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abolition-usa-digest      Sunday, October 8 2000      Volume 01 : Number 387




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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:26:40 -0700
From: Tom Condit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) source of quote?

It sounds like one of a familiar genre of jokes to me.

At 04:47 PM 10/3/00 -0400, Peacework wrote:
>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: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:06:48 -0400
From: "david rush" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: SLMK Appeal: Proposal on Research Institutes

From: "Life-Link" <[e-mail]>
To: "IPPNW Boston Michael Christ Doug Kline" <[e-mail]>;
"Australia-MAPW Lynda Campbell" <[e-mail]>; "Austria-PPNW Dr
Klaus Renoldner" <[e-mail]>; "Can-PPNW Dr Mary-Wynne Ashford"
<[e-mail]>; "Chinese PPNW Medical Association Susan Lin"
<[e-mail]>; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Abraham Behar"
<[e-mail]>; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Jacques Mongnet"
<[e-mail]>; "Fra-AMFPGN Dr Patrice Richard"
<[e-mail]>; "Den-DLMK Dr Anton Aggernaes"
<[e-mail]>; "Den-DLMK Dr Jacob Obbekjaer"
<[e-mail]>; "Den-DLMK Dr Pavl Revsbech" <[e-mail]>;
"Fin-PPNW Kaisa Kahala" <[e-mail]>; "Fin-PPNW Maija Vainiom=E4ki"
<[e-mail]>; "Fin-PPNW Partrik Sandstr=F6m" <[e-mail]>; "Fin-PP=
NW
Pekka Aarninsalo" <[e-mail]>; "Ger-PPNW Jennifer
R=E4mer" <[e-mail]>; "Ger-PPNW Dr Lars Pohlmeier"
<[e-mail]>; "Ger-PPNW Armin Kr=F6ning" <armin.kroening@t-online.=
de>;
"India-Journalist Praful Bidway" <[e-mail]>; "India-PPNW D=
r
S.S. Shrivastwa" <[e-mail]>; "Israel Hillel Schenker"
<[e-mail]>; "Japan-PPNW" <[e-mail]>; "Mal-P=
PNW
Dr Ron McCoy Malaysia" <[e-mail]>; "Neth-PPNW Dr Herman Spanjaa=
rd"
<[e-mail]>; "Neth-PPNW H M Zontenlier"
<[e-mail]>; "Nor-NLMA Dr Ellen-Ann Antal"
<[e-mail]>; "Nor-NLMA Bj=F8rn Hilt" <[e-mail]>; "Nor=
- -NLMA
Ingvild Fossgard Sandoy" <[e-mail]>; "Nor-NLMA Dr
Kirsten Osen" <[e-mail]>; "Pak-PPNW Dr S. Tipu Sultan=
"
<[e-mail]>; "Pol-PPNW Dr Kinga Tomczak" <[e-mail]>;
"Rus-PPNW Moscow" <[e-mail]>; "Rus-PPNW Dr Sergei V. Grachev"
<[e-mail]>; "Rus-PPNW Dr Sergei Kolesnikov"
<[e-mail]>; "Swe-SLMK Med Stud Anna Hellman"
<[e-mail]>; "Swe SLMK board" <[e-mail]>=
;
"Swi-PPNW Dr Monica Brodmann" <[e-mail]>; "UK-Medact Dr Jack
Piachaud" <[e-mail]>; "UK-Medact Dr Liz Waterston"
<[e-mail]>; "UK-Medact Dir Gill Reeves"
<[e-mail]>; "UK-ORG Janet Bloomfield" <[e-mail]=
>;
"US-PSR David Rush" <[e-mail]>; "US-PSR Director Robert K. Musil"
<[e-mail]>; "US-PSR Dr Paul Fisher" <[e-mail]>; "US-P=
SR
Dr Lee Francis" <[e-mail]>; "US-PSR Dr Ira Helfand"
<[e-mail]>; "US-PSR Jan and Peter Wilk " <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: SLMK Appeal: Proposal on Research Institutes


> IPPNW and Nuclear Disarmament friends,
> Please help us this week, and send at least one proposal (if possible
> before 18th September) on a qualified research institute (preferably in
> your country) that should be invited by SLMK/IPPNW to undertake a resea=
rch
> study on the topic "Instead of Nuclear Weapons".
> SLMK presently discuss to initiate this research program for year 2001 =
in
> order to give us more tools and motivation for our opinionmaking,
dialogues
> and seminars etc.
> SLMK drafts this research program in cooperation with the Department fo=
r
> Peace and Conflict reserach in Uppsala Sweden.
> * We will formulate the invitation and the guidelines to the selected
> institutes in a quite open way, in order to obtain non-limited
new-thinking.
> * We want the results during mid or late 2001.
> * We do not yet have the big money to offer, but will discuss fundraisi=
ng
> with IPPNW board as soon as we know that there are institutes to invite.
> * The selected and invited and willing research institutes will work
> totally independent, which will make the reports very interesting. Will=
 a
> research study undertaken in US, Russia, Sweden, Israel, France, China,
> Japan, India etc........ bring up totally different results?
> * Please try to send us at least one address of a qualified research
> institute (Governmental or Non Governmental) and if possible a contact
> person and a few words of why you think that this is a good institute.
> No Nukes Now and visions on a nuclear weapons free future!
> SLMK / Hans Levander and Gunnar Westberg
>


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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:23:08 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Spiritual Environmental Summit, Update 1

From: "Clay Earth" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spiritual Environmental Summit, Update 1
Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:04 AM


AS A FUTURE GENERATIONS' PRAYER, the Global Peace Walk 2000 is humbled and
honored to be both holding and calling for Spiritual Environmental Summit
during the Year 2000 AD on the United Nation's 55th Anniversary.  The time
has come to Develop Spiritually United Nations.  For the Tree of Life, for
the Way of Life: The time has come for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal
human resolve.

A major aim of these summits is for indigenous spiritual leaders to expand
and empower the growing "deep ecology" consciousness amongst regular people,
educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational
corporations, and even state and national and international governments.
A major theme is how the loss of Indigenous traditional culture and
spirituality relates to the devastion of the natural environment.

The Spiritual Environmental Summit will take place in six locations up the
East Coast Corridor between Washington, D.C. and New York City during
October 11-24th.  Please stay posted on the constantly evolving schedule!

October 11th, American University Amphitheater, Wash D.C., 7-10pm
(Massachusetts and Nebraska Av).  Native American Spiritual Leaders:
Singing, Drumming, Ceremonies, and Speeches.  Special Guests: Rev. Chief
Leonard Crow Dog, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Rev. Yusen Yamato, Chief Jacob
Sanderson, Chief Oscar Marino, Chief Luciano Perez, Rev. Chief John Crow
Dog, Carter Camp, Casey Camp.  Invited: Chief Billy Tayac.  Live Music:
Roots Rock Reggae/Soldiers of Jah, Global Peace Orchestra Rapping for Peace,
Native Drummers.

October 17th, Swarthmore College, PA: Traditional Buddhist and Native
American Ceremony in Amphitheater, 4-6pm; Lecture in Lang Performing Arts
Cinema, 7-10pm: Rev. Yamato, Dr. Ashok Gangadean of Global Dialogue
Institute, Keith Curley Dine'h Sun Dancer, Alice Yeager with Inner Peace
Treaty, Marie Tucker of Taos Pueblo, Professor Mark Creekwater from the
School of Life.

October 19th, Princeton University, NJ. Afternoon traditional peace tree
planting ceremony.  Evening Lecture 7-11pm: Rev. Yamato; Selo Black Crow of
Oglala Lakota; Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza of Maxuci Tribe,
Brazil; Sammy Blackbear of Skull Valley Goshutes Utah; Rose Romero and Marie
Tucker of Taos Pueblo; Dine'h Navajo representative from Big Mountain.
Invited: Tibetan Monks, Greenpeace, Sierra Club.

October 22nd, NYC begin: TBA.

October 23rd, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, 12am-9am.  Music by Miho Hatori and
Nina Siegenthaler; Global Peace Orchestra.

October 24th, UN Day.  Baha'i Center Auditorium, 7-11pm.  Speakers: Rev.
Yamato, Jose Adalberto Silva and Desmano de Souza, Selo Black Crow, Ben
Romero of Taos Pueblo, Big Mountain representative, Sammy Blackbear.
Invited: Tibetan monks, Qi Energy masters, Ed Nakawatse of AFSC, Rainforest
Action Network, Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President of the Friends of the
Earth, Nature Conservancy representative.



Last week, during the 8th Annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth on the
Washington Monument grounds, the Eskimo people of Greenland sent a message:
"last year there was a stream in the ice...this year it is a river."   Chief
Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Carrier of the Sacred White Buffalo
Calf Pipe of the Lakota Dakota Nation, speaking with the historical memory
of his ancestors, told that only within the last 15 years has the sun burnt
their skin during the Sun Dance.  The examples are countless and increasing:
Today is a Global Emergency.  The earth is suffering, the water is polluted,
the fire has become all gas and electricity, the air is becoming polluted,
and spirituality is becoming all noise.  As a global community, we must
cooperate beyond race, gender, religion, ideology, and class in order to
Protect our Life and Land.  In the name of Global Peace we emphasize that we
must do whatever we can to restore the spiritual relationship between the
human being and the elements: the earth, the water, the fire, and the air.
Many people these days are talking about creating a global culture of peace;
we suggest that if we all sincerely want to create a culture of peace that
we look to the historical precedents set by traditional cultures of peace
and that we listen closely to those few bearers of traditional knowledge
still alive today to guide us back to harmony and balance and
sustainability.

As a prayer for "All our relations"
and "Living on the Globe with all our friends"
Respectfully,
Global Peace Walkers

Please call 202 244 3407 or 718 624 2611 fo mo info.

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:17:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest

Dear peace and environmental colleagues:

As the 3-part series in USA Today is much, much too long to post, this
short article from our October newsletter may be of interest. This story of
early bomb sites has, like many of our stories,  broad implications for a
number of interrelated issues, including compensation for ill workers and
communities, basic justice, health and the environment. Peace, Marylia

Secret Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest

adapted by Maryia Kelley from a 3-part series in USA Today
for Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Lewis Malcolm began working at the steel mill in the 1930s and felt "lucky
to have a job." In March 1948, the first rail cars full of uranium and
thorium arrived at the Simonds Saw & Mill Co. in New York. Workers were
told only that they would be rolling a "new metal." In fact, they made the
fuel rods for the plutonium production reactors at Hanford.

"There was a lot of dust. We thought there might be problems... They always
told us there was no danger," Malcolm explained.

Only weeks away from a painful and protracted death from kidney failure,
Malcolm ruminated on his life recently, and said he "wasn't so sure" he had
been lucky those many years ago.

"Most of the guys are dead now. Cancer, kidneys, lung problems, you see a
lot of that," John Smith said of the workers at Ohio's Hanshaw chemical
plant, where uranium was secretly processed during the 40s and 50s for the
nuclear weapons program. Documents  reveal that radioactive dust in the
Hanshaw plant was measured at 200 times the safety limit of the day.
Employee exposures ranged up to 374 times the then-allowed dose limit.

The U.S. employed a vast network of private companies in its quest to
develop the atomic bomb, and in subsequent early-Cold War production. These
secret sites were largely abandoned as the major government-owned,
contractor-operated facilities of the nuclear weapons complex came on line
- -- Hanford, Savannah River, Rocky Flats, Livermore Lab and so on.

The contamination at these formerly-used, private sites was an official
secret, the records documenting worker and community risks classified and
hidden from those who were simply left to suffer the consequences. And, the
poison legacy remains to threaten new generations.

USA Today, in a recent series from which this article is drawn, reported on
nearly 100,000 pages of government records, many declassified for the first
time. These documents show that the U.S.  hired around 300 private
companies in its early bomb production enterprise, and that nearly
one-third of them handled large amounts of radioactive and toxic material
even though basic protective equipment and information on hazards was often
lacking.

While many of the biggest sites are in the Midwest, according to the
Department of Energy some twenty of the 571 formerly-used bomb sites are in
California.

Further, the records show that the government, on many occasions, sent its
health physicists to document worker  risks. They gave false assurances to
the workers, and hid the results which often included exposures hundreds of
times above the already-lax safety standards.

Also documented, and strictly classified, was evidence of widespread
pollution of the air, soil and water around these private facilities.

Dr. Arjun Makhijani, hired by USA Today to analyze worker dose records,
called the situation "appalling," and said that the magnitude of the
exposures calls into question the oft-held assumption that Soviet nuclear
weapons production was more polluting than those same activities in the
U.S.

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), which assisted USA Today
reporters in the investigation, called on the DOE to provide full
information and compensation to all workers and communities that may have
been harmed. (See also the related story on the Congressional debate over
the substantially more limited compensation being considered for workers on
page 3.)

ANA, a nation-wide network to which Tri-Valley CAREs belongs, also called
on the government to provide a complete inventory of all toxic and
radioactive materials used or currently found at all nuclear weapons sites
- - whether government or privately owned.

To the thousands whose lives have been put at risk, and to the unknown
numbers who have paid the ultimate price -- loss of health and their very
lives -- we owe no less than the whole truth.

To future generations, we owe adequate cleanup, our deepest apologies, and
the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

Copies of the USA Today 3-part series are available from Tri-Valley CAREs'
office on request.

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: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF budget analysis/speech excerpts

Dear peace and enviro advocates. Thank you to the many of you who weighed
in to stop the National Ignition Facility. Here is an analysis of the NIF
budget debate and outcome for the upcoming fiscal year. It is followed by a
suggested action and excerpts from excellent speeches on the Senate floor
by Tom Harkin and Harry Reid. The excerpts make this a tad longer than I
usually post, but both Senators' words are worthwhile!  Please read on...
Peace, Marylia

Senate Restrains NIF, Conference Committee Lets it Loose

by Marylia Kelley
for Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

The National Ignition Facility survived the budget ax this year, but just
barely.

NIF foes succeeded in bringing the facility's proliferation risks,
technical problems and still-hemorrhaging budget to the attention of
Congress, marking the first time that the institution providing the funds
truly noticed the mega-laser.  This is a significant achievement that can
be built upon and may yield positive results over the long haul, for many
lawmakers did not like what they saw.

NIF advocates came away from the budget battle with a notable chunk of
additional construction money, giving the beleaguered facility a
much-needed shot in the arm, in their view. Certainly, the added funding
does provide a respite for NIF - to the dismay of our organization and many
others.

As reported in our July 2000 edition of Citizen's Watch, the NIF debate
began in the House with a valiant effort led by Reps. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), offering a last-minute amendment to cut NIF
construction that lost on a voice vote.

The action then moved to the Senate. Several factors there allowed for a
more penetrating look at NIF.

In August, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released its report. That
study was highly critical of NIF and pegged its pre-completion costs at $4
billion. (See also the September 2000 Citizen's Watch and the new NIF
postcards, available soon on our website.)

Too, a variety of issues held up the vote on Senate Appropriations, which
served to give staffers and Senators alike a small piece of time in which
to educate themselves on NIF. A number of them studied technical materials
on the mega-laser from several sources, including DOE, Livermore Lab, GAO,
Tri-Valley CAREs and other non-governmental organizations.

Two champions quickly emerged to restrain NIF, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA)
and Harry Reid (D-NV). (See also excerpts from their speeches, below.)

Working with other Senate colleagues, they crafted an amendment to put a
"cap" on NIF's construction budget, limiting it to the $74.1 million in the
DOE's original budget request and slamming the door on an extra $135
million that DOE had begun seeking after the NIF cost overrun became
public.

Additionally, the amendment required the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
to undertake a study of NIF's technical difficulties and its utility (or
lack thereof) for maintaining the safety and reliability of the arsenal.
The NAS study was also to investigate alternative methods for achieving
that goal, and to offer recommendations on whether NIF should be canceled
or scaled back.

The powerful chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Pete Domenici (R-NM),
concurred with their efforts. On September 7, the amendment to cap NIF
construction passed the Senate on a voice vote.

