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UC Student Hunger Strike: No More Nuclear Bombs In Our Name!
May 9th will see the beginning of a hunger strike to demand that the University of California stop engineering, testing and manufacturing nuclear bombs. This bold act of civil resistance is being coordinated by students and community members across multiple UC campuses. Some of us have pledged to go without solid food - permanently, if necessary -- unless our demand is met!
The hunger strikers' basic position is this: At this critical time in our world, with the survival of our planetary ecosystem hanging in the balance, it is imperative for the UC Regents to stop providing a fig leaf of academic respectability to the creation of the world's most toxic and deadly weapons, and instead use their position of political leverage to spur the US toward genuine nuclear disarmament, democratization, and demilitarization.
What Political Leverage? The UC has been the primary nuclear weapons lab research contractor in the United States for over six decades. It has managed the Los Alamos (NM) and Lawrence Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions in 1943 and 1952, respectively. Hence, every nuclear weapon in the US arsenal was researched and designed by a UC employee.
Why Now? In March, the US Nuclear Weapons Council, an interagency committee of executives from the Departments of Defense and Energy, announced that the UC's Livermore facility would develop a new hydrogen bomb. Officially, this is to be the first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War. Los Alamos is slated to manufacture the plutonium bomb cores, or "pits," for these weapons. Owing in part to its technical complexity and political baggage, pit manufacturing is the pivotal step in creating modern nuclear warheads. It is also perhaps the most polluting stage in the nuclear weapons production process.
These developments are part and parcel of a US government plan to revitalize the entire nuclear weapons complex, so as to begin producing dozens of new nukes every year. Other nations rightfully view such plans as a bellwether of US imperial ambitions and are responding in kind. The danger of a nuclear exchange has rarely been greater.
Why Else? As you read this, US nuclear attack submarines roam beneath the waters of the Straight of Hormuz, outside of Iran, ready to launch "small yield" nuclear weapons at "hardened underground targets" on virtually a moment's notice. An assault of this type would kill tens of thousands of innocent people, irradiate Iran's natural environment for generations to come, and almost certainly escalate tensions among many of the world's nations of the world so as to lead to even more catastrophic future wars and bombings of this type.
The type of nuclear weapon in question, the B61-11, was created by UC employees at the Los Alamos laboratory in the mid-'90s. UC administrators, faculty members, staff, and students will be directly complicit in this massacre, should it occur.
Political Leverage, Revisited: If The Regents decline to support the labs' hydrogen bomb initiative, due to critical grassroots pressure applied by UC students and their supporters, the political consequences will be vast. The labs' new weapons program will very likely die. The US nuclear enterprise will have been dealt a major setback, from which it is unlikely to fully recover.
The US is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a United Nations pact mandating the nuclear powers to work in good faith toward the cessation of the arms race and toward nuclear disarmament. Since ratification of the treaty in 1970, US intransigence has been the primary barrier to its full realization. If the US is brought into compliance with its international law obligations, global nuclear disarmament will instantly transform into a genuine possibility.
How, Exactly, Will The Hunger Strike Make An Impact? For several years, the multi-campus UC Demilitarization Coalition has worked on several fronts to sever the UC's nuclear ties. We have written letters, generated petitions, spoken politely during Regents meeting public comment periods. We have spoken angrily during public comment periods. We have held rallies. We have held press conferences. We have protested. We have dumped paper cranes on the Regents' meeting room floor. More recently, we have physically disrupted Regents meetings. Clearly, most "legitimate" channels for trying to change UC policy are closed to us. A more drastic action is needed! The UC demilitarization campaign has progressed to a point where such an action is possible and can be successful, particularly in light of the recent creation of a Student Nuclear Weapons Labs Oversight Committee by the UCSB student government. The time is now.
The UC Regents' next public meeting is May 16-17 at UC San Francisco. The hunger strike will apply critical public pressure to force the Regents to consider a resolution to sever ties with the weapons labs. Any such resolution must stipulate that the Regents withdraw support from the labs based only on principled opposition to current US nuclear weapons programs.
The Regents have rarely been more politically vulnerable with regard to their role as nukes lab managers. The labs' new hydrogen bomb program has no technical justification and is clearly contrary to international law. It is deeply unpopular even among many long-time nuclear weapons supporters.
