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Call to act against rising nuclear
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| Friends Committee on National
Legislation alerts us to new efforts to increase funding for nuclear
weapons, beyond all requests
[9-26-01]
ALERT!!! This just in from FCNL. This comes as a
surprise. The situation on the Senate floor is very fluid with some new
amendments being offered up that we were not aware of earlier. This
amendment might be voted on today. So please contact your Senators right
away to protest this unjustifiable bonanza for the weaponeers at the
DOE.
Sens. Domenici, Reid and Bingaman have submitted an amendment (below)
that would add $339 million to the Energy Department's nuclear weapons
activities budget. The floor amendment will be offered to the defense
authorization bill. This would increase the nuclear weapons activities
budget total to $5.821 billion.
This is $492 million above the Bush administration's
request. This is $422 million above the House Armed Services Committee's
recommendation. This is $483 million above the House Appropriations
Committee's recommendation.
Increasing funding for nuclear weapons activities is
the wrong priority following the tragedy of September 11. The Senate
should be increasing funding for advancing nonproliferation
programs--nuclear, chemical and biological. This is the wrong time to
restart a nuclear arms race. We know where that leads.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation strongly
urges you to oppose the Domenici-Reid-Bingaman amendment.
David Culp, Legislative Representative
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795
Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146
Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146
Fax: (202) 547-6019
E-mail: david@fcnl.org
Web site: www.fcnl.org
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SA 1671. Mr. DOMENICI (for himself, Mr. REID, and Mr. BINGAMAN)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S.
1438, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2002 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military constructions, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in Division C, Title XXXI,
Subtitle A, insert a new section as follows:
"Sec. 31. For weapons activities, an additional
$338,944,000 is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of
Energy for fiscal year 2002 for the activities of the National Nuclear
Security Administration."
On page 399, line 22, strike
"$1,018,394,000" and replace with "1,357,338,000".
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from Paloma Galindo
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
PO Box 5743
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
phone: 865-483-8202
paloma@stopthebombs.org
Check out our web page at http://www.stopthebombs.org
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GA actions
ratified (or not) by the presbyteries
A number of the most important actions of the 219th
General Assembly have now been acted upon by the presbyteries,
confirming most of them as amendments to the PC(USA) Book of Order.
We provided resources to help inform the
reflection and debate, along with updates on the voting.
Our three areas of primary interest have been:
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Amendment 10-A,
which removes the current ban on
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender persons being considered as
possible candidates for ordination as elder or ministers.
Approved! |
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Amendment 10-2,
which would add the Belhar Confession to our Book of
Confessions. Disapproved, because as an amendment
to the Book of Confessions it needed a 2/3 vote, and did not
receive that. |
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Amendment
10-1, which adopts the new Form of Government
that was approved by the Assembly. Approved. |
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Some blogs worth visiting |
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PVJ's
Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, PVJ's
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views,
or initiate a conversation about a topic of interest to you. |
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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