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Hiroshima Day 2010 Update!

As part of the continuing campaign of nonviolent resistance to Lockheed Martin, the Brandywine Peace Community on Friday, August 6 organized a Hiroshima Day demonstration at Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge/King of Prussia, PA.  Nearly fifty people stood at the main driveway entrance to Lockheed Martin memorializing the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombings, the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, August 6 - 9, 1945, and protesting Lockheed Martin, the world's largest war profiteer and the U.S. chief nuclear weapons contractor.  Prior to the noontime memorial, there was a vigil for peace at the arms giant's main entrance that began with the intoning of a large bell sixty-five times, once for every year of nuclear weapons and war, since the Hiroshima bombings  

The memorial included the audio broadcast of a narrative describing events surrounding the development of the first atomic bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima, readings from survivors of the Hiroshima bombing, and a Hiroshima Day 2010 ceremony and litany.  Seven people were arrested at the conclusion of the demonstration while attempting to deliver to Lockheed Martin management a pictorial display of pictures from Japan showing the horrible aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The seven arrested - Robert Daniels II, Germansville, PA; Bernadette Cronin-Geller, Mary Jo McArthur, Father Patrick Sieber, OFM, and Robert M. Smith, all from Philadelphia; Mary Ellen Norpel, from Ambler, PA; and Tom Mullian of Prospect Park, PA. -were released from the Upper Merion Police station on Disorderly Conduct citations. 

Reader: Lockheed Martin profits at the expense of our war-torn economy, jobs, human needs, and the promise of justice. In memory of the victims of the past 65 years of war and nuclear terror, we cry out for peace and a future worthy of our hopes and our children — education, home, health care for all, justice, an honoring of the earth, peace. Nuclear weapons continue to poison our earth, our spirits, our imagination, and our judgment with the threat of unimaginable destruction and death. In the face of 65 years of nuclear weapons and war, we bring sunflower seeds, the international symbol of a world free of nuclear weapons, and a bell that tolls for peace.  We bring a commitment to stopping Lockheed Martin. 
All: Peace is a plea to save ourselves, our children, the world. On this Hiroshima Day at Lockheed Martin, we continue to declare peace!  
- from the Hiroshima Day 2010 Litany of Memory, Hope, and Peace

Photos and more on the August 6 - 9 commemorations and demonstrations on the Brandywine Peace Community website soon, along with the Fall - Winter 2010 calendar.
 

Brandywine Peace Community
610-544-1818, www.brandywinepeace.com