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Hear the radio spot on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War

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Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace Pittsburghers are invited to participate During the months of August and September, a project with a series of events combining art, education and activism to increase awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons and to promote action to prevent nuclear war, abolish nuclear weapons and work for peace. With participation of numerous Pittsburgh organizations: including the American Friends service Committee-PA Program, ArtUp, the Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh, GSPIA, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the Thomas Merton Center, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), the Western PA Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; as well as individuals. For more information click here
August 2008: Month for a Nuclear Free Future To Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki & To Call for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons AUGUST 6 • WEDNESDAY • NOON Anniversary of the 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima A HAPPENING WITH FLASH MOB To recognize the victims of atomic war by tracing their shadows along with the the message "Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace" Join us -- Wear black. Bring an Umbrella. Be part of a public art event, beginning at the Federal Building (Grant & Liberty) -------- AUGUST 9 • SATURDAY • 2:00 P.M. Anniversary of the 1945 Atomic bombing of Nagasaki GATHERING FOR PEACE: FROM NAGASAKI TO FALLUJAH Comments, silent vigil, music, poetry reading and street theater 4500 Fifth Avenue, Oakland (across from St. Paul's Cathedral) (for more information email us or call 724-339-4279) -------- AUGUST 5 • TUESDAY • 10:00 A.M. A proclamation will be issued by the Pittsburgh City Council calling for nuclear abolition and recognizing Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace in City Council Chambers	September 2008: Month of peace Exhibition: opening will be Friday, September 5th, from 5:30 to 9:00 and the exhibit will run through September 26 -- Posters from the The Hiroshima Nagasaki A-bomb Photo Poster Exhibition. to be displayed along with art by Japanese children and local artists, at the 709 Penn Gallery. Film festival: "Nuclear Sundays" – every Sunday night at 8pm beginning September 7 at 8:00 pm at the Regent Square Theater. • September 7: Dr. Strangelove (1964) • September 14: Barefoot Gen (1983) • September 21: Thirteen days (2000) • September 28: Godjira (1954) Children’s Museum: Peaceful Saturdays. These will involve making origami cranes, floating lanterns, yoga with Myrna Patterson and other activities. The second Saturday (September 13) will be a workshop with Dr. Ronni Alexander author of the children’s book Popoki, What Color is Peace. September 15: lecture, at Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, by Dr. Ronni Alexander from Kobe University, Japan. Concluding events: • September 26: Presentation by a hibakusha, Ms. Sachiko Masuoka, joined by Dr. Yuki Miyamoto, an assistant professor at De Paul University in Chicago and a second-generation survivor Location to be announced • September 27, 4:00 p.m.: Concluding event involving the display of cranes and floating lanterns at Lake Elizabeth, the small lake on the North Side. • September 28: final film of the festival (see above)
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PROMOTING SMART SECURITY PLATFORM

For more than a year since Physicians for Social Responsibility and others have promulgated the SMART SECURITY PLATFORM, it has been promoted nationally by endorsement of many organizations, and locally in the Pittsburgh area by presentations to civic groups and by petitions. This is consonant with Congressman John Murtha's recent declaration that the United States should "......terminate the deployment of U.S. forces in Iraq.." and "....pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy."

Adoption and implementation of these ideas by any present or future U.S. Congress and Administration will make us safer from the dangers of terrorism. Please contact us if you want to help or learn more about this campaign.

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-- With no plausible enemy after the Cold War, the U.S. Administration's Pentagon budget is $441 billion for 2006 ------ more than all other nations combined, more than the Cold War annual average, and more than four times greater than the combined budgets of all potential enemies combined -- Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

-- despite no successful realistic interception test since its beginnings in the 1960s, and the expert scientific opinion that a successful ballistic missile defense (BMD) cannot be produced, the United States has spent more than $150 billion since inception, and the present administration has installed a so-called BMD sytem in Alaska costing $10-11 annually.