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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:01:27 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Caucus Preparations for CSD9

>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 01:31:54 -0400
>Subject: Caucus Preparations for CSD9
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>29 September 2000
>
>NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus website:
>http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo
>(Click on Energy & Climate Change under "Caucuses")
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>The ninth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD9)
>will meet from 16-27 April 2001, and everyone is now finally in the midst
>of preparations for it.  Energy is on the agenda for CSD9, and, based on
>all our past experience, will certainly be the most contentious issue.
>
>NUCLEAR ISSUE:  We realise that people have been justifiably upset that
>nuclear energy was mentioned in the CSD8 report as one of the key issues to
>be examined in preparation for CSD9 (many of us certainly worked to try to
>stop that, but could only achieve language that mentioned some problems
>that nuclear would have to address before it could be considered
>sustainable).  At this point, we are trying to get many more anti-nuclear
>NGOs involved in this issue, since many of us suspect that certain
>countries would only be too happy to see NGOs spend all their time against
>nuclear and forget all about fossil fuels, etc.
>
>Of course, we suggest pointing out that building new nuclear plants simply
>does not make economic sense.   Conservation and energy reduction
>programmes, plus certain types of solar and almost all wind, are already
>much cheaper, with none of the environmental and safety problems of
>nuclear.    We need to focus, as we do in our Caucus's Global Action Plan,
>on ending nuclear energy, fossil fuel, and large hyrdo subsidies (even in
>Europe, the high oil taxes do not begin to cover all the subsidies paid out
>to support fossil fuel production, distribution and consumption over the
>last 50 years), while supporting cost-effective conservation and the most
>sustainable renewables, many of which are already cost-effective completely
>or in certain situations, e.g., in areas that lack "modern" energy access.
>
>SUBMISSIONS FOR SECRETARY GENERAL REPORT FOR CSD9:  The Caucus will be
>submitting our Global Action Plan (ECCGAP), plus some specific examples.
>If your organisation has excellent experiences/case studies of good
>practices in implementation of conservation/efficiency and truly
>sustainable energy projects (see Points 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Caucus Global
>Action Plan), especially at the grassroots level, either in developing or
>industrialised countries, we strongly urge you to SUBMIT these BY 15
>OCTOBER directly to the CSD Secretariat.  The inputs should be between 5 to
>10 pages.
>
>Please email your organisations's submission to Mr. K. N. Mak, UN
>Department of Economic and Social Affairs, i.e., DESA (email: [e-mail]),
>and cc: to us ([e-mail], [e-mail]).
>
>If you would like the Caucus to mention certain specific projects in the
>formal submission from the Caucus as a whole, you must email the materials
>to Rajat and Deling NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER.
>
>PREPARATORY MEETINGS OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2000:  If there are Caucus members
>who can attend the various meetings that are noted on our website calendar,
>please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can be sure that all
>meetings are well covered by knowledgeable NGOs.  In particular, the
>regional high level meetings on energy and sustainable development (Latin
>America: Ascuncion, Paraguay, 13-14 October; Asia and the Pacific: Bali,
>Indonesia, 21-24 November; and Africa: Nairobi, Kenya, 4-6 December) are
>extremely important as they are high level intergovernmental meetings, and
>all will prepare formal statements of input for CSD9.
>
>BRIEFING ON ASIA PACIFIC HIGH LEVEL REGIONAL MEETING: The Indonesian
>mission to the UN in New York today (29 Sept.) gave a briefing on the Asia
>Pacific High Level Meeting, which is being organised by the Indonesian
>government, DESA, and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
>Pacific (ESCAP).   There will be a parallel NGO Forum, organised by ESCAP,
>and a Business Forum, organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and
>Mines.    Deling was at the briefing and asked exactly how it would be
>determined what ministry's ministers would be invited, since there is often
>overlapping reponsibility for energy and sustainable development among two
>or more ministries in some countries.   The answer (?) was that they would
>ask each country to identify which ministry/minister to invite.
>(Obviously, there will be even further problems - will these be the same
>ministries/ministers who will show up for CSD9?)   There was a question
>from the Netherlands mission, concerning whether there were any joint
>meetings planned of NGOs and business. Answer: no.  Mr. Salamat, the
>co-chair (from Iran) of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts on
>Energy and Sustainable Development (IGEESD) noted that they had identified
>key issues and wondered if, in particular, the issue of access, would be
>specifically dealt with by the High-Level Regional Meeting.  The answer
>seemed to be: maybe.
>
>Many Caucus NGOs will attend and be very active at this meeting, since the
>Asia Pacific group of countries is a very big grouping that includes
>countries extending from the Middle East oil producing countries to major
>population areas in East and South Asia such as China and India, plus many
>Pacific island states, as well as WEOG (Western European and Others Group)
>countries like Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.  In some respects, it is
>a microcosm of the UN as a whole.  Whatever statement this high level
>meeting will agree on will probably be taken quite seriously at CSD9.   Any
>Asian/Pacific NGOs that can attend the meeting in Bali, please let us know
>as soon as possible!!
>
>UNITED STATES NGOs:  We hope that you and your organisation and allied NGOs
>are following the Presidential, Vice-Presidential, Senatorial and House of
>Representatives candidates around to urge them to support ending government
>producer/distributer subsidies ("corporate welfare") to nuclear, fossil
>fuels, and large hydro (or at least give the same amount of funding support
>to conservation/solar/wind, etc.) so that there will be a minimal "free
>market" situation  (or at least the playing field can be leveled a little
>after 50-100 years of subsidies to nuclear, large dams and fossil fuels,
>and less than one percent as much support to solar and wind).  For general
>background information, see the Caucus website, and for a lot of specific
>U.S. case studies, see Friends of the Earth US's "Green Scissors" reports
>for 1999 and 2000 on their website: www.foe.org
>
>OTHER CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS RELEVANT TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: We will soon
>post on our webpage a parallel list of upcoming meetings and conferences
>organised by NGOs and others.  Please submit information concerning any
>meetings/conferences/workshops/seminars that you know.
>
>NEW LIST OF LINKS:  We would like to post as soon as possible on the
>website a new list of linked websites on technical information and case
>studies/good practices/international cooperation related to conservation
>and very sustainable forms of energy, as well as on the issue of subsidies
>and full costs.   Please submit websites, including a brief description, to
>us for posting.
>
>MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE "STARTER PAPERS":  Each of the designated major
>groups have been asked to prepare 16 page papers that will get the dialogue
>discussions started.  The Energy/Climate Change and Transport Caucuses have
>been officially designated as the NGO organising partners for the
>Dialogues.  The first two of the Dialogues deal with energy; the second two
>with transport. Rajat will temporarily coordinate the one on
>eco-efficiency, eco-effectivess...choices for producing, distributing, and
>consuming energy, and Deling will temporarily coordinate the one on
>achieving equitable access to clean energy.  Of course, our Caucus can also
>input to the NGO Transport Caucus on their two topics (public-private
>partnerships for de-carbonizing the transportation system, and sustainable
>transport planning).   The two energy dialogue topics fit in very well with
>our ECCGAP points, and we will make all those points in our papers.
>COORDINATION WITH OTHER MAJOR GROUPS:  We need to encourage other major
>groups to include the same goals and points that we will be making in our
>dialgoue papers.  Therefore, we will try to get our materials to the other
>partners at least two weeks before the papers are due.
>
>ADDITIONAL BRIEFING PAPERS ON CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS:  Since we expect that,
>based on past experience, the formal process of input to the CSD
>Secretariat will not be sufficient at all, and it's uncertain if anyone
>except the authors will carefully read the five 18-page Dialogue papers, we
>would like to prepare additional briefing papers on what we anticipate to
>be the most controversial issues, and send these, as well as the NGO input
>for the Dialogues, directly to key governments in January-February 2001
>(BEFORE the second session of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts
>on Energy and Sustainable Development at the end of February and the
>intersessionals in March).
>
>COMMITTEES AND VOLUNTEERS: We ask everyone to VOLUNTEER for one of five
>Caucus coordinating committees that will continue through CSD9 in April
>2001, and possibly through Rio+10 in 2002:
>
>1. Financial Mechanisms/Policy Strategies/Decision-Making Process
>Committee: subsidies, incentives, regulations, etc. for increasing
>sustainable energy access, plus energy policy and programmes'
>decision-making process to facilitate such access
>2. Conservation and Most Sustainable Renewables Committee: sustainable
>choices for producing, distributing and consuming energy
>3. Major Groups/NGOs Outreach Committee
>4. Governments/Intergovernmental Agencies Outreach Committee
>5. Database/Website Committee
>
>Thank you!
>
>Rajat and Deling
>Coordinators
>NGO Energy & Climate Change Caucus
>
>Southern Coordinator:
>
>Rajat Chaudhuri/CUTS
>3B Camac Street
>Calcutta-700 016 INDIA
>Phone: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>Email: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>
>Northern Coordinator:
>
>Deling Wang/MSES/Network Sustainable NYC
>151 West 25th St., 8th Fl Rear
>New York, NY 10001-7204, USA
>Phone: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>Email: [e-mail]
>

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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:09:34 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Rehearsing Doomsday to air October 15

Dear Friends:

Less than two weeks remain until the George Crile documentary
"Rehearsing Doomsday" will air on CNN Sunday, October 15 at 10:00
eastern, 7:00 pacific time, but there's still time to order a watch
party organizing kit from Project Abolition.  Call us at 219/535-1110 or
email me at <[e-mail]>.  Below is my original notice
from last week.

Kevin Martin
***

To: Peace and Disarmament activists
Fr: Kevin Martin, Director, Project Abolition
September 25, 2000

Rehearsing Doomsday documentary to air on CNN October 15

Rehearsing Doomsday, a documentary produced by George Crile whose
notable documentary =93The
Missiliers=94 aired last February on =9360 Minutes II,=94 gives an
unprecedented look at the nuclear
arsenals of both the United States and Russia.  Unlike any yet produced,
this documentary will
take us on a journey to meet the generals and commanders responsible for
nuclear weapons, the
missiliers charged with firing them, and the politicians who craft our
policies.

We all know that the Russians are eager to reduce their nuclear
stockpile and that a string of
former US generals and cabinet secretaries, haunted by their actions,
have become
abolitionists.  This documentary is different.  Rehearsing Doomsday will
expose the hypocrisy
of current nuclear policy with portraits of Senators, frustrated by
their lack of access to
knowledge, and missiliers, gravely concerned as they watch the American
people sleepwalk toward
armageddon.

Rehearsing Doomsday will be broadcast Sunday, October 15 at 10:00 p.m.
eastern, 7:00 pacific
time on CNN (The documentary may also air on another date, we=92ll let yo=
u
know as soon as we
find out). Thanks and kudos are due to the Global Security Institute,
headed by former U.S.
Sen. Alan Cranston, for working with George Crile and CNN to get this
show on the air.

Let=92s put this much-anticipated documentary to good use in the election
season.  Here are some
suggestions for peace and disarmament activists:

1. Organize a Rehearsing Doomsday watch party in a private home, church
or place of worship,
college campus, or other community meeting center.  Last spring, Project
Abolition, the Global
Security Institute, and the Disarmament Clearinghouse organized over 100
watch parties around
the country for the live CBS television re-make of the anti-nuclear
thriller Fail Safe.  Please
contact Project Abolition at 219/535-1110 or [e-mail]
for a house party
organizing kit.  If the broadcast times are inconvenient, you can
videotape the show and hold
your watch party on another day and time.  Be sure to invite your local
media to your watch
party.

2. Bird-dog congressional candidates and demand to know how they will
work to reduce the
nuclear threat if they are elected or re-elected.  Show up at candidate
debates, rallies or
town meetings prepared to ask tough questions of the candidates. You can
also bring your local
peace group=92s literature to hand out attendees.

3. Use the broadcast of Rehearsing Doomsday to raise nuclear abolition
as an issue with your
local media.  Project Abolition will provide sample letters to the
editor.  You can also
contact your local newspaper=92s television critic and encourage her or
him to preview or review
Rehearsing Doomsday.  After the broadcast, you can refer to the show and
the concerns it raises
in encouraging your local media to cover the nuclear issue and to raise
it with candidates in
editorial board meetings or candidate debates.

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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:33:24 -0800
From: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Position Available

Director of Communications sought by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
This is a senior level position requiring a broad range of
responsibilities, including membership outreach, marketing, public
relations, coordination of events, and editing of publications..  Put
your experience to work helping to make a difference.  Salary DOE +
benefits.  Contact Chris Pizzinat, [phone].  Fax resume to
[phone] or e-mail:  [e-mail].

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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:06:38 -0700
From: "Andrew Lichterman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NYT piece featuring peace priorities bus

piece featuring the disarmament work and broader peace and justice work of
two Abolition 2000 groups (and others).  Also appeared in NYT print edition,
at A12 (top of national report)


New York Times on the Web

National

October 3, 2000

A Mission to Redirect Money Used for Defense
By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
T. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 27 - Under a radiant autumn sky, a bus with a sign
identifying it as the "Moneymobile" pulled into the College of St. Benedict,
a Roman Catholic institution near here. The bus's five young occupants
emerged and inflated nine large balloons, which assumed a form both festive
and esoteric - billowing, multicolored pie charts and bar graphs
representing federal spending.
As a largely student crowd of about 100 gathered, one of the bus passengers,
Shauna Farabaugh, 23, announced what was coming: a presentation by a
Catholic organization on a cross-country tour urging that military spending
be reduced and that the money saved go to health care and education.
"What we choose to prioritize as funding says a lot about us as a nation,"
Ms. Farabaugh said, as another person from the bus, dressed as Uncle Sam,
appeared for a scripted debate about federal spending and social needs.
The presentation was part of a two-month effort by Pax Christi USA, a
venerable peace organization with 14,000 members and headquarters in Erie,
Pa., to call attention to an issue with which it has long been concerned.
But in a larger sense, the bus journey illustrates how some religious
organizations have been trying to call attention to broad issues that fall
outside the themes that seem to dominate the close presidential race, themes
like tax cuts and prescription drug costs for the elderly.
Over a 40-day stretch in July and August, the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
an interfaith antiwar organization, held a series of events in Washington
called the People's Campaign for Nonviolence, seeking nuclear disarmament,
abolition of the death penalty and the lifting of sanctions on Iraq.
"We are, in our modest but persistent way, continuing to call for those
changes," said the Rev. John Dear, the fellowship's executive director.
"There's a lot of grass-roots organizing happening," Father Dear said, "on
justice issues."
In a separate effort in June, a group of religious leaders and retired
generals and admirals issued a statement calling for the elimination of
nuclear weapons. Their statement - part of an effort called the Nuclear
Reduction/Disarmament Initiative - called for "a great national and
international discussion and examination of the true and full implications
of reliance on nuclear weapons, to be followed by action leading to the
international prohibition of these weapons."
The statement has been signed by Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and
others.
"Many of us in positions of religious leadership follow these matters more
closely than many people would assume," said one signer, the Rev. John A.
Buehrens, president of the Unitarian-Universalist Association.
Noting the statement's interfaith character and the number of military
officials who signed, Mr. Buehrens added, "It's not coming from a romantic
or na∩ve view of the dangers in this world."
Pax Christi's project began in March, when the organization released a
statement signed by 34 Catholic bishops, some of them retired, calling for
"a national Catholic campaign of prayer, study and action to end exorbitant
military spending."
Titled "Bread, Not Stones," it said the federal budget should be viewed as a
"moral document," reflecting compassion for society's have-nots. It also
described a lack of health insurance and adequate child care for poor
families as "a tragic consequence of a nation which chooses to spend only 6
cents on education and 4 cents on health care for every 50 cents it spends
on the military."
Later, the organization received an offer of help - use of the Moneymobile -
from a nonprofit organization called Business Leaders for Sensible
Priorities, whose president is Jerry Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's
Ice Cream. The group holds that military spending can be cut without
endangering national security, and the money redirected to health care and
education.
Before the Iowa presidential caucuses and the New Hampshire primary last
winter, the group dispatched its bus through both states, holding public
events with the inflatable charts, a spokesman, David Crosson, said.
For the last three weeks, the bus has made its way among college campuses,
Catholic high schools and public parks in California, New Mexico, Texas,
Missouri and Minnesota. Stops are planned in 33 cities, with Chicago, New
York and Boston to come, before the tour ends in Burlington, Vt., just
before Election Day.
Those on board say the presentations have sometimes drawn only a handful of
people. But sometimes there are crowds like the one at St. Benedict.
"We do a lot of college campuses," said Katie Krolczyk, "and some are into
it and some are not."
Shortly before they visited St. Benedict, in nearby St. Joseph, Ms. Krolczyk
and the tour organizer, Eric LeCompte, stopped by a Catholic high school in
St. Cloud to speak with students. During a break, Mr. LeCompte said that
neither he nor others in the bus favored cuts in military pay. "In no way do
we think that providing less for our soldiers is just," he said.




