EDITOR’S NOTE: Check out the leaflet we brought to the showing of Command and Control in Seattle late last month. Click here to download and print some to hand out wherever you have the urge this holiday season. ********************************* Did you see the Seattle bus ads? They read: “20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S.” In light of recent media attention on who should have their finger on the nuclear button, this statement seems to beg the question: With so many nuclear weapons, what would happen should the president order their […]
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Ground Zero’s Annual Report and Appeal
November 13, 2016 Dear Friends, Nonviolent direct action is the tool that harnesses the light within us. When ordinary citizens join together, they are capable of changing the world. Whether in dark times or times of social progress, if we continue to work for social change, we will win. Please hold your light and stay strong. Our work is crucial in the years ahead. This is our annual report of activities, and an appeal for funds for Ground Zero. In 2016, Ground Zero chose a new tactic to address the insane costs and inherent risks of nuclear weapons in our […]
READ MOREEducate, Agitate and Organize!
Greetings Dear Friends of Ground Zero Center, It is the morning after (election day), and I am trying hard to wrap my aching head around this mess. As I consider the meaning (or lack thereof) of this presidential election, I look at the big picture and find myself reflecting on Cindy Sheehan’s comment that this election has been about “re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” Throughout President Obama’s presidency, I had no illusions that his famous Prague speech would translate into a miraculous change of course for our nation’s nuclear weapons policy (or military policy in general). He has, […]
READ MOREGround Zero featured on Speak Up, Speak Out!
Ginny Wolff, of Speak Up, Speak Out! on KSVR – FM, interviewed Ground Zero’s Leonard Eiger last week about the work of Ground Zero Center for Non-Violent Action since 1977 to protest the Trident submarines based at the Bangor Naval Base in Silverdale, Washington. They discussed the history of Ground Zero, the bigger picture of U.S. foreign policy regarding the use of nuclear weapons, ongoing international tension, and the agreement between Congress and the Obama administration to spend a trillion dollars over 30 years to rebuild the entire U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons. Click here to listen to this Speak Up, Speak […]
READ MORENext president has a nuclear option: Scrap the program
Editor’s Note: The following opinion piece was originally published in the Seattle Times online edition on September 27, 2016, and in the print edition on September 28, 2016. ****************** We are looking for leaders who understand that nuclear weapons are immoral and must never be used. Nuclear weapons threaten genocide on a scale that decision-makers refuse to talk about. By David Hall and Leonard Eiger Special to The Times HAVE you seen the Seattle bus ads? They read: “20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S.” In light of recent media attention on who should have their […]
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