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Global Witness “Missing Voices” report identifies mining as the biggest industry driver of defenders killed in 2023

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…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico accompanied Peoples’ Front endorses Continental Meeting to build resistance to gas pipelines, October 10-12

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…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Poqomam sit-in experiencing threats as they defend the Las Vacas River

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…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies the Justice and Peace Commission at ZRCPA meeting for campesina women

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…

By Brent Patterson, ago

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

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