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Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

{Ed. Note: The recent death of Gene Sharp, the renowned strategist and thinker on active nonviolence, provokes us to newly consider his writings and teachings. René Wadlow revisits an essay he originally wrote during the period of the Arab Spring revolutions,

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

{Ed. Note: The recent death of Gene Sharp, the renowned strategist and thinker on active nonviolence, provokes us to newly consider his writings and teachings. René Wadlow revisits an essay he originally wrote during the period of the Arab Spring revolutions,

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Complicating Narratives: The 2018 FOR Pacific Northwest Conference

Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation is excited to announce programming for the annual Northwest U.S. regional FOR conference this coming summer, June 30 to July 3, 2018. Please see details below about this year’s “Complicating Narratives” theme, for which the program

February 6, 2018 No Comments

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Who Is Responsible for the Protests in Iran?

In the final days of 2017, a series of anti-government rallies took place in Iran, taking by surprise both international observers and the Iranian society. Some argue the root cause was the nation’s poor economy and financial difficulties, while others

January 16, 2018 No Comments

Who Is Responsible for the Protests in Iran?

In the final days of 2017, a series of anti-government rallies took place in Iran, taking by surprise both international observers and the Iranian society. Some argue the root cause was the nation’s poor economy and financial difficulties, while others

January 16, 2018 No Comments

Revolutionary Nonviolence and Dialectical Thinking

By Matt Meyer Dialectics can help sharpen our strategies, intensify our struggles, and push us past seemingly intractable odds. Simply put, dialectics are the ways in which our many truths and definitions of the world—including and sometimes especially our

October 18, 2017 No Comments

Trumpeting Revolutionary Nonviolence at Rosh Hashanah: For a New Year Against White Supremacy

There is a certain ache in my heart and head at having not been on the front lines in Charlottesville, Virginia. Every fiber of my being now wants to rush out to St. Louis, Missouri. Twice now, Sahar Alsahlani, the

September 19, 2017 No Comments

Trumpeting Revolutionary Nonviolence at Rosh Hashanah: For a New Year Against White Supremacy

There is a certain ache in my heart and head at having not been on the front lines in Charlottesville, Virginia. Every fiber of my being now wants to rush out to St. Louis, Missouri. Twice now, Sahar Alsahlani, the

September 19, 2017 No Comments

Solidarity with the Nonviolent Protesters in Morocco

By the Atlanta Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation A solidarity statement issued on July 30, 2017 The Fellowship of Reconciliation is an organization dedicated to the struggles of nonviolence. Momentous organizing is happening in Al Hoceima, Morocco—the result of

July 31, 2017 No Comments

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