List of 135 NGO Endorsements for the
No to NATO: Festival of Creative Nonviolence
Oct 6, 2001
Organized by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
Please note that the tone and location of our event was modified
because of
the September 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. COAT decided
that we could
not hold a festive event across from the US embassy in Ottawa.
Instead we
have organized a Vigil for Nonviolence, on the same date, Oct
6, beginning
on Parliament Hill at 1 pm. We will walk in a silent procession
-- to
"silence the violence" -- to First United Church for
a program of speakers,
music and workshops. That program will begin at 2 pm.
We expect that most if not all of these endorsing NGOs would agree
with the
new plans for our -- which has virtually all same speakers, musicians
and
workshops that were planned for the Festival. However, we
have been so
busy that we have not had the time necessary to correspond with
all of
these festival endorsers to confirm whether their endorsement
can now apply
to our Vigil for Nonviolenc. With all that in mind...
Here is the list of 135 endorsers:
Antiwar.com
520 South Murphy Ave., Suite 202
Sunnyvale CA 94086
USA
Tel.: 408-733-4350
Fax: 208-979-5318
Email: <egarris@antiwar.com>
Web site: <http//:Antiwar.com>
Contact: Eric Garris
NGO Description: Antiwar.com provides constantly updated war and
peace
news, viewpoints, and
actions
===
Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children - France
B.P. 20797
Compiègne Cedex F60207
France
Tel.: +33 3 44 86 39 07
Email: <nobel.appeal.2000@wanadoo.fr>
Web site: <http//:www.nobelweb.org>
Contact: Dipti & Pierre Marchand
NGO Description: The Foundation united Nobel Peace Laureates to
sign an
Appeal "For the Children." It also brought together
all heads of state and
governments to proclaim the UN "International Decade for
a Culture of Peace
& NonViolence" (2001-10).
===
Association of Serbian Women
The Hudson Bay Centre
20 Bloor St. E., PO Box 75 088
Toronto ON M4W 3T3
Tel.: 416-928 0043
Fax: 16-924 9895
Email: <zana@baxter.net>
Contact: Snezana Vitorovich
NGO Description: The ASW was formed in 1993, to promote positive
aspects of
our Serbian heritage and offers a Serbian women's perspective
to mainstream
society on those issues that concern us as women and mothers.
===
Australian Peace Committee (S.A. Branch)
1st Floor Trades Hall 11 South Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia
Tel.: 61-8-8332-3461
Fax: 61-8-8364-2291
Email: <r-grayle@msn.com.au>
<grayle@earthling.net>
Web site: <http//:www.peacecourier.com>
Contact: Irene Gale and Ron Gray
NGO Description: The APC promotes disarmament, development and
peace, by
lobbying governments, politicians, unions and other community
groups, both
in Australia and internationally; produces newsletter, leaflets,
petitions;
arranges school visits, forums, demonstrations.
Solidarity Message: Dear friends assembled at the "No to
NATO: Festival of
Creative NonViolence" --
We wish to send you a message of greetings and solidarity for
your very
important gathering in October.
The issues you are discussing are of vital importance to us all.
It helps
all of us around the world in our efforts to achieve a world of
peace with
justice - knowing that there are so many others of like mind who
are
dedicating all their efforts and ideas to achieving a decent world
for the
future generations.
So many people have been trained to think only of themselves -
and even to
ignore the terrible dangers which threaten all people on earth.
In order
to open the eyes (and the hearts) of these people, it is necessary
that we
all work together to overcome the world's problems.
Therefore we not only send you greetings and best wishes for a
wonderful
and exciting experience at the Festival, but we assure you that
we will all
do all we can to join in with the plans which come from the weekend.
We
will also be very eager to learn of the marvellous ideas which
come from
your deliberations, so that we can use them in our work here in
Australia.
So -- greetings and best wishes to all those at the "No to
NATO: Festival
of Creative NonViolence" from Australian Peace Committee
members right
around Australia.
Ron Gray and Irene Gale Australian Peace Committee (South Australian
Branch)
===
Australians for a Free East Timor
Box 2155
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
Tel.: 61 8 89832113 mbl 0419
807175
Email: <rwesley@ozemail.com.au>
Contact: Rob Wesley-Smith
NGO Description: Opposed Indonesian occupation of East Timor that
killed
300,000. Our actions were consistent, peaceful, progressive,
including
street actions, submissions to Inquiries, conferencing, use of
media and
proactive material & moral support for Timorese.
===
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
Tel.: 250-595-7519
Email: <bbcf@islandnet.com>
Contact: Theresa Wolfwood
NGO Description: The Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, of Victoria,
BC, is
a registered non-profit society, founded in 1996, to promote,
sponsor and
organize work and events on the issues of peace, social justice
and women's
rights, locally and internationally.
===
Befriending the Earth
49 Evergreen Drive
Nepean ON K2H 6C5
Tel.: 820-0598
Email: <isobelmcgregor@yahoo.com>
Contact: Colin and Rev. Isobel McGregor
NGO Description: Befriending the Earth is an Ottawa-based network
of
kindred spirits with a mission to educate, activate and celebrate
through
learning and action circles dedicated to ecological and spiritual
renewal
===
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
UK
Email: <ELFEURO@compuserve.com>
Contact: Tony Simpson
===
Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
1481 Okanagan Ave
Salman Arm BC V1E 1N5
Email: <sacar@shuswap.net>
Contact: Dr. David Lethbridge
NGO Description: The Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
publishes
in-depth documents
on organized racism, fascism, and far-right activity. These documents
are
intended to provide weapons in the hands of those who would combat
such
activity
===
British Columbia Voice of Women
Box 235
Nanaimo BC V9R 5K9
Email: <stewartm@island.net>
Contact: Marjorie Stewart
NGO Description: British Columbia Voice of Women Society (VOW)
is an
organization of feminist women whose purposes are to educate and
advocate
for peace and justice in all their forms; and to educate and advocate
against militarism in all its forms.
===
Campaign Against Military Bases (Samtok herstodvaandstaedinga)
Tronuhjalla 13
IS 200 Kopavogur Tronuhjalla 13
Iceland
Email: <fridur@fridur.is>
Web site: <http//:www.fridur.is>
Contact: Einar Olafsson
NGO Description: CAMB/SHA was founded in 1972 following an older
rganization founded in 1962. These organizations came out of an
movement
that had been struggling against the US bases in Iceland since
1946 and the
membership of NATO since 1949. CAMB/SHA has defined itself as
an
anti-imperialistic peace movement. The organizations has now begun
preparing
actions against of the NATO-summit in Reykjavik in May 2002 in
cooperation
with other orgaizations and individuals
===
Canada Tibet Committee
4675 Coolbrook
Montréal QC H3X 2K7
Tel.: 514-487-0665
Fax: 514-487-7825
Email: <cantibet@tibet.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.tibet.ca>
Contact: Carole Samdup
NGO Description: CTC seeks an end to the ongoing destruction of
Tibetan
culture and the suffering of Tibetans. It advocates
the restoration of
Tibet's status as an independent state. We are committed
to non-violence
and oppose the use of violence to resolve conflict. We recognize
the
Tibetan government-in-exile as the legitimate representative of
Tibetan
people.
Solidarity Message: The members of the Canada Tibet Committee
stand in
solidarity with the Anti-Nato Festival because of its support
for the
principle of non-violence. This principle guides and defines
our own
struggle for the human rights of the Tibetan people. We
believe that
conflict produces only more conflict. We believe that if
non-violent
struggles are not championed then the world will not develop peaceful
and
democratic societies. We commend you on your efforts in
this regard and
offer our heartfelt solidarity.
Thubten Samdup,
President
Canada Tibet Committee, National Office
===
Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor Quadra
Email: <cfoort@yahoo.com>
Contact: Carole Foort
===
Canadian Auto Workers
205 Placer Crt
Willowdale ON M2H 3H9
Tel.: 416-497-4110
Fax: 416-495-6554
Email: <watsons@caw.ca>
Contact: Steve Watson
===
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
Email: <ccvt@icomm.ca>
Contact: Mulugeta Abai
===
Canadian Doukhobor Society
RR4, 1016 Ibbotson Street
Creston BC VOB lG4
Tel.: 250-428-9634
Contact: Alex Ewashen
NGO Description: Registered under the Society's Act of British
Columbia,
the Canadian Doukhobor Society is primarily a federation of unaffiliated
or
independent Doukhobors. Its roots stem to 1945 when an effort
was made to
unite all Doukhobors into a federation forming one voice on issues
of
disarmament, peace, and nonviolence.
Solidarity Message: Since the Doukhobors burnt their firearms
in 1895, the
world has made many technological improvements such as in health,
education, transportation, and social service, but little progress
in
getting rid of the institution of militarism and war. NATO
is one of these
institutions that continues to pursue a dangerous policy of might
over
right, of weaponry over discussion and negotiations, and the use
of first
strike including the insane use of nuclear weapons. The recent
terrorist
attacks on New York and Washington is a Wake Up Call to human
survival. We
need to reaffirm our stand on No to War, No to violence, but Yes
to reason,
negotiations, and nonviolent action. NATO is a cold war institution
that
has outlived its usefulness -- and in fact is one which perpetuates
the
notion of might is right and war is the way to a safe society.
We need to
work on prevention rather than retaliation and retribution.
Instead of spending hundreds of billions for weapons of mass destruction
which we manufacture for ourselves and sell around the world,
we should
allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for feeding the world's
hungry,
housing the homeless, healing the sick and helping heal the wounds
of war
and hatred around the world. As the Nonviolent Peaceforce recently
stated,"The only real security is for the United States to
become a real
friend of all the world's people."
Koozma J. Tarasoff
===
Canadian Federation of Students
500-170 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa ON K2P 1P3
Tel.: 613-232-7394
Fax: 613-232-0276
Email: <dchair@cfs-fcee.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.cfs-fcee.ca>
Contact: Jen Anthony
NGO Description: A federation of over 60 college and university
student
unions with a combined membership of more than 400,000 students.
Students
in Canada have been represented by the Canadian Federation of
Students and
its predecessor organisations since 1927.
===
Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(Kiev)
37823 Hawkins Rd
Dewdney BC V0M 1H0
Tel.: 604-826-9336
Fax: 604-820-9758
Email: <synaxis@new-ostrog.org>
Contact: Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
NGO Description: The Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese is the Canadian
Eparchy
of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Kiev and all
Ukraine. As
such, it represents His Holiness, Patriarch Philaret of Kiev in
North America.
Solidarity Message: It has become more and more clear that NATO
has ceased
to be a defensive organization, and become an enforcement agency
for the
economic and military domination of the Western world.. This
development is the most serious threat to national freedom and
genuine
democracy since the Third Reich. I congratulate COAT for its efforts
to
arouse awareness and resistance to this most disturbing development.
Every
effort should be made to get Canada out of NATO and stop our country
from
supporting this aggressive imperialism.
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese,
Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kiev Patriarchate.
===
Canadian Peace Alliance/l'Alliance canadienne pour la paix
13-427 Bloor St. W.
Toronto ON M5S 1X7
Tel.: 416-588-5555
Fax: 416-588-5556
Email: <cpa@web.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.acp-cpa.ca>
Contact: Carolyn Bassett
NGO Description: The Canadian Peace Alliance is Canada's largest
umbrella
peace organization. We help groups network on peace issues and
organize
cross-Canada peace strategies, campaigns and actions.
===
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies
Dep't of Political Science, Brandon University
270 18th St.
Brandon MB R7A 6A9
Tel.: 204-727-9720
Fax: 204-728-4492
Email: naidu@brandonu.ca,
prema@mts.net
Contact: Prema Naidu
NGO description: This biannual publication founded in 1969, is
Canada's
oldest and the main scholarly, multidisciplinary, refereed international
journal. Distributed in 40 countries. Dedicated to
studies of peace in
all its comprehensiveness---encompassing "negative"
and "positive" peace.
The journal publishes original studies that have a commitment
to peace,
peaceful methodology of conflict-resolution and peace education.
Solidarity Message: The editors of Peace Research: The Canadian
Journal of
Peace Studies condemn the horrendous tragedies caused by terrorist
attacks
in the United States on September 11, 2001. Terrorism is the product
of
prejudice, hate and violence. Killing innocent civilians and destroying
non-military infrastructure constitute crimes against humanity.
State terrorism against terrorist movements only escalates the
crimes.
Counter-terrorism can't end terrorism. The answer to prejudice
and hate is
understanding and empathy; the anti-dote to violence is nonviolence.
Terrorism must be rooted out by eliminating its causes---dehumanizing
poverty, racism, religionism, sexism and victimization by domestic
dictators and foreign neo-colonial exploiters.
Islamic terrorism can be neutralized by establishing a stable
and viable
Palestinian state, by ending economic sanctions against Iraq and
Iran, by
forcing Pakistan to end its sponsorship of terrorist groups for
Afghanistan
and Kashmir, by bringing about the democratization of all Islamic
dictatorships, and by initiating a Marshall Plan for the developing
countries.
===
Canadian Physicians for Global Survival
208-145 Spruce St
Ottawa ON K1R 6P1
Tel.: 233-1982
Fax: 233-9028
Email: <pgs@web.apc.org>
Web site: <http//:www.pgs.ca>
Contact: Debbie Grisdale
===
Canadian Religious Conference - Ontario
101-146 Laird Dr
Toronto ON M4G 3V7
Tel.: 416-424-4664
Contact: Doryne Kirby
===
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
761 Queen St. W.
Toronto ON M6J 1G1
Tel.: 416-603-7915
Fax: 416-603-7916
Email: <vow@interlog.com>
Web site: <http//:www.interlog.com/~vow>
Contact: Susan De Rosa
NGO Description: Network of women throughout Canada working for
peace and
social justice for all. Focii include a Culture of Peace,
UN, Voice of
Somali Women for Peace, and nuclear issues.
===
Central Alberta Raging Grannies
Email: <lhdiggle@telusplanet.net>
Contact: Lorna Diggle
===
Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University)
1280 Main St W., University Hall B104
Hamilton ON L8S 4K1
Tel.: 905-525-9140, ext. 24729
Fax: 905-570-1167
Email: <peace@mcmaster.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.mcmaster.ca/peace/>
Contact: Gary R. Purdy
===
Centre for Social Justice
836 Bloor St West
Toronto ON M6G 1M2
Tel.: 1-888-803-8881 (toll free); 416-927-0777 x225; 416-927-7771
Fax: 416-531-3197
Email: <langille@socialjustice.org>
Web site: <http//:www.socialjustice.org>
Contact: David Langille
NGO Description: The CSJ supports social movements struggling
for social
justice, with a special focus on narrowing the gap in income,
wealth and
power. The CSJ Foundation for Research & Education produces
educational
materials on social and economic issues.
===
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
541 McLeod St
Ottawa ON K1R 5R2
Tel.: 231-3076
Fax: 231-2614
Email: <overcoat@rogers.com>
Web site: <http//:www.ncf.ca/coat>
<www.flora.org/coat>
Contact: Richard Sanders
NGO Description: COAT, a network of individuals and organizations,
has
exposed and opposed militarism since 1988. COAT has initiated
a "Global
Appeal for 'No more violence.'"
===
Communist Party of Canada
Email: <rnknfile@mb.sympatico.ca>
Contact: Darrell Rankin
===
Community for Reconciliation
Email: <Johnjoberg@aol.com>
Contact: John Johansen-Berg
NGO Description: CR is committed to working for peace with
justice on the
basis if the teaching of Jesus. We engage in training courses
for
non-violent action, peace building and reconciliation in areas
where there
has been conflict. We have partners in Romania, Kenya , Rwanda,
Burundi and
Croatia. We have links in Ireland and Israel-Palestine.
Solidarity Message: I write to send greetings and wish you well
for the
Featival. Creative and co-operative ventures are needed to confont
the
forces of militarism and and economic power with a popular
and
non-violent campaign for a just and sharing world order.
May the keynote of celebration and determination for a true
peace bring
hope into the lives of those who suffer from injustice and oppression.
Go well.
John Johansen-Berg.
(International Director: Community for Reconciliation.)
===
Conscience Canada
Victoria Central Post Office
PO Box 8601
Victoria BC V8W 3S2
Tel.: 250-384-5532
Fax: 604-382-8378 attn: CC
Email: <peacetax@mail.islandnet.com>
Web site: <http://142.51.1.6/www/psyc/c/canada.html>
Contact: Kris Mansfield
===
Convergence: Poems for Peace
43 Belmont Avenue
Ottawa ON K1S 0T9
Email: <smcmaster@ncf.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.poets.ca>
Contact: Susan McMaster
NGO Description: Convergence: Poems for Peace gives art-wrapped
peace poems
by creators from across Canada to MPs and Senator during the first
year of
the millennium, 2001, to remind them of the primary importance
of world peace
===
Council of Canadians
502-151 Slater St.
Ottawa ON K1P 5H3
Tel.: 613-233-2773; 1-800-387-7177 (toll free)
Fax: 613-233-6776
Email: <drobbins@canadians.org>
Web site: <http//:www.canadians.org>
Contact: Maude Barlow
NGO Description: Founded in 1985, The Council is Canada's pre-eminent
citizens' watchdog organization, with over 100,000 members.
Our work
includes safeguarding our social programs, promoting economic
justice and
advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade.
===
Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee
401- 207 West Hastings St.
Vancouver BC V6B 1H7
Tel.: 604-872-2128
Fax: 604-872-1504
Email: <cfogal@netcom.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.canadianliberty.bc.ca>
Contact: Connie Fogal
NGO Description: The Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee is
a registered
non profit organization with national support exposing globalization's
destruction of citizen constitutional rights and protections.
===
Development and Peace
Email: <kwhittingham@devp.org>
Contact: Ken Whittingham
===
Eco Justice Committee, Anglican Church of Canada
Tel.: 416-924-9199 ext 219
===
End the Arms Race
405-825 Granville St
Vancouver BC V6Z 1K9
Tel.: 604-687-3223
Fax: 604-687-3277
Email: <info@peacewire.org>
Web site: <http//:www.peacewire.org>
Contact: Jillian Skeet and Peter Coombes
===
Enviro-Clare
Box 35
Weymouth NS B0W 3T0
Tel.: 902-837-4980, 902-769-2516
Fax: 902-769-0080
Email: <jslakov@clan.tartannet.ns.ca>
<trujoben@atcon.com>
Contact: Jan Slakov and Trudy Bengivenni
NGO Description: Offer assistance to community on environment,
health and
education. We network with other groups to promote environmental
solidarity and support the initiatives of the Clean Nova Scotia
Foundation
and the Ecology Action Centre.
===
Eticonomia
via Pomeria 90
Prato PO I - 59100
Italy
Email: eticonomia@po-net.prato.it
Web site: <Http//:www.comune.prato.it/associa/eticonomia>
Contact: Davide Caforio
NGO description: Italian NGO concerned with ethical finance, sustainable
development, nonviolence
===
European Regional of the Humanist International
Email: <dhorow@swissonline.ch>
Contact: Dani Horowitz
NGO Description: The international vision of New Humanism began
to express
itself politically following the beginning of the formation of
Humanist
Parties in different parts of the world in 1984. In January 1989,
in
Florence, Italy, the political parties who supported New Humanism,
subscribed, at a public meeting, to an agreement to create a co-ordinating
body under the banner of the Humanist International. The International
would have the function of collecting and distributing information
amongst
member parties; of disseminating humanist thinking and action
and of
promoting international solidarity between nations struggling
for their
political, economic and social liberation.
Solidarity message: Humanists are all those who struggle against
violence
and discrimination, and who propose greater freedom of choice
for the human
being. Humanists reject the formal political democracy that prevails
in the
world today, which is manipulated by money and which deprives
people of
real freedom of choice. Humanists promote human beings and their
fundamental needs as the central value and concern in society
with no other
values or priorities imposed above them. This principle has enormous
consequences, particularly at a time and in a system where money
is the
central value and everything else is subject to its 'tyranny'.
Amongst the present members of the Humanist International, in
addition to
the Humanist Parties in over fifty countries, are the United National
Independence Party of Zambia, the National Democratic Party of
Equatorial
Guinea, the Humanist Club of Moscow, and personalities of the
Arts,
Sciences and Academia from many countries. Several initiatives
and
publications of the HI have been produced in collaboration with
organisations such as the Academy of Science of Russia, the Gorbachov
Foundation, the University La Sapienza in Rome, and many others.
===
European Youth For(est) Action
Postbus 94115
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: 31-20-665 7743
Fax: 31-20-692 8757
Email: <eyfa@eyfa.org>
Web site: <http//:www.eyfa.org>
Contact: Kamila Jelenska
NGO Description: EYFA is a network of European environmental
grassroots-groups striving for more sustainable environmental
policy and a
just society, while developing alternative ways of living and
working for
these ideals
===
Father's Day Coalition for Peace
Email: <hasc@tao.ca>
Contact: Randy Kay
===
Fellowship of Reconciliation - USA
P.O. Box 271
Nyack NY 10960
USA
Tel.: 845-358-4601
Fax: 845-358-4924
Email: <disarm@forusa.org,
for@forusa.org>
Web site: <http//:www.forusa.org>
Contact: Susanne Wall
Ibrahim Malik Abdil Mu'id Ramey, Coordinator for Disarmament/Racial
and
Economic Justice
NGO Description: The Fellowship of Reconciliation seeks to replace
violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence,
peace and
justice. FOR is an interfaith organization committed to active
nonviolence
as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change.
We educate,
train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate
actions
locally, nationally, and globally.
===
FLORA.org
Email: <russell@flora.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.flora.ca/>
Contact: Russell McOrmond
NGO Description: This volunteer-run, Internet-based communication
system is
primarily concerned with Free Speech and Free Software. We host
alternative
viewpoints such as alternative transportation, alternative education,
alternative politics and alternative Economics.
===
Food Not Bombs - Ottawa
Tel.: 727-0188 (Liz) 771-0925 (Adam)
Email: <foodnotbombs@ottawa.com>,
<adamhodgins@hotmail.com>
===
Fredericton Raging Grannies
25 Chippin Court
Fredericton NB E3B 4S5
Email: <ldrew@nbnet.nb.ca>
Contact: Lorna Drew
NGO Description: In the fall of 1997, when government shenanigans
had
generated enough rage to sustain a group, the Fredericton Raging
Grannies
was founded, yet one more link in the international chain of Granny
groups
(or, as we call them, Gaggles"). The Raging Grannies
are groups of women
who write political words to popular songs, and sing them wherever
necessary to raise awareness about social justice in all its many
aspects.
Here in Fredericton we have raged in support of gay rights, environmental
and health concerns, poverty, violence, government spending, and
the recent
People's Summit in Quebec City.
===
Friends of Gabriola Island
Email: <research@oceansblue.org>
Contact: Howard Breen
===
Friends (Quakers) Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: rthomson@icon.co.za
Contact: Rob Thomson
===
Gerald and Maas
206 St Patrick St.
Ottawa ON K1N 5K3
Tel.: 613-241-1312
Email: <gandm@nightslantern.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.nightslantern.ca/community.htm>
NGO Description: Gerald and Maas is an imprint and atelier of
an author and
artist whose work is committed to social justice, art and literature.
Open
to the street.
===
Global Compliance Research Project
1230 St Patrick St.
Victoria BC V8S 4Y4
Email: <jrussow@coastnet.com>
Contact: Joan Russow
===
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Box 90083
Gainesville FL 32607
USA
Tel.: 352-337-9274
Email: <globalnet@mindspring.com>
Web site: <http//:www.space4peace.org>
Contact: Bruce Gagnon
===
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
915-15 East 26th Street
New York NY 10010
USA
Tel.: 212-726-9161
Fax: 212-726-9160
Email: <aslater@gracelinks.org>
Web site: <http//:www.gracelinks.org>
Contact: Alice Slater
===
Green Party of Canada - Ottawa Chapter
PO Box 64004, Holland Cross RPO
Ottawa ON K1Y 4V1
Tel.: 798-0443
Contact: Chris Bradshaw
===
Green Party of Ontario
Office Manager and Coordinator: Cheryl Veary
244 Gerrard St East
Toronto ON M5A 2G2
Tel.: 416-929-2397; 1-888-6GREEN6
Fax: 416-929-7709
Email: <admin@greenparty.on.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.greenparty.on.ca>
Contact: Frank de Jong
NGO Description: The Green Party's ten key values are: ecological
wisdom,
social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, decentralisation,
community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal
and
global responsibility and future sustainability.
===
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
PO Box 374
Merrickville ON K0G 1N0
Tel.: 1-613-269-3500
Email: <sustain@web.net>
Web site: <http//:www.SustainWellBeing.net>
Contact: Mike Nickerson
NGO Description: Guideposts for a Sustainable Future is dedicated
to helping
understand the challenge of sustainability.
Solidarity Message: The challenge of making human culture sustainable
is
too critical to waste creativity and resources on producing large
quantities of weapons. Let alone the insanity of move rapidly
backwards by
using them.
===
Hamilton Action for Social Change
Email: <hasc@tao.ca>
Contact: Randy Kay
===
Homes not Bombs - Toronto
Tel.: 416-651-4514
Email: <tasc@web.net>
Contact: Matthew Behrens
===
Humanist Association of Ottawa
Tel.: 613-738-7720
Fax: 613-738-1462
Email: by924@freenet.carleton.ca
Web site: <Http//:ottawa.humanists.net>
Contact: Sheila Ayala
NGO description: Humanism is a non-religious value system dedicated
to the
betterment of society through the use of reason, compassion, ethics
and
science. Humanists do not believe in any deities and is
an alternative to
religion. Monthly meetings and social functions.
===
Illinois Peace Action
202 S. State Street, Suite 1500
Chicago IL 60604
USA
Email: <ilpeace@igc.org>
Contact: Kevin J. Kintner
===
Industrial Workers of the World - Ottawa-Outaouais
701-151 Parkdale Avenue
Ottawa ON K1Y 4V8
Tel.: 613-729-8328
Email: <at571@ncf.ca, parti_hardcore@yahoo.com>
Web site: <http//:www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk/iww.html>
Contact: Peter Timusk and Mathieu Brûlé
===
International Institute of Concern for Public Health
326-517 College Street
Toronto M6G 4A2
Tel.: 416-929-9808
Email: <info@iicph.org>
Web site: <http//:www.iicph.org>
Contact: Marion Odell
NGO Description: The International Institute of Concern for Public
Concern
- IICPH is a Canadian-based nonprofit organization dedicated to
helping
communities assess and improve their environmental health status.
===
International Society for Peace and Human Rights
1505-8210 111th St
Edmonton AB T6G 2C7
Tel.: 780-434-5750
Email: <foster_24@hotmail.com>
Contact: Lynn Foster
===
International Volunteers for Peace
Australia
Email: <admin@ivp.org.au>
Contact: Rita Sofea
NGO Description: IVP was set up in 1988 and is the Australian
contact for
Service Civil International, an organisation established in 1920
to offer
alternatives to military service.
===
Island Catholic News
PO Box 5721
Victoria BC V8R 6S8
Tel.: 250-920-0233
Fax: 250-920-0262
Email: <icn@islandnet.com>
Web site: <http//:http:/www.islandnet.com/~icn>
Contact: Marnie Butler
===
Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice
122 Sackville St.
Toronto ON M5A 3E7
Tel.: 603-0052 416-507-9916
Email: <rs3j@jesuits.ca>
Contact: Fr. Richard S. Soo, SJ
===
Jonah House
1301 Moreland Ave.
Baltimore MD 21216
USA
Email: <disarmnow@erols.com>
Contact: Liz McAlister
NGO Description: This faith-based community in its 28th year is
committed
to nonviolent resistance to militarism and greed. We have
been arrested
repeatedly for this resistance and know well the insides of prisons
and the
need for a solid community base.
===
Kashmiri-Canadian Council
44516-2376 Eglinton Ave E
Scarborough ON M1K 5K3
Tel.: 416-282-6933 416-293-2608
Fax: 416 282-7488
Email: <kcc@kashmiri-cc.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.kashmiri-cc.ca>
Contact: Mushtaq A. Jeelani
NGO Description: The KCC publicises the tragedy of Indian-occupied
Kashmir,
to uphold and defend the human rights in Jammu and Kashmir; and
raise
awareness of the Kashmiri struggle for their right of self-determination
as
enshrined in the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949.
===
Kingston Action Network
Email: marijana@cgocable.net
Contact: Marijana Matovic
NGO description: KAN is a coalition of individuals and organizations
committed to working for social justice and equity in public policy.
KAN
supports Canada's traditional services, universal health care,
free public
education, and public transit system. KAN defends the rights of
women,
minorities, the homeless, and people with special needs.
===
Latin American Circle for International Studies
Mexico City
Mexico
Email: <latamcent@hotmail.com>
Contact: Luis Gutierrez
===
Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
6648 rue St-Denis
Montréal QC H2S 2R9
Tel.: 514-272-5012
Fax: 514-272-5163
514-844-0113
Email: <crnv@cam.org>
Web site: <http//:www.cam.org/~crnv>
Contact: Sylvain Beaudet
NGO Description: Our priority is to promote non-violence as a
way of life
and also in a broader socio-political context. We have a
library of about
4,000 books, many periodicals and much documentation. We
focus on peace &
disarmament, conflict resolution, aboriginal issues and international
solidarity.
Solidarity Message: The Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
is happy
to support the "No to NATO: Festival of creative Nonviolence."
NATO was
created at the time of the Cold War. The Cold War is long
gone past. To
continue to promote this military alliance doesn't make sense.
It is time
it is disbanded. October 6 reminds us of this.
The day of action is more in the spirit of the decade we are now
in, to
create a culture of peace and non-violence. This is the
kind of activity
that should be promoted, not war.
We wish the festival much success.
Gerry Pascal and Jacques Boucher, on behalf of the Centre de Ressources
sur
la Non-Violence
===
Les Soeurs du Sacré-Coeur de Jesus
23-665 Hochelaga St
Ottawa ON K1K 2E8
Tel.: 745-5816 742-8983 <---- 237-6607
Fax: 232-0384
Contact: Sr. Hélène LeBrun
===
Lethbridge Network for Peace
1002 - 15 St. South
Lethbridge AB T1K 1V3
Tel.: 403-328-1066
Email: <cjp@uleth.ca>
Contact: Anne Williams
NGO Description: The Lethbridge Network for Peace is a Southern
Alberta
organization involved in education and advocacy for peace, common
security,
nuclear disarmament, and environmentally sustainable development.
===
Ligue Anti-Impérialiste de Belgique
Belgium
Email: <michel.collon@skynet.be>
Contact: Michel Collon
===
Les Artistes pour la Paix
CP 867 Succ C
Montréal QC H2L 4L6
Tel.: 514-527-2020
Fax: 514-284-2000
Email: pablum@generation.net
Contact: Paul Klopstock
===
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Christian Brothers University
650 East Parkway South
Memphis TN 38104
USA
Tel.: 901-452-2824 901-327-0045 (h)
Fax: 901-452-2775
Email: <gandhi@cbu.edu>
Web site: <http//:www.gandhiinstitute.org>
Contact: Arun Gandhi
NGO Description: The Institute's programs are aimed at conflict
prevention,
anger management, diversity training, and relationship- and
community-building. The Gandhi's also travel around the
world speaking
about nonviolence.
===
MakePeace International
3044 Bloor St. West, Suite 271
Toronto ON M8X 2Y8
Tel.: 416-931-0705
Email: <makepeace@globalserve.net>
Web site: <http//:www.makepeaceinternational.com>
Contact: Kathryn Graham
NGO Description: MakePeace International is a creative agency
that engages
the power of the arts to promote peace and human rights. Our mission
is to
stimulate thought and action on behalf of the persecuted.
Solidarity Message: Whether it is film, drama, music, or poetry,
art
speaks to the deepest part of our soul. For this reason, MakePeace
International embraces the arts and the "NO to NATO Festival
of Creative
NonViolence" in order to accomplish our mission which is
the pursuit of
peace and justice.
===
Mama Terra / For Mother Earth-Romania
A.Obregia 5/R14/69, RO-75571
Bucharest-4
Romania
Tel.: 40-92-349522 40-1-6842145
Email: <romania@motherearth.org>
Web site: <http//:www.motherearth.org>
Contact: Aurel Duta
===
Mauritius Action for Disarmament and Peace
Mauritius
Tel.: (230) 453 90 37
Email: <kitgraas@intnet.mu>
Contact: Soodhakur Ramlallah
NGO Description: MADAP was formed in 1986 to fight for the preservation
of
peace in the Indian ocean and the return of the island of Diego
Garcia back
to Mauritius. The Americans have built a military base on
the island.
===
Montreal Raging Grannies
Email: <hadlink@pop.total.net>
<barbwired@sympatico.ca>
Contact: Joan Hadrill
NGO Description: These Grandmothers squawk, we don't sit on the
shelf while
there's so much work to be done: anti-globalization, fair trade,
climate
change, Native concerns,Peace and nuclear-disarmament.
===
Nanoose Expropriation Objectors
Email: <roger_lagasse@dccnet.com>
Contact: Roger Lagasse
===
National Union of Public and General Employees
15 Auriga Dr
Nepean ON K2E 1B7
Tel.: 228-9800
Fax: 228-9801
Web site: <http//:www.nupge.ca>
Contact: Jim Clancy
NGO Description: The National Union of Public and General Employees
is
comprised of 14 independent unions. The second largest union in
Canada, our
325,000 members work in both the public and private sectors
===
Nepean Outreach to the World
2 Peace Way
Nepean ON K2R 1E3
Tel.: 591-6314
Email: <dgarvey@mail.storm.ca>
Contact: Desmond Garvey
===
New Democratic Party - Canada
Email: <ndpadmin@fed.ndp.ca>
NGO Description: New Democrats seek fundamental change.
We will apply the
resources of government and the strength of cooperation and community
to
advance our society toward the goals of equality, social justice
and
democracy.
===
Nicaragua-United States Friendship Office
Washington DC
USA
Email: <nicafriends@igc.org>
Contact: Rita Clark
===
NS PIRG - Dalhousie University
6136 University Ave
Room 314 Student Union Bldg
Halifax NS B3H 4J2
Tel.: 902-494-6662 905-422-5463 (DC)?
Fax: 902-494-6662
Email: <nspirg@ac.dal.ca,
nspirg@is2.dal.ca>
Contact: Janet Burt-Gerrans
===
Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition
31 Dao Street, Mapayapa Village III
Quezon City
Philippines
Tel.: 63-2-931-1153
Email: <no-nukes-asia@netasia.net>
Contact: Corazon Fabros
===
Nukewatch
P.O. Box 649
Luck WI 54853
USA
Tel.: 715-472-4185
Fax: 715-472-4184
Email: <nukewatch@lakeland.ws>
Web site: <http//:www.nukewatch.com>
Contact: Dan Miner-Nordstrom
NGO Description: A Wisconsin-based peace action group dedicated
to
abolishing militarism and weapons of mass destruction, nonviolently
bringing critical attention to the politics and dangers of nuclear
weapons,
power, and waste.
===
Objection de conscience / Voices of Conscience
6872 16e Ave
Montréal QC H1X 2T4
Tel.: 514-722-5538
Email: <marca@arobas.net,
legaultr@colba.ne>
Contact: Marc Azar and Raymond Legault
Solidarity Message: On behalf of Objection de conscience / Voices
of
Conscience, we are happy to add our voice to the concert of the
100 or so
organisations who are officially endorsing your "No to NATO:
Festival of
Creative Nonviolence".
As activists working to expose the ongoing war of sanctions and
bombings
against Iraq, to present the resulting suffering of the Iraqi
people, and
to denounce the total hypocrisy of the stated motivations behind
this
policy, we fully share your goal of opposing the criminal actions
and
violent policies of NATO and to hold NATO accountable for its
violations of
international law. Even more importantly, we appreciate
that COAT's work
focuses on raising Canadian awareness as to THEIR OWN COUNTRY's
participation in the machinery of violence aimed at imposing a
new world
order everywhere on this planet. In our work to end the
sanctions against
Iraq, we have also come to the realisation that Canadian policy
on this
issue is among the worst world-wide. While Canada, as a
country, claims to
espouse a culture of peace, it is merely using the legitimate
longings of
its people for peace to cover up some very aggressive policies.
In conclusion, we would like to say that our chosen course of
action is
non-violent. Thus we certainly agree that "non-violence
is a powerful
medium of expression, an age-old tradition and an effective process
for
cultural change". However, non-violence, as such, is
not a founding
principle of our group. We have never held an internal debate
to decide on
non-violence being 'the only way' in all circumstances, and we
know that
individual opinions vary within our ranks on this matter. Some
of our
members strongly believe that the right to self-defence -- which
may entail
the use of violence -- should be recognized not only at the individual,
but
also at the collective level.
This being said, our group wholeheartedly supports your work and
the coming
Festival!
In solidarity,
Raymond Legault,
For the Executive Committee of OCVC
===
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton
1125 Colonel By Dr Unicentre Rm 326
Ottawa ON K1S 5B6
Tel.: 520-2757
Fax: 520-3989
Email: <opirg@carleton.ca>
Contact: Karen Hawley
===
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - McMaster
1280 Main St W
McMaster University, PO Box 1013
Hamilton ON L8S 4L8
Tel.: 905-525-9140 ext 27289
Fax: 905-523-0107
Email: <macearth@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca,
opirg@mcmaster.ca>
Contact: Randy Kay
===
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Ottawa
631 King Edward Ave (third floor)
Ottawa ON K1N 7N8
Tel.: 230-3076
Fax: 230-4830
Email: <opirg@uottawa.ca,
mcompain@hotmail.com>
Contact: Mélissa Compain
NGO Description: Ontario Public Interest Research Group -OPIRG-
at the
University of Ottawa is a bilingual, non-profit, student-based,
student-funded, and student run organization dedicated to education
and
action in the areas of social justice, the environment and health.
===
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Windsor
University of Windsor
458 Sunset Ave.
Windsor ON N9B 3P4
Tel.: 519-253-3000 ext. 3872
Fax: 519-561-1401
Email: <opirg@uwindsor.ca>
Contact: Jim Davies
===
Ottawa Centre NDP
Email: <hjrobertson@home.com>
Contact: Heather-jane Robertson
===
Ottawa Cuba Connections
Contact: Jordan Bishop
===
Peace & Disarmament Working Group/Social Responsibility Cttee.,
First
Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
Tel.: 613-225-7216
Email: <ae947@freenet.carleton.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.uuottawa.com>
Contact: Dan Morrison
NGO Description: Keep contact/participate with/in larger groups/local
events; Bring P&D issues/events to the attention of the congregation;
Sponsor congregational activities such as letter writing, speakers,
slide-shows, pot-lucks.
===
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
745 Westminster Ave
Winnipeg MB R3G 1A5
Tel.: 204-586-7824
Email: <rnknfile@mb.sympatico.ca>
Contact: Darrell Rankin, Doreen Plowman and Karen Schlichting
NGO Description: Our purpose is to mobilize public opinion in
support of
peace, disarmament and social justice. Aside from our own activities,
we
support the initiatives of the Canadian Peace Alliance and other
groups.
===
Peace and Environment Resource Centre
PO Box 4075 Stn E
Ottawa ON K1S 5B1
Tel.: 230-4590
Fax: 230-3608
Email: <perc@flora.org>
Contact: Margaret Jensen
===
Peaceful Parks Coalition
P.O. Box 326 Station B
Toronto ON M5T 2W2
Tel.: 416-537-3212
Email: <ppc@canoemail.com>
Contact: AnnaMaria Valastro
NGO Description: The Peaceful Parks Coalition is a citizens coalition
that
works towards preserving the ecological integrity of Ontario's
wild spaces.
We promote a holistic worldview of wildlife and the natural environment.
===
Peacemedia
4591 Ave du Parc
Montreal QC H2V 4E4
Tel.: 514-842-0898 514-398-7432
Fax: 514-398-8976
Email: <erica.cantilevers@sympatico.ca>
<peacepub@yahoo.com>
Contact: Eric Abitbol
NGO Description: We are a conflict transformation and social justice
publishing group. Our latest publication is "Rites
of Peace: Responding to
the Rights of Children in Armed Conflict"
===
Physicians for Global Survival (Canada)
208-145 Spruce St
Ottawa ON K1R 6P1
Tel.: 233-1982
Fax: 233-9028
Email: pgs@web.apc.org
Web site: <Http//:www.pgs.ca>
Contact: Debbie Grisdale
===
Project Peacemakers
745 Westminster Ave
Winnipeg MB R3G 1A5
Tel.: 204-775-8178
Fax: 204-784-1339
Email: <projectp@escape.ca>
Contact: Jennifer Wusche and Allyson Watts
NGO Description: An affiliate of Project Ploughshares, we work
for peace
from a faith perspective to motivate and educate ourselves and
our
community. Our faith calls us to action for peace, against violence
and
greed (especially its globalized corporate form).
