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Human Rights Commission, prose poem about the military coup in Chile by Gary Geddes

Human Rights Commission, prose poem about the military coup in Chile by Gary Geddes

With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: “No más pobres en un país rico” – No more poor people in a rich country.

While the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism.

Helen Peacock made this Rotary presentation on April 15, 2021, in Collingwood, Ontario.

The April 2021 volunteer spotlight features Mariafernanda Burgos, a Rotary Peace Fellow from Colombia.

Episode 19 of the World BEYOND War podcast is a unique roundtable discussion with five young emerging activists in five continents: Alejandra Rodriguez in Colombia, Laiba Khan in India, Mélina Villeneuve in UK, Christine Odera in Kenya and Sayako Aizeki-Nevins in USA.

Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.

El día de hoy, 21 de septiembre, equinoccio y día internacional de la Paz tuvimos un encuentro con el cofundador de la organización global World Beyond War y dos de sus directores, de España y de Nueva York.

A former Salvadoran army colonel who served as a government security minister has been sentenced to 133 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of five Spanish Jesuits who died in one of the infamous atrocities of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.