Spring is turning into summer here in Chiapas.  We're gearing up to receive our summer volunteers who will work in areas ranging from permaculture agriculture to health education for indigenous women. There are many experiences and skills volunteers acquire through the Peace House and their time in Chiapas.

One aspect we're currently putting emphasis on is creating and facilitating workshops.  Recently volunteers have created, faciliated and attended workshops for Peace House volunteers and local communities on conflict mediation, immigration issues, globalization, water privatization, militarization and strategies of resistence, the situation of the Navajo people in Arizona, fundraising,  technology politics and nanotechnologies, autonomous projects in Chiapas, bike mechanics, book making and privilege and international solidarity. 

In coming months we will organize these materials and resources to make them publically available through our website with the hope that you will share this information with your friends and community!  In this newsletter volunteers write on immigration and the teachers and health workers strike, themes that have been important this month in Chiapas.   

Contents 

• Announcements
• CPHP Program Development Intern
• New Volunteer Opportunity: Casa Comunitaria
• New Volunteer Opportunity: Sierra Norte Oaxaca
• Welcome New Board Member: Susan Lightfoot Schemphf
• News and Analysis
• Revolutionary Soccer
• Recent Strike by Teachers, Health Care Professionals, and Campesinos
• Immigration Issues from a Southern Perspective
• Reflection
• Encountering Racism