Antiwar conference to be held in Toronto
1986Barry Weisleder 1986-11Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 8 →
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TORONTO—The Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), Canada's most broadly-based local alliance against the U.S. war in Central America, calls on all interested organizations and individuals to attend TAIC's Anti-Intervention Action Conference on November 15-16, 1986.
The gathering will be held at Cody Hall, Russell St. and St. George, on the University of Toronto campus.
In the wake of the U.S. Congress' decision to give $100 million aid to the contra mercenaries and to place the CIA officially in charge of the war against Nicaragua, the two-day gathering, the only one of its type scheduled this year in Canada, takes on a special urgency.
A major emphasis of the conference will be educational presentations, panels, and workshops on the current situation across Central America.
Guest speakers will include rep -resentatives of the Nicaraguan government; the FDR-FMLN liberation movement in El Salvador; Richard Johnston, an NDP member of the Ontario Legislature who participated in the recent Louis Riel Teachers' Brigade in Nicaragua; rep -resentatives from the Guatemalan com -munity; and representatives from anti-intervention groups across English Canada and Quebec.
The conference will consider plans and perspectives for many anti-intervention educational and protest activities, including a major cross-Canada demonstration for the Alliance Box 12082 Edmonton, Alliance P.O. Box 7 Vancouver V5R 5T3 spring of 1987. TAIC is a locally-based coalition of labor, church, disarmament, women's rights and community groups. Its purpose in inviting participation from across the country at this conference is to facilitate better coordination on a PanCanadian basis for work against the war in Central America, including against Canadian government complicity wih U.S. militarism.
The Anti-Intervention Action Conference has been endorsed by the Ontario New Democratic Party, the Ontario Regional meeting of the Central America Solidarity Network, the Central American Mobilization Committee of Vancouver, TDN Youth, Youth Against Apartheid-in addition to the support of the over 90 organizations affiliated to the TAIC.
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