Proposition One is a grassroots movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and
the conversion of nuclear and other arms industries to provide for human and environmental needs.

The concept was proven viable by the victory of DC Initiative 37.
The bill
has continuously been introduced in Congress since 1994.
Now we are asking you to replicate the Voter Initiative Campaign across the entire country.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Southeast Action Camp Workshops, August 19-21, 2011

Southeast Action Camp Workshops, August 19-21, 2011

I participated in the Southeast Action Workshop in Zirconia, NC the weekend of August 19-21, 2011.  Forty-plus people from not only the southeast, but as far away as Chicago and British Columbia, came together for a series of workshops (I presented the videography workshop, and planted seeds about Proposition One in other workshops).  I videotaped several of the workshops, and interviewed several participants.  I've uploaded these videos to YouTube.  Here is the list:

Nuclear:

Atomic Appalachia Workshop presented by  Linda Modica, Asheville contact for Christian Peacemakers Team
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopgQP4Kn7E
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJ7Wnhf6NU
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLXslqdHy_g
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBYY4SEgPo
5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7podgF8lAk

Mary Olson of Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Bill Fisk, formerly with FEMA, about probable results of a nuclear accident in Western North Carolina highways between Oak Ridge and Savannah River nuclear weapons/power facilities:
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK3U_asw1w
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQy2BTi4SQ
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6N0Siq5cs
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmw1DHI6-M

Fukushima Update by Mary Olson of NIRS:
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfEfIJtTwV8
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jqNybvk1w

Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future by Mary Olson of NIRS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK3U_asw1w

Canary Coalition's Avram Friedman on Coal and Nuclear and alternatives
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUnRFViKp8
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLKY1DVJ8A
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4D3kGfo8uU
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjhtuC3Oug

 

Other:

Nonviolence Workshop, conducted by Clare Hanrahan and Coleman Smith
 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0O3IzafwAE
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc4WQerdJE
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqAu0jdWd8

Immigration Workshop presented by Esther Chavez
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAk4v4xABzM
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IA399m00k
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_KD-XAqbjo

Clean Water Workshop by Katie Hicks
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ELxc43HrI
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qVsUH7PLEQ
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1rD2zl6w0
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6vl4qKLbM

Interviews:

Katuah Earth First - Ed Stein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFnxefQ3fg

Kasha Baxter of Veterans for Peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnqWUqNV5cM

Interviews by videography workshop attendees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMa-V1JM4k

Jessica Kettler re organic networking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaz30SjLOYc

Joe Sharkey of Critical Mass on bike.tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KVp1uEuHY

Original Songs by
Cathy from Canada, accompanied by Sam from Asheville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ATZFdMspg

You can go to the entire list of videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/ActionSouth1


Saturday, April 2, 2011

Radiation Blues - new song

Here is "Radiation Blues"(sung by singer/songwriter Courtney Dowe).  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YqVOIIOaSk

This song is dedicated to Fukushima victims who are twice-nuked -- Hiroshima or Nagasaki survivors who are already suffering health problems, and now have been exposed for the second time -- and to ALL victims of radiation since 1945.  It is also dedicated to the Proposition One Campaign for global nuclear weapons abolition, and conversion of the nuclear weapons and nuclear energy economies toward carbon-free, nuclear-free energy and environmental restoration from the radioactive mess.  See http://prop1.org/prop1/ .

I wrote the song in April 1986 after Chernobyl while I sat at my anti-nuclear signs outside the White House, and Courtney and I updated it for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability DC Days this first week in April 2011. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom DISARM Committee will be promoting it.  You are invited to do so also.

If you would like Courtney to perform,
please email her at courtney.dowe@gmail.com

Ellen Thomas
et@prop1.org
202-210-3886 (cell)

Yes, We Can ...
Convert the War Machines ...
Provide for Human Needs ...
IN OUR LIFETIMES!
LET THE VOTERS DECIDE!!!

About Proposition One: Economic Conversion of War Machines





Great News! DC's Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has just introduced the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act" for the first time ... an important improvement to the nine-times-introduced "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" which she has promoted ever since 1994 (see below). We will be posting the bill number and text in the next few days. We of the Proposition One Campaign thank Ms. Norton for her vision, courage, and patience over these many years. We hope you will thank her, too. We also hope you will join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, among others, in calling on your members of Congress to co-sponsor this bill QUICKLY.

Background: Proposition One Campaign is a grassroots movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and the conversion of nuclear and other arms industries to provide for human and environmental needs. The concept was proven viable by the victory of DC Initiative 37 in 1993. 

As a result, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" was introduced each session between 1994 and 2009 into the U.S. House of Representatives by Eleanor Holmes Norton. During 2009 and 2010, Proposition One co-founder Ellen Thomas and a team from DC traveled 30,000 around the country learning about the entire nuclear chain, from uranium mines (reclaimed and not), to nuclear power and weapons plants, to radioactive storage facilities, and promoting voter initiatives everywhere. During that time they became convinced that we will never be sure of abolishing nuclear weapons until there are no longer nuclear power plants, which for sixty years have been producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The travelers received excellent suggestions for improving the language of the proposed bill, which up till now hasn't been getting much respect from Congress. They proposed revisions which Ms. Norton accepted.

The bill was first introduced in 1994, then 1995, 1997, and 1999, when U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (CA) joined Ms. Norton and several experts on nuclear disarmament issues to announce active support for the legislation, and again in 2001, 2003, and 2005 (when Representative Woolsey, plus John Lewis and Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, and Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, quickly signed on). In 2007 there were no co-signatories, but in 2009 John Lewis and Lynn Woolsey's aides repeatedly told us that they signed on to HR-1653, although you'd never know about it by searching Congressional bills. (See Ms. Norton's 2009 announcement, which she timed to recognize Proposition One co-founder William Thomas, who died on January 23, 2009.)

Other co-sponsors over the years have included Fortney Pete Stark (California), David Minge and James Oberstar (Minnesota), Charles Rangel (New York), Al Wynn (Maryland), and Earl Hilliard (Alabama). As each Congressional session ends, all unvoted-on legislation expires and must be re-introduced. Your help is needed in obtaining LOTS of co-sponsors in this Congress! Bipartisan support would be very helpful.


Contact Proposition One Committee for more information.


PROPOSITION ONE CAMPAIGN
P.O. Box 27217 * Washington, D.C. 20038
(202) 682-4282 or (202) 210-3886
e-mail: et@prop1.org