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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:45:21 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Shundahai Network's new address

Hey there friends,

We just wanted to let you know that Shundahai Network is moving our main
offices from Las Vegas, NV to Pahrump, NV. Please make the changes to your
data bases and address books. Beginning immediately our new address and
phone number are:

Shundahai Network
PO Box 6360
Pahrump, NV 89041
Ph: [phone]

We will not be fully up and functioning until mid November, but then we
look forward to continuing our exciting and important work with you all in
the movements to stop nuclear weapons testing and dumping, close down Yucca
Mountain, strengthen alliances between indigenous, environmental and human
rights communities and promote sustainable energy and living!

Our email address ( [e-mail] ) and web (
http://www.shundahai.org )  page will remain the same.

Thanks for all you do on behalf of Mother Earth!

Peace!
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SHUNDAHAI NETWORK
"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"
Po Box 6360, Pahrump, NV 89041
Phone:[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
http://www.shundahai.org


Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:
US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
People of Color/ Disenfranchised Communities Environmental Health Network
and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:22:46 PDT
From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: A2000 Statement change

Hi Nuclear Abolitionists,

Aloha and Greetings from Hawaii.

I agree with Graham Daniell. The statement was originally written in April
1995 and in spite of the intervening five years after, the network achieved
a great many success. Congratulations to all of you! We, in Hawaii and the
Pacific, are continually amazed at the way Abolition 2000 came together and
grew from those humble aspirations in 1995!  But these past five years must
also guide and inspire new approaches and new methods in all areas for
eliminating nuclear weapons.

With this spirit, the Network must proceed forward, venturing to trailblaze
the paths both tried and untried. The PROPOSED CHANGE in the Abolition 2000
Statement seems reasonable and should be supported.

Thank you very much and congratulations again for all of your hard work for
nuclear abolition.


Richard Salvador
Abolition 2000 Pacific region
Honolulu, Hawaii


- ---
From: Graham Daniell <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: Abolition 2000 <[e-mail]>
CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: [abolition-caucus] RE: A2000 Statement change
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:30:02 +0800

People for nuclear Disarmament (Western Australia) agree with this
amendment.

I personally feel that the Year 2000 was the best chance we had to
achieve our aims.  The fact that more progress was not made should
indicate to the Abolition community that we will need to do things
differently if we are to have success in the future.

Perhaps the November meeting could discuss what other approaches we can
take?

Regards,
Graham Daniell
- ------------------------------------------------------------

Abolition 2000 wrote:
 >
 > 13 October 2000
 >
 > Dear Friends and Activists,
 >
 >         The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee would like to bring
 > a proposal to your attention regarding the amendment of the Abolition
 > 2000 Statement.  After consulting with the Global Council, the ACC
 > would like to propose the deletion of the phrase "by the year 2000"
 > from the Abolition 2000 Statement with a footnote explaining that
 > this was removed in the year 2000.
 >
 > The Statement currently reads:
 >
 > 1.  Initiate immediately and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations
 > on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased
 > elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with
 > provisions for effective verification and enforcement.*
 >
 > Under the proposed changes the Statement would read:
 >
 > 1.  Initiate immediately and conclude negotiations on a nuclear
 > weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of
 > all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for
 > effective verification and enforcement.* *
 >
 > *The phrase "by the year 2000" was removed from this Statement at the
 > end of the year 2000.
 >
 >         In November, Abolition 2000 will have a strategic planning
 > meeting during the Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the
 > Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.  During this time a final decision
 > will be made on this proposal.  The Abolition 2000 Coordinating
 > Committee and Global Council welcome your feedback on this proposal.
 > If you will not be able to attend the Nagasaki Assembly, please let
 > the ACC and other members of Abolition 2000 know whether or not you
 > agree with this proposal by posting a message to the Abolition Global
 > Caucus at <[e-mail]>.   Thank you for your
 > continued support and work for a nuclear free future.
 >
 > In peace and solidarity,
 >
 > The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee
 >
 > Janet Bloomfield (UK), John Burroughs (US), Jackie Cabasso (US),
 > David Krieger (US), Lars Pohlmeier (Germany), Alice Slater (US), Hiro
 > Umebayashi (Japan), Alyn Ware (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ross Wilcock
 > (Canada), Carah Ong (US/Coordinator)
 >

Graham Daniell
Perth, Western Australia
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:32:45 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/19 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

[NucNews archives have been posted through October 10, 2000 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. See also=20
http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscriber submissions) and
http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch (DOE Watch).]

