War resister Dean Walcott received responses to both his Pre-Removal Risk Assessment and Humanitarian and Compassionate applications today. As expected, both were negative. Dean has been ordered to leave Canada by January 6. Dean joined the United States Marine Corps…
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School of the Assassins Pilgrimage Slideshow & Stories
When: 6 p.m., Friday, Dec 5, 2008 Where: Menno Simons College, 520 Portage Ave & Spence St., Winnipeg Admission: Free. All are welcome. In November, four Winnipeg activists joined a social justice caravan to the gates of a notorious army…
Council of Canadians
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 Time: 6:00 p.m. Where: 460-175 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg More Info: Sheila Muxlow at smuxlow@canadians.org If you believe that our social programs and public services should be strengthened, not privatized; that our foreign and trade policies…
Forum on Palestine
Speakers: MARK ARNOLD, Toronto Lawyer Legal Counsel to Bil’in, Palestinian Village “Israeli Occupation on Trial” DR. MARK ETKIN, Winnipeg Psychiatrist “Palestine: Occupation, Siege and Mental Health” Date: Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 When: 2:00 pm Where: Carol Shields Room, Winnipeg Millenium…
Nov. 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
It is tragically ironic on this day, declared by the United Nations to be “for the elimination of violence against women,” to read that the UN has called on Canada to properly investigate the disappearances and murders of over 500…
Gulf War Syndrome is Real, Caused by Pills and Pesticides
By Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. Posted on AlterNet November 20, 2008 A landmark investigation into the causes of Gulf War syndrome has concluded that the illness was caused by troops being given nerve gas pills and exposed to pesticides. The…
Karzai demands timeline for foreign troop pull out
AFP/Vancouver Sun, Nov. 25, 2008 KABUL – President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg House Concert with Serena Postel
Plan to take in the Peace Alliance Winnipeg Winter Fundraising Concert, featuring singer-songwriter Serena Postel. When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 Time: Door opens at 7:30 p.m. Concert starts at 8:00 p.m. Where: a house in Winnipeg (the address is on…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Workers Organizing Resource Centre, 180 Smith, 2nd floor Press the buzzer to get access to the building. We have lots of work and not enough hands, hearts and minds. Please try…
Winnipeg Centre for Teaching Peace and Peace Café
Bob Stewart, of the Canadian Centre for Teaching Peace, Anne-Marie Collette, David Pankratz (Director, Institute for Community Peacebuilding at Menno Simons College, University of Winnipeg) and Jocelyn Greenwood have organized 2 gatherings that will deal with establishing a Winnipeg Centre…