Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : World Neighbors

Jan. 9 issue

• 

  Kern

  On the invention of nations

  Talking with Palestinians in December, I was surprised they were taking the news so personally that the Republican front-runner at the time, Newt Gingrich, had said Palestinians were an “invented people.”

  I told them that the election was still a long way off and that the Republican front-runners kept changing.

Dec. 12, 2011 issue

• New bargain with a dictator

  Uzbekistan blipped on the radar for U.S. citizens in October when Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told an interviewer on the Christian Broadcasting Network it was an “insignificant” nation.

Nov. 21, 2011 issue

• This army isn’t the Lord’s

  When I want a better understanding of a geo­political situation with which I am unfamiliar, I first check what human rights organizations with a history of accurate documentation are reporting about it.

Oct. 10, 2011 issue

• What about the Palestinians?

  President Obama had nice things to say about people struggling violently and nonviolently for liberation in his Sept. 21 speech before the United Nations General Assembly, including the citizens of South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain.

Sept. 12, 2011 issue

• Where sacred meets profane

  In 2008, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in some Japanese anime (animated cartoon) series, to the point that I was spinning stories in my head featuring the series’ characters.

Aug. 8, 2011 issue

• Abuses in Honduras

  In 2009 I wrote about the coup in Honduras that deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and about the human rights abuses that followed. At the end of May, Zelaya returned to Honduras. Between 500,000 to 1.5 million Hondurans in red T-shirts came to the Tegucigalpa airport to welcome him.

June 13, 2011 issue

• Bombs in the marketplace

  HEBRON, West Bank — We heard the first explosion shortly after dinner. After the second explosion, a local shopowner called us, saying a man had been injured by a sound bomb.

May 9, 2011 issue

• Is the Earth a person too?

  In 2003 I saw a documentary, The Corporation, which explored the concept of “personhood” granted to U.S. corporations by the Supreme Court in the 19th century.

April 11, 2011 issue

• Unions’ struggle for justice

  March 25 marked the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in which 146 people — mostly young immigrant women — fell to their deaths or were burned alive because the owners of the factory had locked an exit door to discourage theft and installed a shoddy fire escape.

March 14, 2011 issue

• Mideast’s nonviolent change

  Those of us who believe in nonviolent social change have eagerly watched people in North Africa and the Middle East using nonviolent tactics to depose or challenge dictators over the last few weeks.

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