LatinaLista — Today, April 4, marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As in years past, his life and message of nonviolence will be honored, remembered and talked about but, unlike past anniversary observances, it will serve as the premise for a specific challenge to today’s young people — abstain [...]
The Role of Women in Colombia’s Peace Process
By Cassandra Atlas MADRE The stage is set for a new round of peace talks to begin in the seemingly intractable internal armed conflict that has gripped Colombia for nearly fifty years. In the fifth attempt since the 1980s, peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will start [...]
Costa Rica: A Good Place to Be a Woman
Mary Liepold Peace X Peace Here’s the data. Costa Rica ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the international women’s bill of rights, in 1986, and its Optional Protocol in 2001. (The US has yet to ratify it.) An Act Promoting the Social Equality of Women became law in [...]
Guest Voz — Nuclear weapons: Good for our security, or unacceptable risk?
By Ed Aguilar LatinaLista Should we worry about nuclear weapons? Or are they a good thing to have, to keep us safe? OK, first, nukes are very different from battlefield weapons, like guns and artillery. Conventional weapons “kill you once.” Nukes explode at 10,000⁰ Celsius. They melt everything for miles around, and cause long-term radioactivity, [...]
Stockton Civic Auditorium locks out Latino youth group’s peace message effort
Bilingual Weekly STOCKTON, CA — In an effort to give free financial literacy courses and personal finance development programs to impoverished minorities in San Joaquin; Leandro Vicuña put on a Free Financial Literacy Workshop at the Stockton Civic Auditorium — a program offered by Sus Finanzas. “100 to 150 persons attended the workshop during its [...]
With urban neighborhoods under siege by violence, Student Peace Alliance offers hope
LatinaLista — Peace. It’s more than a word. To some it’s an elusive concept, but to others it’s an achievable reality. Peace doesn’t just mean eradicating wars but eradicating violence, even at the most basic level — in communities. Some countries understand that to attain long-lasting peace in the 21st Century, resources must be dedicated [...]
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