From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS REGISTRATION PACKET (2/2)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:29:36 GMT

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** Topic: local outreach suggestions **
** Written  3:43 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:hgw.action **
                 LOCAL OUTREACH SUGGESTIONS FOR

                      HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS

        Many people are appalled at the idea of celebrating the
500th anniversary of the Columbus invasion, but do not have a
good local alternative. Many counter-Columbus events focus on
things that happened 500 years ago, and do not address the wide
range of issues facing indigenous people today. Most counter-
Columbus events are not Native led, and do nothing to build
multi-cultural alliances that can continue, once the October 12th
hype is over. Many people are looking for an event like this one,
and outreach possibilities are abundant.
        Most people don't realize that indigenous people world-wide
are affected far more than most by the nuclear arms race, from
uranium mining and radioactive dumps through testing on Native
lands.

THE TIME IS NOW
        President Bush has already pressured Yeltsin to resume
testing when the current Russian testing moratorium expires,
according to recent visitors from the former Soviet Union. Peter
Zheutlin, spokesperson for International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) told reporters, " We were told
by a man in Boris Yeltsin's cabinet, someone very much opposed to
this that Bush and Yeltsin have a secret understanding that
Russia will resume testing when the current moratorium expires in
October."
        Local events focusing on the significance of the current
window of opportunity to end nuclear testing for all time should
also be major outreach opportunities for Healing Global Wounds,
and will hopefully result in stronger local relationships for
your group in the future.

1)      DO YOUR HOMEWORK: Research related issues in your area
regarding nuclear issues (uranium mining, weapons production,
transport, storage or launch sites), Native American issues
(toxic dumps, treaty rights, land and self-determination issues,
etc.) and Columbus Day events. Read Native newspapers and news-
letters. Find out who is involved in working on these issues or
events and contact them for more information. Perhaps there is a
medical or nurse's association in your area that would like to
know about the Forum.

2)      ESTABLISH A LOCAL CONTACT.
* Choose a local contact number and address for people in your
area who want to get involved.
* Copy Healing Global Wounds flyers with the local contact
included, or make your own.
* Can your group arrange for carpools, shared rental cars or
vans, or a bus?
* Can your group plan a nonviolence training session for those
who may choose to participate in direct action? Contact HGW if
you don't know any qualified trainers in your area.

3)      YOUR GROUP/S:

* Discuss participating in Healing Global Wounds at a meeting or
gathering of your group. Try to have a specific meeting or
committee to plan your group's involvement.
* Send out a letter, flyer or newsletter article asking for par-
ticipation in Healing Global Wounds to group members.
* Make followup calls to encourage participation.
* Ask if your group could take on a specific task area, and let
our office know.

4)      CONTACTING OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
* Call or send information to other peace, environmental, medi-
cal, veteran or Native American groups in your area.
* Ask if you could come and make an oral or video presentation at
their next meeting. Take plenty of materials.
* Ask if they could include an announcement in their next news-
letter, or flyer in their next mailing.

5)      PUBLIC OUTREACH:
* Ask local weekly and community papers to announce the event.
* Ask local community radio stations to announce it also.
* Put up flyers in community centers, on bulletin boards, etc.
* Hand out flyers or table at community events.
* Contact public access cable TV stations to arrange a showing of
a video, such as Bound by the Wind. (See RESOURCES)

6)      ORGANIZE VIDEO SHOWINGS IN HOMES, CHURCHES, ETC.
        Showing a video about the effects of nuclear testing or
Native American land struggles can make it much more real for
people with no direct experience. Invite your friends to your
home, and have other members of your group do the same, or plan a
bigger event in a more public place. This can be an excellent
opportunity for questions and answers afterward, and to let
people know they can do something about nuclear testing and learn
more by attending Healing Global Wounds.
        This is also a very good time to do fundraising for HGW,
either toward general costs, the Scholarship Fund, or to help
with your group's travel and outreach costs.

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** Topic: organizing buses **
** Written  3:47 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:hgw.action **
            ARRANGING BUS OR VAN TRANSPORTATION TO 

                      HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS

1)      FINDING YOUR BUS COMPANY:  Ask other groups in your area who
may have experience chartering buses for events, to find the
cheapest and most reliable bus company.

2)      If you are unable to locate such groups, call around to all
the bus companies in your area and get quotes on prices. Before
you call, have your departure time, return time, and estimated
mileage determined. This will help them give you an accurate
estimate of cost. Also ask:
* How much is required for a deposit?
* When will the deposit be due?
* Is the deposit refundable (or creditable toward other buses)?
* How much time in advance must you cancel reservations for a bus
in order to receive a refund?
* When is the balance of payment required?

