Please note: Many events have been cancelled, postponed or moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check with local organizers to confirm events and follow local safety guidelines if attending events in person.
PSR will be releasing an important exposé documenting the use of previously unknown, highly dangerous chemicals in fracking. Please plan to join us for a webinar on these groundbreaking findings, Monday, July 12 at noon Eastern.
Oregon PSR and our community partner organizations have begun planning the annual Portland-area commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which this year will be held on Friday, August 6th beginning at 6:00 PM at the Japanese American Historical Plaza at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland (at NW Naito Parkway & Couch Street).
In response to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s event will be a little different. It will include a brief ceremonial gathering at the Japanese American Historical Plaza featuring Rev. Eisei Ikenaga of Portland’s Nichiren Buddhist Temple. Following the remembrance ceremony, we will proceed about two blocks to the Japanese American Museum of Oregon annex space for a nuclear disarmament-themed art exhibition curated by Oregon PSR Advisory Board members Chisao Hata and Yukiyo Kawano.
The ceremony will also be livestreamed on Oregon PSR’s YouTube channel for those who can’t attend in person.
Join us for this family friendly event to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 76 years ago and make sure that such nuclear attacks never again take place. We remember the past, so that we can envision and work for a peaceful, just and nuclear-free future.
The event will be open to the public to attend at Tenney Park outside of the John Wall Family Pavilion and the entire event will be held outdoors. You are welcome to mail in your lantern if you cannot be in attendance.
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Open to public at 6:30pm for people to create lanterns
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Program starts at 7:30pm
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Lanterns launched at dusk – approximately 7:45-8:00pm
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Sunset is 8:10pm
Online INFORMATION
A recording of the event will be available online the week following the event.