Remembering
Hiroshima
More Hiroshima Week Events
Sunday, August 4, Watertown: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Build a
Non-Violent World. Watertown Square. Vigil 7:15 pm; Music, Reflections,
Candle Boat Launch, Charles River Dock, 8:00 pm. More info
Sunday, August 4, George's Island: Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Commemoration. Meet at 10:30 am at Long Wharf North Pier. Community
Church of Boston. More info
Monday, August 5, Boston: Choosing Peace. A community gathering
and prayer service to clarify the call to recommit ourselves to choosing peace
and building human community across all lines of potential division. Old South
Church, 6pm. More info
Tuesday, August 6, Andover: Hiroshima Commemoration. Merrimack
Valley People for Peace vigil, Andover Old Town Hall, 20 Main St., 7:00
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August 6, 2013, 3:30 pm -
Cambridge
68 years later, it’s time! President Obama, let’s join
international efforts to eliminate the danger of nuclear weapons!
Memorial Procession, Music, Talks, and Film
3:30 Gather at Cambridge City Hall, 795 Mass. Ave. Japanese dancers
(invited), antiwar singer Pat Scanlon, welcome by Mayor of Cambridge, Reading of
Proclamation.
4:15 Memorial Procession down Mass. Ave. via Harvard Sq. to Brattle
Sq., led by the drummers of The New England Peace Pagoda.
4:45 Memorial speakers, music and meditation at Brattle Square. Brian
Corr, Peace Commissioner of Cambridge; Ira Helfand, International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War; Pat Scanlon.
7:00 Film "Hibakusha, Our Life To Live" at Brattle Theater, followed
by a panel discussion with filmmaker David Rothauser and professor Akihiko
Kimijima.
This day reminds us that only through remembrance and action can we build a
non-violent world free of the atrocities of nuclear weapons.
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