Join the anti-star-war campaign in at least least one of the following 5 ways ! 1) The Thule radar: A unique situation and opportunity A chain of advanced radar stations is a necessary part of Clinton / Gore / Bush's plans for obeying to their weapons producing masters by establishing the notorious anti-missile NMD project and thereby start a new profitable arms race. One of the indispensable radar stations is the Thule radar in Greenland that is colonized by Denmark. Strangely enough the Greenlanders are opposed to becoming a missile target for the purpose of protecting the aggressors from retaliation. In spite of the European opposition to this insane project that even violates the international treaties, the opportunist 'social-democratically' dominated Danish government has refused to decide on the permission for expansion of the radar station. In the 'social-democratic' opportunist tradition the government tries to avoid any inconvenience. In stead of taking a firm stand, the government tries to shirk the dilemma arising from the normal Danish governmental subversiveness to US policies. As always, not least with regard to Greenland, the ruling Danish politicians only deliver lie, obscurity, deceit, fait accompli. Furthermore, the danish prime minister having been blessed with the brilliance irradiated from the crown of power of Clinton during personal meetings, a disgraceful opposition to the imperialist warmonger seems unthinkable, even if the prime minister also is under pressure in the opposite direction from his rather powerful EU allies. Hopefully the balance for the moment after all might be uncertain. As the Thule radar is a necessary link in the NMD project, this unique situation might be the last chance of stopping the star war future. Therefore, please send IMMEDIATELY an e-mail or fax to the Danish prime minister, e-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax no. : + 45 33 11 16 65 It may be formed as a petition and/or argument and/or threat of boycott. A copy should be sent to United Peoples, Secr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A short sample letter follows : Mr Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Re: The US NMD star war project, the Thule radar station. Considering the immeasurable very dangerous consequences of the US NMD arms race project I hereby urgently request that you respect the will of the people of Greenland and refuse allowance for expansion and use of the Thule radar station for this purpose. Respectfully, _________________________________________________ John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd Dear All, A decision on NMD MAY be imminent- which can mean anything from days to a couple of weeks. Most likely the Pentagon will present reccommendations to Clinton by early/mid September. THE TIME TO PRESSURE YOUR GOVERMENT ON STAR WARS IS NOW. A sample letter to President Clinton and defence Secy Cohen, which can also be sent to Bush and Gore is below. I am also including a letter to prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK, and to Schroeder of Germany, and a brief letter to the prime minister of Denmark. The relevant fax numbers are at the top of the letters. You are very much urged to send one of these letters to your government as soon as you can. If you are outside the US, please write to your own goverment first, then only send a letter to Clinton and Cohen. Please customise these letters as much as you can. Be creative - DONT just send it exactly as it is here. Shorten or add to taste. Handwritten is also best. Don't email them, its a waste of time. If you are an organisation (NOT an individual unless you are an MP or Congressperson), you are urged also to sign on to the large sign on letter to Clinton, Cohen, Gore, Bush, Putin, Jiang, and US NATO allies on star wars. If you are outside the US as most of the world is, I urge you to send letters (preferably fax) to both your own goverment and to Clinton, Bush and Gore. If you are in Australia you may like to fax this letter, suitably modified, to foreign minister Downer on 02-6273-4112 and then copy it to Clinton. (1-202-456-2461) The attitude of non - US governments will be crucial. Send it now. 1) Sample letter to Prime Minister of Denmark 2) Sample Letter to Clinton, Cohen, Bush, Gore 3) Sample letter to Tony Blair 4) Sample letter to Schroeder 5) Sample Letter to President Chirac or France 1) SAMPLE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK (See the sample letter above. You may wish to add some of the points in the other letters here to this very short sample letter. Be creative.) 2) SAMPLE LETTER TO CLINTON, BUSH, GORE PRESIDENT CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461 1-202-456-6218 DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN 1-703-695-1149 SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT 1-202-647-6047 GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 1-512-637-8800 AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 1-202-456-2461 Dear President Clinton, Defence Secy William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, and Presidential candidates, In the light of reports that a decision by you onNational Missile Defence (NMD) may be imminent, I am writing to urge you not to proceed with proposals for an NMD system. Missile defence schemes respond to a nonexistent or exaggerated threat, are not the solution to real threats, make the rest of the US's security environment less safe, sabotage nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the rest of the world, and show contempt for the opinions of US allies and the rest of the world. At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal. Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which the US is legally committed. At the very same conference, the UN Secretary General, and representatives of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European community, the New Agenda Coalition and the Non- aligned movement have all expressed strongly that they believe the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability. They do not think it should be modified to allow a missile defence system, still less abrogated unilaterally. On your recent European trip, leaders of Europe and Russia have made the same point. America simply cannot ignore the strongly repeated opinion of the whole world, that the ABM treaty should not be modified to permit BMD. Since that time, the NMD system has failed a test, and 50 US nobel laureates have asked for it not to proceed. There are serious doubts as to whether this system can work at all, or as to whether any missile defence system can ever work. The problems posed even by relatively simple decoys may well be technically insoluble. Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US focus on real solutions to global strategic security. The highest priorities have to be the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III agreement with Russia, and the removal of strategic missile forces from high alert status. I urge you not to deploy NMD, and not to modify or withdraw from the ABM Treaty. Yours Sincerely, Signed [your name] 3) SAMPLE LETTER TO TONY BLAIR, ROBIN COOK TO: PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR +44-171-925-0918 FOREIGN MINISTER ROBIN COOK +44-171-829-2417 +44-171-270-2833 Dear Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Minister Robin Cook, I am writing to you to urge your government to take a strong stand against US plans to build a ballistic missile defence system, and to maintain and strengthen the ABM treaty. The attitude of your government will be crucial in any US decision. A decision of some kind by the US now appears to be coming soon. At the recent Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, the UN secretary general, the governments of Russia, China, France, and the UK, the Non-Aligned movement, the New Agenda Coalition, and the European Union all expressed strong support for the maintenance and strengthening of the ABM treaty. This cannot be interpreted to mean modifying it to allow a ballistic missile defence system. The missile defence systems currently under discussion in the US seek to protect the US (but not Europe) against a threat that either does not exist at all, or for which missile defence is a completely inappropriate response. In addition the options proposed in the US may in fact not work at all, while causing those countries with whom the US is legally obliged under the final declaration of the NPT Review Conference to seek to negotiate the elimination of its nuclear arsenal, to abandon arms control measures altogether. The very discussion by the US of missile defence options is itself destabilizing and puts progress toward the global goals of elimination of nuclear arsenals in doubt. We/I urge you to put to the US government in the very strongest terms that it should no longer contemplate missile defence options, and to make it clear that the UK will not in any way cooperate with such options. Facilities located in the UK must not be permitted to be used for NMD related purposes. Your government has said it wants to maintain and strengthen the ABM treaty. It must follow on from this good beginning by making it clear that it is absolutely opposed to BMD. The US government should instead be strongly urged to accept the very lowest warhead numbers on offer from Russia and to stand down its nuclear weapons systems from 'launch on warning' status. Signed.....etc. 4) SAMPLE LETTER TO GERHARDT SCHROEDER, JOSCHKA FISCHER, ATTN GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARDT SCHROEDER +49-228-56-2357, +49-30-4000-2357. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER, +49-228-168-6662, +49-1888-171-928, +49-228-173-402, +49-30-201-861-924, RE: BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE AND THE ABM TREATY Dear Chancellor Schroeder and Foreign Minister Fischer, I am writing to express my support of the position you have taken with respect to US plans to deploy a ballistic missile defence system and to modify, or possibly to abrogate, the ABM treaty in order to allow the deployment of this system. I note that you have already made clear to US President Clinton your strong disapproval of any such moves. I urge you to continue in your opposition to this highly destabilizing scheme. Ballistic missile defence in the form in which the US now seeks to deploy it, (either national missile defence or theater missile defence), a) Seeks to defend against a threat that either does not exist or which if it exists, will strike in ways that missile defence systems cannot affect. b)Is likely to be wholly ineffective because of the problem posed by relatively simple decoys, and at the same time will be seen as threatening by those with whom the US is legally obliged to negotiate for the elimination of nuclear arsenals. Missile defence therefore acts to sabotage vital arms control efforts. c) National missile defence as currently proposed by the US administration, in no way helps the security position of US allies, who are thus likely to be exposed to whatever threat NMD seeks to counter - if that threat is real. (d) These proposals make more difficult, and may reverse, nuclear disarmament efforts, decreasing the security of the whole world while violating US obligations under the NPT. I urge you to make the most vigorous representations to the US government not to decrease global security by proceeding with plans for NMD/BMD or TMD,or weakening the ABM treaty, but rather to increase global security by accepting the lowest of the warhead totals on offer by Russia in START-III negotiations, and by standing down nuclear missiles from 'launch on warning' status. (Signed) etc 5) SAMPLE LETTER TO GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC +33-147-42-2465 PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN +33-142-34-2677 MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS +33-1-4317-5203 33-1-45-51-60-12 Dear President Chirac, Prime Minister Jospin, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hubert Vedrine, I am writing to you to urge you to express strongly your support for the 1972 ABM treaty, and your opposition to the US proposal to deploy a ballistic missile defence scheme. The US seems now to be poised to make a decision that could have profound negative consequences for nuclear arms control for many years. I am happy to see that at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review conference, France expressed strongly its support for the ABM treaty and opposition to ballistic missile defence, and that France has continued to forcefully express its opposition to this ill-considered scheme since that time. I urge you to continue doing this. I urge you to make the most vigorous representations to the US not to decrease global security by proceeding with plans for missile defence, or weakening the ABM treaty. I ask you to instead urge the US to increase global security by accepting the lowest of the warhead totals on offer by Russia in START-III negotiations, and by standing down nuclear missiles from 'launch on warning' status. (Signed) ____________________________________________ MOBILIZE GLOBALLY ! (MG!) Reiforce, expand and coordinate the new worldwide resistance movement ! Join the worldwide campaign for transfer of the economic and political power from the corporations, their mass media monopoly and their governments, to the peoples ! 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