Thursday
Jul082021
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, upcoming events and activities
From Leonard Eiger, Communications Coordinator, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action:
...Here's a quick rundown of what Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will be doing on and around the anniversaries:
- The annual Peace Fleet in Seattle's Elliott Bay (the Navy will be in absentia this year) on August 4th.
- The Interfaith Peace Walk led by the Nipponzan Miyohoji monks, from Oregon to Bangor/Ground Zero Center, arriving at Ground Zero in time for the weekend events.
- Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki; from Testing to Trident: a Call to Action is this year's theme for our August weekend - August 7th, 8th, and 9th, Monday am will be a vigil and nonviolent direct action at the Bangor Trident base. We will also have a large flash mob coordinated with the action (video of the 2019 flash mob here: https://youtu.be/kyiy0BrfEhg). Planners are lining up a keynote speaker from the Marshall Islands.
- We are also finalizing plans for this year's billboard advertisements,
- We will run Paid Public Service Announcements again this year in the Kitsap Sun, the newspaper serving the area around Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. They will run Sunday, July 25, Friday, August 6, Monday, August 9 and Sunday, August 15. We also ran a PSA on the Ban Treaty on January 22nd. Click here for one of the PSAs we ran last August.