Sun.
Aug. 8 1 pm Hiroshima & Nuclear
Weapons Protest - Livermore Labs
Please join us for a Rally and March to the Livermore Nuclear Weapons
Lab!
On the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese
cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we will gather at Livermore Nuclear Weapons
Lab. Livermore is one of the primary facilities for nuclear weapons development
in the world and has long been a site of non-violent resistance to nuclear
weapons.
Look for Books Not Bombs and Butterflies Not Bombs
WHERE: Jackson Elementary School, 554 Jackson Ave., Livermore
(Directions Below)
RALLY AND MARCH TO
THE LIVERMORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB
- DEMAND AN END TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
TELL THEM TO CLEAN UP THEIR MESS.
This year, $28 million is requested to develop the Robust Nuclear Earth
Penetrator at Livermore and Los Alamos labs. Yet, two schools will close in
Livermore in order to save $1 million. All over California teachers are laid
off and
educational programs are being cut while $6.6 billion is requested for nuclear
weapons work - more than during the Cold War! An analysis of the U.S.
nuclear weapons budget can be downloaded at:
www.trivalleycares.org/FY2005_Nuclear_Weapons_Budget_Request.pdf
We are demanding:
*The Abolition of All Nuclear Weapons!* Nuclear weapons are the ultimate
weapon of terror and their elimination begins with our opposition to them right
here in the San Francisco Bay Area! The godlike capabilities that nuclear
weapons provide, the tentacles of empire, are an illusion of colossal proportions.
In 2004 the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Abolition 2000 have launched
a worldwide emergency campaign to abolish nuclear weapons:
http://www.abolition2000.org/groups/mayors/
*Books Not Bombs!* Stop all cuts to public education. Don't raise tuition.
Invest in education, not weapons of mass destruction.
More information on the
Books Not Bombs campaign www.nyspc.net
*A Healthy Environment!* Clean-up nuclear weapons sites!
Stop building
up the US nuclear arsenal. Livermore Lab has already leaked over 1 million
curies of air-borne radiation in the Bay Area biosphere. In the next
few years Livermore Lab proposes to store and work with even larger quantities
of radioactive materials.
For more info on the National Nuclear Weapons
Days of Action and a calendar of events
www.besafenet.com
*Jobs For Peace!* Expand jobs in civilian sciences, end government-sponsored
violence;
and
*Universities for Peace!* The Livermore and the Los Alamos weapons laboratories
are managed by the University of California. Every nuclear warhead in
the US arsenal was designed by a University of California employee. UC
should stop providing a fig leaf of respectability for the creation of
nuclear weapons.
*** TO VOLUNTEER AND TO PRINT FLYERS***
(925) 443-7148 Tri-Valley CAREs www.trivalleycares.org (510)
839-5877
Western States Legal Foundation www.wslfweb.org and (510)
849-2272
www.californiapeaceaction.org;
and Livermore Conversion Project (510) 663-8065.
***TRANSPORTATION***:
BART: Free shuttles from Dublin/Pleasanton BART provided by ALAMEDA COUNTY
PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY.
DRIVING: Directions to Jackson Elementary: I-580, exit on Vasco Rd goSouth
(continue past Livermore nuclear weapons lab); Turn right on EastAve; Turn
Right on Loyola; Left on Jackson Ave; Jackson school is on left.
***DONATE AND SUPPORT ***
1. Please send DONATIONS to:
The Livermore Conversion Project.P.O. Box 31835, Oakland, Ca 94604
Make checks payable to: Livermore Conversion Project
(Checks over $50 are tax-deductible if made out to Agape)
2. Bring a book! Show
your support for education. If you can't come,mail a book (at book rate)
to: WSLF, 1504 Franklin Street, #202,Oakland, CA 94612. Books will be
donated to the Buenas Vidas
YouthRanch, a Safe Home for Boys, in Livermore.
***PEACE CAMP***
Sunday, August 8, there will be a peace camp at Del Valle (15 minute drive
from the Lab). RSVP strongly recommended (space is limited): Will Parrish (illparrish@yahoo.com)
or call Will at (925) 443-7148.
Camping is $5 per person, children 12 and under
are free;
make checks payable to Livermore Conversion
Project. Mail checks to 2582 Old First St., Livermore, CA 94551, Attention
Will.
Please write "camping" in memo line.
***NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION***
We are calling for nonviolent direct action on Monday, August 9. Meet at 7:30
AM at William Payne Park, 5800 Patterson Pass Rd. Take I-580, exit on Vasco
Rd; go South 2 miles.
August 9 is the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing.
We are calling for this action in honor of Father Bill O'Donnell, who was raised
in Livermore.
SEE NONVIOLENCE GUIDELINES BELOW.
***PEACE RIBBONS***
Nevada County Peace Center is displaying quilted and painted panels at the
rally and carrying them to the Lab. Many panels are part of a historic collection
that was part of the Ribbon Around the Pentagon project from the 1980's.
You
can visit www.theribboninternational.org.
If you would like to mail a panel
to the Books Not Bombs action send them to
13929 Quaillan Way, Nevada City,
CA 95959.
For more info contact Nettie: leldredge@ispwest.com.
***SPEAKERS AND MUSICIANS***
Confirmed Speakers and Musicians: Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School
of the Americas Watch; Cesar Cruz, Fast4Education; Fariba; Clan Dyken; Miguel
Molina, KPFA's La Onda Bajita; and Jacques Depelchin, executive director of
the Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DR Congo; Jacqueline
Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation.
Tara Dorabji, Outreach Director, Tri-Valley CAREs
www.trivalleycares.org
tara@trivalleycares.org
(925) 443-7148
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