Activists blockaded the entrance to the US Navy’s west-coast nuclear submarine base, which is home to the largest operational concentration of deployed nuclear weapons, in a nonviolent direct action the day before Mother’s Day. Eight peace activists from the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, holding banners reading “The Earth is Our Mother Treat Her With Respect” and “Nuclear Weapons are Immoral to Use, Immoral to Have, Immoral to Make,” briefly blocked all incoming traffic at the Main Gate at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington as part of a May 13th Mothers Day observance. Traffic was diverted as the 15 […]
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13 people cited at Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor marking the 77th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Editor’s Note: This is the news release sent on August 10, 2022. Approximately 40 people were present on August 8th at a flash mob demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. The demonstration was in the roadway, and blocked traffic entering the Main Gate of the Trident nuclear submarine base during rush hour traffic. Thirteen demonstrators were detained and cited by authorities. Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor is homeport to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear warheads in the U.S. The nuclear warheads are deployed on Trident D-5 missiles on SSBN submarines and are stored in an underground nuclear weapons storage […]
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Seattle area Billboards inform citizens of the need to eliminate nuclear weapons
Beginning August 30th, and continuing for four weeks, billboards in four Seattle locations are displaying the following paid advertisement: September 26 – INTERNATIONAL DAY to ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Included in the advertisement is a map showing the proximity of Seattle to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, homeport for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, and a U.S. Navy photo of the Trident submarine, USS Nebraska, taken on June 2, 2017 near Elliott Bay. The ad refers to the United Nations International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, designated by the UN General Assembly in 2013. UN Member States, civil society […]
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Frida Berrigan, Living with World’s End in Plain Sight
GZ Editor’s Note: The following article by Frida Berrigan was originally published in TomDispatch on June 24, 2021, and provides a sobering alternative to the jingoistic revelry of July 4th. Frida lives in the shadow of General Dynamics Electric Boat, which built the first generation of Trident submarines, and is building the next generation (12 New Tridents!!!) as you read this. I have included Tom Englehardt’s introduction. If you aren’t familiar with TomDispatch, you will find truly independent journalism and hard-hitting writing about the waning days of The American Empire. Just the thing for the Fourth of July! ************ Frida Berrigan, Living […]
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Jesuit Priest Continues Holy Resistance to Nuclear Weapons
Author’s Note: The post below is my news release published April 3rd. Since then, Steve Kelly was released (on April 13th) after an in-person hearing in Federal Court. Click here to read my newest post (published at Beyond Nuclear) on Steve’s continuing holy troublemaking. Father Steve Kelly, S.J., a Jesuit priest and longtime nuclear resister, arrived in Tacoma, Washington March 30th to appear in the US District Court on a warrant for a previous probation violation. Kelly had been arrested on a charge of trespassing at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington during a Pacific Life Community nonviolent direct action in March […]
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