Posted in Global Issues, Mexico, Politics, Religion and Society, Social Justice, U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Agribusiness, CAFTA, Christopher Columbus, developing economies, Fair Trade, International Trade, International Trade Action Day, Latin America, Mexico, NAFTA, poverty in Latin America, sustainable economies on Monday, October 12th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s some recommended reading for this a very special day:
Witness for Peace Oct. 12th: International Trade Action Day
Jobs erased, farmers displaced.
Environment polluted, democracy diluted.
NAFTA at Fifteen
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My post: 1989-2009 ~ Drugs, Mexico, The Failures of Neoliberalism, & The Beginnings of a Post-Imperial New Era
It’s time for change.
Posted in Biblical Ethics, Christianity in Context, Church - Theologizing, Global Issues, Religion and Society, Social Justice, Uncategorized, tagged Bob Marley, immigrants, Immigration, marginals, Refugee, refugee ministry, refugees, UCC, UNHCR, United Church of Christ, vulnerable, World Refugee Day on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This June 20th is World Refugee Day. A day which has been set aside so that we may think in some 42 million uprooted people (1 in every 50 persons) throughout our world. Hopefully, this thinking will lead to some form of action on our part. The country that currently has [...]
Posted in Global Issues, Mexico, Politics, Social Justice, U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Mexico, Social Justice, Barack Obama, Corruption, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, U.S. Army Schools of the Americas, WHINSEC, U.S.-Latin American Relations, U.S. military intervention, School of the Americas, Chile, Greg Grandin, Ciudad Juarez, Milton Freidman, shock therapy, Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Felipe Calderón, Evo Morales, Anderson Cooper, War on Drugs, Cocaine, Drug war, Mexican Cartels, Manual Noriega, Operation Just Cause, George W. Bush, Plan Columbia, Contras, Hugo Chávez, Assault Weapons Ban, Senator John Kerry, Inter-American System, mordidas, Teo el Pozolero, El Chapo, Marijuana, Summit of the Americas, Argentina, U.S. History, Latin American History on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #8 and the final one in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
The 1980s was a decade decidedly marked with drugs and blood (just rent the movie Scareface). At the close of the decade the U.S. decided it was time to try direct military [...]
Posted in Christianity in Context, Church - Theologizing, Global Issues, Mexico, Religion and Society, Social Justice, tagged Immigrant, Immigrant rights, Immigration, Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Mexican population, Migratory Reform, UCC, United Church of Christ on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Immigrant Rights Sunday is this coming Sunday, May 3rd. This is a wonderful opportunity to seek out those in our communities that are immigrants and extend our hand to them. Yet we must first make ourselves aware of their situation and the rights that our land grants them, not neglecting the rights that are to [...]
Posted in Christianity in Context, Global Issues, Politics, Social Justice, U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged American Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Civil War, El Salvador, Ft. Benning, Georgia, Human Rights, International Relations, Latin America, Nicaragua, Panama, School of America Watch, SOA, Social Justice, U.S. Army Schools of the Americas, WHINSEC on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I would have to commend President Obama on his setting a timetable for the closing of Guantanamo’s Detention Facilities. That’s a start. But I, personally would also like to see a timetable set for termination of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (WHINSEC) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, to further our supposed message of [...]
Posted in Global Issues, Mexico, Religion and Society, Social Justice, tagged Barack Obama, bottled water, crisis, Enviromental Issues, fresh water depletion, Global Issues, Mexico City, Troubled Waters, UCC, Wally Ryan Kuroiwa, water, water consumption on Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Water, water everywhere. Not a drop to drink.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 1789
These words came to mind when I heard that Mexico City is having to turn off the water valve this weekend. Starting Saturday the government will stop the flow of water to nearly half of its citizens. That [...]
Posted in Devotional Thoughts & Bible Studies, Politics, Religion and Society, Social Justice, tagged National Prayer Service, Obama, ordination of women in Christianity, Sharon E. Watkins, Story of Two Wolves on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I was joining the World as it exhaled, the mountains as they broke forth in singing, and the trees of the fields as they applauded, as if they had never exhaled, sung, or applauded before. This inauguration has been riddled with firsts. For example: the first African-American took the oath of the highest office [...]
Posted in Devotional Thoughts & Bible Studies, Politics, Religion and Society, Social Justice, tagged Bono, City of Blinding Lights, Dr. King, Inauguration Concert, Martin Luther King Day, MLK, Obama, Pride, U2, We are One on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let this Martin Luther King Day be a day of immense reflection. Where would we as a people be without the prophet? Tomorrow will be a grand culmination of many persons’ longings (see my post We Shall Overcome.) Yet there is much to do, still too many people groups crying out. Let us not stop [...]
Posted in Biblical Ethics, Global Issues, Mexico, Social Justice, tagged Brazil, Ciudad Juarez, Corruption, Crime, Exodus 19, feminicide, Holiness, Holiness in Israel, John G. Gammie, Mexico on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is Human Rights Day. In just a few days the United Nations’ “Declaration on Human Rights” will turn 60. As well, just two days ago the United Nations’ Anti-Corruption Day was observed.
This is observed as grim news is released throughout Latin America. Brazil is reporting that in the past 2 years more than 9,000 [...]
Posted in Global Issues, Social Justice, tagged AIDS, Bono, World AIDS Day 2008 on Monday, December 1st, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a day to remember the fight that so many have endured and succumbed to. As well this is a day to remember that there is still a fight to fight. This marks the 20th World AIDS Day; a day of celebration as we look back at the many accomplishments that have been made [...]
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