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HOMES NOT BOMBS An Ongoing History of Our Resistance
Maclean's 2000 Year-End Poll Concludes Canadians Want Homes, not Bombs: "Asked to choose between investing in a stronger and more up-to-date military or funding housing for all homeless in Canada, there is no contest: Housing the homeless: 75% Stronger military: 19%"	Homes not Bombs is an all-volunteer, Ontario-wide coalition of people who use nonviolent direct action in an attempt to confront institutional and personal violence, seeking a transformative solution which results not in winners versus losers, but in a society which becomes more equal and loving, more just and compassionate. This page is dedicated to keeping a chronicle of our history. Too often as people involved in social change, we forget to look back at our work, at our successes that need to be repeated, at those things where we haven't been as successful as we would have hoped. As Gandhi said, we are all involved in experiments with the truth. We hope you enjoy our history, and that you feel inspired to go out and make some of your own. Top of Page Chronological history of Homes not Bombs actions and campaigns (click on the action or campaign you are interested in, and this will take you to another page for more information):   2006  Stop War Where it Starts: Peaceful Legal Rally and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at Canada's Self-Proclaimed #1 Warmaker, L-3 Wescam, Burlington, Ontario, Monday, November 20, 2006 : Print flyer for Nov. 20 by clicking here   Camden 28: What Would You Do to Stop a War: Canadian Premiere of a New Film on a Significant Act of Nonviolent Resistance to War, Wednesday, October 25, 7 pm, Innis Town Hall Peaceful Duo Confront Canadian Warship During Toronto Recruitment Tour; HMCS Fredericton Brass Freak at the Site of Peace Banner, and Canadian Navy shows Itself Vulnerable to the Freedom Virus, Sept. 16, 2006   Homes not Bombs "Dixie-Chicked" at Toronto Film Festival; Festival Officials Order Removal of Peace Banner Welcoming Dixie Chicks, Sept. 13, 2006 Kids Play With Assault Weapons and Guided Missiles, War Planes Thunder Over Toronto, and a Small Group Calling for the Demilitarization of the Ex Takes Flight , Sept. 4, 2006   Open Letter to Statistics Canada: We Refuse to Cooperate With a Process That Profits The World's Leading Weapons Manufacturer and a Corporation Complicit in Torture, August 22, 2006 Peace Promoters Convicted of Trespass but Sentence Suspended in Burlington, Ontario; Ruling Finds Private Property Rights of Military Manufacturer L-3 Wescam Take Precedence over the Lives of Those Targeted With Wescam War Technology, JULY 27, 2006   Pit-Stop Ploughshares Acquitted in Ireland!, July 25, 2006 SUCCESS STORY FOR PEACE: Biological Warfare Giant Battelle Memorial Institute Kept out of Downtown Toronto, July 24, 2006 Nine Peace-Seekers Arrested at Military Firm L-3 Wescam in Burlington, Ontario; Executives at Canada's Self-Proclaimed "Largest" War Manufacturer Place Building on Lockdown, Refuse Dialogue as They Continue Work on "Low Cost Precision Kill Vehicles", May 16, 2006   End the Curriculum of Killing: Canadian High School Students Now Earn Credits Learning to Shoot Machine Guns, April, 2006 JUST SAY NO TO WAR: Say No to Potential Chemical and Biological Warfare Research at MaRS, 101 College St. Noon-1 pm, Tues., May 2   Transform L-3 Wescam, Burlington's War Manufacturer: Mothers Day Rally Sunday, May 14, 2:30-4 pm, Rally and Nonviolent Direct Action, Monday, May 15, 12 Noon     Urgent Action Needed to Save Canadian Muslim Held in Uzbekistan: Huseyin Celil Faces Torture, Execution if Sent to China, April 10, 2006     From the Court of Public Opinion, to the Court of Secret Trials: A Reflection on Public Dissent and the Notion of "Impartiality" in a secret hearing, February 7, 2006   Partial Victory in Battle to End SNC Bullet Production for Iraq, Afghanistan!, JANUARY, 2006 And the Wars Drag On...Report from the Montly Anti-War Vigil at War Minister Bill Graham's Office, Jan. 3, 2006 2005 Santa to Refuse NORAD Escort; "Just Say No No No to War," Claus Advises Children, Dec. 23, 2005 U.S. Military to Conduct Psychological War Operation Against Residents of Toronto, Ontario, September 3-5, 2005 Learning to Kill: What Canadians' Tax Dollars Did on Their Summer Vacation: Canada Manufacturing the New "Hunter, Killer, Survivor" Copters Bound for Iraq, Afghanistan, August 11, 2005 Come to Wescam, May 13, Protest the Profits of War   Letter to University of Toronto President on Demilitarizing the Campus, May 2, 2005   SNC-Lavalin Declares War on Homes not Bombs! Dozens of Police, Mounted Units, Police Wagons Greet Toronto Vigil of 10 People Protesting Production of Canadian Bullets for U.S. Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan., March 21, 2005...   Resisting the Roots of War in Toronto: Actions at SNC-Lavalin, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Draw Good Crowds, Crappy Weather, Little Media Interest, January 17, 2005          Protest against militarization of OISE on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 12pm, in front of OISE, 252 Bloor Street West   OPEN LETTER TO SNC-LAVALIN ON EVE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY NONVIOLENT RALLY AND DIRECT ACTION, January, 2005     Martin Luther King Day Rally and Nonviolent Direct Action at Corporate Headquarters of Bullet Producer SNC, Monday, January 17   2004: Remembrance Day: Bringing Home the War to War Profiteer SNC in Montreal and Toronto...and Pledging Further Actions on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 17, 2005   Vigil at Canadian War Profiteer SNC-Lavalin Nov. 10   Canadian Firms Insure Profitable Bloodshed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, and Other War Zones in War Against Freedom    Best Practices and Training to Kill: University of Toronto's OISE to Help in Future War Training, SEPT. 24( (for further information click here to go to the page for People Against the Militarization of OISE)   Remembering Dave Dellinger, May 26, 2004   Canada IS Involved in Space Warfare, May, 2004   Blocking the Empire: US Consulate Shut Down in Montreal to Resist a War Crime, April 18, 2004   Reflections on Iraq and Civil Liberties, One Year Later   Open Call to Mayor Miller: Claim Moss Park Armoury for Non-Profit Housing in Toronto! 2003: Resisting War, Racism and Repression 8 Weapons Inspectors Declared Guilty, August 1, 2003   Canadian Companies Power New Generation of Nuclear Weapons, June 11, 2003    Walk to Stop Secret Trials in Canada, June 21-23, 2003   Wescam Three Acquitted in Burlington,April 24, 2003   Criminalization of Dissent Charges Withdrawn in Toronto, Ottawa, Summer, 2003   Closing the CANSEC Weapons Bazaar, April, 2003   Open Letter to CANSEC Weapons Fair Organizers, March, 2003   Throwing a SNAG into Military Operations: Spring Nuremberg Action Group Occupies CFB Downsview, Ten Arrested and Criminally Charged, March 24, 2003   Mass, Silent Sit-in: Surrounding the War Dept. with the power of love on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2003   Zukes not Nukes: Presenting safe phallic symbols to the War MInister, January 27, 2003   8 Weapons Inspectors Busted at Northrop Grumman/Litton Systems Canada, January 20, 2003    2002: Resisting War, Racism and Repression Wescam Busts Three Weapons Inspectors on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2002   Walk to Release Canada's Disappeared, January 2002   Action to Resist the U.S. Consulate "No-Protest" Zone, March 2002   Transforming Moss Park Armoury from a Little-Used War Training Facility into Housing for the Homeless   Walk to End Racism, War and Repression   Weapons Inspection at Wescam, Burlington   Open Letter to Canadian Soldiers: Refuse to Fight   2001: Resisting War, Racism and Repression Transforming Weaponsmaker Diemaco into Human Needs Meeter Lifemaco in Kitchener   Hamilton War Show Resisters Acquitted Link Coming Soon   War Minister Eggleton Accepts Peace Zucchini As Anti-Star Wars Banner Becomes Backdrop for Constituency Picnic, August 11, 2001   Canada and Space Warfare: The Wizard of DREO and the Campaign to Close Canada's Space Warfare Facility   Campaign to Release Canada's Disappeared   2000: Resisting the Roots of Militarism and Poverty Action to Open Fort York Armoury in Toronto for the Homeless   Hamilton War Show Suffers Serious Setback from Combination of Nonviolent Direct Action, Alternative Festival of Life, and Mother Nature; 22 Activists Arrested and Criminally Charged; War Show Faces Major Financial Losses,June 19, 2000 Chronicle of Resistance to War Show: Why Direct Action Came to Be in Hamilton   Acquittal of War Dept. Resisters, November, 2000   Transforming Weaponsmaker Diemaco into Human Needs Meeter Lifemaco in Kitchener   Federal Election Campaign at the War Minister's OfficeLink Coming Soon   1999: Calling for the Transformation of the Canadian War Economy Campaign to Transform the War Department into the Housing Department   Resisting the Bombing of the BalkansLink Coming Soon   Nonviolent Direct Action at the War Dept., Nov. 12, 1999      Top of Page