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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 6. Juli 1983 / Time Line July 6, 1983
Version 3.007/06/1983
Første fredsgruppe i Grønland
Godthaab GRONLANDSPOSTEN in Danish 6 Jul 83 p 22
[Article: "The Peace Movement in Greenland"]
[Text] Sorsunnata, the peace movement in Greenland, has organized
itsfirst local group in Qasiginnguit [Christianshaab]. Twelve
people gathered for an organizing and informational meeting on 5
Juneat 7:30 pm, and most of them expressed the wish to participate
in additionalpeace work. Proposals were put forward for
SORSUNNATA's charter and by-laws but the participants at the
meeting agreed to postpone an actualgeneral assembly until the
association was established and until therewas a genuine
membership. SORSUNNATA is therefore presently organized as an
interest and activistgroup with three temporary working committees.
These working committees include an executive committee, which
willorganize and develop the peace organization, a finance
committee, whichwill prepare and execute fund raising and the
establishment of an economicbasis for peace movement's development
and also make regular financialreports to the membership, and an
information and publications committee,which will prepare a future
peace newspaper and general public informationabout the arms race
and peace proposals. There are plans to attempt to establish local
groups in other towns assoon as there is sufficient interest in a
Greenlandic peace movement,but for the time being SORSUNNATA will
distribute from Qasigiannguitinformation and peace propaganda to
contact people and others interestedat various places in Greenland.
It will take time and demand a disciplined effort before the work
for peace brings results, but the peace movement's first local
group is readyto take up the challenge. SORSUNNATA was started to
inform about the insane arms race that is under-way between the
world's superpowers and their allies.
SORSUNNATA was started to warn about the threat against all of
mankind and all life on earth created by the continuing development
of nuclear weapons and weaponstechnology. SORSUNNATA was
established to inform about why it is quite useless to use enormous
quantities of resources and money to construct weapons which will
destroy the earth if they are used. SORSUNNATA wants to tell about
the needs, poverty, hunger and misery which is found inthe world,
and SORSUNNATA will explain how the resources and money couldbe
used for better purposes than armanents and missiles.
SORSUNNATA will inform about the background of the American bases
in Greenland and explainhow these bases contribute to making
Greenland part of the dangerouscompetition between the two global
power blocs. SORSUNNATA has the goal of creating an active
Greenlandic peace movementwhich can participate locally, nationally
and internationally in peacework, which is our time's most
imperative and important issue for mankind.We want peace, and we
must together prevent the arms race and great powerpolitics which
threatens the entire globe. Support for SORSUNNATA is support for
peace. FOR PEACE AND COOPERATION! And now a peace newspaper can be
expected in the autumn. Contact address: SORSUNNATA Sekretariatet
c/o Baltser Andersen Blok G 36 Skolen 3951
07/06/1983
Fredsbevægelser ; USA
Den amerikanske fredsgruppe Pennsylvania Peace Links,
grundlægges.
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