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.

Printable Event Flyer available on the website www.gzcenter.org. Also driving and ferry directions, current newsletter and news about trials of those arrested in previous non-violent actions. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action invites you to join us for our 30th Anniversary on Saturday, August 4 through Monday, August 6 (Hiroshima Day) as we celebrate our history and join in nonviolent direct action to close the Bangor Trident submarine base. On August 4 we will welcome the arrival of Peace Walkers, gather to recall the past and plan for the future, participate in a groundbreaking ceremony as we begin replacing the house lost in a fire, and enjoy a musical fund raiser with artists Linda Allen and Tom Rawson. August 5 will be a day of nonviolent training, vigiling and planning for direct action at the Trident Submarine Base. August 6 will be Take the Day Off for Peace.

Location: Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (address is correct)is location for all events except Allen/Rawson concert at 7:30 p.m. on August 4, which will be at Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4418 Perry Ave., Bremerton, WA.

Meet us on the west side of the capital, at 7am bring your own sign, weekly vigil

HARMOS the Human Flag Project
A Community Based Performance

For several months both children and adults have been making small peace flags which they are displaying in public places around Portland. They are also making larger flags for use with lights and Japanese flute music in a creative oommunity dance project.

On Saturday August 4, Sunday, August 5th, and Monday August 6th, 2007 a community based performance, HARMOS, will offer Portland a creative expression and remembrance of a devastating event in human history. This project represents the power creative action can have in making our world a safer, and saner place.

August 6th is the memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1942. During these three days artists in an art installation, performance and community workshop will create an engaging public expression of peace. All Portlanders are invited to come to participate and celebrate during an evening of sharing personal and global thoughts about the issue of peace.

This event is taking place in three separate locations. Saturday at Unthank Park (near Mississippi area) at 8pm, Sunday at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on NW Naito Parkway at 7:30 pm and Monday in the adjacent park Buckman Elementary School located at 320 SE 16th.at 8 pm.

Four artists are spearheading this project, Chisao Hata, Ping Khaw Sutherland, Kestrel Gates and Lam Quong. They are creating the performance, which includes light, movement, poetry and community action. The following are a few organizations partnering in this event, Physicians for Social Responsibility, (FOR) Fellowship for Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, (WILPF) Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Buckman SUN Program, Multnomah Friends Meeting, the (IFCC) Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and Our United Villages.