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Armistice Records

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
DG.137
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
4.25 linear ft. (4.25 linear ft.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Armistice Records Records (DG 137), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1977-1984 (inclusive)
Creator:
Armistice (Organization) and Live Without Trident (Organization)
Abstract:
Group established in Seattle (Washington) to nonviolently protest against the Bangor Naval Base Trident nuclear submarine / missile system.

Originally called Live Without Trident, the organization grew out of the Pacific Life Community in 1977. It was established, and based, in the Seattle (Washington) area and was active within the state and the broader Pacific Northwest. Its purpose was to focus on nonviolent protest against the Bangor Naval Base Trident that built and deployed nuclear submarines and missiles. Other Armistice activities included non-violence training, nuclear disarmament awareness training, war tax resistance, media coverage of protests and campaigns against Trident, and networking / outreach for peace. Armistice also attempted to cover U.S. court cases against nonviolent anti-nuclear activists.

By 1981 the group had changed its name to Armistice. That year it helped launch an international petition drive to collect 5,000 signatures in every U.S. congressional district; this effort became the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. In the 1980s, Armistice became a member of the War Resisters League during the 1980s. Regular participants in and correspondents for the organization included Ruth Hood and Rosemary Powers.

This small collection includes information about Armistice's committees, chapters, program efforts, and court cases in which it took an interest. It was formerly named within the SCPC as Armistice / Live Without Trident Records, but was changed to Armistice Records in 2016.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these records.

The records were a gift of Ruth Hood, April 1984 [1984-041].

Processed by Anne Yoder, Archivist, May 2016.

For related materials, search the library's online catalog.

Items removed: Photographs, Buttons, Sticker, Banners.

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Copyright may have been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection or may have been retained by the creators/authors (or their descendants), in this collection, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

History / purpose and goals / structure.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1977-1978.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1979.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1980.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1981.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1982.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Coordinating Committee: Meeting minutes, 1983.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Chapter Coordinating Committee.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Legal/ Trial Coordinating Committee.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Press/ Publicity Committee.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Armistice Task Force.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Bangor Summer Task Force.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Live Without Trident Direct Action Task Force.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Nonviolence Training Task Force, 1978.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Nonviolence Training / Logistics Task Force, 1979.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Outreach Task Force.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Strategy Meetings.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Miscellaneous meetings.
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Closing of Armistice, 1984 (January).
Box 1 [SCPC-5471]
Chapter: Capitol Hill Nuclear Freeze.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: FEMA Action.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: Living Newsreel/Living Newsreal.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: Media Watch.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: Nuclear Puget Sound.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: South King County.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: The 1040 Puget Military Tax Alternatives.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: Wallingford.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Scope and Contents

poster removed

Chapter: Ward Street Nuclear Freeze.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Chapter: Woodland Park Peace Fellowship.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Affinity Group: Disarm band.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Affinity Group; Olympia (Washington).
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Affinity Group: Pacific Life Community (British Columbia).
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Affinity Group?: Periwinkle Alliance -- correspondence.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Affinity Group: Polaris actions/ Stop Trident / Convert Lockheed, October 28-29, 1979.
Box 2 [SCPC-5472]
Financial Records.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Fundraising.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Personnel.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Correspondence.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Form letters/ memos sent.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Armistice Coordinating Retreat/s.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Involvement with the Nuclear Weapon Freeze Campaign: meeting minutes, 1981-1983.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Scope and Contents

