Sunday August 6 – 7:00 pm Omni Center
Omni and our predecessors have held Hiroshima Nagasaki commemorations since 1971, but covid caused a deep cleft in our practice. For the first time in 3 years Omni will be hosting an event to honor the deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and remind ourselves of the terrible consequences of using weapons of mass destruction. It’s especially relevant as nuclear nations are facing off over the Ukraine war and multiple other hotspots around the globe.
Covid isn’t the only big change that’s happened though. Climate change has caused a near-certain increase in August temperatures that make our long-standing tradition of meeting at the Fulbright Peace Fountain difficult, so we’re renewing our tradition of commemoration in a new way.
This year the commemoration will feature a chef-prepared dinner from thegifted chef’s who operate MayDay Community Kitchen. This year the commemoration will include a fundraiser to benefit this great Omni project that feeds over 100 homeless people twice a week.
It will also include talks by Marshallese leader, activist and international speaker Benetick Maddison, and Physicist and writer on both nuclear and climate issuesDr. Art Hobson. And attenders will be moved and inspired by music from Still on the Hill, as we often are at this particular event.
Because we’re meeting inside at Omni there isn’t room for the number of people we used to host at the Fulbright Fountain. Very soon we’ll put out an invitation with requests for RSVP’s and more information. The suggested donation for the dinner will be only $20, but there is room for just 20-25 people. So please make reservations early.
It will be inspiring just to be together again. I hope the dear Omni folks who attended this event for many years will want to join us for this commemoration of the resilience of the living people who experience this, and their courage under the duress of nuclear war.