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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:32:55 -0800
From: Tim Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) U.S. A Terrorist Nation?

Dear Abolition Caucus:

Below is a draft of a letter to the editor about the U.S. being a
terrorist nation.  How can I improve it?

On November 26, President Bush widened his definition of terrorism to
include the development of weapons of mass destruction that will
"terrorize nations", and demanded that Iraq allow UN weapons inspectors
back in to look for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.  For over
56 years, it's been America's policy to threaten to use nuclear weapons
(and has not ruled them out in the current Afghanistan crisis), and
still has thousands of nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert.  By
Bush's definition, this makes us (and Russia, China, Britain, and
France) a terrorist nation!  To become a non terrorist nation, we should
take our nuclear weapons off hair trigger alert, stop developing nuclear
weapons, negotiate a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons, and allow
international inspectors to inspect our nuclear, chemical, and
biological weapons.

Please contact President Bush (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500;
[phone]; [e-mail]), to urge him to take the above
actions to end the nuclear terror.

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:08:07 -0800
From: carol wolman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) U.S. A Terrorist Nation?

Dear Tim,  It's an excellent letter.  You might add that US citizens are just
as much hostages of US nuclear weapons as everyone else on the planet, since we
live in a balance of terror.  I hate to be paranoid, but is it possible that
the administration likes its population to be terrorized, to make us more
docile?     Peace,  Carol

Tim Bruening wrote:

> Dear Abolition Caucus:
>
> Below is a draft of a letter to the editor about the U.S. being a
> terrorist nation.  How can I improve it?
>
> On November 26, President Bush widened his definition of terrorism to
> include the development of weapons of mass destruction that will
> "terrorize nations", and demanded that Iraq allow UN weapons inspectors
> back in to look for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.  For over
> 56 years, it's been America's policy to threaten to use nuclear weapons
> (and has not ruled them out in the current Afghanistan crisis), and
> still has thousands of nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert.  By
> Bush's definition, this makes us (and Russia, China, Britain, and
> France) a terrorist nation!  To become a non terrorist nation, we should
> take our nuclear weapons off hair trigger alert, stop developing nuclear
> weapons, negotiate a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons, and allow
> international inspectors to inspect our nuclear, chemical, and
> biological weapons.
>
> Please contact President Bush (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500;
> [phone]; [e-mail]), to urge him to take the above
> actions to end the nuclear terror.
>
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:29:50 -0600
From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) IEER Releases Alternative to Bush Energy Plan

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For further information, contact:
Arjun Makhijani: [phone]
Bob Schaeffer: [phone]
Mark Helm, Friends of the Earth, 202-783-7400, x 102
for use after 10:00am Wednesday, November 28, 2001 National Press Club News=
=20
Conference

PRESS RELEASE

BUSH ENERGY PLAN WILL WORSEN U.S. OIL, NUCLEAR, ELECTRICITY VULNERABILITIES

Comprehensive Alternative Calls for 100-MPG Cars by 2020;
Nuclear Power Phase Out, Advanced Electricity Grid System;

Report Concludes Administration Proposals for New Nuclear Reactors,=20
Plutonium Fuel Increase Risk

Washington, D.C., November 28, 2001: The Bush Administration=92s energy=
 plan,=20
conceived before the September 11 terrorist attack, will aggravate U.S.=20
energy vulnerabilities, according to a new report released today by the=20
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).=20
<http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html>Securing the Energy Future=
=20
of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a=20
post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action, presents a comprehensive=20
alternative approach that its author says will accomplish the same economic=
=20
goals, but with far fewer serious risks.

=93It is stunning that the Bush administration did not review its energy=
 plan=20
in light of the gaping vulnerabilities revealed by the September 11=20
attacks,=94 said IEER President Dr. Arjun Makhijani and author of the=
 report.=20
=93If the United States sticks to the course the Bush plan endorses, oil=20
imports will double over the next forty years. That is an invitation to=20
major problems, given the tensions and instabilities in the Middle East.=94=
=20
Based in Takoma Park, Maryland, IEER has published many studies on nuclear=
=20
technologies and other energy issues.

