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Milwaukee, August 9, 2024: Lanterns for Peace – Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration

6 pm- Gather at Zao Church, 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd,  Milwaukee, WI for Japanese Lantern Making, Origami peace cranes, refreshments. 

7 pm- Commemorative Program 

Music by Jess Devitt and James Oldenberg.

Introduction and brief update on the upcoming campaign for Back from the Brink of Nuclear War in Milwaukee

7:15pm, we will pause to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Video of Hiroshima survivor, Hideko Tamura Snider. Ms. Snider was ten years old and living in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on her city. She has travelled the world appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

8 pm-  Procession to Lantern Vigil along Lincoln Memorial Dr., near Bradford Beach until 9 pm.  (Walk, bike or carpool to Bradford Beach from Zao Church.)

 Peace Action of Wisconsin

Phone:  414-269-9525    

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For more information, please contact: https://www.peaceactionwi.org/_c_o_n_t_a_c_t

Co-sponsored by: Milwaukee End the Wars Coalition, United Nations Association of Milwaukee, Veterans for Peace Milwaukee, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Milwaukee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Building Unity Wisconsin, the WI Cuba Coalition and other organizations

With Very Special Thanks to Annette J. Roberts and Joan R. Robertson Fund for World Peace, World Law and Peace Education