Nonviolent Witness

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From our friends at the National Religious Campaign Against Torture:

Despite significant opposition from groups across the political spectrum (far left to far right) and a concerted effort by those of us in the faith community, Senate and House negotiators have drafted a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act that includes specific authorization for the use of long-term indefinite detention without trial. Both supporters and opponents of this provision have even argued that it would allow for the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens captured in the United States who are merely suspected of being affiliated with a terrorist group.

Preamble

How long, O God, will they steal our livelihood? Oppress, imprison and humiliate our people?Deprive our children of their childhood? Indeed how long, God, will the multitudes of Christians of the world ignore the anguish of our Palestinian sisters and brothers and all of the oppressed?

“Come and see,” said the Christians of Palestine. “Come and see the olive groves, the bulldozers, the ancient terraces, the segregated cities. The situation is worsening.”

More than 60 participants from 15 countries heeded an urgent call by Kairos Palestine. On 4-­10 December 2011; they joined Palestinians in the Kairos for Global Justice Encounter/Conference in Bethlehem.

by Shannan Vance-Ocampo

"Guillermo de Jesús Ariza."

That was the name on the cross that I was given to carry at the School of the Americas Vigil last weekend.   The SOA research team writes this about the massacre that Guillermo was killed in thirteen years ago:

“On 11 November 1988 heavily armed men drove in trucks into the center of Segovia, opened fire and threw grenades indiscriminately, killing 43 people, including three children, and wounding over 50 others. The regular garrisons of the police and military (belonging to the Batallón Bomboná of the 16th Brigade) stood by while the killers moved freely through the town for over an hour.

An Overture to the 220th General Assembly for Your Session to Consider

On Responding to the Call from Palestinian Christians for Economic Solidarity

March 23 – Compassion Peace and Justice Training Day

“Presbyterians and Economic Justice”

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC