From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #454 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, July 26 2001 Volume 01 : Number 454 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:25:01 -0700 From: Pamela Meidell Subject: (abolition-usa) Delayed posting of Los Alamos Solidarity Action Dear US Abolitionists, For some reason, this message was not posted to this list as intended. Trinity Day has come and gone, but nuclear weapons are still with us. So I forward this letter that was intended to reach you before yesterday. I am always struck by the short time period between the first atomic test on July 16 and the first use in war of the atomic bombs on August 6 and 9. It is a mere three weeks. Perhaps we could use this three-week time period to harness our energies more intensively for nuclear abolition given the current administration's initiatives in the opposite direction. In peace, Pamela Meidell Dear Abolition Friends, Monday, July 16 is "Trinity Day," the 56th anniversary of the first nuclear test in history, and the fiery birth of the Nuclear Age on Mescalero Apache land in southern New Mexico. Many nuclear abolition advocates are gathered in Santa Fe, New Mexico for five days, educating and energizing each other for the task ahead of us. We are participating in the US Network (formerly Campaign) to Abolish Nuclear Weapons annual general meeting, and the Peace Action New Mexico conference and rally. We invite you to pause and join us, wherever you are on Monday, to remember the beginning of the Nuclear Age, and to recommit yourselves to our mutual work of nuclear abolition. We offer this litany of remembrance for your reflection and use. Last year, members of the US Campaign (now Network) to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, read out this litany in our nation's capital in a downpour. We will do so again this year in Los Alamos, rain or shine. We hope you will join us. (Please feel free to circulate widely. Apologies for duplicate postings, if you are on several lists. We would appreciate hearing from you any observances you organize on this day, or other ways you use the litany.) Thank you! Litany of Remembrance for the Nuclear Age July 16, 2001 In the year 2001, the people of the earth remember the beginning of the Nuclear Age on July 16, 1945. We remember each child born since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, the miracle and sacredness of each living being. We remember the image of the first mushroom cloud of the Trinity atomic test, rising above the earth near Alamogordo, New Mexico. We remember the words of Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, "I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds." We remember "Little Boy," and "Fat Man," the atomic bombs that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Today, we remember the terrible destructive power and violence latent within us, and made manifest in the bomb. We look into our hearts and draw from the deep wells of beauty, creativity, and humanity's spiritual traditions, to nurture a culture of peace and health. We remember the visionaries who have come before us, calling us to our best selves. We give thanks for their witness and their commitment to life. We remember the cost to all life of our commitment to death. We remember the Indigenous peoples of the Earth, on whose lands we mine for uranium, test our nuclear weapons, and fill with our nuclear waste. We remember the Hibakusha, the Downwinders, the Atomic Veterans, the children of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, knowing that in a global community, we are all Hibakusha, we are all Downwinders. We remember the deserts of New Mexico, Nevada, Lop Nor, Maralinga, Algeria, Rajasthan, and Kazakhstan, where the atomic violence creates deserts in our hearts and souls. We remember the islands of Bikini, Christmas, Eniwetok, Fangataufa, Johnston, Monte Bello, Moruroa, and Novaya Zemlya, where the atomic destruction makes us islands unto ourselves. We remember the plants and animals of the earth, whose waters, soil, and air, we contaminate in the name of "national security." We remember our children and grandchildren and all beings of the future, and ask their forgiveness for the radioactive legacy we leave to them. Today, we remember our nuclear history so that we will not repeat it. Copyright 2000 by the Atomic Mirror. Permission to use or reprint is freely granted. Pamela Meidell Director The Atomic Mirror "Reflecting and Transforming our Nuclear World through the Arts" P.O. Box 220 Port Hueneme, CA 93044 tel: 805 985 5073 fax: 805 985 7563 email: pamela@atomicmirror.org "Politics is the art of the possible, Creativity is the art of the impossible." Ben Okri - - 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: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:00:04 -0700 From: Pamela Meidell Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT: Bush II and International Treaties Dear Friends, A British activist colleague who has worked for years on nuclear issues has the following article printed in the Guardian today. Definite food for thought and seeds for creative action. Please consider how you can get involved and speak out if you haven't already! In peace, Pamela Meidell Doomsday=20 Bush Has Been Ditching Treaties Since He Came To Power.=20 He Must Be Stopped Before It's Too Late.