More militarism is not the answer: World BEYOND War and PBI-Canada webinar on April 8 at 7 pm ET

Published by Brent Patterson on April 2, 2025April 2, 2025

Webinar speakers: Harsha Walia, Tyler Shipley, Clayton Thomas-Muller.

The militarization of borders, Indigenous territories, and foreign policy through weapons exports has led to human rights abuses and repression. More border militarism, colonial dispossession and weapons exports are not the answer.

Join this critical and timely discussion on Tuesday April 8 with South Asian activist and writer Harsha Walia, professor and author Tyler Shipley, and Cree author, filmmaker, and land-defender Clayton Thomas-Müller.

Click “Register” here to sign up and get the Zoom link for this online discussion.

This webinar takes place in the context of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Black Hawk helicopters now patrolling the 49^th parallel, impunity for the RCMP Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) following militarized raids on Wet’suwet’en territory to push through the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline, and the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa on May 28-29 that promotes the export of weapons and surveillance technologies that threaten the lives of human rights defenders and communities.  

Hosted by World BEYOND War and Peace Brigades International-Canada.

World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. The founding statement of Peace Brigades International highlights: “We are building on a rich and extensive heritage of nonviolent action, which no longer can be ignored. This heritage tells us that peace is more than the absence of war.”

Join us on Tuesday April 8 at 7 pm ET by clicking here.

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Additional reading: “We are not resigned to rearmament and war in Europe”: PBI-Spanish State and nearly 850 organizations (March 28, 2025).