ANACORTES:(Updated 1/31/07) There is an ongoing vigil every Sunday from 12:00 noon until 1:00 PM at the corner of 12th and Commercial Ave. in downtown Anacortes. This vigil has been going since before the Iraq invasion. Bring a sign of your choosing and join our friendly, peaceful group. Howard Pellett (360) 293-8128 cpellett@cablerocket.com <mailto:cpellett@cablerocket.com>
BALLARD VIGIL:(Updated 1/31/07) Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 in front of Tully's on Market Street . Join us! We've vigiled in this spot weekly since fall 2002. Info: ballard@snowcoalition.org or 206-784-2085
BOTHELL: Bothell MoveOn.org holds a vigil protesting the Iraq War on Sundays from 11 am to 12:30 pm on the corner of Main Street and Bothell Way NE. Come join us and make your voice heard! Bring a sign if you have one, though we try to have extras on hand. We know you are out there and we would love to grow this vigil – currently we are getting between 2-10 people per week. Please come and join us! For more information contact tracy@ruef.us.
BREMERTON: Fridays 5:10 to 6:40, corner of Washington Ave and 1st St. Please join our group greeting two ferry commuter boats with signs of your choice. Between boats we relax at our favorite locally owned and operated coffee shop for thought provoking conversation. For additional info contact kitsapforpeace@gmail.com or call Jane Rebelowski at 360-479-7179 (after 6:00 p.m.)
CARNATION VIGIL: (updated 3/21/07) Carnation Vigil: Every Tuesday evening, 5 to 7 PM at the intersection of Tolt Ave. and Bird St in Carnation.
Contact: Mary Crane, epjc@songdog.eskimo.com (Awaiting contact phone number)
DOWNTOWN: FEDERAL BUILDING:
TUESDAY: (Updated 2/7/07) from 11 am - 1 pm. Come stand with Joe Colgan and members of Military Families Speak Out. Join us in visits to the senators offices to demand that the troops be brought home and funding for an unjust war be cut off. (Joe is the father of Lt. Ben Colgan, KIA in Baghdad, Iraq, November 1st, 2003.) For information contact joepatcolgan@comcast.net , or tell: 206-824-5368
WEDNESDAY: (Updated 1/31/07) at Federal Bldg. (2nd & Marion), each Wednesday, 4:30-6pm. This is a Declaration of Peace vigil as a continuation of CodePink's Troops Home Fast. Contact Duff Badgley: 206-283-0621, eduffb@hotmail.com <mailto:eduffb@hotmail.com> .
EDMONDS: SNOHOMISH COUNTY WOMEN IN BLACK VIGIL: Women in Black stands at the Edmonds ferry dock (near the walk-on passenger building at Brackett's Landing) every Sunday 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Signs are "for peace" or "no more war" and aren't political. You don't have to be a woman and you don't have to dress in black. All are welcome. Info at beb@igc. 425-5383
GREEN LAKE (Updated 12/17/07) Sundays, 2 - 3 p.m., at East Greenlake Way N near N 63rd St near the crosswalk, Seattle; PEACE VIGIL, Bring the
Troops Home! Please come out to show opposition to the war. This vigil was revived several months ago, but is still small (as low as one person, as high as 10 people). It's a fun place to make your opinions known, with lots of drivers expressing diverse opinions and pedestrians stopping to talk. Please join us in our nonviolent witness; all peaceful people invited, bring signs, leaflets, and your friends and dogs.
KENT:(Updated 1/31/07) Every Wednesday there is a peace vigil from 12:30-1:30 PM in Kent at the corner of the Benson Rd. (104th Ave) and the Kent Kangley Rd. Bring a cool sign. For more information, contact Phil Heft at (253) 631 5789. pah@foxinternet.com <mailto:pah@foxinternet.com>
KIRKLAND: Kirkland Vigil meets 2nd Tuesday evening of every month in Marina Park Pavilion on the Kirkland waterfront park at 6:30 p.m..
We call ourselves "Citizens Along the Lake" (although if we were "Citizens Along the Shore" our acronym would be CATS.)
our web site (undergoing some renovation): http://mysite.verizon.net/resuxn0n/citizensalongthelakeforpeace/
contact: Donna Schill 425 821-5596
On 255 bus route
LAKE FOREST PARK:(Updated 1/31/07) Lake Forest Park For Peace continues its weekly vigil every Saturday morning at Ballingers & Bothell Ways NE from 11 AM - noon. Community Meetings start at 10 AM in the Third Place Commons Meeting Room at Lake Forest Park Town Centre. The monthly vigil for Darfur will happen on the first Saturday of each month from 11-12 on the east side of the intersection. For more info contact Bob Triutnau at bobtrut@juno.com
MADRONA VIGIL:(Updated 1/31/07) Fridays, 7:30 am - 8:30 am, at 23rd Avenue and E. Union St., Seattle. Join Madrona-Leschi Citizens Against the War (MCAW) to give heart to anti-war supporters on the way to work. Bring signs- but there are usually extras for all. For information, contact Kathy Barker (328-2804) kbarker715@comcast.net or Sarah Banks (720-1389) sarahb@saranjan.com <mailto:sarahb@saranjan.com> .
MONROE PEACE VIGIL: MPV meets every Saturday 12 Noon to 1PM corner of Hwy 2 and Hwy 203 (Lewis St ) Monroe. Contact person: Albert Penta 360-793-2129 albertpenta@hotmail.com
OLYMPIA: (Updated 8/8/07) The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation has sponsored a peace vigil from 12 noon to 1 p.m. EVERY WEDNESDAY for more than 27 years (since March 5, 1980) at the NW corner of Sylvester Park at Legion & Capitol Way in downtown Olympia. We provide plenty of signs or you may bring your own. This vigil conveys a friendly, nonviolent presence to passing pedestrians and motorists. Info: Glen Anderson (360) 491-9093 info@olyfor.org
www.olyfor.org <http://www.olyfor.org/>
OLYMPIA: (Updated 8/8/07) The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation has sponsored a peace vigil from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. EVERY FRIDAY since November 1998 at the SE corner of Percival Landing Park at 4th & Water Street SW in downtown Olympia. (During the part of the year without Daylight Saving Time, the vigil extends only until 5:30, but we always start at 4:30.) We provide plenty of signs or you may bring your own. This vigil conveys a friendly, nonviolent presence to passing pedestrians and motorists. Info: Glen Anderson (360) 491-9093 info@olyfor.org www.olyfor.org <http://www.olyfor.org/>
PHINNEY: Phinney Neighbors for Peace and Justice banner against the war every Tuesday morning from 7:30-9 am. Northernmost Aurora Ave. pedestrian overpass (2 blocks so. of 59th St. NW) . Access from Green Lake Way (turn by tennis courts) to the Upper Woodland parking lot. We supply the banner. Come by and wave to passersby and chat with neighbors.
Contact: Neil Planert :206-782-8773
REDMOND: (Updated 2/7/07) We continue to stand together as a community for peace every Friday from 6-7pm at Anderson Park in Redmond. Please join us. For further information contact: Peggy Loomis at 425-788-5292 or peggyloomis@hotmail.com <mailto:peggyloomis@hotmail.com>
SEATTLE: WESTLAKE PARK: (Updated 2/28/07) Women in Black still holds Thursday vigils from 5 to 6 p.m. at Westlake Park. All women are welcome to stand with us in this silent vigil. Please wear black or dark clothes. Bring a candle if you can. 206-282-6107 seattlewomeninblack@speakeasy.net <mailto:seattlewomeninblack@speakeasy.net>
SHORELINE:(Updated 2/21/07) "Shoreline Neighbors For Peace holds vigils every Sunday from 12:30 till 1:30 PM. 175th and Meridian. Come for all or part of the time. We have extra signs." Dwight Gibb, 206 546 1864, dgibb@earthlink.net <mailto:dgibb@earthlink.net>
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT Join members of Blessed Sacrament’s War Weary Prayer Group every Wednesday at 6:00 PM, following the 5:30 PM Mass We gather in the church nave, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Shrine, to pray for peace in Iraq. All are welcome to join us in this prayerful, respectful, and non-political gathering, as we read off a litany of names of those who have died (both US and Iraqi) as a result of this war, and ask Our Lady's intercession for peace. Blessed Sacrament Church is located off I5 and the 50th Street ramp, at 5041 – 9th Ave NE, Seattle. Contact: Nina Butorac, Chair; 206-782-2806 - nbutorac@yahoo.com
WEST SEATTLE:(Updated 1/31/07) Sundays, Noon to 1pm Junction of California SW and SW Alaska with tabling. Show your opposition to the war in Iraq publicly. We have signs, buttons and leaflets. Join us! jmrepp@comcast.net , 206.932.9522.
WHITE CENTER:(Updated 1/31/07) West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice also vigil with signs at the intersection of Roxbury & 15th SW in the White Center neighborhood weekly on Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm. Bring signs and join us in showing opposition to the Iraq occupation and/or the current administration. This a peaceful gathering and requires respect for differences. 206.763.1088 or jmrepp@comcast.net <mailto:jmrepp@comcast.net>
