Send a Message or Prayer of Peace. It will take you about 60 seconds, maybe a little longer. All you have to do is follow this link to our website: www.wagingpeace.org/sadako_message.htm

Next month, we will hold our 13th Annual Sadako Peace Day. Your message of peace will become part of our annual recognition of the Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who inspired efforts toward peace around the world – even as she was dying from the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This is what the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will do with your message:

List it on our website.
Choose a selection of messages to read at our Sadako Peace Day Ceremony on August 9th.
Send all the messages of peace we receive to the President of the United States of America.

In this way, you can follow Sadako’s inspiration, and write out your hopes for peace so they may fly all over the world (via the Internet). See Sadako’s story at 2007/sadako_be_a_messenger.htm...

People often ask us how they can increase the peace. Sadako showed us one way. She never relinquished her hope for a better world. All we need to do is follow her lead.

One voice can become a powerful force for change when it joins millions of others all seeking the same thing.

The 21st annual August Peace Event (formerly August Women's Peace Event) will be held on Sunday, August 5. Free family event with speakers and music, light refreshments, and free parking.

Doors open for networking at 3 p.m. and visiting sponsoring organizations' tables. The program is from 4-5:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Please support this "home town" event!

For more information contact Janice Nakashima 916-393-7690

WHERE: California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, in the Alumni Center, located on the southern end of campus, off College Town Road.

Program Participants will include:
Zoe Hana Lackamacher, "Sadako's Story"
Mary Wind, President, Teach Peace
True Colors Women’s Chorus
Mary Perner, Community Organizer, Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
Two High School Peace Essay Finalists
Sachiko Tamara, Offering a Buddhist Metta Prayer
Taiko Dan Drummers, U.C. Davis

WHY: August 6 and 9, 2007 are the 62nd anniversaries of the U.S. use of the atomic bomb in war. This is a sacred time to think about victims of all wars and to support movements, policies, and actions for nonviolent alternatives. It is also an important time to join together to tell Congress not to support a plan being debated to fund the building of 125 new nuclear weapons annually.

Eugene ~ Seattle ~ Bangor
July 15 ~ August 6, 2007

Each step will be a prayer
towards a nuclear free future

The Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future is an opportunity for all people to come together in a non-violent, spiritually motivated action to reclaim the future.

Peace walkers will average about 15 miles per day with rest periods along the way. The walk is open to all who are sincere in extinguishing the violent fire of nuclear annihilation.

Sponsored by: Nipponzan Myohoji, Ground Zero for Nonviolent Action, Lake Forest Park for Peace, Tacoma Catholic Workers

For more information or to join the Peace Walk, or to help with overnight hosting or food...