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To Not Have To Do This Again
I want to make a special call to the military. And more concretely to the military bases and to the military headquarters….You are from our same people. You kill your own brothers and sisters. The...
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Borderland Bloggers
(from January 5 ) Over Christmas break in the mountains of North Carolina, waiting in the car for my mom to come out of the post office, a headline of a newspaper in one of those sidewalk newspaper...
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Fences and the Questions they Raise
Fences. The word in Spanish is “cerca”, interestingly the same word that means “close”. Why else build a fence than because one feels threatened by the closeness of the entities on either side?! On...
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Transformation
My colleague yesterday commented that “In our liberal Protestant denominations, we don’t talk much about sin, but this is it…”, indicating the conditions described first-hand by the maquiladora workers...
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Problems in the Maquiladoras
In the workers’ words: Elimination of shifts Solvent contamination Unjustified firings Refusal to hire women who are pregnant Screaming and other examples of domination Other errors in pay Lack of...
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by Elizabeth Bukey: Yesterday afternoon we met two women who both work on healing in the Brownsville community: one a curandera and the other a medical doctor. An outsider, particularly an Anglo...
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Youth….trapped
“Jesus sees his mother” (John 19:26-27) in the Stations of the Cross at the Basilica in San Juan, TX. Mothers grieve and protest the plight of their undocumented youth. “My daughter graduated from...
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Youth….”A New and Unsettling Force”
I feel called to work on the role of faith communities in social movements to end poverty, led by the poor. Martin Luther King, Jr said, as he initiated the Poor People’s Campaign: “We can’t back up,...
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The Eloquence of Maps
By Elizabeth Bukey: Dr. Machado, who organized our pilgrimage to the border, is fond of telling students how important maps are. They can help us understand why wars were fought, the value of certain...
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Where does hope come from?
A blog from Wednesday, January 9, 2013: Mercedes, Laurel, and Alvaro, students from the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador. Overhead posters of Oscar Romero, UCA martyr priest Ignacio...
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