Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

Sat, Sun, Mon Aug 5, 6, and 7, at Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, 16159 Clear creek Road NW, Poulsbo

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Never Again. Take Action to Abolish Nueclear Weapons. A remembrance of the first atomic bombings and resistance to the Trident Nuclear Weapons System.

Events start Sat 4 pm, includes potluck dinner, welcome of peace walkers.
Sat: walk to Bangor base, Hiroshima commemoration, non-violence training.
Mon: early morning non-violent direct action at Bangor Main Gate.

For more information visit http://www.gzcenter.org , e-mail info@gzcenter.org or call Brian Watson: 360-479-6399

Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action annual Peace Fleet event to Meet the U.S. Navy fleet at Seafair.

Peace boats in Elliott Bay by noon, ground contingent 1 pm at Pier 66, downtown Seattle.

This year, activists are also encouraged to meet on land on the Seattle waterfront at the same time for a nonviolent demonstration against weapons of war. Meet on the waterfront by 1 pm to see vessels in Elliott Bay. We are inviting all with the spirit of nonviolence, a sign, and a boat to join us. Peace Boats in the past have displayed earth and peace flags, and signs stating No More War, Impeach Bush, and USN=WMD, and a banner stating "Danger! Navy has weapons of mass destruction."

All boats should expect to be boarded by the Coast Guard. Boats must have approved audible sound devices, registration, life jackets, etc. Skippers should carry identification. All boats are required to stay 500 yards away from Navy warships. It is highly advisable to obey all Coast Guard orders. One Peace Fleet skipper is still contesting a $10,000 civil penalty for allegedly being too close to U.S. Navy vessels in August 2004.

We demonstrate for peace at a Seattle maritime festival because the celebration of warships in our harbor help bring about the normalcy of modern war. The fleet arrival at Seafair is a public relations and recruiting event for the U.S. Navy. Previous years have brought Trident nuclear submarines and Navy warships used to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first and second Wars on Iraq and the War on Afghanistan.

The fleet is displayed for four days in downtown Seattle at tremendous cost to taxpayers while crucial social services in education, health care, and transportation are being cut for lack of funds.

For more information contact Mary Gleysteen (360-297-3894), Glen Milner (206-365-7865), or info@gzcenter.org.

Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Muslim Religious Leader and Peace Activist, and Dr. Phylis Tyler, Paster, Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church, Alhambra will deliver Prayer for Peace from their tradition:

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance -- Muslim Prayers in Christian Worship -
Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church will hold their 7th Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Sunday on August 6 at 9:15 am with Imam Ali Siddiqui joining Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Rev. Phyllis Tyler and Lay Speaker Toshiki Umehata for Prayers and Peace.

The invitation for Muslim brother Imam Ali Siddiqui to join in worship came through the leadership of Rev. Dickson Yogi who chairs the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of the Sage
Granada Park congregation. The Committee works to bring major religions together in dialogue and to foster understanding and respect between religions.

A Prayer Vigil for Peace will be held in the evening at the church sponsored by the Peace with Justice Center of the Pomona Valley. All are invited to attend both events. The church
is located at 1850 West Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA. Call 626-233-5698.

(Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto (Hiroshima Survivor), Imam Ali Siddiqui

Event Description:

PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
2425 E. Street, La Verne, CA91750, 951-734-4599
Chairperson: Doreena Wright; Vice Chair: Ramon Pasoda; Secretary: Bill McClellan

Join us in the 7th Annual Prayer Vigil
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day
2 Venues:
Mobilization of Communities for the Elimination of design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction

On August 6, 1945 first time ever Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent human beings, men, women and children, residents of Hiroshima and as if it was not enough, on August 9, 1945 another Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent residence of Nagasaki. We should always remember these days and the horror of war especially the horror of nuclear devastation. We should mobilize our communities at home and in the world to rise up against the design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction including chemical, biological, and Nuclear weapon and the use of Depleted Uranium. War is a deception! And it does not solve any problem and issue. It only kills innocent people and spread devastation across this earth.

PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
In cooperation with other local organizations, churches, musjids, synagogues and temples organizing 7th Annual Prayer Vigil to remember the victims of nuclear destruction and horror of war and to renew our commitment to join hands in a movement to end senseless Nuclear Proliferation.
We should say it loud and clear:
No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!
No more Nuclear Holocaust!
In cooperation with Japanese-American community and Sage Granada United Methodist Church
First Venue:
Special Guest: Hiroshima Survivor, Hon. Haruyoshi Fujimoto
Music by: Cantor Steve Puzarne, Breeyah Center, Los Angeles
Speakers includes Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco
Date: Sunday, August 6, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Sage Granada United Methodist Church, Alhambra, CA
1850 W. Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803
Tel. 626-284-3229

DIRECTIONS: Freeway 10, exit at Atlantic. (After exiting #10, the road splits into 3 exits. Take the 2nd exit which goes south on Atlantic) Go south on Atlantic. Turn right (west) at the first traffic light on Hellman. After about 5 blocks you will see a very tall bell tower on the left (south) side of the street. That is Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Pastor Dr. Phyllis Tyler 626-284-3229; Dickson K. Yagi 909-398-1519;
Prof. Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143
Second Venue: Friday, August 4, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church,
Bonita Ave., Claremont, CA
Special appearance by the
Green Something Circus
Political satire performance troupe
Music by: Bill McClellan and Anne Koegel

Speakers include Fr.Tom Weber, Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Dr. Rosemary Ruether, Claremont Graduate College, Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco

DIRECTIONS: Take 10 FWY to Claremont, Exit on Indian Hill Blvd., go North, Turn Left on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot. OR Take Foothill Blvd., Turn Left on Indian Hill Blvd., Turn Right on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143

Event Description:

Peace Farm members and friends will meet at the Pantex gate, FM 2373 north of U.S. 60, as workers leave the plant. Begins at 3:30 p.m., ends at 4 p.m., followed by potluck at the Peace Darm at 5 p.m. The Peace Farm is locaated at 188 Hwy 60, aproximately 3 1/2 miles west of FM 2373, between County Rd 6 and County Rd B.

Event Description:

Ongoing antiwar Friday vigil focuses on Hiroshima Day as an object lesson for peace in the world. Bring signs and friends.

Event Description: Friday, August 4th, 7 - 9pm Barnes & Noble Bookstore 1723 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill Courtesy of Barnes & Noble Juhasz talks about her new book, “The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time” Part of Pittsburgh's stop Bechtel convergence

Event Description:

Pax Christi MI and the Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network are organizing a bus trip to the August 6th protest at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenessee ( http://august6.org/node/48 ). The bus will leave at 9pm Fri., Aug 4 from Our Lady of Fatima Cath. Church in Oak Park, MI (9 1/2 Mile Rd. & Coolidge).

Event Description:

Friday, August 4, 9:00 AM Carpools leaving Denton at 9:00 AM To join Protest at the Pantex gate Peace ACtion Denton will join Peace Farm members and friends meeting at the Pantex gate (between Amarillo and Panhandle), as workers leave the plant. Begins at 3:30 p.m., ends at 4 p.m. Optional potluck at the Peace Farm at 5 p.m. Leaving from Trinity Presbyterian, 2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton, TX at 9:00 AM, Friday, August 4.

