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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:21:40 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON

Sign us on!

re:
>The National Board of Peace Action unanimously adopted the following
>Resolution on
>June 11, 2000. Authored by: Peace Action New Mexico
>
>Stopping Operations at Los Alamos and Redirecting its Budget to Cleaning Up
>the Environment, Addressing Health Issues, and Paying Reparations to Affected
>Communities, and Peoples.

Jack


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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:25:52 -0400
From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON

You can add our organization.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
[e-mail]




- -----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of
[e-mail]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:13 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: (abolition-usa) PLEASE SIGN-ON


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


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

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

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

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

WHEREAS:  The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)  prohibits the developm=
ent
of a national missile defense (NMD) system and LANL researches and develo=
ps
components for the NMD system; and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:29:34 -0400
From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NIRS Action Alert:  Urgent sign-on: nukes/global warming

Add us please:

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, Fl. 32607
[phone]
http://www.space4peace.org
[e-mail]




- -----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of ASlater
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:12 PM
To: [e-mail]; [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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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:46:28 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/27 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, September 27, 2000, Agence France Presse=20

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-200092721328.htm

      9 a.m. =97 Military readiness =97 The Senate Armed Services Committee=
 holds a
hearing to receive testimony on the status of U.S. military readiness. Gen.
Henry H. Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 216=
 Hart
Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.
     =20
      9 a.m. =97 Senate Judiciary's administrative oversight and the courts
subcommittee holds a hearing on "Oversight on the Wen Ho Lee Case."=
 Location:
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5225.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Violence in movies =97 The Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee holds a hearing to examine the motion picture
industry's marketing of violence to children. Location: 253 Russell Senate
Office Building. Contact: 202/224-5115.

      10 a.m. =97 House Government Reform's national security, veterans=
 affairs
and international relations subcommittee holds a hearing to examine findings=
 of
Institute of Medicine's recent study on Gulf War veterans' illnesses.=
 Location:
2247 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5074.

      10 a.m. =97 House International Relations Committee holds a hearing on
"Russia: How Vladimir Putin Rose to Power and What America Can Expect."
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright testifies. Location: 2172 Rayburn
House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-5021.

      10 a.m. =97 House Joint Economic Committee holds a hearing to review=
 the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve's resources and the options available to
policy-makers. Location: 311 Cannon House Office Building. Contact:
202/224-5171.

      2 p.m. =97 House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on the state=
 of
the armed services and future military requirements. Gen. Henry H. Shelton,
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, testifies. Location: 2118 Rayburn House=
 Office
Building. Contact: 202/225-4151.

      7 p.m. =97 Nitze tribute =97 The Johns Hopkins University Paul H.=
 Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) presents "America's Place in
the World: A Tribute to Paul Nitze," SAIS co-founder and principal author of
National Security Council Paper No. 68, adopted 50 years ago this month.=
 Deputy
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott delivers a keynote address. Location:
Colonial Room, Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW. Contact:
202/663-5626.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - California=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 - Iowa today
        10 a.m. =97 Leads a discussion on the need for better prescription=
 drug
benefits in Medicare, Greater Altoona Community Services Center, Altoona,=
 Iowa.

- - Ralph Nader - Wednesday, Sept. 27 - East Liverpool, and Youngstown, OH
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Press Conference with Ralph Nader, East Liverpool
School Administration Building, 500 Maryland Street, East Liverpool, OH
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ralph Nader Speech, same location
        2:00 - 3:00 AM - Ralph Nader Speech, Chestnut Room, Kilcawley Center
Youngstown State University (Wick Avenue and Lincoln Street), Youngstown, OH
        3:00 AM - 3:45 PM - Press Conference same location

Thursday, September 28 - Nader on DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW;=20
        4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. - Rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre, 1697
Broadway (bet. 53rd & 54th Sts.) The show tapes at 5:30 PM and the studio
audience has to be at the theatre no later than 4:15, so please try to be=
 there
at 4 o'clock or even earlier to preach the good news of Nader's candidacy=
 and
the Green Party platform to the ticket-holders.=20

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Bad news - Plan to Aid Ill Nuclear Workers Is Rejected by House Leaders
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16506-2000Sep25.html
,,,Under the Senate aid plan, workers who suffered from certain cancers and
other occupational diseases would have been eligible for medical benefits as
well as compensation for lost wages or a lump-sum payment of $200,000. An
alternative plan crafted by House Republican leadership last week would have
allowed the nominal creation of a compensation program while withholding any
funding pending further studies.

- - U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu Conference
        Date: Wednesday 27 September
        Time: Dawn to dusk
        Place: Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW
For more information, e-mail [e-mail].

