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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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Resist violence and imperialism

In the summer of 2018, I remember watching Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro livestream his arrival at an election event in the northern border city

Desecration

The resistance of being at the receiving end of the spear of extractive capitalism is what ties the experience of Indigenous peoples worldwide. In collusion

A vehicle with a bonnet open and a man standing beside it talking to a man on a motorcycle. The road is muddy with high embankments.

Saying farewell

I knew this day would come and it’s been on my mind for a long time. When you start something you inherently know that, logically,

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Las Pavas receives land titles

The work of solidarity accompaniment is granular, detailed and calculated, often dealing with the immediate context while illumining the larger structural issues that create injustice and violence.

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Crossing the Aegean

What followed the end of the Ottoman Empire was a drawing of national boundaries through the waters of the Aegean Sea and the creation of

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Small works of solidarity work

Earlier this week, Israeli lawmakers defended the right of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) to rape and torture Palestinian prisoners. “If he is Nukhba, everything

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib speaks into a microphone, smiling. She is wearing thick-rimmed glasses, long dark hair and a kuffiyeh

Thank you Rashida

I am extremely grateful for and humbled by her strong, calm presence and voice of dissent from inside the belly of the beast. Thank you Rashida for exuding bravery, resistance, and truth. 

A cropped version of an illustration by Alec Dunn of a tank fancing a group of people, with the words "domestic + global"

All violence is political

Define violence. This is often a recurring conversation with colleagues at CPT as we wrestle with several different iterations of violence, justifications of actions, and

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