Peace Alliance Winnipeg News

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2021
2021-08-06 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Manitoba Legislative Building – South Plaza, Manitoba, Canada
76 years ago, the world was introduced to the horrors of nuclear war. The death, destruction and suffering that resulted from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug 6 and 9, 1945 meant that the world had changed for the worse. Nothing would ever be the same. The mushroom clouds that arose over Japan cast a shadow that menaces every living creature, even today.
In 1945 the United States had a monopoly on nuclear power; today, nine countries have their own nuclear arsenals and many more, via NATO, are set up to use these weapons.
Therefore, we gather annually to remember people whose lives were lost in August 1945, to remember the survivors whose lives were unalterably damaged, and to reaffirm our commitment to the abolition all nuclear weapons.
Please join us for our annual Lanterns for Peace ceremony. Beginning at 7:30 pm we paint lanterns and make origami cranes. (We provide the art supplies; you contribute your imagination and creativity.) At 9: 15 pm, following a short program of speeches, we float our lanterns in the fountain as the sun sets.
It is a beautiful ceremony, rich with meaning and one which can be enjoyed by the whole family. If you have never been to one, here is a playlist of videos of Lantern Ceremonies over the years. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjun-krHoPPL4Q1IW7dGVU462XV81fj23
Date: Friday, Aug 6, 2021
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: the south side of the Manitoba Legislative Building
Public health directives will be followed. Masks will be available for those who need one, but you may prefer to bring your own.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, Council of Canadians (Winnipeg Chapter)

Webinar: Canada's Warfare with Yves Engler
2021-07-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Manitoba
Over the past century Canada has been among the most warlike nations. From Sudan and South Africa in the late 1800s to Korea in the 1950s and Libya and Afghanistan more recently, Canada has fought in 10 wars. Only one of them has been morally justifiable. There are significant numbers of Canadian troops in Latvia, Ukraine and Iraq as well as Canadian naval vessels patrolling across the world’s seas. Please join Yves Engler in discussing Canada’s military deployments, past and present, and how they make the world less safe.
Yves Engler is the author of 12 books, including the forthcoming Stand on Guard for Whom?: A People’s History of the Canadian Military.
Sponsor: Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2021
Time: 12 Noon, CDT
Admission: Free. Register at Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canadas-warfare-tickets-160039078191

Webinar: Making Canadian Mining Companies Accountable
2021-06-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Manitoba
Date: June 12, 2021
Time: 12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM CDT
Admission: Free
Location: Online, via Zoom. Register at Eventbrite:
Presenter: Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada
Sponsor: Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Canadian mining companies dominate the sector in many parts of the world, but they are largely unregulated and able to profit from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human rights in many countries. Catherine Coumans, of MiningWatch Canada, will talk about the struggle to make Canadian mining companies accountable. She will also talk about the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountabilty (of which MiningWatch is a part) that is launching on Monday, May 31.
Catherine Coumans has co-managed MiningWatch Canada and coordinated the Asia-Pacific program for 20 years. Departing from a rights-based perspective, Catherine has worked in solidarity with communities and Indigenous peoples affected by Canadian mining companies in more than ten Asia-Pacific countries and in Tanzania. The Canadian government appointed Catherine as an advisor in National Roundtables on the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries in 2006-07. She has provided expert testimony on mining in congressional inquiries in the Philippines, before the Constitutional Court in Indonesia, and for Canadian Parliamentary and Senate committees, as well as in an Amici Brief for the Supreme Court of the United States. MiningWatch is a founding organization of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability where Catherine provides strategic leadership on the steering committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has published on mining in more than 15 peer reviewed publications since 2008, including in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies; UBC Law Review; Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment; Current Anthropology; and The Extractive Industries and Society.
Recommended Reading
The ‘Canada Brand’: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17/2017. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2886584
CANADIAN OMBUDSPERSON FOR RESPONSIBLE ENTERPRISE [CORE] APPROACH WITH CAUTION – http://cnca-rcrce.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/core-caution-E-1.pdf
NEWS RELEASE: Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada, May 31st, 2021|Business and Human Rights Legislation, Press Releases. https://cnca-rcrce.ca/2021/05/31/news-release-human-rights-advocates-and-legal-experts-deliver-blueprint-for-new-international-corporate-accountability-law-in-canada/
This is the first in a series of webinars PAW is organizing to explore the roles Canada plays on the world stage.

