Vancouver welcomes the Golden Rule Peace Ship!
Free community event with speakers, poetry, music and refreshments!
SATURDAY August 24
North Shore Neighbourhood House
225 East 2nd Street, North Vancouver
6pm – 8pm – Welcoming Event
8pm – Visit the Golden Rule sailboat!
The Golden Rule Peace Ship is docking in Vancouver on their Pacific Northwest tour, meeting with peace-loving people along the way! The Golden Rule is a project of Veterans For Peace (V4P) based in the US, and aims to advance Veterans For Peace opposition to nuclear weapons and war. V4P recovered and restored the original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. The Golden Rule has now sailed to hundreds of cities throughout the US, Hawai’i, Canada, Mexico and Cuba to join with peace and social justice activists.
The evening will include speakers from the Golden Rule peace ship and local activists, music, poetry and refreshments. After the event participants will be invited to visit the Golden Rule ship which will be docked nearby!
Program will feature:
Kelly White – Coast Salish Facilitator, Elder, and Knowledge Keeper
Helen Jaccard – Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project Manager
Bob Stowe – Member of Doctors for Planetary Health
Janine Solanki – Chair of Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)
Tim Takaro – Regional Vice President (Canada) of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Alison Bodine – Central organizer with Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver
Ellen Judd – Long time peace activist, anthropologist and professor
Enjoy live music from:
Jabulile Dladla – Incredible South African performer, former member of the Soweto Gospel Choir
Andrew Beddoes & Friends – Captivating Electric Celt Music
Learn more about the Golden Rule Project at: https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org
Vancouver event co-sponsored by:
Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Canada (IPPNW), Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver, Doctors for Planetary Health – West Coast, Protect the Planet, Conscience Canada, Greenpeace Canada
This event will take place on the traditional, unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The struggle for global peace is connected to the struggle of Indigenous nations for the recognition of their right to self-determination!
More info: https://www.stoptmx.ca/events/
This event is an expression of love for the Inlet and a desire to protect her in the face of increasing threats. Please join other water protectors on the waters of səlilwətaʔɬ aka Burrard Inlet, Sunday August 25. We will be gathering and preparing boats at 10am. Local canoers and kayakers will be joined by the intrepid sailing ship, The Golden Rule. The Golden Rule sailed with a Quaker crew to the Marshall Islands to protest U.S. nuclear testing in 1958. Rejuvenated by Veterans for Peace in 2010, the ship has spreading the words of peace, nuclear disarmament and care for Mother Earth ever since.
A press conference will be held on the dock at Whey-ah-Wichen aka Cates Park at 10:30am. Speakers will remind us that the Coast Salish nations took care of the land and waters that nurtured them, but things have changed. Today and nearly every day a tanker filled with 500,000 barrels of oil transits through the səlilwətaʔɬ ‘s two narrows, endangering our beloved seas and bringing more toxic emissions to our common atmosphere at a time we know these emissions must be rapidly reduced. We hope more people will heed our message of peace, love for the Inlet and love for Mother Earth.