United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy.

Newspaper articles related to Homeland Security prison now going up on the Tacoma Tideflats published between 1999 and 2003 raise some new and troubling questions....

The Mast is published each Friday by the students of Pacific Lutheran University. This is an opinion piece written in response to a request from the editor in chief, Stephanie Christopher....

With the arrival of a huge new Homeland Security prison in Tacoma whose purpose is to facilitate the detention and rapid "removal" of non-citizens, a thematic session on non-citizens and racial discrimination held under the auspices of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva's Palais Wilson on Monday and Tuesday, March 1-2, should be of great interest to residents of Pierce County....

This piece on the new Homeland Security prison in Tacoma is followed by an extract from UN Special Rapporteur David Weissbrodt's Final Report on the Rights of Non-Citizens....

An article published in the Seattle Times on Feb. 26 was the first in any major newspaper in more than a year on the subject of the new Department of Homeland Security prison now nearing completion on the Tacoma Tideflats. The independently owned newspaper deserves kudos for beating to the punch a hometown paper, the News Tribune of Tacoma. But many important issues went unaddressed....

Since the local media aren't reporting the story, we decided to do a little investigating ourselves. After only a couple phone calls we found ourselves talking to Mr. Neal Clark, soon to become the new Field Office Director of Homeland Security here in the Northwest. In a telephone conversation on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 24, he told us that the "grand opening" of the new 500-bed Homeland Security prison in Tacoma will take place in the first or second week of April, and then spoke to us of some of Homeland Security's plans for Pierce County....

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee vigil at the Homeland Security prison on the Tacoma Tideflats began on the anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Here's a report of the first three days of the vigil....

Some pieces recently published in Prison Privatisation Report International suggest how the Homeland Security prison soon to opened in the Tacoma Tideflats and managed by a private company called the Correctional Services Corporation of Sarasota is part of a bigger picture....

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee-Tacoma, founded and led by Tim Smith, succeeded in persuading the Tacoma City Council to vote on Dec. 16, 2003, in favor of a Resolution to Defend the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. BORDC-Tacoma is part of a nationwide movement. -- The Department of Homeland Security will soon open a "Northwest Detention Center" on the Tacoma Tideflats at 1623 E. "J" St. Please visit this site in person in the next few days and see it for yourself. Don't bother looking for any signs identifying what it is, however, because there aren't any. Over the next months and years our community's commitment to the fundamental principles of our society as embodied in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution will be tested....

Local coverage of the UFPPC candlelight vigil held in observation of the first anniversary of the Feb. 15, 2003 "The World Says No to War" peace demonstrations worldwide (including Tacoma)....