By Glenn Michalchuk Overall 2011 saw a continuation of the disturbing trend in Canadian foreign policy of actively supporting war on Iran, denial of Palestinian rights and a readiness to move anywhere in the world in support of U.S. interests.…
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Peace Alliance House Concert Video
Derrick McCandless performed before a small but enthusiastic audience at the most recent Peace Alliance Winnipeg House Concert, January 28, 2012. McCandless is an engaging performer with a wide repertoire of folk ballads, instrumentals and pop standards. (he’s also builder…
Caplan: Solidarity, not charity
Gerry Caplan is a former CUSO field officer, author of The Betrayal of Africa, a weekly, online columnist for The Globe and Mail, and a featured television political commentator. Caplan was the keynote speaker at a dinner held in Winnipeg…
Video: Violence is not child’s play
By Paul S. Graham Making war has been a human pursuit for thousands of years. Playing at war, it would seem, is at least as old. This ancient Greek toy, a model of a war chariot, fashioned from clay, has…
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…
Video – Palestine solidarity action in Winnipeg
Members of the Canada-Palestine Support Network, Independent Jewish Voices, Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Students Against Israeli Apartheid and the Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid rallied at Osborne and Broadway Saturday afternoon to show support for the Freedom Waves Flotilla and to…
Occupy Winnipeg for Peace
About 400 Winnipeggers marched from the Manitoba Legislature to the Toronto Dominion building (Portage and Notre Dame) Saturday to add their voices to the international outcry against corporate greed. Peace Alliance Winnipeg was a part of this, as were many…
Occupy Winnipeg
Location: Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg By now, everyone has heard of Occupy Wall Street, where thousands have gathered in the heart of New York’s financial district to peacefully protest economic and social injustice. OWS is being replicated in numerous other…
Israeli privilege is unsustainable – Amira Hass
by Paul S. Graham “Inhuman, immoral and unsustainable” are the words used by Amira Hass to describe what she terms “the State of Israel and the privileges it endows to Jews only, at the expense of Palestinians.” Hass was at…
The Curious Case of Canada’s Missing Cholera Treatment Camp
By Paul S. Graham Cholera kills. Since the UN brought the disease to Haiti last year, 6,000 have died. Because this disease thrives in countries that lack potable water and sewage treatment infrastructure, it is unlikely to be eradicated soon…