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

A-Bomb Film Screening on August 3-5, 2007
at New York Buddhist Church
332 Riverside Drive @W. 105th St., NYC

in Memory of late Mr. Iccho Itoh, Nagasaki Mayor

Friday, August 3, at 5:30pm- 8:00pm
“The Last Atomic Bomb”
Documentary film on Nagasaki Experience
with disarmament film-maker and educator, Dr Kathleen Sullivan.

Saturday, August 4, at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
“Angelus Bell” 1945〜アンゼラスの鐘
Animation Film on A-bombing in Nagasaki, 1945
Followed by Music Presentation by Bunken Nagano and Yosuke Maki

Sunday, August 5, at 5:30pm – 6:00pm
“The Last Generation”人間をかえせ
Documentary Film on A-bombing in 1945

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Free – Donation is appreciated

Information: 212-678-0305

Please join us for a presentation by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. An eloquent speaker on nuclear disarmament and the weaponization of space, Bruce inspires thoughtful, hopeful discussion about bringing peace, social justice, labor and environmental groups together to abolish militarism and transform our economy for a peaceful and sustainable future.

PRESS RELEASE From: nuke-freeworld.com

Hiroshima: Stopping Bush’s New Nuclear Arms Race

Santa Barbara, July 31, 2007

Peter G, Cohen, artist, activist and author of nuke-freeworld.com, is presenting a free, public event on August 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 at Plaza Del Mar (opposite SB Banos del Mar). The event will feature short talks by Cohen and student peace activist Ellen McClure, followed by a Love of Life Celebration featuring dancing to the LeGrand, Franks & Dodge band.

In his talk, Cohen will show how the aggressive nuclear policy of the Bush administration is stimulating a dangerous new international nuclear arms race and how to reverse this disasterous policy. Ellen McClure, a nuclear peace activist from UCSB, will talk about her participation in the recent student fast opposing UC participation in management of Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Cohen’s talk will examine the influence of the military corporations on the Congress and our foreign policy, as well as the severe human and monetary costs of maintaining our nuclear weapons and delivery systems rather than working for disarmament, which we are pledged to do by UN membership and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Love of Life Celebration is an antidote to the current epidemic of valuing money and power (greed) above life itself. The music and dancing on the grass of this beautiful plaza will express the love of life, the most powerful antidote to the greed disease, and the true foundation of action against this suicidal nuclear policy.

The event is sponsored by Veterans for Peace and Santa Barbara Society of Friends.

Peter G. Cohen was a GI on a troopship bound for Japan when the bomb was exploded over Hiroshima. In the nineteen fifties he worked with Sane Nuclear Policy in New York City to oppose the testing of nuclear weapons. In 1968 he was an independent peace candidate for Congress in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. In 1969-’70 he was executive director of the New Democratic Coalition of Pennsylvania. In ‘72 he was on staff for McGovern. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1999 where he led the first large demonstration opposing the War in Iraq in October 2002.
In 2006 he created nuke-freeworld.com to educate and inspire political organizing against the Bush administration dange nuclear policy.

For more information please call 805-884-0704

It is a mix of community building and reflection/action/reflection.
We will witness at the Pentagon on August 6, at the DOE and Bechtel on August 7, at the Military Archdiocese site on August 8 and at the White House on August 9. Each of these will be prepared for by reflection and communal planning with an action proposal to start with from the organizing communities - Jonah House and the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.
Sleeping bag space and simple meals provided. We'll be at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church, 16th St and Newton Ave N.W, Washington D.C.

Our fourth annual PEACE & WORLD FRIENDSHIP FAIR and PEACE BAZAAR, with performance, poetry, music, art, speakers and children's activities, such as origami peace crane folding.

This year's theme: "Create an Environment for Peace"

Peace, Ecological and Social Justice organizations will have tables with information and vendors with crafts, jewelery, environmentally-friendly, cruelty-free and peace-oriented items and items for "free-cycling".

The event will conclude with an "Earth Community" drum circle in which all are invited to participate.

Plenty of free parking nearby.

Sponsored by Union County Peace Council, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Rememberance Committee, NJ Peace Action, People's Organization for Progress (POP), the North Jersey Dept of Peace campaign, and Word Out!

