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Own ‘banner and also co-operated with

Other groups. :
The CCND ranks dwindled in the later
but the Peace Council continued its
Work, increasingly focusing it on the oppo-
Sition to the war in Vietnam. And the co-
Operation with other peace groups also
came more important as the Peace Coun-
Gil took the initiative in 1965 founding the
Peace Action League which included the
tllowship of Reconciliation and other

Stoups. :

“Iremember going to meeting at a home

Sut on Point Grey Road to set up the ~

“ague,” Rosaleen remembers. “We car-
hed on all through the campaign against the
War in Vietnam, organizing demonstrations
4nd rallies as well as a vigil every Saturday, a

dition that continued for years.
‘I thought after the war ended that I

_ Would have Saturdays free again,” she says.

ut something else always came along —
there’s always work to be done.”

Throughout the campaign, the Peace
Council was a spark but also a leader in
*nphasizing the importance of involving

€ trade union movement and endeavoring
'0 make the connection between the cam-

_ Paign to achieve peace in Vietnam and dis-

amament.
In many ways, the 100-member End the
S Race represents the broad coalition
hat those in the Peace Council have striven
°F over the years. Rosaleen emphasizes that
Ne objective factors — the growing realiza-
tion world-wide of the utter destruction of
Nuclear war, the European campaign
4Rainst cruise and Pershing missiles — are
Plimary. But as Kennedy noted at the 1982

Walk for Peace, it is also a culmination of

the day-by-day, year-by-year work of the
face Council.

bridging
generations

That was recognized when the coalition
was founded and elected Carmela Allevato,
then the president of the Peace Council, as
the co-chair along with Kennedy.

As for the council itself, says Rosaleen, “I
think we’ve grown in influence and stature.
I think many people recognize us as the
group that worked for peace through thick
and thin and was always prepared to work
with other groups.”

The affiliation through the Canadian
Peace Congress to the World Peace Council
is also very important, she says. She was
herself a delegate to the WPC conference in
Poland in 1977.

Today, sitting.in the Peace Council office,
answering the phone and dealing with the
correspondence that has increased along
with the mailing list, Rosaleen is reluctant to
talk too much about herself or her three
decades of involvement in the peace move-
ment. “I’m much more interested in the
future than in the past,” she says simply.

She allows that the birth of her-son in
1940 gave an added urgency to her work for
peace but notes that she thinks “much more
now about my grandchildren and what
their future will be.

“In 1949, we thought: never again
—never again another war, never again another
Hiroshima,” she says. ““But now the notion

_ of nuclear war has made it that much more

imperative.
“Now it would be not another Hiroshima
but the total destruction of the world. And I

. think a lot more people are coming to real-

ize that there would be no survival. The
movement has to succeed, we have to
achieve disarmament.

“Now that Reagan has been re-elected,
we'll just have to work a little harder to
achieve that.”

SOS SS

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Season's Sreetings
to all readers of the

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Veterans of the

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Season's Greetings
and our best wishes
in the New Year
International Year of Youth

For alife

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