PRAYERS
FOR PEACEMAKERS, Aug. 1, 2012
Give
thanks for CPT trainees, members and supporters in Chicago July 20 who publicly
reenacted the resistance of Mercelis Payares of Las Pavas, Colombia. She lay
down in front of a tractor to prevent illegal planting of oil palms on her
community’s land.
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