Mar 12, 2019 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, International, Nonviolence, Peacebuilding
Testimony of Mel Duncan before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the United States Congress (March 12, 2019). Madame Chair Lowey, Ranking Member Rogers, and Distinguished Members of the Committee,...
Feb 8, 2019 | Demilitarization, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, International, Nonviolence
By an Anonymous Zimbabwean What happens when known killers are promoted to the most senior positions in government, the military, and state-run offices? What happens when cruelty and coldness achieve the same social status as bravery and courage? Answer: the result...
Dec 7, 2018 | Demilitarization, Events, FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Immigration Rights and Reform, Nonviolence, North America
Tear gas on children. Tens of thousands of immigrants imprisoned and awaiting deportation. Military troops instead of humanitarian aid. The denial of asylum to thousands of people fleeing rampant violence in their homelands. What we are experiencing is a moral crisis...
Nov 19, 2018 | Beloved Community, FORusa Feature, Nonviolence, Youth
A few months after the Ferguson Uprising began in August 2014, Shirah-Moffatt Darko traveled from Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania to New York’s Hudson Valley to attend a Fellowship of Reconciliation young adult nonviolence training program. That...
Sep 21, 2018 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Nonviolence
In 1978 and 1979, Nicaraguans took up arms to depose a dictatorship, and I am forever thankful for their heroic actions and for getting rid of the 43-year-old Somoza tyranny. In 2018, people are protesting nonviolently to end a second dictatorship, which is made up by...
Aug 30, 2018 | Civil Rights, FORusa Feature, MLK, Nonviolence
I traveled to Ithaca, New York, earlier this month to attend the public memorial service for Dorothy Cotton, the under-recognized educator, organizer, and singer/musician. Her legacy is little known despite having been the only woman to hold a leadership position at...
