Fellowship of Reconciliation Louisville Chapter

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of radical social change through education and coalition building. We engage social justice issues through nonviolent action locally, nationally, and globally.

Many of our supporters attend the ongoing Third Thursday Lunches. Others remember the FORsooth print newspaper. Occasional articles continue online.

Our mission remains the same, a focus on peace and justice in the world, the country, and Louisville. Here is a sample of the work we are doing and we invite you to join us:

• Attending Third Thursday Lunches at Hotel Louisville fall, winter, and spring, with speakers from the local activist communities. These talks are also available on Forward Radio, (WFMP-LP 106.5,) a community radio that we helped launch 9 years ago;
• protesting immigrant detention in Kentucky jails and prison;
• Gaza ceasefire coalition work and weekly vigils against the U.S. and Israeli wars in the Middle East which are continuing attacks on Palestinians and Lebanese;
• opposing both the Russian invasion of Ukraine & the purported 6-week war on Iran;
• opposing, educating, and leafletting on April 15 Tax Day about the first trillion-dollar Pentagon budget and beyond ,while bringing awareness to shortfalls for social supports in our society;
• leafleting at the Annual Showcase of Schools against JROTC in schools and tracking students leaving JROTC programs to show how the programs should be closed.

We would also like to share with you some of our successes over the past year:

• met with and helped to educate, Rep. McGarvey who now opposes providing more weapons for Israel and has stopped taking AIPAC money;
• lobbied successfully to stop a legislative bill to require all Kentucky law enforcement agencies—including school SRO police—to sign a contract that would have mandated these agencies support ICE as a part of their daily work.
• once again, we are creating the most widely distributed JCPS school board candidate questionnaire, reaching far more Jefferson County people than in-person forums (this year, there are 20 candidates in five races because of the Kentucky legislatures bills to reduce local control.  FOR helped get the first immigrant candidate to run to represent that community)—survey to be published: louisvillefor.org/aim-higher;

We hope you will join us at the activities, suggest new ways to focus on peace and justice, and contribute to our organization.