Securing the Energy Future of the United States sets forth vulnerability=20
criteria to evaluate energy proposals. Among the major risks it cites in=20
the Bush plan:

=B7       sudden disruptions of world oil markets and U.S. imports, for=20
instance through terrorism or upheavals in the governments of major=20
petroleum exporting countries;
=B7       attacks on nuclear reactors or spent fuel pools which could create=
=20
economic, health and environmental damage on the scale of the Chernobyl=20
disaster;
=B7       diversion of plutonium from commercial facilities; and
=B7       damage to centralized electricity grids causing breakdowns in=
 power=20
distribution over wide regions

The report specifically condemns a new nuclear plant design, called the=20
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, which the Bush plan endorses. According to=20
IEER, this reactor is proposed to be built without the concrete =93secondary=
=20
containment=94 that shields most current reactors from all but the most=20
massive attacks. While immune to melt-down accidents, the Pebble Bed=20
Modular reactor could still catch fire and spread radioactivity if it were=
=20
attacked in a variety of ways.

Also targeted for criticism is the administration=92s continued pursuit of=
=20
the idea of using surplus military plutonium to generate electricity in=20
commercial reactors. =93The use of plutonium in reactors was already a bad=
=20
idea before September 11,=94 said Dr. Makhijani. =93It is simply appalling=
 now.=20
The risks of transporting plutonium fuel and the consequences of an attack=
=20
on reactors that use it are far too grave to tolerate.=94

=93One drunk with a rifle disabled the Trans Alaska Pipeline a few weeks=20
ago,=94 said Friends of the Earth President, Dr. Brent Blackwelder. =93It is=
=20
high time that our leaders begin to aggressively explore energy sources=20
that are safe, resilient, and don't have a bull's-eye painted on them for=20
terrorists.=94

The alternative energy plan drafted by IEER calls for federal regulations=20
requiring new cars to achieve an average fuel efficiency of 100 miles per=20
gallon by the year 2020. =93In the 1950s, it used to said that =91What=92s=
 good=20
for General Motors is good for the country,=92=94 said Dr. Blackwelder,=
 =93It=92s=20
time to reverse that formula to read, =91What=92s good for the country ought=
 to=20
be good for GM.=92=94

The IEER report also calls for substituting vigorous procurement policies=20
in place of tax credits for renewable energy purchases.  =93Tax breaks tend=
=20
to keep the cost of technology high and retard progress,=94 said Dr.=20
Makhijani. =93Targeted purchases of energy efficient products and renewable=
=20
energy over the next ten to twenty years can provide a strong stimulus to=20
private research and development, help create a manufacturing base, make=20
some cutting-edge technologies commercial, and rapidly reduce costs.=94 IEER=
=20
recommends a $20 billion per year program, half spent on federal purchases=
=20
of products such as fuel-efficient vehicles, fuel cells, and solar cells=20
and half awarded as grants to state and local government for similar=20
procurement programs.

In addition to 100 mile per gallon cars by 2020, the IEER energy plan=20
contains the following principal features:

=B7       A phase out of nuclear power by the year 2030 and storage of spent=
=20
fuel packed in casks and surplus plutonium sealed in glass logs in=20
subsurface silos;
=B7       A reduction of coal use by 55 percent by 2030 and by 90 percent by=
=20
2040;
=B7       Large-scale use of wind power fed into regional electricity grids;
=B7       Creation of distributed grids in which highly efficient local=
 power=20
generation sources are combined with central station power plants;
=B7       Widespread use of high efficiency space heating and cooling=20
technologies such as geothermal heat pumps in combination with local=20
generation; and
=B7       Progressively more stringent carbon emissions standards for=20
electricity generation.

=93IEER=92s plan is highly innovative in that it shows how we can achieve=20
security and environmental goals simultaneously,=94 said Dr. Blackwelder.=20
=93Friends of the Earth will do all we can to help change the country=92s=20
energy path to the direction of this seminal work.=94

- -30-

Copies of Securing the Energy Future of the United States are available on=
=20
request
and also online at http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html

Author's statement also online:=
 http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/busharj.html


Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
http://www.ieer.org
[e-mail]
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<html>
<font size=3D1>For further information, contact:=20
<dl>
<dd>Arjun Makhijani: [phone]=20
<dd>Bob Schaeffer: [phone]=20
<dd>Mark Helm, Friends of the Earth, 202-783-7400, x 102
</dl>for use after 10:00am Wednesday, November 28, 2001 National Press
Club News Conference<br>
<br>
</font><div align=3D"center">
<font size=3D2><b><i>PRESS RELEASE<br>
<br>
</i>BUSH ENERGY PLAN WILL WORSEN U.S. OIL, NUCLEAR, ELECTRICITY
VULNERABILITIES<br>
<br>
Comprehensive Alternative Calls for 100-MPG Cars by 2020; <br>
Nuclear Power Phase Out, Advanced Electricity Grid System;<br>
<br>
Report Concludes Administration Proposals for New Nuclear Reactors,
Plutonium Fuel Increase Risk<br>
<br>
</b></div>
<i>Washington, D.C., November 28, 2001:</i> The Bush Administration=92s
energy plan, conceived before the September 11 terrorist attack, will
aggravate U.S. energy vulnerabilities, according to a new report released
today by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).
<a href=3D"http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html"><i>Securing the
Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity
Vulnerabilities and a post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action</a></i>,
presents a comprehensive alternative approach that its author says will
accomplish the same economic goals, but with far fewer serious
risks.<br>
<br>
=93It is stunning that the Bush administration did not review its energy
plan in light of the gaping vulnerabilities revealed by the September 11
attacks,=94 said IEER President Dr. Arjun Makhijani and author of the
report. =93If the United States sticks to the course the Bush plan
endorses, oil imports will double over the next forty years. That is an
invitation to major problems, given the tensions and instabilities in the
Middle East.=94 Based in Takoma Park, Maryland, IEER has published many
studies on nuclear technologies and other energy issues.<br>
<br>
<i>Securing the Energy Future of the United States</i> sets forth
vulnerability criteria to evaluate energy proposals. Among the major
risks it cites in the Bush plan:<br>
<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>sudden
disruptions of world oil markets and U.S. imports, for instance through
terrorism or upheavals in the governments of major petroleum exporting
countries;<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>attacks on
nuclear reactors or spent fuel pools which could create economic, health
and environmental damage on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster; <br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>diversion of
plutonium from commercial facilities; and<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>damage to
centralized electricity grids causing breakdowns in power distribution
over wide regions<br>
<br>
The report specifically condemns a new nuclear plant design, called the
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, which the Bush plan endorses. According to
IEER, this reactor is proposed to be built without the concrete
=93secondary containment=94 that shields most current reactors from all but
the most massive attacks. While immune to melt-down accidents, the Pebble
Bed Modular reactor could still catch fire and spread radioactivity if it
were attacked in a variety of ways.<br>
<br>
Also targeted for criticism is the administration=92s continued pursuit of
the idea of using surplus military plutonium to generate electricity in
commercial reactors. =93The use of plutonium in reactors was already a bad
idea before September 11,=94 said Dr. Makhijani. =93It is simply appalling
now. The risks of transporting plutonium fuel and the consequences of an
attack on reactors that use it are far too grave to tolerate.=94 <br>
<br>
=93One drunk with a rifle disabled the Trans Alaska Pipeline a few weeks
ago,=94 said Friends of the Earth President, Dr. Brent Blackwelder. =93It is
high time that our leaders begin to aggressively explore energy sources
that are safe, resilient, and don't have a bull's-eye painted on them for
terrorists.=94<br>
<br>
The alternative energy plan drafted by IEER calls for federal regulations
requiring new cars to achieve an average fuel efficiency of 100 miles per
gallon by the year 2020. =93In the 1950s, it used to said that =91What=92s g=
ood
for General Motors is good for the country,=92=94 said Dr. Blackwelder, =93I=
t=92s
time to reverse that formula to read, =91What=92s good for the country ought
to be good for GM.=92=94<br>
<br>
The IEER report also calls for substituting vigorous procurement policies
in place of tax credits for renewable energy purchases.  =93Tax breaks
tend to keep the cost of technology high and retard progress,=94 said Dr.
Makhijani. =93Targeted purchases of energy efficient products and renewable
energy over the next ten to twenty years can provide a strong stimulus to
private research and development, help create a manufacturing base, make
some cutting-edge technologies commercial, and rapidly reduce costs.=94
IEER recommends a $20 billion per year program, half spent on federal
purchases of products such as fuel-efficient vehicles, fuel cells, and
solar cells and half awarded as grants to state and local government for
similar procurement programs. <br>
<br>
In addition to 100 mile per gallon cars by 2020, the IEER energy plan
contains the following principal features:<br>
<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>A phase out of
nuclear power by the year 2030 and storage of spent fuel packed in casks
and surplus plutonium sealed in glass logs in subsurface silos;<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>A reduction of
coal use by 55 percent by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2040;<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>Large-scale use
of wind power fed into regional electricity grids;<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>Creation of
distributed grids in which highly efficient local power generation
sources are combined with central station power plants;<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>Widespread use
of high efficiency space heating and cooling technologies such as
geothermal heat pumps in combination with local generation; and<br>
=B7<x-tab>       </x-tab>Progressively
more stringent carbon emissions standards for electricity
generation.<br>
<br>
=93IEER=92s plan is highly innovative in that it shows how we can achieve
security and environmental goals simultaneously,=94 said Dr. Blackwelder.
=93Friends of the Earth will do all we can to help change the country=92s
energy path to the direction of this seminal work.=94<br>
<br>
<div align=3D"center">
- -30-<br>
<br>
</font><font size=3D1>Copies of <i>Securing the Energy Future of the United
States</i> are available on request <br>
and also online at
<a href=3D"http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html"=
 eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html</a><br>
<br>
Author's statement also online:
<a href=3D"http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/busharj.html"=
 eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/busharj.html</a><br>
<br>
</font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
</div>
<font size=3D2>Lisa Ledwidge<br>
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, <i>Science for Democratic Action<br>
</i>Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.ieer.org/" eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.ieer.org</a>
<br>
[e-mail]</font></html>

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:46:06 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: =?us-ascii?Q?WHISTLEBLOWERS_PROPOSE_=2210_COMMANDMENTS=22.htm?=

>
> X-Authentication-Warning: drizzle.com: majordom set sender to
> [e-mail] using -f=20
> Reply-To:=20
> From: "Tom Carpenter"=20
> To: "ANA List"=20
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tm?=3D=20
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> ----------
> =20
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
>   =20
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> November 28,
> 2001                                                                    =
=20
>     =20
>
> CONTACT:  GAP
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE
>
> [phone]=20
>
> TOM DEVINE (ext. 124)
>
> MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN  (ext. 143)
>
> GAP SEATTLE OFFICE
>
> TOM CARPENTER
>
> [phone]
>
> or POGO
>
> DANIELLE BRIAN
>
> [phone]
>
>                                                                         =
=20
>                                                  =20
>
> WHISTLEBLOWERS PROPOSE 10 COMMANDMENTS=20
>
> FOR REDUCING VULNERABILITIES OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
>
> AND WEAPONS FACILITIES TO TERRORIST ATTACK
>
> A group of nuclear energy and weapons whistleblowers with extensive
> experience in safety and security issues, including the reduction of plant
> vulnerabilities to terrorist attack, have proposed 10 commandments for
> closing the window on the continued safety hazards at nuclear facilities,
two
> good government groups announced today.
>
> The Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Project on Government
> Oversight (POGO) have just released a white paper, 10 Ways to Reduce
> Vulnerabilities of Nuclear Power Plants and Weapons Facilities to=
 Terrorist
> Attack.   Ten whistleblowers representing several atomic power stations,
> research centers and weapons facilities signed the document, which makes
> concrete suggestions to defend American nuclear safety and security in the
> aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.=20
>
> After September 11th, it is vital that the myriad of vulnerabilities that
had
> been openly discussed before the terrorist incidents, be addressed now,
> before those mistakes become tragedies, said Tom Carpenter, GAP s
director of
> nuclear programs. "The suggestions offered by accredited nuclear safety
> whistleblowers, all of whom have had their warnings vindicated in one way=
 or
> another in the past, should provide federal policymakers with a framework
for
> addressing these critical issues."
>
> The white paper's suggestions range from making security budgets line=
 items
> in departmental and agency budgets, therefore elevating their status to a
> priority, to suggestions about how to safely store weapons-grade fissile
> materials, to protecting whistleblowers from reprisal by bureaucratic
> managers bent on covering up management mistakes and abuses.
>
> "When he took office, Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge promised=
 that
> those who raise potential security problems or questions would be treated
> with respect.  By focusing attention to the kind of issues whistleblowers
> often uncover, these can and should be addressed in a forthright manner,"
> said POGO Director Danielle Brian.  "Unfortunately, reprisal against=
 nuclear
> safety whistleblowers is a time-honored practice at the Department of=
 Energy
> (DOE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other critical government
> agencies.
>
> "It is time that Ridge's principles be put into practice, and we believe
that
> the '10 Commandments' provides the guideposts for how to do so."
>
> Among the other proposals included in the white paper were:
>
> =B7       Security at DOE nuclear sites should be carried out by trained=
 law
> enforcement personnel
>
> =B7       Obsolete nuclear plants should be closed, and that bureaucratic
> "self-policing" should be abolished;
>
> =B7       Government contractors who do not protect their whistleblowers
should
> be debarred from further government service
>
> =B7       The practice of indemnifying contractors for legal fees that=
 result
> from their retaliation against national security whistleblowers should=
 end.
>
> "These reforms rely on strengthening freedom of speech instead of secrecy.
> The whole context for these '10 Commandments' is the need to revive the
> 'right to warn' within the federal bureaucracy," noted Tom Devine, GAP=
 legal
> director.  "For too long, the bureaucracy's response to whistleblowers has
> been to 'kill the messenger" bearing bad news about vulnerabilities to
> terrorist attack, as well as other waste, fraud and abuse of power issues.
>
> "Unfortunately, much of what needs to be reformed has been known for a=
 long
> time, yet very little has been done.  Americans deserve not only the
> appearance of security, but the reality as well."
>
> --30--
>
>=
 ___________________________________________________________________________=
_
>
> Government Accountability Project
>
> 1612 K Street, NW =B7 Suite 400
>
> Washington, DC  20006
>
> 10 Ways to Reduce Vulnerabilities of
> Nuclear Power Plants and Weapons Facilities
> to Terrorist Attack
>
>
>
> 1. Security budgets should be a line item in departmental and agency
budgets,
> where they can be fully debated by Congress (behind closed doors, if
> necessary) and analyzed as part of a comprehensive strategy against=
 terror,
> thereby elevating the issue to a priority status.
>
> 2. The Department of Energy should put an end to the practice of
indemnifying
> the vast numbers of government contractors for cost overruns associated=
 with
> doing business, as well as whose that indemnify contractors for legal fees
> incurred as a result of their retaliation against national security
> whistleblowers.
>
>
> 3. Whistleblowers at these facilities should be granted a full range of
legal
> protections so that they are not harassed, transferred or dismissed from
> their posts for "committing the truth" by pointing out security failures
that
> bureaucratic managers either ignore or try to sweep under the rug.=20
