Editorial Note: Hello! My name is
Steve
Stormoen
and I'm the new Youth Empowerment Coordinator at
the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, taking over for (your friend and mine,)
Will Parrish, who left recently. You've probably already noticed the new
look -- that's just one of several changes in these newsletters. I'm also
going to try to put them out monthly and make them shorter and more
readable.
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The third Think
Outside the Bomb conference in as many years to occur at the
University
of
California
, Santa Barbara (and sixth
TOTB conference overall) took place from August 16-19. The conference draws
young people of all ages and levels of experience to empower and educate
themselves on an exhaustive range of issues related to the nuclear weapons,
power, and waste complexes, presented by some of the most well-versed
speakers in the field.
The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC had a major presence at the
conference. Among the more than 100 participants, roughly one-quarter were
affiliated with the UC. During a plenary on the second day titled
"Localized Resistance to Militarism," UCSC student Jamie Thompson
was featured as a speaker, discussing campaigns of the Coalition to
Demilitarize the UC and counter-recruitment at UC Santa Cruz, and several
members of the coalition were crucial to the conference's success, with
students from Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz leading workshops,
discussions, and meetings as part of the conference's facilitation team.
Photos and more at thinkoutsidethebomb.org.
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In This Edition...
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One of the
many exciting projects and campaigns to come of the Think Outside the Bomb
Conference was the End Nuclear Colonialism Speaking Tour, born out of the
conference's focus on the nuclear weapons complex's historic and continued
exploitation of indigenous communities around the world, through testing,
uranium prospecting and mining and nuclear waste disposal. This tour is
tentatively scheduled to begin in Winter 2008 across
California
at nuclear weapons complex
sites and UC campuses.
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About This Newsletter
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The
2007-2008 school year has started at all the UC campuses and there's never
been a better time to get involved in the movement to stop UC nuclear
weapons management. Check the sidebar to see if there's a group at your
campus, or, start your own! Contact any of the organizations listed for
help and resources for organizing in this dynamic campaign.
UC Santa Cruz is continuing the UC and the Bomb Class this quarter, and
Berkeley
,
Santa Barbara
,
and
San Diego
are all working to host it later in the school year. UC and the Bomb is a
student-directed class focused on the UC's ongoing role in nuclear weapons
management and nuclear issues in general, while gearing students towards
action to implement what they learn to create change, and has garnered
endless praise from students across five UC campuses since it began in
Berkeley
in 2005.
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The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC
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Those
pesky regents are at it again, trying to meet to discuss their continued
management of the heart of the nuclear weapons complex: the
Los Alamos
and Lawrence Livermore National Labs. The
Coalition to Demilitarize the UC plans on once again attending the meeting
and giving this collection of the most powerful people in
California
a piece of our minds. Past
regents meeting mobilizations have been wildly effective -- among them are last year's November
UCLA mobilization and the culmination
of our Hunger Strike in May of this year.
The agenda of next month's meeting has yet to be announced, so look out for
more details in the near future.
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Berkeley
Students Create
"Nuclear Fuel Cycle Maze" for October 27th Protest
Peace and
anti-war activists will have something beyond the usual march and rally to look
forward to at this October's massive protest. Fiat Pax, of the UC Berkeley
Phoenix Coalition, will have a maze set up to represent the nuclear fuel
cycle, beginning at uranium mining and ending with a nuclear warhead,
nuclear waste, or depleted uranium munitions, all the while informing
participants about not only the technical aspects of each step of the
nuclear fuel cycle, but the grisly human costs it exacts on affected
communities.
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Check out UC
Nuclear Free's website for new resources, including flyers, factsheets,
charts and graphics. Check it out here.
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