Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:26:05 -0500
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
From: glodem@wizvax.net (Marvin Clark)
Subject: Nuclear Weapons Free World by 2000
GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION May 31, 1997
For those favoring Nuclear Weapons Abolition,
If you are interested in spending a few minutes to urge political leaders, by Email, to disable all the nuclear weapons in the world by the year 2000, please continue.
If not, please send the following Email:
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To: glodem@wizvax.net
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We are writing to suggest that you cooperate in a world wide citizens' campaign to disable all the nuclear weapons in the world. Nuclear physicists have assured us, that from a technological standpoint, this can be done in less than a year. This peaceful campaign will be focused on the political leaders of the nuclear weapons nations.
The greatest danger stemming from nuclear weapons is the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, whether started by accident or design.
The main thrust of this citizens' campaign can be summarized in two sentences:
1. Disable all the nuclear weapons in the world and set up a verification system so that none will ever be built again.
2. Set a date by the year 2000, or soon thereafter, for accomplishing these goals. Otherwise the heads of state of the nuclear weapons nations and their military establishments will continue indefinitely with arsenals of these immoral weapons of mass destruction, and also develop new ones.
People are frustrated in not knowing what to do to get rid of the huge arsenals of these horrible weapons. USA and British polls show that up to 85% of the public favors abolition. We are confident there are millions of people in the world who are ready to take some simple, well-defined actions to accomplish this ethical goal.
We are sending this Email message to over 2000 peace and religious organizations and indivituals throughout the world. We request that you start now and send the following or similar Email messages each month to the Heads of State of all the nuclear weapons countries listed below who
have Email connections.
By all means, please do send one to the President of the USA EACH MONTH.
Along with all the fine work others are doing for abolition, we hope that there will be so many of these brief messages every month that it will help move the nuclear weapons nations to act on this issue soon.
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To: president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD by 2000
Dear Mr. President,
Give a gift to all the children of the world. Please take a strong leadership position to disable all the nuclear weapons in the world by the year 2000.
Sincerely yours,
[Your name, post address & country]
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Since the Prime Minister of Israel also has Email, please send the following:
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To: likud1@likud.org.il
Subject: NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD by 2000
Dear Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu,
Give a gift to all the children of the world. Please take a strong leadership position to disable all the nuclear weapons in the world by the year 2000.
Sincerely yours,
[Your name, post address & country]
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Please refer later to the World Wide Web site: http://www.rpi.edu/~clarkg2/nwfw2000/ for other suggested citizen actions to be taken as this campaign develops and continues until all the nuclear weapons are abolished. With these modern communications systems it will be possible to have thousands of people and organizations throughout the world taking similar actions simultaneously.
Earlier public campaigns have been necessary to end slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Without massive public pressure, these fundamental shifts in human affairs could not have happened. The urgency of this task is even greater. Slavery, colonialism and racial segregation were abhorrent, but they did not threaten human survival, as nuclear weapons do.
Global Demilitarization is a peace organization whose efforts are endorsed by the Albany, N.Y. Quaker Meeting. We cooperated with Oscar Arias, Nobel Laureate and past president of Costa Rica, and his Foundation to help the people of Haiti abolish its military. This was a successful venture which resulted in the Haitian Parliament voting for a zero military budget in early 1996.
Please distribute this message broadly to organizations, Web sites, Email news groups, friends, etc. We hope you will join in this effort.
Please contact us if you plan to cooperate with this campaign.
Sincerely,
Sue & Marvin Clark
Co-directors
Global Demilitarization
42 Maple Ave.
Troy, NY, 12180 USA
phone: +1-518-274-0784
Email: glodem@wizvax.net
Web site: http://www.rpi.edu/~clarkg2/nwfw2000/
Administrative Board Members
Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, honorary member
Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND, Pax Christi International
Dietrich Fischer, Author, Professor, Pace University
Bill Price, Director, World Peacemakers
Bill Hartung, Author
Organizations are for identification only
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ADDRESSES OF HEADS OF STATE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONS
USA RUSSIA
President William J. Clinton Boris N. Yeltsin, President
The White House Office of the Government
Washington, DC 20500, USA Krasnopresenskaya 2
tel +1-202-456-1111 Moscow, RUSSIA
fax +1-202-456-2461 tel +7-095-925-3581
Email: president@whitehouse.gov fax +7-095-205-4219
Web: http://www2.whitehouse.gov
BRITAIN FRANCE
Tony Blair, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, President
Prime Minister's Office Office du President
Palais De L'Elysee
10 Downing Street 55-57 rue du Faubourg St.
Honore
London, SW 1A 2 AA, BRITAIN 75008 Paris, FRANCE
tel +44-171-270-3000 tel +33-1-4292-8100
fax +33-1-4742-2465
telex 650127
CHINA ISRAEL [undeclared]
Li Peng, Premier Benyamin Netanyahu, Prime
Office of the Premier Minister
225 Chaoyangmennei Dajie Office of the Prime
Dongsi Minister
Beijing 3 Rehov Kaplan, Hakirya
P. R. CHINA Jerusalem 91007, ISRAEL
tel +972-2-705555
fax +972-2-664838
Email: likud1@likud.org.il
INDIA PAKISTAN [undeclared]
Inder Kumar Gujra, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Prime
Prime Minister's Office Minister
South Block Office of the Prime
Nes Delhi 110011, INDIA Minister
tel +91-11-3013040 Islamabad
fax +91-11-3016857 PAKISTAN
telex 3161876 telex 5742
Please send any corrections and/or additional information to:
Global Demilitarization at address above
5/22/97
