author : Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
June 2006
A statement from the newly-formed Port Militarization Resistance and
the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
In four years of the war in Iraq, over 2,500 US soldiers and over 150,000 Iraqis have died. Hundreds of billions of dollars later, our troops are still fighting in Iraq. The declared mission has been proven false and now civil war rages on. This is an illegal war founded on lies told by the Bush administration and sustained by Congressional acquiescence, Republican and Democrat alike.
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September 2005
by Peter Bohmer, member of Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP)
On Friday, September 23rd , The Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace(OMJP) invites you to join us in an 18 mile walk from Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia all the way to Ft. Lewis. The purpose of this march for peace is to make a strong and visible stand against the U.S. war and to build a movement calling for the withdrawal of the United States from Iraq. We believe that the time is ripe to connect the growing anti-Iraq war feelings in the U.S. to visible protest and a growing anti-war movement. We have the . . .
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August 2005
Project of the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
The U.S. victory in the cold war never ended the threat of nuclear holocaust. Our nuclear arsenal still includes 2,000 warheads on hair-trigger alert - ready to launch on 15 minutes notice -- each warhead has the power of 20 Hiroshimas. Russia has a similar number of trip-wire warheads aimed at us -- only their early warning system is deteriorating. Both nations register alarms daily, triggered by wildfires, satellite launchings and solar reflections off clouds or oceans.
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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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February 2005
An OMJP sponsored article by Larry Mosqueda
Militarization of the Port of Olympia
Unbeknownst to the residents of Thurston County, on December 10, 2004 the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established what they call a "permanent security zone" with military control of the Port of Olympia when a military ship comes to the Port. This was done in semi-secret because the public was not informed of this action at the time it was proposed, or when it occurred. On October 12, 2004, (perhaps, appropriately, Columbus Day), the USCG and DHS published in the . . .
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