Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, at her press conference July 30, 1999 re-introducing her "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" for the fourth time, said people shouldn't just write letters to Representatives and Senators; we should CALL these Congresspeople and heads of state, then fax or write, then if possible follow up with another phone call, saying, "You've signed on, haven't you? You haven't? Well you sure should! Here's why!" THIS will achieve results, Norton promised. She said that she will keep introducing the legislation into the House ("These things take time!"), and urged us to try to get the bill introduced into the Senate as well, and seek bipartisan support. Perhaps it's worth a try, since she has now introduced the evolving bill TEN times (HR-1334 in 2011-2012, with terrific and timely revisions).
We strongly encourage people to send hand-written or typed letters. Congressional aides have said that one signed letter has as much impact as 100 e-mails or petition signatures. So don't send either e-mail or snail mail; send BOTH!
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The postal address for any member of Congress:
Representative (Name)
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC 20515
or
Senator (Name)
U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510
* Del. Norton's Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 2003 (HR-2647)
* Rep. Woolsey's Nuclear Disarmament Convention Resolution (H.Res. 82)
* Rep. Markey's De-Alert Nuclear Weapons Resolution - H.Res. 177
(See "Back
From the Brink" Campaign)
* Rep. Markey's Stockpile Stewardship Resolution - H.Res. 74
Last session's sample letters to Representatives and Senators have been provided to help you put your thoughts together, below. (Add your own first and last paragraphs, please! Individual letters count as 100 votes in Congress-land. Petitions and form letters only count as one vote.)
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or phone the Nuclear Powers:
- China: E-mail: chnun@undp.org
- France: E-mail: fraun@undp.org,
Phone:011-33-147-42-8100, Fax:011-33-147-42-2465
- India: E-mail: indun@undp.org,
Phone:011-91-11-301-3040, Fax:011-91-11-301-6857
- Israel: E-mail: pm@pmo.gov.il,
Phone:011-972-270-5555, Fax:011-972-266-4838
- Pakistan: E-mail: pakistan@undp.org,
Telex:5742
- Russia:E-mail: webmaster@gov.ru,
Phone:011-70-95-925-3581, Fax: 011-70-95-205-4219
- UK: E-mail:gbrun@undp.org,
Phone:011-44-171-270-3000, Fax:Not Available
- USA:
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov, vice-president@whitehouse.gov,
Phone:202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414, Fax:202-456-2461
Also, e-mail and call the President! White House Hotline: 202-456-1111 (0 for live operator), 9-5 Monday-Friday
The Hon. __________________________
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515
Dear Representative _________________
I ask you please to actively co-sponsor Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's HR-1334, the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act", which she has introduced ten times, most recently on July 16, 2001.
This legislation is a timely vehicle by which Congress can signal its intent to abide by Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. With international revelations by retired generals and admirals that nuclear weapons are unsafe, unnecessary, and insane -- with the July 8, 1996 World Court decision that nuclear weapons could and should be illegal -- with India and Pakistan first testing, and then calling for a U.N. convention to ban nuclear weapons worldwide -- with the development, use, and growing rejection of deadly depleted uranium weapons -- with development of weapons in space -- with the growing global pressure for abolition of nuclear weapons -- with constituents everywhere still looking for the "Peace Dividend" -- this bill's time has come.
Since it goes into effect when ALL countries possessing nuclear weapons join the U.S. in nuclear disarmament and conversion of their war machines, it offers very little security risk and a great deal of good public relations. Domestically, it marks those funds formerly needed to produce and deploy nuclear weapons for conversion and cleanup .
Please advise me that you have added your name to the list of active co-sponsors of Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" in 2001. This bill can launch a peace dividend that will be emulated around the world.
Sincerely,
Name:
Address:
email / website:
fax / phone:
Dear Senator :
Please introduce into the Senate a mirror of the House Bill, HR-1334, the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act" introduced by Washington DC's delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton ten times in response to a successful voter initiative, and co-sponsored by a number of Representatives in prior sessions.
This legislation is a timely vehicle by which Congress can signal its intent to abide by Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. With international revelations by retired generals and admirals that nuclear weapons are unsafe, unnecessary, and insane -- with the July 8, 1996 World Court decision that nuclear weapons could and should be illegal -- with India and Pakistan first testing, and then calling for a U.N. convention to ban nuclear weapons worldwide -- with the development, use, and growing rejection of deadly depleted uranium weapons -- with development of weapons in space -- with the growing global pressure for abolition of nuclear weapons -- with constituents everywhere still looking for the "Peace Dividend" -- this bill's time has come.
Since it goes into effect when ALL countries possessing nuclear weapons join the U.S. in nuclear disarmament and conversion of their war machines, it offers very little security risk and a great deal of good public relations. Domestically, it marks those funds formerly needed to produce and deploy nuclear weapons for conversion and cleanup .
