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Hiroshima~Nagasaki Vigil: Citizen Action for a Nuclear Free World

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Date: 
Friday, August 6, 2010 - 8:00am - Monday, August 9, 2010 - 7:00pm
Where?: 
Downtown Plaza, Ashland Library and Lithia ParkAshland, 97520
Phone: 
(541) 4889286

25th Annual Ashland Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil
Citizen Action for a Nuclear Free World

Visit the Nuclear Maze on the downtown Ashland Plaza. Opens 8 a.m. Friday, August 6, 2010 and closes 7 p.m. Saturday, August 7, 2010. Times for Remembrance and Reflection:

August 6 Hiroshima, 8 a.m. (Ashland Plaza)
August 9 Nagasaki 7 p.m. (Lithia Park, Japanese Garden--up Winburn Way, on right; park on Granite Street).

More information, call Jill 541-488-9286

The City of Ashland has been a Nuclear-Free Zone since 1981 and a Member of Mayors for Peace since 1998.

Also, Citizen Action for a Nuclear-Free World will sponsor lectures on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Ashland Public Library, Gresham Room (downstairs):

"American's Domestic Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Jay Mullen, Professor of History at SOU.

"How Citizen Action Kept Uranium Mining Off Tribal Land"
Dan Wahpepah, Red Earth Descendants

"The Impact of Citizen Action for Nuclear Disarmament"
\Herb Rothschild, coordinator of Rogue Valley Campaign for Nuclear Abolition

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC