About the Mid-Atlantic Region
Witness for
Peace Mid-Atlantic is a grassroots regional organization dedicated to transforming the US policies that thwart justice and peace in Latin America. The region
includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
and Washington, DC. We, like national Witness for Peace,
are politically independent, committed to nonviolence and led by faith and
conscience.
We aim to broaden and deepen awareness in the Mid-Atlantic of how US economic, military, and corporate policies concretely impact the people of Latin America. Using the power of firsthand education, we bring Mid-Atlantic people to Latin America on transformative delegations and bring Latin American speakers to the Mid-Atlantic on truth-telling tours. In addition, we publish newsletters, host teach-ins and organize annual retreats.
We then aim to mobilize the Mid-Atlantic to speak and act for change in those US policies that perpetuate the cycle of military and economic violence in Latin America. Through vigils, letters to the editor, lobbying drives, and direct action, we act on behalf of, and in conjunction with, our Latin American partners clamoring for justice.
Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee
Julia Graff, Chair
Washington, DC
jmgraff@gmail.com
New York: Pennsylvania:
Gil Ortiz, Treasurer Andy Mills, Vice Chair
Brooklyn, NY Lower Gwynedd, PA
gilkathleen@verizon.net helenandymills@comcast.net
Tom F. Driver Serafina Youngdahl, Secretary
New York, NY Glenmoore, PA
tfd3@colombia.edu serafina3333@yahoo.com
Nancy Gwin Barry Stoner
Syracuse, NY Elizabethtown, PA
ngwin@twcny.rr.com bstoner@philhaven.org
Lauren Dasse Lawrence R. McCarty
Queens, NY Fort Washington, PA
lkdasse@yahoo.com LRMccarty@hotmail.com
Lenore McGarry Ray Torres
Ithaca, NY Philadelphia, PA
lenore.mcgarry@gmail.com raytorres2@verizon.net
Maryland:
Francisco Acosta
Wheaton, MD
paco.acosta@verizon.net