Join us for an evening rooted in connecting our struggles and uniting in the fight for justice and freedom for all. Funds raised for this event will go directly to Gazan medical students.

Each ticket gets you access to:

MEZZE: A selection of Palestinian and other West Asian/Middle Eastern food for all attendees.

RAFFLE: Great prizes! You can buy your tickets on site at the event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Tamara Lorincz will be speaking after the film. She is a long-time member, advocate, and senior researcher with the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), and the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom-Canada (WILPF). Dr. Lorincz is featured in the 2025 documentary film, Earth's Greatest Enemy. FILM SCREENING: Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the second feature film project by Abby Martin, is a groundbreaking anti-imperialist environmental documentary. Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter, spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism. FUNDRAISING: Support Gaza's Medical Students: Doctors and medical workers in Gaza have been targeted as part of a campaign to prevent Palestinians from keeping their people alive. Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. Medical education inside Gaza has been systematically erased. In this context of scholasticide, the education of Palestinian doctors becomes a collective responsibility.

Please get your tickets & give today! Organized by many groups including Burlington4Palestine, Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War & many more and endorsed by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-Canada.

Join us July 8th, 2026 at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET with author Owen Schalk and scholar-activist Tamara Lorincz to discuss the history of NATO and why Canada must leave it.

For decades, Canadian governments have aligned closely with NATO interventions, military procurement programs, and U.S.-led security strategies. Supporters argue the alliance is defensive and provides security and stability. Alternatively, we know that NATO has instigated and expanded conflict, undermined diplomacy, fueled arms races, and tied Canada to wars and geopolitical confrontations that do not serve the interests of Canadians.

More info: https://capitalismcantbefixed.ca/event/political-education-canada-out-of-nato-now-w-owen-schalk-tamara-lorincz/

Peaceful vigils for Gaza. You don't have to be a grandmother to show your support.

Puerto Rico has long been used as a training base and launching point for U.S. military operations. This legacy has left behind contaminated land, polluted groundwater, and serious multigenerational public health impacts. Through decades of activism and grassroots organizing, residents achieved major victories, including successfully driving the U.S. Navy out of Vieques. Today, however, we are seeing renewed militarization there under the Trump Administration. Carlos Cardona will share his personal perspective while discussing the current challenges, ongoing resistance movements, and the broader impact on Puerto Rican communities.

Puerto Rico has long been used as a training base and launching point for U.S. military operations. This legacy has left behind contaminated land, polluted groundwater, and serious multigenerational public health impacts. Through decades of activism and grassroots organizing, residents achieved major victories, including successfully driving the U.S. Navy out of Vieques. Today, however, we are seeing renewed militarization there under the Trump Administration. Carlos Cardona will share his personal perspective while discussing the current challenges, ongoing resistance movements, and the broader impact on Puerto Rican communities.

Join us and leading experts for a webinar on Tuesday, June 30th at 7 PM to explore the implications of these legislative changes, examine the history and impacts of water privatization around the world, and understand how Ontario's recent reforms fit into a broader pattern of shifting essential public services into private hands.

We'll also discuss how communities can help safeguard public stewardship of water. RSVP today for the Zoom link, and please share far & wide! Organized by Water Watchers.

Co-produced with Level Ground Productions, this film tells the story of how the United States came to wield so much power over Canada over the last 50 years – and what it might mean to really reclaim sovereignty.

In this time of trade wars and oil price shocks, this film aims to show Canadians how the rise of U.S. influence, the growth of neoliberalism, and our structural dependence on fossil fuels are part of the same underlying story: the stranglehold of corporations over our democracy. We have been working on this project for the last two years, and we are very excited to finally bring it into the world – especially at this current political moment. The event will include a screening followed by a 30 minute panel discussion. Panelists will include Chase Joynt (director, and founder of Level Ground), Jesse Wente (narrator, and prominent Anishinaabe writer and critic), and Jennifer Abbott (story editor, and Sundance award-winning director of "The Corporation").

Watch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5-3CQo1iUQ

More info: https://playbackonline.ca/2026/06/03/chase-joynt-teams-with-non-profit-to-helm-political-docuseries/

Report launch online. Rocket launches for both military and civil purposes have rapidly increased over recent years as costs have fallen and this is driving a new ‘race for space’.  Commercial companies and government sectors are keen to capitalise on the economic and strategic advantages offered by the exploitation of space and the space sector too is undergoing rapid transformation as it moves from being government-led to funded by wealthy entrepreneurs and private companies. To coincide with the opening of a three-month window for the first space launch from UK soil on 1st July, Space Watch UK is publishing a new report: ‘Waste of Space: The Environmental Cost of Human Activities in Space’ 

More info: https://mailchi.mp/78bf10b92a4a/us-spy-drones-out-of-fairford-thank-you-6144281?e=d17787aca5

Rocket launches for both military and civil purposes have rapidly increased over recent years as costs have fallen and this is driving a new ‘race for space’. Commercial companies and government sectors are keen to capitalize on the economic and strategic advantages offered by the exploitation of space and the space sector too is undergoing rapid transformation as it moves from being government-led to funded by wealthy entrepreneurs and private companies.

Join us Canada Day – July 1st 2026 at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET with Yves Engler as we break down the popular myth of Canadian peacekeepers.

Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 13 books including his latest Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy (co-authored with Owen Schalk).