Whenever differences exist between a House bill and a Senate bill, the
matter goes to a special "Conference Committee" for resolution. Since the
Senate had now placed a limit on NIF construction not found in the earlier
House version, the Conference Committee was the next stop on NIF's wild
ride.

At this point, the Conferees chose the wasteful and profligate spending
path, offering NIF $199 million for construction in fiscal year 2001. Of
that, $69 million will be held back pending NIF's compliance with specified
milestones. Equally disappointing, however, was that the Conference
Committee did not retain the Senate provision requiring the NAS study,
allowing instead more of the "same old" wherein DOE will review itself to
determine if NIF milestones are met. This leaves entirely too much room for
DOE and Livermore to hide serious, ongoing problems with NIF and to
manipulate the outcome of the reporting requirements.

While the $199 million is $10 million less than Lab management and DOE had
hoped to get, it is being touted by Livermore Lab as a victory for NIF.
Ironically it will likely turn out to incur financial losses for the Lab
overall. For, not all of the NIF construction funding is actually new
money.

Forty million dollars is slated to come out of the NIF operating budget at
Livermore Lab. In other words, this will constitute a lateral move from one
Livermore pot of NIF money to another. Laser operators and other
non-construction employees are generally paid out of the operating budget
- -- now to be gutted in favor of construction. No matter what the Lab PR
staff says publicly, privately employees are worried.

Further, the Conferees directed Livermore Lab to take $25 million from its
non-NIF programs as part of the deal to boost NIF construction. The
Committee's report does not specify from which Livermore programs the cuts
will come, apparently leaving DOE and Lab management to make that decision.


This may become a dark year indeed for Livermore Lab's smaller programs,
especially those that have a significant civilian, rather than
predominately military, application. Management is unlikely to look first
to the subcritical nuclear testing program for NIF funds. Instead,
astrophysics, geophysics, basic sciences and other, similar and already
underfunded endeavors at Livermore Lab will feel the budget ax first, most
keenly and with disproportionate pain.

So, rather than being a straightforward matter of NIF avoiding the ax this
year, in reality it is more truly a deflection, a change in the angle of
the ax's descent.

Suggested action: Call Reps. Paul Ryan & Dennis Kucinich and Senators Tom
Harkin & Harry Reid to thank them for their efforts to bring some common
sense and financial restraint to the NIF project. Let them know you care
about cutting NIF and why. Otherwise, DOE and Livermore Lab managers will
be the only voices they will hear. They can all be reached through the
Capitol Switchboard at [phone].

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Sept. 5, 2000 on NIF funding:

"Leaders from DOE and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab came to me at a
time when many Members of the Senate, including Chairman [Pete] Domenici,
were somewhat skeptical that NIF was actually needed. They assured me that
NIF was absolutely vital to national security and that it would be brought
in on time and within budget. Based on that, I came to bat for NIF and
convinced many of my colleagues to support it. I regret it.

"In my estimation, DOE lied to me. They sold me a bill of goods and I am
not happy about it. It is now several years later and the project is
hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule...
Enough is enough.

"There is plenty of skepticism in the scientific and national security
community as to whether we will ever be able to get the information we need
to certify our stockpile from NIF. I believe there are other, cheaper ways
to get this job done and I think that it is time to go back to the drawing
board and find a new path forward."

- -----------------------------------------
Senator Tom Harkin:

"As many of my colleagues are aware, this is a deeply troubled program. The
General Accounting Office recently issued a report that detailed management
turmoil, cost overruns, slipping schedules, and unsolved technical
problems. I am deeply concerned that we will pour more and more money into
NIF, money that could be used for other scientific purposes. NIF appears to
be mostly a jobs program for nuclear weapons scientists.

"We have had a lot of problems with NIF. They have repeatedly tried to hide
the true costs of the project. In fact, DOE and lab officials told GAO that
they deliberately set an unrealistically low initial budget because they
feared Congress would not fund a realistic one... They lied to us. They
simply lied to us. They admitted it to GAO. Now they want more money. Is
this what we reward?

