Sacramento Regional August Peace Event 2020
The August Peace Event 2020 planning committee has dedicated this year’s gathering to the memory of Winnie Detweiler, whose vision and gentle determination guided the Sacramento August Peace Event for many years
75 Years After Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Rolling Back the Nuclear Arsenal
A virtual event that will livestream
Sunday August 9, 2:00 pm PDT
www.hiroshimaNagasaki75.org/events
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing and leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons;
Critical Issues Forum, high school students from the US, Japan and Russia; Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey;
Pat Elder, Investigative Reporter with Civilian Exposure;
Patricia Hynes, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice;
Goli Sahba, 350 Sacramento, Sacramento Climate Coalition;
Elected officials: Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA-03),
Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters),
Mayor of Sacramento Darrell Steinberg;
Specific suggestions for concrete actions citizens can take.
For more information, go to www.sacpsr.org
Co-sponsoring Organizations and Supporters include: Buddhist Church of Florin; Celebration of Abraham Davis and Woodland; Davis Committee Against Nuclear Weapons; Davis Community Church Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry; Davis Friends Meeting; Davis United Methodist Church; Florin Japanese American Citizens League; Friends Committee on National Legislation Davis Advocacy Team; Hiroshima for Global Peace; Physicians for Social Responsibility Sacramento Chapter; Sacramento Area Peace Action; Sacramento Friends Meeting; Sacramento Hiroshima Nikkeijin Kai; Sacramento Japanese American Citizens League; Tri-Valley CAREs; Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento; United Nations Association/USA of Sacramento; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Sacramento Branch