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abolition-usa-digest      Friday, April 13 2001      Volume 01 : Number 438




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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:20:51 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Good Friday + other actions/Come!

Friday, April 13
Good Friday Action
"Not by Might"
6:45 AM, gather at Livermore Lab
Corner of East Ave. and Vasco Rd.
[phone] or [phone]

The annual Good Friday service and demonstration at Livermore Lab will
open with music at 6:45 AM. Speakers will begin at 7, followed by a
procession to the Lab's gate, where some participants will risk arrest. A
community gathering and refreshments will then be provided at Marylia's Rec
Room, 5720 East Ave., near the Lab.

Monday, April 16
Tax Day Leafletting
at East Bay Post Offices
[phone] for details

Would you like to alert your Bay Area neighbors to the high percentage of
their tax payments going to the DOE and the Pentagon for weapons and war?
Call Women for Peace at the number above to take part.

Thursday, April 19
Tri-Valley CAREs meets
7:30 PM, Livermore Library
1000 So. Livermore Ave.
[phone] for details

Do your part for peace, justice and a healthy environment. Join us for our
monthly meeting this April 19.  Get updates on the NIF and other nuclear
issues. Help plan a community meeting on LLNL site 300 cleanup. Share your
aspirations for a peaceful world. New & long-time members welcome. Bring a
friend, or meet new ones there.

Thursday, May 3
Tri-Valley CAREs "study group"
7 PM, Tri-Valley CAREs office
2582 Old First St., Livermore
[phone] for details

We welcome Peter Strauss, an environmental scientist who advises Tri-Valley
CAREs on nuclear waste and cleanup issues.  He will be writing a report on
plutonium pollution in the community for Tri-Valley CAREs later this year.
Join Peter for a discussion covering such topics as -- What is plutonium?
What are its hazards? How has it entered our environment? And, what can we
do about it?

May 11 - 14
"Celebrate Life and Sovereignty"
Mothers Day Gathering
Nevada Test Site
[phone] for details

Join Shundahai and other colleague groups for a week of ceremony, learning
and celebration to protect the land at the test site and Yucca Mountain  --
and affirm the Western Shoshone Nation's sovereign rights.


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: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:59:33 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Dear colleagues:

Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that
the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
[e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone]
or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA
94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
U.S.

The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have
already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
letter...

April XX, 2001

To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
        The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
        The Members of the United States Senate
        The Members of the United States House of Representatives

Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:

We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter
expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
"Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).

"Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
environment.

One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of
the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."

"Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
reasons:

*       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;

*       NIF will create radioactive wastes;

*       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a
Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;

*       NIF offers no commercial use;

*       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
arsenal; and,

*       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.

The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for
your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
www.greenscissors.org.

Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted.


Respectfully,

Marylia Kelley
Executive Director
Tri-Valley CAREs
Livermore, CA

YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

end of letter

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: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:01:10 -0700
From: Joan Russow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

please add my name
Joan Russow PhD
Global Compliance Research Project
1230 ST Patrick ST
Victoria, B.C. V8S4Y4
CANADA

At 04:59 PM 04/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues:
>
>Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that
>the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
>construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
>sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
>applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
>by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
>[e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone]
>or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA
>94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
>U.S.
>
>The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
>officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have
>already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
>letter...
>
>April XX, 2001
>
>To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
>        The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
>        The Members of the United States Senate
>        The Members of the United States House of Representatives
>
>Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:
>
>We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
>environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter
>expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
>"Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
>Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).
>
>"Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
>cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
>environment.
>
>One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
>should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
>laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
>would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of
>the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."
>
>"Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
>reasons:
>
>*       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
>that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;
>
>*       NIF will create radioactive wastes;
>
>*       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a
>Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;
>
>*       NIF offers no commercial use;
>
>*       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
>program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
>arsenal; and,
>
>*       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.
>
>The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for
>your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
>www.greenscissors.org.
>
>Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
>and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
>termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
>Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted.
>
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Marylia Kelley
>Executive Director
>Tri-Valley CAREs
>Livermore, CA
>
>YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
>PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
>SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
>
>end of letter
>
>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.
>
>
>
>-
> To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "[e-mail]"
> with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message.
> For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send
> "help" to the same address.  Do not use quotes in your message.
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:11:42 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Thank you much! Peace, MK

