[van-announce] Fw: Event Posting: Remembering Hiroshima, Aug. 6th, 2004

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: Event Posting: Remembering Hiroshima, Aug. 6th, 2004


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*Apologies for any cross postings* 
Remembering Hiroshima 

An Inter-Cultural Commemoration and Concert

Date:  7:30 p.m., Friday, August 6, 2004 

Place: National Nikkei Heritage Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent Burnaby, BC 
          (The Centre is located near Kingsway and Sperling.  Underground parking is available.) 

Fifty-nine years ago, Japan's imperial aggression in Asia came to a cataclysmic end with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Today the world again is ravaged by war and faces an increasing risk of nuclear holocaust.  The invasion and occupation of Iraq has breathed new life into the forces of global militarism.  The U.S. senate recently passed a US$447 billion dollar military budget including millions for research on a nuclear "bunker buster" and on "mini-nukes".  Israel, Pakistan and India have developed nuclear arsenals and the nuclear regulation regime has been severely compromised.  At the same time, the Federal government appears determined to further integrate Canada into a provocative U.S. "ballistic missile defence" system that is unnecessary, unproven, unsustainable and a first step in the weaponization of space. 

But there is hope.  The anti-war movement that came to life with the invasion of Iraq continues to build.  The lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can and should be passed on to a younger generation and the campaign for the total abolition of nuclear weapons must continue. 

Join us in making Hiroshima day an inter-cultural, inter-generational commemoration and celebration of life, of hope and of our determination to prevent nuclear war.  You can help revive Hiroshima Day by joining us in memorializing the victims of wars, past and present, and in paying tribute to Hiroshima survivor and life-long activist Kinuko Laskey. 

Sponsored by: 

Vancouver City Peace and Justice Committee 
World Peace Forum Society 
StopWar.ca 

Programme: 

Welcome:                        Burnaby Mayor Derrick Corrigan 
Tribute to Kinoko Laskey:       Professor John Price, University of Victoria 
Message of Peace:               Kinuko Laskey, Hiroshima survivor and anti-nuclear activist 
Proclamation:                   Deputy Mayor of Vancouver Fred Bass 
Message of Hope:                Cara Ng, UBC student and a member of the Vancouver Peace and Justice Committee 
Concert:                                Arrangements by Harry Aoki, First Friday Forum 

The sponsors wish to thank First Friday Forum, as well as the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre for their assistance in arranging for the use of the Nikkei Centre. 

Admission is free. 
  
  
  
  

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