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A letter from John Lindsay-Poland

If you live in the United States, you know that our country is in an emergency, as we respond to the racist fear-mongering of a new presidency. You may be less aware of the continuing emergencies in other nations such as Colombia. But human rights workers there...

Today: A decade of protection in Colombia

By FOR Colombia On February 7, 2002, the first FOR human rights accompaniment team arrived to accompany the people of La Union in Colombia. Today as we celebrate FOR’s tenth anniversary of presence in the peace community, we are members of a community full of life:...

Homecomings to Far Away Places

By Liza Smith Foristas in front of the new La Union library What does it mean to be connected to a place that is not your own, to people who are strange and different from you, to a way of life that will never be yours? We pondered these questions over the last two...