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Ground Zero offers the opportunity to explore the meaning and practice of nonviolence from a perspective of deep spiritual reflection. Providing a means for witnessing to and resisting all nuclear weapons.
Saturday, January 14 2012 Vigil and Action
On January 14, 2012 activists from a local peace group blocked entry to the main gate at the Navy’s West coast Trident nuclear submarine base for nearly a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons.
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action held a peaceful vigil and nonviolent direct action at the main [...]
Is the nuclear-sub fleet a “Cold War relic” or a modern deterrent? The Pentagon nears a decision on building a $715 million munitions wharf on Hood Canal.
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Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base.
The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a [...]
“OCCUPY TRIDENT: The billions spent on nuclear weapons are needed to house, feed and care for each other – not threaten the world with annihilation” is the theme as Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action honors Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy with a vigil and nonviolent direct action on Saturday, January 14, 2010 at Bangor, [...]
Dear Friends,
As we move into a new year it is natural (and important) to reflect on the previous year. At Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action we had a full year in resistance to Trident and working to abolish nuclear weapons. It was a year of joys and sorrows.
We held our three major [...]