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abolition-usa-digest      Thursday, March 8 2001      Volume 01 : Number 427




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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:44:31 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Hi Harry -- Thanks. Peace, Marylia

>Marylia,Please sign me on
>Harry Rogers
>Carolina Peace Resource Center
>Columbia SC
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "marylia" <[e-mail]>
>To: <[e-mail]>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:20 PM
>Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro
>colleagues
>
>
>> URGENT!  ACTION ALERT!  YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SIGN ON IS REQUESTED BY OUR
>> RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL COLLEAGUES.  READ ON ...
>>
>> The following is an alert from Tri-Valley CAREs' upcoming March 2001
>> newsletter. It is time- critical. Please read and respond immediately.
>> Thank you. --Marylia Kelley
>>
>> On Dec. 21, 2000, the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament, gave
>> preliminary approval for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Law
>> lifting the ban on importing spent nuclear fuel.
>>
>> "They have dollar signs in their eyes,"  said Natalia Mironova, a leader
>in
>> the broad-based environmental movement that gathered two and one-half
>> million signatures in Russia to oppose the importation of foreign nuclear
>> waste.
>>
>> Moreover, Tri-Valley CAREs recently learned from a Livermore Lab report
>> that the U.S. may propose sending its "U.S. origin" irradiated nuclear
>fuel
>> from 8 nuclear  reactors in Taiwan to the Russian site at Krasnoyarsk in
>> Siberia, if the change in Russian law goes through.
>>
>> "The U.S. Dept. of Energy and the American nuclear industry are looking to
>> set up a radioactive waste toilet in Russia," charged Vladimir Sliviak,
>> co-chair of Ecodefense.
>>
>> Our good friend Natalia Mironova and her colleagues in the Movement for
>> Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia have requested that we circulate a
>> statement they have drafted in opposition to the new law.
>>
>> An excerpt from that statement says: "It is unethical to take advantage of
>> a country's socio-economic crisis by offering profits in exchange for
>> storing materials that present serious dangers to that nation's
>population.
>> Each country must take responsibility for its own waste products."
>>
>> Please help us help the Russian environmentalists! Contact us immediately
>> if you belong to a group that can sign on to this statement. (If you need
>a
>> copy of the complete statement, just call, fax or email us and we will
>send
>> it.)
>>
>> We need your sign-on no later than March 14, so we have time to distribute
>> the statement to the Russian Duma before the final vote on March 22.
>>
>> NOTE: We are in the process of re-formatting the statement (the all too
>> usual cyberspace formatting problems). We will circulate the full
>statement
>> via email tomorrow. We wanted to give you this "heads up" so you can begin
>> whatever the sign on process is for your group. To sign on, email, phone
>or
>> fax Tri-Valley CAREs. We need your name, title, if applicable and group
>> name and address. Our Russian colleagues have told us that sign ons from
>> groups from France and the U.K. will be looked at with suspicion and
>> discounted by the Russian Duma (as in "those countries just don't want the
>> competition for the [reprocessing] dollars.") All groups from ALL other
>> countries are encouraged to sign on. Thanks. --mk
>>
>> 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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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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:00:20 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on request from our Russian enviro colleagues

Hi -- and thanks! Peace, Marylia

>Sign us on too:
>
>Bruce K. Gagnon
>Coordinator
>Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
>PO Box 90083
>Gainesville, FL. 32607
>[phone]
>http://www.space4peace.org
>[e-mail]
>
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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: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:20:14 -0700
From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Open Global Council Meeting in England

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Open Global Council Meeting in England

Following the meeting of the Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space in Leeds in May Abolition 2000 will host an
open meeting of its Global Council in Saffron Walden, England on May
7th and 8th. The meeting will take advantage of the fact that a many
members of the Global Council and others active in A2000 will be in
the UK at this time. Saffron Walden is a beautiful market town about
an hour north of London and close to Cambridge. The meeting will take
place at the town's Quaker Meeting House and homestays will be
available for those who need them. As well as the meeting itself
there will be social activities organized on both evenings. Space
will be limited so if you want to attend please contact Janet
Bloomfield ([e-mail]) as soon as possible. Transport
will be organized from Leeds to Saffron Walden for those attending
both meetings.
- --
Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator

Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
Santa Barbara, California  93108-2794  USA

Tel:  [phone]
Fax:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]
Http://www.abolition2000.org

Join the Abolition Global Caucus, send a message to
[e-mail]

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<div><font color="#0F0000">Following the meeting of the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space in Leeds in May Abolition
2000 will host an open meeting of its Global Council in Saffron
Walden, England on May 7th and 8th. The meeting will take advantage of
the fact that a many members of the Global Council and others active
in A2000 will be in the UK at this time. Saffron Walden is a beautiful
market town about an hour north of London and close to Cambridge. The
meeting will take place at the town's Quaker Meeting House and
homestays will be available for those who need them. As well as the
meeting itself there will be social activities organized on both
evenings. Space will be limited so if you want to attend please
contact Janet Bloomfield ([e-mail]) as soon as possible.
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Carah Lynn Ong<br>
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:29:27 +1100
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars Letter Yet?

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED THIS LETTER YOU ARE URGED TO DO SO.

PLEASE PASS IT ON TO ANY OTHER ORGANISATION THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SIGNING

(MY APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED THIS, or if you get it many times
- - It is now being sent out to my largest lists, so many that have already
signed will get it again. You may like to check that I have entered you
correctly)

If you have not yet by some oversight, signed this important letter you are
urged to join the over 60 organisations that have done so thus far.

If you signed a similar letter from me last year, I urge you to sign this one.

You sign by replying to this email, specifying the name of your
organisation, your title, and your adress.

Please do not forget to say which country you are from - There are
signatures from Reykjavik to London to Washington to Patagonia.




PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,
1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
[phone], [phone], [phone],

FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
[phone],   [phone],

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,
ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,  [phone],
[phone],

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, [phone],
PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]
HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, [phone],

GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
[phone],

CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
[phone], [phone],

JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
[phone], [phone],
[phone],  [phone],

PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, [phone]

JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
[phone],
JOHN MANLEY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,  [phone],
[phone], [phone].

POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK,  [phone]
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK
[phone]

JENS STOLTENBERG, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY [phone]

THORBJORN JAGLAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NORWAY [phone]

BJORN TORE GODAL, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, NORWAY [phone]

CC
US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL,  [phone],

US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,  DONALD C. RUMSFELD,  [phone],

THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
[phone],  08-8370-8166

THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA [phone],
03-5979-3034


Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
Affairs and Defence:

We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy a
national ballistic missile defence network.

We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President George
W. Bush during his campaign --  in order to move toward the total and
unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
repeated international commitments.

The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making the
fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.

In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
international security.

President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
defences.  If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from the
ABM treaty.  President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
the treaty.

Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
conditional on the  integrity of the ABM treaty.  Russia's ratification of
START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.

It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US and
Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
status.

Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
deployment of even limited  missile defences could lead to Russian
re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
missiles.

A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments.  This
escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear arsenals
poised at even higher levels of alert.

Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive and
have not been proven to work in an operational environment.

No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six  to 10
years.  Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
warheads with close to 100% reliability.

Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could be
engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and more
reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.

Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly to
be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
build-ups.

The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
to result in a Chinese build-up.

The problems associated with missile defences require that the
international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing and
potential ballistic missile proliferation.  Near-term efforts should be
focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement freezing
the North Korean missile program.

Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and regional
basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.

In light of the above:

- --We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such missile
defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
proliferation.

- --We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
joint facilities at  Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
missile defence.

To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:

- --We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans.  This will serve as the
most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
the risk of unintended nuclear attack.

- --We  urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other states,
to proceed toward  immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads each
through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.

