could
hold more than 200 times the radiation released at Hiroshima.

Nader, the Green Party candidate for President, warned that the
Department of Energy and the nuclear power industry are intensifying
efforts to get the Yucca Mountain site approved.  He noted that DOE had
recently attempted to persuade Congress to strip the State of Nevada of
its power to enforce federal and state environmental and other
regulations.  The state government opposes the project on the basis of
concerns about the public health, safety, environmental and financial
risks. There is also concern about fairness to Western Shoshone whose
land would be occupied by the project.

Nader said he agreed with local groups which are arguing that it is in
public=92s best interest to keep the country=92s nuclear waste on site
instead of transporting it across the nation to Nevada. The sites around
the nation where the waste is currently located have been licensed for
nuclear reactors and this should mean that they are on solid, stable
ground with no serious earthquake risks.

In contrast, Nader said, the Yucca Mountain site is affected by geologic
faulting. As recently as 1992 an earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale
struck an area less than 12 miles south of Yucca Mountain followed by
several hundred aftershocks.

Nader said the major push for the nuclear repository comes from
lobbyists for the nuclear industry who are nervous about keeping the
waste on their property and retaining liability for accidents.

=93It is much more to the advantage of these corporations to abdicate
their responsibility by turning the waste over to the federal government
and letting it be a problem for Nevada,=94 Nader said.

     ###

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Tom Adkins
Assistant Press Secretary
Nader 2000
P.O. Box 18002
Washington, DC 20036
ph) 202-265-4000 ext.21
fax) 202-265-0183
cell) 202-345-1215




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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:09:15 -0400
From: Stacy Malkan <[e-mail]>
Organization: Nader 2000
To: press lists <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Press]Judge orders West Virginia to put Nader/LaDuke on ballot

Press Release
September 15, 2000
CONTACT:  Jake Lewis or Stacy Malkan
[phone]

JUDGE ORDERS STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA TO PUT RALPH NADER AND WINONA LADUKE
ON BALLOT

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, September 15 =AD Federal District Court Judge
Charles H. Haden, II today granted a preliminary injunction that orders
the state of West Virginia to put Green Party presidential candidate
Ralph Nader and vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke on the
November ballot.

=93This is a victory not only for the First Amendment and the Nader
campaign, but most importantly for the voters of West Virginia, who will
now have a real choice at the polls this November,=94 said Nader=92s
campaign manager Theresa Amato.

The ruling is a victory of the First Amendment right of free
association, which was threatened by West Virginia=92s burdensome
requirement that petition circulators must be registered voters of the
state. =93The public interest is best served by unrelenting protection of
the First Amendment rights of all its citizens,=94 Judge Haden wrote in
the decision, which also said that the Nader campaign=92s complaint
against West Virginia raised =93serious and substantial questions of law=94
in regard to the state=92s ballot-access requirements.

The state recently raised the bar for ballot access by increasing the
required number of signatures from one percent of the votes cast in the
last election to two percent, a requirement that went into effect in the
midst of the current election cycle. Thus, the state required
third-party candidates to turn in 6,365 signatures prior to June 11,
1999, or 12,730 signatures after that date. Nader supporters turned in
7,111 valid signatures after the cutoff date.

The campaign argued that being barred from using regular, experienced
circulators from other states unreasonably handicapped efforts to
satisfy the new, higher signature requirement.

Lawyers for the campaign also argued that West Virginia=92s two-percent
requirement is one of the most burdensome ballot-access laws in the
country. The West Virginia lawsuit was filed on the Nader campaign's
behalf by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

=93I=92m very pleased with the judge=92s ruling,=94 Nader said from Nevada,
where he is on a campaign tour. =93Most of the state ballot access laws
are crafted to make it as difficult as possible for anyone other than
those with the blessing of the Democratic and Republican parties to put
their names before the voters.=94

- - MORE -
Nader is currently on the ballot in 44 states. A recent court victory in
Illinois led to Nader=92s inclusion on the ballot in that state, and the
campaign is awaiting a decision on a lawsuit in South Dakota.

=93Our ability to overcome the ballot-access barriers in state after state
speaks to the amazing grassroots support behind this campaign, support
that is much more tangible and significant than people just answering
poll questions over the phone,=94 Amato said. =93We=92re bringing this=
 energy
straight to the polls in November and plan to blow every poll prediction

out of the water.=94

Nader=92s inclusion on the West Virginia ballot is significant to local
voters, because Nader is talking about issues the other candidates won=92t
touch, Amato said. When Nader campaigned in Charleston in May, Nader
criticized mountaintop removal, which he called a prime example of the
problem of unchecked corporate control over our political system.

