| PIECES OF PEACE - Take Action to Control Small Arms |
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From: Tracey Pickup <tjpickup@telus.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr
2006 14:21:24 -0600
Subject:
Please Join our Small Arms Campaign
Dear Community Groups,
Some of you have I have contacted before and for some this will be your
first contact on this campaign. The International Take Action to Control
Small Arms campaign is in full swing. Everyone can participate in
small and big ways. I hope your organization takes a little time
to take part. The proliferation and spread of small arms crosses over so
many of our issues I'm sure you'll agree that its worth taking a little
time to try to make a difference. Hopefully most of you will have received
by mail a package indicating how you can participate in this campaign.
I have also attached those documents to this e-mail if you have not yet
received the package. Please let me know how your organization is able
to participate. Should you have any questions or need more petitions or
letters please let me know. If you wish to return petitions or letters
to me, I am happy to receive your documents and send them on to the right
people. Also, if you have not received a package or would like one
for someone else please let me know.
Thanks so much for your help!
In
Peace,
Tracey Pickup
Project Ploughshares Calgary
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| Links |
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 Please visit our website www.ploughshares.ca/TakeAction.htm for up to date materials and a list of all the campaign related events that have been held to date. The printed materials are available to download at www.ploughshares.ca/TakeAction.htm. Kits, which include a DVD about the Nairobi Declaration, a regional arms control agreement, as well as a CDROM containing a PowerPoint presentation and a set of overheads. |
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 Our Million Faces petition is collecting photos and self portraits from
around the world to reach our goal of one million faces by June 2006. We
will use these faces to send a powerful, global message of support to the
world's governments for an International Arms Trade Treaty. (901,576 so
far!) http://www.controlarms.org/
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 "We must not relax our efforts to combat the scourge of illicit small
arms and light weapons, which continue to kill, maim, and displace scores
of thousands of innocent people every year." ... Kofi A. Annan, UN
Secretary-General. http://www.un.org/events/smallarms2006/ |
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 IANSA member organisations are working to stop the flood of guns that ruins
lives and undermines development. At the 2006 world gun summit at the UN
in June, IANSA members will be campaigning for tough measures to reduce
both the supply and demand for guns, and increased resources to remove
the weapons already in circulation. http://www.iansa.org/ |
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 From now until July 2006, when the UN meets to set a small arms agenda,
we have a unique opportunity to speak out about the suffering caused by
small arms proliferation and misuse. The United Church of Canada joins
Project Ploughshares' call to work for the dignity, security, and well-being
of people in gun-affected regions.
http://www.united-church.ca/action/smallarms/050826.shtm |
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