By FOR Thursday, November 29, 2012, 3:57pm We have exciting news about the impact of your work on the San José de Apartadó Peace Community. This year, while celebrating the Peace Community’s 15-year anniversary, we interviewed community members about why the...
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Why accompaniment in Colombia? Peace community members speak
Posted by FOR Colombia For 10 years, FOR volunteers have been accompanying the Peace Community in Colombia every single day. Our previous anniversary video included interviews of former FOR volunteers who had returned to Colombia in August 2011 to visit the peace...
Reflections from FOR Colombia peace accompaniers
Posted by FOR Colombia Monday, September 10, 2012, 6:02pm
Stepping up your nonviolence: volunteer and training opportunities
By FOR “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (based on “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” from Stride Toward Freedom) Join the FOR Colombia Peace Team “I’ve been doing political work or solidarity work for most of my life, and...
Urgent action for safety of a Colombia Peace Community
By FOR Threatening phone calls. Illegal detentions. And a family’s home burned down. That’s what members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia have had to face just in the past month. Join us in calling on the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia to demand a...
Indigenous Nasa Resist Militarization in Cauca
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1:52am by Gina Spigarelli On July 11, the indigenous Nasa of Cauca, Colombia began confronting armed groups face to face and peacefully asking them to leave Nasa territories. They removed police trenches from the urban center...
Indigenous Nasa Resist Militarization in Cauca
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1:52am by Gina Spigarelli See Cauca Up Close: We Women Warriors We Women Warriors features a profile of Nasa leader Flor Ilva Trochez, who led a peaceful movement to dismantle police barracks. Filmmaker Nicole Karsin writes:...
Nashville, TN: The Courage to Refuse War: Colombian conscientious objector speaks
The Fellowship of Reconciliation presents an informal evening of conversation with a Colombia conscientious objector at the home of Bill Northrup, member of FOR’s National Council: The Courage to RefuseWar: A path to promote nonviolence and social justice Colombian...