Thursday, May 25, 2006
Greens to Endorse Divine Strake Action
The National Committee, like all Green committees, must work within constraints, including time constraints. AS a result, sometimes stuff slips through when time runs out. This seems to be the situation today.
Fortunately, the Steering Committee is apparently able to stake out a position for the National Committee in such circumstances, with a provision that the National Committee can reverse a decision made by the Steering Committee.
I get the impression that this is seldom done, and almost all the time the National Committee makes the move, not the Steering Committee. But, as I said earlier, time can get into the way.
The National Committee is scheduled to vote on an endorsement of the Divine Strake Day of Protest. Unfortunately, the vote on the proposal wraps up the day after the event it intends to endorse. What can I say? We're imperfect. :-)
The Steering Committee did endorse the day of action and the national party has issued a press release, which you can read just behind the "Read more!" link...
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene@greens.org
Deanna Taylor, Desert Green candidate for Salt
Lake County Council, 801-631-2998,
deanna@desertgreens.org
Greens rally against Divine Strake test at Nevada site
Green Party endorses the International Day of Action on May 28 against detonation; Greens call the test a show of force in preparation for an attack on Iran.
Schedule of events and more information:
http://www.desertgreens.org/events.html
http://www.gput.org/events.shtml
WASHINGTONON, D.C. -- The Green Party has endorsed the Stop Divine Strake Coalition's 'International Day of Action' demanding that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Nuclear National Security Agency cancel the Divine Strake detonation scheduled for June 23.
Green candidates and other party members from various states will join the coalition at the Nevada Test Site on May 28 during Memorial Day weekend to stand with dozens of other organizations protesting the event and urging officials to cancel the test.
"It's obvious that Divine Strake is a show of force preceding an imminent attack on the people of Iran -- which may include the use of nuclear weapons. It's a test run for President Bush's apparent attempt to set off a world war with Middle Eastern nations," said Deanna Taylor, Desert Green candidate for Salt Lake County
Council http://www.deannataylor.org, who plans to participate in the protest. Desert Greens (Green Party of Utah) have led the Green Party of the United States in opposing the test.
Many of the International Day of Action events will take place at the Nevada Test Site Peace Camp, located across Highway 95 from the Test Site. For a schedule of various events planned for May 28 and further information, resources, and links, visit http://www.desertgreens.org/events.html or http://www.gput.org/events.shtml
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency plans to detonate a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive at a federal facility 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
While the 'Divine Strake' test is not nuclear, its purpose is to "simulate a low-yield nuclear weapon." Since previous nuclear tests have occurred only a few miles away from the Divine Strake site, the test threatens to kick up previous radioactive contamination and send it downwind. No full environmental impact statement has been done to verify that there is no radioactive contamination at the site.
Greens also noted that the detonation is planned to take place on Western Shoshone land, without Western Shoshone approval, at a time when the latter have been fighting for sovereignty over their ancestral and treaty-recognized lands and for the removal of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recently found the U.S. in violation of human rights standards and international law and has ordered the U.S. to cease activities on Western Shoshone land.
MORE INFORMATION
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
Articles on the Divine Strake test and the Bush Administration's threat of an attack against Iran
http://www.shundahai.org/divine_strake.htm
http://www.disarmamentactivist.org
"El Futuro es Verde / The Future is Green"
National Meeting of the Green Party of the United
States in Tucson, Arizona, July 27-30, 2006
http://www.gp.org/meeting2006/
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Fortunately, the Steering Committee is apparently able to stake out a position for the National Committee in such circumstances, with a provision that the National Committee can reverse a decision made by the Steering Committee.
I get the impression that this is seldom done, and almost all the time the National Committee makes the move, not the Steering Committee. But, as I said earlier, time can get into the way.
The National Committee is scheduled to vote on an endorsement of the Divine Strake Day of Protest. Unfortunately, the vote on the proposal wraps up the day after the event it intends to endorse. What can I say? We're imperfect. :-)
The Steering Committee did endorse the day of action and the national party has issued a press release, which you can read just behind the "Read more!" link...
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene@greens.org
Deanna Taylor, Desert Green candidate for Salt
Lake County Council, 801-631-2998,
deanna@desertgreens.org
Greens rally against Divine Strake test at Nevada site
Green Party endorses the International Day of Action on May 28 against detonation; Greens call the test a show of force in preparation for an attack on Iran.
Schedule of events and more information:
http://www.desertgreens.org/events.html
http://www.gput.org/events.shtml
WASHINGTONON, D.C. -- The Green Party has endorsed the Stop Divine Strake Coalition's 'International Day of Action' demanding that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Nuclear National Security Agency cancel the Divine Strake detonation scheduled for June 23.
Green candidates and other party members from various states will join the coalition at the Nevada Test Site on May 28 during Memorial Day weekend to stand with dozens of other organizations protesting the event and urging officials to cancel the test.
"It's obvious that Divine Strake is a show of force preceding an imminent attack on the people of Iran -- which may include the use of nuclear weapons. It's a test run for President Bush's apparent attempt to set off a world war with Middle Eastern nations," said Deanna Taylor, Desert Green candidate for Salt Lake County
Council http://www.deannataylor.org, who plans to participate in the protest. Desert Greens (Green Party of Utah) have led the Green Party of the United States in opposing the test.
Many of the International Day of Action events will take place at the Nevada Test Site Peace Camp, located across Highway 95 from the Test Site. For a schedule of various events planned for May 28 and further information, resources, and links, visit http://www.desertgreens.org/events.html or http://www.gput.org/events.shtml
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency plans to detonate a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive at a federal facility 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
While the 'Divine Strake' test is not nuclear, its purpose is to "simulate a low-yield nuclear weapon." Since previous nuclear tests have occurred only a few miles away from the Divine Strake site, the test threatens to kick up previous radioactive contamination and send it downwind. No full environmental impact statement has been done to verify that there is no radioactive contamination at the site.
Greens also noted that the detonation is planned to take place on Western Shoshone land, without Western Shoshone approval, at a time when the latter have been fighting for sovereignty over their ancestral and treaty-recognized lands and for the removal of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recently found the U.S. in violation of human rights standards and international law and has ordered the U.S. to cease activities on Western Shoshone land.
MORE INFORMATION
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
Articles on the Divine Strake test and the Bush Administration's threat of an attack against Iran
http://www.shundahai.org/divine_strake.htm
http://www.disarmamentactivist.org
"El Futuro es Verde / The Future is Green"
National Meeting of the Green Party of the United
States in Tucson, Arizona, July 27-30, 2006
http://www.gp.org/meeting2006/
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// posted by Gregg Jocoy @ 8:29 AM 
