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Rally and March for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Denis Doherty

Saturday August 2 12 noon

details for the March and Rally

Route of the March

Route of the March

Speakers

Jenny Leong – Greens MP for Newtown

Gem Romuld – Director ICAN Australia

Sara Haddad – Palestinian Writer

Message for Hiroshima /Nagasaki Day 2025

World on the brink of Nuclear Disaster

Three times this year we have been very close to nuclear catastrophe of one form or another.  We had the India – Pakistan conflict, Ukraine – Russia conflict and recently Israel/US – Iran in the ‘12 day war’.  We were faced with either nuclear facilities being bombed or nuclear weapons being used by one country on another!  Either way nuclear radiation and massive numbers of deaths were on the cards.

Last year the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Hibakusha of Japan.  The heroism of these victims of Hiroshima/Nagasaki constantly campaigning for nuclear disarmament has been recognised by the world but the message has not seeped into the heads of the major governments of the world including our own.  The US and Israel are constantly breaking agreements and treaties while they take warlike actions that increase the likelihood of more war and brings the world closer to a nuclear exchange from which no nation will be spared.

It is time to double our efforts to get Australia to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).  The PM promised before he was elected that he would sign the treaty, but it has been ignored.

Australia continues to promote war by assisting Israel to complete its ethnic cleansing of Gaza by massive violence.  Continues to make plans to buy the hideously expensive AUKUS submarines while the US hammers us to double our military spending and to get us involved in a war against China.  Meanwhile our housing crisis is still not solved, our hospitals are without psychiatrists and our nurses are angry because they are being underpaid.  Australia is going in the wrong direction.

Organised by: The Hiroshima Day Committee PO Box 145 Glebe NSW 2037.  Email: hiroshimacommitteesydney@gmail.com; Website: hiroshimacommittee.org

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Statement 2024

Denis Doherty

We are here to remember that on August 6 and 9, 1945, 79 years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Almost 200,000 men, women and children were killed instantly and many thousands more died later of burns or radiation sickness. 

We are here to remember those who died in this horrific event and to remember all victims of nuclear war preparations including those who lived on Pacific Islands and our own first nations people who died during British testing. 

Since that terrible event, France, Britian, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Israel have acquired nuclear weapons. 

We say that no country should ever have nuclear weapons.

Civil Society has pushed back against nuclear weapons and an organisation founded in Melbourne – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN – has successfully got the UN to pass the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.  So far 70 States have ratified this treaty.

We demand that the Australian Government ratify the UN treaty to ban Nuclear Weapons, reject the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines and reject the Opposition’s proposal for nuclear power reactors on 7 sites. 

Australia is supporting wars and preparing for war instead of concentrating on solving the social issues in Australia and the region.

There are no victors or vanquished in a nuclear war.

Today we solemnly vow to do everything we can to make sure that Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happen again.