 |
Seattle Community Network |
Wednesday
July 5, 2000 |
|
July 5
Glen and Karol Milner present a workshop about nonviolent direct action and resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons systems. The Pentagon plans to spend another $14 billion to replace the C-4 nuclear missiles based on submarines in Puget Sound with D-5 missiles that have a greater payload capacity. The weapons carried on both the C-4 and D-5 missiles are MIRV nuclear warheads. Find out what your involvement in Seattle and in Poulsbo can do to stop the latest escalation of more of the Navy's submarine nuclear weapons from the C-4 missiles to the larger D-5 missiles. For more information, call (206) 365-7865.
"Sub Base Bangor is home to 1,600 nuclear weapons - more nuclear weapons than those of Britain, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan combined. If Bangor were its own country, it would be the third largest nuclear weapons state in the world, behind Russia and the rest of the US itself." ... "The last time the Navy brought a Trident to Seafair (the USS Ohio, on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1997) there was a great deal of controversy surrounding its arrival. Its arrival was greeted by a flotilla of boats, a 24-hour vigil attended by hundreds of people... "Mayor Norm Rice said afterward that bringing a Trident to Seattle 'would never happen again.'"
"Warhead: Nuclear MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles)" "TRIDENT is the Navy's third generation fleet ballistic missile program. It is a part of the Nation's strategic deterrent triad, which also includes land-based missile systems and manned bombers." ... "The TRIDENT I, or C-4 missile, represents a quantum leap in technology and capability of the fleet ballistic missile (over the POLARIS/-POSEIDON predecessors). The missile has a range of more that 4,000 nautical miles, more that 1,500 nautical miles greater than POLARIS." "The TRIDENT II, or D-5 missile, is deployed on TRIDENT submarines operating out of Kings Bay, Georgia. It is larger and more sophisticated with even greater capabilities."
|
July 2 - 8
Seattle Site of the Week:  
Sustainable Seattle
Here's some of what you'll find on Sustainable Seattle's Summer 2000 Web pages: "Sustainable Seattle is a citizen group working to improve our region's long-term health and vitality - cultural, economic, environmental and social." One goal is "to influence local actions, both individual and collective, that move us in the direction of sustaining a healthy, balanced relationship between people and the earth, leaving a worthy legacy of prosperity for future generations." ... "Sustainability... The term is now being used worldwide, in every language, to express this critical concept for the future of human societies on earth: that to survive, we need to better understand the consequences of current growth and development patterns on future generations and to pay attention, now, to the linkages that make the environment, economy and society interdependent." ... "The Indicators of Sustainable Community are the product of a community dialogue about our common future. Hundreds of Seattle-area volunteers have invested thousands of hours to design and research this integrated 'report card' on long-term trends in our region." ... "Indicators are selected quantitative measures that allow us to gain better insight into our region's health and vitality. Sustainability indicators cover not just environmental issues, but extend into a broad range of topics from economics to culture." ... "Is Seattle on the road to a healthier community? Yes and no... The report, Indicators of Sustainable Community, 1998, uses a list of 40 indicators to chart Seattle's progress toward or away from sustainability. ... the report presents a mixed bag of improving, declining, and neutral trends..." The 1998 report "is the third indicators report since 1993. ... The next Indicators report is scheduled for publication in the year 2000." "Sustainable Seattle is an open forum of civic-minded individuals. Your participation is welcome! You may participate in a variety of ways and at whatever level you wish. Sustainable Seattle has an open door policy for new participants. People can join a Task Team or just attend events." Volunteers "represent a wide spectrum of community life: civic and social activists, students, business people, local officials, workers and professionals, religious leaders, educators, scientists, and artists." "... the next step for Sustainable Seattle...: to become a center for applied sustainability." |
Workshop on Trident Nuclear Missiles