Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action records, 1956-2003 (bulk 1974-2002).

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Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action records, 1956-2003 (bulk 1974-2002).

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Records document the founding, activities, and writings of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. Included are: records from the Pacific Life Community, whose members founded the Ground Zero Center, and documentation of Ground Zero's protests against the Trident submarines at Bangor Naval Submarine Base in Kitsap County, Washington; records documenting efforts to track the White Train, which transported nuclear warheads from Texas to Washington State; and documents concerning the organization of the 1982 Peace Blockade. The records consist of correspondence, publicity materials, leaflets, information packets, meeting notes, subject files, mission statements, event files, speeches and writings, newsletters, maps, logbooks, legal files, sound recordings, clippings, and posters.

16.75 cubic feet (18 boxes)

University of Washington. Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8081175

University of Washington. Libraries

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Douglass, Shelley

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Milner, Glen.

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Pacific Life Community

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Began in 1975 or 1976 in Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle, Washington; later added a chapter in the San Francisco, Calif. area; an Atlantic Life Community was also established on the East Coast of the United States; used nonviolent methods for social change; worked against nuclear weapons, especially the Trident weapons system; disbanded in the mid-1980s. From the description of Collection, 1976-1979. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 43649398 ...

Douglass, James W.

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Presbyterian minister, of Fayetteville, N.C. From the description of Correspondence, 1800-1897. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536448 ...

Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Poulsbo, Wash.)

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The center is based on a 3.8 acre property purchased in 1977, adjacent to the Navy's Trident Submarine base. The collective has carried on a program of non-violent action, including retreats, leafleting of base workers, and civil disobedience actions. The nine founding member of Ground Zero were also members of the Pacific Life Community, whose mission was to protest, thorough non-violent actions, the arrival and operation of Trident nuclear submarines at the Bangor, Washington base. Ground Zero...