On August 5, 2007 The August Peace Event in Sacramento was held at the CSUS Alumni Center. It was attended by about 200-250 people. We honored Ruth Hultgren as honorary chairperson this year as she was instrumental in founding this annual event 21 years ago in Sacramento. This years program was dedicated to the memory of MayorIccho Ito of Nagasaki who was a leading anti-nuclear activist and who was assasinated earlier this year.

We had a number of youth groups participate including a group from the bay area called the Nonviolence Leadership Institute. We also had the Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan of UC Davis perform. Mary Perner from the watchdog group Tri-Valley CARES presented information about nuclear weapons that the government is working on and presented an action for the audience--to send letters to their representatives.