Day of Action for Cuba
2026-04-19 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Winnipeg) | United States Consulate, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Demonstration: Stop Endless Wars
2026-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Manitoba Legislature, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 0V8, Canada

Film: Earth's Greatest Enemy
2026-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Dave Barber Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Friday May 22nd,
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Dave Barber Cinematheque (Main Floor, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg)
Tickets: at https://davebarbercinematheque.com/screenings/
A documentary exposé of world’s biggest-and unaccountable polluter: the US military. Learn the environmental cost of having a military empire. Includes a live post-screening conversation with
filmmaker Abby Martin.
Co-presented by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, the Dave Barber Cinematheque, Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, and the Manitoba Eco Network.

Symposium: China in the World Today
2026-06-06 09:00 - 21:00 | Université de Saint-Boniface, 200, avenue de la Cathédrale, Winnipeg

Film Screening: Mapantsula
2026-06-19 19:00 - 21:00 | First Mennonite Church, 922 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Peace Alliance Winnpeg and Apartheid Free Communities, in collaboration with Amnesty International, present a rare screening of Mapantsula.
Date: June 19, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: First Mennonite Church, 922 Notre Dame Ave.
Admission: Free admission as part of Apartheid Awareness Movie Nights. (Donations to Peace Alliance Winnipeg are welcome.)
Widely known as the first feature film made by and about Black South Africans during the apartheid era, Mapanstula (1988) is set in Johannesburg and the township of Soweto during the heights of South African apartheid. Panic is a cynical young man interested in living a pleasure-seeking life, caught up in partying and petty crime in the township. Gradually, he begins to see the people around him drawn into the growing anti-apartheid movement. During a local police raid, he’s swept up alongside political activists.

After Maduro’s Abduction: What’s Going on in Venezuela? Strategic Retreat or Capitulation?
2026-06-20 13:00 - 15:00 | 432B Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
After Maduro’s Abduction: What’s Going on in Venezuela? Strategic Retreat or Capitulation? Presentation by William Camacaro followed by discussion

William Camacaro is a Venezuelan-American analyst and a long-time solidarity activist currently working out of New York. He is National Co-Coordinator of the Alliance for Global Justice, a Senior Analyst for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) and co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. William will share news from Venezuela based on information coming from his contacts there.

Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Workers Organizing Resource Centre (WORC)
432-B Ellice Ave., Winnipeg

Anyone interested can join our meeting which will open with a 15-20 minute presentation by William Camacaro, followed by questions and discussion.

Background

Contradictory news has been coming out of Venezuela since the capture and imprisonment of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores on January 3. Venezuelan solidarity activists have taken care to avoid condemnation of interim president Delcy Rodriguez and the government that has remained in place since Maduro’s abduction. Submission to the Trump administration’s control over Venezuela’s oil, the restructuring of the legal apparatus governing foreign investment and control of Venezuelan resources and the release of anti-Chavista political prisoners has been characterized as part of a strategic retreat necessary to hold onto the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution while under direct threat and intense pressure from the US imperialist war machine and corporate interests.

However, since the Rodriguez government extradited former Industry Minister, Alex Saab to face charges in a Florida court, some activists and commentators associated with Venezuela solidarity have become much more critical of the interim government, noting that the strategic retreat looks like capitulation, or even a betrayal of the Chavista movement and the principles of Bolivarian sovereignty and socialism.

This is not the first time Saab has been taken into US custody. He was first arrested in 2020 during a trip to Tehran to negotiate food and fuel imports to Venezuela as a result of shortages caused by US sanctions. At that time, Saab was charged with “conspiracy to commit money laundering”. After this first arrest, a “Free Alex Saab” campaign was launched. The Maduro government and international solidarity activists decried the arrest of a Venezuelan diplomatic envoy. Saab was released in a prisoner swap with the US in 2023. The current charges against Saab have expanded to include criminal conspiracy, money laundering, falsification of documents and bribery. These new charges reflect the US government’s determination to punish Venezuela for its former fight against US sanctions and reveal the US administration’s arrogance as Trump boasts about Venezuela becoming the 51st state of the US.

