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Standing with Standing Rock #NoDAPL

November 2, 2016 No Comments

Right now, FOR National Council member Sahar Alsahlani, former National Council member Rick Ufford-Chase, FOR executive assistant Juliette Suarez, and I are traveling to the Standing Rock Sioux nation in North Dakota to join more than 350 faith leaders from across the United States. Tomorrow we will participate in a collective nonviolent clergy action against the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. Just last night, President Obama

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Report from the Refugee Camp in Calais, France — “The Jungle

October 30, 2016 No Comments

Sabia Rigby reports from Calais as police are dismantling a camp where refugees wait to cross into Britain. Most of those aiming to claim asylum are from Afghanistan and Syria. The camp has become an impromptu village of sorts, where residents take care of each other. Despite the independent nature of the camp and its non-interference with most of French

Report from the Refugee Camp in Calais, France — “The Jungle

October 30, 2016 No Comments

Sabia Rigby reports from Calais as police are dismantling a camp where refugees wait to cross into Britain. Most of those aiming to claim asylum are from Afghanistan and Syria. The camp has become an impromptu village of sorts, where residents take care of each other. Despite the independent nature of the camp and its non-interference with most of French

Bridging the Americas Tour – Join Us!

October 26, 2016 No Comments

Join us in a city near you! In April 2014 a courageous Afro-Colombian community took a stand against the illegal armed groups that controlled their daily lives for over 15 years and transformed their neighborhood into a peace zone. The same year, the Movement for Black Lives ignited in the United States, vividly drawing national attention to an epidemic of

Solidarity with Israel-Palestine

October 25, 2016 No Comments

Peace in the Middle East. Ever since I was a child, I remember hearing this phrase. In sixth grade, I took on an extra credit challenge to write a paper on the origins of conflict in the Middle East. In those pre-Internet days, I read what I could find at home and at the library, following trails that took me

Solidarity with Israel-Palestine

October 25, 2016 No Comments

Peace in the Middle East. Ever since I was a child, I remember hearing this phrase. In sixth grade, I took on an extra credit challenge to write a paper on the origins of conflict in the Middle East. In those pre-Internet days, I read what I could find at home and at the library, following trails that took me