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<div class="ydp28eaa838quoted-text-header"><b>From:</b> Joseph Gerson, The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security <joseph@cpdcs.ccsend.com></div><div class="ydp28eaa838quoted-text-header"><b>To:</b> "louisecoleman10@aol.com" <louisecoleman10@aol.com></div><div class="ydp28eaa838quoted-text-header"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 9, 2024 at 04:02:11 PM EST</div><div class="ydp28eaa838quoted-text-header"><b>Subject:</b> THE TIMELY IMPORTANCE OF JAPANESE A-BOMB SURVIVORS RECEIVING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE</div>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:19px;color:rgb(84, 89, 95);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Speech given by Joseph Gerson on Dec. 9, 2024, </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:19px;color:rgb(84, 89, 95);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">as part of Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Prize delegation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);">Thanks first to Ingeborg Brienes for organizing today’s event. It was an unexpected honor to be invited to join </span><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);font-weight:bold;">Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Prize</span><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);"> delegation. I am glad to be here to celebrate the </span><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);font-weight:bold;">Peace Nobel Prize</span><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);"> with dear and courageous Hibakusha friends and other dedicated activists, to represent the U.S. peace movement, and to add my voice to the Hibakusha’s profound warning that human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);">I first joined the World Conference against A-&-H Bombs in Hiroshima in 1984. That was after we had launched the nuclear weapons freeze movement in the U.S. which played a role in ending the Cold War. It followed our successful campaigning to prevent three U.S. ports from being transformed into nuclear weapons bases. Visiting Hiroshima and engaging with Hibakusha (the A-bomb survivors) and opponents of the more than 100 U.S. military bases and installations across Japan was a life changing experience for me, as it has been for so many others.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);">As Wilfred Burchett, first Western journalist to witness the ruins and suffering in Hiroshima in 1945, later correctly reported that despite their excruciating physical and emotional suffering, the Hibakusha became the world’s most powerful and influential force for nuclear weapons abolition. With the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Hibakusha, their tortured testimonies, and their urgent appeal for a nuclear weapons free world now rings out more powerfully around the world.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:17px;color:rgb(79, 79, 79);">It has been my privilege to return to Hiroshima, Nagasaki many times in support of Japan’s nuclear weapons abolition movement. I had the extraordinary opportunity to meet, learn from, and to work with Hidankyo members and some of the organization’s most ravaged, wounded, and courageous founders, Watanabe Chieko, Yamaguchi Senji, and Taniguchi Sumiteru. Would that they had lived long enough to witness the Nobel Committee’s recognition of their sacrifices and to reinforce their existential warning.</span></p>
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