NCW Peace is the website of a group of North Central
Washington
citizens committed to ending war. Our group includes business
owners, students, Christians, military veterans, orchardists, retired
persons -
people just like you. We believe that mankind can,
and must,
learn to settle
differences by non-violent means. With this website, we hope
to
keep you informed of activities
for peace in the North Central
Washington area, provide articles and other resources
for peacemaking,
and provide you with links
to other peacemaking organizations.
ACT
NOW FOR SURVIVAL: WE CAN ALL LIVE
WITHOUT TRIDENT
The Ground Zero
Center for Nonviolent
Action invites you to gather with us August 9-11, to remember the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to join in nonviolent
direct action to close the Bangor Trident submarine base, home of the
largest collection of nuclear weapons in the U.S.
Beginning at 9
a.m. on Saturday, August
9, gather at Ground Zero (GZ), 16159 Clear Creek Rd. NW, Poulsbo, for
a film festival, sharing stories of peace work, making connections,
and cooperative planning. At 4:00 p.m. we'll welcome peace walkers,
followed by a potluck supper and at 7:00 p.m. street theater and a
sing-along with Marv Kvamme of the Seattle Peace Chorus.
Sunday, August
10, will begin with
breakfast at 8:00 a.m., leaving at 9:00 a.m. for a liturgy, street
theater and vigil at Bangor's Trigger Gate. The afternoon and
evening will be devoted to nonviolence training, planning for
Monday's nonviolent direct action, and helping build Ground Zero's
new house. Monday at 5:30 a.m. we will leave GZ for direct action at
the base.
Saturday and
Sunday nights you are
welcome to camp out at GZ, sleep at the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship, 4418 Perry Ave., Bremerton, WA 98310, or stay in a nearby
motel For carpooling, transportation from Seattle, or more
information, contact Anne Hall at 206-545-3562, or Jackie Hudson and
Sue Ablao at 360-377-2586. For driving directions and details, go to
www.gzcenter.org.
The United States possesses ten thousand nuclear weapons,
enough to kill every man, woman, and child on Earth more than a
half-dozen times. Nuclear weapons aren't a legitimate
military weapon; they are not intended for use against military
targets. They are intended as destroyers of cities,
destroyers of millions of human lives. Are we as a nation
really capable of vaporizing millions of human beings in a blinding
flash? Have our moral standards really fallen so low?
If we are not willing to use these weapons to kill millions
of human beings, then why do we have them? To regain our
moral standing, to regain our humanity, we must eliminate these
weapons.
Please contact your elected representatives now and tell them
we
must dismantle our nuclear weapons.
"I
would
characterize current U.S.
nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary,
and dreadfully dangerous." - former USA defense secretary
Robert McNamara