Category: BBCF
Angélica Choc: A very Canadian concern
Story and photo by Theresa Wolfwood Angélica Choc, a small Mayan woman, dressed in her beautiful traditional dress, stood before over one hundred people in Victoria in March to tell her story of murder, rape, destruction and a Canadian mining company. As she wiped away…
History of Women in Black
VICTORIA WOMEN IN BLACK started in October 1995 after Theresa Wolfwood returned from the Beijing Women’s Forum where she attended the WIB demonstration there. Victoria WIB has met since then in silent vigil, usually beside City Hall on the edge of Centennial Sq. on one…
A Tribute to Ann Kemp
Ann Kemp, one of the founding members of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation Board of Directors, died on Sept. 7, 2017, after a short illness. She was my dear friend since our first year at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was an active…
Gerd Weih 1923-2015
Gerd Weih, founding member of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, died in Victoria on August 31. He was dedicated to the aims and work of BBCF which he formed with his wife and companion in life’s struggles for peace and justice, Theresa Wolfwood. The ‘Boecker’…
Remembering Hiroshima- Nagasaki, August, 1945- 2016
Read the french version “Nuclear-weapon states have kept the world hostage in fear and anxiety while squandering trillions of dollars away from meeting human needs …an intolerable and unacceptable reality.” Setsuko Thurlow, 2015 “Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have…
‘The Two Million Trees’ Project In Palestine:
A project of The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature. Amman, Jordan supported by BBCF Did you know that Israel has uprooted & destroyed more than 1 million trees in Palestine? The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature needs our support to replace…
