Fwd: walk/ride on Memorial Day from current to new nuke-parts plant

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• OK PEOPLE, NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW...You care about the SICK WORKERS, and YOU WANT THE JOB OF CLEANING UP THE FACILITY...THAT MEANS ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR OUR CITIZENS!
  Several former employees of the Kansas City Plant will help kick off the walk. “We’re coming out to the current plant for the sick workers and for the clean-up of the plant,” says Maurice Copeland, who worked at the plant 32 years. “...The former workers’ problems include many cancers and respiratory problems, such as berylliosis and beryllium sensitivity from the beryllium that’s used there every day. These workers or their families should be compensated for their illnesses and deaths. And we’re saying the plant clean-up should be done by Kansas Citians, with safety protections, so our people benefit from the employment.”
  
  Friends, pls. review this quickly. Thanks!
  Note to Exec committee for PW: In the future, if it seems that nothing in the news release is sensitive, can I send out release after it's reviewed by folks quoted? Jane, 913-206-4088
  
  PeaceWorks, Kansas City
  
  4509 Walnut, KC, MO 64111
  
  
  
  For immediate release, May 23, 2012
  
  Contact: Henry Stoever, Chair, PeaceWorks Board, 913-375-0045
  
  
  
  Walk or ride from Bannister Federal Complex
  
  to new nuclear weapons parts-production site on Memorial Day
  
  
  
  Early on Memorial Day, about 30 Kansas Citians will walk/ride 9 miles to call for a nuke-free world and to shine a spotlight on the deaths of workers at Bannister Federal Complex, where some employees have made non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons for 62 years. The walk will begin at 8 a.m. at Bannister Road and Wayne Ave., go south on Holmes Ave., and reach the site for the new nuke-parts plant by about 11:30 a.m. at Mo. Hwy. 150 and Thunderbird Road.
  
  
  
  Besides observing the Bannister complex deaths, the walk will commemorate the estimated 225,000 who died by December 1945 from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The walk will also note the suffering and deaths of Americans caused by pouring $705 billion per year into war and $7 billion per year into nuclear weapons instead of meeting people’s needs.
  
  
  
  Federal information indicates that the Kansas City Plant, part of Bannister Federal Complex, makes or procures 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for U.S. nuclear weapons. “Though the world has great difficulty accepting that this 85 percent of parts from the Kansas City Plant places all life on the executioner’s block, we must expose and resist this evil,” says Henry Stoever, chair of the PeaceWorks Board. He called for and led the first walk last year.
  
  
  
  Several former employees of the Kansas City Plant will help kick off the walk. “We’re coming out to the current plant for the sick workers and for the clean-up of the plant,” says Maurice Copeland, who worked at the plant 32 years. “The former workers’ problems include many cancers and respiratory problems, such as berylliosis and beryllium sensitivity from the beryllium that’s used there every day. These workers or their families should be compensated for their illnesses and deaths. And we’re saying the plant clean-up should be done by Kansas Citians, with safety protections, so our people benefit from the employment.”
  
  
  
  On the international front, treaties for a few continents or regions already establish them as free from nuclear weapons: Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Pacific, Latin America and the Carribean, according to the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
  
  
  
  In Kansas City, groups including PeaceWorks, other members of KC Peace Planters* and Occupy KC are circulating a new petition. It would block future financial arrangements related to making parts for nuclear weapons. The City Council in 2010 approved selling up to $815 million in KC municipal bonds to private investors to fund the new plant on Mo. Hwy. 150. The new petition would prevent such contracts involving city bonds or tax breaks in the future.
  
  
  
  *PeaceWorks-KC, Physicians for Social Responsibility-KC, local Catholic Worker houses, Loretto Peace & Justice Network, Benedictines for Peace, and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Social Justice Office
  
  

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Subject: walk/ride on Memorial Day from current to new nuke-parts plant

PeaceWorks, Kansas City 4509 Walnut, KC, MO 64111   For immediate release, May 23, 2012 Contact: Henry Stoever, Chair, PeaceWorks Board, 913-375-0045   Walk or Ride from Bannister Federal Complex to New Nuclear Weapons Parts-Production Site on Memorial Day   Early on Memorial Day, about 30 Kansas Citians will walk/ride 9 miles to call for a nuke-free world and to shine a spotlight on the deaths of workers at Bannister Federal Complex, where some employees have made non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons for 62 years. The walk will begin at 8 a.m. at Bannister Road and Wayne Ave., go south on Holmes Ave., and reach the site for the new nuke-parts plant by about 11:30 a.m. at Mo. Hwy. 150 and Thunderbird Road.   Besides observing the Bannister complex deaths, the walk will commemorate the estimated 225,000 who died by December 1945 from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The walk will also note the suffering and deaths of Americans caused by annually spending $705 billion for war and $7 billion for nuclear weapons instead of meeting people’s needs.   Federal information indicates that the Kansas City Plant, part of Bannister Federal Complex, makes or procures 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for U.S. nuclear weapons. The DOE budget request for FY 2013 for the plant totalled $522 million. “Though the world has great difficulty accepting that this 85 percent of parts from the Kansas City Plant places all life on the executioner’s block, we must expose and resist this evil,” says Henry Stoever, chair of the PeaceWorks Board. He called for and led the first walk last year.   Several former employees of the Kansas City Plant will help kick off the walk. “We’re coming out to the current plant for the sick workers and for the clean-up of the plant,” says Maurice Copeland, who worked at the plant 32 years. “The former workers’ problems include many cancers and respiratory problems, such as berylliosis and beryllium sensitivity from the beryllium that’s used there every day. These workers or their families should be compensated for their illnesses and deaths. And we’re saying the plant clean-up should be done by Kansas Citians, with safety protections, so our people benefit from the employment.”   On the international front, treaties for a few continents or regions already establish them as free from nuclear weapons: Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America and the Carribean, according to the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.   In Kansas City, the KC Peace Planters coalition* and Occupy KC are circulating a new petition. It would block future financial arrangements related to making parts for nuclear weapons. The City Council in 2010 approved selling up to $815 million in KC municipal bonds to private investors to fund the new plant on Mo. Hwy. 150. The new petition would prevent such contracts involving city bonds or tax breaks in the future.   *PeaceWorks-KC, Physicians for Social Responsibility-KC, local Catholic Worker houses, Loretto Peace & Justice Network, Benedictines for Peace, and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Social Justice Office