From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #33 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Thursday, October 29 1998 Volume 01 : Number 033 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:28:05 -0400 From: ike Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 Report Card 1998 Just a quick note to say that I find these report cards very helpful. Thanks, Ike Jeanes Janet Bloomfield wrote: > > ABOLITION 2000 PROGRESS REPORT CARD > UNITED NATIONS DAY: OCTOBER 24, 1998. > > For the last two years, we have issued an Abolition 2000 report card in > October, assessing progress toward a nuclear weapons free world. For the > third year, we pause again to take stock of the state of the Nuclear > World, and of efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. Looking at this year's > events in the context of the Abolition 2000 Statement offers a simple way > to make such an evaluation. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:07:08 EST From: DavidMcR@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) International YouthPeace Week! Date: 10/26/98 1:00:54 PM Eastern Standard Time From: wrl@igc.apc.org (War Resisters League) October 26, 1998 Dear Friend, YouthPeace is a program of the War Resisters League, yet it is so much more. YouthPeace is a vision of what most young people want for themselves: peace with justice. YouthPeace is also what advocates of youth rights work to achieve. YouthPeace--as a vision, a goal, a need--is something everyone who wants to put an end to the militarization, oppression, and abuse of youth throughout the world must move toward. Observing International YouthPeace Week is one way to advance this work. Young people are plagued by the injustice of violence and poverty, homelessness and insufficient (or no) education. Hundreds of teenagers are herded into prisons daily. On the streets, they suffer the devastating effects of gun violence, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy. Demoralized and destitute, youth often view the military as the only way out. Outside the U.S., warfare has created child soldiers who are forced into armed conflict. Whole communities of children, who attempt to be self-sustaining due to loss of family, are often forced into prostitution. A dynamic coalition of youth activists and advocates respond to these disturbing conditions by coming together to celebrate International YouthPeace Week. For the past two years, for seven days after Thanksgiving, we have celebrated the enduring strength of young people while protesting the oppressive violence in their lives. If you care about the putting an end to the injustice suffered by youth in the US and around the world, if you are a young person who wants to work for peace, social change and human rights in your community; if you are an advocate who wants to address political, social and environmental issues that impact youth--you want to celebrate International YouthPeace Week! Join our coalition of organizations and individuals from November 27 to December 4, 1998, and demand peace and justice for all youth through this global celebration of local initiatives. Please help us make this third year of International YouthPeace Week the largest observance yet by signing on as a sponsor/participating organization or individual. If your organization has participated in the past, consider becoming an annual sponsor. You will find a brochure and a list of past participating organizations attached. You may contact YouthPeace at 800-WRL-YOUTH (800-975-9688) or 212-228-0450; fax: 212-228-6193, email: wrl@igc.apc.org; or write us at International YouthPeace Week/WRL, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012. For Peace and Justice, Malkia M'Buzi Moore Vincent Romano YouthPeace Coordinator Freeman Intern Attachments: Sponsor List YouthPeace U.S. Program ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- "I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery or assassination." --Eugene V. Debs Celebrate the ENDURING spirit of youth during a week of education and action FOR YOUTHPEACE AND JUSTICE Join a coalition of organizations and individuals-youth groups and youth activists, peace and justice organizations, teachers, civic and social programs, religious organizations, international non-governmental organizations and young people the world over-who want to make peace and justice a global youth priority! _______________________________________________________________________ International YouthPeace Week November 27 - December 4, 1998 Sponsorship form __Yes! My organization is interested in sponsoring International YouthPeace Week. __ My organization cannot sponsor; however, we would like to endorse International YouthPeace Week. __ I would like to know what I can do as an individual for International YouthPeace Week. __ Please sign my organization up as an annual sponsor. __ I would like to order a YouthPeace Organizing Packet. Name Organization Address City State Zip Telephone Fax E-Mail Please return this form to: YouthPeace/War Resisters League 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 228-0450; Fax: (212) 228-6193 E-mail: wrl@igc.org