-Caveat Lector- QUICK Please send me a copy of the Proposal to Build a Grassroots Movement to Pressure the U.S. Political System for Nuclear Weapons Abolition. I have a hunch that in it somewhere is a passage read to me by reasoning humorist, or is it humoring reasonist, at Proposition One which called for a cross country PeaceMarch for the Year2000 to further the abolition of nuclear weapons. This aspect of the proposal has been on schedule since one year ago and manifesting as Global Peace Walk2000 from San Francisco (January 15, 2000, Dr. King's birthday) to Washington DC (to unite all survival issue messages and activists to compel nuclear disarmament, to gather over a million people at the Washington Monument between October 8-12) and on to the United Nations in New York City for its 55th anniversary October 24,2000, where we expect to exceed the success of our World Peace March of 1982 which ended with over a million people gathered in Central Park in support of the UN Second Special Session on Disarmament inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's "guruji" the late most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii who with his supporters beat the drums for peace offering their walk as a prayer and great cry to the heavens for "Global Peace Now!". Along the way the Global Peace Walk2000 will be initiating the "United Nations Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century". Based on the support we have gathered for this walk so far we expect its messages will reach a minimum of 50million people over the next 12 months before the US national elections. With your help it can reach and deeply influence at least ten times that many or as many as it will take for an effective global nuclear abolition agreement in 2000. Today I spoke with the webmaster and one of the staff at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara which will be taking an active role in supporting Global Peace Walk2000 especially as it passes through Santa Barbara where we already received two years ago the proclamation of support from the Santa Barbara mayor as we have so many others. The GPW2000 will be leaving the SF Bay area in conjunction with first or second largest Martin Luther King event in the nation with participation of both the San Francisco and Oakland Mayors who have already given the Global Peace Walk their mayoral proclamations of support. (Willie Brown and Jerry Brown) Not only because of the increasingly volatile threat of nuclear conflagration by mistake or design, but from myriad serious environmental threats such as predicted destruction of all oceanic phytoplankton (over half Earth's oxygen supply) by the year 2008 from increased solar irradiation due to ozone layer depletion, from the greenhouse effect and observable increasingly destructive climate and disease vectors,etc, we truly face a global emergency on many fronts today. There may not BE a next generation unless we resolve these problems NOW. The global abolition of nuclear weapons is today a "conservative" issue that almost every single person can agree is needed but yet the status quo persists. Nuclear Abolition is the "big" issue under which all other survival issues and their activists can be united and as a "united we stand" PEOPLE these problems can and MUST be resolved in the Year 2000. Some think it already too late to save life on earth http://www.projectearth.com Nuclear Abolition 2000 is not a pipe dream. It is on schedule if we see the Year2000 as the year when all nuclear weapons globally can be abolished starting with the will of the people of the United States of America to compel their elected representatives to pass a Great Law of Peace in the present Congress and that any candidate for any national election next November will NOT get elected if they do not NOW support this necessary antidote of The Great Law of Peace. This is the message being carried by Global Peace Walk2000 which was spawned one year ago from this loosely knit group of folks with the vision and dream to use the year 2000 as the focus to abolish nuclear weapons. By mobilizing all activists and ordinary people in this campaign it is not only possible or realistic that the Holmes Norton bill HR-2545 Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act can be passed in this Congress, but it looks like it is the only viable opportunity to fulfill the vision of Abolition2000, and so therefore it MUST be made a part of this Great Law of Peace2000. One thing is clear, Thomas and the folks of the 18year ongoing antinuclear peace vigil at the White House whose meditations and discussions with hundreds of thousands of visitors to Lafayette Park there inspired their Proposition One ballot initiative and then the introduction of this proposed federal law for global nuclear disarmament, these people are not in the "business" of working for peace. Nobody pays them to "work for peace" whether they succeed or not. They want to succeed with all of their heart and soul and breath; it is what they LIVE for, not their job or their hobby. They deserve our help so that they can stop living on the sidewalk looking at the White House and they can GO HOME. The are just too dedicated and stubborn to give up until nuclear weapons are abolished. Can't we respect this devotion and offer our wholehearted support to this meritworthy Proposition One? http://www.prop1.org Too many foundations and the grassroots can't grow. Now some "activists" have a job working for peace in some foundation and many foundations think that they cannot support political initiatives because it violates their tax exempt status. But this only applies to specific candidates for political office. It does not apply to ballot initiatives or, as far as I can tell, either to supporting the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act posted at above site. We cannot delay. The American Genocide continues and the Navajo people are facing a February 1st deadline of forced relocation from Big Mountain AZ so that more coal and uranium mining can take place to make more pollution and nuclear bombs. Global Peace Now! Prop1 Now! Nuclear Abolition2000! Please visit the newly updated and rapidly expanding Global Peace Walk2000 website http://www.globalpeacenow.org and see how you can help and add your message, links, etc. David Crockett Williams 661-822-3309 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 -----Original Message----- From: Peace through Reason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:03 PM Subject: Thanks for Preservering >At 02:31 PM 10/29/99 -0700, Carah Ong wrote: > >>While I appreciate your realistic sense of where the Abolition 2000 >>movement is and where it is going, I have a great sense of hope in this >>movement and firmly believe that it must continue. > >Apparently