From 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm
At Watertown Square
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sunday, August 4, 2024
7:00 PM – Silent Vigil – Watertown Square
7:45 PM – Music and Testimonials – MDCR Dock
Guest Speaker Kevin Maher, Member, Soka Gakkai International-USA Buddhist Community
Music Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin and Suzy Giroux
8:30 PM Launching of Candle Boats – MDCR Dock
Our annual resistance to the presence and use of nuclear weapons is crucial as we face escalating threats due to the war in Ukraine, conflict with China and ominous damage to humanity and climate.
NEVER AGAIN – NO MORE HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI! NO MORE VICTIMS - ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
“Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats”?
*To remember the more than 210,000 killed, and the many more injured, by the U.S. nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945.
*To remember that the original five nuclear states have not taken serious action to abolish nuclear weapons, which has led India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel to acquire nuclear weapons.
*To remember that the U.S. should sign the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement that prohibits the development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons.
*To remember that the danger of nuclear war is ever present, and that without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to abolition of nuclear weapons, the unthinkable - another Hiroshima or Nagasaki - is possible.
Sponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment with the much appreciated support of New England American Friends Service Committee and Mass Peace Action.
Visit www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE
For a listing of other activities remembering the events of August 6 and 9, visit www.masspeaceaction.org
Alternate Location in the Event of Rain: First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 35 Church St., Watertown