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Crane Making and Desert Party Monday, August 1, 7 pm Center for Peace and Social Justice, 2013 E. Genesee St., Syracuse map Community Room (ground floor, enter from parking lot in rear). Learn how to make paper cranes and peace lanterns while eating yummy treats
- for adults, teens and children. We'll provide materials and instruction
- you can take the cranes home or leave them to be handed out during the
Dramatic Procession on Tuesday, August 9. Mark
your calendar for this
powerful commemoration of the only direct uses of nuclear weapons. Bring
lawn chairs. Children's activities during the event. Sixty-six years ago, on August 9, the U.S. dropped an atomic
bomb on Nagasaki. Join the procession to remember the dead and demand
the abolition of nuclear power and weapons. Reports from 2010 Commemoration Hiroshima
and Nagasaki: Time for sanity and healing by Horace Campbell Download the promotional flier to post Download the announcement for calendars or email blasts Download the leaflet to pass out (not ready yet) Background Information to challenge the mythology that the bombings were "necessary" Engaging Youth--We're telling children the story of Sadako Sasaki and teaching them to fold paper cranes at a number of local community Centers.
Report on 2008 events and earlier: Channel 9 coverage of work party to prepare for Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemorations Post-Standard video of the procession (excellent 2 minute clip) Channel 10 Coverage of the Procession Post-Standard Article on the Procession Short video from 2007 Procession Syracuse Peace Council (315) 472-5478
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