NONVIOLENCE WEB UPFRONT 
The Weekly Magazine of the Nonviolence Web: July 31, 1998
All of these articles can be found at http://www.nonviolence.org/

CHEMICAL WEAPONS TESTS IN PANAMA
A major report on the history of U.S. chemical tests in Panama has been
released today by the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Task Force on Latin
America and the Caribbean. “In the small isthmian nation of Panama, the
United States had an active chemical weapons program from at least 1930
until 1968... Dozens of tons of mustard gas and phosgene were stockpiled at
a number of sites in Panama, particularly from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Unused and dud chemical munitions were also abandoned in Panama.” From the
Fellowship of Reconciliation.

SEATTLE-DC BUS CARAVAN TO DAY WITHOUT PENTAGON
Seattle activists are planning a cross-country bus trip to attend October
19’s Day Without a Pentagon demonstration and action. Along the way,
they’ll be meeting with locals, talking to the media, picking up riders and
hopefully making a spectacle of themselves, taking their unique style of
art & revolution rabble-rousing with them on the 25-seat “Mother Ship” bus.
>From the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia. See also the Day Without
a Pentagon site.

REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: CITIZENS INSPECTION TEAMS
August 6th and 9th are the anniversaries of the only use of weapons of mass
destruction against humans: the United State’s bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Many historians have argued that the attack on these cities was
unnecessary as the Japanese government was already petitioning the U.S. for
surrender; instead these bombs were the opening shots of the Cold War and a
display of power against the Soviet Union. This week, Citizen’s Inspection
Teams across the U.S. will commemorate the atrocity of these bombings by
searching for the weapons of mass destruction still threatening the world’s
people. See also, the Statement on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons.

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