Meeting/Event Description
NEIS is the lead organization that is asking other environmental supporters and peace groups to sponsor and help with events in celebration of the Golden Rule (GR) peace boat. It arrives in Chicago Sept. 12 and departs Sept. 18. Here is info on GR.
"In 1958 a crew of Quakers sailed the Golden Rule from Hawaii towards the Marshall Islands, intending to protest and interfere with atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, although that voyage was halted by the government and the crew arrested. As a result of this highly publicized mission and public outcry about the radiation blowing around the world, President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. The attached video was made 9 years ago.
The Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat is only two months from finishing its epic voyage of the Great Loop around the eastern United States, having traveled down the center of the US, around Florida, a side trip to Cuba, up the east coast to Maine, back to New York, up the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Oswego Canal, and now in Lake Ontario!The little boat that COULD stop the possibility of nuclear war will now visit Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit, Traverse City, Sheboygan, Milwaukee and finally Chicago. See the website, vfpgoldenruleproject.org, for last-minute additions and the full event schedule."