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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:47:27 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/25 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, September 25, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000925212645.htm

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - Oregon
        11:50 a.m. - One-on-one discussion of current education recession,
Bethany Elementary School, 3305 NW 174th Street, Beaverton, Oregon 97006,=
 (503)
533-1810=20
        5:30 p.m. - Airport Rally, Spokane International Airport, Spokane
Airways Flight Center, 3817 South Davison, Spokane, Washington 99224, (509)
747-2017=20

- - Al Gore - Unknown

- - Ralph Nader - This Week
        - Monday, Sept 25 - Washington, DC
    Nader 2000 news conference =97 1:30 p.m. =97 Nader 2000 holds a news=
 conference
with Ralph Nader, Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica; Lois
Gibbs of Love Canal Homeowners; and other prominent endorsers. Location:=
 Zenger
Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. Contact: 202/265-0183.
        - Tuesday, Sept 26 -
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, Leland Room,
Downtown Hilton and Towers (1 North 2nd Street), Harrisburg, PA
        3:00 - 5:00 PM - Pittsburgh, PA - Dinner and reception with Ralph
Nader,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Shadyside. RSVP to Paul Colaiaco,=
 412-951-6181
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Nader Speech on Globalization and Free Trade: The
Human
Perspective Rangos Ballroom, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA
        - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - East Liverpool, OH
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, East Liverpool
School Administration Building, 500 Maryland Street
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ralph Nader Speech, same location
        - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - Youngstown, OH
        2:00 - 3:00 AM - Ralph Nader Speech, Chestnut Room, Kilcawley Center
Youngstown State University (Wick Avenue and Lincoln Street)
        3:00 AM - 3:45 PM - Press Conference same location
        - Saturday, Sept. 30 - Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT
        - Sunday, October 1 - Boston, MA
        4:00 - 5:00 PM - Fundraising Dinner and Reception with Ralph Nader,=
 To
RSVP, call Leslie Smith at 202-265-0633 or [e-mail]

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - OPEN THE DEBATES! DC STUDENT PROTEST 9/28/00 5 pm
DC Students need your solidarity! We are angry with the commission on
presidential debates for shutting out issues that are important to us by
excluding third party points of view from the Presidential Debates and we=
 need
your support. We are calling a massive rally in front of the Commission on
Presidential Debates this Thursday Sept 28 at 5pm. The time is now. We need=
 all
your voices.  RALLY AT: The Commission on Presidential Debates, 1200 New
Hampshire (21st & M) THIS THURSDAY SEPT 28 at 5PM. [From: "Bernard Pollack"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - PRIORITY ALERT! possibly sneaky maneuver on weapons subsidies bill=20
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:42:01 -0400=20
        Here's the latest on The Foreign Sales Corporations Repeal and
Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000 (H.R. 4986) which would double
the available tax benefit for arms exporters. There are three possible ways=
 the
Senate will deal with this bill:
* Try to pass it by unanimous consent (unlikely due to some opposition to=
 the
bill)=20
* Bring to floor with amendments (Senate leadership may not go this route
because they don't want a bunch of amendments)=20
* Attach it to the continuing resolution on funding the federal government
(most likely, and a sneaky way to pass it as the Senate will want to quickly
pass the continuing resolution when FY2000 budget expires on Oct.1 and
appropriations for FY2001 are not complete).
        Timing: HR4986 could come to the floor Tuesday.
        Important fact for your calls: The media and others are saying the=
 US
has a third of the weapons exports market. This is roughly based on the=
 August
18 Congressional Research Service "Grimmett" Report which documents the US=
 as
leading in arms transfers AGREEMENTS in 1999 at nearly $11.8 billion (38.9 %=
 of
all such agreements). However, the figure for DELIVERIES is $18.4 billion,=
 over
54 percent of the world market. The latter is the more accurate figure as
agreements reflects agreements for future deliveries. So you should=
 emphasize
that the United States DOMINATES the world market for weapons exports, with
over 54 percent of the market! The second ranked exporter is the United=
 Kingdom
with $4.5 billion in deliveries, a quarter the US value.=20
        Figures for exports to the developing world are similar. First,=
 world
wide sales to developing nations comprised 68 % of all agreements in 1999.=
 The
US share of world wide weapons exports AGREEMENTS to developing nations in=
 1999
was 39.2 % at $8.1 billion. However, the US share of world wide weapons=
 exports
DELIVERIES to developing nations in 1999 was 50.1 % at $11.4 billion.
        Tell your Senators that we're ashamed of the United States being the=
 #1
weapons exporter and that U.S. weapons exporters do not deserve another tax
break!!
[Jim Bridgman, mailto:[e-mail] -=
 http://www.peace-action.org]

