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FOR – USA Statement on Ukraine

February 24, 2022 2 Comments

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said about the crisis in Ukraine on February 14th “The price in human suffering, destruction and damage to European and global security is too high to contemplate. And yet, contemplate it we must, as this terrifying prospect demands an immediate commitment to de-escalation and a negotiated end to the political conflict.

Q&A with Sarah DeBolt Badawi: the educator behind the MLK Comic Book Study Guide

February 2, 2022 No Comments

What stood out to you about the Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story comic book when you first encountered it? The first thing that I couldn’t get over when I learned about the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) comic book was that I had never seen it or heard about it before. For all my studying and teaching way beyond

The Singing of Angels

December 16, 2021 1 Comment

“Life Is Saved By The Singing of Angels” by Howard Thurman There must always remain in every person’s lifeSome place for the singing of angels,Some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and,By an inherent prerogative,Throws all the rest of life into a new and creative relatedness,Something that gathers up in itself all the freshets of experienceFrom drab

Wink Fellow Panel Discussion “A Reckoning in Boston”

December 13, 2021 No Comments

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.

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

December 7, 2021 No Comments

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”

Militarism, Resource Exploitation and Climate Change in Iraqi Kurdistan

November 2, 2021 No Comments

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