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#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 worldwide attention. It...
9/11 Remembering and Learning at FOR
At the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s national headquarters on the banks of the Hudson River, our interfaith staff were gathered for our weekly Tuesday morning meditation. It was September 11, 2001. We had planned an orientation afterward for four young adults who had...
Mary Heckler, ¡Presente!
Mary Jo Heckler, beloved daughter, sister, and friend, passed on April 16, 2021 after a brief illness. Mary was born November 30, 1948 in Sidney, Ohio, the daughter of Ruth and Robert Heckler, the second of five children. She attended Holy Angels Catholic Schools. As...
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...
Welcome Rev. Jason Carson Wilson to FOR’s team
Rev. Jason Carson Wilson, M. Div., is beginning a journey with the Fellowship of Reconciliation as a field organizing consultant. Wilson, a Black gay ordained United Church of Christ minister, is a FOR member. He’s also the founding executive director of the Bayard...
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 for...