EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letters to the editor (one recently submitted and one published) are from activists dedicated to putting an end to the threat of nuclear war. Letters to the editor are an important tool in not only reaching our fellow citizens and sharing our views, and also reminding our news outlets know that this issue is of extraordinary importance to all of humanity. Please share your letters to the editor; send them to outreach@gzcenter.org. A Tale of Two Nightmares: Global Pandemic and Nuclear War By Mona Lee, Seattle At some level, human civilization has long been aware of […]
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Watch “Nuclear Voices: Centering Justice in the Fight for Nuclear Abolition”
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action hosted a live, online event for its annual Mothers Day event on Saturday, May 9th. Lilly Adams, a nuclear weapons outreach consultant for the Cambridge, MA-based Union of Concerned Scientists and formerly with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, delivered the keynote address, and then answered people’s questions. You can watch the webinar at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/z-FRaPK3xk1JGtL89WXyRaMdPLj7aaa81Xcb_KFbyUroXjyOQYg6aXM7_z7nmI3R Lilly, who received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative for a project to build connections with nuclear frontline communities and amplify issues of nuclear justice, spoke about building the nuclear weapons movement for the next […]
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Deploying Love in a Permanent Warfare State
Reporter Martha Baskin conducted an interview with Kathy Kelly, of Voices For Creative Nonviolence, at Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action on Mothers Day Weekend, Saturday, May 14, 2019. Baskin had planned to write a short article after hearing Kelly’s keynote address at Ground Zero, titled “Deploying Love in a Permanent Warfare State,” but long ferry lines from Seattle cause her to miss it. Baskin caught up with Kelly before she and other activists left to walk to the Bangor Trident nuclear submarine base where Kelly and seven others engaged in a nonviolent direct action blocking the roadway into the base. […]
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Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?
By Lawrence Wittner (Guest Contributor) [Dr. Lawrence Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).] Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied. But the more pessimistic conclusions were sometimes tempered by the contention that, if the world’s nations faced a common foe, such as an invasion from another planet, this would finally pull them together. I was reminded of this on March […]
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Military secrecy undermines pandemic response
Opinion by Glen Milner, originally published in the Kitsap Sun on April 6, 2020, https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2020/04/06/your-turn-military-secrecy-undermines-pandemic-response/2955559001 In the midst of a pandemic, the Department of Defense continues to keep local communities in the dark about threats to the public. Only now the threat is not a potential risk, but involves the ongoing spread of the coronavirus on military bases and in military communities. On March 27, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper ordered commanders at all DOD installations worldwide to stop publicly announcing new coronavirus cases among their personnel. Defense Department leaders stated that secrecy during the pandemic was necessary because adversaries […]
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