****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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Veterans for Peace say, “President Biden: STOP Arming Israel… It’s the LAW!”
Editor’s Note: The following news release from Veterans for Peace describes its letter to President Biden reminding him of his responsibility under both international (treaty) and domestic law that requires the termination of all military aid. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action endorses VFP’s position as stated in its letter to President Biden, and we urge other organizations and all people of conscience to stand with VFP in this matter. by Veterans For Peace | Winter 2024 Edition of Peace & Planet News In a letter to President Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace cited existing […]
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“Resistance or…. ” – a poem
Editor’s Note:The following poem was written by Larry Kerschner, a member of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and Veterans for Peace Rachel Corrie Chapter 109. You can read his work at larrywrites. His books are available at peacepoetpoetry. The banner photo is of Larry reading his poetry at the Vietnam Full Disclosure Teach-in: An Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam on November 5, 2015. Larry’s poetry is also featured in the April 2024 Ground Zero Newsletter. **************** Resistance or… “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time […]
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Following The Golden Rule
By Leonard Eiger For most of humanity’s recorded time on Earth people have tried to follow the Golden Rule, which is essentially the principle of treating others as we would like to be treated. And yet today it seems that in far too many ways and situations this fundamental axiom has been turned on its head, especially when it comes to relations among nations. Racism, xenophobia, militarism, and their ultimate manifestation – nuclear weapons – rule the day as a symbol and tool of power in many nations. As for the United States, we have twisted the Golden Rule, expecting […]
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U.S. Nuclear Posture: Time To STOP Posturing!
By Leonard Eiger February 8, 2022 A new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is issued every four years and, although officially a “legislatively-mandated review that establishes U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture,” it essentially paves the way for our nation’s continuing reliance on nuclear weapons. Presidents have used the NPR to implement their individual nuclear weapons agendas, and in the previous administration, it went a bit off the rails, and much attention was paid to the Trident nuclear weapons system. MINI-NUKES ON TRIDENT? The 2018 NPR dropped quite the bombshell when it called for essentially changing up the mission […]
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