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The Faces of FOR: JuJu Holton

November 8, 2018 No Comments

In the early fall of 2016, recent Guilford College graduate JuJu Holton signed up for a Facebook event organized by some friends in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The gathering, advertised as “Reading While Black,” was organized in response to the recent killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a black father who was reading a book in his car when he was

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These forces were

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These forces were

A surprise package from a spaceman to a prisoner on earth

October 22, 2018 No Comments

Jim Forest worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the 1960s and ’70s, and later for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). In 1969, Forest was in Waupun State Prison in Wisconsin, with 13 other anti-war activists, for burning U.S. military draft records from several draft board offices. On October 18, 2018, The Guardian newspaper published “A surprise package from

U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Protection and Safe Passage of Honduran Caravans

October 22, 2018 No Comments

As news that caravans of Honduran migrants are setting off from Honduras, traveling through Guatemala and Mexico on their way to the United States, we as U.S. people of faith affirm their right to travel safely and seek protection. Rooted in our faith traditions that call for the protection of human life and values of hospitality, compassion, and solidarity with

Job Posting: Director of Operations

October 12, 2018 No Comments

The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FOR-USA) is a national interfaith organization headquartered in New York State. Founded in 1915, our mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence. We are seeking a motivated and well-organized Operations Director