From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #482 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 Friday, October 26 2001 Volume 01 : Number 482 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:59:19 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: ALERT! HELP STOP PRO-NUKE, PRO ANWR ENERGY BILL! >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:18:33 -0400 >From: michael mariotte >Reply-To: nirsnet@nirs.org >Organization: NIRS >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: nirsnet@nirs.org >Subject: ALERT! HELP STOP PRO-NUKE, PRO ANWR ENERGY BILL! >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >Energy industry interests in the U.S. Senate, led by former Energy >Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) are using our current >national security crisis as an immoral, repugnant means of propping up >the nuclear and oil industries. > >Specifically, Murkowski and a few other Senators reportedly have >introduced a "stripped-down" energy bill that they intend to attach to >any legislation moving through the Senate--no matter how important that >legislation is to our country. > >This "stripped-down" bill (we don't yet have a bill number) would >reauthorize the Price-Anderson nuclear insurance scheme (despite the >fact that it does not expire until next August, and is only needed to >allow construction of new reactors), allow oil drilling in the Arctic >National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), provide some gas pipeline incentives, >and provide a minimum of funds for renewable energy projects. > >This effort is in response to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's >refusal to bring up energy legislation that includes ANWR to the Senate >floor, and his directive to Senate Energy Committee chairman Jeff >Bingaman (D-N.M.) to develop a new bill Daschle can support sufficiently >to bring to a vote. Murkowski and his colleagues want to bypass Daschle >and get their own bill voted on, and they don't seem to care what kind >of harm they do to the nation to get this. > >We must respond NOW! However, responding is not as easy in these times >as it sometimes is. > >First, there is no guarantee Bingaman will produce a bill without >Price-Anderson reauthorization (it was in his initial draft). Thus, we >cannot simply support a Bingaman alternative. > >Second, as you probably know, it is virtually impossible to reach anyone >on Capitol Hill right now--most Senate and House offices remain closed >due to anthrax scares. It is simply not possible to effectively call, >e-mail, or fax anyone in the Senate, and letters absolutely will not be >delivered for weeks, if then. > >Thus, we must be more creative. First, contact your local media. Do they >know a small band of right-wing, pro-energy industry senators are >threatening to hold up the works of the entire U.S. Senate during this >crucial period in our history, simply to help their allies and campaign >contributors? Is this really the type of divisive, controversial >legislation the Senate should be considering right now? Or should the >Senate focus on appropriations bills and keeping the government running >in its few days before adjournment? Why does reauthorization of >Price-Anderson, which doesn't expire for many months, and even then is >only necessary for new reactors, rate such a high priority on these >senators' agendas? > >We urge you to call your local reporters and editorial boards, write >letters to the editor and op-eds, call in to radio talk shows, contact >your local TV outlets. The more this story is told, the less likely >Murkowski et al, will be successful. Please feel free to refer your >media to NIRS for additional comment/background info if they would like >it. > >Second, please call your Senators' home offices--since you can't call >them on Capitol Hill, call them at home, and urge them to oppose >minority efforts to add controversial energy legislation--especially >Price-Anderson and ANWR--to urgent bills. Tell them to choose a >SUSTAINABLE energy future. Tell them you have contacted your local media >to watch their actions. Your Senators' local offices should be listed in >the blue (government) pages of your phone book; if you cannot find a >number, call NIRS (202-328-0002). > >Third, ask everyone you know and everyone you meet to do steps 1 and 2! > >Finally, continue to gather signatures on NIRS' Petition for a >Sustainable Energy Future. We have collected many thousands of >signatures in just a few weeks, but we need to get more. If you need >more copies, you can a) download from NIRS' website, in the Nuclear >Relapse section (www.nirs.org); b) call NIRS (202-328-0002) and we will >either fax or mail you copies. We will get these to the Senate before >any vote occurs. > >The actions of these few Senators are as opportunistic and disgusting as >I have seen in my 17 years at NIRS. But these Senators have some less >vocal allies. With some major national environmental groups still >sitting on the sidelines after September 11, it's up to us to stop this >in its tracks. The nuclear and oil industries are not grieving, they are >pressing hard for their own interests. We CAN stop them! I really ask >each of you to help. > >Thank you. > >Michael Mariotte >Executive Director >Nuclear Information and Resource Service >www.nirs.org > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:27:50 -0400 From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on the Foreign Ops. Bill Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the CTBTO. The Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill this evening. Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and other for the their work in opposing this amendment. David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - - 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, 24 Oct 2001 17:40:21 -0700 From: carol wolman Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on Dear David, With the Senate and House office buildings closed, how do we lobbY? Peace, Carol David Culp wrote: > Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) on the Foreign > Ops. Bill > > Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the CTBTO. The > Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill this evening. > > Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and other for the > their work in opposing this amendment. > > David Culp, Legislative Representative > Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) > 245 Second Street, N.E. > Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 > Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 > Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 > Fax: (202) 547-6019 > E-mail: david@fcnl.org > Web site: www.fcnl.org > > - > 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. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:06:40 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Culture of Peace Blueprint & World Peace Walk, Bethlehem to Jerusalem Peace Walk, Hiroshima Flame Walk 2002, Global Peace Walk 2002 "A Blueprint for The Third Millennium Culture of Peace" - --- A Spiritual Pilgrimage for Global Peace Now --- by David Crockett Williams (III), Citizen, United States of America, an American Peace Movement member, Tehachapi, California USA October 24, 2001, (3M-62), 62days before The 2000th Christmas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement A Message Offered -- To The Public, and to the United Nations and the United States Governments, in respect of the October 27th to November 17, 2001, World Peace Walk from New York City to Washington DC inspired by the September 11th tragedies to carry and offer The Message of Peace walking from the World Trade Center to the Pentagon carrying a peace flame inspired by smoldering ruins. Today, October 24, 2001, is the 56th "United Nations Day" -- the anniversary of the ratification in New York City of the United Nations Organization Charter whose initial draft was signed June 26, 1945, in San Francisco -- for the elimination of the scourge of war beginning with the renunciation of weapons of mass destruction and other crimes against humanity. One year ago, my UN 55th Anniversary Culture of Peace Message to the United Nations was hand-delivered on its arrival cosigned by all of the Global Peace Walk 2000 PeaceWalkers who had crossed the United States walking from San Francisco last year, January 15th to October 24th, to United Nations headquarters in New York City. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-walk/message/522 , /523 That message was offered to the United Nations and to The Public upon arrival of the Global Peace Walk 2000 to the United Nations one year ago today as part of a compilation of such letters of acknowledgement and support, including many official letters, messages, and proclamations in support of "Global Peace Now!" from many city mayors including San Francisco's Willie Brown and Oakland's Jerry Brown, national political leaders including President Clinton, religious leaders including Rev. Jesse Jackson, indigenous leaders including Leonard Peltier, and many activists and organizations in support of "Global Peace Now!" as the universal human resolve needed to effectively initiate the United Nations' Decade for Creating a Culture of Peace in the 21st Century (2000-2009) over these remaining years of the UN Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995-2004). That compilation, which we took such time and effort to research, to compose footnoted and referenced, compile with endorsement letters, to carry, and to deliver to the United Nations and to the United States Governments last October, has clearly been ignored along with the messages of our predecessors such as Hopi Interpreter Thomas Banyacya, Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual teacher ("Guruji") the late most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, The 1978 Longest Walk of the American Indian Movement whose message was that "Spirituality is The Highest Form of Politics," et. al. Therefore the precendents that we presented then a year ago for a 21st Century Culture of Peace, as valuable historical examples of the creation of cultures of peace in the past by the simple acceptance and implementation of the message of the great law of peace, i.e., the Iroquois Confederacy and the reign of ancient India's King Ashoka, have apparently also been ignored, rejected, and dismissed. As a result of this ignorant dismissal and the prediction/prophecy fulfillment factors discussed in similar warnings to the United Nations in 1992 and 1993 by the global indigenous elders, we are seeing more and more wars of increasingly belligerent confrontations, increasingly lethal levels of environmental degradation, increasing human rights abuses, and even increasing levels of natural disasters as human history still continues on the pathway towards total destruction and potential human extinction by nuclear holocaust. Now my prayers go out with this message for the success of this World Peace Walk to share with the various religious, economic, and political doctrines practitioners in ceremonies and councils in the coming weeks to seek, find, foster, and develop the common unity of mind, decision of purpose, and human resolve to correct whatever misunderstandings are at the root of this "9-11 Emergency." Therefore, this message is specifically offered for distribution by individual decision of The PeaceWalkers of the: World Peace Walk http://www.worldpeacewalk.