Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Washington Witness

Jan. 9 issue

• Land stolen from the poor

  Multinational corporations and foreign governments are acquiring large amounts of agricultural land, prompting conflicts and controversies globally.

July 11, 2011 issue

• Sudan’s risk of another war

  Sudan has a long history of war. Out of the many conflicts in the country’s past, two prolonged civil wars stand out. The first broke out in 1962 and ended in 1972 when a peace agreement was signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Identifying conflict minerals

  On July 21, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. While much of the nation paid attention to the sweeping financial reform for which the bill was intended, lost in the conversation was the hidden provision that many faith groups supported, including Mennonite Central Committee.

Nov. 29, 2010 issue

• Haiti shows system’s failure

  In my most recent travel to Haiti, I heard a variation of the following statement by many of Mennonite Central Committee’s partners: “We hear about the millions [of dollars], but the roads are still broken.”

July 5, 2010 issue

• Congo’s bittersweet birthday

  This summer, the Democratic Republic of Congo turns 50. In 1960, Belgium abruptly transferred its colonial keys and declared Congo independent.

Jan. 4, 2010 issue

• Women: face of HIV/AIDS

  The toll on women and girls presents Africa and the world with a practical and moral challenge, which places gender at the centre of the human condition. The practice of ignoring gender analysis has turned out to be lethal.

July 6, 2009 issue

• Congo’s conflict minerals

  The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the foreigner without redress. And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. — Ezekiel 22:29-30

May 25, 2009 issue

• Random acts of gun violence

  A few weeks ago, as I waited for a bus in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown, five teenagers — three girls and two boys — clashed over a tacky, pink and silver backpack.

Dec. 22, 2008 issue

• A weapon that kills civilians

  Suraj Ghulam Habib, 17, of Afghanistan lost both his legs when he found a cluster bomb that he mistook for a can of food. He and five members of his family were walking home from a picnic when the bomb exploded. Suraj’s cousin was killed instantly, and everyone else was injured by the blast.

Nov. 24, 2008 issue

• Modern-day prodigal sons

  You’ve probably heard a version of this story before:

  A rich businessman wrote his will, dividing his wealth equally between his two sons. The younger son, a worldly lad, asked his father for his share immediately, and the kind father consented.

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