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FOR selected for the Peace and Reconciliation Charities Combined Federal Campaign

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has chosen the Fellowship of Reconciliation to participate in its 2010 Peace and Reconciliation Charities Combined Federal Campaign! The campaign starts in September and runs through December 2010. Donations are tax-deductible! Federal employees should contact their local CFC office to make a donation.

Report: How the U.S. is funding murder in Colombia

U.S. military aid flowing to Colombia is having a direct, negative effect on human rights. On average, executions of civilians increased in areas that began receiving more U.S. funding. In fact, of the 16 Colombian army units which received the largest increased funding, reported extrajudicial killings increased an average of 56 percent.

The U.S. Congress, State Department, and National Security Council must take action to ensure U.S. tax dollars no longer bankroll executions in Colombia. Continue reading for the full report, and ways you can take action!

At the Interfaith Convocation for Nuclear Abolition, held May 2 in New York City, FOR Executive Director Mark Johnson coordinated and planned this service with representatives from Religions for Peace, the United Religions Initiative, Pax Christi and other faith-based organizations. Watch PBS’s report on the nuclear abolition conference.

Learn more about FOR’s campaign to End Nuclear Weapons by following the link below.

Watch the FOR video of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaking to a group of peace activities from around the world. The secretary-general told the crowd that they and other people would them would be the means of the world’s nuclear stockpile being dismantled.

On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Richard Deats has written an impressive booklet, “Active Nonviolence Across the World,” tracing the work of nonviolence around the globe.

The U.S. government has denied a travel visa to this Afghan Youth Peace Volunteer. Join FOR in calling for an appeal, so that Abdulai can participate in next month’s “People’s Journey” tour of North America.

US and Colombian Groups Call Against Human Rights Certification

Posted by: Susana Pimiento Topics: Colombia, human rights, impunity, U.S. military aid

Related: End US Military Aid in Colombia

The Fellowship of Reconciliation and eighteen other Colombian and US Human Rights groups, issued a call today to the US Government not to certify Colombia as meeting the human rights conditions required to receive U.S. military assistance.

Earth is Our Common Home: The U.N. Desert Decade

Posted by: Rene Wadlow Topics: Africa, desertification, drought, environment, famine, resource wars, spirituality, United Nations

God created lands filled with water as a place for man to live; and the desert so that he can discover his soul.

The Choir Praises the Dumping of the Bases Agreement

Posted by: Susana Pimiento Topics: Colombia, militarism, military bases

Related: End US Military Aid in Colombia

A couple weeks after the ruling declaring invalid the US-Colombia military bases agreement, as the dust settles, politicians and analysts are giving kudos to the Constitutional Court ruling saying that it was for the better. Most of those voices come from former supporters of the deal —including liberal party presidential candidate, Rafael Pardo— can be explained largely by the strong anti Chavez sentiment that saw the bases agreement as a strong deterrent tool against Venezuela.

Protest Control as Disaster Relief?

Posted by: John Lindsay-Poland Topics: Colombia, militarism, nonviolence

The U.S. military likes to promote the fact that its missions serve humanitarian aims – disaster relief, digging wells, providing medical services in poor rural areas of the world. But a U.S.

Colombian High Court Throws Out U.S.-Colombia Military Bases Deal

Posted by: Susana Pimiento Topics: Colombia, militarism, military bases

Related: End US Military Aid in Colombia

Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled invalid the agreement signed last October allowing the United States to use at least seven military bases in Colombia.

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