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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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MCC's historical entanglements with National Socialism
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Justice and Equity
Location
Canada
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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Crying out for justice
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Justice and Equity
Location
Alabama
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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Undercurrents - Home
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Justice and Equity
Location
Ontario + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![In 2010, Mampuján community leader Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández displays a partially completed 10-year historic quilt project in Colombia celebrating the Mampuján community's past before they were disp](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COL10_01_0034.JPG.webp?itok=M4wg4W_t)
A journey of bold listening
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Peace, Justice and Equity
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![This mystery building, and the adjacent land, was the site of Henrietta Dismukes Hospital and Nurses’ Home, one of the largest privately owned African American hospitals in the country.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Henriette%20Dismuke%20Hospital%20Nurses%27%20Home.jpg.webp?itok=PewLr-p4)
History unveiled in Appalachia
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Justice and Equity
Location
West Virginia + 1 more
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Story
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Resorative Justice's birth in the Canadian legal system
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Justice and Equity
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
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Reclaiming life
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Justice and Equity
Location
Illinois + 1 more
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Story
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Today's scapegoats
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Justice and Equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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MCC Mass Incarceration Service Day draws more than 250 attendees
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Justice and Equity
Location
Pennsylvania
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Media Type
Story
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Prison care kits: Restoring hope, dignity and mental health
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Justice and Equity
Location
Pennsylvania
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Media Type
Story
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