- - LAWMAKERS, GUNS AND MONEY:=20
H.R. 4986 Boosts Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
New York, September 22nd: Under the guise of "leveling the playing field"=
 for
U.S. companies, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is set to ram through a
Senate counterpart to H.R. 4986, a bill which would provide $4 to $6 billion=
 in
tax subsidies to the arms, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries over the=
 next
decade. Supporters of the bill argue that it must be passed promptly to=
 protect
U.S. companies from a recent World Trade Organization ruling that held that=
 an
existing system of providing tax breaks to U.S. exporters through the use of
Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs) represents an illegal trade subsidy. =
 [From
William D. Hartung, a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New
School and the author of Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers: The Hidden=
 Costs
of Spending on Defense and Foreign Aid (Cato Institute, August 1999,=
 available
on the web at www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports).=20

- - HELP SPREAD THE WORD TO FREE PELTIER!
There is an imminent opportunity to get the word out about the Dec. 10=
 Peltier
- - Countdown to Clemency March to a great number of activists - this is at=
 the
Sept. 26th Global Day of Action against the IMF/World Bank. There are about=
 55
cities holding events on the 26th. See http://www.jwj.org for details. The=
 Day
of Action was adopted as an organizing project by Jobs with Justice. If any=
 of
you are or can attend the event in your area please help us create a "buzz"
about the impending march for Leonard Peltier by handing out flyers. Call=
 the
White House Comments Line Today - Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier!
202-456-1111
[From: "LPDC" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - New URL
Please consider adding the Vermont Public Interest Research Group site=20
http://www.vpirg.org to your site or database/links collection.
We have a section on our site that opposes Vermont Yankee, the Vermont Nuke
plant. Also, we promote research projects for testing the effects of power
plant radiation on children living near nuke plants. [From: Philip Bowman
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Foreign Relations Crossroad
Senator Jesse Helms is sponsoring legislation based on misguided fears=
 (and/or
powerplay plans) that would sabotage our potential involvement with an ICC.=
 If
this info. finds your interest, I recommend the official U.N. worded=
 overview.=20
United Nations - Statute of the ICC/ overview:=20
www.un.org/law/icc/general/overview.htm=20
Human Rights Watch - ICC Ratification Campaign:=20
www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/icc-main.htm=20
Campaign for U.N. Reform: www.cunr.org/ &=20
www.cunr.org/movement.html  - (quick link to wealth of U.N. Reform info.)=20
Jesse Helms' speech to U.N.: www.senate.gov/~foreign/
[From: William Anthony Self <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - INTERNATIONAL CALL MADE FOR DEMONSTRATIONS TO =91ABOLISH NATO=92=20
October 20 - 28, 2000
The International Action Center on Sept. 22 denounced U.S. and West European
interference in the Sept. 24 Yugoslav elections and announced it was calling
for actions across the United States for the week of October 20 to 28 to=
 demand
an end to U.S. intervention and to demand that the NATO military alliance be
abolished. [mailto:[e-mail]]

- - Re: Open the Debates! (Response from PBS)
Thank you for writing to PBS regarding the inclusion of third party=
 candidates
in presidential debate coverage. We value your suggestions and comments.
As we have in the past, we will offer coverage of the presidential and vice
presidential debates through THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER. As you may now,=
 last
week the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed the debate schedule,=
 and
the commission has criteria that it uses to ascertain which candidates are
eligible to participate. Irrespective of which candidates participate in the
debates, however, third party candidates will be covered by THE NEWSHOUR in=
 its
regular election reporting. It may interest you to know that as part of the=
 PBS
Democracy Project Election 2000 lineup, last month we broadcast A THIRD=
 CHOICE,
Ben Wattenberg's history of third party efforts. Our fall schedule features=
 I'M
ON THE BALLOT, Award Productions=92 look at the significance of third party
campaigns and this year=92s major third party candidates, which airs on=
 October
12. Also, TIME TO CHOOSE - A PBS/NPR VOTER'S GUIDE, airing November 1, will
cover the issues raised by third party candidates. [22 Sep 2000 From: pbs
viewer services <mailto:[e-mail]>]=20

- - 75 Arrested in Vieques Protest Outside White House=20
Seventy-five demonstrators protesting U.S. Navy presence on the Caribbean
island of Vieques were arrested by U.S. Park Police in front of the White=
 House
Friday afternoon as hundreds of supporters in nearby Lafayette Park chanted
anti-Navy slogans in Spanish.... By Christina Pino-Marina,=
 washingtonpost.com
Staff Writer, Friday, September 22, 2000=20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagena
me=3Dwpni/print&articleid=3DA62687-2000Sep22
For information, articles and photos of the National Day in Solidarity with=
=20
the People of Vieques, Puerto Rico, please access:
http://www.micronetix.net/virus/sept22/sept22.html

- - A picture of Hanford=20
Thousands of photos being made available to public=20
Linda Ashton - Spokane Spokesman Review, September 5, 2000=20
http://www.spokane.net/NewsTrak/newstracks.asp?Direc=3Dlists&ID=3DL29
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=3D090500&ID=3Ds847346&cat=3D

- - The Simultaneous Policy is a new international campaign to counter the=20
forces of globalisation and international competition.  Based on the premise
that all nations are subject to global competitive forces unleashed by the
ability of capital and transnational corporations to cross national borders,=
 no
nation nor group of nations can control global capital nor can they=
 implement
vital economic, social or environmental policies that might incur market or
corporate displeasure. To break the vicious circle of global competition,=
 both
between nations and between corporations, all nations need to act
simultaneously by implementing the Simultaneous Policy (SP); a range of
measures to re-regulate global markets and corporations in order to restore
genuine democracy, environmental protection and peace around the world.
www.simpol.org. [From: "John Bunzl" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Just reminding everyone of part two of the Nonviolence documentary on=20
PBS Premiere Broadcast: 25, 2000, 9:00 pm (check local listings) [From:=
 Carol
Moore <[e-mail]>]

- -----------------


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Quick Route to U.S. Congress:
http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites)
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites)
http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search)

Presidential Candidates' Websites (a-z):
George W. Bush - http://www.GeorgeWBush.com -=
 http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Pat Buchanan - http://www.gopatgo2000.com/default.htm
Al Gore - http://www.algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader - http://www.votenader.org/press.html
(Please send other sites of qualified candidates.)

Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons -
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:22:24 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re:  Oct. 1 actions

Dear Katri & Pol,

On Oct. 1, I will be traveling, and so won't be able to participate in
any of the events you posted, but of course I'll be sending you all my
very best wishes.

Peace...

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

p.s. I was unable to reply directly to your posting of earlier today.
So apologies for any future duplicate messages I may generate.


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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:36:26 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition Listserv

  Dear Friends and Activists,

This is a friendly reminder that the Abolition Global Caucus is to be
used only to post items containing nuclear issues.

  Purpose:  The Abolition Global Caucus provides information on key nuclear
  issues and a forum for individuals and organizations to contribute action
  alerts, news bulletins and ideas that will lead to a more secure and
  peaceful world, free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

  Etiquette:

  -Please be considerate of other members of the listserv.

  -Please refrain from conducting conversations back and forth with other
  members of the listserve, whenever possible.  Please respond  to the
author of an email rather than the entire listserve.

