Dec 22, 2020 | General, International, Peacebuilding, Press Releases, Social Justice
We, the undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations, call on all stakeholders to ensure people in Iran have swift, unencumbered, and equitable access to safe, effective, and affordable Covid-19 vaccines. We particularly call on the government of the United...
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....
Dec 3, 2020 | Campaigns, Community, General, News
Friends, Giving Tuesday is over. The work of peace and justice continues. Are your eyes trained on Georgia right now, as mine are? It’s understandable. The outcome of Georgia’s January 5th special election will dramatically influence both the makeup of Congress...
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 5, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, News, North America, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
Dear FOR-USA family, As I write you just after Election Day, from my home in the great republic of Brooklyn, New York, the election results are not yet fully known. What is certain, however, is that we have a great deal of work to do and some difficult days ahead as a...
Mar 22, 2019 | FORusa Feature, General, Uncategorized
In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free… We say: Killing is...
