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very few people realize what increases in radiation mean, what the spiraling arms race means, what the fact that china is about to exploded. Their first nuclear device is probably later this summer means it does not come home to them. Just as the tremendous injustice of millions

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of people being stuffed into furnaces and Auschwitz was unreal to the majority of the world, even though this was happening in their time. And yet When they read a book such as the Diary of Anne Frank, the story of one person, this became real to them,

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this is one of the main reasons for a project such as every man 13 men confront the vast inhumanity of nuclear testing. It becomes real to the majority of people what nuclear testing is. Well, the Committee for nonviolent action is building the boat. We decided to

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build a boat rather than buy a boat because it was inexpensive to do so. And this involves a lot of people and working on it and everybody feels that it's their boat going out there. Ah we're going to head right straight from san Francisco into the

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testing area directly, no stops in between the group that's organizing this, we feel certainly doesn't represent just a small group of crackpots. It's although it's an unorthodox kind of trip to Mag. Nevertheless, there are just thousands of people that are involved in and are helping us

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out in one way or another, representing all ideas and our religious beliefs that you can think of all the way from Atheist too Buddhists and Quakers and so on. We've had a lot of applications for the trip as many as 100 I'd say some of them

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from all across the world, especially England and other countries. But the crew members will actually be americans that are going and all of them that are going are men that definitely understand that there is a real risk, possible risk of life involved and they're going out

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with a full understanding that they take that risk and are willing to run that risk. I feel so strongly about this feeling that the many millions of Children that are going to be maintained are somehow harmed by these tests are well worth the risk of three

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men's lives going out there to appeal and protest against it. For me personally, there are two purposes. one is to try to say to my government and to the other nuclear governments of the world that has common, pretty average ordinary people that we've gone as far

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as we can go using violence as an answer to a conflict between people. That's one thing. The second thing though, and for me, more important is that most of us are pretty decent people. We've solved these problems their own lives. And we're trying to say with

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the Everyman boat that we're asking the governments of the world to use our experience, our experience with our wives, with our kids, with our neighbors, to govern international affairs. Our intention is if we're free in our boats free, if not hopefully with another crew in another

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boat to go on to the soviet union, um I personally feel that we're going to christmas island. We're speaking to both powers to all powers, hopefully from an awful lot of people. When the every man leaves, this docket leaves for people, not just in America, but

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if I'm not being presumptuous for people in a lot of places, what it tries to say, it says from the minute it sails away from this dock and wherever we join the issue and the government and ourselves sit down and try to talk about it, try

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to care our way out of it doesn't really matter where the ground is, I think, from there on