Global Women for Peace United Against NATO is hosting a webinar on Neutrality & Peace, Sat. Jan. 24, at 1:30pm Eastern time.

Speakers include:

Elke Zwinge- History of Non-Alignment. Member of the German Peace Council and World Peace Council delgate to China, Vietnam, Venezuela.

Biljana Vankovska – Non-Alignment and Peace. Professor of international relations and peace studies from Macedonia, board member of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (Lund), member of the No Cold War collective.

Moji Agha – Neither East nor West. A Sufi monk with 40 years of professional, clinical, and academic studies in behavioral, cultural and ecological studies highlighting conflict understanding and healing.  

Ariet Güttimger – Active Neutrality. Historian and psychologist, member of the board of the Swiss Movement for Neutrality bene.swiss

Q and A – 30 minutes. Action points and roundup 5 minutes

Hosted on behalf of GWUAN by UNAC – The United National Antiwar Coalition 

Conscience Canada Supports FOR-USA’s statement regarding the war on Venezuelans. Canadian intelligence, equipment and personnel have also been involved in these illegal actions. This more in depth article also documents how Canadian diplomacy has undermined Venezuelan sovereignty and due process.

Of course Conscience Canada supports efforts by World Beyond War to stop and prevent war crimes against Venezuelans.

To find out more about the lies associated with the violence, and about how you can work to say no, please go to their site. We may want to ask members of our government how they/we can be in close military cooperation with governments which commit war crimes and blatantly violate international law. … There is, undoubtedly, so much we need to question and rethink. And then, align our actions with what is needed for life and basic ethical decision-making.

As Chris Houston writes, if we want peace, we must fund what builds it! Read his take on the 2025 Carney budget and what we could be doing to really build peace here .

With so much clamour for weapons & war, let’s keep learning how to build peace & justice with the power of nonviolence.
To join our webinar with the ED of the Canadian Peace Museum, Chris Houston, and Afghan-Canadian nonviolence practitioner Basir Bita, please contact janslakov[at]proton.me. The discussion starts at 1 pm Eastern on Nov. 1.

More info on our guests here: AboutChris & Basir’s substack page .

AND please check out the CCPA’s alternative budget for true sovereignty, not massive defence spending & service cuts.

Support a world beyond war and join this year’s conference, on the theme of Abolition. Register here

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days https://paceebene.org/action-days are coming up – the time to help our society wean itself off of exterminism or death culture. We invite you to join us in wearing white poppies, blue scarves and other symbols of our commitment to work for peace with justice.

You can order wallet cards (as above) & sample poppies by contacting Bruna b.nota (at)icloud.com. And feel free to contact us (info (@) consciencecanada.ca or janslakov (at) proton.me ) for ideas for ways to mark the occasion in your community.

Military spending in Canada is poised to skyrocket – the pretext being NATO’s arbitrary new commitment that member states commit a staggering 5 percent of GDP on military spending. That represents $150b/annually in Canada.

Thanks to one of our members for alerting us to the opportunity to participate in a survey on the upcoming federal budget.

Below are some ideas for responses.

It’s encouraging to see that the Sept. 20 global day of climate action is making the links between destruction of our living home, the earth, war & militarism, the need to respect Indigenous rights and other social justice issues. Learn more here: https://drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&d=BC&lang=en How can we participate in ways that help people learn about the power of nonviolence?