Social Justice

Wink Fellow Panel Discussion “A Reckoning in Boston”

FOR-USA and the Amherst Massachusetts African Heritage Reparation Assembly co-hosted an early screening of the documentary “A Reckoning in Boston” on December 9, 2021. The panel discussion afterward included FOR’s Inaugural Wink Fellow, Dr. Fernando Ona, along with the film’s co-Producer and co-founder of Boston’s Common Good Co-op Kafi Dixon and Evan Lewis, Assistant Dean for Community Outreach, UMass, Amherst.

December 13, 2021 No Comments

Wink Fellow Conversations–Kafi Dixon, “A Reckoning in Boston”

FOR’s Inaugural Wink Fellow, Dr. Fernando Ona, had the opportunity to speak with Co-Producer Kafi Dixon about her documentary “A Reckoning in Boston”

December 7, 2021 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

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

Alternate Reality Show Trial

The Senate has spoken and has finally certified what we have long known: an overwhelming number of Republicans in what is touted as our nation’s most august legislative body are dangerously incapable of publicly affirming reality. They have chosen party

February 17, 2021 No Comments

Author Event: Ubuntu–George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents

Over 60 people were on hand live when FOR-USA held an online book event with author Sheila Collins to discuss her new book: Ubuntu–George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents. The video above is

February 16, 2021 No Comments

“When We Breathe Together”

FOR-USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, was asked to offer up a prayer and reflections on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 (U.S. Inauguration Day for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) to an international online

February 2, 2021 No Comments

Martin Luther King Jr. on America’s “obnoxious peace”

We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year at a time when our nation has come to a fork in the road and the fate of our democracy depends on the path we take. Just 12 days removed from

January 18, 2021 No Comments

Lies, betrayal and the storming of the Capitol

Embed from Getty ImagesLies have consequences. The insurrection that was attempted as the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives gathered to certify the election results on January 6, 2021 was incited by the President’s lies. The violence that ensued as

January 7, 2021 No Comments