On June 23, and continuing for eight weeks, 14 Seattle Metro downtown buses are displaying the following paid advertisement declaring “Twenty miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the United States.” Included in the advertisement is a map showing the proximity of Seattle to…
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Activists from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, in Poulsbo, carried signs and banners on May 11 to the front gate of Bangor Naval base, the West Coast home port for the US nuclear submarine fleet. Bernie Meyer, Tacoma, was accosted and handcuffed by Naval military personnel, after crossing the blue line…
Activists from a local peace group blocked the main gate and staged a die-in at the Navy’s West Coast Trident nuclear submarine base for more than a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons. Nearly fifty people participated in Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action’s annual…
Celebrating thirty-five years of nonviolent resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will honor two of its co-founders, Jim and Shelley Douglass, who will speak at its annual August event at the Ground Zero Center in Kitsap County, Washington. By the 1980s the Douglasses…