In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s finalContinue reading
At Risk of Being Dupes
Here in Russia, where I have been traveling as part of a small delegation organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence, the people with whom we have spoken have no illusions about war and its effects.Continue reading
“My vote is for disarmament, and yesterday was my early vote.”
– an update from Steve Baggarly on his protest at Oceana Naval Air Station – Friends, Thank you so much for the support and prayers as I went to court yesterday. I ended up pleadingContinue reading
Tags and Numbers
“Do you remember in history when we would tag and number people?” asked Brother Johannes. Yellow band, number 67. When a refugee and migrant register, they receive a different color bracelet and on it isContinue reading
Connections – by Frank Pauc
Dignified. That’s the adjective that first comes to mind when I remember my recent meeting with Jerome Dillard. Jerome is an African-American gentleman; self-confident and at ease in the world. He’s the kind of manContinue reading
More Pictures from Sabia in Calais, France
One email we received from Sabia, simply contained these words: “It has begun.”
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