[Pophealth] FW: 13 arrested for protesting nuclear weapons, including 2 Olympians (fwd)

[Angela Louise Warner-Rein]

HSERV 534 classmates,

Please see below for the fact sheet that looks at where the money is flowing in context of Nuclear subs 
and Navy warships "displayed" at the annual Seattle Seafair summer event.

Angie

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:52:06 -0700
From: Angie Warner-Rein <info at nurturingtouch.org>
To: Angela Louise Warner-Rein <angiewr at u.washington.edu>
Subject: FW: 13 arrested for protesting nuclear weapons, including 2 Olympians


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From: Alice Zillah <alicezillah at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:29:11 -0700 (PDT)
To: <olympiansforpeace at lists.riseup.net>, Green Party Puget Sound
<gposps at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: 13 arrested for protesting nuclear weapons, including 2 Olympians

13 people arrested in Mother's Day demonstration at Trident nuclear
submarine base at Bangor, WA
By Glen Milner


At 5 AM on Monday, sixty  demonstrators walked from the Ground Zero Center
for Nonviolent Action to the entrance of Naval Submarine Base Bangor.  A
banner was hung from the freeway overpass leading into the base declaring,
"CREATE A PEACEFUL WORLD FOR ALL CHILDREN, Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  Scrap
Trident."

Six demonstrators briefly blocked traffic on the Kitsap County side of the
Main gate at the Trident submarine base and were arrested. Seven
demonstrators were later arrested on the federal side of the highway by
federal officers.

Those arrested by Kitsap County Sheriffs:  Jody Tiller of Olympia; Carol Ann
Barrows of Bainbridge Island; Brian Watson of Bremerton; and Karen Jones,
Rev. Anne Hall and Shirley Morrison of Seattle.

Those arrested by federal officers:  Lynne Greenwald of Bremerton; Jan
Prichard-Cohen of Tacoma; Bryce Brown of Olympia; Rev. Gilberto Perez of
Bainbridge Island; Bryan Edmark of Lynnwood; and Rose Betz-Zall and Mary
Hanson of Seattle.

Demonstrators arrested on federal property were booked at the Trident
submarine base and released.  Some demonstrators may be tried in federal
court.


Demonstrators arrested by Kitsap County Sheriffs were booked in Port Orchard
and released.

Demonstrators were warned by a Kitsap County Sheriff¹s officer on May 14
that they would no longer be given a warning notice and that arrests would
be made as soon as they crossed the fog line along the highway.  The officer
also warned demonstrators that they might be held until bail was posted and
that a new charge, "attempted disorderly conduct", could be used against
them by Kitsap County prosecutors.



Read an article about the events here:
<http://olyblog.net/blog/justin-vela/bangor-nukes-activistism-no-more-protest
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Fact Sheet

The Trident submarine base at Bangor is located 20 miles west of Seattle.
It is the last active nuclear weapons depot on the West Coast and is the
place of deployment for approximately 1,760 nuclear warheads.  The base has
been recently rebuilt for the deployment of the larger and more accurate
Trident D-5 missile system.  Each of the 24 D-5 missiles on a Trident
submarine is capable of carrying eight of the larger 455 kiloton W-88
warheads (about 30 times the explosive force as the Hiroshima bomb.)

On Mother's Day, members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
were mindful of recent threats of military strikes by the U.S. government
against the citizens of Iran.  The April 17 issue of the New Yorker magazine
reported the U.S. government is planning a massive bombing campaign against
Iran, including the proposed use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a
key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility.

The next planned demonstration will be the annual Ground Zero Meet the Fleet
demonstration on August 2, in Elliott Bay.  The fleet arrival at Seafair is
a public relations and recruiting event for the U.S. Navy.  Previous years
have brought Trident nuclear submarines and Navy warships used to launch
Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first and second Wars on Iraq and the War on
Afghanistan.  The fleet is displayed for four days in downtown Seattle at
tremendous cost to taxpayers while crucial social services in education,
health care and transportation are being cut for lack of funds.

The next planned direct action at Bangor will be on August 6 and 7, 2006, in
commemoration of the 61st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan.






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