>please add my name
>Joan Russow PhD
>Global Compliance Research Project
>1230 ST Patrick ST
>Victoria, B.C. V8S4Y4
>CANADA
>
>At 04:59 PM 04/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>>Dear colleagues:
>>
>>Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests that
>>the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
>>construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
>>sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
>>applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
>>by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
>>[e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone]
>>or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA
>>94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
>>U.S.
>>
>>The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
>>officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who have
>>already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
>>letter...
>>
>>April XX, 2001
>>
>>To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
>>        The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
>>        The Members of the United States Senate
>>        The Members of the United States House of Representatives
>>
>>Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:
>>
>>We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
>>environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this letter
>>expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
>>"Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
>>Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).
>>
>>"Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
>>cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
>>environment.
>>
>>One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
>>should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
>>laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
>>would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime of
>>the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."
>>
>>"Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
>>reasons:
>>
>>*       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
>>that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;
>>
>>*       NIF will create radioactive wastes;
>>
>>*       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already a
>>Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;
>>
>>*       NIF offers no commercial use;
>>
>>*       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
>>program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
>>arsenal; and,
>>
>>*       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.
>>
>>The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed for
>>your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
>>www.greenscissors.org.
>>
>>Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
>>and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
>>termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
>>Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are wasted.
>>
>>
>>Respectfully,
>>
>>Marylia Kelley
>>Executive Director
>>Tri-Valley CAREs
>>Livermore, CA
>>
>>YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
>>PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
>>SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
>>
>>end of letter
>>
>>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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>> with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message.
>> For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send
>> "help" to the same address.  Do not use quotes in your message.
>>
>>
>
>
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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: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:13:54 -0700
From: "Harry Rogers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Please sign me on
Harry Rogers
Carolina Peace Ressource Center
Columbia SC
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "marylia" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!


> Dear colleagues:
>
> Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests
that
> the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
> construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
> sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
> applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
> by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
> [e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at (925)
443-0177
> or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore,
CA
> 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
> U.S.
>
> The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
> officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who
have
> already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
> letter...
>
> April XX, 2001
>
> To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
>         The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
>         The Members of the United States Senate
>         The Members of the United States House of Representatives
>
> Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:
>
> We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
> environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this
letter
> expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
> "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
> Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).
>
> "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
> cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
> environment.
>
> One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
> should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
> laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
> would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime
of
> the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."
>
> "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
> reasons:
>
> *       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
> that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;
>
> *       NIF will create radioactive wastes;
>
> *       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already
a
> Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;
>
> *       NIF offers no commercial use;
>
> *       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
> program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
> arsenal; and,
>
> *       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.
>
> The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed
for
> your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
> www.greenscissors.org.
>
> Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
> and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
> termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are
wasted.
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> Livermore, CA
>
> YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
> PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
> SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
>
> end of letter
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -
>  To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to
"[e-mail]"
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:07:54 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Hi Harry. Thanks. I look forward to seeing you in DC. Peqce, MK

>Please sign me on
>Harry Rogers
>Carolina Peace Ressource Center
>Columbia SC
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "marylia" <[e-mail]>
>To: <[e-mail]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:59 PM

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

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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------------------------------

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 04:45:29 +0100
From: "Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Thank you for your excellent work! ... Please sign us on:

Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy (Co-coordinators)
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: [phone]R [phone]
email: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.caab.org.uk

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever does."     Margaret Mead

- ----- Original Message -----
From: marylia <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!


> Dear colleagues:
>
> Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests
that
> the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
> construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
> sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
> applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
> by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
> [e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at (925)
443-0177
> or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore,
CA
> 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
> U.S.
>
> The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
> officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who
have
> already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
> letter...
>
> April XX, 2001
>
> To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
>         The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
>         The Members of the United States Senate
>         The Members of the United States House of Representatives
>
> Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:
>
> We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
> environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this
letter
> expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
> "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
> Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).
>
> "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
> cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
> environment.
>
> One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
> should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
> laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
> would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime
of
> the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."
>
> "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
> reasons:
>
> *       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
> that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;
>
> *       NIF will create radioactive wastes;
>
> *       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already
a
> Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;
>
> *       NIF offers no commercial use;
>
> *       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
> program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
> arsenal; and,
>
> *       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.
>
> The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed
for
> your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
> www.greenscissors.org.
>
> Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
> and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
> termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are
wasted.
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> Livermore, CA
>
> YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
> PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
> SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
>
> end of letter
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
> U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
> campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:48:53 +1200
From: "Jim Holdom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Please add my name.

Jim Holdom
23 Ross Crescent
Hamilton
New Zealand
phone: [phone]
Fax:  [phone]
[e-mail]
- ----- Original Message -----
From: marylia <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, 13 April 2001 11:59
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!


