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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:55:22 +0000
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: VIRUS ALERT]

Frank,

Since my initial email to everyone, I've found out that this is a hoax.  See
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/mbody.htm.  Henceforth, I'm
going to check with a reliable web site first before sounding the alarm.
Thanks, however, for your message.  I already use Norton AV, so I'm not worried
about my own system so much.

Sally

[e-mail] wrote:

> Sally,
>   I don't believe that is possible. The only way an e-mail message can
> give you a computer
> virus, as far as I know, is via an attachment or hyperlink. Never open
> an attachment from
> someone you don't know and trust. Even then, after downloading an
> apparently trustworthy attachment,
> run your virus checker on it before you open it.
> ---Frank
>
> Sally Light wrote:
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > I do not how reliable this information is, but thought I should pass it
> > on right away just in case.
> >
> > Sally Light
> > Executive Director
> > Nevada Desert Experience
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: VIRUS ALERT
> > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:24:56 EST
> > From: Jeoflin D Roh <[e-mail]>
> > To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> >      [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
> >
> > Subject: Alert not a joke
> >
> > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS
> > IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED "LET'S WATCH TV" DO NOT OPEN IT.
> >
> > IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. THIS INFORMATION WAS
> > ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY MORNING FROM IBM; AOL STATES THAT "KALI" IS A VERY
> > DANGEROUS VIRUS, MUCH WORSE THAN "MELISSA," AND THAT THERE IS NO REMEDY
> > FOR IT AT THIS TIME. SOME VERY SICK INDIVIDUAL HAS SUCCEEDED IN USING THE
> > REFORMAT FUNCTION FROM NORTON UTILITIES CAUSING IT TO COMPLETELY ERASE
> > ALL DOCUMENTS ON THE HARD DRIVE.
> >
> > IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO WORK WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND MICROSOFT
> > INTERNET EXPLORER. ITDESTROYS MACINTOSH AND IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS.
> >
> > THIS IS A NEW, VERY MALICIOUS VIRUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
> >
> > PASS THIS WARNING ALONG TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AND PLEASE SHARE
> > IT WITH ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS ASAP SO THAT THIS THREAT MAY BE STOPPED.
> >
> > FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET.
> >
> > be good to self&others,
> > Jeoflin
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________
> > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
> > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
> > Try it today - there's no risk!  For your FREE software, visit:
> > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagh.
>
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:15:23 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: UCS on 60 Minutes II!

>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:24:53 -0500
>Subject: UCS on 60 Minutes II!
>To: [e-mail]
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>A MESSAGE FROM THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
>
>Attention arms control activists and supporters!
>
>We want to call your attention to an episode of "60 Minutes
>II" this Tuesday that will focus on national missile
>defense and will feature footage from UCS's animation on
>countermeasures. Tune in at 9 p.m. Tuesday, October 31 to
>your local CBS affiliate to see this report on NMD and UCS
>activism at work.
>
>Please forward this announcement to any of your friends and
>colleagues who are interested in arms control and missile
>defense, and encourage them to stop by our web site
>http://www.ucsusa.org/missiledefense for more information.
>

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:47:18 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Sustainable Energy Working Group

Dear Friends,
Listed below is a good summary from the NGO Energy caucus of what the world
is up against at the upcoming Commission on Sustainable Development at the
UN in April.
29 September 2000.  Industry is lobbying tirelessly to have nuclear energy
included as sustainable energy for purposes of decreasing carbon in the
atmosphere which contributes to global warming.  Our Abolition Statement
recognizes the "inextricable link" between nuclear power and nuclear bombs
and calls for the establishment of a Global Sustainable Energy Agency in
parallel to the IAEA which would promote clean, safe energy.  If you or any
of your members are interested in working on this project, please contact
me.  In the meantime, please alert your organization to the issues below,
and ask them to take some meaningful action to stop this outrageous move by
the nuclear coroporations to "greenwash: their lethal product.  Peace,
Alice Slater

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]

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]
http://www.gracelinks.org
GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:30:15 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) broadening our base

Dear Friends,
This exciting new initiative may give us an opportunity to build links to a
broader movement than our own.  Please review and sign on if you agree.
Alice Slater

The Simultaneous Policy, a new international campaign to counter the forces
of globalisation and international competition, has been launched in
London.
Based on the premise that all nations are subject to global competitive
forces unleashed by the ability of capital and transnational corporations
to
cross national borders, no nation nor group of nations can control global
capital nor can they implement vital economic, social or environmental
policies that might incur market or corporate displeasure. To break the
vicious circle of global competition, both between nations and between
corporations, all nations need to act simultaneously by implementing the
Simultaneous Policy (SP); a range of measures to re-regulate global markets
and corporations in order to restore genuine democracy, environmental
protection and peace around the world.

Endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ed Mayo and many other
leading ecologists, counter-economists, churchmen and journalists, SP
recognises that party politics has become little more than a sham in which
whatever party we elect, the policies delivered inevitably conform to
market
and corporate demands and to the dictatorship of competition. It calls upon
peoples all over the world to come together to take policy out of the hands
of politicians and, by force of their numbers and their votes, to compel
political parties around the world to adopt SP. By transcending
party-political differences and by offering a means that allows politicians
and governments to adopt it without risking their respective 'national
interests', SP claims to provide the long-awaited, coherent and practical
solution to globalisation and other world problems.

Based on a new book, "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to
Saving
Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl, the International Simultaneous
Policy Organisation (ISPO) has been established to campaign for the
adoption
of SP. Acclaimed as "the first writer on the 'sustainable society' to
advance beyond rhetoric and grapple with the problem of how such a society
might be achieved", the book crucially offers the blueprint for a secure
and
responsible transition from the existing paradigm of destructive,
international economic competition to the new paradigm of global
cooperation
in which global economic, environmental and social problems can be solved.

For further information on SP, e-mail ISPO at [e-mail] or visit our
website and join the SP campaign at www.simpol.org

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]
http://www.gracelinks.org
GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:07:55 -0800
From: "Andrew Lichterman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Northern California abolition 2000

Greetings A2000 USA list members.  If you are in the Northern California
region and are not already receiving e-mail notices concerning Abolition
2000 regional meetings, please send me your e-mail address and I will add
you to the list (and/or snail mail address).  (If you are not in the region
and would like to receive the meeting notices, feel free to add yourself to
the list as well).  The next meeting is November 11 in San Jose, further
information and directions available on request.

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

phone:  [phone]
fax:      [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]



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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:13:21 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/10/31 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, October 31, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000103121959.htm
[No "nuclear" events today.]

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
unknown

- - Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
      9:30 a.m. =97 Delivers remarks on targeted tax relief, Portland=
 Community
College, Rock Creek Campus, 7705 N.W. Springville Road, Building 5=
 Gymnasium,
Portland, Ore.
       6:30 p.m. =97 Rallies voters, Westwood Village, Weyburn and Broxton
avenues, Los Angeles.=20

- - Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
Tuesday, October 31
Dearborn, Michigan
        12:30pm - 1:00pm - Press Conference, The Fieldhouse,  University of
Michigan at Dearborn
        1:05pm - 2:00pm - Rally
Minneapolis, MN=20
        5:00pm - 5:30pm - Press Conference, The Stoll Thrust Theater, Rarig
Center, University of Minnesota, 330 21st Avenue South

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Web site identifies eco-friendly power companies
        An environmental coalition has created a website to help consumers
decide between the options. The website is known as the Power Scorecard
(http://www.powerscorecard.org). Scorecard rates electricity in terms of
environmental impact and renewable sources.....=20
http://www.earthtimes.org/oct/environmentwebsiteindentfiesoct21_00.htm=20

- - NRC SCHEDULES DECOMMISSIONING WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 8-9 IN MARYLAND=20
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public workshop November 8-9=
 at
its headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, to obtain comments on the agency's
process for evaluating decommissioning and license termination plans for
reactor and materials licensees, and to discuss current decommissioning
issues.... The meeting will include several roundtable discussions with=
 invited
stakeholders on partial site release criteria, restricted site use issues,=
 and
the license termination plan review process. Copies of the agenda are=
 available
on the NRC web page, at http://www.nrc.gov/NMSS/DWM/DECOM/NovWkspAgnda.htm

- - TAIWAN SCRAPS NUCLEAR PLANT, BRACES FOR STORM=20
Taiwan's anti-nuclear government abruptly announced October 27 it would stop
construction of the island's fourth nuclear power plant, sparking a bitter
partisan feud in the opposition-dominated legislature. "We must make a
rational, responsible and conscientious choice for the sake of Taiwan's
posterity," Premier Chang Chun-hsiung told a news conference. Source:=
 Reuters
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2000/10/10272000/reu_tai_39625.asp

