Mar 29, 2021 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Events, General, Human Rights, Interfaith, MLK, News, Nonviolence, Racial, Social Justice
Statement from RELIGIOUS LEADERS Breaking the Silence—an Intergenerational Call for Unity and Action “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed … without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world...
Mar 18, 2021 | Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Prejudice against Asian-Americans is nothing new. Sadly it is as American as apple pie and Jim Crow. Whether it’s the “yellow peril” of the late 19th century that gave rise to the Chinese Exclusion act, FDR’s establishment of Japanese-American internment camps or...
Feb 17, 2021 | Community, FORusa Feature, Youth
Rev. Michael O Harrington has spent more than four decades as a community organizer, youth advocate, educator, and chaplain/minister in diverse institutions. As founder of two national networks working in youth & young adult networks and interfaith communities,...
Feb 16, 2021 | Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, Interfaith, International, Peacebuilding
Over 60 people were on hand live when FOR-USA held an online book event with author Sheila Collins to discuss her new book: Ubuntu–George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents. The video above is footage of the entire event.
Feb 3, 2021 | Community, FORusa Affiliate, FORusa Feature, Peacebuilding, Racial
By Emerald “Fitz” Fitzpatrick All together now, let’s clean up the river and say hello and say how are you and mean it. Let’s open the cages open the cages all of them this time, every last one. All together now, everyone say “I’m sorry” in ways that...
Feb 2, 2021 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Prayer, Social Justice
FOR-USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, was asked to offer up a prayer and reflections on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 (U.S. Inauguration Day for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) to an international online gathering....
