Faith & Solidarity Reflections

Recovering the Truth in Guatemala: Do We Need a Truth Commisson for the U.S.?

October 25, 2008

By Malcolm Bell International Mayan League / USA The following article is adapted from a book in progress called Sisters in the Storm: The Courage of Jennifer Harbury, Adriana Portillo-Bartow, and Sister Dianna Ortiz. The author is the secretary of the International Mayan League/USA. We in the United States enjoy free speech and a...
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SOA Prison Witness: Called to Bold Action for Peace

October 25, 2008

By Judith Kelly Judith Kelly of Arlington, VA, facilitates trainings with the Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service (www.paceebene.org), and supports the School of the Americas Watch () movement. She is a member of Pax Christi and St. Aloysius Parish in Washington, DC. On April 2003, a few days before I reported to Alderson Federal...
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U.S. Soldier Says No to the War in Iraq

October 25, 2008

By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy This article was reprinted from the Fall 2004 issue of The Albany Catholic Worker. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy also writes for The National Catholic Reporter.       After twenty minutes of deliberation, a military jury found staff sergeant Camilo Mejia guilty of deserting his unit. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced...
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Zero Tolerance for Torture Anywhere, Anytime, and Under Any Circumstance

October 25, 2008

Letter from Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU Fall, 2004 My Dear Friends, Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter.” I send greeting to you from TASSC, the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International. Each of the members of our organization is a survivor of torture and, therefore,...
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Oil and Water: Fostering Ecological Hope

October 20, 2008
Oil and Water: Fostering Ecological Hope

    By Margaret Swedish Margaret Swedish is the author of “Living Beyond the End of the World, published by Orbis 2008. Everything we need to live seems to be under siege these days. Water – too much of it (central Midwest), too little of it (the West and Southeast); oil prices in the...
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