News Release July 18, 2024 Contact: Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 Mary Gleysteen (360) 265-1589 Helen Jaccard, Golden Rule coordinator (206) 992-6364 Day of the event (206) 979-8319 Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent protest against the glorification of weapons of war at the Seattle Seafair festival. Peace activists will meet the U.S. Navy fleet in Elliott Bay. The entire Seafair Fleet Week, featuring militarism and weapons of war, is sponsored by the Boeing Company, the second largest military contractor in the U.S. This year the Peace Fleet will be joined with the original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that […]
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Nuclear War Is Imminent
Unless the U.S. Embraces Peace! by Gerry Condon (originally published at Antiwar.com on July 15, 2024) EDITOR’S NOTE: We are republishing this article on the anniversary of the Trinity Test. On July 16, 1945 the United States government detonated the first (experimental) nuclear weapon in the test named Trinity. Less than one month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs – on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – that killed over 100,000 people in less time than it took to type a few of these words. As many as 220,000 were dead from the effects […]
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Pouring more money into the end of the world, Trident style
Editor’s Comment: Here is one of those Congressional press releases that just reeks of the kind of patriotic fervor that precedes the end of the world… or at least pouring a ton of money into preparations for said omnicidal event (aka: nuclear war; euphemistically phrased “strengthen national security”). As for the numbers, he’s only asking for $115 million for the work that will accommodate the “aging” existing Trident submarines until all of their replacements are built and ready to prowl. Kings Bay is already undergoing a major renovation that will cost over $1 billion to prepare the base for the […]
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Legendary Jazz musician & composer, John Coltrane in Nagasaki
Editor’s Note: This essay was written by Rev. Senji Kanaeda, a Buddhist Monk from the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple at Bainbridge Island in Washington State. The monks of the Bainbridge Island temple are facilitating an effort to build the Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda, the first peace pagoda in the Western United States. This major effort is nearing completion thanks to the collective efforts of many people. The peace pagoda is being built at Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, which is adjacent to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Pacific homeport for the U.S. Navy’s OHIO Class “Trident” ballistic missile submarines. Click here […]
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Honoring Glen Anderson, bannering for nuclear abolition
On July 5, 2024, Rodney Brunelle and Tom Krebsbach held banners and signs on the N 92nd St. I-5 overpass—facing incoming traffic to Seattle on I-5. Between 3 pm to 4 pm, their displayed messages were Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Renounce Militarism—Defund the Pentagon, and Defund Militarism. Responses from passing motorists were positive, and two curious Seattle Police officers stopped to hear Rodney Brunelle explain the statement, “Defund Militarism.” Today, Brunelle and Krebsbach honored our friend and colleague Glen Anderson, a life-long Olympia peace activist, knowing that we honor all our sisters and brothers, every time we hold a banner or […]
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