[PAA-Discuss] Aug 9th World Music Peace Event (Nagasaki Day)

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            3rd Annual  People Building Peace CONCERT            

A Celebration  of Initiatives for a Nuclear-Free World
In Rememberance of Nagasaki  Day 
              
Date  & Time 
Thursday, August 9th, 2007  

Time 
4:00pm-7:30pm  

Place 
Dag  Hammarskjold Plaza
(E 47th St between 1st and 2nd Ave, across  from United Nations Headquarters) 
 


   
FREE  outdoor, live world music and dance!!

Testimonies from A-bomb  survivors and leaders of the anti-nuclear movment!

Booths from  civil society organizations and initiatives callling against 
nuclear  weapons!  
The Third Annual People Building Peace Concert, coinciding with the  arrival 
of Peace Boat's ship to New York City, will bring the rhythms of  the world to 
the United Nations and highlight the initiatives people  everywhere are 
making to build peace and say NO to Nukes and War!  
FEATURING:

    *   Asiko - A positive and revolutionary blend of Nigerian  Afrobeat, 
Highlife, and JuJu music  
    *   Yuca Seca Band - Latin rhythms of traditional Afro-Cuban Son,  
Boleros, Guaracha, and Changui  
    *   Pete Seeger and the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus - folk  music for 
peace and justice  
    *   The Blue Vipers - Dixieland and early Swing music straight  from New 
Orleans  
    *   Absolute Bhangra - Lively Punjabi dance  
    *   Japanese modern dance  
    *   International Art Projects and more! 
 





       
 
SPECIAL REMARKS FROM:

    *   Michimasa Hirata, Nagasaki bombing survivor  
    *   Rhianna Tyson, Global Security Institute  
    *   Peter Weiss, Founder of International Association of Lawyers  Against 
Nuclear Arms  
    *   Betty Reardon, Founder of Peace Education Center at Teacher's  
College (Columbia University)  
    *   Felicity Hill, Women's International League for Peace &  Freedom  
    *   Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, New York Director   
    *   Peace Boat's Japanese and European Youth Activists on  Disarmament  
    *   Takahiro Shinyo, Ambassador Deputy Permanent Representative  of Japan 
Co-Sponsors
Peace Boat, IIPE (International  Institute on Peace Education), Abolition 
2000, Global Action to Prevent  War, Hague Appeal for Peace, IALANA 
(International Association of Lawyers  Against Nuclear Arms), Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear 
Policy, Mayors for  Peace, NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, 
Nuclear Age Peace  Foundation, Reaching Critical Will of Women's International 
League for  Peace and Freedom  

Peace Boat US
 
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email: _info at peaceboat-us.org_ (mailto:info at peaceboat-us.org)  
phone: 1-212-687-7214 
web: _http://www.peaceboat.org/english_ 
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