
Peace Brigades International - Canada
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PBI accompanies land, water and human rights defenders. Tweets by PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson.
Algonquin territory (Ottawa)
Joined June 2010
RT @RussDiabo: PM Carney keeps referring to St. Lawrence Seaway as an example of a “nation-building project”—that project devastated my hom….
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PBI-Canada observes a Chiefs of Ontario rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa where the Canadian government's Bill C-5 was described as "economic terrorism". More about the threat of Bill C-5 and extractive megaprojects to Indigenous rights at #PBIaccompanies
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. @PBIHonduras accompanies the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) at the French Embassy. 180 organized agricultural workers have been killed in the last 15 years. France and Canada abstained at the UN vote on peasant rights in 2018. #PBIaccompanies
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RT @ChiefsofOntario: We will be rallying on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in opposition to #BillC5 on Tuesday, June 17 at 12:30 pm. Come stand….
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RT @PBIUK: 🌎During our recent webinar in collaboration with @PBIcanada we heard powerful voices from Mexico & Honduras! Indigenous defender….
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Yesterday the PBI accompanied Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Credhos) took part in a mobilization in Barrancabermeja to say “yes to the popular consultation” on labour rights that is scheduled to happen on August 7: #PBIaccompanies
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Yesterday we heard powerful testimony from ARCAH in Honduras and Red Solidaria in Mexico on the struggles they are engaged in, plus the solidarity that PBI offers through physical accompaniment and advocacy. An overview of the discussion at #PBIaccompanies
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TODAY! Tuesday June 10 at 1 pm ET! Join us to hear Alejandra Ignacio Alvarez of the @PBI_Mexico accompanied Human Rights Solidarity Network (RSDH). With simultaneous Spanish-English translation. 101+ people have already registered via: #PBIaccompanies
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TODAY! Tuesday June 10 at 1 pm ET! Join this webinar to hear Lilian Lizeth Flores, an environmental defender with the Honduran Alternative for Community and Environmental Vindication (ARCAH). With simultaneous Spanish-English translation. #PBIaccompanies
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THIS TUESDAY JUNE 10! At 1 pm EDT, you can hear this panel of accompanied defenders from Honduras and Mexico, a PBI field volunteer and a Global Witness campaigner speak about Indigenous rights, megaprojects and volunteering for protection: #PBIaccompanies
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The G7 summit in Canada, this coming June 15-17, is taking place days after three fast-track bills, a pending "special economic zone" to accelerate mining, and the PRGT pipeline decision that Indigenous land defenders are vowing to resist: #PBIaccompanies
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WEBINAR: TUESDAY JUNE 10 at 1 pm EDT. Sign up to hear this panel with defenders from Honduras and Mexico to learn about "Volunteering for Protection: Indigenous Rights and the Impacts of Megaprojects" with Spanish-English translation: #PBIaccompanies
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PBI-Colombia accompanies Peace Community of San José de Apartadó at ceremony where Colombian government apologizes for state violence: #PBIaccompanies
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RT @RussDiabo: Indigenous protesters set up tent 'occupation' at Queen’s Park over Bill 5 - The Trillium
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RT @infopresidencia: Hoy el Gobierno hace justicia y reconoce a las víctimas. En la @Casa_Narino, realizaremos el reconocimiento de respo….
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PBI-Honduras accompanies the Agrarian Platform and COPA as they denounce the link between armed group and companies: #PBIaccompanies
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PBI-Colombia accompanies Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation at meeting on rights of women searchers with Ombudsman: #PBIaccompanies
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Indigenous land defenders prepare to protect their territories with blockades and risk OPP police violence as the Canadian province of Ontario passes Bill 5 “special economic zone” legislation that will accelerate Ring of Fire mining: #PBIaccompanies
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The Canadian Commercial Corporation signed a deal on behalf of General Dynamics to export artillery propellant despite a report from its human rights committee that suggests concern about Israel killing medics, aid workers and journalists: #ShutDownCANSEC
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The PBI-Mexico accompanied Ejido El Bajio recently challenged Fresnillo PLC at their annual shareholders meeting in London, UK about the up to US$630 million owed to the community in relation to the Soledad-Dipolos gold mine. News and more: #PBIaccompanies
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