Remembering Hiroshima—

Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 3:30 pm

cAMBRIDGE

68 years later, it’s time:

President Obama, let’s join the world’s efforts to escape 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 and music, 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, North American Vice-President, 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.

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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Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, New England Peace Pagoda, the City of Cambridge, Harvard Square Business Association, Memory Productions, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - Boston, Veterans for Peace, Smedley D. Butler Brigade (list in formation)