COAT began in 1989 by exposing and opposing ARMX, Canada's largest weapons bazaar. (Early history.)   Our first campaign led to Ottawa City Council's 20-year ban on hosting arms bazaars on municipal property. 

For more than two decades, COAT has published Press for Conversion! magazine, which for its first ten years focused on the economic conversion of military industries and bases to socially-useful, sustainable civilian use. Since 2000, the magazine has focused on a wide range of anti-war issues.

COAT has also organized peaceful rallies, marches, vigils, conferences and campaigns to oppose the arms trade, militarised air shows, and the role played by Canadian governments and NGOs in aiding US-led "humanitarian" wars and regime changes.  

Please join COAT in exposing Canada's national peacekeeping myth!

New Address:  COAT, 191 James Street, Ottawa Ontario K1R 5M6  Canada

This 56-page issue of Press for Conversion!
combines history, anthropology, psychology, criminology,
political science, religious studies and literary criticism. 
There's a little something to annoy just about everyone!

February 2016                                                         Issue # 68

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Captive Canada:
Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War,
from Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare
to Mass Civilian Internment Camps

The Canada Syndrome, a Captivating Mass Psychosis

War Mania, Mass Hysteria and Moral Panics:
Rendered Captive by Barbed Wire and Maple Leaves

Empire & Sons: From Maj.Gen. Sir William Otter, to the NDP & the Waffle

From Frying Pan to Fire: One Captivation after Another

First Nations, First Reds:
Genocidal Precedents for Concentration Camps

Religious Guardians of the Peaceable Kingdom:
Winnipeg’s Key Social-Gospel Gatekeepers of Canada West

Crushing Rebels, Radicals and Reds:
The Bunker Mentality, All in the Woodsworth Family Tradition

The Next Generation: Charles Woodsworth, Our Man in Saigon

Left-Right Camps: A Century of Ukrainian Canadian Internment

Back cover [Includes a brief summary of this issue's theme]

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