From: "Jackie Cabasso"
Subject: 60th Anniversary of US A-Bomb Attacks on Japan - ACTION UPDATES!
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:40:17 -0700

!!!UPDATED ACTION ALERT!!!
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SATURDAY AUGUST 6: SEEDS OF CHANGE: NO NUKES! NO WARS!
RALLY AND MARCH TO THE LIVERMORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB.
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On the 60th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
ACT to abolish nuclear weapons and war
PROTEST new, earth-penetrating nuclear weapons at Livermore Lab
CELEBRATE your vision of a peaceful, just and nuclear-free world

Livermore Lab is one of the world’s primary sites for the creation and
development of nuclear weapons.

WHEN: Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 5 PM (the event will be broadcast live
from 5-7 PM on Pacifica Radio, 94.1 KPFA www.kpfa.org)

WHERE: William Payne Park, 5800 Patterson Pass Rd. Livermore, CA (BART
shuttles provided by the Peace and Freedom Party) or share a ride at
*S**paceShare: *https://spaceshare.com/livermore/
Make your trip to Seeds of Change earth-friendly! For carpool info call
925-443-7148.

Join us for a “potluck” dinner rally, music, candlelight march,
children’s peace playground and more! Featuring Utah Phillips, Dave
Lippman, Ai Maeoka of the Hiroshima World Peace Mission and more.

To volunteer and for more info: Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 www.trivalleycares.org (510) 839-5877
Western States Legal Foundation (510) 839-5877 www.wslfweb.org
Livermore Conversion Project (510) 663-8065.

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*SEND SUNFLOWERS TO LIVERMORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB*
The sunflower is the international symbol for the abolition of nuclear
weapons. We invite you to create paper sunflowers to be planted at the
gates of Livermore Lab. Sunflowers can be large or small, painted, be
creative. Make sure to include your name and hometown on the sunflower.
For full instructions and mailing directions: www.wagingpeace.org/sunflower
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, NAGASAKI NEVER AGAIN!!!
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION AT THE LIVERMORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB

WHEN: Tuesday, August 9 at 8AM
WHERE: Meet at William Payne Park, 5800 Patterson Pass Rd. Livermore
Take I-580 exit Vasco Rd. go South. Take a right on Patterson Pass Rd.

*SPECIAL GUEST, Mr. Satori Konishi, a "hibakusha"- an atomic bomb survivor from Japan, will address the
gathering. Drumming at the gates will be provided by Clan Dyken.

!!NEW!! Mr. Konishi will also speak at a candlelight vigil in San Francisco, 8 pm in front of San Francisco City Hall, VanNess Avenue. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has signed onto the Mayors' Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, headed by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagaski. For more information call Sandra Schwartz, AFSC at 415)565-0201 Ext 24 or www.afsc.org
NONVIOLENCE GUIDELINES: Nonviolence has always been a core value of the
anti-nuclear movement. Details about the nonviolence guidelines and a
complete list of sponsors and endorsers are available at:
www.trivalleycares.org <https://www.trivalleycares.org/> and
www.wslfweb.org <https://www.wslfweb.org/>.
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Bay Area Calendar of Events leading up to Aug 6 and 9 in Livermore and San Francisco

August 3, Doctors Against the Bomb, San Francisco
August 4, Educating Youth about Nuclear Politics, San Francisco
August 5, Remembering Hiroshima, Uncovering Lockheed Martin, Santa Cruz
August 5, Takashi’s Dream Performance, San Francisco
August 6, Seeds of Change Rally and March to the Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab
August 7, 60^th Anniversary Hiroshima & Nagasaki Day, Santa Rosa
August 8, Remembering Hiroshima a South Asian Perspective, Sunnyvale
August 9, Nonviolent Direct Action at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
August 9, Candlelight Vigil in San Francisco

For dates, times, locations and details:
www.trivalleycares.org/calendar/

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BACKGROUND
The Bay Area’s Livermore Lab is one of the three national laboratories
that serve as the brain of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, which today
is modernizing and developing nuclear weapons to support U.S. wars of
empire.

