WAND Is the True Majority WAND partners with Ben Cohen of Business Leaders for Sensible Priories (BLSP) on the TrueMajority Campaign, BLSP’s public- education and mobilization campaign, which focuses on ten principles that reflect the American values of compassion, charity and justice. To support these 10 Principles, TrueMajority joins music festivals and events around the country, adding its signature games and inflatable sculptures to the festive atmosphere. The games entertain while they educate. In the Knock-A-Nuke/Build-a- School game, players throw softballs at nuclear weapons, and with every direct hit, a school pops up to demonstrate the senselessness of spending $30 billion per year on nuclear weapons. Along with providing grassroots support for the traveling festivals, WAND advises the TrueMajority campaign on issues and language for their “blast” email actions. These are timely, actionable email messages that catch their recipient’s eye and encourage an immediate response. WAND has provided information for email blasts on welfare reform, the Treaty for the Rights of Women, Yucca Mountain, and the trashing of the ABM treaty, among others. But there’s more! While the festival games and huge inflatable sculptures are traveling with music festivals around the country, the TrueMajority Parade is creating a media stir in cities across the country. The parade consists of five “concept” cars that have been designed to represent core campaign issues. Illustrating out-of-control military spending, one car is designed as a large pig labeled “Pentagon,” which pulls a pig one-tenth its size named “Education,” which pulls an even smaller pig called “World Hunger.” For more information, to check the TrueMajority festival schedule, and to personalize a message to your elected officials on issues that you care about, check out www.truemajority.com. Give TrueMajority two minutes, and we’ll change the world! Prepress Update The Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 34 to move forward with the Yucca Mountain project on July 9, with a vote of 60-39. Prior to the vote, WAND and WiLL added our voices to those of the Indigo Girls, the B-52s and Midnight Oil in protest against the Yucca Mountain project at press conferences in Atlanta and D.C. Although WAND is disppointed by the vote, we were encouraged that our efforts led to “no” votes by senators Carnahan (D-MO) and Stabenow (D-MI), among others. Significantly, in a statement she made during debate about the resolution, Senator Barbara Boxer of California proclaimed that WiLL was one of the organizations on the front line in the fight against Yucca Mountain, illustrating WiLL’s visibility and influence on national legislation. Our thanks to WiLL and WAND members who supported our work by calling, emailing, meeting with and faxing members of Congress on this issue!

10 True Majority Principles Attack poverty and world hunger as if our life depends on it. It does. Champion the rights of every child, woman & man. End our obstructionism to the world’s treaties. Reduce our dependence on oil and lead world to an age of renewable energy. Close the book on the Cold War and end nuclear nightmare forever. Renounce Star Wars and the militarization of space. Make globalization work for, not against, working people. Ensure equal treatment under law for all. Get money out of politics. Close the gap between rich and poor kids at home.

Real Solutions for a Safer World

By: Cicley Gay

“No more ! No more war!” STAND members shouted with hundreds of other students after hearing Sunao Tsuboi share his experience of the Hiroshima bombing over fifty years ago. This spring, members of STAND traveled to Claremont, California to attend the SPAN (Student Peace Action Network) National Youth Summit for Peace and Justice. Together with activists from across the nation, we discussed this year’s theme, “Real Solutions for a Safer World.” The STAND delegation attended an environmental protest and took part in workshops on topics such as organizing, activism, independent media, and lobbying. STAND also took part in a panel discussion on “Perspectives on Organizing for Peace” with leaders from groups including Peace Action and American Friends Service Committee. The summit was an opportunity not only to learn and share with other student activists but also to discuss the path STAND members would like to take for the upcoming year. Along with listening to children from Colombia share their experiences of a country in turmoil, STAND members were moved by Sunao Tsuboi’s account of the dropping of the atomic bomb. They were able to see firsthand what can result from simply being in the vicinity of a launched nuclear weapon. Now more than ever, we are aware and frightened of the devastating effects of these weapons, and have a renewed commitment to halt their production and distribution.

Atomic-bombing survivor Sunao Tsuboi with STAND members (l to r) Alexis Hauk, Aba Browning, Alix Jerinic, Elizabeth Dawson, and STAND director Cicley Gay.