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/world-peace-walk Bethlehem to Jerusalem Peace Walk & Council, December 25, 2001 To Unite the Adherents of The Three Faiths of Jerusalem in Peace http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-walk Hiroshima Flame Walk 2002, Seattle to the United Nations, January 15, 2002, 'til March 2002, to Stop Star Wars & All Wars, by Giving Rise to The Genuine Law to Bring Tranquility to The Nations http://www.dharmawalk.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/star-wars-dharma-walk Global Peace Walk 2002; Santa Fe to Taos, New Mexico, for the development of local Global Peace Zones, April 8-22, 2002. http://www.globalpeacenow.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-walk This is an update and reference to the many hundreds of pages detailing and documenting the information in this "blueprint" report, many posted at websites referenced herein. My personal view, as the 56-year old qualified author of a "theory" on the chemical physics of consciousness, is that humankind will imminently embrace the most significant advancement in human thinking since the recognition that the world, This Globe Our Beloved Earth, is round not flat and orbits the sun not vice versa. This paradigm-shifting advancement in human thinking, this New Millennium Scientific-Spiritual Conscience Revolution of Thought into Harmony with the Natural Order, will be brought about as the global public and leadership become aware of, become interested in, investigate, understand, and accept the very (innate) existence of the one law by which nature, God, and the human mind all invariably operate in our world -- The Law depicted, for example, in the Torah of Judaism as The Law by which even God operates and cannot contradict in the world, The Law whose true adherents comprise the real nation of Israel on this Earth; The Law depicted by the Lotus Sutra of Buddhism whose respect brings tranquility to the people and to the nations; The Law depicted in various ways by many other religious, spiritual, indigenous, and cultural teachings, scriptures, and traditions; and also The Law depicted by today's leading science of consciousness theories which portend not only the reconciliation of seemingly conflicting religious (and economic and political) doctrines in light of recent advances in the quantification and analysis of the physical nature of mind and consciousness, but also which form an acceptable basis for explanation and engineering of the still-suppressed so-called "new-energy" technologies, to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power technologies, as presented to the United Nations by former NASA astrophysicist Richard Hoagland in February 1992, by others to some extent to every US president and Congress since Jimmy Carter, formally to the US Department of Energy at its invitation in 1998 and 2000, and as currently being presented to California's Governor Gray Davis whose Energy Czar is slated to meet with our representative in a few weeks after reviewing the new-energy-solutions information we personally submitted in Sacramento, California, on July 30, 2001, to the Governor's Office and to the California Energy Commission. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-energy-solutions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun In his 1992 presentation at the United Nations, Richard Hoagland explained about the newly discovered mathematical ratio encoded in many ancient apparently man-made monuments all over the Earth, a mathematical concept related to the form-shape of a "tetrahedron inscribed inside of a sphere" and a concept he explained that his team of researchers were convinced represents some "forgotten" advanced human knowledge about how third dimensional spacial properties of our physical reality interact with fourth and higher spacial dimensional properties of physical reality (i.e., "hyperspace" physics). By some "coincidence," "Providence," or "synchronicity," this same form-shape of the "tetrahedron inside of a sphere" is part of the geometry of the "Tetron" function's symbol, as discussed in my recent lecture about this 1974-77 discovery of "the human mind's consciousness orientation function of light" at the Global Crisis Solutions Conference, September 10, 2001, at California State University at Northridge. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun This same human mind self-referential form-shape geometry (the tetrahedron is the simplest three dimensional shape and is the basic chemical bonding shape of Carbon, i.e., therefore the basic and fundamental shape of Carbon Life Forms) is also the basis of the geometries in my "Earthship Time-Star Construction System Human Hive Experiment" offered as an intercultural "homing device" and as an aid to reconciling conflicting factions of Earth's Family of Humankind. This device and that of the Rainbow Peace Braids are the first two of several recommended here to expand the UN's promotion of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century" into the actual implementation of a Third Millennium Culture of Peace with a Vision of Paradise on Earth. http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html We have not only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but also a once-upon-a-millennium opportunity in the coming few weeks, the next 62 days, before the traditionally recognized/observed 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus called Christ by Christians, called a Prophet of God by Moslems, and called a Jew by others. This "technical beginning" of The Third Millennium, this soon coming December 25, 2001, "2000th Christmas," offers a chance to re-evaluate the usefulness of our present arbitrary Gregorian calendar http://www.thirteenmoon.org and a chance for people of all faiths to offer their "2000th Christmas Gift" of the universal resolve by all of humanity to pray in their own ways for "Global Peace Now!" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/third-millennium-project This is why I pray to be able to walk and beat the drum and chant for peace from Bethlehem to Jerusalem this Christmas and to gather by then in Jerusalem the messages of peace to change the course of human history off of the path towards total destruction and onto the path towards true peace and harmony among all life with free natural abundance as paradise on Earth by giving rise to awareness and respect of the Genuine Law; Torahkum -- "The Law Stands Up." http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/history.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-walk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jerusalem-peace-council David Crockett Williams Global Emergency Alert Response, since November 23, 1998 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Proponent of a Kingdom of Jerusalem Israel To Unite the Three Faiths of Jerusalem in Peace http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kingdom-of-jerusalem-israel Additional references: Culture of the Sacred Pipe of Peace, annual World Peace Day http://www.worldpeaceday.com The Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii http://www.indiano.org/pagoda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sun-reach Hopi Interpreter Thomas Banyacya, Hopi Declaration of Peace http://groups.yahoo.com/group/banyacya The world teacher, Sri Sathya Sai http://www.sathyasai.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sathya-sai http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/india96.html Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams - - 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, 25 Oct 2001 08:12:49 -0400 From: David Culp Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitori ng (CTBTO) on Most are open today. The rest next week. David > -----Original Message----- > From: carol wolman [mailto:cwolman@mcn.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:40 pm > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing > monitoring (CTBTO) on > > > Dear David, With the Senate and House office buildings > closed, how do we > lobbY? > Peace, Carol > > David Culp wrote: > > > Re: Kyl amendment to cut nuclear testing monitoring (CTBTO) > on the Foreign > > Ops. Bill > > > > Sen. Kyl did not offer his amendment to cut funding for the > CTBTO. The > > Senate passed the foreign operations appropriations bill > this evening. > > > > Many thanks to Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) and > other for the > > their work in opposing this amendment. > > > > David Culp, Legislative Representative > > Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) > > 245 Second Street, N.E. > > Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 > > Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 > > Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 > > Fax: (202) 547-6019 > > E-mail: david@fcnl.org > > Web site: www.fcnl.org > > > > - > > 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. > - - 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: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:42:44 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [globenet] Fw: Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI > > X-eGroups-Return: > sentto-2055093-3157-1003961602-aslater=gracelinks.org@returns.onelist.com > X-Sender: globalnet@mindspring.com > X-Apparently-To: globenet@egroups.com > To: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 > From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" > Mailing-List: list globenet@yahoogroups.com; contact > globenet-owner@yahoogroups.com > Delivered-To: mailing list globenet@yahoogroups.com > List-Unsubscribe: > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:12:45 -0400 > Reply-To: globenet@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [globenet] Fw: Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI > X-Loop-Detect: 1 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pacifica Campaign > To: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear > Power in Space > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:02 PM > Subject: Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI > > October 24, 2001 > Pacifica Campaign Action Alert > > Pacifica Chief Calls for Sale of KPFA and WBAI > Compares Pacifica Reform Movement To Sept. 11 Terrorists > > Pacifica Campaign Urges Ken Ford's Immediate Resignation > Phone, Fax, E-mail Protests Set > > NEW YORK, (Oct. 24) -- Pacifica Radio National Board Vice-Chair Ken Ford > called yesterday for the 52-year-old network to sell its flagship station in > Berkeley as well as its largest station, WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. At > the same time, Ken Ford denounced opponents of the sale as "zealots" and > likened them to the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks that > killed some 6,000 people. > > Ken Ford estimates the sale of KPFA and WBAI could fetch anywhere from > $300-$500 million, the San Francisco Examiner reported Tuesday, October 23. > > "KPFA in Berkeley and WBAI in New York are in the broadcast band reserved for > commercial stations," Ford was quoted as saying. "I've been told > non-commercial licenses sell for $30 to $40 million and commercial licenses > sell for $150 to $250 million each. Think of what we could do with the > difference! Let's parley these commercial licenses into more stations around > the country. To me that's just common sense." > > Ford also told The Examiner that community radio activists nationwide, who > have criticized the fiscal mismanagement, censorship, and union-busting at > the five-station Pacifica Radio network, were akin to the Sept. 11 > terrorists. > > "They're zealots," he said. "I see parallels between this group and Al-Qaeda, > the terrorists who bombed New York. They have an innate anger towards society > as a whole." > > Given the current national and international climate, many civil libertarians > are concerned that such reckless "terrorist-baiting" could make peace and > social justice activists subject to police surveillance and investigation or > even worse. > > The Pacifica Campaign, a nationwide organization of listeners and staff alike > fighting to preserve Pacifica's mission of community-based radio, immediately > criticized Ford's call for the sale of stations and his slander of the > Pacifica reform movement. > > "This is further evidence that the present Pacifica leadership is aiming to > sell community assets and, we believe, to pocket some of the proceeds > themselves," said Bok-Keem Nyerere, a staffer with the Pacifica Campaign. > "Just this past August, Pacifica Board member Bert Lee confirmed to us that > financial rewards have been offered to Board members if they back a sale." > > Pacifica's leadership has been attempting to amend the network's bylaws in > order to permit a sale of stations without a board majority vote and for > board members to financially benefit from such a sale. > > Rep. Major Owens (D-NY) went on to the floor of the House of Representatives > earlier this year to warn about a sale of Pacifica station WBAI in New York. > "My knowledge of the reputation of certain recent appointments to the board > of the Pacifica Network ... leads me to conclude that there is a clear and > immediate danger that attempts will be made to sell WBAI to a commercial > owner. Such a sale would mean the loss of a vital voice for working families > in New York City." > > For the full story: > http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.pacifica.1023w > > See also Counterpunch's analysis and the full text of the notorious 1999 > Micheal Palmer email to Mary Frances Berry that discusses plans to sell > either KPFA or WBAI: http://www.freestone.com/kpfa/kpfa_email.html > > > PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION > CALL, FAX, AND E-MAIL > > * Demand No Sale of KPFA and WBAI > * Demand Ken Ford's Immediate Resignation from the Pacifica Board > * Demand an Apology by Ken Ford for his Reckless Slander of the Pacifica > Reform Movement > > 1) CALL AND/OR FAX THE FOLLOWING > > Ken Ford > National Association of Home Builders > Pacifica Foundation Board Vice Chair > Tel: 800-368-5242 x8228 > Tel: 301-350-6388 > Fax: 202-822-0369 > > Jerry Howard, Ken Ford's Boss > NAHB Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer > Tel: 800-368-5242 x8257 or x8308 > Fax: 202-266-8349 > > Robert Farrell > Pacifica Foundation Board Chair > Tel: 310-514-2052 > Fax: 310-514-0967 > > John Murdock > Secretary, Pacifica Foundation > Tel: 202-861-0900 > Fax: 202-296-2882 > > Wendell L. Johns > Treasurer, Pacifica Foundation > Fannie Mae > Washington, DC > Tel: 202-752-5355 > Fax: 202-752-4281 > > Valrie Chambers > Board Member > Tel: 361-825-6012 > Fax: 281-655-0266 > > Bert Lee > Board Member > Tel: 202-248-1896 > Fax: 202-244-1151 > > > 2) EMAIL > > Cut the below list of email addresses, paste it into the To: line of your > email composition form, and then cut and paste the text of the letter or > compose your own, and send it. Also go to: > http://www.progressiveportal.org/letters/pacifica/ford/ > > kford@nahb.com, KenFordPacifica@aol.com, bsmith@nahbofficer.com, > jhoward@nahb.com, tomasmoran@aol.com, jmurdock@ebglaw.com, > wendell_L_johns@fanniemae.com, Alfigo@aol.com, > Valrie.Chambers@mail.tamucc.edu, ValrieChambers@aol.com, jmurdock@ebglaw.com, > HARAV1@aol.com, robrobin@erols.com, lesliecagan@igc.org, prbram@aol.com, > bmwpacifica@aol.com, JSPacifica@aol.com, gbarnstone@pdq.net, > dick@dickgregory.com, krishnaroy@aol.com, jferguson@cnbc.org, > voterparticipate@netscape.net, rwlc@aol.com, pacificacampaign@yahoo.com, > > > Sample