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County WAND: August 2005
Lane
County WAND remembers Hiroshima with Shadow Project
The
Shadow project took place in multiple cities around
the world and in 8 Oregon cities on August 5, 2005.
These public art projects remind us that the
U.S. invented, developed, and is the only country
to have ever used an atomic weapon in war.
The
bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 80,000 people outright
and another 60,000 by the end of 1945. Estimates of
the number of people killed in Nagasaki range from
100,000 to 140,000 by the end of 1945. This project
reminds us of the consequences of using nuclear weapons.
We have an obligation to keep that memory alive and
to create public pressure for a change in our current
national policy.
Bruce
Gagnon, coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons
& Nuclear Power in Space, signs his book Come
Together Right Now. WAND sponsored a potluck
dinner prior to his lecture, The Battle for America's
Soul.
Shadow
Project coordinator, Pam Garrison, with her daughter-in-law
and grandchildren at the Eugene Public Library.
Lane
Co. WAND media coordinator, Aria Seligmann, creates
a shadow at the Saturday Market
