Greetings Dear Friends of Ground Zero Center, It is the morning after (election day), and I am trying hard to wrap my aching head around this mess. As I consider the meaning (or lack thereof) of this presidential election, I look at the big picture and find myself reflecting on Cindy Sheehan’s comment that this election has been about “re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” Throughout President Obama’s presidency, I had no illusions that his famous Prague speech would translate into a miraculous change of course for our nation’s nuclear weapons policy (or military policy in general). He has, […]
READ MOREGround Zero featured on Speak Up, Speak Out!
Ginny Wolff, of Speak Up, Speak Out! on KSVR – FM, interviewed Ground Zero’s Leonard Eiger last week about the work of Ground Zero Center for Non-Violent Action since 1977 to protest the Trident submarines based at the Bangor Naval Base in Silverdale, Washington. They discussed the history of Ground Zero, the bigger picture of U.S. foreign policy regarding the use of nuclear weapons, ongoing international tension, and the agreement between Congress and the Obama administration to spend a trillion dollars over 30 years to rebuild the entire U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons. Click here to listen to this Speak Up, Speak […]
READ MOREResisters’ “Charges dismissed in the interest of justice”
In an extraordinary decision yesterday, Friday, September 30, 2016 a Kitsap County Court Judge dismissed charges against two nuclear resisters. Sue Ablao and Mack Johnson appeared before Judge Marilyn Paja in Kitsap County District Court on charges of being in the roadway illegally stemming from their nonviolent direct action on August 8th during a vigil at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor Main Gate.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015) Sue Ablao and Mack Johnson blocking the roadway on August 8th During the vigil, Ablao and Johnson carried a banner onto the roadway, blocking traffic entering the base. The banner was identical […]
READ MORENext president has a nuclear option: Scrap the program
Editor’s Note: The following opinion piece was originally published in the Seattle Times online edition on September 27, 2016, and in the print edition on September 28, 2016. ****************** We are looking for leaders who understand that nuclear weapons are immoral and must never be used. Nuclear weapons threaten genocide on a scale that decision-makers refuse to talk about. By David Hall and Leonard Eiger Special to The Times HAVE you seen the Seattle bus ads? They read: “20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S.” In light of recent media attention on who should have their […]
READ MOREAbolish Nuclear Weapons? Follow the Golden Rule
By Leonard Eiger On July 16, 1945 the United States government detonated the first atomic device 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 of radiation by the end of 1945. Even today, 64 years later, survivors and subsequent generations suffer the effects of radiation. On August 24, 1949, the Soviet Union […]
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