HIROSHIMA
NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE/ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Sunday, August 11, 2019
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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CONTENTS
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2019
I. Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Commemoration, 7p.m. UUFF
Program
Kelly Mulhollan MC
Film, Nichola Radan
Music, Mahshid Iranipavast
Poetry, Gerry Sloan
Speakers
Abel Tomlinson
Lioneld Jordan
Faith Laukon
Jean Gordon
Sidney Burris
II. Nuclear Weapons,
Reports and Resistance
From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Iran Today, Vijay Prashad
Cold War Retaliation Continues, Dick
The Nuclear Resister Magazine
Space Alert! Magazine
Nuclear Weapons Bills in Congress
Contacting Our Congressmen
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Just as Arkansas has an infamous military-industrial complex
(Camden, Jacksonville, Fort Smith, and that’s not all), it also has a vital
peace movement, as our program reveals (and there is more—stay with us for 2020!)
--Dick).
Program Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration
Sunday August 11, 2019, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Fayetteville
901 S. Cleveland, Fayetteville AR
“Echo’s
of Peace: Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement History”
3 Welcome – MC Kelly Mulhollan
10 Opening Music and Film – Nichola Radan – “Hiroshima: Clash of
Civilizations”
3 No War on Iran – protests invitation – Abel Tomlinson
8 Mayor’s Proclamation – Mayor Lioneld Jordan
10 Speaker – Faith Laukon, “Marshall Islands Nuclear History”
5 Poem by Gerry Sloan, “3 for Hiroshima”
7-10 Music – Mahshid Iranipavast, Santour player, music of Iran
10 Speaker – Jean Gordon – “History of WAND, Women Acting for
Nuclear Disarmament “
8 Reading of the Names of the Sufferers - Ehsan, Karen Takemoto
15 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Sydney Burris, University of Arkansas and
Omni Peace Prize Awardee 2017, “Hiroshima Meditation”
6 Obon Lights Ceremony – Instrumental “May Peace Prevail on
Earth” -
Kelly and Donna Mulhollan
4 Closing Music – Audience chant - Kelly and Donna Mulhollan
Hiroshima Remembrance,
music from Iran
Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
Hello OMNI open micer's!
I know we are still on
break, but I wanted to give a heads up on an event that will include music you
don't want to miss. Along with a wonderful group of speakers, our annual
Hiroshima Remembrance will include a musical performance by Mahshid
Iranipravast. Mahshid is from Iran and will perform on the Santour.
We heard her play last night and she is fabulous!
Also, UofA music
professor, Nikola Radan will present his powerful music video called Hiroshima:
Clash of Civilizations. Finally, Donna and I will perform our traditional
peace chant with the help of Susan Shore and Michael Cockrum.
It will be a wonderful
event. This Sunday, (August 11th) 7:00 at the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Fayetteville, 901 Cleveland St.
Hope to see you there! Kelly and Donna
SPEAKERS
Faith
Laukon
(Grab your atlas! --D)
Faith
and her mother currently live in Springdale.
Faith was born in
Springfield, MO.
Neisen is from
Rongelap atoll. She moved to the US to join her husband, Adelbert, who is from
Arno Atoll and had relocated to attend college. Faith is one of the first
Marshallese children born in the continental US.
Faith’s family are nuclear
survivors. Her mother was returned to the atoll as a child after the Bravo
detonation and experienced first-hand the suffering of those subjected to
radiation exposure. Faith’s uncle was John Anjain, the mayor of Rongelap at the
time of the testing and the person who got the Japanese government to come in
and do soil tests on Rongelap after the US refused to evacuate them.
Faith can speak to the plight of the
Rongelapese people in the aftermath of nuclear testing.
Here is her title and contact info:
Faith Laukon, Director of Community
Engagement
Marshallese Educational Initiative
Jean
Gordon
Just call it Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament or Disarm the Patriarchy.
I live in Little
Rock. We moved to Fayetteville on Springbrook Farm during my high
school and college years. 1939-1949.
I have been active in peace since the ‘70s: Arkansas Peace
Center, Peace Links, and then WAND. I had been chair of the
Arkansas Peace Center and of Peace Links, which Betty Bumpers started to
involve women in the peace movement, especially to end the nuclear arms races
with the Soviet Union. . I served on the board of national WAND when I started
the Arkansas chapter in 1997.
Sidney Burris
Sidney Burris is a Professor English at
the University of Arkansas. He specializes in 20th-century literature and
creative nonfiction.
Professor Burris brought His Holiness
the Dalai Lama to the University of Arkansas in May 2011, the culmination of an
interest that began at Virginia, where he studied Sanskrit, and was able to see
the Dalai Lama in 1979 during his first trip to America.
Professor Burris has published two books
of poetry (a third is forthcoming in 2021), one book of literary criticism, and
numerous essays. He has an essay forthcoming in an anthology of essays
dedicated to the impact of guns on our college campuses. Along with his English classes, Professor
Burris regularly offers classes in human-rights literature and in the history
of non-violence.
He co-teaches the history of nonviolence
with Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk from Drepung Loseling Monastery in
South
India.
In 2007, Professor Burris and Geshe
Dorjee founded The TEXT Program (Tibetans in Exile Today), an oral history and study
abroad project at the University of Arkansas that allows Arkansas students to
travel to India and live among the Tibetan refugees, recording their stories
and later archiving them at the TEXT website. The TEXT Program has been
endorsed by the Dalai Lama and travels to India during the summers of
odd-numbered years.
Gerry
Sloan will read his poem, “3 for Hiroshima”
Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor who lives in
Fayetteville. He has published two
poetry collections: Paper Lanterns (2011) and
Crossings: A Memoir in Verse (2017),
as well as three chapbooks, Friday
Poems. Recent work has appeared or
is upcoming in Elder Mountain, Cave
Region Review, The Idle Class, and Poetry Construction No. 22 (in
Mandarin). Other interests include
movies, jazz, and Japanese pottery.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
FROM HIROSHIMA
AND NAGASAKI TO IRAN TODAY
“There must be bones under the paved street.” Mronline.org (8-10-19). Posted Aug 09, 2019 by Vijay Prashad
A critique of the H-N bombings and their
aftermath today: the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, the Doomsday Clock (2
minutes to midnight), nuclear weapons again central to military strategy by
nuclear nations, modernization of nuclear weapons (US $50 billion /year for
next decade).
What we can do, what is within our power here
in Arkansas:
1. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons, negotiated in 2017, has not been ratified. Read this essay and send it or a summary to
our Congressional Delegation, OUR representatives. Speak your mind to these miscreants, who
profess to be believers in the teachings of Jesus!
2. The
conclusion of the essay explains the Iran Nuclear Deal, its colossal importance
to the world, the disaster of its unilateral cancelation by Pres. Trump, the
illegal US economic war against Iran, and the continuing illegal US provocations. Absorb these few paragraphs and contact the war-making
representatives who presume to represent us
--Dick. See below to contact our
senators and congressman.
COLD
WAR RETALIATION NEVER ENDED
ADG STAFF. “Esper Says U.S. Missile for Pacific on To-do List.” NADG (August 4, 2019).
Pentagon Secretary Esper plans to “deploy an intermediate-range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that President Donald Trump…has formally pulled out of a Cold-War-era arms-control treaty with Russia.” The title is strange: the US has been lobbing missiles into the Pacific for decades from Vandenberg AFB in California. I wasn’t able to copy the report, though I am a subscriber; see if you can get it, for it details another step in the intensification of the arms race. We need many citizens informed and engaged to resist our national weapons expansion and threatening regime. See my preceding newsletters on Hiroshima-Nagasaki, my newsletters on H-N and nuclear weapons abolition (https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/08/annual-hiroshima-nagasaki-abolish.html ), and my newsletters on the nuclear weapons abolition movement (http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/01/omni-nuclear-weapons-abolition.html --Dick.
ADG STAFF. “Esper Says U.S. Missile for Pacific on To-do List.” NADG (August 4, 2019).
Pentagon Secretary Esper plans to “deploy an intermediate-range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that President Donald Trump…has formally pulled out of a Cold-War-era arms-control treaty with Russia.” The title is strange: the US has been lobbing missiles into the Pacific for decades from Vandenberg AFB in California. I wasn’t able to copy the report, though I am a subscriber; see if you can get it, for it details another step in the intensification of the arms race. We need many citizens informed and engaged to resist our national weapons expansion and threatening regime. See my preceding newsletters on Hiroshima-Nagasaki, my newsletters on H-N and nuclear weapons abolition (https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/08/annual-hiroshima-nagasaki-abolish.html ), and my newsletters on the nuclear weapons abolition movement (http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/01/omni-nuclear-weapons-abolition.html --Dick.
The Nuclear Resister:
“A Chronicle of Hope” (July
31, 2019) arrived yesterday, and I have had time to read some of it by
now. It’s a favorite magazine for me,
partly because edited by a courageous, steadfast couple who keeps the peace
movement informed especially of protesters in the US and around the world. Here’re the 3 headlines on p. 1: “Blockaders Demand Conversion of Bath Iron
Works”; “Manning Still in Prison, Daily Fines Mount”; “Memorial Day, 4th
of July Arrests at K.C. Nuke Plant.”
Later articles range widely.
The latest no. of
Space Alert! just now arrived. For you who wish to
keep abreast of resistance to nuclear weapons expansion into space, this is the
magazine for you. It’s subtitled: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space. Its editor, Bruce
Gagnon, spoke here around 2002.
Nuclear weapons-related bills in the U.S. Congress google search 8-9-19, 2019. A
research tool for political action. OMNI
needs a watcher, interpreter, and activist leader for these bills. Many of you possess the skills. To volunteer, contact Gladys.
Sign In. Current Legislation, All Legislation, All Sources, --, Committee Reports ......
H.R.669 - Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2019116th Congress (2019-2020)
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ARKANSAS’ SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN WOMACK
Senator John
Boozman: (202)224-4843
Website Email: http://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Lowell Office phone:
479-725-0400
Senator Tom
Cotton: (202)224-2353
Website
Email: http://www.cotton.senate.gov/content/contact-tom
Springdale Office phone:
479-751-0879
Rep. Steve Womack, 3rd District: (202)225-4301
1119
Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Washington, DC 20515
3333
Pinnacle Hills, Suite 120
Rogers, Arkansas 72758
Rogers, Arkansas 72758
END HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE NEWSLETTER
2019
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