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Why Has Our Military Refused to Show
This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq?
US ARMY TRAINING VIDEO:
Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness
Video:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/DU_training_video.htm
Depleted Uranium Audios:
Doug Rokke
AUDIO: Wed., June 7, 2006:
Playlists:
M3U |
RAM
(Individual MP3:
Click Here)
Christopher Bollyn speaks with Doug Rokke, and Leuren Moret about
the military's use of Depleted Uranium in munitions. Mr.Rokke is the
former Director of the US Army Depleted Uranium Project. Ms. Moret
is a geophysicist specializing in atmospheric sciences, a nuclear
activist, and a former scientist and whistle blower at the Lawrence
Livermore Laboratories.
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Piper06.html
White phosphorus
White phosphorus called
Shake and Bake
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/DU_shake_&_bake.htm
Democracy Now!
Lebanese President Accuses Israel of Using
White Phosphorus Bombs in Lebanon
July 25, 2006
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who exposed how the U.S. used
white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, says Israel is using the same tactic
in Lebanon. We speak to him in Beirut.
While Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of using cluster bombs,
the Lebanese president Emile Lahoud says Israel is also using white
phosphorus. Lebanese doctors have reported witnessing the effects of
white phosphorus on their patients. Independent journalist is in
Beirut and has spoken to some of those doctors.
Audio:
http://www.apfn.org/audio/dn2006-0725-1_64kb.mp3
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1442242
INTERVIEW: JOYCE RILEY... IRAQ DU PROBLEM
FREE: BEYOND TREASON (CD) TO ANY GULF WAR VET
877 GULF VET
Audio:
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/A002I060712-goyette2.MP3
RANT: CHARLES, ABOUT DU & NUKE WEAPONS
Audio:
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/A003I060712-goyette3.MP3
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U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2441. War crimes
(a) Offense. - Whoever, whether inside or outside the United
States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described
in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the
victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
(b) Circumstances. - The circumstances referred to in subsection
(a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of
such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States
or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c) Definition. - As used in this section the term "war crime"
means any conduct -
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international
conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to
such convention to which the United States is a party;
(2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the
Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on
Land, signed 18 October 1907;
(3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the
international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or
any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a
party and which deals with non-international armed conflict; or
(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and
contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or
Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3
May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol,
willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=2441
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§ 2332a. Use of weapons of mass destruction
(a) Offense Against a National of the United States
or Within the United States.— A person who, without
lawful authority, uses, threatens, or attempts or
conspires to use, a weapon of mass destruction—
(1) against a national of the United States while
such national is outside of the United States;
(2) against any person or property within the United
States, and
(A) the mail or any facility of interstate or
foreign commerce is used in furtherance of the
offense;
(B) such property is used in interstate or foreign
commerce or in an activity that affects interstate
or foreign commerce;
(C) any perpetrator travels in or causes another to
travel in interstate or foreign commerce in
furtherance of the offense; or
(D) the offense, or the results of the offense,
affect interstate or foreign commerce, or, in the
case of a threat, attempt, or conspiracy, would have
affected interstate or foreign commerce;
(3) against any property that is owned, leased or
used by the United States or by any department or
agency of the United States, whether the property is
within or outside of the United States; or
(4) against any property within the United States
that is owned, leased, or used by a foreign
government,
shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for
life, and if death results, shall be punished by
death or imprisoned for any term of years or for
life.
(b)
Offense by National of the United States Outside
of the United States.— Any national of the
United States who, without lawful authority,
uses, or threatens, attempts, or conspires to
use, a weapon of mass destruction outside of the
United States shall be imprisoned for any term
of years or for life, and if death results,
shall be punished by death, or by imprisonment
for any term of years or for life.
