Peace Alliance Winnipeg News

All out for Rafah
2024-02-13 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Winnipeg) | Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB

Let Cuba Live Rally (Winnipeg)
2024-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | River Avenue and Osborne Street, Winnipeg
Sponsor: Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee

Monthly Meeting - Peace Alliance Winnipeg
2024-03-12 19:00 - 21:00
Peace Alliance Winnipeg usually meets online the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm. If you wish to attend, send us an email at peacealliancewinnipeg@gmail.com and we will send you a Zoom link.

Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage (Winnipeg)
2024-03-16 07:30 - 08:30
Date: March 16, 2024
Time: 7:30 AM
Place: Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest (St. John’s Park, Winnipeg)
Sponsor: Event by GCPilgrimage Winnipeg

This Lent a global movement is walking in prayerful solidarity with the people of Gaza. With our bodies, pilgrims in 125 communities worldwide will be mapping the 42 km of the Gaza strip onto their cities & towns with their bodies.

Winnipeg’s Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage will be on Saturday March 16th. We’ll be gathering at the medicine garden in St John’s Park at 7:30 AM.

The pilgrimage will be divided up into 7 segments. You can walk it all, a shorter segment with your family, take it on with others as a relay, rest your legs while you drive a support vehicle, etc.

Regardless of what option you choose we’re asking all pilgrims to gather for 7:30 AM.

Israel-Palestine 101
2024-03-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Union Centre, 275 Broadway, 2nd Floor Auditorium, 275 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
It didn’t begin on October 7th. When did it begin? How did it continue? And why?
Join artist and activist Daniel Thau-Eleff for a discussion of key historical events and how they can help us understand the current violence.
Daniel Thau-Eleff is a Winnipeg-based playwright, artistic producer of Moving Target Theatre, a Master’s student in Peace and Conflict Studies, and a long-time member of Independent Jewish Voices. He was recognized for his theatre work with the 2018 Manitoba Human Rights Commitment Award.
DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024
TIME: 7 PM – 8:30 PM
PLACE: UNION CENTRE, 275 BROADWAY, 2ND FLOOR AUDITORIUM

End NATO Rally
2024-04-04 17:00 - 18:00 | River Avenue and Osborne Street, Winnipeg
Join us on April 4th, 5pm at River and Osborne as we come together to call for the end of Canada’s involvement in the immensely destructive war machine that is NATO.
This April marks the 75th anniversary of NATO, an organization of which Canada was a founding member. Under cover of a false claim—to be working toward the preservation of peace and stability—NATO has in reality, through its corrupt principle of “peace through strength” been engaged in relentless war expansion for the interests of US imperialism, and of other western nations whose banks and corporate monopolies move for profit. In service to these interests, NATO has been a primary vehicle of war, occupation, and destabilization in the world for these past 75 years.
Canada’s involvement has meant an inability to enact foreign policy that deviates from the will of the United States, and it has also meant the draining of billions of desperately needed budgetary resources that should be going to social needs and environmental protection in Canada.
In order to get off of this relentless path of destruction, Canada must move to a foreign policy model of peace and disarmament, not one of endless war and destruction that will ultimately lead to annihilation. So please join us to help spread the message: 75 years is a shamefully long record of invasion, destruction, and death for the sake of profit. Canada must say no to endless war and GET OUT OF NATO.

Peace Tax Info Session
2024-04-07 14:30 - 17:00
If you object to your taxes being used for war and militarism you may be interested to learn more. Doug Hewitt-White is a conscientious objector to military taxation and former president of Conscience Canada. Doug will give an overview of how people can act on their conscientious objection and what role the federal government plays currently and how it could change to fully respect our right to freedom of conscience.
Topic: Conscience Canada war tax resistance Zoom meeting
Time: Apr 7, 2024, 15:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85675787245?pwd=BaEeqUzzxgkI72N0cPzkOLnK4RSrss.1
Meeting ID: 856 7578 7245
Passcode: 967822
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Peace Alliance Winnipeg Annual General Meeting
2024-04-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Peace Alliance Winnipeg will hold its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, April 13, 2024.
Time: 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Place: Lower level meeting room, Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue, Winnipeg
While this is not an election year, we will be hold an election to fill a vacancy on the Executive. While all are welcome, only members in good standing can vote or be elected to the Executive. If you have not renewed your membership, please do so without delay. You can do so, online, here.

