EACH YEAR THE NANOOSE PEACE MARCH draws 200-400 people in an ongoing campaign to convert the Nanoose military facility, located 25 kilometres north of Nanaimo, to peaceful purposes. Die-ins, blockades, petitions and a tent city alongside the Island Highway are some of the other tactics that have been employed by the Nanoose Conversion Campaign to protest U.S. warships using Canadian waters for manoeuvres. Kim Goldberg recounts the protesters' seven-year struggle and the naval base's implications for Canada in Submarine Dead Ahead (Harbour $14.95). Goldberg, a Nanaimo journalist, explains why she believes Nanoose is harbouring nuclear-capable submarines. "Canada's status as a nuclear colony," she says, "is one of the reasons we were drawn into the Persian Gulf War and why we could again be drawn into an American military conflict overseas." 1-55017-052--X

[BCBW 1991] "Politics"