Golden Rule protests USS Nimitz, Indian Island Weapons Depot, and Trident Nuclear Sub Base

NEWS FLASH FROM THE GOLDEN RULE

Veterans For Peace’s Golden Rule peace boat joined an on-the-water protest outside the Indian Island Weapons Depot near Port Townsend, Washington on Thursday, September 5. As it happened, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was being loaded up with weapons at the time. Will it be headed back for the Middle East?

This was part of with the Week of Action for Solidarity with the Palestinian People – coordinated protests by Veterans For Peace chapters in over 25 US cities.

One day earlier, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, the Golden Rule protested outside the Bangor Trident Submarine Base on the Hood Canal 25 miles west of Seattle.

Explosives Handling Wharves at the Bangor Trident base as seen from the Golden Rule on September 4th. (Photo by Carolee Flaten)

This is the largest concentration of nuclear weapons in the world,” said Leonard Eiger of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, located adjacent to the deadly base. “Just one of these Trident submarines could destroy every major city in Russia and create a nuclear winter that would starve two billion people to death.”

The Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat has been sailing throughout the Pacific Northwest for the past two months, making port stops and holding events in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Peace Arch Park on the US-Canada border, White Rock, British Columbia, Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Friday Harbor (San Juan Island,) and Port Townsend, Washington.

The historic 34-foot wooden ketch and her intrepid crew are now headed back down the coast and into the Columbia River for stops in Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

You can follow the Golden Rule in real time at www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org.