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Farewell Lesvos

This week’s Friday Bulletin falls on Valentine’s Day, and in the spirit of our 2025 guiding theme, Strength in Solidarity, we would like to invite

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Why do we commemorate?

This week in Lesvos, Greece, a group of us are holding a commemoration in our city’s public square for those who have lost their lives

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When States set our terms

There’s a story that Britain likes to tell itself. It used to have a problem with racism. After the 1993 racist murder of Stephen Lawrence,

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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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