British Columbia

Peace groups in Vancouver and Victo-
ria shifted organizing activities into high
gear this month for the province’s two
main peace walks, both of which will
focus this year on the twin themes of
disarmament and the environment.

The huge peace marches will both be
on Saturday, April 21, which this year
coincides closely with Earth Day. In

ized by End the Arms Race, participants
will be marching under the banner Walk
for Peace and Planetary Survival, while
the Victoria walk, sponsored by the
Greater Victoria Disarmament Group,
will feature the theme Arms Cost the

April 21 walks link
arms race, environment

Vancouver, where the march is organ- :

Earth.

EAR president Frank Kennedy said
the expansion of the name to “walk for
peace and planetary survival reflects the
growing awareness people have of the
problems that affect our world.

“We will not be able to solve the eco-
nomic, environmental and social prob-
lems facing the world community as long
as we continue to waste one trillion dol-
lars a year on the militarization of our
world,” he said. 3

Details of the rally line-up of speakers
and entertainers, as well as peace walks
planned for other centres are expected to
be available over the next few weeks.

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Salvadoran union head
seeks Canadian aid

The general secretary of the National
Federation of Salvadoran Workers Union
suggested to a Vancouver audience Feb. 16
he could be arrested and imprisoned by the
U.S.-supported government in his home
country for talking about human rights
aes there, as he has been doing in Can-
ada.

“What I am doing here tonight is consi-
dered a subversive act by the Salvadoran
government,” Gerardo Diaz of FENAS-
TRAS said in commenting on draconian
new laws prohibiting freedom of expression
in the Central American country.

Diaz has survived greater dangers. The
trade unionist who was on a national speak-
ing tour of Canada narrowly escaped death
in a bomb explosion that claimed the lives
of several other FENASTRAS members
and supporters last fall.

He gave a hushed audience at the Mari-
time Labour Centre a detailed account of
the Oct. 31 bombing and its aftermath,
when an explosion ripped through the
cafeteria in the union’s building, killing 10
people and wounding several others.

The blast is difficult to describe, Diaz
said.

“It’s like if you were blinking your eyes,
and you close your eyes for a micro-second;
when you open your eyes, (it’s) a totally
different situation,” Diaz related through
translator and local FENASTRAS repre-
sentative, Eduardo Aragon.

“As the environment cleared of smoke, I
began to lay eyes on my brothers and sisters.
They were totally torn apart.”

In the rubble of debris and human
remains he found the body of Febe Eliza-
beth Valasquez, the former FENASTRAS
general secretary: “The skull (was) totally
broken. The door handle was in her head.

“At that very moment we held the
(ARENA government of president Alfredo
Cristiani) responsible’ for that hideous
crime,” Diaz said.

FENASTRAS’ office is only 300 metres
from the National Police headquarters and
the union has been the target of an army
controlled media distortion campaign. El
Salvador’s death squads have been linked
with the army and the ruling ARENA —
National Republican Alliance — party, he
pointed out.

The slogan, “Febe Elizabeth Lives,”
became the rallying cry as the liberation

fighters of the Farabundo Marti National

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Liberation Front (FMLN) launched their
offensive against government troops in San
Salvador, the capital, last November and
December.

While there is no formal link between the

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union and the FMLN, several FENAS-
TRAS members joined the struggle, the aim
of which was to demonstrate that the
national liberation movement was not weak
and to force the government back to the
table for a continuing dialogue on a peace-
ful resolution to the conflict, Diaz said.

“We need every Canadian citizen to be a
part of helping a negotiated political solu-
tion,” he declared.

Diaz, who met with several organizations
including trade unions and federations of
labour in several provinces, urged Canadi-
ans to press their government to work for
human rights in El Salvador and to “give a
cent or two” to the effort.

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