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Updated list: 74 NGOs have now endorsed the No to NATO: Festival of Creative NonViolence

As of August 26, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT) has received over 70 NGO endorsements for our No to NATO: Festival of
Creative NonViolence, to be held in Ottawa on October 6.

Some of these are large national organizations (like the CAW, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Council of Canadians, NDP-Canada and NUPGE), while others are regional or local. About 20 are from outside Canada. All are welcome. The more the merrier!

PLEASE help us to build even more support for this
initiative by circulating our request to any groups that you believe may
be interested in endorsing the festival. The two main purposes of the
festival are summarized <http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/216> A copy
of our "call to endorse" the festival can be found at
<http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/205>

We will list all endorsing organizations in written
materials for the event, in COAT's quarterly magazine (Press for
Conversion!), our "no_to_nato" list serve and the COAT website
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat> Our website will eventually include contact information, web
links and a 30 word description of each organization.

Endorsers of No to NATO: Festival of Creative NonViolence (as of Aug.26)
Antiwar.com, USA
Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Children - France
Association of Serbian Women
Australian Peace Committee (S.A. Branch), Australia
Australians for a Free East Timor, Australia
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
Befriending the Earth
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies
British Columbia Voice of Women
Canadian Auto Workers
Canadian Federation of Students
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Central Alberta Raging Grannies
Centre for Social Justice
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
Council of Canadians
Enviro-Clare
Father's Day Coalition for Peace
Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA
Friends of Gabriola Island
Gerald and Maas
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, USA
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, USA
Green Party of Ontario
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
Hamilton Action for Social Change
Homes not Bombs - Toronto
International Institute of Concern for Public Health Resource Centre
Illinois Peace Action, USA
International Society for Peace and Human Rights
International Volunteers for Peace, Australia
Island Catholic News
Jonah House, USA
Kashmiri-Canadian Council
Latin American Circle for International Studies, Mexico
Le Centre de Ressources sur la Non-Violence
M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence USA
MAMA TERRA / For Mother Earth - Romania
Mauritius Action for Disarmament and Peace, Mauritius
McMaster University, Centre for Peace Studies
National Union of Public and General Employees
New Democratic Party - Canada
Nicaragua-United States Friendship Office, USA
Nukewatch USA
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - McMaster
Peace & Disarmament Working Group/Social
Responsibility Cttee., First Unitarian Congregation, Ottawa.
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Peaceful Parks Coalition
peacemedia
Project Peacemakers
Project Ploughshares - Edmonton
Project Ploughshares - Fraser Valley
Project Ploughshares - Saskatoon
Raging Grannies - Ottawa
Rainforest Raging Grannies - Vancouver
Science for Peace
Sierra Youth Coalition
Social Justice Committee of Montreal
Social Justice Ministry Group at First United Church
St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
The Atomic Mirror, USA
The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
The Nuclear Resister, USA
Toronto Action for Social Change
Vancouver Island Earth Works Society
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms - Manitoba
Voices in the Wilderness, USA
Washington Peace Center, USA
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -Canada
Woodstock Raging Grannies
Zero Tolerance Network

Notes:
* Unless otherwise stated, these NGOs located in Canada.

* Further updates to this list of endorsing NGOs will be available in the
archive of the no_to_nato list serve which you can check by visiting the
COAT website <http://www.ncf.ca/coat> or
<http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/>

Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)

A national peace network supported by
individuals and organizations across Canada

541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2 Canada
Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614
Email: <ad207@ncf.ca> Web site:
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat>

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