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Honoring the righteous rage, agony and despair of this global uprising

June 3, 2020 No Comments

Following the senseless killings of George Floyd and so many other Black civilians, we need fundamental policy changes focused on reparative justice and healing.

Fellowship Magazine Archives at Waging Nonviolence

January 2, 2020 No Comments

Fellowship Magazine Archives at Waging Nonviolence Select articles from Fellowship magazine are available to read for free online at: wagingnonviolence.org/forusa

Moving in the direction of freedom: En route to Ambazonia

April 10, 2019 No Comments

Via Cross River, Calabar, and Mawuh: En Route to Ambazonia Ambazonia most surely exists, with defined land mass, distinctive long history, culture, and most especially people. But you won’t find it on any maps, or even most accounts of modern Africa or peaceful struggle. For human rights activists, the words “peaceful” and “struggle” don’t appear together that often. Yet Ambazonia

Moving in the direction of freedom: En route to Ambazonia

April 10, 2019 No Comments

Via Cross River, Calabar, and Mawuh: En Route to Ambazonia Ambazonia most surely exists, with defined land mass, distinctive long history, culture, and most especially people. But you won’t find it on any maps, or even most accounts of modern Africa or peaceful struggle. For human rights activists, the words “peaceful” and “struggle” don’t appear together that often. Yet Ambazonia

Book Review: “At Play in the Lion’s Den” by Jim Forest

March 22, 2019 No Comments

In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free… We say: Killing is disorder. Life and gentleness and community and unselfishness are the only order we

Bayard Rustin and Reparations: On the critique of past movement leaders using current orthodoxy

March 21, 2019 No Comments

We need to deepen our analysis of the lives and legacies of revered leaders, especially in the arenas of activism and social change. As Coleman Hughes recently pointed out in The New York Times (“The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative Action”), Black History Month was as good a time as any to do so with respect to