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View ArticlePalm Oil Company Retaliates After Las Pavas Receives Favorable Court Ruling
Twenty workers of palm oil company Aportes San Isidro on the early morning of September 8 occupied and planted over one hundred palm oil tree saplings on the Las Pavas farm, only two weeks after the...
View ArticleBella Unión Leader Álvaro García Released on Bail
After 536 days incarcerated, Alvaro Garcia, a Campesino leader & Human Rights Defender from the farming community of Bella Unión is released on bail.
View ArticleCelebrating Resistance
“Forgive is not to forget, it is to not allow history to repeat itself.”
View ArticleYear End Reflection: We asked the kids
As 2017 comes to an end, we as CPT Colombia have been reflecting on our work over this past year. We have joyfully received into our community two new teammates, Marcos Knoblauch as a full-time member...
View ArticleCampesinxs victims of the conflict evicted from their lands
On Wednesday, December 13 municipal authorities in Puerto Wilches evicted 60 farming families from the land of which they depend on to ensure the food security of their families and the inhabitants of...
View ArticleOur Faith
A poem by Jhon Henry reflecting on the El Guayabo's eviction on December 13, 2017.
View ArticleOFP’s Statement Against Threats
The OFP is concerned about official [government] versions that dismisses the risk, the denouncements, and the context of serious risk currently faced by women and communities, due to the repositioning...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Love for the Land
This photo essay summarizes the experience of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) Holy Week delegation. It collects stories. Stories made into songs and memories that give an account of some dynamics...
View Article“We are fighting against the biggest monster, that is, the government.”
The May 16th, 1998 massacre in Comuna 7 of Barrancabermeja changed the city. It marked the beginning of the paramilitary take over of the oil capital and and an attempt in tearing he popular social...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Love
How much pain have we had to endure How much pain will we have to endure If, for the sake of losing, we have lost everything, even life. If, for the sake of winning, we have won everything, even a life.
View ArticleCarrying seeds from Colombia to Palestine
After five years of unfaltering solidarity service with human rights defenders in Colombia, Hannah Redekop has decided to deepen her work of solidarity presence with other co-conspirators of nonviolent...
View ArticleOn the Move
“We believe that the people who find refuge there have the right to return to their territory, to their home, to their culture”
View ArticleWe Are Like You
How much pain have we had to endure How much pain will we have to endure If, for the sake of losing, we have lost everything, even life. If, for the sake of winning, we have won everything, even a life.
View ArticleStop the eviction of Guayabo
El Guayabo community needs your support. Once again the families of the El Guayabo community face the threat of being removed from their land.
View ArticleLas Pavas Resists
Photo by: Caldwell Manners/CPT We note with concern the contradictory decision of the judge which, in spite of proving that the campesinxs were pushed out by a paramilitary group and by a person in the...
View ArticleThe ELN bombs a Police Academy
On the morning of Thursday, January 17th a car bomb exploded inside the grounds of the General Santander Police Cadet Academy in Bogota killing 21 (including the car driver) and injuring over 70...
View ArticleMore than 500 petitions for El Guayabo
Photo: Marcos Knoblauch/CPT The campaign that CPT Colombia launched during the month of January was a great success. More than 500 people contacted the Secretary of Government of Puerto Wilches,...
View ArticleWe did not bury them, we planted them
Foto: Marcos Knoblauch/CPT In memory of Esperanza Amaris Miranda – leader of the OFP – Organization Feminine Popular (Popular Women’s Organization) murdered on 16 October 2003 in Barrancabermeja...
View ArticleProud Campesina
“We don’t want to live with fear” / “We are campesinxs of Peace”. El Guayabo community has endured the scourge of paramilitarism and insurgency, resisting with creative nonviolent strategies. Now, a...
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