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Under the direction of Doug Balcom, they sang his original composition, "The Lucky Ones", to the assembled guards and Navy personnel... The group then led the assembled activists in singing traditional protest songs while the State Patrol arrested the demonstrators. Activists blocked the entrance to the U.S. Navy's west coast nuclear submarine base in a nonviolent direct action the day before Mother's Day. Rogers, a retired Navy captain and former nuclear submarine commanding officer, said, "The destructive power of the nuclear weapons deployed here on board Trident submarines is beyond human imagination. [Extracted from the article] |