We gather in a small park in Petoskey, MI where we have planted a peace pole. We will have a women's drumming group from Greensky Indian United Methodist Church in Charlevoix (MI)followed by music and singing, a demonstration with BB pellets of the awesome nature of nuclear weapons, a prayer by Henri Nouwen (A Cry for Mercy), and presentation of our annual peace award. We close with a stroll to a nearby river where flowers will be strewn in memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Please join us for a presentation by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. An eloquent speaker on nuclear disarmament and the weaponization of space, Bruce inspires thoughtful, hopeful discussion about bringing anti-war, social justice, labor and environmental groups together to abolish militarism and transform our economy for a peaceful and sustainable future. PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 5th!!!

Please join us at the Howarth Plaza (southeast corner of Seventh and Monroe) on Sunday, 8/5 from 1pm to 2pm. This will be the 62nd remembrance of the bombing of Hiroshima, and the first time an atomic weapon - a true weapon of mass destruction - was used against humanity and environment alike. The bombing of Nagasaki occurred on 8/9.

Consider wearing white to remember the dead/for peace/for hope for a world without violence. And join us at 12:30 to make paper cranes which we will distribute in lieu of handouts.

Sponsored By:
Cosponsored by Pax Christi Springfield (others in formation)

An exhibit covering the history of the development and use of atomic weapons, nuclear weapons, and antinucler actions over the decades. Literature will be available. Stop by and read the exhibit anytime Sunday afternoon.

Community Re-dedication to Peace
and Memorial for Victims of War

Sunday, August 5, 1:30 p.m.
At the site of the new memorial on the campus of Lansing Community College,between Dart Auditorium and the outdoor amphitheatre

Peace Pole re-dedication ceremony
Speakers, Music, Inspiration, Peace Cranes

Community Memorial Ceremony For Victims of War
Sunday, August 5th, 2007,1:30 p.m.

At the site of the new permanent memorial on the Lansing Community College Central campus, across from the Outdoor Amphitheater. The Peace Pole and Memorial for the Victims of War site is on the northwest corner of the hilltop above the outdoor amphitheatre at LCC. If you look west from the site, you can see the Japanese garden.

~In honor of Veterans and all who have suffered or died as a
result of war ~

In special remembrance of our dear friend,
Benjamin A. Miller, August 5th, 1979 ~ July 2nd, 2006

Remembering the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who died from atomic bombs dropped on August 6 and August 9, 1945.

Speakers: 'Remembering those we have lost'
Acoustic sing-a-long: 'Songs of peace and hope'
Moment of silence
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3:00 Reception to follow
Sun Room of the Herman Conference Center
Refreshments provided

Sponsored by People for Positive Social Change
of Lansing Community College
For more information contact Perry at 517-483-9653

Video, followed by discussion; info sheets, action postcards, etc available.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial: On Sunday, August 5th, remember those killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and pray for an end to nuclear proliferation. Pray; watch the DVD, Hiroshima: Repentance and Renewal; and engage in discussion starting at 3:00 PM in St. Joseph's Greenwich Village Parish House Library, 371 Sixth Avenue, one block north of West 4th Street, Manhattan. Then, walk in solemn procession to Washington Square Park for a silent vigil and closing prayer, concluding at 5:30 PM.

Fayetteville has commemorated Hiroshima-Nagasaki day since the 1970's. It involves many members of the peace community, and includes a proclamation by the mayor, music, poetry, reading of names of the dead from the current war in Iraq (both military and civilian), and keynote speaker Col. Ann Wright. It is sited around the beautiful Fullbright Peace Fountain on the campus of the University of Arkansas.

3rd Annual Hiroshima Memorial Program
Includes Potluck (bring a dish to share)

Sponsored By:
Bloomington Normal Citizens for Peace and Justice

Procession for peace: Women in Black

Sunday, August 5, 4:30 p.m. The Women In Black – women and men who protest silently against violence, militarism, and war – will lead a procession along the Pathway to Peace and by the peace cairns of the Lyndale Park Peace Garden. Brief remarks at each cairn will pose questions of peace in a nuclear age. The Pathway to Peace was designed and created by Greg Ingraham and Teri Kwant as part of the City of Minneapolis Art in Public Places program. Each of the 7 cairns conveys a message related to an aspect of peace: the nature of conflict and peace, the politics of peace, peace in relationships, peaceful actions, inner peace, the future of peace, and the responsibility of peace. The public is invited to join in the procession.
Location: The procession will begin at the first of seven cairns located at the corner of 40th Street and Bryant Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Intergenerational peace event: Storytelling, crane-folding, peace songs

Sunday, August 5, 5:00 p.m. An intergenerational event will feature a recitation of the Sadako story by professional storytellers Key of See Storytellers and Renee Weeks-Wynne, peace songs with Marcia Sanoden, a music teacher who grew up in Japan, and recorder music by Arden Consort. Everyone will have the opportunity to fold paper cranes as a wish for world peace.
Location: Spirit of Peace sculpture at the Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis.