Event Description:

The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

Event Description:

Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Muslim Religious Leader and Peace Activist, and Dr. Phylis Tyler, Paster, Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church, Alhambra will deliver Prayer for Peace from their tradition:

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance -- Muslim Prayers in Christian Worship -
Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church will hold their 7th Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Sunday on August 6 at 9:15 am with Imam Ali Siddiqui joining Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Rev. Phyllis Tyler and Lay Speaker Toshiki Umehata for Prayers and Peace.

The invitation for Muslim brother Imam Ali Siddiqui to join in worship came through the leadership of Rev. Dickson Yogi who chairs the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of the Sage
Granada Park congregation. The Committee works to bring major religions together in dialogue and to foster understanding and respect between religions.

A Prayer Vigil for Peace will be held in the evening at the church sponsored by the Peace with Justice Center of the Pomona Valley. All are invited to attend both events. The church
is located at 1850 West Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA. Call 626-233-5698.

(Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto (Hiroshima Survivor), Imam Ali Siddiqui

Event Description:

PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
2425 E. Street, La Verne, CA91750, 951-734-4599
Chairperson: Doreena Wright; Vice Chair: Ramon Pasoda; Secretary: Bill McClellan

Join us in the 7th Annual Prayer Vigil
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day
2 Venues:
Mobilization of Communities for the Elimination of design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction

On August 6, 1945 first time ever Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent human beings, men, women and children, residents of Hiroshima and as if it was not enough, on August 9, 1945 another Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent residence of Nagasaki. We should always remember these days and the horror of war especially the horror of nuclear devastation. We should mobilize our communities at home and in the world to rise up against the design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction including chemical, biological, and Nuclear weapon and the use of Depleted Uranium. War is a deception! And it does not solve any problem and issue. It only kills innocent people and spread devastation across this earth.

PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
In cooperation with other local organizations, churches, musjids, synagogues and temples organizing 7th Annual Prayer Vigil to remember the victims of nuclear destruction and horror of war and to renew our commitment to join hands in a movement to end senseless Nuclear Proliferation.
We should say it loud and clear:
No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!
No more Nuclear Holocaust!
In cooperation with Japanese-American community and Sage Granada United Methodist Church
First Venue:
Special Guest: Hiroshima Survivor, Hon. Haruyoshi Fujimoto
Music by: Cantor Steve Puzarne, Breeyah Center, Los Angeles
Speakers includes Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco
Date: Sunday, August 6, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Sage Granada United Methodist Church, Alhambra, CA
1850 W. Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803
Tel. 626-284-3229

DIRECTIONS: Freeway 10, exit at Atlantic. (After exiting #10, the road splits into 3 exits. Take the 2nd exit which goes south on Atlantic) Go south on Atlantic. Turn right (west) at the first traffic light on Hellman. After about 5 blocks you will see a very tall bell tower on the left (south) side of the street. That is Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Pastor Dr. Phyllis Tyler 626-284-3229; Dickson K. Yagi 909-398-1519;
Prof. Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143
Second Venue: Friday, August 4, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church,
Bonita Ave., Claremont, CA
Special appearance by the
Green Something Circus
Political satire performance troupe
Music by: Bill McClellan and Anne Koegel

Speakers include Fr.Tom Weber, Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Dr. Rosemary Ruether, Claremont Graduate College, Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco

DIRECTIONS: Take 10 FWY to Claremont, Exit on Indian Hill Blvd., go North, Turn Left on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot. OR Take Foothill Blvd., Turn Left on Indian Hill Blvd., Turn Right on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143

Event Description: Time to Wake Up to Peace! Progressive Peace Day
Eighth Annual Peace Day - Santa Fe

Because Peace Day will progress to many important landmarks for peace, we are calling it Progressive Peace Day, Saturday August 5th, 2006. The commemoration will begin with a Buddhist mediation practice for peace at the Children’s Peace Statue. Santa Fe Mayor Coss will proclaim Peace Day. Children will hang peace cranes sent from around the US on the Statue and play “Cooperative Games” with peace crane folding - Tibetan Peace Tales - Prayer Flag making for a Children's Prayer Flag Procession across the Plaza to St. Francis Cathedral. An afternoon labyrinth walk at St. Francis Cathedral will flow into a procession to the Capital Rotunda for the Hiroshima Peace Bell ceremony. Churches all over town will ring their bells in response, after which we will plant the first Tree of Peace on the Capital grounds. Pax Christi will present Kathy Kelly from Voices in the Wilderness at El Museo Cultural Center in the evening.

Hotels, galleries and parks around the Plaza area will feature the local performance arts and much more. The schedule of events will be available at hotels, stores and cafes for people to find out about the many varied events. Peace Day is a call to the community to come together first to mourn the suffering caused by past and current violence all over the world, and second to celebrate our shared commitments to find solutions to so many pressing problems facing our community and planet Earth.

A "Call to Action" postcard will be passed out to the tourists and locals - put in their shopping bags - to mail to their legislators with a demand to uphold the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Event Description:

It’s as old as a John Lennon song and as new as your next thought. Imagine.
The first step toward the world we want to build for our children is creating that world in our imaginations. These days, as the Bush Administration pushes hard to lock in a nuclear future with funding for a new bomb plant in Oak Ridge, a new nuclear warhead design, and a new bomb test at the Nevada Test Site, we who believe in peace must mount our own surge toward a better world, a world where security is defined by relationships of trust rather than bombs and guns.
Imagination and creativity are the central themes of the August 5-6 peace action commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the enriched uranium for the Little Boy bomb was created. You’re invited.

Calendar of Events by Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance and others

JULY 16 – AUGUST 6 • Buddhist Peace Walk
from Atlanta to Oak Ridge, TN
404 627 8948 or atlantadojo@yahoo.com
www.peacepagoda.org/SmokyMountain

JULY 31 – AUGUST 6 • Footprints for Peace Run
Native American Ceremonial Run from Uranium Enrichment Plant to Bomb Production Plant
Portsmouth, OH to Oak Ridge, TN
footprintsforpeace.org for more info

JULY 31 – AUGUST 4 • Puppet Workshop
for novices and experienced puppetistas alike; come make giant street theatre puppets for the Oak Ridge action! tent space and limited indoor space available
Knoxville, TN
865 609 2012 for more information

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 • Rally and march
10:00am Peace Celebration, Alvin K. Bissell Park, Oak Ridge, TN
music, speakers, puppets, skits, sno cones!
1:00pm March to Y12 National Security Complex
almost 2 miles in blazing heat: bring water and sunscreen!
2:00pm Action at Y12

Additionally, there will be a bus trip from Michigan to this event organized by the Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 • Remembrance and Names Ceremony
6:15 – 8:30am Y12 National Security Complex
East End Bear Creek Road entrance

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 • Peace Lantern Ceremony
8:15pm – Sequoyah Hills Park, Cherokee Blvd West End, Knoxville, TN

TBD • AUGUST 7 or 9 • Action at Bechtel, Oak Ridge
stay tuned for details here or at www.stopthebombs.org

for more information, contact OREPA 865 483 8202

Some details:

This year’s format is slightly different from years past—DOE has fenced and bulldozed the nice green fields we usually gather in. So the peace rally on August 5 will take place in Bissell Park (where we usually start the march) beginning at 10:00am. We will enjoy the fruits of creativity—music, drama, giant puppets, community—as we celebrate life and say “No!” to the promise of death by nuclear weapons.
From Bissell Park we will march to the gates of Y12. If there are a thousand of us, the grounds won’t hold us all, but we are working with Oak Ridge officials (DOE seems delighted to be uncooperative!) to create a space for a physical presence to witness to life at the gates of the bomb plant. As plans are developed, we will post updates on the OREPA web site: www.stopthebombs.org.
On Sunday, August 6, we will gather at the gates to Y12 for our annual remembrance ceremony at 6:15am—we will read names of victims of Hiroshima, along with first-hand accounts of the devastation of the bomb—everyone is welcome to join in the reading and remembrance and the tying of peace cranes on the fence. The Remembrance concludes at 8:30am, after a moment of silence at 8:16 marking the bombing of Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, too
This year, OREPA will also mark the destruction of Nagasaki with a peace lantern ceremony in Knoxville, at Sequoyah Hills Park on the west end of Cherokee Boulevard. The ceremony, which includes music and a reading, begins at 8:15 and ends with the launching of peace lanterns in the Tennessee River. You can bring a peace lantern of your own, or launch one provided—we’ll have dozens. It’s a family-friendly event, as are all OREPA events.

Calling puppetistas!
OREPA will host a weeklong puppet workshop leading up to the action in South Knoxville. Experienced puppetistas and first-timers will gather to create giant street theater puppets and to develop a skit for Saturday’s peace rally. Overnight accommodations (a few indoor beds and plenty of tent space) are available, or you can just come for a day or two. The workshop is scheduled for July 31-August 4, with a rehearsal planned for the evening of August 4 and the morning of August 5.
We’ll be looking for puppet operators, too, to help with the skit on Saturday, so even if you can’t come for the week, you can come to a rehearsal and get a part!

Nonviolent in tone and action
OREPA’s events and actions strive to be nonviolent in tone as well as action. We prohibit drugs and alcohol, and we provide trained peacekeepers who help maintain an environment where everyone can express their desire for peace. If you are interested in serving as a peacekeeper, you should contact the OREPA office (865 483 8202).
OREPA will host a nonviolence workshop and a peacekeeper training on the evening of Friday, August 4 at a location to be announced (please check the website). If you are considering an act of civil disobedience or if you are willing to serve in a support role, you should plan to come to the nonviolence workshop on Friday evening.

What to bring
August tends to be hot in Tennessee, so we advise you to bring cool clothes, water, sunscreen, maybe an umbrella for shade—or rain. There are fast food restaurants near the peace rally site, or you can bring your own food. Wear comfortable shoes.

Motivation?
This year’s theme—Imagine a world without…racism, empire, hunger, poverty, bombs…Create—will explore the interconnectedness of all the aspects of violence, from social to economic to political to spiritual, and we will not only think about these things, but we will take action.
Joining with others around the country, we will be connecting the dots between bomb production, corporate profiteering, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and us! We will take a look at a prime dot connector, the Bechtel Corporation, with offices around the world, including Oak Ridge, TN where Bechtel helps make bombs.
Long ago Douglas MacArthur (yes, the general) said “Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream—that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on, or we will go under. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straitjacket of the past. We must develop sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal with for peace into actuality.”
It’s not often we are called to arms (and voices and feet) for peace by a General, but there you go. Come and gather with us in Oak Ridge in August—to imagine and to create a new world.

Event Description:

UNIVERSAL PEACE DAY commemorates the ANNIVERSARY of the BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA with a DAY-LONG event beginning at RIVERSIDE PARK, and continuing at NY BUDDHIST CHURCH and THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH SATURDAY, AUGUST 5th - in NYC 11am - 5pm

RIVERSIDE PARK* – 80 St (north of Boat Basin) Music, Poetry, Dance – featuring performers from Japan, U.S. Special Guests: Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) *Rain Location: NY Buddhist Church – 331-332 Riverside Dr. at 105 St.

6pm

NEW YORK BUDDHIST CHURCH - 331-332 Riverside Drive at 105th - Interfaith Peace Memorial Gathering – Film showing: Lost Generation, Music, Photo Exhibit, & a Peace message from Hiroshima Mayor Akiba. 7:15pm
CANDLE LIGHTING & PEACE BELL CEREMONY – @ NY BUDDHIST CJURSH (the exact moment of the Hiroshima bombing)

7:20pm

SILENT PEACE WALK – to THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH

8-10pm

THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH – Riverside Dr. (betw/ 120-122 Sts) Interfaith Service, Music, Dance, & Speakers Survivor featuring Robert Thurman, Oscar Brand, Josh White Jr, John Hall, Laraaji,and That Guitar Man.Special Guests from Japan: Rumiko Tanaka, Bunken Nagano, Shinji Harada, Yosuke Maki and Hiroshima survivor, Koji Kobayashi

 

COST: FREE!

To view UNIVERSAL PEACE DAY's opening and evening event on the web: visit: www.goodnewsbroadcast.com If you are unable to attend, please create it wherever you are, Light a Candle... Ring a Bell... Meditate,,, Visualize Peace,.. Let us know what you are doing... www.universalpeaceday.com To sign UNIVERSAL PEACE DAY's Humanifesto, go to: www.universalpeaceday.com JUST THINK IF WE ALL PARTICIPATE - PERHAPS WE CAN CREATE ONE DAY OF PEACE IN THE WORLD- IMAGINE! PLEASE PASS THIS ON....

Event Description:

SHARE THE VISION OF PEACE - commemorate the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing

A DAY-LONG event begins: 11am at Riverside Park (just north of the 79 St Boat Basin) with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) followed by performers from Japan and US; 6pm at the NY BUDDHIST CHURCH (NYBC) (RSD @ 105th) - film from Hiroshima, photo exhibit, music, Peace message from Hiroshima major and more.

7:15pm - CANDLE-LIGHTING CEREMONY at the exact moment of the bombing. 7:20pm SILENT PEACE WALK - from NYBC to RIVERSIDE CHURCH. 8:00am -THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH (RSD @ 122 St.) Interfaith Service, Music, Dance, Speakers including Robert Thurman as Keynote Speaker, Hiroshima Survivor, Koji Kobayashi and performers: Josh White Jr, Oscar Brand, John Hall, Laraaji,That Guitar Man, from Japan: Rumiko Tanaka, Bunken Nagano, Shinji Harada, Yosuke Maki

Event Description:

No More Nuclear Victims/No More War Causalities

The Peace Commemoration Vigil is from 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon

Program with Speakers, Music, Poetry, and Refreshments is from 12:00 noon to 3:00 P.M.

Featuring speakers include Beth Simon, Poet, Owen Broadhurst, Mass. Green Rainbow Party, will speak on War and Peace, Don James, Arise for Social Justice, will speak on Human Rights, and Brenda Lopez, Community activist.

Sponsored by Arise for Social Justice, Mass. Green Rainbow Party, Socialist Party of Western Mass., Western Mass. International Action Center.

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As we prepare for the protest at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab (http://august6.org/node/55), come camp out and relax with folks who want to see a world without warfare.

The campsite has built-in fun: A lake for swimming, plenty of trails for hiking, and bathrooms with running water. Please bring a tent, sleeping bag, musical instruments, and anything else you need to be comfy in the woods.

Check-in for the camp starts at 12 noon on August 5 and a wake-up call will be provided to campers. An evening huddle will start at 7 PM and will include discussion, music, and an all-faiths, atheist-inclusive Dance of Universal Peace.

Enjoy the vibe and prepare for the events of August 6 and 9.

To get to Del Valle from Hwy 580 in Livermore, California, take the North Livermore exit. Drive south through town until it becomes Tesla Road. Take the next right on Mines Road. Stay on Mines Road to Del Valle Road. Veer right up the hill into the park.
The gates to the park close at 9:00 PM, so please show up before then. You will need to register at the gate and each car must pay a $6 parking fee. (Well-behaved dogs are allowed for a $2 charge and owners must clean up after them.) Once you pass the camp gateway kiosk, take the first road on the right. Primitive Eagles View campsite is on the left.

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PeaceWorks is holding its Second Annual Peace Fair on Saturday, Aug. 5th in Brunswick. The fair opens with the reading (local performers) of "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" -- the closing is a gathering of fair goers and presenters with song and the dedication of the peace cranes folded that day.

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New York, NY The New York City War Resisters League (WRL) is sponsoring a Hiroshima/Nagasaki exhibit at Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, August 5, 2006, the sixty-first anniversary of the destruction of these cities by nuclear weapons. The informational exhibit opens at 1 pm and is free and open to the public. The WRL exhibit will close with a solemn procession from Tompkins Square to Christopher Street. Participants in the procession will gather at Tompkins Square Park at 7:00 pm and step off on the unpermitted march at 7:15 pm, following a brief ceremony to mark the actual time the devastation of Hiroshima began. The bomb fell at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima time - 7:15 pm on August 5th, New York time.

War Resisters will be on hand at the exhibit to answer questions and give out educational materials. Participants in the nighttime procession are being asked to wear white, the color of mourning in Asian cultures. The WRL will have signs, leaflets and candles available for marchers who may also bring their own materials. The procession will silently wind its way through the Village, bearing its message of peace, until the march culminates in a ceremony on the Hudson River where it meets Christopher Street.

Among the participating organizations are the War Resisters League (WRL), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Catholic Worker and the Kairos Community. Organizations and individuals involved note that this is the third consecutive ceremony occurring during more unnecessary wars.

Thomas Good, a War Resisters League activist and Students for a Democratic Society organizer, argues "The bloodshed in Japan yesterday, and that taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan today, is a terrible tragedy - the result of criminal behavior and depraved indifference on the part of the US government. We are appalled at the recent massacres and other crimes committed in the name of the US. For this reason our demonstration will stretch from New York City to Chicago - and beyond." Good noted that the march will occur during the SDS national convention, being held in Chicago. As the Manhattan Project was based at the University of Chicago - site of the SDS convention - a solemn march will be held there in conjunction with the NYC event. Vigilers will assemble at the Moore Sculpture at 6:00 PM Chicago time.

Frida Berrigan, a longtime member of the War Resisters League noted, "US foreign policy hurts everyone: Hiroshima and Nagasaki prove that if the weapons are produced they will be used. We hope the linking of protests, from New York to Chicago, will inspire others to join hands and hearts in a worldwide effort to stop US foreign policymakers from any further senseless bloodshed."

"Events commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be held in Japan and around the world during the period August 5th through August 9th - at the same time we are gathering in New York and Chicago," said WRL organizer Ruth Benn. WRL and SDS organizers have expressed a desire to see other US activists join in the call for peace by scheduling events in their cities during this period.

The War Resisters League is an 82-year-old secular pacifist organization, headquartered in New York City, and is affiliated with the War Resisters' International, which is based in London. WRL believes war to be a crime against humanity, and advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation.

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1-3:30pm: Teach-In on Bechtel and the Military-Nuclear-Industrial Complex.

A public discussion about Nukes, Profiteers and War with an eye to connecting the dots for the the anti-war, anti-nuke, environmental and global justice movements. Featuring:

• Antonia Juhasz, visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. “Bechtel, War and the Middle East.”
• Dan Fine, M.D., Physicans for Social Responsibility. “The ‘last epidemic’ and the escalating threat of nuclear war.”
• Paul Abernathy, Palestine Solidarity Committee. “Nuclear Politics of the Middle East.”
• David Meieran, August 6 Committee. “The revolving door in the military, academia and fortune 500 corporations.”
• An environmental speaker is tba.

4-6pm: Poster/Art Making as well as Civil Disobedience Training & Orientation [NOTE: This will take place at the Friends Meeting House, two blocks away from the First Unitarian Church]

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Remember Hiroshima Day: Converting the Heart to Peace – Duluth. Friends Meeting House, 1802 E. 1st St. 1 – 6 pm - Non-violence training followed by supper; 7:30pm Memorial Walk along Duluth’s Lakewalk. 8/6, Sun, Direct Action, time and place to be determined.

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Saturday, August 5th

WHAT: 3 - 4:30 Vigil at Main Gate (Stimson) on Hwy Spur 40 at Kings Bay Road. (Bring banners, posters, hand outs, chairs, etc... Parking available across the road from the site.)

4:30 - 5:30 Closing Circle and haring. Bring musical instrument, readings, reflection, etc ...

6 - 7:30 Social, Supper, De-Briefing, Announcements, etc... at Shoney's Restaurant, Hwy 40 & I-95 At 7:15 PM, which is 8:15 AM in Hiroshima -- the time of the nuclear blast -- we will end with silent prayer.

WHY: "Lest We Forget ...

* that sixty-one years ago 150,000 people, mostly non-combatants, were instantaneously killed by atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima ( August 6) and Nagasaki ( August 9). Subsequently, many additional thousands of Japanese citizens died of radiation poisoning from these two US nuclear weapons.

* that there are more Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) on the 5 Tridents and in the bunker area at Kings Bay than at any other place on the Planet.

* that the US will commit a staggering $ 170,200,000,000 ( billion that is) to the Trident system through the year 2032 yet leave its citizens without adequate health coverage, education, housing, jobs, etc ... www.nationalpriorities.org/sources/tradeoffsources.html

* that the 14 U.S. Trident submarines have the real capability to kill more than 14,300,160,000 (14 billion) people, which is 2 & 1/3 times the Planet's population.

We come on this day to stand for a few hours at the main gate of this site of potential ultimate destruction lest we forget the awful and awesome reality of the nuclear age. Come join us.

Sponsored by: The FROM TRIDENT TO LIFE CAMPAIGN in the Southeast. For more information, contact:

Robert Randall 912-262-1274
Sam Marshall 478-452-9540
John X. Linnehan 904-504-1004

rrandall@compuserve.com
samruth@alltel.net
metanoia1@earthlink.net

Endorsed by: Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice; Wage Peace, Jacksonville; Pax Christi, Northeast Florida; Metanoia Community, Orangedale, FL (list in formation)

Event Description:

Imagine... At 8:15 AM, Hiroshima, Japan local time, timezoneconverter, on either 8/6/06 or 8/5/06, depending on your position on the globe, you stand outside and hold a single helium-filled latex balloon, or perhaps several, hand tied with no string or ribbon. You let go, knowing, as you trace your balloons progress into the sky, that at that very moment, all over the globe, other people are doing the exact same thing, in the interest of world peace, 61 years to the day after the moment when peace was most utterly destroyed on this planet.

