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Robert Aldridge, ¡Presente!

May 17, 2022 No Comments

Robert Creston Aldridge, recipient of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in 1981, was born at his home in Watsonville, California, on April 15, 1926, at a time when home births were a common part of life. He died peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, on April 29, 2022, at his home in Santa Clara, California, his

On Sweden Joining NATO: A Letter from FOR-USA to SweFOR

May 16, 2022 No Comments

Dear sisters and brothers in the Sweden FOR, Our hearts break for you and your country. Sweden’s expected application to join NATO is a devastating blow for our shared global peace movement. Sweden’s 200 years of stated neutrality and military non-alignment have long offered a sign that nation-states can play a critical role as well. We join the Sweden

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“Reaching Beyond Prison Walls” Book Talk with Eric Corson

May 7, 2022 No Comments

Eric Corson spent four decades as executive director of Prisoner Visitation and Support from 1977 to 2017. In this new book, “Reaching Beyond Prison Walls,” edited by Corson, interviews with and writings from

Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

April 25, 2022 1 Comment

Press Release More than 20 national and regional faith-based organizations have sent a letter to President Biden and members of Congress urging support and focus on a kind of diplomacy that is willing to compromise for the sake of saving lives. It also urges the support and amplification of creative nonviolent resistance actions rather than maintaining the killing and escalation

Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition, book talk with Rima Vesely-Flad

April 12, 2022 No Comments

Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD, discusses her new book “Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation”

Breaking the Silence: Vietnam, Palestine, and Beyond

March 30, 2022 No Comments

On April 4, 1967 – one year to the day before his assassination – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a landmark speech at The Riverside Church in New York City. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” was arguably one of his most important, and easily one of his most controversial, speeches. In the wake of the speech,