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We stand united against the Muslim Ban 2.0

March 7, 2017 No Comments

The Fellowship of Reconciliation unequivocally denounces the White House’s release of a revised travel ban targeting immigrants and refugees from Muslim-majority nations. Issued Monday under the guise of national security, this executive order is counter to our nation’s values and ultimately makes our communities less secure. Denying entry to the United States by immigrants and refugees from Muslim-majority countries, particularly

I was six when the Russians came

February 22, 2017 No Comments

This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans. When I was six, life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived it was possible to see the mud houses from far away. The Baba Mountains stretched forever into the distance. In

I was six when the Russians came

February 22, 2017 No Comments

This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans. When I was six, life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived it was possible to see the mud houses from far away. The Baba Mountains stretched forever into the distance. In

Crossing the Boundaries

February 22, 2017 No Comments

After Hurricane Katrina, I remember going into neighborhoods devastated by the storm … and going onto the land on which people, now gone, had walked and lived. It was eerie; in spite of it being the middle of the day, these neighborhoods were deathly quiet. The remaining houses leaned and looked as though they were about to fall. The “X’s”

FOR, the ACLU, and Building the Movement

February 16, 2017 No Comments

No doubt you are well aware of the American Civil Liberties Union’s heroic resistance to threats to democracy, justice, and human rights in recent weeks. But did you know FOR-USA served as a “midwife” to the ACLU – as our leaders founded the National Civil Liberties Bureau (precursor to the ACLU) in 1916? At the Fellowship of Reconciliation, we feel a

FOR, the ACLU, and Building the Movement

February 16, 2017 No Comments

No doubt you are well aware of the American Civil Liberties Union’s heroic resistance to threats to democracy, justice, and human rights in recent weeks. But did you know FOR-USA served as a “midwife” to the ACLU – as our leaders founded the National Civil Liberties Bureau (precursor to the ACLU) in 1916? At the Fellowship of Reconciliation, we feel a