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From: Kevin Laurence-Bade <midac@ozemail.com.au>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Cyber-Vote Anti-Nuclear Petition to France
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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 <fiatlux@umich.edu>
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
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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/

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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
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