[Organize] Fwd: CALL TO ACTION: Stop Bechtel! Stand Up Against War Profiteers!

David Meieran david at heartofdarkness.org
Thu Jul 6 16:49:13 EDT 2006 

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Subject: 	CALL TO ACTION: Stop Bechtel! Stand Up Against War Profiteers!
Date: 	Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
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*NO NUKES! NO WARS!*
*End War Profiteering! Support Indigenous Rights!*
**

Between August 6 and 9, the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, demand an end to the war in Iraq, no military 
attacks on Iran or North Korea, and the global abolition of nuclear 
weapons, starting with our own.

This year, we call on groups to protest at the corporate offices of 
Bechtel, the world's number-one nuclear profiteer, and at nuclear 
facilities everywhere. Sixty-one years after the U.S. killed tens of 
thousands of civilians by dropping nuclear bombs on two densely 
populated cities, our aim is to expose the continuing hypocrisy of the 
U.S. nuclear double standard and to directly confront the U.S. 
corporations who are perpetuating and profiting from a worldwide nuclear 
crisis and the war in Iraq.

August 9 has also been declared by the United Nations as the 
International Day of the World?s Indigenous People. Indigenous peoples 
have often borne the brunt of nuclear devastation. In the United States 
alone, Native Americans have seen their land stolen to build nuclear 
infrastructure, mined for uranium, and bombed with test weapons; the 
U.S. government continues to push forward with plans to store massive 
amounts of highly radioactive waste beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada, a 
site sacred to the Western Shoshone. We have an opportunity to make the 
connections between nuclear proliferation and attacks on indigenous rights.

The U.S. is the ONLY country that has used nuclear weapons. As war and 
occupation continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration is 
fomenting nuclear crises in Iran and North Korea. At the same time it is 
pushing for new nuclear weapons and power plants here at home. We say NO 
to nukes, NO to wars, NO to war profiteers, and YES to the sovereignty 
of indigenous people around the world!

*WHY BECHTEL*
Bechtel Corporation is a leading beneficiary of the Iraq war and 
corporate globalization policies. Bechtel ?connects the dots? for the 
anti-war, anti-nuke and global justice movements. Through its 100 years 
of revolving-door relationships with government, Bechtel illustrates the 
connections between corporate profiteering and war, between nuclear 
power and nuclear weapons proliferation, between ?free trade? and the 
exploitation of indigenous peoples, and between corporate power-brokers 
and decision-makers at the highest levels of government. Click here for 
more background. 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=5&url=http://www.august6.org/why_bechtel>**

*Where to protest*
Bechtel has many facilities, projects and offices across the country and 
around the world. 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=6&url=http://www.august6.org/whereis_bechtel> 
Plans are underway for protests at most of the major U.S. nuclear 
weapons facilities, including the Livermore 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=7&url=http://www.august6.org/bay_area> 
and Los Alamos Labs, the Oak Ridge plant in Tennessee, the Nevada Test 
Site and the Pantex plant in Texas. Actions are also planned at 
Bechtel?s Bettis Atomic Laboratory in Pennsylvania 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=8&url=http://www.august6.org/Pittsburgh>, 
and Bechtel corporate offices in Houston and San Francisco 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=9&url=http://www.august6.org/bay_area>. 
See www.August6.org 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=10&url=http://www.august6.org/> 
for a growing list of actions.

*ACTION IDEAS*
Based on your group's capacity and background, you could organize anything:

    * marches
    * civil disobedience
    * citizen?s inspections
    * events that promote the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
      Commitments Act (H. Res. 373)
      <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=11&url=http://www.august6.org/hr_373>
    * teach-ins
    * educational events
    * outreach.

You might want to organize a bus trip to one of the larger regional 
events, or a protest at a nuclear power plant that Bechtel built 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=12&url=http://www.august6.org/whereis_bechtel>or 
at another nuclear profiteer?s facility or office 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=13&url=http://www.august6.org/war_profiteers>, 
such as BWX Technologies, Lockheed Martin or Raytheon.

We especially encourage civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action. 
Let?s use our people power to confront key pillars of war and empire -- 
including corporations like Bechtel. Be sure to list the activities that 
you are planning on the august6.org calendar. 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=14&url=http://www.august6.org/add_event>

At the 2004 World Social Forum, Arundhati Roy called on people to 
identify and locate the offices of Iraq war profiteers 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=15&url=http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.php?pagina=arundhati_2004_ing> 
?in every city and every country across the world? and ?go after them.? 
She continued, ?We could shut them down. It?s a question of bringing our 
collective wisdom and experience of past struggles to bear on a single 
target. It?s a question of the desire to win.?

*we can win*
Recently, the Western Shoshone Nation and its supporters helped to 
postpone indefinitely the ?Divine Strake? simulated nuclear test 
explosion at the Nevada Test Site that could have exposed people who 
live downwind from a dust cloud of radioactive particulates. Indigenous 
resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, forced that government to cancel 
Bechtel?s contract after the company privatized Cochabamba?s water 
systems and sent prices skyrocketing. In San Francisco, activists helped 
to defeat Bechtel?s plans to privatize water in their hometown.

*Who we are*
This call was initiated by the UFPJ Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining 
Security Working Group in collaboration with an ad hoc coalition of 
local and regional groups organizing August 6-9 actions.

Our efforts are intended to complement the United Nations? International 
Day of the World?s Indigenous People 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=16&url=http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/indigenous/> 
(Aug. 9); Global Call Iraq?s call for civil resistance to end the Iraq 
occupation 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=17&url=http://www.globalcalliraq.org/> 
(Aug. 6-9); the War Resisters League?s ?Stop the Merchants of Death? 
campaign 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=18&url=http://www.warresisters.org/smod/smod_hp.shtml> 
and its upcoming conference on war profiteering (Sept. 29-Oct. 2), 
United for Peace and Justice?s Nuclear Disarmament Campaign 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=19&url=http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?type=71&list=type> 
and No War on Iran Campaign 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=20&url=http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3240>, 
and growing efforts to link the anti-nuclear, anti-war, anti-corporate 
globalization and indigenous rights movements around common themes. We 
also hope to build momentum for the September 21-28 week of resistance 
to end the occupation of Iraq 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=21&url=http://www.declarationofpeace.org/>.

*JOIN THE CALL*
We invite other groups to join in this call. You can sign on at 
www.August6.org 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=22&url=http://www.august6.org/>; 
you can circulate the call among progressive organizations in your 
community; you can connect with others who are organizing against the 
war machine. /Seek peace, be part of the solution/.

Visit www.August6.org 
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=149215106&url_num=23&url=http://www.august6.org/> 
to find more information about Bechtel, our various actions, ideas and 
tools to organize your own events during August 6-9.

*The following groups are participating in the August 6-9 planning:*
Citizen Alert Nevada
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
Global Call Iraq Campaign
Nevada Desert Experience
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Peace Action
Peace Farm, Amarillo
Physicians for Social Responsibility Maine
Pittsburgh August 6 Committee
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice
Tri-Valley CAREs
UC Santa Cruz Students Against War
United for Peace and Justice
War Resisters League Stop the Merchants of Death Campaign
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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