Advocacy – Page 48

Urgent Action Needed: Ricardo Esquivia

September 15, 2013

Action Alerts, Advocacy, Colombia, Rural Justice

The Asociación Sembrando Semillas de Paz (Sembrandopaz) emits URGENT ACTION for the physical and judicial security, and the right to a good name and due process for Ricardo Esquivia Ballestas, director of this ...

The Marlin Mine from the perspective of a semi-tourist

September 13, 2013

Advocacy, Guatemala, Mining Justice

By Rebekah Sears, Policy Analyst and Educator for MCC Colombia In July and August of 2013, I took a break from my regular work in Colombia to study Spanish in Guatemala. While there, I learned a lot about ...

CLAI Letter to President Obama

September 6, 2013

Advocacy, World

CLAI, the ''Consejo latinoamericano de iglesias'' or the Council of Latin American Churches, is an ecumenical organization with connections to several of our partner and sister organizations here in Honduras. O...

Conflict resurfaces in Chenalho’ Chiapas

September 1, 2013

Mexico, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

Miriam Harder is an MCC service worker based in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. She coordinates a Conservation Agriculture pilot project in Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua. For the oth...

The Danger of a Single Story

August 30, 2013

Advocacy, SALT/YAMEN/IVEP

Written by: Keila Gaeddert, who served with the SALT program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 2011-2012 Here is a short video called The Danger of a Single Story that we watched during Orientation, and that I recen...

La Bestia

August 30, 2013

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration, Uncategorized

By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. On Sunday, a cargo train derailed near Villahermosa, Mexico. Aboard this cargo train were 250 Centra...

MWR : Our obsession with violence and the stories you’re not supposed to hear

August 28, 2013

Advocacy, Peace and Non-Violence

An excellent article from the Mennonite World Review; we join in this movement and seek to recognize and live in the everyday hope here in Honduras. ''Our obsession with violence and the stories you’re not sup...

The perils of security on the U.S./Mexico border

August 17, 2013

Mexico, Migration

By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC's Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. In early September of last year, Guillermo Arevalo Pedroza brought his wife Nora and their two young ...

Honduras: ‘Light through the cracks’

August 9, 2013

Country Programs, Honduras, Peace and Non-Violence, Urban Peacebuilding

Photo by Margaret Penner, MCC Mexico Lynn and Mark Baker recently returned from a two-week trip to Honduras visiting friends, churches, and programs. Here are some excerpts from a post-trip letter of refle...

Stretching our donor dollar?

July 25, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice

MCC Mexico team and friends meet in the central square, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, where Rick Block and his family live. Photo by Margaret Penner By Rick Block, MCC Mexico Para leer en Español As r...

The Food We Share

Voices of Change Sowing Hope in Latin America: Three Women Weaving Dignified Futures

Voces de Cambio Sembrando Semillas de Esperanza en Latinoamérica: Tres Mujeres Tejiendo Futuros Dignos

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)