Plan to take in the Peace Alliance Winnipeg Winter Fundraising Concert, featuring singer-songwriter Serena Postel. When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 Time: Door opens at 7:30 p.m. Concert starts at 8:00 p.m. Where: a house in Winnipeg (the address is on…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Workers Organizing Resource Centre, 180 Smith, 2nd floor Press the buzzer to get access to the building. We have lots of work and not enough hands, hearts and minds. Please try…
Winnipeg Centre for Teaching Peace and Peace Café
Bob Stewart, of the Canadian Centre for Teaching Peace, Anne-Marie Collette, David Pankratz (Director, Institute for Community Peacebuilding at Menno Simons College, University of Winnipeg) and Jocelyn Greenwood have organized 2 gatherings that will deal with establishing a Winnipeg Centre…
Chagos Islanders – the exile continues
Law lords ruling stops return of families to Chagos Islands More than 2,000 islanders were removed forcibly removed from their home between 1965 and 1973 to make way for the US airbase at Diego Garcia. Photo: US Navy/Reuters by David…
Czech mayors and peace activists urge Obama to end Nuclear Missile Defence program in Europe
The Czech Republic agreed during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania, April 3 to host tracking radar as part of the U.S. missile defense system. It will be built by 2012, according to the US government, “to protect Europe from…
The Voices of Rongelap
Fireball of H-bomb explosion after test blast over Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1956. Photo: Life Cautionary Tales From a Nuclear War Zone By Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M. Barker Counterpunch, Nov. 21, 2008 John Anjain, Alab of Rongelap, Marshall…