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The International Shadow Project
un article par Catherine Thomasson, MD
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sixty years ago, nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They created a landscape of utter destruction, and left the nuclear shadows of people vaporized at the epicenter. Survivors painted outlines around those shadows, at first to help identify who they might have been, and then to remember them. On August 6-9th, in memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people around the world will create a landscape of shadows on our city's sidewalks, so that our neighbors will see them and demand that nuclear weapons never be used again.
Help us create this political art, by the people, for the world, in your city to make people aware of the nuclear dangers and demand that governments return to the policy of abolishing nuclear weapons agreed upon in 1970.
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility created the website www.ShadowProjectHome.org that outlines the history, logistics and political intent of the Shadow Project. All the information on the site may be copied and used by local Shadow Projects. With this website, with hundreds of copies of the video, The Health Effects of War—Seeking SMART Security, and with thousands of hours on the telephone and internet, we hope to have one hundred cities organizing Shadow Projects. This action is hoped to be the largest anti-nuclear event of the decade!
We demand the US and other nuclear powers to:
* Pledge never to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against another nation
* Sign on to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
* Work to dismantle nuclear stockpiles down to 100 for all nuclear powers, on the way to
honoring their international commitment to work for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
* Increase funding and international cooperation to secure all nuclear weapons and nuclear
bomb-making material worldwide as quickly as possible.
Email us at info@ShadowProjectHome.org for more information or to let us know you are helping to organize a Shadow Project in your city or town. For information call or write to Eric Bagai, 503 869-8794, eric@foreworks.org or reply to me at thomassonc@comcast.net
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What would mobilize people against the threat of nuclear weapons?,
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Commentaire le plus récent:
I don't know whether marches and protests mobilize people against the threat of nuclear weapons, but whenever I read the comments of Zia Mian, I re-dedicate myself to trying harder to raise awareness which I hope will translate to action.In an article in The News International, August 6,2005, he called attention to the Pakistan Peace Coalition, and the Indian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. "The leaders in both countries must be taught, over and over again, that the people will not allow a nuclear war to be fought. There should never be a word in any other language for hibakusha.
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