Photo: Glenn Michalchuk In response to the reported slaughter of 25,000 Tamil civilians last week, members of Winnipeg’s Tamil community held a candle light vigil at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg on May 17, 2009. At the vigil, they…
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Vigil for Tamil civilians
There will be a candlelight vigil in support of Tamil civilians caught in the cross-fire of Sri Lanka’s civil war. While the government of Sri Lanka has declared a military victory, the fighting continues and civilian casualties, numbering many thousand,…
Dark Days — The Reading
L-R: Ibrahim (Obby) Khan, Terry MacLeod, Kerry Pither. Photo: Liz Carlyle By Murielle Jennings On Wednesday evening approximately 50 people attended a dramatic reading from Kerry Pither’s book Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of…
MP for Farah Province condemns NATO bombings
By Malalai Joya, May 14, 2009 As an elected representative for Farah, Afghanistan, I add my voice to those condemning the NATO bombing that claimed over 150 civilian lives in my province earlier this month. This latest massacre offers the…
Rally against the Harper government
Stephen Harper will be in Winnipeg to raise funds for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a right wing think tank for the wealthy and corporations. All opposed to the Conservative Government’s agenda are invited. Date: Tues., May 19, 2009…
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
by Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch, May 15, 2009 hings go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers,…
Longing And Lament Interfaith Workshop
Longing And Lament Interfaith Workshop A series of three workshops designed to allow a safe space for Muslims, Jews and Christians to discuss the ongoing conflict in Israel, Gaza, and the broader Middle East region. Space is limited, so register…
Stop Harper from sending CF-18 warplanes to Afghanistan
By Stephen Staples, Ceasefire.ca, May 9, 2009 As you may have heard on the news, up to 100 Afghan civilians are feared dead as a result of U.S. air strikes. Now, the Canadian military is engaging in a lobbying campaign…
More civilians killed by a US airstrike in Afghanistan
After US Strikes, Afghans Describe “Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies;” Meanwhile, Obama Readies 21,000 More Troops An injured Afghan child from the Bala Baluk, district of Afghanistan, is seen on a bed at the hospital in Farah…
Hunting Afghans for Jesus
Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers’ ‘Bible Study’ in Afghanistan By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, May 5, 2009 Hours after Al Jazeera first broadcast a video showing US soldiers in Afghanistan being instructed by…