Washington Times Daybook, October 19, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001019213458.htm

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on=
 issues
related to the attack on the USS Cole. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a=
 hearing
on the Energy Department's decision to release 30 million barrels of crude=
 oil
from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the bid process used to award
contracts regarding the released crude oil. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-4971.

      9:30 a.m. =97 Senate Judiciary Committee marks up pending legislation,
including a resolution for personal appearance subpoena pursuant to Rule 26=
 to
the Energy Department regarding Secretary Bill Richardson....

    11 a.m. =97 Gore-Russia-Iran arms deal news conference =97 Sens. Sam=
 Brownback,
Kansas Republican, and Gordon H. Smith, Oregon Republican, hold a news
conference on the Gore-Russia-Iran arms deal. Location: Capitol, Senate
Radio/TV Gallery. Contact: 202/224-4651.
     =20
      6 p.m. =97 Berger speech =97 Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh=
 School
of Foreign Service's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy sponsors the 21st
Oscar Iden Lecture. Samuel R. Berger, national security adviser, will speak=
 on
"A Foreign Policy for the Global Age." Location: Auditorium, Intercultural
Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. Contact: 202/687-4328.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - Michigan and NYC
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
        9:00 a.m. - One-on-One, Visioneering Incorporated, Plant #2, 17501
Masonic Road, Fraser, Michigan 48026, [phone]
        From Michigan, Governor Bush will travel to New York City. While in
New=20
York Governor Bush will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman and=20
participate in the 2000 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.=20

- - Al Gore - NYC
http://www.algore2000.com/
Travels to New York City.
On Friday, Al Gore will appear on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "Live with
Regis," hosted by Regis Philbin. Gore will tape both shows on Thursday in=
 New
York. The shows will air Friday across the country. Check your local=
 listings
for air times.  The Rosie O'Donnell Show is accepting questions for Al Gore=
 at
its web site: http://rosieo.warnerbros.com/pages/rosieo/contactgore.jsp

- - Ralph Nader - San Antonio and Houston TX
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
        San Antonio, TX
        10:30 am to 11:30 am Fundraiser / Reception, Contact: Adrian Worthy
[phone]
        12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Nader Rally, With Special Guests Gary Dugger &
Charlie Mauch, candidates for Texas Railroad Commission, and Natalia=
 Escudero &
Jorge Torres of Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico - McAllister Auditorium,=
 San
Antonio College (seats 1000), Contact: Adrian Worthy [phone]=20
        Houston, TX
        5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Fundraiser, The Art Car Museum, 140 Heights Blvd.=
 ,
Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219=20
        7:00 pm - 7:45 pm Press Conference, University Center University of
Houston, Contact: Brian Howard 713-688-0893
        8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Nader Speech, Cullen Performance Hall (seats=
 1700)
University of Houston, Contact: David Cobb 713-880-3219

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - ALERT! Nov. 17, 2000 comment deadline -=20
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission TO LEGALIZE RADIOACTIVE SOIL "REUSE,"
"RECYCLE," and RELEASE FROM REGULATORY CONTROL
Public Comments sought on Draft NUREG-1725=20
"Human Interaction With Reused Soil: A Literature Search."
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in the process of rulemaking=
 to
deregulate radioactive materials and wastes from regulatory control, that is=
 to
allow the recycling of radioactive waste materials into daily commerce and=
 life
as if they were not contaminated.  On September 7, 2000 (65 FR 174) the=
 comment
period was extended until November 17, 2000.  The ~76 page document can be
downloaded from the NRC website (which is case-sensitive)=20
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1725/index.html=20
or requested from Tom Nicholson at NRC, [e-mail] , [phone].
Email to [e-mail]
Fax to 301-415-5385 & 301-415-2234
Mail to David L. Meyer, Chief=20
Rules and Directives Branch=20
Office of Administration Mail Stop T-6D59=20
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission=20
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For more information contact Diane D'Arrigo at Nuclear Information and=20
Resource Service, 202-328-0002 ext. 16 or [e-mail], www.nirs.org

