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Beyond Nuclear advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and argues that removing them can only make us safer, not more vulnerable. The expansion of commercial nuclear power across the globe only increases the chance that more nuclear weapons will be built and is counterproductive to disarmament. We also cover nuclear weapons issues on our international site, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Saturday
Jul312021

MA Peace Action: Hiroshima Nagasaki 2021 Week is Here - Join an Event Near You or Online

Hiroshima Nagasaki Week 2021

Join the events in solidarity with Global Peace Wave 2021!

 

Dear Kevin,

All told, some two dozen events in solidarity with "global Peace Wave 2021" are taking place this coming week for the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan. Find an event close to you here! Tell us about your own event here!

 

Join any of these diverse commemorations: there will be vigils in Andover, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester, Waltham, Walpole, Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. To mark the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Day, the First Baptist Church in Bedford will toll their church bell, and there will be a street theater performance in neighboring Rhode Island. Still others will hold peace walks, and  film screenings, picnics and family activities such as folding and stringing origami cranes.

 

Attend an online event: one virtual gathering will focus on the campaign to ratify the 2021 Nuclear Ban Treaty here in the U.S. and another will feature Alicia Sanders-Zakre of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICANW). 

 

Update: the Arlington screening of "The War Game" is now a hybrid event!

 

Share art, storytelling and messages of peace directly with viewers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A very special pair of memorial ceremonies by the Artists Refuge Repertory Theatre will take place in Jamaica Plain on the eve of Hiroshima Day and via Zoom on the eve of Nagasaki Day.

Whether chalking up the sidewalks in Harvard Square, floating flowers on the water in Fall River or attending a candle boat floating ceremony in Easthampton or Watertown, there are so many opportunities to join these important remembrances -

find an event close to you here! Or better yet, register your own event with us - no matter the size of your event, be a part of global "Peace Wave 2021"!

 

In peace and solidarity, 

 

Maryellen Kurkulos

Massachusetts Peace Action

p.s. Don't forget to tell us of your own plans and we'll get the word out!

Friday
Jul302021

BALTIMORE HOLDS 37th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI COMMEMORATIONS

Announcement shared by Max Obuszewski:

 

Friends,

 

Thanks for the notice about contacting the IOC, which I did.  Below are the details about BALTIMORE HOLDS 37th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI COMMEMORATIONS.  If you cannot attend our commemorations, consider sending me a brief write-up why Johns Hopkins University should renounce its nuclear weapons research. Kagiso, Max

 

BALTIMORE HOLDS 37th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI COMMEMORATIONS. 

 

Under the umbrella of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, members of several organizations -- the Baltimore Club of the CPUSA, the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Homewood Friends Meeting, Maryland Peace Action and Prevent Nuclear War Maryland – have planned two events to remember what took place on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima and three days later in Nagasaki.  The atom bomb survivors, the Hibakusha, have always stated NEVER AGAIN. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.

 

 On August 6 from 6:30 to 7 PM ET, gather outside Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St. to call for an end to Johns Hopkins University’s weapons contracts.  The university is the #1 School of Mass Destruction as it receives the largest amount of research dollars for nuclear weapons contracts. 

 

Inside Homewood, you must wear a mask and do social distancing.  Charlie Cooper, with Get Money Out – Maryland, will make the point that money has corrupted many legislators.  This makes it very difficult for advocates trying to convince their legislators to vote to cut back on bloated military spending and new nuclear weapons.

 

  Greta Zarro, the organizing director of World Beyond War, will expound on the connection between U.S. militarism and climate chaos.  She will appear by Zoom.

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On August 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM ET, there will be a vigil to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, again outside Homewood Friends Meetinghouse. Afterwards, the assembled will go into the meetinghouse. 

 

  Dr. Gwen DuBois, with Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility and Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland, will do a presentation on the Back from the Brink campaign, five steps towards the abolition of nuclear weapons.  Baltimore was the first large city to pass a Back from the Brink resolution on August 6, 2018.

 

   Then testimonials and statements condemning nuclear weapons will be read.  These statements will challenge Johns Hopkins University to renounce its nuclear weapons contracts. Finally, some participants will go to Busboys and Poets, 33rd and St. Paul Streets, to break bread and enjoy a community meal. This is an opportunity to come together and commit to the task of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons.





  On July 12, 2021, JHU was awarded a $530,000,000 contract for research and development services in support of the nuclear enterprise.  Another contract received was for research and development services for $23 million to support the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent weapon system. These contracts are for services in support of the two intercontinental ballistic missile systems. 

Charlie Cooper with Get Money Out – Maryland is working very hard to pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and D.C. Statehood. His group also wants to End gerrymandering, Stop dark money spending, Protect elections by requiring voting machines made in U.S. and with a paper trail and Make Election Day a holiday.

 

Greta Zarro has a background in issue-based community organizing. Her experience includes volunteer recruitment and engagement, event organizing, coalition building, legislative and media outreach, and public speaking. Greta graduated as valedictorian from St. Michael’s College with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Anthropology. She previously worked as New York Organizer for leading non-profit Food & Water Watch. There, she campaigned on issues related to fracking, genetically engineered foods, climate change, and the corporate control of our common resources. Greta and her partner run Unadilla Community Farm, a non-profit organic farm and permaculture education center in Upstate New York. Greta can be reached at greta@worldbeyondwar.org.

 

SLOW MOTION NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

 

As Tom Engelhardt wrote, “. . .  climate change should really be reimagined as the equivalent of a slow-motion nuclear holocaust. Hiroshima took place in literally seconds, a single blinding flash of heat. Global warming will prove to be a matter of years, decades, even centuries of heat.”

 

Back from the Brink calls on the government to 1] Actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals; 2] Renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first; 3] Ending the sole, unchecked authority of any U.S. President to launch a nuclear attack; 4] Taking U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert and 5] Cancelling the plan to replace the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal with enhanced weapons.  

 

Dr. Gwen will also speak about The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It became effective on January 22, 2021 in countries which ratified the Treaty. A copy of the Treaty was delivered to the residence of JHU president Ron Daniels on January 22, 2021.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apartment 206, Baltimore, MD 21212 – Phone – 410-323-1607-- Email -- mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.

Friday
Jul302021

Basel Peace Office: Nuclear Games, the Olympics and Hiroshima commemoration day External




The Olympics and peace: Sign the appeal for a moment of silence on August 6


The Olympics were founded as a peace initiative - with a truce declared before and during the ancient games. This Olympic Truce ideal was revived in the modern Olympics, and is promoted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Olympic Truce Foundation, United Nations (see UN and Olympic Truce) and the Olympic Truce Centre.

During the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, this ideal was embodied in the Korean Olympic peace initiative, which opened the door to North-South Korean and Korean-USA summits, and the start of a peace and denuclearisation process for the Korean Peninsula.

There were hopes that this peace tradition would be continued with the 2020 (now 2021) Olympics. Indeed, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki originally put in a joint bid to host the 2020 Olympics and call them the Peace Olympics, especially as 2020 was the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of their two cities. However, this bid was rejected by the Japan Olympic Committee, and Tokyo instead won the rights to host the Olympics.

In an effort to have at least a small, but significant, gesture for peace included at these Olympics, Tadatoshi Akiba, former Mayor of Hiroshima has appealed to the IOC to hold a minute of silence on August 6 in commemoration of the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and in support of a nuclear-weapon-free world.

You can support the appeal as an individual (appeal in Japanese) or as an organization (appeal in English).

 

   * Nuclear Games is developed by Docmine, a Swiss-based creative studio and produced in the English and German languages. Youth Fusion - along with Physicians for Social Responsibility/IPPNW Switzerland, Basel Peace Office and World Future Council - are facilitating its distribution and promotion. For more info see As the Olympic Games begin, “Nuclear Games” counters pro-nuclear messages with an animated web-documentary.


  The Nation magazine features Nuclear Games
● Nuclear Games: Youth-led and for youth ●
  Sign the Appeal for a minute silence at Olympic Games on August 6

Dear Kevin,

On July 23, the eve of the Olympic Games, we* launched Nuclear Games, a new film and an animated web-documentary addressing humanity's nuclear history and the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons and energy.

The web-documentary includes five manga stories from the nuclear age, while the film highlghts the contradictions between the Tokyo Olympics - an event supposedly supporting peace and humanity - with the continued global nuclear arms race, and the apparent disregard of the host country Japan to the health and political impacts of the Fukushima nuclear power disaster and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (See The Olympics and peace below).

On July 29, the Nation Magazine published a lead article by Basel Peace Office Director Alyn Ware entitiled 'Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement', which focuses on the nuclear politics of Japan and the Tokyo Olympics, and features the launch of Nuclear Games.
By paying lip service to the Fukushima disaster and the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, these games are downplaying the growing danger of a nuclear catastrophe.
Alyn Ware, The Nation Magazine, July 29, 2021


Nuclear Games: Youth-led and for youth

Nuclear Games was established primarily to attract, inform and engage the next generation in nuclear issues. It features five stories of the nuclear age, from the Soviet sub-marine commander who averted a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile crisis, to uranium mining and hostage taking in Niger, the Bikini islanders who are homeless due to nuclear testing, the sad fates of the liquidators in the Chernobyl disaster, and the North Korean nuclear weapons threat.

The five 'manga' stories are told through pop-culture animation mixed with documentary footage, using leading edge interactive technology. It's launch event was organised by Youth Fusion, the youth section of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The panelists were youth leaders in peace, human rights, climate action, sustainable development and disarmament from around the world.
Friday
Jul302021

Aug 9 Event: The Vow from Hiroshima [Register now]

 

Register Now

IPPNW Student Discussion on

The Vow from Hiroshima

To commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings,
the IPPNW medical student movement is hosting an exclusive 48-hour screening
of the feature-length documentary, The Vow from Hiroshima, followed by a roundtable
discussion with Hibakusha and activist Setsuko Thurlow, the filmmakers Mitchie Takeuchi
and Susan Strickler, and five IPPNW international medical student leaders.
Register now to join us on 9 August at 10am EDT for the discussion and to receive the
secure link to stream the film on 7-8 August.
Thursday
Jul292021

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Events in Los Alamos and Taos August 7th and 8th

Announcements from Joni Arends at CCNS in Santa Fe, NM:

 

Hi All,

Below is a lot of information about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Events in Los Alamos and Taos August 7th and 8th
Near the end of World War Two, on August 6th, 1945, the U.S. Government dropped a uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.  Three days later, on August 9th, the U.S. Government dropped a plutonium atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.  Over 200,000 people died instantly.  Those that lived have suffered external and internal radiation effects, among other injuries.  That harm will be commemorated in Los Alamos on Saturday, August 7th, and in Taos on Sunday, August 8th.
On Saturday, August 7th, from 1 to 3 pm, the Joan Duffy Santa Fe Chapter of the Veterans for Peace will hold a two-hour Vigil in Remembrance:  Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945, in Los Alamos, the location where the first atomic bombs were developed.  The vigil will commemorate the bombings that fundamentally changed the world.  Everyone is invited to join the vigil at Ashley Pond.
Ken Mayers, of the Veterans for Peace, said, “We must remind ourselves and others of the living hell created by that bomb in hopes that we can avoid any future use of such devices of death.”  For more information, contact kenmayers@vfp-santafe.org and http://www.vfp-santafe.org/home.html
On Sunday, August 8th, from 2 to 9 pm, the Taos August Peace Pilgrimage will take place with films, a Peace Forum, a candlelight ceremony, art and poetry at the Taos Community Auditorium, located at 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte.  The event is free and open to the public.  https://taosenvironmentalfilmfestival.com/
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