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Resist War & Militarism

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days https://paceebene.org/action-days are coming up – the time to help our society wean itself off of exterminism or death culture. We invite you to join us in wearing white poppies, blue scarves and other symbols of our commitment to work for peace with justice.

You can order wallet cards (as above) & sample poppies by contacting Bruna b.nota (at)icloud.com. And feel free to contact us (info (@) consciencecanada.ca or janslakov (at) proton.me ) for ideas for ways to mark the occasion in your community.

People’s Hearings on Military Spending

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Military spending in Canada is poised to skyrocket – the pretext being NATO’s arbitrary new commitment that member states commit a staggering 5 percent of GDP on military spending. That represents $150b/annually in Canada.

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Weigh in on the budget by Aug. 28

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Thanks to one of our members for alerting us to the opportunity to participate in a survey on the upcoming federal budget.

Below are some ideas for responses.

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Draw the Line Sept. 20

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

It’s encouraging to see that the Sept. 20 global day of climate action is making the links between destruction of our living home, the earth, war & militarism, the need to respect Indigenous rights and other social justice issues. Learn more here: https://drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&d=BC&lang=en How can we participate in ways that help people learn about the power of nonviolence?

Building a Future Without War: A Workshop for Action & Solidarity

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

US-based Center on Conscience & War is hosting a two-evening (Aug. 19 & 20, 2025) online workshop panel bringing together powerful voices from national organizations that support people confronting the military system—whether they’re being recruited, currently serving, seeking discharge, or looking for healing and solidarity after service.

Featured speakers include Stephen Englehart, legendary Marvel Comics writer (Captain America, Doctor Strange) and a Vietnam-era Conscientious Objector.

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If military spending just makes things worse, then what?

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

In their article on the Rise of End Times Fascism , Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor help us understand what the real threats are: “The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.” It’s obvious that spending billions of public money on militarism, often enriching some of the end times fascist entities, using gifts from our living home, the earth, in totally unsustainable ways, is counterproductive.

Conscience Canada is working with other activists from across the country to explore options for unarmed civilian defence (UCD). Instead of investing in “defence” that relies on violence and threats, we want to invest in protecting what we love. Researchers such as Erica Chenowith & Maria Stephan have shown nonviolent social change efforts are often more effective than violence in protecting what we value. Most governments seem to have discounted this option, so it’s up to us to make it happen.

Sign on to Global Network Statement on Golden Dome

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Conscience Canada has signed on to this statement: https://space4peace.org/global-network-statement-on-golden-dome/ & we invite you to do so too.

Invitation: Our 2025 AGM, via Zoom

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Pace e Bene has created a series of nonviolence-themed colouring pages.

Your input for our upcoming AGM (April 12, 2025, via Zoom) is welcome! After the business section, participants will discuss how to promote peace & justice education. Please email info@consciencecanada.ca to register. See below for more details.

Note: The Pace e Bene colouring pages, above, are available at https://paceebene.org/coloring-pages

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Canada & Nonviolent Resistance

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Richard Sandbrook (VP of S4P) writes, “training and organization should be the goal of as many organizations as possible within civil society: churches, synagogues, temples, civil rights organizations, unions, indigenous rights organizations, peace organizations, climate groups, for example. Michael Beer’s manual on more than 300 tactics of nonviolent resistance, which is available free online, is an accessible guide.” For a good starting point on exploring the role of nonviolence in our current context, read the article here: https://www.scienceforpeace.org/post/freedom-is-not-free-canada-and-nonviolent-resistance Another useful article on this theme: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/

Singing for Our Lives

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Blog Leave a comment
Pamela Mae & Scott Cook performing in Winnipeg

In times like this, song can do some magic. How about Scott Cook’s Pass It Along? or the story of Danes coming out into the streets to sing together, after the Nazis invaded? or Holly Near’s Singing for Our Lives? 

Are there songs you’d like to share? Please do, in the comments, below.

Pass It Along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9X6rIm-RkI

A Force More Powerful (Denmark, Poland, Chile):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM695veBSUU&t=10s

Holly Near’s Singing for Our Lives : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johabhyURIw

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