PROPOSITION ONE
COMMITTEE
PO BOX 27217,
WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757--
(voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax)
prop1@prop1.org --
(e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web)
______________________________________________________________________
November 5, 2001
Senator
Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438
717
Hart SOB
Washington,
D.C. 20510
Dear
Senator Wellstone:
I was pleased to see that the Washington Times
wrote about your legislation on behalf of homeless veterans ("Wellstone
strikes back after his veterans bill
stalls," November 2, 2001). A most
worthy cause, particularly germaine to these times, when our country is once
again creating veterans with a whole new batch of physical and psychological
traumas, including, perhaps, depleted uranium.
As a Minnesota mother whose daughter was in the Navy during the 1991
Gulf War, whose father fought in WW-II, and who has known many homeless
veterans, I'm acutely concerned about veterans' rights. But I'm writing this letter on a different
matter.
It's becoming obvious to us all, as the media
broadcasts fears about nuclear power plant safety, missing uranium, etc., that the U.S. must develop a long-range
strategy which will build a safer world for everyone. Stopping arms sales, converting from nuclear and fossil-fuel to
renewable energy, and globally eliminating genocidal weapons are prerequisites
to a safe society, along with addressing human needs such as health care,
housing, food, and (where necessary) environmental restoration. Since the U.S. is First in using,
stockpiling, and selling weapons, we must be the first to declare our intention
to renounce such policies, and seek global agreement.
We believe that this session's bill in the House
of Representatives, HR-2503, the "Nuclear
Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act,"
sets us on the first step in that
direction. (See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.) As you can see from the
enclosure, many people join us in this plea:
Please introduce HR-2503 into the Senate. I
would like to meet with you to discuss this.
(The enclosed letter has not yet been sent to
you, because of the September 11
attacks.)
Sincerely,
Ellen
Thomas
Executive
Director
Enclosure
PROPOSITION ONE
COMMITTEE
PO BOX 27217,
WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757--
(voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax)
prop1@prop1.org --
(e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web)
______________________________________________________________________
September, 2001
Senator
Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438
717
Hart SOB
Washington,
D.C. 20510
Attention: Scheduler
Dear
Senator Wellstone:
The co-signers of this letter (page 2) join me
in asking you to introduce a Senate version of the bill, HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and
Economic Conversion Act,"
http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.
Last year one of your aides said that you would
probably support Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic
Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee. He said that you were
concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this
bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators. Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee. If we can tell other
Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us gain further
support.
Recently one of your aides dismissed the idea
ais "impractical." Why? 187
countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear
weapons, but haven't set a date. It is
time to make it happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't enforceable unless backed by
national laws. National laws rarely
happen without regional or local initiatives.
We have proven that most people from every region of the country and the
Earth favor global nuclear disarmament.
This is do-able. It requires
visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a large portion of hope. What else is America about?
Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the world that
the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons
IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up
the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries
into something good for society. For
example, instead of building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and
people could be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel
cells ... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform
all our societies. No one need
lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win
idea.
I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow
Minnesotan, to discuss this.
Sincerely,
Ellen
Thomas
Executive
Director
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The following 70 groups and individuals agree with the September 2001 letter to Senator Wellstone:
Name / Organization /
City/State/Country / Email Address / Website
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The following 70 groups and individuals agree with the September 2001 letter to Senator Wellstone:
Name / Organization / City/State/Country / Email Address / Website
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George Crocker, North American Water Office, Lake Elmo MN 55042, mailto:gwillc@mtn.org
Bruce A Drew, Prairie Island Coalition Steering Committee, Minneapolis MN 55410-1444 Phone: (612)927-5087, FAX: (978)945-5816, mailto:bdrew@igc.org
John J. Neumaier, Ph.D., former President, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN and Sara Fletcher Luther, Ph.D., former Minnesota state legislator, mailto:neumluth@aol.com
David Hartsough, PEACEWORKERS, San Francisco, CA 94117 mailto:peaceworkers@igc.org
James "Guin" McGuinness, Homeless Advocacy Task Force, Las Vegas, NV 89106 mailto:guinstigator@yahoo.com
John Hallam, Friends of the Earth, Sydney, Australia, mailto:nonukes@foesyd.org.au
John LaForge, Nukewatch, P.O. Box 649, Luck, WI 54853, mailto:nukewatch@lakeland.ws
Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA, mailto:cwolman@mcn.org
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear Free New York, Huntington, New York, mailto:smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
Clive Fudge, several organizations, Norwich, England, mailto:clivef55@hotmail.com
John Ragsdale, Retired Teacher, San Bernardino, CA 92404, mailto:JAR1Puggy@webtv.net
Sal Mangiagli, Board Member, Citizens Awareness Network, mailto:ctcan@snet.net
Paula Elofson-Gardine, Environmental Information Network, Lakewood, CO, USA mailto:pelofson1@home.com | http://members.aol.com/magnu96196/EINHome.html
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794 mailto:dkrieger@napf.org | http://www.wagingpeace.org
Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI 48161 mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net
Corrine Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI, mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net
Keith Gunter, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two, Monroe, MI 48161 mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net
Vina Colley, (PRESS) Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security, Ohio, mailto:vcolley@earthlink.net
Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa CA 92389 mailto:heal@kay-net.com
Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK mailto:wmcndall@gn.apc.org | http://members.aol.com/WMCNDH/Home.htm
Norm Cohen, UNPLUG Salem Campaign, Linwood, NJ 08221 and Coalition for Peace and Justice, mailto:ncohen12@home.com
Owen Berio, Dawn Watch, Springdale WA, mailto:owenb@theofficenet.com | http://dawnwatch.org
D.E. Massey, ABC Consultants, PO Box 820056, Houston, Tx 77281, mailto:MDemassey@aol.com
Reinard Knutsen, Shundahai Network, Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign, PO Box 1115, Salt Lake City, UT 84110, (801) 359-2614, mailto:reinard@shundahai.org, http://www.shundahai.org
Rudy Stolfer, Walt Root's Quest for Peace, Washington, PA USA mailto:rvwaltroot@yahoo.com
Pat Birnie, Environmental Justice Action Group of Tucson, AZ, mailto:birnie@gci-net.com
Alice Slater, GRACE Public Fund, New York, NY 10010 mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org | http://www.gracepublicfund.org
John P. Shannon, Former Scientist for the Navy Nuclear Program, mailto:Jacksha1@aol.com
Patricia Watson, Editor, Peacework, American Friends Service Committee, Cambridge, MA 02140, mailto:pwork@igc.org| http://www.afsc.org/peacewrk.htm
Mary Olson, Southeast Office Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Asheville, NC USA, mailto:nirs.se@mindspring.com | http://www.nirs.org
Harry Rogers, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia SC, mailto:cprcrogers@mindspring.com
M. Lindsey Hagood, Standup For Democracy,Washington,DC, mailto:linh26@juno.com
