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abolition-usa-digest     Thursday, March 22 2001     Volume 01 : Number 433




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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:32:03 -0500
From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy

Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


by David Culp, Friends Committee on National Legislation


Behind closed doors at the Pentagon and the White House, the Bush
administration has begun a review of the nation's nuclear weapons policy.

Originally slated to be finished in April, the completed review is now not
expected until May or June. Why? First, the administration has been slow in
staffing the executive branch. Second, political advisors in the White House
are arguing for a delay in announcing expensive military programs until the
tax-cut bill has cleared the Senate.

While the specifics have not been decided, the Bush policies are known in
general. For peace activists they can be described as the good, the bad, and
the ugly.


The Good: Strategic Reductions and De-alerting

        "While the President will seek to persuade Russia to join us
in further reducing nuclear arsenals, he is also prepared to lead by
example. The President proposes to maintain our nuclear arsenal with the
lowest number of nuclear weapons consistent with our present and future
national security needs."

        Office of Management and Budget, A Blueprint for New
Beginnings, 2001, p. 54.

The administration is expected to announce unilateral reductions in the
strategic nuclear arsenal. There is broad agreement, from the Joint Chiefs
of Staff to Greenpeace, that the nuclear arsenal is too large. The U.S. now
has 7,000 deployed strategic nuclear warheads under START I (Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty). That number was determined by the Reagan administration
to be what was needed to deter the combined forces of the Soviet Union and
its Warsaw Pact allies.

START II would have further cut the arsenal in half. However, that treaty
was not ratified in its final form because of disagreements between the
Clinton administration and the Senate Republican leadership.

To break the arms control logjam, the Bush administration is considering
unilateral reductions. The Pentagon brass had already agreed to eliminate
4,500 strategic warheads (from 7,000 to 2,500 warheads) as part of a START
III agreement that the Clinton administration was considering. How many
warheads to eliminate will be a major part of the debate inside the Bush
administration.

        ". . . the United States should remove as many weapons as
possible from high-alert, hair-trigger status--another unnecessary vestige
of Cold War confrontation.  . . . today, for two nations at peace, keeping
so many weapons on high alert may create unacceptable risks of accidental or
unauthorized launch. So, as President, I will ask for an assessment of what
we can safely do to lower the alert status of our forces."

        George W. Bush, Washington, May 23, 2000.

The Bush review may also recommend "de-alerting," i.e. taking off
hair-trigger alert, some of our nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Russia each
have 2,500 missiles on hair-trigger alert. A Russian president has about six
minutes and a U.S. president about 22 minutes to decide to launch a nuclear
counterstrike from receiving a report of an attack.

The dangers inherent in the crumbling of the Russian military infrastructure
concern Republicans as well as Democrats. In 1991, President George Bush,
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin
Powell authorized the de-alerting of thousands of nuclear weapons as the
Warsaw Pact unraveled. In 2001, President George W. Bush, Vice President
Cheney and Secretary of State Powell may do the same.

The Defense Department has committed to include de-alerting in its nuclear
review in a February 2001 letter to the Friends Committee on National
Legislation, as Bush promised during the campaign.


The Bad: Tactical Nuclear Weapons

        "Future warfare scenarios may require low-yield nuclear
options.  . . . the President should issue a directive outlining that
protecting the national interest requires . . . tactical nuclear weapons to
deter the use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons against U.S.
troops, regardless of where they are located."

        Heritage Foundation, Priorities for the President, chap. 10,
2001.

There are sharp contradictions among Bush officials over the role of
tactical, or short-range, nuclear weapons. Some officials, with opinions
parallel to the Heritage Foundation's point of view, would like to find new
battlefield roles for tactical nuclear weapons. These new roles could
include authorizing the use of tactical weapons, or "mini-nukes," against
non-nuclear states possessing chemical or biological weapons. Other nuclear
scenarios include destroying underground command bunkers in countries like
North Korea and Iraq. The most extreme proposals include the development of
new nuclear weapons. This would require the resumption of underground
testing and would destroy any prospect for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

On the other hand, Secretary of State Powell is known to have little use for
nuclear weapons on the battlefield. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
in the first Bush administration, he tried to eliminate all U.S. tactical
nuclear weapons.

The Ugly: Missile Defense

        "America must build effective missile defenses, based on the
best available options, at the earliest possible date."

        George W. Bush, Washington, May 23, 2000.

There is complete agreement within the administration on deploying a missile
defense system. However on the second-tier questions, such as what kind of
system to deploy and how quickly to deploy, there is disagreement.

Will the system be a limited, land-based system, as proposed by Clinton, or
will it include sea-based and space-based systems?

Who would the U.S. try to protect? The United States only? European allies?
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia?

What are we trying to protect against? A limited number of missiles from a
country like North Korea? China's ballistic missiles?

The answers to these questions will determine the system's price tag. The
limited Clinton program was estimated to cost $60 billion. The system some
Republicans are advocating could approach $200 billion--a lot of money, even
in Washington. And who will pay for the system? American taxpayers only? Or
will U.S. allies be asked to help pay for missile defense?

Most importantly for peace advocates, what will happen to the Anti-Ballistic
Missile (ABM) treaty? Some Republicans argue for scrapping the treaty by
giving the Russians the required six-months notice this summer. The Russians
have repeatedly threatened to withdraw from arms reduction treaties if the
U.S. annuls the ABM treaty.

The Bush administration is realizing that the political costs for deploying
a missile system are at the front end, while the benefits, if any, are many
years down the road. There is no system that can be deployed before the end
of the first Bush term. The elaborate sea- and space-based systems being
pushed by missile defense advocates would not be in place until after a
possible second Bush term.

However, it appears almost certain that President Bush will agree to
implement a missile defense plan. That decision can be expected to provoke a
political firestorm of opposition here and in Europe. As details become
available, the debate will become sharpened. Congress may be asked to vote
on deployment of a missile defense system as part of the regular Pentagon
budget bills as soon as this summer.

In the short term, peace advocates should be pressing their representative
and senators to oppose missile defense as unworkable, as a waste of billions
of dollars, and as a threat to arms control agreements.

What to Do

The nuclear policy changes, both good and bad, do not have a legislative
vehicle in Congress yet.  However, the policies will be debated and
influenced by the 50 members of the House Armed Services Committee and the
24 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. If you are represented by
one of those members, you should contact them and join the debate. If not,
you should express your opinions to your representative and senators and ask
them to talk with their colleagues on the committees.

Activists should press members of the two Armed Services Committees for:
*     Sharp reductions in the strategic nuclear arsenal.
*     "De-alerting," or taking the nuclear arsenals off hair-trigger
alert.
*     Opposing any new roles for tactical, or battlefield, nuclear
weapons.

On missile defense, the congressional committees that draft the annual
military spending bills may be voting on parts of the Bush administration's
new plans in June and July. There is a better than 50 percent chance that
you are represented by a representative or senator on one of these four key
committees: House Armed Services Committee, House Appropriations Committee,
Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senate Appropriations Committee.


Conclusion

The Bush administration is likely to unveil its nuclear weapons policy
sometime in May or June, with much military fanfare. Peace advocates should
be leaders in the coming debate by writing letters-to-the-editor, contacting
key members of Congress, and encouraging others to join the public
discussion by praising the positive and criticizing the negative.


David Culp is a legislative representative with the Friends Committee on
National Legislation in Washington. He has lobbied for over ten years on
nuclear weapons issues. If you would like to receive regular e-mail updates
on nuclear disarmament, send him a note at <[e-mail]>. More
information on these topics is available on FCNL's website at
<www.fcnl.org>.


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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:24:30 +1100
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Join 293 NGOs and Parliamentarians saying 'NO' to NMD/Star Wars

THIS LETTER IS REQUESTING SIGNATURES FROM ORGANISATIONS AND PARLIAMENTARIANS

PLEASE SIGN AND PASS ON THIS LETTER TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS THAT MIGHT SIGN I=
T.

To Sign This Letter please send your name, organisation, and location
(City/Province and COUNTRY)
to  [e-mail]

My apologies if you have already seen this a few times,  especially if you
are one of the 293 organisations or parliamentarians that have already
signed it. (But you might like to check that you are correctly inscribed).

If you think that missile defence/'Star Wars' is likely to lead to another
nuclear arms race, do please join the 293 organisations that have already
signed.



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

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

=46OREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
[phone],   [phone],

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-207-925-0918,
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,
=46OREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
[phone], [phone],
[phone],  [phone],

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.

=46urthermore, 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.

