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75 years later : Moments of Emotion as Saintes commemorates the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
Published in French on 9 August 2020
Despite the coronavirus and the restrictions around meetings, more than 150 people came, sometimes from a distance, to commemorate the atomic massacres that plunged humankind into the nuclear era, and to hear the four-handed concert which two great pianists, Yuko Hirota of Japan and Alice Rosset of France, presented at Saintes on 6 August 2020 in homage to the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945.
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Petition to France’s President and Parliament
Let’s Disarm to Avoid the Apocalypse and Build a Better World | |
While the whole world is mobilising against the coronavirus pandemic,
While millions of citizens of all nations are answering the call of the UN secretary-general for a ceasefire in all wars,
While climate change is threatening the planet’s equilibrium and the survival of humankind,
While the most elementary needs of millions of human beings are not being met,
France, the world’s third arms-vendor after the USA and Russia, continues to make, sell and export weapons to nations at war. (...)
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"A New World"? April Fools! | |
On April 1, 2020, ACDN published on its website this sensational item: "Emmanuel Macron gives up nuclear weapons !". No informed observer of French politics will have doubted that this was a Fool’s Day Joke or as the French say, a « poisson d’avril », an “April Fish”, actually a big fat one. Almost a whale. In fact, to quote the White House occupant, it was “fake news”. But this fake item was so visibly fake that it was neither ”fake” nor ”news”. A joke, in short, which you may judge to be good or (...)
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