Come help strategize at the first national meeting of NuclearBan.US!
• Find out how Takoma Park, MD, became the first US city to declare
itself “treaty compliant”
• Learn how other US cities, states, organizations and institutions are
implementing the Treaty
• Get the latest news and strategies from ICAN
• Be part of a crucial international movement
• Support the Treaty in your city and state
Come help strategize at the first national meeting of NuclearBan.US!
• Find out how Takoma Park, MD, became the first US city to declare
itself “treaty compliant”
• Learn how other US cities, states, organizations and institutions are
implementing the Treaty
• Get the latest news and strategies from ICAN
• Be part of a crucial international movement
• Support the Treaty in your city and state
International Children’s Month is a full year long, free, thematic, activity platform for all. The mission is “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Our peak month is JUNE and we ask all involved with children to take it up a notch or twenty and do something special for this month with them. Support the children in doing what they feel called to do. Support the children in what you feel called to do. This month is about celebration and joy of our children, and of appreciation. Please visit the SEL partner platform for all at www.internationalchildrensmonth.com
We come together for the Annual Children’s Global Wave Of Love, at 1:11pm in every time zone beginning in New Zealand and ending in Hawaii, we come together to collectively intention “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Based on the Fibinacci sequence of increasing increments of divine love we send out love across the waters and lands for all. A peak day for International Children’s Month and our free year long thematic activity platform International Children Love Self Love and Cooperation 2018.
Dear Peace-making, Peace-building, and Peace-keeping Friends of All Souls Church and beyond,
For the past 37 years, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area has been organizing for the abolition of nuclear weapons and power, and in support of nuclear victims. We believe that if the world is to avoid repeating the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must strive to keep alive the memory of the bombings. This August we again will commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While we will not have our traditionally provided Hibakusha guests from Japan this August, instead, this summer we welcome Reverend William H. Lamar IV, Senior Pastor at Metropolitan AME Church and an activist in the New Poor People’s Campaign. Reverend Lamar was recently arrested at the Supreme Court protesting against unjust voting laws. He will speak about the links between the issues of racism, poverty, militarism, and ecological devastation and the threat of nuclear annihilation. In addition, Reverend Rob Hardies, Senior Minister of All Souls Church will speak to his, and All Souls Church’s activism in relationship with the Japanese Survivors, our Japanese Partnerships, and our congregational activism in nuclear weapons abolition.
Reverend Lamar will be joined by Martin Fleck, program director for the Physicians for Social responsibility Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program and by Diane A’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. They will discuss current issues concerning nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
This August, HN-DC leadership team member, John Steinbach, will represent the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon his return, we will host him in discussions of his contemporary findings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The website of The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area is located on the Web at John’s speech will be posted on the website.
Please make every effort to attend one of the Commemoration activities, and please forward this announcement as widely as possible.
Details of the DC Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorializing events are as follows:
2018 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Calendar with Hibakusha & Downwinder Testimonies
Hiroshima Peace Commemoration
Sunday, August 5, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall
There will be a moment of silence at 7:15pm to commemorate the Hiroshima catastrophe (exactly 13 hours before memorializing the detonation in Hiroshima)
Nagasaki Candlelight Vigil
Wednesday, August 8, 9:45 pm
White House (Lafayette Park)
Moment’s Silence at 10:02, sharing of thoughts for peace. Candlelight Vigil (exactly 13 hours before memorializing the detonation in Nagasaki)
For more information, contact Kio Kanda: 571-319-6688 or Mel Hardy 202-630-4635
In cooperation with the WE-Energime-Global Cooperation Turtle Island International Civil Society Organization and in support of peaceful interfaith dialogue, especially in light of Laudato Si, the recent message from Pope Francis on “Care for Mother Earth”, Drawdown Markham will be assisting Global Cooperation Day (GCD, New Zealand) to Celebrate the 800 year Anniversary (in 2019) of the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al Kamil in the year 1219 by planting a *Commemorative Tree of Peace* on a property in the East end of Markham (Locust Hill) on Sunday, September 15th.
This event is being done in support of the DD Markham CCAH Collaborative Exchange Project (CEP) and the “Spark for Humanity” project by We Are Mother Earth! (WAME) and GTI Enterprises (cooperative corporation), and for the eventual establishment of our “Go Local” Campaign for community resilience and adaptation, supported by our local Drawdown Markham Interfaith Neighborhood and Business Collaborative (which is part of the EncounterCanada collaborative, which is intended “to localize the Sustainable Development Goals to build ‘Climate Smart’ safe and sustainable communities and cities, pursuant to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction”).
“Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values, and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.” Principle 14 – Earth Charter
“Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.” SDG4
Are you interested in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)? With this online programme you can achieve deeper knowledge, skills, and abilities in ESD and be a certified Earth Charter Educator. This is a unique training opportunity offered under the framework UNESCO Chair on ESD with the Earth Charter and provides a space for transformative learning that responds to the educational needs of today.