incomplete set

Involvement with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign: Miscellaneous.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Training material for nuclear freeze speakers and organizers.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Programmatic effort/s: Call for Armistice, April 17, 1982.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Programmatic effort/s: Project Survival Summer.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Programmatic effort/s: War toys.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Programmatic effort/s: Newsletter planning, etc.
Box 3 [SCPC-5473]
Programmatic efforts / events: Miscellaneous, 1977.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Trident Concern Week, 1977 (May 8-15).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Protests against Trident submarine, 1977 (August 14) and 1977 (August 23).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Miscellaneous, 1978-1980.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Occupation of Trident submarine base, Support Committee, etc., (May 21-23), 1977-1978.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Occupation of Trident submarine base press coverage, (May 21-23), 1978.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Polaris actions/ Live Without Trident / King's Bay, (October 28-29), 1979.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Polaris actions, miscellaneous, (October 28-29), 1979.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: West Coast Trident Resistance Conference, 1980.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Miscellaneous, 1981.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Nagasaki Day, "The Consequences of Watching the Nightly News", 1981 (August 9).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Civil disobedience at Trident submarine base (Bangor) and sentencing, 1981.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Miscellaneous, 1982-1983.
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Call for Armistice, actions, etc, 1982 (April 17).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Call for Armistice, press packet, 1982 (April 17).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Call for Armistice, media coverage, 1982 (April 17).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Response to the arrival of first Trident submarine in Puget Sound (?), 1982 (Summer).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Training for war tax resistance counselors, 1982 (December 20).
Box 4 [SCPC-5474]
Programmatic efforts / events: Armistice Tax Parade, 1983 (April 15).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Ritual of Peace, 1983 (June 18).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Never Again Hiroshima Memorial and Renewal (theater in the street), Seattle (Washington), 1983 (August 6).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: March for Jobs, Peace and Freedom, 1983 (August 27).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Northwest Peace Festival meeting minutes, 1983.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Northwest Peace Festival, Give Peace a Dance Coordinating Committee meeting minutes, 1983.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Northwest Peace Festival fair / festival and parade, 1983.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Northwest Peace Festival, Give Peace a Dance marathon, 1983.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Living and Laughing in the Nuclear Age (comedy show), 1983 (November 17).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: War toys boycott, 1983 (December).
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Miscellaneous, undated.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Scope and Contents

2 folders

Programmatic efforts / events: Trainings; skills sharing workshops.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Networking and outreach.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Publicity, press releases, 1977-1979.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Publicity, press releases and press packets, 1980-1983, undated.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Media coverage.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Media coverage of protests against Trident submarine.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: Media coverage of Ground Zero.
Box 5 [SCPC-5475]
Programmatic efforts / events: "The Trident Conversion Action Handbook. October 28-29. Bangor", 1979.
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Programmatic efforts / events: Rough draft of slide show script produced "Nuclear Puget Sound".
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

no slides included

Programmatic efforts / events: Booklet produced "From Trident to Life".
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

no slides included

Programmatic efforts / events: Maps drawn.
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Kevin C. Patz et al., 1979.
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

includes Jim and Shelley Douglass

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

volume 1, pages 1-144

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

volume 1, pages 145-270

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

volume 1, pages 271-399

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

volume 2, pages 400-506

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 6 [SCPC-5476]
Scope and Contents

volume 2, pages 507-634

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Scope and Contents

volume 3, pages 635-760

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Scope and Contents

volume 3, pages 761-845

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Scope and Contents

volume 4, pages 846-963

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Scope and Contents

volume 5, pages 964-1079

Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., Defendants' Trial Brief, 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., Defendants' Trial Brief (International Law), 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Jack Rubenstein et al., Government's Trial Brief, 1978 (December).
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Catherine Broadbent et al., 1980.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Julie Harris, 1978.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Tom Head, 1978.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Louise E. Kazda, 1978.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Robert Siegel, 1978.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Court case/s of anti-nuclear activists: USA vs. Michael A. Wells, 1978.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Reports etc. re: court cases.
Box 7 [SCPC-5477]
Reference material: Booklet "Dipstick and Friends" by Ray Collins, 1977.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Reference material: Booklet "Jailhouse Blues: Way Out Information about Jailhouse, the Legal System and Your Rights" by Anne Budd and Sandra Coffman.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Reference material: Booklet "No rest for 'Da Fence': Trident Trials 1980" by Ground Zero.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Reference material: Polaris actions, Wall Street Action, (October 28-29).
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Reference material: Miscellaneous.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Scope and Contents

4 folders

Reference material: Protests against nuclear weapons and/ or Trident submarine.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Scope and Contents

There may be more on this topic in the miscellaneous folders.

Reference material: Trident submarine.
Box 8 [SCPC-5478]
Scope and Contents

There may be more on this topic in the miscellaneous folders.

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