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for Presentation to Wasserlos Conference, Innsbruck, Austria May 14, 2003 By Theresa Wolfwood The following presentations was given at  a confererence in Innsbruck, Austria where there was also a number of international speakers. An inspiring story of how Nicaraguans saved their water and defeated a privatization attempt…

February,2001    “VISIT the UNITED NATIONS, SEE PEACE IN THE MAKING” … poster showing Security Council, in New York Airport  “do you know how long it takes any voice to reach another? knowing that while birds and warmer weather are forever moving north, the cries of…

Roundtable Report by Michelle Lowry and Peter Nyers Reprinted with authors’ permission, first published in Volume 21 Refuge Number 3 see: www.yorku.ca/crs/Refuge/Refuge.htm Introduction. Non-status persons, or people with less than full legal immigration status, constitute one of the most marginalized groups in Canada. These individuals…

  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…