Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment (SEPA)

06/27/2021

Summer 2021 SEPA newsletter:

09/30/2019

Un ejemplo: en San Pedro la Laguna, a poco más de 440 kilómetros de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, en Chiapas, vive una comunidad guatemalteca que decidió regresar a sus orígenes. Para ello, esta comunidad ha decidido cambiar las

12/20/2017

SEPA sponsored Guatemalan Accompanier Claire Bransky is just completing her 2nd month in Guatemala. Read her October - December blog posts.

Narratives create, mold, and give life to our experiences of the world. They give us power, fear, comfort, and a sense of community. Some narratives are silly in their absurdity, like that possessing...

12/03/2017

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Guatemalan Genocide Testimony Collection Language: English MORE CLIPS... Working with the La Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), a Guatemalan forensics organization, USC Shoah Foundation has launched a project to collect video testimonies of witnesses to the Guatemalan Genocide ...

09/05/2017

Join us for lunch and a talk from former Guatemalan accompanier.

09/04/2017

In a nation soaked in corruption, a president who ran as a reformer is under the spotlight.

09/01/2017

The August 2017 newsletter.

03/23/2017

Upcoming event sponsored by Oberlin Students in Solidarity with Guatemala.

03/06/2017

The speaker at SEPA's annual meeting spoke of his history working with the Lakota People. He ended his talk by reading the last few paragraphs of a speech by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations. Read the entire speech by clicking in the box below.
"Know that you yourself are essential to this world. Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this world. Did you think you were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life, there is no beginning and no ending."

I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened in America, what we call "Turtle Island."

01/20/2017

Urgent Action: Denounce the murder of Sebastián Alonso Juan, land defender from Huehuetenango

Dear William,

On January 17, 2017, Guatemalan human rights and land defender, Sebastián Alonso Juan, was murdered during a peaceful protest against the imposition of a hydroelectric megaproject consisting of three dams.

TAKE ACTION! Demand that Guatemalan authorities act swiftly to investigate and prosecute those responsible for this atrocious violent act.

Community members from the Ixquisis region of San Mateo Ixtatán, located in the north of Huehuetenango, held a peaceful demonstration against the construction of three dams by the company, Promoción y Desarrollos Hídricos, Sociedad Anónima (Promotion and Hydroelectric Development, LLC, also known by the abbreviation PDH, SA).

Representatives of the National Civil Police, PDH S.A.'s private security, and privately-contracted forest rangers were all armed and present on January 17 when shots were fired into the crowd of peaceful protesters and Sebastián Alonso Juan, an elderly participant, was killed.

Ancestral and community authorities gather in Santa Eulalia to pay their respects to Sebastián Alonzo Juan, killed on January 17, 2017.
The day of Juan's murder, NISGUA joined several other international and Guatemalan organizations in denouncing this murder, and calling for an end to the attacks against communities that defend human rights, life, and natural resources.

Your letters are important! Please take a moment to write to the offices of the Public Prosecutor and the Human Rights Ombudsman, requesting they take immediate action.

In solidarity,

David Imhoff
U.S. Operations & Programs Coordinator
with the entire NISGUA team: Becky, Bridget, Martha & Val

12/10/2016

A progressive perspective on world events since 1952.

12/02/2016

One of SEPA's friends at Oberlin College is becoming a human rights accompanier with NISGUA! Donate to her fundraiser here: https://igg.me/at/KQJr1TSbkgg

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