09/15/2026
Join us for the annual Walk for Peace and Justice, in conjunction with Nuit Blanche Winnipeg
Please join Peace Alliance Winnipeg and over twenty other organizations Saturday, September 26 at 7:00 pm for our annual Walk for Peace and Justice. It is a special evening of solidarity including songs, art, street theatre and poetry as we wind our way through Nuit Blanche in the exchange district. This year’s walk is a peaceful protest against Canada’s increased war spending, and a moving rally to raise awareness and bring justice for Palestinian children in Gaza. At home, Canada’s military spending has gotten out of control at the direct expense of crucial social programs while climate, housing and healthcare are left underfunded. With no financial budget for peace, Carney’s government is perfectly willing to increase war spending to 5% of GDP by 2035. Costing $150 billion/year just to get to 3.5%, this is clearly not in people’s best interests. Meanwhile, a new offensive has begun as Israel’s Netanyahu has further threatened Gazan children by stating that any one responsible for launching a kite or balloon will be targeted for assassination. Trump’s “Board of Peace” backed this up enforcing that all flying of kites must stop. The children that have managed to survive thus far are now being targeted for flying kites. Israel previously banned the import of children’s toys into Gaza and destroyed 90% of Gaza’s public parks. So where is a child to play, and with what? Kites were an important symbol of joy, freedom and hope and had been one of the only toys children were still able to make using simple found materials. Now they are even being denied that. As a result, kites will be a symbol used on our walk for peace this year. We hope to see you all there, and perhaps you can fly a kite for a Palestinian child in Gaza.
