Chico Peace and Justice Center

August 5, 6, 8, and 9, various venues

Please join the Chico Peace and Justice Center in remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days, with the theme, Generations under a Mushroom Cloud. Past, Present and Future. Solutions for our World.” 

• Wednesday, August 5^th.  1:10 Interview with Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs on KZFR 90.1 FM. Her group was founded in 1983 in Livermore, California by concerned neighbors living around the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 
  
• Thursday, August 6^th the 64^th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, meet with us at One Mile Pool to ring bells at 8:15 am 
  
• Saturday, August 8^th there will be a special informational event at Café Culture from 1-5 pm.   There will be an exhibit, speakers, informational and interactive displays and videos featured. (For full schedule, scroll down or click here.) 
  
• Sunday, August 9^th, Nagasaki Day. Ringing of Bells at 11:02am – One Mile Area Pool

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Days Event

At Café  Culture 931 West 5^th St.  from 1 - 5pm  

Ongoing Activities: Exhibit of Aftermath of Hiroshima Bombing,  Folding Peace Cranes, Letter Writing, Japanese Writing Art Project, Information Tables, Tree of Peaceful Solutions 

1:30- 5 pm –Speakers and Videos

• Chris Nelson - Chico Peace Endeavor’s Founding Mothers and Nuclear Disarmament 
  
• Ellen Simon- Chico’s Declaration as a Nuclear Free Zone

• Fiat Lux: The University of Nuclear Bombs – 3 min. trailer (Go to UC Nuclear Free for more info) 
  
• Cathy Webster- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty  
  
• Trespassing- Western Shoshones’ Struggl.e  Review of the film, by Brenda Norell  ”Trespassing,” censored in more film festivals worldwide than it has been shown, reveals how the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Fort Mojave, Western Shoshone, Pueblo and Navajo were targeted by the nuclear industry.

• Diane Suzuki-Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII 
  
• Toyo’s Camera by Director Junichi Suzuki on Photographer Toyo Miyatake- Japanese American History during WWII   
   
• Creating Models for a Future without War Invitation for the Summer University 2009 in Tamera, Portugal http://connect.bioneers.org/video/creating-models-for-a-future-4min.