Category: Promote Peace

Jan S: Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” speaks to me as I find myself reacting to information and opinions to justify whatever side people want to sympathize with. Information, especially that…

The board of Conscience Canada supports this call for an immediate ceasefire and allowing the necessities of life into Gaza: https://www.change.org/p/sign-and-share-this-urgent-petition-calling-for-a-ceasefirenow-in-gaza-and-israel In this time of heightened tensions, open dialogue that…

by Linda Thyer With just a hint of annoyance, I gently place the spider on a nearby white poppy after brushing the strands of her web from my face in…

First, a petition worth signing: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/israel_palestine_save_the_kids_loc/. For insight into how to end the bloodshed in Israel and Palestine, one article worth reading and sharing is this one, by Charles Eisenstein:…

Thank you to Shakil Choudhury for permission to share this BEAUTIFUL story, in honour of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, from his useful book! This story is more…

Nonviolence News https://nonviolencenews.org/ editor Rivera Sun shares “success stories” including one from Truthout about this successful petition campaign https://truthout.org/articles/activists-now-have-104000-signatures-to-put-stop-cop-city-on-the-ballot/. Thanks to author Leonard Desroches for the lead to Nonviolence News.

We are told that the military protects our lives, our freedoms. If we needed proof that militarism undermines health and wellbeing, and rights and freedoms, not only overseas but at…

Wear white poppies from Sept. 21 (International Day of Peace) to Dec. 10 (International Human Rights Day).  By wearing white poppies, we affirm our support for a world free of…

Bruna Nota and Murray Lumley represented Conscience Canada at the annual Hiroshima Day event in Toronto this year. In a recent letter, Doug Hewitt-White points out, “As August 6th approaches…

By World BEYOND War, July 31, 2023 Activists with Montreal for a World BEYOND War and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute gave out free ice cream at Parc Lafontaine on…