author : Alice Zillah
January 2006
by Alice Zillah
In mid-November, Shannon Bushnell, Patty Imani, Bryce Brown and I received letters from Kitsap County informing us that we would be prosecuted for "failure to disperse" dating from our action of nonviolent civil disobedience committed on August 8.
On that morning, we were four of the 19 people who stood and knelt in the middle of Luoto Road in Poulsbo, blocking the main gate to Bangor Submarine Base, home of the Trident nuclear submarine. Dozens of fellow peacemakers stood in vigil at the side of the road, offering us support as we were cuffed and put into police vans.
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July 2005
An OMJP sponsored article
by Alice Zillah
On June 23, the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace sponsored a public forum to discuss the shipments of military supplies from the port of Olympia -- shipments which support the Iraq War and other Pentagon activities. After a 17-year absence, the military resumed using the port of Olympia in June, 2004.
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May 2005
by Alice Zillah
At the Support the Truth event on February 18, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told an Olympia audience that the Bush administration had reviewed plans in October 2004 to attack Iran in June of 2005. "The Pentagon was told to be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran, Iraq's neighbor to the east, in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear program."
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April 2005
by Jonathan Coleman
(Edited by Alice Zillah)
The second national assembly of United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) was held over President's Day weekend in St. Louis, Missouri. Along with Trish Ryder, I had the opportunity to attend as a delegate representing the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, one of over 1000 local and national peace organizations that are members of this coalition.
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July 2003
by Alice Zillah
The United for Peace and Justice first-ever national conference was held June 6-8 in Chicago, and I went as a delegate of United for Peace Thurston County. UFPJ formed during the fall as one of several national coalition groups seeking to articulate a broad voice of resistance to the Bush agenda of war at any cost. Hundreds of organizations across the country voted to become affiliate groups under the umbrella of UFPJ. In Thurston County, over thirty different groups - including the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Green Party, Stonewall Youth, and the Olympia Movement for . . .
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