August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Join with thousands of
people at four central US nuclear weapons sites to call for an end to
the development and production of nuclear warheads.

In the Bay Area, the Livermore Lab continues to contaminate the water,
air and soil. Over 1 million curies of airborne radiation have leaked
from the site. That is roughly equal to the amount of radiation
deposited in the bombing of Hiroshima. The Dept. of Energy declared the
fifty-mile radius surrounding the facility as the affected population.
This includes over 7 million people from San Francisco, to Stockton, to
San Jose. The storage and use of nuclear materials at Livermore Lab
continues to increase despite safety and security issues. The limit for
plutonium at Livermore Lab has just been doubled to 3,080 pounds --
enough for 300 nuclear bombs! Plutonium was recently found on site to be
absurdly stored in paint cans and food cans.

In Iraq, they never found nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction,
yet the daily reality of death and destruction continues, sparked by the
Bush administration's invasion and fueled by the ongoing U.S. military
occupation. A majority of people in this nation now oppose the war, but
the White House and most members of Congress are resisting the only
solution to the crisis: bring the troops home immediately. We will send
our message loud and clear to decision-makers and the public at large:
End the war in Iraq, End the threat of nuclear annihilation!

We found the missing weapons of mass destruction. On August 6, we will
take our voices to the active nuclear weapons sites across the country.
We demand an end to US nuclear weapons development, production and
testing. We demand an end to wars of empire and an end to nuclear
excuses for war.

NO NUKES! NO WARS!

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Donations should be made out and mailed to: Livermore Conversion
Project, PO Box 31835, Oakland, CA 94604. Checks of more than $50 are
tax-deductible if made out to Agape.

To Volunteer Contact: Tara Dorabji, Tri-Valley CAREs,
[email protected], (925) 443-7148, *www.trivalleycares.org*
Initial Cosponsors and Endorsers: A Jewish Voice For Peace; Abolition
2000; Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party; American Friends Service
Committee; Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition; Berkeley Friends Meeting;
Buddhist Peace Fellowship; California Peace Action; Circle of Concern;
Circle of Life; CodePink Bay Area; Communist Party USA, Northern
California District; El Cerrito Democratic Club; Environmentalists
Against War; Fiat Pax Berkeley; Friends of Davis Religious Community for
Sanctuary; Food Not Bombs, East Bay; Global Exchange; Grandmothers for
Peace, Hayward Chapter; Gray Panthers of San Francisco; Gray Panthers of
the Berkeley Area; Green Party of Alameda County; Green Party of
California; Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice; Hayward
Demos Democratic Club; Justice Council of the First Unitarian Church of
Oakland; KPFA radio, 94.1; Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy;
Livermore Conversion Project; Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute;
Modesto Peace/Life Center; Monterey Peace and Justice Center; Nevada
Desert Experience; Nicaragua Center for Community Action (NICCA); Night
on the Streets Catholic Worker; Northern California Committee of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Northern California 9-11
Truth Alliance; Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
of Waldron Island; Pax Christi Fremont; Peace Action New Mexico; Peace
Coalition of Monterey County; Peace Fresno; Peace & Justice Network of
San Joaquin County; Peninsula Peace and Justice Center; People's
NonViolent Response Coalition; Physicians for Social Responsibility, Bay
Area Chapter; St. Joseph the Worker, Fr. Bill O'Donnell Social Justice
Committee; Santa Cruz Friends Meeting, Peace Committee; Simnuke Project;
South Bay Mobilization Against the War; Tri-Valley CAREs; Tuolumne
County Citizens for Peace; Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa
Cruz County, Social Concerns Committee; United Church of Christ,
Northern California-Nevada Conference, Board of Justice and Witness
Ministries; United for Peace & Justice, Bay Area; Veterans for Peace, SF
Bay Area Chapter 069; Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund; Veterans
Speakers Alliance/Veterans for Peace Chapter 101; Watsonville Brown
Berets; Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club; Western States Legal
Foundation; Women for Peace; Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, Berkeley-East Bay; Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, Monterey Branch; and World Stewardship Institute.