Late last night (September 14), Guapinol Exige Justicia posted on social media: “OUR COMRADE JUAN LOPEZ HAS BEEN MURDERED. Our great friend, colleague and coordinator was murdered as he was leaving the church by men on motorcycles just days after he asked for the resignation of the mayor of Libre Read more…
Still from documentary: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 2021. Variety reports: “Netflix has acquired feature documentary Yintah for U.S., U.K. and Canadian distribution. Yintah will open in select theaters in the U.S. and U.K. and will stream on Netflix starting Oct. Read more…
Video: Laura Furones: “The question around who is responsible really is one of the key questions.” The Global Witness report — Missing Voices: The violent erasure of land and environment defenders – released this week says: “Establishing a direct relationship between the murder of a defender and specific corporate interests Read more…
Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanied the National Meeting of Struggles against Gas Pipelines and Death Projects, January 2022. As noted in this statement signed by multiple organizations, the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala (FPDTA-PMT) has endorsed the call for a Continental Meeting building an Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Today, #PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of the Poqomam People in their sit-in. We were informed about the threats and verbal aggression that members of the resistance frequently suffer. While we were at the encampment, many trucks passed by, contributing to noise and air pollution. We observed Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted: “We accompanied @Justiciaypazcol [Justice and Peace Commission] in the PERLA AMAZÓNICA Peasant Reserve Zone [ZRCPA] on the occasion of an ADISPA [the Association for the Integral Sustainable Development of the Perla Amazónica] women’s meeting. They identified the differential risks in financial matters that peasant women suffer and Read more…
PBI-Honduras has posted: “We applaud @CntcTegucigalpa’s commitment to promoting agrarian reform with a gender focus. From PBI we accompanied a workshop for the construction of a gender policy in CNTC La Paz, together with Trocaire [the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland].” The National Union of Read more…
Video still: RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd. The second hearing of the abuse of process application at B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers, British Columbia brought forward by Indigenous land defenders Sleydo’ Molly Wickham (Wet’suwet’en Cas Yikh house), Shaylynn Sampson (Gitxsan), and Corey Jocko (Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk) concluded today. The application alleges excessive Read more…
Photo from EJ Atlas by Mike Graeme www.mikegraeme.ca. The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC) has issued a statement today that highlights it has “published a summary of its final report on the RCMP’s handling of a public complaint regarding enforcement of a civil injunction covering the Read more…
Photo: The protest at Land Forces expo in Melbourne. Photo by Aveline Cayir. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports: “Thousands of protesters gathered outside Melbourne’s Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), where the biennial Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition is being held.” The Land Forces expo is being held September Read more…