Peacebuilding en las Américas---Latest News
SEYM Friends Peace Teams representative Cece Yocum (Tampa) sends us a report from Peacebuilding en las Americas (PLA), an initiative of Friends Peace Teams that does Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and trauma healing workshops and other peace-building work in Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, and El Salvador. Their work includes projects…
Poor Peoples’ Campaign Update
Pete Ackerman (Palm Beach MM) and Phil Stone (Clearwater MM) sent in some news and photos from the Poor Peoples’ Campaign (PPC) June 11th action in Tallahassee. The rally was on the Week Five theme, ‘Everybody’s got the right to live: Education, Living Wage, Income, Housing.’ Buses brought people from…
Friends & the New Poor Peoples’ Campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is a new movement seeking to reignite, and re-commit to, the mission of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor Peoples’ Campaign of 50 years ago. Grounded in faith and non-violence, the Campaign focuses on three key demands of Dr. King —…
Peacebuilding en las Américas Update
This is the most recent update from Monica Maher, the PLA Coordinator: I write on the national weekend of mourning in Ecuador; the country is in shock after a journalist team of the country’s largest newspaper were assassinated by FARC guerilla dissidents in Esmeraldas near the Colombian border. The three…