> Recommendations concerning whistleblowers include:
>
> a) Managers need to be prevented from stripping national security
> whistleblowers of their security clearance, which automatically makes them
> dysfunctional in the workplace and denies fundamental constitutional
rights.=20
>
>
> b) Whistleblowers should be fully involved in the investigation of their
> complaints, together with others that identify security problems,=
 including
> identifying and helping to craft solutions to security breaches and
> violations.
>
> c) Existing federal anti-gag statutes should be made permanent and go=
 beyond
> being a symbolic right to one that offers whistleblowers a general right=
 not
> to be forced to seek advanced permission (prior restraint) for sounding=
 the
> alarm about national security threats.
>
>             d) Adequate safety and security requires trustworthy ethical,
> competent and accountable professionals working in a safety and security
> conscious work environment.  Employers of safety and security=
 professionals
> should work with appropriate professional bodies in upholding and=
 protecting
> the codes of ethics of the safety and security professions and in creating
> safety and security conscious work environments.=20
>
>
> 4. Security at Department of Energy nuclear sites should be carried out by
> federal workers, preferably appropriately trained law enforcement
personnel.=20
> (Use of the military was discontinued in the 1960s.)   Part-time security
> personnel positions should be abolished, where possible, increasing the
staff
> of full-time personnel accordingly. By doing so, DOE would eliminate the
> practice of placing managers on security detail, thereby relegating=
 security
> to a lower priority and ensuring that the same bureaucracy will=
 essentially
> police itself.  Greater attention should be paid to increasing the size of
> the DOE's protective force and improving weaponry, tactics and command,
> control and communication to defend against both theft and radiological
> sabotage.
>
> 5. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission should be empowered to=
 close
> obsolete Department of Energy plants, many of which were established half=
 a
> century ago, in order to reduce government costs and eliminate potential
> targets of terrorist attack. Particular attention should be paid to
> consolidating nuclear materials at more easily protected sites, which=
 would
> both save money and reduce the risk to the public posed by the present
> dispersion of these materials around the country.
>
> 6. General oversight of security issues concerning nuclear power plants=
 and
> weapons facilities should be independent, not part of the Department of
> Energy's responsibilities, in order to ensure greater attention to=
 possible
> security deficits and their timely remediation.  The Nuclear Regulatory
> Commission should be granted greater authority and a larger role in=
 nuclear
> power plant security.
>
> 7. Independent oversight mechanisms should also be empowered to protect
> national security whistleblowers from reprisal by an agency (DOE) with a
> history of "killing the messenger" who warns of possible vulnerabilities.
> Currently, the Department of Energy's whistleblower protection offices=
 are,
> in fact, Trojan Horses that end up punishing rather than rewarding truth
> tellers.
>
> 8. Plans to abolish the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental
Safety
> and Health should be shelved, and its mission expanded to provide greater
> protection from terrorist threats.
>
> 9. All government contractors must have an adequate program to protect
> whistleblowers and deal effectively with their concerns or they should be
> debarred from further government service.
>
> 10.      Storage of special nuclear materials should be stabilized to=
 avoid
> criticality.
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> Whistleblowers Who Endorse the
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> 10 Commandments Of Nuclear=20
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> Power Plant and Weapons Facility Safety
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> Mark A. Graf
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> Alarm Station Supervisor
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> Rocky Flats (Colo.) Environmental Technology Site
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> Jeff Peters
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> Director, Protective Force Operations
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> Rocky Flats (Colo.) Environmental Technology Site
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> Ronald Timm
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> President, RETA Security
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> (Senior Security Analyst for Department of Energy)
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> Mathew J. Zipoli, Vice President
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> Security Police Officers Association
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> Mark Danielson
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> Security Police Officer
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> Special Response Team Member
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> Marshall S. Cole, Jr.
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> Security Police Officer
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> Special Response Team Member
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> Scot A. Walker
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> Special Response Team Member
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> David Weiner
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> Special Response Team Member
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> Joseph Carson, P.E.
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> National Society of Professional Engineers
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> Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:12:59 -0800
From: Pamela Meidell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Report Card on Website!

