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On April 29th, 200 disarmament activists and con-'
cerned citizens gathered outside the west gate of
the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons'glant in a

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th is time for

trial.

Photo by Crace Hedemann, who was found not gui lty in the course of defending herself

Thursday,12 May )lt's 12:40pm, man and woman
from Core told us about a half-hour ago that.we arê
being releasedl fhe deal is we will all have mass
trials, will get perSonal recognizance pending
appeal, this goes for second and third time offenders also; we sacrif ice only our right to make an
individual statement. We raised question of people
who were convicted already, some w¡th $500 bail,
and action will be taken to insure they are handled
first before we all skip town.
People cir :ulating, doing last-minute stuff , collecting information learning songs, etc. Celebration lunch of fish (finally!), rice-a-roni, cornbread,
salad. One final meeting around Core people regarding mechanisms of mass trial. May happen
this afternoon, here or in Hampton.
PR is what wewanted, and after 12 days,we've
got it!

Well, we're all packed and ready, the armory has
been cleared of cots, blankets, towels; junkthrown
out and a huge "lost and found" box is f illed with
books, towels, camping gear. People sitting in little
groups in the barren concrete gym and Capt.
Dupee comes and announces achange in orders.
Trials will be tomorrow morning instead.

Friday,13 May. We departon two busses at 7:50
am. . . Long wait at Portsmouth armory, familiar
faces within; two busses from Dover pull up behind
us, we compare notes out of windows; they started

with 250, down to50now. . . busses roll irtto
Ham pton, smal I wh ite A-f rame di strict cou rt, f i lm
crews everywhere, state cops . . . waiting in parking
lot. . . f ile into a small room, four rows of chairs, six
chairs per row. . . J udge McDermott bids us good
morning at 10:30. . .we readour group statement,
waive proceedings, state recommending $100 and
15 days with credit for 13 served, paperwork as
rehearsed, l'm nodding out. . . we appeal, Manny
of Clam our lawyer, we'reon PRtil¡ Rockingham
Superior Court date, judge goes through tired
paperwork. . . Release! . . .anotherschool busride,
th i s time to Sm ith Farm, Ken si n gton, courtesy of
Clamshell; peoplesigning in. . .afieldof grass
divided among various campgrounds, good food,
pot of veggies and rice, one of pea soup, horror
stories exchanged of armory food . . . beautif ul
blue-sky white-church New England day and we

arefree.

MarkMarinch

MartaDanielsworkswith the AFSC in Voluntown,
Connecticut, and was at Concord armory. Robert
E I I sbe r g wor ks w i th th e Cathol i c Wor ker, a n d was
amember of New YorkCity 339aÍf inity group in
Somersworth armory. Marty Jezer was in Concord
armory. John Lampertiteaches mathematics at
Dartmouth College, is on the board of the

ACLU /VT and was in Manchester armory . Mark
Mar i nch was a member of theSeagu//s alfin ity
group in Somerswo rth. Cathy Wolff is a Clamshell
mediaorganizer and was in Somersworth armory.

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demonstration of solidarity with occupiers of
Seabrook nuclear power construction site. Rocky
Flats is the plant where all plutonium triggers for
the United States' nuclear bombs are manufactured and periodically reprocessed. The nonviolent action, organized by an ad hoc committee of
the Rocky Flats Action Croup, was timed to coincide with the occupatioh of Seabrook by members
of the Clamshell Alliance.
Demonstrators at Rocky Flats shared the slogan
with the Clamshell Alliance members, "Better
active today than rad ioactive tomorrow. " Spokesperson for the action, J udy Hurley, Boulder resident and mother of three, stressed, "We
emphasize the im portance of havi n g com m un ities
reassert control over major decisions affecting
their lives, such as whether or not they want a
nuclear power plant or a nuclear weapons plant
-located nearthem."
Thé Rocky Flats Action Croup has been carrying
on athree year campaign to educatethe public
about Rocky Flats, its "missions" and dangers to
the human family, with the goal of closing the
plant-a big step toward nuclear disarmament.
The April 29th action echoed another of the campaign's themes, calling for conversion of the plaht
to civilian production of goods needed for meeting

human needs ratherthan the highly inflationary
production of m il itary weapons.
A professor from the Un iversity of Colorado
Theatre Department led the group in an Eskimo
chant, reminding participants of the wholeness and
sacredness of the earth, The action was blessed
with athundering rain storm as demonstrators
stayed to leaf let workers leaving the plant for the
day. The rain was a double blessing to the drought
stricken state, as it dampened the soil so polluted

with respirable plutonium dust.