- - FOIA contact information online - http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/index.html=
=20

- - Shundahai Network's new address
Shundahai Network=20
PO Box 6360=20
Pahrump, NV 89041=20
Ph: [phone]=20
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.shundahai.org

- - Solemn Vigil to acknowledge and mourn The Palestinian victims who were=
 killed
as a result of the excessive Israeli military action in the Palestinian
occupied territories
DATE: Thursday, October 19, 2000=20
TIME: 5:00 - 6:30
PLACE: The Israeli Embassy (International Dr. and Van Ness)
DETAILS: This week's gathering is a quiet vigil to reflect on the loss of=
 life
of the Palestinian People and the violence and aggression that they are
subjected to daily. Please wear black, or black Ribbon. There will be no
chanting.
For information Contact ADC: [phone] or e-mail <[e-mail]>

- - ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORS FOR VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE AND TEXAS GOV. GEORGE=
 BUSH
TO DEBATE AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ON OCT. 21
The top environmental advisors to U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov.
Geore W. Bush will debate about environmental issues at the 10th national
conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, which will be held=
 Oct.
19 to 22 at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing,
Mich. Kathleen McGinty and Christopher DeMuth, the environmental advisors to
Gore and Bush respectively, will face off at noon on Saturday, Oct. 21=
 during a
debate in the Big Ten Ballrooms B and C. This will be the only debate=
 between
the environmental advisors of the major American presidential candidates=
 during
the 2000 campaign. During the conference more than 100 speakers from around=
 the
world will discuss a wide range of current environmental issues. Details=
 about
the program are available at this website:
http://www.sej.org/confer/index1.htm.
[From: mailto:[e-mail]]


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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:12:25 -0400
From: "david rush" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Conference in NYC 11/17-18, on Nuclear War and the Academy

>
> The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy
> A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000
> Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue
> Sponsored by the Center on Violence and Human Survival John Jay College
> Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center
>
>
> The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing
> regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general
> public, as well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to
> American and international security.
>
> For questions about the program, please contact [e-mail].
> To register please call the Office of Continuing Education at the
> Graduate Center of CUNY, [phone].  The conference is free, though
> we request a donation of $35 and space is limited.
>
>
> The Conference Program
>
> Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, will address the
> conference at a special session late Friday afternoon, November 17.
> There may be other prominent public figures as well who will participate
> in the conference.  For the rest, a series of panels will be organized
> around significant topics.  We will include on each panel those who have
> thought deeply about nuclear weapons, along  with colleagues who have not
> focused on the subject but are interested in joining the conversation.
> Workshops will be led by younger faculty and activists and will explore
> specific topics.
>
>
> Human Confusions About Contemporary Weapons (10:00 a.m., Friday morning,
> Nov. 17))
>
> Robert Jay Lifton, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
> at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and someone who has
> been writing about nuclear threat for nearly half a century, including
> his classic study, Death in Life, and, more recently, Destroying the
> World to Save It, and (with Greg Mitchell) Hiroshima In America.
> Panelists include Zia Mian of the Center for Energy and Environmental
> Studies, Princeton University, and the author of Making Enemies, Creating
> Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society, and (with Ashis Nandy),
> The Nuclear Debate;  Patricia Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia
> University Law School, and one of the country's leading essayists and
> author of The Rooster's Egg and The Alchemy of Race and Rights; and Todd
> Gitlin, professor in the departments of culture and communication,
> journalism, and sociology at New York University and author of, among
> other works, the classic history of the 1960s, The Sixties: Years of
> Hope, Days of Rage.  James Oakes, professor and chair of the history
> department of the CUNY Graduate Center, will chair the session.
>
>
>
> The Second Nuclear Age (early Friday afternoon, Nov. 17)
>
> Jonathan Schell, who teaches at Wesleyan University and is the Harold
> Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute and at the forefront of
> those thinking in new ways about the world after the end of the cold war,
> and the author of "The Folly of Arms Control" in the most recent Foreign
> Affairs, and of The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, and The Gift of
> Time.  Panelists include Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of
> International Law and Practice at Princeton University and one of the
> most important and informed voices about nuclear threat among specialists
> in international relations and the author, among his numerous books, of
> Law in an Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective and
> Predatory Globalization: A Critique; and Craig Wolff, a professor in the
> Columbia School of Journalism, who was for many years a staff writer for
> the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of
> the Twin Towers bombing.  The chair of the session will be Lawrence
> Wittner, professor of history at SUNY/Albany, who is writing a
> three-volume history of the antinuclear movement of which two volumes
> have appeared: Resisting the Bomb and One World or None.
>
>
> Presidents Panel (late afternoon, Friday, Nov. 17)
>
> The central challenge of the conference is to figure out ways of
> redirecting the academy toward a serious consideration of nuclear threat.
>  This "President's Panel" convenes several university presidents to
> address this issue from the point of view of academic and institutional
> leadership.  The panel will be chaired by Frances Degen Horowitz,
> president of the Graduate Center of CUNY.  Other members of the panel
> include Barbara Mosberg, president of Goddard College;  Peter Gabel,
> president of the New College of California; and Christopher Breiseth,
> president of Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.
>
>
> Special Session (5:30-6:15, Friday, November 17): Kofi Annan,
> Secretary-General of the United Nations.
>
>
> Evening Panel: Stars Wars (NMD) and A Human Future (Friday, Nov. 17)
>
> Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security
> Policy, MIT.  Postol has been a fearless critic of the continuing NMD
> program from among those with technical scientific knowledge of how it
> works, or doesn't.  He has written many articles and reports and a book,
> with Altmann and Morel, Anti-Tactical Missile Defenses and West European
> Security;  Frances Fitzgerald, author of the remarkable book about
> President Ronald Reagan and the history of Star Wars, Way Out There in
> the Blue; and Rolf Ekeus, former Swedish Ambassador to the United States
> and before that Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special
> Commission for Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1997; and Kai Erikson, the
> William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology and American Studies at
> Yale University and author of several books, including A New Species of
> Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters and Everything in Its
> Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood.
>
> Saturday Workshops (Saturday morning, November 18)
>
> A number of simultaneous two-hour workshop sessions will led by younger
> faculty and activists on topics including:  The Legality and Morality of
> Nuclear Weapons (John Burroughs and Alan Lichterman);  Gender and Weapons
> (Myriam Miedziam);  Teaching an Antinuclear Curriculum (Michael Flynn and
> John Broughton);  Developing an Antinuclear Movement;  Nuclear Weapons
> and the Environment (Karl Grossman);  Creating Coalitions Between
> Antinuclear and Social Justice Movements (Merav Datan and Kevin Martin);
> Nuclear Weapons and the War System (Diane Perlman and John Fousek);
> Following the Money Trail of Nuclear Weapons (Stephen Schwartz).
>
>
> Nuclear Ethics and Citizen Responsibility
>
> Randall Forsberg, a nationally-known peace researcher and activist who
> founded the 1980s Nuclear Freeze campaign, has authored or edited many
> books including Nonproliferation Primer;  Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp
> Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, someone who has helped
> re-shape contemporary ethical thinking about many issues and is the
> author, among other books, of Democracy and Disobedience, How Are We To
> Live? and Animal Liberation; and David Tracy, Distinguished Service
> Professor, The Divinity School of the University of Chicago and a leading
> voice of humanism among Catholic theologians and the author of Plurality
> and Ambiguity and The Analogical Imagination.  The chair of the panel is
> Jennifer Simons, the President of The Simons Foundation in Vancouver,
> Canada.
> ________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:27:32 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Energy Daily for Oct. 19

