We gather at an old bunker at Fort Worden State Park for the 2005 Port Townsend Peace Portrait.                                                    Photo by David Conklin.

The Port Townsend Peace Movement is comprised of people with a wide range of interests, points of view, and talents. If you’d like to join with us to work for peace, please contact us and we’ll help you find your niche. New members are welcome and encouraged to participate in any and all activities sponsored by the PTPM and our affiliates.

Please come to one of our monthly meetings (first Thursday of each month at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend, 6:30-8:30 PM). This is a great way to meet fellow PTPM members and to help us achieve our goals of community cohesion and peace and justice at all levels. Please understand too, that, because we are an all-volunteer effort, sometimes messages and communication falls through the cracks. Don't get discouraged.

Direct Action
This committee is involved in actions that respond to critical events in the moment, such as participation in local and nationwide marches and demonstrations, and bringing resolutions before the Port Townsend City Council and Jefferson County Board of Commissioners to withdraw from Iraq and Bring Our Troops Home!
Contact: Doug Milholland, 385-6525, douglasmilholland@waypt.com

Education
The Education Committee provides a regular monthly schedule of speakers and films. Events are generally held one Thursday evening a month at the Port Townsend Community Center, uptown at 620 Tyler Street. For upcoming events, see the Leader or sign up to receive email announcements at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/ptpm.announcements
Contact: Gary Engbrecht, 385-4341, spoolie@gmail.com

Media
In addition to producing flyers and helping with public notification of events, Media oversees the airing on PTTV of weekly cable TV programs by Pepperspray Productions, an alternative media group that covers issues and events avoided by the mainstream corporate media.
Contact: Darlene Durfee 379-8623, thedurfees@cablespeed.com

Organizational
Performs some logistical and administrative back up functions for the PTPM.
Contact: Frank Hoffman, 385-9605, frankinpt@yahoo.com

The PTPM Lobby Group works to influence government policy on peace and justice matters through legislative visits, media outreach and workshops. We have held numerous meetings with Rep. Norm Dicks, Sen. Patty Murray, and Senator Maria Cantwell and their staffs, as well as with city and county elected officials. We've also offered workshops on effective lobbying, including "desktop lobbying." To help in this work, at any level of involvement, contact Frances Andrews (fandrews@olypen.com), Cameron McPherson (mcp@olympus.net) or Bob Schultz at 379-3397 (rschultz@olympus.net).

Port Townsend Depleted Uranium Study Team (PT DUST). Depleted Uranium is a Weapon of Mass Destruction as defined by the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations and its victims are faced with a continuing legacy of birth defects, disease, death, and environmental contamination. Community awareness of the depleted uranium munitions being stored and transshipped at Indian Island must be elevated; discussion and actions must be brought into the public forum. For more information contact Doug Milholland at 385-6525 and see http://www.olympus.net/community/ptforpeace/ptdust/ptdust.htm

Port Townsend Peace Vigils take place at the downtown ferry intersection next to US Bank on Saturdays at 12:30 and will continue each Saturday until the war is ended. Anyone interested in nonviolently demonstrating for the end of the war is invited. Bring flags, banners, posters, and friends. Love the troops! Hate the war!

The Women in Black silent vigil against violence is held from 1:30 to 2:30 on Monday afternoons. The location is the park at Water and Adams Streets beside Nifty Fifties. Please stand with them. For more information, call Belle Zimmerman, 379-1298, or Peggy Smith-Venturi, 385-6010.

Naval Magazine at Indian Island. The U.S. Navy has announced that the Naval Magazine Indian Island is going to be remodeled to allow one or more classes of nuclear submarines to load torpedoes and tomahawk missiles. The Naval Magazine Indian Island has become the major West Coast container shipping ports of weaponry without having any public hearing. Please consider sending a letter to the County Commissioners and the City Council requesting that a Public Hearing occur in regards to the continuing expansion of NavMag Indian Island. Call Doug Milholland at 385-6525 for more information.

The Nicholas Virgilio Peace Award recognizes a graduate from each local high school – Port Townsend, Chimacum & Quilcene – who has demonstrated a compassionate nature and generous spirit toward humanitarian causes. Each recipient receives $1,000 which can be applied to furthering their education or toward continuing compassionate service. Please consider donating to this ongoing award to deserving young peacemakers. Checks can be made payable to: The Uphill Both Ways Foundation, P.O. Box 855, Chimacum, WA 98325. For more information, contact Al Cairns, 385-1410, aquabundance@riseup.net

The Port Townsend Raging Grannies could use some radical sisters who have grown older without having entirely grown up. Voice quality irrelevant. Contact: Darlene, 379-8623, thedurfees@cablespeed.com

Vigil at Indian Island, every Thursday noon to 2:00 pm, in the Lloyd L. Goode Memorial Park across from the entrance to Naval Magazine Indian Island. This vigil in the park across from the Naval base gate has been held every Thursday since the beginning of the US invasion to observe the occupation of Iraq. For a ride to these vigils, call Marilyn at 379-0432 or Brenda at 385-5436 before 10 am any Thursday.

Conscientious Objector Discussion Groups. Topics include draft registration, women in the military, nonviolent movements and social change, war and peace. Alternatives for college funding, job skill training and travel opportunities are being compiled by the group. Learn about how to begin your file of documents to be a conscientious objector to war. Contact Liz Rivera Goldstein, 379-3318, for more information.

The Conversation Cafe: Dialogue Vs. Discussion. Noon on Fridays at the Lighthouse Café, 955 Water Street. For more information, contact Jim Rough, 531-0958, jim@tobe.net. http://www.conversationcafe.org