Learn About Washington’s Nuclear Waste at the International Uranium Film Festival

‘Richland’ delves into Hanford’s lasting legacy: an overwhelming radioactive cleanup challenge. by Glen Milner The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) — dedicated to nuclear issues worldwide — runs from Friday, April 12, to Sunday, April 14, at the Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) at 1515 12th Ave. The festival’s 2024 U.S. tour began on March 7 in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo (Diné) Nation, with respect for the Native American Peoples who are suffering most from the consequences of uranium mining and nuclear testing. The IUFF is showing films in over 10 U.S. cities and in Vancouver, B.C. The selection […]

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Stand Against War with Mothers Everywhere!

Please join us at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action on Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12th for our Mother’s Day Weekend of Action. Click the image below to download and print/share the event flier. Please help us to circulate it widely. In these challenging times, it is important to do whatever we can for peace, and to continue building community with others working for peace. We will be updating our website soon with more detailed information on the schedule, plus information on transportation and camping. We need volunteers! Contact Kathy Railsback (railsback.kathryn@gmail.com) or Liz Tullai (ltullai@gmail.com) if […]

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Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda Update

The current status and progress of the construction of the Ground Zero-Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda, February 21, 2024 By Senji Kanaeda In February 2024, we started building the niche in front of the pagoda that houses the Buddha statue. It is the figure of the Buddha who first preaches after attaining enlightenment. When visitors come in from Clear Creek road to Ground Zero Center, it faces southeast so that it heads straight to the front and is at its sunniest. The conductor of all the construction is Jim Lyman, a local builder who met Fujii Guruji, the founder monk of […]

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream

By Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner January 28, 2024 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or deployed […]

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Peace activists join at Trident submarine base in honor of Dr. King

35 peace activists join at the Trigger Ave. entrance to the Trident submarine base in Bangor, WA, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Members of the Resist US-Led War Movement and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action were present, on January 13, at the demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base.  Due to severe cold weather, which caused mechanical difficulties with equipment, the Main Gate at Bangor was closed. About 35 demonstrators braved the 20 degree weather and voiced their desire for a nuclear weapons-free world to drivers and passengers in backed-up traffic entering the […]

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