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abolition-usa-digest     Friday, October 26 2001     Volume 01 : Number 482




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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:59:19 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: ALERT! HELP STOP PRO-NUKE, PRO ANWR ENERGY BILL!

>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:18:33 -0400
>From: michael mariotte <[e-mail]>
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>Organization: NIRS
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>Subject: ALERT! HELP STOP PRO-NUKE, PRO ANWR ENERGY BILL!
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>
>Energy industry interests in the U.S. Senate, led by former Energy
>Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) are using our current
>national security crisis as an immoral, repugnant means of propping up
>the nuclear and oil industries.
>
>Specifically, Murkowski and a few other Senators reportedly have
>introduced a "stripped-down" energy bill that they intend to attach to
>any legislation moving through the Senate--no matter how important that
>legislation is to our country.
>
>This "stripped-down" bill (we don't yet have a bill number) would
>reauthorize the Price-Anderson nuclear insurance scheme (despite the
>fact that it does not expire until next August, and is only needed to
>allow construction of new reactors), allow oil drilling in the Arctic
>National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), provide some gas pipeline incentives,
>and provide a minimum of funds for renewable energy projects.
>
>This effort is in response to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's
>refusal to bring up energy legislation that includes ANWR to the Senate
>floor, and his directive to Senate Energy Committee chairman Jeff
>Bingaman (D-N.M.) to develop a new bill Daschle can support sufficiently
>to bring to a vote. Murkowski and his colleagues want to bypass Daschle
>and get their own bill voted on, and they don't seem to care what kind
>of harm they do to the nation to get this.
>
>We must respond NOW! However, responding is not as easy in these times
>as it sometimes is.
>
>First, there is no guarantee Bingaman will produce a bill without
>Price-Anderson reauthorization (it was in his initial draft). Thus, we
>cannot simply support a Bingaman alternative.
>
>Second, as you probably know, it is virtually impossible to reach anyone
>on Capitol Hill right now--most Senate and House offices remain closed
>due to anthrax scares. It is simply not possible to effectively call,
>e-mail, or fax anyone in the Senate, and letters absolutely will not be
>delivered for weeks, if then.
>
>Thus, we must be more creative. First, contact your local media. Do they
>know a small band of right-wing, pro-energy industry senators are
>threatening to hold up the works of the entire U.S. Senate during this
>crucial period in our history, simply to help their allies and campaign
>contributors? Is this really the type of divisive, controversial
>legislation the Senate should be considering right now? Or should the
>Senate focus on appropriations bills and keeping the government running
>in its few days before adjournment? Why does reauthorization of
>Price-Anderson, which doesn't expire for many months, and even then is
>only necessary for new reactors, rate such a high priority on these
>senators' agendas?
>
>We urge you to call your local reporters and editorial boards, write
>letters to the editor and op-eds, call in to radio talk shows, contact
>your local TV outlets. The more this story is told, the less likely
>Murkowski et al, will be successful. Please feel free to refer your
>media to NIRS for additional comment/background info if they would like
>it.
>
>Second, please call your Senators' home offices--since you can't call
>them on Capitol Hill, call them at home, and urge them to oppose
>minority efforts to add controversial energy legislation--especially
>Price-Anderson and ANWR--to urgent bills. Tell them to choose a
>SUSTAINABLE energy future. Tell them you have contacted your local media
>to watch their actions. Your Senators' local offices should be listed in
>the blue (government) pages of your phone book; if you cannot find a
>number, call NIRS (202-328-0002).
>
>Third, ask everyone you know and everyone you meet to do steps 1 and 2!
>
>Finally, continue to gather signatures on NIRS' Petition for a
>Sustainable Energy Future. We have collected many thousands of
>signatures in just a few weeks, but we need to get more. If you need
>more copies, you can a) download from NIRS' website, in the Nuclear
>Relapse section (www.nirs.org); b) call NIRS (202-328-0002) and we will
>either fax or mail you copies. We will get these to the Senate before
>any vote occurs.
>
>The actions of these few Senators are as opportunistic and disgusting as
>I have seen in my 17 years at NIRS. But these Senators have some less
>vocal allies. With some major national environmental groups still
>sitting on the sidelines after September 11, it's up to us to stop this
>in its tracks. The nuclear and oil industries are not grieving, they are
>pressing hard for their own interests. We CAN stop them! I really ask
>each of you to help.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Michael Mariotte
>Executive Director
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
>www.nirs.org
>

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:21:57 EDT
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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: ALERT! HELP STOP PRO-NUKE, PRO ANWR ENERGY BILL!

