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LOCAL Announcement :: Peace

Hiroshima Day commemoration and protest in Chicago, August 6

Join us at the site of the first sustained nuclear reaction to protest the killing and maiming of innocents from Hiroshima to Vietnam to Baghdad

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, at 7 PM
COMMEMORATION AND PROTEST
HIROSHIMA DAY

Join us at the site of the first sustained nuclear reaction to protest the killing and maiming of innocents from Hiroshima to Vietnam to Baghdad

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, at 7 PM

At the Henry Moore sculpture
"NUCLEAR ENERGY"

Ellis Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets
Hyde Park

Hiroshima Day commemorates the first use of a nuclear weapon - by the United States against the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
More than 80,000 people were killed instantly, and 69,000 were severely injured. Another 60,000 died from radiation within the first year.

The gathering will include music, speakers and more. For more information e-mail JWJCNP (at) igc.org

SPONSORS: Hyde Parkers for Peace and Justice,
Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism
 
 

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