=46urther 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, Santa Barbara, Calif, USA,
Mary-Wynne Ashford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
William Peden, Greenpeace International, Lond, UK,
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,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
(LCNP), NY, USA,
Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International(FME), Ghent, Belgium,
Peer De Rijk, World Information Service on Energy (WISE-International),
Amsterdam, Neth,
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
Cities,
Pamela S. Meidell, USA, Janet Bloomfield UK, Atomic Mirror, Calif USA and
Saffron Walden UK,
Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health,
Toronto, Cn,
Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Neth,
Charles Mercieia, President, International Association of Educators for
World Peace,
Douglas Mattern, President, Association of World Citizens, San Fran, USA,
Kevin Sanders, War and Peace Foundation UN Bureau, USA,

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,
Paul Lannoye, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
Elizabeth Schroedter, MEP, Greens, Germany,
Marianne Eriksson MEP, Greens/NGL, Sweden,
Per Gahrton MEP Greens, Sweden,

=46RENCH GROUPS
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,
Solange Fernex, Ligue Internationale des Femmes pour la Paix et la Liberte,
Paris, France,

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

Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
=46inn Ekman, Liason Committee for Peace and Security, Denmark,

SWEDISH GROUPS
Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
Gunnar Westberg, SLMK (Swedish Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War), Goteborg, Sweden,

Malla Kantola, Secy General, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland,
Ulla Lehtinen, First Peoples, Finland,

GERMAN GROUPS
Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
Horst Hohmier, Anti-Atom Plenum, Ruhrgebiet, Germany,
Dr Margit Hoepfler, NGO Shalom, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Amberg,
Germany,

Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
Czech Peace Society, Praha, Czech Republic,

NETHERLANDS GROUPS
Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
=46rank Van Schaik, Chair, ASEED-Europe, Amsterdam, Neth,
Monique de Nijs, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Neth,
Transnational Institute Asia Program, Amsterdam, Neth,
Louis Bertholet, Stichting Onderzoeksgroep Vliegramp Bijlmermeer (SOVB),
Neth,

Isabel Vertried MP Greens, Belgium,
=46orum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
George Spriet, Secy, VREDE, Ghent, Belgium,

OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
Dr Josep Puig, Scientists and Technicians for a Nuclear-free Future,
Barcelona, Spain,
Jordi Armadans, Director, Foundation for Peace, Barcelona, Spain,

Catherine Arata, SHALOM, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Italy,
Georgio Nebbia, (former Senator) Faculty of Economics, University of Bari,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Constantin S. Lacatus, People of Sibiu for Peace, Sibiu, Romania,
Cornel Radu, Aer Pur, Romania,

Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,

Prof Vladimir Koklyukhin, Belarussian Association for Political Science,
Brest, Belarus,
Manana Kochladze, Green Alternative, Tblisi, Georgia,

RUSSIAN GROUPS
Prof Alexi B. Yablokov, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow,
Russia,
Vladimir Slivyak, Co-Chair, ECODEFENSE, Kaliningrad, Russia,
Alisa Nikoulina, Coordinator, Antinuclear Campaign of the Social-Ecological
Union, Moscow, Russia,
Alexandra Koroleva, Chair, Public Committee on Environmental Education,
Kaliningrad Regional Duma, Russia,
Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia,
Pavel Malyshev, AVA, Kaliningrad, Russia,
Alexey Kozlov, ECODEFENSE, Voronezh, Russia,
Oleg Bodrov, 'Green World', Sosnovy Bor (St Petersburg) Russia,

Adi Roche, Executive Director, Chernobyl Childrens Project, Ireland,

UK GROUPS
David Drew MP, UK.,
Lynne Jones MP,Birmingham-Selly Oak, UK,
Alice Mahon,MP, UK,
Penny Kemp, Chair, Green Party of England and Wales,
Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
Peter Nicholls, Chair, Abolition2000 UK, London, UK,
Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
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.,
Janet  Laycock, Wallasey CND, Merseyside, UK,
Sarah Lazenby, CND-Oxford,  UK,
Anna Cheetham, Chair,  CND-Leicester,
Ralph Say, Woking CND, Surrey, UK,
Patricia Pullman, Christian CND, London, UK,
Margaret Turner, British Section WILPF, Croydon, UK,
Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
Angie Zelter, Reforest The Earth, Norfolk, UK,
J. E. Mabbit, Socialist Workers Party, Sheffield, UK,
Pat Gaffney, Pax Christi UK,
Denis Beaumont, Chair, Fellowship of Reconciliation, UK,


JAPANESE GROUPS
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,
Yumi Kikuchi, Founder, Monkey Bay Wildlife Fund, Chiba, Japan,

