Honor human rights by demilitarizing life and land with FOR
This year has been a full and momentous one for all of us.
This month, we celebrate International Human Rights Day. Because of your support, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has been able to spend the entire year working for human rights, including:
- Hosting Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, a co-founder of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia, on a U.S. speaking tour.
- Re-printing and distributing our 1950s comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, used by Egyptian human rights activists as a tool for envisioning the power of active nonviolence for social and political change.
- Sending delegations of multi-generational activists to the Middle East, including to support the purification of water in Afghanistan and to create public murals that promote nonviolent resistance and empowerment.
- Producing groundbreaking research papers to expose the violent aggression of the Colombian military, paramilitary, and guerrillas against innocent civilians.
- Supporting the Occupy movement’s knowledge of and commitment to nonviolent resistance by distributing our Pact for Peaceful Witness.
- Growing our community of our local chapters, religious peace fellowships, and affiliates (with a dozen new groups connected to FOR-USA!) and expanding our outreach through multimedia communication.
As we advance on our 100th anniversary, FOR could be pulled in many directions to answer the calls for peace and social justice, and thus, we’ve recognized a need to be focused in our work.
Our strategic plan, Demilitarizing Life and Land, gives us the ability to be involved in emergent campaigns like the Occupy movement and the global No Bases movement — while placing our work and national fellowship under three task forces: the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, the Task Force on the Middle East, and the Task Force on Social Economic and Social Justice.
Thank you!