> Dear colleagues:
>
> Below is a letter we are asking your organization to sign. It requests
that
> the National Ignition Facility, a new nuclear weapons facility under
> construction at Livermore Lab, be cancelled. Please contact us with your
> sign-on before April 18, 2001. We need your name, your title (if
> applicable), your group's name, and your group's address. You may sign on
> by hitting the reply button or by sending a fresh email to
> [e-mail], by phone at [phone], by fax at (925)
443-0177
> or by "snail mail" to Tri-Valley CAREs 2582 Old First Street, Livermore,
CA
> 94550. We are looking for both national groups and local groups across the
> U.S.
>
> The letter will go to the President, the Department of Energy and elected
> officials. Your help is needed and appreciated. Thank you to those who
have
> already signed-on!!! As always, sorry for cross-postings. Here is the
> letter...
>
> April XX, 2001
>
> To:     The President of the United States, George W. Bush
>         The Secretary of Energy of the United States, Spencer Abraham
>         The Members of the United States Senate
>         The Members of the United States House of Representatives
>
> Dear Mr. President, Mr. Secretary and Members of Congress:
>
> We are a broad-based network of _______# of taxpayer, nuclear "watchdog,"
> environmental and other public interest groups that have signed this
letter
> expressly to support the recommendation made in the recently-released
> "Green Scissors 2001" report to terminate funding for the Department of
> Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF).
>
> "Green Scissors 2001," is a national study outlining 74 programs that, if
> cut, would save taxpayers more than $55 billion and protect our
> environment.
>
> One of the key recommendations of this report is that the NIF mega-laser
> should be cut and its construction terminated. "Relying on existing
> laboratory capabilities rather than wastefully expensive new facilities
> would save taxpayers approximately $10 billion over the 30-year lifetime
of
> the project," states the NIF recommendation in "Green Scissors 2001."
>
> "Green Scissors 2001" finds that NIF should be canceled for the following
> reasons:
>
> *       NIF burns billions of taxpayer dollars on an experimental program
> that continues to be plagued  with cost, schedule and technical problems;
>
> *       NIF will create radioactive wastes;
>
> *       Livermore Laboratory, where NIF is under construction, is already
a
> Superfund site requiring priority clean-up - not more waste;
>
> *       NIF offers no commercial use;
>
> *       NIF is the most expensive element of DOE's "Stockpile Stewardship"
> program and the least relevant to maintenance of the existing
> arsenal; and,
>
> *       NIF undermines U.S. nonproliferation goals.
>
> The recommendation for NIF taken from "Green Scissors 2001" is enclosed
for
> your reference, and the full report is available on the web at
> www.greenscissors.org.
>
> Prudent spending of our tax dollars, care and concern for our environment
> and wise decision-making  for our future all necessitate the immediate
> termination of the NIF project at the Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory. We urge you to cut NIF now, before even more monies are
wasted.
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> Livermore, CA
>
> YOUR NAME, TITLE, ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND LOCATION GO HERE.
> PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN SIGN THE LETTER . THE DEADLINE FOR
> SIGN-ONS IS APRIL 18, 2001. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
>
> end of letter
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983,
Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
> U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
> campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:25:02 -0700
From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NIF sign-on letter! Please sign!

Count us in!  Santa Cruz Abolition 2000, Jan Harwood, chair.  312 Elm St.,
Santa Cruz, CA 95060



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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:02:57 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 62 arrests at Livermore Lab

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BRIEF REPORT ON GOOD FRIDAY ACTION AT LIVERMORE LAB =97 62 ARRESTS

13 April, 2001 =97 Early this morning approximately 150 nonviolent=
 demonstrators
assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory=
 in
California for the 20th annual Good Friday worship service and nonviolent
direct
action.  Following the ecumenical service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella
Goodpaster, the participants processed to one of the Lab=92s auxiliary
entrances,  stopping along the way to observe the =93Stations of the Cross,=
=94
appropriately themed to reflect the current dangers of nuclear weapons.  The
demonstrators were met at the Lab gate by rows of uniformed Alameda County
Sheriff=92s Department officers and University of California police (the
University of California manages the Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear=
 weapons
labs for the Department of Energy).  While the demonstrators quietly sang=
 songs
of peace, several of them conducted a =93die-in=94 at the gate.  After=
 police
warnings to leave the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial count) were
peacefully arrested, many of them kneeling in prayer.  They were briefly=
 taken
into custody a the Lab, issued citations and released.  The Good Friday
demonstration was sponsored by the Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and the
Livermore Conversion Project.=20
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13 April, 2001 =97 Early this morning approximately 150 nonviolent
demonstrators assembled near the main gate of the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California for the 20<sup>th</sup> annual Good
Friday worship service and nonviolent direct action.  Following the
ecumenical service, featuring a sermon by Sr. Stella Goodpaster, the
participants processed to one of the Lab=92s auxiliary entrances,
stopping along the way to observe the =93Stations of the Cross,=94
appropriately themed to reflect the current dangers of nuclear
weapons.  The demonstrators were met at the Lab gate by rows of
uniformed Alameda County Sheriff=92s Department officers and University of
California police (the University of California manages the Livermore and
Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs for the Department of Energy).
While the demonstrators quietly sang songs of peace, several of them
conducted a =93die-in=94 at the gate.  After police warnings to leave
the road, a total of 62 people (unofficial count) were peacefully
arrested, many of them kneeling in prayer.  They were briefly taken
into custody a the Lab, issued citations and released.  The Good
Friday demonstration was sponsored by the Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC
and the Livermore Conversion Project. </font></html>

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