From 7:30 PM until 9:00 PM
At Watertown Square and Delta
7:30 PM – Silent Vigil – Watertown Square
8:00 PM – Music, Sharing, Testimonials – Watertown Square Delta
8:30 PM – Launching of Candle Boats
NEVER AGAIN! NO MORE VICTIMS! ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Bring a SIGN that expresses your feelings and/or connects the bombings with other tragedies and issues. Please wear a MASK and practice social distancing.
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Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats?
*To remember the more than 210,000 killed, and many more injured, by the U.S. nuclear attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945.
*To remember that militarization is intimately connected to racism, violence, poverty, and environmental destruction.
*To remember the original five nuclear states, who 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 President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the historic Iran nuclear deal, withdrew from the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty, and is committed to spending $1.7 TRILLION to upgrade our nuclear arsenal.
*To remember President Trump threatened North Korea with war, and that on his sole authority he can launch our 6,800 nuclear warheads.
*To remember that the dangers of nuclear war are rarely mentioned by presidential candidates, and that without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to nuclear disarmament, the unthinkable - another Hiroshima or Nagasaki - is possible.
Sponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, New England American Friends Service Committee, and Mass Peace Action.
Visit
www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE
For a list of other activities remembering the events of August 6 and 9, visit
https://masspeaceaction.org/commemorate-the-75th-anniversary-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN CANDLEHOLDERS @ http://watertowncitizens.org/how-to-make-candleholders/