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- By Vanessa Ortiz, special to PeaceTimes
(Read Part 1 here.)
Iltezam Morrar, Community Organizer, Budrus
“It was really amazing to meet all these women from Srebrenica who have worked together since 1995. They have been so active, every single month, year after year. They have done a great job of keeping the issue of truth and justice alive so that people around the world won’t forget about Srebrenica. Their work has spread to Tuzla, Sarajevo and other cities. Their lessons of organizing are important ones.”
At first sight, Iltezam’s tiny frame and …
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- By Vanessa Ortiz, special to PeaceTimes
(Read Parts 2 & 3)
What, you may wonder, do women from Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina have to learn from a young woman from a small village in the Palestinian West Bank? And what would that Palestinian activist have to learn from a youth organizer in Sarajevo? According to each of them . . . plenty!
In a hillside home in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, women organizers took time out to meet each other and share their knowledge and experience in nonviolent resistance and protest activism. …
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“Celebrate a day of peace, a month of peace, and the future of peace that will come just as soon as enough of us stand together for the power of love. Are you ready?”
This is our International Day of Peace (IDP) issue―and so much more! Our nation is marking 10 years since September 11, 2001, and DC is excited about the official dedication of the monumental Martin Luther King, Jr. statue (postponed for a few weeks by storms) and last week’s Tar …
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- by Mary Liston Liepold
OK, it’s out: I’m hungry for power. Now, do you think that makes me unpeaceful? Unwomanly?
If you do, you’re not alone. Many peace people, and especially many women, are uncomfortable with the idea of power―perhaps even afraid of it. Marianne Williamson says: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
The British historian Lord Acton famously decreed that power corrupts. That was in 1857. But in 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “Power at its …