>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:25:53 -0400
>Subject: Energy Daily for Oct. 19
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>In `Vote Of Confidence,' DOE Extends UC
>Contracts For Weapons Laboratories
>
>BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
>
>The Energy Department, backing off earlier proposals for bold management
>reforms,
>announced this week it would keep the University of California as
>operator of Los Alamos
>and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories despite major security and
>project
>management breakdowns.
>
>The department said it would seek to negotiate a three-year extension of
>the university's management
>contracts at the two labs=97a decision hailed by university officials as
>"a vote of confidence" in their
>stewardship of the facilities.
>
>In the meantime, DOE said the university had agreed to several near-term
>changes, including bringing
>in subcontractors to help tighten security and improve lab operations.
>
>That was a considerably less drastic step than one contemplated by
>Energy Secretary Bill
>Richardson several months ago when he suggested DOE might take
>responsibility for security away
>from the university and assign it to another contractor.
>
>DOE officials said Richardson and John Gordon, the new administrator of
>the National Nuclear
>Security Administration (NNSA), ultimately decided that it would be
>counterproductive to strip the
>university of responsibility for security. In particular, they said
>tighter security could only be achieved
>if it was integrated into lab operations by the university.
>
>"The fundamental conclusion is that the university has to be responsible
>[for security]," said Madeline
>Creedon, deputy NNSA administrator, in a teleconference with reporters
>late Tuesday. "We believe
>that with assistance, the university can carry this out effectively."
>
>She added: "If you relieve the university of any responsibility, you
>have basically let the university off
>the hook."
>
>Creedon also said the department decided against opening the lab
>contracts to outside bidding
>because it wanted to assure continuity and stability at the beleaguered
>labs. She also said the
>department concluded that a contract competition was not necessary
>because the university was still
>doing a good job on its fundamental nuclear weapons research mission.
>
>"Since the fundamental science was not broken and was in fact
>sound....we found it in the
>department's best interest to extend the contracts," Creedon said.
>
>Richardson's decision comes only months after the university was harshly
>criticized by Congress and
>Richardson for serious mismanagement of Livermore's National Ignition
>Facility (NIF) project and
>Los Alamos' highly publicized and still unexplained loss of computer
>disks carrying classified nuclear
>weapons data.
>
>It also marks the second time in recent years that DOE has considered
>and then retreated from
>putting the labs' contracts up for bid. Former Energy Secretary Hazel
>O'Leary also mulled
>competing the university's contract at Los Alamos due to lackluster
>performance in several areas.
>O'Leary ultimately decided to renegotiate a new contract that had
>"off-ramps" that DOE could take
>if it remained dissatisfied=97off-ramps that DOE never took.
>
>DOE's hands-off treatment of the university comes at a time when it has
>completed management
>contracts at virtually all of its other major nuclear weapons
>facilities.
>
>Sources say the university enjoys strong political support from the
>powerful California congressional
>delegation. In addition, DOE officials have suggested the university's
>academic prestige is crucial to
>attracting the talent needed to maintain the nation's nuclear weapons
>arsenal. Further, university
>officials have at times threatened to walk away from the labs if DOE
>opens its contracts to bidding.
>
>Creedon said DOE would seek unspecified improvements in security and
>project management in
>negotiating the extension of the current contracts, which now run
>through September 2002.
>
>However, she declined to say whether DOE would ask the university to put
>more of its DOE-paid
>fees at risk through the kind of performance-based clauses that are
>routinely incorporated in its other
>site management contracts.
>
>Creedon also said DOE would not seek contractual changes that would make
>the university subject
>to DOE-imposed penalties for nuclear safety violations. She said such
>changes could only be
>imposed by Congress through changes to the Price-Anderson nuclear safety
>law, which established
>DOE's safety enforcement program. Creedon noted the university already
>had told Congress it
>would not object to such changes as long as its exposure to penalties
>did not exceed its fees.
>
>Richardson said his decision to extend the contracts was based on
>recommendations he received
>from Gordon, who enjoys considerable backing in the
>Republican-controlled Congress, which
>created the semi-autonomous NNSA last year to take over operation of
>DOE's nuclear weapons
>complex. DOE and NNSA officials refused to release Gordon's
>recommendations.
>
>The contract extension received some support in Congress, most notably
>from Sen. Pete Domenici
>(R-N.M.), who said it would help steady morale at the labs. However, the
>decision is not likely to sit
>well with Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and other House Democrats who have
>called on DOE to fire
>the university.
>
>--
>Kathy Crandall
>Interim Program Director
>Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
>1801 18th Street NW,  #9-2
>Washington DC 20009
>TEL:  [phone]
>FAX: [phone]
>E-MAIL:  [e-mail]
>http://www.ananuclear.org
> =20

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:10:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job Opening - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

Please forward and distribute widely--thanks.

