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Two proud daughters of Cuba addressed large responsive crowds from Victoria to Halifax during a major cross-Canada tour this fall. They spoke about the successes and problems of their country and they appealed to Canadians as friends of Cuba and partners of the…
Jose Bove: From Arms To Farms (Briarpatch, July 2001) When ten sheep farmers in southern France got on their tractors one day in August, 1999 and headed down the highway to Millau, instead of to their fields, they hurled themselves in the global spotlight by…
by Terry Wolfwood This article was written in 1999 after Rosalie Bertell spoke in Victoria. In September 2001, Dr. Bertell received the Sean McBride Peace Prize, the first North American to be so honoured. Last year the chief and a few band members of a…
by Carolyn Pogue I first learned about Women in Black by watching a CBC documentary. The Intifada had been raging since 1987, four years. I was amazed to discover that there was a strong peace movement in Israel. It is usually violence that makes the…
by Michelle Martin (this slightly shortened and edited article was originally printed in The Martlet, November 18, 2004, Victoria, BC) A day spent ‘dreaming on’ with Victoria’s silent protesters Dressed in black, a group of about 15 predominately middle-aged and retired women stand in silence…
“Maintaining A Culture of Peace Requires an Economic Solution” The fragile peace of the impoverished African country of Mozambique rests uneasily on caches of thousands of weapons left over from sixteen years of civil war. Albino Forquilha, coordinator of the “Transforming Arms into Ploughshares” Project…
Militarism is more than guns, landmines or nuclear weapons. Although we must resist the development, use and spread of weapons that kill mainly helpless civilians and destroy civil society, we must understand and resist the ideology of militarism in its every aspect. Militarism is a…
NEW PRESENTATION (This is an edited and revised version of the original presentation which follows after this one. It has been prepared for publication in Science for Peace Journal. See: www.scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca ) INTRODUCTION “ In order to understand a thing, one must change it. ”…
TOURISTS visiting San Cristobal de las Casas, the picturesque old colonial town of the Chiapas highlands, are often besieged by street vendors selling local handicrafts. Many sellers will be offering Ramona Dolls. Cloth dolls of women dressed in local indigenous dress have always been staples…
When we think of oil we think of war and waste; but there is also an oil of peace and plenty. Olive Oil from the fruit of the tree of peace has a deep significance in many religions; it is the oil produced as a…
THE BEDROOM A poem about a political prisoner by Theresa Wolfwood
Canadian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions to support Palestine. 2018
Theresa Wolfwood at Arab Group for Protection of Nature Annual Meeting
The International Arab Forum for Supporting Captives in Occupation Prisons Conference
BUILDING INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
The Engaged Eye of Mohamud Mohamed: Photo Gallery from Nairobi
From Gaza to the World: Gazans are People: Gazans are Palestinians: A report by Ramzy Baroud
AFRICA: The World Social Forum & beyond January- February, 2007
Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental Test Range, Nanoose Bay, BC, CANADA
CANADA NEEDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: CHILDREN NEED A CULTURE OF PEACE
Diamonds, Genocide and Resistance: A Story of the People of the Kalahari
CONFRONTING THE ROMANCE OF VIOLENCE: OUR SOCIETY AS A CULT OF MILITARISM.
The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada: “No One Is Illegal”
Daughters of Cuba call for solidarity in Cross-Canada Speaking Tour
Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions: Supporting justice for Palestine
Literature and Social Sustainability: The Woman’s Creative Potential
Women In Black promote peace in Victoria and beyond by Michelle Martin
Theresa Wolfwood reports on ‘Miner’s Memorial Day’ Cumberland, BC, Canada, June, 2004
