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Prison and Profit in Arizona

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Part 1: Lack of AZ laws allow for-profit prisons to stay quiet about inmates. Caroline Isaacs weighs in.

Part 2: Lobbyists tie AZ Gov. Brewer to for-profit prisons, immigrant detention.

AFSC NYMRO comments on NY Islamic Center

Hand Writing a statement

The AFSC's New York Metropolitan Region along with Friends from New York Yearly Meeting have released a statement about the proposed Islamic Community Center near the site of the World Trade Towers.

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Rally at T. Don Hutto Detention Center

AFSC and its partners marked the one year anniversary of when family detention ended at T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center.


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Help us reaffirm our call for complete removal of all U.S. forces and bases from Iraq

Email the White House to commend the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. forces, and help us reaffirm our call for complete removal of all U.S. forces and bases from Iraq.

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Write a letter about Gen. Petraeus' media campaign

General David Petraeus is waging war on two fronts – one in Afghanistan and one in the media. He’s trying to persuade the American public that we are in Afghanistan to protect civilians and that the current military course is, as he said in the Washington Post, “fundamentally sound.” The facts say something else entirely.

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