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By Theresa Wolfwood Although CFS Leitrim is officially a Canadian military base, it is, like Nanoose Bay, near Victoria, BC, and many other Canadian forces bases, a place that welcomes and exists to serve USA military activities. Located just south of Canada’s capital, Ottawa, (75°W,…

Story and photos by Theresa Wolfwood  “This slogan requires no complicated analysis. The three words “say it all.” They point unerringly to the double challenge: to feed immediately people who are without adequate food, and to replace a system whose priorities are power and profit…

Canadian children are being wooed into a culture of war by the glamour of military life with offers of adventure, training, free education and travel. But the military is all about war, dying and killing. Our taxes fund our bloated & increasing military budget. Lt. Gen. Rick…

Theresa Wolfwood, Victoria WIB On June 26, 2006 under the auspices of the World Peace Forum in Vancouver, 40 + women gathered at a WIB workshop. The event was organized by Beth Burrows, USA, & me. We came from Canada – Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton…

By Theresa Wolfwood  “ the day we die/the wind comes down/to take away/our footprints/the wind makes dust/to cover up/the marks we left/while walking …”     Poetry from Bushmen in  A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz.   Harcourt Brace & Company….

Theresa Wolfwood, 2006 Canadian elections are pretty humdrum affairs – we don’t get very worked up by them unless there is a strong personal connection. So we were not prepared for the intensity and excitement of elections in El Salvador when we joined an international…

Theresa Wolfwood, April, 2006 A long dusty cloud and a throb of engines insinuate into the square where a group of women and children wash clothes at the village well. Until then the loudest noise was the cry of a fretting baby. Beyond the village,…

In a quiet peaceful village, adobe walls surround spacious compounds filled with the sound of children at play, the bleat of goats. The village sits on the fertile Punjab plain, green fields of grain and grass stretch out to meet the next village. Water, close…

Theresa Wolfwood, June 2005 I asked on a list serve recently that members consider and respond to a question about what each thought was the greatest obstacle to peace in their country/region and how they could respond to this. I have pondered what I would…

Theresa Wolfwood Reflects on the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, 2004 The World Social Forum is an ongoing process, a moveable feast. Since the first WSF was held in Porto Alegre in 2001, it was repeated there in 2002 and 2003 with ever increasing…