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Bridging the Americas Tour – Join Us!

October 26, 2016 No Comments

Join us in a city near you! In April 2014 a courageous Afro-Colombian community took a stand against the illegal armed groups that controlled their daily lives for over 15 years and transformed their neighborhood into a peace zone. The same year, the Movement for Black Lives ignited in the United States, vividly drawing national attention to an epidemic of

Solidarity with Israel-Palestine

October 25, 2016 No Comments

Peace in the Middle East. Ever since I was a child, I remember hearing this phrase. In sixth grade, I took on an extra credit challenge to write a paper on the origins of conflict in the Middle East. In those pre-Internet days, I read what I could find at home and at the library, following trails that took me

Solidarity with Israel-Palestine

October 25, 2016 No Comments

Peace in the Middle East. Ever since I was a child, I remember hearing this phrase. In sixth grade, I took on an extra credit challenge to write a paper on the origins of conflict in the Middle East. In those pre-Internet days, I read what I could find at home and at the library, following trails that took me

Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life

October 24, 2016 No Comments

October 21, 2016 I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They were on three Greek islands before permission was granted them to continue their trip. They passed through several countries at

Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life

October 24, 2016 No Comments

October 21, 2016 I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They were on three Greek islands before permission was granted them to continue their trip. They passed through several countries at

UN Day: Changing of the Guard

October 22, 2016 No Comments

UN Day, 24 October, this year is marked by preparations for a changing of the guard. The ten years of Ban Ki-moon as Secretary-General will give way on one January 2017 to the new Secretary- General, Antonio Guterres, who was during the same ten-year period the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. As with the changing of the guard in front