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Report by a feminist journalist from the US-Mexico Border #1

by Margie Thompson | July 31, 2018 | Immigration, Independent journalism, Mexico-US border, United States | 0 Comments

By Kathy Bougher Kathy Bougher is a journalist, correspondent for ESCRIBANA, feminist activist, and educator who has traveled throughout Central America working with women’s groups in the region on reproductive rights and other social justice issues. She spent several...

Immigrant women in sanctuary demand that state and federal officials listen to their voices

by Margie Thompson | April 1, 2018 | Immigration, Independent journalism, United States | 0 Comments

By Margie Thompson, ESCRIBANA In honor of International Women’s Day 2018, four immigrant women in sanctuary in Colorado united their voices virtually via video in an historic encounter across the miles to launch the People's Resolution: Creating a Path Forward on...

Gaia & Yara

by Margie Thompson | August 19, 2019 | Independent journalism, Centro Comunitário de Buceo Embajadores y Embajadoras del Mar, Costa Rica, Life lessons | 0 Comments

by Tara Roberts Her name is Gaia, and she is the mother. Her name is Yara, and she is the daughter. Mother and daughter have a symbiotic, close, complicated relationship. Their love for the ocean is one of the things that binds them together. The mother wanted to be a...

Puerto Rico: Majority of legal complaints in “post Hurricane María” devastation based on gender violence

by Margie Thompson | October 27, 2017 | Puerto Rico, Climate change, Health & reproductive rights, Independent journalism, Violence Against Women | 0 Comments

María Suárez Toro ESCRIBANA October 19, 2017 442 cases of requests for protection orders for gender violence under Law 54 have been filed since Hurricane María hit the island on September 20, 2017. Women activists are stepping forward in support of women in...

A Child’s Wish: Listening to Children’s Voices in the Immigrant Rights Movement

by Margie Thompson | June 4, 2016 | Immigration, Independent journalism | 0 Comments

It is my wish…that my mom will always be with me…that our family can stay together…that my dad could be with me again…. that I don’t have to be afraid anymore… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtEOWz0WL0U&feature=youtu.be "A Child's Wish," a PSA from the "This...

Songwriter Guadalupe Urbina will be Back on Stage

by María Suarez Toro | Jan 16, 2023

Guanacaste singer-songwriter Guadalupe Urbina returns to the stage this January 20, 2023 at Teatro Auditorio Nacional Children's Museo Nacional in San José, Costa Rica, She appears...

Guadalupe Urbina Dramatizes Character “Mama Agua” in Musical Show in Costa Rica, “CONTRAMAREA”

by María Suarez Toro | Jan 6, 2023

María Suarez Toro, Escribana and Oceana January 5, 2023 The character “Mama Agua” in the musical CONTRAMAREA, soon to be presented in Costa Rica’s Teatro Auditorio Nacional en el Museo de Niñas y Niños, will be dramatized by singer/songwriter Guadalupe...

Guadalupe Urbina Dramatiza Personaje “Mama Agua” en Obra Musical de Teatro CONTRAMAREA

by María Suarez Toro | Jan 6, 2023

María Suárez Toro, Escribana y Oceana5 de enero, 2023 El personaje “Mama Agua” en la obra musical de teatro CONTRAMAREA, próximamente en las tablas en Costa Rica, será dramatizado por la cantautora Guadalupe Urbina de MADREMONTE y el naciente proyecto en...

Embajadores del mar: Una juventud comprometida con el cambio

by María Suarez Toro | Sep 19, 2020

Dar el ejemplo, afianzar el sentido de comunidad, y ver a los jóvenes como motor de cambio Artículo por Sol Valls El Centro Comunitario de Buceo y Embajadores del Mar es una organización social sin fines de lucro de Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, fundada en 2014 por...

Ambassadors of the sea: Youth committed to change

by María Suarez Toro | Sep 18, 2020

Giving the example, strengthening the sense of community and sea, the youth are an engine of change Article by Sol VallsThe Community Center for Diving and Ambassadors of the Sea is a non-profit social organization of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, founded in 2014 by local...