August 9, 2013: Winnipeggers hold their annual commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Lanterns for Peace ceremony is sponsored, each August in Winnipeg, by the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers.
This year's keynote speaker was Dr. Clint Curle of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
May 23, 2015: Winnipeggers joined thousands in 6 continents, 48 countries, and 421 cities for the third annual March Against Monsanto. Speakers included Rose Stevens, Kate Storey and Samantha Braun.
Links:
March Against Monsanto: http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
No GMO Manitoba: https://www.facebook.com/pages/No-GMO-Manitoba/222725601114866?fref=ts
Video Production:
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tz2w9i4EuU
Winnipeg, Aug. 6, 2014: Winnipeggers commemorated the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States, a strike that claimed 200,000 lives and ushered in the age of nuclear terror.
Sponsors:
- Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba - http://www.mjccc.org
- Project Peacemakers - http://projectpeacemakers.org
- Peace Alliance Winnipeg - http://peacealliancewinnipeg.ca
Video Production:
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbD-Bnd95Pw
July 4, 2015: Winnipeggers joined with Canadians across the land to say No to the Energy East Pipeline. A longer video is in the works.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw2UPcv91a0
Winnipeg, March 14, 2015: Andrew Park, Green Party of Canada candidate for Winnipeg South Centre, spoke to a crowd of about a thousand people who rallied at Winnipeg City Hall to express opposition to Bill C-51, the so-called The Anti-Terrorism Act that Stephen Harper's Conservative government introduced January 30, 2015.
You can watch all of the speeches at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elQyzTfxNuU. You can read more about this legislation at http://paulsgraham.ca/2015/02/25/stop-bill-c-51-stopharper
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-lZAVQb80
Winnipeg, July 5, 2014: Activists spent the day at the University of Winnipeg discussing some of the issues they plan to unite around locally and take to the People's Social Forum in Ottawa, August 21 to 24, 2014. Topics included:
- Honouring our Treaties: workshop with Niigan Sinclair
- Defeating the Conservative Agenda:
- How do we stop Energy East and fracking?
- Neoliberalism and the assault on public education
- How can we create better-paying jobs for everyone?
Speakers in this video:
- Ben Zorn, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
- Dave Saur, Winnipeg Labour Council
- Maree Rodriguez, Activist and Poet
- Judy da Silva, Grassy Narrows First Nation
More information:
Winnipeg Social Forum
http://winnipegforum.com
https://www.facebook.com/winnipeg.socialforum
Video Production:
Paul S.Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1McbH0WnfY
On April 8th, 2022, Winnipeg peace activists held an information picket in front of the office of Jim Carr, Liberal Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre and delivered their message to his office. The purpose of this action was to object to the Canadian government’s recently announced plans to spend 19 billion dollars on 88 new F-35 fighter jets and increase military spending by $6.1 billion over the next 5 years. Here is some of what they had to say.
More information
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
https://peacealliancewinnipeg.ca
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
https://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hac2PzXHWpE
Winnipeg, August 21, 2015: Activists marched to mark the first anniversary of the murder of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in August, 2014 after she went missing from the care of Child and Family Services.
No arrests have been made since Tina's body was pulled from the Red River and four more indigenous women have been killed in Winnipeg since her death.
Tina’s case prompted yet more calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls — something Conservative leader Stephen Harper has so far rejected.
Tina's case must not become lost in the statistics of the 1,200 indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or disappeared over the past three decades. There must be justice for the Fontaine family and for all the families of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
See also:
Walk and Vigil to Honour Tina Fontaine and Faron Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6YwyYPk4U
Video Production:
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7yG6AJ26Y
September 9, 2017: The United Network for Justice and Peace
in Palestine and Israel (UNJPPI) held its annual gathering at St. Benedict's Monastery, just north of Winnipeg, MB, Sept. 8-10, 2017. One workshop, entitled "A Conversation About Settler Colonialism" featured Rev. Stan McKay (Moderator of the United Church) and Robert Massoud, founder of Zatoun Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine, and Beit Zatoun, a cultural centre in Toronto.
Links
UNJPPI: http://www.unjppi.info/
Zatoun Fair Trade Olive Oil: http://zatoun.com/
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VUf19nHTg
More than 600 indigenous women in Canada have gone missing or been murdered in recent years. The slowness of governments to act and the lack of progress has spurred Manitoba's aboriginal organizations to demand full-scale provincial and national inquiries. So far, Manitoba's and Canada's governments have shown no interest in public inquiries, but that may change if efforts to have the United Nations become involved bear fruit.
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak and the Southern Chiefs Organization held a rally in Winnipeg on July 11, 2012, to call for public inquiries on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. Featured in this video clip are Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, respected community elder Mae Louise Campbell and David Harper, Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak.
Video Production: Paul S. Graham, http://paulsgraham.ca
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWj0AHuJyEs