Peace Alliance Winnipeg News

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2018
2018-08-06 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Winnipeg) | 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
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
Peace Alliance Winnipeg usually meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Please join us.

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
All are welcome to attend our monthly meeting.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
2017-09-12 18:00 - 20:00
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
