GB No. 5-6, summer-fall 1991

ATTENSION!

DOCUMENT

The World Without War Council has published a paper "WOLNOŚĆ I POKÓJ (WiP) - Documents of Poland's 'Freedom and Peace' Movement". (91 pp.)

"Wolność i Pokój" was founded April 14, 1985 in Cracow to "restore moral and political values to peace activities." The movement soon grew to over 500 activists to become the largest independent peace movement east of Elbe. Their goals included changing the military oath which required every Polish soldier to pledge loyalty to the Soviet Union and legalization of the right of alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors. Incredibly, both objectives were achieved. "Wolność i Pokój", or "WiP" as it is commonly known, also organized campaigns against nuclear plants, polluting steelworks, and toxic waste. Lately it acts against the water-dam project in the Pieniny mountains.

The publication of WWWC includes:

• Founding Declaration of WiP.
• Letter of the Freedom and Peace Movement to Mikhail Gorbachev.
• Resistance, Disarmament and the Army
• Leave the Bunkers to the Bats!
• The Sickness of Law.
• Program Theses of the Future Tense group.

PLUS: Introduction by former U.S. ambassador to Poland R.T.Davies.

This publication should be considered as a document, the list of activists of the movement, too. Actual contact addresses of "WiP" can be found in GB.

It can be obtained at $6.95 from:

World Without War Council
2929 NE Blakeley Street
Seattle, WA 98105
(206)523-4755

• Neformalniye: A Guide to Independent Organizations and Contacts in the SU.
• Database of Independent Contacts in the Soviet Union.
• A Core Reading Program: Less than Thirty Key Books and Periodicals on the Soviet Union.
• A Chronology of Significant Events in the Soviet Union and U.S. - Soviet Relations: 1917-1989.
• Annotated Bibliography of Books on the USSR.
• Raising the Curtain: A Guide to Independent Organizations and Contacts in Eastern Europe.