Advocacy – Page 49

Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers

June 24, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Rural Justice

Coffee time at INESIN, Rick Block on the far right By Rick Block is an agronomist working with MCC Mexico partner, INESIN, in Chiapas Mexico. He describes the situation of small farmers losing 75% of their co...

L@s Otr@s Dreamers

June 18, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español The “Dreamers” are young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children and have grown-up in the US. There are an estimated...

Colombian Anti-narcotics Police destroy crops in church-MCC Project

June 12, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

One of the Choco farmers with a rice crop damaged by aerial fumigation By Rebekah Sears and Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Anti-narcotics police in Colombia have fumigated and destroyed rice and cacao...

The Advocacy of Faith: Learning in Colombia

June 4, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

A worship service in a church in Mampujan, Colombia By Anna Vogt, MCC Colombia Advocacy is the focus of the month! What is it, how does it work and who does it are all questions that we Seeders are wrest...

Doing Good

May 29, 2013

Country Programs, Haiti, Nicaragua, Rural Justice

By Marisa Clymer Shank, MCC Nicaragua I’ve read several articles this past week on “missions” and “development work”. Each one has made me think about how I define what I’m doing in Nicaragua and how others mi...

Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison

May 22, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst/Educator Former Guatemalan Dictator, Ex-General Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity on May 10, 2013. How...

Shopping: Another way to change the world?

May 9, 2013

Mining Justice, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español When we talk about advocacy to address the root causes of injustice and conflict, we usually think about actions that attempt to influence government ...

URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala

May 3, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice

May 2, 2013 - Tobias Roberts, an MCC service worker in Nebaj, is accompanying this community in this tense situation. The community is asking for international attention to ensure that the situation is resolve...

Who owns the Wind?

April 14, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español I was confused. - Isn’t wind energy a GOOD thing?! An indigenous leader was passionately denouncing the the wind farms in his community. We were in a...

March for Rural Justice in Colombia

April 9, 2013

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

By Larisa Zehr, MCC Colombia Para leer en Español Note: The march halted on Sunday, April 7 after negotiations with government authorities. For an update on what happened see Anna Vogt's blog http://thellamad...

The Food We Share

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

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)

Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers

L@s Otr@s Dreamers

Colombian Anti-narcotics Police destroy crops in church-MCC Project

The Advocacy of Faith: Learning in Colombia

Doing Good

Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison

Shopping: Another way to change the world?

URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala

Who owns the Wind?

March for Rural Justice in Colombia

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration