Take One by Peter Haresnape The Algonquin First Nation of Barriere Lake is celebrating because mining company Cartier Resources, Inc. has suspended work on
(in cooperation with Witness for Peace) The U.S. Congress and the Obama Administration are pushing passage of a NAFTA-style trade deal with Colombia that would
On 9 November 2011, two armed, masked men entered the home of Jaqueline Rojas in Barrancabermeja. They held a gun to her 15-year-old daughter’s
by Stewart Vriesinga Those most affected by the war in Colombia – indigenous communities, Afro-Colombians, and subsistence farmers from rural areas
Although this issue of Signs of the Times may not reach you until after the holidays, the CPT-Colombia team’s Christmas “wish list” is relevant
by Kevin Baker, delegate On the last day of our CPT delegation, we wanted to do a public action in response to the U.S.-Colombia Free
Nearly two years after police forcibly evicted 123 families from Las Pavas, the community returned home on 4 April, 2011. Accompanied by national and international
In March 2011, Colombia CPTer Eloy García joined representatives from around the world gathered in New Delhi, India to form a new alliance called “South-South
Hundreds of farmers and their supporters from human rights groups and non-governmental organizations gathered in celebratory witness as the Colombian Institute for Rural Development
One cannot talk about the Colombian conflict without discussing the takeover of land by multinational corporations, both through governmental processes and through armed violence