Community Self-Defence

PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA as communities analyze and evaluate their self-protection measures

The Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (Cahucopana) has posted: “Resistance and denunciation, when the bullets sound, our voices more! On the 15th of October, Cahucopana Nordeste and social organizations Guardias campesinas [Peasant Guard] @Gacena, #AMATNASB, (ancestral and traditional agro-mining association of Northeast Antioquia and South Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Dtsa’hyl sentenced to 60-days of house arrest for defending territory from megaproject

Video: Chief Dtsa’hyl comments after his sentencing. The CBC reports: “A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief will serve a 60-day jail sentence under house arrest for disrupting pipeline construction through Wet’suwet’en traditional territory in northern British Columbia in October 2021.” The article continues: “During the sentencing hearing [in Smithers, British Columbia] this Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico calls for respect for the Communal Guard of the Indigenous Nahua community of Santa María Ostula following CJNG attack

Photo by Comunicación Ostula. PBI-Mexico has posted: “These latest aggressions on Thursday, June 13 in the Michoacán community of Santa María Ostula add to a context of high levels of insecurity caused by organized crime, in which the community member Antonio Regis Nicolás was murdered on Friday, May 17. In Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago