Hiroshima and Nagasaki Week in Massachusetts
August 4 - August 9
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Week in Massachusetts
Building Peace with North Korea and Iran
August 4-9, 2018
73 years have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 48 years since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) took effect, and almost one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened for signing. Yet the five original nuclear weapons states, led by the United States, have not taken serious action on their commitments to abolish nuclear weapons.
After threatening North Korea with “fire and fury”, President Trump held a summit meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-un, but much work remains to resolve the nuclear crisis with North Korea and bring peace to the Korean peninsula. He unveiled a Nuclear Posture Review that for the first time declares that the U.S. might use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear threats, and he continues to fund the $1.2 billion nuclear weapons escalation program. President Trump broke the Iran nuclear deal, falsely claiming that Iran was a nuclear threat.
In reality, it is the United States’ 6,500 nuclear warheads, although with those of the other nuclear powers, that pose an imminent threat to humanity. The President can launch a civilization-destroying nuclear war on his sole authority.
Without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to nuclear disarmament, the world’s nuclear crisis will only get worse instead of better. Therefore, Massachusetts Peace Action joins with peace groups, people of faith, youth, community groups, and human rights advocates who have organized events across Massachusetts on August 5-9, 2018, to call attention to the people’s demand for an end to the $1 trillion nuclear weapons escalation and the failure of the United States to support the nuclear ban treaty.
We urge your or your organization to plan an event in your town, church, or campus. Send information on your events to info@masspeaceaction.org. We will publish a calendar of events across the state so that all people who seek a peaceful world will know that they are not alone! Last year, we listed 17 events in Massachusetts and we hope to top that this year!
We hope you will collaborate with us in this joint effort! Contact 617-354-2169 or info@masspeaceaction.org with questions or to connect and exchange ideas.
We have posted the events we know about here.
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Week Calendar
Friday, August 3, 12 noon – 5pm, Government Center, Boston – Outreach at Massachusetts Green Fest – join Massachusetts Peace Action as we reach out
Saturday, August 4, 10:30am, Arlington Center – Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Peace Vigil, sponsored by Arlington UJP.
Saturday August 4, 1pm, Hanscom Air Force Base, Lincoln – Nuclear Holocaust Peace Pilgrims. Join the monks and nuns of the Grafton Peace Pagoda at Hanscom Air Force Base and for the other events on their walk for nuclear disarmament.
Sunday, August 5, Amherst to Leverett – Peace Walk with the monks and nuns of the Grafton Peace Pagoda followed by Hiroshima Ceremony, then continuing on to Vermont Yankee, Bennington, Saratoga Springs, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and Grafton on August 12.
Sunday, August 5, 11:45 am, Cambridge Common – Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Welcoming Momentum for Peace in Korea. Outdoor gathering after church.
Monday, August 6, 7pm, Cambridge Friends Meeting: Community reading of Thomas Merton’s “Original Child Bomb”, then proceed to the Charles River to float candles.
How to Participate
We urge your organization to plan an event in your town, church, or campus. Send information on your events to info@masspeaceaction.org and we will add it to our current calendar so that all people who seek a peaceful world will know that they are not alone! Last year, we listed 17 events in Massachusetts and we hope to top that this year!
We hope you will collaborate with us in this joint effort! Contact 617-354-2169 or info@masspeaceaction.orgwith questions or to connect and exchange ideas.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dean Stevens < dean@deanstevens.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 4:36 PM
Subject: Nagasaki Day?
To: Cole Harrison < cole@masspeaceaction.org>
From: Dean Stevens < dean@deanstevens.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 4:36 PM
Subject: Nagasaki Day?
To: Cole Harrison < cole@masspeaceaction.org>
Cole, have oyu heard about any events in observance of Nagasaki Day? At CCB we usually have an outing to a Harbor Island on the Sunday nearest Hiroshima Day. That is, Ibelieve not going to happen this year….We are always out of town that weekend so i can’t help drive it…But we’ll be back by Aug. 9….and I would be interested in having an observance event at CCB. I could sing, and bring Takao Shinzawa, long time flute player who has joined us in the past for these events. Maybe a speaker or two, reflecting on “WHY THE FUCK DID THEY HAVE TO DROP A SECOND BOMB ON ANOTHER CIVILIAN CENTER?? as if one weren’t too many.
Just sending out this feeler, to see if you’s are doing anyhting, and offer the space, and our outreach resources, if there is nothing else going on.
Lemme Know……Dean 617-869-3014
Dean Stevens
Musician, Spanish Interpreter
Central America Traveler
Musician, Spanish Interpreter
Central America Traveler
dean@deanstevens.com
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” Walt Whitman, from the preface to ”Leaves of Grass”
Cole Harrison
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Massachusetts Peace Action
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