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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:15:26 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [energy-csd] Fwd: [nyclimatechange] Re: Clean Air-Cool Planet Releases Case Studi

>Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:50:54 -0400
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>Hi - More interesting progress on climate change (despite our "rep's" in
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>***Clean Air-Cool Planet Releases Case Studies on GHG Mitigation
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>Clean Air-Cool Planet, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based nonprofit working
>to address climate change, recently published a set of case studies on
>reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Cool Solutions to Global
>Warming, highlights 24 innovative organizations in the Northeast, including
>businesses, municipalities, universities, and nonprofits. Among those
>profiled in the report are state, local, and tribal agencies participating
>in projects or providing funding:
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>The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut
>New Hampshire Governor's Office of Energy and Community Services
>The State of New Jersey
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>New York State Energy Research Development Authority
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>Topics include alternative energy sources, energy efficiency projects,
>improved industrial processes, recycling, demand-side management, and
>comprehensive climate action plans. The full report is available on the
>Clean Air-Cool Planet Web site at http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org.
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:17:54 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: "SC might block borders to plutonium"

>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:43:13 -0400
>Subject: "SC might block borders to plutonium"
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>The State (Columbia, SC)
>August 10 2001
>S.C. might close its borders to plutonium
>By LEE BANDY   Staff Writer
>
>Gov. Jim Hodges ordered his public safety director Thursday to  evaluate
>options for closing the state's borders to plutonium  shipments to the
>Savannah River Site near Aiken.
>"We must be prepared to stand up to Washington," he said in a  memo to
>Boykin Rose, director of the Department of Public Safety.
>"My hope is the federal government will come to its senses and allow  us to
>avoid this step, but we cannot take a chance."
>Hodges asked Rose to consider options for highway roadblocks or  "other
>measures."
>Asked if this might mean stationing Highway Patrol troopers at the  borders
>or calling out the Army National Guard, Hodges replied, in  an interview,
>"Whatever it takes."
>And if it precipitates a national crisis, so be it, he said.
>The U.S. Justice Department declined comment on what legal action,  if any,
>it might take to stop South Carolina from shutting down its  borders to
>trucks or trains that deliver the plutonium.
>S.C. Attorney General Charlie Condon had no immediate comment.
>In 1988 and 1991, Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus used state police to  block
>railroad cars filled with radioactive waste from entering a  federal
>storage site.
>Lawsuits that arose from those actions ultimately led to a settlement
>agreement that set deadlines for shipping nuclear waste out of Idaho.
>During the Clinton administration, South Carolina worked out an
>arrangement with the Department of Energy whereby the state  agreed to
>accept temporary custody of surplus plutonium at SRS in  return for a
>promise to ship the deadly fuel to Nevada for final burial  and to convert
>plutonium to an energy fuel.
>DOE, however, has "reneged" on the deal, Hodges said. What was  to be
>temporary storage now may turn into long-term or even  permanent storage,
>the governor fears.
>He met with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at the National  Governors'
>Association conference in Rhode Island Monday and  asked him to delay
>shipments until the department agrees to a legally  enforceable long-term
>plan for removing the material. The secretary  declined to commit to that,
>Hodges said.
>"My concern is that we're weeks away from seeing plutonium from  across the
>nation shipped to our state with no idea of what they're  going to do with
>it or when they're going to ship it out in a safer form  to another
>location. And that's unacceptable," the governor said.
>Abraham was in the state Thursday touring SRS. He toured the  facility
>south of Aiken to announce a $5 million contribution to an  industrial park
>adjacent to the site and meet with community leaders.
>He described discussions with Hodges as "very frank." Abraham said  a top
>assistant met Thursday with a representative from the  governor's office.
>He said the dialogue "can lead to positive results,  and we're anxious to
>work with the state to achieve that."
>Shipping is to begin sometime this month, mostly from a federal  facility
>in Rocky Flats, Colo., Hodges said.
>Hodges painted a scenario where DOE or the president might say  "no" to the
>Yucca Mountain burial site in Nevada, which has yet to  receive high-level
>nuclear waste.
>"And then we have all the plutonium here and no place to stick it. It
>terrifies me," the governor said.
>In his memo to Rose, the governor said that once the plutonium from  other
>states arrives in South Carolina, "it will no longer be an issue of
>concern for other states. We will be left holding the proverbial bag,"
>In its agreement with the state, DOE promised to build facilities at  SRS
>to immobilize plutonium to make it safe for shipment to its final  burial
>ground, and to convert it to fuel for commercial nuclear energy
>facilities. Both would have created hundreds of job opportunities.  The
>projects now are doubtful. The Bush administration cites  budgetary
>concerns.
>That's not good enough, Hodges said. When it comes to the issue of  health
>and safety of the state's citizens, money shouldn't be an issue.
>"We will not allow the health and safety of our citizens to be  threatened
>by storage of plutonium without a definite timetable for  conversion and
>disposition in another state," he said.
>U.S. Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., a senior member of the House  Armed Services
>Committee, has proposed legislation to bar  shipments of plutonium after
>Feb. 1, 2002, if no agreement has been  reached with the state.
>Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., included language in an energy bill that  says
>DOE must consult with the state on this matter and submit a  report to
>Congress on how it plans to address plutonium disposition  at SRS for the
>long term.
>What worries Hodges is that a lot of plutonium could be shipped  between
>now and when legislation passes.
>"Once they begin the shipments, they won't stop. A lot could be  shipped
>between now and February. And once that process starts,  it's difficult to
>stop," Hodges said.
>Staff Writer Kenneth A. Harris contributed to this report.
>http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/08/10/front/websrs10 .htm
>
>**************************************
>Susan Gordon, Director
>Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
>www.ananuclear.org
>1914 N 34th, Suite #407, Seattle, WA 98103
>ph 206-547-3175  fax [phone]
>ANA is a national alliance of organizations working to address
>issues of nuclear weapons production and waste clean-up.
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:12:09 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Thwartnuke/Original anti-nuke video game on TVC website

