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Hiroshima Day Coalition
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posted 21 July 2005 10:34 AM      Profile for Hiroshima Day Coalition   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post
mark your calendars for August 6th!
MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS POSTING:
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and visit the link for the latest info

CALLS for PARTICIPATION
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we're also calling for ARTISTS & COMMUNITY GROUPS to create and perform works about peace & disarmament, conflict resolution or multiculturalism on the main stage.
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Wilf Day
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posted 30 July 2005 11:02 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Hiroshima Day Events in Ottawa, Hamilton, Saskatoon, Victoria, Windsor, Guelph, Halifax, Charlottetown, and Powell River are noted here.

Vancouver's is on Friday evening, August 5 (August 6 Japan time.)

In Wolfville, Nova Scotia, last month the school newsletter said:

quote:
Come and join the Valley Children’s Peace Chorus for a performance at a Hiroshima Day Peace Ceremony at Willow Park on Saturday, August 6 at 8:20 p.m. A film will be shown at St. Andrew’s United church, 329 Main Street, Wolfville, while youth make Japanese Lanterns before proceeding to the Duck Pond for the ceremony at dusk. Singers age 6 – 13 are welcome.

In Sydney, the Cape Breton Regional Municipal Council unanimously declared August 6, 2005, an 'Official Day of Remembrance.'

Toronto has an excellent site on Hiroshima Day.

I would ask the first posters to change the title of the thread. I see no reason to limit Hiroshima Day to the GTA. Or should the 83% of us "beyond the GTA" start a different thread?

More on Windsor's event.

I've failed to find Montreal's. Lagatta?

Port Hope always has a small gathering in a park to remember our special responsibility. The uranium dropped on Hiroshima was mined at Port Radium on Great Bear Lake and refined in Port Hope.
The Globe and Mail today says Munitions Minister C. D. Howe boasted in a public statement:

quote:
"It is a particular pleasure for me to announce that Canadian scientists and Canadian institutions have played an intimate part and have been associated in an effective way with this great scientific development."

For those who don't know C.D. Howe, the "Minister of Everything" was an American who came to Canada as a young engineer and ended up running the Liberal government in "a personal style that was described as no-nonsense, even authoritarian." He was defeated in 1957 by CCF candidate Doug Fisher, who went on to become Tommy Douglas' Deputy Leader from 1963 to 1965.

[ 30 July 2005: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]


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ItsMrAHole2U
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posted 01 August 2005 12:45 AM      Profile for ItsMrAHole2U     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
So, we've got people wanted to "celebrate" Hiroshima Day.

Why no "Auschwitz Day"?

My guess? American's didn't perpetrate the Auschwitz slaughter. And, it's more fun to beat up on Americans.


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Cueball
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posted 01 August 2005 12:48 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
On what day did Auschwitz happen?
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ItsMrAHole2U
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posted 01 August 2005 12:55 AM      Profile for ItsMrAHole2U     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by Cueball:
On what day did Auschwitz happen?

Weak dodge, dude.

Choose any day to "celebrate" it. But, the fact remains that there is no hand wringing about the atrocities committed by the Germans...just the Americans (the worst people on the planet, no doubt).


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Cueball
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posted 01 August 2005 12:57 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
You been here five minutes and you make this diagnosis. I guess that is probably about how long you take to do an exam when your working in your butcher shop.
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Cueball
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posted 01 August 2005 12:59 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Buchewald thread -- 60th anniversary -- now go back to the rock you crawled out from under.
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ItsMrAHole2U
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posted 01 August 2005 12:59 AM      Profile for ItsMrAHole2U     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by Cueball:
You been here five minutes and you make this diagnosis. I guess that is probably about how long you take to do an exam when your working in your butcher shop.

"...when your working..."??? Where did you go to school?

I've been reading rabble and babble for a long time...


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Cueball
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posted 01 August 2005 01:00 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Then how did you miss the Buchewald thread yah moron?
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M. Spector
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posted 01 August 2005 02:22 AM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by ItsMrAHole2U:
I've been reading rabble and babble for a long time...
It was much better when you were just lurking.

Your sole mission at Babble seems to be to dissuade Canadians from thinking that the USA is a nation of knuckle-dragging morons.

So far, it's a big failure.


From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged
Michelle
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posted 01 August 2005 08:51 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I really should rethink that whole "sleeping at night" thing. He's gone, so let's quit answering him now.
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Wilf Day
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posted 03 August 2005 11:58 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Are there really no more Hiroshima Day events to report?
quote:
Originally posted by Wilf Day:
I've failed to find Montreal's. Lagatta?

Hiroshima Day Events in Ottawa, Hamilton, Saskatoon, Victoria, Windsor, Guelph, Halifax, Charlottetown, and Powell River are noted here.

Vancouver's is on Friday evening, August 5 (August 6 Japan time.)



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M. Spector
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posted 03 August 2005 01:23 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Montreal and Hiroshima are Sister Cities.

Surely there will be something going on in Montreal??

[ 05 August 2007: Message edited by: M. Spector ]


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