The NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION will begin with a vigil against the weapons contracts of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Then there will be a march to the Bufano Sculpture Garden to hear a remembrance by two Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb.

August 3-4, 2007

In the Spirit Of Love and Respect For All Life, Join Pax Christi New Mexico to vigil, pray and Witness For Peace in Los Alamos, New Mexico on the 62nd Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of HIROSHIMA, Japan.

~ Friday August 3rd 2007 ~
"Taking a Stand for Peace"
...an evening in Santa Fe, NM with Fr. Roy Bourgeois 7:30 PM at El Museo Cultural (1615 Paseo de Peralta) But first we have a Mass at Santa Maria de la Paz Church (11 College Ave in Santa Fe). Nonviolence Training will be offered the next morning from 9:00 PM to 12:00 noon at the Church.
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~ Saturday August 4th 2007 ~
Walk, Pray & Vigil For Peace in Los Alamos, NM 2:00pm @ Los Alamos, NM
BRING PEACE & NUCLEAR ABOLITION BANNERS

Arrive at Ashley Pond (between Central Ave & Trinity Dr. near 20th Street), Los Alamos after noon. Sidewalk vigil in the city from 2:30 to 3:00--INCLUDING SITTING IN SACKLOTH and ASHES, return to Ashley Pond for a closing prayer service, followed by a rally and the floating of the lanterns @ dusk.

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."

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.

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.

OREPA's Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration will take place over several days this August. The mass peace rally, march to the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Plant and Action for Abolition will take place on Saturday, August 4.

The Rally for peace, with music, speakers and puppetistas, will begin at 10:00am at Alvin K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge, TN.

A March to the Y12 Nuclear Weapons plant will depart Bissell Park at 12:30pm.

***Preparations for Saturday activities, including peacekeeper training for volunteers, affinity group meetings, and puppet rehearsal, will be Friday, August 3 at Church of the Savior, 934 Weisgarber Rd in Knoxville, beginning at 6:00pm.

Annual Names/Remembrance ceremony will begin at 6:00am, Monday, August 6 at Y12 Plant in Oak Ridge.

Trial for Erik Johnson, Pam Beziat and Tom Lumpkin on charges from 2006 Hiroshima Day action scheduled for Wednesday, August 8 in Clinton, TN.

Annual Peace Lantern ceremony in Knoxville will be held at 8:15pm on Thursday, August 9.

NDE will join Pax Christi New Mexico to vigil, pray and Witness For Peace in Los Alamos, New Mexico on the 62nd Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

Nonviolence Training will be offered in Santa Fe
Santa Maria de la Paz Church, 9:00 a.m. - noon.

Walk, Pray & Vigil For Peace at Los Alamos, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
BRING PEACE & NUCLEAR ABOLITION BANNERS

Join our faith and resistance retreat as it focuses on Bechtel's practices against humanity and the environment. We will begin at 8:30 at the offices of Bechtel (15th & K Streets).

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.

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.