Student Lead Group At York University Discussing Peace & War Conflict In North America & Internation
This page is created by peace advocate students from York University's SOSC 3211 class. This page is intended to share educational information on current war events and action being taken to stop war. This page will actively share documentaries, articles, and allow anyone to share their theories, comments, questions, and debates with everyone who is passionate about anti-war and peace movements.
03/29/2017
York urged to drop fossil fuel, arms stocks | The Toronto Observer Based on the support from community representatives, York University's advisory committee on investment is recommending the institute to divest from fossil fuels and weapons manufacturers. But will the board of governors listen?
03/29/2017
Watt and Dorn: Canada dithers on its peacekeeping commitments – and loses credibility for it On the night of his federal election victory in October 2015, Justin Trudeau proudly declared that “Canada is back” on the international stage.
03/23/2017
ON TARGET: Canada should resist boosting its defence spending You can call Donald Trump many things, but after his first few months in power it appears that he intends to keep his election campaign promises. In delivering his first budget last week, Trump boosted discretionary defence spending by a whopping US$54-billion, which amounts to roughly a 10 per cent...
03/14/2017
We will be posting, for the next few weeks, some information about the arm companies that our university invest in and their relation to themes of misery all over the world. Please share!
03/12/2017
Peace movements are NEEDED!
World faces worst humanitarian crisis since 1945, says UN official Twenty million people face starvation without an immediate injection of funds in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria, warns Stephen O’Brien
03/09/2017
John Ivison: Wanting to ditch reputation as NATO's cheap date, Liberals looking at ballistic missile defence: sources In the upside down economics of the Trump era, Morneau needs to find ways to spend a lot more on defence and a lot less on virtually everything else
03/02/2017
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03/02/2017
TV 2 | All That We Share We live in a time where we quickly put people in boxes. Maybe we have more in common than what we think? Introducing All That We Share. The English version.
02/08/2017
Students have a message for York University - YouTube Pourya Jalalipour shared a video
02/02/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-said/where-to-an-international_b_14552424.html
Where To? An International Movement for Equality and Human Rights It is time for our movements for human rights and the environment to unite in one great, national and international movement for economic equality and ju...
01/26/2017
Canada must ‘stick to its word’ on Saudi arms deal, Trudeau says Prime Minister says Canada will go ahead despite video footage showing the Saudis using different armoured vehicles against minority Shia Muslim dissidents
02/02/2017