FOR Blogs
New Iranian President Elected
The Iranian presidential election seems to have been implemented smoothly and the people have elected a moderate-reformist cleric named Hassan Rouhani. Use of the terms, ‘moderate’ and ‘reformist’ can be confusing to us over here as a number of candidates have either changed camps since the early post revolutionary period, or are not a perfect fit in any category. Rouhan
From Afghanistan, thank you Bradley Manning!
An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on war from Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers
Interviews with the National Council of Elders: Rabbi Arthur Waskow, part 1
In the second of our series of interviews with members of the National Council of Elders, I interviewed Rabbi Arthur Waskow.
Your investment in FOR
This year, the Fellowship of Reconciliation is reorganizing our staff into a regional support model, in which we’ll have organizers in five regions of the U.S. supporting local activists and campaigns. FOR will also be welcoming a new executive director, to be named soon.
FOR and 40 organizations call for creating NYPD inspector general
In a letter to New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the Fellowship of Reconciliation joined the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC) and 40 other civil rights, immigrant, and interfaith organizations yesterday in calling for the creation of a new “inspector general” position to monitor the actions of the New York Police Department.
A black critique of racial logic regarding the president
Two years ago, I wrote about the harsh debate in the black community regarding critique of President Obama, “Cornel West and the Crisis of Black Leadership.” In the wake of the president’s recent
Veterans Fellowship Of Reconciliation – Update Spring 2013
1.) The Prisoner Express, which is our collaboration for getting books to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans in prison, is highlighting our mission this month. The incarcerated OIF and OEF population continues to grow as does the suicide rate. Over 40,000 of these young people in prison , many suffering from PTSD.
The transformative power of delegations
A host of reports today offer examples of the role of international solidarity delegations as a method of transformative social change.
From Lebanon (and Syria), Looking for Hope
International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) International Coordinator Francesco Candelari recently returned from his partial participation in a peace delegation led by 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate and IFOR member Mairead Corrigan Maguire.
Civil Society Organizations Call for New Security Model, Demilitarization, Human Rights
(Antigua, June 6) More than 160 civil society organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of citizens in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and the United States, sent an open letter to the OAS General Assembly today calling for alternatives to the “war on drugs” that will guarantee respect for human rights.
