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Port Townsend City Council passes resolution to ban nuclear weapons

Residents tout small steps in same direction , Peninsula Daily News, By Brian McLean, Sunday, July 21, 2019 , PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend City Council members were moved when several residents impressed upon them the value of taking small steps toward a larger issue.

The council unanimously passed a resolution last week in support of a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons following similar actions earlier this spring by the Jefferson County commissioners and the county health department.

“My sense about what this means is not just moving away from the constant waste of money that, if it’s ever put to use, may cost us all of our lives, but also to free up the science and technology and engineering necessary to move towards a more useful strategy as a country,” said Port Townsend’s Doug Milholland, a resident who drove the efforts to pass the resolution.

“Let’s say yes to life.”

Forest Shomer, a speaker in May at the Global Earth Repair conference in at Fort Worden, said that whatever happens in the Key City reverberates.

“We’re right across the water from [Naval Magazine] Indian Island,” Shomer said. “We’ve heard the words so much, ‘Neither confirm nor deny,’ so we don’t know if, right at this moment, we’re sitting three miles away from nuclear weapons.

“It’s pretty personal to Port Townsend to make a statement of how we feel about that.”….  bmclean@peninsuladailynews.com.   https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/port-townsend-city-council-passes-resolution-to-ban-nuclear-weapons/

July 22, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war