News – Page 91

LATEST POSTS

20160301 how many global crises can 15 year old afghan take including water crisis

How many global crises can a 15 year old Afghan take on, including the water crisis?

February 29, 2016 No Comments

On 31st Jan, I followed Zekerullah, an Afghan Peace Volunteer who coordinates the Borderfree Street Kids School in Kabul, to visit Zuhair (right) and his family in their rented room. Zuhair attends the School on Fridays with 92 other working and street kids, a minuscule number in the context of 6 million working children in Afghanistan. My heart squirmed at the

Voices for Creative Nonviolence activists enter drone base with a loaf of bread

February 24, 2016 No Comments

Camp Douglas, WI — On Tuesday, Brian Terrell and I, peace activists with Voices for Creative Nonviolence, were arrested when we attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to drone operators at Volk Field — an Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin which trains pilots to operate Shadow drones over other countries. Voices activists have lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan,

Voices for Creative Nonviolence activists enter drone base with a loaf of bread

February 24, 2016 No Comments

Camp Douglas, WI — On Tuesday, Brian Terrell and I, peace activists with Voices for Creative Nonviolence, were arrested when we attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to drone operators at Volk Field — an Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin which trains pilots to operate Shadow drones over other countries. Voices activists have lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan,

Washington is listening: #GiveRefugeesRest

February 10, 2016 No Comments

Nearly one month ago, we launched Give Refugees Rest to end Islamophobia and welcome refugees. And I’m happy to report to you that elected officials are listening — and we have gained such momentum that we’re going to expand the campaign further. Your message taken directly to the Speaker of the House With your support — and some of your pillowcases — we sent a

Washington is listening: #GiveRefugeesRest

February 10, 2016 No Comments

Nearly one month ago, we launched Give Refugees Rest to end Islamophobia and welcome refugees. And I’m happy to report to you that elected officials are listening — and we have gained such momentum that we’re going to expand the campaign further. Your message taken directly to the Speaker of the House With your support — and some of your pillowcases — we sent a

May justice prevail in Rev. Sekou’s trial for praying in Ferguson

February 8, 2016 No Comments

As the trial of prominent St. Louis-based activist, author and theologian Reverend Osagyefo Sekou enters its second day, the corrupt and stagnant state of the Ferguson municipal court system is once again under a national spotlight. A verdict is expected this afternoon, some 500 days after the Rev. Sekou, FOR’s Bayard Rustin Fellow, was snatched off South Florissant Avenue after he