refugees

It breaks my heart to see so many friends and loved ones grieving for our country today. I know many of you, like me, are still processing this tectonic shift and what it means for our country [...]

If we don’t mobilize quickly, in the next few days, Congress may shut the door on long-suffering Syrian refugee families. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told House Republicans yesterday [...]

The Syrian Refugee Crisis & the U.S.: What is Our Responsibility? Three experts on the Syrian crisis will address the issues faced by refugees, the role of the U.S. in creating and solving [...]

Here are four books on Peace Action related issues I’ve read recently, all written by colleagues (okay maybe I need to balance these now with some non-political books!). What are you reading this [...]

How ironic…some believe god delivered the Jews from Egypt thousands of years ago, today it seems she has delivered the Palestinians to Egypt. In either case – it is a joke to say such [...]

When we talk about “Real Security through International Cooperation and the Funding of Human Needs” it is sometimes hard to understand what that means in terms of our daily lives.  On my way home [...]

This week we have all seen the horrors unfold the territory formerly known as Burma. It was renamed Myanmar in recent years by the ruling military junta.  Up until 2 weeks ago Myanmar was the [...]

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.” Marshall McLuhan [...]

It is hard to believe how much in our world has changed since the events of September 11th. I do not intend this post to paint a rosy picture of the world before the towers fell, only to mark how [...]

Financial Times recently reported the Gates Foundation is diverging from its primary missions, to irradiate AIDS and Malaria world-wide, and focusing $5 million “for a project granting [...]