(c) Definitions.— For purposes of this section—
(1) the term “national of the United States” has the
meaning given in section 101(a)(22) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101
(a)(22));
(2) the term “weapon of mass destruction” means—
(A) any destructive device as defined in section 921
of this title;
(B) any weapon that is designed or intended to cause
death or serious bodily injury through the release,
dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous
chemicals, or their precursors;
(C) any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin,
or vector (as those terms are defined in section 178
of this title); or
(D) any weapon that is designed to release radiation
or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
and
(3) the term “property” includes all real and
personal property.
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002332---a000-.html
Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH -- After years
of veterans pleading for help with illnesses occurring
after service in the Gulf wars, the U.S. House and
Senate are calling for an immediate study of health
effects of exposure to a radioactive metal used in U.S.
weapons and armor.
Lori Brim photo
Dustin
Brim with his mother, Lori Brim, in the summer
of 2004 at Fisher House near Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington D.C. |
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.,
co-author of a Senate bill on depleted uranium that
passed June 20, said other studies have been done on the
subject. Those studies concluded there was no evidence
that exposure to the metal caused illnesses.
"It is time for a review
by the Pentagon to see if there has been scientific
progress that would provide a more accurate and
definitive answer to possible links to adverse health,"
Lieberman said in a written statement to The
News-Journal. "This amendment would require the Pentagon
to provide that assessment."
The House passed a
similar bill in May, and details are being hashed out in
a joint committee. If the proposal becomes law, results
of the study would be submitted to Congress within one
year from its effective date. But the study comes too
late for one Ormond Beach mother of an American soldier
who believes exposure to depleted uranium in Iraq killed
her son.
UNCOVERING A
CONTROVERSY
In 2004, at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington, Lori Brim's son, Army
Spc. Dustin Brim, died at 22 of very aggressive cancers.
The military physicians who tried to save him said
exposure to depleted uranium did not cause his diseases.
But Lori Brim took the
whispered advice of a social worker there and started
looking into the issue.
She discovered political
and medical controversies -- about whether the U.S.
military should be using depleted uranium munitions and
what effects exposure brings -- that have been raging
since soldiers began returning home from the first Gulf
War with mysterious ailments.
Though that war marked
the first time depleted uranium munitions had been used
in combat, military sources have consistently discounted
a link. Risks of exposure are minimal and abated by
training, they say. And, they add, because tank armor
and munitions made with the extremely dense material are
so effective, use of depleted uranium saves U.S. lives.
Brim said she has been
frustrated in her efforts to acquire medical records
that might offer evidence the cancers that killed her
son resulted from exposure to depleted uranium.
"I'm trying to share
Dustin's voice, create awareness and make a difference,"
Brim said. "I believe to this day that, if soldiers and
other personnel had been made aware of the risks of
exposure to DU and how dangerous it is -- Dustin said he
went for medical help 11 times while he was in Iraq --
somebody may have paid attention to him."
Brim said she has been
unable to find a Florida legislator willing to introduce
a bill similar to several passed by other states,
demanding study of the issue and testing for National
Guard members returning from Iraq.
She also has been
disappointed by attorneys unwilling to help her and
other mothers she knows pursue a class-action lawsuit
against manufacturers of weapons she believes are
polluting the Earth. She's hired Holly Hill author
Lonnie Story to write her son's story.
BODY MAY BE EXHUMED
Dr. Asaf Durakovic,
founder and head scientist at Uranium Medical Research
Centre in Toronto, Canada, said Brim could exhume her
son's body to be tested for radiation exposure.
"If I found DU in his
bones, it could prove his sickness could have been
related to DU contamination," said Durakovic in a phone
interview from Washington D.C, where he also has an
office. "Radiation will not decompose."
Brim said that's too
emotional a decision for her to make now but continues
to try to obtain the medical records.
Those who, like Brim, are
looking for answers about depleted uranium's health
effects, "are facing a multibillion-dollar industry
making radioactive ammunition," Durakovic said.
Attempts to talk with
some manufacturers of weapons containing depleted
uranium went either unanswered or spokespeople declined
interviews.
