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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Here’s what we’ve seen this week: Israeli parliamentarians celebrated as they passed a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians. They popped the champagne, and wore lapel pins
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Sami Rasouli, founder of Muslim Peacemaker Teams and long time friend of CPT, reflects on a life of peacemaking between Najaf and the Twin Cities, on the legacy of the US occupation of Iraq, and the principles we must hold on to in wartime.