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Eleventh Annual San Francisco Bay Area

67th Anniversary of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) & Nagasaki (Aug. 9) Atomic Bombings
North end of Aquatic Park, Berkeley 

Please contact us to submit your photographs!
 
 NEW:   Video of lanterns floating 8/4/2012, by Michiko Kurokawa:


 

Peace Lantern Tee-Shirt
 

PROGRAM 6:30 p.m.: Decorating shades for floating peace lanterns — great for all ages! Music and Brief Remarks — Including Hiroshima atomic-bombing survivor and author Takashi Tanemori, messages from the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and music by Hali Hammer Read 2011 messages from mayors of Hiroshima [PDF, 75K] and Nagasaki [PDF, 78K] Information display about nuclear arms View the Panels (Adobe PDF format):      1. Peace Lanterns (929K)  |  2. Nuclear Weapons (632K)      3. Proliferation (122K)  |  4. U.S. Nuclear Sites (112K)      5. "Peaceful" Atom? (498K)  |  6. California Sites (366K)      7. Hiroshima & Nagasaki (155K)  |  8. World Peace Movement (1.2M) 8-9 p.m.: Floating of the Lanterns

Sponsors and Endorsers include:
Berkeley City Council  |  ProgressivePortal.org  |  Friends of Hibakusha
United Nations Association, East Bay  |  Northern California Peace Alliance
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Grandmothers Against the War  |  Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers
Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP)  |  Waterside Workshops
Diane Tokugawa  |  Jack Dairiki  |  Joyce Rybandt
and other individuals and organizations