Nuclear awareness town hall

IN PERSON

The Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Committee will engage in its 39th annual remembrance of the 1945 atomic bombing on August 6 of Hiroshima and on August 9 of Nagasaki. The groups involved in the Commemoration Committee are the Baltimore club of CPUSA, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, First & St Stephen’s United Church of Christ, Homewood Friends Meeting, Maryland Peace Action and Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland.

On August 6, a 7th Congressional District (home of Rep. Kweisi Mfume) Nuclear War Awareness Town Hall will be held at Homewood Friends Meeting, starting at 6 PM with a commemoration vigil outside the meetinghouse. The event will then move inside, and at 7 PM, participants will be informed of Baltimore’s long history of anti-nuclear weapons endeavors. Organizations will be encouraged to make a statement about the threat created by these weapons of mass destruction.