Defending human rights when they most need it by Paul S. Graham, March 13, 2009 The hardest time to defend human rights is when they are under attack. This is one of those times. The debris from the September 11,…
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Urgent Appeal – Sign the petition – Stop Violence Against Tamil Women
Please sign the e-petition to the United Nation’s special rapporteur on violence against women and urge an immediate end to the massacre, sexual assaults, rapes, and all forms of violence against women. Urge your friends and family to send out…
An appeal from the War Resisters Legal Defense Fundraising Campaign
Support the War Resisters Legal Defense Fundraising Campaign The War Resisters Support Campaign has been fighting for five years to keep U.S. Iraq war resisters safe in Canada. The majority of Canadians support this, and Parliament has passed a motion…
ISSA 10th Anniversary Celebration
Islamic Social Services Association 10th Anniversary Celebration and Fund Raising Dinner ISSA will present the National Ihsan Award to Richard Frost, CEO of the Winnipeg Foundation. Keynote Speaker: Michael Adams, President, Environics Date: April 3, 2009 Time: 5:30 p.m. Place:…
Bush League Justice
Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta To Be Tried For International Crimes? by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge, March 6, 2009 George W. Bush and Omar al-Bashir Serious allegations of criminality are…
Canadian School of Peacebuilding
Join local, national and international practitioners and students of peace, justice and development at the first annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding to be held at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, MB, June 29 to July 10, 2009. Two 5-day…
Gordon MacDermid
Sept. 13, 2008: Gordon MacDermid at a demonstration in support of war resisters in Winnipeg’s Vimy Ridge Park. Photo: Paul Graham With the passing of Rev. Dr. Gordon MacDermid on Tuesday, March 3, the peace movement has lost a stalwart,…
Steps to Hope – Diversity and Respect for Work and Life
A luncheon learning event on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Stephen Hammond: An author and educator in the field of workplace and community human rights, Stephen has rescued organizations from human rights disasters and enhanced businesses…
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama’s Other Ancestors”
Dr. Vincent Harding, the well known American civil rights activist, historian, friend, speech writer, and biographer of Matin Luther King, Jr. will be speaking the progress of civil rights over the course of the last five turbulent decades in a…
A warm Calgary welcome planned for George W. Bush
Former U.S. President George W. Bush is coming to Calgary to speak to the Rotary Club on March 17th on sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Peace and human rights activists are preparing to give him a welcome appropriate…