Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2024
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9th, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb, this time on Nagasaki. The immediate combined…
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Canada Out of NATO!
Winnipeg, April 4, 2024: Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with an information picket in the Osborne…
Gaza Stories
“Gaza – Stories of Grief, Resilience and Hope” was hosted by the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba and Independent Jewish Voices Winnipeg at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in…
In Winnipeg the Electric Past is the Future
Broadway looking east, 1914.Archives of Manitoba, Wpg/Streets/Broadway 11 The city of Winnipeg was once a leader in sustainable transit then along came the automobile and the city is now known…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2023
Winnipeg, August 9, 2023 — Winnipeggers held a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are conducted each…
Free Speech for Peace
Free Speech for Peace was presented by Ethnorama News Winnipeg and Al Cafe and recorded at Winnipeg’s historic Ukrainian Labour Temple on March 31, 2023. The event arose out of…
Winnipeggers say “No” to planned new fighter jet purchase
Winnipeg peace activists joined with their counterparts in several cities in Canada this weekend to reject the federal government’s plan to spend billions on new F-35 fighter jets at a…
No to NATO! Peace in Ukraine!
Winnipeg, Oct. 28, 2022: Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg picketed outside Winnipeg’s Delta Inn, site of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress conference, attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence…
Why I’m voting for Robert-Falcon Ouellette (again)
Robert-Falcon Ouellette at an October 5, 2022 news conference in Winnipeg. Photo: Paul S. Graham I voted for Robert-Falcon Ouellette when he ran for mayor of Winnipeg in 2014. At…
Abolish NATO for World Peace!
On June 29, 2022, members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined peace activists in a dozen cities who demonstrated their opposition to NATO and Canada’s membership in it. You can find…
Thanks for the melodies
JS Bach in 1746 This afternoon, while bicycling to Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park, I was listening on my smartphone to a recording by John Williams – Bach: The Four Lute Suites…
Glen and the Greens
I first took note of Glen Murray when he was mayor of Winnipeg. I was active in my community in inner city Calgary and Murray seemed to share my sense…
Winnipeg Neo-Nazi Exposed – Justin Hjalmarsson
ARC received a tip earlier today from antifascists about swastika imagery at a home in Winnipeg: a swastika has been spotted in the backyard of a home with a confederate…
My 2019 in Videos
This marks the 10th year of my YouTube channel. You can watch more than 350 videos here, but as it is the season to reflect on the past year, here…
Patrik Mathews in United States: Training Base Members in Georgia
Well this is less than reassuring: Scoop: @MackLamoureux, @ZacharyKamel and I learned from sources that neo-Nazi terror group The Base are hiding Patrik Mathews, the missing Canadian ex-soldier with explosives…
Winnipeg solidarity with Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela
Photograph: Paul S. Graham Winnipeggers rallied at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in solidarity with the people of Bolivia, Venezuela and Chile who are facing a variety of imperialist…
Bryan Palmer: The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike heard around the world
Winnipeg, July 20, 2019: Professor Bryan Palmer at the 14th annual forum of the World Association for Political Economy. Photo: Paul S. Graham The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was followed…
Make Peace an Election Issue
Aug. 6, 2019: Winnipeggers gather in the shadow of the Manitoba Legislative Building to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Lanterns for…
Why I support David Nickarz for MLA in Wolseley
Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2019 – (l-r) Paul Graham and David Nickarz at the annual Labour Day March. Photo: David Nickarz Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May has said that…
2018 in review at youtube.com/redriverpete
2018 was not my most prolific year in terms of video output, but it provided, nonetheless, some interesting and useful insights into the struggle for peace and human rights in…