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:27:50 -0400
From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on

Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on the Foreign
Ops. Bill


Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the CTBTO.  The
Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill this evening.

Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and other for the
their work in opposing this amendment.


David Culp, Legislative Representative
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
245 Second Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.  20002-5795
Tel: [phone], ext. 146
Toll free: [phone], ext. 146
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web site: www.fcnl.org

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:40:21 -0700
From: carol wolman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring  (CTBTO) on

Dear David,  With the Senate and House office buildings closed, how do we
lobbY?
      Peace,  Carol

David Culp wrote:

> Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on the Foreign
> Ops. Bill
>
> Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the CTBTO.  The
> Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill this evening.
>
> Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and other for the
> their work in opposing this amendment.
>
> David Culp, Legislative Representative
> Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
> 245 Second Street, N.E.
> Washington, D.C.  20002-5795
> Tel: [phone], ext. 146
> Toll free: [phone], ext. 146
> Fax: [phone]
> E-mail: [e-mail]
> Web site: www.fcnl.org
>
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:06:40 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Culture of Peace Blueprint & World Peace Walk, Bethlehem to Jerusalem Peace Walk, Hiroshima Flame Walk 2002, Global Peace Walk 2002

"A Blueprint for The Third Millennium Culture of Peace"

- --- A Spiritual Pilgrimage for Global Peace Now ---

by David Crockett Williams (III), Citizen, United States of America,
an American Peace Movement member, Tehachapi, California USA
October 24, 2001, (3M-62), 62days before The 2000th Christmas
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement


A Message Offered -- To The Public, and to the United Nations and
the United States Governments, in respect of the October 27th to
November 17, 2001, World Peace Walk from New York City to
Washington DC inspired by the September 11th tragedies to
carry and offer The Message of Peace walking from the
World Trade Center to the Pentagon carrying a peace flame
inspired by smoldering ruins.


Today, October 24, 2001, is the 56th "United Nations Day" -- the
anniversary of the ratification in New York City of the United Nations
Organization Charter whose initial draft was signed June 26, 1945, in
San Francisco -- for the elimination of the scourge of war beginning
with the renunciation of weapons of mass destruction and other crimes
against humanity.

One year ago, my UN 55th Anniversary Culture of Peace Message to
the United Nations was hand-delivered on its arrival cosigned by all of
the Global Peace Walk 2000 PeaceWalkers who had crossed the
United States walking from San Francisco last year, January 15th to
October 24th, to United Nations headquarters in New York City.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-walk/message/522 , /523

That message was offered to the United Nations and to The Public upon
arrival of the Global Peace Walk 2000 to the United Nations one year ago
today as part of a compilation of such letters of acknowledgement and
support, including many official letters, messages, and proclamations in
support of "Global Peace Now!" from many city mayors including San
Francisco's Willie Brown and Oakland's Jerry Brown, national political
leaders including President Clinton, religious leaders including Rev. Jesse
Jackson, indigenous leaders including Leonard Peltier, and many activists
and organizations in support of "Global Peace Now!" as the universal human
resolve needed to effectively initiate the United Nations' Decade for
Creating a Culture of Peace in the 21st Century (2000-2009) over these
remaining years of the UN Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples
(1995-2004).

That compilation, which we took such time and effort to research,
to compose footnoted and referenced, compile with endorsement
letters, to carry, and to deliver to the United Nations and to the
United States Governments last October, has clearly been ignored
along with the messages of our predecessors such as Hopi
Interpreter Thomas Banyacya, Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual teacher
("Guruji") the late most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, The 1978
Longest Walk of the American Indian Movement whose message
was that "Spirituality is The Highest Form of Politics," et. al.

