07 Jun PNW 2024: July 30 Peace Fleet Elliott Bay & Pier 62

Peace activists to meet the U.S. Navy Fleet arrival at Seafair on Tuesday, July 30, in Elliott Bay

Contact: Glen Milner (206) 365-7865
Mary Gleysteen (360) 265-1589
Day of the event (206) 979-8319 Golden Rule coordinator Helen Jaccard, (206) 992-6364

Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent protest against the glorification of weapons of war at the Seattle Seafair festival. Peace activists will meet the U.S. Navy fleet in Elliott Bay. The entire Seafair Fleet Week, featuring militarism and weapons of war, is sponsored by the Boeing Company, the second largest military contractor in the U.S.

This year the Peace Fleet will be joined by the Golden Rule peace boat. In 1958 activists sailed this little boat towards the Marshall Islands to stop nuclear weapons testing. Arrest of the crew in Honolulu sparked worldwide outrage, which helped President Kennedy decide to sign the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963! The 1958 voyage inspired the founding of Greenpeace and many peace ships that followed.

Other peace activists will meet on the Seattle waterfront, at Pier 62 for a nonviolent demonstration against weapons of war and against environmental harm caused by the U.S. military during Seafair. See Seafair Climate Action, www.seaclimateaction.info.

What: Peace activists at Seafair
When: Tuesday, July 30, Noon, Peace Fleet in Elliott Bay.
Demonstration on land begins at 1 PM
Where: Elliott Bay and Pier 62

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