Weekly Round-Up: December 12
Photo: Anna Vogt
Debating the School of the Americas
Should the School of the Americas be closed? To its critics, the school, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in 20...
Local Learning Tour about Permaculture
Last November, participants from our partners in San Marcos, Nebaj and El Salvador visited the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, where they learned about the philo...
Fooling The Sun, Not Fooling The Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lvqy0QDtVk&feature=youtu.be
On Monday, November 24, the MCC U.S. Washington Office hosted a conference entitled “Fooling the Sun, Not Fooling the Rain: Housing and Shelter ...
Weekly Round-Up December 5, 2014
Quibdo, Colombia. "Our will for peace can never be kidnapped." Photo by Anna Vogt
Mining for smartphone minerals is eating up farmland
The problem for many food-producing communities in developing countries ...
Peace is Possible, but it is a Choice
Kevin and Cassie Zonnefeld are MCCers serving in Nicaragua, as Culture of Peace Educators. In their Conflict Transformation course, they asked students to interview someone who was involved in the revolution of...
SPU to Ayoztinapa: Fitting in where I Don’t Belong
A personal reflection on the disapperance of the 43 Mexican students by Katie Geluso, a Salter currently serving in Mexico City. This post was adapted from her personal blog.
In late September, the mayor of I...
Weekly Roundup November 14
In Guatemala, indigenous communities prevail against Monsanto
Late in the afternoon of September 4, after nearly 10 days of protests by a coalition of labor, indigenous rights groups and farmers, the indigen...
Haiti doesn’t need another occupation
The name Haiti conjures images of earthquake damage, people struggling to survive or memories of a service trip to help build houses or bring medical care. Most do not associate it with military occupation.
Ha...
Weekly Roundup: Nov 7
Rural Community in Colombia Photo: Anna Vogt
Paramilitary killing spree was Colombia ‘state policy': Judge
A Bogota court ruled on Friday that a series of massacres, homicides and forced displacement operati...
Mass and peaceful march in remembrance of José Antonio’s death and demand for justice
By Sandra Kienitz, the Northern Program Coordinator for MCC Mexico
All photos by Sandra Kienitz, MCC Mexico
Two years after his death, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez's life was celebrated with a mass at the Pa...