Human Rights

FOR-USA Calls for Suspension of Syria Sanctions so Earthquake Aid can Enter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel Gold | arielgold@forusa.org | (510) 599-5330Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler | gshagler@verizon.net | ‭(202) 302-0307‬ February 9, 2023 – The death toll from the earthquakes in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, February 6, 2023,

February 9, 2023 No Comments

Responding to Russia’s Call for a Christmas Truce

Representing over 1200 US faith communities, sponsors of the Christmas Truce in Ukraine petition respond FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel Gold | ariel@forusa.org | 510-599-5330 Bill McGarvey | bill@mcg-media.com | 201-725-4202 On the eve of the Orthodox celebration of Christmas

January 5, 2023 No Comments

Reimagining King’s Vision – The Fierce Urgency of Now

From Ukraine to Uvalde, the crises of militarism, materialism and racism today Exactly one year before he was murdered, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave an historic sermon at New York’s Riverside Church on the profound connection between US

January 3, 2023 No Comments

Oldest Interfaith Organization in the US Affirms Solidarity with the LGBTQ+ Community in the Wake of Deadly Attack in Colorado

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ariel Gold | FOR-USA executive director | arielgold@forusa.org | 510 599 5330 Sunday, November 20, 2022 – In the wake of a mass shooting at the Club Q nightclub in Colorado, the oldest interfaith peace and

November 20, 2022 No Comments

Faith Leaders and Organizations Call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine

SIGN ON STATEMENT: As people of faith and conscience, believing in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine. In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First

November 14, 2022 No Comments

Militarism, Resource Exploitation and Climate Change in Iraqi Kurdistan

Members of Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraqi Kurdistan Program discuss militarism and oil and gas resource exploitation by the United States and multinational corporations, as well as successful grassroots resistance against ExxonMobil by one community. Music: www.bensound.com

November 2, 2021 No Comments

#Occupy@10: An oral history — Interfaith activists reflect on Occupy’s impact 10 years later

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

September 14, 2021 No Comments

Digital security in Afghanistan and beyond

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 Farsi).

August 23, 2021 No Comments

If we truly honored Juneteenth, we would end the exception in the 13th amendment

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

June 19, 2021 No Comments

FOR-USA statement on Palestine-Israel

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 disproportionate

May 26, 2021 No Comments