- - Nuclear Terrorism - Sabotage and Terrorism of Nuclear Power Plants
... Former nuclear weapon designer and former Deputy Director of the Defense
Nuclear Agency, Ted Taylor says its very easy to turn a nuclear power plant
into a nuclear weapon. http://www.tmia.com/sabter.html and
http://www.tmia.com/Taylor1.ra

- - Greenpeace eyes Russian referendum on nuclear waste=20
RUSSIA: October 25, 2000=20
MOSCOW - Environmental group Greenpeace said yesterday it had collected=
 enough
signatures to force President Vladimir Putin to call a referendum on=
 Russia's
plans to go into the nuclear waste disposal and storage market.=20
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3D8664

- - During the test operation of the Temel=EDn unit 1 nuclear power plant=
 (Czech
Republic), all of 4 feedwater pumps failed on Oct. 27. If this would have
happened during full operation, this would have been a very serious=
 incident.
For details, see:=20
http://www.temelin.at/tem_st2710.html (in German). [From:
mailto:[e-mail] (Peter Diehl)]

- - Re: USA's  Water Could End Up Radioactive
[From: Don Finch <mailto:[e-mail]>]
Go to the Google search engine <google.com> and enter the search phrase=20
<AQUIFERS CONTAMINATED RADIOACTIVITY>.=20
Just one of the URLs referenced: THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI
<http://www.akitarescue.com/hiroshim.htm>
Enter <aquifer> in your text search. This will take you to references to at
least 15 aquifers that have been contaminated already. This, in addition to
contaminated waterways (surface water).
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20
EXCERPTS REFERRING TO WATERWAYS:=20
        "When the levels of radium increased in Canadian rivers as a result=
 of=20
uranium mining activities, the nuclear establishment obligingly increased=
 the=20
standard for an "acceptable level" of radium in drinking water by a factor=
 of=20
nine." (Dr. Gordon Edwards at the World Uranium Hearings, September, 1992):=
=20
        "In general, of all UMTRA Project sites, 22 sites are near surface
water

bodies including major rivers such as the Colorado, Dolores, San Juan and=20
Yampa. Ground water contamination in varying degrees has been observed at=
 all=20
but one site. Lowman, Idaho is the only site where ground water=
 contamination=20
does not exist. Milling at the Mexican Hat, Utah, and the Ambrosia Lake, New=
=20
Mexico, sites created areas saturated with contaminated ground water in=20
geological formations that previously did not contain ground water."=20
        You may also want to enter the search phrase <WATERWAYS CONTAMINATED
RADIOACTIVITY>.
        Go to: <http://www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm>;
In the site search engine, enter <Landfilling Low-level Radioactive Waste is=
 a
Problem for All States>; This will lead you to:
#69 - Landfilling Low-Level Radioactive Waste Is A Problem For All States,
March 21, 1988.=20


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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 05:50:17 -0500
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/1 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, November 1, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000111211555.htm

    10 a.m. =97 Energy Issues News conference =97 National Press Club=
 Newsmaker
Program hosts a discussion of energy issues. Location: National Press Club,
West Room, 14th and F Streets NW. Contact: 202/662-7593.

    12:30 p.m. =97 International Studies lecture =97 The Johns Hopkins=
 University
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies presents "Plan=
 Colombia
and Prospects for the U.S. War Against Drugs." Location: SAIS, Nitze=
 Building,
1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Room 507. Contact: 202/663-5626.

    7 p.m. =97 Police brutality and public interest law speech =97=
 Georgetown
University Law Center hosts a speech on "Police Brutality and Public=
 Interest
Law." Location: Georgetown University Law Center, Moot Court Room, 600 New
Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9259.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush - Minnesota and Iowa
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
        1:40 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Sun Country Airline Hangar, 7701=
 26th
Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, [phone]
        5:05 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Duluth Entertainment Convention=
 Center
350 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, [phone]
        8:30 p.m. - Victory 2000 Rally, Valley High School, Bill Coldiron=
 Field
House, 1140 35th Street, Des Moines, Iowa, [phone]      =20

- - Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
unknown

- - Ralph Nader - Wisconsin
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
        7:00pm - Milwaukee, WI, Super Rally with guest John Anderson   Doors
open at 5:00pm, Milwaukee Auditorium, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. (corner of=
 Kilbourn
and 6th St.), Ticket & Volunteer Information
http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#WI