Building a movement for a just transition
2024-05-08 19:00 - 21:00
Day: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Time: 7pm
Where: Via Zoom Meeting ID: 863 4472 7215 Passcode: 254636

Featuring
Kevin MacKay
Hamilton Professor from Mohawk College and author of
Radical Transformation – Oligarchy, Collapse and the Crisis of Civilization

How can we transform ecologically destructive, oligarchic political structures and align Canadian society with the values of democracy, equality, and ecological sustainability? Discuss with other activists how progressive movements can reject the politics of division, and instead, organize to build new shared narratives, collective identities, and effective strategies to unify the diverse working class and to win transformative change. Help co-create a clear agenda for “Green Labour” or how workers must organize for just transition.
Who should attend?
People concerned and active for peace, climate justice, social equity to reduce poverty, organizing labour and improving democracy.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Fundraising Concert
2024-06-02 19:00 - 21:00
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM (doors open at 6)
Place: Old Grace Co-op (200 Arlington St. map )
Tickets: $25; low income/students and Old Grace residents $20
Tickets can be bought with cash at the door or by Interac etransfer to peacealliancewinnipeg@gmail.com. Please add the memo “concert.” If you wish to support PAW, but do not plan to attend, add the memo “support” to your etransfer.
Featuring Tannis Kelm. For more about Tannis, visit her website. Feel free to bring snacks or drinks.

Yves Engler & Owen Schalk: Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy
2024-06-20 19:00 - 21:00
Date: June 20, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: The Hive, Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg (map)
Admission: Free
Join us for a discussion with Yves Engler and Owen Schalk about their latest book, entitled Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, which documents Canadian government support for the overthrow of some 20 democractically elected governments since the end of World War 2.
Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 12 books. In recent years Yves has sought to mobilize activists to confront politicians through peaceful, direct action. He has interrupted about two dozen speeches/press conferences by the prime minister, ministers and opposition party leaders to question their militarism, anti-Palestinian positions, climate policies, imperialism in Haiti and efforts to topple Venezuela’s government. Read more about Yves, here.
Owen Schalk is a writer from rural Manitoba. In addition to co-authoring Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, he is a columnist at Canadian Dimension magazine and the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023. He is currently working on his third book, which details Canada’s role in the 2011 NATO war on Libya.

Say NO to NATO
2024-07-11 17:00 - 18:00 | River Avenue and Osborne Street, Winnipeg
When: July 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Where: River & Osborne in Winnipeg
Please join us in protest of the NATO summit on July 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM at River and Osborne in Winnipeg.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.S.-led, nuclear-armed military alliance that was founded by twelve countries including Canada in 1949, is marking its 75th year summit in Washington, DC, from July 9-11.
In the last 35 years, NATO has left a trail of death and destruction from its interventions in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and now Ukraine.
This action is part of a week of actions across Canada led by Canada Wide Peace and Justice Network demanding No to NATO, Canada Out of NATO and Nature not NATO. CWPJN is a network of 49 peace, social justice, antiwar and climate justice organizations across Canada. This week of action is also in solidarity with the No to NATO, Yes to Peace counter-summit and protest being held in Washington DC from July 6-7 – nonatoyespeace.org.
We also encourage you to sign on to the new parliamentary petition #4979 calling on Canada to withdraw from NATO: t.ly/t4noF

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2024
2024-08-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Manitoba Legislative Building – South Plaza, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tuesday, Aug 6, 2024
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: the south side of the Manitoba Legislative Building
79 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. Even more alarming is the present conflict in Ukraine which pits a nuclear armed Russia against a nuclear-armed NATO.
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. (Note: If you wish to be seated during the speeches, please bring a lawn chair.)
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.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Mennonite Central Committee

