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Working from the great state of Oregon to advance the cause of nuclear disarmament and abolition

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white paper with a background of colorful paper cranes. Text - Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial, Japanese American Historical Plaza, Portland OR - Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 6pm-7pm - Never again: Art Speaks where words fail - art's enduring protest 80 years later never again: art speaks where words fail - art's enduring protest 80 years later. This year marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As we reflect on this solemn anniversary, we invite you to join the hiroshima and nagasaki planning committee for our annual memorial event honoring the lives lost, the survivors (Hibakusha), and the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons. Never again: art speaks where words fail - art's enduring protest 80 years later highlights the role of art as an enduring protest - telling stories, expressing grief, and inspiring action when words alone cannot. The memorial will feature local speakers, artists, and performers including: performers - portland taiko, dr. linda tamura, BRAVO youth orchestra quartet, tod yuzuriha, tsubaki byo doukoukai, emily washines, chisao hata. We are incredibly tahankful to the current sponsors of the 2025 Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorial: columbia riverkeeper, japanese american museum of oregon, japanese ancestrial society, multnomah meeting of friends, oregon hiroshima club, oregon jewish museum and center for holocaust education, oregon physicians for social responsbility, peace and justice team of all saints episocap church vancouver, portalnd japanese american citizens league, veterans for peace PDX, west hills friends, women's international league for peace and freedom- PDX
August 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Visit the Hiroshima Peace Museum exhibit at the Corvallis Museum, now til Aug. 10 (closed Mon and Tues; always free for OSU students w/ID card). There's a commemoration at 6:30pm Aug. 6 at Howland Plaza @ First St. & Madison Ave & an all ages "Family Peace Day", 1-3 pm Aug. 9 at the Corvallis Museum
Three public events in Corvallis commemorate the 80th year since the atomic bombings of Japan. A Hiroshima Nagasaki Exhibit from the Hiroshima Peace Museum will be on display with art by local artist The Mandala Lady, at the Corvallis Museum July 26- August 10, 2025 (museum is closed M and Tu). Wed. August 6, 2025 the annual Corvallis Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration starts at 6:30 pm, Howland Plaza, 1st and Madison. From 6:30 to 7 join us for traditional Koto music by Masumi Timson, displays, and origami. Program begins at 7 pm featuring the Corvallis Mayor; Rev. Dr. Kelly Wadsworth of the National Board of Veterans for Peace and Pastor of Salem Westminster Presbyterian Church; and music by Halie Loren, internationally known singer and songwriter. The program closes with a community affirmation for peace and a flotilla on the river. Bring all ages on Saturday, August 9 from 1 to 3 pm for a Family Peace Day at the Corvallis Museum! Music by the Corvallis Peace and Justice Singalong with story telling of "Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes," origami peace crane folding, and movement by Universal Dances of Peace with a responsive art project in the museum. All events are free and open to the public. An ongoing fundraiser for this year's exhibit and future Commemorations is ongoing at the Corvallis Museum. Sponsors also include Our Revolution Corvallis Allies, Corvallis Interfaith Network, KORC FM 105.9, Veterans for Peace Linus Pauling Chapter , Corvallis Interfaith Network , Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center , and OSU School of History, Philosophy and Religion. For accommodations or for more information, linda.richards@oregonstate.edu.
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear weapon was detonated. The code name for the test was Trinity.

Today, more than 12,300 nuclear weapons exist, & peer reviewed research shows that a nuclear exchange of less than 3% of that could lead to the deaths of billions.

No one wins a nuclear war.
Photograph taken by Jack Aeby - the only color photograph of the Trinity nuclear test. Text: 80 years ago today the first nuclear weapon was detonated. They do not make us safer. They must never be used again. Nuclear Abolition Now
July 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Some additional essays (among countless others) we'd like to point your attention to cover many topics ranging from women in the anti-nuclear movement in the pacific islands, women and historical nuclear protests, and women in the UK protesting the nuclear program.
A picket mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire. Photo by Edward Barber in 1982. Shows a woman sitting beside a road, a parked bicycle to her side, she is sittin in a folding lawn chair with a door mat under her feet, her legs crossed at the knee, and to her side is a large peace sign. A protest sign beside her, in large letters, reads 'Hello can you stop for a talk?'
May 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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May 24th is International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament. Take a moment to check out feminist peacebuilding orgs like @wilpf.bsky.social and read about gender and disarmament from @rcw-wilpf.bsky.social and gender & nuclear weapons from @nuclearban.bsky.social
Text reads nuclear abolition now across the top and international women's day for peace and disarmament across the middle with the date May 24 along the bottom. Behind the text is the profile of three people facing off to the side, the are each in a single color, one blue, one pink, one green, those colors are also used as shadowed text for the nuclear abolition now title.
May 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Image is a flyer. Top of flyer shows two goats eating while in metal restraints. Text reads: Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon state univesity. "Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age" Dr. Hamblin is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects. Tuesday May 6 2025 4:00pm -5:30 pm - Lillis Hall 112 - This is the third event in the series anti-nuclear research and activism in the US and Japan. For more information contact - Rachel DiNitto: rdinitto@uoregon.edu Sponsored by college of arts & sciences, school of global studies & languages, and Oregon Humanities center
April 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Demon Mineral has been rescheduled for February 24, 2025 at 530 pm (with discussion at 7pm). For more info (including remote discussion access) see: nuclearabolition.now/demonmineral-rescheduled
Poster for a film screening and discussion on "Demon Mineral" about uranium mining impacts, scheduled for Feb. 24, 2025, at 5:30 pm, hosted by Oregon State University. Remote access available.
February 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Background image: nuclear explosion mushroom cloud. Text: On Tuesday night, the U.S. will test an intercontinental ballistic missile. It's time to end the nuclear age. Organize to reduce the risk of nuclear war at defusenuclearwar.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Unmaking the Bomb - guest lecture from Dr. Shannon Cram at the @uoregon.bsky.social , Lillis 111, Feb 19, 4-5:30 pm.

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Flyer for an event. Shows the cover of a book called Unmaking the bomb: environmental cleanup and the politics of impossibility - Professor Shannon Cram, University of Washington Bothell. Dr. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. She will talk about her new, award-winning book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which blends history, ethnography, and memoir, as she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Sponsored by: College of arts & Sciences, School of global studies and languages, oregon humanities center. At the bottom text: This is the second of four events in the series anti-nuclear research and activism in the US and Japan. For more information, contact Rachel Dinitto: Rdinitto@uoregon.edu Wednesday February 19, 2025. 4:00pm - 5:30pm Lillis 111 The bottom corner shows Dr. Cram, smiling with a black shirt and a green scarf.
February 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Film screening in Corvallis tomorrow night at the kaku-ixt mana ina haws of Demon Mineral. The film documents the Indigenous struggle for vital living space in the radioactive desert of the American Southwest - a landscape perforated by abandoned uranium mines.

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Flier for movie Demon Mineral (image is starry background with a piece of Uranium in the middle). Text: Presented by Indigenous Studies and the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion Film Screening & Discussion Feb. 13, 2025 at 5pm at the kaku-ixt mana ina haws. Join us for a screening of the film Demon Mineral followed by a post screening discussion about the continued impacts of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation. Remote access to the discussion only available by registering at: https://beav.es/GrL instructions for remote film access provided upon registration. This event is part two to the 2024-2025 Indigenous Studies film series about extraction on Native lands. Attendees are encouraged to watch Life Over Lithium (part one) before attending this screening. Contact luhui.whitebear@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-7831 for questions, accommodations related to disabilities, and information on how to view Life Over Lithium.
February 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM