VOW and other members of the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network have published a statement and call to action for International Peace Day 2022. You can read the statement online and find a listing of Peace Day events happening in the week around September 21st all across Canada!
CEASEFIRES AND NEGOTIATIONS NOW!
DISARM NOW! BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
On United Nations International Peace Day, 9.21.2022, the need for de-escalations, negotiations, disarmament and understanding could not be more urgent. Nuclear war is looming, especially as Russia may be motivated to retaliate against the US, Europe and Canada. Devastating military conflicts are dragging on and increasing in number while the arms trade and militarism are on the rise. We are faced with mass deaths, starvation and displacement and obliteration of biological and social ecologies. Economic sanctions are today being a great cause for deprivation and insecurity; we oppose such tools of war, too, just as we oppose war profiteering. … Read the full statement