Tag: Winnipeg

Winnipeg Solidarity with Gaza

by Glenn Michalchuk and Paul S. Graham About 800 Winnipeggers gathered at the Manitoba Legislate on the evening of July 14th to protest the continuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the support of the Canadian government for Israel’s military action.…

Video: Picketing for Peace in Syria

Winnipeg, Sept. 12, 2013 – A few members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg picketed and handed out leaflets in front of the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. Inside the hotel, former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy was a featured speaker at…

Video: Winnipeg Peace in Syria Rally

uvs130908-009Sept. 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

Syrian peace will not come from US bombs

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…

Winnipeg CHALK 4 Peace 2012

by Paul S. Graham The underlying premise of CHALK 4 Peace might best be summed up in a statement attributed to Mahatma Gandhi in 1937: “There is no way to peace; peace is the way.” CHALK 4 Peace is an…

Flash mob offers message of peace

By Alexandra Paul, Winnipeg Free Press, Nov. 12, 2011   Local members of the Mennonite community marked Remembrance Day with a flash mob at The Forks that was organized through social media. About 100 people staged a sedate gathering timed…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2009

Every August 6, citizens in thousands of communities around the world commemorate the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and rededicate themselves to the cause of peace and disarmament. In Winnipeg, a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony is conducted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg,…