Public Forum/Teach-In/Workshop/Lecture

Kaz Suyeishi, Hiroshima A-bomb Survivor, speaks in Lincoln Nebraska

Aug 28 2008 - 7:00pm
US/Central
Location: 
First United Methodist Church at 2723 North 50th St
City: 
Lincoln
State: 
Nebraska
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
(402) 475-1318

Kaz Suyeishi, president of the American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Survivors, will be speaking at First United Methodist Church at 2723 North 50th St., Lincoln, Nebraska (402-466-1906) in Lincoln in the Black Fellowship Hall in the lower level of the church (accessible through the east door of the church off 50th Street). at 7:00 P.M. on August 28.

See exhibits of thirty posters and other documents showing the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
in August of 1945. These posters will frame Ms. Suyeishi's

A-bomb survivor speaks in Omaha, seat of Strat Com center for U.S. nuclear war

Aug 29 2008 - 6:30pm
US/Central
Location: 
First United Methodist Church at 7020 Cass Street
City: 
Omaha
State: 
Nebraska
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
(402) 475-1318

Kaz Suyeishi, president of the American Society of Hiroshima-NagasakiA-bomb Survivors, will speak in Omaha's First United Methodist Church at 7020 Cass Street in the Mead Hall, accessed from the west side of the building at 6:30 on August 29th from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. There will also be exhibits of thirty posters and other documents showing the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in August of 1945. These posters will frame Ms. Suyeishi's

Petition Congress to declare August 6 as Nuclear Disarmament Day

Aug 6 2008 - 12:00pm
Sep 5 2008 - 11:59pm
US/Eastern
Location: 
Your community and U.S. Congress
City: 
Your community and Washington D.C.
State: 
District Of Columbia
Phone Contact: 
802-848-7552

It's time to call on Congress to join us in making August 6 Nuclear Disarmament Day. Download and circulate the petition at
http://disarm.wilpf.org/node/25. Mail it to WILPF (as instructed on the bottom of the petition) by September 5 for hand delivery to your Congressional delegation..

Or sign it on line and send it around to all your friends. Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nucleardisarmamentday.

International WILPF statement on Hiroshima-Nagasaki for use in Nuclear Free Future Month

Aug 4 2008 - 12:00am
Aug 31 2008 - 6:00pm
US/Eastern
Location: 
United Nations New York and Geneva
City: 
New York
State: 
New York
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
503 232 7159

On August 4 the international office of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom issued a strong statement for Hiroshima-Nagasaki days. This statement, or excerpts from it, may be used at vigils, demonstrations, teach ins, forums, with members of Congress or in press conferences and letters-to-the editor during Nuclear Free Future month.

It is addressed particularly to the leaders of nuclear weapons states, but is also directed to leaders and civil society of all nations.

Bloomington WILPF submits City Council Resolution on Hiroshima Day: Diplomacy, not bombs or sanctions, for Iran

Aug 6 2008 - 12:00pm
US/East-Indiana
Location: 
City Hall
City: 
Bloomington
State: 
Indiana
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
503 320 9108

On Hiroshima Day we are speaking to our city council to encourage their signing a resolution to use diplomacy with Iran rather than blockades or sanctions. -Deb Garretson

"It is not simply that women have the right to participate as equals. It is also that without women’s participation and empowerment and without gender equality, sustainable peace, sustainable development and true human security are unattainable."

--from the WILPF Statement to the Commission on the Status of Women (pdf)

Peace Lantern ceremony

Aug 9 2008 - 7:00pm
US/Pacific

 

For immediate release:  July 9 – August 9, 2008

 

Hibakashu interviewed on WPFW (89.3 FM radio)

Aug 4 2008 - 9:30am
US/Eastern
Location: 
WPFW FM station at 2390 Champlain St NW, Washington,
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
202-234-2000

Monday, August 4

Radio Interview of Hibakusha by Ambrose Lane

Mr. Akinori Hara, Hiroshima survivor, Age: 66
Title: Executive Board member of Saitama Association of A-Bomb Victims and Ms. Yasuko Ota, Nagasaki survivor Age: 78
Title: President of Toyama Association of A-bomb Victims will be interviewed on WPFW (89.3 FM radio) a 9:30 A.M.

202-588-0999, or 202-588-0893 to call in with question or comment

23rd Annual Hiroshima Nagasaki Vigil in Ashland Oregon

Aug 6 2008 - 8:00am
US/Pacific

PRESS RELEASE
23rd Annual Ashland, Oregon   Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil
August 6-9, 2008

Prophetic Voices of the Hibakusha

Aug 9 2008 - 7:00pm
Aug 9 2008 - 8:30pm
US/Eastern

“Hibakusha” (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which took place August 6th and 9th, 1945) tell their deeply personal and painful stories in the hopes that the tragedy of nuclear warfare will never again be repeated.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9TH:

Concert for Peace

Aug 6 2008 - 7:30pm
US/Central
Location: 
Lake Harriet Bandshell, Minneapolis MN
Email Contact: 
Phone Contact: 
952.922.0308

August Atomic Bombing Commemoration to Focus on Children, Future,
Music, Dance, Silent Ritual, Tea Ceremony, Storytelling and more will Mark 63rd Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

The 2008 Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events in Minneapolis and St. Paul will focus on children and the hope for a future free of atomic weapons. The events commemorate the U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on, respectively, August 6 and 9, 1945. The events span three days -- August 5, 6, and 9 -- and are open to the public.

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