Sep 14, 2021 | Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, Environmental, General, Human Rights, Media Coverage, News, North America, Racial, Social Justice
September 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest that took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for two tumultuous months in 2011. The action began with little fanfare on September 17, 2011, but soon captured worldwide attention. It...
Aug 23, 2021 | Human Rights, International
This web page offers digital security resources to human rights defenders and other individuals involved in civil society networks in Afghanistan and Central Asia, especially. This content prepared in multiple languages used in the region (English, Dari, Pashto, and...
Jun 19, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Human Rights, North America, Racial, Uncategorized
In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was a Juneteenth celebratory greeting: “We proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery finally came to an end throughout the South — historically a monumental feat for...
May 26, 2021 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, International
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) Statement on the Situation in Palestine/Israel In the barrage of statistics that are being reported in the aftermath of the most recent violence between Israel and Hamas there are heartbreaking accounts once again of Israel’s...
May 25, 2021 | Advocacy, Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, Interfaith, International, News, Nonviolence, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
This month marks the 73rd anniversary of the creation of Israel following the adoption of United Nations resolution 181 (1947). This political decision was made at UN Headquarters in New York, shunning and circumventing the human right of self-determination by the...
May 23, 2021 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, FORusa Chapter, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Racial, Uncategorized
Statement Upon Filing of Federal Charges in the Ahmaud Arbery Matter and Call for Speedy Resolution of the State and Federal Investigations into the Roles Played by Georgia Officials Issued by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the FOR Atlanta/Georgia chapter, and the...
