Alyn Ware
Alyn Ware
Clark and peace activist pedagogues
On October 23 1984, Clark and fellow Labour M.P. Russell Marshall attended a delegation of teachers concerning peace activism. The delegation comprised:
- Jan Gould
- Jack Shallcrass
- Alyn Ware
- Jim Chapple
- Harvey McQueen (Education Department)
The minister was asked to fund the "Peace van" and fund Sally's trip to Melbourne to represent New Zealand at the Australian Conference on Peace Education (to take place in October 27-28). They also asked for the inclusion of "peace studies" in schools and for a Commission for Peace and Disarmament for New Zealand in support of the U.S. Year of Peace in 1986.[1]
Hiroshima Day, 1993
On August 6 1993, a rally to commemorate Hiroshima Day was held at the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold Park, New York. The rally was designed "to kickoff a national campaign to collect a million signatures supporting a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, commend president Clinton for extending the nuclear testing moratorium, urge renewal of the Non Proliferation Treaty, urge swift and complete nuclear disarmament."
The event was sponsored by the Metro New York Peace Action Council and several other "peace' groups.[2]
Speakers included;
- Leslie Cagan, Cuba Information Project
- Elizabeth Holtzman, NYC Comptroller
- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
- David McReynolds, War Resisters League
- Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President
- Congressman Jerrold Nadler
- Sonja Ostrom, Metro New York Peace Action Council
- Congressman Major Owens
- Congressman Charles Rangel
- Congressman Edolphus Towns
- Lloyd Wallisch, World Court Project, U.S. branch
- Alyn Ware, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy