“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading
Barwendé Médard Sané, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, July 2021 The USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice is proud to announce our first international initiative. Fr. Barwendé Médard Sané, the institute’s first Jesuit Graduate Fellow, has developed a teaching and training… Continue Reading
One year ago, on July 17, 2000, we lost two of the greatest heroes of the nonviolent Black Freedom Movement of the United States: Rev. C. T. Vivian, and Congressman John Lewis. We share below is a short video clip… Continue Reading
Today, the birthday anniversary of Nelson Mandela. Millions who loved him affectionately called him Madiba. Today the whole world celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day. We remember Madiba and honor him. How can we honor him properly? By following in his… Continue Reading
June 19, 2021 Reflections on Juneteenth Jonathan D. Greenberg Today we celebrate the emancipation of Black Americans who had been enslaved as chattel, their humanity brutally denied. Juneteenth has been celebrated as Jubilee Day, or Freedom Day, or Emancipation… Continue Reading
Today, April 27, we celebrate the birthday of Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 — January 30, 2006), one of the most influential and transformative leaders in 20th century American and global history, and we honor her blessed memory.
The epithet dirty Jew is the scourge of our time. It’s a lie! — and it is all the more odious and cynical that they lie with impunity… They stir up France, they hide behind its legitimate emotion, they close… Continue Reading
Sarah Halimi was French, Parisian. She was an observant, Orthodox Jew. She was a doctor, a family practitioner. She was the director of an acclaimed government-funded preschool. She was the mother of two daughters and one son. Sarah Halimi lived… Continue Reading
Last week, a leading group of genocide scholars published a statement urging humanity to regard climate change and related environmental degradation created by human dependence on fossil fuels as an existential threat not only to the Earth’s ecosystems but to… Continue Reading
Today is the 14th anniversary of the mass shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech. On April 16, 2007, a student gunman murdered thirty-two fellow students and faculty members, ranging in age from 18 to 76, before taking his own… Continue Reading
