CPTnet
4 October 2006

CHICAGO/TORONTO: Christian Peacemaker Teams announces upcoming delegations

DEPLETED URANIUM DELEGATION (U.S.): 24 November-3 December 2006. Eighty-nine
percent (518,000) of the U.S. military personnel in First Gulf War are
receiving disability payments, even though there were only 1000 U.S.
casualties in that war. Depleted uranium weapons (DU) factor into that
figure. Coalition Forces may be using DU in the current Iraq war as well.
The European Union has banned DU weapons. This CPT delegation is part of a
campaign to halt the production of DU munitions in the U.S. Starting in
Jonesborough, Tennessee and traveling to Rocket Center, West Virginia,
locations of the two main DU weapons production facilities in the U.S.,
delegates will build a transformation encampment at those sites, monitor and
track the "Radioactive" placarded trucks entering and leaving the plants,
and hold a press conference to highlight the issues. They will also meet
with people impacted by these weapons, such as veterans, hospital
administrators, plant employees, and local residents, church members, and
students. Delegates arrange their own transportation to Knoxville,
Tennessee and raise $400 for on-ground expenses.

ARIZONA BORDERLANDS: 1-8 March and 24 May -4 June 2007. As U.S. border
policies continued to channel migrants into the most dangerous areas of the
desert, over two hundred men, women, and children perished in Arizona this
year as they took the risky trip to improve the lives of their families.
Migrants are vulnerable to attacks by bandits, mistreatment by unscrupulous
guides, and harassment by anti-immigrant vigilantes. A dramatic increase in
the number of Border Patrol agents and the deployment of the National Guard
has militarized the area.

Delegation participants will monitor human rights and meet with
representatives of human rights groups, government officials, and
individuals on both sides of the border, and they will confront unjust
immigration policies through nonviolent public witness. Delegation members
arrange their own transportation to Tucson, Arizona, and raise $400 U.S. for
on-ground expenses.

COLOMBIA: 17-30 January, 23 May - 5 June, 18-31July, 26 September- 9 October
2007. Participants meet with human rights workers and church leaders in
Bogot