Hiroshima commemoration, protest planned in Ashland

By John Darling
for the Mail Tribune
August 05, 2007

A vigil marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing will be observed in Ashland all next week with films, speeches, a play and protests about the spread of nuclear weapons to space.

Keynote speaker Don Wells, a retired philosophy professor living in Medford, will speak against the concept of "just wars," noting that all nations consider their wars "just" and their weapons reasonable.

"It's important, symbolically (to protest) because most Americans believe there is such a thing as a war crime — and to have a war crime, you have to believe some weapons and actions are wrong and forbidden," said Wells, who taught 22 years at the University of Hawaii.

His talk, "The Just War Justifies Too Much," is at 7 p.m., Tuesday at Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library in Ashland. At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, there will be a reading of the play, "The Face of Jizo," the story of a young girl's survival in Hiroshima in 1945. ~snip~

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