Webinar: A Foreign Policy for Canada
2021-03-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Manitoba
Join us for a conversation about Canadian foreign policy and the possibilities for peace and global justice.

Admission: Free. Register Via Eventbrite
Date: Tue, March 23, 2021
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM CDT

This event will feature national experts in a lively and timely conversation about Canadian foreign policy and the possibilities for peace, past, present and future. As the pandemic continues to illuminate global disparities, this is a chance to re-imagine a future with equality, diversity, inclusion, peace and justice the world over.

Speakers
Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs (Wilfrid Laurier University). She is on the Board of Directors of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and on the international advisory committee of the No to NATO Network. She is a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Tamara helped found the No Fighter Jets Coalition.
Dave Gehl is a retired federal civil servant and a retired manager for Agriculture Canada. A lifelong peace and justice activist, he is active with the Regina Peace Council and writes for its publication Saskatchewan Peace News. He is also active with many community service boards in Indian Head where he lives.
Ed Lehman is a retired Northern and International educator, a former member of Hamlet Council in Kugaaruk, Nunavut and former member of Council of Cupar, Saskatchewan. Ed is a lifelong peace and justice activist – he is the President of the Regina Peace Council, he is on the board of the Canadian Peace Congress, and is a member of PeaceQuest Regina. Ed Lehman serves on the steering committee of the No Fighter Jets Coalition, and the Campaign to Free Meng Wanzhou. He is also a member of the Canadian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Coalition and supports the work of the Canada-Wide Network for Peace and Justice and represents the Regina Peace Council in its Prairie Peace Partnership with Peace Alliance Winnipeg. He is also the editor of Saskatchewan Peace News. His areas of interest include international cooperation, world disarmament, economic conversion from military spending, green energy and green jobs, municipal governance, and social justice.
Florence Stratton is a community peace and justice activist. She lives in Regina, on Treaty 4 territory, the original lands of the Nehiyawak, Anishanaabe, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota and the homelands of the Métis Nation
Chris Black is an international criminal lawyer and writer, and has defended accused in war crimes cases in Europe and Africa. A long-time activist since his student days and has been a member of the Toronto Unemployed Workers’ Council, the Black Action Defense Committee, and other action groups in Toronto He is a member of the Ontario and International Criminal Court bars and the National Lawyers Guild in the USA.
Sponsor: Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation

The New Cold War, Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada's Peace Movement
2021-02-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Manitoba
A new cold war has emerged that pits China and Russia against the United States and other NATO members, including Canada.

What do we mean when we say a “new cold war” has broken out and what does this mean for world peace? How will Biden wage this war? How does official Canadian government foreign policy contribute to global instability and the threat of a hot war? What is Canada’s peace movement doing in response, and what might it it do in the future?
Please join us for an interesting discussion of these important issues. It will feature presentations by
Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire and numerous other books and articles on political and geopolitical economy and world affairs.
Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 11 books on various aspects of Canadian foreign policy. His latest book is titled House of Mirrors — Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy.
Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs (Wilfrid Laurier University). She is on the board of directors of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and on the international advisory committee of the No to NATO Network. She is a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
The webinar will me moderated by Glenn Michalchuk, chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg.
This free event will stream via Zoom. To register, visit the link below.

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2020
2020-08-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Manitoba
Please join us for the annual Lanterns for Peace Ceremony, held each year to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Our aim is to help keep the memory of these attacks alive so that current generations understand we must never allow nuclear weapons to be used again.
Location: south side (the back) of the Legislative Building.
Schedule
7:30 to 8:45 – participants paint and assemble lanterns and origami cranes (we will provide the art supplies)
8:45 to 9:15 – short speeches
9:15: lanterns are lit and launched in the fountain as the sun begins to set
This is a beautiful ceremony. If you have never been to one, here are some videos that will give you a good idea of what to expect.
This is a family-friendly event. All are welcome.
COVID-19 Safety Precautions
1. In line with provincial public health requirements, attendance is limited to 100 people.
2. We encourage people to wear their own masks; we will provide masks to those who attend without them.
3. Hand sanitizer will be provided at the art tables.
4. We encourage you to practice social distancing with people outside of your immediate household. This means maintaining a 2 metre distance. Seating will take this into account and no more than three people will be able to work at an art table at the same time.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, National Association of Japanese Canadians, Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Council of Canadians-Winnipeg

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2019-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Peace Alliance Winnipeg usually meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Please join us.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg monthly meeting
2018-12-11 18:30 - 20:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
We meet the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome.
NOTE: This month, we are meeting at 7:30 pm which is 30 minutes later than usual.

