By Robin Lloyd, N. Vermont/Burlington Branch

Two members of Burlington WILPF met with the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Miro Weinberger, on May 25 during his morning coffee hour with citizens and proposed that he join us in strategizing on a press conference and/or other events around Hiroshima Day. Burlington has been a member of Mayors for Peace since 1986, and 207 other cities in the United States are members! Maybe your city is a member! A disarmament proposal by Mayors for Peace has recently been accepted by the more mainstream United States Conference of Mayors.

Mayor Weinberger was very open to the idea and said he would send a note to the mayors of other towns in Vermont. Maybe we can do something together. This could be a way to build support for H.R. 1976, Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2015

This year the annual Portland, Oregon, commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be held on Tuesday, August 9. The Portland Branch has created a flierin both quarter-page and full-page size.