KOREAN GROUPS
Kho Dae Sung MP, National Assembly of Korea,
Gyun Lan Jung, Women Making Peace, Seoul, S. Korea,
Changsoo Kim, Korean National Congress for Reunification,
Seung Kuk Kim, SPARK, S. Korea,
Lee Taeho, Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, S. Korea,
Jeong Yu Jin, National Campaign for Eradication of Crime by US Troops in S.
Korea,
Choi Jung Min/Eong Young Sun, Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights,
Yoon Jung-Suk, Women Link, S. Korea,


Cyprus Peace Council,Cyprus,
Abdul H. Nayyar, Pakistan Peace Coalition, Islamabad, Pk,
Dr Kamrul, Bangladesh Medical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
Kilsung Mayo Uno, Phillipines,
Luis-Guttierez Esparza, President, Latin-American Circle for International
Studies, Mexico City, Mexico,
Jean Patterson, LIMPAL Disarmament Group, Costa-Rica,
Christopher Clark, President, Associao Amazonia, Manaus, Brasil,
Grace de Haro, Human Rights Organisation, Rio Negro, Patagonia, Argentina,
=46UNAM- Foundation for Defenceof the Environment, Rio Negro, Patagonia,
Argentina,
Lazaro Pary, Coordinator, Indian Movement Tupaj-Amaru (Peru/Bolivia)
Alfredo Felix Perez Aruazo, Environmental Strategic Research Council, Urugua=
y,
Dr Salavador Maria Lozada, President, International Association for
Constitutional Law, Uruguay,
Mr Percy S. Ngonyama, Organiser, Ceasefire Campaign, Johannesburg, SA,
Edward Appiah, Green Earth Organisation, Accra,  Ghana,

EGYPTIAN GROUPS
Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt,
Dr Murad Ghaleb, President, Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation, Egyp=
t,
Khalid Mahi-Aldin, Member of Egyptian Parliament,
Elbadr Farghali, Member of Egyptian Parliament,
Dr Refat El Said, Member of Egyptian Parliament,

Marii Sbdul Rahman, Palestinian Peace and Solidarity Committee,
Essan Makhloul, Member of the Knessett, Israel,

UNITED STATES GROUPS
Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington, USA,
Helen Caldicott MD, Founding President, PSR,
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,
Sally Light, Executive Director, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Nevada, USA=
,
Susi Snyder, Shundahai Network, Nevada, USA,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition-One Committee, Washington DC, USA,
Carol Rosin, Founder, Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space
(ISCOS),
Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA,
Rear-Admiral Eugene C. Carroll (USN-Retd) (Vice President, Centre for
Defence Information)

Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA,
Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network (CAN),  Ma, USA,
Donald and Janet Axman, Peoples Action for Clean Energy, Ct, USA,
Vivian Stockman, Concerned Citizens Coalition, West Virginia, USA,
Bonnie Urfer/John Lafarge, Nukewatch, USA,
Paloma Galindo, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Oak Ridge, Tenn, USA=
,
Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project, Oakland, Calif,
Citizens Protecting Ohio, Bexley, Ohio, USA,
Bill Sulzman, Citizens for Peace in Space, Colo, USA,
Rochelle Becker, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Calif, USA,
Lewis E. Patrie MD, President, North Carolina Chapter, PSR, NC, USA,
Melanie Canon, PSR-New York, NY, USA,
Bruce A. Drew, Prairie Island Coalition, Minn, USA,
Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Michigan, USA,
Corrine Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Mich, USA,
Ellen & Paul Connett, Waste Not, NY, USA,
Kieth Gunter, Citizens Resistance at Fermi-2,
Susan V. Walker, President, Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Cape Cod, USA,
Jonathan Mark, No Flyby, Ma, USA,
Ernest Goeitien, Coordinator, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards,
Atherton, Calif,
Martha O. Vinick, West Hartford Abolition 2000,
Stacey Fritz, Coordinator, Alaskans and Arctic Peoples Against Missile
Defence, Fairbanks, Alaska,
Steven W. Malkus, Project Catalyst, Ma, USA,
Stacey Studebaker, Kodiak Rocket Launch Information Group, Kodiak, Ala, USA,
Alaska Action Centre, Anchorage, Alaska, USA,
Andrew J. Hund, Coordinator, Alaska Arctic Environmental Defence Fund,
Kevin Martin, Project Abolition, Goshen, Indiana, USA,

Phyllis S. Yingling, Chair, Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom (WILPF) USA Section, Pa, USA,
Bernice Fischer, Penninsula Womens International League for Peace and
=46reedom (WILPF), Calif,  USA,
Susan Shaer, Director, Womens Action for New Directions (WAND), Wash DC,
USA,
Jen Kato, Atlanta Womens Action for New Directions (WAND), Atlanta, USA,
Judy Gallo, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, USA,

James K. Galbraith, Lucy Webster, Robert J. Schwartz, Economists Allied for
Arms Reduction, (ECAAR) NY, USA,
William D. Hartung,Director,  Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy
Institute, NY,USA,
Karen Talbot, International Centre for Peace and Justice, USA,
Harry Rodgers, Carolina Peace Resource Centre, Columbia, SC, USA,
Barbara Weidner, Grandmothers for Peace International, Calif, USA,
Rev. Robert Moore, Coalition for Peace Action, Princeton, NJ, USA,
Rosalie Tyler-Paul,chair,  Peace Action Maine, Maine, USA,
Elen R.Robinson, Peace Action New Mexico, NM, USA,
Sonya Ostrom, Peace Action, PA, USA,
Tom Seery, Program Director, Peace Action Wisconsin, Wisc, USA,
Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
Jean Coster, Director, South Dakota Peace and Justice Centre,USA,
Luisa Brown, North Dakota Peace Coalition, USA,
Barry Reisch, President,  Veterans for Peace, Washington DC, USA,
Bill Warwick MD, Gainville Florida Veterans for Peace, Fl, USA,
Carol Mosely, Kelli Sebastian, Coordinator, Florida Coalition for Peace and
Justice, Florida, USA,
Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Centre, Palo Alto, Calif, USA,

Phyllis W. Stanley, President, Environmental and Peace Education Centre,
=46lorida, USA,
Anabel Dwyer, Peace Education Centre, East Lansing, Michigan, USA,
Mavis Belisle, Peace Farm, Texas, USA,
Phil Weaver, Eugene Peaceworks, Oregon, USA,
Amy Bannon, Volunteers for Peace, USA,
Alan D, Moore, Fine Artists for World Peace, Berkley, Calif,

Adele Kushner, Action for a Clean Environment, Georgia, USA,
Justine Cooper, Native Forest Council, Oregon, USA.
Krista Leeraas, Alliance for Sustainability, Mn, USA,
=46rances Fox, Global Resource Bank, USA,
Alan D. Moore, Butterfly Gardeners Association, Berkley, Calif,
George B. Hug, President, Northwest Builders Network, USA,
George Croker, Director, North American Water Office, USA,
Mark Ritchie, Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy,
Mitch Hall, President, 'Checkmate' Non-Violence Group, Vermont, USA,
Ground Zero Centre for Nonviolent Action, Washington, USA,
Pablo Paster, Clayton Whitt,  Cal-Poly Progressive Student Alliance, San
Luis Obispo, Calif,  USA,
James K. Wyerman, 20/20 Vision, Washington DC, USA,
James V. Albertini, President, Malu  'Aina, Hawaii,
Pete Shimazaki Doktor, Hawaii-Okinawa Network, Honululu, Hawaii, USA,
Ohana Foley, Student Peace Action Network Hawaii,
=46redrique Apfel-Marglin, Smith College, Northampton, Mass, USA,
John Witeck, Phillipine Workers Support Committee, USA,
Dae Jung Moon, Young Koreans United of USA, LA, Calif,
Human Rights Project, Birmingham, Alabama, USA,
Glenn Van Haitsma, Waukesha County Chapter United Nations Association, USA,
Jenifer Olaranna Viereck, Director, HOME, Tecopa, Ca, USA,
Elise Brion, People over Profit, St Louis, Miss, USA,


Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, President, Pax Christi USA,
Bishop C. Dale White,
Margaret Darlene Ehinger, Pax Christi Huntsville, Ala, USA,
Mary Ellen Mc Nish, General Secy, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
Joe Franko, American Friends Service Committee Southwest Regional Office,
Kyle Kajiro, American Friends Service Committee Hawaii Area Program,
Rev. Thomas I. Warren, Chair, Just Peace Committee, United Church of
Christ, New Orleans, USA,
Patricia A. Stalder, Immaculate Conception Gospel Justice Committee, Calif,
USA,
David Joslin, Capitol Region Conference of Churches, USA,
Maryellen Haydon, Thomas Merton Centre, Pittsburgh, USA,
Sister Ardeth Platte, Jonah House, Baltimore, USA,
Sister Ardeth Platte, Sacred Earth and Space Ploughshares, Colo, USA,
Toni Flynn, High Desert Catholic Worker Community, Ca, USA,
Robert M. Smith, Brandywine Peace Community,
Pace e Bene Franciscan Nonviolence Centre, 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,
Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear responsibility
(CCNR),
Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver,
BC., Canada,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture, Seattle, Canada=
,
Betty Brightwell, Raging Grannies, Victoria, BC, Canada,
Carolyn Bassett, Coordinator, Canadian Peace Alliance, Canada,
Ivan Bulic, Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC), Vancouver
BC, Canada,
Dr Jennifer-Anne Simons, Simons Foundation, Vancouver BC, Canada,
Kris Mansfield, Coordinator, Conscience Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada,
Sue Frazer, Secy, Vancouver Island Network for Disarmament, BC, Canada,


AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, N=
Z,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation Aotearoa/NZ, Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ,
CND NZ, Wellington, NZ,
Helen Kingston, Golden Bay Peace Group, Aotearoa/NZ,
Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, Aotearoa/NZ,
Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ,
John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
Des Brough Chair, Dame Laurie Salas Vice-Chair, National Consultative
Committee on Disarmament, Aotearoa/NZ,
R.E. White, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ,
David Menkes, Dr Margot Parkes, Med Eco New Zealand, Wellington Aotearoa/NZ,
Carol Anne Bradford, New Zealand Coalition for Gun Control, Aotearoa/NZ,
Larry Ross, Secy, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association,
Christchurch, Aotearoa/NZ,

AUSTRALIAN GROUPS
Kelly Hoare MP, ALP Member for Charlton, NSW,
Jann Mc Farlane MP, ALP member for Stirling, W.A.,
Cheryl Kernot MP, ALP Member for Dickson, Qld,
Daryl Melham, MP, ALP Member for Banks, NSW,
Senator Chris Schacht, ALP Senator for South Australia,
Robin Chapple MLC, Greens Member-Elect for Miing and Pastoral Region, W.A.,
Catherine Moore, Convenor, Australian Greens,
Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA, Aust,
Pauline Mitchell, CICD, Melbourne, Vic, Aust,
Graham Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A., (PND-WA), Perth, W.A.,
Aust,
Joan Shears, Secy/Coordinator, Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament,
Brisbane, Qld, Aust,
Michelle Matthews, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Fitzroy, Vic,
Kirsten Blair/Mark Wakeham, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory
(ECNT), Darwin, NT, Aust,
Rowena, Environment Centre of Western Australia(ECWA), Perth, W.A., Aust,
Chris White, United trades and Labor Council, South Australia, Adelaide,
SA, Aust,
Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
Judy Blyth, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (WA), Perth, WA,
Aust,
Irina Reykhtman, Gaia Foundation, Perth, W.A.,
Rev. Ray Richmond, Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, NSW,


=46RIENDS OF THE EARTH GROUPS
Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International
(FOEI)Salvador/Amsterdam
Ricardo Navarro, Friends of the Earth El Salvador,
Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
Anastasia Laitilia, Maan Yst=E4v=E4t Ry/Friends of the Earth Finland,
=46riends of the Earth Cyprus,
Julian Manduca, Friends of the Earth Malta/Moviment Ghall-Ambjent,
Viktor Khazan MP, Friends of the Earth Ukraine(Zeleny Zvit),
Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine,
Rusudan Simonidze, Jimi Dabrundashvili, Friends of the Earth Georgia/Greens
Movement of Georgia, Tbilsi, Georgia,
Natalia Arias, Pres,  Accion Ecologica (Friends of the Earth Ecuador),
Quito, Ecuador,
Nnimmo Bassey, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria,
Benin City, Nigeria,
Istvan Farkas, Director, Friends of the Earth Hungary,
Daniel Sanchez, Amigos de la Tierra Espana (Friends of the Earth Spain),
Madrid, Sp,
John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia





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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:42:18 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) clarification on dates for DC action June 10 - 12

Dear Friends,

The dates for the National Mobilization to Stop Star Wars and Abolish
Nuclear Weapons in Washington DC are June 10-12.  In one part of
yesterday's email message, I had mistakenly listed June 17 as the day
for the rally at the White House.  The date is June 10, and I apologize
profusely for my mistake.  The Call for the Mobilization and the flier
for the events will be posted on the Project Abolition website at
www.projectabolition.org by the end of the day today.

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition


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