[Imc-newsroom] Let's Go! Nuke-Bomb Lab Recruiting at UIUC

[Paul Riismandel]

Barbara and News Groupies,

Why don't you post this to the IMC website? Its daily audience is about 40x 
larger than this mailing list.

Why limit your audience?  I see posts all the time on the news and general 
IMC list that should  be shared with the whole community.

Your lowly website maintainer,

Paul


At 07:27 PM 1/22/2002 -0600, Barbara Dyskant wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Here is something I think is extremely newsworthy and timely.  (I was
>interviewed for the WEFT show on this subject  last year)
>
>Would anyone like to help us with this, by writing articles, doing video,
>interviews, and making a very visible presence?  I've been talking with
>local peace groups (I am both in AWARE and Prairiegreens, and am contacting
>other orgs like the PSC, etc.  Depending on the number of people who would
>like to come out-- I'm sure we can make a presence.  For one thing, just
>leafletting and talking with students as they go in and out will be
>productive (and there are other things we can add).  I'll keep you folks
>posted as the scenario unfolds.
>
>In the meantime, any preliminary articles, etc.,  would help for building
>this up -- just sharing the information.
>
>Here's the story.
>
>__________________________________________________________________
>
>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will be recruiting and interviewing
>students at  UIUC on February 14th.  This will give  us an EXCELLENT chance to
>reach and inform students, get some publicity out about the war machine,
>and let the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (which designs and tests
>nuclear weapons) know they can't hide from their evil deeds, not even in
>Illinois.
>
>I just got a call from a co-member of Tri-Valley Citizens Against
>a Radioactive Environment (Tri-Valley CARES) in Livermore, CA, letting me
>know about this. Tri-Valley CARES is well known bythe Lab as its nemesis in
>Livermore -- --- but I'm sure it won't occur
>to them that people OUT HERE know about them and are "on their case".
>
>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the three national
>laboraties with the mission of designing and testing nuclear weapons.  It
>is a huge place, founded by Edward Teller, "father" of the hydrogen bomb
>(he's still there).  They are still pursuing design of new nuclear weapons
>(technically forbidden by treaty) under the guise of "stockpile
>stewardship" and maintenance, and are pioneering the expensive National
>Ignition Facility "NIF", a football-field-sized project ostensibly to
>investigate fusion, but that is very usable for nuclear weapons and is
>funded by the Department of Defense.  Pollution and radioactive
>contamination have been rampant -- and money flows freely to them from the
>US government when obviously it's more needed elsewhere.  Under the guise
>of "security", information is routinely hidden, although we've gotten a lot
>released.
>
>About a year ago, a lively and very brilliant young scientist named Isaac
>Trotts resigned from the Lab because he found out that he had been lied to.
>He was told his work was to be used only for safety, but after he went to
>work there he found that instead his work was being used for bomb-building.
>He quit his $85,000 a year job at the Lab (he was about 24) and went on
>the stump, talking worldwide to young people, including at college
>recruitment events, as to why to avoid working for the war machine.   I met
>him when we all were in Washington.
>
>I've worked with Tri-Valley CARES for about 11 years -- we moved here from
>near Livermore..  My son Erek interns at Tri-Valley CARES for 2 to 3 months
>every year and we go to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability  DC Days
>each spring.  What I'm saying is -- this issue is
>very, very dear to my heart, and obviously is familiar to me.
>
>I'm expecting my friend from Livermore to send me some current literature
>aimed at students who are thinking of careers at places like the "Lab", and
>more
>info on the latest misdeeds of the Lab ---  and of course detailings of our
>successes as well.  It should be here in a few days.
>
>So-- is anyone interested?
>
>Ready to roll,
>Barbara
>
>
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