Album: Peacemaker Congress IX: Native Land Rights Now! More than 250 CPTers, native rights and environmental activists joined First Nation leaders at the Ontario Legislature on Friday, September 21, 2007 to issue a challenge to all political parties to take immediate action to respect moratoria issued by indigenous communities against industrial activities on their traditional lands.
The public witness involved the unfurling of a massive 75-metre banner in the shape of a yellow arrow that read, "Native Land Rights Now." Co-sponsored by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the witness was conducted as part of CPT’s first ever Peacemaker Congress in Canada.
Last change: 03/04/08
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Album: Peacemaker Congress VIII: State-Sanctioned Murder - Lay It Down A Prayer Witness to end the Death Penalty. Over 130 participants from the international conference "Seeking Peace: the Courgae to be Nonviolent" (Sept 8-11, 2005) gathered in front of the Indiana State Capitol Building to call for the abolition of the death penalty. Last change: 09/13/05
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Album: Ottawa March Against Occupation of Iraq CPT-Ontario members met in Ottawa March 19, 2005, and called for the end of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Last change: 03/30/05
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Album: Toronto Multi-Faith Prayer Walk One hundred people walked through the streets of Toronto on September 12, 2004, calling on the Canadian government to release five Muslim men who have been imprisoned for without charges. The walkers, most of them Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim, also called for the release of the thousands of people without legal recourse whom the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have also jailed. Last change: 09/30/04
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Album: Close the SOA November 22-23, 2003: CPTers and CPT supporters joined the 10,000 people strong annual funeral procession commemorating the victims of US-complicit violence and calling for the closure of the School of the Americas, at Ft. Benning, Georgia Last change: 09/22/04
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Album: Peacemaker Congress VII: "Let My People Go!" Over one hundred participants at CPT’s bi-annual Peacemaker Congress held at Youngstown, OH, October 2003, marched to the federal building to raise a voice against the erosion of civil liberties and to uplift the tens of thousands of people detained in the US and abroad under repressive policies. Last change: 09/22/04
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Album: Bloodshed Brought by Boeing 22 July 2002: CPT Training participants conducted a prayer vigil outside Boeing World Headquarters in downtown Chicago. Two members were arrested after vigillers poured 12 gallons of environmentally-safe concentrated food coloring into the Chicago River. The section of river below Boeing Headquarters ran red as a graphic symbol of the bloodshed caused by Boeing weapons around the world. Last change: 09/22/04
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Album: Violent Toys Citizen Inspection Team January 1, 2004: The winter CPT training group formed a Citizen Inspection Team to conduct a public security inspection of a Chicago Toys R' Us store in response to concerns that violent toys and video games pose a security risk to our communities. "Research shows that children learn through play," said Chief Inspector, Rich Meyer (Millersburg, IN). They posted warning labels on toy weapons and action figures that glorify war. Last change: 09/22/04
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Album: Toronto Prayer Walk tableau April 9, 2004: CPT supporters portrayed the plight of Iraqis detained by U.S.-led coalition forces, at Toronto's Good Friday Prayer Walk for Justce. Last change: 09/22/04
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