Nuclear Holocaust
Peace Pilgrims
August 4 – August 11, 2018

Saturday, August 4: Lexington, MA (Leave at 1 PM) – Hanscom Airforce Base

*Hanscom Airforce is a home to Nuclear Command Control, and Communications (NC3) Integration Directorate and Program Executive Officer (PEO). The NC3 PEO will oversee the acquisition and integration of a complex system of land, air, and space Technology Programs that assures connectivity and communications between senior forces. It will not house actual weapons.

Sunday, August 5: North Amherst, MA – Leverette, MA Peace Pagoda

*Hiroshima Ceremony

Monday, August 6: Brattleboro, VT – Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, VT

*The VT Nuclear power plant was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont. It is closed, but is still in the process of being decommissioned. Nuclear waste still remains at the site

Tuesday, August 7: Woodford, VT – Bennington, VT – Hoosick, NY

Wednesday, August 8: Ballston Spa, NY – West Milton, NY (Kenneth A. Kesselring Site) – Saratoga Springs, NY

*The Kenneth A. Kesselring Site is a Naval training facility teaching nuclear Officers and Enlisted personnel how to operate the United States Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines

Thursday, August 9; Nagasaki Day Action: 7 AM Peace Vigil @ Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), Niskayuna, NY – walk to Troy, NY

*Knolls Atomic Laboratory is a nuclear facility that engineers and designs Naval submarine nuclear propulsion weapons/systems

Friday, August 10: Grafton Peace Pagoda preparation for Ceremony; walk (TBD)

Saturday, August 11: Grafton Town Square (6:30 PM) – Grafton Peace Pagoda
8PM Hiroshima Nagasaki Day – 73rd Commemoration Ceremony

Before Peace Walk Contact Grafton Peace Pagoda: (518) 658-9301
For information during the walk, please call Rose: (201) 956-5702 or Alex: (518) 605-3929
You may also email: NeighborsWalkingForPeace@gmail.com

 

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Hiroshima Nagasaki Day 2018

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Hiroshima Nagasaki Day – 73rd Commemoration Ceremony
Grafton Peace Pagoda
Saturday August 11, 2018

Forever Renounce War – Create a Nuclear Free World
Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo

6:30 PM walk from Grafton Town Square to Peace Pagoda (4.3 miles)

8:00 PM Program of Peace:
Speakers/Poem Reading
Ceremonial Lighting of Lanterns
Interfaith Prayer
Musical Offerings

Rain or shine. Please wear weather-appropriate clothes and bring a flashlight and insect repellant. You may also want a blanket

Contact Grafton Peace Pagoda for more info
Phone: (518) 658-9301; Address: 87 Crandall Rd, Petersburg, NY 12138

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