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ANNOUNCEMENT
Synthesis/Regeneration
A Magazine of Green Social Thought
 
December 11, 1995
 
Dear Green or greenish friend,
 
Nuclear topics will be critically important during 1996.  April
26 will be the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.  Plans
to transport irradiated fuel rods across highways and railroads
will heat up.  And the US intends to resume the testing of
nuclear weapons in June.
 
Synthesis/Regeneration 9 will have a special emphasis on Nuclear
Hot Spots which already exist in the US.  Susan Lee, of Feminists
for a Compassionate Society and the Austin Greens, pulled this
collection together.  These struggles are a sober reminder that
we do not need any new locations added to those already
contaminated.  S/R 9 provides current information on organizing
for Chernobyl+10 and an update on bills concerning nuclear
transportation which are before Congress.  The issue includes
many cartoons which Gary Oliver produced to draw attention to
nuclear contamination in the southwest.
 
In addition, S/R 9 features articles on Green organizing:
campaign '96 issues; model Green laws; book reviews, and
discussions of international trade monitoring and chlorine
contamination.
 
S/R 9 will be back from the printer by December 15.  If you need
copies sent priority mail or would like a large number for a
conference, please call me at home (314-727-8554).
 
In solidarity,
Don Fitz,
Editor, Synthesis/Regeneration
 
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CONTENTS
 
Synthesis/Regeneration 9
A Magazine of Green Social Thought
 
Nuclear Hot Spots
 2  Green Parties of Australia & New Zealand Oppose Tests
     US Greens echo request to halt French nuclear testing in    
     Mururoa.
 3  Nuclear Hot Spots: Capitol Hill
     Mary Olson appeals for citizen pressure to stop             
     Congressional bills.
    Claiborne Enrichment Center
     Damu Smith & Connie Tucker fight environmental racism in    
     Louisiana.
 9  Anti-Nuclear Victory in Texas Stuns Industry (Briefly)
     Erin Rogers doesn't want nuclear waste coming to Texas.
11  Pretend Democracy
     Lea Foushee & George Crocker document nuclear racism in     
     Minnesota.
13  WIPP: No Rationale, No Safety!
     Garland Harris doesn't dig a permanent underground nuclear  
     dump.
14  Hot Stuff and Nonsense
     Lou Zeller sees "no disposal site at the end of the rail    
     line."
15  Cape Fear Lookout
     T.J. Brown watched nuclear shipments through binoculars.
16  Trucker, Trucker-Braker, Braker
     Pat Cuney tells truckers to be wary of what's in their rigs.
17  Nuclear Laundry Dumping
     Susan Hirshberg warns of radioactive sewage in Santa Fe.
19  Activists Vow to Occupy Ground Zero
     Shaun Stenshol joins protests of French nuclear testing in  
     Mururoa.
20  LANL's DAHRT Got Stuck in the Mud
     A nuke weapon storage site seems stopped.  Greg Mello stays
     vigilant.
21  Plutonium Pits, Pantex & the Ogallala Aquifer (2)
     Panhandle Green Mavis Belisle fears the nuclear weapon      
     plant.
23  Corporation Tries to Re-Open Uranium Mines
     Safety of Navajo drinking water vs. business interests.
     Garland Harris reports.
24  Women's Peace Museum to End the Nuclear Age
     Green Susan Lee is on the road, alerting citizens to        
     radiation hazards.
 
The Electoral Challenge
28  The Threshold of a Third Party Dream
     California Green Steven Hill explains the advantages of     
     proportional representation
30  Campaign Finance Reform
     California Greens Elden Boothe & Nancy Broyles call for     
     public debate instead of sound bite ads.
31  Minimum/Maximum Income
     The 1995 Green Congress voted for a living income and a     
     limit on gluttony.  New York Green Howie Hawkins wrote the  
     call.
 
Growing Green Laws
33  The 7th Generation Constitutional Amendment
     Wisconsin Green Walt Bresette says the US Constitution      
     should protect common property.
35  The 7th Generation Act
     California Green Robert Benson provides a model law to force
     business to internalize long term environmental damage.
37  Ban Corporate Donations
     Jane Anne Morris claims corporate contributions             
     strangle public debate.
39  A Human Health Amendment.
     Missouri Green Don Fitz wants states to be able to ban BGHr
     and take chlorine out of production.
 
Ruminations\Reviews
41  A Chlorine Phase-Out: The Real Way to Reduce Dioxin
     Pat Costner explains why industry needs to remove chlorine  
     from manufacturing processes.
44  A Search for Trade Standards to Protect Labor and the        
     Environment  William McGaughey outlines a plan to monitor   
     international trade.
46  Susan Meeker-Lowry's Invested in the Common Good,
     reviewed by Dan Coleman
46  Rick Whaley & Walt Bresette's Walleye Warriors,
     reviewed by Rhoda Gilman
47  Lois Gibbs & CCHW's Dying from Dioxin, reviewed by Mark Guy
48  Edward Dent's Betrayal-Employee Relations at DuPont:1981-
     1994, reviewed by Jana Cutlip
 
 
 
 
View from Huairou and the Road
by Susan Lee, Feminists for a Compassionate Society, Austin
Greens
 
Progress in the long struggle for a comprehensive test ban was
halted three times during 1995.  The first in June, when the
French announced plans to once again nuke indigenous territory in
the Pacific and then did it despite furious response from New
Zealand and from Australia, where citizens promptly burned down
the French Embassy, from the Chilean government and people (where
four months of protests through every level of society culminated
in 18,000 demonstrating on September 5, the first detonation at
Mururoa), and from citizens around the world who took to the
streets and ceased to buy French wines, perfumes, cheeses,
mineral waters, Bic pens, etc.
 
The second setback came in late August when China tested nukes in
its remote western desert test grounds, and arrested and deported
the next day five Greenpeace activists who unfurled a protest
banner just days before women began arriving for the Fourth World
Conference on Women.
 
The final, cruel insult came in November, when we learned via a
New Zealand Greenpeace press release on the Internet that the US
had scheduled nuclear tests on Western Shoshone land at the
Nevada Test Site, beginning June 18, 1996.  (Mark your calendars
to organize protests where you live or come to Nevada then or
over Easter weekend.)  A friend on the national board of Peace
Action (the old Sane/Freeze) noted that the money had been in the
budget all along, despite Clinton's talk of test bans and self-
righteous posture toward France and China.
 
On the plus side, these developments are arousing interest again
in nuclear issues, and raised the profile of nuclear weapons to
the top in Huairou, if not Beijing where the major achievement
of activist delegates was getting the word radioactive inserted
once in the official documents.  At the non-governmental
gathering in Huairou, the number of workshops organized by women
from the US and Europe and the former Soviet Union on radiation
and health was impressive; though we were cut off at the knees in
terms of organizing by no central gathering place or time period
longer than three hours to work together on an issue before the
space was commandeered for another workshop on another issue.
Still, we made personal contacts and a few mailing lists have
emerged-women from the Koreas, which are vying to build new nuke
power plants with Japan, which has 49 on an island in a peaking
earthquake cycle; Byelorussian women who say the reactors for
power are bombs-biological ones, even when they don't explode;
Canadian women fighting new uranium mines and their government's
sale of reactors to China; Malaysian women who key nukes out of
their country reporting they are still concerned about the
plutonium shipments from England and French processing plants to
Japan; women from all over the world insisting they want
renewable energy, not earth-destroying nukes and fossil fuel
plants.  There was almost no debate on this issue, though the
Japanese women who fiercely protest nuke weapons are divided and
mostly silent on power from nukes.
 
(The above is the inside front cover to Synthesis/Regeneration 9:
Nuclear Hot Spots)
 
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