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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:39:19 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NDE's Teach-In to be available on videotape

May 25, 2001

NEVADA DESERT EXPERIENCE=92S TEACH-IN TO BE
AVAILABLE ON VIDEOTAPE

Friends,

The May 22-24, 2001, teach-in held by Nevada Desert Experience at San
Francisco State University on the nuclear cycle and on =93Star Wars,=94 w=
ill
be available on videotape in several weeks.

Featuring well-known experts who spoke on the full range of nuclear
issues as well as on missile defense and =93Star Wars,=94 the teach-in wa=
s
sponsored on campus by the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan
(MEChA) and Students for a Better Environment.

Speakers included Isaac Trotts (scientist who recently resigned from
Livermore Lab), Jackie Cabasso (Executive Director of Western States
Legal Foundation), Patrice Sutton (Western States Legal Foundation and
medical researcher), Dr. Kathryn Smick (Physicians for Social
Responsibility), Marylia Kelley (Executive Director of Tri-Valley
CAREs), Inga Olson (Nuclear Weapons & Waste Program Associate with
Tri-Valley CAREs), Christopher Ney (Disarmament Coordinator of War
Resisters League), June Stark Casey (renowned radiation survivor and Bay
Area Liaison for Peace Links), Andrew Page (California Peace Action),
Fr. Louie Vitale & Fr. Bill O=92Donnell (long-time faith-based activists)=
,
Ernest Goitein (retired engineer and expert on nuclear power plants),
David Brown (maker of, =93Bound By the Wind=94 and other films), Cade
Bursell (internationally award-winning film maker and cancer survivor),
Carah Ong (Coordinator of Abolition 2000 Global Network to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons), Maurice Campbell & Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai (Hunters Point
Shipyard activists), Patricia Axlerod (expert on Uranium 238, also known
as =93depleted uranium=94), Jeanie Shaterian (Mordechai Vanunnu Campaign)=
,
Ward Young (BAN Waste, expert on radioactive waste), Sandra Schwartz
(American Friends Service Committee), Chris Montesano (Board Chair of
Nevada Desert Experience) and Sally Light (Executive Director of Nevada
Desert Experience).  Lynda Williams (Professor of Physics at S.F. State)
performed her =93Cosmic Cabaret=94 theater piece on =93Star Wars.=94

The videotapes are an excellent education & outreach tool, and will be
available in several weeks. Those wanting information about getting
copies of the videotapes can contact Sally Light, Executive Director of
Nevada Desert Experience by email at [e-mail] or by
=91phone at [phone].



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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:01:33 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Pollution & Cleanup at Livermore Lab-invitation

Greetings:
Here is information about an upcoming public meeting on cleanup of toxic
and radioactive pollution at Livermore Lab's site 300 high explosives
testing range. The meeting is sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and TRAQ. If
you are in Northern California -- you are cordially invited to attend. All
others on my email lists -- this is FYI. Read on...

for further information, contact
Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, [phone]
Inga Olson, Program Associate, Tri-Valley CAREs, [phone]
Peter Strauss, Environmental Scientist, [phone]

                                * Media Advisory *

COMMUNITY MEETING TO ADDRESS PROPOSED FUNDING CUTS, OTHER THREATS TO
CLEANUP OF RADIOACTIVE AND TOXIC POLLUTION AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB'S SITE
300 HIGH EXPLOSIVES TESTING RANGE

WHAT:   Public Meeting, "Site 300 - Pollution, Cleanup and the Role of the
Community," jointly sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and Tracy Regional
Alliance for a Quality Environment (TRAQ)

WHEN:   Thursday, May 31, 2001 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

WHERE:  Tracy Community Center, 300 East 10th Street, Tracy

WHO:    * Peter Strauss of PM Strauss and Associates, technical advisor to
Tri-Valley CAREs for over a decade and author of the "Community Guide to
the Site 300 Cleanup," will discuss the on-site and off-site contaminated
groundwater plumes and their potential impact on human health and the
environment.

                * Marylia Kelley, the Executive Director of Tri-Valley
CAREs, will outline solutions, including various types of soil and
groundwater treatment technologies, and will discuss the need for
long-term, stable funding for the Superfund cleanup effort at site 300.

                * Inga Olson, Tri-Valley CAREs' Program Associate will be
joined by Tracy community members to initiate a call to action, and will
outline several effective measures that citizens can employ to help assure
the cleanup of radioactive and toxic pollutants at site 300.

WHY:            Contaminants in soil and groundwater near Tracy could be
left in place and allowed to migrate unchecked because of reductions in the
Department of Energy's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Request for cleanup at the
site. Livermore Lab's environmental restoration budget is slated to be cut
from its current $21.7 million to $11.3 million, a 48% decrease.

Site 300 was designated as a Superfund site, requiring priority cleanup, by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1990. Since 1955, site 300 has
been used by Livermore Lab to test high explosives and components of
nuclear weapons.  Underground plumes of water contain high concentrations
of uranium, tritium (radioactive hydrogen), volatile organic compounds
(including TCE), high explosives and other toxic chemicals.

                                                 -30-


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, 29 May 2001 12:43:29 -0400
From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]> (by way of ASlater <[e-mail]>)
Subject: (abolition-usa) [abolition-caucus] COORDINATOR TRIP REPORT

Friends,

Just back from three weeks away to England, Ireland, and Germany.

The Global Network's (GN) membership conference in Leeds, England was a
great success (see Karl Grossman's recent article that we mailed out for
details).  For the first time we had folks come from places like Alaska,
Egypt, South Korea, Australia, Norway, Sweden, France, and Belgium.  In all
we had over 200 people from 20 countries represented.

As Karl said in his article we expanded the GN Board of Directors (BOD).
We
have added several new people including:  Alla Yaroshinskaya (Russia),
Cheong Wooksik (South Korea), Loring Wirbel (Colorado), Sally Light
(California) and we have asked activists in Australia to suggest a woman to
be added to the BOD.  We expect this to be done very soon.

We also approved Dave Knight, the chairperson of CND in the United Kingdom,
to be the new chair of our advisory board.  We'd like the advisory board to
take a greater role in 2001-2002 in helping us do long-range planning.
With
consultation with our BOD, Dave will be working to expand the advisory
committee in the coming months.


After a few days off in Ireland I went to Germany for a speaking tour that
took me to Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Trier, Munich, Kornwestheim, Darmstadt,
and Frankfurt.  I went by train to each stop and our advisory board member
Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck (Mutlangen) coordinated the tour.

GN board member Regina Hagen and Wolfgang joined me in Berlin where we
spent
2 1/2 days holding a news conference, held public meetings with several
different peace groups, and held sessions with members of parliament (MP)
and their staffs.  We met with two MP's from the ruling SPD party, one of
whom extended an invitation to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to come to
Berlin
to speak to German members of the Bundestag.  I carried home a hand written
invitation and have sent it to Rep. Kucinich.  We also met with 14 leaders
in the PDS party (former East Germans) who have recently been working to
gather anti-Star Wars signatures of parliamentarians from around the world.
They were particularly pleased to develop relationships with the GN.  We
were supposed to meet with two MP's from the Green Party but instead they
sent four of their aides.  The German Greens are being heavily criticized
by
the peace movement for their support of the NATO war on Yugoslavia and for
recent weak statements on Bush's plan for "missile defense."

Several news articles came out of our Berlin news conference as well as
radio coverage.

Hamburg was my biggest meeting, with representatives from many different
groups in attendance.  In Bonn I did a radio interview that was broadcast
nationally and in Trier the local newspaper covered my talk.

Prior to the event  in Munich, local activists took me to a local radio
station for an interview.  Munich was a very important meeting because it
is
very near the U.S. signals intelligence base at Bad Aibling.  We have not
had alot of work done around Bad Aibling in the past and it was my hope
that
we could get folks in Munich to agree to focus more attention on the base.
The people at the meeting enthusiastically agreed to hold an action there
in
conjunction with our October 13 international day of protest.

While in Munich I stayed at the home of the renowned nuclear physicist Hans
Peter Duerr.  We had a wonderful breakfast discussion on the Star Wars
issue
and I feel certain that he will become more involved in the campaign to
keep
space for peace.  He has tremendous influence inside and outside of
Germany.

