Trinity to Trident Peace Walk

Nagasaki Day

ammonhennacy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:15:47 +0000

9 people arrested at Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, marking the 64th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

87 people participated in a vigil and nonviolent direct action against the Trident nuclear weapons system at the Trigger Avenue gate to Bangor nuclear submarine base early Monday morning .

While vigilers held a variety of banners, flags and signs calling for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons a second group broke the yellow “caution” tape designating the “free speech zone”, and strung it across the County roadway, blocking traffic entering the base. One member of this group walked among the vehicles waiting to enter the base, offering drivers sunflowers, a symbol of nuclear disarmament. Anne Hall, 64, of Seattle,WA, Jackie Hudson, 74, of Bremerton, WA, Brenda McMillan, 75, of Port Townsend, WA, Jean Sundborg, 69, of Seattle, WA, and Alice Zillah, 36, of Olympia, WA, were arrested by Washington State Patrol officers.

Following the release of the three Federal arrestees, Jessica Artiega and Lynne Greenwald, who had already been processed and released by Naval authorities, re-entered the roadway on the County side carrying the same banner as before, and were arrested by the State Patrol. All those arrested by the State Patrol were taken to Kitsap County Justice Center in Port Orchard where they were booked and released. Veterans For Peace, Squadron 13, who brought their Peace Bus to Ground Zero Center for the weekend, which marked the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, picked up the arrestees after their release and returned them to Ground Zero Center.

Besides welcoming the Interfaith Peace Walk (from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Ground Zero Center) and speaking by telephone with members of the Journey of Repentance who were in Hiroshima, Japan, the weekend included Charlie Meconis speaking on Energy, Environment & Nuclear Weapons, and an engaging panel discussion with Vietnam Vet, Lawyer and Peace Activist, Brian Willson, and Ground Zero founders, Jim and Shelley Douglass.

The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, is home to the largest single stockpile of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal. In November 2006, the Natural Resources Defense Council declared that the 2,364 nuclear warheads at Bangor are approximately 24 percent of the entire U.S. arsenal. The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolence resists Trident, and offers education, training, and action for a world free of nuclear weapons.

Kitsap Mall

ammonhennacy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:07:01 +0000

Ground Zero folks have protested the Bangor Nuclear Sub site for over 35 five years of protest…Shelley an Jim Douglass are some of the founders…Jim recently wrote a book on John F. Kennedy. Also Brian Willson was there too and spoke to us the of the White Train intentional accident. See www.brianwillson.com. 08/09/09 we also had three flags of Veterans for Peace for three different local chapters.

Ground Zero Center

ammonhennacy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:53:06 +0000

Suquamish hosts our Walk… and reaching of Ground Zero grounds and the dedication of the new building for Ground Zero Center for Non-Violence in Poulsbo, WA

Lake Forrest Park

ammonhennacy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:42:18 +0000

At Forest Lake Park you may have seen Rodney Brunnelle picketing for peace, one of these Saturdays for at least six years since prior to the current Iraq Gulf War…

…and more events happen daily…Chief Seattle’s grave is here on the Suquamish Reservation….

Seattle

ammonhennacy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:23:44 +0000

We have reached North Seattle before we take ferry ride to Bainbridge Island and the Nuclear Submarine Base in Bremerton, WA. We started today at the Sadako Statue and we end at Lake Forest Park. A community of activists again nuclear war…and have had a vigil since before the Iraq war at the same corner for our six years.

Auburn

ammonhennacy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:57:10 +0000

Today 08/03/09 we walked 18 miles from the Guadalupe House of Catholic Workers to the White River Buddhist Temple in Auburn, Washington. We enjoyed a cool 83 degrees fahrenheit today. The Rev. Kakei Nakagawa of this temple was born in Hiroshima 8 years after the Nuclear bomb, both parents died of cancer while his was in his teens.

Olympia and Centralia

ammonhennacy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:30:30 +0000

We are at the Guadalupe House in Tacoma, WA and taking a rest today, after 19 miles! In Olympia we stayed at the Vietnamese center and then our walk was within the city of Olympia. We arrived from Centralia from the home of Barbara and Larry Kirchner (a Vietnam War Veteran). Here are photos from Centralia and Olympia on 7/29/09 and 7/30/09, respectively.

The mural is from the Rachel Corrie Foundation and peace organizations which probably will place their names on leafs of the tree. (Olympiarafahmural.org) While in Olympia a couple (including Ash Wilson, an Iraq War veteran who is now working against all wars via upcoming peace walks) joined us during the Trinity To Trident Walk.

HanFord

ammonhennacy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:04:30 +0000

In this area of Washington, we were hosted by Christ the King Church (Catholic), and Shalom Church of Christ (Protestant). Our local organizer is Jim Stoffels (Retired from Hanford Physics). We are completely against all wars and against Nuclear weapons. We prayed at the 300 Area which is decommissioned and very contaminated. Another wonderful experience happened when Veterans for Peace joined us at the gate. (We also joined forces with VFP in Portland and San Francisco.)

All is good…

San Francisco and Portland

ammonhennacy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:00:29 +0000

We are still on a magical mystery peace walk for a Nuclear Free Future! In Berkeley, Livermore, San Francisco and now in Portland we have walkers from the Longest Walk II. It is very good to be with peace makers of such lengthy history…. We also stopped to pray with Veterans For Peace will in Portland.

LivermoreNuclearWeaponsLab

ammonhennacy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:28:47 +0000

On Tuesday we arrived at Livermore Lab. We need the Lab to shut down its nuclear operations and convert to clean-up ONLY operations.