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Digital security in Afghanistan and beyond

August 23, 2021 No Comments

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 Farsi). Steps to Protect Your Online Identity: Digital History and Evading Biometrics Abuses: This guide includes a series of related factsheets

Welcome Rev. Jason Carson Wilson to FOR’s team

August 22, 2021 No Comments

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 Rustin Liberation Initiative (BRLI), a FOR fiscally-sponsored organization. Wilson also serves as a FOR Holding Company Board

If we truly honored Juneteenth, we would end the exception in the 13th amendment

June 19, 2021 No Comments

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 American History and now a Federal Holiday.” My heart sank. “God, save us from the Juneteenth sales and discounts,”

FOR-USA statement on Palestine-Israel

May 26, 2021 No Comments

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) Statement on the Situation in Palestine/Israel In the barrage of statistics that are being reported in the aftermath of the most recent violence between Israel and Hamas there are heartbreaking accounts once again of Israel’s disproportionate and utterly lopsided response that has left at least 248 Palestinians dead—a quarter of whom were children—and nearly 2,000 wounded.

A prayer for those who work at Shadowcliff

May 26, 2021 No Comments

Ed. Note: This prayer was written by Rev. Richard Deats, who joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation, in 1953 and served on FOR-USA’s national staff between 1972 to 2005. Throughout those 33 years Richard lived in Nyack, New York, and worked in FOR-USA’s longtime Nyack headquarters, known as “Shadowcliff.” (FOR-USA maintained its headquarters at Shadowcliff, a 1927 mansion, from 1956 to

Alternate Reality Show Trial

February 17, 2021 No Comments

The Senate has spoken and has finally certified what we have long known: an overwhelming number of Republicans in what is touted as our nation’s most august legislative body are dangerously incapable of publicly affirming reality. They have chosen party over country and personality and violence over truth and accountability. In the process, they’ve treated the very definition of what