One email we received from Sabia, simply contained these words: “It has begun.”
Category: Migration & Refugees
In the “Jungle”: Report from the Refugee Camp in Calais, France
“I was in jail with a Libyan man, his friends came and broke into the jail and let us go, too. There was fighting everywhere. You pray to be in jail with Libyans, because theyContinue reading
“Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life.”
On multiple occasions I have written about Mohammed and use his words in a first person narrative, more recently about their desperate life-threatening journey over a year ago. They went to Finland with the hope thatContinue reading
Pictures from Metasabia Rigby in Calais, France
Voices co-coordinator Metasabia Rigby has just arrived in Calais, where police are dismantling a camp where refugees wait to cross the chunnel into Britain. Most of them are from Afghanistan and Syria. The camp hasContinue reading
Policies of Exclusion Challenged Across the Board and Across the Border
On the morning of Oct. 8, a group of US veterans who were deported to Mexico, in some cases after having fought in U.S. wars, congregated in Plaza Ochoa, Nogales, Sonora. They were joined byContinue reading
Engaging the ISIS Threat
Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service We find widespread agreement that the methods chosen by ISIS and other groups espousing indiscriminate acts of terror are abhorrent. The recommended responses that I have heard suggested crossContinue reading
Update from Refugee Camp in Calais
Maya Evans, who coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence UK, sent us this report from Johannes Maertens, who is part of the London Catholic Worker and is currently setting up a house of hospitality in Calais.Continue reading
Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option: One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees
Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young for Denver Dialogues. In Brussels, more than 1,200 people protest against Europe’s unwillingness to do more about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, April 23rd, 2015. By Amnesty International. Today, oneContinue reading
A Swollen River of Refugees
David Smith-Ferri writes about meeting Iraqi friends seeking asylum in Finland. Last month, as US border patrol agents began rounding up Central American women and children denied asylum, a small group of international peace activistsContinue reading
Today Has Anyone Wept in Our World?
In July of 2013, Pope Francis visited the tiny island of Lampeduso off the coast of Italy. He offered mass on an altar made from a small wooden fishing boat which had brought refugees toContinue reading