Join us for the spring DJPC potluck! This a great opportunity to share with our community of activist dedicated to educate and advocate for human rights in Latin America. Bring a dish, engage in a conversation about foreign affairs and peace building, and enjoy the company of fellow social justice-oriented folk. Bring your musical instruments! … Continue reading Spring Pot Luck. Fiesta de traje de Primavera
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Thank you 2016 builders!
Thank you to our Builders & Supporters! DJPC would like to thank our great team of builders, Lynn Farquhar, Connie Curtis, Steve & Gloria Piper, James Chaney and Rebeca Zúniga-Hamlin for coming out on Saturday May 21 to Build for Peace. The worked at Family Tree House of Hope, a shelter for women and their … Continue reading Thank you 2016 builders!
«Rana Plaza and the Fight for Safe Factories in the Global Garment Industry»
DJPC Salon Discussion: May 19th at 7:00 PM On April 24, 2013, 1,129 garment workers in Bangladesh who were making clothes for foreign brands such as Benetton and Wal-Mart died when the building they were working in collapsed. Though it was hardly the first industrial accident in the country’s garment sector, Rana Plaza was by … Continue reading «Rana Plaza and the Fight for Safe Factories in the Global Garment Industry»
Build for Peace 2016. Call for volunteers!
It is time to Build for Peace: calling builders! «You don’t get what you don’t ask for. Ask!» John Proctor Build-for-Peace 2016 Saturday May 21, 2016 From 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Build-for-Peace is a fundraiser that keeps DJPC alive and well in order to do the real work we want to do: solidarity with the peoples … Continue reading Build for Peace 2016. Call for volunteers!
The Social Psychology of «Us vs Them» Climate Change Messages
DJPC Salon Discussion with: Maria Talero This was an interactive mini-workshop on key lessons from social psychology that apply both to the climate crisis and the struggle for social justice. The punchline: we are deeply prone to «us vs them» thinking and other cognitive biases, and we selectively ‘filter’ information in a way that conforms to our … Continue reading The Social Psychology of «Us vs Them» Climate Change Messages
Honoring immigrants from the past… “To have a better life”
Reconociendo a los inmigrantes del pasado… “una mejor vida” Salon Discussion/Conversatorio On March 17 we had an inspiring group of students from the 5th grade of McGlone Elementary in Denver tell us about how they learned about their own history of migration to the US after they interviewed their mothers and fathers about their journey … Continue reading Honoring immigrants from the past… “To have a better life”
Zika in Central America a public health problem and a feminist challenge.
a conversation about Zika with Maria Hamlin Zúniga a Public Health Specialist with 48 years of experience in Central America, living and working in Guatemala y Nicaragua in Comprehensive Community health programs. Founding member of the Regional Committee for Community Health in Mesoamerica and the People’s Health Movement in Latin America and globally. If … Continue reading Zika in Central America a public health problem and a feminist challenge.
Planning Day: January 30th
«…we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children’s futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.» ~ Lois Gibbs DJPC is your organization, come plan 2016 and direction of our solidarity work with the peoples of Latin America! Saturday, January 30th, … Continue reading Planning Day: January 30th
Salon Discussion January 2016
Solidarity with the peoples of Ayotzinapa:a conversation with Ismael Netzahualtl. Solidaridad con el pueblo de Ayotzinapa:conversando con Ismael Netzahualt. Thursday January 21 2016/ Jueves 21 de Enero del 2016 7-8:30 PM @ Highlands United Methodist church community Hall 3131 Osceola Street Free parking in church lot at 32nd & Osceola and on street. Estacionamiento gratuito. … Continue reading Salon Discussion January 2016
Holiday Potluck
Friday, December 4th, 2015 6:30 – 8:30 PM Capital Heights Presbyterian Church 1100 Fillmore St. Denver, CO. 80206 (Enter through alley door off E. 11th Ave.) See all your DJPC friends! Meet lots of new members! Enjoy delicious food! Sign some new justice and peace holiday songs! Contribute to our work, buy an item from … Continue reading Holiday Potluck