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		<title>Join MCC in supporting an international Arms Trade Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armed Violence in Numbers 2 of 3 people killed by armed violence die in countries at peace 2 bullets are produced each year for each person on the planet 700 people are estimated to be killed with arms each day in Latin America As MCC workers in Latin America, we see firsthand the injuries, deaths, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7297&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lectionary Reflection for May 27, 2012 (Pentecost)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach, Director of the Washington Office, reflects on Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit in the latest lectionary reflection. For those of us working in Washington, DC, Ottawa or at the United Nations, there is a natural draw to another description of the Spirit: Advocate (John 15:26, 16:7). Sometimes Mennonites ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7295&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Action alert:  protect immigrant victims of domestic violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tammy Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of April, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), S.1925. The House, however, is set to vote on a bill this week (H.R. 4970) that would roll back protections for immigrant survivors of violence.  Take action.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7290&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is food insecurity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we envision hunger in the world, it is not usually our own communities that we picture. Yet reports from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tell a different story. Hunger not only exists in the U.S., it is common. Yet the United States is one of the largest agricultural exporters. One helpful concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7287&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House supports increase for Pentagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee approved this year&#8217;s defense authorization bill. The bill increases the Pentagon&#8217;s budget by $4 billion over the president&#8217;s request and sets Pentagon spending at $8 billion more than allowed in last August&#8217;s Budget Control Act. While Congress is moving to slash other programs in the name of deficit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7278&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lectionary Reflection for May 20, 2012 (Seventh Sunday of Easter)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Schmucker, MCC Ottawa Office Public Engagement Coordinator, reflects on the latest lectionary passages and the divisions we often make between &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;them.&#8221; This week’s lectionary passages are replete with what appear to be stark contrasts between “us” and “them”, and as such deserve careful consideration. “Happy are those whose … delight is in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7275&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter urges U.S. to join Mine Ban Treaty</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2012/05/09/letter-urges-u-s-to-join-mine-ban-treaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Mennonite Church USA have joined dozens of organizations in calling on the U.S. government to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. We write now to encourage you strongly to make a decision on future U.S. landmine policy as soon as possible, and to announce that the United States will accede [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7263&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Debt Arbitration</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2012/05/08/international-debt-arbitration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Kisare writes about the need for an international debt court in the latest Third Way Cafe. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are two of the largest sources of sovereign loans for low-income countries. While most of these loans are for poverty alleviation, the debt burdens they have created are themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7261&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Action alert: May 7 immigration call</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2012/05/03/action-alert-may-7-immigration-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tammy Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Join this call to hear more about private prisons and immigrant detention, the story of United Methodist Church divestment, and ways you can push back against the increasing influence of the private prison industry in policy and electoral matters. Monday, May 7, 2012, 4pm Eastern Time Call in number: 605-475-4800; code: 540390 Read the action [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7252&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 13, 2012 Lectionary Reflection</title>
		<link>http://washingtonmemo.org/2012/05/02/may-13-2012-lectionary-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesseeppfransen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg deGroot-Maggetti, of MCC Ontario, reflects on loving our neighbor in the latest lectionary reflection “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”  (John 15:12) It does not get more clear than that. Love of neighbour is central to what it means to be a follower of Jesus. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=washingtonmemo.org&#038;blog=3767563&#038;post=7249&#038;subd=washingtonmemo&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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