2024: The Pacific Northwest
We were last there in 2016 and look forward to seeing all of our friends and making new connections!
Once again, we will be in wooden boat shows, protest against the Bangor Nuclear-Armed Submarines, the Indian Island Munitions Depot near Port Townsend, and Fleet Week in Seattle.
And as always, we will have educational programs and ask politicians to support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and other measures to pull us “Back from the Brink” of nuclear war!
Organizing calls
If you live near the Pacific Coast. Salish Sea or Puget Sound in Washington, Oregon or British Columbia, please join our weekly organizing zoom calls!
NEXT CALL: Tuesday March 26 at 6:00 pm
If Tuesday at 6 pm Pacific is inconvenient, please let me know what is better – Helen, 206-992-6364
Or zoom in by phone:
253-205-0468
Meeting ID: 819 7557 7010
Passcode: 1234
Tentative 2024
Sailing Schedule!
Updated 3/17/24
— Added Everett stop
— Decreased days in Portland, separated from Vancouver
Updated 3/18/24
— Added Rainier, OR stop
Mon 7/15 Eureka, CA Departure / Press Conference
Wed 7/24 to Sun 7/28 Port Ludlow, WA
— Sat 7/27 Boats by Bangor Protest
Sun 7/28 to Sat 8/10 Seattle:
— Tues 7/30 Protest with kayaktivists against Fleet Week Parade of War Ships
— Sat 8/2- Mon 8/5 Hiroshima Commemoration, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
— Tues 8/6 Hiroshima Commemoration, Greenlake in Seattle
— Fri 8/9 Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Church
Sat 8/10 to Wed 8/14 Tacoma
— Sun 8/11 Event with Maritime Museum?
Wed 8/14 to Sat 8/17 Olympia
— Fri 8/16 7:00 to 9:00 pm Traditions
— Fri 8/16 Enlighten Kitsap?
Sat 8/17 to Sun 8/18 Bainbridge Island
Sun 8/18 to Mon 8/19 Everett
— Sun 8/18 Event with Everett Marshallese?
Mon 8/19 to Wed 8/21 Coupeville (Whidbey Is)
Wed 8/21 to Fri 8/23 Bellingham
Sat 8/24 to Mon 8/26 Vancouver, BC
Mon 8/26 to Wed 8/28 Friday Harbor
Thu 8/29 to Mon 9/01 Victoria, BC:
— 8/30 to 9/1 Victoria Classic Boat Show
Mon 9/02 to Thu 9/05 Deer Harbor (Orcas Is)
OR possibly another island in the Salish Sea –
Thu 9/05 to Sun 9/08 Port Townsend, WA:
— 9/6 to 9/8 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
Tue 9/10 to Thu 9/12 Astoria, OR
Fri 9/13 to Sun 9/15 Vancouver, WA
— 9/14 Vancouver Peace Fair
Sun 9/15 to Wed 9/18 Portland, OR
Wed 9/18 to Fri 9/20 Rainier, OR
Fri 9/20 to Sun 9/22 Astoria, OR
Tue 9/24 to Sun 9/29 Newport, OR
— event in Lincoln City?
Sat 10/05 Eureka, CA
— Arrival / Party / Press Conference
Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War
Recording available HERE.
Upcoming Events
California VFP Convention April 12 – 14
International Uranium Film Festival, Pacific Northwest, April 14 – 20 (see post)
Thank You for the New Sails!
THANK YOU so much to our supporters who donated generously to pay for the sails! The sail cloth and sails have arrived in Costa Mesa, where Bob Kettenhofen and his son Alec will create the mainsail, mizzen sail and two sail covers as well as apply the Veterans For Peace and Peace Sign logos!
The Kettenhofens love our project and gave us a GREAT PRICE! Soon the Golden Rule will be able to sail around Humboldt Bay!
There are always repairs and maintenance projects (it’s a boat, after all). We also need to have enough money for docks, crew food and travel, brochures and t-shirts.
Thank you all of the people who have contributed their love, time and money to the unique mission of the historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat. Because of you we have made many friends and educated tens of thousands of people about the continuing dangers of nuclear war, and we have helped build support for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
This would be a great time for an infusion of cash and a vote of confidence for our continuing mission. Thank you so much for being part of the Golden Rule family!
Please click the donate button or send a check to:
VFP Golden Rule Project
PO Box 87
Samoa, CA 95564