POPOKI #50 now on line

http://popoki.cruisejapan.com/index_e.html

Popoki’s Peace Project can be found at the address above (if you prefer to read in Japanese, that is the usual option at Popoki’s home page).  The project is the brain child of Dr. Ronni Alexander, who teaches peace studies at the university in Kobe, Japan. Her site includes pdf’’s of the Popoki newsletter, the latest of which is #50.  The newsletter includes some remarkable activities that the project is undertaking. For example, you can read the plans for mapping images of peace in a neighborhood by going on a photo taking tour with young people of various age levels.  There is also a remarkable testament to one of Dr. Alexander’s mentors, a professor who challenged her basic assumptions, even the one that peace is the most important issue.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and contemporary peace making

[Editor's note:  Let us not forget what country was the first to use nuclear weapons in war time; is still the only country to have used nuclear weapons in war time; and still uses fallacious arguments to justify that use.  As the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki recede further into the past, opportunities to hear from those who witnessed and survived them become fewer.  Please take advantage of this rare opportunity November 1]

Please be the guests of

The Chicago Center for Justice and Peace (CNJP) and

The Loyola University Museum of Art

at our 2009 Special Event

Sunday 01 November at  1:00 p.m.

Loyola University Museum of Art

Simpson Lecture Hall (3rd FL)

820 N. Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL  60611

Free and Open to the Public.

For additional information phone Nick Patricca 773.338.9416

THE CURRENT NUCLEAR ARMS CRISIS

In the Light of the First Use of Nuclear Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Presentations by Steve Leeper, President of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation

And Shikego Sasamori, Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum, A-Bomb Survivor

Hiroshima Poster Art Works on Display

Saturday, 5/19: NVVAM Photo & Art Exhibit

National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
1801 S Indiana, Chicago

A Concrete of Images: Back from Iraq, photos and paintings by 3 Iraq  war veterans, Eric Edmundson, Steve Danyluk and Bill Smock