Early on the morning of November 16, 2010 in front of the U.S. Federal District Courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, a large throng had gathered to vigil before the motions hearing for five Plowshares activists known as the Disarm Now Plowshares. Up the sidewalk I saw one of the defendants, Sr. Anne Montgomery walking toward us with Former US Attorney General William Ramsey Clark. Clark had come to testify on behalf of the defendants who had been charged with a variety of offenses, while their only intention was to prevent the most ghastly crime possible – a full scale nuclear war. […]
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Jesuit Priest Continues Holy Resistance to Nuclear Weapons
Author’s Note: The post below is my news release published April 3rd. Since then, Steve Kelly was released (on April 13th) after an in-person hearing in Federal Court. Click here to read my newest post (published at Beyond Nuclear) on Steve’s continuing holy troublemaking. Father Steve Kelly, S.J., a Jesuit priest and longtime nuclear resister, arrived in Tacoma, Washington March 30th to appear in the US District Court on a warrant for a previous probation violation. Kelly had been arrested on a charge of trespassing at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington during a Pacific Life Community nonviolent direct action in March […]
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End US-UK Nuclear Collusion
By Leonard Eiger On March 16th the United Kingdom announced (in its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Foreign Policy and Development titled Global Britain in a Competitive Age) that it will increase the limit on its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades. Instead of maintaining a cap of 180 warheads (as it had previously stated), the UK will increase its stockpile cap to 260 warheads – a 40% increase. The review also broadens the role of nuclear weapons to include the possible use of nuclear weapons to address emerging technologies (cyber attacks). This is shocking and unacceptable! Indeed, […]
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Dissent is Patriotic!
This month Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action published three paid public service announcements (PSAs) in the Kitsap Sun newspaper. January 3rd – An Appeal to Navy Personnel January 15th – Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr’s Nonviolent Legacy January 22nd – U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force A Kitsap County resident subsequently wrote a letter to the editor speaking to one or more of the January PSAs, condemning their publication as “treasonous.” That letter was published January 27, 2021 in the Kitsap Sun. Another Kitsap County resident, who is a Ground Zero member and retired […]
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Ban Treaty Goes LIVE Today!
Published on January 22nd in the Kitsap Sun newspaper, which serves the area surrounding the Bangor Trident submarine base in Kitsap County, Washington. Bangor is homeport to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U. S. Click here for the PDF version of this Public Service Announcement.
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