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The RFAC has organized two town meetings

since the April 29th action. The meetings iñ Arvada
and Boulder are the f irst in a series óf meetings for
citizens to voice concerns to State and Federal
decision makers about Rocky Flats and the human
costs paid by Coloradans to the nuclear arms race.
J une 4th the RFAG sponsored a peace conversion
seminar at a public meeting held bythe Rocky Flats
Monitoring Committee, a State appointed "watch-

dog" committeefor RockY Flats.

The Rocky Flats Action Croup plans to hold
monthly vigils or demonstrations from May 1977 to
Mayof 1978, untilthe special United Nations Disarmament Conference. The monthly actions will
help build a voice in Colorado fôr total and complete disarmament, beginning with the closing of
Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant. For more
information, the RFAC can be contacted c/o AFSC,
1428 Lafayette St., Denver, COB021B.

:pam

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Rocky Flats was built in the early f ifties without the
consent or knowledge of Colorado citizens. Since
that time, there have been more than 200 industrial
f ires, including the largest industrialfire in United
States history in 1969. This fire burned 20 million
dollars worth òf plutonium-roughly enough to
buildTT atom bombs like the one that incinerated
Nagasaki. Congress quickly shelled out 45 million
dollars to clean upthe mess, afigurewhich equaled
the entire 1969 fiscal budget of the plant. 240 Rocky
Flats workers and 60 summertime college students
sifted through the charred debris to recover the
burned pl uton i um. Several h undred rai I road cars
shipped the approximately 330;000 cubic feet of
radioactive wastes to the then AEC burial grounds
in ldaho. Denvercame verycloseto being a burial
ground itself .
This one f ire burned at a total cost of more than
50 million dollars. The environmentaf and human
costs iriterms of potential cancers and genetic
mutations häs never been calculated. Forthe most
part, the US Covernment has been cavalier about
the risks to radiation workers, families and to residents who are asked to tolerate the intolerable. ln
1969, according to Roger Raþoport writing on
Secrecy and Safety at Roèky Flats, some 325

workers had experienced radiation contamination
at the plant. "Off icially AEC spokesmen say there
have been a mere 21 disabling injuries and one
fatality since the plant opened. But they ref use to
disclose the number of workers who have received
the maximum permissable doseof radiation and
been transferred to cold (non-radioactive) sections
of the plant.

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and reprocessing atthefacility. TheAction Croup .
has cailed for a dètailed plan for the conversion and
economic rights of Rocky Flats workers and a com-

Respirable plutonium dust has been found in the
soil aröund the plant, spread by numerou.s f ires
and accidents. One of the accidents was the leaking
of oil drums stored outside containing plutonium '
Dow Chemical (then managing the plant) solved
the accident by covering the contaminated area
w¡th asohalt, Íhe fact remains that the asphalt will
not last as loírg as the plutonium with a half life of
24,000 years.
Îhis respirable plutonium dust will cause

plete analysìs of whether the plant site is suitable
Ìorother industrial uses. ln calling for economic
rights, the RFAG has urged thatthe economic
riáhts of local residents whose property has been
damaeed be taken into account as well.
Th;RFAG claims that the making of nuclear
bombs at Rocky Flats poses inevitable health and
safety hazards for those of us who live there. These
risks are not acceptable to the people of Colorado.
Thev will not be acceptableto any community. The
ieopardy of local people is a microcosm of the threat
ôf nucleârwar to all the human family. This
jeopardy only builds on the growing consensus for
nuclear disarmament. - Pam Solo and John Wafer

.un.ãi. Cancerof the lung is probable, while

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plutonium cariied in the blood stream to the reproäuctive organs can cause genetic mutations. Bone
cancer and-leukemia is also likely. The hazards of
olutonium have been widely publicized. Recently
änother toxic material has been reported to have
leaked into our environment. Radioactive cesium
has been found in the soil by a nearby J efferson
Countv Public Health off icial. ERDA and Rockwell

have bêen quick to deny that the cesium came f rom
the plant. Why the quick and vehement den ials ?
Becäuse cesium is a f ission product, that is, it is
created only from "acriticality event" or.in other
words, a nuclear explosion. Rockwell and ERDA
claim ihat the cesium levels are not any h igher than
background levels f rom nuclear bomb tests of the
oastlDr. lohnson who ran thetests forthe Jeffco
ilealth Dépt. says the levels could be higher and
the distribution patterns, with f urther testing,
would demonstrate whether or not it is f rom "normal backgrou nd" sources or f rom a f i ss ion reaction
atthe plant itself .
The Rocky Flats Action Croup (RFAC) has as one
of its goals to close the Rocky Flats as a nuclear
weapóns facility and end all plutonium fabrication

Rocky Flats. Photo by S. Kosanicki/AFSC'

Pam Solo is on the staff of the AFSC, an org,anizer
of the RFAC and a member of the Colorado State

Mon itor i n g Com m ittee for Rocky F I ats.

JohnWafer is on thestaÍf ôf ColoradoClergy an.d
Laity Concerned, an organizer of the RFAC and on
the stafÍ of the Environmental Action Reprint
Service.

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The Town of Orwell in western Vermont near Lake
Champlain has been called the best potential
nuclear plant site in the state. Officials from the

Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
(CVPS) deny any def inite plans to build a plant on a
2,000 acre tract owned by several dairy farmers but

have meanwhile.been urging local residents to
keep their options open. Orwell citizens have not
been wooed, however, and on May 10 voted to
oppose nucléar power plant constrqction and the
storage and transportation of nuclear wastes
through the town.
ln an extremelyclosevoteOrwell, located near
historic Mount lndependence, joined 36 other Vermont communities which have recently gone on
record against nuclear power. On Towh Meeting
Day this year the nuclear industry took a beating
when all but two of the communities considering a
nuclear referendum decided to oppose nuclear
development. Voters in Orwell had tabled the item
but local citizens collected enough signatures to
force a special election. The outcome, occurring
about a week after the occupation of the proposed
plant site at Seabrook, NH and just four days after
Vermont Yankee nuclear plant revealed a new

radioactive spill, is another setbackfor pro-nuclear

forces in the Creen Mountains.
CVPS, chief sponsor of the Vermont Yankee
plant in Vernon, personally handled the campaign
ägainst the Orwell referendum. Off icials visite{
pérson-to-person with residents and took local
Selectmen on atourof the southern Vermont plant'
The utility promised clean power if a plantwas ever
built-not to fnention tax benefits. According to
anti-n uclear organ izers the Seabrook occupation

and report of a spill at Yankee counteracted the
CVPS publicity campaign and ended in victory by a

six-vote margin.

Theutilityïas disappointed bytheoutcome,

but,

spokesman ilussell Avers said that Orwell is still
considered a prime si[e. He added th.at a decision
will probably not be madeforseveralyears. Ken
Snyder, a school bus driver who helped lead the
anii-nu-ke campaign, was happy.aboutthe 50 per.
cent voter turnouibut said that the closeness of the
vote indicated that residents didn't f ully "appreciate the danger and health hazards. " ln spite of
this. the exõression of public opinion may be taken
a stép further next year by pushing for a town

ordinance.
Anti-nuclear votes in Orwell and other Vermon+
communities may not be legally bind4g but the
anti-nuclear atmosphere is expected to effect decision-making in the Vermont legislature, which
must approve the construction of any atomic
facility. After the Town Meeting votes Vermont's
lone Congressman J ames J effords said that, "The
people ofãt least 35 towns have said they have no
äoniidence in the way nuclear power is regulated
bv the federal eovernment. Thev have challenged
the right of theJederal government to make decisionsõn this issuewhich will havean impacton life
in their communitiei."
Although the State legislature hasn't yet been
asked to aþprove a new atomic site it has begun to
consider nuclear issues. ln late Aprilthe strongest
waste control bill in the country was passed and
signed by Republican Covernor Richard Snelling'
Hóuse Btll261, which passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote, requires legislative approval before a nuclear waste storage site or spent
iuel reprocessing facility can be built. Criteria for
approval includehealth, safety, aesthetic, historic,
aiiand water purity, natural environment and economic
-ïË factors.
i;ãi;iãtur" rnuy have to exercise this new
power beiore very lonþ. Vermont Yankee faces
7'interim" fuel storage problems and has begun
talking about buildinÈ a regional dumping facility
for its nuclearwastes. Plantoff icials have already
aiked;the N uclear Regulatory Comm i ss ion ( N RC)
to approve a plan tq triple the capacity of its present
spentfuel storage pool. Thefederal government,
h'owever. has been slowtodecideon the handling
of the spónt fuels which can be lethal for hundreds
of centuries.

