Tri-Valley CAREs, SF Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility, Western States Legal Foundation and International Medcom are partners with the county in the EPA proposal. At stake is whether Pacifica will corporatize KPFA into irrelevance by forcing it to carry more mainstream programming. Protesters have been camped outside KPFA's front door since the July 13 lockout of the station's staff. The supporters' various efforts have caused Pacifica to end the lockout, but the station's future is still in doubt. Just days before the August 6 anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the city's mayor warned that the world is forgetting the horror of the nuclear bomb and is thus more likely to use it again.
Nuclear weapons are an absolute evil.
We must abolish them. The Administration is negotiating with Russia in an effort to redefine the terms of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 that outlaws BMD systems such as the U.S. is contemplating. This Sept. the Pentagon is scheduled to conduct a BMD test over the Pacific Ocean. In the face of this insanity, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space has initiated international call-in days from Sept. 13 to 15. We limit our fundraising appeals to twice a year, and we never share or sell our mailing list .