August 4th: Pressenza at the Annual Bon-Odori Festival in Kingston NY

Pressenza is very please to be involved with the 14th Annual Bon-Odori Dance Festival For Peace, in Kingston NY on August 4th, 2024

79 years have passed since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is estimated that the bombs killed 210,000 citizens by the end of 1945.

The traditional Japanese Buddhist “Bon-odori” Dance Festival held in August is to observe “Obon”, the ritual of remembering our ancestors and reconnecting with family and friends and the spirit of healthy living to take steps toward a Nuclear-Free Future – “NO NUKES, NO WAR”

Panel Discussion “A Nuclear-Free Future, How?” at 2:30 PM
A panel about the ongoing campaigns to ban and stop nuclear proliferation.

Host:

David Andersson, co-director of Pressenza International Press Agency

Panelists:

Mana Jo Greene, Ulster County Legislature (District 19), Committee of the Energy, Environment And Sustainability
Dr. Alvin Konigsberg, Professor of Geological Sciences and Physics Emeritus at SUNY / New Paltz
Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) / Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2017
Dr. Larry Wittner, Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and author of “Confronting the Bomb”