http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl _______________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTHPEACE WEEK 1. What is International YouthPeace Week? International YouthPeace week, held November 27 to December 4, 1998 is a global celebration of local initiatives by youth activists and advocates. This week was chosen to provide an annual platform for world-wide issues affecting children and youth through a coalition effort. This is the third year that the message and time of the International Days to Protest War Toys, which have been held the first two days after the US Thanksgiving holiday, was expanded to give more time to protest the violence in young lives. International YouthPeace Week is an opportunity for organizations and individuals to work, through educational activities and political action, to make peace and justice a part of every young person's life. 2. What is the purpose of celebrating International YouthPeace Week and what are the issues involved in this observance? A broad range of organizations and individuals who share the War Resisters League's opposition to war and all its causes that impact our urban centers and rural regions-oppression, imperialism, domestic domination and neglect, genocide and economic warfare-are called on to celebrate the enduring spirit of our youth while engaging in dynamic nonviolent activism as youth activists or advocates. The international community is asked to support the recommendations of the Graca Machel study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children and to "encourage Governments to reduce their levels of militarization and to honor the commitments they made at the World Summit for Development to support the concept of human security by taking steps to shift the allocation of resources from arms and military expenditures to human and social development." Adopting the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child would mean that all governments would raise the age of enlistment to eighteen and end the forced military service of children and their participation in armed conflict. International YouthPeace Week is also a chance to work against child labor and demand sustainable development which will provide safe environments for all young people throughout the world. If you are an organization or individual that believes in working in coalition with others who are committed to social change through nonviolent action, it is imperative that you participate in International YouthPeace Week. National and international alternatives to the militarization of youth can be shared with new audiences during this week of YouthPeace programs and actions. 3. What does sponsorship or endorsement of International YouthPeace Week require? Sponsorship means actively engaging in the act of YouthPeace by hosting a program or developing an action, sharing the message through mailings and other medium to your membership and affiliates. Sponsorship also means serving as a resource for other groups regarding International YouthPeace Week. Endorsement of International YouthPeace Week means lending your name to this important endeavor and publicizing it whenever possible. Endorsers are also asked to attend and promote International YouthPeace Week activities taking place in your area and participate in the petition drives attached to several of the issue areas. 4. What are the seven issues for seven days of actions during International YouthPeace Week? Education and Action during International YouthPeace Week include: 1. Educating consumers about the dangers of war toys by leafleting toy stores that carry war toys 2. Constructing counter-recruitment displays and providing counseling in high schools and colleges where JROTC or recruitment vans are present 3. Engaging young people in letter writing projects to International Prisoners for Peace as part of the War Resisters International Dec. 1 Prisoners for Peace Day 4. Protesting the death penalty for youth offenders by signing on to the Stop Killing Kids Project of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty 5. Demanding an end to Child Labor by protesting companies who use children as a labor force 6. Insisting that children stop being forced into armed conflict by having all governments adopt the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7. Creating forums to educate communities about the environmental hazards caused by nuclear and industrial waste. Plus whatever peace and justice issue your group is working on (land mines, AIDS education, etc.) during International YouthPeace Week. 5. What are the activities and programs choices for organizations or individuals who engage in International YouthPeace Week? 1. Holding nonviolent training sessions for young people (using peer trainers when possible) including nonviolent teen parenting sessions. 2. Hosting YouthPeace forums-round table discussions by youth for youth. 3. Sponsoring a YouthPeace Fair in your community and spreading the YouthPeace message through workshops, games, displays and information tables. 4. Creating visual art and dramatic performances as well as poetry to share in exhibitions, theaters, wherever spoken word events are held, in schools, churches and the streets. 