===
Project Ploughshares - Edmonton
PO Box 52015
Edmonton AB T6G 2T5
Tel.: 780-988-4924
Fax: 780-437-2925
Email: <tom.keating@ualberta.ca>
Contact: Tom Keating and Bill Stollery
===
Project Ploughshares - Fraser Valley
20997 40th Ave
Langley BC V3A 8N9
Tel.: 604-888-3192
Fax: 604-530-3113
Email: <hkrause@uniserve.com>
Contact: Henry Krause
===
Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
308 1st St W
Delisle SK S0L 0P0
Tel.: 306-493-2288
Email: <crossleyd@skyway.usask.ca>
Contact: Rev. Jeanette Liberty-Duns
===
Project Ploughshares Niagara
Email: <THealey198@aol.com>
Contact: Timothy Healey
===
Quebec Public Interest Research Group - McGill
Email: <qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca>
Contact: James Yap
===
Raging Grannies - Ottawa
Ottawa ON
Tel.: 234-2581 (AN) or 746 0129 (VC)
Email: <ottawagrans@yahoo.com>
Web site: <http//:www.ottawagrans.net>
Contact: Alma Norman and Virginia Cameron
NGO Description: The Raging Grannies are older women whose satirical
songs
show that humour can be a devastatingly effective weapon in the
struggle
against war, social injustice-, environmental degradation and
other evils
of our time
===
Raging Grannies Saskatoon
Email: <crossleyd@skyway.usask.ca>
Contact: Jeanette Liberty-Duns
===
Rainforest Raging Grannies - Vancouver
Email: <jlydiard@popserver.sfu.ca>
Contact: Joyce Lydiard
===
Science for Peace
Email: <mwatkins@chass.utoronto.ca>
Contact: Mel Watkins
===
Serbian Heritage Society
2447 Wyndale Cres
Ottawa ON K1H 8J2
Tel.: 731-3704
Email: <radmilaswann@hotmail.com>
Contact: Radmila Swann
===
Sierra Club of Canada
Email: <sierrayc@web.ca>
===
Sierra Youth Coalition
Tel.: 241-1615
Email: <sierrayc@web.ca>
Contact: Karen Gorahi
===
Social Justice Committee of Montreal
1857 deMaisonneuve ouest
Montreal QC H3H 1J9
Tel.: 514-933-6797
Email: <sjc@web.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.s-j-c.net>
< http//:www.worldbunk.org>
NGO Description: Working for poverty reduction & respect for
human rights
since 1975. Urgent Action Network on rights in Central America,
Mexico.
Global economic justice education and advocacy. Upstream
Journal
newsletter, educational resources.
===
Social Justice Ministry Group at First United Church
Email: <smoonmin@aei.ca>
Contact: Sharon Moon
===
St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
194 Crawford Street
Toronto ON M6J 2V6
Tel.: 416-703-6373
Email: <jonharstone@sympatico.ca>
Contact: Brian Burch
NGO Description: St. Clare's is a body, rooted in Toronto Action
for Social
Change, that is involved in the conversion of an office building
in
downtown Toronto into 51 units of transitional housing.
===
Students for a Free Tibet - Canada
4468 West 1st Ave
Vancouver BC V6R 4J4
Email: <sft@igc.com>
Web site: <http//:www.tibet.org/sft>
Contact: Kate Woznow
NGO Description: Our organization works in solidarity with the
Tibetan
people in their non-violent movement for an independent Tibet.
We are made
up mostly of students accross Canada, USA, Japan, India and throughout
the
world.
===
Sunshine Coast Peace Group
Email: roger_lagasse@dccnet.com
Web site: <http://www.user.dccnet.com/welcomewoods/SunshineCoastPeaceGroup/>
===
The Atomic Mirror
P.O. Box 220
Port Hueneme CA 93044
USA
Tel.: 805 985 5073
Fax: 805 985 7563
Email: <pamela@atomicmirror.org>
Web site: <http//:www.atomicmirror.org>
Contact: Pamela Meidell
NGO Description: AM aims to reflect truths of our nuclear era
and transform
them through creativity and the arts. We hope to create a nuclear-free
world, turning our understanding of human security from a reliance
on
nuclear weapons to a sustainable relationship with all life.
===
The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
PO Box 1500-1292
Toronto ON M9C 4V5
Tel.: 416-201-9729
Fax: 416-201-7397
Email: <scontact@balkanpeace.org>
Web site: <http//:www.balkanpeace.org>
Contact: Natalia Dzel
NGO Description: Organization striving to encourage the cessation
of
hostilities and the promotion of a peaceful and long-term diplomatic
solution to the current crisis in the region.
===
The Clare Community Health Board, Nova Scotia
Email: <trujoben@auracom.com>
Contact: Trudy Bengivenni
===
The Nuclear Resister
PO Box 43383
Tucson AZ 85733
USA
Tel.: 602-323-8697
Email: <nukeresister@igc.org>
Web site: <http//:www.nonviolence.org/nukereister>
Contact: Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa
NGO Description: The NR is a clearinghouse for information about
contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat.
It
chronicles arrests for civil resistance in North America, has
international
reports, and encourages support for imprisoned resisters.
===
Third World Forum
2639 McCallum Avenue
Regina SK S4S 0A2
Email: <Shreesh.Juyal@uregina.ca>
Contact: Dr. Shreesh Juyal
===
Toronto Action for Social Change
509 St Clair Ave W
PO Box 73620
Toronto ON M6C 1C0
Tel.: 416-651-4514
Email: <tasc@web.net>
Contact: Matthew Behrens
===
Urgent Action Fund/The Balkan Gender Intitiative, Rights &
Democracy
1001 boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Bureau 1100
Montréal QC H2L 4P9
Tel.: 514-283-6073
Fax: 514-283-3792
Email: <abrunet@ichrdd.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.ichrdd.ca>
Contact: Ariane Brunet
===
Vancouver Island Earth Works Society
209-576 Simcoe St
Victoria BC V8V 1L8
Tel.: 250-383-5765
Email: <views@pacificcoast.net>
Contact: Doug Koch
NGO Description: VIEWS' mandate is to nurture participatory democracy,
and
help empower individuals and develop community culture. VIEWS
works with
groups and individuals to focus public awareness on positive action
and
solutions to community issues.
===
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
University of Victoria
Student Union Bldg Rm 144 Box 3035
Victoria BC V8W 3R3
Tel.: 250-721-8629
Fax: 604-721-8728
Email: <vipirg@uvic.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.vipirg.ca>
Contact: Stacey Chappel
NGO Description: VIPIRG is a student-lead non profit organization
dedicated
to social and environmental justice. This year, we are holding
a major
conference, Sept.27-29, on Resisting Global Militarism. We produces
a zine
"Re:Action" and a biweekly radio show on CFUV FM.