Why?
This balloon will have a minimal radar signature. Those who initiate and conduct the wars on this planet have sophisticated radar they continuously monitor. Your balloon will be seen.

Send your leaders a message: that you have an interest in world peace, that world peace is not only something you desire, but something you believe in, something you see as necessary. Not only necessary, but possible. Not only possible, but overdue. Show the powers that be, who believe you powerless, that you are not powerless, that power can be wielded in better ways than they choose to wield it. Peaceful, beneficial ways that harm no one and help all.

Use your power
On August 5th or 6th, at the time appropriate to your local time zone, release a balloon into the atmosphere for world peace, in honor of those who gave their lives so that you may live. I will release my balloon a 4:15 PM on the afternoon of August 5th, 2006. I’m hoping I will not be alone in doing so.

Remember, latex balloons only, hand tied with no string or ribbon. For the environment.

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We will mark this sad anniversary with a silent vigil followed by a brief program. Abbess Dia-En Bennage is the keynote speaker. We will meet at Soldiers & Sailors Park at Water & Market Streets, Lewisburg at 5:00 p.m. and will process silently to Hufnagle Park at 6th & Market Streets for a brief ceremony.

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Annual commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Music and family activities; 7:30, program; dusk, floating of lanterns.

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As the Manhattan Project was based at the University of Chicago - site of the SDS convention - a solemn march will be held there in conjunction with the NYC event. Vigilers will assemble at the Moore Sculpture at 6:00 PM Chicago time.

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On Saturday, August 5, at 6:00 p.m., John Brisson, a member of the Yukimakai (meaning amid the snow) tea study group, will lead a meditative tea ceremony at the time when people are gathered in Hiroshima to remember the bombing and its victims. A major purpose of the Yukimakai is to explore new ways of bringing the four principles of Chanoyu, Harmony, Respect, Purity, and Tranquility, into our daily life. Mr. Brisson has studied the tea ceremony with Patricia Katagiri for 11 years. People are invited to bring their lawn chairs to observe this almost silent ritual.

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All mid-Missouri peace advocates are invited to join in the 20th Annual Peaceworks Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration to be held beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday, August 5 at the Gordon Shelter at Stephens Lake Park (note this is a new location). The event will include a potluck dinner, lantern making, paper crane folding, music, speakers, performance art and a commemorative lantern float at 9 p.m. Don't miss this chance to share in the solidarity of the peace community and join in renewing our collective commitment to eliminate the nuclear threat. Note: On event type above this is listed as a vigil. It is not one. There were only five choices, protest, vigil, teach-in/forum, news conference or training. None of these really apply. The gathering is a coming together of the peace community in remembrance and renewal of commitment. It's a chance for us to experience the solidarity of our shared commitment to ridding the world of the horror of nuclear weapons and to take strength from our mutual concern and apply it to our daily work and lives.

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Film: ScaredSacred Saturday, August 5, 7:00 pm How can fear transform to hope? Amid the destruction of Hiroshima, Bophal, Bosnia, Palestine, Cambodia, New York, Afghanistan, are stories of survival, of ritual, resilience and recovery. Held at: Trinity Presbyterian, 2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton. Sponsored by Peace Action Denton. Admission is free.

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HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI REMEMBERED: TWO EVENTS PLANNED FOR REMEMBRANCE, GRIEVING, AND CALLS FOR LOCAL and GLOBAL ACTIONS

Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War are urging participation in these events planned around the 61st anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons.

*Sunday*, August 6th. 12:00 Noon

*Where*: The "Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion" at the southwest end of Chatfield State Park in LITTLETON, southwest of DENVER (see map at http://www.sspf.org/projects/pavilionProject.htm

*What*: Gathering at foot of the world's largest military contractor's operation in Colorado, to grieve for the horrific loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a result of the U.S. Government's dropping of atomic bombs in 1945. Speakers will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and use of peaceful means for resolving world crises. Adrienne Anderson will examine both Martin Marietta/Lockheed Martin's role at the Colorado site and nationally as well as the Denver Water Board's role in uranium mining in the vicinity. Together we will call for redress for the losses suffered in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the aftermath of global environmental damage. We’ll look at the local threat posed by unremediated radioactive waste along the South Platte River, upstream of metro Denver water supplies. Literature table, breaking bread together (bring water, sack lunches or food to share; we'll also provide beverages and light snacks).

Speakers will include Ken Seaman to talk about recent events regarding Plowshares activist Father Carl Kabat; Judith Mohling on the legacy of the bombings and the continued global threat; and Adrienne Anderson of RMPJC's new "Nuclear Nexus" project, to talk of little known local hazards at the Lockheed Martin/Denver Water Board site, and unabated threats to metro Denver's water supplies and public health, followed by calls for action for local and global health and security.

After the speakers' presentations, attendees may then join a guided "Toxic Tour" of little known chemical and radioactive threats in the immediate vicinity, undisclosed at the Lockheed Martin's "Discovery Pavilion." Revealed will be the "Nuclear Nexus" along the South Platte River and shared boundary between the world's largest military contractor's operations in Colorado - where missiles to carry nuclear warheads were produced - and the Denver Water Board's property, site of past and present water supply sources serving metro Denver area residents. The scenic tour will involve walking a mile or so up a gentle incline on a road into the Waterton Canyon (one end of the Colorado Trail). The "Toxic Tour" will end at the mouth of little-known uranium mine, where a citizens' investigation has documented ties to the Atomic Energy Commission's history of nuclear bomb production. Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water, to "discover" the Hiroshima connection right here in Colorado, and be a part of calls for action.

Directions:

The Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion is just south of Chatfield State Park and Reservoir, along the foothills southwest of metro Denver. This is also at the site of former Denver Water Board Kassler Water Plant, which is situated along the South Platte River and at the head of the Colorado Trail into Waterton Canyon.

From the north: Take I-25 south to the Santa Fe Drive exit. Go south on Santa Fe Drive for several miles to C-470. Take C-470 west to the Wadsworth (Highway 121) exit.

Take Wadsworth south past the main Chatfield State Park entrance. Continue along this road, parallel to Chatfield Reservoir. After passing Chatfield, the road begins to curve to the right. At that point, and just before the road climbs uphill, take a left onto Waterton Canyon Road, a little road that will then jog downhill. As you’ll see, this road is just a couple of hundred feet BEFORE the main security gate at the entrance to the Lockheed Martin complex. (Note: If you get to the Lockheed Martin plant gate, you’ve gone too far; just do a u-turn and go back down the hill a few hundred feet to the Waterton Road turnoff). Once on Waterton Road, take an immediate left into the Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion parking lot, where the event is to be held.

From the south: Get to C-470 from either I-25 or South Santa Fe (Highway 85) and go west on C-470 to the Wadsworth exit, then follow the directions above from that point on.

From the west: Take I-70 to the C-470 intersection (near Golden). Take C-470 east to the Wadsworth exit, then follow the directions above.