        Obviously, it is preferable to find a company that will
accept the balance of payment as late as possible, hopefully at
the time of departure, when you will have collected the bulk of
the money from riders. Also, it is good to be able to cancel
buses as late as possible, when you have a reasonably good idea
of the number of people you will be transporting. Ask if you can
take care of the hotel accommodations for the drivers. This is
usually cheaper than having the bus company do it. (Healing
Global Wounds has made inexpensive reservations at the Continen-
tal Hotel in Las Vegas for the Forum portion of events. See FORUM
ACCOMMODATIONS section.) If they agree to it, be sure and make
hotel reservations and send a deposit to secure rooms.

3)      FINALIZING ARRANGEMENTS:  Once you've decided who you're
doing business with, send the deposit you've agreed on. Be
ambitious -- always overestimate the number of buses you will
need and try to fill them. You can cancel buses a lot easier than
you can reserve additional ones at the last minute. Include a
written summary of all that you have agreed to (amount of ba-
lance, when it is due, itinerary with dates and times, etc.) Be
explicit. Request that the company send you a written confirma-
tion of these agreements and receipt of deposit to keep for your
records. This is important! Check in with them as it gets closer
to departure time, and make sure they're clear on dates, times,
and method of payment. Don't be shy about bothering them. You
don't want them to forget about you!

4)      RAISING FUNDS FOR BUSES:  As soon as you can, get out a
local outreach flyer that includes specific dates of pre-trip
meetings, trainings, bus prices, departure times, etc. You should
figure out how much each seat on the bus costs, and have a clip &
return coupon. Encourage people to send in their payment now to
secure their places on the buses. You can also fundraise for bus
`scholarships' by including a category like: "_____ I can't
attend Healing Global Wounds, but here's a contribution for
someone to go in my place". This really works well. The coupon
will also help you get an idea of how many people will be riding,

and provide a way for you to follow up with reminder calls.

5)      CHECK IN WITH RIDERS:  Phone all who've indicated an inter-
est in attending in the last days before the events and remind
them to bring their money with them if they haven't sent it
already. Remind them of the departure time and ask them to be on
time. This will allow you to obtain a final count and cancel
buses if necessary.

6)      ON THE DAY OF DEPARTURE: call up the bus company once again
to confirm departure place and time. If you're delivering the
balance of payment to the driver (if you were that lucky), make
sure you have it with you! Have volunteers meet you at the
departure site a little early to get ready for the masses. Have
key people identified to check in riders who reserved their spots
(and collect payment if it hasn't been received). An alphabetized
list with all information in one place makes this a lot easier.
People who haven't reserved a place should be let on buses last
in case there is not enough room for everyone.

        Also have a key volunteer to troubleshoot and deal with
questions from nervous parents, etc. In addition, there should be
at least one designated volunteer on each bus who can deal with
any problems that may (and probably will) occur, and who has
directions to your destination.

        Take a head count every time you make a pit stop, and make
sure everyone gets back on the bus. Make people feel comfortable,
communicate with bus drivers, and have a good time together! As a
"tour guide", chances are that you will receive free food at all
the awful restaurants you'll stop at along the way.

7)      FOR SMALLER GROUPS, TRY VANS: For smaller groups of people,
you can rent 10 person vans from many car rental agencies. While
this is cheaper, and gives you more autonomy and flexibility, the
requirements for insurance, licenses, ages of drivers, credit
cards, etc. are usually more complicated. Try to find someone in
your area who has done this before, and get referrals from them
on the best rental companies to contact.

           HAVE A GREAT TRIP, AND WE'LL SEE YOU THERE!
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** Topic: organizing local press coverage **
** Written  3:49 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:hgw.action **
              ORGANIZING LOCAL PRESS COVERAGE FOR

                      HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS

        Healing Global Wounds is being organized by diverse com-
munities in a decentralized way, and relies heavily on local
groups taking responsibility to make it a success. This is
particularly true of media coverage. The information below and
sample press release are to help your group to do media outreach. 

        Your efforts to reach the media may result in direct local
coverage and/or make it more likely that your local media will
carry national wire service reports about Healing Global Wounds
events and issues. Please do whatever you can.

1)      DEVELOP A LOCAL MEDIA CHECKLIST. Include:

MAJOR MEDIA:
        Daily and weekly newspapers, wire services (AP, UPI, etc.)
local offices, TV stations, radio stations

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
        Community and college newspapers, organizational, medical
and Native American newsletters, college and listener sponsored
community radio stations, public access cable TV stations

        Check with other groups to ask if you can use their media
list, if you don't have one. If possible, get the names of
specific reporters. Check back issues or clippings files to get
the names of reporters who have covered related issues. Ask
people in your group and friends who they know in the local
media. Personal contacts can be very helpful.

