Editor's Note, 12/09/98: The following list of
FUTURE ACTIONS is now out-of-date.
Please go to FUTURE ACTIONS of
our most recent issue.
Citizen Inspections to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity
Europe
October 1st, the anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Tribunal
in 1946, has been suggested as a date for coordinated Citizens Inspections
to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity. In Europe, inspections are planned
for the NATO air bases at Kleine Brogel (Belgium) and Volkel (Netherlands).
For more information, contact Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days, c/o For Mother
Earth, Lange Steenstraat 16/D, 9000 Gent, Belgium; email: international@motherearth.org
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station
Virginia Catholic Workers and friends will conduct an inspection of the
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, to confirm the presence of stockpiled nuclear
warheads for Tomahawk cruise missiles. A vigil will take place outside
the gates during the inspection. For more information, contact Norfolk
Catholic Worker at (757)423-5420 or Little Flower Catholic Worker, (804)457-2631.
LOCKHEED MARTIN The next Citizens
Disarmament Inspection of Lockheed Martin is planned for Martin Luther
King Day, January 18. For more information, contact Brandywine Peace Community,
POB 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081, (610) 544-1818, email: brandywine@Juno.com
Project ELF The Coalition
to Stop Project ELF Conference for Interfaith Peacemakers will begin October
3 in Duluth, Minnesota, with workshops and keynote address by Larry Cloud
Morgan, and continue on October 4 with a caravan to Project ELF for a nonviolent
resistance action. For more information, contact Dorothy Day House in Duluth,
(218)724-2054 or Nukewatch, POB 649, Luck, WI 54853, (715)472-4185, email:
nukewtch@win.bright.net
Alliant Tech Landmine maker
Alliant Tech Systems in Minneapolis will be the focus of two days of nonviolent
direct actions October 7 and 8. Mass actions are planned for each morning
by the Midwest Institute for Social Transformation (MIST). Writer Coleman
McCarthy will speak in Minneapolis the evening of October 6. For more information,
call MIST at (618)874-7715.
Healing Global Wounds The
seventh annual Healing Global Wounds "Call to the Desert" gathering
will take place October 9-12 across U.S. highway 95 from the Mercury entrance
to the Nevada Test Site (NTS). This fall's gathering is devoted primarily
to planning and organizing the Mother's Day events at NTS, May 7-10, 1999.
Reclamation of occupied Shoshone lands and celebration of Indigenous Peoples'
Day will take place October 12. Please preregister ($25 suggested) by September
15. For the latest HGW Newsletter and information packet please contact
Healing Global Wounds, 6060A Freedom Blvd. Aptos, CA 95003; (408)661-0445;
email: hgw@scruznet.com Web: http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/
A Mom's Organizing Pre-Gathering
(Women and Children only) will take place October 6-8 at the Goddess Temple
in nearby Cactus Springs. For more information, call Susi at the Shundahai
Network, (702) 647-3095.
A Day Without the Pentagon October
19 will be observed as "A Day Without the Pentagon" in a series
of coordinated activities across the country. The War Resisters League
is planning civil disobedience at the Pentagon on that day. For more information
on the action at the Pentagon, contact the War
Resister's League, 339 Lafayette St., NYC 10012, or send $2 for a 32-page
Tactical Manual and organize a local event. stratcom
StratCom In conjunction with
the 10th anniversary of the Missouri Peace Planting, the 75th Anniversary
of the War Resisters League, and the 2nd Annual "Day Without the Pentagon,"
the Lakes and Prairies Life Community is sponsoring a missile silo activists/supporters/others
reunion, get-together, and Citizens' Inspection at Stratcom, Omaha, Nebraska,
October 17-19. For more details, please contact Nukewatch,
POB 649, Luck, WI 54853, (715)472-4185, email: nukewtch@win.bright.net
or Jo Peterson (Omaha) at (402)556-9057.
SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS 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.
Mark the Waste Route On July
25, coordinated demonstrations occurred all along a major WIPP nuclear
waste transportation route in Colorado and New Mexico. If you live along
the WIPP route in any one of 22 states, the Rocky Mountain Peace Center
is coordinating groups and individuals to demonstrate on Saturday, September
12 for the second "Mark the Route Day," and about monthly thereafter
- call for following dates. If you're near these routes: I-82(WA, OR),
I-80(WY), I-84/I-210/I-15(OR, ID), I-5(CA), I-15(ID, UT), 127(NV), I-40
(AZ, AR, AL, MI, GA, SC), I-20(TX), I-59(TN, AL, MI), or I-56(IL), or need
more info, contact RMPC and join the action: (303)44-6981; email: bball116@juno.com
(or) tmarshall@igc.org
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