Traditional Japanese tea ceremony

Sunday, August 5, 6:00 p.m. For the third year, a traditional Japanese tea ceremony will be held at the exact time that commemoration ceremonies are taking place in Hiroshima. The tea ceremony is a quiet, meditative ritual and is often performed in honor or memory of special people and events.
Location: Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis.

The Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois is sponsoring a potluck, speakers, and commemoration of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings:

5:30 pm Potluck
6:15 pm Presentations by students who attended the
U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia
7:00 pm Commemoration of the bombings

Jonah House of Baltimore and the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker of Washington invite all to our annual Faith and Resistance Retreat during August 5-9, 2007 in Washington, D.C. This year's theme is 'Global War and the Assault on the Environment', as we remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its relevance to nuclear policy today. Please join us for part or all of the retreat to experience community, prayer, and witness to nonviolence. For more information, visit: http://www.jonahhouse.org /Aug07invite.htm.

All are invited to participate in Mid-Missouri Peaceworks' 21st Annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Peace Gathering. The event includes a potluck dinner (6:20), music (6:30-8), lantern making, Speakers (8-9) and floating the commemorative lanterns. The theme for this year's event is Confronting Nuclear Denial.

Note: This is not really a teach-in, as much as a community peace gathering, but none of the other event categories fit it. It will have some aspects of a teach-in, some of a vigil, and some of a gathering for peaceful people of all ages. It's a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our commitment to creating a peaceful, just and sustainable future free from the threat of nuclear anniliation.

WHAT: HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE in St.Louis MO
WHEN: SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 6-8:30PM
WHERE: Lewis Park, University City (N side of Delmar, just west of Big Bend)-- St. LOUIS MO
WHO: free and everyone’s welcome! BYO Picnic, blanket and chairs. There will be flute Music, Program and Traditional Floating of Peace Boats and peace songs. For details call: 314-862-5735

Greater Fall River Committee for Peace and Justice
Annual Commemoration of Hiroshima Day
Sunday August 5, 6:00 PM
Bristol Community College Reflection Basin
(Elsbree Street, Near the Pond behind the cafeteria)
Prayers, Songs and Facts

Troops out of Iraq and no attack on Iran
Let Peace Reign in our Hearts
Hiroshima Never Again!

8/5 Sun 6 pm Lanterns for Peace – Dodgeville. Twin Valley Lake Shelter at Governor Dodge Park, north of town, off Hwy 23. This intergenerational annual event is part of an international movement against nuclear weapons that began in the early ‘80s and continues world-wide today. Lantern-making, story-telling, petition-signing, singing – and at dusk, the unique and beautiful floating of the Lanterns for Peace. Bring finger-food to share – water/juice provided. Car-pooling is suggested, as the park requires a sticker or day pass. Sponsored by the Grassroots Citizens for Peace.

Join us in front of Indian Point nuclear plant
Buchanan, NY
August 5th & 6th
for an overnight vigil!

In solidarity with his nuclear free campaigners in the USA, Benny Zable Australian peace and environmental performance artist is available for photo opportunities outside the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor during an overnight vigil 5th and 6th August Hiroshima day commemorations.

Friday the core of the new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights collapsed.

US President Bush and Australian Prime Minister Howard are to sign a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership deal during the APEC meeting in Sydney.

Good time to meet to talk .

Benny Zable
bennyzable@hotmail.com
http://www.bennyzable.com

You can reach Benny at:
West Side Cultural
212-496-2030

Alice Slater
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
446 E. 86 St.
New York, NY 10028
212-744-2005
646-238-9000 (cell)
aslater@rcn.com
http://www.wagingpeace.org

8/5 Sun 6:30 – 9 pm Annual Peace Day – Waupaca. Shadow Lake, South Park shelter. There is no charge for this event. Just come and enjoy the creativity of lantern making, the beauty of our traditional program, and the fellowship of one another as we commemorate those gone before us and hope for a future of peace. 6:30: Lantern making in South Park's upper shelter, materials provided; 8pm: Program on the Beach: music by Tom Pease and Marci Beaucoup and poetry by Maggie Laven and Pat Reckrey; Dusk: Lantern float on Shadow Lake. Sponsored by Waupaca People for Peace. Contact baba@charter.net

Sponsored By:
Sponsored by Waupaca People for Peace.

