In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
"From independence in 1821, an event led by the country's elite, an authoritarian state was created that excluded the majority of Guatemalans; it was racist in theory and practice and served to protect the interests of a small, privileged elite.... State violence has been fundamentally aimed against the excluded, the poor, and the Maya, as well as those who struggled in favor of a just and more equitable society....
On Thursday, wandering the streets with Shreya, I was shocked and outraged to learn that U.S. President John Quincy Adams was married in England, at a church near the tower of London (to Louisa Catherine Johnson at All Hallows Parish, Barking, London, England, to be precise).
The United Kingdom should not be poaching on our historical events. They have enough of their own.