  -Please be considerate of other members of the listserv.

  -Please only post messages of international relevance to this listserve
  (e.g.,. although things are heating up this election year and we all know
  it is going to be interesting, US citizens should post election-related
  messages to the abolition-usa listserv rather than the global caucus).
  Several regional listserves have been created to accommodate discussion on
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  -Please be considerate of other members of the listserv.

  -Please do not post non-nuclear related items.

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  -Although a reminder message is certainly understandable, please do not
  post the same message repetitively to solicit responses from members.

  -When all else fails, please be considerate of other members of the
listserv.

  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.

  In peace,
  Carah
>
- --


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000


"He aha te nui mea o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" (A
Maori saying)

Translation: "What is the most important thing in the world? It is
the people, the people, the people."

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:21:06 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/26 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, September 26, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000926211954.htm

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate=
 Judiciary
Committee holds a hearing on the Wen Ho Lee case. The witnesses include=
 Louis
Freeh, FBI director; Attorney General Janet Reno; George Tenet, CIA=
 director;
and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-1700 or 202/224-5225.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Report release =97 Business Leaders for Sensible=
 Priorities
holds a news conference to release a report, "A Realistic Defense Budget for
the New Millennium." Lawrence Korb, former assistant defense secretary and
current vice president and director or studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations, participates. Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th=
 and
F streets NW. Contact: 202/332-0600.

    9:30 a.m. =97 Oil hearing =97 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources=
 Committee
holds a hearing to receive testimony on the current outlook for supply of
heating and transportation fuels this winter. Energy Secretary Bill=
 Richardson
testifies. Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:=
 202/224-4971.

      10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on
"U.N. Inspections of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs: Has Saddam
Won?" Location: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021.

      10:30 a.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on a
review of U.S. foreign policy at the end of the Clinton administration.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright testifies. Location: 419 Dirksen
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651.

      1 p.m. =97 House Education and the Workforce's oversight and=
 investigations
subcommittee holds a hearing to investigate federal prison industries'
commercial sales. Location: 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-4527.

      1 p.m. =97 House Ways and Means' oversight subcommittee holds a=
 hearing on
whether federal tax laws are keeping pace with the "new economy." Location:
1100 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-3625.

      2 p.m. =97 House Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on=
 "Contacts
Between Northrop Grumman Corporation and the White House Regarding Missing
White House E-Mails." Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:
202/225-5074.

      3 p.m. =97 House Select Intelligence Committee holds hearing on the=
 status
of the Energy Department investigations. Location: Capitol, Room H-405.
Contact: 202/225-4121.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - California Tuesday/Wednesday
        Tuesday, September 26 -
        8:20 a.m. - One-on-one discussion, Sequoia High School, 1201=
 Brewster,
Redwood City, CA, [phone]=20
        Wednesday, September 27 -
        8:45 a.m. - Discussion  on education recession, Ascension School,=
 517
111th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90044, [phone]=20

- - Al Gore - Tuesday, September 26
      11:40 a.m. =97 Participates in "MTV and Time present: Choose or Lose=
 2000 =97
Town Hall Forum with Al Gore," Media Union Audio Studio, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

- - Ralph Nader - Tuesday, Sept 26 -
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, Leland Room,
Downtown Hilton and Towers (1 North 2nd Street), Harrisburg, PA
        3:00 - 5:00 PM - Pittsburgh, PA - Dinner and reception with Ralph
Nader,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Shadyside. RSVP to Paul Colaiaco,=
 412-951-6181
        8:00 - 9:30 PM - Nader Speech on Globalization and Free Trade: The
Human
Perspective Rangos Ballroom, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu Conference
        Date: Tuesday 26 September, Time: 9 a.m. - all day
        Place: various (see below)
Conference Speakers include Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit and Rabbi
Phillip Bentley, president of Jewish Peace Fellowship. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in the
main conference room of the Methodist Building, 110 Maryland Avenue NE. 6:30
p.m. dinner, 7:30 p.m. program with Daniel Ellsberg at the church of the
Bretheren, 4th Street North Carolina Avenue SE.=20
        Date: Wednesday 27 September
        Time: Dawn to dusk
        Place: Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW
For more information, e-mail [e-mail].

