Community Peacemaker Teams
Building partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Engaged in unarmed civilian accompaniment of human rights defenders and change makers in Palestine, Iraqi Kurdistan, Colombia, Lesvos, Turtle Island and the US/Mexico borderlands // cpt.org
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- Sign up for the webinar at cpt.org/webinar On July 11, the PKK began its disarmament process with a symbolic burning of weapons. Violence has eased, but challenges remain as Turkey expands its military presence. Join our webinar for on-the-ground updates from Iraqi Kurdistan. ✨ #PeaceProcess
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- Oak Flat has narrowly avoided being transferred to Resolution Copper for destruction by mining! Read more at cpt.org/2025/05/12/p...
- Join our webinar with CPT Palestine on Saturday for an update on their work in the West Bank, one year after the release of their documentary "Light". Register to attend at cpt.org/webinar
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- Read an account by a CPT Palestine team member of an IOF raid on their house. cpt.org/2025/03/18/r...
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- Read Ken Jones' account of his time on a delegation with CPT Palestine in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social, in which he describes witnessing a "big systematic slow motion ethnic cleansing campaign". www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/03/s...
- Join #GrassyNarrows community this Friday, March 21st in Kenora for World Water Day. Stand in solidarity as they protest nuclear waste and pollution in their water. The event will be 3-5 pm and refreshments will be available. #FreeGrassy @freegrassy.bsky.social
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- The second anniversary of Greece's Tempi train crash has seen massive participation in widespread protests across the country and beyond. Aegean Migrant Solidarity explains why this event has mobilised so many. Read more: cpt.org/2025/03/17/w...
- Frontex has largely evaded scrutiny for its role in the Pylos shipwreck. The #FreePylos9 campaign has released a statement putting Frontex's actions in the spotlight. Read more at cpt.org/2025/03/12/f...
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- Last week Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned PKK leader, called for the party to disarm, disband, and seek peace by democratic means with Turkey. CPT Iraqi Kurdistan reports on 14 Turkish military actions in the region since Öcalan's call. cpt.org/2025/03/06/t...
- Listen to CPT Colombia's Jhony Arango on the Faith Outside the Box podcast faithoutsidethebox.podbean.com/e/johny-aran...
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- Read about the work of the Legal Support Team, accompanying those arrested in Toronto because of their Palestine solidarity activism cpt.org/2025/02/27/t...
- Today CPT joined members of Grassy Narrows First Nation at the Ontario legislature to honour relatives lost to mercury poisoning and to call on Premier Doug Ford to commit to compensation for the devastating impacts on the community’s health and way of life. #GrassyNarrows #freegrassy
- A few weeks ago CPT-Iraqi Kurdistan reported a teachers' hunger strike in Sulemani. That strike has been suspended but public sector workers have continued to protest the KRG's failure to pay wages by blocking oil deliveries @rudawmedia.bsky.social www.rudaw.net/english/midd...
- Investigative reporting into the #Pylos shipwreck (in which over 600 people died) reveals missing audio recordings of #GreekCoastGuard calls. Rescue operators also told the distressed vessel to "Tell the captain of the big boat we don’t want to go to Greece". www.tovima.com/society/repo...
- Listen to Jhony Arango from CPT Colombia on the Faith Outside The Box podcast, as he talks about becoming a conscientious objector to Colombia’s obligatory military service. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
- A woman escaped from the guarded Panama hotel to which Trump's administration sent roughly 300 shackled deportees. Reports suggest she was "aided by locals". She has since been taken back to the hotel where detainees held up notes to windows reading "please help us". abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
- In case you missed it, you can watch CPT's teams in Palestine, Iraqi Kurdistan and Lesvos discuss the regional dynamics of conflict and migration, in a webinar from last Saturday www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJF...
- A group of North Carolina churches is among more than two dozen religious organizations suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over a new policy that allows the arrest of undocumented migrants in churches and schools. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
- CPT Iraqi Kurdistan was honoured after receiving the Human Rights Tulip award, calling it "an acknowledgment of the suffering endured by farmers, villagers, and all civilians who have been affected by the Turkish and Iranian military operations since 1991" rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180220253