From mosa@netcom.com Tue Jul 11 18:48:36 1995 From: mosa@netcom.com (Michele Lord) To: dave@sgi.sgi.com From: Kevin Laurence-Bade Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive Subject: Cyber-Vote Anti-Nuclear Petition to France Followup-To: alt.activism.d Date: 11 Jul 1995 20:23:42 GMT Organization: Midac Technologies (Australia) Pty Limited Lines: 52 Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Message-ID: <3tumke$oq6@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Resent-From: rich Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Introduction This petition is addressed to the French Government and will to emphasise the magnitude of feelings against their intention to continue the testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific. Although it is focussed on the testing in the Pacific, we believe that the petition can have an effect on nuclear weapon testing and stockpiling in general. The Petition Text The details of all the signatories will be appended to the petition text and presented to the French Government on electronic media such as a removable Syquest cartridge. "The signatories of this petition appeal to the French government and the French population, on behalf of the people of the Pacific and the planet, to end the testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific region." We need your Help! The success of the petition depends on your participation, and that of your family, friends, acquaintances, and Internet connections. How You Can Help You may register your vote right now, but remember to ask anyone else with you, or near by to do likewise. If they are not within voting distance let them know how to do it later. 1. WWW Register at http://WWW.ozemail.com.au/~midac/ 2. EMAIL You can send your vote by e-mail to midac@ozemail.com.au with a SUBJECT line of "Cyber-Vote Anti-Nuclear Petition". Then you can carry out your own sub-cyber-vote petition amongst your and your family, friends and acquaintances, by gathering as many votes as you can and then e-mailing them. Include the Name, Street (number not needed), City and Country for each vote included. 3. Spin the Web Help us to establish as many WWW links as possible. If you manage a WWW site could you please insert a link. If you know someone who manages a WWW site plead with them to include a link. If you come across a WWW site that you think should have a link, appeal to the operator to insert a link. 4. Spread the News Insert the e-mailing instructions and the WWW site address in as many Mail Groups with the Subject of "Cyber-Vote Anti-Nuclear Petition". Thanks. Regards, Kevin at Midac From: Vera Britto Newsgroups: soc.culture.mexican.american,soc.culture.mexican,soc.culture.maghreb,soc.culture.magyar,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.mongolian,soc.culture.native,soc.culture.nepal,soc.culture.netherlands Subject: Electronic petition to STOP FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS Date: 11 Jul 1995 18:55:06 GMT Organization: MCIT Lines: 74 NNTP-Posting-Host: 29.64.med.umich.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:soc.culture.mexican.american Motivation and Objective of this ELECTRONIC PETITION on the World Wide Web We believe that there are many people who are troubled about the fact that the French Government has decided to restart nuclear tests. However, those thoughts usually end up nowhere: they are just kept back deep inside the heart of individuals. We have started this activity because we wanted to gather all of those thoughts and make it into a big movement. Since we thought we should prevent this movement from splitting into pieces from less salient differences, the main sentence of the petition is simply: Stop Nuclear Tests! Of course that is not enough: if you have your own view point, please express it to us and we will put them in the front of our list. The objective of this activity is to stop the nuclear tests planned by France. To achieve this, as a collective group of people, we will confront the President of France and the French Government with the fact that there are very large number of individuals worldwide that oppose their decision. To obtain our goal, we are planning to also advertize this activity to journalists and other news media. We would like to have every person or group around the world participate in this activity. If you agree with us, please help us by letting as many people as possible know about this activity. As long as you tell us, you are free to introduce this activity to journalists also. However, you may not use the list of names without our permission. This activity was first planned to protest against the nuclear tests of France, but we do think we should express our feelings to other groups that plan to execute nuclear tests. Additionally, there might be suggestions such as "shouldn't we boycott bying French goods?" (although this will not be our official intention). We have made the "Opinions" corner for those of you who want to express those opinions. With heart felt sentiment, we await for you to participate in this activity. Let's REALLY stop the nuclear tests! To add YOUR NAME to the petition or write directly to Chirac, look up our World Wide Web site: http://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~keshi/ .................................................................. Other related Web sites and groups: GREENPEACE (also has links to other activist groups)- Read the latest Press Release from Rainbow Warrior and view yesterdays NEW video and stills of French Commandos boarding the Rainbow Warrior and throwing tear gas grenades: http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/rw/rw.html French nuclear testing: the fallout - THE AGE Newspaper special report: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~theage/theage.htm French Scientists Protest Nuclear Tests in Pacific: http://www.citybeach.wa.edu.au/nuclear2.html .......................................................................