1 – 16 Sept 2007
Wisma Kebudayaan
SGM 综合文化中心
243, Jln Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur,
Wilayah Persekutuan.
Tel : 03-2141 2003 / 03-2143 9236
Fax : 03-2142 3932 / 03-2143 0912
Email : [email protected]
22 – 30 Sept 2007 SGM Selangor Culture Centre
SGM 雪兰莪分会文化会馆
Lot 23686, Jalan Selampit 29,
Taman Klang Jaya,
41200 Klang, Selangor
Tel : 03-3324 3120 / 03-3324 3121 / 03-3324 3122
Fax : 03-3324 3118
Email : [email protected]
7 – 13 Oct 2007 SGM Perak Culture Centre
SGM 霹雳分会文化会馆
No.160, Jalan Pegoh,
Taman Lapangan Ria,
31650 Ipoh, Perak
Tel : 05-323 6588 / 05-323 6589
Fax : 05-323 6587
Email : [email protected]
22 – 27 Oct 2007 SGM Penang Bukit Tambun Culture Centre SGM 槟城分会武吉淡汶文化会馆
1748, MK 14,
Jalan Bukit Tambun,
14110 Simpang Ampat S.P.S.
Penang
Tel : 04-502 2940 / 04-502 2941
Fax : 04-502 2942
Email : [email protected]
28 Oct 2007 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
~ Opening for Exhibition (Penang) &
Peace Talk
29 Oct – 4 Nov 2007 SGM Penang Culture Centre
SGM 槟城分会文化会馆
190, Jalan Burmah,
10350 Pulau Pinang.
Tel : 04-226 7080 / 04-229 7403
Fax : 04-226 5852
Email : [email protected]
10 – 18 Nov 2007 SGM Johor Culture Centre
SGM 柔佛分会文化会馆
1A(Lot 40272) Jln Selatan 5,
Off Jln Kempas Lama,
Taman Selatan,
81200 Johor Bahru, Johor
Tel : 07-556 5788
Fax : 07-556 7000
Email : [email protected]
25 Nov – 2 Dec 2007 SGM Melaka Culture Centre
SGM 马六甲分会文化会馆
No.23, Jalan Paya Ikan,
Taman Datuk Palembang,
75150 Bukit Baru, Melaka.
Tel : 06-231 3519
Fax : 06-231 3657
Email : [email protected]
8 – 16 Dec 2007 SGM Culture Centre
SGM 文化会馆
Lot 960 KM14,
Jln Cheras, 43200 Batu 9,
Cheras, Selangor
Tel : 03-9075 6876
Fax : 03-9075 3358 / 03-9074 2413
Email : [email protected]
The hibakusha--survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--are the only individuals in history to have directly experienced the horror of an atomic bombing. Their number includes not only Japanese but Koreans, Chinese and others who were in those cities.
"I Have a Mission"
By Margie Hunt, U.S.A.
Until recently, Margie Hunt, a pioneer SGI-USA member, was silent about her memories of Hiroshima, even to her son. In the past, she acknowledged that she was from Hiroshima and was there on that summer day of August 6, 1945. She would not, however, elaborate on what she saw or the effects of that day on her life.
A teenager at the time, she had decided to take a day off from her factory job to spend the day in her father's engineering office to daydream. She saw a dark yellowish color in the sky and wondered why searchlights were roaming the sky so early in the day. A split second later, windows exploded and walls collapsed. She hid under her father's desk.
As she and her father made their way home, she remembers people walking aimlessly through the streets, some naked, their burned skin hanging in strips. Later, in a hospital where her sister was being treated, Margie remembers people pleading to die.
On her first day out of the house after the bombing, Margie noticed the ground was littered with what looked like fluorescent flowers. As she walked among them, she realized that these "flowers" were pieces of bodies and bones of human beings, glowing from radiation.
The war left Margie with an iron determination to chart her own path in life, first rejecting her father's offer to set her up in a dressmaking shop. Instead, she emigrated to the American South in 1955. She plastered over her feelings and became, in her words, "cold and distant."
In 1965, she started practicing Nichiren Buddhism. She had embraced her Buddhist practice on an intellectual level. But it wasn't until 2006, when she met Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, that she could release her feelings about her wartime experiences.
After meeting and talking with him, she cried for the first time. "For 60 years, I said nothing," she admits. "Now, I feel I have a mission to share what I experienced during the war. Lots of people don't know about what happened--it's my promise to tell them, and I will work hard, wherever I can."
It is impossible to express, she says, how precious is this life, and her Buddhist practice which has brought her to this point. Margie has made this line from a poem by SGI President Ikeda her inspiration: "Break down the wall of your heart. If you achieve self-reformation, then everything will change around you."
I oppose nuclear weapons because they are long-distance killing machinesincapable of discriminating between soldiers and civilians, the aged and thenewly born, or between men, women and children.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theythreaten the destruction of all that is sacred, of all that is human, of allthat exists.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theythreaten to foreclose the future.
I oppose nuclear weapons because they are cowardly weapons, and in theiruse there can be no honor.
I oppose nuclear weapons because they area false god, dividing nations into nuclear "haves" and"have-nots," bestowing unwarranted prestige and privilege on thosethat possess them.
I oppose nuclear weapons because they area distortion of science and technology, twisting our knowledge of nature todestructive purposes.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theymock international law, displacing it with an allegiance to raw power.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theywaste our resources on the development of instruments of annihilation.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theyconcentrate power and undermine democracy.
I oppose nuclear weapons because theycorrupt our humanity.
Shortly after graduating from college, I visited the Hiroshimaand Nagasaki Peace Memorial Museums. At thesemuseums, I was awakened to the human suffering caused by the use of theseweapons. This suffering is not part of the American lore about the use of thebombs. These museums gave me insight into the differences in perspectivebetween those who had been above the bombs and those beneath the bombs.
Those above the bombs, the victors, celebrated the technology of triumph, andwent on to engage in a mad nuclear arms race. Those beneath the bombs, thevictims, learned the simple lesson: "Never again! We shall not repeat theevil."
The vision of the future held by those above the bombs and those beneath thebombs may be the decisive struggle of our time. On the side of nuclear weaponsis the arrogance of power that is willing to put at risk the future ofcivilization, if not of life itself. On the side of the survivors, thehibakusha, is the moral clarity of calling evil by its name.
Resolving this struggle is the challenge presented to humanity by nuclearweapons. Each of us must choose. Ignorance, apathy and denial are de factovotes for continuing the nuclear threat. Only by unalterably opposing nuclearweapons and working actively for their elimination can an individual alignhimself or herself with those who experienced first-hand the absolutedevastation of these weapons. This is my choice. I seek without reservation theelimination of all nuclear weapons from our unique planet, the only one we knowof in the universe that supports life.
People of the Bomb
It began with fear, not famine.
What was missing was an understanding
of consequences.
Still, the sky held a blue-white innocence.
It would be many years before light
would become so intense that you could see
your bones through translucent skin.
Silos still held grain, not missiles.
Snow-capped mountains brushed the sky
and held it aloft.
The bomb may have ended the war, but only
if history is read like a distant star.
What happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
cannot be forgotten, nor easily forgiven.
If only time had not bolted and changed course.
If only the white flags had flown before
the strange storm. If only there had been
one less Einstein and one more Vonnegut.
The sky turned white and aged, then
the colors of daybreak melted our hearts.
From The Doves Flew High, a new collection of poetry by David Krieger
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