[ RadSafe ] Laka Foundation no longer member of ICBUW

[Roger Helbig]

As the split begins, the true anti-everything nuclear activist reveals his true goals 

It is important that we do see the connections,
attacking the whole nuclear process from source to
sea, but at the same time uranium weapons and civil
uranium products must be extracted from that. Sounds
Possibly the  ICBUW has forgotten that, 

Or maybe they actually have wised up!


--- davey garland <thunderelf at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> To: du-list at yahoogroups.com
> From: davey garland <thunderelf at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:57:26 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Re: [du-list] Laka Foundation no longer
> member of ICBUW
> 
> Sounds logical to me, as there has been far to much
> concentration on large nuclear weapons, with
> traditional anti-nuclear organisations still either
> refusing to include uranium weapons into their
> remit.
> Also even if some organisations 'say' they have
> taken
> this issue on, they are either neglecting or
> refusing
> to publicise it. i had a national spokesperson for
> Youth CND (campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) here at
> the university, speaking to a large bunch of
> students.
> He spoke for 30 mintues, covered iraq, afganistan
> etc,
> and didn't mention urnaium weapons, gws or cancer
> rates in iraq once. When i challenged him, during
> questions, he appologised, and told me that yes, the
> issue was clearly raised at the organisations AGM,
> but
> didn't really have a clue. Maybe these weapons don't
> have the same 'clout' as high yield nuclear
> weapons!!
> Mind you, the group has called me back to speak as
> they are actually more concerned about uranium
> weapons, as it is more immediate!!
> 
> It is important that we do see the connections,
> attacking the whole nuclear process from source to
> sea, but at the same time uranium weapons and civil
> uranium products must be extracted from that. Sounds
> Possibly the the  ICBUW has forgotten that, 

> --- mitzi <upthesun at cshore.com> wrote:

> ---------------------------------
> Henk, I can't see how the two can be seperated. The
> narrow view ignores
> recent developments ie plans by Washington and the
> UK
> to cooperate in
> proliferating nuclear weapons AND power plants
> internationally; enrichment
> plans here to utilize power plants' spent fuel for
> its
> plutonium and tritium
> and to use MOX in new nuclear plants. More uranium
> mining and enrichment
> will lead to the development and use of both
> radioactive AND nuclear
> weapons. The creaky old fraud perpetrated by the
> Eisenhower administration -
> the "Peaceful Atom"- fooled many for years.  It's
> urgent now to expose the
> connection, now that Bush and Blair are no longer
> trying so hard to hide it.
> P.S. Has any media besides Pacifica's Democracy Now
> reported the US/UK
> nuclear bomb test on the 1st of March in the Nevada
> testing grounds? They
> reported U of California, Bechtel, Los Alamos and
> others were involved.
> There was no word on whether it was above or
> underground, but the report
> made it clear that it was a violation of the NPT. It
> was this report that
> spoke of the two governments' promotion of nuclear
> power plants around the
> world, likely leading to nuclear and radioactive
> weapons proliferation.
> Mitzi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "henk van der keur" <henk.vdkeur at antenna.nl>
> To: <du-list at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:49 AM
> Subject: [du-list] Laka Foundation no longer member
> of
> ICBUW
> 
> 
> > Laka Foundation no longer member of the
> > International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
> (ICBUW)
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > Laka Foundation decided last month to leave the
> International Coalition to
> > Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW). We had many
> differences
> in opinion
> > which were refused to be mediated by the
> coalition.
> For example, Laka
> > didn't and doesn't want to involve nuclear weapons
> in any way in the
> > anti-uranium weapons campaign, while others did
> so.
> >
> > The undersigned will continue their work and
> research on uranium weapons
> > independently.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Henk van der Keur
> > Lizzy Bloem (freelance)