Voices from the Frontlines
Voices from the Frontlines are first-person reports on what is happening around the world, how it impacts women, and how women are building cultures of peace. We encourage submissions from everyone, including YOU!
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Stephannie Fox-Dixon
USA
Stand up for
what you believe in.
Stand up for
others–be true.
When others oppress,
repress, and digress,
believe in yourself–
see through.
No matter our faith,
our creed or our race,
we all need each other–
our sisters and brothers.
Let’s help one another
to see and discover
a path with a
life-size world-view.
Editor’s Note: Stephannie is one of the two high school students from Elkader, Iowa, who wrote winning essays about Abd el-Kader, the 19th century Muslim humanitarian for whom their town is named. Click on Read All Stories for more background.
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Sellina Kanyerere-Mkweteza
Malawi
The 2009 Presidential and Parliamentarian elections shook Malawi on the 19th May. I found myself waking up at 3 am to find myself a place in the line. At 6.00 am, the voting started. Slowly the lines moved towards the ballot boxes. My four year old daughter accompanied us. She was so eager to dip her index finger in the ink, but we convinced her that she would vote in the afternoon because all the children would vote during that time. Well, she is a kid, so parents are …
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Mary Liepold
USA
From our good friend David Crumm at Read the Spirit comes a story in the spirit of President Obama’s June 4 address to the Muslim world. Historian John W. Kiser (center) wrote a book about a Muslim hero, Emir Abd el-Kader. High school students in Elkader, Iowa, read the book and wrote essays about its subject. Here are excerpts from two of the best.
From Rebecca Roberts (pictured at right):
“Elkader is an odd name for a little town. It is especially odd for one in the middle of nowhere in …
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Yi Wang
China
To me as one of the new generation born in the 80s, the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 were an incident veiled and hidden in history. I finally satisfied my curiosity about the movement during my study-abroad period in France. Through the publications that I read and the videotapes recorded online that I watched, I became fully aware of what exactly happened back in 1989. Now I consider the student protesters as the ONE generation who truly possessed a sense of social responsibility for our nation.
Although the demonstration ended …
