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DESCRIPTION:NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:			Contact:  Friday, July 16, 2004	Anne 
 Rabe, Center for Health, Env. & Justice  518-732-4538, annerabe@msn.com    
 					  Trinity, Hiroshima & Nagasaki Anniversary Events Held Nationwide.  
 Communities Call on National Leaders to Take Precautionary Action   & 
 Prevent Nuclear Weapons Hazards;   “Support Safety & Security: Clean Up, 
 Don’t Build Up”   A series of seventy-two events are being held in 
 twenty states across the country to commemorate the 59th anniversaries of 
 the Trinity atomic detonation and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic 
 bombing.  A diverse coalition of environmental health, nuclear weapons, 
 toxic waste and peace organizations released a Blueprint of Precautionary 
 Actions to prevent nuclear weapon hazards in the U.S.    The July and 
 August Nuclear Weapons Days of Action will kick off with events to 
 commemorate the world’s first atomic detonation at the Trinity site in NM 
 on July 16th. Attached is a national Calendar listing events in CA, CO, GA, 
 ID, MA, MD, ME, MN, NM, NE, NJ, NY, NV, OR, SC, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI and DC.  
 Groups are holding interfaith, remembrance and peace lantern ceremonies, 
 citizens weapons inspections, speak outs, marches and educational events.   
 The nationwide BE SAFE coalition is sponsoring a National Call-In Day on 
 the August 9th Nagasaki Anniversary to call on President Bush and 
 Presidential candidate John Kerry to support safety and security with a 
 “Clean Up, Don’t Build Up” precautionary policy that halts the 
 escalating nuclear weapons development and production.  BE SAFE released a 
 Blueprint for Precautionary Action calling on government and industry to 
 prevent harm with a precautionary approach by: instituting protective 
 cleanups; halting the Bush Administration’s weapons build up, siting of 
 high-level nuclear waste sites and radioactive waste deregulation 
 proposals; and improving security at nuclear weapons plants.  Based on the 
 “first do no harm” approach of medicine, the precautionary approach 
 shifts the questions we ask about environmental hazards from “what level 
 of harm is acceptable?” to “how can we prevent harm?”  BE SAFE 
 includes the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, Center for Health, Env. & 
 Justice, Global Resource Action Center for the Env., Physicians for Social 
 Responsibility and Military Toxics Project.  Attached are the Calendar of 
 Events and Media Statements of national leaders. For Precautionary Action 
 Blueprint & Fact Sheets, visit   http://www.besafenet.com/nuclear.htm.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/07/19/43293.php
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Days of Action
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