The power of storytelling in advocacy
by Ken Ogasawara I hadn’t ever considered myself an “advocate” per se. Maybe I had always seen advocacy work suited for fiery, passionate people with loud voices and strong opinions.…
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“Inhabiting the Land: Seventy Years of MCC Work in Palestine and Israel”
by Alain Epp Weaver In 2019, MCC marks seven decades of relief, development and peacebuilding alongside Palestinians and Israelis. MCC’s work in Palestine and Israel began in response to the…
Abel Machaca: To be in the truth
This blog was originally published by MCC Latin America and the Caribbean (MCC LACA) on November 28, 2018. By Riley Mulhern “They’re afraid of us now,” he told me, although…
Refugee Resettlement: Where do we go from here?
by Brian Dyck None of us who work in refugee resettlement in Canada will forget 2015. The year started with an increase in the level of interest in refugee resettlement…
Advocacy: Action and reflection, no deportation required
By Anna Vogt I slipped out of the office over lunch for a brief twenty minutes a few weeks ago: down the elevator, out the building, and around the corner,…
The power of apology
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that his government would make a formal apology for Canada’s failure in 1939 to provide asylum to the 907 Jews who were fleeing Nazi…
$1.7 trillion
In 2016, global military spending amounted to a staggering $1.68 trillion. It likely won’t be surprising which countries topped the military-spending charts—that year, the U.S. and China clocked in at…
Canada and Martin Luther King Jr.
Fifty years ago today—April 4, 1968—Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. I was less than 3 months old at the time, so I have no recollection of…
