Apr 25, 2021 | Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, International, Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
by Rev. Michael Yoshii The following is adapted from Rev. Michael Yoshii’s Good Friday sermon at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. The event was organized by Ecumenical Peace Institute and Livermore Conversion Project with support from TriValleyCAREs and...
Nov 23, 2020 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, General, Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
For the past two-and-a-half years it has been my privilege to support the Kings Bay Plowshares. They are seven disarmament activists who entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia by night on April 4, 2018 — the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
Oct 27, 2020 | Demilitarization, Nonviolence, North America, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) joins peace-loving people around the world in celebrating the ratification this week of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Passage of the treaty happened on October 24, 2020, an already...
Sep 28, 2020 | Beloved Community, Civil Rights, Demilitarization, Human Rights, International, Media Coverage, Nonviolence, North America, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson participates in a panel discussion sponsored by UNFOLD ZERO on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Fellow participants include politicians, peace activists and artists from around the world, including the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP and...
Aug 14, 2020 | Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation
by Kyoko Iitaka, Ph.D. Aug. 8, 2020 Dear friends in FOR-USA: On the occasion of 75th Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorial days, we would like to send our message of friendship and solidarity. We hope that we can work together to abolish nuclear weapons...
Feb 25, 2019 | Demilitarization, FORusa Feature, International, Nuclear Proliferation
On February 27-28, the leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam. The place of the meeting has symbolic overtones, especially for Americans, that the earlier summit in Singapore did not. The new summit will build on the earlier summit,...
