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This side also has dreams • Este lado tambien hay sueños
This side also has dreams • Este lado tambien hay sueños

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The wind grates specks of dirt deeper into my skin as I sip my morning coffee and survey the devastation. I force my eyes away from the maquilas (maquiladoras?) directly in front of me and further into the horizon. The deep blues and reds comfort me that this is still a beautiful world despite humanity’s tendency toward depravity. I’m standing on top of one of Tijuana’s many hills with my back toward a playground where the laughter of children redirects my energy from hopelessness to love.

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El viento hace rozar partículas de suciedad en mi piel mientras me tomo mi café de la mañana y analizo la devastación. Fuerzo mis ojos más allá de las maquilas (¿maquiladoras?) directamente en frente de mí y aún más lejos en el horizonte. Los azules y rojos profundos me infunden el aliento de que este sigue siendo un mundo hermoso pesar de la tendencia de la humanidad hacia la depravación. Estoy de pie en la parte superior de una de las muchas colinas de Tijuana con la espalda hacia un parque infantil, donde la risa de los niños vuelve a dirigir mi energía de la desesperanza al amor.

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BPFNAMembers, Board, Mexico, Tijuana, Border Justice, MLK, MLK Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Equal Exchange, BFTP, Fair Trade
Moral March
Moral March

Many BPFNA members and Partner Congregations took place in a Moral March on February 8, 2014 in Raleigh to protest what many consider an extreme and regressive agenda within the North Carolina legislature. Long-time member Deborah Lynn made the trek from Tennessee to participate and shares her reflections here.

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BPFNANorth Carolina, HKonJ, Moral March, Members, Peacemakers
Food Security: A Casualty of War
Food Security: A Casualty of War

We can end hunger. What we lack is the political will. Children and adults go hungry in the world, not because we don’t have enough food, but because alleviating world hunger has not ranked high among the list of priorities of the rich nations of the world. This is not a human problem that we can’t figure out; it is not a disease that would require a revolution in agriculture or science. Those revolutions have already occurred. What is needed, as Martin Luther King, Jr. so accurately expressed 50 years ago, is a “revolution of values.”

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BPFNAFood security, Partners, Members, Hunger, War
The Pigment of Our Imagination
The Pigment of Our Imagination

As “white” parents of “black” children through transracial adoption, we have become quite aware of our skin privilege. We US Americans live in a country where browner bodies have less value than paler bodies, where a dark-skinned Marissa Alexander can be sentenced in Florida to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot in front of her abusive ex-husband; while a lighter-skinned George Zimmerman can pursue an unarmed dark-skinned teenager, provoke a confrontation, and shoot him to death and be found “not guilty”. This is the world into which we send our boys.

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BPFNABlack Lives Matter, Racial Justice, Partner Congregations, Members