Civil Rights

Gathering Voices: Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez–“I am continually inspired by people’s ability to persist in the face of such extreme violence.”

Chrissy Stonebraker-Martínez is the co-director of the Cleveland-based InterReligious Task Force on Central America and co-chair of the National Council of FOR-USA.

September 3, 2020 No Comments

Gathering Voices: Erica Ford–“Our work has shifted into teaching wellness and how people can survive mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.”

CEO and Founder of LIFE Camp Inc, Erica Ford is an internationally-recognized and widely-respected peacemaker. She has been at the forefront of reducing youth and community violence in New York City and beyond for over 30 years.

September 3, 2020 No Comments

Gathering Voices: Rev Jason Carson Wilson-“Incremental change is another weapon of white supremacy”

Rev. Jason Carson Wilson is the founding executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative, a LGBTQIA/POC-focused domestic and international policy advocacy organization. He also serves as Minister of Social Justice Education at University Church in Chicago. He

September 3, 2020 No Comments

Gathering Voices: Gathering Voices: Sr. Simone Campbell “We can make change if I have a sense that we are connected.”

Sr. Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and the Leader of Nuns on the Bus. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy

September 3, 2020 No Comments

Gathering Voices: Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen–“To build a bridge we must make friends with people we disagree with.”

Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen is the executive director of Parity, a NYC-based national nonprofit that works at the intersection of faith and LGBTQ+ concerns and the director of Blessed by Difference, a project that seeks to promote curious and collaborative bridging

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Gathering Voices: Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen–“To build a bridge we must make friends with people we disagree with.”

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Gathering Voices Amy Cantrell–“I’ve never seen things so dire.”

Rev. Amy Cantrell lives and moves and has her being in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved is an intersectional community of people from the streets and margins love each other and together work to create solutions to homelessness, poverty,

September 3, 2020 No Comments

Gathering Voices: Liz Moore–“We are the ones who can define what is possible.”

Liz Moore is the director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, where she began her activism in PJALS’ youth group as a Deer Park high school student after looking up “peace” in the phone book. She worked

September 3, 2020 No Comments

The Fellowship of Reconciliation and Bayard Rustin: An Amends

To honor the twin anniversaries of Bayard Rustin’s death (August 24, 1987) and the March on Washington (August 28, 1963) that Rustin co-organized, we are republishing this piece that originally appeared in the centennial edition of Fellowship magazine in 2015.

August 27, 2020 No Comments

The Fellowship of Reconciliation and Bayard Rustin: An Amends

August 27, 2020 No Comments

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Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FOR-USA) is the largest interfaith peace fellowship leading the charge on today’s most pressing human and civil rights issues through advocacy, activism, and educational programs.