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The fig leaf has dropped

As the new editor of the Friday Bulletin, I had hoped to write something else today to introduce myself to the CPT community. But it

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Nonviolence’s audience

Nonviolence is often criticized as an undoable ideal. Some ask, “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike?” These are the questions those of us

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Strength in solidarity

After nearly forty years of on the ground experience in nonviolent-unarmed-civilian-accompaniment, two things are certain: the struggle for justice is slow, and revolution needs solidarity.

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Recognition of nonviolent peacemaking

In April 2009, I joined a CPT delegation to Iraqi Kurdistan. I was surprised by the lush green mountains in the spring, capped with snow

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It is genocide

It’s been 426 days since the systematic genocide of Palestinians in Gaza began, and it seems like the world is still debating whether it’s a

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The poor pay the price of colonialism

I remember my first visit to the community of El Guayabo. We arrived on public transport speed boats that operate on the Magdalena River. I

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On-the-ground experiment in nonviolence

The work of international solidarity peacemaking is sometimes inaccessible. How does one contribute to the discourse and action for nonviolent change in a country that

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Radical Love. Radical Resistance.

Solidarity does not necessarily need to be cohesive, but it is a movement of togetherness. It is a wave of inclusion that brings together our

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