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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Meetings to plan "No to NATO: Festival of Creative Nonviolence"
"No to NATO: Festival of Creative NonViolence"
(Oct. 6, Majors Hill Park, Ottawa)
Please join us at our upcoming meetings to organize this festival!
Hope to see you at these planning meetings on:
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Monday, September 10, 7:30 pm.
at St. John Anglican Church,
154 Somerset W. (just east of Elgin St.)
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Tuesday, September 25, 7:30 pm.
at Friends Meeting House,
91A Fourth Ave. (just east of Bank St.)
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Festival Program so far:
ˇ Speakers
* Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa;
Author, The Globalization of Poverty.
* Marion Dewar, former Mayor of Ottawa; former president, New Democratic
Party; former NDP MP
* Philippe Duhamel, nonviolent resistance organizer, SalAMI
* Jean-Claude Parrot, Executive Vice-President, Canadian Labour Congress
* Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church
* Mel Watkins, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toronto;
President, Science for Peace - Canada
* Theresa Wolfwood, founder, Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, Victoria;
Board Member, Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
* Laurel Smith, organizer with Homes Not Bombs
* Susanne Wall, Disarmament/Racial and Economic Justice intern, Fellowship
of Reconciliation - USA
ˇ Music
* Balkan Express
* Ian Tamblyn
* Ottawa Raging Grannies
* Terry Tufts and Kathryn Briggs
ˇ Workshops
* Nonviolent Action (Matthew Behrens, Homes Not Bombs)
* Satircal Songwriting for the Revolution (Alma Norman, Ottawa Raging
Grannies)
* Theatre in Resistance (Laurel Smith, Artistic Producer & Director,
Burning Passions Theatre)
ˇ Remembrance
* David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms Canada
ˇ Speaker Phone (connected to our sound system)
* Arun Gandhi, founder-director, M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence,
grandson of Mohandas)
* Helen Caldicott (of NFB documentary: "If You Love this Planet" fame)
ˇ Launch of global web petition to abolish NATO
ˇ Literature tables (NGO's are invited to bring tables and materials
ˇ Photo displays: (1) Hiroshima and Nagasaki, (2) NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia
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Here is the list of endorsing NGOs:
Endorsers of COAT's No to NATO: Festival of Creative NonViolence (as of
Sept. 4)
Antiwar.com, USA
Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children - France
Association of Serbian Women
Australian Peace Committee (S.A. Branch), Australia
Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
Befriending the Earth
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
British Columbia Voice of Women
CAFIET Quadra
Canadian Auto Workers
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
Canadian Federation of Students
Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev)
Canadian Peace Alliance/l'Alliance canadienne pour la paix
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Central Alberta Raging Grannies
Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University)
Centre for Social Justice
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
Convergence
Council of Canadians
Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee
Enviro-Clare
European Regional of the Humanist International
European Youth For(est) Action The Netherlands
Father's Day Coalition for Peace
Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA
FLORA.org
Fredericton Raging Grannies
Friends of Gabriola Island
Gerald and Maas
Global Compliance Research Project
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
Green Party of Ontario
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
Hamilton Action for Social Change
Homes not Bombs - Toronto
Illinois Peace Action, USA
Industrial Workers of the World - Ottawa-Outaouais
International Institute of Concern for Public Health
International Society for Peace and Human Rights
International Volunteers for Peace, Australia
Island Catholic News
Jonah House, USA
Kashmiri-Canadian Council
Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico
Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
Lethbridge Network for Peace
Ligue Anti-Impérialiste de Belgique
M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
MakePeace
Mama Terra / For Mother Earth-Romania
Mauritius Action for Disarmament and Peace, Mauritius
Nanoose Expropriation Objectors
National Union of Public and General Employees
New Democratic Party - Canada
Nicaragua-United States Friendship Office, USA
Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition, Philippines
Nukewatch, USA
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - McMaster
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Windsor
Ottawa Cuba Connections
Peace & Disarmament Working Group/Social
Responsibility Cttee., First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Peaceful Parks Coalition
Peacemedia
Project Peacemakers
Project Ploughshares - Edmonton
Project Ploughshares - Fraser Valley
Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
Raging Grannies - Ottawa
Rainforest Raging Grannies - Vancouver
Science for Peace
Sierra Youth Coalition
Social Justice Committee of Montreal
Social Justice Ministry Group at First United Church
St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
Students for a Free Tibet - Canada
Sunshine Coast Peace Group
The Atomic Mirror, USA
The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
The Clare Community Health Board, Nova Scotia
The Nuclear Resister, USA
Third World Forum
Toronto Action for Social Change
Vancouver Island Earth Works Society
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Canada
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Manitoba
Victoria Raging Grannies
Voices in the Wilderness, USA
Washington Peace Center, USA
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Canada
Woodstock Raging Grannies
Zero Tolerance Network
Notes:
* Unless otherwise stated, these NGOs are located in Canada.
* Further updates to this list of endorsing NGOs will be available in the
archive of the no_to_nato list serve which you can check by visiting the
COAT website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat> or <http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/>
Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
A national peace network supported by
individuals and organizations across Canada
541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2 Canada
Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614
Email: <ad207@ncf.ca> Web site: <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
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