By Gina Spigarelli, FOR Colombia Team Member I have been back in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó for a couple of weeks now, but in some ways it seems like I never left. The stresses of life in the city were effortlessly exchanged for those in the jungle:...
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Reflections from FOR Colombia peace accompaniers
Posted by FOR Colombia Monday, September 10, 2012, 6:02pm
Stepping up your nonviolence: volunteer and training opportunities
By FOR “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (based on “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” from Stride Toward Freedom) Join the FOR Colombia Peace Team “I’ve been doing political work or solidarity work for most of my life, and...
Winds of Peace in Colombia and the Fate of Paramilitary Structures
By Susana Pimiento On August 27, the buzz about the peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist FARC guerrillas grew exponentially, as Telesur reported early in the morning that an initial agreement has been reached to start a dialogue that would...
Urgent action for safety of a Colombia Peace Community
By FOR Threatening phone calls. Illegal detentions. And a family’s home burned down. That’s what members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia have had to face just in the past month. Join us in calling on the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia to demand a...
“When I die, it will be here for someone else”
By John Lindsay-Poland Interview with Peace Community Farmers By Dominque Aulisio The end of April marks my first month here in the Peace Community of San José of Apartadó, where I will be living for the next year as a peace accompanier with FOR. My first weeks here...
Colombia: Take action to protect peace community
By FOR Colombia “We have always said, and in that we are clear, that until this very day we are resisting. And our work is to continue resisting and defending our rights. We don’t know until when, because the truth we’ve lived in our story is this: today we are here...
Will you help people protecting people in Colombia?
By FOR Colombia “The meaning of words like perseverance, humility, and accompaniment sunk in deeply during my months with the families of San José de Apartadó, as together we earnestly and imperfectly sought to protect one another.” Chris Moore-Backman,...