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    April 11th, 2013

    CAP CONGRATULATES MARCELA ZAMORA

    CAP CONGRATULATES MARCELA ZAMORA

    The Quaker Peace Center heartily congratulates Marcela Zamora, treasurer of the board of CAP, for the success of the three large protests she and the Comite Patriotico Nacional organized to save the EBAIS contract with the University of Costa Rica.  The EBAIS are regional clinics, located over the whole country, and are part of the [...]

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    April 10th, 2013

    MEDIA WELCOME FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS

    MEDIA WELCOME FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS

    The Quaker Peace Center was happy to sponsor the visit of Father Roy Bourgeois and the SOAW delegation with Mary Anne Peronne, Lisa Sullivan, and Robert Nixon, March 13-15, to protest Costa Rica’s sending of police to WHINSEC, current name of the School of the Americas, SOA, for military training.  Although President, Laura Chinchilla and Minister of [...]

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    March 10th, 2013

    SAY PEACE

    SAY PEACE

    SAY PEACE WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 5 PM Auditorium of the Faculty of Education, UCR STOP THE SENDING OF COSTARICAN POLICE TO THE SCHOOL OF MILITARY TRAINING IN FORT BENNING, GEORGIA, USA SOAW – GRADUATE WOMENS’ STUDIES – QUAKER PEACE CENTER THURSDAY MARCH 14, 10:30-1:30 PM The Esplanada of the Tribunales of Justice – San Jose [...]

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    January 28th, 2013

    AMBASSADOR OF PALESTINE IN CR

    The Friends Peace Center extends a welcome to Costa Rica’s new non-resident Ambassador Riyadh Mansour from Palestine.  He also serves as the ambassador of Palestine to the United Nations. Some CAP members were able to meet with the ambassador on January 12 to hear of his plans for his country. This article is available in Spanish. [...]

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    January 24th, 2013

    Isabel Macdonald invited to Japan

    Isabel Macdonald invited to Japan

     Isabel Macdonald,  member of the Friends Peace Center – Centro de Amigos para la Paz (CAP) is honored with an invitation to travel to Japan to speak at a conference, share experiences and meet with parliamentarians on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war. As one of the organizers of the First Latin American Conference [...]

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    December 8th, 2012

    PETITION for HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

    PETITION for HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

    Dear Friends, Monday Dec.10 is HUMAN RIGHTS DAY and Isabel Macdonald in Washington , DC urges us to sign the following petition for a nuclear rights activist. Please open the link and sign to participate in this important cause. http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-attorney-general-don-t-impose-death-sentence-on-82-year-old-nun-and-peacemaker

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    December 6th, 2012

    Roberto Zamora, a Tico in Gaza

    Roberto Zamora, a Tico in Gaza

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Español.

  • News

    November 13th, 2012

    Anounced activity at Fort Benning‏

    Anounced activity at Fort Benning‏

    -Nov.16-18: Speakers at the Gates of Fort Benning, Georgia de SOA Watch, el El Lunes, 5 de noviembre de 2012 a la(s) 14:44 · From November 16-18, 2012, thousands of human rights activists, torture survivors, anti-war veterans, students, families, union workers, artists, and others will converge at Fort Benning, Georgia, to call for an end [...]

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    October 26th, 2012

    Elections Concerns: Wars, Fear, Hate

    On the eve of the US elections, Carolyn Charter, a member of Peace Watch and of CAP, has written about our concerns no matter who wins the elections.  The dominance of the US is a concern for the whole world. Carolyn writes: It has come to our attention that whoever becomes President of theUnited States [...]

  • CAP Authors

    October 1st, 2012

    CAP’s Raynier Ureña on Humanism

    CAP’s Raynier Ureña on Humanism

    Raynier Ureña is a member of CAP and former webmaster of our website. He has worked with the well known group Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica. Here he contributes the first publication in his personal blog To Think is Humanism. In it he defends indigneous territories for its people and its natural gifts. The [...]

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    September 22nd, 2012

    PEACEMAKER IRENE MENSALVAS LIVED TO 108

    PEACEMAKER IRENE MENSALVAS LIVED TO 108

    Irene Mensalvas was a friend many of us remember well and always cherished when she lived in Costa Rica in the 80s and 90s. She was a lifetime Quaker and contributor to CAP, and a frequent contributor to the LIMPAL, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, in Costa Rica. When she reached 100, in [...]

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    September 22nd, 2012

    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    Article and photo courtesy of the Tico Times On the 25th anniversary of the Central American Peace Treaty, Martha Honey, longtime friend of CAP, wrote to the Tico Times commemorating the event.  Her husband Tony Avirgan was wounded in the press conference at La Penca, and it became a story which they spent years uncovering [...]

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    September 18th, 2012

    Caravan for Peace Justice and Dignity

    Caravan for Peace Justice and Dignity

    CAP supports the Caravan going to Washington DC on the 12th of September in commemoration of the victims of the war on drugs.

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    August 24th, 2012

    PETITION vs. RADIOACTIVE URANIUM WEAPONS

    PETITION vs. RADIOACTIVE URANIUM WEAPONS

    The San José, Costa Rica, Quaker Peace Center, along with the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW), the Women´s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Veteran´s for Peace (VFP) is collecting signatures to pressure the Obama Administration regarding upcoming 4th Resolution at the United Nations First Committee this coming October, regarding the [...]

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  • Events, Speakers Presentation: SOAW Delegation to Ecuador

    Join us next Friday 29 June at 3:00pm for a ...

  • Letters Letter to President Chinchilla: Alert about Militarization of the Police

    This article is only available in Spanish

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