Nuclear Resisters sing their way to court!

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Tom Rogers and Mary Gleysteen for reporting on yesterday’s court hearings. Their commentaries are woven together for this report. Thanks, also, to the resisters who engaged in the Mothers Day weekend nonviolent direct action last May, as well as those who were able to show up to support them at yesterday’s hearings. Click here to read the news release from the Mothers Day action. Ten nuclear resisters, who blocked the entrance to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the United States, appeared in court to plead their cases for peace and nuclear abolition. The […]

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Metro Bus Ad to inform citizens of Puget Sound about Nuclear Weapons stockpiled in their Back Yard

On July 9, and continuing for four weeks, up to 39 Metro downtown buses will display the following paid advertisement: Puget Sound: Home to one-third of deployed U.S. nuclear weapons… Accept Responsibility. Included in the advertisement is a map showing the proximity of Seattle to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, home port for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered submarines, and a U.S. Navy photo of the Trident submarine, USS Nebraska, taken on June 2, 2017 near Elliott Bay. Also beginning on July 9, three larger versions of the ad (Ultra Super King, shown below) will appear on three Metro downtown […]

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Resisters symbolically close Trident base ahead of Mothers Day

Editor’s Note: The following news of Saturday’s Ground Zero Center Mother’s Day vigil and nonviolent direct action is from this morning’s news release. Silverdale, WA, May 12, 2018: Fourty-two activists were present at the Bangor Trident submarine base to celebrate the true meaning of Mothers Day for Peace and to protest nuclear weapons. Ten activists symbolically closed Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for about 20 minutes by blocking the road to the Main Gate in a nonviolent direct action on the Saturday before Mothers Day. They held two banners across the inbound lanes. One read “The Earth is our Mother. Treat her […]

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Can a patriot still protest nukes?

Editor’s Note: The following letter to the editor was written by Ground Zero member Tom Rogers. Tom is a retired Navy Captain, and a former nuclear submarine commander. His letter was published on May 8th in the Kitsap Sun. Tom is planning the upcoming Mothers Day event at Ground Zero Center on Saturday, May 12th. Can a patriot still protest nukes?                 This Saturday activists from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will be celebrating Mother’s Day with a vigil and nonviolent direct action calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. They will […]

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Seeing Beyond the Trumpocalypse!

Editor’s Note: This is the May 6, 2018 Ground Zero E-Newsletter. If you want to subscribe to our E-News, just send an email to outreach@gzcenter.org. Dear Friends of a world free of nuclear weapons, Oh, what a long strange trip it’s been. While the news media has been fixated on the money trail between Trump and a former porn star, it has only paid passing attention to the fact that the two Koreas have been talking (I mean REALLY TALKING), and that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, is an international legally […]

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