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 […]
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Abolish Nuclear Weapons? Follow the Golden Rule
By Leonard Eiger On July 16, 1945 the United States government detonated the first atomic device in the test named Trinity. Less than one month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs – on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – that killed over 100,000 people in less time than it took to type a few of these words. As many as 220,000 were dead from the effects of radiation by the end of 1945. Even today, 64 years later, survivors and subsequent generations suffer the effects of radiation. On August 24, 1949, the Soviet Union […]
READ MOREPeace flotilla to visit waterfront of Trident nuclear submarine base in Hood Canal on August 9th
Media/Press Contacts: Leonard Eiger (425) 445-2190 Mary Gleysteen (360) 265-1589 Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 Day of the event (206) 979-8319 Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base. Peace activists will travel along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean. The witness for peace at the nuclear submarine base marks the 71st commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. What: Peace activists at nuclear submarine base waterfront. This is the first year for the […]
READ MOREThe Golden Rule at Ground Zero: A Meditation Interrupted
Essay by Gerry Condon* I am sitting in the middle of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action on the Hood Canal near Poulsbo, Washington. It is a large and beautiful piece of property, partly forested. There is a beautiful, ample house, with a sprawling lawn and garden space, protected by tall pine and cedar trees. At the far end of the lawn is a large stone marker engraved with a Buddhist prayer for peace. As I scan this idyllic scene, small bunny rabbits come into focus on the lawn. Enjoying this space all by myself for a few hours […]
READ MOREGround Zero Newsletter is Hot Off the Presses!
The Ground Zero Newsletter July 2016 edition is at the printer, and you can read it here right now. Our editor has put out another great issue full of information on what we’ve been doing and what is yet to come. Click here to read it cover to cover!
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