Andrew Lichterman
Program Director
Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

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Andrew Lichterman
Program Director
Western States Legal Foundation
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Oakland, CA 94612
USA

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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:47:36 -0400
From: Peacework <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) source of quote?

Greetings. A friend passed on the following message, alas without
attribution.  Does anyone know the source?  We would like to quote it in
Peacework magazine, but we can't do that without some verification. Thank
you for whatever help you can offer.  Patricia Watson, editor, Peacework

"A directive from the US Department of Defense was sent to all Army units
in the field. It reads:
    It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads must be
stored upside down, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at
the top. To prevent anyone making a mistake, and in order that there will
be no doubt as to which is the bottom and which is the top, for storage
puirposes, it will be noted that the bottom of each warhead has been
labeled with the word 'Top.'"



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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:36:16 PDT
From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Univ of Hawaii Student Senate Passes (Reaffirms) Nuclear-Free Zone Resolution

To Abolition 2000 Global Caucus and Abolition 2000 USA,

FYI:

The First Nuclear Free Zone resolution was passed by ASUH Senate Assembly
(undergraduate student government) in March 2000. A new ASUH Senate
(newly-elected) passed the following resolution to reaffirm previous
resolution last night, October 2, 2000.

The Univ of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization also passed a Nuclear Free
resolution in March 2000.

Our next GOAL is to SHUT DOWN Pearl Harbor Nuclear storage facilities!




THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MNOA
2465 Campus Road, Campus Center Room 211
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
SENATE RESOLUTION 08-01


URGING THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONES THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD AND THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

WHEREAS, The four currently existing international nuclear-free zone
treaties (covering all of Latin America, the Pacific Ocean region, the
African continent, and Southeast Asia) established and formalized the
definition of "nuclear-free zones" as areas of jurisdiction set apart to be
free from all testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by anyone
and by means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, or to acquire the same,
directly or indirectly, on behalf of anyone else in any other way, and to be
free of receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of
possession of any nuclear weapons, and for all adherents to undertake to
refrain from engaging in, encouraging or authorizing, directly or
indirectly, any of the activities listed above including, in any way, in the
testing, use, manufacture, production, possession or control of any nuclear
weapon as well as engagement in nuclear science research which sought to
divert end-use of nuclear materials away from peaceful uses and toward
destructive ends; and

WHEREAS, The billions of dollars spent on nuclear weapons each year could be
reallocated to help fund educational programs and other social needs; and

WHEREAS, The research and development of nuclear weapons, which has involved
many of our
universities, fosters a culture of secrecy which is in direct opposition to
the principles of democracy; and

WHEREAS, The intellectual resources currently devoted to the development and
maintenance of our nuclear arsenals could be far more productively used for
research into environmentally sound technologies; and

WHEREAS, The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously in July 1996,
"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control"; and

WHEREAS, Retired U.S. General Lee Butler, once responsible for all U.S.
strategic nuclear forces, has called nuclear weapons "inherently dangerous,
hugely expensive, militarily inefficient, and morally indefensible"; and

WHEREAS, The residual effects of nuclear warfare would have a lasting impact
on present and future generations, posing a constant threat to the health
and peace of mind of the world's citizens; and

WHEREAS, It is in the direct interest of young people to support the
sustainability of life on this planet in order that they may have a healthy
place to live in which to pursue their dreams and aspirations; now
therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Senate of the Associated Students of the
University of Hawaii at Manoa (ASUH), the elected body representing over
9,000 full-time classified undergraduate students declares itself a Nuclear
Weapon Free Zone and supports the further development of Nuclear Weapon Free
Zones throughout the world;

BE IT RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH stands in solidarity with the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation for the Abolition 2000 Global Campaign introduced by
Richard Salvador, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, University of Hawaii
at Manoa;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls for nuclear weapons to be
taken off alert status, for all nuclear warheads to be separated from their
delivery vehicles, and for the nuclear weapons states to agree to
unconditional no first use of these weapons;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls upon governments of all
nuclear weapons states to begin negotiations immediately on a Nuclear
Weapons Convention to prohibit and eliminate all nuclear weapons early in
the first years of the new millennium;

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, a call for copies of this resolution to be
distributed among the student body; U.S. Congressional Delegation; President
of the United States; the United States Student Association (USSA); the UH
Board of Regents; UH President Kenneth Mortimer; Abolition 2000 Global
Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; the Hague Appeal for Peace; Peace
Action Network; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Pugwash
U.S.A; Student Peace Action Network; and all University of Hawai'i at Manoa
department heads.


INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FOLEY, CHINA, BERGER, LOY, NAKAMOTO, and VICE-
PRESIDENT TAKAHASHI










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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:28:06 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Why we must vote for Nader

- ---This is a forwarded message to all activists and media lists from
Dr. Brian O'Leary who was science and energy policy advisor and
speechwriter on science and energy policy issues for four previous
US Presidential Candidates.

More info on Dr. O'Leary is at http://www.independence.net/oleary -------

From: "Brian O'Leary"
To: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why we must vote for Nader
Date: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:08 PM

Hi, David,

Because my cyberabilities are severely limited (I've
never done a mass-mailing for example) and my computer
is busted most of the time, I wonder if you could
circulate this as widely as possible within your
network, including Steve Kaplan, Remy Chevalier and
all the rest.  The only bit I'm not sure of
substantiating is the Gore/Occidental Petroleum deal,
which I had learned of from only one source.

Suffice to say, that if we are to have the proper
revolution we desire (clean energy, hemp, etc.), we
absolutely will need to put our support behind Mr.
Nader.  It almost sickens me the number of e-mails I'm
getting to vote for Gore, and yet my cyberlimitations
seem to be unable for my voice to be heard.  The
following statement, I want shouted from the
mountaintops, given to all our friends such as Steve,
Remy Chevalier, etc.  Perhaps you could make the
following statement available to all whom you wish to
hear it; it's a counterpoint that must be heard, and
it's my only trump card in this strangest of years.
Thanks for helping.


Why I'm Voting for Nader
Brian O'Leary, Ph.D., copyright 2000

I've been deeply disturbed, dismayed and sometimes
depressed with the recent movement of folks I admire
and respect with their plea to vote for Mr. Gore,
which is spreading like wildfire on the internet.
Therefore, as never before in my limited
cyberpresence, I must protest and offer some of my
reasons for voting for Mr. Nader.

What I hear primarily is a fear of "the burning Bush",
that oilman and his golden-parachute henchman, Mr.
Cheney, master of smart bombs that kill people, and
could kill more.  Let me say at the outset that I
don't want those gentlemen (?) in there any more than
the rest of you.  They're spoiled fraternity boys
aggrandized by the silliest most superficial media I
have seen in my sixty years here (Sorry, Mr. Gore
isn't much better).   But I also see fear and
ignorance in the anti-Nader, pro-Gore statements that
are full of shallow myths ("A vote for Nader is a vote
for Bush") ("Nader has no credentials besides being a
consumer advocate") (etc).  I wish to not only dispel
these myths, but to also point outfrom my own
considerable Washington experience, that not only is
Mr. Nader superbly qualified, but we have a clear
choice independent of the unprecedently inordinate
influence of big money interests that are destroying
our environment and individual freedom.  Mr. Nader
therefore needs our support.  We are in a revolution
of human affairs, a paradigm shift, where defensive
voting has no place...sorry, it's too late for that.

A week ago I keynoted a Forum to Convert to a Hydrogen
Economy in Ft. Collins.  We discussed what it would
take to get off our life-destroying fossil fuel
economy.  The only standing ovation I got was when I
said I'd vote for Ralph Nader.  These were professors,
technical people, no dummies.  The support came only
because of the simple fact that Mr. Nader is the only
candidate who supports the rapid conversion to a clean
energy economy.

Recently my colleague Dennis Weaver and I
heard Nader speak here in Montrose.  Nader epitomizes
honesty, intellectual rigor, compassion, the desire to
get off fossil fuels, universal
health care, legalizing commercial hemp in order to
save our forests, and busting the awesome power of
international corporatations.  Gore has been bought
out. This is important stuff, the essence of my entire
research over the past two years,  Over the past four
decades, I have advised and written speeches for
McGovern, Kennedy, Mondale, Udall and Jackson.The Gore
people also asked me to help, but I refused the
oppportunity for the following reasons: he has all but
abandoned the precepts of "The Earth in Balance", has
accepted campaign contributions from the likes of
Occidental Petroleum, who won the bid for the pipeline
to the pristine Arctic Wildlife Refuge, advocates the
largest peacetime military budget in American history,
oversees the largest incarceration rate in the world
for victimless crimes, and is basically bought out. So
what if Gore has the support of the Sierra Club and
other "environmental" groups?  My new book in progress
well documents how those groups have sold out too.
Those endorsements mean absoloutely nothing to me.

Perhaps most importantly,  I cannot vote for someone
defensively.  I'd rather live with four years of Bush,
then switch to Nader (whom I'll be heartily supporting
in future years, if he has the courage to run again)
than to buy into the lesser evil of the unprecedently
money-ridden neopolik of America; I feel we need to
expose this outrageous corruption and cooption of the
media, and not vote defensively.  A 10-15 % showing
could go a long way in hearing Nader's voice, so far
considered a joke by the media of the likes of Pat
Buchanan..

We need a revolution here, not more of the
same; I shocked at how the fear of Bush would have
created so much defensiveness and pretty much a
guarantee of the same shameful American "prosperity"
which is leading the world down the tubes.  Whatever
has happened to democracy, where we vote our
consciences? We're collectively crazy!!!

I told an audience of 4000 in Houston last
week that the next time I would have a temper tantrum
is when someone tells me that a vote for Nader is  a
vote for Bush. No, a vote for Nader is a vote for
Nader.  Nader happens to be en excellently
qualified candidate who refuses to be bought out, and
could make a big difference.  Gore is just another
mish-mash of decadent (although admittedlly morally
better) of Clintonism, of Blairism, etc.

So you have a choice to join the revolutionary team,
or sell out again!  Being a revolutionary might take
another four years but will be much better on the
other side.

I've also heard from various quarters that Nader
doesn't have the credentials.  Nothing could be
farther from the truth.  Nader is a much misunderstood
man.  In fact, he is more of a Washington insider than
the insiders themselves, but he's incorruptable.  He
has maintained the same modest studio apartment for
decades.  I
worked with him briefly on nuclear power issues during
the 1970s while I was consultant to the U.S. House
subcommittee on energy and the environment headed by
Mo Udall who was running for president. Nader
tirelessly drafted legislation, worked endlessly with
the committee congressmen (and myself) day and night
creating a leveling off of nuclear power plant new
starts.  More than any "lobbyist" he was always in the
public interest and against the corporate, big money
interest, an interest which has totally corrupted our
culture, including Mr. Gore himself.  The fat cats
have taken over Washington, it's so obvious, and Mr.
Nader is one of a handful of public interest advocates
(much, much more than just a consumer advocate).  He
will be remembered in history as a great selfless
American hero, well-versed in Washington affairs,
while Nero fiddles as Rome burns, and as the current
Administration or a truly awful Bush administration
figure out ways of rearranging the deck chairs of the
Titanic, taking their oil profits (the analogue to the
iceberg awaiting) and figuring out ways to get to the
first lifeboat.

If you or some of your subscribers vote for Nader, it
will be clean, honest, incorruptable, and essential
for the environment.  I have seen the process of Mr.
Gore selling out. Don't trust he'll return to his
"environmentalism" any more than existing
"environmental" groups allow SUVs to pollute the air,
for global warming/climate change to change a la Kyoto
celebrated by Mr. Gore, which is way too little too
late, or for one acre of forests per second to be
irrevokably destroyed, while the Clinton/Gore
administration raids and arrests native Americans for
growing commercial hemp in South Dakota (Nader's words
for these actions: "medieval")

Please vote for Nader, or we're in big trouble.
Thanks.

Best, Brian
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:32:53 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Univ of Hawaii Student Senate Passes (Reaffirms) Nuclear-Free Zone Resolution

Congratulations to Richard Salvador and all the other students at UH.

