Dec 24, 2020 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Racial, Social Justice
Embed from Getty Images Max Hess, former Interim Executive Director of FOR-USA, is an Atlanta-based attorney who has been involved in peace and justice causes for decades. In the Q&A that follows, he recounts his experience trying and failing to vote via absentee...
Dec 14, 2020 | Advocacy, Demilitarization, General, IFOR, International, News, Peacebuilding, Press Releases
With less than six weeks remaining in his presidency, President Donald Trump extended his legacy of fomenting division and sowing the seeds of instability, discord, and violence into a new foreign policy realm. On this day, which marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N....
Nov 23, 2020 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, General, Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
For the past two-and-a-half years it has been my privilege to support the Kings Bay Plowshares. They are seven disarmament activists who entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia by night on April 4, 2018 — the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
Nov 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Social Justice
As the world focuses on election results and the growth in Covid-19 infections, the situation behind prison walls remains out of view for most of us. In New York State correctional institutions, however, coronavirus numbers surge at rates which counter the leadership...
Oct 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Civil Rights, Conscientious Objection, Environmental, Member Spotlight, Peacebuilding, Social Justice, Uncategorized
What inspired you to become a FOR member? I’d heard about FOR during the Vietnam war – I believe it was right after the Kent State incidents. I did not become a member until I attended an FOR conference at Seabeck, 2008 or 2009. I was introduced to the...
Jun 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Racial, Reparations, Social Justice
The Fellowship of Reconciliation honors the righteous rage, agony, and despair that has fueled a renewed global uprising against the powers and principalities of racist policing and punishment in recent days. This rebellion, rooted in a deep desire for justice and...
