We are asking for your support of our 40^th annual event, LANTERNS FOR PEACE, remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6, 2022 at 6 pm at the Riverside Park Urban Ecology Center.  

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Lanterns for Peace

 

MILWAUKEE

Program

Traditional Irish Music by "Ceol Cairde" Music of Friends, and music by James Oldenberg, and speakers

Floating of Lanterns in the small pond in front

Peace Procession with lighted lanterns to Oakland Ave.

Lantern Making

Folding of Tsuru (origami Peace Cranes)

Story telling about Sadako and the 1000 Peace Cranes

Peace symbol coloring pages and peace games

At Lanterns for Peace this year, we will commemorate the horrible suffering caused by the dropping of the atomic bombs by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We demand reparations for the Indigenous and Latinx people who were the victims of the first nuclear bomb test in New Mexico, the Western Shoshone, the people of the Marshall Islands, and the victims of hundreds of nuclear bomb test explosions. We decry the poisoning of Navajo uranium miners, with inadequate protection provided in the mines. These racist, environmental injustices have resulted in cancers, miscarriages, leukemia, deformed babies, and other radiation caused diseases that continue to affect people.

Never Again!

Sponsored by Peace Action WI and the End the Wars Coalition of Milwaukee

https://www.peaceactionwi.org/_c_o_n_t_a_c_t

For more information, please call 414-269-9525

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MADISON, WI LANTERNS FOR PEACE Sunday, August 7, 2022 6:30pmTenney Park, near the John Wall Family Pavilion Activities will be held mainly outside. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)-Wisconsin hosts an annual event called Lanterns for Peace to commemorate the lives lost in the nuclear attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We come together to remember the past and to envision and work towards a peaceful, just and nuclear weapon-free future. *Masks are encouraged to protect our vulnerable populations. Program 6:30pm - Decorate Lanterns 7:30pm - Program 7:45 to 8 pm - Float Lanterns in Lagoon

Peace in Ukraine

In the face of widespread concern about the threat of nuclear weapons, World BEYOND War joins with organizations and individuals across the country in releasing the following statement:

STATEMENT ON THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AND ON THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The power to initiate a global apocalypse lies in the hands of the leaders of nine nations. As 122 nations of the world indicated when they adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July, 2017, this is unacceptable.

As concerns about the threat of nuclear weapons re-enter the public consciousness, it is important to know that humankind is not without an answer to the nuclear threat. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force on January 22, 2021, provides a clear pathway to the elimination of the nuclear threat.

We call on all nuclear armed states to take immediate steps to:

• engage the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
• attend the First Meeting of States Parties, and
• sign, ratify and implement the Treaty.

We also call on the U.S. media to recognize the existence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to include the Treaty in discussions, articles, and editorials regarding the nuclear threat and methods available to address it.

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The Statement has been endorsed by Peace Action WI and organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people in the United States as well as by a growing list of individuals. A list of signatories can be found at nuclearbantreaty.org.

Peace Action WI also encourages support for this  Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments, and recommends participating in these events:

June 12 noon ET: https://www.june12legacy.com

June 12 4 p.m. ET: https://defusenuclearwar.org