- - Democracy 7 Trial Rally
        Date: Friday 29 September, Time: 8 a.m.
        Place: Superior Court, near Judiciary Square Metro, 500 Indiana=
 Avenue,
courtroom 112, Judge Broderick presiding.
Martin Thomas (Statehood Green Candidate for Shadow Rep), Karen Szulgit,=
 Debby
Hanrahan, Bette Hoover, Tanya Snyder, Queen Mother ShemaYah, and Steve=
 Donkin
are charged with disruption of Congress for speaking out against the DC
Appropriations bill with its anti-democratic riders. A massive pre-trial=
 rally
demanding "hands off DC" and full citizenship rights for DC residents will=
 take
place in front of the courthouse from 8 to 9 a.m.

- - INTERNATIONAL ACTION ALERT: 1 October
Next Sunday 1 October will be an international Nuclear Weapons Abolition=
 Day,
and there will be direct action at several (NATO) nuclear weapon bases in
Europe and the USA. Below you'll find a contact list for the actions. If you
are organising an action 1 October and are not yet on the contact list,=
 please
contact For Mother Earth office <[e-mail]>.
[FOR MOTHER EARTH INTERNATIONAL <mailto:[e-mail]>,
http://www.motherearth.org] --
        Contact list actions Sunday 1 October 2000
        BELGIUM=20
Forum voor Vredesactie (Flemish section of the War Resisters International)=
 and
For Mother Earth are organising a 'photographic citizens inspection' out-=
 and
inside the NATO base of Kleine Brogel, where U.S. B-61 atomic bombs are
deployed. There will also be an action camp near Kleine Brogel 27 September=
 - 1
October. [Forum voor Vredesactie Attn. Hans Lammerant
<[e-mail]>]
Voor Moeder Aarde (For Mother Earth)
Attn. Hanna Jarvinen or Katri Silvonen=
 <mailto:[e-mail]>
http://www.motherearth.org
        ENGLAND=20
The Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp is organising an action at the Atomic
Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston. People are asked to bring their=
 cameras
to photograph the scene of the crime, and their favourite Police/detective
outfit. [Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp Attn. Helen
Phone: [phone]; or the camp 07808-553778]
There will soon be a new website http://www.gn.apc.org/aldermastonwpc
        the NETHERLANDS
Akties Tegen Kernwapens (Actions Against Nuclear Weapons) organises a=
 cultural,
political manifestation and citizens inspection at the NATO-base of Volkel,
where U.S. B-61's are deployed.
Akties Tegen Kernwapens Attn. Rob Boogert <mailto:[e-mail] >
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
        USA
Nukewatch organises a noon gathering with picnic provided by Food Not Bombs,
and non-violent direct action at the U.S. Navy Project ELF.There will also=
 be a
peace camp at Anathoth Community Farm 29 September - 1 October.
Nukewatch, P.O.Box 649, Luck WI 54853
<mailto:[e-mail]>
http://www.nukewatch.com



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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:03:45 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: RRR Workshops: Sep. 28 & 30

