Pacific Life Community in Vegas

~~~~~ FRIDAY~~~~~ 6:30 PM               Dinner 7:00 PM               Welcome, introductions, go-around 8:00 PM               Upcoming 3-Days of Vigils explained – Jim Haber ~~~~~ Saturday~~~~~ 5:55 AM              Vigilers and Prayer/meditators convene and commission eachother 6:00 AM              Meditation begins in Chapel for one hour, Vigilers depart for desert-lands 6:45 AM              Begin Public Vigil in Newe Sogobia 7:00 AM              prayer in chapel ends 7:30 AM              End Public Vigil, […]

Nagasaki Day

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, […]

Kitsap Mall

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 http://www.brianwillson.com. 08/09/09 we also […]

Ground Zero Center

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

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

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 […]

Auburn

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 […]

Olympia and Centralia

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 […]

HanFord

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 […]

San Francisco and Portland

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 […]