🚀 go-pugleaf

 (cameronb@interserv.com) writes:
> 	A demonstration to protest President Chirac's decision to resume testing is being held in 
> Vancouver, BC on Monday June 10th outside the French Embassy at 736 Granville Street.
> 	
> 	We invite people to join the protest and hoep to draw attention to France's blatant 
> disregard for the world commitment to ban nuclear testing.

May I also invite you to make the Bastille Day Covenant - which will be taken
on 14 July at the French Embassy in Ottawa



                      The Bastille Day Covenant
                             14 July 1995

We remember those citizens of France who marched on the
Bastille to free those who had been imprisoned there by the
discredited government of King Louis XVIII and to free the
minds of those who had been corrupted by its practices.

We remember how the vision of those citizens was based on
liberty, brotherhood and sisterhood, and equality.

We remember how citizens of France took up arms to protect
life and liberty during the global wars of the twentieth
century.

We remember how citizens of France contributed so much to
enable the United Nations Organization to develop protocols
for peace in the years since 1945.

We look forward to a future in which people of all lands can
enjoy the peace that citizens of France have enjoyed since
1945; and to that end we dedicate ourselves anew to the
effort to preserve and protect that peace and to extend it
throughout the world, so that there is no more need for the
terrible bombs of war, the tests that make them more
terrible, and the untold destruction that accompanies both
their testing and their use.

Accordingly, we make this covenant to work without ceasing
until President Jacques Chirac announces that he too
understands that the hope of the world lies in achieving
agreement with his peers in the United Nations Organization
and not in any unilateral decision to test again those
weapons which threaten all the peoples of the world.