AFSC Kansas City

Kansas City interns January 2013

From left: AFSC KC Program Coordinator Ira Harritt; interns Isabella Fassi, Pearl Webb and Joshua Smith; and Interim Regional Director Margaret Jackson gather at the January 2013 showing of the Kansas City entries in AFSC’s If I Had a Trillion Dollars youth film festival.

 

From organizing training to video production to spoken word art, three youth interns in AFSC’s Kansas City office are completing a productive, creative school year’s worth of peacemaking.

Pearl Webb, Isabella Fassi and Joshua Smith recently spoke with Jon Krieg about the impact of their work on the youth involved and on themselves. To read the full interviews, please click here.

Pearl Webb and Isabella Fassi, KC interns 2012

AFSC Kansas City interns Isabella Fassi, left, and Pearl Webb unfold a graphic demonstrating that 60% of discretionary federal spending goes to the Pentagon. The seated students are from Paseo Arts Academy.

Pearl Webb, Isabella Fassi, and Joshua Smith started interning with AFSC in August 2012, to lead youth civic engagement and social action projects in the Kansas City area. Along with Program Coordinator Ira Harritt, the interns teach high school-aged youth about issues in their communities, injustice in the U.S., and how they can help put an end to the injustice and promote greater peace.

Ira Harritt at Visions of Peace at the Crossroads 6-1-12

Ira Harritt, AFSC Kansas City Program Coordinator, shows his hand at Visions of Peace at the Crossroads, a peace / arts festival held in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City on June 1. For more photos from the festival, please click here.

What’s your vision of peace?

Ira Harritt

Ira Harritt is AFSC's Program Coordinator in Kansas City.

By Ira Harritt, AFSC Kansas City Program Coordinator

Thanks to all Kansas Citians who participated in the Occupy the Dream: Dr. King on Economic Justice and the Occupy Wall Street Movement forum on January 16. The event was powerful and engaged over 200 area residents in consideration of King’s call for economic justice, the civil rights movement and the Occupy movement. 

Mutual Compassion mural art from KC

"Mutual Compassion" is a mural created by youth in the Kansas City area in response to Windows and Mirrors, a traveling AFSC exhibit on the war in Afghanistan.

By Ira Harritt, AFSC Kansas City Area Program Coordinator