Leading Canadian peace activist Tamara Lorincz was the keynote speaker at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Peace Alliance Winnipeg.
Tamara is a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She is on the international board of Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space. Tamara was a co-founding member of the Vancouver Island Peace and Disarmament Network (now World Beyond War-Victoria). Tamara has an LLB/JD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association. For several years she was on the national board of Ecojustice Canada and the Nova Scotia Minister’s Round Table on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity.
Her research interests are the military’s impacts on the environment and climate change, the intersection of security and peace, gender and international relations, Canadian defence and foreign policy, feminist foreign policy, disarmament, resistance to NATO, and military sexual violence.
Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2014: The Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy seeks to raise awareness of Aboriginal sovereignty, provide Aboriginal people in Australia sanctuary and a place for ceremony. On tour in Canada, delegates Boe Spearim, Callum Clayton-Dixon, Pekeri Ruska and Meriki Onus visited Thunderbird House on September 1, 2014, where a potluck feast was held in their honour. The Keewatin Otchitchak Traditional Women's Drum Group performed and the visitors reciprocated with some of their traditional dances, songs and stories.
Links:
http://brisbaneblacks.com/sovereign-embassy/
http://thunderbirdhouse.com/
Video Production:
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcc76ZwO3s
June 29, 2022 - Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined with peace activists in a dozen Canadian cities to demand that Canada leave NATO.
Videography
Paul S. Graham
https://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D6BOv1yVxY
Customarily, we end the annual May Day Parade in Winnipeg with a rendition of The Internationale, written by Eugène Pottier in 1871. The song may be old, but the conditions that gave rise to these lyrics remain contemporary.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRZYJUvMHg
Winnipeg, January 30, 2017: Hundreds of Winnipeggers rallied at the Manitoba Legislature in soldiarity with the victims of the January 29 attack on the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec in Québec City.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/152633968571304/
Video production:
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMI1X9sQ4d4
Renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson spoke at the 14th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, held in Winnipeg in July 19-21, 2019. The conference was entitled Class, State and Nation in the 21st Century.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xluStDQp9yE
Winnipeg, May 12, 2019: One century on, the Winnipeg General Strike remains one of the most significant events in Canadian history. A new book, 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike, marks the centenary of this epic struggle.
1919 was co-created by the Graphic History Collective, a group of activists, artists, writers, and researchers from across Canada, and David Lester, an artist, writer, illustrator, musician and author of the acclaimed graphic novel The Listener.
The book was introduced to a Winnipeg audience by Collective members Julia Smith and Sean Carlton and David Lester.
Links
http://graphichistorycollective.com/
https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH3PA2LE.html
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg-general-strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=o7k0HzRYoi8
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stuaju6hIUo
Red River College played host to the first of two mayoral election forums it has planned for this week. Six of seven mayoral candidates participated: Paula Havixbeck, Brian Bowman, David Sanders, Michel Fillion, Judy Wasylycia-Leis and Robert-Falcon Ouellette.
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixuu7d1nCIk
Sandy Tolan is a teacher, radio documentary producer and author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2006).
The Lemon Tree is a moving account of the relationship that developed between two families one Palestinian and one Israeli and the house that both lived in before and after the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians and founding of the state of Israel.
In November 2009, Sandy Tolan travelled to Winnipeg, Canada to participate in Restorative Justice Week and to tell the story of The Lemon Tree in the context of restorative justice.
Restorative Justice Week was organized by:
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba
- John Howard Society of Manitoba
- Mediation Services
- Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba
Sandy Tolan's visit was co-sponsored by the Uniter Mouseland Press Speaker Series. Special thanks to The Winnipeg Foundation.
Divided into 7 parts, the video has a total running time of 1 hour 8 minutes.
Video produced by Paul S. Graham, http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6OyD8fBIc
Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 15, 2013:For more than 30 years, Winnipeggers have come together, in June, to march for peace. In doing so, we strive to educate our neigbours about the the roots of war and to keep alive the message that peace and social justice are inextricably interwoven.
This year, we dedicated the festival to our longtime friend and comrade in the struggle for peace and justice, Nick Ternette. Politically active in many arenas, Nick worked for social justice until the end of his life, despite the health challenges that ultimately caused his death on March 3rd, 2013.
Featured speakers at this year's event included political activist Emily Ternette, who provided a loving tribute to her departed husband, and David Barsamian, host of the weekly American political affairs program, Alternative Radio, which has been running for 27 years.
In addition to the speeches of Emily Ternette and David Barsamian, my video report includes a brief interview with Nick, held as we marched along during the 2012 Walk for Peace.
Camera:
Paul S. Graham: http://paulsgraham.ca
Ken Harasym: http://imageinn.ca
Narration, Interview, Editing:
Paul S. Graham
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJE9Q87ofu8