- - Tomorrow, September 28th is International Nix-MOX Action Day.  Questions?
call 828-251-2060 - <mailto:[e-mail]> (Mary Olson) - NIRS home
page: http://www.nirs.org/

- - Appeal for full funding for international debt relief
Participate in a Call-in Day, this Thursday, September 28, to your
representatives in Congress, urging that they support full funding for=
 existing
debt relief programs, as step toward Jubilee 2000 goals. Call for:
        1) Full funding for debt relief, by appropriating at least $435=
 million
for debt relief in the conference report to accompany the Foreign Operations
Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001,=20
        2) The inclusion of legislation to permit the International Monetary
Fund to use the earnings from gold revaluation for the purposes of debt=
 relief=20
        3) NO conditions on the relief that harm people or the environment
Notice: Senators Gramm and Helms, backed up by Sens Lott and McConnell are
saying no funding for debt relief unless countries privatize all industries,
end all government subsidies, and meet strict (in fact, unrealistic)=
 criteria
for political freedom. 5 countries, at most, would qualify for debt=
 reduction,
if these=20
Senators get their way.LET'S MAKE THOSE PHONES RING OFF THE HOOK! Call=
 Senators
at 202/224-3121; Call Members of Congress at 202/225-3121
=3D=3D> we urgently need support from Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina and
Mississippi! Drop me a line if you live there :-) [From: David Bryden
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Message from Nader Campaign -- DIRECT ACTION MISSION: The debate chickens
have appeared with great fanfare at protests all across the country. This=
 week
we would broaden the protest message to include the Issue Ducks. Let=
 everyone
know how you feel about the way Bush and Gore duck all the important issues.
Wave signs: "Universal Health Care: Ducking the Issue" or "Death Penalty:
Ducking the Issue" or "Living Wage: Ducking the Issue" or other issues that
matter to you. A chorus of duck calls complements a "let Ralph debate" chant
quite nicely. Remember: always civil, always peaceful, always polite, but=
 let's
get the point across, let's get the cameras' attention, and let's get Ralph
into the debates!

- - =93STOP STAR WARS=94 RALLY AND NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION AT=20
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; part of an International Day of Protest to Stop=
 the
Militarization of Space
        WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2000; rally begins at 1 pm. Speakers
include:
Medea Benjamin, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate; Bruce Gagnon, Global
Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and Carah Ong, Abolition
2000. Main gate nonviolent direct action begins at 3 pm. Back country
occupation all day.
        WHERE: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; Main Gate, 8 miles north of=
 Lompoc,
California on Highway 1
        WHY: Vandenberg Air Force Base is the launch site for U.S. ballistic
missile flight tests and spy satellites. The next BMD interceptor test is
planned for January 2001 from Vandenberg. [From: Jackie Cabasso
<mailto:[e-mail]>]
- - To get more details about the IMF/World Bank meeting in Prague, here are=
=20
some useful resources:
Full coverage at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Business/Global_Economy/=20
G7 Meets in Prague Ahead of IMF, World Bank
Read also at http://www.pbj.cz/pbj/imf/imfworldbank.asp
[From: mailto:[e-mail] (jean hudon)]

- - Interesting article:
Key Players Control World Money Supply
By John M. Berry, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, June 28, 1998
http://www.newslibrary.com/download.asp?DBLIST=3Dwp98&DOCNUM=3D34001&TERMV=
=3D213:4
:217:1:219:5:
        BASEL, Switzerland - Ten times a year, the financial barons who=
 control
the world's supply of money gather here on the bank of the Rhine River for=
=20
drinks and dinner - and secret conversations that can shape the course  of=
 the
global economy.
         The 13 members of this economic cabal meet on the glass-walled 18th=
=20
floor of the round headquarters tower of an obscure institution known as the
Bank for International Settlements. From their seats at the conference =
 table,
they can look across the city and the river to Germany's Black Forest  or
farther west to French Alps on the horizon.
         As they arrive and greet one another by their first names, waiters=
=20
hover with drinks - they know each one's favorite. For privacy and candor, =
 no
staff members are present, only the principals and occasionally a  guest,=
 such
as Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International  Monetary Fund.
         The members of this secretive group are the governors of the=
 central=20
banks of the Group of 10 industrial nations, plus Switzerland. The most=20
powerful voice in the room is the U.S. representative - Federal Reserve=20
Chairman Alan Greenspan or, if he can't attend, Vice Chairman Alice M.=
 Rivlin.=20
As befits its power, the United States alone has a second seat at the =
 table,
occupied by William J. McDonough, president of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank. The 13th participant is the BIS's general manager, Andrew Crockett, a
former Bank of England official.
         This is how global finance does its most sensitive business, in=
 these=20
quiet Sunday-night meetings. The central bankers talk informally - with no=
=20
agenda other than what is on their minds. The financial intelligence that=20
emerges from these meetings - and perhaps more important, the personal trust=
 -
helps keep the international banking system steady in turbulent times, such=
 as
the financial crisis that has swept Asia over the past year.
         Roots in a War
         But what, exactly, is the strangely named organization that hosts
this=20
secret conclave?
         The BIS was established in 1930 to assist in the payments of=20
reparations owed by Germany and other losers in World War I to the victors.
Over the years it has become a central bank for central banks. It has also
emerged as a clearinghouse for regulators - helping them supervise=
 commercial
banks, oversee foreign exchange markets and protect the world financial
system.....


