A PEACEFUL FUTURE ... NO MORE HIROSHIMAS

Artists mobilize for peace,
plan Canada-wide festival

All around us is the work of
artists — television, radio, news-
papers, film, theatre — and artists
as creators are becoming more
and more actively involved in the
growing peace movement in
Canada.

Plays about peace are being
performed across Canada, e.g.
Under the Gun, in Vancouver.
Art exhibits on peace are a more
frequent occurrence. Giant
dummys of MacEachen, Trudeau
and street theatre are part of
peace demonstrations. Even
peace buttons are becoming more
artistic, more creative, with var-
ious shapes and graphics being
employed.

Artists in all parts of the world
are active in the peace movement.
Dancers, singers, actors took part
in the one million strong demonst-
ration in New York City last June;
200,000 attended an Artists For
Peace festival in Bochum, FRG;
85 members of the Cleveland
Symphony have organized Musi-
cians Against Nuclear Arma-
ments.

As part of this growing aware-
ness of Canadian artists of the im-
portance of the peace question, is
the development of the national
organization, Arts For Peace
(AFP).

AzIS FOR. PEACE

LES AanSTES POU2 LA PAIX

Founded last summer, this
group is rapidly growing. Earlier
this month for instance almost
1,000 persons met in Montreal to
discuss arts and peace and the
Statement for Peace of AFP.

In its statement AFP calls on
Ottawa to declare Canada a nu-
clear weapons-free zone and
urges all governments to imple-
ment a nuclear arms freeze as a
prelude to general disarmament.

This statement has been en-
dorsed by ACTRA (Association
of Canadian Television and Radio
Artists), Canadian Actors Equity
and the Writers Union of Canada,
which among them represent
11,000 Canadian artists.

Dan Ross, president of Arts for
Peace sees a need for a specific
group for artists. ‘“The artist’s job
is to take an idea and dramatize it,
present it to capture the imagina-

tion of people in the broad
community. ... Artists can do
things, other people can’t. Im-
agine artists preparing floats, etc.,
for marches. Imagine four, five,
six floats in a parade.”

The group is currently engaged
in two converging projects. They
are in the process of setting up
chapters of artists in as many
cities across the country as
possible.

At the same time AFP is plan-
ning a Canada-wide’ Artspeace
Festival, July 24-30. The concept
is to have as many institutions as
possible — libraries, galleries,
book stores—have peaceexhibits.
The theme will be Celebration of
Life. :

Artists, like other working
Canadians are suffering the ef-
fects of military spending. “‘It’s
not only the creation of jobs, but
what kind of jobs,’ points out
Ross. ‘‘People have to produce
useful things. Just putting people
to work isn’t enough. The arma-
ments industry doesn’t help the
needs of the people ... You can
dig up a road one day and pave it
the next and accomplish as much
as military spending.”’

Arts For Peace mailing address
is box 250, Station F, Toronto,
Ontario M4Y 2L5. — J.K.

- USSR-USA

Where they stand

on the issues

The table below’summarizes some of the fundamental de-
mands of anti-war organizations on key questions of nuclear

disarmament and eliminating the threat of nuclear war.

The positions of the USSR and USA regarding these questions |
are indicated in ‘for/against’ form, as they have been presented in
official documents, public addresses and statements by the lead-

ers of the two countries.

Demands of the peace movement

A ban on production of the neutron
bomb

A freeze on nuclear weapons (both
medium-range in Europe, and
strategic

A universal and complete ban on
nuclear arms tests

Ratification and implementation
of SALT-2 Treaty

Complete liquidation of nuclear
arms

A ban on production of new types
and systems of mass-destruction
weapons

Non-deployment of new medium-
range nuclear missiles in Europe

The establishment of nuclear-free
zones in Europe and a guarantee of
their status by the nuclear powers

Nuclear disarmament in Europe
(including tactical weapons)

Rejection of the theory of
‘limited’ nuclear war

Refusal to be the first to use
nuclear weapons

USSR

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High school, college students
want nuclear weapons-free Canada

By JOSE KAUFMAN

As the Canadian economy gets worse and
worse, we hear more and more talk of high tech-
nology as our savior. And at the same time
government and industry decry the lack of trained
experts in these new fields — not enough university
graduates, not enough technical graduates, etc.

Yet at the same time the federal government is
cutting back on money for education and spending
it on the military. The Canadian Federation of Stu-
dents (Ontario) (CFS-O) calculates ‘‘if defence
spending increases for 1983-84 were only at the
inflationary level (calculated at 8%) the amount
saved would be two to three times the total cutback
in cash transfer payments to all the provinces.”

CFS-O is acting as a network for universities and _

colleges to exchange information on peace. The
concept, according to Wally Brooker, a Staff Re-
source Person with CFS-O, is to ‘gradually build
up to the point where material and research re-
sources of the federation can be utilized to educate
and mobilize students around the issues.”’

As part ofits work CFS-O has distributed leaflets
to Campuses suggesting students be involved in
peace groups, students write to Trudeau and
External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen, and
referenda be held declaring campuses nuclear
weapons-free zones. CFS-O is also urging students
to participate in the April. 23 demonstrations
against Cruise testing in Canada.

CFS-O is presently planninga fallconference with
campus peace groups.

* * *

One new aspect of the peace movement is the
growing involvement of high school students. In
Toronto the group Youth Coalition for Peace
(YCP) has contact with 30 high schools and is
presently circulating petitions to declare high
schools nuclear weapons-free zones. The rep-
resentatives of the group have also addressed two
high schools in Windsor which now have active
peace groups.

YCP is mobilizing for the April 23 demonstration
and with other groups is organizing a demonstra-

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tion on May 14 on the theme, The Right of Youth to
a Peaceful Future. Other participants include East
End Peace Action and University Campuses
Against Militarism (UCAM).

In Winnipeg the Winnipeg Youth for Nuclear
Disarmament (WYND) has been bringing films and
information into high schools to mobilize students
for anti-Cruise demonstrations.

YCP and WYND are part of the national um-
brella organization Canadian Youth for Peace
(CYP) CYP was set up ‘‘with the goal of establish-
ing an anti-war, pro-disarmament network of youth
and student organizations across the country.”’

CYP currently publishes a bimonthly newsletter
on youth peace activities across the country. It also
has assembled an education kit which has back-
ground informationonthearmsraceandinformation
on how to organize peace committees.

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Rejection of bloc policies and
simultaneous disbanding of

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against

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Ocean, Middle East, Latin

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