The Department of Defense
takes the position that depleted uranium is the best
metal available for tank armor and munitions to
penetrate armor on enemy vehicles. The military says
that all personnel who use such equipment are adequately
trained to safely handle depleted uranium.
Doug Rokke, a veteran of
the Gulf War, who has a doctorate in technology from the
University of Illinois and was charged with cleanup of
depleted uranium contaminated equipment after the first
Gulf War, has been outspoken about the issue. He said
soldiers are not properly trained and that "medical care
has been willfully denied to a majority of DU casualties
who are supposed to receive care."
He said he's not sure
that, if the bill before the joint committee makes it to
law, it would have any effect on the use of weapons or
treatment of soldiers.
"The directive is to
continue to use uranium munitions and avoid all
liability," said Rokke, 57, of Rantoul, Ill. He said he
is seeking medical care for exposure to radiation from
depleted uranium. "The legal requirement to provide
medical care has always existed, but the military
disregards that."
The military said more
than 2,100 Operation Iraqi Freedom service members have
been tested for exposure to depleted uranium, and eight
were found to be positive.
"All eight were involved
in combat situations where they were exposed to depleted
uranium fragments," said Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy
director of Deployment Health Support in the Office of
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs,
in a written statement. "The depleted uranium testing
that is done for the military personnel is done at the
U.S. Army laboratory at the Center for Health Promotion
and Preventive Medicine, and at the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology." He said all testing is paid for
by the Department of Defense.
At Northern Arizona
University biochemist Diane Stearns said her recent
studies should make the issue hard to ignore.
Her results -- published
in peer-reviewed journals and presented at a recent
Society of Toxicology conference -- established that
when cells are exposed to uranium, the uranium binds to
DNA, and the cells mutate. She said exposure during the
Gulf wars may link to increased cancers and birth
defects in soldiers and in civilian survivors of
exposure in the Middle East.
Congress Calls For Truth About DU Troop Poisoning
This message is available online at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/060811newsarticles
White House proposes retroactive war crimes
protection
August 10, 2006, 2006, Boston Globe/Associated
Press
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/08/10/white_house_proposes_retroactive_war_crimes_protection/
The Bush administration drafted amendments to
the War Crimes Act that would retroactively
protect policy makers from possible criminal
charges for authorizing any humiliating and
degrading treatment of detainees, according to
lawyers who have seen the proposal. At issue are
interrogations carried out by the CIA and the
degree to which harsh tactics such as
water-boarding were authorized by administration
officials. When interrogators engage in
waterboarding, prisoners are strapped to a plank
and dunked in water until nearly drowning. One
section of the draft would outlaw torture and
inhuman or cruel treatment, but it does not
contain prohibitions from Article 3 of the
Geneva Conventions against "outrages upon
personal dignity, in particular humiliating and
degrading treatment." Another section would
apply the legislation retroactively. The
initiative is "not just protection of political
appointees, but also CIA personnel who led
interrogations." Interrogation practices "follow
from policies that were formed at the highest
levels of the administration."
Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities
went far beyond My Lai
August 6, 2006, 2006, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-vietnam6aug06,0,92368.story
Kill anything that moves. Moments later, the 19
villagers lay dead or dying. Back home in
California, Henry published an account of the
slaughter. Yet he and other Vietnam veterans who
spoke out about war crimes were branded traitors
and fabricators. No one was ever prosecuted.
Now, nearly 40 years later, declassified Army
files show that Henry was telling the truth. The
files are part of a once-secret archive...that
shows that confirmed atrocities by U.S. forces
in Vietnam were more extensive than was
previously known. The Times...obtained copies of
about 3,000 pages — about a third of the total —
before government officials removed them from
the public shelves, saying they contained
personal information that was exempt from the
Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail
320 alleged incidents that were substantiated by
Army investigators. Many war crimes did not make
it into the archive. The archive...includes
investigative fies, sworn statements by
witnesses and status reports for top military
brass. The records describe recurrent attacks on
ordinary Vietnamese. Hundreds of
soldiers...described a violent minority who
murdered, raped and tortured with impunity.
