World arms manufacturers have been raking in record profits this year thanks to conflicts around the world which have brought misery to hundreds of thousands. They will be gathering in Ottawa next week for Canada’s largest trade show.
On April 26 World BEYOND War Board member Sakura Saunders and Advisory Board member Yves Engler spoke at an International Solidarity Forum hosted by Canada’s largest union.
Anti-war organizers in Toronto just put up a billboard of a “corrected” Lockheed Martin ad on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office building.
Guests in the following video include Rachel Small, World BEYOND War Canada Organizer.
Montréal for a World BEYOND War gathered downtown on Friday, April 22 as part of the Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin.
World BEYOND War is looking for an experienced digital and offline organizer who is passionate about abolishing the institution of war.
Nova Scotia’s Maritime pride in her shipbuilding heritage has been called on to promote a new legacy for Lunenburg, according to CBC’s Brett Ruskin. The article entitled “Handcrafting history continues in Lunenburg as aerospace company builds parts for F-35 jet” implies that making jet parts in Lunenburg connects to the great Maritime tradition of shipbuilding.
March 26 marked seven years of the war in Yemen, a war which has claimed the lives of almost 400,000 civilians. Protests in six cities across Canada held by the #CanadaStopArmingSaudi campaign marked the anniversary while demanding Canada ends its complicity in the bloodshed.
About one hundred people marched for peace in Ukraine and Yemen on Saturday, March 26th, one of dozens of such rallies across Canada on that date.
