🆕News: In September, SGI Australia held gatherings across the country to commemorate 2nd Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda's Sept. 8, 1957, Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. On Sept. 6, a gathering at the Australia Culture Centre in Sydney featured a variety of cultural performances. On Sept. 20, SGI Australia's center in Queensland welcomed members of the Norwegian peace organization @bike_for_peace for an exchange meeting and antinuclear exhibition. In a panel discussion, representatives of both organizations discussed the denial of others' humanity as a root cause of war and stressed the importance of dialogue and education in finding common ground. James McHenry shared the testimony of his mother, Taeko, a hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) from Hiroshima, speaking about the devastation after the bombing and appealing for a world without nuclear weapons.
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