Category: Promote Peace
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International Solidarity Needed
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Conscience Canada has signed the DefendtheAtlantaForest solidarity statement & we encourage others to do likewise. (Sign here: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/solidarity/ ) On Jan. 18, forest defender Manuel Esteban Paez Teran was killed…
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Peace is Possible: for Ukraine, for our minds
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Nonviolence International https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/ has very useful information on what it’s like for those resisting occupation and war in Ukraine & Russia, and what we can do to help people there…
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Love, not War
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This Valentine’s Day, make love not war Who was Saint Valentine? Stories vary but according to one account he was a third century Roman priest. Rome at this time was…
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#DroptheF35Deal!
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Long time CC secretary (using his “retirement” to keep working for a better world 🙂 Murray Lumley shared this statement with his MP: https://nofighterjets.ca/2022/12/30/dropthef35dealstatement/ , saying, “I agree with the statement…
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Sign for a truce!
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Thanks to World Beyond War for sharing this Veterans for Peace song with British singer Fenya, Christmas Truce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3yH2iCdpvE . We can still sign to support the International Peace Bureau…
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Doctors M-W Ashford, L Thyer – the need for a new ethic
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For both Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford and Dr. Linda Thyer, health encompasses much more than personal wellbeing. Mary-Wynne worked vigorously towards nuclear disarmament until her recent death; Linda wanted to honour…
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Peace book recommendations
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Sheila Pratt writes: If it’s true that history is written by the victors, this history book, Mark Kurlansky’s “Nonviolence: the history of a dangerous idea”, focuses neither on the victors…
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Questioning assumptions about war & remembrance
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Remembrance Day will soon be here. It’s fascinating to learn that the author of the iconic poem, In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, was apparently urging us to resist the spirit…
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Conscience Canada is closing its Peace Tax Trust Fund
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“The Fund was established decades ago as part of our efforts to withold any support from war and militarism.” explains President Jan Slakov. “As we go through a period of…
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Soldiers Without Guns – Trailer
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William Watson won this year’s War Abolisher of the Year award (selected by World Beyond War) for this wonderful film. Lots to learn, to rejoice in and to be inspired…