From Boulder: GO south on Broadway, which curves after leaving Boulder and turns into Highway 93. Travel past Rocky Flats (roll up your windows) and continue further several miles, to Golden. Follow signs to Highway 6, and go past Golden. Take I-70 west to the C-470 interchange, head southeast on C-470 for several miles to the Wadworth exit, then follow the directions above.

(Note: Dogs are not permitted on this part of the Colorado Trail (a good thing, given chemical and radioactive contamination of creeks and other surface water in the vicinity).

For more information: 303/444-6981
Adrienne Anderson
a2020@earthlink.net

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HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI REMEMBERED: Commemoration in Boulder Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War are urging participation in these events planned around the 61st anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. *Saturday,* August 5th, 9am - 2pm BOULDER *Where*: Boulder Farmers' Market, Canyon Blvd. and 13th Street *What*: Displaying photographs and text about the birth of the atomic bomb and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; distribution of literature about the "nuclear nexus" as represented by the major military contractors of today; space to be provided for written or artistic expressions by members of the public. For more information: 303/444-6981 Adrienne Anderson a2020@earthlink.net

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Who: Raging Grannies of San Jose and Peninsula Action League

What: Stroll the Sunnyvale Farmer’s Market with radiation detection devices, wearing haz-mat gear

Date: Saturday August 5 (day before the anniversary of the bombing of
Hiroshima)

Time: 11:15 am

GRANNIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT
Inspect Farmer’s Market for nuclear contamination around anniversary of Hiroshima Day

Livermore Labs, a mere 30 miles from Sunnyvale (center of Silicon Valley) is one of the primary labs for nuclear weapons in the world, where new nuclear devices are designed. The Department of Energy recently announced plans to double the plutonium limit at Livermore Labs to 3,080 pounds - enough plutonium for more than 300 nuclear bombs.

On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima (Sunday, August 6) Tri-Valley Cares will sponsor a Nonviolent Action at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. To bring attention to this massive demonstration and to mark the anniversary of the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, the Raging Grannies will conduct street theater at Sunnyvale’s Farmer’s Market from 11:15am the day before (Saturday August 5).

Granny Gail Sredanovic comments, “The Raging Grannies will test vegetables at the Farmer’s Market for signs of radiation. Our proximity to Livermore Labs puts us in a situation that is not only possibly unhealthy to humans, but is a constant reminder of the dangers of nuclear armament. Raging Grannies work year-round for peace and for a safe environment for our grandchildren and all children of the world.”

More information:
Raging Grannies Action League www.RagingGrannies.com
Granny Gail Sredanovic (650) 854-0344
Granny Ruth Robertson (650) 279-8761

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The forth annual Nuclear Free Future Run/Walk will start from Horseshoe Mound in Portsmouth Ohio.

We will start this event in Portsmouth close to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, located near Portsmouth, Ohio, this plant began operations in 1954 as part of a U.S. government expansion program for the production of highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors, nuclear weapons production and for use at the Y-12 plant in Oakridge TN.

In May 2001, USEC ceased uranium enrichment operations at Portsmouth and consolidated operations at the Paducah KY plant.

There is now a new plan to build a new enrichment plant in Piketon just north of Portsmouth OH.

We will start this event in Portsmouth Ohio and end at the Y-12 Plant in Oakridge TN. Meeting up with a walk coming from Atlanta GA organized by Nipponzan Myohoji. And in time to support the non-violent action happening the August 6th through the 9th at the Y-12 plant organized by Stop the Bombs (OREPA).

Everyone is welcome

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Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Muslim Religious Leader and Peace Activist, and Dr. Phylis Tyler, Paster, Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church, Alhambra will deliver Prayer for Peace from their tradition:

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance -- Muslim Prayers in Christian Worship -
Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church will hold their 7th Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Sunday on August 6 at 9:15 am with Imam Ali Siddiqui joining Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto, Hiroshima Survivor, Rev. Phyllis Tyler and Lay Speaker Toshiki Umehata for Prayers and Peace.

The invitation for Muslim brother Imam Ali Siddiqui to join in worship came through the leadership of Rev. Dickson Yogi who chairs the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of the Sage
Granada Park congregation. The Committee works to bring major religions together in dialogue and to foster understanding and respect between religions.

A Prayer Vigil for Peace will be held in the evening at the church sponsored by the Peace with Justice Center of the Pomona Valley. All are invited to attend both events. The church
is located at 1850 West Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA. Call 626-233-5698.

(Prayer for Peace: Hon.Haruyoshi Fujumoto (Hiroshima Survivor), Imam Ali Siddiqui

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PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
2425 E. Street, La Verne, CA91750, 951-734-4599
Chairperson: Doreena Wright; Vice Chair: Ramon Pasoda; Secretary: Bill McClellan

Join us in the 7th Annual Prayer Vigil
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day
2 Venues:
Mobilization of Communities for the Elimination of design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction

On August 6, 1945 first time ever Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent human beings, men, women and children, residents of Hiroshima and as if it was not enough, on August 9, 1945 another Atomic Bomb was used to kill the innocent residence of Nagasaki. We should always remember these days and the horror of war especially the horror of nuclear devastation. We should mobilize our communities at home and in the world to rise up against the design, manufacture, use and proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction including chemical, biological, and Nuclear weapon and the use of Depleted Uranium. War is a deception! And it does not solve any problem and issue. It only kills innocent people and spread devastation across this earth.

PEACE WITH JUSTICE CENTER OF THE POMONA VALLEY
In cooperation with other local organizations, churches, musjids, synagogues and temples organizing 7th Annual Prayer Vigil to remember the victims of nuclear destruction and horror of war and to renew our commitment to join hands in a movement to end senseless Nuclear Proliferation.
We should say it loud and clear:
No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!
No more Nuclear Holocaust!
In cooperation with Japanese-American community and Sage Granada United Methodist Church
First Venue:
Special Guest: Hiroshima Survivor, Hon. Haruyoshi Fujimoto
Music by: Cantor Steve Puzarne, Breeyah Center, Los Angeles
Speakers includes Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco
Date: Sunday, August 6, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Sage Granada United Methodist Church, Alhambra, CA
1850 W. Hellman Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803
Tel. 626-284-3229

DIRECTIONS: Freeway 10, exit at Atlantic. (After exiting #10, the road splits into 3 exits. Take the 2nd exit which goes south on Atlantic) Go south on Atlantic. Turn right (west) at the first traffic light on Hellman. After about 5 blocks you will see a very tall bell tower on the left (south) side of the street. That is Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Pastor Dr. Phyllis Tyler 626-284-3229; Dickson K. Yagi 909-398-1519;
Prof. Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143
Second Venue: Friday, August 4, 2006, 6:30 P.M.

Place: Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church,
Bonita Ave., Claremont, CA
Special appearance by the
Green Something Circus
Political satire performance troupe
Music by: Bill McClellan and Anne Koegel

Speakers include Fr.Tom Weber, Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Dr. Rosemary Ruether, Claremont Graduate College, Prof. Doreena Wright, University of LaVerne, Prof. Ramon Pasoda, LA City College, Imam Ali Siddiqui, Islamic Society of Corona/Norco

DIRECTIONS: Take 10 FWY to Claremont, Exit on Indian Hill Blvd., go North, Turn Left on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot. OR Take Foothill Blvd., Turn Left on Indian Hill Blvd., Turn Right on Bonita Ave. Go 2 blocks & Turn Right on Berkeley, then Turn Left into OLA Parking Lot.

