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

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.

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.

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

Silent vigil at Pantex main gate, with signs and banners.

Monday, August 6, at 5 PM in the Peace Garden of St. John’s Church, 61 Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ, a Sadako* Peace memorial ceremony for the remembrance of the dead and injured of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with special speakers, Union County Freeholder Adrian Mapp and Peace and A Sustainable Future author, Alice Slater
*Sadako was a two-year-old girl when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Ten years
later she developed leukemia. Japanese legend holds that one’s wish will be granted upon folding 1,000 paper
(origami) cranes. Sadako folded 646 before dying. She wrote, “I will write peace on your wings, and you will fly
all over the world.” Her friends finished folding the cranes in her memory. The paper crane has become a global
symbol of peace, and a statue of Sadako now stands in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

George (Haeseler)

The annual Hiroshima Remembrance Breakfast sponsored by BCPA will be held at the First Congregational Church, corner of Main and Front St. in Binghamton, on Monday, August 6th, at 7 AM. Mayor Matt Ryan will speak and officially sign the Mayors for Peace statement calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons by 2020. In so doing, Binghamton will join Syracuse and Rochester in NY State and 85 US cities.

Local organizations that have endorsed the mayor’s signing are:

Broome County Peace Action

Binghamton El Chacon Sister City Project

Justice and Peace Advisory Committee

Binghamton Area Friends Meeting

Broome County Veterans for Peace

Binghamton SOA Watch

St James Peace and Justice Committee

Zacchaeus House Catholic Worker

Teachers for Peace

Broome County Green Party

Social Justice Committee of the UU Cong. of Bing.

Citizen Action of NY

Working Families Party

Social Justice Network of the Wyoming Annual Conference of UMC

Please come and support this historic occasion, as well as enjoy the company of other local peace advocates. Parking space at the church is limited so use street parking or the rear of the adjacent Civic Center.

Following the breakfast and ringing of the Church bell some will drive and others will walk to Peace Park (confluence of rivers off Riverside Drive) to hear Frieda Jacques, Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, say a few words from a Native American perspective.

The event is free and open to the public but contributions will be encouraged to defray expenses. Your advance reservation will help in planning for the breakfast.

To reserve, call Pat Donohue ASAP at 722-0549.

HIROSHIMA REMEMBRANCE BREAKFAST
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> PARKING? LIMITED IN CHURCH PARKING LOT PLEASE
> USE STREET OR NEARBY
> PARKING AT GIANT MARKET AND TRINITY MEMORIAL CHURCH.
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> THOSE LOTS BY 9AM AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ALSO
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> PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES SLOTS
> ALONG THE FRONT ST ENTRANCE
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> CONFLUENCE OF CHENANGO AND
> SUSQUEHANNA RIVERS-ABOUT ONE HALF MILE WALK TO
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> GUEST SPEAKER. EVERY ONE OF
> US WHO HAVE HEARD HER FIND HER WONDERFUL. FREIDA
> WILL DRIVE DOWN FROM NEDROW
> RESERVATION NEAR SYRACUSE TO SPEAK. FEEL FREE TO ASK
> HER QUESTIONS. SHE IS A
> VERY BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE WOMAN WHO LIKES
> QUESTIONS.
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Music and reflection to mark the A-bomb explosion on Hiroshima

Monday, August 6, 7:30 a.m. The Ceremony of Cranes begins with music by Kathleen Olsen and Bret Hesla and concludes at 8:15 a.m., the time of the dropping of the bomb, with a moment of silence. Audience members will be invited to hang origami peace cranes at the Peace Garden. During the ceremony, a message from the mayor of Hiroshima will be read. Featured speaker: 5th district U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison. After the moment of silence, Leo Hansen, shakuhachi (Japanese flute) player, will lead the participants to the Spirit of Peace sculpture. Kairos Intergenerational Dance Theatre will conclude the ceremony at the Spirit of Peace sculpture. All day vigil.
Location: Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis.

