Yesterday was the 61st anniversary of Nagasaki Atomic Bombing. A service was held at Nagasaki’s Peace Park yesterday where a moment of silence was held at 11:02 am, the moment the bomb was dropped. Over 200,000 people died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In Cuba, to commemorate the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,members of the Cuban community project Callejon de la Paz issued a call on Tuesday in Havana for world peace.
Eight members of the Santa Cruz Weapons Inspection Team (SCWIT) ,performed a street theatre skit to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The group, all dressed in white clothes, assembled at noon on the corner of Pacific Ave and Cooper St. in downrtown Santa Cruz for a dramatized reenactment of the nuclear bombing interspersed with a mock inspection and symbolic dismantling of a Trident II D5 nuclear submarine missile.
Tonight in Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake City Film Center will show The Last Bomb at the Salt Lake City Library Auditorium – 210 East 400 South SLC (Free Admission). After the film there will be a performance of a Butoh dance (a post-modern Japanese dance) by the Red Junket Butoh Troup on the Library Plaza.
The World has not forgotten those terrible events of 61 years ago. Yet when it comes to nuclear proliferation, the U.S. and other dominating countries seem to forget.
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CANCEL THE DIVINE STRAKE! STOP WEAPONS TESTING ON ANY LAND! END NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION!
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 