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Eyes of world on city peace events

‘ foraioe days this month, from April 19
: 3 27, the eyes of the world will be on
P ty of Vancouver when she hosts the
Festival and the Walk for Peace.
: = ata time of renewed momentum for
a Peace movement, the ‘“Van-
. Proposals” — slated to be the
of the three-day international peace
a en — could well be decisive in
towards disarmament, reaffirming
fouver’s position as “peace capital of
Al merica.”
50 though the two events are separately
Rsored — the festival by the city’s Cen-
by th Tommission and the Walk for Peace
~~ nd the Arms Race coalition — they
When ne in the Walk for Peace on April 27
ae two huge streams of marchers will
rally Tge on B.C. Place Stadium for a mass

at festival gets underway April 19 at 1
“at Sunset Beach in a huge tent specially
Mich for the event. Vancouver mayor
ael Harcourt will kick off the opening

race in the
Third World;
how individu-
als can work
to prevent nu-
clear war; and
the role of
governments
like Canada’s
in promoting
disarmament.

Prominent
figures from
around the
world have
been invited
to take part in |
the event, in-
cluding Joan
Ruddock, chair
of Campaign
for Nuclear
Disarmament | os
in Britain; inter-

April 19-27, 1986

“Monies followed by a program of sin- __ nationally ac-
, -@hcers and special events. claimed econo-
Cents tent itself will be the site of various mist John
Sch throughout the week, including a Kenneth Gal-

°0l children’s day April 21 and a gala
Ta concert April 23.

foo. © Highlight of festival events and the

tay = World attention will be the three-

Oh €tnational peace symposium at the University; peraen

um Theatre April 24-26. Vitaly Zhur- P=)

© symposium covers five sessions: The kin, deputy :

“nt status of the arms race; re-directing

Urces from the arms race to improving

*onomy; the social effects of the arms

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braith; Michael
Pentz, dean of F
sciences at

London’s Open
Peace Festioad Teng, Sanat Beach. #4

THE VANCOUVER CENTENNIAL DISARMAMENT SYMPOSIUM
25 international experts create strategies for preventing nuclear war:
Orpheum Theatre, April 24-26 Tickets at VTC/CBO outlets

director of the Institute of the USA and
Canada in Moscow; former U.S. SALT
negotiator Paul Warnke; New Zealand

ential

manders.

a oe leader and

current presi-
dent of the
World Coun-
cil of Churches
will be partic-

ipating.

Labor Party
MP Jim Ander-
ton; and Gert
Bastian, found-
ing member of
Generals for
Peace, an influ-
group
of former
NATO com-

In addition,
several Cana-
dian leaders
including Bish-
op Remi De
Roo, Alberta
Federation of
Labor _presi-
dent Dave Wer-
lin and the
Very Reverend
= — Lois Wilson,
United Church

Mexican ambassador to the UN — will
draft the “Vancouver Proposals”, concrete
disarmament proposals that will be sent
immediately to Reagan and Gorbachev as
well as the leaders of other NATO and

Warsaw Pact countries.

Symposium sessions run April 24 and 25,
from 7 to 10 p.m., and April 26, 9 a.m. to

12:30 p.m., 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m.

Tickets for the five sessions are $36 for
adults, $21 for seniors, students and unem-
ployed. Single session tickets are $9 and $6.
All are available at Vancouver Ticket Cen-

tre and Concert Box Office outlets.

Capping the peace week — already
billed as the largest peace event in Canadian
history — will be the Walk for Peace on
April 27 which will begin this year from two
marshalling points: Kitsilano Beach Park at
Cornwall and Arbutus, and Johnathan

Rogers Park at 7th and Manitoba.

The march — across the Burrard Street
and Cambie Street bridges to B.C. Place

Stadium — begins at 12 noon.

At the con-
clusion of the
symposium,
three Nobel
laureates — Irish diplomat Sean McBride;
Pugwash leader Dorothy Hodgkin from
Britain; and Alfonso Garcia Robles, former

The rally program is set to begin at
approximately 2 p.m. opened by Harcourt
and Hiroshima mayor Takeshi Araki: Joan
Ruddock, Gert Bastian, and the Very Reve-
rend Lois Wilson headline a list of interna-
tional speakers slated to address the giant
rally.

Dozens of artists, including renowned
painter Jack Shadbolt as well as students
from the Emily Carr College of Art are also
preparing a huge backdrop for the rally
stage which, like the walk itself, will be seen
in television images around the world.

* This year, the Tribune moves into its second 50 years of publication and
_ “£Te once again calling on readers and supporters to give us the financial
| Muscle to do it.
€ annual press drive gets underway with this issue. The target we’ve
Set — for the 12 weeks between now and June 21 — is $95,000.
lap PES less than we set our rights on _ the donations — of all our readers and
toed not because we need less, but —_ supporters to make that target by the
Use we realize that you can’t put time of the victory banquet. We need
50k Special effort that went into our that $95,000, and more, to keep the
Anniversary into every drive. Tribune fighting over the next year. We
But it’s going to take all the ideas, believe our supporters know that and

ergy — and, to put it straight up, will respond.
Here are the targets...
| GREATER VANCOUVER OKANAGAN _
Bill Bennett 700 Penticton 750
| SUrnaby 6,000 Vernon 1,500
‘Eeauitiam 2,700 N. COAST/INTERIOR
ee Ones hate Correspondence 2,000
Z eee ae Creston 400
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Ni : Fernie 250
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Ola; : : Prince George : 200
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Richmond 1,600
Van. & : 9.500 : Sunshine Coast 800
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Taser Valley _ : - 300 Campbell River 2,000
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5,000 __— Port: Alberni 1,500
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The goal by June 21 — $95,000

It’s an important year that we set
out towards our own first century.
This year, 1986, marks the 100th
anniversary of May Day and the
centenary of the city of Vancouver, a
city that can count among its many
labor traditions the first general strike.
in the country, called by the
Vancouver Trades and Labor Council
to protest the murder of Ginger
Goodwin in 1918.

It is also a year in which thousands
of trade unionists, in a round of
bargaining on a scale not seen in many
years, will be defending not only their
collective agreement but longstanding
trade union rights that are under
attack from employers, the courts and
the Social Credit government.

It will most likely be the year for a
provincial election in which people
across this province will have an
opportunity to turn the Socred
government out. It will be a decisive
election in the city of Vancouver, an
opportunity to extend the progressive
majority and elect alderman Harry
Rankin as mayor.

And, perhaps most important, it will
be a decisive year for the peace
movement as the two paths are
delineated more clearly than
ever — whether to move towards
deployment of Star Wars weapons or
towards a ban on nuclear testing and
progress towards the elimination of
nuclear weapons.

In all of those issues, the Tribune has
a role to play, an indispensable role for
the labor and progressive movement.
But the press drive is critical to our
future.

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We’re counting on you to do ~
everything you can.

This year, as in past years, there is
the drive contest, with three prizes: a
new, 1986 Ford Escort, an all-expenses
paid trip for two to Cuba and a
Hitachi videocassette recorder.

Again we’re counting on many
people to set the pace for the drive: the
press builders who raise $75 or more;
the honor press builders who raise
$175 or more, and the 500 Club. And
as in the 50th anniversary, there is a
special category for those who raise
$1,000 or more, which this year will be
the First Century Club.

Check the press club targets and
watch for the various events scheduled
throughout the drive.

We're depending on you for $95,000
by June 21.

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