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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:55:20 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/09/28 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

[NucNews archives have been updated through 9/15/00.  See
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.]

Washington Times Daybook, September 28, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000928214311.htm

       9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on U.S.
policy toward Iraq. Gen. Anthony Zinni, former U.S. Central Command=
 commander,
testifies. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Sierra Club news conference =97 The Sierra Club=
 announces a
major campaign to inform people where their congressional and presidential
candidates stand on environmental issues. Location: Salon B/C, JW Marriott,
1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/675-6698.

      10 a.m. =97 House Veterans' Affairs oversight and investigations
subcommittee holds a hearing on human subjects protections in VA medical
research. Location: 334 Cannon House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-9164.

      10:30 a.m. =97 Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on slavery
throughout the world. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact:
202/224-4651.

      3 p.m. =97 Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Energy=
 and
Natural Resources Committee hold a hearing, "Climate Change: Status of the
Kyoto Protocol After Three Years." Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-4971 or 202/224-4651.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -=20
        11:50 a.m. - One-on-one, TOSCA, Limited, 1032 Bay Beach Road, Green
Bay,
Wisconsin 54302, [phone]=20
        4:20 p.m. - Pontiac, Michigan: There will be a photo opportunity=
 only
upon arrival at Daimler Chrysler Aviation, at Oakland County International
Airport. Be on site at 7310 Highland Road in Waterford, Michigan, by 4:20=
 p.m.
For directions call [phone].
        Evening - Troy, Michigan, reception for the Michigan Republican=
 party.

- - Al Gore - Unknown

- - Ralph Nader -=20
Thursday, September 28 - Nader on DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW;=20
        4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. - Rally outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre, 1697
Broadway (bet. 53rd & 54th Sts.) The show tapes at 5:30 PM and the studio
audience has to be at the theatre no later than 4:15, so please try to be=
 there
at 4 o'clock or even earlier to preach the good news of Nader's candidacy=
 and
the Green Party platform to the ticket-holders.=20

- -- Note: Nader leads Gore in Time.com poll. [25% to 16% - Bush is at 54% as=
 of
8 a.m. 9/28/00.] Check it out and add your vote. (You have to scroll down to
nearly the bottom of the page.) http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/
BE HEARD!  [From: "Nader for Prez! www.votenader.org"
<mailto:[e-mail]>]

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - PRESS CONFERENCE 10:00 AM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, LAFAYETTE PARK, IN FRONT OF
WHITE HOUSE WITH LONG-TERM FASTER, RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND OTHERS - Andr=E9s=
 Thomas
Conteris, 39, United Methodist lay missioner and member of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation enters the 10th week of fasting (65 days overall, 45 on
water-only) urging the President to schedule an audience with the Puerto=
 Rican
church and community leaders. The fast enters a very critical stage. He has
lost 59 pounds. Many others in Puerto Rico, across the U.S. and elsewhere=
 are
fasting on a rotating basis in support of peace in Vieques. The President=
 has
not responded directly to these pleas. In Vieques, on October 1, thousands=
 of
residents together with other Puerto Ricans will march in support of the=
 civil
disobedience campaign seeking to pressure the Navy to immediately and
permanently withdraw from their island. This follows a Sept. 22 event where
over 2000 gathered nonviolently in front of the White House and looks toward=
 a
Oct. 21 March in New York City. Visit www.viequesfast.org for details.  The
Navy
has scheduled a new round of bombing exercises for the month of October and=
 the
nonviolent campaign in Vieques will continue to enter the firing range to=
 try
to serve as human shields against the bombing.

