A new generation of Cuban Americans encourages broader dialogue.
Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68. Mercer University Press.
Faith communities work to stem the flow of guns to criminals.
Trinity University found the future of education -- hiding in its own neighborhood.
Spokane Indian Sherman Alexie often snaps "that's personal" during
interviews, yet the characters in his books and films closely follow his own life growing
up on the Spokane Indian Reservati
It takes the rare vocal
talents of a singer like Lila Downs to silence a Madrid crowd—and convince them to
put out their cigarettes without complaining.
Bread and Roses, the latest from British director Ken Loach,
portrays with incredible precision the reality of the modern immigrant experience in
industrialized nations.
At midnight on May 21, I fell to the floor screaming when I learned that Krista Hunt
Ausland, my best friend for 24 years, had plunged to her death in a bus accident in
Bolivia.
Tibetan Aid Project. Manufacturing Consent. Against Forgetting.
Elizabeth Gravalos and Arthur Harvey, organic blueberry farmers in Hartford, Maine, had their home and property
auctioned off by the IRS because of their conscientious objection to paying federal
Female genital mutilation (FGM), which many young women in parts of Africa and the Middle East are forced to undergo
as a coming-of-age rite, is starting to receive attention as a fundamental abu
Chinese pro-democracy activist Harry Wu led 1,000 protestors to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., to kick off
Amnesty International's Annual General Meeting in June.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , the Lutheran theologian who was executed by the Nazis in 1945, may be officially pardoned later this year by
the German government, according to Religion News Service
“Anything worth living for is worth
dying for,” Brian Rohatyn told The Washington Post
concerning his fast with Pastors for Peace on the steps of
the U.S.
British Parliament member John Hume
received the International Human Rights Award this spring for
his nonviolent reconciliation work in Northern Ireland.
Awards were also gi
Margarito and Maria Esquino, refugees in
Washington, D.C., received death threats this spring that
they suspect came from members of El Salvador’s ruling
ARENA party.
Transitions Abroad. Hear Our Voices. 500 Years of Chicano History.
In spite of the fact that Casa Alianza (Covenant House Latin America)
forced the Honduras government to admit in a hearing before the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that it illegally
Ward Valley in California's eastern Mojave Desert may seem like
the middle of nowhere to those looking to dump their nuclear sludge.
But this silent valley has been the sacred homeland to five
Although several sources reported that independent candidate Jonathan
Kuttab was elected to the Palestinian Council in January-including
Sojourners (see "Between the Lines," March-April
Cook for a Cause. State of the World. Access to Reinvestment. National Green Pages.
Members of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Jerusalem announced
publicly that they would ride the city's #18 bus for several hours
on Sunday, March 10.
The Inland Northwest, which includes eastern Washington and northern
Idaho, is known more because of stories about Ruby Ridge and the
Neo-Nazi headquarters in Hayden Lake, Idaho, than for its woo
On January 5, a firebomb destroyed the car of José Pertierra
in Washington, D.C.
Troubled by the scarcity of material from the nonviolent peace
movement on the World Wide Web, three individuals are dedicating
their skills to "help bring the powerful message of nonviolence
on
Photojournalist Mev Puleo, whose work focused on the lives
and struggles of the poor, died January 12, 1996, of a brain tumor.
Puleo, who was 32 years old, received the 1995 U.S.
THE TRUTH ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Some say affirmative action has done more harm than good, while
others say that it hasn't gone far enough.
WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE CALENDAR
U.S. society is bombarded with books and publications honoring
war heroes.
Tiesha became nervous as Ann and I took her trick or treating
through Columbia Heights. "I hope they don't shoot you two!"
she said.