Mountain top removal is the technique in which the tops of Appalachian
mountain tops are literally blown away with dynamite to reach coal seams
below, dumping rubble into the water ways, burning thousands of miles of
streams in Appalachia and destroying one of the most productive
temperate forests in the world. Nader denounced government decisions
that have considered the profits of absentee corporations over the needs
of the environment and West Virginians.

###

Paid for by the Nader 2000 General Committee, Inc.
PO Box 18002 =A8 Washington, DC 20036 =A8 www.votenader.org =A8 (202)=
 265-4000
=A8 fax [phone]


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Stacy Malkan
Assistant Press Secretary
Nader 2000 Campaign
202.265.4000 ext. 42
202.265.0183 (fax)
www.votenader.org

Paid for by the Nader 2000 General Committee, Inc.
P.O. Box 18002, Washington, D.C. 20036






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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:02:28 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) TV program on History of Nonviolence

According to a column by Nat Hentoff, PBS is showing a documentary on:

                       Sunday Nights September 18 and 25
            A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict

Narrated by Ben Kingsley, it covers Gandhi, American civil rights leader
Rev. James Lawson and anti-apartheid activist Mkhuseli Jack.  Another
section covers Lech Walesa and Solidarity, anti-Pinochet activist Sergio
Bitar and the Danish resistance to the Nazis.  Hentoff, himself an
activist and author of a biography of minister and non-violent activist
A.J. Muste, speaks glowingly of the program.

Peace,
Frank Dworak

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:04:22 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) correction - date of TV program

CORRECTION:

The PBS special on a century of nonviolence is NOT on Sunday nights...it
is actually Monday nights
(September 18 and 25 - as reported earlier).  The original message I
passed on was in error.

Please check your local TV listings for time.

Frank Dworak

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:12:58 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: ALERT!  Now you can fax directly to Congress from our site!

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:13:02 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy

The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy
A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000
Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue


     The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College is hosting
this major, national conference.  The co-sponsors are the Nation Institute
and the Office of Continuing Education of the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Financial support for the conference has been provided by the Ford
Foundation, Lifebridge Foundation, the Simons Foundation, a number of
individual donors, as well as many small but vital contributions from members
of the Center on Violence and Human Survival.  This description is still
preliminary and some changes may occur during October and November, though
the program is mostly in place.  For specific information, contact Charles B.
Strozier, Center Co-Director, at [e-mail], but to register for
the conference itself see the information at the end of this message.  Please
share this email widely with your colleagues and friends.

     The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing
regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general public,
as well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to American and
international security.

     There are many possible ways to awaken civil society about the issue of
nuclear threat.  The strategy we are adopting in this conference is to focus
on the audience we know best, the academy, which once served as the principle
arena for the generation of critical new ideas about nuclear weapons.  The
university, we believe, should be the place where committed scholars and
students reflect-and act--on the moral, philosophical, and psychological
meanings of nuclear weapons.  Growing concerns within universities between
the 1950s and 1970s helped create a generation of activism that peaked in the
1980s.  Now there is a general torpor among young people and few scholars are
seriously reflecting on the issue.  We seek to break through the silence and
to arouse intellectual energies in ways that will connect university concerns
with national policy.  We hope to help create the next generation of student
and faculty activism.


The Conference Program

     Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, will address the
conference at a special session late Friday afternoon, November 17.  There
may be other prominent public figures as well who will participate in the
conference.  For the rest, a series of panels will be organized around
significant topics.  We will include on each panel those who have thought
deeply about nuclear weapons, along  with colleagues who have not focused on
the subject but are interested in joining the conversation.  Workshops will
be led by younger faculty and activists and will explore specific topics.




Human Confusions About Contemporary Weapons (Friday morning, Nov. 17))

     The first panel will begin with a presentation by Robert Jay Lifton on
"The New Psychic Numbing."  Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and
Director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival.  He has been writing
about nuclear threat for nearly half a century, including his classic study,
Death in Life, and, more recently, Destroying the World to Save It, and (with
Greg Mitchell) Hiroshima In America.

     One panelist is Zia Mian of the Center for Energy and Environmental
Studies, Princeton University, and the author of Making Enemies, Creating
Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society, and (with Ashis Nandy), The
Nuclear Debate.  Mian joins a background in physics with one in journalism, a
familiarity with the sub-continent, and a passionate commitment to peace.

