{"id":24,"date":"2015-10-09T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-10-09T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:33:19","slug":"lowcountry-peace-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/lowcountry-peace-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowcountry Peace Speaker November 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Lowcountry Peace on November 9 (time TBA) for a visit <a href=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nadin-Reyes_140x193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Nadin-Reyes_140x193.jpg\" alt=\"Nadin Reyes_140x193\" width=\"140\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>by Nad\u00edn Reyes Maldonado, a Mexican human rights defender who founded the Committee of Family Members of the Disappeared and Detained &#8216;Until We Find Them&#8217; (see bio and more information below). The number of forced disappearances in Mexico has gone up dramatically since 2007 when the drug war started through the M\u00e9rida Initiative.\u00a0<!--more--> As Mexico has become more militarized as a result of U.S. funding, there has been increase in human rights violations. Nad\u00edn will be linking these issues of militarization, drug policy, and free trade agreements in which the US plays a major role to the 27,000 forced disappearances that have taken place over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/desaparecidos_460x290.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/desaparecidos_460x290-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"desaparecidos_460x290\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/desaparecidos_460x290-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/desaparecidos_460x290.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nad\u00edn Reyes Maldonado became a human rights defender in May 2007 when her father Edmundo Reyes Amaya and his friend Gabriel Alberto Cruz S\u00e1nchez were forcibly disappeared by the Mexican government. Although she had studied education and was working as a teacher, she soon found that searching for her father and for justice in the case, supporting other family members of disappeared, raising consciousness about the issue, and advocating for preventive laws and measures had not only become a political and personal mission, but also a full time commitment. In order to continue, she founded Comit\u00e9 de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos Hasta Encontrarlos (in English, Committee of Family Members of the Disappeared and Detained &#8216;Until We Find Them&#8217;) a mere month after her father&#8217;s forced disappearance. Today the organization, which is made up of four women &#8211; all relatives of forcibly disappeared &#8211; continue their work of reporting, raising consciousness, documenting, and providing support to other family members of detained and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact thinkingpeople(at)comcast.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Lowcountry Peace on November 9 (time TBA) for a visit by Nad\u00edn Reyes Maldonado, a Mexican human rights defender who founded the Committee of Family Members of the Disappeared and Detained &#8216;Until We Find Them&#8217; (see bio and more information below). The number of forced disappearances in Mexico has gone up dramatically since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/lowcountry-peace-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lowcountry Peace Speaker November 9<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}