Category: Manitoba

Dancing Tragedies and Dreams

by Paul S. Graham Art, culture, dance and politics blended seamlessly in Winnipeg on September 21, 2014, with the performance of Dancing Tragedies and Dreams, a production of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba,  at Prairie Theatre Exchange. Dancing Tragedies…

Don’t attack Iraq

On Saturday, Oct. 25th, Peace Alliance Winnipeg held an information picket at the intersection of Osborne Street and River Avenue to call for an end to Canada’s bombing mission in Iraq and Syria. In doing so, PAW was joining with…

World War One: 100 Years Later

August 4, 2014 was the hundredth anniversary of Canada’s entry into World War One. Was this war a struggle for democracy or an inter-imperialist feud that got out of control? Was it the crucible in which Canadian nationhood was forged…

Video: Lanterns for Peace 2014

Winnipeg, Aug. 6, 2014: Winnipeggers commemorated the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States, a strike that claimed 200,000 lives and ushered in the age of nuclear terror. Sponsors: – Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba…

Winnipeg Solidarity with Gaza

by Glenn Michalchuk and Paul S. Graham About 800 Winnipeggers gathered at the Manitoba Legislate on the evening of July 14th to protest the continuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the support of the Canadian government for Israel’s military action.…

The “new JNF”

Activists from Independent Jewish Voices Canada staged some street theatre outside the annual Negev Gala, held May 27th at the Winnipeg Concert Hall to raise money for the Jewish National Fund. IJV is highly critical of the JNF because of…

Many Voices, One World

Jamie Oliviero and Shawn Kettner work with children in Winnipeg schools to create art and stories about peace and peacemaking. Their project is called Many Voices, One World, one which has been supported in part by Project Peacemakers. They described…