Perestroika:
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wave

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exis

Probe of Kerkhoff highway contract urged

September 16, 1987
40°
Vol. 50, No. 34

Sanctions demand
renewed as Shell

boycott launched

_ While the taped sound of church bells

pealed out from an accompanying audio —

Cassette deck, a Vancouver alderman

‘old passers-by at Robson Square Tues-

day that the city’s status as a peace capi-
tal has promoted Pro-peace sentiment
around the world.

Ina public address organized by the

Vancouver branch of Canada’s United
Nations Association, Ald. Libby Davies
and UNA president David Cadman

tonal Day of Peace and the fact that the

the city.
: “Today is a special occasion because
the United Nations has singled out Van-
_ Couver for special recognition because of
__ its peace activities in 1986,” Davies said.
Last week UN Secretary-General Jav-
ier Perez de Cuellar announced that

a ee

Marked the United Nations Interna-

__UN has accorded special recognition to

Vancouver will be among 57 cities and

312 organizations to be awarded special _

cere on the international peace
last year the UNA. anined a

peace pavilion at Expo 86 while the city

and local peace organizations, to mark
the UN International Year of Peace,
hosted a special symposium on world
peace to precede the annual Walk for

Peace, which drew some 70,000 partici-

pants. a5

The Walk for Peace, initiated by a
coalition of peace organizations that has
grown to become the 250-group member
End the Arms Race, has been supported
financially by city council ever since the
former civic administration of the
Committee of Progressive Electors and
the Civic Independents underwrote the
costs of the march and distributed special

Vancouver alderman Libby Davies (I) at ‘A Peal for Peace’ event with organizer Shirley Secon

leaflets to Vancouver Bp usetiolds prom-—

eae the march and its aims.

_ Cadman said the noon-hour address,

entitled “A Peal for Peace” — some
area churches were to ring their bells at
_ that time — was one of 100 such events
marking the peace day across Canada.

It consisted of one minute’s silence, to
“contemplate the $1.6 trillion spent

annually on arms in the world,” followed —

by one minute of ringing bells.

Davies said the UN recognition shows
that Vancouver “is an example to
governments around the world.

“Today is a time for encouragement
and optimism that what we do is mean-
ingful and significant, and shows that we

‘must work doubly hard to convince

senior governments not to spend needed
tax dollars on wasteful armaments,”
Davies declared.

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Patrons of Shell gasoline will be asked to
take their cars elsewhere by anti-apartheid
activists who launched Canada’s contribu-
tion to the growing world-wide boycott of
the multinational oil company.

At a breakfast press announcement
Tuesday members of the Anti-Apartheid
Network said Shell Canada is part of Royal
Dutch/Shell, which operates in racist-ruled
South Africa and services the police and
military there.

Rev. Tom Anthony said claims that Shell
Canada has nothing to do with the South
African firm are “patently untrue.”
-»‘Multinationabcorporations deliberately
organize themselves in such a way so that
they have a variety of appearances and faces
around the world, and they always pretend
not to be the same as one of their other
faces. Shell Canada is Shell, make no mis-
take about it,” he asserted.

Anthony, a former associate director of
the world wide Interface Centre for Corpo-
rate Responsibility, said Shell Oil’s support
for South Africa’s “apartheid regime is
absolutely primary and fundamental, and
that is why it has now become the main
multinational target of international pres-
sure. -

“Shell is greasing, oiling, lubricating the
apartheid regime,” he told the crowd,
including representatives of the B.C. Feder-
ation of Labour, the Canadian Labour
Congress, the B.C. Teachers Federation
and several unions and community and
church groups.

Anthony said support for the Shell boy-
cott has been growing in the countries
where it has already been launched; includ-
ing the United States, where the City of New
York refuses to buy Shell products for its
petroleum needs.

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