Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:24:33 -0700
Subject: press release for atomic age 'morning ceremony'.
From: Mo Nishida <[email protected]>
Lil Tokyo 4 Peace announcement 8/12/10
for IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lil Tokyo 4 Peace announces the time, date and place for their annual
"Atomic Age Morning
Ceremony" for 2010. This 19th annual ceremony is held every August,
to commemorate all
those affected negatively by nuclear/atomic energy. The Ceremony
will be held Saturday
August 21st, 2010 at 8:00AM at the foot of the "GrandMother/Father
Grapefruit Tree of Life"
that grows in the northwest corner of the 'rock garden' of the
Japanese American Culture and
Community Center located at 244 S. San Pedro st. in the heart of Lil Tokyo.
A simple non-sectarian ceremony honors ALL those who suffered and
still suffer from nuclear
power. From the discoverers of radioactivity, the Curies, who both
died from radioactive
poisoning to the miners of the raw materials, uranium. The miners of
all the countries, such as
the Navajo(Dineh) of Canada and the U.S. To the very first victims
of its' use against humans,
Hiroshima & Nagasaki, a quarter million people like us, incinerated
in a matter of minutes.
After the end of World War II, all those G.I.'s and civilians that
witnessed the military
experiments in Nevada, the Marianna Islands(Bikini,) and those
"downwind" communities in
Nevada, the South Pacific. And more recently Kazakhstan(USSR), Lop
Nor(China), South
Pacific(French), India and Pakistan and the list grows on.
The U.S. has more war heads and tonnage today then the rest of the
world combined. To
make matters worse, the weapons manufacturing industry of this
country now uses "depleted"
uranium to "case harden" their shells and bullets. Not to make
uranium non-radioactive, but
to "case harden" the shells. This radioactive material is not only
used in Afghanistan & Iraq,
but in places like Sand island, Hawai'i, the island of Vieques,
Puerto Rico and anywhere
the U.S. military has "live fire" exercises. This stuff is poison
and can last thousands of
years in our environment!!!
By way of contrast, the parliament of the old U.S.S.R. ordered a
complete stop to the
testing of nuclear armaments. This fight was led by the
"downwinders" of Kazakhstan and
had mobilized the majority of people of the soviet empire to oppose
the testing. We also
take this opportunity to remind folks of the nuclear "accidents: at 3
mile island in the U.S.,
Chernobyl in the U.S.S.R. and most recently the "accident" at the
nuclear power plant
in Japan. The use of nuclear power seems to be a huge Moral and
practical question.
Moral considering the uncovered gross negligence and following cover
up. Practical,
in terms of "cheap power"(?) and environmental concerns.
Our short ceremony will use another source of power, "The Hiroshima
Eternal Peace Flame",
which burns continuously at 'Ground Zero' in Peace Park, Hiroshima,
Japan. The Flame
was brought to this country in a hand warmer from 'Ground Zero' by a
Peace Activist
just before the 1984 L.A. Olympics and our L.A. Koyasan Temple was
asked to keep it
for us. The history of this flame, before it was used to light the
candles of the 'multitudes'
at the dedication of the 'Sacred Flame' at 'Ground Zero, is that it
has been prayed to for
Peace at midnight for over the last 600 years at a Koyasan Temple in
the inland sea.
We would also like to take this time to announce the "Lil Tokyo Peace
Vigil" schedule
for the rest of the year. The L.T. Peace Vigil is held every
third(3rd) Friday of the month
from 5:00 to 6:00PM gathering at the foot of our "GrandMother/Father
Grapefruit Tree
of Life" located at the northwest corner of the rock garden of the
JACCC, 244 s. San
Pedro st. and then we move to the pedestrian crossing(Sakura
Crossing) on San Pedro
st. between 2nd and 3rd streets in the Machi. The dates
are: Aug.20th, Sept.17th,
Oct.15th, Nov.19th, and Dec.17th, 2010.
Thought for the times, 10 years! If You see us or anyone else,
asking you to "HONK
FOR PEACE" please don't hesitate, it is the least we can do. There
are those who
we can help; old folks, non-combatant women and children, in
solidarity with the millions
of us, who oppose unjust wars. We are the MAJORITY!
INCREASE THE PEACE, PLEASE. MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH.
FOR MORE INFO, PLZ. CALL mo@(323)371-4502 On behalf of LT4P
mo
nishida
628
new depot. st.
L.A.,
CA 90012
(323)371-4502
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