Peace Concert: Rockin’ for peace

Monday, August 6, 7:30 p.m. The fourth annual Peace Concert will feature Rabbi Sim Glaser and the Social Action Figures, performing songs of peace, love, fellowship and summer fun.
Location: Lake Harriet Bandshell, Minneapolis.

HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION

In the Shadow of the Bomb

Monday, August 6, 2007 7:30 AM

On the morning of August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in war on the people of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. We gather to say "never again" at the nuclear weapons lab that is developing the NEXT U.S. nuclear weapon, euphemistically-named the "Reliable Replacement Warhead." Join us for a solemn vigil and memorial for the victims, and to advocate for an end to nuclear weapons and war.

Featured musicians are singer/songwriters robert temple and Kaylah Marin.

For those who so choose, there will be an opportunity to nonviolently risk arrest following the ceremony and rally. Location: Westgate entrance on Vasco Road, Livermore.

Driving directions: Take I-580, exit south at Vasco Road. The West Gate is approximately 0.3 mile south of the intersection with Patterson Pass Road.

Public Transportation: In order to arrive at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab by public transportation you must arrive at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station in time to catch WHEELS, the bus that will take you to Daphne Dr. and Vasco Rd. The #20 WHEELS leaves the BART station at 6:59 AM and arrives at Daphne Dr. and Vasco at 7:25 AM. WHEELS drives down 580 to Greenville Rd., then Las Positas Rd. before turning left on Vasco. When you board the bus, please tell the bus driver that you want to get off at Daphne Dr. and Vasco Rd. (directly across the street from the rally). The cost for WHEELS is $1.50 for adults and children and 65 cents for seniors. If you miss this bus, the next one leaves at 7:29 AM and arrives at the lab at 7:55 AM. Click here for BART schedules.

A downloadable flier is available here. (pdf)

Sponsors: Tri-Valley CAREs; Western States Legal Foundation; Livermore Conversion Project; American Friends Service Committee; First Congregational Church of Oakland; Ecumenical Peace Institute; Physicians for Social Responsibility-SF Bay Area; Berkeley Friends Church; Communist Party USA, N. Calif. District; Declaration of Peace San Mateo County; Fr. Bill O’Donnell Social Justice Committee; Friends of the People’s Weekly World; Global Action to Prevent War; Grandmothers for Peace International; Northern CA 9/11 Truth Alliance; Orange County Friends; Santa Cruz Weapons Inspection Team, Fresno Center for Nonviolence, Monterey Peace and Justice Center, Grandmothers for Peace, Hayward Chapter, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition, Social Justice Center of Marin, Bay Area United for Peace and Justice.

Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see : The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250.000 people and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history. However, for many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records. -us_05.html... Folks; Below is a reminder and invite to join us at Offutt AFB for out annual Aug 6-9 vigil. Avove is a link and attached are some readings that can help you start thinking about why we vigil every Aug 6-9. peace frank cordaro --------------------------------- Invite to Annual Aug 6 to 9 Vigil at the gates of Offutt AFB The DM and Omaha CW Communities invite you to join us for our annual 3 1/2 day "shake and bake" vigil at the gates of Offutt Air Force Base, in Bellevue, NE. home of the Strategic Nuclear (StratCom) and the US Military Space Commands. Come stand, pray and do penance with us. Or come and sit, bring a blanket, or foldeable chair, water jugs, ice chest, umbrellas for the sun and rain and food to share. Just come for an hour or two and share your hope for peace as we commemorate the Anniversary of the USA atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug 6 and 9, 1945. Contemplate with us the work and mission of these god-awful Offutt Commands, the challenges they pose to all life on our planet and the demonic claim it holds on the soul and spirit of our nation. This year's vigil begins Monday Aug 6th at 8 a.m. the hour the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, at the Kinney gate and main entrance of Offutt AFB. The vigil ends Thursday Aug 9th at 11 a.m., the hour the USA dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The vigil will begin at 8 a.m. each day and last until 8 p.m. (12 hours) to Thursday Aug 9th. On Aug 9th the vigil concludes with a prayer circle and possible line crossing at 11 a.m. Over night hospitality is available at Holy Family Parish in Omaha (1715 Izard St) starting Sunday evening Aug 5th. The church only offers floor space. Bring your own bed roll and pillow. If you need a bed, you really need to contact us before hand to insure we find one for you. Everyone is welcome, especially those in the Omaha area! Come for an hour or for the whole three days. Contacts: Frank Cordaro, DMCW, Cell Ph (515) 490 2490 , E-mail frank.cordaro@gmail.com Jerry Ebner, Omaha CW, Ph (402) 502 5887, E-mail omahacw@hotmail.com