=20 by Rebecca Johnson=20 They pulled out of the Kyoto treaty, and I did not speak out, because I thought global warming wouldn't affect me personally. Then they trashed the anti-ballistic-missile treaty, but I did not speak out, because it was an old, bilateral agreement from 30 years ago.=20 Then they put private, commercial interests above implementing and verifying the treaties banning chemical, biological and toxin weapons, but I did not speak out because such weapons are too complicated for media coverage. Then they threatened the nuclear test ban treaty, and I did not speak out, because the United States is a major ally that I did not want to offend.=20 Then the international arms control and non-proliferation regimes collapsed. Americans weren't bothered at first, for hadn't the government promised a super-sophisticated force field round the whole nation that no terrorist or missile would ever penetrate? So nuclear testing resumed in Nevada for new warheads to improve the kill prospects of missile interceptors and to penetrate deep into enemies' bunkers.=20 India had been waiting for just such a go-ahead, and Pakistan soon followed; both raced to test warheads to fit on to missiles, upping the tension in Kashmir and along the borders with China. Free now to resume its own testing, China boosted its program to modernize and increase the size of its small nuclear arsenal. Somewhat reluctantly, Russia followed. Moscow suspended all further reductions and cooperative security and safety programs for its still-large nuclear arsenal and facilities.=20 Within a few short years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty was just another discarded agreement. Many governments with nuclear power programs developed nuclear weapons as well, while others fitted anthrax or sarin on to weapons, just in case. Most hadn't wanted to, but fearful that their neighbors would, all felt compelled.=20 Regional rivalries grew quickly into major international problems. Alliances collapsed amid suspicion and recriminations. The burgeoning arms races even spread into outer space, threatening military surveillance, as well as public communication, entertainment and navigation. No one knew who had what.=20 Deterrence was empty, as defense analysts calculated the advantages of the pre-emptive strike. In that terrified atmosphere of insecurity and mistrust, someone launched first. And then it was too late to speak out. The Republicans hadn't yet managed to get missile defense to work.=20 Such a doomsday scenario is not so fanciful. On July 7, the New York Times announced that President Bush wants to ditch the comprehensive test ban treaty. A week before, the administration asked nuclear laboratories to work out how quickly the US could resume testing after its nine-year moratorium.=20 If Bush were to back out of the test ban treaty or break the moratorium on nuclear testing - undertaken with China, Russia, Britain and France - he would also explicitly breach agreements made last May, when 187 countries negotiated measures to strengthen and implement the non- proliferation treaty.=20 The test ban is no outdated cold war instrument, but a fundamental tool to prevent new, destabilizing developments in nuclear weapons. Over several decades, from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the capitals of Europe to the deserts of Nevada, people have marched, petitioned, demonstrated and even sailed or hiked into test sites. Many have been imprisoned, and some even lost their lives trying to stop the nuclear weapons governments from polluting our oceans and earth with radioactivity from nuclear explosions, conducted for one purpose only - to make "better" nuclear bombs.=20 It took three arduous years to complete negotiations on the comprehensive test ban treaty. It isn't perfect. No product of compromise ever is. The verification system is very thorough, but it also had to be affordable, financially and politically.=20 The treaty stopped short of closing and dismantling the known test sites or banning laboratory testing, which the weapon states said they needed to assure the safety and reliability of weapons in the stockpiles (pending achievement of their other treaty obligations to eliminate the nuclear arsenals completely). But it does ban all nuclear test explosions in all environments.=20 India panicked, because the treaty would close off its nuclear options. It refused to sign, and then let off a string of nuclear explosions in May 1998. Pakistan followed, to prove it could. Even so, the treaty held. Neither government has felt able to keep testing, which means their options for further developments were curbed.=20 Bush has embarked on a very slippery slope that could potentially put at risk the future of the citizens of even the most advanced military nation. Mumbling and grumbling won't keep us safe. It is time to speak out.=20 Rebecca Johnson is executive director=20 of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy=20 Published on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 in the Guardian of London=20 =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001 =20 Pamela Meidell=20 Director The Atomic Mirror "Reflecting and Transforming our Nuclear World through the Arts" P.O. Box 220 Port Hueneme, CA 93044 tel: 805 985 5073 fax: 805 985 7563 email: pamela@atomicmirror.org "Politics is the art of the possible, Creativity is the art of the impossible." Ben Okri - - 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, 19 Jul 2001 08:45:45 -0400 From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Good news from Congress on nuclear testing To: Interested Persons 1. Nevada Test Site Readiness Request Denied. Currently it would take the Energy Department two to three years of preparations to conduct a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. The Bush administration had proposed that the readiness period be shortened to six months. However, the Appropriations Committees have rejected the request. The Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee barred any funds "to increase the readiness for underground nuclear testing" in its energy and water appropriations bill. The strong language from the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Sonny Callahan (AL), is at the bottom of this message. The Senate Appropriations Committee also rejected the administration's request in its version of the bill. 2. Full Funding for Nuclear Testing Monitoring Organization. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) was created as an international body to monitor compliance with the nuclear testing moratorium. The Bush administration budget request for fiscal year 2002 includes the U.S. dues payment to the CTBTO of $20 million, similar to previous requests. Some Senators have been urging that the U.S. terminate its payments to the organization. In a March 12 letter to the State Department, Sen. Jesse Helms stated: "I believe that it is time ... to terminate funding to CTBT organizations." However, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee this week provided full funding for the CTBTO in the foreign operations appropriations bill. Credit goes to Rep. Jim Kolbe (AZ), the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee chairman. Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT), a strong supporter of arms control, chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that handles the foreign operations bill. Thus CTBTO funding is secure for fiscal year 2002. However, the Bush administration is currently reviewing whether the U.S. should continue payments to the CTBTO and may decide not to request further funds for the organization in the fiscal year 2003 budget, which will be submitted in February 2003. Thanks to those of you of that contributed to these victories. We can expect both issues to be back next year. David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 546-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Website: www.fcnl.org - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Report on the House Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, FY 2002 House Report 107-112, pp. 125-126. Underground Nuclear Testing.--The Department of Energy was slow to provide detailed justification for its supplemental appropriations funding request for fiscal year 2001 to the Committee. The information it provided to the Committee was informal and on an ad-hoc rather than a formal basis. After the Committee had made its funding recommendations for the bill, DOE submitted formal justification material to justify its request. The formal material mentions funding to increase the state of readiness of underground nuclear testing. If the Nation were to decide to invest funds to restore underground nuclear testing to a higher level than presently, this could only be done: (1) once the Secretary of Defense concluded his strategic review; (2) once the President made a recommendation to the Congress; (3) once it was approved by the Armed Services Committees of the House and the Senate; and (4) only if it were subsequently approved by Congress. None of these activities has occurred. It is not the Committee's intent to provide funding in this Act, the supplemental appropriations Act for fiscal year 2001, or any prior Act for activities to increase the readiness for underground nuclear testing. None of the funds in such Acts may be used for that purpose. - - 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: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:41:55 +0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) will Aboliton 2000 movement target 2000th Christmas 12/25/01 date for nuclear abolition? From: "David Crockett Williams" On Friday, July 13th, I visited with David Krieger at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara to report that his and the Abolition 2000 messages submitted last year to the Global Peace Walk 2000 had been delivered, along with many other global peace messages in Washington DC and to the United Nations last October, and to suggest a resetting of the Abolition 2000 Coalition's nuclear abolition target date for December 25th this year, the traditionally recognized "2000th Christmas" birth anniversary of Jesus. When I explained that I was organizing a peace walk from Bethlehem to Jerusalem for that day to end with a "Jerusalem Peace Council" to present messages for global peace accumulated between now and then on the internet, and suggested that "nuclear abolition would be a great 2000th birthday present to offer Jesus" his eyes lit up with a twinkle and he said "it sure would be". He explained that the Abolition 2000 theme had been changed before the end of last year from getting a nuclear abolition framework established by the end of last year to the achieved goal of enrolling over 2000 organizations endorsing nuclear abolition. If each of these organizations and their networks are alerted to this idea of a new target date goal to obtain a nuclear abolition framework by the 2000th Christmas, this could capture the imagination and cooperation at deep levels among the public and leaders