Webinar: Defending Venezuela Against US-Led Coup Attempt
2024-08-25 11:00 - 13:00
Where: Online, via Zoom. Register at https://bit.ly/VzlaElections3
When: Sunday, August 25, 2024
Time: 11 am Winnipeg Time
The presidential election in Venezuela, held on July 28, concluded with the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro for the next presidential term (2025-2031), who won with about 51.9% of the votes according to the second bulletin of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Although he received a little over 7% more votes than his nearest rival, Edmundo González Urrutia of the far-right coalition Unitary Platform, the ultra-right opposition has refused to recognise the results, claiming that President Maduro and the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) carried out an electoral fraud.
Just after the initial declaration of the results in the early morning hours of July 29 and the far-right’s non-recognition of the same, violent protests erupted in several parts of Venezuela, causing widespread material and human losses, including loss of lives, reminiscent of the guarimbas of 2014 and 2017 and the violence accompanying the Guaidó coup attempt in 2019. In parallel, the data transmission system of the CNE suffered an unprecedented cyberattack that delayed the transmission of results. Taking advantage of this situation, far-right politician María Corina Machado published falsified voting minutes as “evidence” of electoral fraud and launched a media campaign presenting González Urrutia as the “winner” of the July 28 election. This has been repeated and inflated by mainstream media outlets across the world as well as on social media. As expected, the United States declared González as the “president” of Venezuela, and some of its vassals in Latin America and Europe have followed suit.
Was there really an electoral fraud in Venezuela? Is there a possibility of executing such a fraud and stealing an election in Venezuela? There were more than 900 international electoral observers and 1,300 foreign journalists present in the country who witnessed the electoral process. What do they have to say about the election and the fraud claims? To hear directly from some such observers and journalists, International Manifesto Group and Orinoco Tribune are jointly organising a webinar on August 25, 2024, where we will be joined by a number of experts who were present in Venezuela during the electoral process.
Speakers:
Diego Sequera is a journalist, writer, translator, editor, and political analyst based in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a founding member of Misión Verdad, where he writes about geopolitics, global conflict, and Latin American and Venezuelan history and politics.
Francisco Domínguez is a specialist on Latin America’s contemporary political economy, about which he has published extensively. A former refugee from Chile’s Pinochet, he is also National Secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in the UK. He is also involved in solidarity activities with Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico. He makes regular contributions to various alternative media. He is co-author of Right-Wing Politics in the New Latin America and author of the pamphlet Maduro: A decade continuing Chavez’s socialist anti-imperialist struggle.
Arnold August, M.A. in Political Science from McGill University, where he also completed two years of Ph.D. studies in the same field, is a Montreal-based author and journalist specializing in geopolitics and international relations, Global South, multipolarity, Latin America, ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for Our America), Venezuela, and Cuba. He also focuses on Palestine, indigenous peoples, China, BRICS, and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). He has visited Venezuela five times including for the July 28, 2024 presidential elections as an international observer, and written over 40 articles on Venezuela, many of them also published in Spanish and French. Of his 2013 book (published in English and Spanish) on comparative political systems, the section on Venezuela is still very valid. His website: www.arnoldaugust.com
Ivan Pankratz is a Venezuela solidarity activist based in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2007 he went to west Africa where he led workshops for local teachers. He is a math and physical education teacher.
Linda Christian works with the International Manifesto Group as an administrator. She completed a PhD in history specializing in the history of the French Revolution during the Terror and Thermidorian periods. She was an international observer for the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela.
Alison Bodine is a social justice and antiwar organizer and author based in Vancouver, Canada. She is on the editorial board of the Fire This Time newspaper and coordinator of the Fire This Time Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, as well as a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. She is author of the book Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela (Battle of Ideas Press). She regularly publishes articles on climate justice, migrant and refugee issues, and Venezuela. Her articles have been published by Fire This Time, Venezuelanalysis, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Common Dreams, Monthly Review, and Counter Punch. She has travelled as a speaker and participant to international antiwar and anti-imperialist events in Cuba, Venezuela, Ireland, England, and the US. She has been an international elections observer in Venezuela on three occasions, including the 2024 presidential elections.
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. After graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1991, Dimitri began his legal career at the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, first working from the firm’s New York offices and then joining the firm’s offices in Paris, France. In 2012, Dimitri was selected by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. In 2013, he was named by Canadian Business Magazine as one of the 50 most influential persons in Canadian business. Canadian Business Magazine described Dimitri as the “fiercest legal advocate for shareholder rights.” In 2023, Dimitri was nominated as one of Canadian Lawyer’s 25 most influential lawyers in Canada.
Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (moderator) is an expert in international relations, Venezuelan politics, and media and communication. He served for several years as Consul General of Venezuela in Chicago (United States). Before that, he was part of the foundational editorial team of the Venezuelan online media Aporrea. He is the founder and editor of the Venezuelan anti-imperialist news outlet Orinoco Tribune.

Walk Against War
2024-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Winnipeg City Hall, 510 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Join us on our annual “Walk for Peace” through Nuit Blanche. A mobile, multimedia event designed to raise awareness of the growing danger of world war.
Walk Against War – September 28, 7:00 PM. Meet at City Hall, our walk will begin at 7:30.
Walk Against War will bring its message to Winnipeggers attending Nuit Blanche Winnipeg using music, posters and speeches. Walk Against War is sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg in partnership with various Winnipeg community organizations.
We hope you will join us!
Endorsed by: Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, Communist Party Of Canada (Manitoba), Community Solidarity Manitoba, CUPE 2348, Ethnorama News Winnipeg, Green Party of Manitoba, ICNA Sisters Canada, Independent Jewish Voices, Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee, No Nukes Manitoba, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, Quakers (Winnipeg), Tuesday Group, Women’s March Winnipeg, Young Communist League Manitoba

Mobilize for Peace!
2024-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 | 206 Princess Street, 206 Princess Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Join us for a discussion on escalating military spending, the dangerous drive to world war, Canada’s role in NATO, Palestine, and the new ‘cold war’ on China, and the need to strengthen the peace movement across the country. The event will feature Larry Wasslen, President of the Canadian Peace Congress, as part of his cross-Canada speaking tour.
Larry Wasslen, a retired intensive care RN and labor activist, led the first unionization drive at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. A lifelong peace and solidarity activist, he founded the Ottawa Peace Council in 2016 and co-launched the Canada Wide Peace and Justice Network. In 2023, he was elected to lead the Canadian Peace Congress.
Glenn Michalchuk was elected National President of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians in October 2022. He is also Chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg which is part of the wider Canadian anti-war and anti- imperialist movement. He is a retired railway worker. As a union member and activist, he represented workers on shop floor, and the city and national level throughout his 40 year working life. Glenn has been active in a wide range of Canadian social and political movements since 1979, including the peace movement.
Date: MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: 206 PRINCESS ST., Winnipeg
More Information: www.canadianpeacecongress.ca

Webinar: Arms Embargo Now!
2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:30
Register at https://armsembargonow.ca/webinar/.

Rally: Arms Embargo Now!
2024-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | CBC Manitoba, 541 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
CANADA IS STILL ARMING GENOCIDE – Winnipeg Action
Date: November 16, 2024,
Time: Noon
Place: in front of CBC Manitoba, 541 Portage Ave
This action is being taken in coordination with actions across Canada, led by World Beyond War (Canada). Despite the wins the Arms Embargo Now campaign has had – and despite Joly’s and Trudeau’s frequent claims to have ended the export of Canadian weapons to Israel – the flow of arms has not stopped.
On September 10 2024 Minister Joly said “We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza, period.” This is a lie. Canadian weapons are continuing to be sent to Israel and continue to be used in Gaza (and Lebanon). Here’s what the Canadian government HAS done:
• Paused issuing any new permits for weapons exports to Israel.
• Suspended 30 (or roughly 12%) of the 200+ permits that had already been issued. These active permits are for military goods that are continuing to be shipped out to Israel right now.
• Promised to stop one planned shipment of Canadian-made explosives to Israel through the US. But only after details of this one shipment (among hundreds) were revealed by fluke and provoked huge public outcry.
Here’s what the Canadian government has NOT done:
• They haven’t suspended or cancelled 88% of the permits currently being used to ship arms to Israel.
• They haven’t done anything to stop the vast majority of arms exports to Israel which don’t even need an export permit because they use a loophole that allows military goods to go to Israel via the U.S., unreported & unregulated.
• They haven’t stopped importing weapons from Israel. Canada continues to fund the Israeli war machine by purchasing Israeli weapons for the Canadian military marketed as “battle-tested” on Palestinians.
Suspending just 12% of active permits to Israel is NOT ENOUGH. Letting Canadian weapons flow to Israel via the U.S., untracked and without requiring a permit is UNACCEPTABLE. Join us!!