2)      DO YOUR HOMEWORK: Healing Global Wounds is looking at
nuclear testing in a new way. As a project that was initiated by
the Western Shoshone, to take place during the Columbus Quincen-
tennial, we are asking people to look at the problems faced by
indigenous people today, not just 500 years ago. By bringing in
medical experts to address the effects of nuclear testing on
indigenous people, atomic veterans and all downwinders, we are
providing information that has been, until now, nearly impossible
for people to hear. Read the background material provided, and
use materials on the resource list. You will feel a lot more
confident and relaxed when talking to the press with this infor-
mation firmly in hand.

3)      DRAFTING A PRESS RELEASE:  Adapt the enclosed press release
to suit your group, or write your own. Research related issues in
your area regarding nuclear issues (uranium mining, weapons
production, transport, or storage sites), Native American issues
(toxic dumps, treaty rights, etc.) and Columbus Day events.

* Include a local angle: how many or who is going from your
        area, fundraising or outreach events planned, a sendoff to
        local folks going, a simultaneous local vigil or event.
* Replace with your local group's letterhead, or make one.
* Include a brief description of your local group.

* You may wish to send a brief supplementary release about
        local angles along with the Healing Global Wounds release.

        Keep the press release short, simple and snappy. Draw
attention to the most important information (what, where, when)
by placing it at the top. Make it easy to read. Press releases
are often double spaced to make them easier and faster to read.
It should be no more than 2 pages long.

        You may want to send background material you think appro-
priate, but not too much. You may want to include information
about your local group, or some of the enclosed background
information. Don't send out more than 5 pages (double sided is
OK). It is unlikely that a reporter or editor will read more than
that. You can provide more information later if interest is
expressed.

4)      SENDING OUT YOUR PRESS RELEASE:
* Your press release should be received at least 4 working days
prior to the beginning of the news you want covered.
* If you have time, send out a press advisory about two weeks in
advance of the event. A press advisory can be a summarized
version of the press release with your local angle to notify the
media the event is coming up.
* Hand address envelopes and mail them first class.
* If you don't have the name of a specific reporter, address
        your release to "Assignment Editor". 
* It is better to send too many than too few press releases. If
you have the names of several reporters at a single paper or
station, send one copy to each, and maybe one to the "Assignment
Editor".

5)      MAKING FOLLOW-UP CALLS:  This step is essential, or you are
wasting your time. You should make your calls two days before an
event, and you may also want to call the morning before if you
have a local send-off or event. If you sent a "press advisory",
also make follow-up calls to make sure they received it.

        Ask to speak to the person to whom you sent the press
release. If they are not in, leave a message and refer to your
press release. If you called a reporter who is not in, ask to
speak to the Assignment Editor.

        Be polite but assertive. Try to convince the reporter/editor
that thousands of Indigenous people, downwinders, atomic veterans
and supporters travelling to an international forum in Las Vegas
and Healing Ceremony at the Nevada Test Site is an important
national event and a significant local story. Stress both the
Columbus Quincentennial, medical and nuclear testing angles.
Emphasize your local angle and local participation.

        Offer to set up interviews with knowledgeable local people
and those attending Healing Global Wounds either before they go
or upon their return. You may be able to call your local media
from Las Vegas (such as from the press conference scheduled on
Monday, Oct. 5, at the DOE offices). You can also call later in
the week from Indian Springs, just 20 minutes from the Test Site.


        Is there someone in your group who is not going to Healing
Global Wounds who might be willing to make calls during the
events, updating interested media about what is happening?
Persistence pays off. Call with your updates. Don't get dis-
couraged.

6)      GENERAL SUGGESTIONS:  Avoid using rhetoric. Try to use
language that non-activists can understand. Listen carefully to
reporters' questions. Try to respond honestly, but make your
point. If you don't know the answer to a question, remember- you
don't have to be a technical expert. You are an expert on your
own opinions and feelings.

7)      ARRANGE TO GET A RELATED VIDEO ON YOUR CABLE STATION. Many
areas have public access cable TV stations. Be sure to find out
how to include the information that your group is going to
Nevada. Perhaps you can follow the video with a brief interview.

        Often all that is required is for a local resident or group
to request a showing of a particular video. Several are suggested
in the Resources section, such as David Brown's excellent video
Bound By the Wind, showing the effects of nuclear testing world-
wide. Plan far enough ahead to advertise the event in newsletters
or with flyers. This could be a good organizing tool to get more
people to join you at Healing Global Wounds.

