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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.

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.

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.

We will meet at the Meeting House between 7 and 9:30 on Thursday evening Nov. 17 and Tom Butts will facilitate some practices developed by Joanna Macy that she calls The Work That Reconnects. These practices begin in gratitude, create a safe space where we can express our feelings no matter what they are, and be supported by the group, then move on to commitments of action.

All are welcome. People are encouraged to bring a poem or a song to share. We will begin promptly at 7 and anyone coming later will be potentially disruptive to our process, so out of courtesy to all of us, please be prompt.

People can email Tom at tombutts10@hotmail.com for further information.

We will meet at the Meeting House between 7 and 9:30 on Thursday evening Nov. 17 and Tom Butts will facilitate some practices developed by Joanna Macy that she calls The Work That Reconnects. These practices begin in gratitude, create a safe space where we can express our feelings no matter what they are, and be supported by the group, then move on to commitments of action.

All are welcome. People are encouraged to bring a poem or a song to share. We will begin promptly at 7 and anyone coming later will be potentially disruptive to our process, so out of courtesy to all of us, please be prompt.

People can email Tom at tombutts10@hotmail.com for further information.

Workshop will cover how to calculate your carbon tithe.
Also, will discuss how the meeting might best spend
the monies thus raised to address the climate crisis.
The even will possible include local guest experts on the climate crisis.
For more information please visit the PTFM website
https://ptquaker.org/carbon-tithing-program/.

Heather’s Advisory Committee

Film screening, discussion and action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons!
Historic Sailboat Golden Rule Project Supports UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons

In support of the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Veterans for Peace members are going to sail the historic Golden Rule sailboat to Japan for the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other ports of call include Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Guam, Okinawa, and Korea. The Pacific voyage will bring attention to the ongoing effects of nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific, and to the environmental and human impacts of hundreds of military bases in the Pacific Islands.

With tensions so high between nuclear armed nations, it is more important than ever to bring a message of peace into the Pacific. “The possibility of nuclear war today is all too real,” says Gerry Condon of Veterans For Peace. “It is time to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all. The U.S. can show leadership by being the first nuclear power to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”

Historic? -How so? Golden Rule Crew member Zoe Byrd will show the 25-minute documentary, “Making Waves: Rebirth of the Golden Rule” about four Quaker peace activists, led by Navy veteran Albert Bigelow, who in 1958 set sail to the Marshall Islands. The sailboat’s crew intent was to stop the bomb tests or die trying. They ended up being jailed in Hawaii, prevented from going on to the Marshall Islands where the U.S. was exploding hydrogen bombs. The crew’s bravery encouraged people to demand an end to underwater, atmospheric, and outer space nuclear bomb tests. The testing stopped in 1963. The historic peace boat later sank, in 2010, and was rebuilt in Humboldt Bay, California by veterans. The Golden Rule, a Project of Veterans For Peace, is once again “Sailing for a Nuclear-Free World and a Peaceful, Sustainable Future”.

Come learn about what you can do to support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Press interviews encouraged!

Begins at 2PM

Riley Robinson will meet with Port Townsend Friends Meeting, at the Meetinghouse, to describe both the new initiatives and the ongoing work of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Please consider attending this informative and inspiring session! Bring your questions, your concerns, and your passion for justice. We would love to have you join us and learn more about this essential Quaker organization. Questions? Call Carla at 360-302-1081