Second Annual Four Directions Walk International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Saturday, October 17 Rally at the Legislature 3:00 p.m. Attend the rally or join a walk at any time: Four Walks will meet at the Manitoba Legislature. We…
Norman Finkelstein on barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine
Israel & Palestine: What’s Preventing Peace? A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein Date: Saturday October 17, 2009 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Canadian Mennonite University, Laudamus Auditorium (North Campus), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd Presented by: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle…
Abousfian Abdelrazik to speak in Winnipeg
Abousfian Abdelrazik meets the press in Montreal on his return to Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo: Tatiana Gomez Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009 Time: 5 p.m. Location: Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St. (Bus route 15 to door)…
Lecture: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland
Reconciliation and Memory: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland Dr. Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and former Director of the Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. He is author of Special Relationships:…
Canada’s complicity in Iraq war
Hostile takeover: Canada’s outsourced war for Iraq’s oil riches By Anthony Fenton, This Magazine, October 2009 issue In March 2008, when the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” marked its fifth anniversary, Canadian media outlets…
Iranian nukes a time-tested boogie man
How to Keep Iran in Check Without War by Gary Sick, The Daily Beast, Sept. 27, 2009 President Eisenhower once remarked to his peripatetic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “Don’t do something, Foster, just stand there.” From all evidence,…