No Nukes MB - Free Public Event
2024-11-27 19:00 - 20:30

PRAYER WALK FOR PEACE
2025-04-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Magellan Aerospace, 660 Berry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mennonite Action
PRAYER WALK FOR PEACE
Magellan Aerospace – 660 Berry St., Winnipeg
Thursday, April 10, 2025
3:00-4:30 pm
A follow-up to the December Advent Peace Vigil.
· To draw attention to Magellan’s manufacture of F-35 Fighter Jet components contributing to death and destruction in Palestine.
· To pray for a ceasefire, for relief aid, for peace.
All are WELCOME. Bring a suitable sign to carry.
Invite a friend(s).

Peace Alliance Winnipeg Annual General Meeting
2025-04-12 13:00 - 16:00
Notice of PAW AGM
Please plan to attend the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Peace Alliance Winnipeg. Our theme this year is Building the peace movement to confront crisis, war and genocide.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Place: West End Commons, 365 McGee Street, Winnipeg (map)
This year’s meeting will feature a keynote address by Manitoba author Owen Schalk entitled “Confronting imperialism in the age of Western decline.” Owen is a columnist for Canadian Dimension, the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023 and the co-author of Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy with Yves Engler. At the moment, he is working on two more books: one on Canada’s role in the 2011 war on Libya, and another that will make the case for Canada’s withdrawal from NATO.
This year is an election year for the PAW Executive; to vote, or to stand for election, you must be a paid-up member in good standing. Membership in Peace Alliance Winnipeg is open to any individual. Membership dues are $20 per year. If you are interested in joining or getting on our email list, click here. For more information, see the PAW By-Laws.

RSVP to Win!
Please let us know if you plan to attend by following this link and completing the form at the end of it. We’ll hold a draw and a lucky registrants will win a copy of Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy by Owen Schalk and Yves Engler.

Webinar: Alex Tyrrell Report-Back from China
2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:30

MayWorks Watch Party - The Invisible Doctrine
2025-05-20 19:00 - 22:00
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 to 10:00 pm
Venue: On Zoom
Admission: Free. You must register in advance to receive a link to the Zoom meeting. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dmG4rAu0RhCq2toaXfAldw#/registration.
The Invisible Doctrine explores the dominant ideologies, political economy, corporate power, globalization, labour history, economic inequality, consumerism, environmental issues, the climate crisis, public relations and propaganda, social alienation, and the rise of authoritarianism and fascism. The film has a depressing topic but an inspiring conclusion, describing a truly participatory democratic political system to repair the damage neoliberalism has done – a system that appeals to us as active citizens rather than consumers and our shared social, political, and environmental commons.
After the film there will be a discussion about the film and systems change as it applies to political and economic systems.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Ethnorama and Marianne Cerilli – Change Agent

Gas Lit Nation – Media & Democracy for Peace
2025-05-30 19:00 - 21:00
This event is a follow up to The Invisible Doctrine watch party and will focus on communications and messaging for the peace movement, and examine the ethical peace journalism framework for war coverage by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, and the democracy and free speech needed for peace.
Friday, May 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HLDJMZQ
SPONSORS
Marianne Cerilli, Change Agent
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Ethnorama

Moncada Day in Winnipeg 2025
2025-07-27 17:00 - 21:00 | St Vital Park, 190 River Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Please join the Manitoba Cuba Solidarity Committee on Sunday July 27th 5-9 PM for its Annual Moncada Day Picnic!
This year the celebration will be held at St. Vital Park at the double Aspen/Oak Shelter.
They will be hosting presentations, live musical performances, a raffle for amazing items from Cuba and of course a Potluck picnic so please, bring something to share. Bring family, friends or anyone interested. It’ll be fun for the whole family!
Hope you can make it, for further information or instructions on how to get there please reach out to Manitoba Cuba Solidarity Committee at
Email: manitobacubasolidarity@gmail.com
Phone: 204-894-9381
You can also find them on Facebook

