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From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #448 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Friday, June 8 2001 Volume 01 : Number 448 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:58:19 -0700 From: Jackie Cabasso <wslf@earthlink.net> Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - --=====================_76544557==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net id LAA21037 US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and gathering of the movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons Friday July 13 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the College of Santa Fe Please join us for our 2001 Annual General Meeting at the beautiful Colle= ge of Santa Fe campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to taking care of n= etwork business, we=92ll be sharing our =93best practices=94 and discussing stra= tegies for the future. Immediately following our meeting, on Saturday and Sunday Ju= ly 14 and 15, we hope you=92ll stay for Peace Action New Mexico=92s =93LANL 200= 1 - Action for Abolition Conference.=94 On Monday July 16, the anniversary of the =93= Trinity=94 test, the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will join Peace Action N= ew Mexico for a rally, march and nonviolent protest at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We hope you=92ll be there! Newsflash! The Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLE= AR WEAPONS has endorsed the June 10 - 12, 2001 =93Stop the New Arms Race=94 = White House Rally & Congressional Education Days in Washington, DC. (See www.disarmament.org for more information.) We=92ll be hosting an OPEN MEE= TING SUNDAY, JUNE 10, from 5 - 7 pm, following the White House rally, at the Methodist Building, 100 Maryland Ave. NE, directly across the street from= the Supreme Court. (A short walk from Union Station; Red Line Metro stop.) JULY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico July 13: US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Annual General Meeting July 14th & 15th: Peace Action New Mexico=92s LANL 2001 - Action for Abol= ition Conference July 16: Rally & Protest 11 am - 1 pm; March at 1 pm in Los Alamos; nonvi= olent direct action Low-cost housing and camping will be available in Santa Fe. A very limit= ed number of travel scholarships will be available from the US CAMPAIGN for low-income activists. See below for application and registration form.=20 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and return by e-mail to wslf@earthlink.net or print out and mail to Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin Street, Suite 202, Oakland, CA 94612 I/we plan to attend the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Annual G= eneral Meeting on Friday, July 13, 2001. Please send me/us more information. Name(s):_________________________________________________________________= _____ Organization:____________________________________________________________= ______ Address:_________________________________________________________________= _____ =20 ______________________________________________________________________ Phone(s) ________________________________________________________________= ______ E-mail: _________________________________ Website:______________________________ Enclosed is a voluntary registration fee of $______________ to help wi= th conference costs. =20 Please make check payable to US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. = Your donation is tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. I/we also plan to attend the Peace Action New Mexico Conference and/or = July 16th rally. Please send me/us information about low-cost housing options in Santa F= e. I would need a travel subsidy to be able to attend. Please contact me = if funds are available. HELP US PLAN THE MEETING AGENDA! We want to create an opportunity for groups to inform, inspire and challe= nge each other by sharing=20 their creativity, skills, and =93best practices.=94 Have you been involve= d in a particularly innovative, useful or productive initiative -- at the local, regional, national or internati= onal level -- that you=92d like to share? This is your chance! I/we would l= ike to make a presentation on:_________________________ _________________________________________________________________________= _____ _________________________________________________________________________= _____. Does your organization have a proposal that it would like to present to t= he US CAMPAIGN? Let us know! We have a proposal for the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLI= SH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Please provide a written copy in advance, if at all possible. It really = helps things go more smoothly!=20 *The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the Abol= ition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. The US CAMPAIGN is mad= e up of organizations that endorse the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS MISSION STATEMENT and SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION, the ABOLITION 2000 STATE= MENT and the MOOREA DECLARATION. Individuals are welcome to participate throu= gh working groups. The US CAMPAIGN is managed by a Coordinating Committee m= ade up or organizational representatives chosen at the Annual General Meeting.=20 Western States Legal Foundation serves as the interim clearinghouse for t= he US CAMPAIGN. For more information about the US CAMPAIGN please check out ou= r website: www.wslfweb.org/abolition/uscamp.htm or call (510)839-5877. COORDINATING COMMITTEE: John Burroughs, Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear P= olicy; Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; Anthony Guarisco, Allian= ce of Atomic Veterans; Alan Haber, Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project; Odile Hugonot Hab= er, U.S. Section Womens International League for Peace and Freedom; Inga Olso= n, TriValley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment; Sally Light, Nev= ada Desert Experience; Pamela Meidell, Atomic Mirror and California Green Par= ty; Bal Pinguel, American Friends Service Committee; Ibrahim Ramey, Fellowshi= p of=20 Reconciliation; Frank Dworak, Pax Christi USA; Gilbert Sanchez, Tribal Environmental Watch Network; Susan Shaer, Womens Action for New Direction= s; Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment - --=====================_76544557==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net id LAA21037 <html> <div align=3D"center"> US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and gathering of the movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons Friday July 13 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the College of Santa Fe </div> Please join us for our 2001 Annual General Meeting at the beautiful College of Santa Fe campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to taking care of network business, we=92ll be sharing our =93best practices= =94 and discussing strategies for the future. Immediately following our meeting, on Saturday and Sunday July 14 and 15, we hope you=92ll stay for Peace Action New Mexico=92s =93LANL 2001 - Action for Abolition Conference.=94 On Monday July 16, the anniversary of the =93Trinity= =94 test, the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will join Peace Action New Mexico for a rally, march and nonviolent protest at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We hope you=92ll be there! Newsflash! The Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS has endorsed the June 10 - 12, 2001 =93Stop the New Arms Race=94 White House Rally & Congressional Education Days in Washingto= n, DC. (See <a href=3D"http://www.disarmament.org/" eudora=3D"autourl">www.disarmamen= t.org</a> for more information.) We=92ll be hosting an OPEN MEETING SUNDAY, JUN= E 10, from 5 - 7 pm, following the White House rally, at the Methodist Bu= ilding, 100 Maryland Ave. NE, directly across the street from the Supreme= Court. (A short walk from Union Station; Red Line Metro stop</i= >.) <div align=3D"center"> JULY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico </div> July 13: US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Annual General Meeting<br= > July 14th & 15th: Peace Action New Mexico=92s L= ANL 2001 - Action for Abolition Conference July 16: Rally & Protest 11 am - 1 pm; March at 1 pm in Los Alamos; n= onviolent direct action Low-cost housing and camping will be available in Santa Fe. A very = limited number of travel scholarships will be available from the US CAMPA= IGN for low-income activists. See below for application and regi= stration form. <div align=3D"center"> REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and return by e-mail to wslf@earthlink.net or print out and mail to Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin Street, Suite 202, Oakland, CA 94612 </div> I/we plan to attend the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Ann= ual General Meeting on Friday, July 13, 2001. Please send me/us = more information. Name(s):_________________________________________________________________= _____ Organization:____________________________________________________________= ______ Address:_________________________________________________________________= _____ &= nbsp; _____________________________________________________________= _________ Phone(s) ________________________________________________________________= ______ E-mail: _________________________________ Website:_______________________= _______ Enclosed is a voluntary registration fee of $______________ = to help with conference costs. Please make check payable to US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLE= AR WEAPONS. Your donation is tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law= . I/we also plan to attend the Peace Action New Mexico Conferenc= e and/or July 16th rally. Please send me/us information about low-cost housing options in Sa= nta Fe. I would need a travel subsidy to be able to attend. Pleas= e contact me if funds are available. <div align=3D"center"> HELP US PLAN THE MEETING AGENDA! </div> We want to create an opportunity for groups to inform, inspire and challe= nge each other by sharing their creativity, skills, and =93best practices.=94 Have you been involve= d in a particularly innovative, useful or productive initiative -- at the local, regional, national or internati= onal level -- that you=92d like to share? This is your chance! = ; ; I/we would like to make a presentation on:___________________= ______ _____________________________________________________________________= _________ _________________________________________________________________________= _____. Does your organization have a proposal that it would like to present to t= he US CAMPAIGN? Let us know! We have a proposal for = the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Please provide a written copy in advance, if at all possible. = ; It really helps things go more smoothly! *The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the Abol= ition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. The US CAMP= AIGN is made up of organizations that endorse the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH = NUCLEAR WEAPONS MISSION STATEMENT and SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION, the ABOL= ITION 2000 STATEMENT and the MOOREA DECLARATION. Individuals are we= lcome to participate through working groups. The US CAMPAIGN is man= aged by a Coordinating Committee made up or organizational representative= s chosen at the Annual General Meeting. Western States Legal = Foundation serves as the interim clearinghouse for the US CAMPAIGN. = For more information about the US CAMPAIGN please check out our website:= <a href=3D"http://www.wslfweb.org/abolition/uscamp.htm" eudora=3D"autour= l">www.wslfweb.org/abolition/uscamp.htm</a> or call (510)839-5877.= COORDINATING COMMITTEE: John Burroughs, Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear P= olicy; Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; Anthony Guarisco,= Alliance of Atomic Veterans; Alan Haber, Peace and Environmental Coaliti= on for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project; Odile = Hugonot Haber, U.S. Section Womens International League for Peace and Fre= edom; Inga Olson, TriValley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment= ; Sally Light, Nevada Desert Experience; Pamela Meidell, Atomic Mirror an= d California Green Party; Bal Pinguel, American Friends Service Committee= ; Ibrahim Ramey, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Frank Dworak, Pax Ch= risti USA; Gilbert Sanchez, Tribal Environmental Watch Network; Susan Sha= er, Womens Action for New Directions; Alice Slater, Global Resource Actio= n Center for the Environment</html> - --=====================_76544557==_.ALT-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:09:16 -0400 From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org> Subject: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense CNN.com - June 1, 2001 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's stance on missile defense Friday, saying the United States must be prepared for new kinds of threats in a dangerous new world. Rice said that while it is important for the United States to be involved in efforts to reduce nuclear weapons worldwide, such weaponry is widely accessible to other nations, both friends and enemies. "You can never put this genie back in the bottle," Rice said. "Somebody will always know how to make them. The fact is they are a part of deterrence for a number of countries in the world." Rice discussed missile defense and nuclear weaponry in answer to questions and comments from CNN founder Ted Turner at CNN's World Report conference, an annual meeting of international journalists. She also talked about a wide range of issues in a speech and in questions from journalists. Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions. Rice said the nonproliferation effort has had "some successes, but it has had some leakage and some failure," she said. One problem, she said, is that "ballistic missile technology is proliferating around the world" and is in the hands of states that haven't signed the nonproliferation treaty. "There is no one answer," she said, stressing that the U.S. strategy against weapons of mass destruction must be comprehensive -- on the diplomacy front as well as on testing. Ballistic missiles, she said, are "a particular type of problem." They are the "perfect terror weapon" and give "very little warning." "You might be able to catch that terrorist at the border. You can't catch that ballistic missile right now," she said. Rice said Bush would like to "deploy limited defenses that can handle the small attack." And he supports such protection for every "responsible state." She said the administration is constrained in testing and evaluating missile technology by the current anti-ballistic missile treaty. "The fact of the matter is we have to be realistic. In the time frame in which we're talking, the president has to defend against the reality, not the hope," Rice said. =A9 2001 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. ************************************** - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:13:22 -0500 From: "Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU> Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense it's worth than that. Yesterday, Rumsfeld publicly announced that he = was going forward with the testing of ABM systems and technologies that = will violate the ABM,and explicitly admitted as such. Under international = law, he has legal authority to speak for the United States government on such matters since they fall within his competence. Therefore, the United = States government is currently in anticipatory breach of the ABM Treaty. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954(voice) 217-244-1478(fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>=20 =20 - -----Original Message----- From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:09 PM To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; globenet@yahoogroups.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense CNN.com - June 1, 2001 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's stance on missile defense Friday, saying the United States must be prepared for new kinds of threats in a dangerous new world. Rice said that while it is important for the United States to be involved in efforts to reduce nuclear weapons worldwide, such weaponry is widely accessible to other nations, both friends and enemies. "You can never put this genie back in the bottle," Rice said. "Somebody will always know how to make them. The fact is they are a part of deterrence for a number of countries in the world." Rice discussed missile defense and nuclear weaponry in answer to questions and comments from CNN founder Ted Turner at CNN's World Report conference, an annual meeting of international journalists. She also talked about a wide range of issues in a speech and in questions from journalists. Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions. Rice said the nonproliferation effort has had "some successes, but it has had some leakage and some failure," she said. One problem, she said, is that "ballistic missile technology is proliferating around the world" and is in the hands of states that haven't signed the nonproliferation treaty. "There is no one answer," she said, stressing that the U.S. strategy against weapons of mass destruction must be comprehensive -- on the diplomacy front as well as on testing. Ballistic missiles, she said, are "a particular type of problem." They are the "perfect terror weapon" and give "very little warning." "You might be able to catch that terrorist at the border. You can't catch that ballistic missile right now," she said. Rice said Bush would like to "deploy limited defenses that can handle the small attack." And he supports such protection for every "responsible state." She said the administration is constrained in testing and evaluating missile technology by the current anti-ballistic missile treaty. "The fact of the matter is we have to be realistic. In the time frame in which we're talking, the president has to defend against the reality, not the hope," Rice said. =A9 2001 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. ************************************** - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to = "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:15:36 -0500 From: "Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU> Subject: PS: [globenet] RE: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense those reports are on Reuters and AFP. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954(voice) 217-244-1478(fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>=20 =20 - -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis=20 Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:13 PM To: 'abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com'; globenet@yahoogroups.com Subject: [globenet] RE: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense it's worth than that. Yesterday, Rumsfeld publicly announced that he = was going forward with the testing of ABM systems and technologies that = will violate the ABM,and explicitly admitted as such. Under international = law, he has legal authority to speak for the United States government on such matters since they fall within his competence. Therefore, the United = States government is currently in anticipatory breach of the ABM Treaty. fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954(voice) 217-244-1478(fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu <mailto:fboyle@law.uiuc.edu>=20 =20 - -----Original Message----- From: ASlater [mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:09 PM To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; globenet@yahoogroups.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Rice on missile defense CNN.com - June 1, 2001 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's stance on missile defense Friday, saying the United States must be prepared for new kinds of threats in a dangerous new world. Rice said that while it is important for the United States to be involved in efforts to reduce nuclear weapons worldwide, such weaponry is widely accessible to other nations, both friends and enemies. "You can never put this genie back in the bottle," Rice said. "Somebody will always know how to make them. The fact is they are a part of deterrence for a number of countries in the world." Rice discussed missile defense and nuclear weaponry in answer to questions and comments from CNN founder Ted Turner at CNN's World Report conference, an annual meeting of international journalists. She also talked about a wide range of issues in a speech and in questions from journalists. Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions. Rice said the nonproliferation effort has had "some successes, but it has had some leakage and some failure," she said. One problem, she said, is that "ballistic missile technology is proliferating around the world" and is in the hands of states that haven't signed the nonproliferation treaty. "There is no one answer," she said, stressing that the U.S. strategy against weapons of mass destruction must be comprehensive -- on the diplomacy front as well as on testing. Ballistic missiles, she said, are "a particular type of problem." They are the "perfect terror weapon" and give "very little warning." "You might be able to catch that terrorist at the border. You can't catch that ballistic missile right now," she said. Rice said Bush would like to "deploy limited defenses that can handle the small attack." And he supports such protection for every "responsible state." She said the administration is constrained in testing and evaluating missile technology by the current anti-ballistic missile treaty. "The fact of the matter is we have to be realistic. In the time frame in which we're talking, the president has to defend against the reality, not the hope," Rice said. =A9 2001 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. ************************************** - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to = "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: globenet-unsubscribe@egroups.com =20 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to = http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/=20 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:47:01 -0400 From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) June 10 open meeting on disarmament campaign activities Hi John, For the Agenda on Sunday night, I'd like us to discuss working together on a missile ban and any amendments to the appropriations bill killing funds for missile defense, space weapons, etc. Alice At 05:18 AM 6/6/2001 -0500, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com wrote: >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 johnburroughs@lcnp.org, 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 >kcrandall@disarmament.org. > > John Burroughs, Executive Director > Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy > 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 > New York, New York 10017 USA > tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 > e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org > website: www.lcnp.org > Part of the Abolition 2000 Global > Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > 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. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:16:38 -0400 From: ASlater <aslater@gracelinks.org> Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Fw: Flouride >Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:53:18 -0500 >Subject: Fw: Flouride >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: bananas@lists.speakeasy.org >From: "vcolley@earthlink.net" <vcolley@earthlink.net> > > > Flouride and the Nuclear Industry > http://www.fluoridealert.org/nuclear.htm > > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:04:54 GMT From: <cwolman@mcn.org> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) June 10 open meeting on disarmament Dear John, I agree with Alice. 1) We should ask the Senate to reverse their "sense of the Senate" resolution of 1999 stating that the US is committed to a missile defense program. (I think it passed 98-2). 2) Also, lobby to remove the line item from the budget which supports research and development of missile defense. 3) John Lewallen of our Nuclear Peace Action Group stresses that we should confront Congressional Democrats with the weakness of their position in support of a limited, leaky missile shield, which is worse than useless- provocative and dangerous. Now is the time for the Democrats to identify themselves as the party of arms control, international cooperation, and a peaceful future without an arms race. 4) We should draft a "sense of the US Campaign to Abolish NWs" addressed to President Bush as he prepares for his summit with Putin on June 16th, urging him to reaffirm ABM, work for dealerting and reduction of warheads to 1000 apiece, etc. I look forward to meeting you. Peace, Carol > Hi John, > For the Agenda on Sunday night, I'd like us to discuss working together on a > missile ban and any amendments to the appropriations bill killing funds for > missile defense, space weapons, etc. Alice > > > At 05:18 AM 6/6/2001 -0500, abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com wrote: > >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 johnburroughs@lcnp.org, 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 > >kcrandall@disarmament.org. > > > > John Burroughs, Executive Director > > Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy > > 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 > > New York, New York 10017 USA > > tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 > > e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org > > website: www.lcnp.org > > Part of the Abolition 2000 Global > > Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons > > > > > >- > > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > > 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. > > > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > 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. > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:29:11 -0400 From: John Burroughs <johnburroughs@lcnp.org> Subject: (abolition-usa) nuclear review - letter to Rumsfeld In anticipation of the June 11-12 congressional education days, I am posting= =20 FYI a letter the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy sent to Rumsfeld=20 regarding the review of nuclear posture. The review reportedly will now not= =20 be done until "late fall", so there is still time to attempt to affect the= =20 review, or more plausibly, congressional reception of the review. May 10, 2001 Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Re: Nuclear posture review Dear Secretary Rumsfeld: We write concerning the present review of United States nuclear weapons=20 policy ordered by President Bush, as well as the congressionally mandated=20 nuclear posture review. We also request a meeting with you or persons=20 responsible for these reviews. Indeed, the Lawyers=92 Committee on Nuclear= =20 Policy believes that civil society groups should have a formal role in this= =20 process, which after all deals with issues essential to the future of this= =20 country and the world. The Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy is a non-profit group based in New= =20 York which for twenty years has engaged in research and education concerning= =20 the international law framework for nuclear weapons policy as well as=20 security more generally. Enclosed is an article we authored in the spring 2001 World Policy Journal= =20 which sets out a range of factors that must be considered in reviewing U.S.= =20 nuclear policy. Foremost among them are commitments made by the United=20 States at the 2000 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference,= =20 including: =B7 =93An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to= accomplish the=20 total elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament= =20 to which all States parties are committed under Article VI=94 =B7 =93A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize the risk that the weapons ever be used and to facilitate the process of=20 their total elimination=94 =B7 =93Concrete agreed measures to further reduce the operational= status of=20 nuclear weapons systems=94 =B7 =93Further efforts by the nuclear-weapon States to reduce their= nuclear=20 arsenals unilaterally=94 =B7 =93The early entry into force and full implementation of START II = and the=20 conclusion of START III as soon as possible while preserving and=20 strengthening the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of strategic stability and as= =20 a basis for further reductions of strategic offensive weapons, in accordance= =20 with its provisions=94 =B7 "The further reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons, based on= =20 unilateral initiatives and as an integral part of the nuclear arms reduction= =20 and disarmament process" =B7 =93The necessity of establishing in the Conference on Disarmament= an=20 appropriate subsidiary body with a mandate to deal with nuclear disarmament= =94 For further discussion of these and other commitments, we refer you to the= =20 enclosed article. Here we wish to focus on unilateral reductions and=20 missile defense. Unilateral reductions in US deployed or deployable strategic warheads would= =20 be welcome as a means of overcoming the current disarmament logjam. =20 However, they and parallel Russian reductions should be accompanied by=20 transparency, accounting, and verification measures, which are subsequently= =20 codified by treaty. Nothing less is called for by the principle of=20 irreversibility set forth in the 2000 NPT Review Conference agenda ("The=20 principle of irreversibility to apply to nuclear disarmament, nuclear and=20 other related arms control and reduction measures."), as well as the=20 expectation that reductions would be implemented through the START process. Regarding missile defense, from a narrowly =93strategic=94 point of view, it= =20 defies comprehension how increasing U.S. =93freedom of action=94 with= respect to=20 North Korea, Iraq, etc. by deploying anti-missile systems (assuming they are= =20 ever workable) could outweigh the negative consequences of such deployment.= =20 These include impeding further Russian arms reductions; stimulating or=20 reinforcing a Chinese buildup of its arsenal, with attendant ripple effects= =20 on India and Pakistan and perhaps even Japan; and at a minimum making=20 dealerting much more difficult to implement. >From a broader policy and legal perspective, the above highly foreseeable=20 consequences would cause at least the United States, Russia, and China to be= =20 in a state of apparently permanent breach of their Article VI disarmament=20 obligation under the NPT. This in turn would seriously erode the=20 nonproliferation regime. We also think the withdrawal provision in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty= =20 deserves serious attention. It provides for withdrawal upon six months=20 notice to the other party of =93extraordinary events=94 that the withdrawing= =20 state =93regards as having jeopardizing its supreme national interests=94.= There=20 are no such extraordinary events. For example, especially against the=20 background of the risks faced by the United States during the nuclear age, a= =20 speculative future threat from North Korea comes nowhere close to making the= =20 grade. Should the United States nonetheless invoke this provision, it would= =20 act in a contemptuous manner towards obligations it solemnly assumed, and=20 set a precedent for itself and other states to cite parallel provisions in= =20 other important security treaties, among them the NPT, the Biological=20 Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and (should it enter=20 into force) the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Nobody likes the condition= =20 of mutual vulnerability to annihilation assumed by the ABM Treaty. The way= =20 to get beyond this condition is not to withdraw from the treaty, but rather= =20 to proceed expeditiously with reduction, dealerting, and elimination of=20 nuclear forces. Very truly yours, John Burroughs =20 Executive Director Jim Wurst Program Director cc: Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for International Security and Arms Control Stephen Cambone, nominee, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for= Policy Daniel J. Dell'Orto, Acting General Counsel, Department of Defense =20 Avis T. Bohlen, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Department of State Robert J. Einhorn, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Nonproliferation, Department of State William Taft, Legal Advisor, Secretary of State Stephen J. Hadley, Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Joseph, staff member for nuclear weapons and arms control, National Security Council Senator Charles Schumer Senator Hillary Clinton John Burroughs, Executive Director=20 Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy=20 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204=20 New York, New York 10017 USA=20 tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857=20 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org=20 Part of the Abolition 2000 Global=20 Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons=20 - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" 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. ------------------------------ End of abolition-usa-digest V1 #448 *********************************** - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" in the body of the message. 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