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…
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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…
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…
Israel and Palestine: What’s going on and what can we do?
By Paul S. Graham On June 8, 2011, Project Peacemakers Forum panelists Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd and Howard Davidson discussed “Israel and Palestine: What is going on and what can we do?” Did they succeed in answering these questions? Yes and…
End the bombing of Libya
Statement of Peace Alliance Winnipeg to the 30th Annual Walk for Peace, June 18, 2011 On Tuesday, June 14 the Conservative Government of Stephen Harper, with almost unanimous support of all political parties, extended Canada’s role in the bombing of…
June 18: 1st Annual Winnipeg International Peace Festival / 30th Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace
Vimy Ridge Park is the venue of the first annual Winnipeg International Peace Festival and the 30th Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace which will take place Saturday, June 18, 2011. The theme for this year’s march is the UNESCO Manifesto…
Video: Huwaida Arraf, in Winnipeg, on the Free Gaza Movement
By Paul S. Graham March 16, 2011: Huwaida Arraf spoke at a forum in Winnipeg, Canada entitled “From Direct Action to the Freedom Flotilla: the International Solidarity Movement and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle. Arraf is co-founder of the ISM and…
Israeli Apartheid 101
By Paul S. Graham It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in Winnipeg, Canada and many other cities and towns around the world. In Winnipeg, Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 is taking place on the campuses of the University of Manitoba and the University…
Video: How Canada lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat
Speaking at a forum, Jan. 23, 2011, sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers, author/activist Yves Engler explores Stephen Harper’s foreign policy and how it cost Canada its bid, in 2010, for a seat on the United Nations Security…