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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Transformation or Annihilation?
Editor’s Introduction: Those who continue to keep the dream alive at Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action are grateful for Jim and Shelley Douglass, who were instrumental in co-creating and gently guiding us along the way in this experiment with truth throughout the years. This essay by Jim and Shelley was just published in the July 2024 Ground Zero Newsletter and offers a brief history of Ground Zero and of the Peace Pagoda being built there. Yet far beyond (and embedded deeply within) that history it offers an invitation – a universal invitation to transformation. As Jim wrote in his […]
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Frida Berrigan, How Vulnerable Are We?
June 20, 2024 Introduction by Tom Engelhardt I still remember going to New York’s Museum of Modern Art as a kid and seeing Pablo Picasso’s famed painting Guernica — 11.5 feet tall by 25.5 feet long! — hanging there. It was an eye-catching apparition, his gigantic 1937 protest against the devastating bombing of the town of Guernica by German planes connected to the forces of Spanish fascist leader Francisco Franco. And it was in New York because, for all the obvious reasons, it couldn’t be shown in Spain until after Franco, the only fascist winner in what became World War II, finally died in 1975. A mélange of […]
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Seattle Area Billboards Send Message From Pope Francis: Nuclear Weapons Immoral!
NEWS RELEASE: August 25, 2023 Contacts: Leonard Eiger (360) 375-3207; Rodney Brunelle (425) 485-7030; Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 On August 21, and continuing for four weeks, billboards in Seattle and Tacoma are displaying the following paid advertisement: THE USE… AND POSSESSION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS IMMORAL. – Pope Francis. Get them out of Puget Sound! The billboards serve as a public service announcement—informing the reader of the immorality of nuclear weapons and the grave threat they pose to humanity. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action joined with Pax Christi USA to purchase the four billboards with a message from Pope Francis, declaring […]
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