Location: Project Peacemakers Office, 2nd Floor, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Avenue (2nd entrance west of Maryland St.) Peace Alliance Winnipeg meets monthly to plan our activities. Everyone is welcome.
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Video: Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011
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 a pond in the middle of the city to express…
Video: A Vigil for Harvey Sanderson
By Paul S. Graham On August 3, 2011 – four days after being viciously assaulted in his Winnipeg apartment, Harvey Sanderson Junior died of his injuries. He was 27. What made this crime especially shocking was that Harvey had brittle…
Canada’s foreign policy at odds with popular priorities
By Paul Weinberg, Antiwar.com, Aug. 16, 2011 TORONTO — Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces,…
End Canada’s bombing of Libya!
By the Canadian Peace Alliance This September, the 3-month extension of Canada’s military role in Libya passed through Parliament will expire. When the NATO bombing of Libya began, Stephen Harper assured the public that the operation would drive Gaddafi from…
Vigil for Harvey Sanderson
Location: Manitoba Legislative Building You are invited to a vigil in memory of Harvey Sanderson and persons with disabilities who are victims of violence. More information: Manitoba League for Persons with Disabilities, 943-6099
Winnipeg Chalk 4 Peace 2011
Location: Vimy Ridge Park Rain Date: September 11, 2011 Free performances throughout the day from a variety of local acts. Musicians Bands start @ 2:00pm. Drum jam @ 6:00pm. JohNNy SiZZle Bobby Stahr Johnny Broadway (more TBA) “Chalk4Peace” is a…
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2011
By Matsui Kazumi, Mayor, Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 2011 Sixty-six years ago, despite the war, the people of Hiroshima were leading fairly normal lives. Until that fateful moment, many families were enjoying life together right here in what is now Peace…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011
By Paul S. Graham, Aug. 4, 2011 On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people were killed. On…
Stand on guard for creeping militarism
By Michael Fellman, The Tyee, July 28, 2011 On April 15, Jason Kenny fully scripted a commanding role for military to play during citizenship ceremonies. The veteran, preferably from the Afghanistan War, to be introduced at the start of the…