Therefore the precendents that we presented then a year ago for a
21st Century Culture of Peace, as valuable historical examples of
the creation of cultures of peace in the past by the simple acceptance
and implementation of the message of the great law of peace, i.e.,
the Iroquois Confederacy and the reign of ancient India's King Ashoka,
have apparently also been ignored, rejected, and dismissed.

As a result of this ignorant dismissal and the prediction/prophecy
fulfillment factors discussed in similar warnings to the United Nations in
1992 and 1993 by the global indigenous elders, we are seeing more
and more wars of increasingly belligerent confrontations, increasingly
lethal levels of environmental degradation, increasing human rights
abuses, and even increasing levels of natural disasters as human
history still continues on the pathway towards total destruction and
potential human extinction by nuclear holocaust.

Now my prayers go out with this message for the success of this
World Peace Walk to share with the various religious, economic,
and political doctrines practitioners in ceremonies and councils in the
coming weeks to seek, find, foster, and develop the common unity of
mind, decision of purpose, and human resolve to correct whatever
misunderstandings are at the root of this "9-11 Emergency."

Therefore, this message is specifically offered for distribution by
individual decision of The PeaceWalkers of the:

World Peace Walk http://www.worldpeacewalk.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/world-peace-walk

Bethlehem to Jerusalem Peace Walk & Council, December 25, 2001
To Unite the Adherents of The Three Faiths of Jerusalem in Peace
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-walk

Hiroshima Flame Walk 2002, Seattle to the United Nations,
January 15, 2002, 'til March 2002, to Stop Star Wars & All Wars, by
Giving Rise to The Genuine Law to Bring Tranquility to The Nations
http://www.dharmawalk.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/star-wars-dharma-walk

Global Peace Walk 2002; Santa Fe to Taos, New Mexico,
for the development of local Global Peace Zones, April 8-22, 2002.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-walk


This is an update and reference to the many hundreds of pages
detailing and documenting the information in this "blueprint" report,
many posted at websites referenced herein.

My personal view, as the 56-year old qualified author of a "theory"
on the chemical physics of consciousness, is that humankind will
imminently embrace the most significant advancement in human
thinking since the recognition that the world, This Globe Our Beloved
Earth, is round not flat and orbits the sun not vice versa.

This paradigm-shifting advancement in human thinking, this
New Millennium Scientific-Spiritual Conscience Revolution of Thought
into Harmony with the Natural Order, will be brought about as the
global public and leadership become aware of, become interested in,
investigate, understand, and accept the very (innate) existence of
the one law by which nature, God, and the human mind all invariably
operate in our world -- The Law depicted, for example, in the Torah of
Judaism as The Law by which even God operates and cannot
contradict in the world, The Law whose true adherents comprise the
real nation of Israel on this Earth; The Law depicted by the Lotus Sutra
of Buddhism whose respect brings tranquility to the people and to the
nations; The Law depicted in various ways by many other religious,
spiritual, indigenous, and cultural teachings, scriptures, and traditions;
and also The Law depicted by today's leading science of
consciousness theories which portend not only the reconciliation
of seemingly conflicting religious (and economic and political)
doctrines in light of recent advances in the quantification and analysis
of the physical nature of mind and consciousness, but also which
form an acceptable basis for explanation and engineering of the
still-suppressed so-called "new-energy" technologies, to replace
nuclear and fossil fuel power technologies, as presented to the
United Nations by former NASA astrophysicist Richard Hoagland
in February 1992, by others to some extent to every US president
and Congress since Jimmy Carter, formally to the US Department
of Energy at its invitation in 1998 and 2000, and as currently being
presented to California's Governor Gray Davis whose Energy Czar
is slated to meet with our representative in a few weeks after
reviewing the new-energy-solutions information we personally
submitted in Sacramento, California, on July 30, 2001, to the
Governor's Office and to the California Energy Commission.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-energy-solutions
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun


In his 1992 presentation at the United Nations, Richard Hoagland
explained about the newly discovered mathematical ratio encoded
in many ancient apparently man-made monuments all over the Earth,
a mathematical concept related to the form-shape of a "tetrahedron
inscribed inside of a sphere" and a concept he explained that his
team of researchers were convinced represents some "forgotten"
advanced human knowledge about how third dimensional spacial
properties of our physical reality interact with fourth and higher spacial
dimensional properties of physical reality (i.e., "hyperspace" physics).

