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.