In Her Own Words – FINCA Haiti Client Bertride Beaufils As told to Glaphyra Guillaume, FINCA Haiti Communications Associate, and translated from Creole: “My name is Bertride Beaufils. I am 40 years old and live in Fonfred, a locality of Les Cayes. I grew up with my mother who was retailing fizzy [sodas], and my [...]
From Nation of Change by Jillian Kestler-D’amours 23 February 2012 FM Radio Spells Change, Success for Mid-East Women Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words “Nisaa FM: music, change, success” displayed prominently over her left shoulder. “The thing I love (most) in my program is when [...]
Dear Gabriel, Moses Bak’s* childhood friend faces imminent execution, but with your help, he can save her. She and two dozen North Korean refugees in China are in a terrifying limbo — the Chinese government wants to deport them back to North Korea, where the new “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-Un is cracking down by shooting [...]
Dear Gabriel, You have heard the stories on the news — Syrian cities are being besieged, and civilians are dying in droves at the hands of their own government. Just today, a U.S. journalist and a French photographer were killed while covering the violence in Homs. I want you to know that Amnesty International is [...]
Dear Friends, With each passing day, Syria’s crackdown on democracy protesters reaches new levels of horror – bombing crowded neighborhoods filled with innocent civilians, cutting off electricity and phones so families can’t call for help, and blocking medical aid to the wounded. But finally a flicker of hope is emerging that could stop the terror. [...]
From Nation of Change by Bill Moyers 18 February 2012 Freedom of and From Religion The president did something agile and wise the other day. And something quite important to the health of our politics. He reached up and snuffed out what some folks wanted to make into a cosmic battle between good and evil. [...]
Dear Gabriel, Behind closed doors in homes throughout California, more than 200,000 domestic workers — mostly women — work without the basic protections afforded almost every other worker. Sixteen percent of domestic workers have worked for no pay at all, cheated by their employers or receiving a bad check. Others work for more than 12 [...]
Dear Gabriel, Boiling with civic unrest, yesterday marked a dangerous flash point in Bahrain. Feb. 14 was the first anniversary of widespread protests against the government. The violent crackdown that followed those 2011 protests caused the country to slide into a crisis that still festers with human rights abuses. Yesterday, Bahraini protesters took to the [...]
From Nation of Change and Yes! Magazine by Madeline Ostrander The Biggest Fight of Our Time As one of the best-known writers on the world’s most dire environmental problem, climate change, Bill McKibben has long walked the razor’s edge between hope and fear. In 2010, he published Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New [...]
Dear friend, We have a historic opportunity in California. We can shut down the nation’s biggest and most expensive death penalty system, with 720 death row inmates and a $4 billion price tag. But to be successful, we need to gather 750,000 voter signatures by February 15 (today). We’re well on our way to gathering [...]