8)      PLEASE SEND RELATED CLIPPINGS TO HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS: At
PO Box 4082, Las Vegas NV 89127. Include the names of reporters,
papers and addresses so that we can keep a complete file.

             THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, AND GOOD LUCK!

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** Topic: Sample Press Release **
** Written  3:51 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:hgw.action **
                                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                        August 15, 1992

                HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS:
  INDIGENOUS FORUM & CEREMONY AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE

        The Western Shoshone Nation is inviting concerned
people from around the world to join them for 10 days
to stop nuclear testing. A series of events, Healing
Global Wounds, is being planned for October 2-12, 1992.
These events coincide with the Columbus Quincentennial
to focus attention on the continuing assault on in-
digenous people through radiation poisoning world-wide.

        Events include an Indigenous Peoples Forum in Las
Vegas on Oct. 3-4, including medical experts presenting
the latest information on the human and environmental
affects of nuclear testing, a press conference at the
Dept. of Energy, administrators of the Test Site, the
completion of a 3,000 mile walk by Europeans, Native
Americans and others from the East Coast to the Test
Site, and an all day Healing Ceremony with indigenous
spiritual leaders. On Oct. 11, thousands will rally  at
the gates of the Test Site.

        In 1951, the land for the Nevada Test Site was
seized from the Western Shoshone, in violation of
ancestral land rights and the 1863 Treaty of Ruby
Valley. Pauline Estevez, a member of the Western Sho-
shone National Council (WSNC), describes the first
Nevada nuclear test on January 27, 1951. "One day we
saw a flash of lightning. Then a dull clap of thunder
followed, and the earth beneath our feet trembled. We
had no idea what was going on, and the next day our
mother took us to the desert to pray and try to under-
stand what we had seen and felt. It was much later when
we heard that we had experienced the first atomic bomb
test on the Nevada Test Site; here, right on our land."

        President Bush has already pressured Yeltsin to resume
testing when the current Russian testing moratorium expires,
according to recent visitors from the former Soviet Union. Peter
Zheutlin, spokesperson for International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) told reporters, " We were told
by a man in Boris Yeltsin's cabinet, someone very much opposed to
this, that Bush and Yeltsin have a secret understanding that
Russia will resume testing when the current moratorium expires in
October."
        In addition to Russia's moratorium, France also implemented
a moratorium on April 8. China, which has conducted only 2% of
the world's nuclear tests, conducted a test on May 21, 1992. This
should be a warning that if the U.S. and Great Britain, (who also
tests in Nevada) don't stop, other nations will feel that to
protect themselves, they must join the nuclear club. 
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** Topic: What is GANA **
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             GANA: THE GLOBAL ANTI-NUCLEAR ALLIANCE

        GANA is a world-wide network of citizen's groups, legis-
lators, and radiation survivors. The first conference was in 1990
at the Soviet Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan.
There, where one our of three Kazakhs children are born with
birth defects, the Nevada-Semipalatinsk grass-roots movement was
born. Naming their group in solidarity with the US anti-nuclear
movement, their efforts and momentum quickly swelled beyond
anything seen in the States, and the Kazakh site was shut down.

        The preamble of the GANA Draft Charter reads in part:
Possessing knowledge about the scale of weapons of mass destruc-
tion accumulated in the world, including the nuclear capability
to inflict irreparable human and environmental damage to the
planet;...
Understanding the direct linkage between the threat of nuclear
weapons proliferation, regional conflict, underdevelopment and
peace and the critical linkage between a Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty and the preservation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation
Treaty, subject to review regarding terms of its extension in
1995;...
Appealing as citizens of the world to the citizens and legis-
lators, we proclaim the creation of a new organization of a new
type that will operate on the basis of nonviolent principles.

        Other international GANA delegations expected are from
Gensuiken in Japan, the Movement for a Free & Independent Tahiti,
and a number of European organizations.

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** Topic: Walk Accross America for Mother Ea **
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WALK ACROSS AMERICA FOR MOTHER EARTH

                On January 31, 1992, 100 Europeans, Native Americans
          and other North Americans began their 3,000 mile
          journey from New York City to the Nevada Nuclear Test
          Site, where they will arrive for October 12. Their
          numbers have grown as the walk continues.
              Their purpose statement says in part:
We mourn what began on this continent On October 12, 1492. We
invite people, corporations and governments to apologize to all
indigenous peoples for centuries of injustice.
We seek to understand American history from the perspective of
American Indians, African-Americans, Asian AMericans, and all
other oppressed people.
Standing in solidarity with indigenous peoples everywhere, we
honor Mother Earth. We support all indigenous peoples' right to
the use of and title to their own lands...
We call for an end to nuclear testing, all of which occurs on the
lands of indigenous peoples, as a severe violation of human
rights and a threat to life...
We walk across the land we call America to generate a spirit of
compassion for Mother Earth.

