Human Rights Day was celebrated yesterday in Rhode Island with a vigil outside the Dorcas Institute in South Providence. Organized by AFSC-SENE and Jewish Voice for Peace, there were attendees from Bell St Chapel and the Sisters of Mercy, as well as a couple of “hard-core” atheists. All were gathered in community to “stand together against the hate and fear,” to welcome refugees to our state and to “stand with our Muslim brothers and sisters.”

As the organizers said, hate and fear are not working, “let us see what love can do.”