Dear Abolition Friends,

Feed the Wolf: A Rough Guide to Global Security, the 2001 edition of the
Abolition 2000 Report Card is now up on the Abolition 2000 website:
<www.abolition2000.org> Just scroll down to the new features section and
you will find it on the left hand side of the page. It is in pdf format
this year. Anyone who would like a plain text version, please email me and
I will be happy to send it to you. (I tried four time to send both versions
to this list, but failed. Please let me know if you have any trouble
finding it.)

Thanks! And hope you find it useful. We would be happy for any feedback.

In peace,
Pamela Meidell and Janet Bloomfield
The Atomic Mirror


Pamela Meidell
Director
The Atomic Mirror
"Reflecting and Transforming our Nuclear World through the Arts"
P.O. Box 220
Port Hueneme, CA 93044
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]

"Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that
imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like."
Lionel Trilling


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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:46:54 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [globenet] Sorry computer glitch;See this version to view leg and endorsers

Are we getting our Congressmememembers to sign on as co-sponsors?  Call your
member of Congress at 202-224-3121.  Can we get a Senator to introduce a
companion bill? =20

At 01:25 PM 11/28/2001 -0800, Carol Rosin wrote:
>KUCINICH SPACE-BASED WEAPONS BAN BILL ENDORSERS
>Updated 11-28-01
>
>(HR 2977), the Space Preservation Act of 2001   (Congressman Dennis
>Kucinich)
>"To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all
>humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the
>United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and
>implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons."
>
>   *To add your organization to this list of endorsers please send an=
 e-mail
>to [e-mail].  Endorsement indicates a commitment to promote
>the space-based weapons ban effort in your community.  Official launch of
>the campaign begins in January.  http://www.space4peace.org.
>   *To view H.R. 2977 and the World Treaty Banning Space-based Weapons, and
>to FAX your congressional representatives and world leaders, go to
>http://www.peaceinspace.com.
>
>   > =B7 Action for Nuclear Disarmament (Cape Cod, MA)
>   > =B7 Action NOW!
>   > =B7 American Friends Service Committee Colorado
>   > =B7 American Friends Service Committee Western Massachusetts
>   > =B7 Anarchist Action of Rochester (NY)
>   > =B7 Antiwar.com
>   > =B7 AquaCoalition.org
>   > =B7 Association of World Citizens (San Francisco, CA)
>   > =B7 Australian Peace Committee (Adelaide, South Australia)
>   > =B7 Australian Peace Committee (Queensland)
>   > =B7 Baltimore Emergency Response Network (MD)
>   > =B7 Baltimore Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee (MD)
>   > =B7 Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (United Kingdom)
>   > =B7 Cape Cod Fellowship of Reconciliation (MA)
>   > =B7 Central Coast Peace & Environmental Council (San Luis Obispo, CA)
>   > =B7 Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
>   > =B7 Centre de Resources Dur La Non-Violence (Montreal, Canada)
>   > =B7 Checkmate - Winning Strategies for Environmental Justice (Vermont)
>   > =B7 Citizen Soldier (New York, N.Y.)
>   > =B7 Citizens Energy Council (Hewitt, N.J.)
>   > =B7 Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado Springs, CO)
