Speakers Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada Leah Gazan, Idle No More Dennis Lewycky, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg To be announced (moderator) We live in a country where citizens are refusing to vote in record numbers because they…
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Lloyd Axworthy, current president of the University of Winnipeg and formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Chretien government, is a vocal supporter of military intervention against Syria. He cites the 1999 bombing of Serbia by NATO as a precedent…
Sept. 7, 2013: For the second time in a week, Winnipeggers rallied in solidarity with the people of Syria and in opposition to a US led attack.
After a brief gathering on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature, the demonstrators took to the streets to hand out literature and talk with their fellow Winnipeggers.
Speakers
by Cheryl-Anne Carr I am here today on behalf of the Manitoba Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council established in 1949. We’re an anti-imperialist peace organization with a long history in Canada. I am currently the Aboriginal…
by Glenn Michalchuk, Chair, Peace Alliance Winnipeg Across Canada and in cities in around the world people are demonstrating today against the threat that the United States that it will take military action against Syria and thus widen an already…
