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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.

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“nt status of the arms race; re-directing

Urces from the arms race to improving

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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

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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 , est. : Ni : Fernie 250 oe 2,200 Powell River : 600 Ola; : : Prince George : 200 od 700 Prince Rupert 250 Richmond 1,600 Van. & : 9.500 : Sunshine Coast 800 eg : Terrace : 50 an. Fishermen = 800 Trail 800 €st Side 4,800 FRASER VALLEY | VANCOUVER ISLAND Taser Valley _ : - 300 Campbell River 2,000 elt : 850 Comox Valley 1,500 700 Nanaimo - 2,800 ple Ridge 2,800 North Island 400 g 5,000 __— Port: Alberni 1,500 te Rock 1,400 ‘Victoria 3,200 MLOOPS-SHUSWAP oe — _ Miscellaneous 2,000 950 77,150

750 TOTAL:

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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