around the world, especially the United States, and perhaps more tangible and immediate progress towards this goal could be thereby achieved. This could also add impetus and greater support for the bill again submitted to Congress last week by DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act which needs additional Congressional co-sponsors to have any hope of making it to a vote in Congress. Before December 25th this year would be an inspirational target date by which such Congressional floor vote might take place http://www.prop1.org Please forward this idea to your networks for their consideration and request for their submissions of messages along these lines to the Jerusalem Peace Council list website http://www.groups.yahoogroups.com/group/jerusalem-peace-council Financial support for this project and the Bethlehem to Jerusalem Global Peace Walk may be sent to David Crockett Williams (661-822-3309) gear2000@lightspeed.net PO Box 147 Tehachapi, CA 93581 - - 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, 23 Jul 2001 08:21:44 +0100 From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-caucus] Serge Levillayer trial] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------10912D9BAB32081AA7FF4FC5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------10912D9BAB32081AA7FF4FC5 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from n31.groups.yahoo.com ([216.115.96.81]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tlnltt.42q.37tiu4s.1 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:52:29 -0700 (PDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1413460-3838-995874718-sallight1=earthlink.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by hp.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2001 07:51:59 -0000 X-Sender: lalanne@lal.in2p3.fr X-Apparently-To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 23 Jul 2001 07:51:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 25546 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2001 07:51:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Jul 2001 07:51:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asa.lal.in2p3.fr) (134.158.91.28) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 07:51:57 -0000 Received: from asc.lal.in2p3.fr (asc.lal.in2p3.fr [134.158.91.18]) by asa.lal.in2p3.fr (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA1089501; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:51:55 +0200 (CEST) To: abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Cc: Serge Levillayer Message-ID: From: Dominique Lalanne MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com; contact abolition-caucus-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:51:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [abolition-caucus] Serge Levillayer trial Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear friends, Serge Levillayer, a well-known french activist against nuclear weapons is brought to trial this tuesday, July 24th in France. His crime: painting on the ground in front of the Cherbourg arsenal and basis of nuclear submarines in Britany (Brest, France) the statement of the International Court of Justice of The Hague against the use or threat of nuclear weapons. For sure, letters to the Court will be helpfull to show the international support to his action. See below a proposal of letter, in french, to send by fax to the number: 33 2 33 01 61 74 Thank you for your support, Dominique lalanne, Stop-Essais/Abolition of nuclear weapons - ---------------------------------------------------------- Affaire Serge Levillayer Audience du 24 juillet, 16 h Monsieur le Pr=E9sident du Tribunal 15, rue des Tribunaux 50100 CHERBOURG Monsieur le Pr=E9sident, Serge Levillayer est appel=E9 =E0 compara=EEtre devant votre tribunal, le 2= 4 juillet prochain =E0 16 heures pour y r=E9pondre de ses actes. Le pr=E9venu est poursuivi pour avoir inscrit sur la chaussee et le parking de l'arsenal de Cherbourg l'Avis de la Cour internationale de Justice de La Haye (CIJ) sur la lic=E9it=E9 des armes nucl=E9aires. M. Serge Levillayer rappelle que la France commet une infraction=20 caract=E9ris=E9e au droit international en poursuivant la modernisation de = son=20 armement nucl=E9aire. En effet, le 8 juillet 1996, la Cour de La Haye affir= ma=20 en toute ind=E9pendance, et ce malgr=E9 les pressions exerc=E9es sur elle p= ar les 5=20 grandes puissances, que "la menace et de l'usage des armes atomiques sont e= n=20 g=E9n=E9ral contraires aux r=E8gles qui r=E9gissent les conflits arm=E9s". Par cette action, Monsieur Levillayer a voulu rappeler que des activit=E9s illicites contredisent l'Avis de la plus haute juridiction internationale. En effet, la Direction des constructions navales (DCN) de Cherbourg a la ma=EEtrise d'oeuvre des sous-marins nucl=E9aires fran=E7a= is de la nouvelle g=E9n=E9ration (SNLE-NG) qui constituent l'essentiel du dispositif de frappe nucleaire de la France. Les sous-marins nucl=E9aires strat=E9giques sont arm=E9s de 288 ogives nucl=E9aires sur les 350 en servi= ce. Or, le 28 juillet 2000, le ministre francais de la D=E9fense a annonc=E9 la construction d'un 4=E8me SNLE-NG =E0 Cherbourg. Ce nouveau programme sera r=E9parti entre une dizaine d'=E9tablissements d=E9pendant de la DCN et va impliquer environ 4.000 entreprises sous-traitantes mais pour 50% de sa valeur, ce programme sera assur=E9 par la DCN de Cherbourg. En inscrivant l'extrait de l'Avis de la CIJ sur la chaussee et le parking de l'arsenal, Monsieur Levillayer