The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) will host a 66th anniversary commemoration of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings on Tuesday, Aug. 9, in Princeton.
The event will begin with a bring-your-own picnic at 6 p.m. (no alcoholic beverages permitted), followed by the program at 7 p.m. Both are planned at the Woodrow Wilson School Plaza, located just off Washington Road (Route 571) near the intersection with Prospect Street.
In the event of rain, the picnic will be canceled, but the program will be held at 7 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall, which houses the Woodrow Wilson School.
The program includes speakers who will share personal stories and knowledge regarding nuclear disasters and the goal of global abolition of nuclear weapons.
ýPage=004 Column=001 OK,0000.00þ Some of those speakers are Tatania Alcantra, a survivor of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; Shiho Burke, the daughter of a Hiroshima bombing survivor; Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, a physics professor at Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan; and Dr. Zia Mian, a physicist lecturer and researcher at Princeton University.
The Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council will provide music.
The program will conclude around 8:30 p.m., as darkness falls, with participants floating candles on the fountain to commemorate the estimated 200,000 civilians who died from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
For further information, visit CFPA’s web site, www.peacecoalition.org, or call their office at (609) 924-5022.
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