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Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting

[ October 11, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Project Peacemakers Office, 2nd Floor, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Avenue (2nd entrance west of Maryland St.)

Peace Alliance Winnipeg meets monthly to plan our activities. Everyone is welcome.

Occupy Winnipeg

[ October 15, 2011; 10:00 am; ] Location: Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg

By now, everyone has heard of Occupy Wall Street, where thousands have gathered in the heart of New York’s financial district to peacefully protest economic and social injustice. OWS is being replicated in numerous other US cities. [...]

Charles Taylor: Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age

[ October 19, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Eckhardt-Grammate Hall, The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Mouseland Press Inc., The Uniter and The Knowles-Woodsworth Centre for Theology and Public Policy present: Charles Taylor, “Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square.”

Globally renowned Canadian philosopher is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University. Taylor was the co-chair of [...]

Human rights & the NAFTA

[ October 20, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: The Club Room, Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg

The University of Manitoba Global Political Economy Program and the Faculty of Arts present

A Free Public Lecture by Dr. Diane Elson, Professor, Centre for Research in Economic Sociology, and Innovation, Department of Sociology, University of Essex and Member of the Human Rights Centre, University of [...]

4 Directions Walk – End Poverty

[ October 22, 2011; 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Location: Manitoba Legislature.
Walk or attend the rally!
- Bring everyone you know!
- Discuss Manitoba’s Justice Charter to Eradicate Poverty.

Attend the rally or join a walk:

East
St. Mary’s & Perimeter, 10:30 a.m.
Or join up at: St. Anne’s & St. Mary’s, 2:00 p.m.

West
Portage & Perimeter, 10:00 a.m.
Or join up at: Portage & Sherbrooke, 2:30 p.m.

North
Main & Perimeter, 11:00 a.m.
Or [...]

Human Rights of the US-Mexico Border

[ October 24, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Workers Organizing Resource Centre, 280 Smith St., mezzanine level (between Portage and Graham Avenues)
Over 350 people a year die trying to enter Arizona – An eye-witness account and discussion with speaker Tomasz Glowacki
Since 1994, more than 6,000 men, women and children have died trying to cross into Arizona from Mexico. Hear an eye-witness account [...]