We are so excited to share with you that we as CPT have been selected as the 2023 recipients of the Community of Christ and Shaw Family Foundation’s
International Peace Award!
The award recognizes our commitment to transformative nonviolence for over 35 years, honoring our diversity in representation of ethnicity, gender, and faith and our common struggle for abolishing
poverty and ending human suffering.
CPT Administrative Director Muriel Schmid commented, “CPT is honored for the recognition this Peace Award represents. We receive it on behalf of all our partners who have resisted violence and
oppression in creative and strong ways. We are grateful for the many years of solidarity accompaniment with them and for learning from them. We look forward to the world of peace we are all working toward.”
CPT joins a long list of awardees that includes Leymah Gbowee, Dolores Huerta and Father Virgilio Elizondo, to name a few.
CPT will receive the award during the Community of Christ World Conference in April 2023.
Read the full press release
here.
Hannah Redekop
CPT Editor & Social Media Manager
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The End Cross Border Bombing Campaign reported this week another airstrike in Soran district (Erbil) on 5 September as part of Turkey's ongoing Claw Lock operation.
According to local sources, four or more Katyusha rockets were
fired around 8pm local time, luckily without resulting in any casualties, as confirmed by the mayor of Soran.
Read
the most recent campaign report
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AEGEAN MIGRANT SOLIDARITY
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About two years ago, two of E.’s friends crossed from Turkey to Lesvos on a boat. E. and another friend came to Lesvos to make sure their two other friends would arrive safely on land to apply for asylum in Greece, as they
were afraid that they could easily become another pushback incident. In Lesvos, E. and A. were arrested as “smugglers” while receiving their friends and were detained pending trial.
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August was a really intense month in Hebron. The new brigade was brutal and fearless to abuse, humiliate or shoot. But sometimes, soldiers can be “nice.” I find it amusing that we have learned to expect
the worst from the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) so when they aren’t actively hurting people, they are considered nice!
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TURTLE ISLAND SOLIDARITY NETWORK
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CPT joined an action last weekend to protest the Toronto War Show (Air Show). War should never be entertainment! All weekend, people living in Toronto were subjected to the sound of war planes flying
overhead. For too many, these sounds triggered flashbacks of trauma.
To add to the above, we are in a climate crisis, we cannot afford to burn copious amounts of oil for show.
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One year ago on 6 September, the spoon became a symbol of resistance for Palestinians when six political prisoners escaped from an Israeli high-security prison.
Today we stand with all Palestinian prisoners illegally detained under an oppressive regime and we continue to call for their freedom.
#FreeThemAll
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Palestine
Delegation: November 3-14, 2022
Olive trees have always been symbols used to describe the resistance of Palestinians in their land, and the olive harvest season is the season that brings Palestinian families together and reminds
them of the importance of defending their homeland.
Join a CPT Palestine delegation to learn how the Israeli occupation makes the yearly harvest harder for these families, but also experience how Palestinians still find joy their lives in the H2
area and the South Hebron Hills.
Application deadline: 5 October, 2022
Apply
now!
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CPT VIRTUAL SPEAKING TOUR
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Mohammed Saleh is a Kurdish activist who has worked with CPT for 15 years. The Iraqi Kurdistan team has been supporting families impacted by cross border bombings as well as local journalists
being targeted by their own government.
This September 26-29, you can welcome Mohammed virtually into your living room, community centre, or church/temple/mosque basement! This is your chance to hear directly from our teams about how
to promote peace and justice locally and internationally.
Contact
can...@cpt.org for more details to meet Mohammed!
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The Guardian
Escape
from Syria: Rania's odyssey
Five years later, Rania's escape from Syria still resonates today as people continue the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean.
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ABC Podcasts
Stuff
the British Stole
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. This is a series
about the not-so-polite history behind those objects.
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NACLA
Brazil
on Fire
Hosted by independent journalist Michael Fox in partnership with The Real News Network and NACLA,
Brazil on Fire is the story of President Jair Bolsonaro’s rise, his far-right government that set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it.
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WORLD BEYOND WAR
Tell
Toronto City Council: Cancel the Toronto Air Show!
Write to the Toronto City Council, Mayor John Tory, Ontarian Provincial Legislators, and Ontarian Members of Parliament to petition the City Council to cancel this unnecessary advertisement for war.
We are in a climate crisis, we cannot afford to burn copious amounts of oil for show, and we must respect the newcomer communities in Toronto who have experienced war and many are triggered by these shows.
#NoTechForApartheid
Demand
Amazon & Google Execs stop doing business with Israeli apartheid
We’re heeding the call from over 1000 Google and Amazon workers to rise up against Project Nimbus, a a $1.22 billion Amazon and Google contract to provide cloud technology to the Israeli government and military.
Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism.
CODEPINK
Tell
the State Department: No F16s to Turkey!
CPT-Iraqi Kurdistan has been compiling data since 2015 on the cross-border bombings carried out by Turkey on villages in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. The US is selling war machines to Turkey despite
these blatant crimes.
Read the full report here and tell Secretary Blinken that it is unacceptable to continue weapons sales with Turkey.
Jewish Voice for Peace
WRITE
NOW and tell Congress: Defend Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
On August 18th at dawn, the Israeli military attacked and welded shut the offices of seven prominent Palestinian human rights organizations.
The Israeli government is openly and blatantly working to erase documentation and exposure of its violent apartheid regime. A regime that the U.S. funds with $3.8 billion every single year. We desperately
need members of Congress to start speaking out NOW.
If you are from the US, write to your member of Congress and tell them to join H.Res 751, a resolution to condemn this attack on Palestinians, and demand condemnation and accountability from the
State Department.
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