Hiroshima Day
BY JENNY LONGSYDNEY — Three hundred people gathered here on August 5 to mark the 55th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to protest against war and the nuclear industry.
After a march from Hyde Park, the crowd at Town Hall Square was addressed by speakers including Lorraine Dixon from Sydney People Against the Nuclear Reactor, anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott from Our Common Future Party, Gillian Deakin from the Doctors' Reform Society who called for an end to the genocidal sanctions on Iraq, and Shirley Lomas, a member of the stolen generations.
The gathering was entertained by folk duo Margaret Walters and John Warner, and a capella group Ecopella.