By some "coincidence," "Providence," or "synchronicity," this same
form-shape of the "tetrahedron inside of a sphere" is part of the
geometry of the "Tetron" function's symbol, as discussed in my recent
lecture about this 1974-77 discovery of "the human mind's
consciousness orientation function of light" at the Global Crisis
Solutions Conference, September 10, 2001, at California State
University at Northridge.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun

This same human mind self-referential form-shape geometry
(the tetrahedron is the simplest three dimensional shape and is
the basic chemical bonding shape of Carbon, i.e., therefore the
basic and  fundamental shape of Carbon Life Forms) is also
the basis of the geometries in my "Earthship Time-Star Construction
System Human Hive Experiment" offered as an intercultural
"homing device" and as an aid to reconciling conflicting factions
of Earth's Family of Humankind.  This device and that of the
Rainbow Peace Braids are the first two of several recommended
here to expand the UN's promotion of "Creating a Culture of Peace
for the 21st Century" into the actual implementation of a
Third Millennium Culture of Peace with a Vision of Paradise on Earth.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

We have not only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but also a
once-upon-a-millennium opportunity in the coming few weeks, the
next 62 days, before the traditionally recognized/observed 2000th
anniversary of the birth of Jesus called Christ by Christians, called
a Prophet of God by Moslems, and called a Jew by others.  This
"technical beginning" of The Third Millennium, this soon coming
December 25, 2001, "2000th Christmas," offers a chance to
re-evaluate the usefulness of our present arbitrary Gregorian
calendar http://www.thirteenmoon.org and a chance for people of
all faiths to offer their "2000th Christmas Gift" of the universal resolve
by all of humanity to pray in their own ways for "Global Peace Now!"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/third-millennium-project

This is why I pray to be able to walk and beat the drum and chant for
peace from Bethlehem to Jerusalem this Christmas and to gather
by then in Jerusalem the messages of peace to change the course
of human history off of the path towards total destruction and onto
the path towards true peace and harmony among all life with free
natural abundance as paradise on Earth by giving rise to awareness
and respect of the Genuine Law;  Torahkum -- "The Law Stands Up."
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/history.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-walk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-council


David Crockett Williams
Global Emergency Alert Response, since November 23, 1998
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

Proponent of a Kingdom of Jerusalem Israel
To Unite the Three Faiths of Jerusalem in Peace
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kingdom-of-jerusalem-israel


Additional references:

Culture of the Sacred Pipe of Peace, annual World Peace Day
http://www.worldpeaceday.com

The Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii
http://www.indiano.org/pagoda
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sun-reach

Hopi Interpreter Thomas Banyacya, Hopi Declaration of Peace
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/banyacya

The world teacher, Sri Sathya Sai
http://www.sathyasai.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sathya-sai
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/india96.html

Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams









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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:12:49 -0400
From: David Culp <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitori ng  (CTBTO) on