Text > > Dear Pacifica Board member, > > Pacifica Board Vice-Chair Ken Ford's reckless call in the San Francisco > Examiner for the sale of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI for $300-$500 > million represents an abrogation of his responsibility as a steward of the > Pacifica Radio network. He should resign immediately. > > Further, we are appalled that Ken Ford has compared critics of Pacifica > management to those who've carried out the Sept. 11 attacks that killed 6,000 > people. > > "They're zealots," he said of the nationwide group of free speech and > community radio activists who have criticized the mismanagement, chaos, > censorship, and union-busting at the five-station Pacifica Radio network. "I > see parallels between this group and al Qaeda, the terrorists who bombed New > York. They have an innate anger towards society as a whole." > > Ken Ford is being insensitive not only to those who have lost their lives and > their family members in the Sept. 11 attacks. But he is insulting the tens of > thousands of Pacifica listeners, staffers, national board members, and wide > sectors of the community radio movement nationwide who have been peacefully > exercising their First Amendment rights in urging accountability and > democratic reform at the country's oldest listener-sponsored radio network. > > Ken Ford has repeatedly sought to slander our movement as violent, as > terrorists and extortionists. Not one shred of evidence has ever been offered > to substantiate these allegations. He has also threatened members of the > public with prosecution by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and > says he reported some to the FBI for the crime of sending him a critical > email. Clearly, he has no appreciation for the First Amendment or civil > liberties. His term on the Board has expired. He should resign immediately. > > > > ********************************************** > Tax deductible contributions to support the work of the Pacifica Campaign may > be made to our fiscal sponsor, a 501 (c) (3) organization. Make checks > payable to: Institute for Media Analysis-Pacifica Campaign. Our mailing > address: The Pacifica Campaign, 51 MacDougal St., #80, New York, NY 10012. > Thank-you. > > Or donate on-line at http://www.pacificacampaign.org/donate.asp > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > globenet-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > - - 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: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:38:30 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [globenet] PLEASE THANK THE CITY OF BERKELEY! >X-eGroups-Return: sentto-2055093-3164-1004048149-aslater=gracelinks.org@returns.onelist.com >X-Sender: novi_dyen@yahoo.com >X-Apparently-To: globenet@yahoogroups.com >To: globenet@yahoogroups.com >From: novi dyen >X-Yahoo-Profile: novi_dyen >Mailing-List: list globenet@yahoogroups.com; contact globenet-owner@yahoogroups.com >Delivered-To: mailing list globenet@yahoogroups.com >List-Unsubscribe: >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:15:48 +0100 (BST) >Reply-To: globenet@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [globenet] PLEASE THANK THE CITY OF BERKELEY! >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >BERKELEY TAKES BRAVE STANCE ON AFGHAN BOMBING > >Death threats and a nationwide boycott have ensued >after the Berkeley City Council on Oct. 16 called for >"bringing the bombing [of Afghanistan] to a conclusion >as soon as possible." The council also >condemned the mass murders of Sept. 11, 2001, but >that of course has been overlooked in the media. The >complete text of the resolution may >be found at: > >http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/2001citycouncil/summary/101601S.html >(scroll down to Item #31, or search for > "Afghanistan") > >The flames have been fanned by Bill O'Reilly's >right-wing Fox News show. See: >http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24984 > >BERKELEY NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS COURAGEOUS >STAND. Please send a letter expressing your thanks. >Ideally, you will go out of your way >to purchase from Berkeley businesses now (to >counteract the boycott), and say so in your letter. >Please send to the following (if the >below are not clickable links, remove "mailto:" from >the beginning of each): > >City Council members: >mailto:dean@ci.berkeley.ca.us,maio@ci.berkeley.ca.us,spring@ci.berkeley.ca .us,mhawley@ci.berkeley.ca.us,breland@ci.berkeley.ca.us,olds@ci.berkeley.ca. us,shirek@ci.berkeley.ca.us,armstrong@ci.berkeley.ca.us,worthington@ci.berke ley.ca.us > >Chamber of Commerce: >mailto:info@berkeleychamber.com,bconvis@ix.netcom.com,RAEdwards@lbl.gov,be rkeley@progressiveportal.net > >Bill O'Reilly: >mailto:boreilly@worldnetdaily.com > > > > >===== >All that was required of (the proles) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary for them to work longer hours or accept shorter rations. And even when they became discontented . . , their discontent led nowhere, because, being led without general ideas, they could only focus it on specific petty grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.