Minneapolis, MN
On Hiroshima anniversary, Minneapolis says no to nuclear war
Twin Cities mark Hiroshima anniversary and says no to nuclear battle.
(Battle Again! Information/Kim DeFranco)
Minneapolis, MN – Round 75 folks rallied on August 6 to commemorate the lethal U.S. atomic bombings of Japan throughout World Warfare II and to name for an finish to U.S. wars and provocations that threaten nuclear battle within the current. Activists lined busy Lake Avenue with indicators and banners whereas chanting anti-war slogans and delivering speeches.
77 years earlier, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. warplane Enola Homosexual detonated a nuclear bomb over the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, U.S. forces detonated one other nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. Comprising the one makes use of in historical past of nuclear weapons in an armed battle, the 2 assaults killed an estimated 129,000 to 226,000 folks, nearly solely civilians. The anniversaries of the bombings have been commemorated by peace activists world wide ever since.
On the Minneapolis rally, activists highlighted the renewed risk of nuclear battle stemming from ongoing imperialist U.S. international insurance policies.
Kent Mori is an organizer with the Japanese-American social justice group Tsuru for Solidarity in addition to the Twin Cities-based Local weather Justice Committee. “Since no less than 2014, the U.S. and NATO have been meddling in Ukraine, scary that authorities to function a proxy to struggle Russia. This proxy battle does not serve the pursuits of the Ukrainian folks, solely U.S. and NATO aggression. And it brings us nearer to the potential for nuclear battle,” Mori defined.
“The U.S. navy can also be the most important single organizational supply of greenhouse gases,” he added. “You can say U.S. aggression and imperialism is local weather change in motion.”
John LaForge, co-director of the Wisconsin-based peace and environmental justice group Nukewatch, additionally spoke on the rally. “Rehearsals for assaults on Russia by NATO forces contain nuclear battle rehearsals,” he stated. “The NATO workout routines apply with weighted dummies to apply nuclear battle assaults on Russia regularly – rehearsing and making ready for nuclear weapons use on Russian territory.”
The occasion was referred to as by the Minnesota Peace Motion Coalition, and endorsed by Antiwar Advocates of Minnesota Congressional District 2, Anti-Warfare Committee, Freedom Street Socialist Group, Mayday Books, Minneapolis-St. Paul Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, Minnesota Warfare Tax Resistance, Motion 4 A Peoples Democracy, Nukewatch, Occasion for Socialism and Liberation – Minneapolis, Occasion of Communists USA, St. Joan of Arc Peacemakers, St. Paul Eastside Neighbors for Peace, Socialist Motion, Socialist Occasion USA – Twin Cities Native, Twin Cities Assange Protection, Veterans for Peace Chapter 27, Welfare Rights Committee, and Ladies In opposition to Navy Insanity.