Most are open today. The rest next week.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: carol wolman [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:40 pm
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing
> monitoring (CTBTO) on
>
>
> Dear David,  With the Senate and House office buildings
> closed, how do we
> lobbY?
>       Peace,  Carol
>
> David Culp wrote:
>
> > Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO)
> on the Foreign
> > Ops. Bill
> >
> > Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the
> CTBTO.  The
> > Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill
> this evening.
> >
> > Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and
> other for the
> > their work in opposing this amendment.
> >
> > David Culp, Legislative Representative
> > Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
> > 245 Second Street, N.E.
> > Washington, D.C.  20002-5795
> > Tel: [phone], ext. 146
> > Toll free: [phone], ext. 146
> > Fax: [phone]
> > E-mail: [e-mail]
> > Web site: www.fcnl.org
> >
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:42:44 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [globenet] Fw: Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mailto:[e-mail]>Pacifica Campaign
> To: <mailto:[e-mail]>Global Network Against Weapons &
Nuclear
> Power in Space
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:02 PM
> Subject: Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI
>
> October 24, 2001
> Pacifica Campaign Action Alert
>
> Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI
> Compares Pacifica Reform Movement To Sept. 11 Terrorists
>
> Pacifica Campaign Urges Ken Ford's Immediate Resignation
> Phone, Fax, E-mail Protests Set
>
> NEW YORK, (Oct. 24) -- Pacifica Radio National Board Vice-Chair Ken Ford
> called yesterday for the 52-year-old network to sell its flagship station in
> Berkeley as well as its largest station, WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. At
> the same time, Ken Ford denounced opponents of the sale as "zealots" and
> likened them to the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks that
> killed some 6,000 people.
>
> Ken Ford estimates the sale of KPFA and WBAI could fetch anywhere from
> $300-$500 million, the San Francisco Examiner reported Tuesday, October 23.
>
> "KPFA in Berkeley and WBAI in New York are in the broadcast band reserved
for
> commercial stations," Ford was quoted as saying. "I've been told
> non-commercial licenses sell for $30 to $40 million and commercial licenses
> sell for $150 to $250 million each. Think of what we could do with the
> difference! Let's parley these commercial licenses into more stations around
> the country. To me that's just common sense."
>
> Ford also told The Examiner that community radio activists nationwide, who
> have criticized the fiscal mismanagement, censorship, and union-busting at
> the five-station Pacifica Radio network, were akin to the Sept. 11
> terrorists.
>
> "They're zealots," he said. "I see parallels between this group and
Al-Qaeda,
> the terrorists who bombed New York. They have an innate anger towards
society
> as a whole."
>
> Given the current national and international climate, many civil
libertarians
> are concerned that such reckless "terrorist-baiting" could make peace and
> social justice activists subject to police surveillance and investigation or
> even worse.
>
> The Pacifica Campaign, a nationwide organization of listeners and staff
alike
> fighting to preserve Pacifica's mission of community-based radio,
immediately
> criticized Ford's call for the sale of stations and his slander of the
> Pacifica reform movement.
>
> "This is further evidence that the present Pacifica leadership is aiming to
> sell community assets and, we believe, to pocket some of the proceeds
> themselves," said Bok-Keem Nyerere, a staffer with the Pacifica Campaign.
> "Just this past August, Pacifica Board member Bert Lee confirmed to us that
> financial rewards have been offered to Board members if they back a sale."
>
> Pacifica's leadership has been attempting to amend the network's bylaws in
> order to permit a sale of stations without a board majority vote and for
> board members to financially benefit from such a sale.
>
> Rep. Major Owens (D-NY) went on to the floor of the House of Representatives
> earlier this year to warn about a sale of Pacifica station WBAI in New York.
> "My knowledge of the reputation of certain recent appointments to the board
> of the Pacifica Network ... leads me to conclude that there is a clear and
> immediate danger that attempts will be made to sell WBAI to a commercial
> owner. Such a sale would mean the loss of a vital voice for working families
> in New York City."
>
> For the full story:
> http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.pacifica.1023w
>
> See also Counterpunch's analysis and the full text of the notorious 1999
> Micheal Palmer email to Mary Frances Berry that discusses plans to sell
> either KPFA or WBAI: http://www.freestone.com/kpfa/kpfa_email.html
>
>
> PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION
> CALL, FAX, AND E-MAIL
>
> * Demand No Sale of KPFA and WBAI
> * Demand Ken Ford's Immediate Resignation from the Pacifica Board
> * Demand an Apology by Ken Ford for his Reckless Slander of the Pacifica
> Reform Movement
>
> 1) CALL AND/OR FAX THE FOLLOWING
>
> Ken Ford
> National Association of Home Builders
> Pacifica Foundation Board Vice Chair
> Tel: [phone] x8228
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
> Jerry Howard, Ken Ford's Boss
> NAHB Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
> Tel: [phone] x8257 or x8308
> Fax: [phone]
>
> Robert Farrell
> Pacifica Foundation Board Chair
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
> John Murdock
> Secretary, Pacifica Foundation
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
> Wendell L. Johns
> Treasurer, Pacifica Foundation
> Fannie Mae
> Washington, DC
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
> Valrie Chambers
> Board Member
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
> Bert Lee
> Board Member
> Tel: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
>
>
> 2) EMAIL
>
> Cut the below list of email addresses, paste it into the To: line of your
> email composition form, and then cut and paste the text of the letter or
> compose your own, and send it. Also go to:
> http://www.progressiveportal.org/letters/pacifica/ford/
>
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
> [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>
>
> Sample Text
>
> Dear Pacifica Board member,
>
> Pacifica Board Vice-Chair Ken Ford's reckless call in the San Francisco
> Examiner for the sale of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI for $300-$500
> million represents an abrogation of his responsibility as a steward of the
> Pacifica Radio network. He should resign immediately.
>
> Further, we are appalled that Ken Ford has compared critics of Pacifica
> management to those who've carried out the Sept. 11 attacks that killed
6,000
> people.
>
> "They're zealots," he said of the nationwide group of free speech and
> community radio activists who have criticized the mismanagement, chaos,
> censorship, and union-busting at the five-station Pacifica Radio network. "I
> see parallels between this group and al Qaeda, the terrorists who bombed New
> York. They have an innate anger towards society as a whole."
>
> Ken Ford is being insensitive not only to those who have lost their lives
and
> their family members in the Sept. 11 attacks. But he is insulting the
tens of
> thousands of Pacifica listeners, staffers, national board members, and wide
> sectors of the community radio movement nationwide who have been peacefully
> exercising their First Amendment rights in urging accountability and
> democratic reform at the country's oldest listener-sponsored radio network.
>
> Ken Ford has repeatedly sought to slander our movement as violent, as
> terrorists and extortionists. Not one shred of evidence has ever been
offered
> to substantiate these allegations. He has also threatened members of the
> public with prosecution by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and
> says he reported some to the FBI for the crime of sending him a critical
> email. Clearly, he has no appreciation for the First Amendment or civil
> liberties. His term on the Board has expired. He should resign immediately.
>
>
>
> **********************************************
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> address: The Pacifica Campaign, 51 MacDougal St., #80, New York, NY 10012.
> Thank-you.
>
> Or donate on-line at http://www.pacificacampaign.org/donate.asp
>
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:38:30 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [globenet] PLEASE THANK THE CITY OF BERKELEY!

