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HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI, AUGUST 6 AND 9, 2020
REMEMBRANCE/ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
CONTENTS: HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI and ABOLITION 2020
Webinar Sat. 7-25 on Decision to Drop the Bomb, Carolyn
Forché
Moderator
Moderator
ICAN Webinar on the Illegality of the Bomb Today, August 3
New Memoir of Hiroshima Bombing: The Atomic Bomb on My Back,
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common
Security
Hiroshima Survivors: Webinars Presented by AR WAND
ICAN: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Remembers Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
World Conference 2020
by Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and
Common Security
Common Security
Global
Zero
Protest at Oak Ridge
TEXTS
TOMORROW
JULY 25 WEBINAR
. Former UAF English Professor Carolyn Forché
to moderate. (from Prof. Jeremy Kuzmarov in Tulsa)
. Former UAF English Professor Carolyn Forché
to moderate. (from Prof. Jeremy Kuzmarov in Tulsa)|
Fwd: Invitation to
Join Saturday Webinar: What Every Global Citizen Needs to Know About the
Decision to A-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
From: <pkuznick@aol.com> Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:22 PMSubject: Invitation to Join Saturday Webinar: What Every Global Citizen Needs to Know About the Decision to A-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki To: <pkuznick@aol.com>
What Every Global
Citizen Needs to Know About the Decision to A-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The debate
over the atomic bombings—a controversy that forced the Smithsonian
Institution to abandon its Enola Gay exhibit 25 years ago--continues unabated
in America today as we approach the 75th anniversary of the incineration of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Four historians-- Gar Alperovitz,
Martin Sherwin, Kai Bird, and
Peter Kuznick--each of whom has written extensively on the topic, will
discuss the documentary evidence and assess the current state of knowledge
about the bombings in a webinar open to people from around the world.
Internationally acclaimed poet Carolyn Forché will moderate. The webinar will critically
explore in depth the “official” explanation that use of the atomic bombs was
the only way to force the fanatically resistant Japanese to surrender without
an Allied invasion that would have cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. and
British and an even greater number of Japanese lives. Attendance is free and
open to the general public. A question and answer period will follow the
presentations.
Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 12pm CST
Speakers
include:
Gar Alperovitz, formerly a Fellow of Kings College Cambridge,
the Institute of Politics at Harvard, and Lionel Bauman Professor of
Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is the author of Atomic
Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam and The Decision to Use the
Atomic Bomb. He is currently a Principal of The Democracy Collaborative,
an independent research institution in Washington, D.C.
Martin Sherwin, University Professor of History, George Mason
University, is author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and
Its Legacies winner of the Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relation’s Bernath Book Prize, co-author with Kai Bird of American Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer winner of the 2006
Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear
Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, forthcoming in
September 2020.
Kai Bird, Executive Director, CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for
Biography, co-author (with Martin Sherwin) Pulitzer Prize-winning American
Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, co-editor
(with Lawrence Lifschultz) Hiroshima’s Shadow, and author The
Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment.
Peter Kuznick, Professor of History, Director, Nuclear
Studies Institute, American University, co-author (with Akira Kimura), Rethinking
the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American
Perspectives, co-author (with Oliver Stone) of the New
York Times best-selling The Untold History of the United
States (books and documentary film series), and author “The Decision
to Risk the Future: Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb and the Apocalyptic
Narrative.”
Carolyn Forché’s first book of poetry, Gathering the Tribes,
won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and was followed by The
Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In
March, 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In
the Lateness of the World. She is also the author of the
memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press, 2019), a
finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book
Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her international anthology, Against
Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against
tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” In 1998 in Stockholm, she
received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture
Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and
culture. She is one of the first poets to receive the Wyndham Campbell Prize
from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and is
a University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Webinar sponsors include:
American Friends Service Committee's Peace &
Economic Security Program
American University
Nuclear Studies Institute
Article 9 Canada
Campaign
for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
COVID
19 Global Solidarity Coalition
Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Peace Committee of the Greater DC Area
Historians for Peace
and Democracy
International Peace
Research Institute Meiji Gakuin University (PRIME)
Lannan Center for
Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown
Los Alamos Study Group
Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation
Peace Action
Peace Culture
Village
Peace Philosophy
Centre (Vancouver, Canada)
PEAC Institute
Proposition One
Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future
United for Peace and
Justice
Western States Legal
Foundation
Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA
World Beyond War
Youth Arts New
York/Hibakusha Stories
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WHAT'S NEW AT THE
BULLETIN of the Atomic Scientists (7-23-20)
Bulletin Global Webinar: Why the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Would Be
Illegal Today By Gayle Spinazze, July 20, 2020.
Join a Bulletin Global
Webinar featuring Science and Security Board member Scott Sagan and
international legal scholar Allen Weiner, who dive into the legal considerations and moral
reasoning used in 1945 to justify the attack on Hiroshima. Bulletin columnist Sara Kutchesfahani, director of the
N Square DC Hub, will lead the conversation. Read the article by Sagan, Weiner, and co-author Kathrine
McKinney. Then register for this free
webinar.
Join us on Monday,
August 3 for a Bulletin Global Webinar featuring Scott Sagan, Allen Weiner,
and Bulletin columnist Sara Kutchesfahani.
When: Monday, August 3, 2020
10 am Central
10 am Central
Where: Zoom Meeting
Registration: Free. Register here.
Just days before
the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Sagan and Weiner will discuss why
the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima would be illegal today.
[Some of the events
that follow have happened already but were recorded or filmed.]
A New & Profound Memoir of
the Bombing of Nagasaki
(received 7-21-20—D)
Available for a $100 donation to help the Campaign for Peace Disarmament
and Common Security carry on the work of this courageous survivor of the Atomic
Bombing.
