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Stop
Interfaith Peace Rally
with
Music, Poetry and Speakers
followed by a Candlelight Vigil
Wednesday, May 27, 7 pm
(the first day of the CANSEC arms export trade show)
We will gather inside
Southminster United Church,
15 Aylmer Ave. at Bank St.
(bus 1 or 7)
(Just south of the Bank St Bridge from Lansdowne Park)
Speakers:
Rev. Elizabeth Bryce, Rideau Park United Church
Rev. Fred Cappuccino, C.M., Minister Emeritus, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa
Paul Dewar, MP, Ottawa Centre, and NDP Foreign Affairs critic
Clive Doucet, Councillor, City Of Ottawa
Sister Hélène Lebrun, Les Soeurs du Sacré-Coeur de Jesus
Prof. Diana Ralph, co-founder and coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices
Rev. Lillian Roberts, Ottawa Presbytery, United Church of Canada
Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(with a musical, powerpoint slide show on CANSEC exhibitors
and their contributions to war)
Prof. Brenda Vellino, Ottawa Pagoda (Buddhist) Sangha
Wakil Zazay, founder and former president, United Afghan Association of Ottawa
Music:
Just Voices
Ottawa's Raging Grannies
(also joined by Raging Grannies from other cities!)
Evelyn
Voigt with
The Grateful we're not Dead
Candlelight Procession to Lansdowne Park
Following speakers, poetry and music at Southminster, we will hold a candlelight
procession from the church, across the Bank Street Bridge, to Lansdowne Park.
Once there, the Just Voices choir will lead a singalong of peace songs.
Organised by:
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, NOWAR/PAIX,
Ottawa Raging Grannies, Oppose Arms Trade Shows, Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Ottawa White Poppy Collective,
Physicians for Global Survival and activists from many other peace and religious
groups.
Endorsed by:
Church of the Ascension (Anglican), Educating for Peace
Please sign our on-line petition
Jo Wood 613-565 5959
Jo_wood at sympatico.ca Coalition
to Oppose the Arms Trade