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DESCRIPTION:Please Join Us in Clock Tower Park by the Collateral Damage Statue for A 
 Vigil and Commemoration for the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki US 
 Nuclear Bombings.\n\nWe Stand with Nuclear Survivors for Global 
 Justice\n\n71 years ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on 
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was then and is now no excuse for using 
 weapons of mass destruction against civilian populations. Nonetheless our 
 government, up to and including the Obama Administration, has refused to 
 offer the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki an apology. This was highlighted 
 by President Obama's recent visit to Hiroshima where once again the US 
 while bemoaning the carnage produced by its own actions refused to accept 
 responsibility for them.\n\nWe will assemble to commemorate those awful 
 events and declare that the actions of our government were reprehensible 
 and inexcusable. We will offer our profound apologies to the people of 
 Japan and the world. But our apology will have no meaning unless we 
 rededicate ourselves to the proposition that those barbarous acts will 
 never occur again.\n\nThe United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) at 
 their 84th annual meeting from June 24-27, 2016 in Indianapolis endorsed 
 the following action program:\n\n1. Pursue new diplomatic initiatives to 
 lower tensions with Russia and China and to dramatically reduce U.S. and 
 Russian nuclear stockpiles.\n\n2. Convene a Nuclear Disarmament Summit, 
 multilateral negotiations for the elimination of nuclear weapons as 
 required by the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.\n\n3. Reduce nuclear 
 weapons spending to the minimum necessary to assure the safety and security 
 of the existing weapons as they await disablement and dismantlement, and to 
 redirect those funds to address the urgent needs of cities and rebuild our 
 nation’s crumbling infrastructure. \n\n4. Raise public awareness of the 
 humanitarian impacts and financial costs of nuclear weapons, the growing 
 dangers of wars among nuclear-armed states, and the urgent need for good 
 faith U.S. participation in negotiating the global elimination of nuclear 
 weapons\n\nThis action program should be endorsed, adopted and promoted by 
 progressive people throughout the country.\n\nWe will begin the evening at 
 6 PM with an invocation. This will be followed by music and speakers. At 7 
 PM we will will form a circle, light candles and hold a moment of silence, 
 prayer and meditation, afterwards participants can offer short personal 
 reflections, songs or poems if they so wish. The main speaker, from the 
 faith community, will follow. Afterwards those who wish can break into 
 smaller groups to discuss what must be done to build a world without 
 nuclear weapons and without war.\n\nPlease bring symbols for peace, 
 flowers, bells, candles in containers, and chairs.\n\nNo to war 
 preparations, No to the modernization of our nuclear arsenal, No to the 
 development of a new generation of nuclear weapons. Yes to peace and 
 reconciliation, Yes to sustainable human development.\n\nStand with 
 Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors), Pacific Islanders and others harmed by 
 nuclear technology.\n\nThis event is part of the global "Chain Reaction: 
 Breaking Free from Nuclear Weapons."\n\nSponsored by the Santa Cruz Chapter 
 of the United Nations Association. Co-sponsors TBA.\n\nFor more 
 information, contact Dennis Etler at deetler @ gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/20/18789308.php
SUMMARY:Come Together to Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki
LOCATION:Collateral Damage Statue at the Town Clock, Pacific Avenue and Water 
 Street, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/20/18789308.php
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