Preparation starts July 14 with Nuclear Education/communication training, followed on July 18 by a letter writing workshop with a nuclear issue focus. The annual Peace Choir concert will be on July 30. The choir travelled to Hiroshima for the August 6 memorial last year and received front page coverage in the Portland Oregonian as well as reports in local papers and Japan. The event sponsors have also arranged a radio ad which will play frequently on a station popular with area young people.

On August 6 is the ceremony and day long vigil on Ashland Plaza. August 7 and 8 there will be speakers, films and discussions followed by another day long vigil and twilight closing ceremony August 9 on Ashland Plaza.

Co-sponsors include local chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,Southern Oregon University Women's Resource Center, Veterans for Peace, United Church of Christ, Citizens for Peace and Justice and others. The Mayor of Ashland is a Mayor for Peace.

Vigil commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Silent vigil with ringing of church bells followed by a few short speeches, signing of solidarity peace flag to send to Hiroshima, co-signing of Woolsey Dear Colleague letter to co-sponsor H. Res. 68 calling for the U.S. to abide by the NonProliferation Treaty; and bike ride around perimeter of fire and blast area caused by Hiroshima size bomb exploding in central New Haven.

Invite to Annual Aug 6 to 9 Vigil at the gates of Offutt AFB

The DM and Omaha CW Communities invite you to join us for our annual 3 1/2 day "shake and bake" vigil at the gates of Offutt Air Force Base, in Bellevue, NE. home of the Strategic Nuclear (StratCom) and the US Military Space Commands.

Come stand, pray and do penance with us. Or come and sit, bring a blanket, or foldeable chair, water jugs, ice chest, umbrellas for the sun and rain and food to share. Just come for an hour or two and share your hope for peace as we commemorate the Anniversary of the USA atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug 6 and 9, 1945. Contemplate with us the work and mission of these god-awful Offutt Commands, the challenges they pose to all life on our planet and the demonic claim it holds on the soul and spirit of our nation.

This year's vigil begins Monday Aug 6th at 8 a.m. the hour the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, at the Kinney gate and main entrance of Offutt AFB. The vigil ends Thursday Aug 9th at 11 a.m., the hour the USA dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

The vigil will begin at 8 a.m. each day and last until 8 p.m. (12 hours) to Thursday Aug 9th. On Aug 9th the vigil concludes with a prayer circle and possible line crossing at 11 a.m.

Over night hospitality is available upon request starting Sunday evening Aug 5th. Call and let us know you are coming. Expect floor space, so bring your own bed roll. If you need a bed, you really need to contact us to insure we find one for you.

Everyone is welcome, especially those in the Omaha area! Come for an hour or for the whole three days.

