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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 26, 1996
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Dr. Victor Sidel: Get rid of those weapons

[Dr. Victor Sidel of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]

Although our major set of issues has been around the proliferation of nuclear weapons, we are also concerned with what the waste from those weapons has done to the world, including depleted uranium, which is one of the byproducts of this weaponry.

What we want to say is that we are with you in this effort and we want to work with you on it. This worldwide network of physicians concerned about research into this weaponry, concerned about education about what those weapons do, and concerned with advocacy to get rid of those weapons, wants to be part of this effort.

The rest of what I want to say is from the preamble to a mine workers' anthem from about a hundred years ago.

"Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won; many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none. And by union what we will can be accomplished still; drops of water turn a mill, singly none, singly none."

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