The event is sponsored by the Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska, First Mennonite Church of Lincoln, the Green Party of Nebraska, the Lincoln Friends Meeting, ELCA-NE Justice and Advocacy Ministries, Call to Action-Nebraska (a Catholic group working for social justice in the Catholic church), the Nebraska Coalition for Peace, Nebraskans for Peace, and United Methodist Community Ministries.

Lantern floats in Japan are used to guide the souls of the dead to their rest; for many years in recent times they have been used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate the people destroyed by the first atomic bombs. The purpose of the event in Lincoln is to remind us of what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to will that such events never again occur. Materials and plans for the lanterns at this site.

Music, readings, public statements, and poetry will be shared throughout the evening.

On August 5th we note the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombings. In Japan and around the world, people will gather to float lanterns in remembrance of the victims of Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945), and all victims of war. In this moving and beautiful tradition, we reaffirm our commitment to building a peaceful future.

Decorate a lantern shade, fold an origami peace crane, enjoy Japanese taiko drums and shakuhachi flutes, and hear messages from the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Great family event, all volunteer run. Volunteers needed now and the day of the event; visit the Web site for more.

This is the 21st year of the Freeport Peace Links Lantern Float for Peace. It is a festival for families, with music, face painting, balloons, a speaker and tables of information about peace and justice groups. At dusk we will float three lanterns on the Allegheny. The first will remember those who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the second is for peace now and the third will send forth hope that all children will not face war in the future.

Sunday August 5 at Lover's Point in Pacific Grove California There will be a Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Lantern Floating Ceremony. 7 pm Lantern making and program, 8:15pm Launching of peace lanterns on the sea.
all welcome.

Iran – Today’s Hiroshima?
Dayton Hiroshima Anniversary Recognition
Sunday, August 5th 2007 7:00 pm
Dayton, Ohio USA

A rally to address and to protest our Government’s current expressed and pending intent for a U.S. pre-emptive Nuclear Strike against Iran.

We must not allow the U.S. to embark on any mission that has potential to repeat the atomic disasters of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki annihilations of 1945.

Any and all negotiation with Iran’s Government must be pursued on a diplomatic path rather than pre-emptive military action.

The situation in Iraq has proved to be disastrous as a result of a U.S. pre-emptive invasion.

We must not allow a similar travesty and misapplication of the U.S. Military to made with regard to Iran.

Please join us for this important event!

Location:
Downtown Dayton at the Amphitheater on the Great Miami River.

It is located west of Riverscape and near to West Monument St between Wilkerson and Ludlow Streets (adjacent to the First Baptist Church of Dayton, 111 West Monument)

Guest Speakers:

Rev. John Wagner – Aldersgate UMC, Pastor; September11Coalition, DPA; Activist

Prof. Ron Katsuyama – University of Dayton; Dayton Asian American Council, President

Steve Fryburg – Dayton Peace Museum, Director; Veterans for Peace

Gloria Leigh –Catholic Educator; Military Families Speak Out; Activist

* Open Mic Comments are welcome following the speakers

September11Coalition and the Dayton Peace Action are Volunteer Organizations

Donations will be accepted

Opening Music:

Ray Smeltzer – Dwight Sutton

* Please come early, speakers will begin promptly at 7:00pm.

Please contact us if you or your organization would like to be involved as sponsors or participants in the event agenda.

Your activism and participation is important and is appreciated.

Sponsored By:

Dayton September11Coalition, Dayton Peace Action

www.september11coalition.org

Tom Mullian will perform. He is a singer/songwriter, who has been performing for 42 years. The resident of Media, Pennsylvania is also an activist, whose latest album is entitled SIX STRIGS AGAINST THE WAR.

He began playing the guitar in 1964, inspired by the music and social movements of the times, but also the Martin D1 guitar, Regal Steel Guitar, the classical guitar, mandolin, gourdalin, gourd guitar, banjo, and Fender Stratocaster. His repertoire includes original songs, folk, rock, traditional, blues, and music of social conscience.

Unitarian Universalist remembrance service