Thwartnuke 1.0
An Anti-Nuclear Video Game
designed and developed by Tri-Valley CAREs' Issac Trotts
available, downloadable and playable on our website at www.igc.org/tvc
___________________________________________

In this fanciful game, Einstein defends the Earth against the latest
productions of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.  The action
takes place in space, with the National Ignition Facility hurling
B83 and B61-11 nuclear bombs at the Earth.  As Einstein, you valiantly
protect the planet by throwing an unlimited supply of paper cranes
at the weapons, which turn into sunflowers if touched by cranes.
When you pacify a sufficient number of nukes, peace prevails.
Score bonus points by tagging a nuke advocate (such as George W.
Bush, "Dick" Cheney, LLNL director Bruce Tarter, or New Mexico
Senator "Pete" Domenici) with a paper crane.

The game comes with source code and is in the public domain.
Suggestions, hacks, and ports to non-PC systems are solicited.
___________________________________________
Play it -- and let us know what you think. Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:57:22 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Building links from the peace movement to the anti-globalization movement

Dear Friends,
Below is a very disturbing message from a friend who is working to put
reasonable brakes on the privatization and commodification of the very genetic
material which makes us human.  It seems that our traditional allies in the
peace movement and other liberal-progressives are on the wrong side of this
issue--blindly supporting science--instead of questioning whether we have the
maturity or wisdom to handle what man hath wrought in the laboratory.
Certainly, from the point of view of nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and star
wars, we know that scientists are not always up to the task.  Also--I find it
very interesting that the human genome project started at Los Alamos--from the
boys who brought us the bomb!!  Those of you who read Bill Joy's essay in
Wired
Magazine, "Does the Future Need Us?"  must be aware that it is probably
best to
put a stop to this kind of "science" until we know we will have the
know-how to
handle the results without doing further harm to our species and the
environment.

Hope you will think about these issues and start a dialogue in your
community.
If you'd like a copy of Bill Joy's article, I have extras. (He's Chief of
Science at Sun MicroSystems and invented the Java program.)
>
>From: chris desser <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning
>
>
>You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both
>reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the
>House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162.  An attempt to substitute the
>weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178.
>
>This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning,
>inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology.
>
>But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands.
>
>Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social
>conservatives and religious pro-lifers.  Seeing this, many liberal and
>progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at
>stake, reflexively took the other side.
>
>In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about
>the
>dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human
>beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of
>letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for
>science to operate within social and ethical norms.
>
>And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national
>leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic
>justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the
>arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts:  that there's no way we can
>stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that
>only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere
>with
>scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling
>future of genetic improvement, and more.
>
>If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political
>liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and
>hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the
>conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big,
>because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic
>technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before
>in human history.
>
>We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new
>human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing
>pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can
>have universal appeal.
>
>More soon.
>
>In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston
>University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from
>Species-Altering Procedures", now is the  time.  It will be an important
>occassion for building the movement we need to build. See
>http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm.
>
>Rich
>
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>Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies
>2151 Pacific Avenue
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>415-561-2627
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>From: chris desser <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Analysis of US House of Representatives vote on human cloning
>
>
>You've probably heard the news that the Weldon bill, which bans both
>reproductive cloning and the creation of clonal embryos, was passed by the
>House this afternoon by a vote of 265-162.  An attempt to substitute the
>weaker Greenwood bill was earlier defeated by a vote of 249-178.
>
>This is an important positive event for those oppposed to human cloning,
>inheritable genetic modification and the new techno-eugenic ideology.
>
>But we have a unique and difficult challenge on our hands.
>
>Leadership on the anti-cloning effort in Congress was initiated by social
>conservatives and religious pro-lifers.  Seeing this, many liberal and
>progressives, without understanding the full implications of what is at
>stake, reflexively took the other side.
>
>In today's 3-hour floor debate, the Republicans spoke with passion about
>the
>dangers of eugenics, of treating people like objects, of commodifying human
>beings, of the Nazi obsession with creating perfect humans, of the peril of
>letting private industry control the human genome, and of the need for
>science to operate within social and ethical norms.
>
>And it was the liberal Democrats -- including many prominent national
>leaders on issues concerning the environment, women's rights, economic
>justice, militarism and other progressive concerns -- who adopted the
>arguments of the techno-eugenic enthusiasts:  that there's no way we can
>stop human cloning, that maybe human cloning is not so bad after all, that
>only luddites want to stop science, that government shouldn't interfere
>with
>scientific freedom, that private industry is leading the way to a dazzling
>future of genetic improvement, and more.
>
>If human cloning and designer babies become internalized among political
>liberals and progressives as acceptable, perhaps even forward-thinking and
>hip, and if opposition to cloning and eugenics becomes identified as the
>conservative, reactionary, right-wing stance, we will eventually lose big,
>because success in banning the most dangerous of the new genetic
>technologies is going to require a broad social consensus unlike any before
>in human history.
>
>We need to create a new framework for understanding and assessing the new
>human genetic technologies, one that avoids the existing
>pro-choice/anti-choice and liberal/conservative framings, and really can
>have universal appeal.
>
>More soon.
>
>In the meantime if you haven't yet registered for the Sept. 21-22 Boston
>University conference on "Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity from
>Species-Altering Procedures", now is the  time.  It will be an important
>occassion for building the movement we need to build. See
>http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Chris Desser
>Funders Working Group on Emerging Technologies
>2151 Pacific Avenue
>San Francisco, CA 94115
>415-561-2627
>[e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:26:15 -0700
From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) apologies for full mailbox; please resend if important

Dear friends -- Due to travel complications my e-mail box filled up.
Consequently, messages sent to me between August 11 and August 15 were
bounced back.  Please re-send anything important.  I apologize for the
inconvenience. Thanks. -- Jackie Cabasso

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:08:02 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival

Dear Friends,
Please add your endorsement to this Festival of Creative NonViolence during
the
NATO parliamentary assembly in Ottawa.  There will also be a Teach-in the day
before on October 5th: Global Cops: The Corporate Security State's Assault on
Democracy.  You can sponsor that event as well by emailing Peter Coombs,
[e-mail], and asking him to add you to his list.  The teach-in
will feature speakers who can make the links between NATO and
globalization--the iron fist that supports corporate rule.  Hope you can
endorse both events and that lots of your will come to Ottawa.  Regards, Alice

>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:14:17 -0400
>Subject: no_to_nato Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival
>Priority: non-urgent
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>Updated list: 40 NGOs endorse our festival
>
>As of August 15, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade has received 40
>endorsements from various NGOs for our Festival of Creative NonViolence, to
>be held in Ottawa on October 6.  These endorsements have mostly come in
>over just the past few days.
>
>PLEASE help us to get even more endorsements by circulating the request for
>endorsements to any NGOs that you believe may be interested in supporting
>this effort.  You can get a copy of our "call to endorse" the festival at
><http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/205>
>
>Antiwar.com, USA
>Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children, France
>Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
>Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
>Befriending the Earth network
>Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
>British Columbia Voice of Women
>Canadian Auto Workers
>Centre for Social Justice
>Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
>Father's Day Coalition for Peace
>Gerald and Maas
>Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
>Green Party of Ontario
>Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
>Hamilton Action for Social Change
>Homes not Bombs - Toronto
>Illinois Peace Action, USA
>Island Catholic News
>Jonah House, USA
>Kashmiri-Canadian Council
>Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
>M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
>National Union of Public and General Employees
>Nukewatch, USA
>OPIRG - McMaster
>Peace and Disarmament Working Group/
>  Social Responsibility Cttee., First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
>Peace Alliance Winnipeg
>Project Peacemakers
>Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
>Raging Grannies - Ottawa
>Rainforest Raging Grannies, Vancouver
>Sierra Youth Coalition
>St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
>Toronto Action for Social Change
>VANA - Manitoba
>Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Canada
>Woodstock Raging Grannies
>Zero Tolerance Network
>
>
>Notes:
>* Unless otherwise stated, these NGOs in Canada.
>
>* We will eventually list all endorsing organizations on the Coalition to
>Oppose the Arms Trade website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>  We will include
>contact information and a 30-or-so word description which we are asking
>each organization to provide.
>
>* Further updates to this list of endorsing NGOs will be available in the
>archive of the no_to_nato list serve which you can check by visiting the
>COAT website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat> or <http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/>
>
>
>                          Richard Sanders
>       Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>
>              A national peace network supported by
>           individuals and organizations across Canada
>
>          541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2  Canada
>            Tel.:  [phone]      Fax: [phone]
>     Email: <[e-mail]>   Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
>
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Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]
http://www.gracelinks.org
GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:33:28 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) New NIF billboard to debut Mon/media adv.

for more information, contact:
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, [phone]

media advisory
MONDAY, AUGUST 20, BILLBOARD UNVEILING FOR CAMPAIGN TO URGE LIVERMORE LAB
SCIENTISTS TO QUIT WORK ON THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY AND OTHER NUCLEAR
WEAPONS PROJECTS

WHAT:           Tri-Valley CAREs has purchased space on the only billboard
in the City of Livermore to appeal to scientists and engineers at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), asking them to forswear work
on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser and other nuclear
weapons programs.

WHEN:           11 AM, Monday, August 20, 2001, for an "unveiling" and
press conference.

WHERE:          At the 24-foot billboard, corner of Portola Ave. and
Murrieta Blvd., Livermore (at the Portola Ave. on ramp to I-580).

WHO:            Speakers include

                * Issac Trotts, former LLNL Computer Scientist in the
Stockpile Stewardship program, on the broad-based campaign, of which the
billboard is a key element, urging scientists and engineers to renounce
work on nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Trotts has been
speaking to young scientists in colleges and Universities on the nuclear
weapons applications of NIF and the Stockpile Stewardship program since
leaving his position at LLNL earlier this year.

                * Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, former nuclear chemist in the
LLNL Stockpile Stewardship program, on the responsibility of scientists to
refuse to work on nuclear weapons. Dr. Toupadakis left LLNL's weapons
program last year for reasons of conscience.

                * Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs,
the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog" organization, on why the group purchased
the billboard and what else is planned for 2002 in the group's campaign to
reach LLNL workers.

                * Also present and available for interviews will be
physicist Marion Fulk, LLNL retired, Tri-Valley CAREs' Ann Seitz, who
helped design the billboard, Don King, Martha Priebat and other community
representatives.

WHY:            The new billboard, a lighted, high-quality vinyl creation
in brilliant reds and yellows, will be seen by 24,100 drivers each day,
including many of the Livermore Laboratory staff who live in town or
commute home to other communities in the Tri-Valley or East Bay. The
billboard artistically features part of the target chamber of the National
Ignition Facility and invites the viewer to ponder NIF's relationship to
advancing nuclear weapons science. Concludes the billboard, "Your Mind Is A
Terrible Thing To Waste."

The international Scientists and Engineers Pledge to Renounce Weapons of
Mass Destruction, recently launched by Tri-Valley CAREs and three colleague
organizations, and other relevant materials about NIF, Stockpile
Stewardship and nuclear weapons are available on Tri-Valley CAREs' web
site, which is listed on the billboard (www.igc.org/tvc) along with the
group's phone number.

The new Livermore billboard is similar to one placed by the Los Alamos
Study Group near the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, and is part of a
coordinated campaign.

Tri-Valley CAREs will be creating postcards using the new billboard image,
and will be corresponding in 2002 with all 8,000 Livermore Lab employees.

- --end--

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: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:48:35 -0700
From: Tim Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars Test Rigged!

Dear Abolition Caucus:

Below is a letter I wrote to my local newspapers about the rigging of
the missile defense test.  Please send similar letters to your
newspapers and Congressional representatives expressing your outrage as
a taxpayer and demanding a full investigation.

As a taxpayer, I was outraged to read (August 5 Sacramento Bee Forum
Section) that the target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
for the July 14 missile defense test carried a beacon which guided the
kill vehicle toward it, as did the target missiles for the previous 3
tests (2 of which failed anyway).  I'm outraged that missile defense
tests are being rigged.  I feel that the missile defense proponents are
attempting to trick us taxpayers into supporting a deeply flawed missile
defense system to fatten the pocketbooks of defense contractors.

I believe that the missile defense program should be frozen and that
Congress and the Justice Department should conduct a full scale
investigation of the rigging of missile defense tests.

Please contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510;
202-224-3553; [e-mail]), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; [e-mail]),
and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C.,
20515; 202-225-5716; [e-mail]) to urge them to demand a
full Congressional and Justice Department investigation of the rigging
of missile defense tests and to urge them to vote to freeze the program
until the investigation is finished.

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