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HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI LXIII COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
TUESDAY AUGUST 5
6:00 - 9:00 PM. BUFFALO
HISTORIC SOCIETY, Elmwood & Nottingham.
HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY FILM SCREENING AND LANTERN RELEASE. For more information contact the Western NY Peace Center at 716-894-2013.
6:30 PM. NEW YORK CITY
All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue (at 80th Street) .
WEAPONS OR WINDMILLS?
COMING TOGETHER TO CONVERT
THE PERMANENT WAR ECONOMY.

Doors open at 6:30 for light refreshments, program begins at 7:00. For more information, contact Marianna Greene at 646-723-1749.
8:00 - 8:45 PM. CHENANGO AREA.
NORWICH CABLE TV, PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL 9
FILM SHOWING: "AMERICA'S DIALOGUE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS"
(Every Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday from August 1st through 15th) For more information, please contact Chris Brunner at 607-334-6095.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6
11 AM. ALBANY
WEST CAPITAL PARK.
VIGIL AND READING OF HIROSHIMA
For more information contact Dan Wilcox at 518-482-0262.
NOON. SYRACUSE.
CITY HALL
DRAMATIC PROCESSION TO REMEMBER HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI and to demand a Nuclear-Free Future. For more information, please contact Peace Action of Central NY at 315-478-7442.
6:00 PM SHARP. SCOTIA
Corner of Rt. 5 and Schonowee, Collins Park side
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI MEMORIAL MARCH
Bring signs, peace cranes, gongs and drums. Please dress in mourning colors, either white or black. We will march over the Gateway Bridge and back to end at the concert at Freedom Park. For more information, please contact Elaine Klein at elaineklein@hotmail.com.
7:00 - 9:00 PM. GREAT NECK.
SHELTER ROCK. Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road.
GREAT NECK PEACE ACTION COMMEMORATION
OF THE 63RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI
NO MORE HIROSHIMAS - NO MORE IRAQS - NO IRANS - BRING THE TROOPS HOME!
SPEAKERS:
Michael D'Innocenzo - Prof. of History - Hofstra University
Mary Beth Sullivan, Outreach Dir., Global Network Against Nuclear Weapons
Hon. Michelle Schimel, NY State Assemblywoman
Rabbi Devora Marcus, Temple Beth-El, Great Neck
Rev. Mark Lukens, Presbyterian Interfaith Alliance
Fred Brewington Esq., Civil Rights Atty.
Margaret Melkonian, Co-director, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
MUSIC:
Bob Lepley - Peace Jazz Pianist Extraordinaire
Co-Chairs:
Hon. Jon Kaiman, Supervisor, Town of North Hempstead
Stan Romaine, Chair, Great Neck SANE/Peace Action
FOR INFORMATION: call Shirley Romaine, 516-487-3786; G.N. SANE/Peace Action, 487-3786; or LI Alliance, 741-4360
