~ | SOLIDARITY/ NICARAGUA — Around the Tools for Peace office, they Still mention the origins of the project that ‘HOw nets some $2 million value in goods Yearly for resource-starved Nicaragua. | Project co-ordinators: such as Vinny | | ™ohr will mention that in 1981, members of _S ite United Fishermen and Allied Workers /~fion, in concert with the local Oxfam Office, conducted a drive that netted several tonnes of fishing equipment for the Central erican nation. Today they'll proudly point out that 4001s for Peace, as the yearly materials- and-cash gathering project is called, has Stpport committees in 40 British Columbia “ntres, and dozens of others across Can- ada. Ina few shot years, the aid project has Muickly outgrown its B.C. roots. . Before the campaign broadened to Include the general community in subse- quent years, the annual drive was “‘a kind of | “ean out your basement campaign,” says | Mohr, who co-ordinates the B.C. portion of ' the Now-national effort. |. We've gotten more particular since : then, While it’s still true that we take all )“Inds of items, the logistics and costs of Shipping means we have to be more selec- | live about what we accept.” Mohr says the campaign is enjoying good | “Ypport in certain areas this year, likely use the so-called Contragate or Iran- )) Sate hearings have tarnished the image of }) "° U.S. Reagan administration (whose key embers were found to-be circumventing | the will of Congress by making shady arms “als with Iran to fund Nicaraguan counter- Volutionaries). i is year the organizing body, the Coali- 22 to Aid Nicaragua, has overseen the ) ‘tribution of more than 40,000 leaflets actoss Canada outlining the five priorities this year’s campaign. _ +he priorities are: © Notebooks and other paper items P marily intended for school use. “‘Nicara- has a severe paper shortage,” Mohr | Notes, © Rubber boots and other footgear, Ptimarily for agricultural use as a means of Protecting the largely-female work force “Tom €xposure to field pesticides. Occupational health and safety gear pr Nicaragua’s mines, fields and factories. _ .uded are goggles, industrial earmuffs, ~ “Tubber work gloves. AES: . > Corrogated tin roofing, a desperately ced material for housing all those dis- ed by the contra attacks, in which sev- \,.., Villages have been torched, and for Skito Indians returning from refugee “Mps in neighbouring countries. ~ © Fishing gear. The initial target of the _ Sinal UFAWU campaign, Nicaragua ® Philosophy/Nov. 22 ® Strategy and Tactics/Nov. 29 ® Political Economy/Dec. 6 Four part series with classes running every Sunday at 7 p.m., Nov. 22 through Dec. 13. Notebooks at top of the list in Tools for Peace Camp B.C. CO-ORDINATOR VINNY MOHR . communities in province. continually needs boats and tackle for its commercial fishery (union volunteers are putting the finishing touches on a boat to be shipped to Nicaragua from Vancouver). Tools for Peace has produced individual leaflets on each of the priority items. The leaflets are distributed to churches, com- munity centres, trade union offices and other such common areas, says Mohr. The health and safety equipment cam- paign is the original feature of the 1987 drive, Mohr reports. Run by the Trade Union Group of the B.C.-Nicaragua Solid- arity Committee, it aims to supply the new occupational health and safety branch to the Union Labour School in the town of Granada, Nicaragua. ; The leaflet on the subject notes that “there are no frills at this school. “The meals are protein-deficient and workers bring their own notebooks and pencils. Course materials are scarce and few audio-visual aids are available. While the school is able to accommodate 80 workers, the unions can afford to subsidize only 50,” the leaflet states. The Trade Union Group has established a bursary fund and a building fund for the school. The leaflet entitled ‘‘Priority Nicaragua: Notebooks,” reports that in recent years 44 new schools have been built on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast, where most Native people live and where English is usually spoken. But as an education ministry official, quoted in the leaflet, notes, “no notebooks, no school.” : Mohr says that although they’re not listed among the priorities in 1987, Tools for Peace still accepts items such as coloured pens and paper for children and construc- tion tools, and maintains “a rather extensive list of items needed for medical purposes. 7 p.m. Centre for Socialist Education 1726 East Hastings $5 registration fee For info call Kim at 254-9836. Sponsored by CPC Regional Committee. TRIBUNE PHOTO — DAN KEETON .. Tools for Peace campaign waged in 40 “If anyone wants some guidance in what to send, they can phone and we’ll tell them or send them a list,” Mohr advises. This year the campaign faces an added expense because it now pays rent on the space formerly donated by the city of Van- couver for the national warehouse. The newly-elected council rented half of the space formerly alloted to Tools for Peace, and charges the organization rent for the remaining half. Additionally, “people think we have our own ship, ora ship donates its space to the campaign, which just isn’t the case. We have to pay for all shipping,” Mohr reports. In fact, it’s been more expensive to rent space on ships since the U.S. boycott of Nicaragua has limited the number of Nicaragua-bound vessels visiting Vancou- ver. And last year’s donations had to be unloaded in another country and trucked into Nicaragua, Mohr says. Volunteers are ready to make the rounds of the Lower Mainland to pick up large items for the campaign, which will stop col- lecting and storing items — unless it’s an emergency — around mid-January. The number is 879-3116 in Vancouver. 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