Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America
Rev. Amy Cantrell lives and moves and has her being in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved is an intersectional community of people from the streets and margins love each other and together work to create solutions to homelessness, poverty, and...
Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America
Liz Moore is the director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, where she began her activism in PJALS’ youth group as a Deer Park high school student after looking up “peace” in the phone book. She worked as an organizer and educator in unions and...
Aug 29, 2020 | Community, FORusa Affiliate, Human Rights, Interfaith, North America, Social Justice
by Susan H. Smith As Muslim and Arab students join their classmates in heading back to school this fall, the 19th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks weighs on their minds. It’s a time of perennial blame and shame, a time when classmates and teachers hold...
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...