- - Today, September 28th, is International Nix-MOX Action Day.=20
<mailto:[e-mail]> (Mary Olson) - NIRS home page:
http://www.nirs.org/

- - CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)=20
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]=20
email: mailto:[e-mail]=20
Website: http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/=20
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead=20

- - Opposition uses baby rattles to defy Milosevic
http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=3Dsingapore=
/h
eadlines/000928/world/afp/Opposition_uses_baby_rattles_to_defy_Milosevic.htm=
l
...The sound of the small plastic, red, yellow and green toys could be heard
along the main Belgrade Terazije avenue where opposition activists were
distributing 10,000 baby rattles.  The use of the baby rattles was meant to
send a message to Milosevic that his regime was "broken like a baby rattle"=
 in
line with an old Serbian referring to utter destruction.

- - PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES BETTY BUMPERS AS A MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF=
 DIRECTORS
FOR THE INSTITUTE OF PEACE.  [Wife of former Senator Dale] Bumpers, of=
 Little
Rock, Arkansas, she is founder of Peace Links....  The United States=
 Institute
of Peace is a bipartisan board established in 1948 by an Act of Congress to
promote international peace and the resolution of international conflict
without violence through education, training, research, and public
information.   [From: The White House
<[e-mail]>] =20

** {Note from ET:  I attended a meeting of the Institute of Peace in the=
 '80's
and was very unimpressed -- pale white males sitting on a stage conversing
drily about economics and other esoteric subjects more suitable to their
university days than to a real effort to achieve peace in the world.  Let's
hope Ms. Bumpers has some fresh ideas. I haven't been terribly impressed by
Peace Links, either - they don't return phone calls, respond to faxes, or
appear at any events in D.C.  I think their main success was arranging=
 cultural
exchange programs with the Soviet Union, swapping kids.  If anyone knows
otherwise, please let me know - mailto:[e-mail] (Ellen Thomas).}




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        Online Petition - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NEW on TVC web site - NIF, NMD, more

Dear peace and environmental colleagues:

Tri-Valley CAREs has NEW items on its web site for your reading pleasure.
Our web address is http://www.igc.org/tvc. There, you will find the
September 2000 issue of our newsletter, Citizen's Watch, with the following
stories --

        * Federal Audit Chronicles National Ignition Facility Deception,
Tri-Valley CAREs Seeks Criminal Investigation (get all the info on this,
the LATEST, of the ever-unfolding NIF scandals);

        * National Missile Defense Deployment Postponed (see what this will
mean, and what it doesn't mean);

        * Protect the Desert, Convert the Nevada Test Site (find out about
Livermore Lab's most recent subcritical nuclear test and what you can do);

        * Hiroshima at Livermore Lab (a report on the August 6 action);

        * What's New at Tri-Valley CAREs (our funding appeal, personnel
updates and the -- hooray -- announcement that we have won the EPA's first
national "Hazardous Waste Citizens Award" (complete with a link to the EPA
site and press release); and

        * Alerts, Calendar Section

You will also find

        * Our most recent report, "Managing the U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Stockpile: A Comparison of 5 Strategies," by Dr. Robert Civiak -- in simple
to download pdf format;

        * Press releases;

        * Postcards (a new one on subcritical testing to be added soon);

        * Back issues of Citizen's Watch, fact sheets, action alerts, links
to other group's web sites; and

        * MORE.

Happy web browsing.  Peace, Marylia

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:22 -0400
From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) IEER newsletter, on Ionizing Radiation

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Colleagues and friends,

The latest issue of  IEER's newsletter, Science for Democratic Action, is
on-line.  Its main theme is Ionizing Radiation (measuring it, health effects,
etc.).  It includes the following articles and features:
The Uranium Burden
Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation
Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units, Devices and Methods
Dear Arjun, What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste?
Check it out at http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html.
Suggestions
for improvement are welcome and appreciated.

(Apologies for multiple postings.)



=============================================
Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA
[phone]   fax: [phone]
http://www.ieer.org
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Colleagues and friends, <br>
<br>
The latest issue of  IEER's newsletter, <i>Science for Democratic
Action, </i>is on-line.  Its main theme is Ionizing Radiation
(measuring it, health effects, etc.).  It includes the following
articles and features:
<dl>
<dd>The Uranium Burden
<dd>Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation
<dd>Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units, Devices and Methods
<dd>Dear Arjun, What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste?
</dl>Check it out at
<a href="http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html</a>.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome and appreciated.<br>
<br>
(Apologies for multiple postings.)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>

=============================================<br>
Lisa Ledwidge<br>
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, <i>Science for Democratic Action<br>
</i>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)<br>
6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204 <br>
Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA<br>
[phone]   fax: [phone]<br>
<a href="http://www.ieer.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.ieer.org</a><br>
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