September 2024

PBI-Honduras accompanies workshop on a gender policy in the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC)

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

Former RCMP C-IRG Bronze Commander Ken Floyd testifies at hearing on abuse of process application

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

Complaints Commission finds RCMP C-IRG exclusion zones and checkpoints at Fairy Creek were unreasonable

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

Thousands protest Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin and other weapons companies at Land Forces in Melbourne, Australia

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

Join us on September 18 to examine the issue of Canadian weapons and weapon components being used in Gaza

Photo: A protest in downtown Ottawa on the evening of September 10 calling for a full arms embargo now. Photo by Brent Patterson. Yesterday, Tuesday September 10, Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly said: “Our goal is to ensure that there are no Canadian weapons or weapon components sent to Gaza.” Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

After eighteen months, no deadline in sight for CRCC systemic investigation of the RCMP C-IRG

Photo: Michelaine Lahaie, CRCC chairperson. On March 9, 2023, this news release announced that Michelaine Lahaie, the Chairperson of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC), had initiated a systemic investigation into the activities and operations of the RCMP “E” Division Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG). That was Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Gitxsan and Gitanyow land defenders anticipate RCMP CRU-BC violence as they peacefully resist the PRGT pipeline

Photo: Luutkuziiwus member Aspin’m nax’nox on Madii Lii territory. Photo by Amy Romer. In Another pipeline battle brews in northern B.C., journalist Brandi Morin writes about the police violence that the Gitanyow and Gitxsan anticipate as they peacefully resist the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline. Morin writes: “We saw Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

International Solidarity Movement volunteer Ayşenur Eygi, 26, killed by the Israeli military in Beita, Palestine

Twenty-six year old International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has been killed in the West Bank. The International Solidarity Movement has issued a statement that says: “During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of [Friday] September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Webinar: Six months after the House of Commons vote, what is the status of Canadian arms exports to Israel?

To register for this one-hour webinar, click here. The Canadian Friends Service Committee and Peace Brigades International-Canada invite you to attend a webinar on the export of Canadian military goods to Israel on Wednesday September 18 at 2:30 pm ET. September 18 is the 6-month anniversary of the House of Commons vote Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago