INFO and Thursday 8th August theatre and poems for Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Michael Mears, Antony Owen, and more
Posted: 8th August 2024
Dear all,
I hope that you’re finding peace-building ways to commemorate the Hiroshima-Nagasaki A bombings and raise awareness of the TPNW.
I was glad to join Brighton and Hove Mayor Asaduzzaman, Jenny Engledow and around 30 peacemakers commemorated the Hiroshima bombing from 8.15 pm yesterday. Together we walked with electric candles around the small lake in Queen’s Park, before standing for 2 minutes silence and closing with the Japanese remembrance song ‘Furusato no machi yakare’.
For the weekend Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp will be Together at the Aldermaston nuclear bomb factory:
On FRIDAY 9th — NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION WITH CANDLES AT A340 GATE
On SATURDAY 10th — BANNER ACTION at ALDERMASTON MAIN GATE at 2.00 pm & then a TOGETHERNESS PARTY TO CELEBRATE 40 years since the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp was set up by Greenham Women in 1984 — still going strong on the second weekend of each month.
In resistance to far right violence and attacks on migrants in many of our towns, AWPC will connect our week-end’s Togetherness theme with condemnation of racist, misogynist, and anti refugee attacks. These attacks are designed to terrorise migrants and people of colour.
Racism has been and still is central to nuclear weapons, from the mining of uranium, testing weapons and spewing plutonium across home and lands of Pacific Peoples and American First Nations, as well as the storage/dumping of nuclear waste. This weekend, as we remember the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we want to show solidarity with all Black communities, people of colour and refugees.
Racist attacks are NOT protecting women and girls from male violence — they are another expression of male violence just as nuclear weapons are. The weekend of women’s resistance at Aldermaston confronts nuclear threats and all forms of male violence. We commemorate the victims, work together with Survivors, and celebrate Togetherness.
FINALLY, Some of you may have seen or heard the moving plays and poems by Michael Mears and Antony Owen.
Below forwarding the links to their event on Thursday 8th August for Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Michael Mears, Antony Owen, and more, on-line or in person in Rotherhithe.
Peace and hope,
Rebecca