Advocacy – Page 53

MCC Haiti Plants 5000 trees for National Tree Day

July 16, 2012

By Joshua Steckley, an MCC service worker in Haiti Mennonite Central Committee supports 22 local tree nurseries around Desarmes, a small town in the Artibonite Valley in Haiti. Each year, these nurseries produ...

Generating prosperity or conflict?: Mining in Latin America

July 10, 2012

Mining Justice

By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst Last week five indigenous people died in conflicts related to foreign mining operations in Latin America. One died in a protest in Bolivia related to a Canad...

Who Owns the Lake?

July 3, 2012

Nicaragua, Rural Justice

Adam poses as he jumps off a 10-meter high dock into the pristine waters of the volcanic crater lake located near the hotel and restaurant mentioned in this blog post. Adam Shank and Marisa Cylmer Shank are s...

Celebration in Panama: Wounaan granted land certificates

July 1, 2012

Rural Justice

The following email, sent to Mennonite World Conference on June 5, 2012, provides an update, with a note of celebration and thanks. “Today is an historical day in Panama. For the first time, the Wounaan receiv...

El Salvador fights to protect its environment

June 19, 2012

Rural Justice

The El Salvadoran government is fighting a legal battle against Pacific Rim Mining, a United States based company. Pacific Rim is suing the country for the amount of $77 million after the El Salvadoran governme...

Working for Peace in Panama

June 7, 2012

Rural Justice

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Indigenous people in eastern Panama are watching in alarm and frustration as huge tracts of the tropical forest in which they live are cut down by illegal loggers. The seriousness of the situation became clear ...

Immigration from another side of the border wall

June 5, 2012

Mexico, Migration

Kelly, a MCC SALT participant, is working with a MCC partner organization, Instituto de Estudios e Investigación Intercultural (INESIN) in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. She completes her term in ...

More than Zapatistas

April 25, 2012

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice

A reflection by Miriam Harder, an MCC Service Worker in San Cristobal, Chiapas, originally posted on her blog http://mtharder.wordpress.com/ Mexicans woke after their New Year’s celebrations on January 1, 199...

For the sake of humanity: The Need for Immigration Reform

April 10, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

Tammy Alexander, Legislative Associate for Domestic Affairs, MCC Washington D.C. Office reflects on the individuals and families behind the policy debates in the USA. This post originally appeared in http://pea...

On the Move: Mariposas and Migrants

March 21, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

In Fall each year about 100 million migrants travel from the Great Lakes area of Canada and the United States to central Mexico. Yes, you read that correctly – 100 MILLION migrants…. It is about a 3000-kilomet...

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)

MCC Haiti Plants 5000 trees for National Tree Day

Generating prosperity or conflict?: Mining in Latin America

Who Owns the Lake?

Celebration in Panama: Wounaan granted land certificates

El Salvador fights to protect its environment

Working for Peace in Panama

Immigration from another side of the border wall

More than Zapatistas

For the sake of humanity: The Need for Immigration Reform

On the Move: Mariposas and Migrants

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration