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January 28, 2011

Women Lead Latin America’s Anti-Militarization Movements

by Laura Carlsen, Toward Freedom, USA - From Feminists in Resistance who joined to fight the coup in Honduras, to the mothers of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, it’s the terrible violence sown by strategies of confrontation and militarism that has motivated women to mobilize on behalf of peace and democracy. Their own experiences compel them to act.

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