Contacts:

Frank Cordaro, DMCW,
Ph (515) 282 4781, E-mail frank.cordaro@gmail.com

Jerry Ebner, Omaha CW,
Ph (402) 502 5887, E-mail omahacw@hotmail.com

Monday, August 6 - HIROSHIMA DAY OF REMEMBRANCE & RESISTANCE AT LOCKHEED MARTIN [world's largest weapons corporation, U.S.'s chief nuclear and space weapons contractor, and the Iraq War's chief profiteer]in Valley Forge, PA (Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge/King of Prussia, PA - behind the King of Prussia Mall) 8AM (Hiroshima bombing occurred at 8:02am) - Noon, Bell-Tolling Vigil, with banners, puppets, Hiroshima and nuclear age graphics, and hourly siren blast; Noon - Commemoration with music, readings, broadcast of audio account of the Hiroshima bombing 62 years ago, "DIE-IN" dramatization, and Nonviolent Resistance (those willing to face arrest for nonviolent civil disobedience need to call the Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818, by July 28 and attend a preparation and planning meeting in Philadelphia. Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge is Headquarters to the corporation's Management & Data Systems which, among numerous weapons systems, produces fire-control systems for Tomahawk cruise missiles and battlefield computer systems used in Iraq. Lockheed Martin is an ongoing focus of the Brandywine Peace Community's 30 year campaign of nonviolent direct action.

On Thursday, August 9, 6PM, the Brandywine Peace Community will also hold a NAGASAKI DAY PEACE DEDICATION on the steps of SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral*, 18th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Phila., PA (August 9, 1945, the Urakami Roman Catholic Cathedral was ground zero for the Nagasaki bombing which destroyed at the time the largest Catholic city in all of Asia). Click here for more details about that event.

From Hiroshima to Hope annual LANTERN FLOATING CEREMONY to commemorate
> the victims of the Aug 6, 1945 bombing of HIROSHIMA, and of other acts
> of violence.
>
> Monday, August 6,
>
> 6:30 pm Gathering and lantern preparation
>
> 8 pm program
>
> Dusk: Lanterns are floated out onto the lake
>
> If you've never been, this is a spellbinding sight. I know; it has
> religious overtones, something about the lanterns representing the
> "souls" of the victims, but I don't let that get in the way of my
> enjoying one of the most beautiful sights to be seen on a summer evening
> in Seattle
>
> Green Lake, Northwest shore,
> just south of the Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle;
>

Pot Luck supper at Riverside Park on the banks of the beautiful Connecticut River.
Program includes speakers, music and poetry and ends with the lighting of remembrance candles which float on the river's edge.

Sponsored By:
American Friends Service Committee- CT CT Coaltion for Peace qand Justice CCPJ Bread and ROses, Charter Oak Cultural Center,CTUP, People of Faith, Palestinian American Congress, Hope Out Loud Peace and Music Festival, Promoting Enduring Peace, Veterans for Peace, West Hartford Citizens fdor Peace and Justice http://hopeoutloud.org

new jersey Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance committee

19th annual observance. including exhibit, poetry, music, origami

August 6 is Hiroshima Day. As discussed in our Wednesday night meetings, we will hold a rally to protest against plans to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Such increases make us less safe and pollute the environment, in order to line the pockets of the weapons makers. We will also take this opportunity to hold up peace signs.

We will hold signs in view of rush hour traffic, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on August 6, at the corner of Murphy Rd. and West End Ave., in front of the offices of Senators Corker and Alexander. For related information see the websites august6.org and stopthebombs.org.

On the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are reminded of the evils of war and the horror of nuclear catastrophe. The lessons: war is not the answer. We must strive for a nuclear-free world. Yet with the US waging a brutal war in Iraq, the possibility of war in Iran, continued US nuclear proliferation, and over 700 US military bases in over 72 countries, we must continue to work towards peace. The Widening War Tour seeks to make the connections between the peace and justice movements and to build a network of activists striving to end war and the roots of war.

