Peru. He traveled through the conflict zones of Chiapas, Mexico together with Bishop Samuel Ruiz on a series of peace missions and served on the board of SICSAL, a hemispheric ecumenical secretariat based in Mexico City. He also participated in peace missions to El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador and Iraq. (See the Blase Bonpane Collection, Department of Special Collections, UCLA Research Library; Collection 1590). Electoral politics Bonpane ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 as a member of the Green Party. He received 6,315 votes and 7.56% of the vote in Congressional District 30 (Los Angeles). Bibliography Guerrillas of Peace; Liberation Theology and the Central American Revolution", originally published by South End Press Guerrillas of Peace on the Air Red Hen Press 2002. Common Sense for the 21st Century' Red Hen Press 2010 Civilization is Possible, Red Hen Press 2008. The Central American Solidarity Movement", University of California 2005. Imagine No Religion, (Blase Bonpane's autobiography) Red Hen Press 2011. Blase Bonpane Comments on The 2nd Encyclical of Pope Francis: Laudato Si (Praise Be to You) On The Care of Our Common Home; CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015. The Nicene Heresy - Christendom and War - Reverence and Critique; Office of the Americas publication, 2016. References External links Office of the Americas website American Roman Catholic priests Maryknoll Fathers Liberation theologians Catholic pacifists American Christian pacifists American democracy activists American human rights activists Central America solidarity activists American talk radio hosts Pacifica Foundation people American memoirists American political writers American male non-fiction writers California Greens Green Party of the United States politicians Activists from California 1929 births 2019 deaths