From info at csrapeace.org Thu Jul 8 08:24:21 2010 From: info at csrapeace.org (CSRA Peace) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:24:21 -0400 Subject: [CSRA Peace] CSRA Peace Alliance Retreat, Saturday, July 10, 10 AM - 3 PM Message-ID: <5E72CD0C647D4E7BB68FCD1EE59D79CF@AymanNewComp> A full program is now available at the link below http://www.meetup.com/CSRA-Peace-Alliance/calendar/13186324/ Even if you can't stay the whole time, drop on by and meet other peace activists in the CSRA! The next scheduled events are: Tuesday, July 13, 7 pm, Wallace Public Library Double Feature- Iraqi Peace Activists in Iraq/"The Response", about Gitmo http://www.meetup.com/CSRA-Peace-Alliance/calendar/13856577/ Tuesday, August 10, 7 pm, Wallace Public Library Human Trafficking Awareness http://www.meetup.com/CSRA-Peace-Alliance/calendar/13448222/ For photos from previous events, check out http://www.csrapeace.org . Also, we have a new phone number. It is (762) 233-2711. That is a local number, btw. Augusta has outgrown the 706 exchange. Finally, please consider donating! http://csrapeace.org/donate/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at csrapeace.org Mon Aug 9 21:46:44 2010 From: info at csrapeace.org (CSRA Peace Alliance) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:46:44 -0400 Subject: [CSRA Peace] Reminder-Human Trafficking Awareness Program is Tomorrow, Tue Aug 10 Message-ID: <1F5DD427C3084395B71602B54CC123D0@AymanNewComp> Come hear a presentation on how people in today's United States are suffering in slavery and what you can do to help. Chrissy White has been actively involved in doing advocacy work for Human Trafficking Awareness since 2006. She began doing volunteer work as a Public Relations Officer for Psalms, an advocacy group formerly Psalms Ministries, in Easley, SC. She then went on to host lectures, a film series, and presentations on Human Trafficking at Greenville Technical College where she also studied at. She received training on Human Trafficking from the Carolina Policing Institute and is now serving as the Assistant Organizer for the South Carolina Stop Human Trafficking meet up group, based in Greenville, SC. She currently works at a group home for abused, neglected, and exploited teens. Chrissy recently moved to Columbia, SC and is looking forward to continuing her advocacy work in the Midlands. Ms. White will give an introduction to sex trafficking and labor trafficking, with their definitions and statistics revealing their extent. We will then watch a short film depicting human trafficking. Then we will have a short Q&A discussion about the film and closing remarks by Ms. White. Ms. White will have a visual display of poster boards and literature from Rescue and Restore. The goal of the presentation is to define and inform the audience on sex and labor trafficking, discuss local issues that relate to it, and inform the audience about how they can get involved in advocating against human trafficking. The event begins at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 10, at the Wallace Library on Laney Walker Blvd in Augusta, GA. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aymanfadel at comcast.net Tue Aug 10 14:38:30 2010 From: aymanfadel at comcast.net (Ayman Fadel) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:38:30 -0400 Subject: [CSRA Peace] Updates on Human Trafficking Program Tonight Message-ID: <6B2C43C5CE604CCB84B79A91AE4FC148@AymanNewComp> A family emergency has prevented our guest speaker, Ms. Chrissy White, from attending tonight's meeting. The Peace Alliance has prepared materials from various advocacy organizations on this issue, so we still encourage people to come. If you have some experience on this issue that you'd like to share, please call Ayman Fadel at 706 284 3002 to determine where you can fit into the modified program. Update: We are fortunate that one of the attendees of tonight's event has in fact traveled in Cambodia with an organization working against human trafficking. She has contacted me and is willing to share some of her experiences. We also have a documentary film that we use. So the program is coming together again! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From afadel97 at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 12:24:01 2010 From: afadel97 at gmail.com (Ayman H Fadel) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:24:01 -0400 Subject: [CSRA Peace] David Matos coordinating Meeting with Congressional Representatives Message-ID: AUGUST DISTRICT MEETINGS Help push peace by meeting with your Congressman and Senators' office during the August recess! Issues include demanding an exit strategy from Afghanistan, leaving no troops behind in Iraq, stopping Israeli settlements and ending the siege of Gaza, preventing the green light of an attack on Iran and ratifying the START nuclear disarmament treaty. SIGN UP BY THURS AUG 19 if you are interested in pressing Congress on any of these issues, please contact David with your contact info and availability for a meeting in August. aiken_peace at yahoo.com SUBJECT LINE: August District Meeting Phone: 803 215-3263 Email: aiken_peace at yahoo.com Website: http://aiken.carolinapeace.org From aymanfadel at comcast.net Tue Aug 17 12:57:00 2010 From: aymanfadel at comcast.net (Ayman Fadel) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:57:00 -0400 Subject: [CSRA Peace] FW: [aikenpeace] ALERT! MOX Public Hearing on Plutonium TONITE N. Augusta Message-ID: <2CF3A9A8A9B04393827D07663B5FB015@AymanNewComp> fyi _____ From: aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com [mailto:aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Carroll Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:02 AM To: NO NEW NUKES Y'ALL!; SRS Action; NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH ~ Georgia; WAND Nukes; aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com Subject: [aikenpeace] ALERT! MOX Public Hearing on Plutonium TONITE N. Augusta Importance: High Hi y'all, Please come out for a rare public hearing on plutonium disposition, speak on the public record about the MOX plutonium fuel boondoggle currently under construction at Savannah River Site to the tune of a half BILLION tax dollars per year. The MOX plutonium fuel boondoggle is in its 15th year and the