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long time... [Aug. 23rd, 2008|10:36 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
[**mood** |nostalgicnostalgic]I just took a few minutes to catch up. Wow, it has been quite a while since I've been on here. Apologies for the negligence. There have been a number of changes in the life of my family over the past year plus. We have moved from Louisville, KY back to Colorful Colorado. I spent a stint working at a church in Parker, Colorado, then I started on April 1 of this year at a church in Lafayette, Colorado...a bit West of Boulder. Toby, you still in this neck of the woods?Interestingly, tonight I went to pray with a group of people with connections in Afghanistan and learned that the couple hosting that were with Ron and Marianne Frase in Brazil! Very cool time. I'd like to get in touch with Ron just to let him know - anyone have his current e-mail address? If anyone's got it, please shoot me a note.Hope everyone is doing well.
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"Spend the rest of your life telling this story" [Jul. 2nd, 2008|05:18 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
Great article by Julienne Gage '95 about the Central America Study program (in Spring/Summer 2008 Whitworth Today):"Spend the rest of your life telling this story" The Legacy of Whitworth's Central America Study Program
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Lilla Watson [Jun. 21st, 2008|11:52 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
I imagine many of you have heard this quote before, but I heard it tonight for the first time and wanted to share it with as many people as I can: "If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together." -- Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist
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Beautiful Obit for William Ford [Jun. 3rd, 2008|11:19 am]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
The NY Times is out today with a beautiful obituary for William P. Ford, a former Wall Street lawyer who spent more than two decades seeking to bring high-ranking military officials to justice after his sister and three other American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s.The guy worked at the same law firm where Richard Nixon and John Mitchell once worked, but later became a tireless advocate for justice in El Salvador. Here's the link:"William Ford, Rights Advocate"
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Brilliant Obama ad, en espanol [Feb. 23rd, 2008|11:54 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
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Mexico City starts women-only buses (and subway cars) [Feb. 13th, 2008|09:23 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
From the NY Times: "On Single-Sex Buses, Relief from Unwanted Contact"p.s. it doesn't seem like many of us are checking this blog these days. I've noticed that several folks from the trip are now on Facebook. For anyone who is interested, perhaps we should move the conversation over there?
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Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism [Oct. 21st, 2007|07:26 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
I just finished reading Naomi Klein's new book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and I think it's absolutely brilliant. It seems to me that in many ways it provides the economic back story behind lots of the events we witnessed in Central America (and read about in connection with other countries). I've written a review of it here if you want to check it out:http://www.rfkactionfront.com/2007/10/milton-friedman-wants-you-to-be-his.html
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Interesting NY Times Book Review... [Oct. 1st, 2007|06:10 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
Hi All:I thought you might be interested in the following article from the New York Times Book Review: THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco Goldman. Illustrated. 396 pp. Grove Press. $25. As a novelist, Francisco Goldman has mined Guatemalan misery and magic, most notably in his semiautobiographical “Long Night of White Chickens,” in which the protagonist investigates the murder of a young woman who was like a sister to him. In “The Art of Political Murder,” his first book of nonfiction, Goldman returns to Guatemala to try to solve a real killing, that of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, a Roman Catholic human rights advocate. Becoming by turns a little bit Columbo, Jason Bourne and Seymour Hersh, Goldman gives us the anatomy of a crime while opening a window to a misunderstood neighboring country that is flirting with anarchy. More, he offers an overdue indictment of brutal war criminals who were not just behind the one killing, but also contributed to a generation of atrocities. Gerardi was murdered as he returned to his Guatemala City residence on April 26, 1998. Two days earlier he had released a four-volume report on the civil war that formally ended in 1996, after it had claimed some 200,000 lives over four decades. The indigenous Mayan population, which makes up about 40 percent of the people in Guatemala and a majority of which is poor, suffered most: villages were erased, while fear fed docility. The bishop’s commission nonetheless extracted chilling firsthand accounts of torture and massacres conducted by an army intent on ridding the country of left-wing guerrillas. The distinction between villagers and armed rebels often got lost, and rights workers, labor leaders and clergy members came to be seen as enemies of the state.... A three-judge panel convicts not only Villanueva, but also a former counterinsurgency commander, Col. Byron Disrael Lima Estrada; his captain son; and a priest who had a room at the bishop’s residence (and who may have been most guilty of keeping silent to protect his private life). The longest sentences, 30 years for the military men, are later reduced to 20, although Villanueva is killed (perhaps conveniently) in a prison riot.But justice remains incomplete. Goldman suggests that the mastermind of the murder may still be free, and that it may be Otto Pérez Molina, a former general who is campaigning for president on a law-and-order platform (a runoff election is scheduled for Nov. 4). Goldman effectively discounts as propaganda the efforts to absolve Pérez Molina and the military of any responsibility for Gerardi’s murder. Here's a link to the first chapter:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/chapters/0930-1st-gold.html?ref=reviewAnd here's a link to the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Curiel-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Are we on? :) [Jul. 8th, 2007|12:18 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
Count us in! August will be a big camping month for us, but we wouldn't want to miss this! Thanks for the updates on the reunion! I recently participated in a workshop through my job, and one of the messages was that each conversation is important, and if we trust in the process, whoever needs to be there will be involved. For our camping adventure I'm sure the same is true, and whether the group is big or small, it will surely be a rich experience... Can't wait!! :) Hugs to all...
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(no subject) [Jul. 6th, 2007|05:18 pm]1990 Central America Study Tour - 1990 CAST
I want to go camping with my CA friends and all their rugrats this summer ;>! Nice recap and photos from the reunion. Thanks Toby, thanks Dee. Thanks also for representing.I spent June 23rd at the Gay Pride Parade and Queerfest in Seattle. I'm sure it was a very different VIBE than the reunion.The weather has been crazy gorgeous in Seattle. I'll be spending a chunk of time this summer doing some field work in the Methow/Okanogan Valleys on Fire Social Science and the Forest Service. Hope everyone's well.Love,Meliss
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