--_1984_, George Orwell. > > >*MAY THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS ONE DAY PREVAIL OVER THEIR VIOLENT OPPRESSORS* http://www.iww.org > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> >Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck >Monitoring Service trial >http://us.click.yahoo.com/Gi0tnD/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/nJ9qlB/TM >---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >globenet-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > - - 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: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:14:01 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: RRR Action of the Month: Stop Subsidizing Nuclear IndustryInsurance Costs! >X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:48:09 -0400 >From: "Lisa Gue" >Subject: RRR Action of the Month: Stop Subsidizing Nuclear Industry > Insurance Costs! >To: aslater@gracelinks.org >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >* * * apologies for cross-posting * * * > >RADIOACTIVE ROADS AND RAILS ACTION OF THE MONTH - October 2001 > >Tell Congress to Stop Subsidizing Insurance Costs for the Nuclear Industry! > >BACKGROUND > >The Price-Anderson Act was enacted in 1957 as a temporary measure to support the fledgling nuclear industry. The Act establishes a taxpayer backed insurance regime for nuclear power plants. Under Price-Anderson, commercial nuclear operators are required to carry only $200 million in primary insurance. A second level of retrospective premiums in the event of an accident is capped at approximately $88 million per reactor. By artificially limiting the liability of nuclear operators, the Price-Anderson Act serves as a subsidy to the nuclear industry in terms of foregone insurance premiums, which encourages the construction of new nuclear plants. . . and the generation of more nuclear waste. > >The Price-Anderson Act will expire in August 2002 unless Congress reauthorizes it. On October 11, 2001, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began to mark-up a reauthorization bill, H.R. 2983. The mark-up is expected to resume soon and the issue will later be considered by the whole House. In the Senate, reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act may be included in the Energy Bill that will likely be debated later this fall or early in the new year. > >See the below for "7 Good Reasons to Oppose Price-Anderson Reauthorization." Public Citizen's Price-Anderson factsheet, is online at: >www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/nuclear_re vival/articles.cfm?ID=4912 > > >TAKE ACTION! > >Call and write to your Senators and Representative and urge them to oppose Price-Anderson reauthorization. Ask your Representative to vote against H.R. 2983. Ask your Senators to keep Price-Anderson reauthorization out of the Energy Bill. > >CALL: Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 > >WRITE: >Your Representative >U.S. House of Representative >Washington, DC 20510 > >Your Senators >U.S. Senate >Washington, DC 20515 > >SIGN an online petition opposing Price-Anderson reauthorization at: >www.petitiononline.com/repealpa/petition.html > > >7 GOOD REASONS TO OPPOSE PRICE-ANDERSON REAUTHORIZATION > >(1) The Price-Anderson Act does not address the issue of increasing security and improving the safety of nuclear facilities. In light of the recent terrorist attacks, there should be a thorough and independent assessment of security needs at U.S. nuclear power facilities before Price-Anderson is even considered for reauthorization. > >(2) The Price-Anderson Act indemnifies Department of Energy contractors involved in nuclear incidents even in cases of gross negligence and willful misconduct. (This blanket coverage would extend to contractors hired to transport nuclear waste to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain.) This serves as a disincentive to safety and accountability, and potentially endangers workers and the public. No other government agency provides this level of taxpayer indemnification to non-government personnel. > >(3) The Price-Anderson Act serves as a subsidy to the nuclear power industry in terms of foregone primary insurance payments and limited liability in case of an accident. This distorts economic viability assessments in the energy sector and gives nuclear power an uncompetitive advantage over cleaner, safer energy options. > >(4) The insurance coverage required under the Price-Anderson Act understates the calculated risk of nuclear power plants. > >(5) The Price-Anderson Act treats all nuclear operators uniformly and does not differentiate or discourage high-risk activities, such relicensing old plants and transporting nuclear waste. > >(6) Reauthorizing the Price-Anderson Act would facilitate the construction of new nuclear power plants, which would generate more nuclear waste. > >(7) The Price-Anderson Act was originally enacted in 1957 as a temporary measure to assist the nascent nuclear power industry. 50 years later, it's time to end this misdirected economic stimulus program. > > > >Lisa Gue >Policy Analyst >Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program >215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE >Washington, DC 20003 >ph: (202) 454-5130; fax: (202) 547-7392 >www.citizen.org/cmep > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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