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Subject: Endorse This!: Dec 31st Y2K Nuclear Countdown Vigil at White House
Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 9:41 AM
We are encouraging more groups to get involved with this effort as
endorsers or participants. Initial sponsors include: Gray Panthers,
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee, Proposition One Committee,
Washington DC Area War Tax Resistance, Washington Action Group. We will
be putting endorsers on our later emails and our press release and
materials distributed 12/31. We hope to get a couple of expert
speakers for our press conference, as well as local anti-nuclear and
peace activists.
We expect a lot of press attention because the media is obviously
interested in the sensational issue of
whether Y2K will lead to nuclear accidents. We should use this to
promote our demand that we abolish nuclear weapons
and phase out nuclear power as soon as possible. And we must not
forget that it is foreign interventions (like bombing
of Yugoslavia and Iraq) and internal wars (like Chechnya and Kashmir)
that are most likely to lead to nuclear war.
If you or your group are interested, please contact Carol Moore
202-635-3739 or John Steinbach
1-703-369-7427.
For peace in our time...Carol in D.C.
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CURRENT LEAFLET
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White House Vigil
White House sidewalk, Lafayette Park
December 31, 1999 Noon til Five
(Or later if circumstances necessitate)
Press Conference at 1:00 PM
The leaders of the world’s 34 nuclear nations have had several years
to ensure that as the clock rolls over on January 1st there will not be
any nuclear-related year 2000 software or embedded chip problems. Not
only in the first weeks of the year 2000, but for decades afterwards
Y2K-related errors could cause accidents at the world’s 433 nuclear
power plants and hundreds of military nuclear facilities and nuclear
waste dumps. Such errors could lead to false missile alerts that would
force leaders to launch the United States and Russia’s 15,000 nuclear
weapons which are now on hair-trigger alert. Leaders have less than
fifteen minutes to decide if they must launch their missiles or possibly
lose them to a first strike.
Many scientists, nuclear safety and peace activists, and other
concerned citizens, are aware that the nuclear nations have not done,
and cannot do, enough. We know that once January 1st breaks across the
world we face decades of worry about whether there will be nuclear plant
accidents, as well as nuclear weapons false alerts that could lead to
full scale nuclear war. The growing tensions between the United States
and Russia only increase the likelihood of such an accidental nuclear
war.
Therefore, as we count down to the end of the century, activists
will do a “Y2K Nuclear Countdown” at the White House. We will use a
large map of the world, dotted with nuclear symbols identifying
facilities, to track the year 2000 as it enters each new time zone.
We want to remind the world that we are all under a countdown to
the almost inevitable nuclear power or weapons accident that will kill
thousands, millions or even billions of people. We will demand that
the United States and the 33 other nuclear nations:
* Take all Nuclear Power Plants Offline and Rapidly Phase Out Nuclear
Power
* Mandate Nuclear Plants and Waste Facilities Keep a Month’s Supply of
Diesel Fuel for Backup Generators
* De-alert Nuclear Weapons from the Current “Launch on Warning” Status
and Rapidly Phase Out Nuclear Weapons
* Until De-alert Occurs, Inform the Press and Public Immediately of any
False Nuclear Missile Alerts
* Until De-alert Occurs, Keep Open the U.S.-Russian Y2K Center at the
U.S. Space Command Headquarters in Colorado Springs
Initial sponsors include: Gray Panthers, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Committee,
Proposition One Committee, Washington DC Area War Tax Resistance,
Washington Action Group.
JOIN US!! Bring your anti-nuclear and pro-peace signs, banners, props,
etc.
For More Information Contact: 202-777-2642 xt. 1896 or 202-462-0757
Check out: www.Y2Kwash.org www.dealert.org
www.basicint.org/y2k99part1.htm www.Prop1.org
Center for Defense Information's listing of numbers of nuclear weapons
at: http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/nukestab.html
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