Abuses...were uncovered in every Army division
that operated in Vietnam. Ultimately, 57
[soldiers] were court-martialed and
just...fourteen received prison sentences
ranging from six months to 20 years, but most
won significant reductions on appeal. The
stiffest sentence went to a military
intelligence interrogator. He served seven
months of a 20-year term. Many substantiated
cases were closed with a letter of reprimand, a
fine or, in more than half the cases, no action
at all.
http://www.stopclustermunitions.org
Technical analysis of cluster munitions
CLICK, WATCH A CLUSTER "F"
Cluster munitions are weapons that work by
dispersing several smaller submunitions, often referred to as
bomblets or grenades, over a wide area to destroy dispersed,
moving and unseen targets. A cluster munition consists of a
canister and several submunitions. After being dropped or fired,
the canister opens in mid-air and ejects its cargo of
submunitions. These submunitions then scatter over the target
area and are designed to explode on impact.Cluster munitions can
be delivered from aircraft, via rockets, missiles or bombs.
Cluster munitions can also be launched from land-based systems
such as artillery, from rockets, artillery shells or missiles.
Cluster munitions are area weapons. This means they have effects
that are not confined to one precise target, such as an indidual
tank for example. Other examples of area weapons include napalm
or incendiary bombs, or even nuclear weapons. Area weapons can
be distinguished from point weapons, which attack single,
pre-identified targets. An example of a point weapon is a guided
missile set to destroy an anti-aircraft gun.
Depending on the type of cluster munition and the type of
delivery system, one cluster munition will strike an area as
large as one square kilometre. This impact area is known as a
footprint (click to watch). As noted above, cluster munitions
are designed to explode on impact, or in other words each
submunition will explode on impact, projecting shrapnel that is
deadly over a radius of up to 50 metres. However, as with all
munitions, a certain number of submunitions in each canister
fail to explode on impact due to technical malfunction,
inappropriate launch or drop conditions, soft terrain in the
target area or a variety of other reasons.
MORE: Watch different videos of cluster munitions:
http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/dokumenti/dokument.asp?id=24
Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens
Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush, Prime
Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert
Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD., former Director, U.S. Army Depleted
Uranium project
July 24, 2006
The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs
containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States to
Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in
additional radioactive and chemical
toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and
environmental effects throughout the middle east.
Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are
using illegal uranium munitions- America's and England's own
"dirty bombs" while U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S.
Department of Defense, and British Ministry of Defence officials
deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects
as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, and/or use of
uranium munitions to avoid liability for the willful and illegal
dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - depleted uranium.
The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a
crime against humanity. Consequently the citizens of the world
and all governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use.
I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all DU
casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination.
U.S. and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply
with their own regulations, orders, and directives that require
United States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt
and effective medical care to "all" exposed individuals.
Reference: Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium
Casualties, DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93, Medical Management of Army
personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S.
Army Medical Command 29 April 2004, and section 2-5 of U.S. Army
Regulation 700-48. Israeli officials must not do so now.
They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive Contamination
as required by Army Regulation- AR 700-48: "Management of
Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive
Commodities" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington,
D.C., September 2002) and U.S. Army Technical Bulletin- TB
9-1300-278: "Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage,
And Transportation Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions Or
Armor Which Contain Depleted Uranium" (Headquarters, Department
Of The Army, Washington, D.C., JULY 1996). Specifically section
2-4 of United States Army Regulation-AR 700-48 dated September
16, 2002 requires that:
(1) "Military personnel "identify, segregate, isolate, secure,
and label all RCE" (radiologically contaminated equipment).
(2) "Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be
implemented as soon as possible."
(3) "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed
of through burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in
place, or abandonment" and
(4) "All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be
surveyed, packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released IAW
Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48" (Note: Maximum
exposure limits are specified in Appendix F).
