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:
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