Histories of settler, racist and anti-migrant violence in the north of Ireland
2026-06-25 18:30 - 20:30 | West End Commons, 641 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Histories of settler, racist and anti-migrant violence in the north of Ireland
Featuring Dr. Kerry Sinanan in conversation with Brendan Devlin
June 25, 6:30pm, WestEnd Commons
In this conversation, Brendan Devlin and Kerry Sinanan will talk through the complex political histories and ideologies that led to the organized Loyalist-led attacks on non-white Irish people and migrant workers in Belfast in mid-June 2026. They will focus on how Britain’s settler colonial project in Ireland is connected to other settler projects on Turtle Island and in West Asia, especially in Palestine, and will also connect the experiences of migrant workers in Ireland to those in Canada. Core to this conversation will be understanding the different ways in which white supremacy fuels violence via imperialist and white nationalist systems. The role of the state will be discussed and its collusion with policing and sponsored paramilitaries to maintain settler power. We will talk through the similarities of these dynamics with state collusion here on Treaty One and how these eruptions of violence emerge from anti-Indigeneity here and abroad.
Audience members will be invited to participate in the conversation and in selected readings from Socialist Republicans that remind us of Irish anti-racist and anti-imperialist legacies.

Winnipeg Rally: Tell Carney "Canada out of NATO for World Peace
2026-07-04 12:00 - 13:00 | 611 Corydon Avenue, 611 Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
It’s time to leave NATO
NATO represents the greatest threat to world peace and stability. Canada’s membership directly involves Canadians in NATO’s militarism, wars and prepartion for new wars. A NATO summit will take place on July 7 and 8 in Ankara, Türkiye. Peace Alliance Winnipeg is holding two actions calling for Canada to get out NATO. Come to one or both.
Bring the message: “No to War,” “No to War Spending,” “Canada Out of NATO for World Peace.” Bring your signs against NATO, War, Military spending AND to end NATO’s war in Ukraine.
1. To the Liberal Government of Mark Carney: Saturday, July 4, 12 p.m. at the Constituency Office of Liberal MP Ben Carr, 611 Corydon Ave. We will gather for a group photo as part of the mobilization across Canada for July 7 and 8.
2. On the first day of the NATO Summit: Tuesday, July 7, 5 p.m. Assemble on the four corners of River and Osborne

Winnipeg Rally: More "No to NATO!"
2026-07-07 17:00 - 18:00 | River Avenue and Osborne Street, Winnipeg

Moncada Day (Winnipeg)
2026-07-26 17:00 - 21:00 | St Vital Park, 190 River Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba
MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Moncada Day 2026! It’s the 73rd anniversary of this most important Cuban holiday on Sunday, July 26 at St. Vital Park from 5-9 p,m, We’ve booked the double Oak/Aspen shelter so we’re fine even if it rains. There will be live music performances, a presentation on the history and significance of Moncada Day for the Cuban Revolution, and messages of greetings from other organizations supporting Cuba. It will be a potluck supper, so please bring something to share if you can. There’s no charge, but donations always appreciated.
The Park entrance is at 190 River Road; once inside keep to the right and follow the road a couple of minutes in; the shelter is on the left with a parking lot across and there is ample parking right on the road too. Watch for Cuban flags!
Sponsor: Manitoba Cuba Solidarity Committee

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2026
2026-08-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Memorial Park, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, 470 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
Please join us in commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Date: August 6, 2026
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Memorial Park in Winnipeg
Eighty-one 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 August 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 to the present day.
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 9:30 pm, following a short program of speeches, we float our lanterns in the Memorial Park pond 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.
Please invite your friends. We hope to see you there.
Sponsors:

Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba
Mennonite Central Committee (Manitoba)
No Nukes MB
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
