THE GOLDEN RULE SALES AGAIN!

In 1958, four Quakers sailed a 30’ wooden ketch on a voyage from San Pedro, California, to the nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands to protest the nuclear arms race and open air nuclear testing by the United States.

They stopped off in Honolulu on their way to the test site, where they intended to place their boat and their bodies in the way of US atmospheric nuclear tests.

Although they were arrested (twice) and jailed in Honolulu, their mission was largely successful, as their voyage inspired another boat to sail into the nuclear test grounds that year.

You can read more about that historic voyage here.

Now the original Golden Rule is sailing again after being rescued and renovated.

Jim Summers, Quaker and Veterans for Peace activist, will be in Honolulu later this month to tell the story of that voyage and the men who made it, of the remarkable story of the 5 year restoration of the Golden Rule after it was found sunk in Humboldt Bay, and of the Golden Rule’s most recent 2,000 mile voyage.

Summers is scheduled to speak on November 29, 2015 at the Honolulu Friends Meetinghouse, 2426 Oahu Avenue in Manoa, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The free session is open to the public.

For more information, contact Ramona Hussey (ramona.hussey(at)gmail.com).