Hunger strikes have a long history of success at UC campuses. There is historical momentum on our side.
What Are The Health Consequences of Hunger Striking? By making a few basic physical and mental preparations, participating in the hunger strike is unlikely to have any long-term health consequences for anyone without major existing health deficiencies. If you would like to consult with seasoned experts regarding various potential health implications of your participation, e-mail youth [at] napf.org or call (805) 965-3443.
Each participant is free to decide the duration and variety of their fast on an individual basis, or in consultation with other hunger strikers. Some participants will fast for a few days; others are fasting for an open-ended time span.
How Can I Join The Hunger Strike? To participate, please contact youth [at] napf.org or call (805) 965-3443.
--
websites with more information:
http://nonukeshungerstrike.blogspot.com
http://ucnuclearfree.org
What Political Leverage? The UC has been the primary nuclear weapons lab research contractor in the United States for over six decades. It has managed the Los Alamos (NM) and Lawrence Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions in 1943 and 1952, respectively. Hence, every nuclear weapon in the US arsenal was researched and designed by a UC employee.
Why Now? In March, the US Nuclear Weapons Council, an interagency committee of executives from the Departments of Defense and Energy, announced that the UC's Livermore facility would develop a new hydrogen bomb. Officially, this is to be the first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War. Los Alamos is slated to manufacture the plutonium bomb cores, or "pits," for these weapons. Owing in part to its technical complexity and political baggage, pit manufacturing is the pivotal step in creating modern nuclear warheads. It is also perhaps the most polluting stage in the nuclear weapons production process.
These developments are part and parcel of a US government plan to revitalize the entire nuclear weapons complex, so as to begin producing dozens of new nukes every year. Other nations rightfully view such plans as a bellwether of US imperial ambitions and are responding in kind. The danger of a nuclear exchange has rarely been greater.
Why Else? As you read this, US nuclear attack submarines roam beneath the waters of the Straight of Hormuz, outside of Iran, ready to launch "small yield" nuclear weapons at "hardened underground targets" on virtually a moment's notice. An assault of this type would kill tens of thousands of innocent people, irradiate Iran's natural environment for generations to come, and almost certainly escalate tensions among many of the world's nations of the world so as to lead to even more catastrophic future wars and bombings of this type.
The type of nuclear weapon in question, the B61-11, was created by UC employees at the Los Alamos laboratory in the mid-'90s. UC administrators, faculty members, staff, and students will be directly complicit in this massacre, should it occur.
Political Leverage, Revisited: If The Regents decline to support the labs' hydrogen bomb initiative, due to critical grassroots pressure applied by UC students and their supporters, the political consequences will be vast. The labs' new weapons program will very likely die. The US nuclear enterprise will have been dealt a major setback, from which it is unlikely to fully recover.
The US is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a United Nations pact mandating the nuclear powers to work in good faith toward the cessation of the arms race and toward nuclear disarmament. Since ratification of the treaty in 1970, US intransigence has been the primary barrier to its full realization. If the US is brought into compliance with its international law obligations, global nuclear disarmament will instantly transform into a genuine possibility.
How, Exactly, Will The Hunger Strike Make An Impact? For several years, the multi-campus UC Demilitarization Coalition has worked on several fronts to sever the UC's nuclear ties. We have written letters, generated petitions, spoken politely during Regents meeting public comment periods. We have spoken angrily during public comment periods. We have held rallies. We have held press conferences. We have protested. We have dumped paper cranes on the Regents' meeting room floor. More recently, we have physically disrupted Regents meetings. Clearly, most "legitimate" channels for trying to change UC policy are closed to us. A more drastic action is needed! The UC demilitarization campaign has progressed to a point where such an action is possible and can be successful, particularly in light of the recent creation of a Student Nuclear Weapons Labs Oversight Committee by the UCSB student government. The time is now.
The UC Regents' next public meeting is May 16-17 at UC San Francisco. The hunger strike will apply critical public pressure to force the Regents to consider a resolution to sever ties with the weapons labs. Any such resolution must stipulate that the Regents withdraw support from the labs based only on principled opposition to current US nuclear weapons programs.
