Date: Saturday, May 4

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: Henderson Branch Library – 1050 Henderson Highway at McLeod Avenue (easy bus access and free parking)

Admission is Free

Poet Ron Romanowski commemorates the 105^th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike with a reading of his new and selected poetry.

Ron’s poetry collections, Insurrection (2009) and If 30,000 Strikers Marched Today (2019) were local best-sellers. They commemorated the 90^th and 100^th anniversaries of the Winnipeg General Strike respectively.

Last year Ron’s book-length collection Heart Blooms from the Gardener Poet highlighted an environmentalist theme and is available at McNally-Robinson Booksellers.

Ron was the Labour representative at the Manitoba Museum’s 2019 innovative commemoration of the centennial of the 1919 Strike which featured live music, dance, and poetry in the museum’s Urban Gallery.

Ron was a Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ union activist in his Labour life.

He has studied History at the University of Winnipeg; Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba; Creative Writing at Toronto’s Humber College and attended many writing workshops and symposia with some of Canada’s best poets, playwrights, spoken word artists, and fiction writers.

Recently Ron won the first-place poetry prize in two Manitoban writing contests: the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group and the Gimli Icelandic Festival.

His poetry has been featured in the annual Winnipeg Free Press April is Poetry Month feature and has been published in dozens of literary journals, magazines, newspapers (and even in a calendar for a charity).

The Winnipeg Public Library currently holds four of Ron’s nine books in its collection.

Ron’s new book 27 Dancers Working Off Broadway Canada will be published in 2025 by Augustine Hand Press. Labour, politics, and the arts are its themes.

North End Jewish Folk Choir performs Songs of the Ghettos and Partisans

With guest speaker Cecil Rosner

Date: Tuesday, May 7

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Ukrainian Labour Temple – 591 Pritchard Avenue (at McGregor)

Admission is free

On May 7^th, 7:00 p.m. at the Ukrainian Labour Temple, the United Jewish People’s Order will present their annual program commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. This uprising was the first such action in Nazi occupied Europe during World War II. This year’s program is entitled “Looking at Resistance Through the Lens of Family History”. It will feature an address by special guest Cecil Rosner, noted Canadian investigative journalist and author of Manipulating the Message: How Powerful Forces Shape the News. The North End Jewish Folk Choir will perform six songs written by resistance fighters in the ghettos or by partisans in the forests.  Six memorial candles will be lit in honour of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.

https://www.ujpowinnipeg.com

Featuring Kevin MacKay – Professor from Mohawk College and author of Radical Transformation – Oligarchy, Climate Crisis and Collapse of Civilization

Supported by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Marianne Cerilli – Change Agent

Date: Wednesday, May 8

Time: 7:00 pm

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How can we transform ecologically destructive, oligarchic political structures and align Canadian society with the values of democracy, equality, and ecological sustainability?

Discuss with other activists how progressive movements can reject the politics of division, and instead, organize to build new shared narratives, collective identities, and effective strategies to unify the diverse working class and to win transformative change. Co-create a clear agenda for “Green Labour” or how workers must organize for just transition.

Who should attend? People concerned and active for peace, climate justice, social equity to reduce poverty, organizing labour and improving democracy. 

Date: Saturday, May 11

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Ukrainian Labour Temple – 591 Prichard Avenue

Tickets: Eventbrite: $20 +fees; $25 at the door

The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra will perform an eclectic mix of music ranging from the music of our Ukrainian roots to contemporary pieces composed by Piazzolla and Leon Dubinsky.  This is a concert people of all ages will enjoy.  Wheelchair accessible.

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Date: Saturday, May 18

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Location: CUPE Training Centre, 7^th Floor Union Centre – 275 Broadway

Event is free, donations accepted

On May 29th and 30th, activists from across the country will be in Ottawa to protest CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons fair. Hundreds of people will be coming to the capital to demand the Federal government stop all weapon sales and wars, and to appeal for peace and conversion to a green care economy. Join us to hear from a group traveling from Vancouver to Ottawa, and how we can support their call for peace.

presented by Harold Shuster, IJV-Winnipeg, with the support of Community Solidarity Manitoba, Labour 4 Palestine, and Peace Alliance Winnipeg.