DIRECTIONS: From Northern Blvd - go south on Shelter Rock Rd. about ½ mile., entrance is on right at sign & white picket fence. From LIE exit 35 north from east or exit 36 from west; go north 1-1/2 miles on Shelter Rock Road entrance will be on left.
CO-SPONSORS: Great Neck Womanspace, Reach Out, Social Justice Comm- Unitarian Universalist Cong. @ Shelter Rock, Interfaith Alliance- LI, Pax Christi, Five Towns Forum, Code Pink-LI.
8:00 PM. BROOKYN
BAY RIDGE. Hotel Gregory, 8315 4th Avenue.
SCREENING OF FILM "CONVICTION"
Directed/Produced by Brenda Truelson Fox. Approximate running time: 43 minutes.
In 2003, three Dominican nuns were convicted and sentenced to Federal Prison for their non-violent protest against nuclear proliferation at a Minuteman III missile site in Northern Colorado. This film evokes important conversations about the role of Christianity in politics, the role of nuclear weapons in National Defense and the role of International Law in the Federal Courts. The film has won numerous festival awards.
With TONY GRONOWITZ, Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies, City University of New York, speaking on NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE EU?
Hosted by Bay Ridge Interfaith Peace Coalition – Donations Accepted.
Sponsored by Peace Action New York State; Peace Action Bay Ridge. Endorsed by Brooklyn For Peace; Bay Ridge Neighbors.
8:00 - 8:45 PM. CHENANGO AREA.
NORWICH CABLE TV, PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL 9
FILM SHOWING: "AMERICA'S DIALOGUE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS"
(Every Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday from August 1st through 15th)\For more information, please contact Chris Brunner at 607-334-6095.
THURSDAY AUGUST 7
6:30 – 8:00 PM. STATEN ISLAND
ST. GEORGE. ETG Book/Café, 208 Bay St.
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI 63RD ANNIVERSARY
Mary Beth Sullivan, the Outreach Coordinator of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is coming to Staten Island, as part of a program marking the 63rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to talk about Military Conversion. To learn more about the Global Network, go to www.space4peace.org. For more information, please contact Peace Action of Staten Island at 718-989-2881 or go to www.panys.org/SI/. For directions, go to www.etgstores.com/bookcafe/.For more information, contact PASI at 718-989-2881
7:30 PM. SYRACUSE
ZEN CENTER OF SYRACUSE
INTERFAITH SHARING, followed by floating lanterns on Onondaga Creek. For more information, please contact Peace Action of Central NY at 315-478-7442.
7:30 PM. GENESEE.
AVON TRAFFIC CIRCLE, Routes 5 and 20
SOLEMN COMMEMORATION OF THE HIROSHIMA AND NAGASKI ATOMIC BOMBINGS For more information, please contact Dr. Matlin at 585-768-6277.
FRIDAY AUGUST 8
8:00 - 8:45 PM. CHENANGO AREA.
NORWICH CABLE TV, PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL 9
FILM SHOWING:
"AMERICA'S DIALOGUE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS"

(Every Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday from August 1st through 15th) For more information, please contact Chris Brunner at 607-334-6095.
SATURDAY AUGUST 9
8:00 AM. BINGHAMTON.
BREAKFAST WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER FRIDA BERRIGAN, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH of Binghamton, corner of Main and Front Streets
Senior Arms and Security Program Associate with the New America Foundation. Ms. Berrigan served as Director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in NYC. A local quartet will perform prior to the main speaker: Georgetta Maiolo, flute; Peter Roseboom, violin; Fritz Loewenstein, viola; and Lucy Loewenstein, cello. Following the breakfast, everyone is invited to walk or drive to Peace Park (confluence of rivers off Riverside Drive) to listen to a half hour of song by local theater stars Mackenzie Gannon and Madison Terboss. The event is free and open to the public but contributions will be encouraged to defray expenses. Your advance reservation will help in planning for the breakfast. Call Pat Donohue ASAP at 607-722-0549 or e-mail her at radiobrown@verizon.net. Past attendance has been 70-80. Please come and help set a record of 100! For more information, please contact Susan McAnanama 607-759-8495.

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picture of bombed-out skeleton of Hiroshima church tower


OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Thursday August 7, 6:30 pm
MIDTOWN NEW YORK CITY.
Cupcake Café 545 9th Ave. (40th- 41st)
WASTELANDS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASUALTIES OF WAR
picture of burning village with soldier in foreground SCARRED LANDS & WOUNDED LIVES: THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF WAR
(2008, 60 min.) When we make war, we destroy not only the enemy, we destroy our earth as well. In all its stages - from the production of weapons through combat to clean up - war entails actions that pollute land, air and water, destroy biodiversity and drain natural resources. Yet the environmental damage caused by war (and preparations for war) is underreported, even ignored. The environment is war's silent casualty. Using specialist and eyewitness accounts from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Australia and the Pacific Islands and supported by on-site and archival footage, Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives shows how war and preparations for war further compromise the environmental health of a planet already under stress. Last of a five-part series co-sponsored by Peace Action New York State, Sierra Club NYC, and NY League of Conservation Voters.
Saturday, August 9, 2008, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
HAMBURG.
Hilbert College
THE INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S INITIATIVE, THE WOMEN’S PEACE AWARDS.
To Register Contact Agnes Williams AgnesFay@aol.com
Saturday, August 9. Walk: 1:30 -5:00 pm. Evening program: 5:00- 7:00 pm.
ROCHESTER.
Walk begins at Redwings Plaza, North Clinton Ave. at Norton Street
and ends at Cafe Underground Railroad, 480 W. Main St.

ROCHESTER WALKS FOR PEACE #2
Second of four Saturday Walks through City Neighborhoods to Link Wars/Occupation Abroad and Violence/Oppression at Home. Evening programs to include speakers, music and discussion. Includes local Rochester Walks for Peace anti-war activists from groups like Rochester Against War (RAW), Declaration of Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and others who have come together to link up – across neighborhoods and across issues – with other local activists and ordinary people working for real change from the bottom up.
For more information contact Rianne Mitchell at rianne_20011@yahoo.com or (585) 734-3441.
Friday & Saturday, August 15 & 16, 2008
FONDA, NY.
National Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine, Route 5
NURTURING PEACE: The 10th Anniversary Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference
Featuring: Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, M.M. Colonel (ret.) Ann Wright. Workshops, Music, Lunch and more. For complete conference information see www.kateripeaceconference.org Cost: Friday Evening, August 15th, 2008 Free Will Offering;
Saturday, August 16th, 2008, Students and Seniors $10.00, Adults - $15.00 through $40.00.
High School students free.
Saturday, August 16. Walk: 1:30 -5:00 pm. Evening program: 5:00- 7:00 pm.
ROCHESTER.
Walk begins at Hudson Ave. at North St. Ends at Irondequoit United Church of Christ, 644 Titus Ave.
ROCHESTER WALKS FOR PEACE #3
Third of four Saturday Walks through City Neighborhoods to Link Wars/Occupation Abroad and Violence/Oppression at Home. Evening programs to include speakers, music and discussion. Includes local Rochester Walks for Peace anti-war activists from groups like Rochester Against War (RAW), Declaration of Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and others who have come together to link up – across neighborhoods and across issues – with other local activists and ordinary people working for real change from the bottom up.
For more information contact Rianne Mitchell at rianne_20011@yahoo.com or (585) 734-3441.
Thursday, Aug. 21, 6p m
MIDTOWN NYC.
Colombian Consulate, 10 East 46th Street #1
OPENING RECEPTION FOR “COLOMBIA: NUESTRO PUEBLO.”
Photos by Tonny Rocco.
Saturday, August 23. Walk: 1:30 -5:00 pm. Evening program: 5:00- 7:00 pm.
ROCHESTER.
Walk begins at Bullshead Plaza, Genesee St. at West Main St. Ends at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 350 Chili Ave.
ROCHESTER WALKS FOR PEACE #4
Fourth of four Saturday Walks through City Neighborhoods to Link Wars/Occupation Abroad and Violence/Oppression at Home. Evening programs to include speakers, music and discussion. Includes local Rochester Walks for Peace anti-war activists from groups like Rochester Against War (RAW), Declaration of Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and others who have come together to link up – across neighborhoods and across issues – with other local activists and ordinary people working for real change from the bottom up.
For more information contact Rianne Mitchell at rianne_20011@yahoo.com or (585) 734-3441.

Ongoing Local Events
Many local peace groups hold regular events, vigils, "Honk for Peace" actions, etc. 
See our list: www.panys.org/ongoing.htm

Out of State & Nationwide Events

Going out of state? Check UFPJ's national Events Calendar: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php.