Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: 808 Spruce Street, Winnipeg Admission: $25 Tickets: Call Garth at 470-7487. Peace Alliance Winnipeg invites you to our annual fundraising house concert. This year’s performer is J.D. EDWARDS. JD is a…
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Monty Python in Afghanistan
Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, December 3, 2009 Let others deal with the details of President Obama’s Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 U.S. troops going in and just where they…
Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately
Malalai Joya, addressing an audience of 300 in Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. You can watch video of her Winnipeg speech here. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk by Malalai Joya I have just completed a two-week speaking tour across Canada, bringing a message…
Muddying the waters over torture
by Brian Stewart, CBC News, November 25, 2009 Torture in a far off, turbulent land such as Afghanistan seems grimly foreign to us. Yet parts of the allegations raised by diplomat Richard Colvin have an utterly familiar Canadian air about…
Restorative Justice and the Middle East
Sandy Tolan’s Lemon Tree by Paul S. Graham, November 26, 2009 I don’t normally recommend a book before I have finished reading it, but I will this time. Sandy Tolan’s award winning book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew…
Ceasefire.ca campaigns for a torture inquiry
The news from Ottawa is shocking. Senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin repeatedly warned the government about the routine use of torture in Afghan prisons, yet the Canadian Forces continued to hand over their prisoners to brutal Afghan authorities. Stephen Harper’s…
Video: Malalai Joya’s Nov. 2009 Winnipeg visit
Malalai Joya visited Winnipeg on November 16 and 17 as part of her 2009 cross-country tour to convince Canadians to press for the withdrawal of their troops from Afghanistan. This feisty woman packed the house at the University of Winnipeg…
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, time for reflection
by Mikhail Gorbachev, The Progressive Media Project, November 10, 2009 As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s time to take stock. The Berlin Wall was one of the shameful symbols of the Cold…
Malalai Joya packs the house in Winnipeg
Malalai Joya speaking at Convocation Hall, Univeristy of Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk Malalai Joya spoke to a pack house of in Winnipeg last night at the University of Winnipeg. Three hundred people jammed into Convocation Hall to…
Why Afghans Oppose Escalation of the War
Leave Afghanistan to the Afghans By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Nov. 9, 2009 Students of Kabul University, one holding a photo showing graves of Afghan victims killed in airstrikes, shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration against coalition airstrikes in Farah in…