On Monday October 16, Wet’suwet’en and Otomi land defenders will come together to speak about their experiences resisting Calgary-based TC Energy building gas pipelines on their territories within the countries of Canada and Mexico. To register for the in-person event in Ottawa, click here. Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks and land Read more…
Photo: wis-waa-cha/ Kati George-Jim. Meral Jamal of IndigiNews reports: “A T’Sou-ke woman who took part in a tree-sit for nearly a month in protest of construction work at her First Nation says she avoided police who tried to confront her this week.” Times Colonist: “On Tuesday about 9 a.m., RCMP Read more…
On September 28, Peace Brigades International presented its comments in Geneva, Switzerland during the Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay. In this video (starting at 40:09), Yannick Wild notes PBI’s concerns in Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Canada. Wild stated: “In Read more…
On the afternoon of September 24, Peace Brigades International-Canada was present in the small rural community of Brooke Valley, about an hour west of Ottawa, Canada, for a gathering to celebrate the life of PBI co-founder Hans Sinn. Hans passed away on June 29 at 94 years of age. Hans’ Read more…
Photo: AGM-114 Hellfire missile. The Ottawa Citizen reports: “The Canadian military has set the stage for its purchase of a fleet of armed drones by requesting the United States provide it with 219 Hellfire missiles as part of an overall program that could be worth up to $5 billion.” The Read more…
Photo: Jorden Myran, Marcedes Myran’s sister, and Cambria Harris, Morgan Harris’ daughter, at the national day of action event on Parliament Hill. The families of two murdered Indigenous women were on Parliament Hill today to demand that the Canadian government fund the search of a Winnipeg landfill to recover the Read more…
PBI-Canada will be on Parliament Hill on Monday September 18 starting at 12 noon for the International Day of Action to Search the Landfills event. This day honours missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender diverse people whose remains are either already found or believed to be in Read more…
To join a webinar that will look at the connections of TC Energy and CPKC Rail to the Interoceanic Corridor megaproject, click here. Following the participation of PBI-Mexico in the Civilian Observation Mission to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, PBI-Canada is looking at the role of Calgary-based CPKC Rail in the Read more…
This summer, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project participated in a Civilian Observation Mission that documented human rights violations against Indigenous peoples by state security forces in the context of the Interoceanic Corridor. A key component of this Corridor, which is essentially a land-based version of the Panama Canal, is a Read more…
On September 3, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya at their monthly mass. The Resistance is currently beginning the pre-consultation process to decide the future of mining extractivism in the region.” On Sunday May 7, PBI-Canada and PBI-Guatemala visited with the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya Read more…