Dear Friend --
Last Friday, we shared our
plans with you to commemorate the anniversaries of the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the coming weeks and make sure that these
moments of remembrance turn into moments of action for a world free of
nuclear weapons. However, it seems that in our excitement to get the
word out there, we overlooked a very crucial error in our facts and
listed only the number of fatalities in Hiroshima, where we intended
to share the joint number for the two cities. It is estimated
that more than 210,000 people died by the end of 1945 - about
140,000 in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki.
We wanted to apologise for this
error and make sure you receive the right numbers, we know how
critical it is to any advocacy efforts to have the correct
information. Please find the full email, as it should have gone out,
below.
Kind regards,
Akira Kawasaki,
Peace Boat Beatrice Fihn, ICAN
Dear Friend --
We are relying on your help to
spread the word.
This August 6th and 9th will mark
the 75th anniversary of the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The two bombs killed about 210,000 civilians by the end of 1945 and sickened
many more with cancer and chronic diseases.
75 years after these bombings,
survivors are still working for nuclear abolition and need you to
stand with them to remember these bombings and to take action to make
sure that the world makes history by turning nuclear weapons illegal
under international law.
The 75th anniversary of the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a huge opportunity for the
campaign to share the voices of survivors and encourage a wider
audience to take action on their call for all countries to join the Treaty on
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Nuclear risk is at an all-time high but we are close to making history -
the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is nearing entry into
force with only 12 ratifications to go.
That’s why in the weeks leading up
to these momentous anniversaries, we will make a huge effort to reach
new audiences with new materials and content about the survivors’
stories and call to action.
• We will be sending
out regular email updates with new resources, such as video, images,
and a pledge for new supporters to take forward the hibakusha’s call.
• We’ll be launching
a new website next week as a platform to commemorate the anniversaries
and spur action to end nuclear weapons.
• We’ll be asking
our supporters to donate to a world free of nuclear weapons and to
secure the final ratifications to bring the Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons into force.
• We will be sharing
live events when/where they happen.
So for now, we need your help to
build up a bigger audience. During the COVID crisis, digital
campaigning has become more important than ever. The 75th anniversary
is a huge opportunity, and we need to connect with more people so
we're aiming to have 75,000 followers by the 6th and 9th August.
Will you help us get there
by following us on social media and get your friends to do the
same?
• Follow @nuclearban on twitter - where having
75,000 followers by the 75th anniversary could help our tweets reach
more than 2 million people during these 2 months.
• Follow @nuclearban on instagram - where reaching
10,000 followers will enable us to more easily share links on our
stories.
Every additional person we can
reach with this critical message counts.
We can’t change the past. But we
must remember the horrors the survivors of atomic bombings have
endured and then honor them by our actions to make sure it never
happens again. To bring the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons into force. To end nuclear weapons. Join us by following @nuclearban.
Sincerely,
Akira Kawasaki, Peace
Boat Beatrice Fihn, ICAN
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