For Information: Imam Ali Siddiqui 951-734-4599; Doreena Wright 909-593-4966; Ramon Pasoda 626-331-1653; Bill McClellan 909-621-9143

Event Description: Time to Wake Up to Peace! Progressive Peace Day
Eighth Annual Peace Day - Santa Fe

Because Peace Day will progress to many important landmarks for peace, we are calling it Progressive Peace Day, Saturday August 5th, 2006. The commemoration will begin with a Buddhist mediation practice for peace at the Children’s Peace Statue. Santa Fe Mayor Coss will proclaim Peace Day. Children will hang peace cranes sent from around the US on the Statue and play “Cooperative Games” with peace crane folding - Tibetan Peace Tales - Prayer Flag making for a Children's Prayer Flag Procession across the Plaza to St. Francis Cathedral. An afternoon labyrinth walk at St. Francis Cathedral will flow into a procession to the Capital Rotunda for the Hiroshima Peace Bell ceremony. Churches all over town will ring their bells in response, after which we will plant the first Tree of Peace on the Capital grounds. Pax Christi will present Kathy Kelly from Voices in the Wilderness at El Museo Cultural Center in the evening.

Hotels, galleries and parks around the Plaza area will feature the local performance arts and much more. The schedule of events will be available at hotels, stores and cafes for people to find out about the many varied events. Peace Day is a call to the community to come together first to mourn the suffering caused by past and current violence all over the world, and second to celebrate our shared commitments to find solutions to so many pressing problems facing our community and planet Earth.

A "Call to Action" postcard will be passed out to the tourists and locals - put in their shopping bags - to mail to their legislators with a demand to uphold the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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It’s as old as a John Lennon song and as new as your next thought. Imagine.
The first step toward the world we want to build for our children is creating that world in our imaginations. These days, as the Bush Administration pushes hard to lock in a nuclear future with funding for a new bomb plant in Oak Ridge, a new nuclear warhead design, and a new bomb test at the Nevada Test Site, we who believe in peace must mount our own surge toward a better world, a world where security is defined by relationships of trust rather than bombs and guns.
Imagination and creativity are the central themes of the August 5-6 peace action commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the enriched uranium for the Little Boy bomb was created. You’re invited.

Calendar of Events by Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance and others

JULY 16 – AUGUST 6 • Buddhist Peace Walk
from Atlanta to Oak Ridge, TN
404 627 8948 or atlantadojo@yahoo.com
www.peacepagoda.org/SmokyMountain

JULY 31 – AUGUST 6 • Footprints for Peace Run
Native American Ceremonial Run from Uranium Enrichment Plant to Bomb Production Plant
Portsmouth, OH to Oak Ridge, TN
footprintsforpeace.org for more info

JULY 31 – AUGUST 4 • Puppet Workshop
for novices and experienced puppetistas alike; come make giant street theatre puppets for the Oak Ridge action! tent space and limited indoor space available
Knoxville, TN
865 609 2012 for more information

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 • Rally and march
10:00am Peace Celebration, Alvin K. Bissell Park, Oak Ridge, TN
music, speakers, puppets, skits, sno cones!
1:00pm March to Y12 National Security Complex
almost 2 miles in blazing heat: bring water and sunscreen!
2:00pm Action at Y12

Additionally, there will be a bus trip from Michigan to this event organized by the Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 • Remembrance and Names Ceremony
6:15 – 8:30am Y12 National Security Complex
East End Bear Creek Road entrance

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 • Peace Lantern Ceremony
8:15pm – Sequoyah Hills Park, Cherokee Blvd West End, Knoxville, TN

TBD • AUGUST 7 or 9 • Action at Bechtel, Oak Ridge
stay tuned for details here or at www.stopthebombs.org

for more information, contact OREPA 865 483 8202

Some details:

This year’s format is slightly different from years past—DOE has fenced and bulldozed the nice green fields we usually gather in. So the peace rally on August 5 will take place in Bissell Park (where we usually start the march) beginning at 10:00am. We will enjoy the fruits of creativity—music, drama, giant puppets, community—as we celebrate life and say “No!” to the promise of death by nuclear weapons.
From Bissell Park we will march to the gates of Y12. If there are a thousand of us, the grounds won’t hold us all, but we are working with Oak Ridge officials (DOE seems delighted to be uncooperative!) to create a space for a physical presence to witness to life at the gates of the bomb plant. As plans are developed, we will post updates on the OREPA web site: www.stopthebombs.org.
On Sunday, August 6, we will gather at the gates to Y12 for our annual remembrance ceremony at 6:15am—we will read names of victims of Hiroshima, along with first-hand accounts of the devastation of the bomb—everyone is welcome to join in the reading and remembrance and the tying of peace cranes on the fence. The Remembrance concludes at 8:30am, after a moment of silence at 8:16 marking the bombing of Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, too
This year, OREPA will also mark the destruction of Nagasaki with a peace lantern ceremony in Knoxville, at Sequoyah Hills Park on the west end of Cherokee Boulevard. The ceremony, which includes music and a reading, begins at 8:15 and ends with the launching of peace lanterns in the Tennessee River. You can bring a peace lantern of your own, or launch one provided—we’ll have dozens. It’s a family-friendly event, as are all OREPA events.

Calling puppetistas!
OREPA will host a weeklong puppet workshop leading up to the action in South Knoxville. Experienced puppetistas and first-timers will gather to create giant street theater puppets and to develop a skit for Saturday’s peace rally. Overnight accommodations (a few indoor beds and plenty of tent space) are available, or you can just come for a day or two. The workshop is scheduled for July 31-August 4, with a rehearsal planned for the evening of August 4 and the morning of August 5.
We’ll be looking for puppet operators, too, to help with the skit on Saturday, so even if you can’t come for the week, you can come to a rehearsal and get a part!

Nonviolent in tone and action
OREPA’s events and actions strive to be nonviolent in tone as well as action. We prohibit drugs and alcohol, and we provide trained peacekeepers who help maintain an environment where everyone can express their desire for peace. If you are interested in serving as a peacekeeper, you should contact the OREPA office (865 483 8202).
OREPA will host a nonviolence workshop and a peacekeeper training on the evening of Friday, August 4 at a location to be announced (please check the website). If you are considering an act of civil disobedience or if you are willing to serve in a support role, you should plan to come to the nonviolence workshop on Friday evening.

What to bring
August tends to be hot in Tennessee, so we advise you to bring cool clothes, water, sunscreen, maybe an umbrella for shade—or rain. There are fast food restaurants near the peace rally site, or you can bring your own food. Wear comfortable shoes.

Motivation?
This year’s theme—Imagine a world without…racism, empire, hunger, poverty, bombs…Create—will explore the interconnectedness of all the aspects of violence, from social to economic to political to spiritual, and we will not only think about these things, but we will take action.
Joining with others around the country, we will be connecting the dots between bomb production, corporate profiteering, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and us! We will take a look at a prime dot connector, the Bechtel Corporation, with offices around the world, including Oak Ridge, TN where Bechtel helps make bombs.
Long ago Douglas MacArthur (yes, the general) said “Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream—that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on, or we will go under. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straitjacket of the past. We must develop sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal with for peace into actuality.”
It’s not often we are called to arms (and voices and feet) for peace by a General, but there you go. Come and gather with us in Oak Ridge in August—to imagine and to create a new world.

