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American Friends Service Committee - Quaker Values In Action
the american friends service committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
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Extractions: Hurricane Katrina AFSC has already given $1 million for food relief for hurricane evacuees. We are coordinating a long-term response with poor and immigrant communities who have borne the brunt of Hurricane Katrina. You can make a gift to our Crisis Fund by sending a check to AFSC or using our secure donation form Opt-Out of Military Recruitment Back to School?
American Friends Service Committee - Quaker Values In Action
the american friends service committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice
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Wage Peace Campaign : AFSC
the american friends service committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization thatincludes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace,
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Extractions: Support the Homeward Bound Resolution Join AFSC and thousands of peace supporters in writing Congress. Ask them to support H.J.Res. 55, a bipartisan resolution that calls on the President to announce a plan for troop withdrawal by the end of this year, turn over all military operations to the elected Iraqi government, and begin troop withdrawal as soon as possible. Thanks for your support We've sent more than 1300 letters to newspapers in support of Cindy Sheehan and peace in Iraq. Thank you! Sign the Petition Join more than 50,000 others in telling Congress and the President to bring the troops home. Current News in Context Read our weblog about notable trends and events in Iraq.
Redirect Youth And Militarism Program
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Death Penalty Religious Home
Coordinated by the american friends service committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and
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American Friends Service Committee - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
the american friends service committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ofFriends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice,
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Extractions: American Friends Service Committee logo The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends Quaker ) affiliated organization which works for social justice peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty , and human rights , and provides humanitarian relief. The group was founded in as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends and assisted civilian victims of war Because Quakers traditionally oppose violence in all of its forms and therefore refuse to serve in the military , the AFSC's original mission was to provide conscientious objectors (COs) to war with a constructive alternative to military service. In AFSC received the Nobel Peace Prize along with the British Friends Service Council, now called Quaker Peace and Social Witness , on behalf of all Quakers worldwide. edit In April days after the United States joined World War I and declared war on Germany and its allies a group of Quakers met in Philadelphia to discuss the pending military draft and how it would affect members of peace churches such as Quakers
Peacework Magazine: September 2005 Issue
Published by the american friends service committee, Peacework offers Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change .
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Extractions: Peacework has been published monthly since 1972, intended to serve as a source of dependable information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social change necessary to achieve them. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. Peacework seeks to serve as an incubator for social transformation, introducing a younger generation to a deeper analysis of problems and issues, reminding and re-inspiring long-term activists, encouraging the generations to listen to each other, and creating space for the voices of the disenfranchised. Contents:
American Friends Service Committee - Western Massachusetts
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The Religious Society Of Friends
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Common Dreams News Views
American Friends Service Committee Denounces the Passage of CAFTA. NOW FDA Endangers Women's Health With Silicone Breast Implant Decision
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American Friends Service Committee - History Of Organization
the american friends service committee (AFSC) was founded in 1917 by members ofthe Religious Society of Friends in the United States in order to provide
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Extractions: HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL These programs are varied indeed. Through the years, the Committee has perhaps been best known for its work of relief and rehabilitation for the victims of war. In 1917, at its inception, it sent young men and women to France where they worked in cooperation with British Friends, feeding and caring for refugee children, founding a maternity hospital, repairing and rebuilding homes, and providing returning refugees with the necessities with which to start life once more. With the cessation of hostilities in 1918, the work of the Service Committee spread into other war-ravaged lands: into Russia where workers helped to fight famine and disease, into Poland and Serbia where they established an orphanage and helped in agricultural rehabilitation, into Germany and Austria where they fed hungry children. Eventually the Quaker service teams completed these tasks and went home, leaving behind them small Quaker centers to supervise the turnover of projects and to give support to the small groups of nationals who had become interested in Quakerism during the time of war relief. Scarcely, however, had the problems of World War I been met than the problems of the 1930's called forth fresh efforts. Quaker workers were soon engaged in helping refugees escape from Hitler's Germany; in providing relief for children on both sides of the Spanish Civil War; with feeding refugees in occupied France; and later, in helping victims of the London blitz.
American Friends Service Committee Denounces The Passage Of CAFTA
the american friends service committee (AFSC), an international social justice organization, denounces the passage of the Central American
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American Friends Service Committee
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Federal Bureau Of Investigation - Freedom Of Information Privacy Act
the american friends service committee (AFSC) was originally formed in 1917 toprovide conscientious objectors opportunities to aid civilian victims during
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Extractions: American Friends Service Committee 3,498 pages The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was originally formed in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors opportunities to aid civilian victims during World War I. This material concerns the activities of the AFSC during the 1920's through the 1970's. Part 01 Part 02 Part 03 Part 04 ... Privacy Act Request Form Major Information Systems Central Records System Fingerprint Identification Records System National Crime Information Center National DNA Index System ... Search All of these publications are in PDF (Portable Document Format). To view them you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in installed on your computer. The Reader can be downloaded at no cost from Adobe's site on the World Wide Web.
Chicago Great Lakes Region AFSC
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Reuters AlertNet - THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE APPLAUDS
AlertNet provides news, information and analysis for everyone interested inemergency relief. AlertNet is run by Reuters Foundation.
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Untitled Document
Effort to share ideas, strategies, and resources within the american friends service committee and peace community. Articles, resources, opportunities for activism, and peace pledge signup form.
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The American Friends Service Committee Winner Of The 1947 Nobel Prize In Peace
the american friends service committee, a Nobel Peace Laureate, at the NobelPrize Internet Archive.
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1-14-00 AFSC
What is the american friends service committee (AFSC) and why should we beinterested that a group from AFSC are coming to Earlham this coming week?
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Extractions: January 14, 2000 1917, when America entered the First World War, was a time of deep hostility toward Germanywhen sauerkraut had to be called "liberty cabbage," when any place named "Germantown" got a makeover (in Indiana East Germantown got renamed "Pershing" in honor of the General who was leading the American Expeditionary Force), when people were not supposed to listen to Beethoven or Brahms or any other "Hun" composer. The hostility was equally deep toward anyone who was not in favor of the war. Those who sought conscientious objector status were inducted into military service, from which they might be reassigned to a non-combatant or civilian alternative service. Those who objected to the draft itself, or refused induction, were sentenced to long prison sentences in brutal prisons. Some were in fact sentenced to death, though I do not believe any of those sentences were carried out. In that hostile milieu, the American Friends Service Committee was created, initially to provide ways for Quaker men and women to make a witness for peace and reconciliation. The AFSC organized reconstruction work in Europe during and after the First World War. The first AFSC volunteers to reach their assigned posts, according to Mary Hoxie Jones, was a group of nurses who had been sent to Russia. There were reconstruction projects in France and Belgium and child-feeding projects in Germany and Russia. There were similar programs during and after the Second World War, and after many other large and small conflicts. From the 1920's on, AFSC also developed a wide range of domestic programs to address issues of racism and economic and social injustice.

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