>Delivered-To: [e-mail]
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:37:24 -0400
>From: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>To: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RRR Workshops: Sep. 28 & 30
>
>RADIOACTIVE ROADS AND RAILS
>30 years of high-level nuclear waste shipments through southern California?
>
>
>Dear friends of Public Citizen:
>
>You are invited to attend the following public workshops and press events!
>
>San Bernardino:
>Thursday, September 28
>press event, 10:00 am at County Government Center (385 North Arrowhead Ave.)
>workshop 7:00 - 9:30 pm at Public Enterprise Building (1505 West
>Highland Ave.)
>
>Barstow:
>Saturday, September 30
>press conference at 10:00 am; workshop 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (includes
>a light lunch)
>Dana Park Building (850 Barstow Road)
>
>The interactive public workshops will address issues of health and
>safety, environmental sustainability, property values, emergency
>response preparedness, and other concerns related to the current
>proposal to transport high-level radioactive waste through San
>Bernardino County to a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain,
>Nevada.
>
>Presentations by:
>Lisa Gue, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment
>Program (Washington, D.C.)
>Judy Treichel, Nuclear Waste Taskforce (Las Vegas, Nevada) - Thursday only
>Steve Frishman, State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office (Las
>Vegas, Nevada) - Thursday only
>
>Everyone Welcome!
>No Charge.
>
>The Radioactive Roads and Rails campaign in San Bernardino is
>sponsored by People Against Radioactive Dumping (PARD), San Gorgonio
>Chapter Sierra Club, Environmentality, Women's Action for New
>Directions (WAND), and Public Citizen.
>
>For more information, contact Margery Mikels at [phone] or
>Public Citizen at [phone], e-mail [e-mail].
>Visit our website at www.citizen.org/cmep.


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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:12:46 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON

Dear Friends,
We are asking for your group to support and sign on to the following=20
Resolution.  Please read carefully and sign on as soon as possible.  This=20
Resolution is intregal to the work for abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide.=
 =20
We urge groups to use any part of this resolution to further stopping nuclea=
r=20
weapons work in your area.  Also, please forward to other sympathetic groups=
.=20
 Thank you.
for Peace with Justice and Solidarity,
Peace Action New Mexico


The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following=20
Resolution on=20
June 11, 2000. Authored by: Peace Action New Mexico

Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up=20
the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affecte=
d=20
Communities, and Peoples.

WHEREAS:  Article 6 of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for total=20
nuclear disarmament and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking over=
=20
the role of Rocky Flats, escalating their production of plutonium 'pits' for=
=20
nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS: Outer Space Treaty requires States not to place nuclear weapons or=20
other weapons of mass destruction in orbit and states that space is not=20
subject to national appropriation and that LANL researches, develops, and=20
produces the plutonium Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) component=
s=20
and that its work contributes to fulfilling  the U.S. Space Command's =93Vis=
ion=20
for 2020=94 for dominating space; and

WHEREAS:  The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)  prohibits the development=
=20
of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develops=20
components for the NMD system; and

WHEREAS: LANL thus enables the United States to violate international=20
treaties; and additionally,

WHEREAS:  LANL has historically disposed of some of its plutonium, uranium,=20
depleted uranium, tritium, beryllium and heavy metals in a haphazard and=20
often unsafe manner, thus contaminating the soil, air, water, vegetation, an=
d=20
irresponsibly endangering the health and lives of people living in Los Alamo=
s=20
and the surrounding areas of New Mexico; and

WHEREAS: LANL has shown little regard for the health and safety of its=20
employees, accidents and releases on LANL property being a regular=20
occurrence; and

WHEREAS: LANL endangers the health, safety, environment, subsistence, and=20
sacred sites of the Pueblos and other Native American communities, and

WHEREAS: The Cerro Grande fire has shown that LANL took no precautions to=20
protect the firefighters or to monitor the effects of possible contamination=
=20
in communities downwind of the fire, including the farmers in this=20
agricultural area;

THEREFORE, PEACE ACTION DEMANDS, Los Alamos National Laboratory cease all bu=
t=20
necessary administrative operations and the Department of Energy and=20
Department of Defense budget allocated to Los Alamos National Laboratory be=20
redirected for cleaning up the environment and addressing health issues.

The U.S. government also must be required to make complete reparations to th=
e=20
communities historically damaged by the operations of LANL.

Therefore, let it be further resolved that this Resolution be sent to Member=
s=20
of Congress, the President, Secretaries of Defense, Energy and State, major=20
candidates for President, Secretary General of the U.N., Security Council=20
members and governments of the middle powers states. It is also to be sent t=
o=20
Abolition 2000 for endorsement by supporting organizations.


PEACE ACTION, formerly SANE/FREEZE, is the nation=92s largest grassroots pea=
ce=20
and justice organization.  Working for peace since 1957.

