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Berkeley Peace Lanterns Commemorate Atomic WMD War Crimes

by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
<b>About 250 people, including many children, gathered at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park this evening August 7th for the third annual East Bay Peace Lantern Ceremony.</B>
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The event commemorated the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, and all victims of war. The United States is the only nation that has used nuclear weapons of mass destruction in war. Most folks made their own lantern shades for the trip across the lake alongside freeway 80. A message of solidarity from Mr. Tadatoshi Akiba, the mayor of the city of Hiroshima, was read.
§Peace Lantern
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Hundreds designed their own lantern shades
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Japanese drum performance
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Peace Lantern
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Yeaa!
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Singing for peace
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Lanterns being launched into the lake
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Designing lantern shades
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§&quot;Peace Train&quot; lantern
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Nude lanterns
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Pryer
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Peace made of many origami paper cranes
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Peace lanterns
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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