Please enjoy photos of 11 March Day of Action Fukushima One Year On.
Photo Courtesy of Noriyuki Koizumi
Photo Courtesy of Tim Wright
The action was reported by media across the world through AFP, Kyodo and others.
Below is a report covered by NTD Television.
Script is available from here.
Film Screening of “Ashes to Honey” directed by Hitomi Kamanaka
Date: Monday, 12 March 2012
Time: Arrive 7.00pm for 7.30pm screening
Venue: SLOWdown Restaurant, 56 Acland Street, St. Kilda
Tickets: $11 (online)/$12 (at the door). Ticket includes nibbles and glass of wine
Online booking: http://tickets.myguestlist.com.au/4f4246cc3c411/foodie-film-night-screening-ashes-to-honey/
Japanese for Peace is hosting a memorial event on 11th of March, the anniversary of the Tohoku Major Earthquake in Japan and the beginning of the ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
We would like to invite all concerned people to participate in this event to express our solidarity with people in Japan who are still suffering from the ongoing nuclear disaster. We will also appeal to the Australian community that Australian uranium has been fueling Fukushima, and we must stop the mining and export of this unsustainable and dangerous resource so that Australia will not fuel any more future nuclear disasters.
Event Details: ”11 March Day of Action to End Uranium Mining: Fukushima One Year On”
Time and Date: 1 pm on March 11th, 2012
Place: The front lawn of the State Library of Victoria
The event includes a number of speakers and performers, such as a Japanese wadaiko drum group.
The rally will be followed by a march through the CBD area led by a Japanese drum group.
Please bring along banners, boards, music instruments or anything to express your creativity. The event will be broadcast live via the internet to show our action to people in Japan who are also organising nation wide events later on the same day.
For further details of this event, please visit http://www.11march.com/
email: info@jfp.org.au
“Ban Nuclear Weapons Now!” promotional video from ICAN Norway
Uranium mining was imposed on the Traditional Owners of Kakadu in the late 1970s and the controversial Ranger mine commenced production in 1981.
Three decades later Kakadu uranium is still shipped out of Darwin to fuel nuclear reactors in Japan, Europe and elsewhere.
Dirt Cheap 30 years on includes rare footage of Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner Toby Gangale stating clear opposition to mining on his country and documents his prescient concerns about uranium. It shows how the Federal Government overrode the human rights of Kakadu’s Traditional Owners in order to impose a toxic industry in a World Heritage Area.
The film provides a unique insight into a story that continues to generate heartache and headlines today.
Please join Mirarr Traditional Owners at the premiere of this reworked edition of the 1980 film: Dirt Cheap 30 years on.
When: Wednesday November 9th, 6.30pm
Where: State Library Theatrette, Entry 3, 179 La Trobe St, Melbourne
Hiroshima survivor Junko Morimoto gives her first-hand account of the nuclear bomb being dropped on her beloved city. She talks about the explosion, how she survived and then rebuilt her life from scratch, having lost everything.
Junko feels it’s her duty, although painful, to keep talking about her experience of survival and to ensure that nuclear weapons are never use again. Junko has joined Australian Red Cross in their campaign to ban the use of nuclear weapons.
For more information, visit targetnuclearweapons.org.au
2-minute documentary
10-minute documentary
Below are some photos from the ‘Ending the Nuclear Weapons Era’ public forum held on 5 July.
Ms Junko Morimoto, the author of picture book “My Hiroshima” talked about her survival story of Hiroshima bombing.
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| Public Forum "Ending the nuclear weapons era" on 5 July 2011 |
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| Public Forum "Ending the nuclear weapons era" on 5 July 2011 |
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| Public Forum "Ending the nuclear weapons era" on 5 July 2011 |
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| Public Forum "Ending the nuclear weapons era" on 5 July 2011 |
This video message was played at the peace concert on the 6th of August 2011 at the State Library of Victoria.
Mr Tsukishita is a sumie artist and he was exposed to the radiation of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 when he was 4 years old.
Since 3/11, he has visited Fukushima twice and planted Aogiri (a Chinese parasol tree) which survived after the bombing of Hiroshima to give hope and light to people of Fukushima.
Music is played by Anne Norman. Thank you to Mr Tsukishita for allowing us to make this video. The video was filmed/produced by Shizuka Kandori.
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The urgent question of nuclear disarmament
August 6 and 9 mark the 66th anniversaries of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is an opportunity to reflect on these tragedies and redouble our efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
US disarmament expert Hans M. Kristensen and former foreign minister Gareth Evans will discuss the US Nuclear Posture Review of 2010 and its implications for Asia and the Pacific.
Professor Gareth Evans AO QC is now Chancellor of the Australian National University. He previously led global conflict prevention organisation, the International Crisis Group; and co-chaired the International Commmission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
Dr Hans Kristensen from the Federation of American Scientists is one of the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons expert, and is speaking in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in commemmoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki days.
When: Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:30 – 19:00
Where: Performance Space, Wheeler Centre (State Library building)
176 Little Lonsdale St (map)
Melbourne
Sponsoring organisations:
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Medical Association for Prevention of War
- Japanese for Peace
- Australian Red Cross
NO MORE NUCLEAR DISASTERS
Join the call for world peace and sustainability
3-5 PM SATURDAY, 6TH AUGUST 2011
@ State Library, Village Roadshow Theatrette (map)
Tickets at door: $15/$10 conc.
MC:
Rod Quantock
Performers:
Lily and King, Folk/Jazz/Roots
King Kadu and the Sunshine Sisters, Aboriginal Music
Tom Bolton Band, Acoustic Folk
Fuefukuro, Japanese Drums & Bamboo Flute
Speakers:
Felicity Hill, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Phillip White, Formerly of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Japan
Proceeds from the concert will go towards the victims of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.
We hope you can join us!
