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Naval Magazine Indian Island has been there for years. It's not the largest on the west coast, Seal Beach, Ca is. It supports the ships and subs at Everett and Bangor. It's a pretty area, my ship pulled in there a few times. My Aunt lives nearby, beautiful area.

As long as the ships are in Everett and Bremerton, and the subs are in Bangor, Indian Island isn't going anywhere.

I noticed an interesting phenomenon on the way out to the protest. The sides of the roads were plastered with all kinds of politicians yard signs but I didn't see a single Aaron Dixon sign. But then at the park itself I saw no signs of any politicians save Aaron Dixon. In fact, on the march Dixon and his supporters carried over 15 signs with a contingent that appeared to be about 30 people. This is the first time I've been to a march with a single politician in attendance,where the group supporting him actually appeared to be the largest contingent at the event.

If anyone happened to take a good, reasonable high resolution photo of Aaron Dixon at this event, I'd love to have it for the October issue of Works In Progress - a progressive monthly newspaper in Olympia.

The navys dirty little secret, ha, you've got to be kidding the only way people don't know about the place is if you have youre head in the sand.

Nice photo essay. I hope everyone will visit DeclarationofPeace.org to take the pledge to take action - possibly including nonviolent direct action, to bring the troops home from this illegal occupation and oppose future military invasions. The Indian Island action was part of this national campaign. With a huge list of endorsers, including religious groups, I think it offers a lot of hope for the future of the peace movement. I think nonviolent interventions/interference, and many more people willing to risk arrest, are exactly what we need at this point in our history of resistance to the Iraq occupation.

Indian Island has been a weapons depot for longer than any of you have been alive. Look it up on the web, it's all there in the open...hardly a dirty little secret. I think you all may be a little too self absorbed with a bit too much sense of self inportance.
And why do you keep referring to this as a racist war? Naw, forget I asked, I can only imagine the logic that you'll come up with.

I think the folks that are nit picking about whether Indian Island is the first or second largest (or third) depot are missing the point. Our state is being used to store weapons of mass destruction. It has to stop.

Bravo to Elliot and all the brave martyrs who marched against this atrocity. At some point we all need to acknowledge what is being done in our name. To keep silent is to give consent to the horrific destruction in Afganistan, Iraq, and everywhere else where the U.S. declares might is right.

Keep post the time/dates on indymedia. I want to join you next time!

Yeh I was at the march, and I had my sign protesting the protestors, not the base. I can have respect for people and their opinion, IF, they take the consequences of the actions, but when I found that the group designated people to be arrested, that’s when I lost all respect for anything you have to say. If you sit there and talk and talk while others take the consequences for you, then you are spineless. Which would be the same as all those people on the day of the march, which looked at my sign and me and gave me a dirty look, but didn’t have the backbone to say anything. Which only two people did. And as I said that day, to those two people if each and every person that showed up donated five dollars they could feed people today not close a base or stop a conflict down the road MAYBE.