Events for August 9, 2024

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT SAILBOAT EDUCATIONAL MEETING TWO EVENTS Fri Aug 9, 1-5 pm, at Ivar's Salmon House, 401 NE Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98105 “Open Boat” invitation! Helen Jaccard, Golden Rule Project Co-Manager, announced, “We look forward to showing you this important icon for nuclear disarmament and will hopefully take some of you sailing when we visit!" Enjoy a potluck, film, music and discussion FOLLOWED NEARBY BY Fri Aug 9, 6-8 pm, at University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 The Golden Rule, a sailing ship witnessing for nuclear disarmament, is returning to the Pacific Northwest!  Veterans For Peace Seattle Chapter is hosting a potluck and educational presentation. See the documentary, “Making Waves: Rebirth of the Golden Rule”. Learn about Quaker involvement with the Golden Rule Project, the danger of nuclear weapons, how you can help stop the possibility of nuclear annihilation, recent About The Golden Rule’s Quaker history.  In 1958 four Quaker peace activists sailed the Golden Rule toward the Marshall Islands in an attempt to halt nuclear weapons testing.  The US Coast Guard boarded her in Honolulu and arrested her crew, causing an international outcry. Arrest of the crew and rising awareness of the dangers of radiation led to worldwide demands to stop nuclear testing.  This spurred the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and the U.K. to sign the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. In Vancouver, B.C. a group of Friends used the example of the Golden Rule to sail the first Greenpeace boat to Alaska to stop underground nuclear weapons testing. In 2010 the Golden Rule sank in Northern California. For five years, dozens of Veterans For Peace, Quakers, and other volunteers restored her. From 2015 - 2022 the Golden Rule sailed  the West Coast between British Columbia and San Diego and to Hawai’i and back.  In 2022-23 the Great Loop voyage around the entire eastern half of the US educated tens of thousands of people about what they can do to stop the possibility of nuclear annihilation. Info about this event Dan Gilman from VFP dhgilman@outlook.com or Louise Lansberry from UFM jllans@hotmail.com Info about the Golden Rule and other events Helen Jaccard, Project Manager, 206-992-6364 or  vfpgoldenruleproject@gmail.com or https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org/