Lanterns for Peace 2025
2025-08-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Memorial Park, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Memorial Park, Winnipeg (by the fountain)
Eighty 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. Even more alarming is the present conflict in Ukraine which pits a nuclear armed Russia against a nuclear-armed NATO.
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. (Note: If you wish to be seated during the speeches, please bring a lawn chair.)
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.
Program
7:30 – 8:30 PM
Making Lanterns
8:30 – 9:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
Candice Bodnaruk
Junko Bailey
Greetings
David Pankratz, on behalf of Premier Wab Kinew
Keynote Addresses by
Owen Schalk
Kristine-Claire Bolisay
Sarah Rohleder
Mayor of Hiroshima Peace Declaration
Rachel Reesor-Taylor
Reading from Black Rain
Candice Bodnaruk
The Story of Sadako
Momo Phillips
Concluding Remarks
Junko Bailey
Launch of Lanterns
Sponsors
Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Mennonite Central Committee

Draw the Line
2025-09-20 13:00 - 14:00
@cpam1948 @craftivistsunited and @wpgsouthcentre4justice have joined forces with environmental organizers and other groups mobilizing together in a coast-coast-coast day of action: DRAW THE LINE.
We are coming together to demand that our provincial and federal government take action to protect our planet, respect Indigenous sovereignty, support an end to genocide, and support migrant rights. We are DONE with our tax dollars spent on militarism. We are FED UP with anti-Indigenous, anti-migrant, anti-Palestine, and fossil fuel driven policy.
MARCH Logistics: The rally will start at 12 noon at Confusion Corner. There will be short speeches, new chants. We will then march at 12:30 pm to meet the rally crew at Wab Kinew’s Constituency Office on Osborne Avenue. We will have drums and chanters. We need you to bring your signs. Your voices. Your walking shoes. The fire in your belly! Please bring your friends, family, and neighbours. For those who cannot march, feel free to meet us at Wab’s office.

Walk for Peace
2025-09-27 19:00 - 21:00
Join us on our annual “Walk for Peace” through Nuit Blanche. A mobile, multimedia event designed to raise awareness of the growing danger of world war.
Date: September 27, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM.
Location: Meet at Winnipeg City Hall, 510 Main St. Our walk will begin at 7:30 through Nuit Blanche.
Walk for Peace and Justice will bring its message to Winnipeggers attending Nuit Blanche using music, posters and speeches. Walk for Peace and Justice is sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg in partnership with various Winnipeg community organizations. We hope you will join us!

Rally - Hands off Venezuela!
2025-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 | River Avenue and Osborne Street, Winnipeg
The United States has been meddling in Venezuelan affairs since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999. Despite American backed coup attempts, assassination plots, and economic sanctions, the people of Venezuela have stood firm and continued to elect Chávez, and following his death in 2013, Nicolás Maduro.
More recently, under the false pretext of combatting drug smugglers, the US military has been murdering unarmed fishers (more than 70 to date) and amassing a naval fleet off the coast of Venezuela. An invasion could come at any moment.
International solidarity in opposition to America’s plans for Venezuela is building. In coordination with the Canada Wide Peace and Justice Network call for a week of emergency protests November 15–23, we are holding an information picket.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
1:00 PM
River and Osborne
Winnipeg
Please join us.
Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee, United in Action, Communist Party of Canada – Manitoba, and Araucaria.

No War on Venezuela - Global Day of Action
2026-01-17 13:00 - 14:00 | United States Consulate, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Please join us January 17 at 1:00 pm at the U.S Consulate, 201 Portage Ave., for a No War on Venezuela Global Day of Action rally.
World Beyond War is calling on individuals and organizations to call for an end to U.S hostility towards Venezuela, including sanctions, threats and war as well as abuse of International Law.
Our Prime Minister Carney has been silent on Trump’s abuse of power. Tell Carney: Demand Trump and the U.S follow International Law. End Canada’s support for war and all hostilities toward Venezuela. Bring your Venezuelan flags and signs in support!
Sponsors include:

Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Manitoba – Cuba Solidarity Committee
University of Manitoba Students for Cuba
Labour for Palestine
Communist Party of Canada
