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Billie Greenwood

Billie Greenwood

An activist for justice and peace, I divide my time between the Midwest US and the US/Mexico border. Now retired from paid employment, I volunteer for nonprofit agencies that allow me to stand on the margins of society with the marginated. Interests include voluntary simplicity, economic justice, migration and immigration issues, and homelessness.

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Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student (...)

Sixteen Mexicans, most of them teens, were gunned down at a high school party by multiple, heavily armed killers, who reportedly filed away in silence last weekend. A horrified world viewed photos of Sunday morning streets running red with innocent blood. (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | | Billie Greenwood

Worse than nothing: New bipartisan proposal blocks immigration reform

Worse than nothing: New bipartisan proposal blocks immigration (...)

Taking a "tough on illegal immigration" stance appeal to elected officials who are eager to please constituents. But simplistic solutions to complex problems are almost always wrong. Yesterday Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) along with several (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | | Billie Greenwood

Glenn Weyant at work

Turning Borders into Music: A Magical Transformation Project

In a work he calls The Anta Project, Weyant transforms the U.S.-Mexico border wall into a musical instrument using, as he says: "a cello bow and implements of mass percussion." He literally uses that cello bow to make avant garde music from the (...)

26 Oct. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Honduran resistance to Military Coup Government

The Beginning of the Fall of the Hondruan Military Coup

Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists, and people in general, is outside the Embassy of Brazil. Inside the embassy, (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

CCC Food Pantry

Hunger in the Heartland: Reflections from our neighborhood food (...)

The US Department of Ag’s figures in May broke a record: 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program of aid to low-income people. Now one out of every nine Americans qualifies for "food stamps." That’s an increase of (...)

3 Sep. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Priest and Activist Arrested While Praying at US-MX Border

Priest and Activist Arrested While Praying at US-MX Border

This news story is about one of the most wonderful human beings I’ve ever met: John Heid. I’m proud to call him my friend. A Catholic priest and a peace activist were arrested yesterday morning during a prayer vigil at a virtual fence (...)

10 Aug. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

New, Notable Info about Mexican Migration to the US

New, Notable Info about Mexican Migration to the US

Some surprising new facts I discovered in this week’s news Regarding how many Mexicans are coming: The number of Mexican immigrants entering the US has fallen sharply. It has hit a 10-year low (in the 12 months ending in March 2009). Regarding how (...)

24 Jul. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Testamony of a Honduran Protester: Why she still believes in a free Honduras

Testamony of a Honduran Protester: Why she still believes in a free (...)

TESTIMONY OF WENDY CRUZ OF THE HONDURAN PEASANT MOVEMENT Sisters and brothers of the World, I write this testimony with my eyes full of tears and a sadden heart after an intensive day of struggle with my sisters and brothers of Honduras. I am a woman (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | Billie Greenwood

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> Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire detained by US Homeland Security

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by Billie Greenwood (xxx.xxx.xxx.49) 2 June 2009 14:34

Author’s note: Maguire’s detention in Houston occurred in mid-May. (There was a slight delay in publication of this post.)

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> 11th Hour Reprieve Today for One Mile of Planet Earth

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by Billie Greenwood (xxx.xxx.xxx.204) 27 March 2009 00:16

Critics are not opposed to the removal of carrizo, but rather, to the proposed methodology.

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