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CONTENTS
Comments, reports, articles
Abandonment of Military Research, Lecture by Subrata Ghoshroy
First general meeting of the German Charitable Foundation to support INES
Israel sends Vanunu back to jail
Tale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
Global Responsibility Newsletter articles online
New INES Flyer
For comments on the NPT, the report on the IPB-INES Session: "Misuse of brainpower" and selected newspaper articles please visit: www.inesglobal.com/npt-2010.phtml
Abandonment of Military Research, Lecture by Subrata Ghoshroy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held on December 1st, 2009 in Karlsruhe is now available in English and German. See: www.inesglobal.com/campaigns.phtml#cpid493
First general meeting of the German Charitable Foundation to support INES
The first general meeting of the "Unterstützung internationaler Kommunikation kritischer Wissenschaftlerlnnen und lngenieurlnnen e.V. (KriWi)" was held on 26. May 2010 in Berlin.
Members initiated a first project and the coming tasks were shared. German INES members will be informed in detail about the initiative in July 2010. The website kriwi.org will be coming soon.
Please donate to support the launch of the project. Donations to "KriWi" are tax deductible in Germany.
Bank details
Unterstützung int. Kommunikation krit. Wissensch.
Konto Nummer: 111 587 43 00
GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG, Bochum, BLZ: 430 609 67
See also: www.inesglobal.com/german-foundation.phtml
Israel sends Vanunu back to jail
A decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to send Mordechai Vanunu, the nuclear whistleblower, back to jail for three months has reignited calls for him to be freed from restrictions that have dogged his life for the past six years.
See: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7127711.ece
Tale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
By David Krieger
Reliable sources have revealed that the secret trial of Iranian nuclear whistleblower Amid Nasri has resulted in a sentence of 18 years to be served in solitary confinement. Nasri, a former worker at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, revealed to the The Sunday Times in London that Iran was developing nuclear materials as part of a program to create nuclear weapons. Nasri was lured to Rome by a strikingly beautiful Iranian secret agent, where he was kidnapped by the secret service and returned to Iran for trial.
Read the whole article here: www.inesglobal.com/whistleblowing.phtml
Global Responsibility Newsletter articles online
The single articles of Global Responsibility are available here: www.inesglobal.com/newsletter.phtml
The format will be improved with the next issue, scheduled for October 2010. Focus will be on climate issues. Articles about the work of INES members are welcome! Please contact the INES office for details.
New INES Flyer
The INES Flyer was updated and can be found here for download: www.inesglobal.com/ines-flyer.phtml
If you need printed flyers please order at officeinesglobalcom
INES workshop on the occasion of the UNCCC Bonn Climate Change Talks
Future wars? Conflicts in times of Climate Change
Thursday, 10.6.2010, 19:45
University of Bonn Main Building, Regina Pacis Weg 5, Auditorium 17
Speakers:
Prof. Jürgen Scheffran, University of Hamburg, INES
Reiner Braun, VDW, INES
Conference of "Mayors for Peace Germany"
11.-12. June 2010, Potsdam/Germany
INES Program Director and Executive Director of the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) Reiner Braun will give a speech.
6th European Social Forum 1. - 4. July 2010, Istanbul
Please find information on upcoming and past events here: www.inesglobal.com/events-2010.phtml