On Saturday, October 17 Canadian Mennonite University and the Institute for Community Peacebuilding hosted Dr. Norman Finkelstein in an evening of discussion on the topic “Israel and Palestine: What’s Preventing Peace”. The evening was part of its “Conversations with…” series.…
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Screening: You, Me & the SPP
Date: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Gas Station Theatre, 445 River Avenue, Winnipeg Admission: Donation Sponsors: Hosted by the Winnipeg Chapter of The Council of Canadians, sponsored by the Manitoba Federation of Labour Help promote this event:…
4 Directions Walk
Second Annual Four Directions Walk International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Saturday, October 17 Rally at the Legislature 3:00 p.m. Attend the rally or join a walk at any time: Four Walks will meet at the Manitoba Legislature. We…
Norman Finkelstein on barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine
Israel & Palestine: What’s Preventing Peace? A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein Date: Saturday October 17, 2009 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Canadian Mennonite University, Laudamus Auditorium (North Campus), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd Presented by: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle…
Abousfian Abdelrazik to speak in Winnipeg
Abousfian Abdelrazik meets the press in Montreal on his return to Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo: Tatiana Gomez Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009 Time: 5 p.m. Location: Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St. (Bus route 15 to door)…
Lecture: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland
Reconciliation and Memory: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland Dr. Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and former Director of the Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. He is author of Special Relationships:…
Canada’s complicity in Iraq war
Hostile takeover: Canada’s outsourced war for Iraq’s oil riches By Anthony Fenton, This Magazine, October 2009 issue In March 2008, when the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” marked its fifth anniversary, Canadian media outlets…
Iranian nukes a time-tested boogie man
How to Keep Iran in Check Without War by Gary Sick, The Daily Beast, Sept. 27, 2009 President Eisenhower once remarked to his peripatetic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “Don’t do something, Foster, just stand there.” From all evidence,…
The real nuclear threat
Iran, nukes and imperial hypocrisy by Paul S. Graham, Sept. 26, 2009 Dale Cummings’ cartoon (left) in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, illustrates the fear-mongering hypocrisy surrounding Iran’s nuclear enrichment program that is being propagated by news media and governments world-wide.…
Blood Minerals – the war in Congo
Making mobile phones uses minerals only available from Congo’s war zone. Is our appetite for the latest electronic gadgets fuelling exploitation in the Congo even threatening the survival of central Africas magnificent gorillas? On the inside of many devices like…