By Candice Bodnaruk, Peace Alliance Winnipeg I represent Peace Alliance Winnipeg on the BDS Coalition, a Canadian organization that includes a variety of member groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israeli Apartheid. BDS is involved in…
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Syria’s Saydnaya Prison a Human Slaughterhouse, says Amnesty International
by Amnesty International A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass hangings at Saydnaya Prison. Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to…
Video: Picketing for Peace in Syria
Winnipeg, Sept. 12, 2013 – A few members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg picketed and handed out leaflets in front of the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. Inside the hotel, former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy was a featured speaker at…
Video: Lanterns for Peace 2012
Annually, citizens of Winnipeg commemorate the suffering and the deaths of the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused by the atomic bombing of those cities in Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 respectively. Lanterns for Peace is sponsored by the Manitoba…
Sisters in Spirit Annual Mother’s Day March
Location: St. Regis Hotel (285 Smith Street), Winnipeg Annual March to Honour Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Sisters March from the St. Regis Hotel to the Odena Circle at the Forks. Everyone is welcome. Sponsors: Sisters in Spirit (Winnipeg Branch)
Transition Winnipeg Unleashing
Location: University of Winnipeg-Bulman Centre Admission: $10 if you register online and $15 at the door Register online at TransitionWinnipeg.ca. Transition-inspired local neighborhood groups will be initiated and enabled throughout Winnipeg. To this end, we will put on a 1-day Unleashing…
Haiti’s hard road to recovery
By Isabeau Doucet, The Guardian, Jan. 12, 2012 In Haiti, you’ll see a young man sitting on a crumbled wall blasting a song out of a bashed-up radio and singing along – apparently without irony – lyrics that just…
Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes
PRESS TV, Nov. 23, 2011 The five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. In 2003,…
West End Rally for Social Services and Against Crime Bill C-10
Location: West End Library at Sargent Park, 999 Sargent Avenue,Winnipeg, MB The Governments of Stephen Harper and Greg Selinger are both supporting a regressive agenda on crime in an era of economic uncertainty. Global criminal justice experts from Texas to…