street struggle

streetworker | street worker | street-worker

stall holder | street food trader | street food vendor | street market food vendor

war [ armed conflict | armed conflicts(UNBIS) ]

commercial street | shopping street

streetwork | street work | street-work

warship

perform street interventions in social work | perform street-intervention in social-work | perform street intervention in social-work | perform street interventions in social work

maintain street sweeping machines | maintaining street sweeping machine | maintain street sweeper | maintain street sweeping machine

One of the things that studies of history suggests is that, whether it be sending troops off to fight imperial wars in South Africa or sending troops to Russia to try to overturn the Bolshevik Revolution, or whether going to the First World War, the Second World War, to Korea or to fight in the Gulf War or in Kosovo or in Afghanistan, or whether we are talking about sending troops overseas in any number of peacekeeping operations, true peacekeeping, first-generation peacekeeping operations, the essence is essentially that, apart from aid to the civil power and apart from the misuse, in my humble estimation, of the armed forces for domest ...[+++]ic catastrophes such as cleaning the streets of Toronto, essentially, Canadians have always organized our armed forces in an expeditionary way.

Most of all, it is my hope this week that we will remember, at the core of our being, the spirit of those soldiers, peacemakers and peacekeepers who lost or risked their lives in the trenches and fields of the first world war, on the bloodstained beaches and in the fields of the second world war, over the mountains, through the swamps and across the rice paddies of the Korean War, and now in the city streets and the vast deserts of Afghanistan, even as we speak today.

Unfortunately, the war against terror has turned into a war against freedom, against the freedom to travel in safety, to walk in the street, to meet people and to lead a daily life without fear and terror.

We do believe, however, that governments must be clear in their own minds about the fact that millions of people, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, took to the streets of European cities to demonstrate their conviction that decisions on war and peace should be for parliaments rather than for cabinets.