The Regents have rarely been more politically vulnerable with regard to their role as nukes lab managers. The labs' new hydrogen bomb program has no technical justification and is clearly contrary to international law. It is deeply unpopular even among many long-time nuclear weapons supporters.
Hunger strikes have a long history of success at UC campuses. There is historical momentum on our side.
What Are The Health Consequences of Hunger Striking? By making a few basic physical and mental preparations, participating in the hunger strike is unlikely to have any long-term health consequences for anyone without major existing health deficiencies. If you would like to consult with seasoned experts regarding various potential health implications of your participation, e-mail youth [at] napf.org or call (805) 965-3443.
Each participant is free to decide the duration and variety of their fast on an individual basis, or in consultation with other hunger strikers. Some participants will fast for a few days; others are fasting for an open-ended time span.
How Can I Join The Hunger Strike? To participate, please contact youth [at] napf.org or call (805) 965-3443.
--
websites with more information:
http://nonukeshungerstrike.blogspot.com
http://ucnuclearfree.org
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Starting May 9th, students will begin hunger striking against the planned construction of a new Hydrogen Bomb -- which would be the first new nuclear bomb built since the end of the Cold War -- using University of California researchers and resources. In fact, the UC system has had a hand in the production of every nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever made, due to their involvement in the management of Los Alamos laboratory and other government sites. From the hunger striker's blog:
The hunger strikers' basic position is this: At this critical time in our world, with the survival of our planetary ecosystem hanging in the balance, it is imperative for the UC Regents to stop providing a fig leaf of academic respectability to the creation of the world's most toxic and deadly weapons, and instead use their position of political leverage to spur the US toward genuine nuclear disarmament, democratization, and demilitarization.Find out more about the larger UC Nuclear Free campaign here. These students and community members have, for years, used a variety of effective tactics to get their message out, and to pressure the UC Regents. This is what happens when students don't have a say in the running of their own "higher" education. I wonder if it would be prudent to get faculty members to sign refusal cards, stating they will not participate in the planning, production or experimentation related to a nuclear weapon. Are the UC faculty unionized? That might be another venue for effective resistance to the program.
For more information:
http://www.forstudentpower.org
Dear friends,
Tomorrow, May 9th, close to 30 University of California students and
alumni will begin a fast to demand that the UC Regents fully and
immediately withdraw their management of the Los Alamos and Lawrence
Livermore nuclear weapons compounds. Each participant has pledged to
forgo solid food at least until the Regents meet on May 17th at UC San
Francisco. Many of us have committed to hunger striking until the
Regents meet our demand.
I think that I explain our motivation for taking this drastic course
action relatively clearly in the materials I provide below, as well as
in other literature that has been produced about the hunger strike. So
I forbear to repeat any of that information here.
We are undertaking the hunger strike only after months of deep
reflection. We fully realize that, at the moment, it seems unlikely
that the Regents will meet our demand. We also realize that, as the
author-activist Rebecca Solnit has written, "Activism is not a journey
to the corner store; it is a plunge into the dark." We have no way of
knowing what the outcome of the hunger strike will be; only that, based
on our collective experiences, knowledge, and strategic thought, it is
the best option available to us at present.
Below my signature are some ways for you to help support the hunger
strike. If you have personal media contacts, we encourage you to inform
them about the hunger strike. If you are in the Santa Barbara area, you
can attend and promote tomorrow's "No Nukes! No Wars" rally and march.
If you are in the Santa Cruz area, you can attend the teach-in at UC
Santa Cruz tomorrow. If you are nearer to Berkeley, you can support the
hunger strikers community there. Regardless of where you live, you can
support us by making phone calls, writing letters, or e-mailing the
Regents. We also ask that you consider attending the UC Regents meet
with us on May 17th at UC San Francisco, where we hope to pressure them
into voting in favor of weapons lab severance.
If you have known me at all during the years in which I have been
politically active (and there are over 300 of you who are receiving this
e-mail), I ask that you support the hunger strike in whatever way you
can. If I and the other hunger strikers are putting ourselves at risk,
it is only because we believe so strongly in the plunge we are all about
to undertake, and in the benefits for our world that may result.