Speakers:

Yuko Nakamura
Hiroshima survivor; Secretary General of Kanagawa Atomic Bomb Sufferers Association; National Council member of Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)

Bal Pinguel
Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee Peacebuilding & Demilitarization Program

From Hiroshima to Hope annual LANTERN FLOATING CEREMONY to commemorate
> the victims of the Aug 6, 1945 bombing of HIROSHIMA, and of other acts
> of violence.
>
> Monday, August 6,
>
> 6:30 pm Gathering and lantern preparation
>
> 8 pm program
>
> Dusk: Lanterns are floated out onto the lake
>
> If you've never been, this is a spellbinding sight. I know; it has
> religious overtones, something about the lanterns representing the
> "souls" of the victims, but I don't let that get in the way of my
> enjoying one of the most beautiful sights to be seen on a summer evening
> in Seattle
>
> Green Lake, Northwest shore,
> just south of the Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle;
>

No to Nuclear Weapons! No to War! No to War Profiteers!

Hiroshima Day, Monday, August 6, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

62 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we find ourselves still "in the shadow of the bomb." Join us for a Candlelight Vigil to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons.

Gather in front of the Midway Carrier Museum on Harbor Drive (one block south of Broadway) at 6 p.m. for bannering; program at 6:30 p.m. followed by candlelight procession on the Embarcadero.

Speakers include representatives from the Network of Spiritual Progressives and Veterans for Peace. Music by Peggy Watson. Please bring candles.

More information: info@prcsd.org or 619-263-9301

Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Potluck. Candlelight vigil at the Tuolumne River after potluck supper. Bring food and drinks to share.

Travel to end of Santa Cruz Ave. at the river. Look for sign.

Two peace groups are sponsoring a Lanterns for Peace ceremony to be held Monday, August 6th, at the Tenney Park shelter on Madison’s east side. The event, which will begin at 6:30 PM, commemorates the victims of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. This community gathering also commemorates all victims of war, and encourages the creation a safe future by abolishing nuclear weapons and wars.

Families with children are encouraged to attend. Family activities will include decorating paper lanterns, peace crane folding, and music. Performers will include local musician and storyteller Clare Norelle and the Raging Grannies of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Refreshments will be provided. The event will include displays suggesting actions to take and messages to send to elected representatives.

At dusk, around 8:15 PM, participants will light the lanterns and release them into the Tenney Park lagoon. This event is sponsored by the Madison Area Peace Coalition and Physicians for Social Responsibility-Wisconsin.

If driving to Tenney Park, enter from Sherman Avenue side. Shelter is near East Johnson Street and Thornton Avenue.

A gathering to remember the victims who died in the mushroom clouds of war and the victims worldwide of the echoes of violence inherent in nuclear technology.
Songs, poetry, dance, meditations and community building in the Rose Garden at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
7pm.
Hosted by Nuclear Watch South and Atlanta WAND (women's Action for New Directions). Other groups include Dancing Flowers for Peace, United Nations Association/Atlanta, Every Church A Peace Church, Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, S.C.L.C. W.O.M.E.N., Inc and Partnerships in Peace.

A public discussion on Bechtel Corporation and the current nuclear crisis. Bechtel develops nuclear weapons, pushed for us to go to war with Iraq, and is now opening up a new Navy facility in Monroeville. Featuring David Robinson, Pax Christi USA Executive Director, who recently visited Iran as part of a US religious delegation. Sponsored by Demilitarize Pittsburgh and AFSC Pittsburgh.

Great Neck SANE/Peace Action and the Long Island Allliance for Peaceful Alternatives Invite You to

HIROSHIMA DAY 2007
No More Hiroshimas! No More Iraqs!
Bring the Troops Home Now!

Program:
HABEEB AHMED, President, Islamic Center of Long Island
SUE DONNELLY, Code Pink LI
BRUCE GAGNON, Global Network Against Nuclear Weapons
LEAH LIBRESCO, 2007 Presidential Scholar, Mineola High School
REV. MARK LUKENS, Bethany Congregational Church and The Interfaith Alliance—Long Island Chapter
HON. MICHELLE SCHIMEL, NYS Assembly Member
RABBI RICHARD SHAPIRO, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth El, Great Neck
Co-Chairs: HON JON KAIMAN, supervisor, Town of North Hempstead and STAN ROMAINE, Chair, Great Neck SANE/Peace Action

Music by Lotus Blossom Youth Music Group with Edel Sanders at the keyboard

Directions: LIE exit 33 (Great Neck/Lakeville Rd.). Left (from west), right (from east) @ light onto Lakeville Rd. (becomes Middle Neck Rd. @ Northern Blvd.) Continue to bridge over LIRR. Go 1 block , turn right @ large clock- Grace Ave. Park 2 blocks down.

Sponsored By:
Code Pink LI, Ethical Humanist Society of LI, Five Towns Forum, The Interfaith Alliance—LI Chapter, Pax Christi LI, Reach Out America, Shelter Rock Forum, Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Womanspace

Hiroshima memorial film showing

HIBAKUSHA: In this new fifteen-minute film, Japanese citizen Keiji Tshuchiya uses 12 powerful watercolors which he painted five years ago to tell the story of his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year old soldier during the month immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb. While the film addresses a horrific moment in history, it emphasizes how Mr. Tsuchiya has directed his life towards purpose and healing through his life-long commitments to advocating for the atomic bomb survivors, opposing nuclear war and preserving the Japanese horseshoe crab. Co-produced by Kathy Sloane, photographer, director and editor, and Michele Mason, interpreter (2007).

Also showing, Emiko Omori’s film, “Rabbit in the Moon.”

"From Hiroshima to Iraq: Take the Nuclear Option off the Table", a commemoration. Welcome from Chapel Hill Town Council Member Mark Kleinschmidt, proclamation of Mayor Mark Chilton, University of North Carolina historian Wayne Lee speaks on "War, the Nuclear Option, and Habits of Mind", readings, music by Catherine Grodensky and Jim Magaw, candle lighting ceremony and chanting led by members of the Chapel Hill Zen Center. Children's activities.

There will be a program of speakers from 7 - 8:30 p.m. People can make lanterns for themselves prior to the program with the supplies provided. There are usually additional lanterns available for those who don't make their own, however. The lantern ceremony itself begins about 8:30 for any who want to attend (and bring their children to) this beautiful, meditative ceremony that is accompanied by drumming and last until about 9 p.m.

Maui Interfaith-Community Peace Coalition presents Dr. Seiji Yamada, faculty member of the U. of Hawaii School of Medicine and formerly of Hiroshima, to speak in an interfaith program which will include slides and information on survivors or nuclear bomb and other radiation testing in the Marshall Islands where Dr. Yamada has worked.
Place: Kahului Hongwanji Mission, 291 Puunene Av.,Kahului, Maui, Hawaii
Free to the public.

We Remember: prayer,film and discussion. Join us as we view the History Channel's film, "Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb," with historians, militry experts, survivors explaining facts and attitudes that affected President Truman's decision to use atomic weapons.

Examining new material presented in the film, now available through memoirs and declassification of documents, we enccourage viewers to discuss the morality and necessity of Truman's decision to begin nuclear war.

Sponsored by the Pax Christi ministry of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Parish, this commemorative gathering will be on the 62nd anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in the St. Thomas ministry center, lighthouse meeting room, at 1500 Brookdale Rd., Naperville, IL. The event is free and open to all.

We will meet at 7:30p.m. the Charleston Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek, SC to remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to demand that the Bush administration abandon plans to increase production of nuclear weapons, end the occupation of Iraq, and stay out of Iran. We are inviting the media and creating informational flyers and a large mushroom cloud, and we will bring our 9' "cruise missile."

Monday, August 6 is the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by another nuclear bomb, this one aimed at Nagasaki. To date this is the only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. The two bombs cost the lives of over 200,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and the remaining traces of radiation continue to kill people in both cities today.

In the decades since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some progress was made toward ending the threat of nuclear war. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which became effective in 1970 and now has 188 signatories, specifies that nuclear weapons states will not assist others in the development of nuclear weapons and will work toward nuclear disarmament. The elder President Bush enacted a testing moratorium in 1992 which caused several other states to stop testing nuclear weapons. Disarmament efforts continued during the Clinton presidency, when nuclear weapons were withdrawn from ten additional states and several European bases. It was during this time that the Charleston area lost the distinction of harboring more nuclear weapons at the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek than any other facility in the Eastern United States.

