Sep 29, 2020 | Beloved Community, Civil Rights, Interfaith, International, MLK, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding
by Paul R. Dekar for the 2020 Gandhi Peace Festival This article was written for the Gandhi Peace Festival, hosted by the city of Hamilton, Ontario on October 2, 2020–the Mahatma’s birth date. -ED By the 1920s, Gandhi had begun to influence civil rights activism...
Sep 28, 2020 | Beloved Community, Civil Rights, Demilitarization, Human Rights, International, Media Coverage, Nonviolence, North America, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson participates in a panel discussion sponsored by UNFOLD ZERO on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Fellow participants include politicians, peace activists and artists from around the world, including the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP and...
Mar 1, 2019 | Beloved Community, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, LGBTQ+, Social Justice
The United Methodist general conference is over and a new day has begun. People are still suffering, struggling with addiction of all sort, striving to stay in recovery, and being stopped, vilified and incarcerated at our borders. Queer folks, people of color, women...
Feb 21, 2019 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Reparations
Over the past two years, the article that has come up most frequently in my Facebook feed describes how a report submitted to the U.N. Council on Human Rights has argued that the United States should begin “reparatory justice” processes concerning the “current and...
Nov 19, 2018 | Beloved Community, FORusa Feature, Nonviolence, Youth
A few months after the Ferguson Uprising began in August 2014, Shirah-Moffatt Darko traveled from Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania to New York’s Hudson Valley to attend a Fellowship of Reconciliation young adult nonviolence training program. That...
