DISARMAMENT

TRIBUNE PHOTO — BRIAN FERGUSON

WALK FOR PEACE ‘84.. .outside the Lower Mainland, the peace sentiment held sway in
marches and rallies in several B.C. and Canadian centres. Above (clockwise, from top)
Campbell River marchers assemble outside labor centre; in Kamloops, Bert Ogden of the B.C.
Peace Council addresses rally; in Victoria, 6,000 Island resident ‘take a step for peace.’

May Day, 1984: the eve of a general strike in
Chile. Chilean workers vitally need your message
of support during this time of escalating struggle

against the military junta.

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Santiago, Chile

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May Day Greetings of Solidarity
from the
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8 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, MAY 2. 1984

The declaration of the city as a nuclear-

weapons free zone two days earlier brought _

a new impetus to Victoria’s Walk for Peace,
in which thousands marched Apr. 28.

Elsewhere around British Columbia —
in Campbell River, Kamloops and Terrace,
for example — sizeable crowds marched
and rallied for an end to the spiralling world
arms race.

And outside the province, the drive for
peace brought out marchers in Edmonton,
Calgary and Toronto last Saturday.

In Victoria, some 6,000 who marched
through the city’s core heard rally speaker
Bishop Remi De Roo urge them “to never
cease to walk for peace.

“We must remind our leaders war is no
solution to any problem. Conventional war
is obsolete; nuclear war is insanity,” the
outspoken bishop said.

Also addressing the Victoria Walk fo
Peace were Camosun college teacher Dr.
Larry Dettweiler, chemist Peter Pentz and
peace activist Terry Padgham.

Marching behind banners urging “Take
a step for peace,” participants moved from
Centennial Square through downtown and
past the legislature to the rally in MacDo-
nald Park.

Passage of the nuclear-weapons free zone
declaration Apr. 26 came in a 5-4 vote in
Victoria city council. Ald. Martin Levin
said the declaration was part of hundreds of
resolutions from local governments that
send a message to world governments “that
we are profoundly concerned.” ;

In Campbell River, peace marchers
walked under the theme of peace and jobs.
The 20-per cent unemployment rate in the
region makes people realize that arms
expenditures and unemployment are linked,

. Said Walk for Peace Coalition spokesman

Carol Campbell.

’ In Kamloops, several hundred peace
marchers heard addresses by Bert Ogden of
the B.C. Peace Council, former MP Rev.
Peter Rolston, and current NDP MP Nel-
son Riis call for an end to cruise missile
testing.

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Peace wave moves
across the country

1984: 25th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution

“Our power is that of the working class.”
Warm greetings of peace
and solidarity to
all working people
on May Day
from

Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association
P.O. Box 69432, Station K., Vancouver, V5K 4W6

Some 800 people marched for peace 19
Calgary and Edmonton. |

In Toronto, a crowd estimated by orgal- —
izers at about 9,000 marched through the
downtown area, beginning at the provin
legislature in Queen’s Park and rallying at
city hall. ‘

Last year some 20,000 participated in the
annual peace march. But the event had been —
marred somewhat by attacks from right-
wing: counter-demonstrators who favo
cruise missile testing. |

Organizer Angela Browning of the
Against Cruise Testing Coalition praised
the spirit of the 1984 march, noting that
despite the cruise test earlier this yeal,
“people haven’t given up.”

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MAY DAY
GREETINGS

from
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Disarmament
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Peace Petition
Caravan Campaign
(Nanaimo)

Peace petition kicks off in
Nanaimo in May.

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canvassers. And sign your

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