Canadian International Air Show ‘Promotes the Culture of War,’ Protestors Say
Protest is planned Sunday in downtown Toronto over show’s effects on people who’ve lived in war zones as well as its environmental effects.
Protest is planned Sunday in downtown Toronto over show’s effects on people who’ve lived in war zones as well as its environmental effects.
On August 3rd, 2022, FutureWave.org hosted—and World BEYOND War sponsored—a watch party of the documentary ”A Television Event” as part of the August 2022 Ban the Bomb month. Here is the lowdown, in case you missed it.
On August 3, 2022, two Montreal activists, Dimitri Lascaris and Laurel Thompson, disrupted a public-relations presentation by Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and her German homologue Annalena Baerbock. The disrupters spoke out against Joly and Baerbock’s support for NATO expansionism and increased military spending.
On August 9, 2022, the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition hosted the 77th Anniversary Commemoration of the Atomic bombings of Japan.
We watched the film. Then we had the presentations and a question-and-answer period that are contained in this video — with our experts, Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US and Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
Toronto is also the seat of Canadian finance. For anticapitalist organizers or those involved in mining injustice that means this city is sometimes known as the “belly of the beast”.
I was blown away by World BEYOND War’s annual online conference!
This month features a special Staff Spotlight introducing new staff member, Maya Garfinkel, based out of Montréal, Canada.
On June 28, 2022 Montreal for a World BEYOND War joined several other Montréal peace groups to protest NATO at Complex Guy Favreau in downtown Montréal. The Montreal rally was one of many No to NATO rallies this week in response to the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, where there was a massive demonstration.