5. Engaging religious communities by providing the YouthPeace Litany for their religious services held during International YouthPeace Week. 6. Sharing the Graca Machel study on the Impact of Armed and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 7. Advancing your organization's focus by holding a demonstration or leafleting action, hosting a forum, peace fair or arts event. 6. Where will International YouthPeace Week observances take place? International YouthPeace Week will be celebrated throughout the United States with programs and actions taking place in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles California, Seattle Washington, Washington DC, Detroit Michigan, Houston Texas and Atlanta Georgia, and throughout New York and New Jersey as well as Oregon and elsewhere. International programs will take place in South America, England, France, South Africa, Bosnia and more. The success of International YouthPeace Week depends on your participation. Will you help expand this list by signing on as a participating organization or individual? 7. Where do I go for further information on International YouthPeace Week? Contact Malkia M'Buzi Moore YouthPeace Coordinator at the War Resisters League 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 or call 800-WRL-YOUTH or 212-228-0450 fax 212-228-6193 or e-mail wrl@igc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- INTERNATIONAL YOUTHPEACE WEEK * * * Participating Organizations * * * International Sponsors: RLT--Palawan, Phillipines War Resisters International--London, England Endorsers: ASAFED--Lome (TOGO) IV Latin American Conference for Conscientious Objectors--Quito, Ecuador E. Cape Province Local Government--Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Sushanguve Local Government--Sushanguve, South Africa Mines Action Canada--Ottawa, Canada Participants: International Campaign to Ban Landmines--Maputo, Mozambique Volunteers Centre Zagreb--Zagreb, Hrvatska, Croatia U.S. Sponsors: AFSC/Latin America/Asia Pacific Youth Program--Portland, OR Black Veterans for Social Justice--Brooklyn, NY Coalition for Peace Action--Princeton, NJ Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft--San Diego, CA D.C. SCAR--Washington, DC Educators for Social Responsibility--Cambridge, MA Ethical Culture Society of Queens--Bayside, NY Fellowship of Reconciliation--Nyack, NY First Unitarian-Universalist Church--Houston, TX Gang Violence Bridging Project--Los Angeles, CA Global Kids--New York, NY Institute for Peace and Justice Families Against Violence Network--St. Louis, MO Jane Addams Hull House Assn.--Chicago, IL Kids Meeting Kids Can Make a Difference--New York, NY Latinos Unidos Siempre--Salem, OR Laurentian Shield Resource for Nonviolence--Maple, WI Los Angeles Alliance for Survival--Santa Monica, CA Multicultural Advisory Committee NYC Alternative, Adult, Continuing Ed. Schools and Programs--New York, NY National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty--Washington, DC Network of Black Organizers--New York, NY Peace Action Educational Fund--Washington, DC Peace for the Streets by Kids from then Streets--Seattle, WA Refuse and Resist--Tulsa, OK Rice Women's Alliance--Houston, TX Student Peace Action Network--Washington, DC Tenafly Middle School Community of Conscience Project--Tenafly, NJ Veterans for Peace, Maine Council--Winthrop, ME Women for Racial and Economic Equality--New York, NY Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Metro NY--New York, NY Westchester People's Action Coalition--White Plains, NY WRFG Radio--Atlanta, GA YouthPeace Speakout--Hartford, CT Youth Task Force--Atlanta, GA Women's Action for New Directions, Metro Detroit--West Bloomfield, MI War Resisters League National Office--New York, NY Eugene Peaceworks/WRL--Eugene, OR Houston Nonviolent Action/WRL--Houston, TX INVERT/WRL--Monroe, ME New York City WRL--New York, NY Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia/WRL--Seattle, WA Philidelphia WTR/WRL--Philadelphia, PA Root and Branch Collective--Ridgewood, NJ Endorsers: AFSC Youth Action--Seattle, WA AFSC Youth and Militarism Program--Philadelphia, PA Animal Connection--New York, NY Audre Lorde Project--Brooklyn, NY Creative Response to Conflict--Nyack, NY Episcopal Peace Fellowship--Washington, DC Fannie Lou Hamer Educational Organization--New York, NY First Presbyterian Church--Carlstadt, NY Future Leaders Network--Brooklyn, NY Indiana University Social Action Project--South Bend, IN Intercommunity Center for Justice--New York, NY International Health and Epidemiology Research Center--Sherman Oaks, CA Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy--New York, NY MADRE--New York, NY NYC War Tax Resistance--New York, NY The Painted Gourd Collective--Silver Spring, MD Physicians for Social Responsibility/NYC--New York, NY Seattle Buddhist Peace Fellowship--Seattle, WA STAR/Students Taking Action and Responsibilty--Philadelphia, PA Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign--Harlem, NY Urban Justice Center--New York, NY Women for Racial and Economic Equality--New York, NY YES--Northport, NY