Richard Sanders is an anti-war activist and writer in Canada. In 1984, he received an MA in cultural anthropology and began working to expose Canada’s complicity in U.S.-led wars. In 1989, he founded the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT), which led to a 20-year municipal ban on Ottawa’s arms bazaars. He continues to produce COAT’s publication, Press for Conversion! Its latest issues examine how Canadians are captivated by state myths: * Captive Canada: Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at war, from narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to the mass internment of civilians; * Fictive Canada: Indigenous slaves and the captivating narratives of a mythic nation; * Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep, fascist roots. He is writing a book (for Baraka Books) on Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s prime minister in waiting, which details her grooming as a Liberal war hawk in the Pearsonian tradition. His research has revealed that Freeland began her journalism career with pro-fascist Ukrainian-Canadian publications for which her grandfather—the Nazi’s top Ukrainian-language news propagandist—also worked.

More info: https://capitalismcantbefixed.ca/event/political-education-canadian-mythology-w-yves-engler/

For decades, Pacific communities have carried the consequences of militarization, nuclear testing, and great-power competition. Tune in this July to learn about efforts to strengthen peace, oppose further military expansion, and support a sustainable, nuclear-free Pacific! For many communities across the Pacific, 2026 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises scheduled for 24 June - 31 July represent a continued expansion of militarization in the region. These large-scale war exercises heighten regional tensions, increase the risk of conflict, and divert resources away from addressing the urgent social, economic, and environmental challenges facing the region. Organized by World BEYOND War.

Sessions: We will have 2 sessions pre and post counter summits to support our colleagues in Turkiye and strengthen our No to NATO movement.

Pre-Summit(July 3 at 7pm CEST). Registration: https://bit.ly/overcomethewarmachine-pre-summit

Check local time. Organized by the No to War, No to NATO Network

Sessions: We will have 2 sessions pre and post counter summits to support our colleagues in Turkiye and strengthen our No to NATO movement.

Post-summit(July 11 at 3pm CEST). Registration: https://bit.ly/overcomethewarmachine-post-summit

Check local time. Organized by the No to War, No to NATO Network

Organized by the Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and the Canadian Coalition for Nonviolence Resistance.

Register here

In July 2026, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the book Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey, with the author (and subject of the story) Mir Rahimi.

When you register for the club, we will provide you a free book as PDF, Kindle, or Audiobook (requires Audible membership).

We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

When:

For one hour on Tuesday July 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2026, beginning at UTC 17:00, which is Tuesday at 7 am in Honolulu, 10 am in Los Angeles, 11 am in Mexico City, 1 pm in New York, 6 pm in Yaoundé, 7 pm in Amsterdam, and 8:30 pm in Tehran.

In August 2026, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the book Unbounded Hues with the author S. K. Rosée.

When you register for the club, we will mail you a paperback copy of the book—or an eBook (your choice).

We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

When:

For one hour on Thursday August 6, 13, 20, and 27, beginning at UTC 16:00, which is Thursday at 6 am in Honolulu, 9 am in Los Angeles, 10 am in Mexico City, 12 pm in New York, 5 pm in Yaoundé, 6 pm in Amsterdam, and 7:30 pm in Tehran.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026, community members and leaders will travel 1,700km from Grassy Narrows to Toronto to demand that Ontario and Canada:

1. Compensate everyone in Grassy Narrows fairly for the mercury crisis

2. End the pollution by stopping the Dryden mill and ending mining and nuclear waste plans that threaten Grassy Narrows

3. Support Grassy Narrows in restoring their community and way of life from the damage that mercury has done.

Walk with Grassy Narrows youth and community members to show that we are with them on their path to achieve mercury justice and freedom!

This is a family-friendly event. Rain or shine!

Check out FreeGrassy.net for more details as the event approaches.

Grassy Narrows people are powerful leaders in the movement for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. They have shown that together we can fight for justice against all odds and make real gains.

The Fifth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave remains a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun. But participants will have until November 1, 2026, to submit videos of peace activism, filmed at any time in the first 10 months of 2026.

We will then compile the videos into 24 videos of 40 minutes each. We will then announce the date of a Zoom webinar that will have 40 minutes of video and 20 of introduction and live discussion (including your questions) every hour for 24 hours.

Have you done any pro-peace or antiwar activities already in 2026 that you have good video of? Let us know!

Are you planning any activities between now and October 31 that you can make video of? Let us know!

We're looking for good quality videos of events and activities, ideally in landscape (horizontal) format, and showing any sort of peace activism other than sitting at a desk and talking to a camera (rallies, demonstrations. concerts, banner-drops, mural painting, etc.)

Answer all your questions about the peace wave at 24hourpeacewave.org

Join us on October 23-25 for #NoWar2026: Beyond Borders, World BEYOND War’s annual global conference hosted on Zoom. 

War and militarism drive people from their homes, causing mass displacement. And the very same weapons companies profiting from war and conflict cash in when governments militarize borders and block the movement of people fleeing violence. Throughout three days of panels, workshops, and breakout rooms, the #NoWar2026 Conference will examine the interconnections of the war system, migration, and the border industry, with case studies from around the world.

#NoWar2026 will create a space for global dialogue among activists, organizers, researchers, and educators to share lived experiences, learn from each other, and strategize for a world beyond the violence of both war and borders. 

Kathleen Brookfield

(1939–2025)

As a cherished member of the Guelph community, Kate was known for speaking her mind, particularly in the face of injustice. She was a fierce champion for other causes that promoted disadvantaged people around the world, especially women. Right to Learn Afghanistan (was Women for Women in Afghanistan), Teddies for Tragedies, and Voice of Women for Peace were some of many organizations she supported with her time and donations. She also loved to support the World Wildlife Fund and ordered new wildlife socks every year for the whole family. Her passion and spirit made her a dedicated champion for those needing support.

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