In peace,
Will Parrish
Tomorrow, May 9th, close to 30 University of California students and
alumni will begin a fast to demand that the UC Regents fully and
immediately withdraw their management of the Los Alamos and Lawrence
Livermore nuclear weapons compounds. Each participant has pledged to
forgo solid food at least until the Regents meet on May 17th at UC San
Francisco. Many of us have committed to hunger striking until the
Regents meet our demand.
I think that I explain our motivation for taking this drastic course
action relatively clearly in the materials I provide below, as well as
in other literature that has been produced about the hunger strike. So
I forbear to repeat any of that information here.
We are undertaking the hunger strike only after months of deep
reflection. We fully realize that, at the moment, it seems unlikely
that the Regents will meet our demand. We also realize that, as the
author-activist Rebecca Solnit has written, "Activism is not a journey
to the corner store; it is a plunge into the dark." We have no way of
knowing what the outcome of the hunger strike will be; only that, based
on our collective experiences, knowledge, and strategic thought, it is
the best option available to us at present.
Below my signature are some ways for you to help support the hunger
strike. If you have personal media contacts, we encourage you to inform
them about the hunger strike. If you are in the Santa Barbara area, you
can attend and promote tomorrow's "No Nukes! No Wars" rally and march.
If you are in the Santa Cruz area, you can attend the teach-in at UC
Santa Cruz tomorrow. If you are nearer to Berkeley, you can support the
hunger strikers community there. Regardless of where you live, you can
support us by making phone calls, writing letters, or e-mailing the
Regents. We also ask that you consider attending the UC Regents meet
with us on May 17th at UC San Francisco, where we hope to pressure them
into voting in favor of weapons lab severance.
If you have known me at all during the years in which I have been
politically active (and there are over 300 of you who are receiving this
e-mail), I ask that you support the hunger strike in whatever way you
can. If I and the other hunger strikers are putting ourselves at risk,
it is only because we believe so strongly in the plunge we are all about
to undertake, and in the benefits for our world that may result.
In peace,
Will Parrish
NO MORE NUCLEAR EXCUSES FOR WAR! NO MORE NUKES IN OUR NAME!
Wednesday, May 9th, 1 p.m
UCSB Storke Plaza
*March and rally - bring 5 friends!*
Join us this Wednesday for a march and rally to demand "No More Nuclear
Excuses for War! No More Nukes In Our Name!" At the rally, we will
deliver our demand for immediate UC nuclear weapons lab severance to the
UC administration. At least nine UC Santa Barbara students and one
community supporter (in conjunction with similar groups at UC Santa Cruz
and UC Berkeley) will begin a hunger strike to demand no more UC-made
nuclear bombs!
In recent months, the US government's threat of war against Iran has
mounted. The US war and occupation of Iraq continues on a monstrous
scale, but the threat of a US-led bombing campaign against Iran remains:
Multiple US aircraft carrier units are currently deployed in the Persian
Gulf ready to unleash a massive assault on Iranian civilians and
infrastructure on virtually a moment's notice. As the investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh has revealed, the bombing may very well include
nuclear weapons.
Regarding the nuclear weapons, there is one primary fact that concerns
us: They were made by the University of California.
For over six decades, the UC has been the US government's primary
nuclear warhead contractor, having managed the Los Alamos (NM) and
Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions. Every
nuclear warhead in the US arsenal was designed by a UC employee. These
include the B61-11 "bunker busters" currently deployed in the Persian
Gulf. Now, the UC is even building a new hydrogen bomb: officially, the
first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War and setting up
one of its labs to actually manufacture nuclear warhead components.
More information: http://nonukeshungerstrike.blogspot.com,
http://www.ucnuclearfree.org, http://www.sbantiwar.org
Wednesday, May 9th, 1 p.m
UCSB Storke Plaza
*March and rally - bring 5 friends!*
Join us this Wednesday for a march and rally to demand "No More Nuclear
Excuses for War! No More Nukes In Our Name!" At the rally, we will
deliver our demand for immediate UC nuclear weapons lab severance to the
UC administration. At least nine UC Santa Barbara students and one
community supporter (in conjunction with similar groups at UC Santa Cruz
and UC Berkeley) will begin a hunger strike to demand no more UC-made
nuclear bombs!
