BOATS BY BANGOR PEACE FLOTILLA WATERBORNE PROTEST, Hood Canal

BOATS BY BANGOR PEACE FLOTILLA
WATERBORNE PROTEST AT NUCLEAR SUBMARINE BASE

Weds Sept 4, around 5 pm, kayaks enter Hood Canal south of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor at King Spit

Activists will stage a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base in Washington State. Peace activists will travel along the Bangor waterfront where Trident missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean.

The witness for peace at the nuclear submarine base marks the recent (79th) commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This is the third year since 2016 for the demonstration, called “Boats by Bangor.”

The historic peace boat Golden Rule will meet up with kayaks and lead the flotilla to the Bangor Trident base.  The flotilla will travel along the entire length of the waterfront of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, including the Delta Pier and the two Explosives Handling Wharves at Bangor where Trident submarines are maintained and nuclear warheads and Trident D-5 missiles are loaded on submarines. Participants will not be risking arrest in Hood Canal. Participants will gather afterwards for a beach party at a nearby beach.

The Golden Rule set sail in 1958 to the South Pacific to stop nuclear bomb testing in the atmosphere and is now a Project of Veterans for Peace and continues to inspire peacemakers and peace ships around the world.

Sponsored by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action  info@gzcenter.org and  https://www.gzcenter.org and Veterans for Peace – Golden Rule Project vfpgoldenruleproject@gmail.com and https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org