Christian Peacemaker Teams will participate in a public witness of solidarity through downtown Kingston, ON on Saturday, 1 March 2008 at 2:30 P.M. commencing at the Frontenac County Court House. The witness is in honour of Ardoch Algonquin and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations who are resisting uranium exploration on their traditional lands and Ardoch political prisoner Bob Lovelace. Participants will lament the actions of the Ontario court that shackle and mock values of justice, aboriginal rights, and the integrity of creation and will advocate action to change Ontario’s way of relating to Aboriginal Peoples.

or forty years, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have born the cross of military occupation.  Palestinians have lost their land, their homes, their olive trees, their cultural traditions, and their lives.  Throughout these forty years, people around the world, especially Christian Zionists, have offered their unconditional support to the Israeli military occupation of Palestine.  Because the support our governments offer the state of Israel, we are complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people.