Victoria Peace Centre

The Victoria Peace Centre (VPC) was front and foremost in peace actions in Victoria for twenty years. Formerly called the Greater Victoria Disarmament Group, we initiated the annual Peace Walk, now broadened to Peace, Earth and Justice, the longest continuing walk in Canada, since 1982. Over the years we have had a resource centre, published leaflets, newsletters and information packets, we've organized many workshops, forums and other public events.

In 2002, the Peace Centre put on a peace film festival - some of our films have been donated to VIPIRG at UVic and are available for loan at VIPIRG's resource centre in the Student Union Building (721-8629).

We helped organize the annual Walk and Peace, Earth, Justice Week. Our display table at the Walk featured postcards about Iraq and wonderful new T-shirts. We still have a great selection of T-shirts in various sizes and colours for $15 each, with a large reproduction of our distinct peace sign logo.

The Peace Centre supports the Peace, Earth & Justice News service which has over 1500 subscribers. We also maintain this www.vicpeace.ca website.

On Hiroshima Day, we co-sponsored the production of a leaflet, "From Hiroshima to Baghdad", in English, Japanese and Arabic that was distributed downtown and at the Coho ferry and to groups across Canada and abroad.

We continue to operate the Nuclear Ship Warning network with house signs and actions.

Once again we plan to have a No War Toys event near Christmas.

Index

• Actions
• Board of Directors
• Brochure
• Campaigns & Issues
• PEJ Chat News & Views (For activists and their friends.)
• Weekly Events Listing by Email (Victoria or Vancouver)
• Issues & Campaigns
• Lawsuit To Stop Nuclear Ships: Affidavits (VIP Society)
• Links, Peace
• Nanoose Bay Weapons Testing Range (CFMETR)
• News Releases
• Nuclear Ship Warning Signs Campaign
• Peace, Earth & Justice News Free daily web and email news service
• Peace Update Magazine (1996)
• Reading & Resources
• Response Form
• Victoria Peace Coalition (Victoria's response to September 11)
• Volunteers Needed

• Abolition 2000 (US), (805) 965-3443, 568-0466 fax, email
• Angus Reid 1998 Poll showing 93% of Canadians want their country involved in global negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons
• Canadian Government Report: "Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons for the Twenty-First Century
• Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Waterloo), (519) 888-6541, 885-0014 fax, email
• Canberra Commission Executive Summary (Australia)
• World Court advisory opinion against nuclear weapons, July 8, 1996

Boycott the USA

Nuclear Warships

• Jane Brett, A Dozen Questions To Ask About Nuclear Ships
• Jackson Davis Study, Executive Summary
     Nuclear accidents on military vessels in Canadian ports: site-specific analyses for Esquimalt/Victoria
• Lawsuit To Stop Nuclear Ships: Affidavits
• Nanoose Bay Weapons Testing Range (SEE BELOW)
• Nuclear Ship Warning Signs Campaign

•    Agreement in Principle between Federal & Provincial Governments
•    British Columbia Government Nanoose Website
•    Constitutional Lawsuit, Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee
•    Department of National Defence
•    Economic Assessment of CFMETR Nanoose Bay, Jack Ruitenbeek
•    Expropriation Hearings Presentations
  • Affidavit of Al Rycroft challenging expropriation (see also SPEC below)
•    Canada vs British Columbia concerning cancellation of the Nanoose seabed licence
         Lawsuit: Canada's Writ of Summons
         BC's Statement of Defence and Counterclaim
•     Map showing Nanoose Test Range
•     Nanoose Conversion Campaign
•     Photo Tour of Nanoose Base
•     SPEC: Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, (604) 736-7732, 736-7115 fax, email
        including SPEC's court challenge of the Expropriation Hearings

Depleted Uranium Weapons

• Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (Montreal), (514) 489-5118 phone/fax, email
• Earth/Environment Links
• From Hiroshima to Baghdad (flyer)
• International Action Center (US) (415) 821-6545, 921-5782 fax, email

• Victoria Peace Coalition, (250) 592-8307 phone/fax, email

War in the Balkans

• Anti-war web site (US)
• International Action Center (US)
• Depleted Uranium Weapons
• Z Magazine (US)

• Depleted Uranium Weapons
• From Hiroshima to Baghdad (flyer)
• Voices in the Wilderness (USA), A Campaign to end the US/UN Economic Sanctions Against the People of Iraq, (773) 784-8065, 784-8837 fax, email

INDEX

• Angus Reid 1998 Poll showing 93% of Canadians want their country involved in global negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons
• Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Nuclear Map of Canada
• Canadian Government Committee Report: Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons
• Canberra Commission Executive Summary (Australia)
• David R. Morgan, 16 Known Nuclear Crises (74 K)
• End the Arms Race, Video: "Bombs Away: Airshow Canada, Globalization and the New International Arms Trade" (28 minutes)
• Gene Sharp, 198 Methods of Non-Violent Action (list only)
• Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (55 K)
• Jackson Davis Study, Executive Summary
     Nuclear accidents on military vessels in Canadian ports:
     site-specific analyses for Esquimalt/Victoria
• U.S. Department of Defense, Strategic Assessment: The Internet (103 K)
• Peace, Earth & Justice News Free daily web & email news service: PEJ News.

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Editors for the Peace, Earth & Justice News
These Lists provide several hundred readers with news and information on peace, environment and justice issues, with Victoria to international content. Volunteer Editors read incoming emails and recommend which articles should be re-distributed.

Nuclear Ship Warning Signs Campaign
This campaign monitors the comings and goings of nuclear ships in Victoria, and activates a phone tree whenever a nuclear ship is in port. Those on the phone tree put up "Warning: Nuclear Ship Now In Port" signs in their window, lawn or car, whenever a nuclear ship is in port. Downtown businesses, as well as homes, are part of this campaign. To get a sign and join the phone tree, call (250) 642-5120 or send an email.

Web Site Developers
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