Job Opening - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

Program Director - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 10/1/00 -- Join an
exciting progressive organization working to change environmental and
national security policy on nuclear weapons and waste issues. The Alliance
for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) seeks a Program Director, in our
Washington, DC office. The Program Director (PD) will work to ensure that
the concerns, perspectives, and positions of the ANA are effectively
represented in Washington, DC and nationally, to Congress, the
Administration, and other national organizations. The PD will also keep ANA
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The PD will supervise activities in the DC office, including all staff and
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Skills needed: excellent communications skills including verbal, written
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www.ananuclear.org. Deadline 11/30. Interviews will be conducted the week
of December 10 th in DC.
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**************************
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:15:53 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Humor...I hope

>
>>>>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:52:11 -0400
>>>From: Paul Gunter <[e-mail]>
>>>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>>>Organization: NIRS
>>>To: Gunter/ Paul <[e-mail]>
>>>Subject: The Presidential Debate
>>>
>>>>From someone named Tom Bryer, whom I've never heard of, but who wrote it
>>>BEFORE last night's debate (and it's scary how accurate it is)...
>>>
>>>
>>>Subject: The Last Presidential Debate
>>>
>>>
>>>For those who don't have time to watch the presidential debate Tuesday
>>>
>>>night, I've prepared this transcript of what will be said:
>>>
>>>
>>>Jim Lehrer: Welcome to the third presidential debate between Vice
>>>
>>>President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The candidates have agreed on
>>>
>>>these rules: I will ask a question. The candidate will ignore the
>>>
>>>question and deliver rehearsed remarks designed to appeal to undecided
>>>
>>>women voters. The opponent will then have one minute to respond by
>>>
>>>trying to frighten senior citizens into voting for him. When a speaker's
>>>
>>>time has expired, I will whimper softly while he continues to spew
>>>
>>>incomprehensible statistics for three more minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>>Let's start with the vice president. Mr. Gore, can you give us the name
>>>
>>>of a downtrodden citizen and then tell us his or her story in a way that
>>>
>>>strains the bounds of common sense?
>>>
>>>
>>>Gore: As I was saying to Tipper last night after we tenderly made love
>>>
>>>the way we have so often during the 30 years of our rock-solid marriage,
>>>
>>>the downtrodden have a clear choice in this election. My opponent wants
>>>
>>>to cut taxes for the richest 1 percent of Americans. I, on the other
>>>
>>>hand, want to put the richest 1 percent in an ironclad lockbox so they
>>>
>>>can't hurt old people like Roberta Frampinhamper, who is here tonight.
>>>
>>>Mrs. Frampinhamper has been selling her internal organs, one by one, to
>>>
>>>pay for gas so that she can travel to these debates and personify
>>>
>>>problems for me. Also, her poodle has arthritis.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Gov. Bush, your rebuttal.
>>>
>>>
>>>Bush: Governors are on the front lines every day, hugging people, crying
>>>
>>>with them, relieving suffering anywhere a photo opportunity exists. I
>>>
>>>want to empower those crying people to make their own decisions, unlike
>>>
>>>my opponent, whose mother is not Barbara Bush.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Let's turn to foreign affairs. Gov. Bush, if Slobodan Milosevic
>>>
>>>were to launch a bid to return to power in Yugoslavia, would you be able
>>>
>>>to pronounce his name?
>>>
>>>
>>>Bush: The current administration had eight years to deal with that guy
>>>
>>>and didn't get it done. If I'm elected, the first thing I would do about
>>>
>>>that guy is have Dick Cheney confer with our allies. And then Dick would
>>>
>>>present me several options for dealing with that guy. And then Dick
>>>
>>>would tell me which one to choose. You know, as governor of Texas, I
>>>
>>>have to make tough foreign policy decisions every day about how we're
>>>
>>>going to deal with New Mexico.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Mr. Gore, your rebuttal.
>>>
>>>
>>>Gore: Foreign policy is something I've always been keenly interested
>>>
>>>in. I served my country in Vietnam. I had an uncle who was a victim of
>>>
>>>poison gas in World War I. I myself lost a leg in the Franco-Prussian
>>>
>>>War. And when that war was over, I came home and tenderly made love to
>>>
>>>Tipper in a way that any undecided woman voter would find romantic. If
>>>
>>>I'm entrusted with the office of president, I pledge to deal
>>>
>>>knowledgeably with any threat, foreign or domestic, by putting it in an
>>>
>>>ironclad lockbox. Because the American people deserve a president who
>>>
>>>can comfort them with simple metaphors.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Vice President Gore, how would you reform the Social Security
>>>
>>>system?
>>>
>>>
>>>Gore: It's a vital issue, Jim. That's why Joe Lieberman and I have
>>>
>>>proposed changing the laws of mathematics to allow us to give $50,000 to
>>>
>>>every senior citizen without having it cost the federal treasury a
>>>
>>>single penny until the year 2250. In addition, my budget commits $60
>>>
>>>trillion over the next 10 years to guarantee that all senior citizens
>>>
>>>can have drugs delivered free to their homes every Monday by a federal
>>>
>>>employee who will also help them with the child-proof cap.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Gov. Bush?
>>>
>>>
>>>Bush: That's fuzzy math. I know, because as governor of Texas, I have
>>>
>>>to do math every day. I have to add up the numbers and decide whether
>>>
>>>I'm going to fill potholes out on Rt. 36 east of Abilene or commit funds
>>>
>>>to reroof the sheep barn at the Texas state fairgrounds.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: It's time for closing statements.
>>>
>>>
>>>Gore: I'm my own man. I may not be the most exciting politician, but I
>>>
>>>will fight for the working families of America, in addition to turning
>>>
>>>the White House into a lusty pit of marital love for Tipper and me.
>>>
>>>
>>>Bush: It's time to put aside the partisanship of the past by electing no
>>>
>>>one but Republicans.
>>>
>>>
>>>Lehrer: Good night.
>>>
>>>
>>>###
>>>
>>>
>

