Hiroshima And Nagasakia

[blake 3:17]

Bombings pf Hiroshima and Nagasaki via Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)

Hiroshima archive. (http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/)

Please share stories of your local anti-nuke activism
In Toronto:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations - August 6
and 9
Sunday, August 6, 6pm
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
and
Wednesday, August 9, 6:30pm
Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square

The Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition is organizing

two events on August 6 and
9
to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in 1945.

140,000 Japanese were killed in the first
American atomic bombing of
Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In Nagasaki 74,000
were killed and another
75,000 injured on August 9, 1945 when the U.S.
dropped the second atomic
bomb on that city.

A thirty minute program starting at 6 pm during
the IRIE Music Festival at
Nathan
Phillips Square on August 6 will feature dub poet

Clifton Joseph, the Yakudo
Traditional Japanese Drummers, the reading of the

Toronto Peace Message from
Mayor David Miller, and the reading of the Peace
Message from Hiroshima
Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba by a granddaughter of a Hiroshima

survivor.

On August 9, the Nagasaki commemoration will take

place near the Peace
Garden on
Nathan Phillips Square from 6:30 to 9 pm with
Phyllis Creighton as MC. The
program begins with Origami paper cranes folding
and storytelling for
children,
the Yakudo Drummers, the reading of the Toronto
Peace Message and the Peace
Message from Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh, featured
speaker Mel Hurtig (author
of
Rushing to Armageddon), Shakuhachi bamboo flute
playing by Bonchiku Hoshi, a
reading of Kurihara Sadako's poem, "Bring Forth
New Life," and Yusuke Tanaka
singing "Don't Let It Happen Again". There will
also be brief announcements
from Mayors for Peace and the World Peace Forum.
Dub poet Clifton Joseph,
student Yuki Otsuji and the Raging Grannies will
also contribute to the
program. The evening closes with a Lantern
Ceremony accompanied by bamboo
flute
playing by Bonchiku Hoshi. The Toronto Hiroshima
Day Coalition invites
everyone
to express their opposition to nuclear arms and
support for the abolition of
nuclear weapons by attending.

For more information contact:
[email protected]

[Whitten]

Nukes arnt the problem. The bourgeois arent stupid enough to use them. Its regular wars and economic imperialism that take lives.

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

If a revolution broke out workers would just seize the Nukes and disarm them :)

[Jiub]

I don't get it, nukes have only been used twice and now they are only used to threat, why demonstrate against it?

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

There always idiots like North Korea

[Whitten]

Kim Jung Il may not be a nice guy (dont know, havent met him) but he's far from an Idiot. He knows he cant just go and nuke Japan or SK. What he wants is his own deterent, seperate from China who have been siding with the US far too much recently.

[rioters bloc]

i'll post photos from the rally in sydney tomorrow, once i find my usb cord.

and yes, i'll blur your faces Black Dagger and Cthenthar and Anarchia ;)

[rioters bloc]

http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php...entry1292134863 (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=53895&st=0&#entry1292134863)

[Free Left]

There always idiots like North Korea

Idiots? Kim Jong Il knows that the US will do anything in tis power to attack N. Korea in trade, dimplomacy or even war.
So North Korea has to have some kind of defence against the US and it allies/puppets so it opts for nukes.
Better to be a terroist state then a non-existent one.

[blake 3:17]

I'm amazed at you who think nukes aren't a problem. The US is the only one to use them militarily and they create massive enivironmentsl damage otherwise.

Various Left groups have argued for pwogressive nuclear power - seems insane to me.