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2018
2018-08-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Memorial Park, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
Every August, we commemorate the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9) with a Lantern Ceremony in Memorial Park. We believe it is important to keep the memory of those horrible events alive so that current generations understand we must never allow nuclear weapons to be used again.
It’s something the whole family can enjoy. Using art supplies provided by the organizers, you make lanterns and float them in the fountain. If you have never been to a Lantern Ceremony in Winnipeg, these videos will give you a good idea of what to expect.
We hope you can join us this year.
Sponsors
– Peace Alliance Winnipeg
– Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba
– Council of Canadians-Winnipeg Chapter
– Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Monthly Meeting of Peace Alliance Winnipeg
2018-07-11 18:00 - 20:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Our agenda includes:

planning for the Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace ceremony (see below).
recent discussions about rebuilding the peace movement in Canada
plans to mark the 100th anniversary of the first world war.

Please join us.
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018*
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Place: 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg (map)
* While normally we meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month, we’ve had to make an exception this month due to meeting room availability.

37th Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace
2018-06-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Manitoba
Please join us for the 37th Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace. We assemble at noon on the west side of the Legislative Building. The walk begins at 12:30 pm.
Here is the route. Help us promote the Walk.

Share the event with your friends on Facebook.
Download, print and display this poster.
Email the poster in jpeg format or repost it on your own web site.

Watch this space for more details.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Council of Canadians Winnipeg
Background: Winnipeggers have held an annual Walk for Peace since 1981. The purpose then was to draw attention to threat of nuclear war and to urge our political leaders to pursue peaceful options and to support nuclear disarmament. In many ways the world situation is more dangerous than it was in 1981 and our need to remind our politicians of their responsibilities remains.
Canadians overwhelmingly support peace and disarmament. Polling conducted by Environics in 2008 indicated that almost 90 percent of Canadians support the abolition of nuclear weapons. Research reported by Environics in 2018 shows that Canadian opposition to nuclear weapons remains high. Despite this, the federal government has refused to support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, approved by 122 countries at the United Nations on July 7, 2017.
Equally disturbing has been Canada’s increasingly belligerent relationship with Russia, participation in Middle Eastern wars, and sales of arms to notorious human rights violators, such as Saudi Arabia.
For these and many other reasons, the Walk for Peace remains relevant and we hope you can help make it a success.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Normally, we meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome.

Special Meeting - Peace Alliance Winnipeg
2018-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
We’re having a special meeting to plan our 37th annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace which takes place on June 16, 2018. Please join us.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2018-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Manitoba

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Annual General Meeting
2018-04-29 11:00 - 15:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Please join us for our annual general meeting. We will be holding elections for the Executive Committee and discussing Canadian foreign policy positions that we might wish to promote in the future.
All are welcome to attend and participate. However, if you wish to vote you must be a member in good standing at least ten days prior to the meeting. If you wish to be nominated or elected to the Executive you must have attended at least 50% of the regular meetings in the preceding 12 months. More information is available in the Peace Alliance Winnipeg Bylaws.
Membership in Peace Alliance Winnipeg is $12 per year. You can sign up and pay your dues online..
We hope to see you at the AGM.

Cuban Parliamentarian Visit
2018-03-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Multipurpose Room, South Osborne Place, 360 Osborne Street, 360 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
A parliamentarian from Cuba – a member of the National Assembly of People’s Power – will be on a cross-Canada tour from March 21st – April 5th. Juan Carlos Rodriguez Diaz is also a Professor of History and the Historian of the City of Pinar del Rio, the capital of Pinar del Rio state in western Cuba.
He will be speaking in Winnipeg on Saturday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m in the Multi-Purpose Room of South Osborne Place, 360 Osborne Street.
Juan Carlos will be accompanied by Yamil Martinez Marrero, the Senior Official of the Canada Desk of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples(ICAP). This is Yamil’s second visit to Winnipeg – he was here last June and spoke at the Ukrainian Labour Temple.
Juan Carlos will speak about elections and democracy in Cuba, as well as life in general under the U.S. blockade now approaching its 60th year. Yamil will speak about the upcoming 26th Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade from Canada to Cuba, taking place April 22 – May 6 this spring.
Sponsors: Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee, Venezuela Peace Committee of Winnipeg, Peace Alliance Winnipeg

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2018-03-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-01-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2017-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Peace Alliance Winnipeg meets regularly on the second Tuesday of the month. Please join us.

