Carolyn's Community » Hiroshima http://tucsoncitizen.com/community Our sense of group togetherness and "community" in Tucson Thu, 23 May 2013 15:46:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2011/08/01/remember-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-fukushima/ http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2011/08/01/remember-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-fukushima/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:25:47 +0000 Carolyn Classen http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/?p=2537

Remember the victims of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the 2011 victims of Fukushima!

Join us for a Memorial Program and Vigil

on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Quaker Meeting House

931 North 5th Avenue (south of Speedway Blvd.)

6:00 p.m.

Program features Russell Lowes, director for SafeEnergyAnalyst.com and lead author of “Energy Options for the Southwest, Nuclear and Coal Power”, speaking on Nuclear weapons and Nuclear power, Lea Goodwine, speaking of her personal memories of visiting Hiroshima, and music by the Tucson Raging Grannies.

Following the program, attendees are invited to walk to Speedway Boulevard
and 4th Avenue for a short candlelight vigil. Please bring signs, flashlights and candles.

Sponsored by:

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Pima Friends’ Meeting (Quaker)

Physicians for Social Responsibility

The Arizona Peace Council

Veterans for Peace

Code Pink Women in Black

The Green Party

The Nuclear Resister

For more information contact Margaret Pecoraro, 520-885-3908, margaretspiano@aol.com.

]]> http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2011/08/01/remember-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-fukushima/feed/ 1 Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-to-all-mothers/ http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-to-all-mothers/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 14:42:53 +0000 Carolyn Classen http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/?p=739 Today is the day set aside in America to honor mothers and celebrate motherhood. There is nothing so rewarding as to give birth to a child and successfully raise that biological child to adulthood. I was blessed with that experience– but we should also honor mothers of adoptive and foster children as well, who take on the huge responsibility of nurturing and raising a non-biological child(ren).

Today I am cherishing the memories of my two deceased grandmothers, both courageous and strong immigrant women who left Japan by boat, to immigrate (legally) to Hawaii. They faced language difficulties, extreme poverty and grueling field work as indentured servants on the tropical sugar plantations, having lots of children (some who predeceased them), racism, alcoholic husbands and domestic violence, outliving those husbands, etc. And both women were barely five feet tall! One grandmother had eight children, and the other had six, two who grew up in Japan with relatives.

But they gave all of us Sansei (3rd generation), Yonsei (4th), Gosei (5th), etc. a better life in America. And we are grateful for that.

So today I am honoring my grandmothers Tai (aka Dai) Nakamaru Sugiyama from Hiroshima, and Chiyo Katahira Koseki from Sendai. Chiyo lived to 80, and Tai to 97.

Honor the accomplishments and strengths of your mother (dead or alive) today.

Happy Mother’s Day. Please feel free to share with me your thoughts about your mother (biological or adoptive), a stepmother, foster mother, and even women who loved you as your “surrogate” mother.

]]> http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-to-all-mothers/feed/ 6 “White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” film on March 1 http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/02/27/white-light-black-rain-the-destruction-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-film-on-march-1/ http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/02/27/white-light-black-rain-the-destruction-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-film-on-march-1/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:19:55 +0000 Carolyn Classen http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/?p=482 “White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” documentary
Hiroshima after the A-bomb

Hiroshima after the A-bomb

Monday, March 1, at 7 pm

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) Auditorium on UA campus, 1130 N. Mountain,
Northeast corner of E. Speedway Blvd. and N. Mountain Ave.

Free, and open to the public
Free, easy parking east of building
sponsored by Voices of Opposition, http://www.voicesofopposition.com/, call 520-622-6419

“With shocking archival footage, stunning photography, and heartrending interviews, this extraordinary documentary gives a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first use of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors – many who have never spoken publicly before – and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, this film provides a detailed exploration of the bombings. It is an important documentary for all to see in this nuclear age.” (from email sent from the Tucson branch of WILPF the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom)

Released on August 6, 2007 (on the 62nd anniversary of the bombing on Hiroshima), this HBO documentary is by Japanese American Sansei (3rd generation) filmmaker Steven Okazaki who met with 500 survivors. Read more here.

I wrote about a Hiroshima/Nagasaki Never Again event back in August, 2009 (click here), since my paternal grandfathers left Hiroshima in 1892 for the Kingdom of Hawaii, but we must have had relatives still living there in 1945.

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Here is a copy of an email alert sent from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF):

Hiroshima-Nagasaki
NEVER AGAIN !

Commemoration and Call to Action
For Nuclear Disarmament and Conversion

Saturday, August 8 at 7 pm (music starts earlier)

At Reid Park’s Cancer Survivors’ Plaza
22nd Street east of Country Club before Randolph

Sponsored by the Tucson Raging Grannies

“The program features Ellen Thomas, Co-chair of WILPF’s National DisArm Committee, and leader of Washington, DC’s Proposition One Campaign, who is touring the U.S. promoting HR 1653 calling for Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion, for U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and for ratification of the UN’s Nonproliferation Treaty. Barbara Warren, Tucson Physicians for Social Responsibility, will also participate. Program will include a description of Hiroshima’s annual huge rally against A & H Bombs by Granny Lea Goodwine who was there recently, and songs by the Tucson Raging Grannies.”

Please join us to mourn victims of all wars, re-dedicate our lives to Peace and convey our sentiments to Congress.

This is a family-friendly event. Parking lot is adjacent. Bring folding chairs or blanket to spread. Some benches available.

For more information, contact Margaret Pecoraro at 885-3908 or margaretspiano@aol.com.

Carolyn’s note:
I confess I have never been to Hiroshima (“The City of Peace and Creativity”) to see where my paternal grandparents came from, but I intend someday to see the peace memorial. Practice nonviolence. Pray for peace.

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