C-SWAY: Protest on May 15 to demand end to the war

[C-SWAY]

Coalition to Stop the War Against Yugoslavia (C-SWAY)

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For immediate release, Tuesday, May 11, 1999

Protest on May 15 to demand end to the war

A coalition of labour, student, religious and disarmament groups is
asking all concerned citizens to join a peace march to demand an end to
Canada’s participation in the war against Yugoslavia. After assembling
at Confederation Park at Elgin St. and Laurier at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday,
May 15, the group will march to the to the Department of National
Defence (i.e. war) and the Department of Foreign Affairs.

“For Canada to use bombs as an instrument of foreign policy is
barbaric,” said Len Bush, a vice-president of the Ottawa-Carleton CUPE
District Council and one of the founders of C-SWAY.

The march is the first of a month-long series of events organized by the
Coalition to Stop the War Against Yugoslavia (C-SWAY), formed last month
in opposition to NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia.

"Why do we kill people to show killing people is wrong?"said Rev.Sharon
Moon of Ottawa’s First United Church, who will be speaking at the rally.

The coalition is one of a growing number of coalitions of labour,
church and university groups opposing the war, which have sprung up from
Berlin to Vancouver over the recent weeks.