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Spokane Organizations to Host Hiroshima 70th Anniversary Remembrance

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This weeks marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and two Spokane organizations are asking the community to gather in remembrance of the attacks.

The Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) and Spokane Veterans for Peace will lead a ceremony on Aug. 6 at noon at Riverfront Park between the carousel and the river. Members from the organizations plan to release white flowers into the Spokane River and hear from community leaders who will speak about the topic, including the Rev. Andy CastroLang.

The remembrance will be followed by a small delegation delivering a letter and a petition to our local members of Congress calling for cuts to the Pentagon budget, according to a press release.

“We want to honor the lives lost during these two brutal attacks 70 years ago. We are at this moment at a crossroads that will determine our future. Do we continue to put fuel on the fire with military action as our only response to unrest OR do we begin to explore diplomatic solutions such as the deal with Iran?” said Shar Lichty, PJALS organizer in a press release.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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