|
|
|
|
|
|
|
worldwideWAMM October 2003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|
|
|
|
|
Depleted Uranium: Weapon of Mass Deception
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pepperwolf, W A M M and AlliantAction
|
|
We pledge to carry on the mission of disarmament that Phil Berrigan left us. One of Phil’s last actions was at the Warfield Air National Guard base in Maryland. In the Plowshares vs. Depleted Uranium action they hammered and poured blood on two A-10 warplanes—the type of aircraft used to drop about 95 percent of the 300 tons of radioactive depleted uranium (DU) left in Iraq after the first Gulf War.
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the Department of Defense’s largest supplier of DU munitions. ATK produced over fifteen million shells for the A-10 Warthog. Weekly vigils at Alliant Techsystems in Edina, Minnesota oppose this company’s profit from war.
On April 2, 2003, the Phil Berrigan DU Coalition sponsored a rally and civil disobedience outside ATK’s headquarters. Twenty-eight people were arrested while attempting to deliver a letter to CEO Paul David Miller. The letter questioned the company’s profit from death and destruction. On October 14, at the Hennepin County Courthouse, jury selection begins for the trial of the 28 DU activists.
The issue of depleted uranium affects many people, so activists with many different concerns can rally around it, including environmentalists, human rights workers, veterans, soldiers and their families, and even workers involved in production and clean-up. To learn more about DU and to get involved, please see links below and join us at the trial. Phil’s work goes on...
|
|
|
W A M M Action
Stories you won’t get in the news...
Weapons of Mass Deception:
What the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Know about Depleted Uranium
Featuring
Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness
Frida Berrigan, Arms Trade Resource Center
Monday, October 13, 2003
7 pm
St. Joan of Arc
4537 Third Ave. S., Mpls.
FFI: 612-522-1861 or 612-827-5364
Sponsored by the Phillip Berrigan Depleted Uranium Coalition, AlliantAction, Midwest Institute for Social Transformation, Twin Cities Peace Campaign Focus on Iraq, W A M M and others.
Tuesday. October 13 and all week long
9 am
Trial of the AlliantAction23
Hennepin County Courthouse, downtown Minneapolis
Saturday. October 18
11 am
Depleted Uranium Rally
Alliant Techsystems, Edina
(see AlliantAction below for directions)
Learn More: LINKS
For more information on depleted uranium, see the following Web sites:
AlliantAction
Local information & links to ATK
justview.org
Phil Berrigan DU Coalition
cadu.org.uk
Campaign Against DU
umrc.net
Uranium Medical Research Center
miltoxproj.org
Military Toxins Project
commondreams.org
Search for DU articles
|
|
|
|
© 2003 Women Against Military Madness. All rights reserved.
|
 |
|
Complete October 2003 Index - click here
|
|
 |
|
|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
