Community leaders and youth from Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations came together today in Toronto to call on Doug Ford to shut down the Dryden Mill and compensate and care for survivors of mercury poisoning. Ford cancelled his conference appearance when he heard they were coming. Shame!

A new Annual Trial-Monitoring Report by the Border Violence Monitoring Network and Community Peacemaker Teams documents serious and recurring fair-trial concerns in the prosecution of people on the move charged with “illegal transport of third-country nationals” in

In the Aegean last weekend, the Greek Coast Guard found a drifting dinghy. It had been lost at sea for six days. Twenty-two people died on the way. Two young Sudanese men were arrested – the “smugglers”. CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity has written a new report based on a year of monitoring “smuggling” trials. Convictions are

In Iraqi Kurdistan, we report on the continuing impact of Iranian backlash. The team has verified reports of hundreds of attacks, which target not only military and political sites, but residential neighborhoods and public spaces too. Fourteen people have been killed.

In Philadelphia, CPT’s director Melissa Berkey-Gerard joined other faith leaders to block ICE agents. Members of the clergy staged a sit-in, blocking ICE vehicles from leaving a garage. Police manhandled and

Chris Hedges lays out our stark options. “We can obstruct or surrender. Those are the only choices left.”

US and Israeli bombs devastated Tehran, destroying schools and universities, hospitals and apartment blocks. Trump says he will send Iran and its people “back to the stone ages, where they belong.”

Grassy Narrows Indigenous communities rallied against the poisoning of their people. The voice of Chrissy Isaacs – who suffers from mercury poisoning herself – travelled over the PA system and disrupted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s nearby press conference. “I can outlast her”, he quipped.

Israeli parliamentarians celebrated as they passed a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians. They popped the champagne, and wore lapel pins shaped like a hangman’s noose.

Source: CPT.org