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A new wave of Cold War-style threats and covert actions have been directed against Iran, this time more serious than in the past. Seventy million people in Iran live each day in fear of war. The United States has sold almost $100 billion of high-tech weapons and military equipment to Iran’s neighbors. The U.S.

“You Have a Choice! Israeli Anti-Militarists Speak” presents four native-born and immigrant Israeli citizens, aged 30 to 78, talking about their backgrounds, political views and activism in an interactive video that includes 132 short films, each lasting between thirty seconds and several minutes.

by Lynn Gottlieb

Jewish history overflows with tales of sorrow. Are we to endure yet another loss, but this time perpetrated by our own foolish hands? Those who think that  bombing Iran serves a defensive purpose should reconsider and remember a forgotten people, the 35,000 Jews of Iran. What will happen to them?

Please join FOR March 2-6 in Washington DC to OCCUPY AIPAC.  

Growing up in Tehran, Iran, I understood the institutionalization of violence because of war. I experienced war with all its bitterness: My childhood is filled with memories of bombs and missiles, chemical attacks and burns, destruction and loss, shelters and refugees, violence, violence, and again violence.

Student activists invaded the British Embassy in Tehran.  This was the headline dispatched from Iran.  The news found its place in foreign media in no time for one reason or another.  Iranian Student Activists!!! Embassy! The first recall of these words is the hostage crisis of 1980.

A couple of weeks ago, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) issued a statement on the increasing rhetoric toward military attacks on Iran. We at the Fellowship of Reconciliation agree wholeheartedly with the content of the message, and we have distributed the letter broadly among our members, with encouragement to follow up with support for it.

Mothers for Peace in Iran — Message to the Secretary-General and the Security Council of the United Nations

Your Excellency Secretary General and Honourable Members of the Security Council at the United Nations,

The people aren’t free, yet

By the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

For a long time, the ordinary people of Afghanistan have felt fatefully robbed by its geography.

We aren’t a free people.

In September of each year, heads of state from around the world arrive for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is often actively engaged in meetings related to this event. This year the launch of the “Be On Our Side” poster campaign — http://www.twopeoplesonefuture.org/newyork/ — in support of ending U.S.