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From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti – Part 1 Policy Solutions

January 5, 2012
Country Programs, Haiti
Haitians actively claim the right to housing. Photo by Ben Depp January 12, 2012 will be the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In this post, Alexis Erkert and Beverly Bell of Other Worlds, descri...
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Two Blogs and One Book

December 13, 2011
Bolivia, Colombia, Country Programs, Guatemala
Here is some advocacy-related news from around MCC Latin America: community-based engagement in Colombia, community-corporation negotiations in Guatemala, and research for peace-building in Bolivia. Colombia ...
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Migration Checkpoint

December 3, 2011
Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration, Nicaragua
Miriam Harder has recently begun an MCC service assignment working in conservation agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Central America. In this blog, she recounts an encounter with the realities of immigrati...
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Love your Enemies in Six Movements

November 28, 2011
Country Programs, Mexico, Urban Peacebuilding
This is a devotional that Marion Meyer shared at a gathering of MCC Connecting Peoples Coordinators in Honduras, September, 2011. Marion and her husband, Ricardo Torres, are the Country Representatives for MC...
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Conflict of Reasonability – A Guatemalan Indigenous Community vs. an Italian Energy Corporation

November 17, 2011
Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice
Tobias Roberts, MCC service worker in Guatemala, describes the contrasting worldviews that have led to the breakdown in negotiations between a Mayan community and an Italian corporation building a dam, and expl...
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Caravan of Central American Mothers search for missing Migrants in Mexico

November 11, 2011
Country Programs, Mexico, Migration
The Casa de los Amigos, the Quaker house in Mexico City, is an MCC partner, and they recently hosted a very moving visit of Central American mothers searching for their children who have disappeared in Mexico w...
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Mexican Day of the Dead: Cause of Death?

November 4, 2011
Country Programs, Mexico, Urban Peacebuilding
Wednesday, November 2nd was “Day of the Dead” here in Mexico. This national holiday is a unique combination of Pre-Hispanic and Catholic traditions in which families remember deceased family members. Linked wi...
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Peace: A Gift to be Received

October 27, 2011
Country Programs, Mexico, Urban Peacebuilding
Jacqueline Block, MCC Service Worker in Chiapas Mexico, continues her reflections on a compilation of Henri Nouwen’s writings entitled: The Road to Peace. Are we for peace? Are we at peace? These are good ques...
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“Vivir Bien” – The Bolivian concept of “Abundant Life”

October 7, 2011
Bolivia, Country Programs, Mining Justice, Rural Justice
By Lynn Longenecker. Lynn, his wife Laurie, and children, Maria, Nathan and Jesse, recently completed a three-year assignment in Bolivia. In this post, Lynn reflects on an indigenous concept that provides a cr...
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Responding When We Disagree: A Case from Haiti

September 18, 2011
Country Programs, Haiti
  Alexis Eckert was the MCC Advocacy Coordinator in Haiti from 2008 to July, 2011, and now works for Other Worlds, Haiti. In this blog she explores how the way we communicate is as important as the content we ...
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