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>BERKELEY TAKES BRAVE STANCE ON AFGHAN BOMBING
>
>Death threats and a nationwide boycott have ensued
>after the Berkeley City Council on Oct. 16 called for
>"bringing the bombing [of Afghanistan] to a conclusion
>as soon as possible."  The council also
>condemned the mass murders of Sept. 11, 2001, but
>that of course has been overlooked in the media. The
>complete text of the resolution may
>be found at:
>
>http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/2001citycouncil/summary/101601S.html
>(scroll down to Item #31, or search for
> "Afghanistan")
>
>The flames have been fanned by Bill O'Reilly's
>right-wing Fox News show. See:
>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24984
>
>BERKELEY NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS COURAGEOUS
>STAND. Please send a letter expressing your thanks.
>Ideally, you will go out of your way
>to purchase from Berkeley businesses now (to
>counteract the boycott), and say so in your letter.
>Please send to the following (if the
>below are not clickable links, remove "mailto:" from
>the beginning of each):
>
>City Council members:
>mailto:[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail]
.us,[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail].
us,[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail]
ley.ca.us
>
>Chamber of Commerce:
>mailto:[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail],be
[e-mail]
>
>Bill O'Reilly:
>mailto:[e-mail]
>
>
>
>
>=====
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be appealed to whenever it was necessary for them to work longer hours or
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discontent led nowhere, because, being led without general ideas, they could
only focus it on specific petty grievances.  The larger evils invariably
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:14:01 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: RRR Action of the Month: Stop Subsidizing Nuclear IndustryInsurance Costs!

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>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:48:09 -0400
>From: "Lisa Gue" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RRR Action of the Month: Stop Subsidizing Nuclear Industry
>        Insurance Costs!
>To: [e-mail]
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>* * * apologies for cross-posting * * *
>
>RADIOACTIVE ROADS AND RAILS ACTION OF THE MONTH - October 2001
>
>Tell Congress to Stop Subsidizing Insurance Costs for the Nuclear Industry!
>
>BACKGROUND
>
>The Price-Anderson Act was enacted in 1957 as a temporary measure to support
the fledgling nuclear industry.  The Act establishes a taxpayer backed
insurance regime for nuclear power plants.  Under Price-Anderson, commercial
nuclear operators are required to carry only $200 million in primary
insurance.  A second level of retrospective premiums in the event of an
accident is capped at approximately $88 million per reactor.  By artificially
limiting the liability of nuclear operators, the Price-Anderson Act serves
as a
subsidy to the nuclear industry in terms of foregone insurance premiums, which
encourages the construction of new nuclear plants. . . and the generation of
more nuclear waste.
>
>The Price-Anderson Act will expire in August 2002 unless Congress
reauthorizes
it.  On October 11, 2001, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began to
mark-up a reauthorization bill, H.R. 2983.  The mark-up is expected to resume
soon and the issue will later be considered by the whole House. In the Senate,
reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act may be included in the Energy Bill
that will likely be debated later this fall or early in the new year.
>
>See the below for "7 Good Reasons to Oppose Price-Anderson Reauthorization."
Public Citizen's Price-Anderson factsheet, is online at:
>www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/nuclear_re
vival/articles.cfm?ID=4912
>
>
>TAKE ACTION!
>
>Call and write to your Senators and Representative and urge them to oppose
Price-Anderson reauthorization.  Ask your Representative to vote against H.R.
2983.  Ask your Senators to keep Price-Anderson reauthorization out of the
Energy Bill.
>
>CALL: Capitol Switchboard [phone]
>
>WRITE:
>Your Representative
>U.S. House of Representative
>Washington, DC  20510
>
>Your Senators
>U.S. Senate
>Washington, DC  20515
>
>SIGN an online petition opposing Price-Anderson reauthorization at:
>www.petitiononline.com/repealpa/petition.html
>
>
>7 GOOD REASONS TO OPPOSE PRICE-ANDERSON REAUTHORIZATION
>
>(1) The Price-Anderson Act does not address the issue of increasing security
and improving the safety of nuclear facilities.  In light of the recent
terrorist attacks, there should be a thorough and independent assessment of
security needs at U.S. nuclear power facilities before Price-Anderson is even
considered for reauthorization.
>
>(2) The Price-Anderson Act indemnifies Department of Energy contractors
involved in nuclear incidents even in cases of gross negligence and willful
misconduct.  (This blanket coverage would extend to contractors hired to
transport nuclear waste to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain.)  This
serves as a disincentive to safety and accountability, and potentially
endangers workers and the public.  No other government agency provides this
level of taxpayer indemnification to non-government personnel.
>
>(3) The Price-Anderson Act serves as a subsidy to the nuclear power industry
in terms of foregone primary insurance payments and limited liability in case
of an accident.  This distorts economic viability assessments in the energy
sector and gives nuclear power an uncompetitive advantage over cleaner, safer
energy options.
>
>(4) The insurance coverage required under the Price-Anderson Act understates
the calculated risk of nuclear power plants.
>
>(5) The Price-Anderson Act treats all nuclear operators uniformly and does
not
differentiate or discourage high-risk activities, such relicensing old plants
and transporting nuclear waste.
>
>(6) Reauthorizing the Price-Anderson Act would facilitate the construction of
new nuclear power plants, which would generate more nuclear waste.
>
>(7) The Price-Anderson Act was originally enacted in 1957 as a temporary
measure to assist the nascent nuclear power industry.  50 years later, it's
time to end this misdirected economic stimulus program.
>
>
>
>Lisa Gue
>Policy Analyst
>Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program
>215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
>Washington, DC  20003
>ph: [phone]; fax: [phone]
>www.citizen.org/cmep
>

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