The Hiroshima Day Coalition: Toronto includes representatives of peace groups and concerned individuals in the Greater Toronto Area. The Coalition was formed to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Every August, the HDC organizes a public event at the Peace Garden at Toronto City Hall so that the human suffering and destruction inflicted by the first atomic bombings in 1945 will never be forgotten.
The Coalition also organizes other activities to raise public awareness of the insanity of nuclear weapons and to remind Canadians that the $12 trillion the nuclear weapon states have spent on nuclear arms could have eliminated hunger, disease, and illiteracy in the world and addressed global warming and social injustices that produce armed conflict.
The Coalition maintains a co-operative relationship with like-minded groups to achieve our common goal of bringing about a world without nuclear weapons. Coalition members, individually or collectively, work on projects designed to further efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons and to bring about a more peaceful world.
This years commemoration includes:
August 6 -11, 2008 Photo Exhibition at Toronto's City Hall Rotunda with posters of the devastating effects of the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As well as vivid eyewitness drawings as painted by survivors of the A-Bomb. Opening Ceremony on August 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM.
August 9, 2008 Nagasaki Day Commemoration with Bruce Gagnon as the keynote speaker. Start at 4:30 with Community & Craft Tables, the program at the Peace Garden begins at 6:30. Ends with a lantern ceremony at 8:45 PM.
Volunteers are welcome, please e-mail for details
Contact:
Michael P. Nevin
Hiroshima Day Coalition
Apt # 51 Oaks
100 Bain Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M4K 1E8
Tel: 416-466-1997
mikepnevin@yahoo.ca
MySpace webpage:http://www.myspace.com/hiroshimaday
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