Anti-Nuclear Activists Rally in New York

[struggle4progress]

Sunday May 01, 2005 5:03pm

NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of activists marched past the United Nations on Sunday, hoping to remind diplomats reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of the horrors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki five decades ago. Chanting "No War, No Nukes" and carrying signs saying "No More Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki," the marchers then headed to Central Park, where they formed a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000.

The mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, told the crowd that the survivors of the bombs were "the only people who have had the experience of nuclear war."

"For them the world is a family, and we need to work together so that no member of this family will have to suffer the pain that they suffered in 1945," he said. <snip>

A monthlong review of the nonproliferation treaty at the UN begins Monday - a process that is done every five years. The treaty calls for nations without nuclear weapons to pledge not to pursue them, and the five that acknowledge having nuclear weapons - the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China - to pledge to move toward eliminating them. <snip>

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0505/224980.html

Related LBN thread: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty faces review

[Rose Siding]

1. Here's the NYT crowd shot

and a couple of links to Getty shots-

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[struggle4progress]

2. Thanks! eom

[0007]

10. What a great photo!

[deminks]

3. Human Peace Sign

Demonstrators form a human peace sign in New York's Central Park, Sunday, May 1, 2005. Invoking memories of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki decades ago, anti-nuclear weapon and anti-war activists on Sunday marched past the United Nations, where a conference to reassess the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was scheduled to begin this week through mid town to a rally in Central Park. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
AP - May 01 12:57 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050501/480/nyma10105011958

[NNN0LHI]

4. Thousands March For Peace In NY - Anti-Nuke, War Protesters Take Manhattan

http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4436768/detail.html

NEW YORK -- Thousands of anti-nuclear weapon and anti-war activists marched Sunday on the United Nations.

Chanting "No War, No Nukes," the marchers ended up in Central Park, where organizers directed them into place to form a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000.

The mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, was among those marching. He said the survivors of the atomic bombing during World War II don't want anyone else to endure what they had to endure.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_121160749.html

Anti-Nuke, War Protesters Take Manhattan

1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) Invoking memories of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki decades ago, thousands of anti-nuclear weapon and anti-war activists on Sunday marched past the United Nations, where a conference to reassess the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was scheduled to begin this week.

Chanting "No War, No Nukes" and carrying signs saying "No More Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki," the marchers ended up in Central Park, where organizers directed them into place to form a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000.

"Shut down everything — testing, nuclear weapons, the war," said Vickie Downie, of Teseque, N.M., who came with a group calling for the closing of the beleaguered Los Alamos National Laboratory, the country's largest nuclear weapons lab.

The mayor of Hiroshima was among those marching, and said the survivors of that atomic bomb drop in August 1945 didn't want anyone else to endure what they did.

[tsuki]

5. Meanwhile, on TeeVee New$, we're hyperventilating

about a runaway bride.

[NNN0LHI]

6. I haven't had my TV on since the pope-athon began n/t

[tsuki]

7. I have been reading about it on DU. I stopped watching CNN when

their motto became, If you don't wanna know it, we won't report it.

[Robworld]

8. I wish I was there.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com/

[chlamor]

9. kick