Peace & Human Rights
New report challenges long held stereotypes concerning homeless people in the US.
Federal prosecutors in Arizona announced Tuesday that they will seek a retrial in the case of humanitarian aid volunteer Scott Warren, who could face several years in prison for providing food, water, clean clothes, and beds to migrants in the desert. #nomoredeaths #humanitarianaidisneveracrime #waternotwalls
Rejecting the notion that denouncing the Trump administration’s immigrant detention centers as “concentration camps” does harm to the memory of the Holocaust, 200 Jewish people demonstrated at a facility in New Jersey Sunday evening and demanded the release of the thousands of immigrants in U.S. custody. #NeverAgainIsNow
Do you find yourself grappling to find a ‘no’ and your vocabulary involuntarily slips out an unwilling ‘yes’? Do you know how to decline effortlessly? You need to read and memorize these 4 simple yet effective answers…
16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the youth-led movement she inspired were honored Friday with Amnesty International’s top human rights award.
The very values that America upholds are the ones that they use to break up immigrant families and asylum seekers, both physically and emotionally.
If Dr. Warren were convicted and imprisoned on these absurd charges, he would be a prisoner of conscience.
Don Miguel’s book, The Four Agreements kept coming to mind as a I thought about the ways in which we all could be more proactive in our daily lives to help create a healthier consciousness on our planet. The Four Agreements has been read and utilized by millions of people and is the perfect tool to use to help heal humanity.
When we make a conscious choice regarding what we think about rather than just letting our brain run rampant, a funny thing happens…you realize that you are not your thoughts! You are, rather, the observer behind them; the conscious listener per se. And you realize as well that this consciousness you are, is ever-present, and infinite and if you’re anything like me when this hit my heart, an unimaginable wave of peace will overcome you.
Peace and justice are not utopian dreams but real and practical ways in which humans can live and affect the world around them.
In a rebuke to the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies and rhetoric, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma gave a performance at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, where he praised culture’s ability to “build bridges, not walls.” #buildbridgesnotwalls
An article by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about the moral fabric of world peace, compassion as the pillar of world peace, and serving humanity with a kind heart.
After spending several hours at the U.S.-Mexico border with attorneys and immigrant rights advocates on Saturday, 29 parents separated from their children then deported under President Donald Trump’s so-called “zero tolerance” policy were allowed to take a crucial step toward applying for asylum and reuniting with their kids. #ReunifyFamilies
Declaring to chief executives that they refuse “to become war profiteers,” a group of Microsoft workers on Friday demanded the company cancel a contract with the U.S. Army that they say would “help people kill” and turn warfare into a “video game.” #stopwar
In situations of growing desperation, it’s natural to want to blame someone or some group of people, especially when our loudest leaders are constantly presenting us with an enemy to focus on. We’ve been inundated with messages in the last three years inciting us to blame immigrants for all our troubles, whether it’s lack of jobs or the cost of health care. Baloney. We all know that our system of unchecked capitalism is to blame. #istandwithimmigrants