Event Description:

HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI REMEMBERED: TWO EVENTS PLANNED FOR REMEMBRANCE, GRIEVING, AND CALLS FOR LOCAL and GLOBAL ACTIONS

Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War are urging participation in these events planned around the 61st anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons.

*Sunday*, August 6th. 12:00 Noon

*Where*: The "Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion" at the southwest end of Chatfield State Park in LITTLETON, southwest of DENVER (see map at http://www.sspf.org/projects/pavilionProject.htm

*What*: Gathering at foot of the world's largest military contractor's operation in Colorado, to grieve for the horrific loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a result of the U.S. Government's dropping of atomic bombs in 1945. Speakers will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and use of peaceful means for resolving world crises. Adrienne Anderson will examine both Martin Marietta/Lockheed Martin's role at the Colorado site and nationally as well as the Denver Water Board's role in uranium mining in the vicinity. Together we will call for redress for the losses suffered in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the aftermath of global environmental damage. We’ll look at the local threat posed by unremediated radioactive waste along the South Platte River, upstream of metro Denver water supplies. Literature table, breaking bread together (bring water, sack lunches or food to share; we'll also provide beverages and light snacks).

Speakers will include Ken Seaman to talk about recent events regarding Plowshares activist Father Carl Kabat; Judith Mohling on the legacy of the bombings and the continued global threat; and Adrienne Anderson of RMPJC's new "Nuclear Nexus" project, to talk of little known local hazards at the Lockheed Martin/Denver Water Board site, and unabated threats to metro Denver's water supplies and public health, followed by calls for action for local and global health and security.

After the speakers' presentations, attendees may then join a guided "Toxic Tour" of little known chemical and radioactive threats in the immediate vicinity, undisclosed at the Lockheed Martin's "Discovery Pavilion." Revealed will be the "Nuclear Nexus" along the South Platte River and shared boundary between the world's largest military contractor's operations in Colorado - where missiles to carry nuclear warheads were produced - and the Denver Water Board's property, site of past and present water supply sources serving metro Denver area residents. The scenic tour will involve walking a mile or so up a gentle incline on a road into the Waterton Canyon (one end of the Colorado Trail). The "Toxic Tour" will end at the mouth of little-known uranium mine, where a citizens' investigation has documented ties to the Atomic Energy Commission's history of nuclear bomb production. Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water, to "discover" the Hiroshima connection right here in Colorado, and be a part of calls for action.

Directions:

The Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion is just south of Chatfield State Park and Reservoir, along the foothills southwest of metro Denver. This is also at the site of former Denver Water Board Kassler Water Plant, which is situated along the South Platte River and at the head of the Colorado Trail into Waterton Canyon.

From the north: Take I-25 south to the Santa Fe Drive exit. Go south on Santa Fe Drive for several miles to C-470. Take C-470 west to the Wadsworth (Highway 121) exit.

Take Wadsworth south past the main Chatfield State Park entrance. Continue along this road, parallel to Chatfield Reservoir. After passing Chatfield, the road begins to curve to the right. At that point, and just before the road climbs uphill, take a left onto Waterton Canyon Road, a little road that will then jog downhill. As you’ll see, this road is just a couple of hundred feet BEFORE the main security gate at the entrance to the Lockheed Martin complex. (Note: If you get to the Lockheed Martin plant gate, you’ve gone too far; just do a u-turn and go back down the hill a few hundred feet to the Waterton Road turnoff). Once on Waterton Road, take an immediate left into the Lockheed Martin Discovery Pavilion parking lot, where the event is to be held.

From the south: Get to C-470 from either I-25 or South Santa Fe (Highway 85) and go west on C-470 to the Wadsworth exit, then follow the directions above from that point on.

From the west: Take I-70 to the C-470 intersection (near Golden). Take C-470 east to the Wadsworth exit, then follow the directions above.

From Boulder: GO south on Broadway, which curves after leaving Boulder and turns into Highway 93. Travel past Rocky Flats (roll up your windows) and continue further several miles, to Golden. Follow signs to Highway 6, and go past Golden. Take I-70 west to the C-470 interchange, head southeast on C-470 for several miles to the Wadworth exit, then follow the directions above.

(Note: Dogs are not permitted on this part of the Colorado Trail (a good thing, given chemical and radioactive contamination of creeks and other surface water in the vicinity).

For more information: 303/444-6981
Adrienne Anderson
a2020@earthlink.net

Event Description:

On Sunday August 6th we will have speakers to mark the 61st anniversary of Hiroshima at the Federal building on the corner of Park Street and West Michigan avenue during the second half of the regularly scheduled peace vigil that is there every Sunday from 12-1pm.

On Wednesday, August 9 there will be an event to mark the 61st anniversary of Nagasaki starting at 8pm in Bronson Park, downtown Kalamazoo. There will be speakers and participants will be asked to write their hopes for peace on a piece of paper and attach it to one of 61 candlelit floatillas to be floated in the pond at the center of the park.

Event Description:

On Sunday August 6th we will have speakers to mark the 61st anniversary of Hiroshima at the Federal building on the corner of Park Street and West Michigan avenue during the second half of the regularly scheduled peace vigil that is there every Sunday from 12-1pm.

On Wednesday, August 9 there will be an event to mark the 61st anniversary of Nagasaki starting at 8pm in Bronson Park, downtown Kalamazoo. There will be speakers and participants will be asked to write their hopes for peace on a piece of paper and attach it to one of 61 candlelit floatillas to be floated in the pond at the center of the park.

Event Description:

Candlelight Vigil to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons, starting with our own

Gather 6 p.m. for bannering; Program at 6:30 p.m. followed by Candlelight Procession

Special Guest Speaker: Leuren Moret
Independent Scientist; President, Scientists for Indigenous People; City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner; and whistleblower at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. She is an expert on the environmental and public health effects of low level radiation from atmospheric testing fallout, nuclear power plants and depleted uranium weaponry.

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A peaceful sunrise gathering in remembrance of Hiroshima

Event Description:

We are inviting people of all religious and spiritual traditions (atheists welcome too) to gather near the gates of the Nevada nuclear Test Site. Surrounded by the beautiful desert land, we will pray together for an end to nuclear weapons development and other war preparations. Ceremony will be facilitated by Father Louie Vitale, OFM and Father Jerry Zawada, OFM. We will then invite people to take nonviolent action at the Test Site gates.Please note the time change - we will gather at the Test Site gates from 7 to 10 am. We will also be having a community teach-in and potluck that evening at 4 pm at St. James the Apostle Church in Las Vegas. During this meeting we will prepare for a vigil the next morning (in Las Vegas) at the Nevada Site Operations office of the DOE.

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At 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 6, the Ceremony of Cranes begins with music and reflection and ends at 8:15 a.m. with a moment of silence at the time of the dropping of the bomb. Participants then lay origami peace cranes on trees and bushes at the Peace Garden. This year, Yumiko Yoshikiyo, a native of the Hiroshima, will read the peace proclamation by the