[pr-x] Reminder: Sunday Sept. 20 rally for UN Peace Day, oppose arms sales to Saudi Arabia - 3:30 pm at VPL

[Kimball Cariou]

*Vancouver rally for UN International Peace Day to condemn Canadian arms 
sales to Saudi Arabia*

Sunday, Sept. 20, 3:30-5 pm, Vancouver Public Library (Robson Street side)

https://www.facebook.com/events/3210918015659107/

(Please circulate widely.)

Anti-war and labour groups in a number of Canadian cities are mobilizing 
to mark the annual United Nations International Peace Day, focusing on 
Canada's ongoing arms exports to the reactionary Saudi Arabian monarchy.

Last June 11, the first pan-Canadian day of action against arms exports 
to Saudi Arabia saw local actions in Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, 
Vancouver, Kitchener-Waterloo, Mississauga, Niagara and outside the 
General Dynamics Land Systems plant in London, Ontario. The day of 
action was endorsed by CUPE Ontario, CUPE National, and the Canadian 
Labour Congress. Labour Against the Arms Trade has continued to work 
with Amnesty International, Oxfam Canada, Project Ploughshares, Critical 
Will, People for Peace London and other coalition partners to ensure 
that arms conversion for peaceful green production is central to ongoing 
efforts to bring an end to arms exports to Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen continues and with the 
COVID-19 pandemic intensifying the world's worst humanitarian crisis our 
efforts to bring an end to arms exports to Saudi are needed now more 
than ever.

Please join the organizers of this event in Vancouver to make your 
voices heard on this critical issue, and on other aspects of the 
struggle for global peace and disarmament! /(Yes, we know that UN 
International Peace Day is actually on Monday, Sept. 21, but Sunday was 
more suitable for an activity here.)/
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