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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Only Rogue States Have Nuclear Weapons
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, and Elizabeth Murray, of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, originally published by Kitsap Sun, January 24, 2021 From January 18 to February 14, four large billboards are going up around Seattle that proclaim “Nuclear Weapons Are Now Illegal. Get them out of Puget Sound!” What can this possibly mean? Nuclear weapons may be unpleasant, but what is illegal about them, and how can they be in Puget Sound? Since 1970, under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, most nations have been forbidden to acquire nuclear weapons, and those already possessing them — […]
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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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