Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action

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Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is a 3.8 acre piece of land in Kitsap county which shares 330 feet of fence with Trident nuclear submarine base. Ground Zero was purchased in December of 1977 by a collective of people using money donated by many of you and was incorporated as a land trust. Since then, Ground Zero has carried on a program of nonviolent action and reflection including discussion evenings, weekend retreats, leafleting of the base workers, and civil disobedience actions. Nonviolent Campaign Against Trident In 1988, Jim and Shelley Douglass wrote in their book, Dear Gandhi, What Now?, "The nonviolent campaign against Trident began with the resignation of Lockheed missile designer Robert Aldridge, who worked on the re-entry vehicle for Trident missiles. Bob's work led him to the knowledge that the United States was building systems capable of a disarming first strike, and his conscience called him to resign. His resignation and the analysis he shared with us inspired the January 1975 formation of Pacific Life Community, a small intentional community committed to resisting the coming of Trident to the Pacific Northwest. Believing that our culture's reliance upon violence is a central root of the arms race and other forms of injustice, Pacific Life Community committed itself to "seek the truth of a nonviolent way of life," both personally and politically. ...

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