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From: Lane County American Peace Test <lcapt@efn.org>
Subject: NUCLEAR COLONIALISM - TRAVEL FUNDING INFO
Lane County American Peace Test --
A committee of Eugene PeaceWorks
454 Willamette
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 484-9884
Dear Possible Conference Participant (Please feel free to redistribute this
notice to other people and networks ASAP),
If YOU or your group plan on attending the FROM NUCLEAR COLONIALISM TO
EMPOWERED LIVING IN THE NEW MILLENIUM CONFERENCE in Eugene, Oregon USA,
October 10-13, 1996 and have needs for travel funding please mail a letter
IMMEDIATELY to:
Seventh Generation Fund
P.O. Box 4569
Arcata, California 95518
The letter should include:
Your name and address
affiliation (if any)
Your intent to travel to the above mentioned conference and your need for
__________ (fill in the blank with the amount of U.S. Dollars required)
travel related expenses in order for you to be able to attend the
Conference.
Please mail IMMEDIATELY and send us a copy at our Lane County American
Peace Test address.
Thank You.
We live in unprecedented times...The U.N. is about to take up an historic
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty discussion September 1996...The International
Court of Justice ruled that, "(t)he threat or use of nuclear weapons would
be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict
in almost any conceivable circumstance." And yet there remains much work to
be done.
Our conference is by, about, and for Indigenous Peoples from around the
world. Their lives are spent mainly on subsistence and basic housing.
Their lands are used for the mining, transporting, or development of
nuclear materials and they in their villages are basically powerless to
stop the degradation of their environment that they live with on a daily
basis.
RE: FROM NUCLEAR COLONIALISM TO EMPOWERED LIVING IN THE NEW MILLENIUM
Contact: Rick Gold
Greetings,
I am helping to organize one of the most incredible networking
opportunities of this century! Our conference will bring indigenous
peoples from around the globe to Eugene to network on issues of great
importance. This networking will take the form of volunteer computer
training seminars with hands-on experience for representatives from many
diverse cultures and peoples. We will share technology and experience to
train and connect these people (both literally face-to-face and then to
continue communication after departure over the worldwide internet).
Please see a copy of our initial support mailing enclosed. We are working
with community people and the University of Oregon to facilitate this
endeavor. We are seeking grantors to either grant us the necessary funds
or match funds we are raising here in Eugene. Is this something you can
help with?
A group of University of Oregon (U of O) students from the Survival
Center, local community activists, and my group (Lane County American
Peace Test) are currently working on a multicultural gathering conference
with the goal of bringing together indigenous peoples from many diverse
geographical areas around the world to work and network on issues
important to victims/activists of "Nuclear Colonialism."* We have secured
space at the U of O for this conference to be held October 10-14, 1996
which will include forums, drumming circles, speakers and strategy
sessions including daily recaps available on-line for groups and folks who
can't attend but would like to keep informed through an email or postal
mailing-list.
*"Nuclear Colonialism" is the cycle of continuing oppression of indigenous
peoples worldwide through the exploitation of their lands, resources and
persons by the mining, transporting, processing, refining, developing,
enriching, exploding and/or dumping of nuclear materials and technology by
other more powerful nations and corporations.
The forums (on Children's Issues, Elders Issues, Geography of
Nuclear Sites, Historical, Medical-Health Hazards, Mining, Native Issues,
Nuclear Corporations, Nuclear Occupational Hazards, Nuclear Proliferation,
Nuclear Power, Nuclear Processing, Nuclear Resistors, Nuclear Waste
Disposal, Nuclear Weapons Testing, Nukes in Space, Transportation, Women
and Breast Cancer...and more) will bring together people from different
cultures and educate attendees about the current worldwide struggles
against continued stockpiling, production, deployment and testing of
nuclear weapons (including subcritical testing); the mining of radioactive
carcinogenic nuclear materials; the transportation and long term storage
of nuclear materials and waste; the contamination and other long term
environmental effects of burial of nuclear wastes; the legal battles
involving the nuclear industry and the challenges of those resisting the
Nuclear Nightmare; the economic effects of the nuclear cycle, etc. Please
feel free to suggest other topics as well as contact information for
panelists and attendees. WITH THE ICJ RULING (7-08-96) WE NEED YOUR
SUPPORT NOW MORE THAN EVER! ! !
Volunteers needed for the following committees:
Audio/Visual; Budget; Food; Fun; Fundraising; Graphic Design; Housing;
Logistics; Media; Networking; Panels; Phonelist; Registration;
Teleconferencing; Transportation; Volunteers; Welcoming
Rick Gold - - LCAPT (lcapt@efn.org)
Sharla Shull - - Survival Center (Sharlas@gladstone.uoregon.edu)
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Please print out copy then fill out completely and return to LCAPT/Nuclear
Colonialism Conference -- P.O. Box 225, Eugene, Oregon 97440.
YES! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONFERENCE THIS CENTURY! HERE"S MY/OUR HELP!
I &/or my group_______________________________________________________________
address/phone_________________________________________________________________
can donate $________ help organize*___________________________________________
send/suggest speaker(s)_______________________________________________________
contact address_______________________________________________________________
phone#/fax/email______________________________________________________________
for panel(s)__________________________________________________________________
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Peace Now and Well Into our Common Global Futures,
Rick Gold
"Let's end the Nuclear cycle once and for all time,
by declaring 2000: the New Non-Nuclear (Nuclear-Free) Millenium."