Two Port Townsend residents who were cited in August after blocking an entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor during a demonstration against nuclear weapons proliferation say a Kitsap County judge was …
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Demonstrators carry a banner while standing in the roadway at the Trigger Avenue entrance gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on Monday morning, Aug. 10. Navy ballistic missile submarines are based at Bangor on Hood Canal. Photo by Glen Milner of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Brenda McMillan, 81, of Port Townsend carries a banner while blocking traffic at the Trigger Avenue entrance gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Kitsap County on Monday morning, Aug. 10. Photo by Glen Milner of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Two Port Townsend residents who were cited in August after blocking an entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor during a demonstration against nuclear weapons proliferation say a Kitsap County judge was “very sympathetic” upon reducing their fines.
Douglas Milholland, 66, and Brenda McMillan, 81, both of Port Townsend, said they appeared Oct. 27 in Kitsap County District Court where Judge Stephen Olsen reduced each of their $63 fines to $25.
Milholland and McMillan were among some 11 demonstrators cited and released Aug. 10 during a demonstration organized by the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action of Poulsbo, Washington.
Also, Ann Kittredge, 57, of Quilcene was cited that day with trespassing on military property by Navy security personnel after she and seven others walked onto the base to stage a die-in while blocking the roadway.
The demonstration was intended to draw attention to the continued deployment and modernization of the U.S. Navy's Trident nuclear weapons system, according to organizers. It also commemorated the 70th anniversary of the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, which led to the end of World War II.
