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Anonymous — August 1983

Be sure your group is in the latest edition of the Canadian Peace Listing. A second edition is being prepared for spring 1984. If you know of any new or unlisted group or organization, please send their names, addresses, phone number and contact persons to: A Canadian Peace Listing, 2420 Douglas St., Ste. 4, Vancouver, B.C. VST 4L7. The Peace Listing includes more than 500 Canadian peace, disarmament and development organizations by province on local to international levels. The first edition is available at the same address for $5.
E.P. Thompson, social historian and leader of the European peace movement, has been invited to lecture in Toronto toward the end of August. As The Peace Calendar goes to press, details have not been confirmed, but such a programme is likely to take place. For fuller information, call CANDIS at xxx-xxxx.
The Peace Calendar is looking for a few good regional correspondents, people who can write well and who are in touch with peace activities in their community. If you’re interested, call Jon Spencer at xxx-xxxx.
“March for the Future of our Children” is a 300 mile walk being sponsored by the Saskatoon Against the Cruise group from Grand Centre, Cold Lake via Meadow Lake and North Battleford to Saskatoon. They will carry a life size model of the cruise, covered in photos of children. They’ll he leaving Grand Centre Oct 6th and plan to arrive in Saskatoon Oct. 22nd. They need participants for part or all of the walk, kids’ photos, transportation, billeting along the route, funds, press or publicity in your community, any ideas. Write or phone immediately, SAC, Sutherland Sub P.O. Saskatoon, Sask., S7N 2H0, or call Margarete Simpson at xxx-xxxx, or xxx-xxxx.
Bring the cruise missile to Trudeau. Saskatoon Against the Cruise wants to take their model of the cruise, covered in children’s photos, to Ottawa after their march from Cold Lake to Saskatoon (Oct 6-22). They need a cross-country relay transportation system. If you are travelling between Saskatoon and Ottawa after Oct. 22 contact SAC as soon as possible. For contact info, see preceding event.
The October 22nd campaign has opened a mobilisation office in Holy Trinity Church, 10 Trinity Sq. It will be staffed full-time from Aug. 8th on. Please drop by.
Bug owners beep for peace. Volkswagen owners for Peace have formed a group. They have a 1000 bumper stickers saying “another Volkswagen Owner for Peace.” Get one for $1 at Friends House, 60 Lowther, CANDIS, at Holy Trinity Anglican, or Christian Movement for Peace, Trinity United Church.
Cold Lake Peace Camp will he the site of a women’s peace camp Aug. 19-22. Women from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver will gather together. All women are welcome. For more information write Box 333, Grand Centre, Alberta, TOA 1TO or contact Emile Drzymala in Calgary at xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxxx.
Women’s Action for Peace will he having a grand annual Rummage Sale Sat. Oct. 1. We need your gizmos, widgets and junque. All proceeds to WAP’s peace work and legal defense fund. Call xxx-xxxx for pick-up/drop-off throughout the summer.
NDP Anti-War Committee will be leafletting for the Ontario NWFZ campaign in August at various subway stations. People who are interested in helping contact Gord Doctorow at xxx-xxxx or Cheryl Swelger at xxx-xxxx.
Dateline Halifax, Nova Scotia; If a nuclear missile-carrying submarine is spotted on any Friday, a demonstration will begin at l2 noon in Victoria Park on Saturday; if one is spotted on Saturday, the demonstration will be at 12 noon on Sunday, same place. Contact Anti-Submarine Watch, xxx-xxxx.
Lovers of Survival — Begin planning the big Disarmament Party for 1984. Aquarian Research is inviting everyone to commemorate the hoped-for cancellation of the arms race all over the world. Think positive. Tentative dates Oct 30 ’84 in every town and city of the world. If disarmament is lagging by then the party could become an organising tool for a worldwide disarmament party in the political sense. Contact Aquarian Research, 5620 Morton St, Philadelphia, PA 19144.
“Projet Conservons les Emplois” is collecting information on the shipbuilding industry in Canada with the purpose of discussing conversion from the production of military frigates. If you have any relevant info, write to Stewart Stilitz, 1440 Bernard Ave W, No 7, Montréal, PQ.
The Peace Resource Centre is moving to a new office at the Native People’s Friendship Centre, 600 Bank St (upstairs), Ottawa. Also, the PRC has prepared a comprehensive index guide for newspaper clippings. Includes thirty alphabetical headings under the general heading of “Arms Race”. Contact Anka at the PRC.
The Regina Coalition for Peace and Disarmament has drafted an open letter which they are sending to groups across Canada. Anyone planning events for October 22 are asked to sign the letter which will be placed in newspaper ads across the country. For more information contact Bill Stahl, xxx-xxxx.

The Peace Calendar

Canadian Disarmament Information Service, 1983-1984

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