Please sign the e-petition to the United Nation’s special rapporteur on violence against women and urge an immediate end to the massacre, sexual assaults, rapes, and all forms of violence against women. Urge your friends and family to send out…
Category: Campaigns
An appeal from the War Resisters Legal Defense Fundraising Campaign
Support the War Resisters Legal Defense Fundraising Campaign The War Resisters Support Campaign has been fighting for five years to keep U.S. Iraq war resisters safe in Canada. The majority of Canadians support this, and Parliament has passed a motion…
Doomsday Clock May Finally Stop Ticking
by Haider Rizvi, IPS, Feb. 23, 2009 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear…
Canadian Government Continues Ouster of US War Resisters
by Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams, Feb. 15, 2009 In the past weeks, the Harper Administration has moved swiftly to push U.S. Iraq War resisters out of Canada, issuing removal orders to five more resisters who had resettled up north. Two…
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada calls for Omar Khadr’s release
According to a statement by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, issued Feb. 12, 2009, “Canada and the U.S. are duty bound to act immediately to ensure that Omar Khadr is released and repatriated, his rights are protected and violations of his…
Parliamentary action on war resisters
This just came in from from the War Resisters Support Campaign. The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration has passed a motion again today calling on the Harper government to stop deportations of US Iraq war resisters. Please call Stephen…
Update: Iraq War Resisters in Canada
The Harper government continues to defy the will of Parliament by continuing to sanction the deportation of war resisters. Worse, new Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has stated “they are not genuine refugees and do not fall under internationally…
An alternative to paying taxes for war
The majority of Canadians is opposed to the war in Afghanistan and would not willingly participate in it. At the same time as we oppose the war, we pay the taxes that underwrite the death and destruction Canada is bringing…
Vigil – Stop Sri Lanka’s attacks on Tamil civilians
On February 4, there will be events all over Canada calling for an end to the attacks on Tamils. The Canadian Peace Alliance and Peace Alliance Winnipeg stand in solidarity with the Tamil people and demand that the Government of…
Canadian Peace Alliance Statement on the Gaza Ceasefire
January 20, 2009 On Saturday January 17, after 22 days of bombing which killed more than 1200 people, including 400 children, wounded more than 5000 and displaced more than 100,000, the Israeli government declared a unilateral ceasefire and a halt…