Yearly Archives: 2020

Help stop the criminalization of Secwepemc land defenders

Urgent Action: Help stop the criminalization of Secwepemc land defenders The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Canada to...

Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. appears ready to frack near San Martin and Puerto Wilches in Colombia

Photo of the blockade of the Picoplata 1 exploration field in the ConocoPhillips/Canacol Energy VMM-2 block in September 2016 from Semana Sostenible. When Calgary-based Canacol...

PBI-Mexico accompanied Educa Oaxaca notes concerns about Fortuna Silver seeking 10-year extension on mine

There are continued concerns about Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. seeking a 10-year extension for its San José Mine situated near the Zapotec village...

Boeing spins jobs argument for new fighter jets, but Green New Deal benefits outweigh warplanes

Serious questions remain unanswered about the relative economic benefits of the federal government’s future fighter capability project. Winnipeg Free Press columnist Martin Cash writes: “As...

PBI-Mexico accompanied Saltillo Migrant Shelter prepares to reopen amid the continued criminalization of migration

The Madrid-based Spanish digital newspaper Público has published a feature article on the Saltillo Migrant Shelter which has been accompanied by the Peace Brigades...

PBI-Kenya supports murals on child pregnancies to help communicate messages of change

"Niache Nisome" translates as "Let me pursue my education". On October 26, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project posted: “Murals are effective in communicating messages of...

Russ Diabo to speak at PBI webinar ‘Police violence has no borders’, October 30

PBI-Canada is thrilled that Russ Diabo will be speaking at the upcoming PBI webinar on police violence in Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya and Nicaragua. Russ...

25 years after Ipperwash, Ontario Premier Doug Ford describes 1492 Land Back Lane land defenders as “bad apples”

On October 22, human rights journalist Brandi Morin tweeted: “My God let’s not repeat the past! OPP have killed Indigenous over land rights in...

“Accompaniment embodies solidarity and can promote social justice in unique ways”: Heidi Mitton on her time with PBI-Colombia

As Peace Brigades International approaches its 40th anniversary in 2021, we are sharing the reflections of past volunteers from Canada who accompanied at-risk defenders...

Concerns grow about police raid at 1492 Land Back Lane following court hearing in which Haudenosaunee land defender was muted

“We never brought guns to anybody’s front door, they brought them to us.”: Haudenosaunee land defender Skyler Williams yesterday evening in this video by...
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