Hiroshima Day
Tavistock Square, London. Sun 6 Aug 2018
Raised Voices peace choir sings
Cllr Maryam Eslamdoust, Camden Deputy Mayor
Nobuhiko Ono, Japan Against Nuclear & CND
with Godzilla, the monster from the 1954 Japanese movie about coping
with nuclear tragedies, on his shoulder
A creative dance performance about Hiroshima
Rebecca Johnson founder of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
and founding co-chair of ICAN,
2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate holds up a copy of the UN Treaty
On The Prohibition Of Nuclear Weapons
Rev Gyoro Nagase, Buddhist monk, from the Battersea Peace Pagoda,
drums a prayer
A statement from today's commemoration in Hiroshima is read (in English)
Bruce Kent speaks
People lay flowers at the Hiroshima cherry tree, planted in 1967 by
the then Mayor of Camden, Millie Miller
Millie Miller's son lays the wreath for the current mayor of Camden
An activist from Scotland urges people to come and join their protests
there
People pose for pictures with the flowers that have been laid
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