Bill Siksay, MP (Burnaby-Douglas) will be the keynote speaker at Winnipeg’s annual Lanterns for Peace Ceremony. His topic: a private members Bill (C-447) which calles for the establishment of a federal Deaprtment of Peace. This bill passed First Reading in…
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Soundtrack for a Revolution
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street (see map) Admission: $8 General $7 Students and Seniors $6 Cinematheque and Winnipeg Film Group members Soundtrack for a Revolution tells the story of the American civil…
Resistance to militarization in Costa Rica
Costa Rican Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Entry of US Military Civil Society Is Organizing to Maintain the Country’s Status as a Nation Without Armed Forces By Jamie Way, Narco News Bulletin, July 28, 2010 The Costa Rican Supreme Court last…
The Afghanistan War Logs
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation By Nick Davies and David Leigh, guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010 A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in…
The Rising Non-Violent Movement in Palestine
TheRealNews | July 19, 2010: A speech by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Palestinian political dynamics and Middle East peace.
The Siege against Gaza: America’s Ongoing Support of Israeli Military and Intelligence Operations
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca, July 22, 2010 The Israeli Commando had an explicit order to kill. What was the role of the United States? The raids on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, bear the mark of previous Israeli operations directed…
Haiti: fundamental problems unaddressed
A man pushes a wheel barrow past earthquake damaged buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 21. Photo: Alexandre Meneghini/AP Six Months After the Quake The Political Roadblocks to Haiti’s Reconstruction By Yves Engler, Counterpunch, July 16-18, 2010 Six months ago…
Brandon Lanterns for Peace 2010
On Friday August 6th Brandon and District Labour Council and the Brandon Family YMCA will will hold Brandon’s Third Annual Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace. This is a special ceremony because it is the 65th anniversary of the dropping…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2010
“LANTERNS FOR PEACE” remembers the first use of Atomic weapons on Hiroshima, August 6, and on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Please join us at by the fountain at Memorial Park on August 6, 2010. Schedule 7:30 to 8:30 p.m: Lantern…
The article that ended McChrystral’s war
The Runaway General By Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, June 22, 2010 ‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in…