In recent months, the US government's threat of war against Iran has
mounted. The US war and occupation of Iraq continues on a monstrous
scale, but the threat of a US-led bombing campaign against Iran remains:
Multiple US aircraft carrier units are currently deployed in the Persian
Gulf ready to unleash a massive assault on Iranian civilians and
infrastructure on virtually a moment's notice. As the investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh has revealed, the bombing may very well include
nuclear weapons.
Regarding the nuclear weapons, there is one primary fact that concerns
us: They were made by the University of California.
For over six decades, the UC has been the US government's primary
nuclear warhead contractor, having managed the Los Alamos (NM) and
Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions. Every
nuclear warhead in the US arsenal was designed by a UC employee. These
include the B61-11 "bunker busters" currently deployed in the Persian
Gulf. Now, the UC is even building a new hydrogen bomb: officially, the
first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War and setting up
one of its labs to actually manufacture nuclear warhead components.
More information: http://nonukeshungerstrike.blogspot.com,
http://www.ucnuclearfree.org, http://www.sbantiwar.org
On Wednesday, May 9th, students and alumni at three UC campuses will go on a hunger strike to demand that the University of California stop designing, engineering and manufacturing nuclear bombs. We are calling on the Regents to pass a resolution at their next meeting -- scheduled for May 17th -- severing all ties to the nuclear weapons complex. We will sustain our fast at least until that meeting, if not much longer. We are writing to ask for your support of this timely act of civil resistance, and of the just cause for which we sacrifice.
For over six decades, the UC has been the US government's primary nuclear warhead contractor, having managed the Los Alamos (NM) and Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions. Every nuclear warhead in the US arsenal was designed by a UC employee. These include the B61-11 "bunker busters" currently deployed in the Persian Gulf, with which the US government is threatening Iran. Now, the UC is even building a new hydrogen bomb: officially, the first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War and setting up one of its labs to actually manufacture nuclear warhead components.
As hunger strikers, our basic position is this: At this critical time in our world, with the survival of our planetary ecosystem hanging in the balance, it is imperative for the UC Regents to stop providing a fig leaf of academic respectability to the creation of the world's most toxic and deadly weapons, and instead use their position of political leverage to spur the US toward genuine nuclear disarmament, democratization, and demilitarization.
The hunger strike action represents the culmination of over five years of organizing and struggle by UC student nuclear abolitionists, anti-war activists, and anti-imperialists. We have petitioned, written letters, marched, rallied, spoken out at UC Regents meetings, and even physically disrupted some of those same meetings to demand that the UC get out of bed with bombs. Now, we are escalating our tactics. We seek, above all, for our actions to be commensurate with the truly formidable challenges confronting our generation and the earth.
We'd like to highlight five ways that you can support us, in order of those we consider most important:
1. Join us for a short-term (one-day, for example) solidarity fast. Fasting is a remarkable way to cleanse your body, and doing so for a short amount of time entails virtually no physical risk. Even if you can't fast, come visit us on campus! There will be six Berkeley students doing a 7-day solidarity fast with the hunger strike, and during the day they will be sitting near California Hall with signs and outreach materials. Please come show your support!
2. Attend our "No Nukes In Our Name!" rally at the UC Regents meeting on Thursday, May 17th at 10 a.m. at UC San Francisco's Mission Bay building. Due to the level of local, statewide, and national attention we expect to gain through this action, we anticipate being able to bring a great deal of pressure to bear on the Regents. You can also sign up to speak during the public comment period of the meeting at 8 am - please call the regents secretary. A large mobilization at this action is crucially important! For driving directions, visit http://www.ucnuclearfree.org or contact youth [at] napf.org.
3. Call the UC Regents – ask that they vote on our resolution for nuclear weapons lab severance on May 17th. It is crucial for as many supporters as possible issue this demand, whether they be California tax-payers, UC students, or concerned citizens of the world! Please see Regents contact info below.
4. Write a letter to the UC Regents – ask that they vote on our resolution for nuclear weapons lab severance on May 17th. Please see the list of contacts below. An online form letter will be available at http://www.ucnuclearfree.org beginning on Wednesday, May 9th.
5. Write a letter of solidarity to the hunger strikers. You can send emails to youth [at] napf.org, and we will forward them on to the other hunger strikers. Your letters will go a long way toward boosting our morale as the hunger strike wears on. We will read many of them at the rallies and public events we hold to garner support throughout the action.
We wouldn't be writing to you if we didn't consider your support vitally important to the success of this initiative. We expect that the hunger strike will receive national attention and mark a significant step forward in the struggle for nuclear abolition. It may very well achieve its aim. If it is to do so, it needs to have broad-based support both at UC campuses and far beyond!
There has never been a more critical time for the UC Regents to take a principled stand against the US' nuclear weapons programs. They are in a very powerful position to do so: They can withdraw their management of the Los Alamos and Livermore labs, which are the keystone institutions in the US nuclear weapons complex. They could cast the UC's enormous political and intellectual weight on the side of international law and morality, and seize this opportunity to work toward nuclear disarmament. To do otherwise is to continue to provide a much-needed veneer of academic legitimacy to the creation and maintenance of weapons that poison communities and endanger the entire world.
We recognize that the world we live in is fundamentally unjust, that it is full of a spate of interconnected problems, and that all of these problems merit being addressed on their own terms and in their own ways. We realize our hunger strike will do little to address most of those problems. But we do believe we have part of the answer to making the world a much better place. We hope that, by performing this hunger strike, we can initiate new connections and relationships that will help us continue to work in solidarity with people engaged in multiple other fronts of political struggle.
Together, we can make the UC nuclear-free! Thank you so much for your time and attention! We look forward to connecting with you!
Yours in the struggle for a world free of war, nuclear weapons, and empire,
Will Parrish
on behalf of
The UC "No More Nukes In Our Name!" Hunger Strikers
For over six decades, the UC has been the US government's primary nuclear warhead contractor, having managed the Los Alamos (NM) and Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions. Every nuclear warhead in the US arsenal was designed by a UC employee. These include the B61-11 "bunker busters" currently deployed in the Persian Gulf, with which the US government is threatening Iran. Now, the UC is even building a new hydrogen bomb: officially, the first new US nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War and setting up one of its labs to actually manufacture nuclear warhead components.
As hunger strikers, our basic position is this: At this critical time in our world, with the survival of our planetary ecosystem hanging in the balance, it is imperative for the UC Regents to stop providing a fig leaf of academic respectability to the creation of the world's most toxic and deadly weapons, and instead use their position of political leverage to spur the US toward genuine nuclear disarmament, democratization, and demilitarization.
The hunger strike action represents the culmination of over five years of organizing and struggle by UC student nuclear abolitionists, anti-war activists, and anti-imperialists. We have petitioned, written letters, marched, rallied, spoken out at UC Regents meetings, and even physically disrupted some of those same meetings to demand that the UC get out of bed with bombs. Now, we are escalating our tactics. We seek, above all, for our actions to be commensurate with the truly formidable challenges confronting our generation and the earth.
We'd like to highlight five ways that you can support us, in order of those we consider most important:
1. Join us for a short-term (one-day, for example) solidarity fast. Fasting is a remarkable way to cleanse your body, and doing so for a short amount of time entails virtually no physical risk. Even if you can't fast, come visit us on campus! There will be six Berkeley students doing a 7-day solidarity fast with the hunger strike, and during the day they will be sitting near California Hall with signs and outreach materials. Please come show your support!
2. Attend our "No Nukes In Our Name!" rally at the UC Regents meeting on Thursday, May 17th at 10 a.m. at UC San Francisco's Mission Bay building. Due to the level of local, statewide, and national attention we expect to gain through this action, we anticipate being able to bring a great deal of pressure to bear on the Regents. You can also sign up to speak during the public comment period of the meeting at 8 am - please call the regents secretary. A large mobilization at this action is crucially important! For driving directions, visit http://www.ucnuclearfree.org or contact youth [at] napf.org.
3. Call the UC Regents – ask that they vote on our resolution for nuclear weapons lab severance on May 17th. It is crucial for as many supporters as possible issue this demand, whether they be California tax-payers, UC students, or concerned citizens of the world! Please see Regents contact info below.
4. Write a letter to the UC Regents – ask that they vote on our resolution for nuclear weapons lab severance on May 17th. Please see the list of contacts below. An online form letter will be available at http://www.ucnuclearfree.org beginning on Wednesday, May 9th.
