Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki

The world still has 27,000 nuclear weapons, many still on hair trigger alert and more than enough to destroy the human race.

Although 187 nations, including our own, agreed at the 2000 UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference to take Thirteen Practical Steps toward the abolition of nuclear wopans, the US Administration now says that these steps are not in our national intererst.

The World Court in 1996 declared both the use and the threat of use of nuclear weapons illegal.

The US refused to let other nations even set an agenda at the NPT treaty Conference in 2005. This is identified as the major reason for the Conference's collapse and lack of forward progress.

1,403 Mayors around the world have joined the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, including Mayors of Portland, Ashland, Eugene, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Salt Lake City, Cleveland, Atlanta and more.

Support demonstrations at the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, WA which reportedly now has 1,998 nuclear weapons, almost certainly the largest concentration in the world.

Stop Bechtel and other corporations involved in nuclear war profiteering, Go to www.august6.org for a fact sheet and a list of ways to protest against Bechtel.

Join efforts to stop funding for new nuclear weapons. Join an organization working for the abolition of nuclear weapons such as www.disarm.org.

Most importantly, talk to your kids. Encourage them to question authority, empower their lives with action, encourage and educate while realizing they have much to teach us as well.

But most of all remember...