===
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Tel.: 604-985-7147
Email: <dmorgan@web.net>
Contact: David Morgan
NGO Description: Formed in 1982, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
with 300
members across Canada works for the abolition of N-weapons and
for the rule
of international law under the UN.
===
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Manitoba
Box 85
Victoria Beach MB R0E 2C0
NGO Description: VANA - Manitoba is a group of WW II veterans.
Although in
our late 70s or older we support peace groups in many ways and
have brought
two large exhibits on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Winnipeg in the
last two
years to which thousands, including many young people, have seen
in malls
and libraries.
===
Victoria Raging Grannies
Email: <bbrightwell@home.com>
Contact: Betty Brightwell
NGO Description: Raging Grannies began in Victoria BC in 1986
in opposition
to American nuclear warship visits to Victoria and to Nanoose.
Our
protests then and now are always creative, and of course, absolutely
non-violent.
Solidarity Message: Victoria Raging Granny's specific opposition
to NATO
centres around the fact that it is under NATO and NORAD treaties
that US
nuclear submarines are allowed to go to Nanoose Bay, BC to test
their
weapon guidance systems, and to Victoria and Halifax for rest
and
recreation. As well, Intercontinental Ballistic submarines
(ICBM's)
regularly cruise past Victoria through the Strait of Juan
de Fuca, and
have been known to cruise the inland passage to reach Nanoose
Bay.
Here's a song we love to sing. It's called ATOMIC SUBMARINE
and is sung to
the Beatles famous tune: "Yellow Submarine"
In the town where we reside
There are certain things we like to hide
Yes, our harbour's very quaint
But at times it seems like what it ain't
All the tourists walk around
Thinking this is such a pretty town
It's so clean and safe and pure
Nothing dangerous, that's for sure
CHORUS:
BUT . . . what about those atomic submarines,
Atomic submarines, atomic submarines?
What about those atomic submarines?
Atomic submarines, atomic submarines?
Politicians like to say
"We'll look into this right away
Nukes are not our favourite toys,
But we can't offend the other boys.
"Ladies, please don't be alarmed,
We can guarantee you won't be harmed
Now let's smile like we agree
For our photo opportunity.
CHORUS
BUT . . . . what about those atomic submarines
Atomic submarines, atomic submarines?
What about those atomic submarines?
Atomic submarines, atomic submarines?
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Voices in the Wilderness
1460 West Carmen Ave
Chicago IL 60640
USA
Tel.: 773-784-8065
Fax: 773-784-8837
Email: <kkelly@ipc.apc.org>
<RJPMcD@aol.com>
Web site: <http//:www.nonviolence.org/vitw>
Contact: Kathy Kelly and Rick McDowell
Solidarity Message: We don't know how to make people hate each
other less
in our troubled world. But ordinary Iraqi people have taught
us
extraordinary lessons about forgiveness. Despite the constant
economic and
military war the US wages against them, ordinary Iraqis befriend
us each
time we visit. Their welcomes embolden our pleas to all who promote
hatred
and fear of others: seek instead the further invention of nonviolence.
Just one percent of the US annual military budget could fund vitally
needed
peacemaking efforts in any conflict spot on earth. Eventually,
such
peacemaking would render NATO superfluous. We live in the
country that has
developed, sold, stored and used more weapons of mass destruction
than any
other country. As we remain opposed to all weaponry, including
economic
sanctions, we gladly celebrate your festival of nonviolence.
Many thanks!
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Washington Peace Center
1801 Columbia Road NW, Suite 104
Washington DC 20009
USA
Tel.: 202-234-2000
Fax: 202-234-7064
Email: <wpc@igc.org>
Web site: <http//:www.washingtonpeacecenter.org>
Contact: Maria Lya Ramos
NGO Description: A nonprofit, multi-issue peace and justice organization
committed to nonviolence social change. The Peace Center
serves as a
clearinghouse and resource center and has provided peace education
and
action in the D.C. metro area since 1963.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Canada
4020 Lion's Ave
North Vancouver BC V7R 3S3
Tel.: 604-980-8306
Fax: 604-980-8306
Email: <jlydiard@sfu.ca>
Contact: Joyce Lydiard
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Woodstock Raging Grannies
11 Cedar Street
Ingersoll ON N5C 1A8
Tel.: 519-425-4355
Email: <countryhamacres@sprint.ca>
Web site: <http//:www.ocl.net/projects/grannies/>
Contact: Cathy Hamel
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Youth Action Network
51 Wolseley Street, Second Floor
Toronto ON M5T 1A4
Tel.: 416-368-2277 1-800-718-LINK
Fax: 416-368-8354
Email: <general@youthactionnetwork.org>
Web site: <http://www.youthactionnetwork.org/>
<http//:www.YouthWeek.org>
Contact: Tia Dafnos
NGO Description: Youth Action Network / Réseau d'action
jeunesse (YAN) is a
youth-run national, charitable organization with a mission is
to inform and
motivate young people to take action on social and environmental
justice
issues that concern them.
Solidarity Message: When governments, military regimes, and individuals
in
power under the guise of "national security" take advantage
of their
untrammeled access to military machinery and arms, scores of innocent
people fall victim to such plays of force and statecraft.
"Defense" is a
flimsy excuse for the right to bomb innocent towns and factories.
"Defense" is not a right to respond to violence with
even more violence.
Youth Action Network/Réseau d'action jeunesse (YAN) would
like to express
its strongest condemnation to the use of arms against innocent
children and
women, civilians, and oppressed peoples everywhere. It is
false to believe
that this is a solution to the world's many conflicts. As
we come together
celebrate nonviolence in Ottawa today, YAN hopes that this tremendous
show
of solidarity and commitment to peace by NGOs all over the world
will, once
and for all, be matched by those we entrust with the right to
leadership.
By recognising that non-violence is the only way forward, let
us finally
begin building the peace that we all seek. With that end,
YAN would like
to re-affirm its commitment to building a culture of peace and
non-violence.
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Zero Tolerance Network
172 Henderson Ave
Ottawa ON K1N 7P6
Tel.: 235-2698 (Ann) 565-6832 (Zia)
Fax: 235-6028
Email: <annvan@raynon.com>
Contact: Ann Van Regan
NGO Description: This small group supports people who have been
abused by
professionals. We offer telephone support, referrals, appointment
accompaniment and guidance concerning the remedies for these situations
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Please Note:
The data on this list is compiled from information forwarded to
the
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade by the endorsing organizations.
Although NGOs were invited to provide contact information, a description
of
their organization and a solidarity message, not all of them did.
If your
organization is listed here and you would like to fill in some
missing
data, please forward the information to Richard Sanders at <overcoat@rogers.com>
We will try to post an updated list soon. Please accept
my apologies if we
have somehow forgotten to list any NGOs or to include data that
was
provided to us.