CMP Action Alert: Lobby Attack on Al Aqsa Mosque By Canadian Muslims for Palestine, March 14, 2010 Canadian Muslims For Palestine (CMP), a national grassroots educational organization, denounces in the harshest possible terms the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque…
Category: Campaigns
Say “No!” to war with Iran
An appeal to anti-war organizations & activists to oppose the increasing threats against Iran By CASMII, March 7, 2010 Around the world, anti-war activists are preparing for major protests this spring to oppose the continuing U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and…
No Olympic Truce in Marjah
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, Feb. 19, 2010 While our Prime Minister talks about the the “Olympic Truce”, a symbolic suspension of war during the winter games, the people of Afghanistan are facing a new wave of violence. The official…
Justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik
Project Fly Home has launched a campaign on behalf of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Sudan in 2003 and prevented by the Canadian government from returning to Canada until last year. Documents obtained…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg endorses “Bush to the Hague” campaign
An international campaign is underway to bring to trial former U.S. president George W. Bush and some of his senior officials. On January 19, 2010, Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A.…
Free Abousfian Abdelrazik from the Prison Without Walls
Abousfian Abdelrazik meets the press in Montreal on his return to Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo: Tatiana Gomez Delist Now!: Six-Month Campaign to Free Abousfian Abdelrazik from the Prison Without Walls By Project Fly Home, Feb. 5, 2010…
Canada-Haiti Action petition to demilitarize aid to Haiti
Paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne division arrived in at least four choppers to secure the executive mansion in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Reuters. The Canada Haiti Action Network, working alongside colleagues in the UK and the United States, has launched a…
Humanitarian relief urgently needed in Haiti, not militarization of aid
by the Canadian Peace Alliance The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) urges its member organizations and supporters to give generously to the relief efforts responding to the catastrophic disaster in Haiti following last week’s massive earthquake. The CPA also wishes to…
URGENT APPEAL FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
By Canada Haiti Action Network, Jan. 14, 2010 Two days ago at 5 p.m. local time, a powerful magnitude-7 earthquake struck in Haiti. It was centred near the capital city Port-au-Prince and has caused massive destruction. The Canada Haiti Action…
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…