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Dick Cheney and DU:=20
        In an interview to Maggie Kane for Channel 4 UK in the 1996 film "
Riding the Storm": "DU is more of a problem than we thought when it was
developed. But it was developed according to standards and was stocked very
carefully. It turned out, maybe, to be wrong."
        Did any journalist asked Mr. Cheney what role he had in the choice
of DU
for Desert Storm? [From: Martin Meissonnier <[e-mail]> via Tara
Thornton <mailto:[e-mail]>]

- - Uranium day and presentation, 4 November
From: "Marco Saba" <[e-mail]>=20
        In Italy, there will be a uranium day, i.e. in a few cities there=
 will
be a pacific march to protest against the use of DU weapons. The same day,=
 in
Assisi, PAX International, an organization of the franciscan order, will
present a Video on DU in iraq realized by Father Benjamin.
        At the same time, there will be the conference in Manchester where I
will attend. I have sent also an invitation to Gorbacev, at the Green Cross=
 [an
NGO where he is the president], because he protested against the use of DU=
 in
the Balcans. I hope he will join us in Manchester.
        From Green Cross International article, 5/19/00, "The balkans:
endangered environment IS A HUMANITARIAN CONCERN":
        ... In an article featured in the New York Times on June 14, 1999,
Mikhail Gorbachev appealed for the prohibition of the use of depleted=
 uranium
in  weapons. He wrote:  "we should prohibit weapons whose use may have
particularly dangerous, long-term and massive environmental and medical
consequences. In my view, weapons containing depleted uranium should be=
 among
the first considered for such a ban".=20
http://www.gci.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/legacy/yugoslavia/balkanposition.html

- - Greetings. A friend passed on the following message, alas without=20
attribution. Does anyone know the source? We would like to quote it in=20
Peacework magazine, but we can't do that without some verification. Thank=20
you for whatever help you can offer. Patricia Watson, editor, Peacework
<mailto:[e-mail]> :
        '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.'"'=20

- - You can know the outline of the Actions in Japan through our
homepage.(Japanese & English) http://ha5.seikyou.ne.jp/home/tokebi


>>>> "War does not determines who's right, war determines who's left." <<<<





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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:23:04 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) tapes and transcripts of last night's 60 Minutes II episode on Star Wars

Dear Friends,

Tapes and transcripts of last night's 60 Minutes II segment on Star Wars
national missile defense titled "America's Dream Defense" are available
from CBS.  Call 800/934-6397 for videotapes, 800/777-8398 for written
transcripts. Tapes cost $29.99 plus shipping, and they say could take 4
- - 6 weeks, though they were faster than that earlier this year with
tapes of the "Missiliers" episode, also from 60 Minutes II.

In case you missed it, last night's segment featured extensive
interviews with Star Wars critics Theodore Postel of MIT and Nira
Schwarz, the former TRW employee who blew the whistle on the contractor
for fudging test results.  The segment also had Dan Rather interviewing
Gen. Ron Kadish, the head of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,
in the Pentagon command center during the last failed Star Wars test.
The show didn't get much into the political argumants against Star Wars,
but overall came across as very critical of national missile defense.
Postel, Schwarz and other critics didn't pull any punches, they came out
and accused the weapons contractors and the Pentagon of fraud in the
Star Wars testing program. All in all, the show could be a good resource
for grassroots education on Star Wars, to show at house parties, for
campus or church groups, etc.

Yours,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:46:57 -0500
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/11/2 -  Daybook; Presidential Candidates; Activist Announcements

Washington Times Daybook, November 2, 2000, Agence France Presse=20
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000112235938.htm

    North Korea visit =97 10 a.m. =97 National Press Club Morning Newsmaker=
 Program
hosts a news conference by the secretary of state on her recent trip to=
 North
Korea. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW, ballroom.=
 Contact:
202/662-7593.

    Foreign policy forum =97 noon =97 Cato Institute presents a forum on=
 "Eight
Years of Clinton-Gore Foreign Policy: A Passing Grade?" Location: Cato
Institute, F.A. Hayek Auditorium, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact:
202/789-5229.

    International Law Society lecture =97 4 p.m. =97 Georgetown University=
 Law
Center's International Law Society presents a discussion by the person=
 leading
U.S. support for war crimes tribunals and U.N. negotiations to establish a
permanent International Criminal Court. Location: Georgetown University Law
Center, 600 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9519.

      War crimes conference =97 4 p.m. =97 The International Law Society of
Georgetown University Law Center hosts David J. Scheffer,=
 ambassador-at-large
for war crimes, State Department. Location: Georgetown University Law=
 Center,
Room 205, McDonough Hall, 600 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/662-9519.

