On October 25th there will be a mass march on Washington DC to Oppose the Occupation of Iraq. From coast to coast in Canada groups are organizing solidarity rallies and/or organizing bus transport to DC. Click on the poster to get info about the Washington action or scroll down the list to find events in your area. End the Occupation of Iraq!

Peace Rallies in Canada, October 25th

Busses to DC

Toronto: contact caravan@nowar.ca or call 416-760-6530 for a bus going to DC on the 24th of October and returning on the 26th. Cost $75 to 100. www.nowar.ca Download a "Sponsor an Activist" Pledge sheet

Ottawa: NOWAR-PAIX CONTACT: Amelia & Jessica at ottawabus@internationalanswer.org   TRANSPORTATION: Contact for details. Transportation organized to: Washington, DC

Events Listings
  • Calgary

International Day of Action In response to the ongoing crises in Iraq

IRAQ: Analysis and Actions, A Free Open Discussion Forum, October 25, 2003, Parkdale United Church 2919 8th Ave. NW, 10:00am – 3:30pm, Lunch and Refreshments provided, Iraqi Art on display,Speakers include: Dr. David Swann, Physicians for Global Survival,Dijla Al-Rekabi, an Iraqi Canadian,Julie Hrdlicka, CANDIL, Donn Lovett, Calgary Businessman

Vigil to follow workshop: 4:30-7pm at Tomkins Park (8th St and 17th avenue SW) Sponsored by CANDIL, Workers Coalition for Social Justice and Calgary District Labour Council For more information contact CANDIL (Canada, Democracy and International Law), formerly CANESI/Calgary ( The Canadian Network to End Sanctions on Iraq) 270-9669 or email canesica@telus.net www.candil.ca  

  • Castlegar, B.C.

Meet at 2 pm by the Castlegar Court House also in solidarity with the international community to call for an End the Occupation of Iraq.

  • Edmonton

SATURDAY Oct. 25, 1 PM MASS PROTEST AND RALLY END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ STOP CANADIAN COMPLICITY IN WARS OF AGGRESSION A DEMONStRATION AGAINST ENDLESS IMPERiAL WARS March from Gazebo Park (83rd Ave. 104 st.) to Corbett Hall. Contact: peace@wage-peace.org

  • Grand Forks, B.C.

The Boundary Peace Initiative is sponsoring a gathering in Gyro Park in Grand Forks, B.C. at 11 am on October 25th in solidarity with the End the Occupation of Iraq events!

  • Guelph

Rally and march against the occupation of Iraq on Oct. 25th meet at 1p.m. in St. George Square (downtown). Olivia <Hanna@uoguelph.ca>

  • Halifax

March and rally on October 25 starting at 1pm at the south Common. For more information email hfxpeace@chebucto.ca or check out our website at hfxpeace.chebucto.org      

  • Kelowna

October 25th Rally at 1:00 downtown at the Sails in Kelowna

  • Kingston

Kites for Peace

Join Peace Kingston for Kite Flying and More in Solidarity with the Washington DC march to End the Occupation of Iraq, October 25th noon at Lions Civic Centre, Gardiners Rd below Cataraqui Shopping Mall

Let your Imagination fly

contact marijana@cogeco.ca

  • Montreal

NON à l'occupation de l'Irak ! NON à ces morts inutiles !

NON à la participation canadienne, directe ou indirecte, à la soi-disant guerre contre le terrorisme !

MANIFESTATION À 13 h Carré Dominion, coin Peel et René-Lévesque (métro Peel ou Bonaventure) http://www.fiiq.qc.ca/echecalaguerre.htm

DAY OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2003

NO to the occupation of Iraq! NO to all the pointless deaths!

NO to any Canadian participation, direct or indirect, in the so-called war against terrorism!

DEMONSTRATION AT 1:00 p.m. Dominion Square, Peel & René-Lévesque (metro Peel or Bonaventure)

  • Ottawa

International Day Against the Occupation Of Iraq

"Are more people going to be killed? You bet." - Donald Rumsfeld, July 14, 2003

Rally Saturday October 25, 12 noon at the U.S. Embassy (Sussex at York) www.nowar-paix.ca

  • Regina

The Regina Peace Action Coalition will be hosting a rally with the call to "End the Occupation of Iraq", October 25th, at the Cenotaph in Victoria Park, at 1:00 pm. Introductory remarks will be followed by a march around the park. Bring noisemakers and signs. For more information contact: rpac@accesscomm.ca

  • Prince Albert, Sask.

October 25th, with our provincial political candidates as the speakers on End the Occupation of Iraq. We meet at the co-op and 2nd ave. at 12.45 p. m and march to City Hall for speakers at 1 .00 pm. until 1.30 pm. Contact person is Larry Zepp at 764-5532 Prince Albert Saskatchewan .

  • Salt Spring Island B.C.

Peace Works! is sponsoring an Islands Peace Festival October 24-26, 2003 at Mahon Hall in Ganges, Salt Spring Island with music, poetry, art exhibits, speakers and many other events. A banner is being constructed for people to write their thoughts around the US War in Iraq and the continued occupation. The finished banner will be sent to the UN for display.

  • Saskatoon

On Friday night we will meet to make large banners saying END THE OCCUPATION, U.S. OUT OF IRAQ, and such. Saturday October 25th we will display the banners on Saskatoon's bridges. The more people we have the longer we can hold up the banners and the more bridges we can cover. If people want to make signs to carry while walking up and down the bridge(s) that would be great too. Thus: Friday Oct. 24. 5:30 pm St. Joseph's Hall basement. (on Broadway just north of 8th St.) Use back door off parking lot. Sign-making and preparation. Materials provided. Everyone welcome. Saturday October 25th. We'll display the banners as long as possible starting in the morning and relieving one another when arms get tired. If anyone wants to do a shift please contact us or just show up. We'll start with the Broadway Bridge, cover others if we have enough people. If you want to participate please come to the meeting Friday evening or call or email Jan Norris at 665-3430 or norrisj@shaw.ca

  • Sunshine Coast B.C.

Please join the Sunshine Coast Peace Group contingent for this important international day of action. We will meet on the 10:20 ferry from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay. Look for people with signs and doves.

The War is Not Over. Join an important international day of action to say: Bring the Troops Home Now! End the Occupations! Saturday, October 25th 1p.m. Vancouver Art Gallery www.stopwar.ca 

  • Toronto, Ont.

End the Occcupation of Iraq!

Rally and March Meet at 1 pm at the US Consulate, 360 University ave. www.nowar.ca

  • Vancouver

The War is Not Over. Join an important international day of action to say: Bring the Troops Home Now! End the Occupations! Saturday, October 25th 1p.m. Vancouver Art Gallery For more information, or to add your endorsement: contact@stopwar.ca  

  • Victoria

End the Occupationof Iraq!
1 pm. Meet at Centennial Square. Orgtanized by the Victoria Peace
Coalition,  International Socialists and concerned individuals.

  • Windsor

End the Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine! Rally & Demonstration in Windsor, Ontario at 3pm. Saturday October 25

Location: Across from the entrance to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel on the corner of Wyandotte and Goyeau

Organized by Windsor Peace Coalition For further information contact: windsorpeace@hotmail.com

  • Winnipeg

End the Occupation! U.S. Out of Iraq!

Rally on Saturday, Oct. 25, 1 p.m. U.S. Consulate in Winnipeg Corner of Portage & Main (TD Bank Building)

Everyone is Welcome! Bring your banners, placards, voices, family and friends!

Part of a cross-Canada Day of Action In solidarity with the major U.S. protest in Washington, D.C. Facilitated by the Canadian Peace Alliance www.acp-cpa.ca Information: No War Coalition (Manitoba) 775-8178 ext. 2

Unity statement from ANSWER and Unite for Peace and Justice
OCTOBER 25th: March for an end to the occupation of Iraq!

Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) and United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), are joining forces to call on all those who oppose the war, invasion and occupation of Iraq, to unite on Saturday, October 25 in Washington, D.C., for a truly massive outpouring reflecting the growing popular opposition to the Bush Administration's foreign and domestic program. It was the peace and antiwar movement in the 1960's and 70's that proved to be one of the decisive factors ending the US war in Vietnam. The October 25th demonstration will be a powerful repudiation by the people of the United States of Bush's criminal war and occupation of Iraq and will be a signal of the new antiwar movement's potent political force countering the Bush Administration.

UFPJ and A.N.S.W.E.R. have both organized antiwar demonstrations numbering in the hundreds of thousands in the last year and have now agreed to join forces for the purpose of organizing the October 25 National March on Washington, D.C. under the banner: End the Occupation of Iraq, Bring the Troops Home Now! The protest will also condemn the vast cuts in vital domestic social and economic programs and demand: Money for jobs, education & healthcare, not war and occupation. As the October 25-26 weekend is also the second anniversary of the passage of the so-called Patriot Act, authorizing political arrests, indefinite detentions, domestic spying, and religious and racial profiling, the demonstration will also be a call to Fight Back Against the Patriot Act.

By working together we are optimistic that this mobilization will be an expression of the wide-spread opposition to the ongoing occupation of Iraq. We urge you to do everything possible to help bring massive numbers of people to Washington, D.C. on October 25th!

Statement Issued by A.N.S.W.E.R. and UFPJ, 9/5/03.

For more information:
http://www.internationalanswer.org
http://www.unitedforpeace.org