Webinars: News & Updates

Selected articles, columns, editorials, letters, sermons, poems, talks and testimonies over four decades on economic, environmental and social justice; democracy; foreign policy/peace/nonviolence and systemic change/movements. Their analysis and calls to action are as timely today as ever. Greg Coleridge is the Outreach Director of the national Move to Amend coalition, which works to enact a Constitutional Amendment to abolish corporate constitutional rights (“corporate personhood” for short) and political money defined as First Amendment-protected “free speech.” He previously worked for more than three decades for the Midwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized with diverse individuals and organizations at the local, state and national levels employing a range of strategies and tactics on issues of peace/anti-war, nonviolence, international trade, economic conversion, local and federal budget priorities, monetary reform, housing, privatization/corporatization of public services, hunger, jobs, poverty, local currencies, alternative media, toxic/radioactive pollution, campaign finance reform and corporate power/rule/rights.

Race, Equity, and the Lead Crisis - Part 1

This is the next in UUJO’s (Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio) series, Connecting the Dots: Planet, People, Power. Learn how to support the work being done to bring equity and health to marginalized communities suffering from the devastating effects of lead poisoning. University Circle is home to cutting edge medical facilities. However, in the area surrounding University Circle an estimated 30 to 50 percent of children under the age of 6 suffer from lead poisoning.

IFOR-International Fellowship of Reconciliation, together with FOR Peace Presence and FOR Austria, is pleased to invite you to an anniversary webinar series to celebrate 25 years of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó and 20 years of FOR Peace Presence. Topics in the three-part webinar series will include "20 Years of International Accompaniment in Colombia," "The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: 25 Years of Resistance to Violence, " and "Peace Efforts in Colombia: Current Challenges and Opportunities." The program will be available in both Spanish and English.

Join the Colombia Support Network as the three speakers Eduardo Pizarro, Carlos Velandia and Camilo Villarreal talk about the current political situation in Colombia, the country's outlook on peace and democracy and the upcoming elections.