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10.18.05  Tuesdays Reflection

Recently I received a newsletter from Witness for Peace. I was a longterm

volunteer with WFP in Nicaragua for three years, 1992-5.

The first article caught my attention: Waging Peace is tougher than Waging

War. Recently, WFP "lost" each of their 3-year lobbying campaigns: to stop

the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA); to lift the US embargo on

Cuba; to end US military aid to Columbia.

CAFTA will expand the neoliberal trade model that ravages workers, the

environment and small farmers.

We also need to work to change our government's policies - it's a unique

part of the work for justice that is ours to do. And we must keep at it,

despite the difficulty.

As witnesses for peace, we are called to stand courageous - even in these

turbulent times - committed to nonviolence, committed to see and understand

the world from the perspective of the poor and oppressed.