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Voter suppression, 21st century, Georgia style

December 24, 2020 No Comments

Embed from Getty Images Max Hess, former Interim Executive Director of FOR-USA, is an Atlanta-based attorney who has been involved in peace and justice causes for decades. In the Q&A that follows, he recounts his experience trying and failing to vote via absentee ballot in three different elections in Georgia since June 2020. Hess describes the challenges he faced, ranging

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US Sanctions should not be used to block vaccine to Iran

December 22, 2020 No Comments

We, the undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations, call on all stakeholders to ensure people in Iran have swift, unencumbered, and equitable access to safe, effective, and affordable Covid-19 vaccines. We particularly call on the government of the United States to provide assurances to financial institutions that they will not be subject to US sanctions for facilitating transfers of Iran’s

US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara is a duplicitous power move

December 14, 2020 No Comments

With less than six weeks remaining in his presidency, President Donald Trump extended his legacy of fomenting division and sowing the seeds of instability, discord, and violence into a new foreign policy realm.

Stop Trump Administration Plans for Federal Executions

December 9, 2020 No Comments

By Jeff Stack The Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation is cosponsoring a “Vigil for Life” this Thursday, December 10 at 12:00 noon, outside the federal courthouse at 80 Lafayette Street in Jefferson City. (Masks and physical distancing are required.) The Trump-Barr administration sickly set the execution of Brandon Bernard this day — observed elsewhere much more respectfully as International Human Rights

Member Spotlight: 5 Questions with Shelley Douglass –“The issues we’re facing are interlinked. We have separated ourselves from each other, from the earth, from nature..”

December 8, 2020 No Comments

Shelley Douglass lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where for more than a quarter-century she served as host of Mary’s House Catholic Worker, until this year. Previously, she and spouse Jim helped cofound the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, to organize resistance to the development of the Bangor Naval Base on the Hood Canal. Shelley chaired FOR-USA’s National

Invest in FOR, Peace Beyond Politics

December 3, 2020 No Comments

No matter who is in the White House, Congress, your state capital, even your town council, the need for ongoing education, training, mobilization and organization never stops. Yes, beyond politics, the work of peace and justice continues.