Aug. 7, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet on Hiroshima – Nagasaki Never Again
I posted the leaflet below on the Pohakuloa Training Area Facebook page on the evening of Aug. 3, 2020. I just checked the page on Aug. 4th at 6:30AM. My post has been removed.
Hiroshima – Nagasaki Never Again!
75th Anniversary!
The use of nuclear weapons anywhere is a crime against humanity.
Brothers and sisters in the military: Refuse to engage in nuclear annihilation.
Refuse Illegal Orders
Refuse to kill innocent civilians
Refuse the order to use nuclear weapons
On August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9th the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat and radiation, hundreds of thousands of people were killed. By today’s standards, those bombs were “small.” The nuclear arsenals of the world can destroy the world many times over. Currently nine nations possess nuclear weapons: the U.S., Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel.
Hawaii is a major U.S. military command center, staging and training ground for nuclear war. Camp H.M. Smith located on Oahu above Aloha Stadium is the U.S. Indo-Pacific Military Command center for more than half the earth. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam is home to nuclear warships and B-2 strategic nuclear bombers. The Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) is a training ground for nuclear war for all branches of the military. Radiation from military nuclear weapons training has contaminated the land on several Hawaiian islands and military nuclear waste has been dumped in Hawaiian waters.
Read on malu-aina.org the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or click below:
https://www.icanw.org/hibakusha?fbclid=IwAR100XTf_VUu6rqia9z4dFQG87NdZC6gqHNMxCVznKK6F12Wnjm74tPhLOg
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/04/atomic-bombings-at-75-the-illegality-of-nuclear-weapons/
The U.S. Congress spends Trillions of dollars on wars with little or no dissent but haggles over providing $600 a week to unemployed workers amid a global pandemic. Shameful values!
BAN ALL NUKES NOW!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
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Aug. 7, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 984 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
