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Liu Xiaobo: Democratic Vistas and the Empty Chair

July 24, 2017 No Comments

Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man; Have former armies fail’d, then we send fresh armies – and fresh again — Walt Whitman, “Life” Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on July 13, 2017, at age 61 after having been jailed for 11 years for being a chief writer of an appeal for democratic and human rights reforms

Liu Xiaobo: Democratic Vistas and the Empty Chair

July 24, 2017 No Comments

Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man; Have former armies fail’d, then we send fresh armies – and fresh again — Walt Whitman, “Life” Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on July 13, 2017, at age 61 after having been jailed for 11 years for being a chief writer of an appeal for democratic and human rights reforms

A tribute to FOR Colombia Peace Presence on its 15th anniversary

July 7, 2017 No Comments

In the fall of 1982, it was not too difficult to discern that the radical Sandinista government of Nicaragua was going to become “public enemy number two” to anti-communist champion Ronald Reagan, second only to the “evil empire” Soviet Union. Though the devastating “contra war” using illegally obtained U.S. government funds had not yet heated up the entire Central American

New leadership at FOR: Council Co-Chairs and Interim Executive Director!

July 3, 2017 No Comments

It is with great excitement and a sense of possibility that we write – to inform you of many changes and of even greater opportunities borne of the crises of our times. Last June, several major transitions took place in the oldest ongoing interfaith peace and justice organization in the U.S.A. The Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Executive Director and National Chairperson

New leadership at FOR: Council Co-Chairs and Interim Executive Director!

July 3, 2017 No Comments

It is with great excitement and a sense of possibility that we write – to inform you of many changes and of even greater opportunities borne of the crises of our times. Last June, several major transitions took place in the oldest ongoing interfaith peace and justice organization in the U.S.A. The Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Executive Director and National Chairperson

Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour

June 11, 2017 No Comments

12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against Child Labour that had crossed a 100 countries to present their plight to the International Labour Organization (ILO). “We are