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...
Oct 13, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Community, IFOR
Former FOR USA executive director Mark Johnson passed away in North Creek NY on October 12th. What follows is a personal remembrance from Ethan Vesely-Flad, FOR USA’s Director of National Organizing, a friend and former colleague of Mark’s based on his visit to Mark...
Sep 15, 2020 | Community, Interfaith, Prayer
We struggle to stand the whole world over under the weight of incredible loss and grief. We struggle to hope the whole world over in the face of uncertainty and anxious fears. We struggle to love the whole world over in defiance of borders and flags. God, help...
Sep 11, 2020 | Community, Member Spotlight, Nonviolence, Peacebuilding
Jim Murphy is a former member of FOR USA’s national council and was the 2012 recipient of FOR’s Martin Luther King, Jr award. Jim served as an Air Force Communications Specialist in Vietnam from 1966 – 68. Near the end of his second tour of duty, he was returned home...
Aug 29, 2020 | Community, FORusa Affiliate, Human Rights, Interfaith, North America, Social Justice
by Susan H. Smith As Muslim and Arab students join their classmates in heading back to school this fall, the 19th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks weighs on their minds. It’s a time of perennial blame and shame, a time when classmates and teachers hold...
Aug 27, 2020 | Civil Rights, Community
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. A...
