May, 2004

Saturday, May 15, 2004 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
200 peacefully protest Iraq war
More than 200 demonstrators gathered peacefully in downtown Seattle Friday to protest the Iraq war -- concerns driven home, they said, by the U.S. military abuse of prisoners there.

March, 2004

Saturday, March 20, 2004 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
War has made them advocates for peace
As the spokesman for an aircraft carrier that was bombing Iraq last year, Navy Lt. John Oliveira was on television daily, smoothly describing his government's goal of "taking the war on terrorism to the terrorists."
But inside, he was falling apart.

January, 2004

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
From Spanish Civil War to Iraq, activist Abe Osheroff looks back
...It was the beginning of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a neighborhood leftist recruited Osheroff and his friends for a different mission: helping evicted tenants by carrying the furniture landlords dumped on the sidewalk back into the rented apartments.
...For Osheroff, that was the start of more than 70 years of political activism, fighting the good fight for what the left calls social justice, and what he calls radical humanism.

June, 2003

Friday, June 20, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Street battle continues in Anacortes two months after war
...[A] standoff between Bush supporters and anti-war demonstrators continues in this salty little town, at the busy intersection of Commercial and 12th avenues, the turnoff for tourists headed to the San Juans. It's a battle of ideology, and a battle of wills. And, although numbers have dwindled, sometimes to a solitary stalwart, neither side is willing to budge.

April, 2003

Thursday, Apr. 10, 2003 - Seattle Times
Victory hollow to anti-war activists
A concern about the precedent of a pre-emptive war "is only heightened by the hype of whatever they're saying about victory in Iraq," said Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill of Lake Forest Park for Peace, one of dozens of neighborhood groups that make up Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW).

Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2003 - Seattle Times
Radio station makes pre-emptive strike against peace rallies
Listeners of conservative radio station KVI-AM (570) are going pre-emptive against the peace movement, crashing rallies and overwhelming them with their numbers to where peace demonstrators complain that the informal rules of engagement have been violated.

Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2003 - Seattle Times
Feisty peace activist creates a buffer zone
At 67, [Jody] Haug is the head of a force of volunteers who aim to keep the area's war protests peaceful. In a week of protests at the Federal Building, she witnessed police corral marching protesters on a Saturday and tell them on a Sunday they could not have a stage for rallies and vigils.

March, 2003

Saturday, Mar. 29, 2003 - Tacoma News Tribune
Local youth flock to military recruiters
The Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW), a Seattle-based coalition, has countered military recruiters by handing out "No Iraq War" buttons and inviting students to antiwar rallies, mostly in Seattle.

Friday, Mar. 28, 2003 - Seattle Times
Variety of emotions stirring inside Seattle-area residents
How are you coping with the country at war? That's what we asked a selection of people... Here's an extract from what they said seven weeks ago -- and how they're feeling today.

Thursday, Mar. 27, 2003 - KUOW-FM
The Conversation: Baghdad Strategy (includes streaming audio)
What are the best and worst case scenarios for the battle of Baghdad? We speak to Dartmouth professor Daryl Press, Toby Harnden, US correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, and Howard Gale of Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War on the anti-war effort in Western Washington.

Thursday, Mar. 27, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Peace activists say meager start won't dissuade efforts
Seattle, a liberal city with a well-earned reputation for robust protests, managed only a weak response this week to the war in Iraq.The peace movement's weeklong "emergency response" to the war drew crowds of less than 1,000 to downtown on all but the first day after bombs began falling.

week of March 26, 2003 - Seattle Weekly
The War: Never Enough Peace
The politics of keeping a movement alive after the war.

Saturday, Mar. 22, 2003 - King County Journal
Rally for troops in Bellevue draws crowd of hundreds - Anti-war protest takes place nearby
Flag-lined streets, hundreds of chanting participants and a constant symphony of automobile horns lent an air of exuberance to a support-the-troops rally near Bellevue Square on Saturday. Fewer than eight blocks away, dozens of peace demonstrators -- also carrying placards supporting the troops -- held a more subdued vigil.

