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Ballad of the Peace Pushers - Poem for peace. (CX5093).

The Bomb Won't Go Away on its Own - Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals. (June 1982). (CX5618).

Canada to Allow New Arms Sales - Canada is expanding its exports of arms. (CX5092).

A Coalition of the Killing - War, media, propaganda and language. (CX5331).

Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon - By Henry Lowi. Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations. July 18, 2006. (CX5268)

Defence Without Armies - The word 'defence' is often associated with the word 'violence.' However, Social Defence represents a different perspective. (CX5048).

Global Militarism and the Environment - The connection between militarism and environmental damage. (CX5099).

Hanging on by our Fingernails - The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk. (CX5097).

How to Deal with The Lobby The De-Zionization of the American Mind - Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby. (CX5380).

If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self-Defense, So Do Its Neighbours - By Amad Samih Khalidi. There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same. July 18, 2006. (CX5276).

Introduction to the Development, International section of the Connexions Annual

Introduction to the Peace section of the Connexions Annual

Israeli violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories - Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one." June 20, 2002. (CX5255).

Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese Filmmakers from Israeli Filmmakers - We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy. July 22, 2006. (CX5277).

The March - An account of a peace march. (CX4702)

Personal Testimony of a Refusnik - Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore? February 2002. (CX5263).

Proof that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction - Finally, the evidence!. (CX5328).

The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon - By Uri Avnery. The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government. July 16, 2006. (CX5269).

Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News! We're Winning - Don't Ask Where! - A question/answer period with high ranking U.S. military officials. (CX4356).

Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time - A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation. January 29, 2005. (CX5281).

Shame on you, Mr. Harper - Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group. July 19, 2006. (CX5279).

Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should Be Asking Itself - Questions radical peace groups need to consider. (CX5004).

Starving in the Dark: Israel's Appalling Bombing of Gaza - By Virginia Tilley. Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto. June 30, 2006. (CX5267)

"Stop that shit" - By Uri Avnery. Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. July 18, 2006. (CX5275).

Telling it Like It Isn't - By Robert Fisk. Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall. December 28, 2005. (CX5273).

Words Have Failed - By Amira Hass. The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation. March 3, 2004. (CX5272)

Working together for peace - Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is s language that all can agree on. (CX4164).

 


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