>   > =B7 City of New Haven Peace Commission (CT)
>   > =B7 Cleveland Peace Action (Ohio)
>   > =B7 Clinton County Peace Education Group (OH)
>   > =B7 Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (India)
>   > =B7 Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War
>   > =B7 Delray Citizens for Social Responsibility (FL)
>   > =B7 Don Quixote Society
>   > =B7 Don't Waste Connecticut
>   > =B7 Don't Waste Oregon (Portland)
>   > =B7 Every Church a Peace Church (ECAPC) (Duluth, MN)
>   > =B7 Fellowship of Reconciliation (Louisville, KY)
>   > =B7 Fellowship of Reconciliation (Nyack, N.Y.)
>   > =B7 Fellowship of Reconciliation (Seattle, WA)
>   > =B7 Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice
>   > =B7 Flyby News
>   > =B7 Food Not Bombs (Atlanta, GA)
>   > =B7 For Mother Earth (Bucharest, Romania)
>   > =B7 Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace (New York)
>   > =B7 Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
>   > =B7 Global Response  (Boulder, CO)
>   > =B7 GRACE Public Fund (New York, N.Y.)
>   > =B7 Grandmothers for Peace (San Luis Obispo, CA)
>   > =B7 Grandmothers for Peace (Superior, WI)
>   > =B7 Grandmothers for Peace International
>   > =B7 Great Neck SANE/Peace Action (N.Y.)
>   > =B7 Greater New Haven Peace Council (CT)
>   > =B7 Green Earth Organization (Ghana)
>   > =B7 Green Justice Association (Bulgaria)
>   > =B7 Green Party of Connecticut
>   > =B7 Green Party of Skagit County (WA)
>   > =B7 Greens of Volusia County (FL)
>   > =B7 Greenville Peace Committee (North Carolina)
>   > =B7 Groove Embassy Records
>   > =B7 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Poulsbo, WA)
>   > =B7 Hanford Watch (Portland, OR)
>   > =B7 Headingly CND (England)
>   > =B7 Home for Peace & Justice (Saginaw, MI)
>   > =B7 Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament, & Environmental=
 Protection
>(Nagpur, India)
>   > =B7 Indianapolis Peace & Justice Center (IN)
>   > =B7 Institute for Cooperation in Space (Ventura, CA)
>   > =B7 Interfaith Stewards of Creation (Gallup, NM)
>   > =B7 International Institute of Concern for Public Health (Canada)
>   > =B7 International Society for Ecology & Culture
>   > =B7 Jonah House (Baltimore, MD)
>   > =B7 Journey for Justice
>   > =B7 Just Peace Committee of Peace Church (UCC) (Duluth, MN)
>   > =B7 Kalamazoo Area Coalition for Peace & Justice (MI)
>   > =B7 Kirkstall CND (England)
>   > =B7 Kodiak Rocket Launch Information Group (Kodiak, AK)
>   > =B7 Kurtz Institute of Peacemaking
>   > =B7 Larry Bogart Memorial Library (Hewitt, N.J.)
>   > =B7 Livermore Conversion Project (Oakland, CA)
>   > =B7 Long Island Coalition for Peaceful Alternatives (N.Y.)
>   > =B7 Los Alamos Study Group (New Mexico)
>   > =B7 Making the Walls Transparent
>   > =B7 Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns
>   > =B7 McKinley County Green Party (Gallup, NM)
>   > =B7 Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment (St Louis, MO)
>   > =B7 Military Toxics Project
>   > =B7 Mojave Greens (CA)
>   > =B7 Moms for Justice (Philadelphia, PA)
>   > =B7 Nevada Desert Experience
>   > =B7 New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association
>   > =B7 No Nukes North (Fairbanks, Alaska)
>   > =B7 North American Water Office (Lake Elmo, MN)
>   > =B7 North Dakota Peace Coalition
>   > =B7 Northwest Disarmament Coalition (Seattle, WA)
>   > =B7 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (Santa Barbara, CA)
