This Thursday, just weeks before it is at the CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa, Lockheed Martin will be holding its Virtual Annual Meeting. As You Sow, on behalf of the Remmer Family Foundation, has put forward a resolution on climate change to that annual meeting. That proposal can be found Read more…
On April 24, PBI-Honduras posted: “On Saturday, April 22, International Earth Day, we accompanied the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC) during the youth march to celebrate and raise awareness for the care of the Planet, in San Esteban, Olancho. In 1992, the United Nations Earth Summit Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “The call for new volunteers in 2023 is open and we receive applications until April 30, 2023. The training and selection week we be held August 20 to 26, 2023 in Valladolid, Spain.” For more information on this, click here (English) and here (Spanish). And PBI-Honduras also Read more…
On April 21, PBI-Honduras posted: “Last Friday we accompanied CEHPRODEC [the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development] to Siguatepeque to the celebration of several Lenca indigenous councils after the securing of 35 letters of freedom. The indigenous councils are settled and have been defending their ancestral lands for Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Yesterday #PBI accompanied the Human Rights Law Firm at the hearing of the sentence reading of the Teacher Case, the second case of criminalization against the defender of the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabon Bernardo Caal Xol. Judge José Alfredo Quiñónez acquitted the defender of the crimes of Read more…
Photo: Cadets at RCMP Academy Depot Division. The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), the forerunner of the present-day Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), was established in 1873. Journalist Stephen Maher writes in Maclean’s magazine that Canada’s first prime minister modelled the NWMP on the Royal Irish Constabulary, “a colonial, paramilitary force Read more…
APTN Video: C-IRG on Gitxsan territory, November 2021. Terrace, BC-based CFNR reports: “After months, even years, of RCMP activity on their lands, the Gitxsan Huwilp Government are proposing a military armistice agreement. If approved, the agreement would limit the activity of the RCMP’s controversial Community-Industry Response Group on their territory.” Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “#PBI accompanies CCDA [Campesino Committee of the Highlands]-Alta Verapaz to a first statement hearing at the court tower in Cobán. Members of the community Chipantun, Cobán, which is part of the Campesino Committee of the Highlands – region of the Verapaces, accuse two people of the crime Read more…
PBI-Canada is supporting the mobilization against the CANSEC weapons show that will take place this coming May 31-June 1 in Ottawa. CANSEC is “Canada’s largest global defence & security trade show” and “a one-stop shop for first responders, police, border and security entities and special operations units” that will attract Read more…
PBI-Honduras has posted: “Monday, April 17 was the International Day of Peasant Struggle: the National Central of Field Workers CNTC Tegucigalpa signed an agreement with the Office of Presidential Designated Doris Gutiérrez, aiming to promote the productive, economic, social and cultural development of the farmworkers in Honduras. Today, Tuesday April Read more…