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March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival

Date:
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Time:
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Livermore Conversion Project
Location Details:
Livermore Lab
Corner of Vasco & Patterson Pass
Livermore, CA 94550

Rally, march & direct action to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the place where new US nuclear weapons are still being developed today.

8 am rally with speakers: Daniel Ellsberg (legendary activist and leaker of the Pentagon Papers), Marylia Kelley (executive director of TriValley Cares),Christine Hong, North Korean expert, and Rev. Tanamori, Hibakusha (Japanese atomic bomb survivor). With wonderful music by Emma's Revolution. Together, solemnly we will commemorate the nightmarish effects of nuclear weapons from uranium mining to testing use on the people of Japan, the Marshall Island, and the First Nations and all the people living near nuclear facilities across the country and around the world. We will recommit ourselves to efforts to abolish these indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction Please bring a large photograph of a loved one. As always, we act in the spirit of nonviolence.

At 9:15 am we will march to the gates of Livermore Lab, where we will join in an Obon dance, (Japanese folk dance). Following the dance those who choose will peaceably risk arrest.

For those who wish, camping the night before is available at Lake Del Valle. Contact scott [at] trivalleycares.org to RSVP. All ages welcome!

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Added to the calendar on Tue, Aug 1, 2017 12:10PM
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