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PBI webinar on police violence to include The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, October 30

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Peace Brigades International will be hosting a webinar on Friday October 30 at 10 am ET that focuses on the issue of police violence...

Canada Pension Plan invests millions in BAE Systems, maker of Typhoon warplanes

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To sign our Urgent Action calling on the Canada Pension Plan to divest from BAE Systems and the manufacturing of warplanes, please click here. Divestment...

Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies votes to eliminate “trust funds” including the one that finances the protection of journalists

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The Chamber of Deputies, the 500-seat lower house of Mexico’s congress, has just voted to eliminate as many as 109 government trust funds. The Associated...

PBI-Guatemala accompanied La Puya resistance and Edgar Pérez speak at webinar on mining injustice

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Álvaro Sandoval of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya and Edgar Pérez of the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) spoke on the webinar “Mining Injustice...

Are Canadian exports being used to repress Black Lives Matter protests in the United States?

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Photo from The Guardian by Samuel Corum/AFP/Getty. This summer, the American Civil Liberties Union noted their concerns about the “unconstitutional attacks” on the right to...

PBI-Canada calls on Canadian government to back the Escazú Agreement to protect environmental defenders

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The Escazú Agreement is the first legally binding treaty to include specific provisions to protect environmental defenders. Twenty-three countries (two-thirds of the countries) in Latin...

Canadian spy agency refuses to release records on actions in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders

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Wet’suwet’en solidarity rally, Ottawa, February 7, 2020. On October 2, CBC reported: “Canada's spy agency has refused to release internal records on Indigenous-led actions in...

Report on RCMP actions against Mi’kmaq water protectors in New Brunswick in 2013 could be released this fall

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On October 2, CBC reported: “The average amount of time it takes for the top Mountie to respond to misconduct findings by the RCMP's...

If you find this e-newsletter informative…

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We send this e-newsletter out every week to 3,600 people. We would like to increase our readership to 5,000 people in the coming months. There...

“PBI is an inspiring opportunity to live the ideals of nonviolence”: Mitchell J. Goldberg

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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...
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