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Mark Your Calendars for the Next Campaign Nonviolence Conference!

PACE E BENE ANNOUNCES:

The Campaign Nonviolence National Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
August 6-9, 2020

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AUGUST 6 AND 9 PEACE VIGILS AT LOS ALAMOS, NM
MARKING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI.

Featuring Martin Sheen, Dolores Huerta, Richard Rohr, John Dear, Erica Chenoweth, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., and others. Hosted by Pace e Bene’s Kit Evans-Ford and George Martin.

The Campaign Nonviolence National Conference takes place Friday evening and Saturday at the Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande Blvd, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico in their main ballroom, walking distance from the Old Town Plaza.

Tickets go on sale on August 6, 2019 at Paceebene.org

Tickets will be $200 per person. Space will be limited so mark your calendars to buy your tickets early!

Also make reservations to stay at the Hotel Albuquerque by calling 1-800-237-2133
(Let them know you are with the Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence conference and you will receive the group rate) 

For questions, contact info@paceebene.org or call 510-268-8765

On Thursday, August 6, 2020, from 4-8 p.m., in Los Alamos, NM, there will be a sackcloth and ashes silent contemplative sitting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a march down the main street to Ashley Pond Park, the exact place where the Hiroshima bomb was built, for a rally with speakers and singers. By 8 p.m., candles will be lit and released on the pond in solidarity with the people of Hiroshima, Japan.

On Sunday August 9, 2020, buses will leave the Hotel Albuquerque at 8 a.m. and go to Los Alamos, NM, for the 11 a.m. sackcloth and ashes contemplative sitting followed by the march to Ashley Pond Park to mark the 75th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, featuring Dolores Huerta, Martin Sheen, Kit Evans-Ford, George Martin, John Dear, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ken Butigan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., and local anti-nuclear and indigenous leaders. Buses will return to Albuquerque by 5 p.m.

Buses transportation will be provided for participants on both August 6th and 9th leaving from Hotel Albuquerque.