Nevada Desert Experience : August Desert Witness

- August Desert Witness -

- Vision Statement -

Each one of us is a child of satyagraha, a tiny seedling of truth-force filled with the capacity to learn, transform, and rejoice. We are called into the service of that abundant beauty present within our need for healing, reconciliation, and peace. We are called to renew our witness to justice at the Test Site and all places and to inspire and empower all relationships within our work, as we remember the genocide of our sisters and brothers in Nagasaki and Hiroshima over 66 years ago. Our voice calls out, during this Year of Remembrance and Action, for the immediate ending of nuclear testing at any level and the disarmament and abolition of all nuclear weapons. Our days of dialogue and witness together mark a rebirth, a regeneration of the peoples’ movement in solidarity with the oneness of all living things.

- Program -

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. 200,000 people were killed, most in a matter of seconds; for some it took much longer. Over the next 66 years, others have died and suffered health effects from testing other nuclear weapons and from the mining, refining, deployment, and waste from the nuclear weapon "bomplex."

We come together again, to remember all who have been injured in those first attacks and subsequent incidents.

August Desert Witness 2013

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