hiroshima nagasaki

Join Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine’s Hiroshima Day Gathering in Bangor.

National Capital Area Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration invites us at 9:45 pm, the moment (in local time) the bomb went off, we will gather at the White House Antinuclear Vigil for the annual candlelight vigil to remember Nagasaki. 

Join a Solemn Procession to remind our community of the horrors of nuclear war and the hope that comes from working together to prevent it. Sponsored by Syracuse Peace Council.

Screening of the award winning documentary ‘Apparition: The Tomiko West Story’, a survivor’s story of Hiroshima. Director Michael Dwyer will discuss his film. Sponsored by Syracuse Peace Council.

Annual joint commemoration of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima with haiku poetry writing, origami crane creation and drawing your hopes for peace, followed by reading of haikus. Sponsored by Peace Action of Staten Island and the Unitarian Church of Staten Island.

Program of peace with lantern ceremony, interfaith prayer, and music. Sponsored by Grafton Peace Pagoda.

Silent procession followed by invocation, speakers, and music. Sponsored by South Country Peace Group.

Peace Action Bay Ridge will distribute literature outside the 86th Street R train station in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Presentation of the documentary “The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons”, followed by Toro Nagashi (Paper Lantern Ceremony). Sponsored by Hudson Valley Park.