VOW participated in the Hiroshima Day commemoration in Toronto at the Peace Garden on August 6th to call for nuclear disarmament. We collected signatures on an open letter to the Prime Minister to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and an open letter to end the genocide in Gaza, passed out buttons and handouts, and took lots of photos of the ceremony and with Hiroshima bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow. Her new “Never Silent” is now available: https://www.annickpress.com/Books/N/Never-Silent #nucleardisarmament
Our National Coordinator, Alley McDonald, was a youth capstone speaker at the event–speaking to the necessity to recognize each other’s inherent value; our responsibility and accountability required in our relationships; and the need to collaborate and support one another to grow the seeds of peace towards a nonviolent and just world.