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

Abolition2000 Pacific Region wrote:

> To Abolition 2000 Global Caucus and Abolition 2000 USA,
>
> FYI:
>
> The First Nuclear Free Zone resolution was passed by ASUH Senate Assembly
> (undergraduate student government) in March 2000. A new ASUH Senate
> (newly-elected) passed the following resolution to reaffirm previous
> resolution last night, October 2, 2000.
>
> The Univ of Hawaii Graduate Student Organization also passed a Nuclear Free
> resolution in March 2000.
>
> Our next GOAL is to SHUT DOWN Pearl Harbor Nuclear storage facilities!
>
> THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MNOA
> 2465 Campus Road, Campus Center Room 211
> Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
> SENATE RESOLUTION 08-01
>
> URGING THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONES THROUGHOUT THE
> WORLD AND THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
>
> WHEREAS, The four currently existing international nuclear-free zone
> treaties (covering all of Latin America, the Pacific Ocean region, the
> African continent, and Southeast Asia) established and formalized the
> definition of "nuclear-free zones" as areas of jurisdiction set apart to be
> free from all testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by anyone
> and by means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, or to acquire the same,
> directly or indirectly, on behalf of anyone else in any other way, and to be
> free of receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of
> possession of any nuclear weapons, and for all adherents to undertake to
> refrain from engaging in, encouraging or authorizing, directly or
> indirectly, any of the activities listed above including, in any way, in the
> testing, use, manufacture, production, possession or control of any nuclear
> weapon as well as engagement in nuclear science research which sought to
> divert end-use of nuclear materials away from peaceful uses and toward
> destructive ends; and
>
> WHEREAS, The billions of dollars spent on nuclear weapons each year could be
> reallocated to help fund educational programs and other social needs; and
>
> WHEREAS, The research and development of nuclear weapons, which has involved
> many of our
> universities, fosters a culture of secrecy which is in direct opposition to
> the principles of democracy; and
>
> WHEREAS, The intellectual resources currently devoted to the development and
> maintenance of our nuclear arsenals could be far more productively used for
> research into environmentally sound technologies; and
>
> WHEREAS, The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously in July 1996,
> "There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
> conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
> under strict and effective international control"; and
>
> WHEREAS, Retired U.S. General Lee Butler, once responsible for all U.S.
> strategic nuclear forces, has called nuclear weapons "inherently dangerous,
> hugely expensive, militarily inefficient, and morally indefensible"; and
>
> WHEREAS, The residual effects of nuclear warfare would have a lasting impact
> on present and future generations, posing a constant threat to the health
> and peace of mind of the world's citizens; and
>
> WHEREAS, It is in the direct interest of young people to support the
> sustainability of life on this planet in order that they may have a healthy
> place to live in which to pursue their dreams and aspirations; now
> therefore,
>
> BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Senate of the Associated Students of the
> University of Hawaii at Manoa (ASUH), the elected body representing over
> 9,000 full-time classified undergraduate students declares itself a Nuclear
> Weapon Free Zone and supports the further development of Nuclear Weapon Free
> Zones throughout the world;
>
> BE IT RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH stands in solidarity with the Nuclear Age
> Peace Foundation for the Abolition 2000 Global Campaign introduced by
> Richard Salvador, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, University of Hawaii
> at Manoa;
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls for nuclear weapons to be
> taken off alert status, for all nuclear warheads to be separated from their
> delivery vehicles, and for the nuclear weapons states to agree to
> unconditional no first use of these weapons;
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 88th ASUH calls upon governments of all
> nuclear weapons states to begin negotiations immediately on a Nuclear
> Weapons Convention to prohibit and eliminate all nuclear weapons early in
> the first years of the new millennium;
>
> BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, a call for copies of this resolution to be
> distributed among the student body; U.S. Congressional Delegation; President
> of the United States; the United States Student Association (USSA); the UH
> Board of Regents; UH President Kenneth Mortimer; Abolition 2000 Global
> Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; the Hague Appeal for Peace; Peace
> Action Network; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Pugwash
> U.S.A; Student Peace Action Network; and all University of Hawai'i at Manoa
> department heads.
>
> INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FOLEY, CHINA, BERGER, LOY, NAKAMOTO, and VICE-
> PRESIDENT TAKAHASHI
>
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