Peace Events Commemorate Anniversary of Atomic Bombings and Demand Nuclear Free Future

7/25/2010
For more information: Robert M. Smith, 610-544-1818, www.brandywinepeace.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

AREA PEACE EVENTS COMMEMORATING ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI TO DEMAND
NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE
Activists to Hold Hiroshima Day Protest on August 6 at Valley Forge Arms Giant, Lockheed Martin, and August 9th Nagasaki Day Candlelight Ceremony on Market Street Bridge in Philadelphia

PHILA., PA: As it has for more than three decades, the Brandywine Peace Community will, as part of ceremonies and commemorations around the world, observe the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6–9, 1945, dramatically and solemnly remembering the victims of war and humanity’s first steps into nuclear age sixty-six years ago.

On Friday, August 6, the group will conduct a Hiroshima Day ceremony and protest demonstration, with nonviolent civil disobedience, beginning at noon at the driveway entrance to Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards, behind the King of Prussia Mall, in King of Prussia/Valley Forge, PA.

The demonstration and ceremony will include: the tolling of a large bell sixty-six times, once for every year of war and nuclear weaponry since the first atomic bombing; the audio broadcast of a narrative describing the start of the nuclear age and the account of the Hiroshima bombing; readings from survivors of the atomic bombing; a symbolic ceremony of “memory, hope, and peace” involving incense, water, and sunflower seeds.

There will be nonviolent civil disobedience in which people will face arrest for crossing onto the arms giant’s property in a statement of nonviolent resistance.

Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and war profiteer, as well as the United States’ chief nuclear weapons contractor.

Throughout the Hiroshima Day demonstration, there will be large pictorials of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, colorful banners and signs reading “Demand a Nuclear Free Future” and “Abolish Nuclear Weapons,” and a large wooden sign with the Lockheed Martin logo reading: “WE’RE MAKING A KILLING!”

On Tuesday, August 9, beginning at 7:30 p.m., the Brandywine Peace Community will hold a Nagasaki Day candlelight vigil and ceremony on the Market Street Bridge, 2955 Market Street, across from 30th St. Train Station (east side), Phila., PA.

Entitled Lights Over Troubling Waters: a Candlelight Vigil for A Nuclear Free Future, the solemn ceremony over the Schuylkill River will remember, in dramatic words and the symbols of water, incense, and ash, the victims of nuclear weapons and the threat to life and the environment posed by nuclear weapons and power.

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

The ongoing focus of the Brandywine Peace Community’s protests throughout the year is Lockheed Martin and regularly includes nonviolent civil disobedience, for which Brandywine members and supporters have been repeatedly arrested and jailed. The nationally known faith-based peace activist group and center of regional anti-war and peace activity is now in its fourth decade.

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Brandywine Peace Community
P.O. Box 81 Swarthmore, PA 19081
(610) 544-1818 www.brandywinepeace.com

Comments

CORRECTION

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:29am

Hiroshima Day event is NOT Friday!!! August 6 is Saturday.

The natives of Bekini Island thrown off their land than irratiat

Submitted by RichardKanePA on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 6:59pm

The natives that were removed from Bikini Islanfor Nuclear Testing then irradiated because they were still too close to the explosions is part of the horror.

http://www.phillyimc.org/en/july-25-grimmer-omen-august-6

Events are around the world

Submitted by RichardKanePA on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:18pm

Having attended some past vigils I assured I was the last person who needs any more education on the dropping of the bomb. However I was amazed at the depth and insight at the following site.
http://my.voyager.net/~yjk/Hiroshima%20Remembrance%20Address_8-6-04.html

Events locally in Philly might be coordinated with Dayton.
My musing on the people of paradise having lost so much do to Nuclear tests, and the subject of risk,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/july-25-grimmer-omen-august-6-0

Sorry about the boken link,

Submitted by RichardKanePA on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:20pm

One can note that the broken link has now been corrected,
http://my.voyager.net/~yjk/Hiroshima%20Remembrance%20Address_8-6-04.html

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