     The second panelist (probable) is Patricia Williams, Professor of Law,
Columbia University Law School.  Williams is one of the country's leading
essayists and writes a regular column on issues of politics and social
justice for the Nation.  She is the author of The Rooster's Egg and The
Alchemy of Race and Rights.

     The third  panelist is Todd Gitlin, professor in the departments of
culture and communication, journalism, and sociology at New York University
and one of the leading interpreters of contemporary culture.  Gitlin is the
author of, among other works, the classic history of the 1960s, The Sixties:
Years of Hope, Days of Rage, and, more recently, The Twilight of Common
Dreams, as well as two novels, The Murder of Albert Einstein and Sacrifice: A
Novel.  From 1992 to 1999, Gitlin was a biweekly columnist for the New York
Observer.

     James Oakes, professor and chair of the history department of the CUNY
Graduate Center, will chair the session.  Oakes has written Slavery and
Freedom and The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders.


Lunch which is optional and at an additional, though nominal, fee.  Speaker
to be announced.



The Second Nuclear Age (early Friday afternoon, Nov. 17)

     The second panel will begin with a presentation by Jonathan Schell on
"The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons."  Schell teaches at Wesleyan University
and is at the forefront of those thinking in new ways about the world after
the end of the cold war.  He has also been instrumental in conceptualizing
this conference.  Schell recently wrote "The Folly of Arms Control" for
Foreign Affairs, and is the author of The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition,
and The Gift of Time.  He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker.

     One panelist is Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of
International Law and Practice at Princeton University.  Falk is one of the
most important and informed voices about nuclear threat among specialists in
international relations.  Two of his most recent of numerous books are Law in
an Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective and Predatory
Globalization: A Critique.

     The other panelist is Craig Wolff, a professor in the Columbia School of
Journalism.  For many years Wolff was a staff writer for the New York Times
and won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Twin Towers bombing, was
commended for his stories of the Tawana Brawley case, and well known for his
scores of other articles.

     The chair of the session will be Lawrence Wittner, professor of history
at SUNY/Albany. Wittner is writing a three-volume history of the antinuclear
movement of which two volumes have appeared: Resisting the Bomb and One World
or None.



Presidents Panel (late afternoon, Friday, Nov. 17)

     The central challenge of the conference is to figure out ways of
redirecting the academy toward a serious consideration of nuclear threat.
This "President's Panel" convenes several university presidents to address
this issue from the point of view of academic and institutional leadership.
In 1945 Robert Hutchins supported the continuing discussion of nuclear threat
and world peace by concerned Chicago scientists such as Eugene Rabinowitch
and Hyman Goldsmith, along with scholars such as Edward Shils.  Hutchins
followed their conversations, decided it was important for the University of
Chicago to take a lead on this issue, and was himself instrumental in
bringing the attention of the whole world to this issue.  It is exactly this
kind of interaction between universities and national consciousness that this
panel will address.

     The panel will be chaired by Frances Degen Horowitz, president of the
Graduate Center of CUNY.  Other members of the panel include Barbara Mosberg,
president of Goddard College;  Peter Gabel, president of the New College of
California; and Christopher Breiseth, president of Wilkes University in
Pennsylvania.


Special Session (5:30-6:15, Friday, November 17): Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.


Evening Panel: Stars Wars (NMD) and A Human Future (Friday, Nov. 17)

     This discussion will begin with a presentation by Theodore Postol,
Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, MIT.  Postol
has been a fearless critic of the continuing NMD program from among those
with technical scientific knowledge of how it works, or doesn't.  He has
written many articles and reports and a book, with Altmann and Morel,
Anti-Tactical Missile Defenses and West European Security.
     The second panelist will be Frances Fitzgerald, author of the remarkable
book about President Ronald Reagan and the history of Star Wars, Way Out
There in the Blue.  Fitzgerald is a widely respected journalist and the
author, as well, of Cities on a Hill and Fire In the Lake.

     The other panelist will be Rolf Ekeus, former Swedish Ambassador to the
United States and before that Executive Chairman of the United Nations
Special Commission for Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1997.  He was a member of
the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo
Forum on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.  He received the Wateler
Peace Prize from the Carnegie Foundation in 1997 and has published articles
and essays on foreign policy, international economy, nuclear and chemical
weapons, and disarmament and arms control.


