Events being held on Hiroshima Day 2008
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HIROSHIMA NEVER AGAIN!
ABOLISH ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS! The people of the world are calling with renewed determination for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. The US, France, Britain, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan and India together still have more than 28,000 nuclear weapons. The Bush administration is not cutting its nuclear weapons. Instead it has developed more sophisticated and powerful bombs and is now developing mini-nukes, bunker busters and nuclear weapons for space. The threat of nuclear annihilation has been revived by George W Bush. The US has shown it will inflict "pre-emptive" attacks and "preventive" wars on any state that threatens its interests, creating fear and insecurity, replacing the rule of international law with the law of the jungle, and fuelling the arms race. The US also claims the right to attack any country from space.
The Bush administration has brutally and illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and continues to threaten Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba.
The Howard Government has given unconditional moral, political and practical support to all the recent US aggressive actions. This must stop! Troops home from Iraq now! US foreign policy has left many thousands dead, thousands more with broken bodies, and destabilised the Middle East.
Civilians and soldiers suffer the appalling effects of depleted uranium weapons, cluster bombs and land mines, and the destruction of water supply, sewerage and power.
The Australian Government has spent over $1.25 billion since 2003 on the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. This has brought Iraq neither peace, freedom nor democracy. It has made Australia and the world less secure. The cost of war The Howard Government's military budget has escalated to over $60 million a day. This steals resources from health, education, job creation, the environment, and services for the poor and disadvantaged. An extra $700 million - less than two weeks military spending - spent on public hospitals each year would overcome their critical problems.
DETAILS OF HIROSHIMA DAY EVENTS |
SYDNEY:
March & Rally
Saturday, 12.30pm, 2 August, Town Hall Square
Put a Nuclear Free World on the Agenda Authorised by Hiroshima Day Committe. MELBOURNE:
Rally for Peace & a Nuclear Free Future
Saturday, 1pm. August 9. State Library.
NO URANIUM MINING
NO WAR
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS
Rally endorsed by: Japanese For Peace; Victorian Trades Hall Council; Latin American Solidarity Network; Victorian Greens; Friends Of the Earth Melbourne; Alliance for Indigenous Self Determination; Socialist Alternative; Campaign For International Cooperation and Disarmament; Refugee Action Collective; Lyn Allison; Solidarity; Socialist Alliance; Resistance; Melbourne Stop The War Coalition; Ozpeace; Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition Campaign; Psychologists For Peace; Bellarine Seastar; Otway Conservation Council; Unity For Peace; Moreland Peace Group; Womens Web; Nuclear Disarmament Party.
PERTH:
Hiroshima Day Vigil
Wed, 6 August, 12 noon–2pm. Wesley Cnr, Hay/William Sts.
Say NO to nuclear war
Say YES to to every child's right to grow into a world free of nuclear weapons.
Sign the LETTER appealing for all nuclear weapons
to be taken off
hair-trigger alert.
Contemplate the display of Japanese children's artwork and messages
Help hand out Japanese paper cranes to say "NO MORE HIROSHIMAS"
Enjoy listening to THREE MEN AND A TENOR
Support the vigil by your presence
This vigil is organised by People for Nuclear Disarmament WA, and
supported by the Anglican Social Responsibility Commission, Anti-Nuclear
Alliance of WA, Catholic Social Justice Commission, Christian Centre for
Social Action, Council of Churches WA, Medical Association for
Prevention of War, Quakers (Society of Friends), and Uniting Church
Australia.
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