CANADIAN STUDENTS READY PROTEST ACTIONS AGAINST WAR IN VIETNAM
Toronto
NOV. 5 -- The Student Days of Protest, scheduled for November 11-12, give every promise of marking the first truly Canada-wide campus demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. From progress reports issued by the initiating University of Toronto Committee to End the War in Vietnam, it is already apparent that virtually every campus in the country will witness activities of one kind or another.
The major campus action is taking place at the time of the traditional Remembrance ceremonies for the fallen of World War I and World War II. The idea of genuinely honoring those who died in the two world wars by staging effective demonstrations against Washington's murderous war against the Vietnamese freedom struggle has also been picked up by many other organizations opposed to the war in Vietnam.
In Edmonton, a march has been projected along the same route as the one selected for the Canadian Legion parade on November 12. The big plaza of Toronto's new city hall has been chosen for a ceremony sponsored jointly by all the antiwar forces in the city. The University of Toronto Committee to End the War in Vietnam (which had been excluded from the old Toronto Coordinating Committee) took the initiative in mobilizing the common action
The Toronto committee has announced that a special guest speaker has been invited to address the gathering -- John Gerassi, a representative of the. Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation which sponsored the International War Crimes Tribunal.
A leaflet is being distributed throughout the metropolitan area of Toronto, calling for popular opposition to the Canadian government's complicity in the U.S. war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. It carries the following dramatic headlines:
MEMORIAL
FOR THE WAR DEAD OF WORLD WAR I AND II
FOR THOSE DYING IN THE WAR IN VIETNAM
which threatens to involve Canadians and the people
everywhere in a third world war
The University of Toronto committee has called an Eastern activists conference for November 12 to evaluate the actions of the previous day, to discuss and prepare further actions, and to consolidate forces.
Among the leading participants will be Joe Young of the York University Committee to End the War in Vietnam, who attended the international antiwar rally staged in Liége, Belgium, on October 15.