Civil Rights

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

September 3, 2020 No Comments

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

September 3, 2020 No Comments

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

¡Presente! We must not overlook what made John Lewis the ‘Conscience of Congress’

May we live like John Lewis advised in a tweet in 2018: “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.”

August 17, 2020 No Comments

Honoring the righteous rage, agony and despair of this global uprising

Following the senseless killings of George Floyd and so many other Black civilians, we need fundamental policy changes focused on reparative justice and healing.

June 3, 2020 No Comments

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"Becoming a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, to me, is as natural as breathing -- because my whole being aspires for peace, understanding, love, and brotherhood." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, May 1966 We love and honor Thay, our teacher, friend, and lifelong FOR member. https://t.co/vV5ULEf5m6

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Our friend, teacher, and FOR member since 1966, Thich Nhat Hanh has said, "There is no birth, in meditation, there is no death ... Happy Continuation Day." #ThichNhatHanh

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RT @LetsUnpac: BREAKING: Young people on #HungerStrike4Democracy and activists are risking arrest in front of the Capitol RIGHT NOW condemn…

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RT @elsclegal: 🚨While #Israel is enforcing apartheid by expelling Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah, @Stadt_Wien filed a lawsuit against…

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Our Book Club is back, join us starting Thur, Jan 27th for monthly online meetings. Dr. Fernando Ona will lead the group through Walter Wink’s “The Powers That Be.” Please register here: #bookclub #forusa #monthly #walterwink #thepowersthatbe https://t.co/pVGoMvcN2b

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Join us at 4pm EST TODAY for our "Brothers in the Beloved Community" book talk with Marc Andrus. Register today here: Don't forget to like and share with your community, theres still time to grab your virtual seat! #forusa #booktalk #virtualevent #MLK https://t.co/UMdmbQOglq

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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.