Rally and March
for Books, Not Bombs
8 August 2004
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Rally and March
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The Books Not Bombs rally and march began on the
59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The University of California manages the Livermore and Los Alamos weapons laboratories. Every nuclear warhead in the US arsenal was designed by a U.C. employee. We say NO! (See Fiat Pax and their research on University for Rent. The U.C. system should get out of the bomb making business and get back to studying subjects that promote life. Also see the Berkeley City Council's Resolution supporting the August 8th "Books Not Bombs" rally. |
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I asked Tara Dorabji, an member of Tri-Valley CAREs, the rally organizer, what possible difference it would make if people protest nuclear weapons development at the Livermore lab? She told me that last year about 1200 people showed up to protest a congressional visit to investigate funding of dangerous nuclear weapons research at the Lab. The representatives cut the funding for the Robust Nuclear Penetrator in half. They based their defense of the cuts on the protest they witnessed in the Bay Area. And this year Congress has struck another blow against the Adminstration's plans for increasing nuclear weapons by cutting the funding for some of the most dangerous new programs to zero. This was because people protested. The $28 million request for the Earth Penetrator has been cut out. The rally and protest in Livermore sends a message not just to the directors of the Lab, but all the way to the halls of Congress. |
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The mayors of those cities and Abolition 2000 have
alunced a worldwide emergency campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. See