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 06:23:47 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/20 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, October 20, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-20001020205952.htm

      9 a.m. =97 Senate Armed Services Committee holds closed hearing on the
recent attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Location: 222 Russell Senate Office
Building. Contact: 202/224-3871.

      9 a.m. =97 Albright visit news conference =97 The Arms Control=
 Association
holds a news conference on Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's visit=
 to
North Korea. Location: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 14th and F streets
NW. Contact: 202/463-8270.

      10:30 a.m. =97 State Department holds a meeting of the U.S. advisory
commission on public diplomacy. Location: Room 600, 301 Fourth St. SW.=
 Contact:
202/619-4463.

      4 p.m. =97 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights news conference =
=97 The
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights holds a news conference to discuss
its current session, which concludes today after three weeks of hearings on
some 50 cases from throughout the Americas. Location: Organization of=
 American
States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Contact: 202/458-3760.

      Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation conference =97 all day =97=
 The Holy
Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation holds its second national conference on
issues related to the adverse effects of Israeli policies on Christian and
Muslim Palestinian society. Location: National Presbyterian Church, 4101
Nebraska Ave. NW. Contact: 301/871-9222.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - New Hampshire and Maine
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
One-on-One with Governor Bush=20
        11:15 a.m. - Saint Anslem College, Davison Building Cafeteria, 100
Saint
Anslem Drive, Manchester, New Hampshire, [phone]=20
        2:15 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Hanger #13, Bangor International
Airport, [phone]

- - Al Gore - New Orleans LA
http://www.algore2000.com/
      6:55 p.m. =97 Attends a Democratic National Committee dinner with Mrs.
Gore, Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans.
      7:55 p.m. =97 Attends a Democratic National Committee dinner with Mrs.
Gore, Orpheum Theater, New Orleans.
      9 p.m. =97 Speaks to the voters of New Orleans with Mrs. Gore,=
 Woldenberg
Park, New Orleans.
        Taped yesterday for today's viewing: "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and
"Live with Regis," hosted by Regis Philbin. Check your local listings for=
 air
times.  The Rosie O'Donnell Show is accepting questions for Al Gore at its=
 web
site: http://rosieo.warnerbros.com/pages/rosieo/contactgore.jsp

- - Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
October 20 - Los Angeles, CA=20
        11:00am - 12:20pm - Speech, University Theater, Unversity of
California-Riverside
        1:15 - 2:30pm - Speech, Auditorium, Chapman University, One=
 University
Drive
        3:30 - 4:45pm - Speech,  Bridges Auditorium, Pitzer College, 1050=
 North
Mills Avenue

Saturday, October 21 -=20
        Fresno, CA
        1:00pm - 3:00pm - Speech, Tower District Theater,  815 East Olive
Avenue
        Oakland, CA -  Super Rally w/ Cornel West, Medea - Benjamin J.=
 Kaiser
Auditorium

Sunday, October 22 - Bay Area
        7:00pm - 9:00pm - Speech, Freeborn Hall, University of=
 California-Davis
Monday, October 23, Chico, CA
        Press Conference with members of California Nurses Association Enloe
Hospital, Time TBA
        12:00pm - 1:00pm - Rally,  El Rey Theater, 230 West 2nd Street, San
Francisco

Monday, October 23, Palo Alto, CA
        7:00pm - 10:00pm - Speech, Memorial Stadium, Stanford University

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy=20
A Conference, November 17 and 18, 2000=20
Graduate Center, CUNY, 34th and Fifth Avenue=20
Sponsored by the Center on Violence and Human Survival John Jay College,
Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center=20
        The goal of the conference is to break through the psychic numbing
regarding nuclear threat that grips America and energize the general public,=
 as
well as policymakers, and to find creative solutions to American and
international security.=20
        For questions about the program, please contact=
 [e-mail].
To register please call the Office of Continuing Education at the Graduate
Center of CUNY, [phone].=20

- - Anti-Armor Weapons=20
        In a May, 2000 report, the General Accounting Office suggests that=
 the
U.S. armed services may have too many anti-tank weapons. In "Defense
Acquisitions: Antiarmor Munitions Master Plan Does Not Identify Potential
Excesses or Support Planned Procurement" (GAO/NSIAD-00-67), the auditing=
 agency
finds that the military has not justified its procurement of anti-armor
weapons. Congressional committees have already questioned the level of
development and procurement of such weapons.
        It's possible, therefore, that the military may soon start
demilitarizing and disposing anti-armor weapons. Since many anti-armor=
 weapons
contain uranium penetrators, this could raise new environmental challenges.
Ironically, the uranium in weapons is recycled waste from the Energy
Department's (and possibly others') processing of higher grades of uranium.
        GAO reports may be downloaded from http://www.gao.gov/, and single
hardcopies may be ordered by phone from 202/512-6000.
[From: Lenny Siegel, mailto:[e-mail] - http://www.cpeo.org
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight]

- - Russia has DU rounds: 3VBM-13, 3VBK-17, But also Tungsten: 3VBM-17 -
http://www.taos-inc.com/3vbm13.htm
[From: "Marco Saba" <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Navy Begins Exercises in Puerto Rico=20
By MANUEL ERNESTO RIVERA, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday October 18, 2000
        VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) - With helicopters swooping overhead,=
 2,000
U.S. troops staged an amphibious practice invasion of this contested Puerto
Rican island - and the U.S. Navy arrested nine protesters on a bombing range
Wednesday as they tried to interrupt the NATO exercises.

- - PROTESTERS OF TRIDENT SUBMARINE TRANSMITTER CHARGED IN FEDERAL COURT
        MADISON, WIS-Two anti-nuclear weapons protesters who cut down=
 antenna
poles for a Navy submarine transmitter near Clam Lake, Wisc., will be=
 charged
in U.S. District Court with "willfully injuring property belonging to the=
 U.S.
Department of the Navy," according to a press release from Peggy A
Laugenschlager, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Wisconsin [608-264-5158].
[From: Stephen Kobasa <mailto:[e-mail]>]


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