Join Local activists as they stage a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base. Peace activists will travel along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean. The witness for peace at the nuclear submarine base marks the 79th commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. What: Peace activists will participate in a nonviolent waterborne protest at the Bangor nuclear submarine base waterfront. This is the third year since 2016 […]
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Peace activists to meet the U.S. Navy Fleet arrival at Seafair on Tuesday, July 30, in Elliott Bay
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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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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2024 Peace Fleet
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 set sail in 1958 to the South Pacific to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and which inspired the many peace makers and peace ships that followed. […]
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Boats by Bangor
****NOTE: Boats by Bangor will NOT be on July 27th as originally scheduled. It is being rescheduled due to a maintenance issue with the Golden Rule that has delayed its sailing to the Salish Sea. We expect the new date to be either September 4th or 5th. Stay tuned! Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base. Peace activists will travel along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific […]
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