Hiroshima Day Rally on Saturday 8 August

Hiroshima Day Rally on Saturday 8 August, 1pm State Library, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia.

Steven Starr, a visiting scientist from the US will be joined by Dave Sweeney of the ACF and Felicity Hill from WILPF on the speakers’ platform. 

Hiroshima Day Rally on Saturday 8 August, 1pm State Library, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia.

Steven Starr, a visiting scientist from the US will be joined by Dave Sweeney of the ACF and Felicity Hill from WILPF on the speakers’ platform. 

Sixty four years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Australian Government is rushing headlong into a nuclear nightmare.

The recent announcement by Environment Minister Garrett of a new uranium mine in South Australia to be operated by Heathgate Resources, a subsiduary of General Atomics a major US arms company puts an end for once and for all to the rhetoric of Australian uranium being used for ‘peaceful purposes’.

Japanese for Peace will be holding their annual Hiroshima Day peace Concert
after the Rally at 3.00 pm in the State Library.

 

 

A Concert to raise funds for the Rally will be held on Hiroshima Day, Thursday 6 August at 6.00 pm at the Bella Union in Trades Hall on the corner of Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton