THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO EXPLODE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS ON SACRED WESTERN SHOSHONE LAND! NEVADA ACTIVISTS DECLARE, "DON'T BE HYPOCRITICAL - STOP THE SUBCRITICAL!" NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTIONS PLANNED. (Call to U.S. activists and affinity groups: Come join us in Nevada for one or more of the following actions in September and October. We need people experienced in nonviolent direct action to participate in and help us with these upcoming actions. For more information please contact Reinard at shundahai@shundahai.org or (702) 647-3095)) The Department of Energy has announced plans to conduct a subcritical nuclear weapons test, code named "Bagpipe", and perhaps two more by the end of September. "Bag pipe" would explode plutonium by high powered conventional chemical explosives, 980 feet underground at the LYNER (Low Yield Nuclear Experiments Research, also called U-1a) facility at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). This test will be conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories based in California. These tests should really be called "hypocritical." They clearly violate the spirit of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed in September 1996, by President Clinton. The CTBT commits the U.S. "not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion..." DOE claims these experiments are permissible because the CTBT does not define "nuclear weapon" test. These tests make global adoption of the CTBT less likely by encouraging other nations to copy the U.S. decision to continue testing and update their nuclear arsenals. These tests especially contradict the condemnation expressed by the U.S. government against India and Pakistan for conducting their own series of nuclear weapons tests earlier this year. The subcritical tests are part of a massive "Stockpile Stewardship and Management" program, intended to maintain and expand U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities well into the next century. During the next decade, taxpayers will spend more than $40 billion for the program, an annual rate higher than the Cold War average. Thus, it is fair to say these tests are intended to signal to the rest of the world an unflagging U.S. commitment to nuclear weapons as the ultimate "big stick." Last year, in the U.S. 44 members of Congress, including key California Representatives, urged President Clinton not to go ahead with the tests. At the grassroots level, protesters gathered in California, Nevada, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the country to demand the cancelation of this testing program. Shundahai network is one of 39 groups from across the nation who have sued the DOE charging the agency failed to conduct an adequate environmental analysis of the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan, including the subcritical tests. Join with Shundahai Network and many other outraged organizations on September 8th and throughout the month of September to demand that these tests are canceled and that the U.S. begin immediate negotiations with the other nuclear powers on total nuclear abolition. Action for Nuclear Abolition! a project of Shundahai Network, is a campaign to provide quick and effective networking, information sharing, and coordinated actions to raise public awareness and apply political pressure to U.S. nuclear policies. Focusing on nuclear weapons testing and development as well as nuclear waste production and dumping, our public meetings, educational materials, nonviolent direct actions and media development work will help build the momentum to shut down the Nevada Test Site and halt the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump. Our Spring 1999 Campaign will build on the momentum and creative energy of our fall 1998 actions to stop the subcritical nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site. During the fall we will hold nonviolent direct actions and press conferences at an air force base, a Federal Court House, Department of Energy Yucca Mountain Project Office, and the Nevada Test Site. For more information please contact us at (702) 647-3095 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org Web: http://www.shundahai.org Please write or call the Department of Energy and the White House and your Congressional representatives and demand: *The subcritical nuclear weapons test be canceled! *Stop all new and modified nuclear weapons development. *Close down the Nevada Test Site and all nuclear weapons development facilities except for programs based disarmament. *Begin immediate clean up and containment of the nuclear nightmare caused by the U.S. Nuclear Weapons program. President Bill Clinton, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC 20001, (202) 456-1111 Secretary of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave, Washington DC, 20585 (202) 586-5230 State Senators and Representatives (202) 224-3121 (Congressional switchboard) Join the international movement to stop these U.S. tests and demand that all the nuclear powers begin the process of immediate disarmament. ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< Action for Nuclear Abolition! Fall 1999 campaign Action for Nuclear Abolition! a project of Shundahai Network combines education and nonviolent direct action. We are planning a renewed local campaign this fall to bring attention to and help solve pressing issues concerning nuclear weapons and waste! The events planned will build on the immense success of past Action for Nuclear Abolition! campaigns. September 8: Nonviolent Direct Action to Stop U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program. "Don't Be Hypocritical, Stop the Subcritical!" A demonstration will be held at the Las Vegas Foley Federal Building followed by a nonviolent direct action at an appropriate Federal installation to protest and raise public pressure to cancel the scheduled explosion of at least two more subcritical nuclear weapons tests at NTS in the fall. Through our media development work and public outreach we will put pressure on Nevada's Senators to join with other congressional representatives demanding a cancellation of U.S. nuclear weapons programs. September 29: Las Vegas Benefit Concert to raise money and awareness for the Action for Nuclear Abolition! Campaign (stay tuned for more details) September 30: "Nevada is Not A Wasteland Day!", Nonviolent Action and Press Conference on Nuclear Waste issues This action will mark the first Anniversary of the official "Nevada is Not A Wasteland Day!" proclaimed by Governor Miller last year. We will hold a press conference to report on the national grassroots efforts to stop dangerous nuclear waste transportation and dumping and to announce our new strategies to stop current low-level nuclear waste dumping at NTS and halt the plans to dump high-level nuclear waste on Western Shoshone Land. This Press conference will be held in conjunction with a nonviolent direct action to protest the Department of Energy's current nuclear waste policies. October 1: Nellis Air Force Base Nuclear Weapons Citizen Inspection Team, Nonviolent Direct Action and Press Conference This action will be one of many Citizen Inspection Team actions occurring simultaneously around the world. The Citizen Inspection Teams will make their way into nuclear weapons installations to inspect nuclear weapons first strike systems and present this documentation to the public. In Las Vegas we will try to inspect Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas which handles one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear bombs in the U.S. We will hold a press conference to announce our findings. All of these actions and events will be made even stronger by our team of organizers and media spokespeople spreading the word through the internet, newsletters, and networking with other organizations around the world. *************************************************************** SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" *Breaking the Nuclear Chain* 5007 Elmhurst Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 ph(702)647-3095 Fax: (702)647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org http://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ****************************************************************