"So what is this NIF? Why is it necessary?... It may be true that NIF would
provide useful data for simulating nuclear weapons explosions. But we don't
need that data to maintain the nuclear weapons we have today. For decades,
we have assured the safety and reliability of our nuclear weapons with a
careful engineering program... We don't need a $4 billion facility at
Lawrence Livermore to do what we are doing right now. We can and will
continue these surveillance activities of our stockpile.

"The kind of detailed information on nuclear explosions that NIF could
provide is needed only to modify weapons or design new ones. But we don't
need to design any new nuclear weapons. ...but that is what they intend to
do with it. ...NIF may itself be a proliferation threat."

- -- From the statement of Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) on September 7, 2000 on
the floor of the Senate to introduce the amendment to limit funding for the
construction of the National Ignition Facility.


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: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:52:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) sick workers wait

Sick Workers Wait

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' October 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

While throwing millions more at NIF, the Conference Committee remains mired
in debate over whether to compensate the workers made ill by exposure to
toxic and radioactive materials in the nation's bomb factories and labs.

Some workers suffered acute exposure, some chronic. Some were "dosed" with
excess radioactivity, some by hazardous chemicals. What they have in common
is that they are sick and dying, and some are already dead. Many have
problems with insurance and medical bills, leaving little to bequeath to a
surviving spouse.

Earlier this year, DOE Secretary Bill Richardson reversed over a
half-century of official agency denial, admitting that atomic workers had
been put in harms way. The DOE proposed compensation for an estimated 3,000
past and present employees, a number that we said accounted for only a
fraction of those made ill. Still, it represented an historic first step.
(See our May 2000 Citizen's Watch for details on DOE's plan.)

Now, Congress appears reluctant to find even the start-up funding needed
for the program. For weeks, conferees have debated the issue without
resolution. Reportedly, the House Republicans on the Conference Committee
are balking at the proposal's price tag of $1.7 billion over ten years.

State governors intensified a letter writing campaign in support of a
compensation bill. Most recently, Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NV) wrote and urged
passage of the proposal, calling it "long deserved." Gov. Gary Locke (D-WA)
also weighed in on behalf of the program earlier in the week. The governors
from Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and So. Carolina have sent
missives to the Committee as well.

Meanwhile, the sick workers wait... and die.

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: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:16:23 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) activist networking & GeneralAgencyServices.com

This is a note for those potentially interested in networking cooperations
to further increased funding of their and our activism work -- by expanding
outreach of General Agency Services as an eventually large global
people-to-people personal and financial agency service alternative to
contemporary governments and "business" programs.

If neither you nor anyone in your network that you might forward this
message to would be interested in investigating this idea, feel free to stop
reading here and delete this message.

Over the last few months I have been formalizing my 30 year
General Agency Services vision/concept as a new "company",
www.GeneralAgencyServices.com, to help put some financial backing
behind many of the projects and networkers/activists that I have been
communicating about/with over the internet these last couple of
years or so.

To help support our work on social justice, global peace, environmental
remediation, human rights, new-energy technology development, etc., we
now have excellent special networking opportunities to create signifiant
personal revenue streams for our projects and collaborators through
working together under auspices of General Agency Services as a
personal and financial agency offering valuable support services and
memberships underwritten by two large companies administering
national networks of prominent attorneys and tax professionals.

For decades now I have simply bristled at the idea of any involvement in the
legal system or the IRS income tax system because I have felt reluctant to
participate in what seems to be a "system" stacked against the average
person -- where true justice is not available except perhaps to those who
can "afford" it by hiring expensive attorneys for consultations and legal
support services -- and paying income taxes gives the government money
to use for some unhappy things like wars abroad and injustices at home.

Now I see a way to turn this situation around by our being able to earn
substantial part-time incomes as "home-managed businesses" through sharing
some important and valuable information with our networks of friends and
contacts -- information that helps mimimize legal problems and taxes by
affording both:

"Equal justice for all", via unlimited personal toll-free phone access to
over 1600 top attorneys nationwide on an "as needed" basis for
consultations, document review, letter writing and phone calls on our
behalf, moving vehicle violation and lawsuit representation, wills, etc.
Rather than, as usual, lacking understanding of legal rights and receiving
only as much "justice" as one can afford to pay in legal fees, this program
(backed by a large well financed company) means that the average
person/family/business has full access, via minimal monthly membership fees,
to top attorneys that are normally only available/affordable to/by the
rich -- and even free access to comprehensive online legal content,
information, forms, etc., at my below website where also such membership
enrollments -- and Independent Associate enrollments for those who want earn
income by offering memberships to others in person or via the internet --
may be handled online.  This kind of legal protection coverage is owned by
80% of Europeans where it has been available for 100 years, but is owned by
perhaps 1% of Americans and Canadians because it has only been around in
North American for 28 years and most folks didn't even know it exists --
until its recently increased distribution by a professionalized network
marketing program that just last month reached the first million membership
enrollment mark and expects to reach the second million in another 28
months. (various plans, as low as $12.95/mo);

and,

"Turning the tables on the IRS", with income tax relief through an analogous
network of over 2000 tax professionals (CPA's, tax attorneys, IRS Enrolled
Agents, etc.) dedicated to serving our clients by minimizing (in some cases
eliminating and in many cases cutting by 1/3 to 1/2) personal/business
income taxes through employing legitimate but little known income tax
deductions and exemptions (programs available for as little as $10/month)
especially home-managed business deductions unknown to even many CPA's.
Typically, after enrolling in one of these programs and getting this kind of
expert professional advice that normally costs hundreds of dollars per hour,
combined with the materials the company provides its customers, a member can
then adjust W-4 withholding forms at their regular employer and immediately
decrease withholding taxes, like an "instant pay raise", (often by several
hundred dollars per month) based on lowered annual taxes due because of tax
strategies implemented.  Independent Marketing Associates offering these
services are earning excellent part-time or full-time incomes, some well
into six figures, helping people connect with this professional network to
minimize the amounts they pay in income taxes -- what a great feeling!

Dr. Charles King, (PhD in business adminstration from Harvard), Professor of
Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, prominently features
each of the above described companies in his new book, "The New
Professionals -- The Rise of Network Marketing as the Next Major
Profession", among less than two dozen companies described in Chapter 7,
"Rising Star Companies That Are Making Their Mark".  In addition, there are
recent additional whole books (available also on the normal internet book
sites and in bookstores) about each of these two companies:  "The Pre-Paid
Legal Story", by Harland C. Stonecipher, and "The Result is Money", about
TheTaxPeople, by Lori Prokop.  One of the tax attorneys in TheTaxPeople
network referenced above has published seventeen updated editions of his
regularly revised 650pp classic, "How to Pay Zero Taxes", by Jeff Schnepper.

Why not utilize the networking skills of our activism experience and
contacts to build, with a minimal but regular and consistent amount of time
day by day, a financial support network for good people and projects by offe
ring these valuable services and part-time business opportunities to those
whom you know and meet that might be interested?

Couldn't your activism effectiveness, as could mine, be dramatically
increased with an additional good source of income with minimal time
involvement -- say a few hundred or a few thousand dollars extra revenue per
month or per week -- as is already being earned by significant numbers of
people already associated with each of these two companies:  Pre-Paid Legal
Services, Inc. [NYSE symbol PPD] (HQ in Ada, OK), and TheTaxPeople.net
division of Renaissance TTP, Inc. (HQ in Topeka, KS).

Check out details at below websites.  Call me with questions or to have
hardcopy details/materials mailed to you for more complete understanding of
how either of these programs can benefit you and others in your network of
friends and collaborators.

**
[e-mail]
David Crockett Williams, CLU
Chartered Life Underwriter
Scientist - Activist - Manager
GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES
http://www.GeneralAgencyServices.com
For your personal and financial independence

The Legal Revolution - Equal Justice for All
Free Legal Resource Center eService
http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/dcwilliams
Online legal content: FAQ, audio guides, legal forms, discussion boards.
Low-cost attorney telephone access, national prepaid legal protection plans.

Create a home-based business plan
to cut current wage income taxes by 1/3 to 1/2
with our IRS compliant Tax Relief System
http://ima.thetaxpeople.net/~dcwillms

Capital Hills New-Energy Research Center
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.html

Science & Technology in Society & Public Policy list
http://www.egroups.com/group/dcwilliams

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org







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