Yankee has had a historyof mishaps. The most
recent spill, 500 gallons of radioactive water discharged into theConnecticut River on March26, .
was ñot reoorted for over a month because off icials
considereä the leak "inconsequential." That may
be accurate in comparative terms since 83,000
gal lons of I iquid waste contai n i n g.rad ioactive
tr¡tium was ipilled in J uly 1976 The problem of
spillage has been compounded by improper design
of the emergency core cooling system and a constant emission of radioactivity producing high
levels in the surrounding area.
The cooling system crisis, which could have resulted in a major meltdown, was handled by closing

a cost of $2.6 million to
To
deal with emissions a thick
ratepayers.
Vermont
lconcrete wall was built around the plant's turbine
to shield radiation from the sides. The riverside
was left exposed.
The Vernon plant operation has also been criti-

the plant for repairs at

cized for carelessness in trucking nuclear wastes
over dangerous roads, traveling in the wrong lane
and failiñg to tell authorities about shipments in
advance. Áccording to research by Harvard
student Charles Beigen, shipments traveling
through Vermont for Yankee include fresh reactor
fuel tiansported on state roads about eight times a
year and iolid waste shipments leaving plants at
Vernon and Rowe, Mass. morethan 50times annually. There have been accidents, one.in New
YorkState for example involving atruck loaded
with two tons of spent resins from Yankee. Accidents are likely to continue as shipments increase,
concludes Bergen, and spent fuel shipments-if
they begin - will be the most ilangerous. Yankee
may try to avoid this criticism by storing its wastes
on site.

The Seabrook occupation and possibility of a
plant in Orwell by the1980s have accentuated the
äebate about nuclear power in Vermont. The utility
has already spent more than $200,000 to create a

more positivê public image and, along with some
local officials who expect tax benêf its, argues that
the anti-nuclear votes will not discourage f uture
plans. Officials in Burlington, Vermont's largest

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r city, are apparently not as conf ident. Mayor Cordon Paquette recently denied Burlington voters an
opportun ity to con sider the nuclear referendum
and is beine sued bv Vermonters for Safe Power in
a'driveto piace the item on a special election ballot.
I n February the n uclear opponents asked
Burlington aldermen to place the construction, .
transpórtation and storage item on the March ballot. Aïter a ref usal 1 ,724 signeltures were collected
to force the issue onto a special election ballot that
had been arranged to reconsider a school tax issue.
Paquette, who is on record in favor of nuclear
power and was sensitive to the statewide signif icance of a Burlington vote, invoked a little-used
authority in the city charter to block the
referendum. The resulting lawsuit in Superior
Court asks Paquette to rescind his exclusionary or' der. J udge Silvio Valente has said he would order a
special election later this year if he rules in favor of
Vermonters for Safe Power.
Working closely with other Vermontorganizations suchãs the Vermont Public lnterest Research
Croup as well as the Clamshell Alliance,.the
Burliirgton-based anti-nuclear group will have its
hands iull this year. Downplaying the anti-nuclear
votes CVPS is hoping for a f lexible legislature and
the oreference of Vermonters for their own nuclear
facii¡ties over purchase of power f rom out-of-state
plants
at higher prices.
' lf Orwell
does become a proposed site or if
Yaókee receives legislative approve for a storage
facility nuclear opponents rnay be confronted with
anether Seabrook-style situation of public opposition versus utility lobbying power. Atthe moment,
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however, anti-nuclear forces have several signif icant victo.ries to review and some critical legal work
ahead.
-Greg Guma
Creg Cuma works with anti-nuke forces in

Vermont.

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The second unit at TMI has not yet received an
operating license, and hearings resumed on J une 6
in Harrisburg. Among the issues under consideration at the hearings arè evacuation plans, waste
disposal radioactive emissions, which
Metropolitan Edison Co., operator of TMI has said
willdouble if the second unit is put intooperation.

:Steve Kraft

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Approxi mately 500 hel i um-f i I led bal loon s were
released by a coalition of anti-nuclear groups at the
Three Mile lsland nuclear plant (TMl) on the banks
of the Susquehanna River at Coldsboro, PA on
April 30. Each carried a tag stating that it symbolized radiation-both the low level radiation that
is routinely emitted by a nuclear power plant and
the radioactive fallout that could result from a
major accident-and asked finders to mailthe card
bàck so it could be determined how far and in which

Stev e K r af t w r i tes for th e H arri s bu rg I n dependent
Press, from which this article is adafted. (MaV 6-20

issue.)

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Balldons symbolizing radiation from the Three Mile lsland nuclear plant were
released ai Goldsborã (star) on Apri I 30. Th us fari cards attached to the balloon s
have been return'ed from the locaiions shown in small type (there were multiple
returns from Wilmington and Vineland)- Harrisburg, Baltimore, PhÌladelphia
and ntlanticCity areãlso shown for reference Mapby Steve Kraft/t{arrisburg
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cluster of hopef ul tree-planters and their collection
of ladders, trowels and potted plants. As the talk
and the singing ended, the créwd parted like a
curtain and a nearly silent, seesaw drama began.
The blankets and sleeping bag pa{s that were
thrown onto the high, barbed-wire "'vee" of the
fence to permit safe climbing were persistently

crossing the street to begin arrests. A group at the
gate formed themselves into a seated circle around
blood-painted symbols on the sidewalk and were
quickly arrested. Then three of us were discovered
to be chained to the gates and were taken away,
freed by the boltcutters carried by police. Within
an hour all 17 of those arrested were released on
personal recognizance. They rejoined us atthe
nearby rally point, having been charged with third
degree crimi nal trespass.
From the standpoint of this observor, we had a
r,emarkably good reception from many and almost
no outright antagonism. I believe that nrinviolence
is better understood and appreciated forour having
been there. Those who want to relate to the ongoing campaign against the Trident should contact

AFSC, RD 1, Box 494, Voluntown, CT06384.

:-Tom Mclean'

again . Ladders set i nto pos ition were repeated ly

Tom McLean, who was a long distance walker on
the ContinentalWalk, is a long time peace activist.

pushed away.
Croton police watched only briefly before

1977.

This article

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Peacework, June

Demonstrators gather around Treeof Life moments before planting. All six
arrested at base were Seabrook graduates. NE I D photo bv Clen Al lvord

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The Atlantic Life Community returned as promised
to the hometown of the Trident submarine, Croton,
CT, on the weekend of May 20 and 21. Some 150 of
us, many fresh from Seabrook with colorful ban-

ners made in New Hampshire armories, gathered
Friday evening at Connecticut College's Harkness
Chapel for a rally and teach-in. By Saturday

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fence warn ing sai lors not to speak with us .
At the Electric Boat plant, our approach and rally
around the engineering building gate attracted a
¡izeable audience of townsfolk and off-shift
emplovees as well as EB security personnel. Much
of the security force had its attention on the small

heaved back. Replaced, theywere heaved back

direction airborne particles would travel.
The dozen cards retuined so far indicated a
def inite pattern
-a band stretching east and southeast from the Harrisburg area. With a slightly diÊ
ferent weather páttern, the northern part of the
Philadelphia area or even New York could be affected.
At a meeting the following Tuesday, several organizers of the action expressed surprise the
balloons and radiation traveled so far. There was
speculation that many balloons may have been
carried out to sea..
" . Most of the individuals mailing back the cards
requested further information. They will be sent
the results of the prolect and put in contact with an
anti-nuclear group in their area. Letters to newspapers and local governments in the area where the
balloons were found are also planned.

attempted to enrich Armed Forces Day festivities
with a symbolic tree planting and were arrested by
shore patrol in full riöt squad dress who pushed
past the commander's greeting committee. All
were released soon afterward without being
charged. Other shore patrol guards toured the base

morn ing, another 50 or so had arrived to follow our
Trident Monster's "homecoming" trail.
We spoke our concerns through music, street
theatre and remarks by Rev. William Stringfellow
atthe Naval Underwater Systems Center, where
data gathered from the oceans is used to develop
and sophisticate sea-borne weapons systems.
Our six-mile walk continued, our homemade
Trident Monster puppet attracting attention by its
560 feet in length, its 408 dark pennants signifying
the number of nuclear warheads that each Trident
submarine will carry. The Navy wants to build 30of
them, at a total cost of $BQ billion. The keel-laying
ceremony for the second of those 30 Tridents took
place without ceremonyon April4 at Electric Boat
in Croton. EB is a subsidiaryof Ceneral Dynamics,
the nation's seventh largest Pentagon contractor.
We crossed the Cold Star Bridge into Croton and
stopped at the US Naval Submarine Base, the
northern port for the NATO f leet and a stockpile
base for nuclear weapons. There, six of us

