Rally for Peace and a Nuclear Free Future!
The Hiroshima Day March was about saying no to no uranium mining, no war and no nuclear weapons! In protest people rallied for peace and a nuclear free future at the State Library on Saturday 9th August, 2008 at 1 pm. This is in support and tribute of the many lives that were lost unnecessarily in 1945, when the US Military force dropped bombs on Hiroshima City and three days later on Nagasaki in Japan, resulting in the deaths of over 200,000 people and the serious injury of many more. The consequences of the US governments decision to do this has, had drastic worldwide ramifications which we still have to deal with today. The campaign has many who support that abolishment of nuclear activity, some who showed up was Friends of the Earth, Melbourne, Socialist Alternative; Socialist Alliance Resistence and Unity for Peace and the Refugee Action Collective. There were perhaps about 7 stalls of campaign organizations, petitioning against nuclear weapons. The march ended at the Melbourne Town Hall where a campaign group the Japanese of Peace, ended the march with a peace festival between 3 – 5 pm at Melbourne Town hall, with acoustic music and dance.
The Nuclear Free Australia rally for peace was an exciting day and NFA invited many who marched the streets of Melbourne carrying red flags. Some of the highlights were the many guest speakers. Michaela Stubbs from Friends of the Earth Melbourne; Victorian Greens of MLC Southern Metropolitan Region and Ben Peterson of the Melbourne Stop War Coalition, were some of the rally speakers who voiced their concerns.
A media ensemble gathered as well as many among the police. The protest was peaceful with no disruptions from anyone, except that the State Library told the campaigners that they were not allowed to stick posters on the marble statutes. The whole campaign took 3 hours, where I assisted the NUCS set up and shut down, their stall, hold the banner as a backdrop behind the stall and the speakers on the steps and assisted in cleaning the grounds of the library of rubbish and posters off their property. I also handed flyers out at the peace festival advertising the NUCS comedy benefit in September.
The Hiroshima Day March was about saying no to no uranium mining, no war and no nuclear weapons! In protest people rallied for peace and a nuclear free future at the State Library on Saturday 9th August, 2008 at 1 pm. This is in support and tribute of the many lives that were lost unnecessarily in 1945, when the US Military force dropped bombs on Hiroshima City and three days later on Nagasaki in Japan, resulting in the deaths of over 200,000 people and the serious injury of many more. The consequences of the US governments decision to do this has, had drastic worldwide ramifications which we still have to deal with today. The campaign has many who support that abolishment of nuclear activity, some who showed up was Friends of the Earth, Melbourne, Socialist Alternative; Socialist Alliance Resistence and Unity for Peace and the Refugee Action Collective. There were perhaps about 7 stalls of campaign organizations, petitioning against nuclear weapons. The march ended at the Melbourne Town Hall where a campaign group the Japanese of Peace, ended the march with a peace festival between 3 – 5 pm at Melbourne Town hall, with acoustic music and dance.
The Nuclear Free Australia rally for peace was an exciting day and NFA invited many who marched the streets of Melbourne carrying red flags. Some of the highlights were the many guest speakers. Michaela Stubbs from Friends of the Earth Melbourne; Victorian Greens of MLC Southern Metropolitan Region and Ben Peterson of the Melbourne Stop War Coalition, were some of the rally speakers who voiced their concerns.
A media ensemble gathered as well as many among the police. The protest was peaceful with no disruptions from anyone, except that the State Library told the campaigners that they were not allowed to stick posters on the marble statutes. The whole campaign took 3 hours, where I assisted the NUCS set up and shut down, their stall, hold the banner as a backdrop behind the stall and the speakers on the steps and assisted in cleaning the grounds of the library of rubbish and posters off their property. I also handed flyers out at the peace festival advertising the NUCS comedy benefit in September.
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