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List of Activities As Based on Those in Mayors for Peace Action Plan from April 2019 Activities as based on those in Mayors for Peace Action Plan from April 2019 to March 2020 (including planned events) as of April 23, 2020 Initiatives outside Japan Country City/Chapter Date Event details Link http://www.mayorsforpeace.or g/english/whatsnew/activity/ 2019_Peace_Declaration_Linz_ Austria.html The Peace Declaration 2019 of the City of Peace Linz was unanimously https://www.linz.at/english/ Austria Linz 26-Sep approved by the City Council of culture/3888.php Linz in the session. http://www.friedensakademie. at/fileadmin/friedensakademi e/Friedensinitiative_Linz/Fr iedenserklaerung_2019_Endfas sung.pdf http://www.friedensakademie. On the occasion of the 150th at/fileadmin/friedensakademi birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Austria Linz 27-Sep - 28-Sep e/Friedensinitiative_Linz/Fr Gandhi, the City of Linz hosted a iedenserklaerung_2019_Endfas symposium. sung.pdf The Hiroshima Group Vienna, the Vienna Peace Movement and Pax Christi Vienna organized on the anniversary of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima, August 6, at the Stephansplatz in Vienna. Lantern- march from St. Stephan's Square to Austria Wien 6-Aug , 9-Aug the pond in front of the Karlskirche was held, where the lanterns were placed on the water. On August 9, (anniversary of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki), a commemoration was held at the Peace Pagoda in Vienna. The Belgium Chapter of Mayors for Peace launched a new initiative inspired by the German Flag Day. The City of Ypres, a Vice President City of Mayors for Peace and the Lead City of Belgium Chapter, calls on all Belgium members to pay their https://www.facebook.com/Sta annual membership fee, and the Belgium dIeper/photos/pcb.2963105570 Belgium 6-Aug - 9-Aug cities which pay the fee will Chapter 395789/2963091747063838/?typ receive a Belgian Mayors for Peace e=3&theater Flag. All member cities with a flag were asked to fly the flag from 8:15AM of August 6th until 11:02 of August 9th in order to commemorate the time when two atomic bombs exploded in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The city of Ghent and a Belgian NGO held "Silence for peace". People are invited to join the group and http://www.silenceforpeace.org/e Belgium Ghent 21-Sep share a moment to experience the n/home/ importance of silence and inner peace in the crisis we face today. 1/19 Country City/Chapter Date Event details Link A planting ceremony of a second generation A-bomed ginko tree was held in Ghent at which Deputy Mayor Heyse of the City of Ghent and http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/e Minister Nobutaka Maekawa, a nglish/whatsnew/activity/19Nove representative of the Japanese mber_Belgium_Chapter_ginkgo.html Belgium Ghent 10-Nov Embassy, planted the tree after delivering speeches. In addition to https://www.be.emb- the ceremony, there was a japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/news_191110.ht performance of Japanese music and a ml discussion on the issues surrounding nuclear weapons in 2019. Representatives of the Veurne City Council and staff from the city's http://www.mayorsforpeace.or Belgium Veurne 10-Nov Green Service gathered and planted g/english/whatsnew/activity/ a second generation A-bomed ginko 19November_Belgium_Chapter_g tree. inkgo.html Representatives of the Ypres City Council welcomed participants to a planting ceremony of a second generation A-bombed ginko tree. After a welcome speech, children planted the tree in Le Touquetpark.This park was named http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/e after the French town in which Belgium Ypres 10-Nov nglish/whatsnew/activity/19Nove Ypres City Council sat in exile mber_Belgium_Chapter_ginkgo.html during WWI. It was there that the city council decided to reconstruct Ypres as faithful as possible to how the town looked before the war. The ceremony ended with a chorus of “Ode an Die Freude” (Ode to Joy) from Beethoven's 9th Symphony. To celebrate the International Day of Living Togetherin Peace proclaimed by the UN in 2017, the International Observatory of Mayors on Living Together - an initiative https://en.unesco.org/events/ro Canada Montreal 16-May by the City of Montreal - organized und-table-improving-how-we- a round table at the UNESCO live-together-cities Headquarters in Paris in cooperation with the Delegation of Canada to UNESCO and the Permanent Delegation of Algeria to UNESCO. Dunkerque Grand Littoral Communaute Urbaine hosted 4th International Symposium "Cities of Memory". The Mayor of Grigny, an Executive City of Mayors for Peace and the France Dunkerque 31-May president of the French Association of Mayors for Peace - AFCDRP, attended the symposium and read the message of the President of Mayors for Peace. 