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Statewide votes in Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, California, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia have called for immediate
negotiations for a verifiable freeze in the production, testing and deployment of all nuclear
weapons, missiles and delivery systems.

In Massachusetts voters backed a proposal that would require a referendum before any nuclear
waste site or power plant can be established.

The United Nations organization with its worldwide offices will help if requested:

Once there is an initiative from a region, the countries and regional organizations concerned
should be able, upon their request and in the manner they wish, to draw to the fullest extent on
the resources and possibilities of the United Nations system.*

(*Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, "General and Complete Disarmament,
Study on All the Aspects of Regional Disarmament." [Page 64, A/35/416, October 8, 1980])

Here's some good news.

In June, 1981 a Gallup poll asked Americans, "Do you think that the United States should or
should not meet with the Soviet Union this year to try to reach agreement on nuclear
disarmament?"

Eighty percent said we should meet, thirteen percent said we should not, with seven percent
undecided.*

(*Nuclear War: What's in It For You? by Ground Zero is an excellent book that will increase your
nuclear awareness. Pocket Books.)

In addition to mass action, we must alter the separating mental habits that created the nuclear
problem from the start.

Let's examine the change in consciousness that must take place for four billion of us to get along
together on planet Earth.

How we think and feel has got us into this nuclear problem,

The way to our survival lies in altering how we think and feel.

We must use the power of our collective consciousness as we learn to focus on peace — and
human togetherness.

The men and women of the nuclear nations must be willing to give up their PLUTONIUM
SECURITY BLANKETS.

Instead we must REALLY be willing to REALLY listen so we can REALLY understand what's
REALLY bothering us.

We must get behind emotional rigidity, intellectual jargon and logic-tight compartments of the
mind.

We must realize that there are no simple right answers.