The current administration has reversed the trend toward disarmament. It has made little progress toward reducing the current stockpile of about 5,400 strategic warheads to 2,200 or less, the level mandated by the 2002 Treaty of Moscow (SORT); it has rejected Russian requests to negotiate further reductions as “insincere,” and it is promoting the Complex 2030 plan to build more nuclear weapons and rebuild the supporting infrastructure to levels not seen since the end of the Cold War.

Charleston Peace and ThinkingPeople invite you to join them on Monday, August 6 at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station, 2316 Red Bank Road in Goose Creek, to remember those who died in Hiroshima and to tell the Bush administration NEVER AGAIN – no more nuclear weapons, no more war!

Invite to Annual Aug 6 to 9 Vigil at the gates of Offutt AFB

The DM and Omaha CW Communities invite you to join us for our annual
3 1/2 day "shake and bake" vigil at the gates of Offutt Air Force
Base, in Bellevue, NE. home of the Strategic Nuclear (StratCom) and
the US Military Space Commands.

Come stand, pray and do penance with us. Or come and sit, bring a
blanket, or foldeable chair, water jugs, ice chest, umbrellas for the
sun and rain and food to share. Just come for an hour or two and share
your hope for peace as we commemorate the Anniversary of the USA
atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug 6 and 9, 1945.
Contemplate with us the work and mission of these god-awful Offutt
Commands, the challenges they pose to all life on our planet and the
demonic claim it holds on the soul and spirit of our nation.

This year's vigil begins Monday Aug 6th at 8 a.m. the hour the USA
dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, at the Kinney gate and
main entrance of Offutt AFB. The vigil ends Thursday Aug 9th at 11
a.m., the hour the USA dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

The vigil will begin at 8 a.m. each day and last until 8 p.m. (12
hours) to Thursday Aug 9th. On Aug 9th the vigil concludes with a
prayer circle and possible line crossing at 11 a.m.

Over night hospitality is available upon request starting Sunday
evening Aug 5th. Call and let us know you are coming. Expect floor
space, so bring your own bed roll. If you need a bed, you really need
to contact us to insure we find one for you.

Everyone is welcome, especially those in the Omaha area! Come for an
hour or for the whole three days.

Contacts:

Frank Cordaro, DMCW,
Ph (515) 282 4781, E-mail frank.cordaro@gmail.com

Jerry Ebner, Omaha CW,
Ph (402) 502 5887, E-mail omahacw@hotmail.com

Candlelight vigil at Pritchard park in remembrance of the victims of war. Starts at 8 PM and goes until 9:30 PM. Candles will be provided.

Keynote Speech is "End it Now" by Paul Edwards, Aug 6th, 8:00 p.m., Missoula Rose Park. Missoulians, new groups accepted to present your Key Concern for HDay at the next planning meeting, 10 a.m. each Saturday at the GFS sidewalk cafeteria. See you then.

Hosted by Montana Partners for Impeachment, this event is the 'big tent' rally in Montana's main university town, protesting abuses of power by Bush & Cheney on the day of the world's most catastrophic event caused by humanity. Hiroshima Day pickets of Rep. Rehberg's anti-Constitution votes in Congress are being conducted at his Billings and Helena offices.

Montana Hiroshima Day rallies are coordinated with the Pledge to Impeach bus making a circuit from NY across the top of the nation through MT, down the CA coast, then back to D.C. to submit pledges to congress demanding impeachment of Bush/Cheney.

We gather at the Farmers Market in a circle about 8:30 for remebrances and tributes to all the victims of all wars. Then we proceed to the river set floats that bear a brown paper bag weighted with sand and holdig a lit candle. We follow the floats in silencefor a number of blocks through downtown Traverse City,MI

Peace Action New York State commemorates the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with our own brief silent film to advocate the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. The cold war may have ended but the threat we face from nuclear weapons has not.