Saturday Workshops (Saturday morning, November 18)

     A number of simultaneous two-hour workshop sessions will led by younger
faculty and activists on topics including:  The Legality and Morality of
Nuclear Weapons (John Burroughs and Alan Lichterman);  Gender and Weapons
(Myriam Miedziam);  Teaching an Antinuclear Curriculum (Michael Flynn and
John Broughton);  Developing an Antinuclear Movement;  Nuclear Weapons and
the Environment (Karl Grossman);  Creating Coalitions Between Antinuclear and
Social Justice Movements (Merav Datan and Kevin Martin);  Nuclear Weapons and
the War System (Diane Perlman);  Following the Money Trail of Nuclear Weapons
(Stephen Schwartz).



Nuclear Ethics and Citizen Responsibility

     This panel will begin by a statement by Randall Forsberg, "Weapons and
the People."  Forsberg is the director of the Institute for Defense and
Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of
Nonproliferation Primer and Arms Control in the New Era.

     One panelist is Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at
Princeton University.  Singer has helped re-shape contemporary ethical
thinking about many issues and is the author, among other books, of Democracy
and Disobedience, How Are We To Live? and Animal Liberation.

     The other panelist is David Tracy, Distinguished Service Professor, The
Divinity School of the University of Chicago.  Tracy's is a leading voice of
humanism among Catholic theologians and the author of Plurality and Ambiguity
and The Analogical Imagination.

     The chair of the panel is Jennifer Simons, the President of The Simons
Foundation in Vancouver, Canada.  Simons has taken an important role in the
funding of grassroots efforts to develop a consciousness of nuclear threat.
Her foundation produced a video, "Countdown to Hope," and she has
participated in many United Nations forums and programs.
Registration

     Registration for the conference is being handled by the Office of
Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
While the conference is free, a contribution of $35 would help defray our
costs.  Lunch on Friday is optional but costs $11 and payment must be
received in advance.  We ask that you register for the conference, as space
will be limited.

     Mail your registration form and check if there is one to "Continuing
Education and Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY," 365 Fifth Avenue,
Suite 8111, New York NY 10016-4309.  You may also call the office and pay
with your credit card: [phone] or email at [e-mail].
Please also check our web site, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/.  Remember to
request a free catalog of additional programs on topics such as:
Globalization, Genetic Engineering, Woman & Incarceration, Participatory
Design, and much more.

     The conference itself will begin at 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 17, at
the Graduate Center of CUNY, located at the corner of 34th Street and Fifth
Avenue, across from the Empire State Building.  It can be reached by the N,
R, B, D, F, 1, 9, 2, 3, or A, C, E to 34th Street, and the 6 to 33rd Street.
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:45:10 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/20 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

[NucNews archives are posted through September 10, 2000 --
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 20, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
.http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000920211633.htm

    Transnational organized-crime conference =97 all day =97Jane's=
 Information
Group holds a conference, "Transnational Organized Crime." Location: Ronald
Reagan Building/International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.=
 Contact:
703/683-3700, Ext. 204.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush and Al Gore - unknown

- - Ralph Nader -=20
        - Wednesday, Sept 20,=20
        1:00 PM - Milwaukee, WI - Rally with Ralph Nader and Michael Moore,=
 UW
Milwaukee University, Student Union=20
        5:00 PM - Madison, WI - Reception with Ralph Nader and Michael=
 Moore,
Madison Civic Center, Starlight Room, 211 State Street, RSVP to Robert
McChesney (mailto:[e-mail])
        7:00 PM -  "A Wisconsin Night with Nader" Rally for Open Debates,=
 With
Ralph Nader, Ed Garvey, and Michael Moore, Followed by The Great=
 Mobilization:
DJs, Bands, & Videos, Orpheum, 216 State Street

NADER DENOUNCES PLAN TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE IN NEVADA
        LAS VEGAS, NV, Sept. 15--Ralph Nader today denounced plans to=
 transport
70,000 tons of nuclear waste to a permanent storage site in Nevada=92s Yucca
Mountain 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.Nader said the project puts at risk
the health and safety of 50 million people in 43 states who would be in the
path of the cross-country nuclear waste transports. He said each truck could
hold up to 40 times the long-lasting, deadly radiation that was released by=
 the
Hiroshima bomb. If the waste is transported by rail, a single train cask=
 could
hold more than 200 times the radiation released at Hiroshima.
        Nader, the Green Party candidate for President, warned that the
Department of Energy and the nuclear power industry are intensifying efforts=
 to
get the Yucca Mountain site approved. He noted that DOE had recently=
 attempted
to persuade Congress to strip the State of Nevada of its power to enforce
federal and state environmental and other regulations. The state government
opposes the project on the basis of concerns about the public health,=
 safety,
environmental and financial risks. There is also concern about fairness to
Western Shoshone whose land would be occupied by the project.
        Nader said he agreed with local groups which are arguing that it is=
 in
public=92s best interest to keep the country=92s nuclear waste on site=
 instead of
transporting it across the nation to Nevada. The sites around the nation=
 where
the waste is currently located have been licensed for nuclear reactors and=
 this
should mean that they are on solid, stable ground with no serious earthquake
risks.
        In contrast, Nader said, the Yucca Mountain site is affected by
geologic
faulting. As recently as 1992 an earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale=
 struck
an area less than 12 miles south of Yucca Mountain followed by several=
 hundred
aftershocks.
        Nader said the major push for the nuclear repository comes from
lobbyists for the nuclear industry who are nervous about keeping the waste=
 on
their property and retaining liability for accidents. "It is much more to=
 the
advantage of these corporations to abdicate=20
their responsibility by turning the waste over to the federal government=20
and letting it be a problem for Nevada,=94 Nader said.

