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		<title>Mampujan citizens march for justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacobkanagy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Vogt, service worker for Mennonite Central Committee&#8217;s SEED Program, recently wrote an article about the Mampujan community in Colombia. The Mampujan community has experienced the full extent of Colombia&#8217;s previous and current armed conflicts. This past December, members of the Mampujan community decided to march in protest against the lack of reparations given by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6626&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake Reconstruction: Another look at progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latin America/Caribbean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wawa and Kristen Chege reflect on the international response to the Haiti earthquake and the need for transparency in reconstruction efforts in the latest Third Way Cafe. In this chaos of reconstruction, with an influx of aid money and the pressure to spend quickly, international companies have instead found an opportune time to push Haiti [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6616&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Remember Haiti</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2012/01/12/we-remember-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo Sitther</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America/Caribbean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks two years after a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people and displaced more than a million in Haiti. Haitians continue to struggle through the process of recovery with at least half a million people still living in displacement camps and many other survivors struggling to meet their basic needs. We pray for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6606&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Gun Smuggling to Mexico</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/12/20/stop-gun-smuggling-to-mexico-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo Sitther</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diego Luna, a Mexican film star, calls for action to stop the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico. Sign a petition to President Obama calling on him to take action to the stop gun smuggling to Mexico.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6481&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflect &#124; Serve &#124; Advocate</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/12/13/reflect-serve-advocate/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/12/13/reflect-serve-advocate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo Sitther</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America/Caribbean]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year ten young adults from the Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru) and two coordinators began a two-year Mennonite Central Committee term in Colombia to reflect, serve and advocate alongside Colombian communities.  “Participants of the program come together for two years to reflect on the issues that maintain barriers – from economics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6407&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Culture of Cruelty&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/11/21/a-culture-of-cruelty/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/11/21/a-culture-of-cruelty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emilywh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime and Justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://washingtonmemo.org/?p=6274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They treated me like a dog&#8230;They asked if [I] wanted water, but when [I] responded &#8216;yes,&#8217; they wouldn&#8217;t give [me] any.&#8221;  -2010, 16 year-old boy from Guatemala, in A Culture of Cruelty. When we, as Americans, hear about human rights abuses we imagine distant mass atrocities, reminiscent of genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda or widespread [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6274&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The War We are Living</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/11/01/the-war-we-are-living/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/11/01/the-war-we-are-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo Sitther</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America/Caribbean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, PBS television stations across the country will broadcast an under-reported story from the front lines of Colombia’s resurgent war in a documentary called The War We are Living. This is the fourth part of a five-part series called Women War &#38; Peace, a comprehensive television initiative exploring women’s strategic role in conflict and peace-building. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=6184&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Gun Smuggling to Mexico</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/10/12/stop-gun-smuggling-to-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/10/12/stop-gun-smuggling-to-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Sell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2007, nearly 40,000 people have been killed as a result of the Mexican “drug war.”  Approximately 80 to 90 percent of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels originate from gun sellers in the United States.  Weak gun laws within the US have created an open market by which unlicensed sellers are able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=5983&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia FTA Update</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/10/05/colombia-fta-update-2/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/10/05/colombia-fta-update-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Sell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, October 3, President Obama sent three long-pending trade agreements to Congress, which are expected to pass in both the House and Senate.  The trade deals with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama were delayed due to disagreement over the Trade Adjustment Assistance, a measure that would provide assistance to American workers displaced by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=5950&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace and Prosperity in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/09/23/peace-and-prosperity-in-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://washingtonmemo.org/2011/09/23/peace-and-prosperity-in-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Kisare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theo Sitther reflects on his trip to Colombia for Third Way Cafe: U.S. aid has worsened the crisis for communities in Colombia. Over the last decade the United States has provided more than six billion dollars, mostly for Colombia’s military and police to defeat illegal armed groups and eliminate drug trafficking. While communities like Las Palmas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&amp;blog=3767563&amp;post=5921&amp;subd=washingtonmemo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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