![]() No Nukes, a film that documented the concert series, was released in 1980. Musicians Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Gil Scott-Heron, Tom Petty, and many other notables were involved. Their concert at Manhattan’s Battery Park City landfill drew over 200,000 people. In 1979, Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), organized a series of “No Nukes” concerts in New York. He has set aside $36 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power-plants in the U.S., and has also allocated $185 billion to “maintain and modernize” the U.S. Even as the tragic events continue to unfold in Japan, President Obama presses ahead with his irresponsible plans to construct additional nuclear power plants in the United States. It is shameful that governments still posses, or seek to posses, such weapons of mass murder and terror it is doubly appalling that the people of Japan must now suffer through the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown disaster. The two illustrations to this article can also be found in the gallery the artworks are by Iri and Toshi Maruki, who created the Hiroshima panels, a massive mural project with the atomic bombings of Japan as their subject.Īfter looking at the hibakusha paintings, artworks created by those who survived the first, and hopefully last atomic holocaust, there is little else that can be said about this most unhappy anniversary. The artworks that comprise the gallery were placed in my hands by Japanese peace activists in 1984 through the good graces of now deceased Quaker peace activist Barbara Reynolds. In the early 1990’s I put together on online gallery of art created by Hibakusha (Japanese for “Atom Bomb Survivor”). ![]() ![]() ![]() Detail from the Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki. A young mother with her baby engulfed in atomic fire. ![]()
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