Canwar

There was little attempt to utilise already existing organisations. Despite an outline of participating organisations being requested from those organisations, nothing was published. Canwar was not the only participant left out of the roll call. Our publication was banned from sale at the Convention by the ICPA organiser, with or without the organising committee's sanction I don't know. None of Canwar's submitted action proposals were listed for discussion, because it was held by the organisers that they were incorporated in other action proposals, despite the fact that other action proposals also duplicated themselves. A previous justification given was that there wasn't enough time to open the mail.

Canwar members have been slated for not assisting with ICPA. "Where were they when we needed them?" thunders Hinchcliff. I, in particular was portrayed as renegging on an undertaking to attend organising meetings. Personally I was already over-committed, gave no such undertaking and was not specifically invited anyhow. A number of Canwar executive members worked to create ICPA. "Who were they?" says Hinchcliff. They were George Goddard, Simon Gunsen and Ken Hulls. Canwar was thus kept informed on developments but frustrated in being a Wellington based organisation when it was the Auckland committee who made all the important decisions and passed them on to Wellington. The detached ideas sphincter was operating even then.

Canwar distributed ICPA material and advertised the 'Peace is Possible' publication for it. Canwar also volunteered to organise a march through Wellington to precede the Convention but when the Auckland organisers decided there was a higher priority to hear overseas speakers at that time, we cancelled the march.

I travelled to Auckland to discuss ICPA with John Hinchcliff last year and I also accepted the invitation to chair one of the action groups. I have also attended every weekly meeting (travelling 100 miles to do so) of the only group to be formed as any sort of consequence of ICPA. Canwar members made suggestions to Hinchcliff when he visited Wellington in November.

Thus I feel there is little justification for Hinchcliff to use the microphone to shut me up when I raised a point of order and tell me to organise my own conference; then abuse myself and Canwar for not contributing.