My Jerusalem: Responding to the U.S. Embassy Announcement
2018-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | University of Winnipeg, Eckhardt Grammate Hall, Room 3C00
The United Nations partition plan of 1947, which drew the boundaries for the two States of Palestine and Israel, recognized the international nature of the City of Jerusalem, and called for it to be administered by the United Nations Trusteeship Council. For the next 70 years the international community recognized and supported the unique nature of Jerusalem. All of that changed on December 6th, 2017, when the U.S.A. announced that it would move its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem holds significant religious and spiritual importance to the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Please join us on Wednesday February 28th, 7:00 P.M. in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg, to hear from followers of these three religious traditions.
The panelists are:
Rabbi David Mivasair – is motivated by the Biblical command to “seek peace and pursue it” and lived in Jerusalem for four years.
Fadi Ennab – is a lecturer and educator on migration and anti-oppression and is a Palestinian-Canadian from an Arab-Christian background born and raised in the Middle East.
Dr. Idris Elbakri – was born in the city of Jerusalem and spent his formative years there, he has lived in Winnipeg for nearly 13 years and been active in a number of community initiatives including grassroots efforts to welcome Syrian refugees.
The panelists will share their personal reflections on what Jerusalem means to them and their religious tradition. The event is free and open to all.
The event is sponsored by: Canadian Arab Association of Manitoba, Global College – University of Winnipeg, Independent Jewish Voices – Winnipeg, Mennonite Central Committee – Manitoba, Peace Alliance Winnipeg, United Church Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, United Jewish Peoples Order – Winnipeg, and United Network for Justice & Peace in Palestine & Israel.

North Korea & the Danger of Nuclear War (Evening Event)
2018-01-15 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Winnipeg, Eckhardt Grammate Hall, Room 3C00
Lecture by Michel Chossudovsky; hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Menno Simons College, and the Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Background
We are at a dangerous crossroads. Miscalculation could lead to the unthinkable. What distinguishes the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from today’s crisis is that Kennedy and Khrushchev were acutely aware of the dangers of nuclear annihilation. Trump is not. “Mistakes” often determine the course of world history.
Prof. Chossudovsky returns for the first time in over a decade to engage the people of Winnipeg and discuss what can be done to stop this war.
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and Editor of Global Research. He is the author of eleven books. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.
FREE ADMISSION. Donations gratefully accepted. Q&A to follow lecture.
Eckhardt-Grammate Hall is wheelchair accessible and is located on the third floor of the University of Winnipeg’s main campus building, Centennial Hall.

North Korea & the Danger of Nuclear War (Afternoon Event)
2018-01-15 14:30 - 16:00 | University of Manitoba, 244 University College
Lecture by Michel Chossudovsky; hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and the Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Background
We are at a dangerous crossroads. Miscalculation could lead to the unthinkable. What distinguishes the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from today’s crisis is that Kennedy and Khrushchev were acutely aware of the dangers of nuclear annihilation. Trump is not. “Mistakes” often determine the course of world history.
Prof. Chossudovsky returns for the first time in over a decade to engage the people of Winnipeg and discuss what can be done to stop this war.
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and Editor of Global Research. He is the author of eleven books. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2017-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2017-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Manitoba
All are welcome to attend our monthly meeting.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Manitoba
Please join us for our monthly meeting. All are welcome.

No Way to Treat a Child
2017-09-07 17:30 - 21:00 | Sturgeon Creek United Church, 207 Thompson Drive, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Brad Parker, of Defense for Children – Palestine, will speak about their new campaign, No Way to treat a Child. The event is happening in conjunction with the United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel Annual Gathering, taking place September 8th – 10th. Gathering details can be found by clicking on this link – From Occupation to Justice in Palestine and Israel.
Sponsors:

Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba
United Jewish People’s Order
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Defense for Children International – Palestine
Independent Jewish Voices – Winnipeg
United Church of Canada Conference of Manitoba and Northwest Ontario
United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel
No Way to Treat a Child
If you Want Peace Work for Justice
