2019/8/8 - 2019/8/8 / Los Angeles, California / Seasonal / Occasion

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Venue Toriumi Plaza, Little Tokyo (E 1st Street. & San Pedro)
Address 101 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 United States
Date 2019/8/8 - 2019/8/8
Time 18:30 minute(s) - 19:30 minute(s)
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18:30 Event Starts
19:02 Silent Prayer
19:30 Event Ends with Candlelight Parade

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[Venue detail]

The plaza is right above Aiso Street Parking Garage.

Unite for Peace and Nuclear Justice - Hiroshima/Nagasaki Never Again

Join us for the third year of our annual "Unite for Peace and Nuclear Justice - Hiroshima/Nagasaki Never Again!" On August 8, 2019, we will gather in Little Tokyo to commemorate the victims of all nuclear atrocities of the past and present and to take actions to bring our world a little closer to a nuclear-free future.
WHEN: August 8th, 2019, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
(Silent Prayer at 7:02pm, the exact time the bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan)
WHERE: Toriumi Plaza, Little Tokyo, Northwest Corner of E. 1st Street & San Pedro Street
Suggested Parking: Aiso Street Parking Garage (101 North Judge John Aiso St.)

There will be a "Give Peace a Chance" sing-along, candlelight procession, and more!!!

Prayers are offered by
Reverend Peter Hata, Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
Reverend Ryuzen Hayashi, Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin
Reverend Dickson Yagi, Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

Speakers include:
Michiko Kato, Fukushima Survivor
Denise Duffield, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
Farideh Kioumehr, Founder & Executive Director, International Health and Epidemiology Center
Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla, Candidate for Congress in CA-34
Hiroshima Jogakuin High School Students (Live from Hiroshima, Japan)

Special Guitar Performance by GOH (Goh Kurosawa), Bicultural Music Samurai
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This event is sponsored by:
Fukushima Support Committee and Council for Pacific Asian Theology

Endorsers include:
PANA, Progressive Asian Network for Action
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, NCRR
Nikkei Resisters
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
Peace Action
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - Los Angeles
International Health and Epidemiology Research Center
Veterans for Peace Los Angeles
MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
Answer Coalition
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Southern California War Tax Resistance
Friends of Chain Reaction
Holy Faith Episcopal Church of Inglewood
Topanga Peace Alliance
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice
Socialist Unity Party
ICUJP, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Union of Progressive Iranians
CODEPINK
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[Contact]
forfuturefukushima@gmail.com
Tsukuru: 323-899-0463
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  • Posted : 2019/08/02
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