REMINDER: Hiroshima 60 Years: Come to Los Alamos This Weekend

August 6th: Hiroshima 60 Years in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Sponsored by the Los Alamos Study Group and more than 150 endorsing organizations (including Democracy for New Mexico).

On August 6th, 1945, 140,000 people were killed by a single bomb at Hiroshima. Another 70,000 were killed three days later in Nagasaki. About 90,000 others died later in both cities. The bombs used then were built at Los Alamos.

This year, sixty years later, we will gather in Los Alamos at the Ashley Pond Park on August 6th to say "Never again!" This will be a historic event. Many of the 130 endorsing organizations, and more than 20 speakers, presenters and performers are participating.

Join activists and concerned citizens from New Mexico and throughout the U.S. at Los Alamos to oppose nuclear weapons research and production and to make a commitment to work for a political culture based on the dignity of the human person rather than the violent politics of fear, hate, greed, and war. The day's tone will be nonviolent in word and deed. Our aims are education, awareness, beauty and the display of nonviolent solidarity and power.

General Schedule:

8 AM: Traditional sackcloth-and-ashes witness organized by Pax Christi New Mexico.

10 AM: Welcome, music, morning keynote speakers, including Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger, Father John Dear of Pax Christi, and president of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment Alice Slater, and others.

12 PM: Pageant with thousands of sunflowers (the international emblem of nuclear disarmament), procession and delivery of sunflowers and international mayoral letters calling for nuclear disarmament to Los Alamos County officials, and aerial photograph of the sunflower display.

1 PM: Lunch/Local Speakers, poets, and music with afternoon speakers.

2 PM: Workshops in nearby buildings: "History of the Nuclear Era" and "Building a Post-nuclear Economy for New Mexico".

6 PM: Break for dinner.

8 PM: Music, poetry, and 3,000 floating candle lanterns, one for each hundred victims of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

All Day: Participating organizations will have information tables. There will be lots of time to network and learn.

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Nearby parking is limited, although there is plenty of legal parking in the Los Alamos community surrounding the park. Invite your friends to fill your car, arrive early and park legally.

Bring water, hats and sunscreen. For lunch and dinner bring your own food or grab a bite from the restaurants nearby (lists will be available).

To find out more about these events, to volunteer, or to help support this work, call 505-265-1200, email us at clong@lasg.org, or use the secure credit card portal at www.lasg.org.

Claire Long
Outreach Coordinator
Los Alamos Study Group
2901 Summit Place NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505)265-1200 (office)
(505)795-8025 (cell)
(505)265-1207 (fax)
clong@lasg.org
www.lasg.org

Editor's Note: If you can help harvest the sunflowers that will be used at the large display at this event, contact Claire (see above). This will happen in Corrales all day on Friday:

Help is needed to harvest sunflowers in Corrales on Friday, August 5

It's time to harvest the thousands of sunflowers now maturing in a field in Corrales and load them into a semi-trailer for shipment to Los Alamos.  Call us for the exact location of the field, and please join us on Friday (all day or evening) to help cut, bundle, put in buckets, and load the harvest of peace. 

The harvest will symbolically begin on Wednesday afternoon August 3. led by Mr. Koji Ueda (Hiroshima survivor, Assistant Secretary General at Tokyo Federation of A-bomb Sufferers Associations) and Mrs. Masako Hashida (Nagasaki survivor, board member of local survivors association).  The flowers will be at peak readiness on Friday and that's the day we really need a lot of people to help.  Bring gloves, hat, and if you can also some garden clippers (the small ones, not loppers) although we do have a some extra clippers.  Recruit your friends!