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FOR & national groups urge Senate vote for ATF nominee

July 12, 2022 No Comments

As the United States Senate prepares to vote today on President Biden’s nomination of Steve Dettelbach as the next director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, a coalition of faith-based organizations has issued a public statement in support of the nomination. The Fellowship of Reconciliation joined other national groups, including Jewish, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and

Broad civil society alliance calls for protection/asylum for deserters and conscientious objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

June 10, 2022 No Comments

In a joint appeal to members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and Belarusian as well as Ukrainian conscientious objectors and deserters. They need immediate protection and asylum. According to international law, the servicemen

Nyack dedicates Bayard Rustin Way

June 10, 2022 No Comments

On June 9, 2022, the village of Nyack, New York dedicated Bayard Rustin Way — a street in the suburban town’s bustling center — in a special ceremony. Organized by the Phyllis B. Frank Pride Center of Rockland County and the Nyack NAACP chapter, the event featured speakers and performers who honored Rustin’s contributions as a civil rights activist, pacifist,

U.S. Ukraine policy most reckless since ’62 Missile Crisis

June 1, 2022 No Comments

By Walt Zlotow In 1952, I was blessed, maybe cursed, to have parents who taught me about war and peace as a second grader. Back then it was the Korean War which didn’t make much sense to this 7-year-old. Seventy years on it still doesn’t, just like every other war America has been involved in, whether directly, like Korea, or

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World Religious Leaders Travel in Emergency Just Peace Mission to Pray in Kyiv

May 23, 2022 No Comments

WARSAW, POLAND– A high-level delegation of religious leaders will travel to Kyiv in an emergency intervention seeking to contribute to ending aggression against Ukraine, the bombing of Ukrainian cities, and to pray for a just peace. The leaders will meet in Warsaw, Poland, and travel 14 hours by bus to Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 24 and return to Warsaw on

They Are Us: Buffalo and the Sanctity of Whiteness

May 18, 2022 No Comments

The racially-motivated act of hate on Saturday in Buffalo, New York, allegedly committed by an 18-year-old white supremacist, is being called the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this year. It was the 198th mass shooting in 2022, and we aren’t even finished with May. Is it possible to measure the sickness of a society that is forced to