The previous and current use of uranium weapons, the release of
radioactive components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military
equipment, and releases of industrial, medical, research
facility radioactive materials have resulted in unacceptable
exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed as
required by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include
releases of all radioactive materials resulting from military
operations.
The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of
uranium weapons contamination is not limited to combat zones but
includes facilities and sites where uranium weapons were
manufactured or tested including Vieques; Puerto Rico; Colonie,
New York; Concord, MA; Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana; and
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Therefore medical care must be
provided by the United States Department of Defense officials to
all individuals affected by the manufacturing, testing, and/or
use of uranium munitions. Thorough environmental remediation
also must be completed without further delay.
I am amazed that fifteen years after was I asked to clean up the
initial DU mess from Gulf War 1 and over ten years since I
finished the depleted uranium project that United States
Department of Defense officials and others still attempt to
justify uranium munitions use while ignoring mandatory
requirements. I am dismayed that Department of Defense and
Department of Energy officials and representatives continue
personal attacks aimed to silence or discredit those of us who
are demanding that medical care be provided to all DU casualties
and that environmental remediation is completed in compliance
with U.S. Army Regulation 700-48. But beyond the ignored
mandatory actions the willful dispersal of tons of solid
radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium
munitions is illegal (
http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf
)
and just does not even pass the common sense test and according
to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is a dirty
bomb. DHS issued "dirty bomb" response guidelines,
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
, on January 3, 2006 for incidents within the United States but
ignore DOD use of uranium weapons and existing DOD regulations.
These guidelines specifically state that: "Characteristics of
RDD and IND Incidents: A radiological incident is defined as an
event or series of events, deliberate or accidental, leading to
the release, or potential release, into the environment of
radioactive material in sufficient quantity to warrant
consideration of protective actions. Use of an RDD or IND is an
act of terror that produces a radiological incident." Thus the
use of uranium munitions is "an act or terror" as defined by
DHS. Finally continued compliance with the infamous March 1991
Los Alamos Memorandum that was issued to ensure continued use of
uranium munitions can not be justified.
In conclusion: the President of the United States- George W.
Bush, the Prime Minister of Great Britain-Tony Blair, and the
Prime Minister of Israel Olmert must acknowledge and accept
responsibility for willful use of illegal uranium munitions-
their own "dirty bombs"- resulting in adverse health and
environmental effects.
President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert
should order:
1. medical care for all casualties,
2. thorough environmental remediation,
3. immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who
demand compliance with medical care and environmental
remediation requirements,
4. and stop the already illegal the use (UN finding) of depleted
uranium munitions.
References- these references are copies the actual regulations
and orders and other pertinent official documents:
http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
http://cryptome.org/dhs010306.txt
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25045&hd=0&size=1&l=e
Nuns and Priests File
Depleted Uranium Bunker Buster Resolution at Three Weapons
Companies
by Bill Baue - July 26, 2006
The resolution goes to vote next week at Alliant Techsystems,
and already received more than double the support needed to
re-file next year at Lockheed Martin and Textron.
SocialFunds.com -- Depleted uranium (DU), the radioactive
byproduct of uranium enrichment, is in the headlines as the US
recently agreed to send 100 Guided Bomb Unit-28 bunker buster
bombs containing DU warheads to Israel for use against targets
in Lebanon, as reported by Reuters and others. Shareowner
activists are also placing DU on the corporate agenda by filing
a new resolution expressing health and environmental concerns
and asking for a report from three companies on their
involvement with DU. Concern centers on the pyrophoric
properties of DU, which burns and loses much of its mass upon
impact, dispersing a fine radioactive dust that can be carried
long distances by winds or absorbed by soil and groundwater--not
to mention human bodies.
