By Shane Nestruck August 6, 2012 was important for me – my father’s 93rd birthday and the 67th anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. I was fortunate to be asked to provide the music for the Winnipeg Peace Alliance…
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Video: Winnipeg Peace & Justice Festival 2012
The second annual Winnipeg Peace and Justice Festival and the 31st annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace were held June 16, 2012. Participating organizations included Peace Alliance Winnipeg Project Peacemakers Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Winnipeg Chapter for the National Committee for…
Video: Lanterns for Peace 2012
Annually, citizens of Winnipeg commemorate the suffering and the deaths of the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused by the atomic bombing of those cities in Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 respectively. Lanterns for Peace is sponsored by the Manitoba…
Hiroshima Peace Day: It is not enough to remember
By Glenn Michalchuk, Chair, Peace Alliance Winnipeg Sixty-seven years ago the world witnessed a new and even more deadly to consequence to war as atom bombs fell on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thousands of citizens still suffer the…
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2012
By Kazumi Matsui, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. Our hometown was reduced to ashes by a single atomic bomb. The houses we came home to, our everyday lives, the customs we cherished–all were gone: “Hiroshima…
Bring Omar Khadr home!
By Roméo A. Dallaire The case of Omar Khadr—a Canadian citizen and former child soldier—is a stain upon our society and shows a blatant disregard for Canada’s obligations under international law. During his 10 nightmarish years at Bagram and Guantánamo…
Lanterns for Peace 2012
Every August 6, Winnipeggers commemorate the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony. People come together to make and float their lanterns in the fountain at Memorial Park to express their desire for…
Canada’s military: soldiers or psychopaths?
By Paul S. Graham This interview with Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff says more about the psychopathology of militarism than I would have believed could be found in a daily newspaper. Read along with me and ask yourself what kind…
Don’t attack Syria
By the Canadian Peace Alliance As the violence escalates in Syria, there are further calls from Western media and government officials for a foreign intervention into the conflict. The Canadian Peace Alliance stands against any intervention from outside powers and…
Continue to Oppose Bill C-38
by Peace Alliance Winnipeg Bill C-38, over 400 pages of legislation that makes widespread changes to almost every aspect of Canadians’ lives – from Old Age Security to how the environment is protected – passed the House of Commons on…