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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




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