Date: Saturday, August 31, 2013 Time: 2:00 p.m. Place: Canadian Human Rights Museum (at the Forks) More information is available on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/565118890210871/. We hope you will support this action by attending and by spreading the word. For some…
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate calls for an end to foreign intervention in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel peace laureate, today appealed to the Rt. Hon. William Hague, British Foreign Minister, and M. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, to stop calling for military action against Syria which, she said, will only lead the Middle East…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
Commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) Program: 7:30 to 8:30 – Lantern Making (all materials supplied) 8:30 – Lantern Ceremony Help publicize this event Download and distribute: Lanterns for Peace Poster: 8.5…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
Commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) Program: 7:30 to 8:30 – Lantern Making (all materials supplied) 8:30 – Lantern Ceremony More information: Project Peacemakers at 775-8178 If you have never been to…
Winnipeg Peace Fest remembers Nick Ternette
By Paul S. Graham For more than 30 years, Winnipeggers have come together, in June, to march for peace. In doing so, we strive to educate our neigbours about the the roots of war and to keep alive the…
Pregnant conscientious objector sentenced to prison
By William Boardman, Reader Supported News Amnesty International identifies her as a prisoner of conscience, she was the first American female conscientious objector to flee to Canada, but mainstream media mostly ignore this Iraq war vet with PTSD – unless…
Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace and Peace Festival
Please join us for the annual Winnipeg Peace & Justice Festival & Walk. Date: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Place: Vimy Ridge Park (south side of Portage Avenue at Home Street) Show the world you…
Idle No More: A Panel Discussion
If your only source of information is the mainstream news media you can be forgiven for wondering what the Idle No More movement is all about. Since it burst on the scene late last year, media attention has darted from…
Behind the invasion of Mali
Is the military intervention in Mali by France, with the assistance of the United States, Canada and others an example of a humanitarian intervention launched to protect a fragile democracy from the incursion of Muslim terrorists? Or is France meddling…
Israel’s coming “civil war”
Israel’s Coming “Civil War”: The Haredi Jews Confront the Militarized Secular Zionist State By Professor James Petras, Global Research Israel is heading towards a profound internal crisis: a Jew-on-Jew confrontation, which has major implications for its relations with the Palestinians,…