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Today is the deadline set for the murder of 74 year old British peace activist Norman Kember American Tom Fox, 54, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32...Yesterday the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas and Hizbollah and many other organizations and individuals worldwide to call for the release of the Christian Peace Activists who are in Iraq to act as advocates for the human rights of all Iraqis...to act as 'witnesses for peace'...
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Watch Democracy Now's broadcast which informs us that "The Christian Peacemaker Teams which is is a non-missionary organization that has been documenting the abuse of Iraqi detainees and working with the families of prisoners"
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"These men, Tom Fox, Jim Loney, Harmeet Sooden and Norman Kember, joined other members of Christian Peacemaker Teams convinced that people calling for a peaceful resolution to violence and political unrest must engage situations of violence taking the same risks as military personnel."Brian Martin Burkholder
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Christian Peacemaker Teams
"Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war, today CPT places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers"
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Today is Human Rights Day..irony of ironies...it's a day when Amnesty encourages 'write for rights' writeathons that you can join/look at here....Bahrain is having walkathons and rallies and events all week long...Rights groups put the spotlight on the prohibition against torture and the countries that are trying to get away with it....60,000 Hit the Streets all over the US to protest the fact that workers have had their rights stolen from them...
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On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted andproclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Amnesty's Make Some Noise (music for human rights by lots of people you know)