-Caveat Lector- This initiative is endorsed by Global Peace Walk2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.org which will be carrying this vital message next year also walking from San Francisco Jan15 to Washington DC Oct9 and to the United Nations Oct24 ending about two weeks before the US national elections. We urge all activists to do what they can to make sure nobody gets elected next year unless they support this bill now. From: Ellen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) 4 time-critical alerts Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:45 PM Hi, Marylia, hope you'll add to your action lists support of HR-2545, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lynn Woolsey, John Lewis, initial cosponsors, "The Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 1999" -- http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545.htm. You might be interested, in what I wrote to Rep. Lynn Rivers yesterday. (Rivers is a co-sponsor of Woolsey's House Resolution 82, calling for a global convention to abolish nuclear weapons.): 'What is important to understand about Ms. Norton's legislation is (a) it's legislation, not a resolution, and so can achieve results; (b) it gives a message to the world that the United States is finally ready to promise that we will get rid of our nuclear weapons if everyone else will, and (c) it presents a serious plan as to how this can be done: conversion of the war machines. 'Shutdown and cleanup of nuclear industries and labs, and conversion of other arms industries to humane purposes, would of course be expensive. But U.S. taxpayers have been willing to spend nearly 6 trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since 1945 (according to Brookings Institute). Surely we wouldn't mind spending a fraction of that amount on transforming industries which produce missiles and bombs to mass-producing solar panels, windmills, geo-thermal taps, biomass-to-energy plants, hydrogen fuel cells, etc. These technologies exist. Within the fifty years scientists say it will take to run out of fossil fuels, the United States could end its dependency on oil and uranium/plutonium, create a vibrant, new, popular, and quickly self-supporting industry, and profitably help "third world" nations develop clean energy. Isn't this a better solution than producing more nuclear power plants / radioactive waste / weapons-grade uranium or plutonium? Everybody wins! 'Please support Eleanor Holmes Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," and help the United States begin operating in good faith. Please let me know you will? Thanks!' Ditto to TVC and all abolitionists. I will leap with joy when the network understands the important of this legislation. Ellen Thomas PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE P.O. Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038 USA 202-462-0757 (phone) | 202-265-5389 (fax) http://prop1.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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. � DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
