PORT TOWNSEND – Some anti-war activists in Jefferson County plan to join protests in Port Angeles this weekend, while at least one Port Townsend resident said she will protest at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
And, on April 15, a protest is planned near Naval Magazine Indian Island, a munitions storage and transfer depot for the Navy’s Pacific Fleet across the bay from Port Townsend, said Liz Rivera Goldstein, who helped organize a similar protest in September at the gates of the base.
Protests this weekend recognize the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. war in Iraq.
Rivera Goldstein plans to speak at the Saturday rally in Port Angeles.
She was among the 37 people arrested at the gates to Indian Island in September.
One person pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
Charges of disorderly conduct were recently reduced for the 36 people who plead not guilty.
They were fined $76 for blocking the road.
Rivera Goldstein was recently arrested during a protest in Tacoma on investigation of criminal obstruction charges.
She said a court appearance is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday in Tacoma Municipal Court.
David Jenkins, Discovery Bay resident and president of the regional chapter of the Veterans for Peace – which covers the North Olympic Peninsula – said he would visit the Arlington Northwest display planned Saturday on property just east of the Valley Creek Estuary Park on Front Street in Port Angeles.
The memorial for fallen U.S. soldiers in Iraq was last displayed on the North Olympic Peninsula prior to the Indian Island protests in September.
The memorial was set up at H.J. Carroll Park in Chimacum at a peace rally preceding the march to Indian Island.
