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Colombia, Ecuador and Chavez
For the last few days, I’ve been wanting to write something about the news from the region Charletta and I recently left. Today my teammates in Colombia released Border Tensions: A Prayer Request. This...
View ArticleBush appointees plan Nuremburg of our time (but rigged)
So you may have read in the news a few weeks ago that US seeks the death penalty as six detained in Guantánamo are charged over 9/11. Though the process has been abominable, at least the decision to...
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Colombia, Ecuador and Chavez
For the last few days, I’ve been wanting to write something about the news from the region Charletta and I recently left. Today my teammates in Colombia released Border Tensions: A Prayer Request. This...
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“It could be that civilians were nearby… it would not be the first time,”
Many of you remember my post from a few months ago on what is currently happening in the Gaza strip in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. The above image comes from last Thursday, when Israeli...
View ArticleHow Would You Spend 3 Trillion Dollars?
According to some estimates, the War in Iraq will cost $3 Trillion — money that could be spent better elsewhere. Here’s your chance — the $3 Trillion Shopping Spree gives people the chance to try to...
View ArticleGuatemala to require DNA tests prior to adoption
Since I first heard about the Guatemalan infant market here on YAR (thank you Tom Dunn), it only makes sense to post a link to this news story. It looks like the Guatemalan government is trying to...
View ArticleIntergenerational Activist Conversation
An older woman activist that I admire came up to me. She was obviously weary, and looked a bit as if she had just been crying. I had just received an email from her earlier, calling all the activists,...
View ArticleConference Review
Not everyone can or wants to go to every conference. This is a summary of a recent conference. I think sharing the info that we learn at conferences is important. The “Everything Must Change” tour came...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Thanksgiving: A Reflection by Nekeisha
Thanksgiving makes me nervous. For years, I’ve gotten a sinking feeling in my stomach as the month of November draws to a close and this day looms. On the one hand, Thanksgiving is about joy and...
View Article“We are the agents of our own change”– Arthur Mutambara
Cross-posted from As of Yet Untitled This week Zimbabwe has wrestled its way back into the news with reports of over 600 dead of Cholera and as many as 60,000 cases feared in coming weeks. Inflation is...
View ArticleInauguration Thoughts: The State is Still the State
Yesterday was truly a big day in U.S. history. The inauguration of the first African-American President is truly a turning point for our nation, especially given our abysmal history on race. Moreover,...
View ArticleIt’s someone else’s problem…or it’s not.
(A Debbie Downer post. Sorry about your luck.) For several months I’ve been making posts that suggest (though I don’t think I’ve said it), that the idea that people are somehow different than they were...
View ArticleUS gun manufacturers fuel Mexican drug cartels
Crossposted from As of Yet Untitled It’s rare I pick up the newspaper in the morning and read an article about the war on drugs that leaves me feeling encouraged. In fact, I don’t think its every...
View ArticleKairos and Lent in the “Holy Land”
Crossposted from Ekklesia, UK by ST with permission of Tim Siedel Experiencing the Lenten season in Palestine is unique. It carries with it incredible feelings of closeness and concreteness as one...
View ArticleSchool of the Americas Protest Coverage
I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed right now, on the personal level. Yet I have this perpetual desire to never let the personal woes and difficulties overwhelm the big picture. So, in an effort to keep...
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Will we standby while Mubarak’s thugs massacre protesters in Egypt?
Like many of you, I’ve been watching closely as the events in Egypt unfolded this week. When the protests first began on Tuesday of last week it seemed like it might be a brief flare up, quickly...
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I was a senior in high school in September 2001. I was to have a cross-country meet that Tuesday evening, the 11th, and the boy’s soccer team at my school was to play its archrival. I remember not...
View ArticleSave Buddhism from Christian Missionaries: A Manifesto
Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are some of the hallmarks of the teachings of Jesus. But those concepts didn’t originate with Jesus. He found them tucked away in the nooks and crannies of the...
View ArticleViolence Begets Violence
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” — Matthew 26:52 (KJV) ‎”Hate begets hate; violence begets violence;...
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The evil, rotten core of US war and empire and why it should make us all...
A page from the Martyr’s mirror depicting Geleyn Corneliss, who was hung by his thumb while his torturers played cards. Modified illustration from Third Way Cafe Crossposted from As of Yet Untitled...
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