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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Ground Zero Members Find a Way to COVIDgil at Bangor for Mother’s Day
By GZ Vigileer Mack Johnson (Featured Photo caption: Phil Davis, Sue Ablao, Mack Johnson, Scooby, and Lisa Johnson vigil against nukes at Bangor main gate. In the background is “Mitch’ Mitchell, Bangor security chief, who Ground Zero works closely with before our actions. Photos by Mary Gleysteen) With stay-at-home orders limiting Ground Zero’s typical education and action at the Ground Zero Center on Mother’s Day weekend, some people found a way to get the message out that abolishing nukes needs our attention even during a pandemic. After the excellent webinar presented by Lily Adams of the Union 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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Letter to a Trident Crew Member
“Letter to a Trident Crew Member” was written by James Douglass, and originally published in the Ground Zero Newsletter, Fall 1986, Vol. 5, No. 3. Dear Friend, I write to you in the hope that you are open to reading a letter from someone who believes in you but rejects Trident as a crime against God and humanity. I believe in you as a person of conscience, at the same time as I am deeply troubled by the power you have to destroy the world. I believe and hope in you, but I hate what lies within the Trident missiles […]
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