For more information about Walk Across America for Mother Earth,
call 800-466-WALK. C/O Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden
Rd., Columbus OH 43205.
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** Topic: European Peace Pilgrimage **
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                 EUROPEAN PEACE PILGRIMAGE 1992
                The European Peace Pilgrimage 1992 is a smaller group
          of about 25 people, who started their walk from the
          U.S. Nuclear submarine base in St. Marys, GA on Febru-
          ary 1, 1992, continuing across the southern U.S. to
          meet with WAA/FME for the last segment, from Navajo-
          Hopi land to the Nevada Test Site.
                  They describe their purpose:
We walk a Peace Pilgrimage to express our unity with the Earth
and to encourage folks we meet along the way to speak out for
justice, global peace and the integrity of creation.
We walk together because there has been abusive mistreatment of
Native Americans. Entire nations have been eliminated and their
lands stolen from them. We walk to urge recognition of Native
American land rights.
We walk together because there are too many bombs. There is no
need for these bombs nor is there any need to test them on Native
American land. We walk to urge adoption of a Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty, and to urge the testing of nuclear bombs in Nevada.
We walk together because there is too much toxic waste. Military
and industrial production has already filled over 27,000 dump-
sites in the USA, often on Native American land, polluting water
and soil for miles around. We walk to urge for a clean environ-
ment.

For information about EPP92, contact Pamela Blockley O'Brian, D23
Golden Valley, Douglasville GA 30134. (404) 949-9392.
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** Topic: resource materials **
** Written  4:07 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:hgw.action **
HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS RESOURCE LIST

READING MATERIALS
Radioactive Heaven and Earth, report of the International Physic-
ians for the Prevention of Nuclear War about health and environ-
mental effects of nuclear testing. $13.50 plus $2.80 postage from
The Commission, IPPNW, 126 Rogers St., Cambridge MA 02142.

Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic
Radiation, by Norman Solomon and Harvey Wasserman. Affects on
atomic veterans and other radiation survivors. Available in many
public libraries.

Blood of The Land: The Government & Corporate War Against the
American Indian Movement, by Rex Weyler. History of uranium and
coal mining, environmental and health effects, as well as `legal'
and political repression. Everest Publishers, 1982. Due out in
paperback in August.

Indian Country, by Peter Matthiessen. Documents 11 different
assaults on sacred Native lands. Good information on mining
battles and Western Shoshone land history. Penguin Books, 1992.

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian
Legacy, by Kirkpatrick Sale. Links Columbus to Native and en-
vironmental concerns. NAL/Dutton, 1991.

1492-1992: New Visions, New Alliances, by Jennifer Viereck,
Benito Torres and Warren Harry. 30 page booklet on the invasion
by Columbus and the invasion of North America. Includes resource
list and current Native American struggles. $4 plus postage or
$2.50/15 or more from Nuremberg Actions, PO Box 13, Boulder Creek
CA 95006.

A Struggle For Land Rights, by Rebecca Solnit. Reprint of 11 page
article about Western Shoshone Dann Band's battle for their
lands. $2.50 from HGW, Po Box 4082, Las Vegas NV 89127.

VIDEOS
Bound by the Wind, by David L. Brown in 1991. 40 minute video on
the international citizen's movement to end nuclear testing. $25
from David L. Brown, 2114 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco CA
94118. (415) 929-0766.

To Protect Mother Earth, produced by Joel L. Freedman, narrated
by Robert Redford in 1989. 55 minute video about the struggle for
Western Shoshone land rights and the Dann case. $30 rental.
Contact HGW office for more information.

Western Shoshone Land is Not For Sale, 1992, 12 minutes. At-
tempted April '92 BLM roundup of Shoshone livestock at the Dann
ranch. Western Shoshone Defense Project, General Delivery,
Crescent Valley NV 89821. (702) 468-0230.

OTHER INFORMATION
Nukewatch: maps and info on nuclear weapons truck routes and
missile launch sites. PO Box 2658, Madison WI 53701. (608) 256-
4146.


Testing Alert Network is a phone network and hotline about
upcoming nuclear tests. Contact American Peace Test, Po Box
26725, Las Vegas NV 89126. (702) 386-9834.

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