19 Aug, 2024
Beyond Refuge: Empowering Rohingya to Lead Their Own Future
Beyond Refuge: Empowering Rohingya to Lead Their Own Future by Chris Houston 623 words “The vast majority of my people...
19 Aug, 2024
14 Jul, 2023
Jenin, Israel, America
Jenin, Israel, America by Russell Vandenbroucke 710 words This year’s celebrations of American independence straddled Israel’s most intense airstrikes on Palestinians...
2 Jul, 2023
Which Life Do You Save? (Spoiler Alert: All of Them)
Which Life Do You Save? (Spoiler Alert: All of Them) by Wim Laven 592 words Mother Teresa said: “If I...
1 Jul, 2023
Echoes of the SS St. Louis today
Echoes of the SS St. Louis today by Derek Royden 671 words On May 13th, 1939, the SS St. Louis,...
21 Jun, 2023
The Right to Seek Safety
The Right to Seek Safety by Kathy Kelly 931 words Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves...
25 May, 2023
Creating a Cooperative World?
Creating a Cooperative World? by Robert C. Koehler 935 words “Go back to where you came from.” This is basic...
1 May, 2023
The Time Has Come to Build a Viable Global System of Collective Security
The Time Has Come to Build a Viable Global System of Collective Security by Sovaida Maani Ewing 878 words One...
7 Sep, 2022
My Mother the refugee
“Frances, do you remember the time we were all lined up against a wall to be shot?” I was in my early 20s and at an afternoon family gathering. As we sat on the patio chatting, my aunt – my mother’s older sister – asked my mother this question.
18 Aug, 2022
With wars to wage, who can afford peace?
Texas and Arizona have begun busing refugees at their border – at a cost of millions – up to a couple liberal Northern cities . . . let’s see how they like it!
16 Jun, 2022
The Case for Stopping the Ukraine-Russia War
The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days. Now is a critical time to reflect on the case for people of good will to urge their leaders to end the war...
22 Nov, 2021
Most Americans look favorably on global governance
Amid all the flag-waving, chants of “USA, USA,” and other nationalist hoopla that characterize mainstream politics in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that most Americans favor global governance...
22 Oct, 2021
Democrats: Don’t Compromise on a Path to Citizenship
Congressional Democrats are now considering a watered-down version of immigration reform, a version they might hope to send through the budget reconciliation process as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spending bill...
6 May, 2021
Battling Xenophobia
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer.
8 Apr, 2021
Trapped at the border: Their fate is our fate
You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for Americans. Oh, what to do, what to do?
3 Jan, 2020
Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
“In the past year, the struggle over immigration rights continued along a broad array of fronts. There were significant setbacks,...