[Organize] IPA picked up today

[Hany Khalil]

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From: Institute for Public Accuracy [mailto:dcinstitute at igc.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:51 AM
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Subject: Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Institute for Public Accuracy
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     Friday, August 4, 2006

     Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

MARYLIA KELLEY, marylia at earthlink.net, http://www.trivalleycares.org
    Kelley is executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities 
Against a Radioactive Environment) located in Livermore, California. 
She said today: "On August 6 and 9, 61 years after the U.S. dropped 
atomic bombs on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people 
from around the globe will gather to stop nuclear weapons and war. In 
the U.S., our protests will not only commemorate the past, they will 
also reveal the oft-hidden face of continued nuclear weapons 
development. Presently, Livermore lab in California and Los Alamos 
lab in New Mexico are locked in a competition to design a new 
submarine-launched nuclear warhead, the first new nuke in a Bush 
administration initiative to re-design and rebuild every nuclear 
weapon in the U.S. arsenal, under the so-called 'Reliable Replacement 
Warhead' program. By taking action this August 6 and 9, we will honor 
the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whose skin was seared from 
their bodies, and vow 'never again.' We will stand in solidarity with 
all victims of war. We will rededicate our lives to peace and work to 
prevent our government from developing new nuclear and other weapons 
of mass destruction."

JACQUELINE CABASSO, wslf at earthlink.net, http://www.wslfweb.org, 
http://www.august6.org
    Cabasso is executive director of the Western States Legal 
Foundation and a member of United for Peace and Justice's Steering 
Committee. UFPJ is sponsoring nonviolent protests in 24 states on 
August 5, 6 and 9 to observe the 61st anniversary of the atomic 
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
   For quotes from local organizers and speakers at protests across 
the U.S., see <http://www.august6.org/quotes>.

IPA's communications director Sam Husseini was among the panelists at 
an event at the Palestine Center on Tuesday which was covered by 
C-Span. Video is available at: 
<rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/intl/intl080106_mideast.rm>.

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167