Stand for Peace against CANSEC -- Canada's largest arms bazaar --
at Ottawa's Lansdowne Park, Wed. May 27th

Two posters highlighting the May 27 events; Poster 1  Poster 2  Three colour posters for the evening rally here

There will be a continuous public peace presence between 7:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on May 27 at the Bank Street entrance to Lansdowne Park, just outside the private closed-door CANSEC military trade show.  PLEASE DROP BY for a few minutes, an hour or for the whole day!

Visit the Raging Grannies' Peace Garden:  Drop by for a chat, smell the roses and maybe even get your hands dirty!

7:30 am - 4:30 pm:   Vigil at the Gates to CANSEC
Various groups have adopted an hour for peace between 7:30 am and 4:30 pm.  They will distribute flyers to pedestrians and will be equipped with banners, signs, props and their imaginations:

7:30-9:30 Anglicans
11:30-12:30 miscellaneous
12:30 - 1:30 Quakers
1:30 - 2:30 Glebites
2:30 - 3:30 Unitarians
3:30-4:30: Physicians for Global Survival, Ottawa Pagoda (Buddhist) Sangha, and Sangha Arana (with kids)
Help needed: 9:30-11:30 and 1:30-2:30 still need witnesses. If you can help, please contact Brenda:  mailto:bcarr@connect.carleton.ca

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm:   Speakers, Music, Poetry
Be sure to join us at the Bank St. entrance to Lansdowne between 4:30 and 6:30 pm for an informal convergence of speakers, music and poetry against the arms trade and war.  At this time, war industry profiteers, politicians and warfighters will be holding a celebratory black-tie & full-dress uniform event inside CANSEC at Lansdowne Park. Help us to remember the victims of war.

* Qais Ganhem, Physicians for Global Survival
*Joan Russow, Victoria Peace Coalition & UN Vienna Rep for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
*Sandra Stephenson, Peace Studies, John Abbott College, Cofounder Poets Against War
*Bud Hall, Victoria, Poets Against War
*Evelyn Voigt, Spoken Word poem, Grateful We're Not Dead
*Mike Buckthought, Ottawa Poet
*Raging Grannies

7 pm:   Interfaith Peace Rally and Candlelight Vigil
Just across the Bank St. bridge from Lansdowne Park at Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer at Bank) we will be gathering for a large indoor rally at 7 pm. 
Read more details about this major event here


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June 2,  Presentations to City Hall:
We are also seeking groups that will make brief (5-minute maximum) presentations during the day on June 2 to the City of Ottawa Committee that will be voting on our resolution to honour the City's 1989 ban on arms shows.  If you can make such a presentation, please contact Debbie
mailto:debbiegrisdale@gmail.com

Click here for more details on these presentations, such as guidelines and ideas of issues to be raised.
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For more info., see the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) website:
http://COAT.ncf.ca

antiCANSEC campaign details:
http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/CANSEC_campaign.htm