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Thousands take to the streets in protest
Peace activists took to the streets by the thousands yesterday in cities from Olympia to Bellingham as well as several locations in Seattle. Spurred by the first salvos in Iraq that pierced the uncertainty about what for months has been a potential war, yesterday's...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 - King County Journal
Mercer Island protesters gather at Congresswoman Dunn's office
...[A]bout 30 people gathered in front of the offices of U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn in downtown Mercer Island Thursday afternoon. Speaking for her group, Eastside Suburban Peace Network, Annie Phillips said the small demonstration in the heart of one of the Puget Sound's richest communities was a tribute to grass-roots efforts for peace.

Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 - Seattle Times
Passions escalate in Seattle protests
A day of protests spilled into the evening as several thousand anti-war protesters gathered at Seattle's downtown Federal Building today.

Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 - Seattle Times
Military recruiters and peace activists visit Seattle high schools
[Charlie] Knox's counterrecruiters, affiliated with the Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War coalition, also are doing a little recruiting of their own, distributing "No Iraq War" buttons and inviting students to anti-war rallies.

Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 - Seattle Times
'Seattle 12' sentenced in protest at offices
The "Seattle Twelve," as they have come to be called, were convicted last week on charges of refusing to obey officers who told them to leave the Democratic senators' Jackson Federal Building offices in Seattle on Sept. 25. The activists had insisted on first speaking with the senators about a resolution authorizing the president to use force against Iraq.

Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 - Seattle Times
Federal Building closed during anti-war protest
The Jackson Federal Building was closed to the public yesterday and 10 protesters were arrested during an afternoon demonstration against a possible U.S.-led Iraq war.

Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2003 - Seattle Times
Protesters take to local streets as possibility of war looms
In October, Marsha McGlon-Morgan strapped a ?No Iraq War? sign to the top of her car and started driving around Lynnwood. An Episcopalian and a grandmother of 14, McGlon-Morgan...

Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
National day off to resist Iraq war
They want workers to call in sick, business owners to close shop and students and teachers to leave the classroom. The cause is what organizers across the country...

Monday, Mar. 3, 2003 - Seattle Times
Different groups, same message: support for troops
Supporting soldiers is about preventing them from losing their lives in an unjust war, said Howard Gale, an activist with Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War.

Sunday, Mar. 2, 2003 - Tacoma News Tribune
Neighborhood events mark 'decentralized' peace movement
These demonstrations -- just a few of about 20 weekly neighborhood antiwar gatherings in Seattle - might not make the news the way globally coordinated marches do. But activists say they're part of a new strategy for the peace movement: bringing the protests to the people.

February, 2003

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003 - King County Journal
Peace training, vigils set

Monday, Feb. 17, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Children's march caps peace rallies
Their face paint melted off, their cardboard doves lost wings and their socks got wet. Some of them whined to their parents. Some even had to be carried.But yesterday's crowd of anti-war protesters, ages 2 to 10, marched on, much the same way their parents did at another, much larger demonstration on Saturday.

Monday, Feb. 17, 2003 - Seattle Times
Crowd count adds up to infinite interpretation
Saturday's robust numbers mean lots of ordinary people came out, a signal the anti-war message has significant mainstream appeal, said Howard Gale, a spokesman for Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, one of the march's organizers. "Seeing this outpouring makes people watching on TV start to question what's happening," he said. His estimate: 50,000 to 60,000.

Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003 - Seattle Times
Millions march against war
Howard Gale, a coordinator of Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, said the anti-war protesters were bolstered by reports from U.N. weapon inspectors Friday that were generally favorable to those seeking more weapon inspections before going to war against Iraq. He put the Seattle crowd at more than 30,000.

Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle throng marches for peace
Tens of thousands of peace activists in Seattle joined millions of others in cities around the globe Saturday for a massive demonstration condemning the United States' push for war in Iraq.The crowds crammed into the Seattle Center at midday to listen to activists, politicians and artists...

Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Thousands in NW to rally against war
A day after the United States failed to persuade reluctant allies to commit to military action against Iraq, tens of thousands of people in the Northwest and around the world Saturday plan to take to the streets to express their views on the looming war. In Seattle, police expect 20,000 to 25,000 people...

