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Annual Rice and Beans Dinner
Witness for Peace Southeast invites you to join us for an evening of dancing, food, and fun! Come out for a delicious rice and beans dinner and stick around for some great entertainment and information about Latin America. The Rice and Beans Fundraiser will support the work of Witness for Peace Southeast and help us work towards our mission of peace, justice, and sustainable economies in the Americas. Your support will enable us to continue bringing delegations to Latin America, lead a speaker's…
Find out more »Fall Speaker’s Tour – Until We Find Them!: The Struggle Against Forced Disappearances in Mexico
Witness for Peace Southeast is excited to announce the Fall Speaker's Tour featuring Nadín Reyes Maldonado, a Mexican human rights defender who founded the Committee of Family Members of the Disappeared and Detained ‘Until We Find Them.’ The number of forced disappearances in Mexico has gone up dramatically since 2007 when the drug war started through the Mérida Initiative. As Mexico has become more militarized, there has been increase in human rights violations. Nadín will be linking these issues of…
Find out more »Fair Trade Teen Delegation to Nicaragua
Join Witness for Peace Southeast's Annual Teen Delegation to Nicaragua! Witness for Peace has a long history of leading delegations to Nicaragua. The WFP Southeast region has led youth delegations to Nicaragua every summer for 20 years. Nicaragua is an ideal destination for youth who want to experience a different culture and way of living. It is a peaceful and beautiful country with abundant natural resources. It is also the poorest country in Central America. U.S. policies and corporate practices…
Find out more »Delegation to Colombia to Support a Just and Inclusive Peace Process
2016 Delegation to Colombia to Support a Just and Inclusive Peace Process Despite a historic peace accord, progressive social movements in Colombia advocate for a more integral understanding of peace: sustainable peace with justice, the deconstruction of systems of inequality, impunity, and injustice. It is time to respond to Colombian peoples’ request for international support and verification, through a large Witness for Peace delegation to Colombia in September. We will focus on: • Understanding the peace process, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as…
Find out more »SOA Watch Border Mobilization
SOA Watch is heading to Nogales, Arizona/Sonora October 7-10 for its first Border Mobilization. More details will be posted on the event facebook page.
Find out more »Delegation to Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Fair Trade Teen Delegation Witness for Peace has a long history of leading delegations to Nicaragua. The WFP Southeast region has led youth delegations to Nicaragua every summer for over 20 years. Nicaragua is an ideal destination for youth who want to experience a different culture and way of living. It is a peaceful and beautiful country with abundant natural resources. It is also the poorest country in Central America. U.S. policies and corporate practices have contributed to this…
Find out more »Delegation to Colombia
Join us in Colombia this summer as we accompany threatened communities and learn about the effects of U.S. policy What does organizing between the U.S. and Colombia look like? As the peace accords are implemented in Colombia and the Trump administration in the U.S. carries out controversial policies against its citizens, Colombian and U.S. citizens have begun to notice parallels across borders. Attacks and discrimination against activists and human rights defenders are increasing in both countries, especially when it comes…
Find out more »SOA Watch at the Border
Join us as we caravan to Nogales for the annual convergence to demand a change in US policies in Latin America!
Find out more »Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace 2018
A six-day pilgrimage across eight North Carolina communities to Voice our Welcome to Immigrants and Refugees; To Stand in Solidarity with The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Sanctuary Movement in Support of All Undocumented People and To Restore the Dream Act (DACA). Raleigh, N.C. – Witness for Peace Southeast will hold its 32th annual Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace during Holy Week, March 25-30. The pilgrimage begins in Asheville on Palm Sunday and makes its way across the state with stops in Morganton, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Graham, Chapel Hill, Durham…
Find out more »International Day for Peace in Colombia
Despite the ratification of peace accords in Colombia, human rights defenders are being killed in Colombia in a rate unprecedented in the last ten years. On August 7th organizations across the globe are holding are a variety of events in solidarity with Colombia to highlight the current situation and call for peace. Join us on August 7th from 6 to 8 pm at Umstead Park United Church of Christ in Raleigh, NC to learn more about the history of US…
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