[Peace-discuss] du on good morning america 4/15

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Alert:Good Morning America 4/15 /Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications
on exposure to depleted uranium,flood w/ responses for further coverage!
Importance: High

Please everyone try and watch Dr. Helen Caldicott tomorrow morning on Good
Morning America on DU effects! (channel 4 in WA) Please call and email your
local and national ABC and Good Morning America numbers below. Remember one
call =100 viewers to media. Thank them and ask them to handle this critical
issue in depth that is killing soldiers, innocent civilians and future
generations.   Please give them www.traprockpeace.org
<http://www.traprockpeace.org>  for everything they need to know, including
Pentagon memos that prove Pentagon know the DU hazards!  It would be great
if Diane Sawyer would take this on 20/20 in an in-depth show. Please ask her
to as you leave a message to thank her. The only way we will stop DU weapons
is to inform the mainstream. Please also pass  the below link to sign letter
to President Bush to not launch a new nuclear arms race. 

Thank you for any help,

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Dr. Helen Caldicott will be interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV's Good
Morning America program ( <http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/GMA/>
http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/GMA/) tomorrow morning, Thursday, 15 April
2004 beginning at 7:30 a.m. Eastern time. She will talk about the short- and
long-term medical implications of exposure to depleted uranium, a substance
produced by spent armor-piercing weapons used in the Iraq conflict.

This interview resulted from a press briefing hosted by the Nuclear Policy
Research Institute this morning at the National Press Club in Washington.
Our briefing featured NPRI's executive director, Charles Sheehan-Miles, who
spoke about his experiences as a Gulf War veteran; Dr. Thomas Fasy, who
provided context about types and levels of exposure and resulting symptoms;
and Specialist Anthony Phillips and Corporal Anthony Yonnone, two U.S. Army
military policemen who recently returned from Iraq with debilitating
illness.

*   The briefing was well attended by print and broadcast reporters.
Caldicott noted, "News organizations are beginning to recognize that
radioactive materials are a serious public health threat.  Depleted uranium
exposure will cause cancer and long-term genetic disease.? 
*   An audiofile of today?s press briefing is on NPRI's web site at:
<http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/video.cfm>
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/video.cfm 

We invite you to tune in to see Dr. Caldicott on Good Morning America
tomorrow! (between 7:30 and 7:40 a.m.) You may post your reactions to her
presentation on the NPRI discussion board at:
<http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/discussion/>
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/discussion/ 

Helen Caldicott will also be interviewed on the ?The Majority Report?
program with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder on the progressive Air America
radio network.    She is scheduled to speak live this coming Monday evening,
April 19 between 8 and 11 p.m. Eastern time. If Air America is not offered
by your local radio station, you can listen to the interview online at:
<http://www.airamericaradio.com/pub/prg6About.htm>
http://www.airamericaradio.com/pub/prg6About.htm

As Helen noted after the press briefing today, "NPRI is achieving success by
getting our messages out into the public eye."

Thank you for your generous support of NPRI.  With your help, we are
informing America and creating consensus for a nuclear-free future.

Warm regards,

The NPRI Team (Helen, Charles, Dianne, Julie, Megan, Beth Anne, Rupali,and
Jessica.)

P.S. We are getting ready to deliver our first round of signatures to
President Bush to urge him to not launch a new nuclear arms race. We already
have over 1,500 signers, but we need more! Please pass this link onto your
family and friends:  <http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/bombfactory.cfm>
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/bombfactory.cfm