From the Associated Press: About 30 troops will start their jobs on the border Monday, and waves of more troops will be deploying every Monday until all 532 are expected to be on the Arizona border by the end of September. In May, Obama ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the border.…
On Sept. 25-27, advocates will gather in Washington, DC, to call for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. Mountaintop removal has already destroyed over 500 of the world’s oldest mountains and more than 2,000 miles of streams, and has contaminated our nation’s waters. Appalachia Rising strives to unite coalfield residents and organizations with…
From the Houston Chronicle: Attorney Elizabeth Mendoza Macias, who has practiced in Houston for 17 years, said she had cases for several clients dismissed during the past month and eventually called DHS to find out what was going on. She said she was told by a DHS trial attorney that 2,500 cases were under review…
taking from one program benefitting low-income families to pay for another makes no sense and diminishes the effectiveness of the Medicaid and education systems to alleviate poverty or help low-income households.
25,000 civilians in Southern Sudan’s Western Equatoria state have fled due to fear of the Lord’s Resistance Army. IRIN reports that the LRA are: blamed for some 200 deaths in the state in 2009. Two of the state’s administrative districts or payams – Sangua and Basukangbi – had no inhabitants at all when UN agencies…
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Mary Stata writes for PeaceSigns about steps the U.S. can take to prevent violent conflict around the world: “‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,’ the old saying goes. Adages about the merits of prevention abound, urging action before a dilemma or problem develops. Despite the prevalence of these truisms, our government…
In my travel to Haiti last week our group met with Jean Valéry Vital-Herne, the national coordinator for Défi Michée (Micah Challenge, Haiti), which represents Haitian protestant churches and works to eradicate poverty. Valéry spoke to us about his vision to see the church active in advocating for social, economic and political change in Haiti. His…
MCC Washington Memo 