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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

On Being Still

February 13, 2017 No Comments

It is hard to be still sometimes. We are in a turbulent time. For many, it feels as though there is no bottom to stand on, no solid ground. Rather, it feels like the unknown is hovering over us, smiling smugly, doing what it wants…because IT is the only entity which really knows what the goal is. We, the

On Being Still

February 13, 2017 No Comments

It is hard to be still sometimes. We are in a turbulent time. For many, it feels as though there is no bottom to stand on, no solid ground. Rather, it feels like the unknown is hovering over us, smiling smugly, doing what it wants…because IT is the only entity which really knows what the goal is. We, the