Virtual Balloon Release, Tracking DU Emissions!

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Balloon releases occurred on Tues & Wed., May 22 and 23. The balloon

release was done right in front of the Aerojet Ordnance gate, just off the edge

of

Old State Rt. 34, outside of Jonesborough, Tennessee. The balloons

contained the following message on a bright pink slip of paper rolled up and

slipped

into the biodegradable balloon before inflation with helium ...

 

~~~

PEACE BE WITH YOU,

This balloon was released on May 22, 2007 across the road from Aerojet

Ordnance Tennessee, a company that makes weapons from nuclear waste left over

from

the uranium enrichment process. These munitions are used in Iraq and

Afghanistan where our troops breathe their poisonous radioactive dust.

America's own soldiers and their families, along with Iraqi and Afghani

families, are suffering from above normal incidences of birth defects, as well

as

the symptoms of heavy metal and radiation poisoning.

If you received this balloon, you may have breathed pollutants emitted by

Aerojet Ordnance, 1367 Old State Route 34, Jonesborough, TN 37659 USA.

Please help us learn the reach of Aerojet's air emissions by mailing this

balloon back to us at the following address. Feel free to write to Aerojet &

your public officials too.

Thank you, in advance, for mailing back this balloon and including your

return address.

DEMOCRACY NOW TRI-CITIES

P.O. Box 421

Bristol, TN 37621 USA

~~~

 

Over 400 balloons were launched over the course of 2 days, usually Christian

Peacemaker Teams & friends would let 50+ fly at a time. THE MOST IMPORTANT

FINDING OF THESE BALLOON RELEASES IS THAT HILLY NORTHEAST TENNESSEE'S

BREEZES TOOK THE BALLOONS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS EACH TIME THERE WAS A LAUNCH.

EVEN WITHIN THE SAME HOUR WIND DIRECTION CHANGED. Scratch the long-held notion

that our winds always blew from the southwest to the northeast.

 

We really do all live downwind of weaponized uranium explosions,

manufacturers or stockpiles!

 

On Wednesday, May 23rd, Christian Peacemaker Teams & Sierra Club's Radiation

Committee (which I, Linda, chair) jointly held a press conference across

from Aerojet. Kel Smalley of Aerojet was invited to participate, but did not.

The Sierra Club's position is that nuclear waste in a bomb (euphemistically

called " DU " ) spreads radiation not only onto the communities where the

weapons are being made, but also where they are exploded. Further, the global

fallout from hundreds of tons of detonations is causing man-made radiation

exposures that are compounding background, radon, and other chemical exposure

risks.

 

Thursday involved another string of meetings, plus a " virtual balloon

release " over the internet. A number of list serves were sent a brief message

asking that they write to Aerojet and its corporate parent, GenCorp, asking

that

the company stop using nuclear waste as penetrator cores. Since this message

was broadcast, I have heard back from 2-3 folks but, hopefully, many more

just failed to copy Cliff or me on their emails to Aerojet and GenCorp.

 

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Now is your chance to join the tracking of weaponized uranium emissions!

 

Peace be with you,

 

If this email reaches you, you may have breathed emissions from Aerojet

Ordnance Tennessee, a company that makes weapons from nuclear waste left over

from the uranium enrichment process.

 

You may also be downwind of Iraq and Afghanistan where hundreds of tons of

weaponized uranium (WU) have been exploded. The poison dust discharged by

those thousands of burned bombs has fallen not only on the war zones, but has

also been circling the globe.

 

If you are concerned about the continued use of radioactive, toxic weapons

of mass destruction by the Pentagon, please write emails to the following

individuals who are responsible for weapons manufacturing at Aerojet Ordnance

Tennessee. AOT (a subsidiary of GenCorp of California) is one of the larger

uranium penetrator core manufacturers with military contracts.

 

Charles Pepper McCary, AOT-Jonesborough: _charles.mccary_

(charles.mccary)

 

Linda Cutler, GenCorp-California: _lcutler_

(lcutler)

Claudia Smith, GenCorp-California: _claudia.smith_

(claudia.smith)

 

Please copy Cliff Kindy of Christian Peacemaker Teams at _kindy_

(kindy) ,

and Linda Modica of Sierra Club Radiation Committee at

_linda.c.modica_ (linda.c.modica)

on your messages to Aerojet.

 

Thanking you for taking action to stop weaponized uranium munitions,

Linda.

 

 

 

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