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Program
This event was dedicated to Carol Urner
Portland Taiko- Drums, Jeff Selby- Director of the Office of Equity and Human Rights, Reverend Melissa Harkness- Minister at the Epworth United Methodist Church, Daniel Shea- VFP Working Group, Barbara Wilson/Kim Stafford- Poet/Previous Poet Laureate of Oregon, Regna Merritt- OPSR Board Co-Chair, Tsubaki Buyo Doukoukai (Tsubaki Kai)- Dancers, Michiko Kornhauser- Keynote Speaker & Hibakusha, Ty Brack- slam poet
Sponsors & Planning Committee
Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO)
Oregon Hiroshima Club
Veterans for Peace PDX (Ch. 72)
Portland Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Multnomah Friends Meeting
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sponsors
Japanese Ancestral Society of Portland
Columbia Riverkeeper
Japan-American Society of Oregon
Oregon Buddhist Temple
Alliance for Democracy
Augusta Lutheran Church
Peace and Justice Works
Minoru Yasui Legacy Project
Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Oregon Rises Above Hate
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
If you were wondering why we use sunflower imagery: Sunflowers can take up high concentrations of radioactive isotopes and sequester them in stems and leaves, so they have been employed to clean up contaminated sites following nuclear disasters.