2/19 Country City/Chapter Date Event details Link The city of Grigny organized a lecture of Latifa Ibn Ziaten, founder of the association IMAD, an http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/e France Grigny 21-Sep - 22-Sep exhibition of Nobel Peace Prize, nglish/whatsnew/news/data/201 lanterns night and Peace Urban 90921/Grigny_IDP2019.pdf Trail to commemorate the International Day of Peace. The city of La Rochelle observed an event to commemorate this year's International Day of Peace. About 300 citizens participated in a peace march in support of “Climate Action for Peace”, which is this France La Rochelle 21-Sep year’s theme of International Day of Peace.After the march, the citizens observed a donation ceremony of a seedling of ginkgo tree whose mother tree was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The town of Lasséran built a peace garden with the collaboration of a http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/e local citizens' group named France Lasséran 11-Nov nglish/whatsnew/activity/191111 "Sentries of Peace" and observed a _Lasseran_France_E.html day of peace events to inaugurate the new peace garden. https://www.moissac.fr/actua lites/cadre-de-vie/lespace- The town of Moissac inaugurated a dedie-aux-sentinelles-de-la- rock garden built with the concept paix-inaugure/ France Moissac 24-Oct promoted by a local citizens' group named "Sentries of Peace". http://www.mayorsforpeace.or g/english/whatsnew/activity/ 191024_Moissac_France_E.html The Region of Normandy hosted the Normandie France 4-Jun - 5-Jun second edition of the Normandy (Region) World Peace Forum. ACDN commemorated the 74st anniversary of the bombings of https://www.acdn.net/spip/sp France Saintes 6-Aug - 9-Aug Hiroshima and Nagasaki by lighting ip.php?breve1498&lang=en the flame for nuclear disarmament. 3/19 Country City/Chapter Date Event details Link The City of Hannover, a Vice President of Mayors for Peace and the Lead City of the German Chapter, hosted the 11th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace. In conjunction with this conference, Hannover organized a public event http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/e German Hannover 11-Nov - 12-Nov entitled "Renaissance of nuclear nglish/whatsnew/activity/191111 weapons? Challenges for Europe's _Hannover_Fihn_GoldenBook.html Security Architecture". The City of Hannover took the opportunity to invite Beatrice Fihn, the Executive Director of ICAN, to sign the Golden Book, which is a special guest book of Hannover. http://www.mayorsforpeace.or The City of Dresden commemorated g/english/statement/mailmag/ the 75th anniversary of the bombing pdf/News_2003_E.pdf of Dresden, which took place between the 13th and 15th February, http://www.mayorsforpeace.or Germany Dresden 13-Feb - 15-Feb 1945. On this occasion, a broad g/english/whatsnew/activity/ range of events took place: 2020Feb_Dresden_conference.h commemoration ceremonies, a human tml chain, forums and discussions. In over 300 German cities, the Mayors for Peace flag was hoisted in front of many town halls. It is a reminder of a legal opinion handed down by the International https://www.hannover.de/Leben- Court of Justice on July 8th, 1996, in-der-Region- concluding that even the threat of Hannover/Politik/Politische- German using nuclear weapons is an offence Germany 8-Jul Gremien/Mayors-for- Chapter against international law. Peace/Flaggentag/Flaggentag- The local peace initiatives and der-B%C3%BCrgermeister- guests were involved in folding f%C3%BCr-den-Frieden2 paper cranes and watching the film “On a paper crane”. Folding paper cranes has become a symbol of hope and healing during challenging times. The city of Hannover, a Vice- President City of Mayors for Peace and the Lead City of the German Chapter of Mayors for Peace will host a photo exhibition called ‘Black Rain Hibakusha – Children Germany Hannover 5-Aug - 2-Oct of the Black Rain’ by photographer Thomas Damm. The exhibition features large format pictures of people who still suffer from the radioactive fallout – called black rain - of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. 4/19 Country City/Chapter Date Event details Link The city of Hannover, a Vice- President City of Mayors for Peace and the Lead City of the German Chapter, annually commemorates the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Cultural Office of Hannover invited citizens to various events to observe the 74th anniversary of the bombing. At Aegidien Church, with a http://www.mayorsforpeace.or striking of the Peace Bell, g/english/whatsnew/activity/ Germany Hannover 5-Aug - 6-Aug participants renewed their 190806_Hiroshima_Day_2019_Ha commitment to prevent the same nnover.html tragedy from happening again. Representatives of different religions offered prayers and meditation. To close the day of reminder and remembrance of August 6, lantern floating ceremony was held at the pond behind the Town Hall. https://www.marl.de/rathaus- service/aktuelles/news- The City of Marl held a workshop in detailansicht/news/kinderbil conjunction with the Children's Art der-sind-auf-dem-weg-nach- Germany Marl 7-Sep Competition "Peaceful Towns" 2019 japan/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontrol hosted by Mayors for Peace. ler%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bac tion%5D=detail&cHash=36b351e 3aa5f7ce1595103f96b2a1e22 A Mayors for Peace A-bomb exhibition was held at its City Germany Troisdorf 8-Jul - 26-Aug Hall.
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