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…
Category: Campaigns
“Let Them Stay” Week – January 19-26
January is a critical month for U.S. war resisters living in Canada. Canadians have made it clear through polls, vigils, letters, petitions, rallies, and many other means, that they want American soldiers who refuse to participate in the Iraq war…
Online Petition: Stop the bloodshed in Gaza now!
A message from Avaaz.org With over 1000 Palestinians and 13 Israelis killed and the death toll mounting daily as the Gaza offensive escalates, we’re urgently demanding action to end the violence and protect civilians. Sign the petition below calling for…
Canadian Muslims for Palestine launches educational awareness campaign on Gaza
On Friday, January 16th, 2009, Canadian Muslims for Palestine asks all people of conscience to assist in distributing hundreds of CMP Information Folders to the larger Canadian community entitled, “The Truth Behind the War in Gaza.” Each CMP Information Folder…
Canada’s Shame: Conservative government votes against human rights
Canadian Peace Alliance urges that you send a letter to Stephen Harper On January 12, 2008 the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to condemn the “massive violations of human rights” by Israel in Gaza. Thirty three countries voted in…
CANSEC: Making a Killing on War
By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) Please join us in exposing and opposing Canada’s largest arms exhibition, CANSEC 2009. The City of Ottawa has now agreed to host this international weapons show at the municipality’s…
Urgent: War Resisters need your support today!
On the day that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning the sod at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, his government is forcibly deporting American war resister Clifford Cornell. Despite Mr. Harper’s pretensions as a patron of human…
Rock the Talk counters militarism and proclaims peace
You have likely seen the Canadian Forces recruiting ads on television. A major recruiting drive is on, and the CF are eagerly recruiting in public schools, universities and at community events. In response, Mennonite Central Committee Ontario’s Rock the Talk…
Conscience Canada
[youtube -Vl3YnBEgkc] As Justice Thomas Berger has observed, In Canada the conscription of ordinary citizens has become irrelevant to the maintenance of the armies of modern technological societies. It is the citizen’s resources that the government now conscripts. For more…
Czech mayors and peace activists urge Obama to end Nuclear Missile Defence program in Europe
The Czech Republic agreed during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania, April 3 to host tracking radar as part of the U.S. missile defense system. It will be built by 2012, according to the US government, “to protect Europe from…