[van-announce] ANOTHER Massive International Peace Rally 15th March

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Subject: ANOTHER Massive International Peace Rally 15th March
From: "Jef Keighley" <keighley at caw.ca>
Date: Fri, March 7, 2003 4:14 pm


It is anticipated that up to 15 million people on five continents marched
on February 15 to oppose war on Iraq.  In fact, the media have dubbed the
people of the world the 'other superpower'.  We must keep up the momentum
at this crucial time, so please help by circulating this announcement as
broadly as possible. Join us for ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION To
Say : "No to War on Iraq" & Peace and Justice in the Middle East

Saturday March 15th
Gather 12:00 p.m. Library Square

1.30 p.m. Rally at Vancouver Art Gallery
Speakers: David Suzuki.  Others speakers and music tba


12.00 p.m. Friday March 14th join us for a 24 hour vigil at the US
Consulate, 1095 West Pender.


Stopwar.ca Endorsement List (note new name of coalition). City of
Vancouver -City of Burnaby - BC Federation of Labour - Dr David Suzuki,
Environmentalist - Anglican Diocese of New Westminster Justice and Peace
Unit - Oxfam Canada - Physicians for Global Survival - Muslim Canadian
Federation - Vancouver & District Labour Council - United Church of Canada
- Campaign to End Sanctions Against the People of Iraq - Canadian Peace
Alliance - CAW Canada - End the Arms Race - B.C. Government and Services
Employees' Union - Coalition Against War on the People of Iraq - Canadian
Federation of Students - Communist Party of Canada - Coalition of
Progressive Electors - Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - New Democratic
Party - Council of Canadians (Vancouver Chapter) - International
Socialists - Justice Peace & Social Concerns Committee, Religious Society
of Friends (Quakers) - Youth For A Better World - ADALA, Canadian Arab
Justice Committee - Anti-Poverty Committee - AMS Women's Centre - Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom (BC) - Coalition of Progressive
Electors - Check Your Head - SFU Muslim Student Association - St Chiara
Community - Vancouver Raging Grannies - Dr Fred Bass City Councilor -
Hospital Employees Union - Vancouver Green Party - The Canadian
Latin-American Collective - International Longshore Workers Union, Local
400 - Libby Davies MP - Svend Robinson MP - Stephen Owen MP - Tim Louis
City Councilor - Lisa Barrett, Mayor Bowen Island - Michael Wallace,
Professor Political Studies UBC - Bob Rosen, Past President Surrey
Teachers Association - Adrienne Montani, Trustee VSB - Valerie Raoul,
Professor Women's Studies & French - Lloyd Edwards, Past President of
Surrey Teachers' Association - Vancouver Vigils - Communist Party of
Canada, Marxist Leninist - Canadians Concerned About Free Trade - Jews For
A Just Peace - Social Justice Committee Unitarian Church of Vancouver -
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation - Palestine Solidarity Group
-- Dan Chambers, United Church Minister - Canada Palestine Support Network
- Council of Canadians, Mid Island Chapter - South Asian Network for
Secularism and Democracy - Mennonite Central Committee - Workers Communist
Party of Iran/Iraq - Women Elders in Action - Douglas College Student
Union - Medical Students For Global Survival - Committee for Solidarity
with Columbia - UBC Social Justice Club - Nursing Undergraduate Society -
SFU Coalition to Stop the War - Philippine Women Centre of BC - Queers
United Against Kapitalism - Canada Palestine Association - Trade Union
Committee for Justice in the Middle East - Canadian Association of Sexual
Assault Centers - Emily Carr Students Against the War Coalition - Direct
Action Against Refugee Exploitation - International Society for Peace &
Human Rights - Marginalized Workers Action League - Lawyers Against the
War - Franciscan Sisters of the Attonement - Sunshine Coast Peace Group -
Arab Palestine Association - Simon Frazer Student Society - New Socialist
Group - The Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Happy Planet
Foods -Salamaat - School of the Americas Watch, Kootenay Branch - Green
Party (BC) - BC Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines -
Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance - Vancouver Non-Violence Training
Collective - Council of Canadians (Richmond Chapter) - Salaamat -Bible
Holiness Movement - Filipino Nurses Support Group - College and Institute
Educators Association - Global and Societal Ministries BC Conference,
United Church of Canada -Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign - Direct
Action Against Refugee Exploitation.- Senior Networks BC - Christian Task
Force on Central America (BC) - BC Teachers Federation - Council of
Canadians (BC) - Burnaby Civic Employees' Union, Local 23 CUPE - Trinity
United Church (Kitsilano) Social Justice Group - Franciscan Sisters of Joy
- Vida & Paz Columbia - Douglas College Faculty Association & Executive
Council - Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network - Vancouver Secondary
Teachers' Association - BC Association of Social Workers - Seniors on
Guard for Medicare - Boundary Peace Initiative - Social Justice Committee
of South Frazer Unitarian Congregation - International Alliance of
Theatrical and Stage Employees, Local 891 Grassroots Women - Pacific
Spirit Family & Community Services Society- Vancouver Catholic Worker -
Chinese Refugees Rights Committee - Union of Spiritual Communities in
Christ (Dukabors) - Writers Against War - The Peace Walker Society - BC
Synod-Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - Vancouver Community College
Faculty Association - Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians -
"Solidarity Notes", VDLC Labour Choir - World Sikh Organization - Common
Ground.

For information or to join the coalition e-mail <iremac at shaw.ca> or
phone 604 737-1299 or 604 687 3223.
http://stopwar.ca