The resolution received 6.4 percent support at Lockheed Martin
(ticker: LMT) and 9 percent support at Textron (TXT), both well
over the 3 percent threshold required by the SEC for re-filing
next year. The proposal goes to vote next week at Alliant
Techsystems (ATK), which manufactures 120 mm rounds containing
DU for penetrating tanks and light armor vehicles.
"It's one thing to make a weapon that 'does the job' on the
battlefield; it's another to manufacture and use one that
destroys not only tanks, armored personnel carriers and
underground bunkers but may also leave a potentially poisonous
legacy in the bodies of the people who return to those areas
after hostilities have ceased," said John Celichowski, head of
the corporate responsibility program for the Province of St.
Joseph of the Capuchin Order, which filed the resolution at
Alliant. "We believe that the choice to use particular weapons
in areas that are bound to be inhabited or re-inhabited by
civilians raises serious moral questions which need to be
addressed by our policy-makers, our armed services, the society
they claim to be defending, and the companies that make such
weapons."
"The pyrophoric qualities of these weapons also creates
potential risks for our own soldiers," he told SocialFunds.com.
The resolutions make not only a moral and ethical case, but also
a business case against DU.
"The business case against DU centers around the potential
liability for human and environmental impacts and damage to the
companies' reputations," said Valerie Heinonen, a corporate
social responsibility consultant to the Sisters of Mercy
Regional Community of Detroit Charitable Trust, which filed the
resolution at Lockheed. "Rather than seeking a market for
radioactive waste, the federal government and corporations
should work with NGOs to find solutions for long-term storage."
PROXY Governance, one of the three major proxy advisory firms,
recommends voting for the resolution at Alliant
"PROXY Governance acknowledges that there are serious concerns
regarding the health effects of using munitions containing
depleted uranium (DU)," states PROXY Governance. "While we are
not aware of significant litigation involving the health and
safety of workers at DU munitions production facilities at this
time, the potential for future such litigation exists."
In fact, Richard David of the UK filed suit against
Honeywell in 2004 claiming adverse health effects from working
at a munitions factory during the first Gulf War where DU was
used in manufacturing, according to an article in The Observer.
"And while the World Health Organization and others have stated
that there is no conclusive medical evidence linking DU to
health problems, reports by the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights have suggested that the weapons may well be illegal
under The Geneva Conventions, The Hague Conventions and other
international law," continues the PROXY Governance report. "Such
a finding could complicate efforts by DU weapons manufacturers
to defend themselves against potential future litigation
involving health effects or environmental clean-up efforts."
The Alliant board argues in its proxy statement that the company
discloses information regarding its military- and
defense-related contracting in its SEC filings, but PROXY
Governance notes that these filings do not discuss the specific
matters brought up in the resolution.
PROXY Governance also recommended voting for the resolution at
Lockheed, but against it at Textron, as the company's board
points out in its proxy statement that the company is not
involved in DU production and has no plans to be. Both ISS and
Glass Lewis recommend voting against the resolution at all three
companies.
"We were in conversation with Textron management following the
filing of the resolution, but we did not get satisfactory
answers and therefore the lead filer, the Sisters of Charity of
the Blessed Virgin Mary decided to leave the resolution on the
ballot," Sr. Heinonen told SocialFunds.com. "The vote at Textron
may lead to further, more satisfactory conversation."
http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/2067.html
DU discussion with
Leuren Moret and others, USA
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/audio/WBAIDepletedUranium.mp3
"Radio Your Way"
DAY 15: AUDIO: "Crisis in the Middle East"
UPDATE:
CNN: Anderson Cooper.... White Phosphorus (DU)
Burns Explained
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L001I060724-anderson-cooper360.MP3
Depleted
Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide
They Kill Us For Sport
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/DU_india.htm
Interview with GleInterview with Glen Milner of
the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
about new nukes, depleted uranium and harassment by the Coast Guard
07/24/05
http://www.gzcenter.org/
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/audio/072405cf.mp3
Military OPT-OUT FORM
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/military_opt_out.pdf |