5. Write a letter of solidarity to the hunger strikers. You can send emails to youth [at] napf.org, and we will forward them on to the other hunger strikers. Your letters will go a long way toward boosting our morale as the hunger strike wears on. We will read many of them at the rallies and public events we hold to garner support throughout the action.
We wouldn't be writing to you if we didn't consider your support vitally important to the success of this initiative. We expect that the hunger strike will receive national attention and mark a significant step forward in the struggle for nuclear abolition. It may very well achieve its aim. If it is to do so, it needs to have broad-based support both at UC campuses and far beyond!
There has never been a more critical time for the UC Regents to take a principled stand against the US' nuclear weapons programs. They are in a very powerful position to do so: They can withdraw their management of the Los Alamos and Livermore labs, which are the keystone institutions in the US nuclear weapons complex. They could cast the UC's enormous political and intellectual weight on the side of international law and morality, and seize this opportunity to work toward nuclear disarmament. To do otherwise is to continue to provide a much-needed veneer of academic legitimacy to the creation and maintenance of weapons that poison communities and endanger the entire world.
We recognize that the world we live in is fundamentally unjust, that it is full of a spate of interconnected problems, and that all of these problems merit being addressed on their own terms and in their own ways. We realize our hunger strike will do little to address most of those problems. But we do believe we have part of the answer to making the world a much better place. We hope that, by performing this hunger strike, we can initiate new connections and relationships that will help us continue to work in solidarity with people engaged in multiple other fronts of political struggle.
Together, we can make the UC nuclear-free! Thank you so much for your time and attention! We look forward to connecting with you!
Yours in the struggle for a world free of war, nuclear weapons, and empire,
Will Parrish
on behalf of
The UC "No More Nukes In Our Name!" Hunger Strikers
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE REGENTS
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
tel (510) 987-9220
fax (510) 987-9224 (for petitions, letters)
Regents Office/Secretary Email (she shares our correspondence with the
Regents at the meeting): regentsoffice [at] ucop.edu
OR The addresses of the individuals in the DOE Oversight committee are below:
Norman Pattiz
Westwood One
8965 Lindglade Street
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 840-4201
Peter Preuss
The Preuss Foundation, Inc.
2223 Avenida de la Playa #220
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 454-0200
John J. Moores
JMI Services, Inc.
12680 High Bluff Dr., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
(858) 259-2500
George Marcus
The Marcus & Millichap Company
777 California St.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 494-1400
Stephen Schreiner
Alumni Regent
(Vice President of the Alumni
Associations of UC)
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP
401 B Street, Suite 120
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 231-0303
Bruce D. Varner
3750 University Avenue
Suite 610
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 274-7777
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-2841
Robert C. Dynes
President of the University
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-9074
Richard C. Blum
Office of the Secretary
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Gerald L. Parsky
Aurora Capital Partners
10877 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 551-0101
Advisory member:
John B. Oakley
Chair, Academic Senate
University of California
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-9303
1111 Franklin St., 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
tel (510) 987-9220
fax (510) 987-9224 (for petitions, letters)
Regents Office/Secretary Email (she shares our correspondence with the
Regents at the meeting): regentsoffice [at] ucop.edu
OR The addresses of the individuals in the DOE Oversight committee are below:
Norman Pattiz
Westwood One
8965 Lindglade Street
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 840-4201
Peter Preuss
The Preuss Foundation, Inc.
2223 Avenida de la Playa #220
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 454-0200
John J. Moores
JMI Services, Inc.
12680 High Bluff Dr., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
(858) 259-2500
George Marcus
The Marcus & Millichap Company
777 California St.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 494-1400
Stephen Schreiner
Alumni Regent
(Vice President of the Alumni
Associations of UC)
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP
401 B Street, Suite 120
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 231-0303
Bruce D. Varner
3750 University Avenue
Suite 610
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 274-7777
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-2841
Robert C. Dynes
President of the University
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-9074
Richard C. Blum
Office of the Secretary
1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 987-9220
Gerald L. Parsky
Aurora Capital Partners
10877 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 551-0101
Advisory member:
John B. Oakley
Chair, Academic Senate
University of California
1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-9303
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