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"Stop The New Arms Race" is the call being put out by Project Abolition in response to George W. Bush's renewed interest (and investment) in the preposterous "Star Wars" missile defense scheme.
Despite being a major military boondoggle and likely leading to a US pull-out of the ABM Treaty, "Star Wars" is being pushed, in large part, by the fact that it's a terrific corporate welfare device. "Star Wars" spending was greased by the more than forty million dollars spent in campaign contributions and lobbying over the previous two years by weapons contractors set to profit handsomely by government investment in strategic missile defense.
In the 1980s, a movement of concerned citizens effectively voiced oppositon to Ronald Reagan's nuclear arms build-up, highlighted by national actions on June 12, 1982, including a march and rally of more than one million people in New York City's Central Park. Now Project Abolition is calling on people to re-mobilize against George W. Bush's clear determination to take us back in time to a period of irresponsible U.S. nuclear unilaterialism.
A coalition of numerous groups, including The Nation Institute, Project Abolition was founded in 1999 to increase public awareness of nuclear danger and to build grassroots support in the United States for the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Energized by the increasing threats of the new administration, PA is staging a march and rally in Washington, DC on Sunday June 10. Among the many speakers will be Nation Institute Fellow and renown anti-nuclear writer and activist Jonathan Schell. Please consider coming out for what should be the start of sustained pressure on the government to stem U.S. nuclear adventurism.
Lafayette Park (just across the street from the White House) Washington, DC Sunday, June 10, 2:00pm
For more information, including details on special activist and lobbying training being conducted by PA, call 401-276-0377 or go to:
And check out these two Nation pieces for background info on this new incarnation of "Star Wars" and how it is actually just one layer of a much larger scheme to "control" space and "dominate" the earth:
KARL GROSSMAN AND JUDITH LONG: Lost In
Space June 4, 2001
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010604&s=grossman
WILLIAM HARTUNG and MICHELLE CIARROCCA:
Star Wars II: Here We Go Again June 19, 2000
http://past.thenation.com/issue/000619/0619hartung.shtml
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Best Regards, Peter Rothberg Associate Publisher
P.S. With the Bush Administration's appellate court-packing scheme clearly on the table, The Nation is urging people to launch a missive attack on Senate minority leader Tom Daschle and the nine judiciary committee Democrats, demanding that they stand firm and block Bush's attempts to impose an overwhelming right-wing agenda on the nation's appellate bench for years to come.
Read "No Rush To Judges" for the full story
on Bush's new US Circuit Court nominees at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010604&s=editors2
And please take a moment to blast off an
informed letter imploring the appropriate Democrats to stiffen their resolve
against Bush's appointments. You can find the letter and contact info at:
http://www.thenation.com/alert/actnow/