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		<title>Remembering Oscar Romero in a Time of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Wright On March 24, we commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero. One day before, President Barack Obama will visit Romero’s tomb in the cathedral of San Salvador, to conclude his first visit to Latin America and El Salvador. It is an occasion that lends itself to reflection – and action – as Christians, human rights organizations, and people committed to peace and justice – and to remember the legacy of the prophet-martyr of Latin America, Archbishop Oscar Romero. It is, as well, a moment to imagine what Archbishop Romero might say to President Obama on this occasion. We recall Romero’s words to President Carter, in 1980, pleading with him not to send U.S. military and economic support to the Salvadoran government: “Instead of favoring greater justice and peace, your government’s contribution will undoubtedly sharpen the injustice and the repression inflicted on the organized people, whose struggle has often been for respect of their most basic human rights.” If Romero were alive today, we are confident he would express the same concern to end U.S. military and economic support to governments that violate human rights and enable transnational corporations throughout the continent of Latin America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, Defender of Mexico’s Mayans, Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIA PRESTON New York Times, January 26, 2011 Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, an impassioned defender of the Mayans in southern Mexico and a mediator in peace talks between Indian rebels and the government, died on Monday in Mexico City. He was 86. Pascual Gorriz/Associated Press Bishop Samuel Ruiz García on his way to Mass in late 1997. The cause was respiratory failure and complications of high blood pressure and diabetes, said Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, Bishop Ruiz’s successor. During his 40 years of presiding over a Roman Catholic diocese in Chiapas State, Bishop Ruiz cast light on abuses suffered by the Indians and sought to bring them into the church as equals with other Mexicans, challenging the rigidly stratified social order. His advocacy and egalitarian views, which were tinged with socialism, brought him into conflict with the Mexican government, which accused him of fomenting a violent uprising in Chiapas in 1994. He also rankled the Vatican, which said he had strayed from ecclesiastical principles to create a politicized ethnic church, and in 1993 publicly invited him to step down. Mexican clerics rallied to his defense, however, and he remained as bishop until he retired in 2000. Bishop Ruiz attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Website &#8211; Oscar Romero Faith and Solidarity Network in the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oscar Romero Faith and Solidarity Network in the Americas (SICSAL-USA) is the U.S. representative of SICSAL (Servicio Internacional Cristiano en Solidaridad con los Pueblos de America Latina): http://www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=16953]]></description>
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		<title>Witness against Torture Fast to Close Guantanamo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo & Torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[            Dear Friends, Greetings from Washington, DC and Day Seven of the Fast for Justice. We are 40 or so in Washington, DC and over 100 throughout the country. In this brief note, we hope to share with you some sense of what our days have been like as we pass the halfway mark of the Fast for Justice. We have been getting to know Washington “under the hood”  &#8211; so to speak- as we process in black hoods and orange jumpsuits. It is a strange and revelatory perspective on our Nation’s Capitol. The landscape in DC is studded with monuments to war heroes, epic battles, and larger than life political figures.  Our time here is not as enduring as granite and marble, bronze and steel, but we hope that our impermanent memorials to injustice can be striking and affecting as we render tableaus of silent suffering in black and orange, and interject the humanity of the imprisoned, tortured men through the repetition of their names and recitation of their poetry.  We are a living monument, the injustice we mark is still happening. We began our time together with a day of resistance and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TASSC International Hosts U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez with TASSC Executive Director Demissie Abebe   It was TASSC International’s honor to host the newly elected United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on Thursday, January 13, 2011. Dr. Juan Mendez was welcomed with a luncheon followed by an opportunity to address survivors from TASSC, as well as human rights advocates and faith-based groups working to end torture. Dr. Mendez shared with survivors and other gathered at TASSC the mandate he has been given by the United Nations: “By insisting on the absolute prohibition of torture and of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in international law, I hope to make an effective contribution to the enforcement and progressive development of international norms in this area.” Dr. Mendez has dedicated his long legal career to defending human rights and has a distinguished record of advocacy. He recently served as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Genocide under Secretary General Kofi Annan. Before that, he directed the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York, taught international law at various universities, and directed the Washington Office of Americas Watch during the 1980s. Dr. Mendez is currently visiting professor of law at the Washington College of [...]]]></description>
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