Participants: AFSC Southeastern Regional Office SAPE Program--Atlanta, GA Amnesty International, Southern Region--Atlanta, GA Broward Citizens for Peace and Justice--Hollywood, FL CCCO--Philadelphia, PA The Lion and Lamb Project--Bethseda, MD Satellite Academy, Bronx Regional High School--Bronx, NY UNICEF/NGO Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict--New York, NY To join this list, please respond to this message at wrl@igc.org. YouthPeace/War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 1-800-WRL-YOUTH or +212-228-0450 ********** War Resisters League 339 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 212-228-0450 212-228-6193 (fax) 1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon) wrl@igc.apc.org web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:27:23 -0500 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: HKH Foundation -- Peace Project >Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:49:10 -0500 >Subject: HKH Foundation -- Peace Project >To: adaction@ix.netcom.com, akimpact@mosquitonet.com, > aldrichl@igc.org, AlexCathy@aol.com, amherst@earthaction.org, > aslater@igc.apc.org, belislem@igc.apc.org, BetseyMJ@aol.com, > bkinsey@peacemission.org, blsp1@aol.com, bpf@bpf.org, > brockway@macronet.org, cahrej@geocities.com, > cairnsam@pilot.msu.edu, capazaction@igc.apc.org, > cfpa@cyberenet.net, chris_mohr@sfbayguardian.com, > cindypile@juno.com, cjenks@usa.net, cprcrogers@mindspring.com, > danfine@igc.apc.org, danfine@igc.apc.org, dcortright@igc.apc.org, > disarmtimes@igc.apc.org, dnesbitt@idiom.com, dull@concentric.net, > ecaar@igc.apc.org, elkins@mail.execnet.com, > ERFinSC@ix.netcom.com, eugpeace@efn.org, fornatl@apc.org, > friend_barb@hotmail.com, gale@igc.apc.org, GELN38A@prodigy.com, > genvau@aol.com, GIRC@web.net, greensfelder@igc.apc.org, > groundwork@aol.com, [h]tombaxter@earthling.net_, > Tom_Baxter@oag.state.fl.us, [h]tombaxter@earthling.net_, > Tom_Baxter@oag.state.fl.us, hjaya@aol.com, ieer@igc.apc.org, > infinite@sky.net, info@paxchristiusa.org, invivo@igc.org, > irss@igc.apc.org, JCKtemple@prodigy.com >From: bmc@NetHeaven.com (bmc@NetHeaven.com) > >HKH Foundation (peace project) >c/o Blue Mountain Center >Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812 > > October >26, 1998 > >Dear Development Director, > >The HKH Foundation, in collaboration with several other small family >foundations, is attempting to assemble an on-line directory of >grass-roots groups working on a variety of peace/disarmament >issues. We would appreciate it very much if you could do us three favors: > >1. Fill in the following information with your organizations name, >address, phone, fax, etc.. Under "Notes on organization" please explain >your organizations mission and/or purpose for quick reference. > >2. Since our list will attempt to include all groups which have a regular >coordinator, an established base/constituency and a newsletter or similar >means of consistent communication with that constituency, we would >appreciate it if you would send us a copy of what you produce and any >other information that would clarify the way in which you do your work. > >3. Could you send word to your network about this list, including a >sample of the information we are seeking so that we get a larger view of >who is out there doing what. Please ask those to whom you send our >information to return it to us directly. > >MANY thanks for your assistance. > >Sincerely, >Amy Johnson > >Organization Name ______________________________________________ > >Contact Name ____________________________________________ > >Title ____________________________________________ > >Address ____________________________________________ > >City, State Zip ____________________________________________ > >Phone ____________________________________________ > >Fax ____________________________________________ > >Email ____________________________________________ > >Web Site ____________________________________________ > >Organization Notes ____________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________ > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, an international network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:50:13 -0500 From: Kathy Crandall Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: HKH Foundation -- Peace Project Alice, Thank you very much for forwarding this information. Could you please post the e-mail for HKH Foundation -For people to send this form back to them directly (as requested in # 3). Kathy ASlater wrote: > >Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:49:10 -0500 > >Subject: HKH Foundation -- Peace Project > >To: adaction@ix.netcom.com, akimpact@mosquitonet.com, > > aldrichl@igc.org, AlexCathy@aol.com, amherst@earthaction.org, > > aslater@igc.apc.org, belislem@igc.apc.org, BetseyMJ@aol.com, > > bkinsey@peacemission.org, blsp1@aol.com, bpf@bpf.org, > > brockway@macronet.org, cahrej@geocities.com, > > cairnsam@pilot.msu.edu, capazaction@igc.apc.org, > > cfpa@cyberenet.net, chris_mohr@sfbayguardian.com, > > cindypile@juno.com, cjenks@usa.net, cprcrogers@mindspring.com, > > danfine@igc.apc.org, danfine@igc.apc.org, dcortright@igc.apc.org, > > disarmtimes@igc.apc.org, dnesbitt@idiom.com, dull@concentric.net, > > ecaar@igc.apc.org, elkins@mail.execnet.com, > > ERFinSC@ix.netcom.com, eugpeace@efn.org, fornatl@apc.org, > > friend_barb@hotmail.com, gale@igc.apc.org, GELN38A@prodigy.com, > > genvau@aol.com, GIRC@web.net, greensfelder@igc.apc.org, > > groundwork@aol.com, [h]tombaxter@earthling.net_, > > Tom_Baxter@oag.state.fl.us, [h]tombaxter@earthling.net_, > > Tom_Baxter@oag.state.fl.us, hjaya@aol.com, ieer@igc.apc.org, > > infinite@sky.net, info@paxchristiusa.org, invivo@igc.org, > > irss@igc.apc.org, JCKtemple@prodigy.com > >From: bmc@NetHeaven.com (bmc@NetHeaven.com) > > > >HKH Foundation (peace project) > >c/o Blue Mountain Center > >Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812 > > > > > October > >26, 1998 > > > >Dear Development Director, > > > >The HKH Foundation, in collaboration with several other small family > >foundations, is attempting to assemble an on-line directory of > >grass-roots groups working on a variety of peace/disarmament > >issues. We would appreciate it very much if you could do us three favors: > > > >1. Fill in the following information with your organizations name, > >address, phone, fax, etc.. Under "Notes on organization" please explain > >your organizations mission and/or purpose for quick reference. > > > >2. Since our list will attempt to include all groups which have a regular > >coordinator, an established base/constituency and a newsletter or similar > >means of consistent communication with that constituency, we would > >appreciate it if you would send us a copy of what you produce and any > >other information that would clarify the way in which you do your work. > > > >3. Could you send word to your network about this list, including a > >sample of the information we are seeking so that we get a larger view of > >who is out there doing what. Please ask those to whom you send our > >information to return it to us directly. > > > >MANY thanks for your assistance. > > > >Sincerely, > >Amy Johnson > > > >Organization Name ______________________________________________ > > > >Contact Name ____________________________________________ > > > >Title ____________________________________________ > > > >Address ____________________________________________ > > > >City, State Zip ____________________________________________ > > > >Phone ____________________________________________ > > > >Fax ____________________________________________ > > > >Email ____________________________________________ > > > >Web Site ____________________________________________ > > > >Organization Notes ____________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > Alice Slater > Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) > 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 > New York, NY 10010 > tel: (212) 726-9161 > fax: (212) 726-9160 > email: aslater@gracelinks.org > > GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, an international network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:53:48 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE Secretary meets with Las Vegas Groups For immediate release: Contact: Rick Nielsen, 796-5662 October 28, 1998 Reinard Knutsen,647-3095 Judy Treichel, 248-1127 ENERGY SECRETARY HEARS LOCAL CONCERNS SAYS YUCCA DECISION WILL BE BASED ON SCIENCE, NOT POLITICS Bill Richardson, newly appointed secretary for the Department of Energy (DOE), took time out from his busy schedule to meet with representatives from four local activist groups and the Western Shoshone Nation on Monday evening at McCarron Airport. Richardson heard concerns regarding nuclear activities conducted at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the potential repository at Yucca Mountain, groundwater contamination, and Western Shoshone land rights under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. Richardson said that he would tour both NTS and Yucca Mountain while here was here. Rick Nielsen, executive director of Citizen Alert engaged Richardson in a lively discussion regarding the suitability studies ongoing at Yucca Mountain and potential groundwater contamination. "I am here to review the site to try and make an assessment," said Richardson. "I don't know now what the outcome will be, but I can say it will be based on science not politics." The question of what would disqualify Yucca Mountain as a potential site was also posed by Nielsen. Richardson said that he did not have a specific answer, but stated that if the mountain was found to produce adverse impacts to humans or the environment it would not move forward. "It seems clear to me that there are going to be impacts," said Nielsen, "even DOE admits that, it appears to hinge on what is acceptable and to whom." Judy Treichel of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force presented Richardson with DOE documents that clearly show that department plans for Yucca Mountain will give people nearby doses of radiation from drinking water. "Any imposed dose is an adverse impact," said Treichel. Ian Zabarte, representing Western Shoshone Chief Raymond Yowell, informed the Secretary that based on the Treaty of Ruby Valley, the DOE didn't legally own the land that comprises most of the NTS, including Yucca Mountain. "Yucca Mountain belongs to the Western Shoshone," said Zabarte. Zabarte also said that funding was needed for health studies related to the impacts of fall-out from nuclear testing on Native Americans. Western Shoshone spiritual leader, Corbin Harney, told Richardson, "DOE has been poisoning our land and people since the fifties, you can't let this continue." Richardson said that he has encountered Native American impacts in recent visits at several other DOE weapons sites and is also concerned about their rights and treatment. The Secretary said he has appointed Chris Sterns, a Navajo, to be his point person to help address these concerns. Other concerns discussed at the meeting included subcritical testing, moral and ethical responsibilities of nuclear weapons, the delay in a radiation standard for Yucca Mountain, funding for groundwater studies and state oversight, and public participation in the DOE decision making process. Reinard Knutsen of the Shundahai Network said, "The actions that the Shundahai Network take to get our message across are more radical because we have become disenfranchised by the public participation process." Sister Rosemary Lynch, a Franciscan nun representing Pace Bene, a local peace and non-violence organization, told the Secretary, "you must carefully consider the ethics and basic morality of the decisions that you are called on to make and have the courage to act accordingly." - -END- Richard Nielsen, Executive Director, Citizen Alert, Las Vegas NV citizenalert@igc.org http://www.igc.org/citizenalert ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" 5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 out,out Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:34:57 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) New computer powerful, but won't end subcritical testing Thursday, October 29, 1998 New computer powerful, but won't end subcritical testing Associated Press WASHINGTON -- IBM has developed the world's fastest computer, which can perform enough complex calculations to maintain reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons without conducting actual bomb tests, U.S. officials say. The supercomputer -- dubbed "Pacific Blue" -- was touted by the White House at an event highlighting technology developments. But according to Jeff Garberson, a spokesman at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where the new supercomputer will be used, it will not replace subcritical nuclear experiments at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Those experiments, which use small amounts of plutonium and are designed to stop short of erupting into nuclear chain reactions, provide data about how the material behaves at detonation. That data is needed for computer models being developed for the stockpile stewardship program, he said. "Just as subcritical testing is an important part of stockpile stewardship, so is developing new computers," Garberson said. Built for the Department of Energy, the new IBM supercomputer can perform 3.9 trillion operations per second and simulate a nuclear bomb test, administration officials said Tuesday. Such high-speed calculations will enable U.S. scientists to maintain the reliability of atomic weapons stockpiles without having to conduct nuclear tests, which are prohibited by an international test ban treaty, the officials said. In announcing the new supercomputer, Vice President Al Gore said, "This is a computer that will make Deep Blue green with envy. It's more than twice as fast as any other computer in existence today. It has enough memory to store every single book in the Library of Congress. Above all, it's fast." Gore also announced that President Clinton will sign a bill to bolster copyright protection in cyberspace and another measure to connect 100 universities at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than the Internet. "Just like the first Internet, the demonstration is going to be so powerful lots of people are going to say, `Well, I'm willing to invest,' " Gore said. Pacific Blue runs 15,000 times faster and has 80,000 times more memory than the average desktop personal computer, the officials said. Complex calculations that normally would consume months of time -- even on advanced computers -- can be completed in just days with the new machine, they said. While the main mission of the supercomputer is to ensure the safety, security and reliability of nuclear weapons, it could have other implications as well. A high performance computer, for example, could provide more accurate predictions of climate changes and be used in improving the design of airplanes, the officials said. Many recent major advances in drug development for health care have been driven by high-performance computers, too. Speedy calculations can be used to identify compounds that are likely to succeed in clinical tests, freeing scientists from having to try unnecessary combinations in the lab. Staff writer Keith Rogers contributed to this report. 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