Photo by Bruce Martin

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Center.
CANT has been organizing opposition to both nuclear power
'plants and to the disposal of other
plant's nuclearwastes in New
Mexico. Thev have planned to join
with the Sociäty for a New Earth,
which is protesting the construction of the Palo Verde Nuclear
Power plant in Arizona, in conferences and future

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vote

co_unted, the referendum to repeal
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guaranteeing gay people protection from discrimination in
employment, housing and public
gçgomodations has been passed by

Miami residents, 200,058 to

87,871
, The orig_inal law was passed by
the Dade County Commission ov'er

tour months ago. The repealeffort
gai ned national'attention when
singer and te. .vision personalitv
Anita Bryant took the lead of the
anti-gay rights forces. Bryant, a
f undame.ntalis.t Baptist, fôrméd a
group called "Save Our Children,,
contendìng that the law gave gay

people license to recruitãnd molest ch i ldrert. She also stated

that homosexualitv was an
abom ination agaÍnst Cod.
Cay rights groups and civil
I ibertarians nationwide supported
the efforts to maintain the itaiuiã.

The decision is expected to have
national.impact on gay peoples,
regat rrghts.
A number of cities have adopteà

similar ordinances in recent yéars;
none of those ran into the
implacable and hysterical opposition mounted in Miami.
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Bryant told newspeople she was
had an information booth.
establishing a national committee
On Sunday, May 1, a caravan of
to fight homosexuality. She
' vans and station wagons
left the
characterized gay people as emCoalition's off ice, headed for the
bracing a "lifestyle that is both
Trojan plant. At the plant, an inforpêrverse and dangerous.,,
matioñ table was set up to disJ ean O'Leary, executive
tribute literature to sightseers.
director of the National Cay Task
The main point of conðern is the
Force, said after the vote:,,The
spent-fuel wastes. The Federal
defeat for human rights in Dade
government does not allow private
County is all the evidence anyone
companies to dispose of the wdstes
could need of the extent and'
themselves, but the government
virulence.of prejudice agaínst leshas not yet devised a plan for disblans and gay men in our society,
posal either, and so the wastes are
and of the necessity to redouble'
stored at the plant, Under the
our efforts to end such prejudice
recent revision, more wastes can
and the discrimination it
be stored,, further increasing the
in spi res . "
danger of contamination frd
Cay rights activists have
leakage and exacerbating the
pledged to continue struggles for
problem of future disposãI.
simílar laws elsewhere aðross the
Scribe

country.

-Newsdesk

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NO NUKES IN NEW MEXICO

TROJAN NUKE PROTEST
Demonstrators gathered at the

Pacific Cas and Electric (pCE)
company's building in portland,
Oregon on Apríl 30 to protest
against the increased spent-fuel
allowance at the Trojan nuclear
pgwer plant near Portland [see
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nuclear plants in genéral. After
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plex, the group of about 50 people
marched around Saturday Market,
where the Coalition for Safe powei

April29, the Friday before the occupation at Seabrook, The Citizens
Aga.inst Nuclear Threats (CANT)
held an anti-nuke demonstration in

Albuquerque, NM at a dinner
honoring Senator Pete Domenici.
Charging that the Senator is a
"friend of the nuclear industry,,
who has been "ignoring the
proliferation of pìutoniüm that
would result from the breeder reactor," some 50 persons, manv in
dinner clothes, chanted .,Nuclêar
waste: No thanks!" as they
picketed in front of the Conveñtion

