Some of you reading this will remember Susan Crane as a longtime peacemaker and nuclear resister, and member of the Disarm Now Plowshares action in 2009. On that fateful day she and four other activists entered the high security nuclear warhead storage area at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington in the early morning hours of November 2nd, All Souls Day, to call attention to the illegality and immorality of the existence of the first strike Trident weapons system. Crane and her comrades were given significant prison sentences for their nonviolent action for a world free of the threat of nuclear omnicide. […]
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Boats by Bangor with the Golden Rule
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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Billboards inform Puget Sound citizens of Nuclear Weapons stockpiled in their Back Yard
On July 22, and continuing for four weeks, five billboards are displaying the following paid advertisement: Did You Know, We’re only *** Miles from the Largest Concentration of Deployed Nukes in the World! Let’s Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Included in the five advertisements are maps showing the proximity of the cities and billboards in Everett, Lake Forest Park, Seattle, and Tacoma—to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, homeport for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered submarines. The billboards serve as a public service announcement—informing the reader of the exact number of miles they are at that exact location, to the largest concentration of […]
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The truth about Hiroshima
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article by Kate Hudson was originally published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). By Kate Hudson, August 6, 2024 As we mourn the loss of all those killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US atomic bombs, in August 1945, we cannot avoid the fact that we are closer than ever to nuclear war. The war on Ukraine is greatly increasing the risk. So too is NATO’s location of upgraded nuclear weapons across Europe — including Britain — and Russia’s siting of similar weapons in Belarus. Irresponsible talk suggesting that “tactical” nuclear weapons could be deployed on […]
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