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Standing With Refugees on the Border

This is the end of my fourth day in McAllen, Texas. I’m here with a group from my church, Epworth United Methodist. What is happening here is unfathomable, and despite what our government wants us to believe, what has been

July 30, 2018 No Comments

Standing With Refugees on the Border

This is the end of my fourth day in McAllen, Texas. I’m here with a group from my church, Epworth United Methodist. What is happening here is unfathomable, and despite what our government wants us to believe, what has been

July 30, 2018 No Comments

Challenging Homophobia at the State Department’s Religious Freedom Summit

The U.S. State Department hosted a Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom from July 24 to 27, 2018 in Washington, D.C. A coalition of LGBTQIA faith leaders and human rights activists were present at the summit to bring voice to the

July 27, 2018 No Comments

U.N. Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?

May 29, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping. The first U.N. peacekeeping mission was established on May 29, 1948 when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of U.N. military observers to the Middle

May 24, 2018 No Comments

U.N. Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?

May 29, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping. The first U.N. peacekeeping mission was established on May 29, 1948 when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of U.N. military observers to the Middle

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my

May 24, 2018 No Comments

U.S. Missile Attacks on Syria Hurt American Children More Than the Assad Regime

In response to recent missile attacks, Syrian President Bashar Assad seems as defiant and determined as ever to pursue war to preserve his regime in power. Most analysts agree that given Russian and Iranian backing and the reality that most deaths

May 4, 2018 No Comments

U.S. Missile Attacks on Syria Hurt American Children More Than the Assad Regime

In response to recent missile attacks, Syrian President Bashar Assad seems as defiant and determined as ever to pursue war to preserve his regime in power. Most analysts agree that given Russian and Iranian backing and the reality that most deaths

May 4, 2018 No Comments

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Coverage of FOR Human Rights Delegation to Puerto Rico

The following article (below photo) appeared in the most recent issue of La Voz del Paseo Boricua, the newspaper serving Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. We publish it here — with a special link to an album of additional exclusive photos of our trip

May 4, 2018 No Comments

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