Aug 29, 2019
Greta Thunberg picks up the torch from activist Frances Crowe
The departure of one elder activist on the eve of the arrival of one so young symbolizes, bittersweetly, the passing of a torch.
peace movement
Nov 6, 2018
100 years after First World War, a forum for peace opens in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron sees dangers 100 years after the "never again" promise of 1918 failed to produce peace. In November, France will host a 100th anniversary event: the Paris Peace Forum.
Oct 12, 2018
Peace movement is on the march again
Penney Kome
Peace organizations haven't been in the news much for a decade or so. But after a year with Trump in the Oval Office, peace is a high political priority again.
Aug 28, 2018
War is big business. We need a strengthened movement to challenge the arms industry
Brent Patterson
Our struggle for peace and climate justice needs to turn greater attention to the arms industry.
Jul 24, 2018
Working to reinvigorate Canada's peace movement
Talking Radical Radio
Longtime peace activists Dave Gehl and Ed Lehman talk about the work of the Regina Peace Council.
Mar 22, 2018
Fifteen years after the invasion of Iraq, people are organizing for peace
Fifteen years have passed since President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and a coterie of neoconservatives launched the invasion of Iraq with a murderous bombardment of Baghdad.
Mar 13, 2018
Thirty-five years of peace activism in Calgary
Talking Radical Radio
Trudy Govier talks about her three and a half decades of working for peace and justice and about the work of the Ploughshares Calgary Society.
May 5, 2016
Remembering Father Dan Berrigan, a prophet of peace
Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic Jesuit priest, a protester, a poet, a dedicated uncle and brother, died last weekend at the age of 94.
Jan 29, 2016
Arguments against Canada's bombing mission exist, but Trudeau hasn't uttered them
Paul Weinberg
Canada's federal government must stand strong in its position to end its combat mission in Iraq and Syria. So why hasn't Trudeau uttered any arguments against the bombing missions?
Aug 6, 2015
Nuclear abolition movement commemorates 70th anniversary of Hiroshima
The world changed irrevocably 70 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the United States dropped the first nuclear weapon in history on the civilian population of Hiroshima, Japan.
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