[Organize] Two more WILPF Hiroshima events and one Nagasaki day event

[Carol Urner]

ASHLAND OR WILPF: Linda Richards reports the Ashland Branch of the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom will commemorate the US nuclear
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6, 2006 on the Ashland Plaza, 8:16
am until dusk. The remembrance of the 260,000 Japanese civilians killed with
the first use of atomic weapons in 1945 will begin Sunday August 6th at 8:16
am with the traditional lighting of the Hiroshima flame. Ashland, a Nuclear
Free Zone since 1982, is a member of the international group Mayors for
Peace. As of July 21, 2006, membership of Mayors for Peace stood at 1,403
cities in 119 countries and regions. For more information on the national
campaign, see  <http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/index.html>
www.mayorsforpeace.org. 

The vigil is an opportunity to reflect upon how we choose to respond to the
critical challenges of the US nuclear policy, including the emerging uranium
economy, corporate war profits and the diversion of resources to nuclearism
despite the risks. Petitions and postcards will be available at the vigil to
sign and support a nuclear free future. The vigil will end with a closing
ceremony extinguishing the flame at dusk with singing by the members of the
Ashland Peace Choir. Peace Choir members will be singing in solidarity with
the Ashland Peace Choir who will be singing on the same day at the official
Hiroshima Japan Commemoration. 

Ashland Film Premier "The Last Atom Bomb," Friday, August 11, 2006, 7:30 pm.
This is a 90 minute film followed by a discussion with the film's award
winning maker, Robert Richter. Meese Auditorium, on the Southern Oregon
University Campus, beside the Schneider Museum There will be no charge, but
donations at the door are welcome to help defray the cost of arranging this
showing .

ST.LOUIS BRANCH WILPF: Mary Jane Schutzius reports that WILPF is sponsoring
the traditional commemoration on Sunday Aug. 6 at Lewis Park, University
City, MO at 6 p.m. We begin with a picnic and reading of the Hiroshima
mayor’s message, followed by a panel on the Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty, US policy vis-à-vis India, Iran, and North Korea, and the effect of
9/11. The program ends with peace songs and the floating of lit “boats” on
the park lagoon. 

We request co-sponsors donate $25 to meet any expenses, with the surplus
sent to the Hiroshima Survivors Hospital.

PORTLAND OREGON:  On Nagasaki Day,  August 9, Portland Branch WILPF and
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility are co-sponsoring the Portland
premiere of  The Last Atomic Bomb.  The story follows the life of a Nagasaki
survivor as she and other survivors seek to impress upon the world the
horror and the meaning of those first bombings, and also explores the film
maker’s gradual disillusionment with his own nation’s nuclear policies.
Film goers will meet with legendary film maker Robert Richter.

 

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