n'a fait qu'attirer l'attention sur le necessaire respect du droit international. Cette course au d=E9veloppement qualitatif et non plus quantitatif - comme durant la p=E9riode de la "guerre froide" -, jette le discr=E9dit sur l'adh=E9sion de la France au Trait=E9 sur la non prolif=E9ration nucl=E9air= e ratifi=E9, le 1er juillet 1992. De ce fait la France infirme sa volont=E9 manifest=E9e =E0 New York en mai 2000, lors de la Conf=E9rence de r=E9visio= n du TNP, de s'engager "sans =E9quivoque =E0 r=E9aliser l'=E9limination totale d= e ses arsenaux nucl=E9aires". Par les poursuites engag=E9es contre Serge Levillayer, on stigmatise un citoyen profond=E9ment attach=E9 au caract=E8re sacr=E9 =E0 toute vie humai= ne et dont l'existence toute enti=E8re t=E9moigne de ses convictions non-violentes, et on omet d'incriminer les dirigeants politiques qui portent la responsabilit=E9 de cette situation qui menace la paix mondiale. Nous osons croire, Monsieur le Pr=E9sident, qu'au del=E0 du caract=E8re tr= =E8s peu "d=E9lictueux" des faits retenus, vous saurez reconna=EEtre la l=E9gitimit=E9 de l'expression de Monsieur Levillayer. Depuis longtemps Serge Levillayer - instituteur retrait=E9 et membre de l'association Stop Essais ! et donc membre du reseau Abolition 2000- a choisi son camp, celui des abolitionnistes qui condamnent la peine de mort inflig=E9e sans discrimination aux non-combattants comme aux militaires par le jeu des repr=E9sailles nucl=E9aires, le camp du "seul combat qui vaille la peine d'=EAtre men=E9" selon Albert Camus, celui de la raison contre l'enfer. Vous remerciant de votre compr=E9hension et de votre cl=E9mence, nous vous= =20 assurons, Monsieur le Pr=E9sident, de notre haute consid=E9ration et de nos= =20 salutations distingu=E9es. Name, adresse, institution To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account= you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message.=20 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/=20 - --------------10912D9BAB32081AA7FF4FC5-- - - 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, 26 Jul 2001 09:48:31 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Action at Livermore Lab Aug. 6 You are invited to Livermore! We look forward to seeing you! Here is the basic info you need about the action. Please come, and please publicize the Aug. 6 action through your contacts. Cool fliers are available from us on request. (Additionally, if you are interested in bicycling on Aug 6 from UC Berkeley to Livermore, let me know and I will send you David Weddingdress' email for that event.) Peace, Marylia What: Rally and Nonviolent Direct Action Title: "Peace on Earth and in Space" When: Monday, August 6, 2001, beginning at 7 AM Why: Commemorating the 56th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Where: Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, corner of East Ave. & Vasco Rd., Livermore (directions, below) Speakers: Dr. Robert M. Bowman, President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, on weapons in space Dial Keju of the Marshall Islands, where Livermore and Los Alamos Labs conducted above-ground nuclear testing Music: Members of the La Pena Chorus Memorial: to honor local activists who have died in 2000-2001 Maylie Scott * Pauline Thompson * Judy Foster * Robert Heifetz Abe Zwickel * Dorothy Brownhold * Marie Pastrick * Jane Hutchins Following the rally and commemoration: There will be a procession to the gates of the Livermore Lab for a nonviolent, risk arrest action Bring: Banners, signs, origami, musical instruments and friends Directions: Take I-580 to the Vasco Road exit in Livermore. Go south on Vasco about two miles to East Ave. For further information: Livermore Conversion Project (510) 663-8065 Cosponsored by Northern California peac groups including Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - 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, 26 Jul 2001 10:34:56 -0700 From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Aug 6 eve Benefit with Jesse Colin Young BENEFIT CONCERT -- GREAT MUSIC, FOOD, BEER, WINE AND NO NUKES For Immediate Release Contact: Tom Campbell, Guacamole Fund, 310-374-4837 Danny Kennedy , Greenpeace, 415-512-9110 Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925-443-7148 John Hadder, Citizen Alert, 775-827-4200 JESSE COLIN YOUNG AND NO NUKES AT DOWNTOWN Singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young will be appearing at a "No Nukes" evening at the Berkeley restaurant and bar, "downtown," on August 6th. This special evening of food, libations and music featuring Jesse Colin Young and Sons will be sponsored by Greenpeace with the proceeds going to Tri-Valley CAREs and Citizen Alert. The event will commemorate the 56th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Tickets are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law and are $100, which includes the show with complimentary beer and wine and the artists party following, with gourmet light fare. There are a limited number of $250 tickets, which include a gourmet dinner and the show and party. Tickets may be purchased at downtown, located at 2102 Shattuck Avenue or at C'esar at 1515 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. To order by phone, call 800-728-6223. The show begins at 7:00 PM. The founder of the sixties hit group, The Youngbloods, Jesse Colin Young went on to a successful solo career and is touring with his son and godson. The trio will perform at downtown on Monday, August 6, 