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AMHERST, MA- Towards Tomorrow Fair at University of Massag
Seabrook occuPàtion, Crai SimPchusetts, exhibits of alternative
vice
WRL
and
member
son. CANT
energy, alternative systems.
chairperson, said, " if either Power Speakers include: Buckminster
r
plants or nuclear waste disPosal
" Fuller, Murray Bookchin, Barry
sites come to New Mexico, we'll
Commoner, Ralph Nader, Dick
have to do it here too. ' '
For informaWeeklY Gregory, )une24-26.
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tion, contact: Towards Tomorrow,
105 Hills North, U Mass, Amherst,
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BOSTON - Livi ng NewsPaPer
juntatook power in Thailand Isee
Theatre Collective, Paul Cole and
Wl N, 10/21 /7 61, in a bloody coup
Turnout perform a Program on
which left hundreds dead and
"Radical Art" at Community
thousands under arrest. PoPular
Chu.rch, 565 Boylston St., SundaY,
outcry and international pressure
J uné 19, 11 am. For information,
have forced the junta to release
call (617)266-6710.
many of these prísoners in'the
CHARLESTOWN, WVA-Confollowing months.
' However, spme of the student
ference on health care as a tool for
social and economic change for
and labor leaders and intellectuals
people f rom so-uthern West Vi rwho were most active in bringing
ginia, Saturday, J une25. For
democracy to Thai land in 197 3 or
information, contact: Pat MurraY,
who have been active sincethen
Box 315, Cabin Creek, WV25035.
are being brought to trial on a
variety of charges, ranging from
ENTERPRISE, ONTARIO- Con"communism" to murder and
ference
of I ntentional Communities
treason. They face long prison
ion Community, RR 1,
Dandel
at
sentences or death. The first group
Canada, KOK 120,
Enterprise,
of 23 is supposed to go to trial on
)une24-26. Workshops in strucJune17.
relations,
It is possible that Prime Minister tures, interpersonal
of
ity,
distribution
equal
sexual
Thanin Kraivisien will use his
For
information,
economics.
labor,
power to order summary execution
contact: Dandelion, (613)
before then. lf he does not, the
358-2304. $22 conference fee.
students will face a kangaroo military court, without the r:ight to
JAMESPORT, NY- Picnic for a
counsel. I nternational groups such nuclear f ree environment, at the
as Amnestv lnternational have exbeach near the site of the ProPosed
oressed coñcern for the fate of
J amesport nuke, SaturdaY, J une
these orisoners and thousands
25 , 1 pm . For information, call
others like them in Thailand'
Charlie and Audrey Raebeck, (516)
We urge you to send a telegram
276-6564or write: Suffolkfor Safe
immediJtelyto:.
Energy, Box2000, Riverhead, NY
11901.
Prime Minister Thanin Kraivisien
Thai Khu Far Bldg.
Los RNcelES-women's
Bangkok, THAILAND
Cathering on Nonviolence and
Feminism, ) ulV 22-24. Fot inforDemand:
mation, contact: Nonviolent
1) Do not invoke Article 21 against
prisoners;
Feminists, 237 Hill St., Santa
oolitical
)) Op"n thetrials to the public; ad- Mon ica, CA 90402, (213) 469-07 49.
$10 registration.
mit international observers;

demonstrations. Referring to the

CAY RIGHTS LAW REPEALED
lN MIAMI; DADE COUNTY
VOTERS OVERTURN
ORDINANCE BY 2 TO 1 MARGIN

3) Observe UN standards for the
tieatment of prisoners; allow observers to visit them in the detention centers where they are held;
4) Respect the UN Declaration of
Human Rights, which Thailand
has signed.
- Union of Democratic Thais

NEWHAVEN, CT-National
Conference on United States'
Responsibi I ity to Vietnam.
Speakers include: Don Luce, Cora
Weiss, Cloria Emersori. Yale Law
School, Saturday, J uly9. Sponsored byAFSC, WILPF,
P,romoting Enduring Peace. For
information contact: Conn. Peace
Action Coal ition, 853 Townsend

Ave., New Haven, CT06512. $3
registration.
NYC- First meeting of NYC anti-'
nuke, alternative energY glouP,
Monday, J une 13, 7 Pm atthe Free
Association,-5 West 20th St', for
information , call {212) 673-0663 ,
677-0570.
Panel on Soviet Dissenters
movement at the Free Association,

NYC-

Friday, June17 ,7:30 Pm.

NYC- Bob Palmer

speaks on

"Anarchism and Maoism in
China" at Freespace Alternate U,
339 Lafayette St., Friday, )une17 ,
B:15 pm. For information, call
(212) 225-0322 . 52 contri buti on

NYC- Don Luce

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speaks on his

May trip to Vietnam at the Washington Square Methodist Church,
135 West 4th St., Sunday, J une 19,
5 pm. For information , call(212)
964-6730.

NYC- Picket and demonstration
against Australian uranium exports at Prime Minister Malcolm
Fraser's visit, Waldorf Towers,
Park Ave. & 50th St., Wednesday,
June22,1 pm. For information,
contact Friends of the Earth , (212)
675-5911

SANTA CRU Z, CA-Noñviolent
Training Program at the Resource
Center for Nonviolence, J une
17-30, includes workwith United
Farmworkers, WRL/West, Ecumenical Peace lnstitute. For information, contact the Center at: Box
2324, SantaCruz, CA 95063.

WHITE PLAINS, NY- Friends of
WBAI meeting at Westchester
People's Action Coalition, 100
Mamroneck Ave., Thursday, J une
16, B:15 pm.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Film show,
"There Was An Evening; There
Was aMorning" on Vietnam's
liberation at Wespac, Friday, J une
17 , B:15 pm . Benef it for SOS Vietnam. $2 contribution.
June16&23,1977 WIN

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BULLETIN BOARD
PUBLICNOTICE
Peacemaker Orientation Piogram in Nonviolence,
Birch Valley, Lum, Michigan from August 14-27.
Registerwith John Lein¡nger, 1255 Paddock Hills
Ave., Cinc¡nnati, OH 45229. 513-242-7980.

A Peace Seminar will go to the Soviet Union August
7-28,1977 . Participants w¡ll meet w¡th Peace Committees, Friendsh ip groups, visit collective farms,
factor¡es, Young Pioneer Palaces, historic s¡tes and
cultural centers. Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa.
and Volgograd will be visited. People desiring to go
shouldcontact Promoting Enduring Peace, POBox
103, Woodmont, CT 06460.
lf you are interested in disarmament, feminism, war
tax resistance, nonviolence or organizing a WRL
local chapter and you live in the South, then please
contact the new War Resisters League Southeast
Regional Office, 108 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill, NC
27514.919-967 -7244.

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The Fatted Sprout is an alternat¡ve food service with
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groups from 25 to 3000. We are a collective within
The Movement for a New Society. Contact us if we
can help you with food issues or food for your group:
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

WIN's computerized mailing service cooperative
needs a respon sible, conscientious, self-motivated
new staff person to start by Sept. No techn ical skills '
are needed since we provide train¡ng. The work requiresthe abi I ity to work with others and an organized mind and work hab¡ts. We needs someone
with a long term commitment to providing the communications lifeblood of the movement. Reasonable

movement salary. Commun¡ty Mailing Service lnc.,
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Phone 215-EV2-6096.
OB OPEN INC in Peace Conversion Program.
Ceneral organizing, Research, and Office Skills
Needed. lnquire lmmediately: Friends Peace Committee, 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, P a. 19102;
215-241-7230.

The Schoot of Social Development, Universityof

Minnesota, Duluth has three faculty positions for
1977 -7 I in administration, organ izin g, human
behavior, and plann¡ng. Minimum qualif ications:
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experience; fortenure-trackposition: Ph.D. andexperience. Send vita by J une 30to: Dr. Nancy
Hooyman, Schoolof Social pevelopment, Univers¡ty
of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812.

Work Exchange: Summer position sought as
maintenance helper, cook, or assistant, in peaceful
summer sett¡ng. I will work in exchange for
seminars, classes, community. (Perhaps in a program or institute ¡nvolved in humanistic psychology,
health issueo, drama, art, dance, or educational
alternatives). Sharon, PO5621, SantaMonica, Cali-

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Two pæple experienced in communes, groups, the
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doing the fol lowing: broad and deep consciousness,
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ANARCHISM by DanielCuerin. An absorbing
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THINKING LIKE AWOMAN by Leah Fritz.
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Sharp and witty thoughts on education,
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New Midwest ¡nstitute seeks unself ish, sociallyconscious, non-careerist, MA-PhD MOVEMENT

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Position available: Seven yearold alternative high
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will also copy recordings for their Louise Michel
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The Brandywine Alternat¡ve Fund is a group of
Delaware and Chester County, Pennsylvania
citizens working to reorder priorities away from military programsof war and war production to a greater
emphasis on people's needs and social development. Besides sponsoring educational and action
programs, the group is making a small yet positive
step to reorde; prior¡ties with the "ålternative
fund. " Th is fund, bomprised of refused war taxes,
personal savings, and group investments, makes
interest-free loan s to sqcial change and service
groups (primarily working in Chester and Delaware
count¡es). For information about Brandywine
Alternative Fund loanscontact: The Brandywine
Alternat¡ve Fund,302 S. Jackson St., Media, PA

l'm looking for information (¡n English) about the
split in the J apanese anti.nuclear movement
between Censuikin and Censuikyo. Would be
interested in hearing from people with first-hand
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