Art4peace 2020 Contest Showcase
You are welcome to our seasonal celebration and exhibiting the ART4Peace contest participants/winners. Come check out our Peace-themed Artwork from various local and international artists.
Articles by Niovi Patsicakis
The long history of discrimination against First Nations children
The unequal provision of health and social services for First Nations children has been documented for more than a century. Is this the moment when the wider public will demand action?
Decolonization & Anti-Racism
In support of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) this guide assists in finding and facilitating decolonial & anti-racist research. Here you will find key resources, search strategies, & additional open access information sources.
Choose a World of Peace Not War
On Saturday May 15th Global Peace Alliance joined over 1000 people and marched in a protest against the bombing and killing of Palestinians and the lack of human rights, expropriation of their lands, denial of medical and covid assistance, denial of an airport, denial of fishing, essentially rendering them living in an open air prison and in an apartheid system within Israel.
A Peace Alternative for Canada
This 8-point program presents a comprehensive foundation for re-orienting Canadian foreign and defence policies based on peace and disarmament, not on militarization, aggression and war. At this critical moment in world affairs as the ‘drums of war’ beat ever louder, we believe that such a fundamental re-alignment of Canadian policy is more urgent than ever.
Racist incidents are on the rise: How to be an active witness
In 2000, after experiencing microaggressions firsthand, Dr. Ishiyama developed the A.R.T (Anti-discrimination Response Training) Program, now in use in schools and organizations across North America. The A.R.T. model describes four levels of witnessing: disengagement or “dis-witnessing”, passive witnessing, active witnessing and ethical witnessing that includes social action and activism, including educating others about social justice issues and the importance of breaking the silence and engaging in active witnessing.
Irena Sendler – A Powerful woman during World WAR 2
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
Literary & Visual Arts Contest 2021
CONTEST RULES Essay: What have we learned from COVID19, what needs to…. Every literary/visual art work submission to the contests must have a theme of […]
White Rock joins cities’ collective call for nuclear weapon ban
White Rock council has joined cities across Canada in calling for the federal government to sign a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons.
City of White Rock Joins the Mayors for Peace Appeal
Following our presentation with the resolutions below, Dr. Hugette Hayden and I are happy to announce that the City of White Rock tonight has joined […]
Sustainable Development Goals Youth Conference
This is what we and many peace activists and organizations around the world are focusing on. Every educational opportunity for our youth is welcome and I encourage all to attend this upcoming conference and spread the word to our youth who will be leading the world.
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Transformative change can come with the Green New Deal as it helps us to overcome the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. All countries must align and fight for the planet and begin these policies. This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.”
Climate Convergence
Climate Convergence is a grassroots network of climate justice organizations and activists (Indigenous, Labour, Student, NGO and Communities of Faith). We are mobilizing to stop climate change and protect our air, land, and water from toxic pollution by corporations in the fossil fuel industry.
The Council of Canadians
Bringing people together to take collective action and build grassroots community power as we work for a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. With our members, supporters and chapter activists, we learn, organize and act together as we fight for clean water, fair trade, strengthened public health care, climate justice and democracy.
The Leap
The Leap’s mission is to advance a radically hopeful vision for how we can address climate change by building a more just world, while building movement power and popular support to transform it into a lived reality.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and carefully review all donations to ensure that they are consistent with our policies, mission, and values. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.
Leadnow
Leadnow envisions a just, sustainable, and equitable Canada, built and defended through the democratic power of an engaged public. (Global Peace Alliance BC society encourages you to sign up for emails and help with their petitions)
The Canada Files
I’m the Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a socialist, anti-imperialist news site founded in 2019. I have written about Canadian imperialism, federal politics, and left-wing resistance to colonialism across the world for Canadian Dimension, Palestine Chronicle, the Orinoco Tribune and Dissident Voice.
A New Beginning for Humankind
A new book on world peace by Dr. R.B. Herath. It has sparked interests among many community leaders in Surrey B.C, who even started a new global peace initiative under the name of Global Peace Alliance, Surrey Society