CONTACT: Peace Action New Mexico - [e-mail]
                                226 Fiesta St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501   Phone=
:=20
505.989.4812

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:12:25 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming

>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:53:15 -0400
>Subject: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>
>[Respond to [e-mail]]
>
>NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming
>
>Dear Friends:
>
>Below is an urgent sign-on letter opposing the administration's current
>position on nuclear power and global warming for November's crucial COP6
>conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Please sign no later than noon
>Eastern Time, Wednesday October 4th--we intend to release it on
>International Global Warming Action Day, October 5. Organizations,
>please include name, title, organization, city, state. International
>organizations please include country as well. Individuals can simply
>send name, city, state, (country). To sign-on, simply hit reply to this
>message and include your information, or send to [e-mail], or
>fax to 202-462-2183. Please circulate this letter widely. For background
>information on these issues, you can check NIRS' website, www.nirs.org,
>in the nuclear power and global warming section. Thank you!
>
>At the bottom of this message is a call to action in The Hague. We hope
>some of you will be able to attend the actions there; we will send out
>more information on support actions soon.
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>
>Honorable William Jefferson Clinton
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
>Washington, DC 20500
>
>Dear President Clinton,
>
>We are concerned that, subsequent to the climate talks in Lyon, the
>Clinton/Gore administration is poised to support allowing nuclear power
>to receive clean air credits through the Clean Development Mechanism
>(CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. As a further blow to sustainable technology
>investment, your administration would not only allow nuclear power
>credits, but would also put it on par with truly sustainable energy
>sources such as wind and solar. Such a position is not only
>ill-conceived, but goes against the wishes of many individuals and
>organizations in "developing" countries who publicly have stated nuclear
>power should not be considered sustainable. This position would allow
>countries like the United States, Russia and Japan to receive credits
>for building reactors in other countries. All three of these countries
>have suffered serious nuclear accidents. The Clinton/Gore administration
>must abandon this position at once and adopt a position that
>specifically excludes nuclear power from the CDM and Joint
>Implementation (JI) of the Kyoto agreement.
>The U.S. claims it does not want to limit "developing" nations to
>certain technologies; that developing nations should decide for
>themselves which technologies are sustainable and which are not.
>However, implementation of the Kyoto agreement allows for very little
>equitable public participation, a situation many NGOs are currently
>working to remedy.
>In fact, western nuclear companies, unable to get contracts at home due
>to safety, environmental and cost concerns, would be attempting to dump
>their unwanted and failing technology on developing countries. The U.S.
>has recognized that countries would be dealing directly with the energy
>company, not the U.S. government. Considering the track records of these
>companies in the U.S., Japan and Europe, there is every reason to
>suspect they will not be fair players in "developing" nations either,
>often sacrificing democratic principles, such as public participation,
>for profit. Additionally, many smaller developing nations fear nuclear
>power CDM credits would favor high-growth nuclear projects in developing
>countries over smaller, sustainable projects in non-nuclear developing
>nations.
>Specifically excluding nuclear power from the CDM would not be
>neo-colonialism, in fact, it would be the opposite. As an Indonesia
>delegate commented: "I think it is simple colonialism to push nuclear
>power onto developing countries, leaving them with all the burdens that
>come with it". Citizens of many nations, including African, Indian, and
>Canadian NGOs, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Group of
>Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), have publicly stated
>their opposition to CDM credits for nuclear power.
>A 1999 Department of State document claims that "(t)he CDM should assist
>developing countries in achieving sustainable development" further, it
>states "(t)he CDM should be a flexible, market-based mechanism that
>ensures cost-effective reductions" Nuclear power is unsustainable and
>has been an economic boondoggle, meeting neither of these DOS criteria.
