Friends, As my premiere post I'm attaching a recently published Peace Portal article about our sister Christinia Eala and her community-building work on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Look for her personal story in Christinia's PulseWire Journal. My personal initiative right now is adding my voice to the other wonderful peace correspondents on this site. I will keep you all posted as this develops. Hope to see many of you in Rio in June. Warm winds, Elissa, the peace correspondent