Monday, Feb. 10, 2003 - Seattle Times
Peace begins in the neighborhood
Much of the local organization comes from Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW), a coalition of traditional activist groups, churches and scores of new neighborhood organizations.

Friday, Feb. 7, 2003 - King County Journal
Kent residents plan rally to protest war
The "No War in Iraq" march is being organized by local residents who have been carrying signs and standing at busy intersections around the city in recent weeks. One of the organizers, Otto Fink, an East Hill resident...

month of February, 2003 - The Seattle Sun
Neighborhood activists building a local movement
Since last fall, thousands of neighborhood activists have made opposition to war part of the work-a-day landscape across the city. Most noticeable are the "No Iraq War" signs, which seem to pop up every day at intersections somewhere in Seattle, be it in the Ballard, Greenwood, Ravenna or Lake City neighborhoods.

January, 2003

week of Jan. 30, 2003 - The Stranger
In Other News
While Blix's report of Iraq's evasion made Monday's 5:00 p.m. news, peace groups all over Seattle staged antiwar protests. The North Seattle contingent of Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW) made showings at rush-hour intersections like Greenwood and 105th.

week of Jan. 29, 2003 - Seattle Weekly
It's Not Too Late
Opposition to a U.S. invasion of Iraq is enormous and growing. It transcends the usual progressive choir, drawing countless people who never imagined they'd protest a war. Coalitions like Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War and Not in Our Name are diverse, vibrant, and wildly creative.

Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003 - King County Journal
Suburbs join in protest - Once silent peaceniks are starting to speak up
Both the Valley and the Eastside peace networks grew out of an organizational meeting Dec. 8 at Garfield High School conducted by the Seattle-based Sound Non-Violent Opponents of War Coalition, which had held its own first meeting in September. Participants realized that the 'burbs are where it's at.

Friday, Jan. 17, 2003 - Seattle Times
Peace rallies planned across nation tomorrow
Tens of thousands of Americans are expected to descend on Washington this weekend to protest the Bush administration's march toward a possible war with Iraq.

Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003 - KREM-TV Spokane & KING5-TV Seattle
War protesters gather in Seattle (via Google)
Official link @ KREM.com (registration required)
A lunch-hour demonstration drew about 150 people -- including a Seattle City councilman and a Ballard minister -- to downtown Seattle Thursday to condemn the impending war with Iraq. The anti-war demonstration commemorating the start of the 1991 Gulf War was organized by Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, or SNOW.

week of Jan. 15, 2003 - Eat the State!
Eat These Shorts
The Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW) coalition continues to grow, with 48 member organizations and a host of affiliated neighborhood action groups. As this issues calendar attests, the coalition's members are active, and coming up with new ideas for getting the anti-war word out to the people, and getting the people involved against the war...

Friday, Jan. 10, 2003 - Lynwood/Montlake Terrace Enterprise
Peace rallies are on the rise
They are showing up on street corners all over the area -- anti-war demonstrators, holding signs that read: "No War with Iraq." ...SNOW Coalition -- Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War-- has helped organized the rallies, by offering a web site to coordinate the demonstrations, and planning speaker events.

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2003 - North West Citizen
100 Miles of protest and growing
Antiwar protesters have been standing on freeway overpasses from the Canadian Border to Seattle. ...According to [organizer Rob] Baxter [of Bellingham], the idea started at a meeting of the Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW) coalition meeting in Everett in early December.

week of Jan. 1, 2003 - The Stranger
Shut Down the Town
In Seattle, antiwar activists are getting ready for the day the war starts. Several antiwar coalitions have put together a joint "Emergency Response" plan aimed at drawing attention to antiwar sentiment in Seattle.

December, 2002

Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002 - KOMO-TV Channel 4 (Seattle)
Shades Of The 60's And 70's: Antiwar Protests Promised
In Seattle, five groups have formed a coalition called the Emergency Response Network -- the Church Council of Greater Seattle, Not In Our Name, Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, No War Against Iraq Coalition and the Green Party.

Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2002 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Anti-war groups make elaborate plans to protest.
Peace movement ready to hit the streets immediately if U.S. attacks Iraq.
If a major war breaks out in Iraq, Seattle native Jody Haug says, she'll take to the streets and represent "the feisty old lady block" in a series of anti-war protests that have been planned well ahead of time.

Friday, Dec. 20, 2002 - The Lynnwood/Mountlake Terrace Enterprise
Local peace activist honored by U.N.
Shoreline community activist Kathleen Williamson was recently recognized with the United Nations Human Rights Day award for her work toward lifting sanctions in Iraq, and debt relief for third world countries. ...As the U.S. sits on the brink of another war with Iraq, Williamson is organizing peace demonstrations in Shoreline, through SNOW - Sound Non-violent Opponents of War.

Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 - Seattle IndyMedia
Washington Residents Amass for Day-Long 'Stop the War' Retreat
Over 1,300 Washington State residents gathered at Garfield High School on Saturday to participate in "A Day of Commitment to Stop the War," sponsored by the SNOW (Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War) Coalition.

Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 - Seattle Times
Anti-war protest packs Garfield High gym
Same article with photo: via CommonDreams.org
...[Y]esterday, roughly 2,000 people packed the Garfield High School gym in Seattle to discuss tangible ways to make their opposition to war felt in their communities – whether the idea be big or small. The event, "Stop the War on Iraq! A Day to Commit to Action," was sponsored by Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, or SNOW.

Friday, Dec. 6, 2002 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Many voices unite against war
New and veteran protesters of varied motivations join in single cause - peace.
Maybe you've seen one of their "No Iraq war" signs hanging in the window. Or you've gotten one of those mass petitions in the e-mail, asking you to write your representative with an anti-war statement. Or you've driven by the...

November, 2002

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002 - KUOW-FM
The Conversation: Anti-War Movement (includes streaming audio)
Are you one of the Americans still skeptical about military action against Iraq? What are you doing about it? What now for the anti-war movement? Guests: Todd Gitlin, Columbia University, and Ellen Finkelstein, Sound Nonviolent Opponents to War (SNOW)

week of Nov. 20, 2002 - Eat the State!
War On Iraq: A Day to Commit to Action
by Ruth Yarrow and Cindy Cole
With the threat of a devastating war on Iraq, the SNOW Coalition (Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War) is sponsoring an event to break the silence. On Sunday, Dec. 8, from 1:00-4:30 PM at Garfield High School (23rd Avenue near East Jefferson) hundreds will gather to commit to action for peace.

October, 2002

Saturday, Oct. 5, 2002 - Seattle Times
Peace activism back on the march
As the Bush administration pushes for military action against Saddam Hussein, and congressional leaders express support for it, activists in Seattle's fragmented peace movement are coalescing around opposition to a war with Iraq.

week of Oct. 4, 2002 - Seattle Gay News
Rep. Jim McDermott to receive award for work against war on Iraq
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-7) will be the recipient of a "Giraffe Award" given by a coalition of 13 Puget Sound groups working against a U.S. war on Iraq.

September, 2002

Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 - Seattle Times
Anti-war sit-in leads to arrests
Federal police arrested 11 people protesting a potential war with Iraq yesterday for refusing to the leave the local offices of U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray. ...All 11 are members of a newly formed coalition called Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War.

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002 - WestByNorthwest.org
Peaceful Occupation of US Senators' Offices in Seattle and Minneapolis
...[B]etween 10-11:30 a.m. this morning, a group of roughly a half dozen citizens entered the local Senate office of Maria Cantwell in the Federal Building at 3rd and Marion, and refused to leave until the Senator made a public statement opposing the war resolution. At roughly the same time a second group of similar number entered the office of Patty Murray and made the same demand. Both groups are dedicated to making this urgent call while observing nonviolent resistance.

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002 - Bellingham Peace Community
Sit-In Conducted at Senators' Offices (press release)
12 conduct sit-ins in local offices of Senator Maria Cantwell and Senator Patty Murray demanding public statements in opposition to war with Iraq.