I was privileged to know, work with, and honor Sumiteru
TANIGUCHI,
among the most tortured and courageous Nagasaki A-bomb survivors. At age 16, he
was a postman in Nagasaki when the A-Bomb exploded over the city.
A 1946 U.S. Army photo of Taniguchi-san was taken during his
years of hospitalization. First published in 1970 and featuring the frightening
open wound on his crimson back that seems impossible for anyone to survive, it
immediately became an iconic photograph. It became a powerful force seen around
the world that silently demands the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Despite wounds that never healed, Taniguchi persevered, helping
to build, represent and speak for Hibakusha, the movement of A-bomb survivors.
His memoir tells the very
personal story of surviving the A-bomb, his fears, his courage
to live and to love, and a history of the Japanese nuclear disarmament and
Hibakusha struggles for medical care and support.
I had the extraordinary privilege of editing the English
translation of Taniguchi-san’s powerful, disturbing and inspiring memoir “The Atomic Bomb on My Back”.
CPDCS played the central role in arranging its publication in time for the 75th anniversary
of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombings.
With a contribution of $100 or more to the Campaign for Peace,
Disarmament and Common Security, you can enrich your life with Taniguchi-san’s
memoir, The Atomic
Bomb on My Back, and support CPDCS’s work for peace,
disarmament, justice and the climate.
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bombings, give
yourself the gift of Taniguchi-san’s life story and make a contribution for
peace and a nuclear weapons-free world.
You can make your contribution on line at https://www.cpdcs.org/donate/. You can also send a note
and check to CPDCS, 2161 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140. It is with
your support that we keep on keepin’ on.
Thank you for your interest, care and support.
Joseph Gerson
The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security advocates for peace and disarmament with justice.
Our priorities include working for Common Security diplomacy among the great
powers. CPDCS serves as a bridge between peace and nuclear disarmament
movements in the U.S., Europe and Asia and contributes to intersectional
organizing.
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LISTEN TO HIROSHIMA
SURVIVORS
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Announcement: April 24-26 World Conference, Rally, March & Petitions Presentations – New York - Eve
of NPT Review Conference
Announcement: April 24-26 World Conference, Rally,
March & Petitions Presentations
The Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York City, NY
USA
Eve of NPT Review Conference
List of
speakers and co-sponsors below.
Humanity faces two
existential threats: increasing dangers of nuclear war and climate catastrophe.
Human beings created these threats, which can only be reversed by mass
popular actions.
2020 marks the 75th
anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- the
beginning of the nuclear era which threatens human survival today. It marks
the birth of international efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, and the 25th
anniversary of the UN Climate Change Conference. It also marks the 10th Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held at the U.N. in April and
May.
Our international
coalition of disarmament, climate, justice and peace organizations is
organizing a World Conference, rally, march and petitions presentations in
New York City, April 24-26, the eve of the 2020 NPT Review Conference
We are engaging the
broadest possible collaborations with nuclear weapons abolition, peace,
justice and environmental constituencies as well as with diplomats and
politicians from countries which are actively and meaningfully committed to
achieving a nuclear weapon-free world, a sustainable environment and social
and economic justice.
We are committed to
preventing nuclear war, prohibiting and eliminating all nuclear weapons, and
working in solidarity with the world’s Hibakusha. We are equally
committed to stemming and reversing the climate crisis, to social and
economic justice, and to building the intersectional movements we need to
prevail.
Our World Conference
and rally provide unique opportunities for the world’s nuclear disarmament,
peace, climate and justice movements to press our demands and to develop the
alliances and intersectional movements we will need to prevail.
Speakers include:
Tadatoshi Akiba – (Gensuikin-Japan), Walden Bello – (FGS - Philippines), Oleg
Bodrov (CCB -Russia), Sharran Burrow (ITUC – Australia), Jackie Cabasso (WSLF
& UFPJ - US), Noam Chomsky (USA), Arielle Denis (IPB – France), Sharon
Dolev – (IDM – Israel), Beatrice Finn (ICAN), Sophia (Soda) Garcia –
(GBWP - Philippines), Philip Jennings (ITUC/IPB – Britain), Kathy
Jetnil-Kijiner (Poet-Marshall Islands),Emad Kiyaei (IGD Group-Iran), Michael
Klare (Five College PAWS/The Nation Magazine -USA), Youngdae Ko (SPARK –
Korea); Andrew Lichterman (WSLF – US), Leona Morgan (NISG – Navajo/USA).
Binalakshmi Nepram – (CAF-India), Setsuko Thurlow (Hiroshima Hibakusha –
Canada). For bio information see worldconference2020.org
Additional confirmed
speakers from Gensuikyo, Korean A-Bomb Survivors Organization, and Nihon
Hidankyo, and additional invitations are pending
24 Forums and
workshops
April 26 Rally from
Union Square and march to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, including presentation of
10 million+ nuclear weapons abolition petition signatures being organized.
Co-sponsoring
organizations include: American Friends Service Committee, Campaign for Peace
Disarmament and Common Security, Gensuikin, Gensuikyo, International Peace
Bureau, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, International
Trade Union Confederation, La Mouvement de la Paix, Lawyers Committee
on Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition, Pax Christi, PEAC,
Peace Action, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, United Electrical Workers Union,
Western States Legal Foundation, Women’s International for Peace &
Freedom – U.S.
[Other organizations
are welcome to sign on!]
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MAY 22-25, 2020, MARYVILE, TN,
MARYVILLE COLLEGE 20 MILES FROM THE Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex
in Oak Ridge, TN, where US thermonuclear weapons are made, sponsored by the Oak
Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, the Nuclear Resister, and Nukewatch. 2020 marks 75 years since Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and celebrates 40 years of the Nuclear
Resister, Nukewatch, and the Plowshares movement.
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