Dear friends, Following, for your information and adaptation, is the text of
a declaration we will read out loud at the gate of the Livermore nuclear
weapons 
laboratory in northern California tomorrow, as part of our nonviolent direct
action. 
In peace and solidarity, Jackie Cabasso

DECLARATION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL 
DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE 53RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES 
ATOMIC BOMBING OFHIROSHIMA, JAPAN

August 6, 1998

Today, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration 
of Human Rights, standing before the Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory, 
we affirm 

that the maintenance and development of nuclear weapons is fundamentally 
contrary to respect for the right to life and the right to peace;

that the use of nuclear weapons would violate international criminal law 
forbidding the infliction of unnecessary suffering and indiscriminate harm;

that the use of nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war 
crime and a crime against humanity;

that the elimination of nuclear arsenals is required by the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty and the dictates of the public conscience;

that people everywhere have the right to a world free from the fear of 
nuclear war;

that activities at this laboratory, including at the National Ignition 
Facility and the supercomputing facilities, in support of maintenance and 
development of nuclear weapons of mass destruction are contrary to respect 
for human rights, compliance with international criminal law, and 
fulfillment of disarmament obligations;

and that the Nuremberg principle of individual responsibility supports 
non-violent action to bring the laboratory into compliance with law and to 
achieve a nuclear weapon free world
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