[interdoc-y2k 324] Y2K E-mail Petition. Distribute to the winds of change!

[Michael Callahan <micall@igc.org>]

Dear One,

Mary Olson at NIRS, and others helped me create this e-mail version for the
campaign, and Yumi K blessed it.

Here it is, fact checked, and address checked.

I trust that this will be of value somehow.

Michael


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PROBLEM: Worldwide Nuclear Industrial Complex not Y2K compliant.
SOLUTION: Massive and immediate Populist pressure on policy makers.
YOUR ACTION: see below

1) COPY (not forward) this entire letter to a NEW MESSAGE.
     SEND to all on your lists. TODAY!
     Recommended Subject Line: Today's FiveMINUTE ACTIVIST

2) Choose Decision-maker(s) below.
    (The Governor of your state have greatest influence over Federal Policy)
      Web page will be under:  http://www.state.**.us
     (insert your 2 letter State Name in place of **)
     There is usually an opportunity to send e-mail from these pages.)

3) COPY the text beneath the dotted lines below
     to your Governor's web page, SUBJECT: WORLD NUCLEAR HOLIDAY
     Sign on, and SEND.

     Then, Cc or NEW MESSAGE
     TO:
<president@whitehouse.gov><vicepresident@whitehouse.gov><chairman@nrc.gov>
     SUBJECT: WORLD NUCLEAR HOLIDAY
     Then sign on, and SEND. TODAY!!

Information courtesy of Mary Olson,
Nuclear Information Resource Service, Washington D.C.
http://www.nirs.org
International Coordinator WASH (World Atomic Safety Holiday):
Yumi Kikuchi <yumik@awa.or.jp>

For Additional Information and Background:
http://www.noradiation.org
http://www.co-intelligence.org/y2k_toxics-nukes.html
http://www.enviroweb.org/nukenet/

FiveMINUTE ACTIVIST Design: Michael Callahan,
PLACE - People Linking Activism, Culture, & Ecology
Berkeley, California <micall@igc.org>

To e-mail or send copies to decision makers, COPY below these lines:
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President Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20525
202-456-1400
president@whitehouse.gov

Vice President Gore
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20525
202-456-1400
vicepresident@whitehouse.gov

Chairman Greta Joy Dicus
301-415-1759
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555
chairman@nrc.gov

John Kosher
Chair of the White House Council on year 2000 Conversion
115 Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20502
202-456-7171
e-mail withheld

Dear Elected Official,

    Unless you take decisive action now, Y2K related
computer failures will bring significantly increased
potential for NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS and
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED MARGINS for
the prevention of NUCLEAR WAR.
    We consider longterm worldwide radioactive contamination a
greater threat to public safety than the possibility of temporary widespread
power outages caused by mandating that reactors be off line through the new
year.
    We also consider nuclear war an unconscionable risk and call for the
de-alerting
of our nuclear weapons systems.

THE UNDERSIGNED PROPOSE
a WORLD NUCLEAR HOLIDAY
     December 31 -- January 1, 2000

AS YOU HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PRESERVE
THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH of
OUR STATE and, or UNION,
WE CALL ON YOU TO PETITION AND CREATE
POLICY WHICH WILL IMMEDIATLY:

1) TAKE ALL 103 NUCLEAR REACTORS and ALL
    NUCLEAR PROCESSING FACILITIES OFF LINE
    from December 1, 1999 until Y2K compliance
    testing for all monitoring, display, control, inventory, and security
    systems is completed with third party verification.

2) AUGMENT AND EQUIP ALL CRITICAL
    NUCLEAR FACILITIES and WASTE STORAGE SITES
    (particularly spent fuel cooling ponds) with
    ADDITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE
    EMERGENCY POWER BACK-UP SYSTEMS
    (not dependent on rail delivered fuel) by December 1, 1999
    to prevent nuclear melt-downs and widespread nuclear contamination
    in the event of extended or multiple power grid failures.

3) DE-ALERT ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
    NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1999
    to prevent missile Launch On Warning based on false data
    from NORAD Early Warning System error, and, or
    undetectable Nuclear Command and Control tampering.

4) SUSPEND ALL SHIPMENT AND
    TRANSPORT OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL
    from December 1, 1999 and until
    Y2K compliance testing for all transport systems
    is completed with third party verification.

5) ADMINISTRATE AND ASSIST ALL NATIONS WORLDWIDE
     IN TAKING ALL IMMEDIATE AND NECESSARY ACTIONS
     TO AVERT Y2K RELATED WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR DISASTER.

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