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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

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