>   > =B7 Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
>   > =B7 Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (TN)
>   > =B7 Office of Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation (Mankato Province
>School Sisters of Notre Dame)
>   > =B7 Office of Justice-Peace-Integrity of Creation (Catholic Diocese of
>Knoxville, TN)
>   > =B7 OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology (Fayetteville, AR)
>   > =B7 Oregon Conservancy Foundation
>   > =B7 Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice (Oxford, OH)
>   > =B7 Pacific Green Party (Oregon State University)
>   > =B7 Paralyzed Veterans of America
>   > =B7 Pax Christi (St. Louis University)
>   > =B7 Peace & Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United=
 Church
>of Christ
>   > =B7 Peace & Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas (Wichita)
>   > =B7 Peace Action (San Mateo, CA)
>   > =B7 Peace Action Maine
>   > =B7 Peace Action New Mexico
>   > =B7 Peace Action Wisconsin
>   > =B7 Peace Farm (Panhandle, TX)
>   > =B7 Peace Foundation Aotearoa/New Zealand
>   > =B7 Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (Palo Alto, CA)
>   > =B7 Portland Greens (OR)
>   > =B7 Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security=
 (OH)
>
>   > =B7 Prairie Island Coalition (Minneapolis, MN)
>   > =B7 Progressive Secretary
>   > =B7 Promoting Enduring Peace (Woodmont, CT)
>   > =B7 Proposition One Committee (Washington DC)
>   > =B7 Reality News Network (West Palm Beach, FL)
>   > =B7 Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center (Boulder, CO)
>   > =B7 Sacred Earth & Space Plowshares
>   > =B7 San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Challenge (CA)
>   > =B7 Scientists for Indigenous People
>   > =B7 Sisters of Loretto Disarmament/Economic Conversion Committee
>   > =B7 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (St. Louis Province)
>   > =B7 South Dakota Peace and Justice Center
>   > =B7 SS. Francis & Therese Catholic Worker (Worcester, MA)
>   > =B7 St. Louis Economic Conversion Project (MO)
>   > =B7 Students Taking Action for a New Democracy (University of Akron=
 (OH)
>   > =B7 Swedish Peace Committee
>   > =B7 The Peace Center (Longhorne, PA)
>   > =B7 The Who's Counting Project (CA)
>   > =B7 Theosophical Order of Service Peace Department (Tucson, AZ)
>   > =B7 Third Millennium Foundation (Auburn, WA)
>   > =B7 Tri-Valley CAREs (Livermore, CA)
>   > =B7 20/20 Vision of Washington State
>   > =B7 U.S. Peace Council
>   > =B7 Unitarian Society Social Responsibility Committee (Hartford, CT)
>   > =B7 Veterans for Peace (Gainesville, FL)
>   > =B7 Veterans for Peace, Inc.
>   > =B7 WAND of Northern Indiana
>   > =B7 West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Birmingham, U.K.)
>   > =B7 Wide World Peace Puppetry (Albuquerque, NM)
>   > =B7 Women for Peace (Berkeley, CA)
>   > =B7 World Peace Now (Tampa, FL)
>   > =B7 Yorkshire CND (England)
>
>** List in formation (11-28-01) by Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
>Power in Space, PO Box 90083, Gainesville, FL. 32607, [phone],
>http://www.space4peace.org.
>**Email to sign-on at [e-mail].
>**View H.R. 2977 and World Treaty Banning Space-based Weapons, and FAX your
>Congress representatives and world leaders at:   www.peaceinspace.com,
>Institute for Cooperation in Space, PO Box 25040, Ventura, CA. 93001,
>805-641-1999.
>
>
>
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