I am confident that several key German cities (including Berlin) will hold
actions on October 13 as a result of this trip.  There was tremendous
interest in the issue, several people in Berlin followed us from meeting to
meeting.  Both in England and Germany it is clear that people view the Bush
administration as a significant threat to global peace and stability and
will respond with increased activity on the issue.  In both these countries
there is always talk about the "special relationship" their government has
with the U.S. and it was important for an American citizen to be publicly
saying that they do not need to "follow" the U.S. on this issue.

Much thanks to all those who made the events in England and Germany such a
success.

Immediately upon our return Dr. Michio Kaku, one of our GN board members,
had Karl Grossman and me on his radio show (Science for the People) to talk
about our trip to Europe.  Michio regularly keeps the work of the GN before
the public on his national radio program.

I think it important that people understand that the recent return of the
U.S. Senate to Democratic party control will only marginally help us stop
Star Wars.  While it is likely to help slow down any early deployment of
"missile defense", Democratic Senate leader Tom Dsachle (D-SD) said just
this morning on TV that his party still supports "missile defense" but only
wants to be sure that it works properly before deploying.  He said clearly
that research and development (wasting hundreds of billions of dollars)
should continue.  It has always been my opinion that if you give the
Pentagon enough money and enough time that they will come up with some
technology that will work.  So please don't be fooled into thinking that
the
Democrats will save us -- they won't.  We have much work to do.


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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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:49:00 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Russian citizens oppose waste dump

Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:28:36 -0500
Subject: (GDR)  Russians Said to Oppose Waste Bill
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Russians Said to Oppose Waste Bill

.c The Associated Press


MOSCOW (AP) - A leading Russian environmentalist said Saturday that
legislation to allow the import of nuclear waste could face an uphill
battle
if lawmakers listen to their constituents.

Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is to vote June 7 on a
third and final reading of the legislation, which passed by a wide margin
in
its second reading last month.

Alexei Yablokov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a leading
anti-nuclear campaigner, said recent opinion surveys, including a poll by
Greenpeace on Friday, showed that 90 percent of voters are against the
plan.

``I think that it will make the deputies think (twice) about passing this
law,'' Yablokov said.

If it passes the Duma, the bill will face a vote in the upper parliament
house, the Federation Council. Yablokov said the chamber's chairman, Yegor
Stroyev, was opposed the project and had branded it as a plan ``designed
either for madmen or the mafia.''

Russia's new energy minister, Alexander Rumyantsev, has pushed for the
legislation allowing the import of spent nuclear fuel rods from other
nations
since his appointment in March, saying it was essential for Russia to be
able
to export new nuclear fuel.

Russia's Nuclear Power Ministry has also lobbied for the plan. The
ministry
says Russia would earn up to $20 billion by importing 22,000 tons of spent
nuclear fuel over a 10-year period. Nuclear power stations around the
world
have about 200,000 tons of waste in temporary storage

Officials have said spent fuel would be sent by armored train to a
facility
near Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains for reprocessing. The recycling
process extracts useable nuclear material from the spent rods while
reducing
their potential to be used in weapons, the Nuclear Power Ministry has
said.

A 1992 law forbids importing nuclear materials from countries other than
former East Bloc nations with existing contracts. Russia now imports spent
fuel rods from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary for reprocessing, a
system established during Soviet times.

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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:27:41 -0700
From: HOME <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Interesting site: Test images

Interesting site:
Check out
http://www.parascope.com/gallery/galleryitems/hotNukes/index.htm
for commentary, test images and video clips.
- --
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HOME: Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth
760-852-4151
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Breaking the Silence of Nuclear Denial!

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:58:18 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-caucus] ACTION ALERT: Bush at NATO HQ 13/6/01]

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:59:09 +0200
Subject: [abolition-caucus] ACTION ALERT: Bush at NATO HQ 13/6/01
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Dear friends,

On 13 June George W. Bush will visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to meet with all
NATO heads of state/government.
This is a unique opportunity to make your feelings known on NATO nuclear policy, Star Wars, ...
Please spread this message to any individuals and organisations that you know, and come to
Brussels yourself!

Love,


David Heller           Katri Silvonen

For Mother Earth International

*************************************************************************
MANIFESTATION WEDNESDAY JUNE 13TH NATO headquarters BRUSSELS

Dear Friends

Over the past months everybody has been shocked by the disastrous policy
decisions of US President Bush. It is obvious by now he doesn't give a damn
about international agreements, he only follows the dictates from the oil
and weapon industry.

On Wednesday June 13th George Bush is visiting the NATO headquarters at
Brussels, where he will meet the heads of state of the Western alliance.
The development of Star Wars will be the major item on his agenda.

Demonstration
We cannot let this summit pass without making our feelings  known. Under
the common idea 'respect international agreements' a group of Belgian and
international NGO's calls for a non-violent demonstration. At this moment
the group consists of 11..11.11, Attac (against financial speculation),
Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Flemish environmental umbrella organisation), War
Resisters International, Greenpeace, Inter Environment Wallonie (Walloon
environmental group), Oxfam Solidariteit and For Mother Earth.

We plan a short march to NATO headquarters with a clear message to the
Heads of state and for President Bush. All organisations and participants
are invited to make signs concerning the themes of the international
agreements that Bush is violating (e.g. nuclear disarmament, human rights, climate).
We also have a 'Wanted Poster" that reminds people of the
international crimes against Humanity and the Planet that Bush is
committing. This poster can be downloaded from the website
<http://www.geocities.com/bushwanted>;; and adapted to suit your needs.
We expect some counterdemonstrations of the financial world, the oil
industry and the military industrial complex which will see their welcome
party for the President disturbed.

The participants to the action will be invited to sign a "non-violence
engagement declaration", and we expect everyone on the demonstration to
take a non-violent attitude (verbal as well as physical). There will be
legal support for anyone arrested.

The meeting point for the demonstration is 8:30 am at Metro Station
"Bordet" in Brussels. The demonstration will leave for NATO headquaters
at 9am promptly.

We hope to make a maximum use of the internet to make this action
successful. Please spread this acton alert and the 'Wanted' poster as
widely as possible.

Updates can be obtained on our website http://www.geocities.com/bushwanted/
You can e-mail to : [e-mail]

On Tuesday evening, June 12th there will be a protest vigil in front of
the US embassy. More information about this vigil is available on the
website.
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For Mother Earth
Maria Hendrikaplein 5-6
9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
http://www.motherearth.org
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:26:19 -0500
From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear power debate on TV this weekend

Friends and colleagues in the U.S.,

Between now and Wednesday at various times across the country, PBS will=20
broadcast a debate on nuclear power between Arjun Makhijani, president of=20
the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and Eileen Supko,=20
nuclear engineer and senior consultant with Energy Resources=20
International.  More information about the show follows.  The show also has=
=20
a web site: http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/

Lisa Ledwidge, IEER


 >THIS WEEK THINK TANK ASKS...Is Nuclear Power Making a Comeback?
 >
 >(#923 PBS feed 5/31/2001)
 >
 >President George W. Bush=B9s energy plan is reviving nuclear power, an
 >industry long out of public favor.  Once again, the atom is being hailed=
 as
 >a cheap and clean source of energy.  Recent polls show that 50 percent of
 >Americans now support the construction of new nuclear power plants, a=
 figure
 >that includes 59 percent of energy-strapped Californians.  But critics
 >remain skeptical.  Some 40,000 tons of nuclear waste await final disposal,
 >while plans for a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, remain
 >bogged down in a political ground war.  Is the nuclear industry poised to
 >make a comeback?  Or is the issue still too hot to handle?
 >
 >To find out, Think Tank is joined by two experts:
 >
 >Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental
 >Research, and coauthor of The Nuclear Power Deception: U.S. Nuclear
 >Mythology from Electricity "Too Cheap to Meter" to "Inherently Safe"
 >Reactors.
 >
 >And Eileen Supko, nuclear engineer and senior consultant with Energy
 >Resources International, and author of numerous research papers on nuclear
 >power.
 >
 >For more information or to report carriage of Think Tank, contact Greg
 >Erken at [phone] or via email at [e-mail]

"Think Tank" air times for Washington, D.C., and some major markets (visit=
=20
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/where_watch.html to find out about others):
 >New York: Saturday, WNET, 9 AM
 >Los Angeles: Saturday, KCET, 1:30 PM
 >Chicago: Thursday, WYCC, 10:30 PM
 >Washington, DC: Saturday, WETA (Ch. 26), 1:30 PM and Monday, WETA, 1 AM
 >Washington, DC: Sunday, WHUT (Ch. 32), 11 AM and Tuesday, WHUT, 9 AM


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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 20:15:42 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) nuclear power poll

http://www.wb17.com/

Take the poll.  Should We Build More Nuclear Power Plants?

Bill Braxton
From: "Bill Braxton" <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:45:21 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED!

Dear peace and enviro colleagues:

Here is an article I think you will find interesting on the international
campaign to persuade the Japanese-based Hoya corporation to stop making
glass for the National Ignition Facility (and by extension, for the French
Laser Megajoule). Kudos to Gensuiken and to our own Issac Trotts who is "on
the case" in Japan this week. Read on... Peace, Marylia

Ex-lab worker stumps in Japan

Trotts quit over nuclear research

By Glenn Roberts Jr.
STAFF WRITER

LIVERMORE -- A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist, who
renounced nuclear weapons work in favor of anti-nuclear activism, is
touring Japan this week to speak with activists, politicians and business
representatives.

On Issac Trotts' itinerary is a meeting with officials at Hoya Corp., a
Japan-based company with a shop in Fremont that is preparing high-tech
glass slabs for the National Ignition Facility laser project at Livermore
Lab.

In February, Hoya officials announced that shipments of glass for the laser
project were being withheld "for the time being." Public protests in Japan
have questioned why Hoya managers would support the construction of NIF, a
U.S. nuclear weapons research tool.

Though the Japan Times reported in late March that Hoya managers planned to
resume the shipments, officials at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory reportedly
have not received a formal statement from the company about resumption of
the shipments.

Lab spokesman Susan Houghton said Monday that "nothing has changed in
relation to Hoya."

"We value our relationship with Hoya and are allowing them to handle this
issue," Houghton said.

Trotts, 25, who worked as a computer scientist and mathematical programmer
at Livermore Lab from October 2000 to March of this year, has said he
resigned after learning that lab scientists continue to develop new
capabilities for nuclear weapons.

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, a Livermore-based
nuclear watchdog group, and Gensuikin, a Japanese anti-nuclear group,
combined forces to send Trotts to Japan.

In a paper he prepared for his trip, Trotts states that NIF is "an
instrument for continuing U.S. nuclear weapons research and development."

The paper also says, "As such, it would not be socially responsible for a
Japanese business, or any business for that matter, to directly contribute
to the NIF's construction. Hoya Corporation now has an opportunity to show
its social responsibility to the people of Japan by ending its involvement
with the National Ignition Facility."

Houghton said Trotts "was never affiliated with the National Ignition
Facility and his claims are not credible."

Hoya Corp. is contracted to produce about half of the specialized laser
glass needed for NIF and for a similar nuclear weapons research project in
France called the Megajoule.

Both projects are expected to generate nuclear weapons explosions on a
miniature scale by blasting radioactive fuel pellets with high-power
ultra-violet lasers.

Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs, said Trotts went
to Japan "with a stack of documents to present to Hoya -- so that Hoya
(officials) understand the NIF's role in enhancing and maintaining nuclear
weapons."

She said Trotts also is planning to travel to Hiroshima this week to meet
with its mayor and to visit the atomic bomb museum there.

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

c1999-2001 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers

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, 5 Jun 2001 18:37:52 -0700
From: "John E. Linker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED!

Thanks sincerely,



John E. Linker
Sanitary Engineer
California Department of Health Services
Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management
Drinking Water Field Operations Branch
Sonoma District Office
Santa Rosa, CA


(Please see my resume at http://jelinker.homestead.com/jelinker.html)


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "marylia" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: (abolition-usa) Hoya shipments for NIF have NOT RESUMED!


> Dear peace and enviro colleagues:
>
> Here is an article I think you will find interesting on the international
> campaign to persuade the Japanese-based Hoya corporation to stop making
> glass for the National Ignition Facility (and by extension, for the French
> Laser Megajoule). Kudos to Gensuiken and to our own Issac Trotts who is
"on
> the case" in Japan this week. Read on... Peace, Marylia
>
> Ex-lab worker stumps in Japan
>
> Trotts quit over nuclear research
>
> By Glenn Roberts Jr.
> STAFF WRITER
>
> LIVERMORE -- A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist, who
> renounced nuclear weapons work in favor of anti-nuclear activism, is
> touring Japan this week to speak with activists, politicians and business
> representatives.
>
> On Issac Trotts' itinerary is a meeting with officials at Hoya Corp., a
> Japan-based company with a shop in Fremont that is preparing high-tech
> glass slabs for the National Ignition Facility laser project at Livermore
> Lab.
>
> In February, Hoya officials announced that shipments of glass for the
laser
> project were being withheld "for the time being." Public protests in Japan
> have questioned why Hoya managers would support the construction of NIF, a
> U.S. nuclear weapons research tool.
>
> Though the Japan Times reported in late March that Hoya managers planned
to
> resume the shipments, officials at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
reportedly
> have not received a formal statement from the company about resumption of
> the shipments.
>
> Lab spokesman Susan Houghton said Monday that "nothing has changed in
> relation to Hoya."
>
> "We value our relationship with Hoya and are allowing them to handle this
> issue," Houghton said.
>
> Trotts, 25, who worked as a computer scientist and mathematical programmer
> at Livermore Lab from October 2000 to March of this year, has said he
> resigned after learning that lab scientists continue to develop new
> capabilities for nuclear weapons.
>
> Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, a
Livermore-based
> nuclear watchdog group, and Gensuikin, a Japanese anti-nuclear group,
> combined forces to send Trotts to Japan.
>
> In a paper he prepared for his trip, Trotts states that NIF is "an
> instrument for continuing U.S. nuclear weapons research and development."
>
> The paper also says, "As such, it would not be socially responsible for a
> Japanese business, or any business for that matter, to directly contribute
> to the NIF's construction. Hoya Corporation now has an opportunity to show
> its social responsibility to the people of Japan by ending its involvement
> with the National Ignition Facility."
>
> Houghton said Trotts "was never affiliated with the National Ignition
> Facility and his claims are not credible."
>
> Hoya Corp. is contracted to produce about half of the specialized laser
> glass needed for NIF and for a similar nuclear weapons research project in
> France called the Megajoule.
>
> Both projects are expected to generate nuclear weapons explosions on a
> miniature scale by blasting radioactive fuel pellets with high-power
> ultra-violet lasers.
>
> Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley CAREs, said Trotts went
> to Japan "with a stack of documents to present to Hoya -- so that Hoya
> (officials) understand the NIF's role in enhancing and maintaining nuclear
> weapons."
>
> She said Trotts also is planning to travel to Hiroshima this week to meet
> with its mayor and to visit the atomic bomb museum there.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> c1999-2001 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers
>
> 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, 06 Jun 2001 07:18:17 -0400
From: John Burroughs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) June 10 open meeting on disarmament campaign activities

On Sunday June 10, from 5-7 pm, in Washington, following the rally from 2-4
pm at Lafayette Park, the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will host
an open meeting to discuss groups' plans for campaigning against missile
defense and the weaponization of space and for the dealerting, reduction,
and elimination of nuclear forces. The agenda is still being formed, but at
a minimum the intent is to exchange information about upcoming events,
actions, and campaigns, and to explore how to coordinate campaign activities.

The meeting will be held at the Methodist Building, 100 Maryland Ave., NE,
directly across the street from the Supreme Court.  From the rally, take
the red line from Farragut North to Union Station, exit onto Massachusetts,
and head up 1st St. The building will be on your left just before you get
to the Supreme Court.

Contact John Burroughs (separate msg to [e-mail], not by
reply to this msg, or call 212 818 1861) for more information or to provide
input into the meeting agenda.

The meeting is being held in connection with the rally and congressional
education days, June 10-12, organized by the Nuclear Disarmament
Partnership and Project Abolition. For more information regarding June
10-12 activities (not the meeting), see www.projectabolition.org or contact
Kathy Crandall, Nuclear Disarmament Partnership, at [e-mail].

            John Burroughs, Executive Director
            Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
            211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204
            New York, New York 10017 USA
            tel: [phone] fax: [phone]
            e-mail: [e-mail]
            website: www.lcnp.org
            Part of the Abolition 2000 Global
            Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons


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