CPTnet 6 October 2016 Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity: CPT-IPS team visits No Dakota Access Pipeline camps by Kody Hersh “The Creator is our weapon,” a speaker said at a community meeting in the Sacred Stone Spirit camp, “and we need no other.” Responding to an inquiry about presence at the No Dakota Access Pipeline camps […]
In late afternoon Sunday 29 September 2019, two fires broke out around Moria camp. One reportedly started outside the camp, and was put out within minutes. The other happened in the camp, either inside or close to a container, and rapidly escalated. At the time of this writing, 49-year-old Faride Tajik is confirmed […]
CPTnet 11 September 2014 IRAQI KURDISTAN REFLECTION: 9/11 in Arbat refugee camp by John Bergen This morning, outside a playground full of brightly colored swings and slides in a camp for internally-displaced people in Arbat, Iraqi Kurdistan, I saw a tree. Actually, four trees. Four tiny trees, not much taller than me, planted by […]
The Migiziiwazison Sacred Fire Camp witnesses to the truth and tends to the healing of their community. Pray for all those grieving loved ones lost to residential schools and who are awaiting their return home.
CPTnet 9 August 2010 IRAQ: From Mountain Villages to Tent Camps By Peggy Gish The windy, rutted road, that passed through a shallow stream led us to the mountain village of Sarkhan. Shekh Qadir Muhammad met us and walked us over a homemade sapling bridge to his house. He showed us shattered glass and […]
CPTnet 28 February 2011 IRAQ REFLECTION: Visit to Zharawa refugee camp by Bud Courteny Last month, we traveled to Zharawa to meet with friends who live in the internally displaced persons camp there. Originally created for ninety families, it now houses only two; the others have returned to their villages near the Iranian […]
The leaders of Migiziiwazison Sacred Fire Camp have nurtured a safe space to honour and support victims of residential schools but Manitoba government officials are moving to evict the camp.
The month of April saw a sharp increase in human rights abuses by the Turkish government against the Kurds, including the sentencing of the Makhmoor camp’s peace delegation from last October. CPT delegation members met with families of the peace delegation. The mothers, brothers, fathers, sons, husbands, and wives asked, “Is it too much […]
CPTnet 5 May 2016 IRAQI KURDISTAN: Origami at Arbat IDP Camp by Chihchun Yuan Children far from home in a desolate environment. Caring volunteers who want to make their lives a little brighter and more colorful. On 26 April, CPTers Marcus Armstrong, Chihchun Yuan and some of the youth of Arbat camp spent one […]
[…] over whether the building across the road was a church. We drove over, read the plaques, and realized we had stumbled across an old WWII Japanese Internment Camp on the Gila River Indian Reservation. We drove around through orange and pecan orchards in the desolate desert and found a monument on a hill. Over […]