"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - CPT Head to Indian Brook Lobster Fishery

CPT Head to Indian Brook Lobster Fishery

Doug Pritchard, CPT Canada Coordinator
the People's Voice ~ Thursday, June 14, 2001

NOVA SCOTIA - Christian Peacemaker Teams will maintain a violence reduction presence at the lobster fishery in Saint Mary's Bay, southern Nova Scotia, when Indian Brook First Nation begins fishing later this week.
Indian Brook fears a renewal of last year's harassment and violence from federal fisheries officers who have denied their right to a treaty-based fishery. Therefore the First Nation has invited CPT to provide an observer team at the fishing grounds.
CPT member Lena Siegers, 57, from Blyth ON, said, "We have been told over and over that the presence of outside observers at Esgenoôpetitj [Burnt Church, NB] prevented bloodshed last year. That's why I am going to Saint Mary's Bay now."
CPT has also maintained a team at Esgenoôpetitj again since April of this year.

For more information contact CPT:
Christian Peacemaker Teams, Canada
c/o Doug Pritchard, CPT Canada Coordinator
P.O. Box 72063, 1562 Danforth Ave.,
Toronto ON, M4J 5C1, Phone: 4164217079
FAX: 4164671508 ~ E-mail cptcan@web.ca;
or
Christian Peacemaker Teams
P.O. Box 6508 Chicago, IL 60680,
Phone: 3124551199 ~ FAX: 3124321213,
E-mail cpt@igc.org. ~ Delegation Applications

CPT is a violence reduction initiative of the
Mennonites, Church of the Brethren, & Quakers.