Editor's
Note, 12/09/98: The following list of FUTURE ACTIONS is no longer
up-to-date. Please see FUTURE ACTIONS in
our most current issue.
Editor's
Note, 12/09/98: The following list of FUTURE ACTIONS is no longer
up-to-date. Please see FUTURE ACTIONS in
our most current issue.
The Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days (NWAD) network calls for an international day of Citizens' Inspections of nuclear "Sites of Crime" on October 1, 1998.
Since NWAD's 1997 call for coordinated "abolition days" actions to enforce the 1996 ICJ (World Court) advisory opinion on nuclear weapons, many groups have spontaneously developed the concept of citizen inspections for evidence of war crimes, even more so as U.S. threats of war grew fiercer over the issue of Iraq's refusal of such inspections by the U.N.
"October 1st is the anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946. It also coincides closely with the international day of action to free the Israeli whistleblower MordechaiVanunu. We believe that both events refer to the responsibilities we have as citizens to prevent preparations for nuclear war."
Nobel Peace Laureate and nuclear abolitionist Joseph Rotblat has embraced the concept of societal verification, and even groups without a commitment to nonviolent direct action such as the Abolition 2000 network have begun advocating for assembling teams of notable individuals for inspections that may not risk arrest.
Contact the NWAD network c/o For Mother Earth (see below), to coordinate a local inspection action.
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days 1998 kicks off the summer with nonviolent
direct actions at the NATO-Ministers of Defense meeting in Brussels, June
10-12. Then from July 3-11, an international action camp in Belgium
will provide the base for direct action planned at NATO headquarters on
July 8, the second anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion. From
Belgium, an international peace walk will begin, to arrive at the Faslane
Trident base in Scotland for the Trident Plowshares 2000 disarmament action
in August.
For more information, contact:
For Mother Earth International, Lange Steenstraat 16/D, 9000 Gent, Belgium,
Phone/fax +32-9-233 84 39 email: pol@motherearth.org
or visit http://www.motherearth.org
and Trident Plowshares 2000, 42-46 Bethel St., Norwich, Norfolk, NR2
1NR, Great Britain. Tel: - 01603-611953. Fax:- 01603-666879. E-mail: reforest@gn.apc.org
The Nuclear Free New England Campaign is underway, a broad effort to educate,
organize, engage in legal and political work, and conduct nonviolent direct
action to permanently close all commercial nuclear reactors in New England
by 2000, including Millstone-1, 2, & 3; Pilgrim, Vermont Yankee, Seabrook,
Nine Mile Point-1 & 2 and Fitzpatrick.
Among activities already scheduled is a New England Music Festival and direct action at Seabrook, June 27-28, sponsored by Forces of Nature, 1049 1st NH Turnpike, Northwood, NH 03261, (603)942-8890, email:<fonature@tiac.net>.
Also, from August 21-28, a Northeast Action Camp in southern Vermont, including a large legal rally August 22, dozens of workshops, entertainment, networking, organizing, fun throughout the week, and direct action (nonviolence training required) at Vermont Yankee.
Contact the Citizens Awareness Network, (413)339-5781
or email: can@shaysnet.com for more
information or to register for Action Camp.
The recent practice shipment of mock nuclear waste from Rocky Flats to
the newly opened Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico,
was monitored en-route by anti-nuclear activists, foreshadowing planned
Nukewatches and possible blockades when the really hot wheels roll. More
than 30,000 truckloads of military transuranic wastes are projected to
funnel into the state, a faux solution for a tiny sliver of the total trash
burden from bomb production. Population demographics may not support American
editions of recent resistance scenes from Gorleben, Germany, but regional
nonviolence training workshops are underway in New Mexico to prepare for
the imminent shipments.
For more information, contact the Albuquerque
Affinity Group and Civil Resistance Committee, c/o Citizens for Alternatives
to Radioactive Dumping (CARD), 144 Harvard SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106(505)266-2663.
The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will celebrate 21 years of
resistance to Trident at the gates of the nuclear submarine base at Bangor,
Washington, August 6-9. Program will include GZ founders Jim
& Shelly Douglass, Plowshares activists Jean & Joe Gump, and Pamela
Meidell. Tunes by the Raging Grannies will accompany nonviolent resistance
on Nagasaki Day, August 9.
For more information, contact Ground Zero Center
for Nonviolent Action,16159 Clear Creek Road, Poulsbo, WA 98370 (360)377-2586;
email jackisue@ix.netcom.com
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is coordinating
protests on July 4 which may include nonviolent direct action at several
international space warfare facilities: Buckley Field, Peterson Air Force
Base, and the U.S.Space Command in Colorado; and spy bases Menwith Hill
in England and Bad Abling in Germany.
For more information, contact the Global Network,
POB 90083, Gainesville FL 32607, (352)337-9274, email:globenet@afn.org
A 52-mile long walk ("Tromp Trident Trek II"), commemorating
the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan 53 years ago, will begin in Ashland,
Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 6, and conclude at Project ELF on Sunday,
August 9, possibly with civil disobedience. Plan to join the Walk
for a day or two or the whole Trek. Children are welcome if accompanied
by an adult. Walkers will camp overnight with very limited indoor space.
Please call or write to register. Equipment will be hauled by support
vehicles. Water and snacks will accompany walkers.
For more information, contact Nukewatch, POB 649,
Luck WI 54853, (715)472-4185, e-mail:nukewtch@win.bright.net
A Commitment to Cross - November 22, 1998 is being circulated to enroll
1,000 people to travel to Ft. Benning, Georgia, this fall and again petition
in person, en mass, to close the School of the Americas, risking arrest
in the process.
For a copy of the pledge sheet or more information,
contact SOA Watch, 1719 Irving St. NW, Washington, DC 20010.
The Citizens Weapons Inspection Team of New York and New England will investigate
the construction of Trident submarines at the Electric Boat Corporation
in Groton, Connecticut on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1998.
For more information, contact Vincent Romano,
Fellowship of Reconciliation,
POB 271, Nyack, NY 10960, (914)358-4601, E-mail: fellowship@igc.org
The Brandywine Peace Community will conduct a Citizens' Peace Inspection
on July 16 (anniversary of "Trinity", the first atomic test,
July 16, 1945) at the Lockheed Martin/U.S. Navy Aegis Warship Testing Facility,
Moorestown, N.J. On August 6, Hiroshima Day, Brandywine will
conduct a vigil of remembrance and civil disobedience at Lockheed Martin,
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
For more information, contact Brandywine Peace
Community, POB 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081; (610)544-1818, e-mail: brandywine@juno.com
An international action and training camp will begin July 19 in Russia's
Kola Peninsula, where two new reactors are under construction that will
burn MOX nuclear fuels. Nonviolent direct actions, trainings and
seminars will be organized in the camp. Participants of the camp
are requested to have a minimum of camping equipment (tent + sleeping bag).
For more information, contact Vladimir Slivyak
at ECODEFENSE! tel/fax 7-0112-437286, e-mail:ecodefense@glasnet.ru
or Alisa Nikulina at the Antinuclear Campaign at Socio-Ecological Union
(Moscow) tel 7-095-2712906, e-mail: aln@glasnet.ru
October 19 will be observed as "A Day Without the Pentagon" in
a series of coordinated activities across the country. Organizers
at the War Resisters League are planning an action at the Pentagon on that
day.
For more information, contact the War Resister's League, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 (800)975-9688 E-mail:wrl@igc.org
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