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In response to: NGO a go-go

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In response to: A young woman`s quest for a more peaceful world

Hi Joanne!

It was a pleasure to share this moment with you.
I discovered this article only yesterday when my boyfriend arrived smiling at home and gave me the pages of my first "interview"! My only hope is that it will be read and understood.

I need to give you some precisions about my quest. I am not looking for peace, I am looking for justice. As it is written in our desk in Bethlehem in big letters, "No peace without justice". Or it is the peace of oppression and despair, an appearance of peace which hides on long-term destruction and hatred. I believe that justice brings peace. I am not one of these pacifists which would do anything to reach peace and I totally agree with Gandhi when he said: if there would be choice only between war and submission to injustice, I prefer war.
One precision: I am translator and editor for Palestine News Network.
Hoping to get news from you soon, I send you and your students my best regards and I am convinced our roads will meet again, probably in the United States.
In peace

Aline

In response to: She works hard for no money...

Joanne:

So glad you all are doing the UN blog. It's a great way to keep the campus community up on what you're doing, and and asset to the TNT as a bit of community news we might not otherwise get.

Thanks for blogging.

Zeeck

In response to: InfoSud/The Human Rights Tribune

I'm really enjoying this blog, Joanne! It's so great to hear that PLU students are meeting important people and getting published around the world. Hope the rest of the journey goes well! -Roxanne

In response to: The UN becomes our classroom... One agency at a time.

Came across this on-line journal about my daughter Liz & her classmate's Geneva trip by accident. I enjoy your writing and it's nice to read another person's perspective about what Liz is doing in Geneva. The high heel stuck in the grate story was cute - but if I hadn't read the whole entry I would've sworn it was Liz's shoe that was stuck!
DR Lisosky you have some way cool glasses there, too.
Keep up the entries, I really enjoy reading them.

- Vicky Ferro

In response to: The World is Watching Geneva

Wow! What a terrific learning opportunity for students. As they're chasing down stories, they're also, no doubt, creating their own stories they'll have to tell for the rest of their lives.

In response to: Trams, boats and (just a few) automobiles

Great blog Joanne! Summer looks like a much more hospitable time in Geneva than January. And everyone looks like they are getting published.