- -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

- - George W. Bush -=20
http://www.GeorgeWBush.com - http://64.92.133.170/Calendar.asp
Thursday, November 2 - MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, AND WISCONSIN
Victory 2000 Rallies
        11:25 a.m. - The Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles,
Missouri, [phone]
         2:50 p.m. - PCollege of DuPage, Performing Arts Courtyard, (East=
 Side
of Campus between Performing Arts, Building and P.E. Center), 425 22nd=
 Street,
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137, [phone]
         7:40 p.m. - Wisconsin State Fair Park, Dairy Cattle Barn, 8100 West
Greenfield Avenue, West Allis,
Wisconsin 53214, [phone]

Friday, November 3 - MICHIGAN AND WEST VIRGINIA
Victory 2000 Rallies                 =20
11:00 a.m. - Cornerstone University, 1001 East Beltline Avenue, NE, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, [phone]                       =20

        1:50 p.m. - Saginaw Valley State University, Ryder Center, 210 Ryder
Center Road, University Center, Michigan 48710 - [phone]       =20
        TBA - Morgantown High School, 109 Wilson Avenue, Morgantown, West
Virginia

- - Al Gore -=20
http://www.algore2000.com/
Travels to Scranton, Pa., and Chicago.

- - Ralph Nader -=20
http://www.votenader.org/campaignevents.html
Thursday, November 2
        Seattle, WA
        12:00pm - 12:40pm - Rally, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue (8th and=
 Seneca)=20
        12:45pm - 1:30pm - Press Conference, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue
(8th and
Seneca)
        Denver, CO
        7:00pm - 7:45pm - Press Conference, The Paramount Theater, 1621=
 Glenarm
Place
        8:00pm - 10:00pm - Rally, The Paramount Theater,  1621 Glenarm Place=
=20

 Friday, November 3 -
        Los Angeles, CA
        5:00pm - 7:30pm - Buffet Supper with Ralph Nader,  Home of Ken and
Dottie Reiner, 1455 LaPerla Avenue Long Beach, CA
 Please RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20
        8:00pm - Nader Super Rally=20
 With Special Guests Phil Donahue, Patti Smith, and more
 Doors open at 6:00pm, Event Starts at=20
 Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd.
 Ticket & Volunteer Information=20

 Saturday, November 4 -
        Miami, FL
        4:00pm - 5:00pm - Press Conference, Radisson Center
 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), [phone]
        5:30pm - 6:30pm - Rally
 Radisson Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave. (at intersection of 826 & 836), (305)
261-3800

Sunday, November 5 -
        Washington D.C.
        1:00 pm - Nader Super Rally, MCI Arena, 7th St., NW,With Special=
 Guests
Phil Donahue, Michael Moore, Randall Robinson, Danny Glover, Patti Smith,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Adam Yauch, and Rev. Raylan Hagler. Ticket=
 &
Volunteer Information http://www.votenader.org/superrallies.html#DC
        5:00pm - 7:00pm - Reception with Ralph Nader and Citizen's Committee
members Patti Smith and Phil Donahue, Fado Irish Pub, 808 7th Street NW.=
 Please
RSVP to mailto:[e-mail]=20

- - Re: DC Super Rally Sunday, November 5th 1 pm
        The Nader campaign is setting aside blocks of free tickets to people=
 or
groups who can distirbute them to low-income people or people who wouldn't
attend becuase the $10 ticket price is a barrier. Please let me know if you=
 can
distribute tickets to people in this category. Call me at 202-332-6558 or=
 email
mailto:[e-mail]. We can also sell reduced price tickets. The key
thing is that if you give out a free ticket, we want to make sure that it=
 goes
to someone who will definitely show up on Sunday. [From Martin Thomas]

- -- ANNOUNCEMENTS --

- - Nuclear Disarmament/New Agenda resolution adopted!
[From: John Burroughs <mailto:[e-mail]> - contact him for
actual New Agenda resolution.]=20
12:45 PM (NY Time), November 1, 2000
        The New Agenda resolution was overwhelmingly adopted today by a vote=
 of
146 to three with eight abstentions. All of NATO (except France) voted yes.=
 The
US, UK and China are in the "yes" column; Russia and France abstained. The
three "no" votes are from the non-NPT NWSs - India, Israel and Pakistan.=20
        The eight abstainers are: Bhutan, France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mauritius, Monaco, Russia, Uzbekistan. Note most are countries closely tied=
 to
Russia, France or India.
        Amb. Henrik Salander of Sweden introduced the NA draft (L.4) on=
 behalf
of 60 co-sponsors on 23 October. He said the NA draft's co-sponsors "have
challenged complacency in the fulfillment of the obligation to advance the
pursuit of nuclear disarmament. They have insisted that each requisite step=
 in
this process be addressed within the perspectives of an unequivocal=
 commitment
to the total elimination of nuclear weapons." He also said the draft "sets=
 out
a comprehensive program of action . . . There is an imperative built into=
 this
approach that requires results in each of the segments of action. The
co-sponsors are determined to monitor the achievement of these results in=
 light
of the unequivocal commitment recently made."=20
        In a subtle rebuttal to the charge that the NA goes beyond the NPT
consensus, Salander said, "The Final Document is neither as far-reaching nor=
 as
detailed as the states parties were entitled to expect. The compromise it
represents reinforces the determination of the co-sponsors of this text that
the steps agreed at the Review Conference shall indeed be implemented=
 without
prevarication or delay."=20
        As of Friday, 27 October, it appears likely that the NA draft will=
 be
revised, with the new text changing some of the preambular language to make=
 it
more acceptable to the West. In particular, the preambular para on=
 "unequivocal
undertaking" would change from "underlining the fundamental significance=
 of..."
to something softer like "taking note of..." It would remain a preambular=
 para.
The important Operative Paragraph 18 (instruments or framework of=
 instruments)
remains.=20

- - Tapes and transcripts of October 31, 2000 60 Minutes II segment on Star=
 Wars
national missile defense titled "America's Dream Defense" are available from
CBS. Call 800/934-6397 for videotapes, 800/777-8398 for written transcripts.
Tapes they say could take 4 - 6 weeks, though they were faster than that
earlier this year with tapes of the "Missiliers" episode, also from 60=
 Minutes
II.In case you missed it, last night's segment featured extensive interviews
with Star Wars critics Theodore Postel of MIT and Nira Schwarz, the former=
 TRW
employee who blew the whistle on the contractor for fudging test results.=
 The
segment also had Dan Rather interviewing Gen. Ron Kadish, the head of the
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, in the Pentagon command center=
 during
the last failed Star Wars test. The show didn't get much into the political
arguments against Star Wars, but overall came across as very critical of
national missile defense. Postel, Schwarz and other critics didn't pull any
punches, they came out and accused the weapons contractors and the Pentagon=
 of
fraud in the Star Wars testing program. All in all, the show could be a good
resource for grassroots education on Star Wars, to show at house parties,=
 for
campus or church groups, etc.  Kevin Martin, Project Abolition
<mailto:[e-mail]>=20

- - The Secrecy Legacy
By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Novembwer 1, 2000 NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/opinion/02SAFI.html
        WASHINGTON =97 President Clinton has until Saturday to sign or veto=
 a
stealth attack on American freedom. On his desk is a bill to prosecute any
government whistle-blower who dares make public any corruption or abuses of
power any official stamps "classified."
        This assault on free speech under the phony cover of national=
 security
was conceived by a criticism-averse C.I.A., embraced by resentful=
 bureaucrats
at Janet Reno's Justice Department and rammed through by Congressional
intelligence chairmen Richard Shelby and Porter Goss without public hearings=
 or
a recorded vote.=20
        We already have anti-espionage laws on the books to prosecute
anyone who
willfully reveals national security secrets to aid a foreign power. But now,=
 to
cover up past blunders and egregious lapses in using those laws to protect=
 real
secrets, bureaucrats want to treat as a criminal anybody who publicly=
 discusses
anything that nervous officials consider "confidential."
        Can this be happening in America? Are we about to adopt the sort of
"Official Secrets Act" that lets British officials decide what news is=
 suitable
for the public? Is Congress handing the next president the weapon that so=
 many
dictatorships use to stifle dissent and hide misdeeds?
        If this law threatening whistle-blowers with jail had been in
effect, no
Pentagon Papers would have been published; no pressure would have been=
 applied
to investigate intelligence fiascoes in Iran or security lapses at Los=
 Alamos.
No heat would have forced Justice to look into illegal Asian campaign
contributions and their influence on arms transfers. =20
        Disclosure of personal interest: This affects every journalist, as=
 well
as every person in government fearful of getting fired or reprimanded for=
 going
to higher-ups with unwelcome news about embarrassing mistakes or outright
wrongdoing.=20


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