Fleeing the Guns of Big Business
by the Colombia International Team Daira recalls her beloved village El Por Venir as a tight-knit community where people once moved...
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- Feb 18, 2010
- 3 min
Honoring Colombians: Why Did Dolls Work?
by Anne Barstow, Rutgers Presbyterian Church of NYC Having tried a number of ways to make the Colombian displaced persons crisis real to...
- Feb 12, 2010
- 3 min
Courageous and Organized People
by Gail Phares, WFP Southeast Regional Organizer On January 22nd, I returned from a ten-day visit to Colombia. Our Witness for Peace...
- Feb 9, 2010
- 1 min
Memory as Resistance: Part 3
by Colette Cosner, WFP Northwest Regional Organizer Last week Obama announced the 2011 aid request for Latin America, with a proposal for...
- Feb 8, 2010
- 2 min
Memory as Resistance: Part 2
by Colette Cosner, WFP Northwest Regional Organizer I remember watching one night as human rights defenders from NOMADESC – an...
- Feb 5, 2010
- 2 min
Memory as Resistance in Colombia: Part 1
by Colette Cosner I was in Colombia when the earthquake hit Haiti. I was also in Colombia when the news coverage of the tragic event...
- Feb 2, 2010
- 3 min
Tempered Excitement over Obama’s Budget Request
by Jess Hunter-Bowman, WFP Associate Director Unless you live on the moon (or aren’t a political junkie like me), you probably heard that...
- Oct 27, 2009
- 3 min
Colombia: Mass Graves and Military Aid
by Jess Hunter-Bowman, WFP Associate Director Sooner or later the truth has a way of showing its face. Recently, an important sliver of...
- Sep 24, 2009
- 3 min
Facing the Displaced in Seattle
by Megan Bilas Witness for Peace Northwest kicked off its first “Face the Displaced” event of April at Meaningful Movies in the basement...
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