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, […]
Archive for August 2009
Nagasaki Day
2009/08/12Kitsap Mall
2009/08/10Ground 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 http://www.brianwillson.com. 08/09/09 we also […]
Ground Zero Center
2009/08/10Suquamish 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
2009/08/09At 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
2009/08/06We 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 […]
Auburn
2009/08/03Today 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 […]
Olympia and Centralia
2009/08/02We 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 […]