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vention for the abolition of nuclear weapons. At the Concert for Peace, we will acknowledge all of the initial Oakville sig- natories and distribute copies of our new petition that urges the federal government to work decisively to encourage the global abolition of nuclear weapons. We are pleased that the Canadian Senate passed a motion in June 2010 and that the House of Commons unanimously passed a non- binding motion on Dec. 8, 2010, said Russell. Mayor Rob Burton is scheduled to wel- come participants to Town Hall and music will be provided by students from the Performing Arts Department at Sheridan College. The 24th annual Oakville Concert for Peace is free to attend. To sign the petition and join the Oakville ICAN or for more information, contact Mervyn Russell or Stephen Dankowich of the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights at info@oakvillepeacecentre.org or 905-849-5501. Birkett can be contacted at bbirkett@interlog.com or 905-849-7167. 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Feb 5 & 5 Thursday , January 6, 2011 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m and co-founder of the ecumenical peace organization Project Ploughshares. He was also an executive director of CUSO. In February 2009, Mr. Thomson and 11 other members of the Order of Canada set out to discover what other recipients of the Order felt on the question of nuclear disarmament. They selected a single sen- tence expressing their concern and asked a number of recipients for their response, said Russell. The sentence was, We call on all mem- ber States of the United Nations, including Canada, to endorse, and begin negotiations for, a Nuclear Weapons Convention as pro- posed by the UN Secretary-General in his five point plan for nuclear disarmament. To date, 537 of Canadas most distin- guished individuals have joined them, according to Russell. Dr. Barbara Birkett is a retired derma- tologist who heads up the local chapter of Physicians for Global Survival, which is leading the local campaign together with OCCPEHR. You can make a big difference by join- ing ICAN (www.icanw.org), the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said Birkett. An international Nuclear Weapons Convention is needed in order to eliminate them similar to other international treaties banning entire categories of weapons such as the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Canadian-inspired Land Mines Treaty, said Birkett. ICAN focuses on the roots of the nuclear weapons problem, which is the continued possession of nuclear weapons by a small minority of countries, which risk their use by design, accident, miscalculation or by terrorists, and whose weapons are an incentive to others to also become nuclear armed, said Birkett. The sooner we abolish nuclear weapons, the better, said Georgina Burke, past president of the Hamilton Diocesan Catholic Womens League and a dedicated member of the ICAN - Oakville Committee. We are very encouraged by the growing number of prominent Oakville individuals who want there to be an international con- Oakville residents urged to join nuclear disarmament movement Continued from page 1