Hiroshima Day Coalition

The Hiroshima Day Coalition includes representatives of peace groups and concerned individuals in the Greater Toronto Area. The Coalition was formed to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Every August, the HDC organizes a public event at the Peace Garden at Toronto City Hall so that the human suffering and destruction inflicted by the first atomic bombings in 1945 will never be forgotten.

The Coalition also organizes other activities to raise public awareness of the insanity of nuclear weapons and to remind Canadians that the $12 trillion the nuclear weapon states have spent on nuclear arms could have eliminated hunger, disease, and illiteracy in the world and addressed global warming and social injustices that produce armed conflict.

The Coalition maintains a co-operative relationship with like-minded groups to achieve our common goal of bringing about a world without nuclear weapons. Coalition members, individually or collectively, work on projects designed to further efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons and to bring about a more peaceful world.

For further information, please contact:

Mike Nevin: 416-463 9163; mikepnevin-at-yahoo.ca
Anton Wagner: 416-863 1209; awagner-at-yorku.ca
Barbara Birkett, (Physicians for Global Survival): bbirkett-at-interlog.com www.pgs.ca
Robin Burgess, (Voice of Women): burgessrobin-at-hotmail.com
Eryl Court (Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office): ekort-at-sympatico.ca
Phyllis Creighton (Science for Peace): 416-481 7647; ppcreig-at-idirect.com
Erin Harris (Older Women's Network): 416-214-1518
Sid Ikeda (Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre): 416-447 0986; ikeda.consultants-at-sympatico.ca
Setsuko Thurlow: jandsthurlow-at-sympatico.ca
Lyn Adamson: (Peace and Social Action Committee, Toronto Friends Meeting): 416-731-6605; ladamson-at-idirect.com

Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Events, 2008

The Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition (THDC) cordially invites you to attend the unveiling of the powerful exhibition of photographs from the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Rotunda inside Toronto City Hall on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm.

THDC is honoured to announce that the City of Toronto has been selected to host the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibit to be held concurrently with 101 cities across the United States. THDC is also very pleased to present Setsuko Thurlow, Member of the Order of Canada and Hibakusha (Hiroshima survivor), who will introduce the exhibition.

Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima will also offer a personal video greeting to the citizens of Toronto in mutual respect for the decades of work done by the citizens of Toronto and Hiroshima on global peacebuilding and the Mayors for Peace campaign pressing together in solidarity for the abolition of nuclear weapons. "Our goal is to create awareness of the destructive power of nuclear weapons," says Setsuko Thurlow, "and the 25,000 armed nuclear weapons of which are still threatening humanity today."

The Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibit features pictures and educational facts about the devastation of nuclear war. The exhibit also displays dramatic drawings and paintings from dozens of Hibakusha survivors of their painful memories during the first moments on the ground after the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan with the urgent message "never again".

The exhibit runs from August 6th -11th, 2008 in conjunction with the "Paths to Hope" Peace Commemoration and Lantern Ceremony on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at the Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square beginning at 6:30 pm.

To RSVP for the August 6th, 2008 unveiling of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibition at the Rotunda, Toronto City Hall, please contact Helen Chilas, National Coordinator of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, via email h-chilas-at-rogers.com or cell at 416-473-8238

Note: If you would like to reserve a table at the Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Annual Peace Commemoration and Lantern Ceremony (August 9th at the Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square), please contact Dr. Barbara Birkett with Physicians for Global Survival at bbirkett-at-interlog.com.

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