You can start in your own state. Please advise us that you will introduce into the Senate the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 2001." This bill can launch a peace dividend that will be emulated around the world.
Sincerely,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee / The Conversion Project, http://prop1.org
Corbin Harney, Spiritual Leader, Western Shoshone Nation; Shundahai Network, http://www.shundahai.org
Mitzi and Peter Bowman, Coordinators - Don't Waste Connecticut,
Alice Slater, New York - GRACE Public Fund, http://www.gracelinks.org
B. J. Armstrong, Peace Action, http://www.peace-action.org/
Ms. B.J. Medley, ECO - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Bob Kinsey, Colorado Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ
George Crocker, Executive Director, North American Water Office, Lake Elmo MN
Bruce A Drew, Communications Director, Prairie Island Coalition, Minneapolis MN
Edith Villastrigo, National Legislative Director, Women Strike for Peace, DC
David Crockett Williams, Global Peace Walk 2000, California, http://www.globalpeacenow.org
Dennis F. Nester, The Roy Process, Phoenix AZ, http://members.home.net/theroyprocess
John Hallam, Friends of the Earth, Sydney, Australia, http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
Bruce K. Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space - Florida, http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk
Greg Wingard, Exec. Dir., Waste Action Project, Seattle WA
Owen Berio - Dawn Watch - Washington http://dawnwatch.org
James McGuinness, Shundahai Network; Seeds of Peace; NucNews
Kathy Dorn, Irradiation Free Food Hawaii
Michael D. Casper - Penn State U., Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
Pat Broudy, Nat'l Association of Atomic Veterans
Petra Moessner, Dallas, TX, Abolition Caucus Member
Molly Johnson, Save Ward Valley - CA, http://www.earthrunner.com/savewardvalley/
Scott Mathern-Jacobson, Catholic Worker, Fargo ND
Sheila Baker/Blaine Metcalf, War Resistors League, San Luis Obispo, CA
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear Free New York
Dan Fahey, Military Toxics Project - DU
Sylvia Zisman, New Jersey, Hiroshima Day Remembrance Committee
Donna & Tom Howard-Hastings, Wisconsin, Laurentian Shield Resources for Nonviolence
Vina Colley (PRESS), Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security - Ohio
Chris Ney, Disarmament Coordinator, War Resisters League - New York, http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
Helen Caldicott MD, Founding President, Physicians for Social Responsibility; STAND, http://www.noradiation.org/caldicott/
Pamela S. Meidell, Director, The Atomic Mirror / Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Mike Ewall, Dir, Pennsylvania Environmental Network, Nuclear Waste & Green Energy Leadership Teams, http://www.penweb.org/
Frances L. Fox, Monterey, CA 93940
Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Netherlands, http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten/welcome.html
Jill Stallard - UK, Abolition Caucus Member
Solange Fernex, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) - France
Mary Byrd Davis, Iggdrasil Institute, Georgetown, KY
Marvin Lewis, Philadelphia, PA 19136
Jean Clautaire-Frerreys Pouele, Executive Director, EARTH ACTION-CONGO
Malla Kantola, Committee of 100 in Finland
Di McDonald, Nuclear Information Service (NIS) Britain
Peer de Rijk, WISE International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William F. Santelmann, Jr. - Massachusetts, Metro-Boston Committee to De-Alert Nuclear Weapons
Bonnie Urfer, Nukewatch, Luck WI
Ward & Dorothy Hodge, Grawn, Michigan 49637
Kay Cumbow, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, MI
Anna C. Tucker, Virginia Veterinarian
Alice Zachman, Director, Guatemala Human Rights Commission
Daniel Simuie, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Richard N. Salvador, Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, Honolulu, Hawaii
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) , Livermore, California, USA http://www.igc.org/tvc/
GreenPlanet Social Justice & Ecology Network, Windsor, Ontario Canada, http://www.mnsi.net/~cea
Harry Rogers, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia SC
Colby Lowe, Peace Action, Fairfield, CT
Alexey Yablokov, President, The Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow
SEC. 1. The `Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act'
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ECONOMIC CONVERSION.
The United States Government shall--
(1) disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and refrain
from replacing them at any time with any weapons of mass destruction;
(2) redirect resources that are currently being used for nuclear
weapons programs to use--
(A) in converting all nuclear weapons industry employees, processes,
plants, and programs smoothly to constructive, ecologically beneficial
peacetime activities during the 3 years following the effective
date of this Act, and
(B) in addressing human and infrastructure needs such as housing, health care, education, agriculture, and environmental restoration,
***including alternative fuel sources***;
(3) undertake vigorous good faith efforts to eliminate war, armed
conflict, and all military operations; and
(4) actively promote policies to induce all other countries to
join in these commitments for world peace and security.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect when the President certifies to the
Congress that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons
have established legal requirements comparable to those set forth
in section 2 and those requirements have taken effect.
You can quickly register your agreement with these ideas by signing the online petition in support of Congresswoman Norton's bill.