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Implementing Plan Colombia: The U.S. Role
DATE: Thursday, September 21, 2000, TIME: 9:30 AM
OPEN meeting of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere to be held=
 in
Room 2172 Rayburn HOB

- - Don't forget September 28th is International Nix-MOX Action Day.  Please=
 sign
and send the following statement to: mailto:[e-mail] (Mary
Olson). Questions? call 828-251-2060 - http://www.nirs.org/mox/moxtrit.htm -
NIRS home page: http://www.nirs.org/

- - INVITATION TO ISSUE AN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO PRAYER, FASTING AND ACTION=
 FOR
PEACE IN VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO =96 OCTOBER 2, 2000
        This date marks Gandhi=92s birthday and is the day following a=
 "Grand
March" in Vieques. It also takes place just as the U.S. Navy plans another
round of bombing. Many who signed the June 28 letter, including religious
leaders in Puerto Rico, have already decided to co-sponsor this call. The
invitation is open to all who want to co-sponsor.
        Please inform us by Thursday, September 21 if you plan to be part
of the
initial group of leaders and others who issue the call. We will announce the
call in a Press Conference across from the White House soon thereafter.
Forthcoming announcements will be made as more sponsors sign-on.=20
        For more information contact: Fast for Justice and Peace in Vieques,
Puerto Rico,=20
1804 S Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20009, tel: [phone], fax:
202-328-0627

- - You are invited to the Great Basin Nuclear Free Gathering=20
October 6TH - 9TH, 2000, Peace Camp - Newe Sogobia=20
Across from the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles Northwest of
Las Vegas, NV, Mercury Exit off Hwy 95.=20
For more information please call: 702-647-3095=20
Sponsored By: Shundahai=20
Network, and Citizen Alert=20
http://www.shundahai.org/great_basin_2k.html

- - CALL Gore Campaign HQ - Nashville, TN - 615-341-0230, 615-340-2000
and Democratic National Committee HQ - Washington DC, 202-863-8000
WHAT TO SAY:
Stop bombing Iraq! Bombing Iraq will not help Gore out in the polls, and=
 could
embarrass him with coordinated, noviolent protests at Gore Campaign HQs=
 across
the country. The Democratic party should think twice if they believe killing
thousands of Iraqi civilians will help elect their candidate President.=
 [From:
"Ramsey Kysia" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Fax Congress your objections to radiating food --=20
Now available on the Public Citizen web site is a way for you to send faxes
directly to Congress at no cost to you. By going to the following page:=20
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm=20

- - Ever wonder where the peace symbol came from?  CND -
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/pea-cnd.html

- - And while you're at it, have you seen Shundahai's website lately?  Good=
 work,
guys!  Especially liked the picture of Ralph Nader and Corbin Harney.  Had=
 no
idea Ralph was so tall.  http://www.shundahai.org/

- - RAND Report summary on Plutonium
For those of us looking at the "inextriciable link" between nuclear weapons=
=20
and nuclear power, here's an interesting publication. [Alice Slater
<mailto:[e-mail]>]
http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB7405/index.html

- - Deregulation for Dollars details the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
Nuclear Energy Institute's plans for gutting nuclear safety regulations.=20
Now you can view Deregulation for Dollars on our website at this address:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/nuclearsafety/dereg%20pamphlet.PDF=20
The pamphlet is saved in Adobe Acrobat. You can download Adobe Acrobat for=
 free
at=20
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
[From: "Noel Petrie" <mailto:[e-mail]>]



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Quick Route to U.S. Congress:
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Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
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(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
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