I'm seeking your advice as to whom might be urged to seek "Expert Objector
Status" (or prominent disarmament activist) in the upcoming CFMTR Nanoose
(Torpedo Range) Expropriation hearings?
[For those of you just receiving this message out of the blue - the Canadian
government is about to begin expropriation hearings for the British Columbia
based CFMRETR nuclear-torpedo range (80% of tests are by American nuclear
submarines)which the BC government is reluctant to surrender without
assurances
nuclear weapons-capable vessels will not utilize the base testing area in
Georgia Strait]
Here's my first kick at the can of potential experts which NGO's might
approach
to seek "objector's status." The deadline is June 2oth - Details at end of
message. Under Federal expropriation rules "reasonable expenses" can be
covered
by those seeking to make a presentation to the hearings.
If you have contact info for someone you think should be contacted I'd
appreciate if you fwded to me HBreen at Island.Net .
Potential list of Experts: (Please send me any obvious omissions)
David Lange - former Prime Minister of New Zealand
William Pace - Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) Secretary General
Maj. Britt Theorin - Pres. International Peace Bureau
Major-General Leonard Johnson - Member of Generals for Peace and Disarmament.
Robert Aldridge - Author of First Strike! The Pentagon's Strategy for Nuclear
War
William M. Arkin - Author "Nuclear Battlefields: Global links in the Arms
Race"
Michio Kaku/Daniel Axelrod- Authours "To Win A Nuclear War: The Pentagon's
Secret War Plans"
Capt. James Bush - retired US Polaris Sub Commander
Paul Warnke - former Director US Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
German Green Party Leader - Name escapes me.
Setsuko Thurlow - Hiroshima Survivor
Michael Polanyi - Cdn Nobel laureate
Lane Kirkland - former AFL-CIO President
Dr. Jack Ruitenbeek - Author of the Ruitenbeek study on CFMETR Nanoose
Daniel Ashini - Innu Chief who fought Nato base in Nitassinan (Labrador)
Gregory Baum - Montreal theologian
Jim Wallis - Editor of Soujourners Magazine
Patti Willis - Cdn naval analyst
Prof. Joan Russow - UVIC professor
Kathy Kelly - US anti-war activist
Metta Spencer - UoT Prof. Editor of Peace Magazine
Ernie Regehr/Ken Epps - Project Ploughshares
Richard Sanders - Editor of Press for Conversion, founder Coalition to Oppose
the Arms Trade
David Wright - Lawyers for Social Responsibility
Eric Fawcett - Science for Peace
Norman Rubin - Energy Probe
Jean Dreze - founder of Gulf Peace Team
Graeme MacQueen - Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (McMaster University)
Lyuba Zarsky - co-author of American Lake: Peril in the Pacific
Matthew Behrens - Toronto Action for Social Change
Also Presenters from the following orgs (suggest spokespeople & current
addresses) : Cdn Association of Physicians for the Environment; Canadian
Centre
for Policy Alternatives; Canadian Council of Churches; First Nations Summitt;
Assembly of First Nations; Doctors Without Borders; Inter-Pares; Project
Ploughshares; Canadian Peace Alliance; Veterans Against Nuclear Arms; Voice of
Women; Canadian Labour Council; World Federalists of Canada; End the Arms
Race;
Cdn & BC Environmental Network; Science for Peace; CND - England; Energy
Probe;
Clamshell Alliance; American & Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers);
Atoms For Peace; Society for Social Responsibility in Science; Fellowship of
Reconciliation; Friends of the Earth; Mennonite Central Committee;
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Conscience Canada;
Canadian Dimension; Cdn Public Interest Research Groups; Canadian Union of
Public Employees;
Amnesty International; Center for Defense Information; Greenpeace
International; Phydsicians for Social Responsibility; Union of Concerned
Scientists; Witness for Peace; Veterans for Peace; War Resisyter's
International; Environmental Defense Fund; Educators for Social
Responsibility;
Catholic Worker; Canadian Council for International Co-operation; Canadian
Nurses Association; Canadian Red Cross;
Writers from: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; Defense Monitor; Mother Jones;
The
Nation; The Nonviolent Activist; The Progressive; Sojourners; Nuclear
Resister;
The Guardian;
No intro needed (pls. sprovide contact info):
Michael Wallace
Ramsay Clark
Noam Chomsky
Edward S. Herman
Bishop Remi Roo
David Suzuki
George Ignatieff
Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.
Ambassador Stephen Lewis
Ambassador Douglas Roche
Dr. Helen Caldicott
David Dellinger
Phillip Berrigan
Gabriel Kolko
Robert Jay Lifton
Richard Falk
Jimmy or Amy Carter
Daniel Ellsberg
Elijah Harper
Martin Sheen - anti-nuclear activist & actor
Nelson Mandela
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Maude Barlow
Ralph Nader
William Moyer
Robert Kennedy Jr.
Gene Sharp
Kirkpatrick Sale
Shirley Farlinger
Frank Sommers
Gynn Dyer
Rosalie Bertell
Ursula Franklin
Mary-Wynne Ashford M.D.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Vaclav Havel
M. Gorbachev
NANOOSE EXPROPRIATION - FILE YOUR OBJECTION NOW !
Ottawa's "Notice of Intention to Expropriate", has now been published, and
we have until June 20 to register objections. Here are the address(es) to
mail your objection to. (by 'registered mail'). Please also PUBLISH AND
FAX this as widely as possible.
Although only a single 'objection' is requred to trigger hearings
(and that has already been done), we can and should innundate them with
objections which will be hard to ignore.
We don't yet know exactly when or where the hearings will be held, or
whether Ottawa will pay legitimate expenses for those people who have to
travel to attend (for example if hearings are held ONLY in Nanaimo [or
Ottawa] or something equally silly.
But the MAIN thing is TO GET YOUR OBJECTION IN THE MAIL BEFORE
JUNE 20: or you won't be allowed to participate - only listen.
Here's the relevant part:
=====================
" ...Any person who objects to the intended expropriation of the
above-mentioned interests [expropriation of Nanoose] may at any time within
thiry days from the day upon which this Notice of Intention to Expropriate
is published in the Canada Gazette, forward by registered mail to, or leave
at:
Office of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Attention: Regional Director, OAS/RES, Pacific Region,
800 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.
V6Z 2V8
(OR)
Director General, OAS/RES
2250 Riverside Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0M2
Craft objection in writing stating the name and address of such person and
indicating the nature of his/her objection, the grounds on which his/her
objection is based and the nature of his/her interest in the matter of the
intended expropriation.
Further information may be obtained from:
Terrence Tetreault
Regional Director OAS/RES
Public Works and Government Services
Canada
Pacific Region
800 Burrard Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6Z 2V8
Phone (604)775-9365
Thanks,
Howard Breen
Howard Breen
GEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE
Mail: S10 C30 Gabriola Island B.C. VOR 1XO
Voice: 250.247.7467
GSA: 250.753.3459
Email: HBreen at island.net
Fax: 250.753.2567
Website:http://www.island.net/~gsa
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