Gregor, for Shundahai Network, Pahrump NV 89041 mailto:gregor@shundahai.org | http://www.shundahai.org
Molly Johnson, Grandmothers for Peace/San Luis Obispo County Chapter San Miguel, CA, mailto:peacegrannie@hotmail.com
Carol Jahnkow, Peace Resource Center of San Diego, mailto:prcsandiego@igc.org
Natalia Mironova, Movement for Nuclear Safety, Chelyabink, Russia, mailto:natalia_mironova@yahoo.com | mailto:mnatalie@chat.ru | http://www.chat.ru/~bureau
Greg Wingard, Waste Action Project Seattle, WA, 98104-90832, mailto:gwingard@earthlink.net
Ernest Goitein & Claire Feder, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards, mailto:fego@pacbell.net
Laurence H. Ebersole, Writer/counselor/advocate, Seattle, Wa, 98105, mailto:wordheath@yahoo.com
Rosalie Tyler Paul, Peace Action, Portland, ME, mailto:handinhand@clinic.net | http://www.peaceactionme.org
Joan Norman, Greenpeace, Save the Redwoods, Boycott the Gap, Peninsula Peace and Freedom Party, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087 mailto:jndefender@home.com
Makoto KONDO, Associate Professor of GIFU UNIVERSITY (Constitutional Law), Gifu City, JAPAN, mailto:mKondo@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
Tatiana A. Kostanian, MHONA International, mailto:mhona@linex.com
Mitzi and Peter Bowman, Don't Waste Connecticut, New Haven Ct. USA mailto:upthesun@tallships.ca
Shiva Shrestha, Save the World, Kathmandu, Nepal mailto:shshrestha@wlink.com.np | http://www.speedweb2000.com/savetheworld
Tara Thornton, Military Toxics Project, Lewiston, Maine, mailto:tara@miltoxproj.org | http://www.miltoxproj.org
Michael W. Stowell, Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission, Arcata, Ca. USA mailto:nonukes@arcatacityhall.org | http://www.arcatacityhall.org/nukefree
Alan Haber, Megiddo Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan, mailto:megiddo@umich.edu
Jim Schulman, Sustainable Community Initiatives, Washington, DC 20002, mailto:jschulman@igc.org
Mavis Belisle, The Peace Farm, Panhandle TX 79068, mailto:peacefarm@arn.net
Susann M. Bradford, Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers, Missoula, Montana USA 59807 mailto:cmcr@wildrockies.org | http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ mailto:bobkinsey@earthlink.net
Frank H. Lucido MD, member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Berkeley, CA, USA, mailto:drfrank@well.com
Elizabeth McAllister, et al, Jonah House, Baltimore, MD, mailto:disarmnow@aol.com | http://jonahhouse.org
Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee (South Australian Branch) , Adelaide SA 5000, Australia, mailto:r-grayle@msn.com.au | http://www.peacecourier.com
Bob Darby, Food Not Bombs, Atlanta, GA, mailto:tferguson8@aol.com
Hiroko Shirai, Okayama Univercity, Japan (Biology) mailto:shirai@uml.okayama-u.ac.jp | http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/znet/pleae.html
Philip & Phyllis Creighton, Science for Peace! Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, mailto:ppcreig@idirect.com
Cathy Gatling, Linden, VA 22642, mailto:cg1146@yahoo.com
Kenny Freeman, Silver Spring, Maryland, US, mailto:JewishOpinion@hotmail.com
Tom Cloud, Calico Rock, Arkansas 72519, mailto:inea1111@webtv.net
Mike Stephens, Mountain Home, Idaho 83647 mailto:mastephens@micron.com
Mary Herzel, Harrisburg, PA, mailto:Fherzel@aol.com
Dan Behrens, Ottsville, PA 18942, mailto:dbehrens@hotmail.com
Cedar Dvorin, Alexandria, VA, mailto:cedar1950@cs.com
Patricia Ann Arnold and William C. Wardlaw III, Takoma Park, MD, mailto:Patandb99@aol.com
Steven Botscheller, Coconut Creek, Florida, mailto:botscheller@mindspring.com
Ethel MacDonald, Missoula, Montana 59801, mailto:Macethel@aol.com
Annie Wildwood, Cotati, CA, mailto:livefunny@earthlink.net
[PSR/Atlanta is sending its own letter, a straightforward request for support. Tom Ferguson mailto:tferguson8@aol.com]
Russell & Sharon Hoffman, Carlsbad, CA, mailto:rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com
J Truman, Director, Downwinders, http://www.downwinders.org -- mailto:Hermit@downwinders.org
Daniel Moss, Nuclear Free Australia, Melbourne, mailto:sustainablesnail@sasmail.net