Take action: March 14 to 25th by Project Fly Home Profiled, put under intrusive surveillance, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, and blacklisted – Abousfian Abdelrazik’s story reads like a catalogue of the repressive tools of the Orwellian “war on terror.” And he…
Video: How Canada lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat
Speaking at a forum, Jan. 23, 2011, sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers, author/activist Yves Engler explores Stephen Harper’s foreign policy and how it cost Canada its bid, in 2010, for a seat on the United Nations Security…
Noon Hour With Partners in Health: Healthcare in Post-earthquake Haiti
Location: Faculty of Medicine (enter through Brodie Center), 727 McDermott Ave, Theatre B With: Donna Barry, Director of Advocacy and Policy for Partners in Health Sponsors: U of M Faculty of Medicine and Winnipeg-Haiti Solidarity Group Admission: Free Donna Barry…
An Evening With Partners in Health: Healthcare in Post-earthquake Haiti
Location: University of Manitoba, Multi-Purpose Room, University Center, 2nd Floor Speaker: Donna Barry, Director of Advocacy and Policy for Partners in Health Sponsors: U of M Faculty of Medicine; U of M Faculty of Nursing; U of M Students Union;…
Amnesty Presents: Human Rights in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Location: University of Winnipeg, Room 1L04 (first door to your right from the Ellice entrance). Admission: Free Speakers from the Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners and the Eritrean-Canadian Human Rights Group of Manitoba will discuss torture, political killings and…
Book Launch: “Create Space For Peace”
Book Launch: “Create Space For Peace: Forty Years of Peacemaking” Gene Stoltzfus (1940-2010) Location: Crossways in Common, 222 Furby at Broadway, Winnipeg. Gene Stoltzfus was the founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams whose vision for engagement in violence reduction in…