(6 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Livermore, California – 6 August 2025
1. Protest signs at entrance to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2. Various of protesters participating in "die-in" to commemorate victims of WWII Japanese atom bomb victims
3. Various of taiko drummers
4. Various of protesters performing traditional Japanese dance
5. Activists putting up anti-nuclear weapons sign
6. Various of protesters blocking gate to national laboratory as police order them to disperse
7. Police officers and cars inside gate
8. Protesters holding signs
9. Police officers giving protesters citations for failing to disperse
10. Activists holding up citations
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Ellsberg, activist wife of Daniel Ellsberg:
"I’m here for real national security, which is cooperation and peace and nuclear disarmament. And I stand proud to be arrested for being here to protest that kind of activity."
12. Various of taiko drummers
STORYLINE:
Anti-nuclear war activists protested outside Lawrence Livermore National laboratory on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Several dozen protesters staged a "die-in," lying on ground as sirens blared, to remember the Japanese victims of the US attack that led to Japan’s surrender during World War II.
Then they performed a traditional Japanese Bon dance to honor deceased ancestors.
Some activists blocked the gates of the laboratory, prompting police to declare an unlawful assembly and ordering them to disperse. After the activists failed to heed the orders, police wrote them citations, but did not detain them.
Activists have held similar events outside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to commemorate the WWII bombings for more than 40 years.
The bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city and killed 140,000 people.
A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II and Japan’s nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
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