>        Nuclear power pollutes the environment with long-lived radionuclides
>from routine releases through normal operations and creates large
>quantities of radioactive waste. No country has yet been able to isolate
>these wastes from the environment by either man-made or natural barriers
>for even a fraction of their hazardous life. In the U.S. we have failed
>to find a way to safely store the first cup full of radioactive waste
>produced on April 24, 1942.
>        All nuclear power plants are vulnerable to serious accidents that
>could
>contaminate the environment and cause serious health impacts. Last
>year's accident at Tokaimura in Japan was just the latest to underline
>the dangers of nuclear technology. Previous accidents, including those
>at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the United States are
>still negatively impacting the health of countless individuals and their
>environment.
>        Nuclear power is a world security risk adding to the threat of
>nuclear
>proliferation. A 1000-megawatt reactor produces 40 bombs worth of
>plutonium per year. Handing a country a nuclear reactor is like handing
>it a nuclear bomb. The threat to global security posed by nuclear
>proliferation is equal to that of climate change. For the Kyoto Protocol
>to exacerbate this threat through its mechanisms would be a truly
>perverse and dangerous outcome to the Climate Convention negotiations
>and for your administration's own efforts to reduce nuclear
>proliferation.
>        The nuclear fuel chain does emit significant greenhouse gases.
>Should
>our use of nuclear energy increase, so will the amount of CO2 released
>at the front end of this energy source. As we mine more of the ore
>richest in uranium, we are left with uranium-poor ore. The extraction
>process then becomes more energy intensive to collect the same amount of
>concentrated uranium.
>        Nuclear power is the most expensive of all conventional energy
>sources
>and more expensive than almost all renewable energy. As proof of nuclear
>power's economic failure, no successful nuclear power reactor order has
>been placed in the U.S. since 1973. Ratepayers in the United States are
>bailing out nuclear reactors to the tune of $300 billion dollars.
>Nuclear energy costs an average of 12 cents/kWh compared with 7.6-9.1
>cents/kWh for solar thermal and 4-6 cents/kWh for wind. Because nuclear
>power actually reduces less greenhouse gas, dollar for dollar, than
>energy efficiency, investing in nuclear power will hurt our attempts to
>address climate change. Sadly, there is no officially recognized
>mechanism to credit for energy efficiency investment.
>Including nuclear power in the CDM could seriously jeopardize climate
>talks and ultimately derail Kyoto. At the very least, the U.S. position
>would support exporting nuclear power and its dangers (including nuclear
>waste, huge economic costs, nuclear weapons material, chronic
>radioactive releases, and abuse of democratic principles) all over the
>world. This is a legacy the Clinton/Gore administration would not wish
>to leave. Instead of giving credit to nuclear power, we must invest in
>energy efficiency and sustainable energy, which give more greenhouse gas
>reduction per dollar. We should learn from our mistakes, not export them
>to others. In order to make the CDM what the Department of State claims
>it should be, the U.S. must support excluding nuclear power from the
>CDM.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Executive Director
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>Washington, DC
>
>cc: Hon. Albert Gore, Vice-President of the United States
>Carol Browner, Administrator, EPA
>David Gardiner, Executive Director, White House Climate Change Task
>Force
>Frank Loy, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. State Department
>Roger Ballentine, Deputy Assistant to the President on Environmental
>Issues
>
>
>
>ACTION IN THE HAGUE, NOVEMBER 13-24
>Are we gonna nuke the climate?
>Stop the revival of the nuclear industry
>
>Nuclear should be explicitly excluded
>from the Clean Development Mechanism
>of the Kyoto protocol
>The decision will be taken at the conference of parties (COP6) in
>November in
>The Hague, the Netherlands
>WISE Amsterdam will take to the streets
>to make clear that nuclear is
>not a sustainable source of energy
>and should be explicitly
>excluded from the CDM
>
>Join our No-Nukes day on November 13th
>(the first day of COP6) in The Hague
>Preparatory meeting
>Sunday night 12 November
>Actions throughout the city of The Hague
>on Monday 13 november
>
>contact WISE Amsterdam
>tel [phone]
>fax  [phone]
>[e-mail]
>www.antenna.nl/wise
>PO.Box 59636
>1040 LC Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
>
>more actions throughout the COP6 meeting
>see www.climateconference.org for more info
>

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