[Peace-presence] Plans for August 9, Nagasaki Day

[john hadder]

Hello Peacemakers,

Currently, Nagasaki Day events here in Reno is being organized by RAWC
and Citizen Alert.  To avoid Hot August Blights, Aug 9 has been chosen
for the memorial.  This is a Wednesday.

Time:  5:30 to ~6:15 PM
Location:  Gordon Thompson Federal Building (Virginia and Liberty)

Program: 5:00 - 5:30 set-up - tables with Peace Cranes and drawing
Shadow Figures
(http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/visit_e/westsub_e/heatrayM_e.html)

5:30 opening with Father Chuck Durante in a circle around the Shadow
Figures that represent victims of the bombings.

~5:35 Readings of Hibakusha (testimony of the bombings)

~5:45 current political climate and rise of nuclear weapons

~5:50 vets speak

~5:55 how to take action

~6:00 closing with Indigenous voice

~6:05 to 6:20  people at event take action  by sending a crane to
Congress and a letter to  NV delegation.

While people are taking action there will be music and song.

Feel free to suggest changes to this, but please do not reply to the 
listserv, but to my email address.  There will be a meeting at
Dreamers coffee house on Wed., Aug 2 at noon to check-in on details and
make any adjustments.

-- 
John Hadder
Citizen Alert
P.O. Box 5339
Reno, NV 89513
775-827-4200
hadder at citizenalert.org
www.citizenalert.org