ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE AND PEACEMAKING |
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The Key to a Sustainable Future Is Resisting Violence Every Day
In The Nonviolence Handbook, Michael Nagler provides a clear and accessible guide to what he sees as the only path to sustainable justice: the philosophy and practice of nonviolence. Nagler suggests that when we exhibit patience and refrain from criticizing others harshly—things many people already do—we’re building nonviolent potential. The key is to consciously resist violence every day. MORE
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Enough For Everyone — A Nonviolent Approach to Economics
In an interview with Nonviolence Radio, political philosopher Michael Allen explains the intricacies and promise of Gandhi’s humanized approach to economics. It is a philosophical approach to life and economics that is in Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign for revolution that involves an entire paradigm shift and systems change. MORE
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Iran's Research Reactors Prove the Nuclear Deal Is Still Working
Even in the Iran nuclear deal's weakened state, it continues to provide permanent solutions to potential proliferation concerns. Research Analyst Samuel Hickey says that not only has the nuclear deal been effective in constraining Iran’s program, but it could, suitably adapted, provide a standard of guidance for research reactor construction that would lower proliferation risks worldwide. MORE
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Why Are We Still Building Nuclear Weapons? Follow the Money
Why is the United States still building nuclear weapons, more than seven decades after the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The Pentagon’s 30-year plan to build new nuclear-armed bombers, missiles, and submarines is the height of folly and an unnecessary, grave risk to the lives of current and future generations. A major reason for this misguided policy can be summed up in a phrase – there is money to be made in perpetuating the nuclear arms race. MORE
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TAKE ACTION: Help Save Lives in Afghanistan
Tens of thousands whose lives are at risk for standing up for women’s rights, human rights and working as translators and contractors for the United States government. Faith in Action urges us to tell President Biden and our Members of Congress that they must immediately evacuate as many Afghans as possible and remove the cap on refugees so those who want can leave the country. TAKE ACTION
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ICE Announces New Victim-Centered Policy, Showing a Favorable Shift Toward Vulnerable Immigrants
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new policy designed to honor and protect vulnerable immigrants. The new policy addresses protections for survivors of violence, trafficking, and domestic abuse. This new announcement is not just a shift in policy, but a shift in tone and philosophy for an agency that has traditionally cast a skeptical eye to all undocumented migrants, regardless of their status as survivors. MORE
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In Texas, a Quarantine Camp for Migrants with Covid-19
An emergency quarantine camp has been set up for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border who test positive for COVID. About 1,000 migrants have been housed there so far. Yet the prevalence of the virus among migrants thus far has been no greater than among the U.S. population overall and the highest positivity rates in the country are not in communities along the border. Rather, they are in areas with low vaccination rates and no mask mandates. MORE
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TAKE ACTION: Stop the Money Pipeline
The Glasgow Climate Talks at COP26 are a historic opportunity for the world to take meaningful action on the climate crisis. When nations signed the Paris Agreement, they agreed to push their climate commitments even further. But since that time US banks have loaned more than $1 trillion to the fossil fuel industry. 350.org urges us to tell Biden & the financial industry to end their support for companies engaged in climate destruction. TAKE ACTION
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Bill Gates Pledges $1.5B For Climate Projects in Infrastructure Bill
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has pledged $1.5 billion from his climate investment fund to collaborate with the federal government on renewable energy projects if the White House-backed infrastructure package becomes law. The package, which passed the Senate 69-30 this week, includes $25 billion for the Energy Department as well as over $100 billion toward improved grid resilience and incentives for transportation electrification. MORE
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Infrastructure Bill Includes Energy Efficiency Grants for Houses of Worship
Buried on Page 1,729 of the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill is a project titled "Energy efficiency materials pilot program." It would fund $50 million in grants to nonprofits, including religious congregations, so they can buy new energy-efficient heating and cooling systems for their buildings. The program would provide grants of up to $200,000 to purchase new HVAC units and generators or replace windows and doors to make them more energy-efficient. MORE
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Former San Diego Strip Club to Be Replaced with Center for Trafficking Victims
In 2018, San Diego’s the Rock Church and several investors purchased a nightclub in San Diego’s Midway District with a plan to allow the business’s adult entertainment license to lapse and then sell the property. Since then a new plan was hatched to help repurpose the 4,000-square-foot building into a place where sex-trafficking victims can come to get information on shelters, counseling, education, and job opportunities that can help them leave the sex trade behind. MORE
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Texas Is the First State to Make Buying Sex a Felony. Will This Help Trafficking Victims?
Texas charted new legal territory by becoming the first state to make buying sex a felony. The state passed the new law to crack down on so-called “johns” who pay for sex, in an attempt to shift punitive blame away from victims of trafficking. While some experts say the law reflects a new wave of systemic reform and could help trafficked people by deterring demand, others say it misses the mark and instead will further tie the victims up in the legal system. MORE
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT |
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‘I Worry My Daughters Will Never Know Peace’: Women Flee the Taliban – Again
It is estimated that nearly a million Afghans have been displaced in the past few months. The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations estimates that nearly 70% of the displaced are women and children. But most Afghan women do not need a government agency to tell them that the Taliban are using women as “weapons of war”. They are old enough to remember what happened when they attacked in the 1990s. MORE
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Cuomo Resigns Amid Scandals, Ending Decade-Long Run in Disgrace
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said last week that he would resign from office, succumbing to a ballooning sexual harassment scandal in an astonishing reversal of fortune for one of the nation’s best-known leaders. Mr. Cuomo said his resignation would take effect in 14 days. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, will be sworn in to replace him, becoming the first woman in history to occupy New York State’s top office. MORE
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‘Women Are Routinely Discredited’: How Courts Fail Mothers and Children Who Have Survived Abuse
Mothers who accuse their partners of abuse can be seen as the “less cooperative” parent in custody and visitation cases because they’re not facilitating a relationship between father and child – a relationship the court sees as important for the child’s development. Opposing counsel can portray them as combative and intransigent, making their clients appear to be better custodial parents. As a result, mothers often find themselves on the defensive. MORE
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND INCOME INEQUALITY |
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TAKE ACTION: Demand a Build Back Better Budget That Invests in Working Families―Paid for by the Rich and Corporations
The House is returning Monday to vote on a budget resolution that represents the most ambitious investment in working people, children, and seniors since FDR enacted the New Deal in 1933. When the rich and corporations pay their fair share, we can ease the burden of high costs on working families and build an economy that rewards work, not wealth. Americans for Tax Fairness invites us to tell our representatives to vote yes on the budget resolution. TAKE ACTION
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Housing Advocates Welcome CDC Eviction Moratorium but Say It’s Not Enough
Despite a new two-month moratorium on evictions issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, millions of people in the U.S. are still at risk of losing their homes as landlords in some states fight back against the measure. Tenants’ rights advocates are calling the new CDC moratorium “a band-aid over a bullet wound” that will actually not offer the protections that are needed to keep people in their homes. MORE
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Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps
The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and prompted the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program’s history, a move that will give people living in poverty more power to fill their grocery carts but add billions of dollars to the cost of a program that feeds one in eight Americans. Under rules to be put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from pre-pandemic levels. MORE
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John Ramirez is scheduled to be executed on September 8 by the state of Texas for the murder of Pablo Castro. Please hold John, Pablo, their families, and the people of Texas in prayer. TAKE ACTION
Rick Rhoades is scheduled to be executed on September 28 by the state of Texas for the murders of Charles Allen and Bradley Allen. Please hold Rick, Charles, Bradley, their families, and the people of Texas in prayer. TAKE ACTION
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