World Nuclear Awareness Conference will feature keynote speakers, survivors (Ms. Sasamori and Lijon Eknilang) from Hiroshima and from Bravo (the largest thermonuclear weapon that the U.S. denotated in the Marshall Islands and which contaminated not only the Marshall Islands but the world), who will discuss not only what they witnessed but why nuclear weapons most be abolished. The conference will include drama performances by various schools; poetry readings; music and a film festival; and connections with nuclear testing in Alaska and Russia.

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.

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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> SIGN IN AT YOUR EATING TABLE-SERVE YOURSELF AT TABLE
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> CHURCH PROGRAM
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> INTRODUCTORY REMARKS JACK GILROY, PEACE ACTION
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> BRIEF OUTLINE PROPOSAL FOR PEACE CENTER BY ADAM
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> GEORGE HAESELER, PEACE ACTION-NUCLEAR WEAPONS PAST
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> MAYOR MATT RYAN-SIGNING OF MAYORS STATEMENT ON
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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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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.

new jersey Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance committee

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

The Annual Hiroshima Day Commemoration, held at the site of the first sustained nuclear reaction, will take place Sunday August 5 at 4PM. The site is the Henry Moore Sculpture “Nuclear Energy” , on Ellis Ave between 56th and 57th street, near the University of Chicago Campus.
The theme of this years gathering is “Hiroshima 1945-Mideast 2007: The Threat of Nuclear Devastation”. The speakers will be Paul Kawika Martin, Organizing and Policy Director, Peace Action; Finley Campbell. Peace Action Taskforce, Social Justice Council, First Unitarian Church; Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois State Representative, 25th District; and the Reverand Don Coleman, Senior Co-Minister, University Church, recently released from prison for civil disobedience at the School of the Americas.
Dave Martin will provide music and lead us in song.
The event is sponsored by Hyde Parkers for Peace and Justice, and the Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism. In case of rain the event will move indoors to the University Church, 57th St. and University Ave.
For more information e-mail mel@math.uchicago.edu

Sponsored By:
Hyde Parkers for Peace and Justice Hyde Parkers Against War and Racism

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

Sponsored By:
Bloomington Normal Citizens for Peace and Justice

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.

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

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