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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted
from the Sept. 26, 1996
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Many anti-militarist groups were represented among the 300 people who packed a room in the United Nations Church Center in New York Sept. 12 to learn about the dangers posed by the Pentagon's use of weapons made from depleted uranium.
Participants called for a ban on DU weapons and announced plans for a book based on submissions to the forum.
Among the speakers and in the audience were experts on the medical and environmental impact of low-level radiation, the military use of DU weapons, victims of Gulf War syndrome, and activists who publicize and mobilize against the new weapons.
The Pentagon first used DU weapons in the 1991 war against Iraq. Many of the speakers were opponents of that war and of the U.S. military's current attacks on Iraq.
The International Action Center, an organization to oppose U.S. militarism and interventions founded by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, called the meeting to warn of the dangers of DU and begin to mobilize a popular movement to ban its use.
Presentations by Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders of the IAC, Anna Rondon of the Dine Nation, Gulf War nurse Carol Picou, nuclear physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, Gulf War veteran Dan Fahey, and Dr. Victor Sidel of Physicians for Social Responsibility are excerpted here.
Other speakers included Dolores Lymburner of the Depleted Uranium Network, Pacifica radio journalist Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, environmentalist Dr. Jay M. Gould, Alice Slater of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environ ment, and Lenora Foerstel of Women's Strike for Peace and Women for Mutual Security. Foerstel read a message from Margarita Papandreou, former first lady of Greece.
New Jersey community activist and Vietnam veteran John Jones co-chaired the meeting with Sara Flounders. Judi Cheng also spoke for the IAC.
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