2001, playing a mix of old songs and material from their new album, "Walk the Talk," which was released in May. Tri-Valley CAREs promotes global nuclear disarmament and seeks to transform the Livermore Lab from nuclear weapons design to peaceful pursuits, ensure the cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution coming from the weapons lab, and safeguard the Bay Area from the additional threats posed by the lab's new nuclear weapons programs. A major focus of the organization is stopping the construction of the controversial National Ignition Facility, a football stadium-sized nuclear fusion machine being built at Livermore Lab to blast radioactive fuel pellets with 192 laser beams. "We are deeply appreciative that Jesse Colin Young is bringing his stellar talent to the Bay Area to stop new nuclear weapons programs," said Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs' executive director. "The benefit at 'downtown' promises to satisfy not only the ears and palates of its patrons, but also their hearts' aspirations for a more peaceful world." Visit the group's website at http://www.igc.org/tvc. Citizen Alert is a 26 year old grassroots Nevada-based organization that has been informing the public and organizing around nuclear issues since its inception. The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to recommend Yucca Mountain, NV to the president this year as the appropriate place to store the nations high-level radioactive waste. The current proposal is to transport, by rail and truck, 77,000 tons of this waste through 43 states - -- potentially impacting millions of people. Yucca Mountain is located 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Yucca Mountain is a poor choice, lying within the highest earthquake class zone and on top of a freshwater aquifer. There is still great uncertainty about the site and the transportation of the waste. Even the DOE admits the site will leak; it's just a matter of when and how much. "We need to readdress the national policy on nuclear waste for now and for our future generations," explained John Hadder of Citizen Alert. The group's website is http://www.citizenalert.org. Greenpeace's "Clean Energy Now Campaign," in conjunction with local and state-based groups, is working to reduce California's impact on the local and global environment by helping to forge the world's largest clean energy economy replete with good jobs and export opportunities. Greenpeace supports the struggle for clean and affordable electricity -- which means no nukes and no more fossil fools. Greenpeace will expose corporate profiteering at consumers' expense, as well as use non-violent direct action to push utilities, politicians and other decision-makers to make choices which advance clean energy technology and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Go to http://www.cleanenergynow.org for more information. "downtown" is a recently opened restaurant and bar in Berkeley, operated by Richard Mazzera, who managed the seminal California eatery, "Chez Panisse" for over 25 years. According to Richard, "We are pleased to be able to continue the same kinds of commitment and community involvement that we experienced with 'Chez Panisse' at 'C'esar' and 'downtown'. We are looking forward to a great evening of music with Jesse, his boys and No Nukes." ### THE GUACAMOLE FUND CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL CHANGE AND SERVICE EVENTS PH: 310/374-4837 * FX: 310/374-0878 440-B PIER AVENUE, HERMOSA BEACH, CA 90254 guacfund@bigplanet.com Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - - 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, 26 Jul 2001 18:47:13 -0400 From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert on Missile Defense Dear Friends -- Below is FCNL's recent action alert on missile defense. Links to background material and to sample letters to Congress are in the alert. Feel free to use, modify or adapt the alert for your own use. Sincerely, David Culp Friends Committee on National Legislation - ----------------------------------------- FCNL LEGISLATIVE ACTION MESSAGE - July 26th, 2001 The following action items from the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) focus on federal policy issues currently before Congress or the Administration as of July 26th, 2001. TOPICS: MISSILE DEFENSE MISSILE DEFENSE: Next week, the House Armed Services Committee is expected to consider the 2002 Defense Authorization bill which includes authorization for missile defense program activities. The bill is likely to include provisions authorizing activities which would violate the terms of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty with Russia and accelerate research, development and deployment of a missile defense system. The Bush administration has announced its intention to either terminate the ABM treaty with Russia's consent or, barring this, unilaterally withdraw from the treaty sometime over the next several months. The President has also proposed a dramatic 57% ($3 billion) increase in spending on missile defense research, development and deployment for FY2002, which, if enacted would raise total missile defense spending to $8.3 billion. The Senate will consider the Defense Authorization bill in September. ACTION: Please contact your legislators today, especially if they serve on the House or Senate Armed Services Committee. Urge them to oppose any provisions in the Defense Department Authorization bill which would authorize missile defense program activities that violate the ABM treaty. The U.S. should not rush to deploy a missile defense system that would undermine international arms control and disarmament efforts. Please contact your senators or organize delegations to meet with your senators to discuss these concerns over the August and Labor Day recess. You can use FCNL's web site to find out if your senators or representative are on the Senate or House Armed Services Committees. Click on the link below, enter your zip code in the appropriate box, and click . Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find your senators and representative. Under their names, click on . Committee information is listed under the heading . Here is the link: . You can also contact Peter Morscheck at FCNL, via email at peter@fcnl.org or via telephone at (202) 547-6000 x 115. USE FCNL'S WEB SITE TO MAKE LETTER-WRITING EASIER: Start with the sample letter posted in our Legislative Action Center, personalize the language, then send your message as an email directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view a sample letter, click on the link below. Then enter your zip code and click in the box. Here is the link . BACKGROUND: Last week, the Bush Administration announced that U.S. missile defense research and development (R&D) activities over the next several months will likely bring the U.S. out of compliance with the ABM treaty. This week, the Administration indicated that it hopes the Russians will agree to abandon the treaty with the U.S., but that the Administration plans to move ahead aggressively with its missile defense program whether the Russians agree or not. The Administration wants to complete construction of a missile defense interceptor site at Fort Greeley, Alaska by 2004. It plans to begin clearing trees at the site this fall (which would not violate the ABM treaty), and it would begin pouring concrete next spring (which would violate the treaty). The treaty requires that the U.S. or Russia give 6 months formal notice to the other party before withdrawing from the treaty. However, the Bush Administration has not yet given this notice to the Russians. It is uncertain how the Russians will respond. Last week, following the meeting between Presidents Bush and Putin, the Russians indicated they would be willing to negotiate a new agreement on missile defenses. However, the Bush Administration indicated that it had no interest in revising the treaty or negotiating a new formal agreement. Instead, the Administration is seeking to continue high level consultations with Russia through which they hope to achieve informal agreement that both countries will simply withdraw from the treaty. The Administration is proposing to expedite deployment of a missile defense system and expand R&D despite serious questions about the justification, efficacy, cost, and reliability of such a system. For example: * There is little credible threat of a ballistic missile attack from countries such as North Korea, Iraq, or Iran, and these improbable threats can be reduced further and at much less cost through bilateral and multilateral diplomatic initiatives and verifiable arms control agreements. * Governments around the world, especially in Europe and East Asia are concerned that U.S. missile defense plans will undermine global arms control and disarmament efforts. * An accelerated missile defense program is virtually certain to lead China to increase the number of nuclear weapons pointed at U.S. cities and may discourage Russia from making deep cuts in its arsenal. * After over thirty years and over $100 billion of research and development, engineers have yet to design a missile defense system that will work under realistic conditions. * Finally, the Bush administration has yet to provide full details to Congress or the American people about what it is they plan to build, how much it will cost, or how they will pay for it. Expensive, high-tech weapons are no substitute for effective diplomacy, arms control, disarmament, and international cooperation. Cooperative international arms control and disarmament agreements will be far more effective in advancing peace and security in the years ahead and will cost far less than a missile shield. The Bush Administration has tried to present missile defense as a moral imperative for the country. However, we at FCNL believe that the true moral imperative is not to build yet another expensive, provocative, new weapon system, but to reduce the threat of nuclear war and accidental catastrophe through arms control, disarmament, and international cooperation. U.S. leadership is needed now to stop another arms race before it begins. Toward that end, the U.S. should: * immediately de-alert U.S. nuclear weapons and encourage Russia to do the same; * sharply reduce the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile; * provide assistance and incentives to Russia and others to safely dispose of weapons of mass destruction, to halt the export of related technologies and weapons, and to redirect weapons industries to peaceful purposes; * provide positive incentives to North Korea to permanently halt its ballistic missile program; and * vigorously pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures to rapidly reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons stockpiles and other weapons of mass destruction. For more background information on missile defense, please see FCNL's web site . 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