MOX factory, though already under construction, remains only 75 percent designed, without a finalized waste plan, without plans for plutonium accounting and security. There are no reactors signed up for the fuel, and no production quality plutonium even available for the program in the 13 to 16 tons of junk plutonium dumped into storage in the defunct K reactor at SRS. The current supplement to the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Environmental Impact Statement is looking for comments on: ~ use of four TVA commercial reactors (Browns Ferry, BWR, and Sequoyah, PWR ice condenser); ~ building a Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility in the K reactor at SRS; ~ several plutonium immobilization options at SRS; ~ issues of waste disposal at WIPP in New Mexico; and ~ plutonium manufacture at Los Alamos, also in New Mexico. You may choose to comment on any of these aspects of the supplemental EIS, or comment on failures of the MOX plutonium disposition program to-date and advocate for the preferred alternative, plutonium immobilization in vitrified high-level radioactive waste program at SRS. The U.S. Department of Energy hearing starts at 5:30 TONITE, and runs until 8:00 (or whenever, the Decatur Alabama hearing went til 9:30) at the new North Augusta Municipal Center right on Georgia Ave (13th Street Bridge from Augusta Riverwalk District), 100 Georgia Ave, N. Augusta, SC. We had great hearings up in Alabama and Chattanooga Tennessee two weeks ago, very few voices for MOX (none at all in Chattanooga) and a wide range of informed comment from local activists. Federal Register notice is below. Come on out and STOP THE MOX BOONDOGGLE! Read more about plutonium: http://www.nonukesyall.org/plutonium.html If you wish to send written comments, the addresses and deadline are listed below. NIX MOX! Glenn * -- Glenn Carroll, Coordinator NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH P.O. Box 8574 ~ Atlanta, GA 31106 ~ 404-378-4263 cell: 404-432-8727 ~ atom.girl at mindspring.com http://www.nonukesyall.org ------ Forwarded Message DOE: "Amended Notice of Intent to Modify the Scope of the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Additional Public Scoping" text: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-17519.htm pdf: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-17519.pdf [Federal Register: July 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 137)] [Notices] [Page 41850-41853] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr19jy10-53] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Amended Notice of Intent to Modify the Scope of the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Additional Public Scoping AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. ACTION: Amended Notice of Intent. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its intent to modify the scope of the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SPD Supplemental EIS, DOE/EIS-0283-S2) and to conduct additional public scoping. DOE issued its Notice of Intent \1\ (NOI) to prepare the SPD Supplemental EIS on March 28, 2007 (72 FR 14543). DOE now intends to revise the scope of the SPD Supplemental EIS to refine the quantity and types of surplus weapons- usable plutonium material, evaluate additional alternatives, and no longer consider in detail one alternative identified in the NOI (ceramic can-in-canister immobilization). Also, DOE had identified a glass can-in-canister immobilization approach as its preferred alternative in the NOI; DOE will continue to evaluate that alternative but currently does not have a preferred alternative. etc.............. hearing dates: DATES: DOE invites Federal agencies, state and local governments, Native American tribes, industry, other organizations, and members of the public to submit comments to assist in identifying environmental issues and in determining the scope of the SPD Supplemental EIS. The public scoping period will end on September 17, 2010. DOE will consider all comments received or postmarked by September 17, 2010. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable. Also, DOE asks that Federal, state, and local agencies that desire to be designated cooperating agencies on the SPD Supplemental EIS contact the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Document Manager at the addresses listed under Addresses by the end of the scoping period. DOE will hold five public scoping meetings: August 3, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Calhoun Community College, Decatur Campus, Aerospace Building, 6250 Highway 31 North, Tanner, AL 35671 August 5, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402 August 17, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at North Augusta Municipal Center, 100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, SC 29841 August 24, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Best Western Stevens Inn, 1829 S. Canal Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220 August 26, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507 ADDRESSES: Please direct written comments on the scope of the SPD Supplemental EIS to Ms. Sachiko McAlhany, SPD Supplemental EIS NEPA Document Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, P.O. Box 2324, Germantown, MD 20874-2324. You may also send comments on the scope of the SPD Supplemental EIS via e-mail to spdsupplementaleis at saic.com, or via the Web site, http://www.spdsupplementaleis.com ; or by toll-free fax to 877-865-0277 877-865-0277 DOE will give equal weight to written, e-mail, fax, and oral comments. Questions regarding the scoping process and requests to be placed on the distribution list for this Supplemental EIS should be directed to [[Page 41851]] Ms. McAlhany by any of the means given above or by calling toll-free 877-344-0513 877-344-0513 . etc....... __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (2) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group MARKETPLACE Get great advice about dogs and cats. Visit the Dog & Cat Answers Center. _____ Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now. _____ Hobbies & Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new interests. Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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