The Peace Park Antinuclear Vigilers hope friends will come to celebrate 24 years of standing at the White House gates, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. The activists are part of Proposition One, a grassroots movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and the conversion of nuclear and other arms industries to provide for human and environmental needs. Check out and sign their online petition.Earlier this year, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton reintroduced, for the seventh time, HR-1348, the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act, which was inspired by Proposition One.
Show up on Friday, June 3, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., at Lafayette (Peace) Park (16th and Pennsylvania NW; McPherson Square or Farragut South Metro). Bring drums, music, leaflets, banners, whatever, and express your own opinions alongside the vigil signs. At 7:30 p.m., join in for a 10-block walk to Peace House (1233 12th St. NW) for a potluck get-together. For more information or to RSVP for the potluck, call the Peace Park Crew at 202/682-4282.