Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace
75th Anniversary Programs
Deconstructing the Myths and Promoting a Nuclear Weapons Free and Just World.
Moderated by Joseph Gerson from the American Friends Service Committee, speakers included Sueichi Kido, General Secretary of Japan Confederation of A&H Bomb Suffers; Gar Alperovitz, author of Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb; and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis from the Poor People’s Campaign.
National Resource and Information Service
The NRIS hosted a telebriefing on their NIRS website nirs@nirs.org in regard to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wanting to put nuclear waste into local landfills. Note that PA.Rep. Mike Doyle is on the House Energy Subcommittee.
Still Here is a group of organizations and individuals working together to mark the anniversaries of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Trinity nuclear test. They promote an international signature campaign in support of the appeal of the Hibakusha for the elimination of nuclear weapons. http://www.antiatom.org/english/world_conference/