{"id":1088,"date":"2020-07-06T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2020-07-24T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T04:04:59","slug":"bells-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Bells for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Friendship-Bell-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Friendship-Bell-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Friendship-Bell-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Friendship-Bell-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Friendship-Bell.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>8:15 a.m.&nbsp;on August 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&amp;<strong> 11:50 a.m. on August 9<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>To commemorate the 75<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and say &#8220;Never Again&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bells-4-Peace-poster-for-FB.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Event Poster <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Communities are invited<\/strong> to ring bells or &#8220;make a righteous noise&#8221; at the time of dropping of the bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Individuals are invited<\/strong> to set a reminder and take a moment to reflect\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Set a chime for these times&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On&nbsp;<strong>\u200b\u200bThursday, August 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and Sunday, August 9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;<\/strong>church bells, hand bells and other appropriate devices are to be rung across Vancouver Island at the time of the bombs:&nbsp; 8:15 a.m.&nbsp;on August 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and 11:50 a.m. on August 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All are invited to take part in the online educational event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On&nbsp;<strong>Thursday, August 6th<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at noon<\/strong>,<strong> a live Zoom presentation <\/strong>on the current nuclear weapons threat, nuclear weapons and religious faith, and the public health and the environmental consequences of nuclear weapons.\u200b&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/events\/hibakusha-remembrance-webinar\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Register here to receive the Zoom link.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-Bells-for-Peace-events.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Printable Event Details<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Press-Release-Bells-for-Peace-29-6-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The distinguished presenters for this event are two physicians and a brilliant young student activist:&nbsp;<br><\/em><br><strong>Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford<\/strong>&nbsp;is past President of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. She has twice been awarded the Governor General of Canada Award and has participated in humanitarian missions to North Korea.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Magritte Gordaneer&nbsp;<\/strong>from Victoria is a student at McGill University. She founded McGill Students for Peace and Disarmament, the university\u2019s only student peace group. Magritte travelled to Hiroshima to participate in the Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security presented by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Dr. Jonathan Down&nbsp;<\/strong>is President of Physicians for Global Survival. He is a pediatrician at the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children\u2019s Health in Victoria and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria.<br>&nbsp;<br>Moderator for the program is&nbsp;<strong>Bill Geimer<\/strong>, US army veteran and Professor of Law Emeritus, Washington and Lee University.<br><br>Send any questions to Bill Geimer at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:peacevetcanada@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">peacevetcanada@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The week of 2-9 August, 2020 is to be designated as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/events\/hibakusha-remembrance-webinar\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hibakusha Remembrance Week<\/strong> <\/a>honouring the survivors of the bombings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and peace groups are invited to arrange related education events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:15 a.m.&nbsp;on August 6th&nbsp; &amp; 11:50 a.m. on August 9th To commemorate the 75th&nbsp;anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and say &#8220;Never Again&#8221; Event Poster Communities are invited to ring bells or &#8220;make a righteous noise&#8221; at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}