The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as expressed
in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
under Article VI."

The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
governments expect.

(Signed)


INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) Geneva/NY,
Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
(BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space, Florida, USA,
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
Cities,


MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP  Greens, SE England,
Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,

Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,

Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)

Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,

Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,

Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,

Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,

Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,

OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,

David Drew MP, UK.,
Lynne Jones MP, UK,
Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
Manchester, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
Birmingham, UK.,
Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)

Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (JPPNW),
Hiroshima, Japan,
Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,

Cyprus Peace Council,
Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,

UNITED STATES GROUPS
Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, USA,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
NY, USA,
David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,

CANADIAN GROUPS
Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
Alexa Mc Donough, MP  for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
Ottowa, Canada,
Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver, BC.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,

AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, NZ,
Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,

John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
Friends of the Earth Cyprus,

Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee
Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,



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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:48:57 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Apr. 13/Good Friday Action at Livermore Lab

Info about an April 13, 2001 action at Livermore Lab. All are welcome.
Peace, Marylia

"Not by Might"

by Carolyn Scarr and Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' March 2001 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

For nearly 20 years, people of faith and other peace advocates have
gathered on Good Friday to demonstrate and witness outside Livermore Lab.
The theme for this year's event is "Not by Might."

Sister Stella Goodpasture, a longtime  Good Friday participant, will be the
keynote speaker. Sister Stella is a member of the Dominican Order, in the
congregation of Mission San Jose. She is the justice promoter for this
region and also works at St. John the Baptist  Church in El Cerrito where
her responsibilities include education and community action in social
justice issues.

Tri-Valley CAREs' Ann Seitz will welcome the participants to Livermore and
provide a short update on the nuclear weapons work being conducted at the
Lab. There will also be music and a procession to the gates of the
Livermore Lab.

As we gather this Good Friday, there is strong Lab management and Bush
administration support for "Star Wars" missile defense concepts and for new
weaponry, including a deep earth-penetrating "mini-nuke."

Further, Tri-Valley CAREs and Western States Legal Foundation, in separate
Freedom of Information Act requests, have recently discovered additional
evidence of widespread Lab involvement in a broad array of new, advanced
weapons concepts--from plans to use the National Ignition Facility for
"fireball" weapons development tests to research into two new
"modifications" of the W80 warhead.

These weapons concepts, already begun during the Clinton era, are now
accompanied by the Bush administration's posture of increased hostility and
saber-rattling in a number of areas of tension.

This is a very important year to join your friends, fellow peace activists
and neighbors at the Livermore Lab on Good Friday, April 13. Come to the
corner of East and Vasco for the service. The procession, an opportunity at
the gate for those who choose to nonviolently risk arrest and a community
meeting nearby will follow. (See page 3 for more information.)


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: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:55:45 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) 6:45 AM start time for Good Friday at LLNL

Hi, again -- Because the logistics for the Good Friday action were in the
newsletter calendar section, the article I just sent doesn't say the start
time at Livermore Lab. It's 6:45 AM for music, 7 AM start time for
speakers, procession to the Lab gate to follow. Peace, Marylia

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

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Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:04:48 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nat'l "Green Scissors 2001" study says cut NIF

Environmental and Taxpayer Groups Join Forces to Cut NIF and Other Harmful
Projects

by Marylia Kelley and Melanie Lombard
from Tri-Valley CAREs' March 2001 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

The federal government spends billions every year on programs that harm the
environment and public health, according to a new national study.

The report, "Green Scissors 2001," recommends cutting or reforming 74
programs worth $55 billion over the next 5 years.

"Green Scissors 2001" takes particular aim at the problem-plagued National
Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser, under construction at Livermore Lab.
NIF was chosen by the national coalition that produced the study as a
"choice cut" for this year.

"NIF should be canceled and construction terminated." This would save $10
billion over the 30 year lifetime of the project, according to the report.

Members of Tri-Valley CAREs and the California Public Interest Research
Group gathered at the Livermore Laboratory on Feb. 22 to release the
study's findings and meet with reporters.

Tri-Valley CAREs' Marylia Kelley explained the still-escalating costs,
environmental hazards and nuclear proliferation risks of building and
operating the NIF.

According to the federal General Accounting Office last year, estimates for
completion of the NIF rose from $1.2 billion to $4 billion. However, the $4
billion doesn't include actually throwing the switch and operating the
laser, among other things, explained Kelley.

"Green Scissors 2001" used a life-cycle estimate of $10 billion. As
shocking as that figure is, the total may climb even higher, Kelley told
reporters.
In the next day's edition of the Tri-Valley Herald, Livermore Lab
spokesperson Susan Houghton refused to provide any estimate for the cost of
the NIF over its 30-year lifetime. She merely attacked the $10 billion
figure as a "distortion."

Tri-Valley CAREs and CALPIRG also brought a NIF cake to the Lab, complete
with a colored-frosting target chamber, to celebrate the release of the
"Green Scissors 2001" study. The groups then cut the cake to symbolize
NIF's inclusion as one of only ten "choice cuts" in the report. (We are
less certain what eating the cake symbolized, but it was delicious.)

"Green Scissors 2001" resulted from research conducted by dozens of
taxpayer and environmental organizations across the nation. Programs that
most egregiously fleece the taxpayer and contaminate the environment were
then compiled into the final report. "'Green Scissors 2001' shows that the
practice of handing out polluter pork is still thriving in Washington, DC",
Melanie Lombard of  CALPIRG told reporters.

On the other hand, the unique "Green Scissors" coalition of conservative
taxpayer groups and progressive environmental organizations has proven to
be a potent lobbying force, particularly in the halls of Congress. We at
Tri-Valley CAREs stand always ready to assist them - for example with
up-to-the-minute, accurate information on NIF - as they seek to cut NIF's
budget in 2001. Working together, we believe we can succeed!

"Green Scissors 2001" can be downloaded from the web at
www.greenscissors.org. The recommendation to cut the NIF is printed on the
back of this insert. Please feel free to use this information in
discussions with your neighbors, co-workers and elected officials.

ends

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

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[phone] - is our phone
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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
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:05:42 -0800
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. Energy Secretary's record

Meet the New U.S. Secretary of Energy

by Inga Olson and the Idaho "snakes"
from Tri-Valley CAREs' March 2001 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Before assuming his new post, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham was head of
the Michigan Republican Party, a top aide to Vice President Dan Quayle, and
a one-term Senator from Michigan (defeated in 2000). Looking at a slice of
his voting record on issues that are of particular interest to us shows:

* In 1995, he voted for substantial cuts in the Environmental Protection
Agency's budget to enforce air, water, and wetland regulations.

* He voted to weaken a community's right to know about toxics by voting to
eliminate up to 90 percent of the chemicals that industry currently must
report.

* He helped successful efforts to block high fuel-economy standards for
sport-utility vehicles and supported unsuccessful efforts to suspend the
federal gasoline tax.

* He joined last year's unsuccessful effort to open the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.

* While in the Senate, he consistently voted to move irradiated reactor
fuel to Yucca Mountain under the "Mobile Chernobyl" bill.

* He supports a "Star Wars" missile defense system.

* He twice co-sponsored legislation to abolish the Department of Energy.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Secretary Abraham accepted
$90,171 from 35 oil and gas political action committees in 1999 & 2000.

We were successful in helping to educate the former Energy Secretary, Bill
Richardson, on some critical issues including cost overruns and schedule
delays involving the NIF.

So, while it does not appear that Tri-Valley CAREs and Secretary Abraham
share similar views on many key issues, we will be ready to meet with him
none-the-less. We would hope to explore, for example, whether his "budget
hawk"  philosophy will include NIF.

With the new administration in place, we also want to make certain that our
well-researched and community-supported approach to nuclear weapons  issues
receives a full hearing.

Thus, we will continue to be a voice for disarmament -- and for
improvements in  the health, safety, and quality of life in communities
around the nuclear weapons complex.

(Thanks to the Snake River Alliance for the info on Abraham's record.)

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
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:55:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Rosalie Tyler Paul <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars Letter Yet?

Sign on Peace Action Maine - Rosalie Tyler Paul, Chair

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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,  [phone],
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>[phone],
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>[phone], [phone].
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>[phone]
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>US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL,  [phone],
>
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>
>THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
>[phone],  08-8370-8166
>
>THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA [phone],
>03-5979-3034
>
>
>Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
>Affairs and Defence:
>
>We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
>world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy a
>national ballistic missile defence network.
>
>We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
>arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President George
>W. Bush during his campaign --  in order to move toward the total and
>unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
>Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
>repeated international commitments.
>
>The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making the
>fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.
>
>In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
>is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
>international security.
>
>President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
>the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
>defences.  If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
>Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from the
>ABM treaty.  President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
>begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
>the treaty.
>
>Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
>Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
>conditional on the  integrity of the ABM treaty.  Russia's ratification of
>START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
>ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.
>
>It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
>missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US and
>Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
>US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
>status.
>
>Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
>deployment of even limited  missile defences could lead to Russian
>re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
>It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
>which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
>missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
>missiles.
>
>A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
>Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments.  This
>escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear arsenals
>poised at even higher levels of alert.
>
>Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
>being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive and
>have not been proven to work in an operational environment.
>
>No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six  to 10
>years.  Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
>order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
>warheads with close to 100% reliability.
>
>Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could be
>engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
>state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
>defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and more
>reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
>
>Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly to
>be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
>of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
>creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
>build-ups.
>
>The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
>to result in a Chinese build-up.
>
>The problems associated with missile defences require that the
>international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
>trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing and
>potential ballistic missile proliferation.  Near-term efforts should be
>focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement freezing
>the North Korean missile program.
>
>Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
>Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and regional
>basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.
>
>In light of the above:
>
>--We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such missile
>defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
>proliferation.
>
>--We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
>deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
>joint facilities at  Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
>elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
>influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
>missile defence.
>
>To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:
>
>--We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
>from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
>launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans.  This will serve as the
>most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
>the risk of unintended nuclear attack.
>
>--We  urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other states,
>to proceed toward  immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
>strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads each
>through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.
>
>The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as expressed
>in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
>Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
>states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
>leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
>under Article VI."
>
>The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
>deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
>elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
>committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
>governments expect.
>
>(Signed)
>
>
>INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
>Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
>Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
>Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
>Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
>Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
>(WILPF) Geneva/NY,
>Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
>(BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
>Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
>Power in Space, Florida, USA,
>Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
>Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
>Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
>Cities,
>
>
>MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
>Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
>Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
>Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP  Greens, SE England,
>Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
>Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
>Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
>Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
>
>Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
>Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
>Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
>Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
>Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
>Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,
>
>Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
>Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)
>
>Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
>
>Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
>Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
>
>Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
>Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
>
>Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
>
>Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
>Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
>
>OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
>
>Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
>Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,
>
>David Drew MP, UK.,
>Lynne Jones MP, UK,
>Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
>Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
>Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
>Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
>David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
>Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
>Manchester, UK.,
>Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
>Birmingham, UK.,
>Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
>
>Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
>Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
>Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
>Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (JPPNW),
>Hiroshima, Japan,
>Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,
>
>Cyprus Peace Council,
>Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
>Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
>Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
>
>UNITED STATES GROUPS
>Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, USA,
>Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
>Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
>NY, USA,
>David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
>Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
>Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
>
>CANADIAN GROUPS
>Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
>Alexa Mc Donough, MP  for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
>Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
>Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
>Ottowa, Canada,
>Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
>David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver,
>BC.,
>Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
>Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
>
>AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
>Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
>Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, NZ,
>Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
>Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
>John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
>
>John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
>Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
>Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
>
>Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee
>Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
>
>
>
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