Sponsored By:
Peace Action New York State

Location:
Cooper Triangle (the cube at Astor Place) At the intersection where Cooper Square and Lafayette Street merge to become 4th Avenue (between Astor Place and E. 8th St.) Right across from the 6 train Astor Place stop and very close to the N,R,W 8th St./NYU stop

August 6, 2007 marks the sixty-second anniversary of the catastrophic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To commemorate the anniversary and to call for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons throughout the world along with a responsible and comprehensive energy policy free of nuclear power, the Syracuse Peace Council, Peace Action of Central New York, The American Friends Service Committee, and the Citizens Awareness Network are sponsoring a solemn procession August 6, 2007 beginning in Hanover Square near City Hall and ending in Clinton Square. Those who would like to join us please start gathering at 11:30AM near City Hall.

On January 4, 2007 former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, William Perry and George Schultz plus former Senator Sam Nunn stated, “ Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also require an historic opportunity. US leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage…We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal…” Or as the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei said, the only way to stop the madness “ lies in creating an environment in which nuclear weapons are universally banned, morally abhorred, and their futility unmasked.” We, the sponsors of this procession, are calling for the United States to take the lead in freeing the world of nuclear weapons. Stephen Hawking (below) and other scientists announced at a London press conference January 17, 2007 that the "Doomsday Clock" has moved from seven to five minutes closer to midnight.

The world faces such perilous choices with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, North Korea in possession of nuclear warheads, India wanting to strike a deal with the United States to purchase materials and equipment that could be used to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium and the Pakistani network providing nuclear technologies to Libya, North Korea, and Iran. These examples of the new challenges confronting the international community must be faced and the only solution is a worldwide campaign to rid the planet of these world-ending weapons. Nuclear weapons will never provide the shield of protection we seek. The only solution lies in the universal application of a treaty to ban them forever. That the United States--a nation with unmatched superiority in conventional weapons--would place renewed emphasis on the need for nuclear weapons suggests to other nations that such arsenals are necessary to their security. There are roughly 27,000 nuclear warheads in the arsenals of nine countries and the only way we will survive is to eliminate all of them. We must not waste any more time or the Doomsday Clock will indeed strike midnight.

Gerald R. Lotierzo, Co-Chair
Peace Action of Central New York

The Hiroshima Nagasaki vigil is on the plaza in Ashland, with an opening ceremony at the Lithia Park Bandshell at 8 am on August 6th featuring the lighting of the Hiroshima flame by our Mayor for Peace, and local performers Beth Baker and Ashland Taiko. Two days of vigil on the plaza are August 6th from 9 am to 9 pm and August 9th from 8 am to 9pm. The closing ceremony will be on the plaza at 6 pm on August 9th and include Whistling Elk Drum.
Films will be shown on the 7th and the 8th during the day at the Ashland Community Center. The films on Tuesday, August 7th include:

10 am "Lifting the Fog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki";

12 pm "Hell Fire"; 2 pm "Hiroshima: A Mother's Prayer" and “Testimonies by Survivors”.

Films to be shown on the 8th (Wed.) include:

10 am "The New Nuclear Danger";

12 pm "Arsenals of Hypocrisy";

2 pm "The Last Atomic Bomb".
Two evening events are also scheduled at the Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library 258 A. Street in Ashland, at 7 – 9 pm on the 7th and 8th. On Tuesday, August 7th Don Wells, PhD, will lecture on the theme “‘Just War’ Theory Justifies Too Much”. On August 8th a there will be a play reading "The Face of Jizo”.
A photo exhibit of pictures from the Hiroshima Peace Museum will be on display on the third floor of the Stevenson Union of SOU September 12th into October. See atomicvigil.net for an activity chart and further information or call 488-1230.