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¡Presente! John Lewis carried the pain of the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized

LILIANE KSHENSKY BAXTER, PH.D. (LILI BAXTER): I remember first meeting John back in 1979. I had just started working at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and he was with the Voter Education Project. As I walked into a neighborhood-planning unit meeting I saw somebody setting up the chairs — and it was John. So when people say he was humble, he really was humble. He did what needed to be done, and at that moment it was setting up chairs.

July 28, 2020 No Comments

¡Presente! John Lewis and C.T. Vivian–Let Us Now Praise Valiant Souls

SHEILA D. COLLINS: On July 18, 2020 we lost two valiant men—Rev. C.T. Vivian and representative John Lewis–icons of the civil rights movement, but so much more. Both men played leading roles in the civil rights movement of the late

July 24, 2020 No Comments

¡Presente! John Lewis and Doing the People’s Work

GUS KAUFMAN: He was revered because he always stood up. John just kept being important in all kinds of ways you wouldn’t expect right up until the last week of his life. Whether it was for racial justice or LGBTQ rights which he was way out in front on in the 1980s.

July 24, 2020 No Comments

Waging Nonviolence launches new movement media platform

Brooklyn, NY — March 20, 2019 — Nonprofit news organization Waging Nonviolence is celebrating 10 years of covering social movements this spring with the launch of a fully redesigned website, including a new community section that unites world-leading peace and

March 20, 2019 No Comments

Waging Nonviolence launches new movement media platform

Brooklyn, NY — March 20, 2019 — Nonprofit news organization Waging Nonviolence is celebrating 10 years of covering social movements this spring with the launch of a fully redesigned website, including a new community section that unites world-leading peace and

March 20, 2019 No Comments

FOR Names Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson as Executive Director

The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in North America, is proud to announce the appointment of a new executive director to guide FOR-USA’s renowned global work for progressive social change. The Reverend Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson

September 30, 2018 No Comments

FOR Names Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson as Executive Director

The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in North America, is proud to announce the appointment of a new executive director to guide FOR-USA’s renowned global work for progressive social change. The Reverend Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson

September 30, 2018 No Comments

Honor Dr. King: Join the Poor People’s Campaign

On this day, 50 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee alongside sanitation workers demanding their humanity be dignified by fair wages, decent benefits, the right to unionize, and an end to dangerous working

April 4, 2018 No Comments

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Honor Dr. King: Join the Poor People’s Campaign

On this day, 50 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee alongside sanitation workers demanding their humanity be dignified by fair wages, decent benefits, the right to unionize, and an end to dangerous working

April 4, 2018 No Comments

March 2018 justice actions and liturgical resources

Yesterday was the date that protections were slated to expire for DACA recipients and Dreamers. Court injunctions have delayed, for now, the prospect that thousands of these courageous young people would start being detained and deported this week, but their

March 6, 2018 No Comments

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