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Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Watertown

Sun August 6, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

Sunday, August 6, 2023

7:30 – Vigil in Watertown Square
8:00 – Testimonials and Music on the DCR Dock in Watertown Square
8:30 – Floating of the Candle Boat on the Charles River

7:30 PM – Silent Vigil – Watertown Square

8:00 PM – Music and Testimonials on the DCR Dock in Watertown Square

8:30 PM – Launching of the Candle Boats on the Charles River

Our annual resistance to the presence and use of nuclear weapons is even more important this year as we face the tangible and  threats of escalation in Ukraine and the effects of climate change.

NEVER AGAIN – NO MORE HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI –

NO MORE VICTIMS – ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

“Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats”?

*To remember the more than 210,000 killed, and the many more injured, by the U.S. nuclear attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945.

*To remember the original five nuclear states have not taken serious action to abolish nuclear weapons, which has led India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel to acquire nuclear weapons.

*To remember that the U.S. should support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and adopt a “No First Use” doctrine: the U.S. must never be the first to use nuclear weapons.

 *To remember that the danger of nuclear war is ever present and that without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to nuclear abolition, the unthinkable, another Hiroshima or Nagasaki, is possible.

 Sponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment and New England American Friends Service Committee

Visit www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE

 

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Date:
Sun August 6, 2023
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
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Watertown Square
Main Street at Spring St
Watertown, MA United States
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