Source: https://www.wilpf.org/the-ecocide-of-palestine/ The genocide in Palestine has become normalised. Yet, while we are watching people die, the bombs that are exploding and the destruction of infrastructure, farmland and water also constitute the ecocide of this ancient land. This blog highlights why the devastation of the environment is an important aspect of the genocidal violence being imposed by […]
Source: https://www.iiss.org/globalassets/media-library—content–migration/files/publications/military-balance/2025-military-balance/the-military-balance-2025_defence-spending-and-procurement-trends.pdf
Photographs by Jo Rekart In April 2015, five members from the Vancouver and Nanaimo branches represented Canada at the Centennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in The Hague, Netherlands. This organization is the oldest international women’s peace organization in the world having come into being in 1915 when over […]
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War Resisters Support (Sarah Bjorkman)
Flowers for two long-standing members, honoured for their hard work and dedication to the cause of peace (left to right: Jean Craig, Jillian Skeet, Caroline Kline, Maryann McWaters, Martha Slykhuis, and Marjorie Buchanan).
March 8, International Women’s Day, is a day to acknowledge the need for women’s equal participation in economic and political decision-making, to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of women, and to denounce gender discrimination and gender violence.
