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Elizabeth Mayne is a Victoria artist who has exhibited widely in Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and USA. Her work reflects her interest in the human interaction within society and with the physical environment. She has also organized many group shows based on variations of…

Mohamud lives in Korogocho, one of the sprawling areas around Nairobi where more than one million poor people live in crowded handmade houses with few sanitary services, facilities or utilities.  Mohamud works with community groups on issues of food security, health, child welfare and safety….

Introduction Thalia Campbell of Wales was the inspiration and teacher for these banners. Theresa and Thalia met on 1995 Peace Train to Beijing Women’s Peace Forum. Thalia had many beautiful handmade banners. Several years later BBCF invited her to Victoria to give a banner-making workshop….

by Oona Padgham Why flags? While the trusty banner has its place at demonstrations and protests, flags have many advantages to banners. Banners can be cumbersome and difficult, especially in windy weather. You need two people to carry a banner. In cold weather, keeping that…

The recent events in Egypt show that people can create social change if they unite for peace & social justice. The activists who changed Egypt and ended 30 years of repression did not come together out of the blue. Women, workers, students, activists have been…

Story and photos by Theresa Wolfwood NADA ELIA  CALLS  FOR ACTION “I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.”…

By Theresa Wolfwood Palestine and the Palestinians’ sixty–one years of struggle to regain the freedom of their homeland may seem distant to most Canadians and our problems, but on many levels, Canada and Canadians are abetting the oppression of Palestinian people. Every day our Canada…

By Theresa Wolfwood Canadian writer Yves Engler was in Victoria recently to speak publicly and to promote his new book entitled: Canada & Israel: Building Apartheid. Most of the people who came to hear him speak think they are fairly well informed about Canadian foreign policy. Many…

Stories and photos by Theresa Wolfwood I have been fortunate to meet and hear three strong Latin American women speak about their struggles; of course, they mean not their individual problems, but the struggles of women and everyone working for justice in their region. Behind…

Story and photos by Theresa Wolfwood In spite of the blockade on world media by the government of Israel, the news of the horrors of Gaza did get out to the world. Residents and a few foreign aid workers who had managed to enter during…