Abingdon Peace Group: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day News

Tomorrow , Tuesday 6th, is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. There will be a

gathering at 11am in Bonn Square, with speakers from Japan, Peace songs

by Sea-green Singers and Red Kites, and readings. Read your own poems / texts

Bring banners and flags. All welcome.

Attached is the invitation to our very first lantern-floating this Friday, 9th August,

the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. Do join us at 7pm in St Ethelwold’s, (30, East St. Helen’s Street OX14 5EB)

for a glass of apple juice and a slice of cake, to admire the lanterns sent from

Hiroshima and to look at our exhibition. At 7.30pm we will gather round the Peace Pole

in the garden for a brief ceremony, then light the lanterns and process to the river

near St Helen’s church to float them. Bring your camera!

Catch up: Atomic People BBC 2  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0021lrg

You may have already seen this documentary screened on BBC2 on 31 July?

“Atomic People” is a chance “to hear the voices of some of the only people left

on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb” – the Hibakusha. Watch it!

Very good article by Kate Hudson on the absence of any need for the bombs

 to have been dropped – The Truth about Hiroshima

 

Hope to see you at one or other event, or at our ongoing vigil at the War Memorial

every Monday at 8.15am.

Sally Reynolds

Secretary, Abingdon Peace Group