I did not make myself clear. I certainly did not mean to >suggest this movement should not continue. However, if we are serious >about abolishing nuclear weapons -- it's probably not very realistic to >talk about "by the year 2000" anymore -- within the next decade or so, then >I do suggest that it is necessary for us to be brutally honest about where >the movement has come from, where it is going, what it is actually >accomplishing, what it is actually failing to accomplish, and why. > >>We may not be accomplishing much in our eyes at this very moment, > >My reason for being in this movement is, I think, a pragmatic one: ie, to >eliminate nuclear weapons. Therefore, if it seems the movement is failing >to accomplish that end, is it impolite for me to ask, "Why?" If there were >no nukes, there would be no need for an anti-nuke movement. If there are >still nukes, wouldn't it be somewhat accurate to say, "The nuclear >abolition movement has been unsuccessful?" Further, if the movement >hasn't been successful, whose fault would it be? If I don't think we're >accomplishing much, would it be wrong to ask, "How can we accomplish more?" > >On the other hand, is it possible that some of us may think we are >accomplishing far more than we actually are? If that were the case, >mightn't we continue to run a losing course, thereby precluding the >possibility of actually accomplishing our goal? > >>but we must continue our efforts, for they are the seeds of a more >peaceful and just world. > >By all means. But, if we discover that our efforts have been futile (not >completely futile, just less productive than desired), must we continue in >those less than successful efforts, or would it be wiser to seek >alternative strategies and tactics? > >> If >>we do not relentlessly continue to put pressure on our government, if we do >>not continue to educate the public, if we do not continue to bring a >>broader awareness to all, if we do not carry the torch and pass it onto >>future generations, if we do not colesce others to join our efforts, then I >>ask who will? > >I don't know. Except, I've never suggested anyone else should. > >All I'm wondering is: Exactly what efforts would be most optimal for us to >coalesce behind in order to put pressure on the government, educate the >public, and cultivate a more peaceful and just world? > >>Although it is important, I don't believe that the amount of >>progress is as vital as our will and motivation to make that progress. > >I agree wholeheartedly that will and motivation are very important. Still, >can we agree that the amount of progress our movement achieves is also very >important? > >>Our >>goal will be achieved once the will of the people and the polity elites has >>been changed, > >Almost precisely the question I'm asking: How do we channel the will of >the people to alter the polity elite? > >>and who better to work towards that than those with a common >>and unified vision of a more peaceful and just world, free from the threat >>of nuclear weapons. > >A common and unified vision of a more peaceful and just world. Yup, for >sure, if we could discover that we' probably have it licked. In assessing >the accomplishments of the movement it was not my intention to be negative, >rather my intention was to objectively assess where we've been, and imply >the question: Where to go from here? > >I'm not sure where you came in on this thread. I wonder: How familiar are >you with the Proposal to Build a Grassroots Movement to Pressure the U.S. >Political System for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, which started this >conversation, or with Alyn's comments regarding that proposal? > >I think Alyn's critique was an extremely helpful first step in testing the >value of the proposal, which may ultimately bring us to a common and >unified vision of the proposal (ie, The proposal has value, or it hasn't). >If you're familiar with the proposal I'd really appreciate knowing what you >see as the problems with it. > >>While your argument holds several valid points, I >>would like to remind you of the importance of work, even if in your opinion >>it is "dead in the water". > >It would be very gratifying if we could agree whether, or to what extent, >our important work is "dead in the water." Again, if I'm mistaken I'd >greatly appreciate it if someone could correct me. Thus, I'd much prefer >to have someone highlight my invalid points than to praise my valid ones >(except, of course, that by identifying the "valid" points you would give >me a clearer concept of what we agree on, which would be a positive >accomplishment). > >I've tried to explain some reasons why I feel we are "dead in the water." >If we're really sailing smoothly along, and somebody could help me to >understand that, then I'd be more than delighted to stop dragging the >anchor, or whatever it is that I'm doing, and become a more cooperative >crew member. > >If we're not sailing sharply over the waves then I've got to wonder: Why >aren't we trying to plot a better course? > >> It is my greatest hope that we can all continue >>in our common endeavor whether or not the goal is achieved in any of our >>lifetimes. > >I can assure you, I have no intention of giving up. Perhaps the goal won't >be achieved in our lifetimes, but, and maybe it's just the pessimist in me, >I just don't think "we" have forever. I don't really give a damn about >dying, so I'm not afraid of nuclear weapons. I just think they're evil; >that's why I want to get rid of them. As it happens, I'm a NDT >(Non-Dogmatic Theist). Still, it seems, if I were only to focus on my own >will and motivation, and rely on Universal Creator to rectify the problems >which humanity has spawned, I'd be better off forgetting about Abolition >2000, and just go join Jerry Falwell's church. > >>One last note, please be sure to distinguish the US movement from the >>International movement. > >Please, help me out. What difficulty am I having in distinguishing between >the US movement and the International movement? > >In closing, thank you for taking the time to think about and reply to My >Sincere Apology. But if you're really interested in helping me (us? our >movement?), I hope you might find the time to reply to the points raised in >my Proposal to Build a Grassroots Movement to Pressure the U.S. Political >System for Nuclear Weapons Abolition. If you haven't got a copy of the >proposal, I'll send you one immediately. > >In complete sincerity, > >Thomas > > >____________________________________________________________ > >* Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org -Convert the War Machines! * >____________________________________________________________ > 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. 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