JOIN US IN A NAGASAKI DAY DEMAND: "ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS - Love, Philly", August 9, 11a.m., Phila. City Hall west side.

On Monday, August 9, the 65th annniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, beginning at 11:02a.m (the time of the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945), the Brandywine Peace Community will hold a demonstration with the Nagasaki Day demand: "ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS - Love, Philly" on the west side of Phila. City Hall, 15th & Market Streets.

The demonstration will include banners and signs, and the tolling of a bell 65 times, once for each year since the dawn of the nuclear age and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 - 9, 1945.

At noon, the anti-nuclear peace activists will process to the steps of SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral, 18th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Phila., PA, for a remembrance and dedication in memory of the victims of the world’s second atomic bombing and for all the victms of the past 65 years of nuclear weapons and war.

Ground zero for the Nagasaki bombing was St. Mary’s Urakami Roman Catholic Cathedral. The bombing destroyed at the time the largest Catholic community in all of Asia.

More than 200,000 people were killed in the blast and fire of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thousands upon thousands have died and continue to die from radiation sickness and radiation induced diseases.

The Brandywine Peace Community, the nationally known faith-based peace activist group and center of regional anti-war and peace activity is now in its fourth decade. Among the group's many organizing efforts includes an ongoing campaign of nonviolent resistance to Lockheed Martin, the world's largest war profiteer and the U.S.'s chief nuclear bomb contractor.

For more information:
Brandywine Peace Community, www.brandywinepeace.com, 610-544-1818.