Help Oppose CANSEC: Canada's Top Weapons Bazaar
http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/OpposeCANSEC.htm
"CANSEC is Canada's largest weapons trade exhibition and it will be held in Ottawa, June 2-3, 2010. This is a call for help!.."
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Less than a month to go. Richard Sanders sends this:
An article about the CANSEC weapons trade show called "DND lets staff take trade-show freebies" was published on the front page of The Ottawa Citizen, May 12. It was also published in numerous daily newspapers across Canada under the title "Changes to DND hospitality rules at military trade show raising eyebrows." It reads like a free promotion for Canada's largest weapons trade show. Read it here:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/food/lets+staff+take+trade+show+freebies/3015833/story.html?id=3015833 The article served out a very "faint critique" of Canada's top war-industry exhibition. The worst thing the article manages to say about CANSEC is that some people find it questionable that DND is bending the rules to allow armed forces personnel to receive free meals while attending this arms bazaar.
and:
Here are some Quicklinks to info about CANSEC and COAT's opposition to it
http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/Quicklinks.htm
(I have lots more from Richard Sanders and COAT but it would fill a page)
PROTEST the CANSEC WEAPONS FAIR Wednesday June 1 (tomorrow!)
Ottawa, Lansdowne Park at Bank Street (1 and 7 buses still go there; if driving, check map for construction detours)
Putting a SNAG in Canada's largest weapons bazaar Organised by Raging Grannies, NOWAR/Paix, Homes Not Bombs, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, etc
See details here: http://www.nowar-paix.ca/snag/
Starting at 8 AM, but come when you can.
Rally with speakers and music starts at 10 am
Be part of a die-in at noon
Provide support at 12:15 for individuals risking arrest as they attempt to nonviolently enter CANSEC and talk to vendors and participants.
Thursday June 2 Parliament Hill, 11:30-1:30 Join Poets Against War for a powerful demonstration.
JUNE 1 DETAILS: 8:00. Fence decorating, music, picketing, reading of names of those who have died in war 10:00.
Songs and Speakers: Presented by Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and Physicians for Global Survival
Speakers include: David Kilgour, MP for Edmonton Alberta (Retired) Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade and others.
Singing by:
Norm Doucette, Tim Kitz, Steve Richer, Chris White, Sean Griffiths and Raging Grannies from Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto
12 Noon
Die-in to sounds of war
Participate in a die-in to symbolically represent the victims of weapons as now being displayed at CANSEC.
Immediately following the die-in
Support the SNAG Nonviolent Direct Action
Individuals prepared to risk arrest for their beliefs will nonviolently attempt to enter CANSEC to dialog with the exhibitors and participants about the Nuremberg principles, and asking them to sign a commitment to adhere to them.
JUNE 2 POETS AGAINST WAR
11:30 at Parliament Hill
Poets Against War will read poetry and play dead, bearing the names of weapons manufacturers and countries at war that use Canadian weaponry and systems. Please join this powerful demonstration.
Follow events on Twitter @snagCANSEC