The 33rd annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace and the 4th annual Winnipeg Peace & Justice Festival took place at Vimy Ridge Park on June 14, 2014. The objective of the festival is to promote a culture of justice and peace…
Activists from Independent Jewish Voices Canada staged some street theatre outside the annual Negev Gala, held May 27th at the Winnipeg Concert Hall to raise money for the Jewish National Fund. IJV is highly critical of the JNF because of…
The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (Winnipeg Council) is holding a forum on the crisis in the Ukraine. The purpose of this forum is to provide a fact-based look at the forces at work, the evolving situation in Ukraine and…
Please join us at Winnipeg Peace and Justice Festival – Saturday, June 14, 2014. The objective of the Winnipeg Peace and Justice Festival is to promote a culture of justice and peace at home and around the world. This celebration…
Jamie Oliviero and Shawn Kettner work with children in Winnipeg schools to create art and stories about peace and peacemaking. Their project is called Many Voices, One World, one which has been supported in part by Project Peacemakers. They described…
On April 9, 2014, Glenn Michalchuk, chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, was recognized for his decades of activism in the peace movement. At the annual Project Peacemakers Eco-Justice Fundraising Dinner, Bev Ridd presented Glenn with the Joan Melanson Award.
By John Pilger I watched Dr. Strangelove the other day. I have seen it perhaps a dozen times; it makes sense of senseless news. When Major T.J. ‘King’ Kong goes “toe to toe with the Rooskies” and flies his rogue…
Location: Project Peacemakers Office, 2nd Floor, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Avenue (2nd entrance west of Maryland St.) Peace Alliance Winnipeg meets the second Tuesday of each month to plan its activities. The main agenda item is planning the annual…
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JOHN GREYSON Award-winning Canadian filmmaker, professor, artist and activist John Greyson recounts his and Dr. Tarek Loubani’s imprisonment in Egypt, which captured international attention in the summer/fall of 2013. Greyson was arrested on his way to the…
by Glenn Michalchuk, Chair, Peace Alliance Winnipeg There is a need at this time to go into the facts about the crisis in the Ukraine. The simple arguments of Baird and Harper about “democracy”, “sovereignty”, “independence” are a prescription for…
