Upcoming Event

California State University, Channel Islands
and its community partner, the Atomic Mirror, Present
Waking Up in the Nuclear Age:
Becoming a Global Citizen at Home

"Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil will ensure peace for future generations"
Former US Secretary of Defense William Perry

Hear stories from the front line of the Nuclear Age.
Learn how local citizens and their global partners are working
together to to create a nuclear free world - and how you can join them!

A two-day event at California State University Channel Islands bringing awareness to the campus and neighbouring community about the nuclear age.

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Monday 13 March 2006, 06 - 6:00 - 9:00 pm in Science Building Auditorium.

Tony de Brum, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Adam Horowitz, filmmaker of Home on the Range about US hydrogen bomb and missile testing in the Marshall Islands (Santa Fe, New Mexico), will be on campus during the day to visit classes and talk with students. The evening program will begin with an introduction to the situation of the Marshall Islands, site of 67 US hydrogen bomb tests and ongoing missile defense tests. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first of those US hydrogen tests in the Marshall Islands. March 1 marks the anniversary of BRAVO, the most powerful at 15-megatons and which contaminated many of the islands, exposing residents as well as US military personnel to deadly fallout. After the showing of the film Home on the Range, Mr. de Brum and Mr. Horotwitz will offer remarks and take questions from the audience.

Tuesday 14 March 2006 - 7:30 - 9:30 pm in Science Building Auditorium.

Like other Hibakusha, Shigeko Sasamori Cousins, Hiroshima survivor and C.E.O of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Projects, tells her story so that “Never Again!” will anyone on earth suffer like she has. In 1955, journalist Norman Cousins brought Shigeko and 25 other girls, who became known as the “Hiroshima Maidens,” to UCLA for reconstructive plastic surgery. Dr. Gabino Aguirre, former Mayor of Santa Paula and Mayor for Peace, and Janet Bloomfield, convenor of the international Abolition Now campaign, will talk about how elected officials and citizens can work together at local and global levels to achieve the dream of a nuclear free world. All will visit classes during the day.

WHERE: California State University Channel Islands, Science Building Auditorium.

PARKING: Vista Bus Parking Free at Metrolink Station in Camarillo and $6 on campus permit.

For further information please contact: Pamela Meidell (805 822 8442)

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