By Glen Milner The annual Pacific Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk started the day on Friday August 6, 2021 in Lake Forest Park for the 76th year remembrance of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Rev. Senji Kanaeda of the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple on Bainbridge Island conducted a short ceremony for peace at the Peace Pole on the corner of Bothell Way NE (SR 522) and Ballinger Way NE (SR 104). The ceremony in Lake Forest Park is called すべての核犠牲 者の為の「慰霊祭」or Subete no kaku giseisha no tame no Irei-sai (memorial, or spirit-consoling, service for all nuclear victims.) The Peace Walk […]
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Watch “Nuclear Voices: Centering Justice in the Fight for Nuclear Abolition”
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action hosted a live, online event for its annual Mothers Day event on Saturday, May 9th. Lilly Adams, a nuclear weapons outreach consultant for the Cambridge, MA-based Union of Concerned Scientists and formerly with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, delivered the keynote address, and then answered people’s questions. You can watch the webinar at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/z-FRaPK3xk1JGtL89WXyRaMdPLj7aaa81Xcb_KFbyUroXjyOQYg6aXM7_z7nmI3R Lilly, who received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative for a project to build connections with nuclear frontline communities and amplify issues of nuclear justice, spoke about building the nuclear weapons movement for the next […]
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Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda, a dream revived
Written by Glen Milner In August people traveled from across the U.S. and Japan to Poulsbo, Washington, to celebrate the ground purification ceremony for what will be the first peace pagoda on the West Coast by the Nipponzan Myohoji Order. The 150 attending the ceremony witnessed a living prayer for peace; with a soft breeze moving the many colorful flags, and sunlight illuminating the grass, the trees, and the opened earth for the peace pagoda. The pagoda project is being led by Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist nuns, monks, and their supporters. The ground purification ceremony or Jichin-sai, is a traditional Buddhist […]
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Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and Pax Christi Northwest join to promote Humanitarian Disarmament and to honor Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen
On September 15, about 40 people attended the much-anticipated presentation by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, a long-time human rights and humanitarian disarmament activist, author, and friend and colleague of Ground Zero members. The event was sponsored by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and Pax Christi Northwest and was one of over 2,650 events around the world as part of the 2018 Campaign Nonviolence National Week of Actions (September 15-23). Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan recounted the history and development of the Humanitarian Disarmament movement, beginning with his work on the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1994. Yeshua had just returned the previous week […]
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Daniel Ellsberg: Dismantling the Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg is known to many for leaking the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. A lesser known fact is that Ellsberg drafted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s plans for nuclear war in 1961, and developed an intimate understanding of the madness of the most dangerous (nuclear) arms buildup in history. In his newest book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,” Ellsberg chronicles the evolution of the “Doomsday Machine” we have created, and offers steps to dismantle it. Another little known fact about Ellsberg is that he testified in court in support of Ground Zero “White Train” demonstrators […]
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