Upcoming events for the Port Townsend Friends Meeting, and events held at the PTFM meetinghouse. Our parking lot is rented to Salish Coast School at school opening and closing time for student drop-off & pick-up. Select Event Type (green Categories button) Click calendar icon to display Day/week/month
I encourage you to attend the Sonic Sea film screening with speaker-cast members Ken Balcomb and Michael Jasny on Monday, May 23, at QUUF from 7-9 PM.
An astounding 23 environmentally minded regional organizations have stepped up to sponsor this important new documentary! They include Sierra Club, WSU JC Beach Watchers, Local 20/20, churches, tribal nations and more. If you would like to know what really happens under the surface of our pristine waters, join us. Here is a link to a 2-minute trailer: http://www.sonicsea.org/film.
Meets the Thursday before Monthly Business Meeting
Saturday, June 25, 2016 – 6 PM – potluck dinner welcoming the Golden Rule – at the RoseWind Common House, corner of Umatilla and Haines Streets in Port Townsend.
7:30 PM – Gerry Condon, national vice president of Veterans For Peace will share the boat’s history and current plans. Local activist Doug Milholland will talk about Naval Magazine Indian Island, the West Coast’s largest military weapons transfer depot. A discussion about the Sunday sail-by and Navy keep your distance rules will also take place.
Sunday June 26, 2016 – 10:00 am til 2:00pm – the Golden Rule will lead a sail-by in front of the Indian Island Weapons Transfer Depot loading dock. Local boaters & kayakers are encouraged to join the vigil. No civil disobedience is being planned. Sail your boat in this peace vigil, or sign-up to be on one of the boats.
Meets the Thursday before Monthly Business Meeting
Member of Recent Peace and Fact-Finding Delegation to Syria to Speak In Port Townsend
Gerry Condon, the Vice President of Veterans for Peace, recently returned from a week-long visit to Syria as a member of a Peace and Fact-finding Delegation. The delegation met with representatives of numerous NGOs, heads of industry, religious leaders, and high-level representatives of the Syrian government, including a personal meeting with President Bashar al Assad.
Condon, who was a co-leader of the delegation, stated: “Almost everything we read about Syria in the media is wrong. The reality is that the U.S. government is supporting armed extremist groups who are terrorizing the Syrian people and trying to destroy Syria’s secular state. In order to hide that ugly reality and push violent regime change, the U.S. is conducting a psychological warfare campaign to demonize Syria’s president Bashar al Assad. This is a classic tactic that veterans have seen over and over. It is shocking, however, to realize how willingly the media repeat this propaganda, and how many people believe it is true.”
Condon will be speaking about the delegation’s findings in Syria on Sunday, September 11, at 7 P.M. at the Quaker Meeting House located at the corner of Sheridan and 19th. Condon and Veterans for Peace are also sponsors of the historic anti-nuclear peace boat “The Golden Rule” which will be in the 2016 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
Meets the Thursday before Monthly Business Meeting