Trident Ploughshares (TP) and other groups.
Thursday 6th August 2015
TP Fasters – 8.15 a.m. Commemoration and vigil at the time of dropping of Hiroshima bomb in Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Extension (near Horse Guards Avenue / Ministry of Defence), SW1. Gather at 8 a.m.
9-2,30 Some of the Fasters will join the Hiroshima Day Peace Walk organised by Christian CND
2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside main entrance to Ministry of Defence.
Interfaith Service of Commemoration and Commitment to mark the Hiroshima.
Friends House, Euston, London at 2.30 pm
10.00 – 5.00 pm Pax Christi stall and prayer at Westminster Cathedral.
Muriel Lesters will be at the Hiroshima commemoration in Tavistock Square on the 6th and between 4 and 6pm some of the fasters will join them in leafletting at Lockheed Martin, 15 Lower Regent Street, London. SW1Y 4LR.
TP Fasters – All night vigil from 7p.m. to 7 a.m. next day in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Friday 7th August 2015
TP Fasters – peaceful protest outside Westminster Houses of Parliament from 10 a.m.
2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside Houses of Parliament.
TP Fasters Skype meetings with co-fasters across Europe and USA.
TP Fasters – All night vigil from 7p.m. to 7 a.m. next day in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Saturday 8th August 2015
TP Fasters – peaceful protest outside Downing Street from 10a.m.
2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside Downing St.
Skype meetings with co-fasters across Europe
TP Fasters – All night vigil from 7p.m. to 7 a.m. next day in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Sunday 9th August 2015
11a.m. TP Fasters – Nagasaki Lament in Whitehall Gardens.
Pax Christi prayers at 11.30 and 3.30 and a stall from 1.30 – 5.00 pm stall in the Piazza at Westminster Cathedral.
2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside Ministry of Defence in Whitehall Gardens.
Pax Christi annual Nagasaki Day service to commemorate Franz Jagerstatter. 6.30pm in the Sacred Heart Chapel, Horseferry Road, SW1P 2EF. Followed by the interfaith peace walk to Battersea Park, organised by Nagase and the Japanese Buddhist monks based at Battersea Peace Pagoda. Setting out from the Chapel at about 7.30pm. When the procession gets to the park there is a sunset ceremony ending with floating paper lanterns on the Thames.
Fast 2015 – more details, map etc: https://tridentploughshares.org/fast-2015-whitehall-gardens-london/