Events

Building the Beloved Community

On December 11, 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King said "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.  Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love." 

Marshhall Eddie Conway Freedom School Open House

Monday, January 16, 2012 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm

American Friends Service Committee's Baltimore Youth Empowerment through Conflict Resolution Program and Maryland Peace with Justice Program + Pleasant Hope Baptist Church has

Contact Information: 

Mia Jones (mjones@afsc.org) 410 323-9200

Dominique Stevenson (dstevenson@afsc.org) 410-323-7200

Goldstone, Gaza and Accountability for Operation Cast Lead

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 4:10pm

A Call to the Community of Conscience: Goldstone, Gaza, and Accountability for Cast Lead

Public event featuring Adam Horowitz and Ali Abunimah

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

6:30 pm

University of Chicago, Kent 107, 1020 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by AFSC and Students for Justice In Palestine/Univ. of Chicago

*Adam Horowitz is a Jewish activist, co-editor of Mondoweiss and co-editor of "The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Investigation of the Gaza Conflict."

Contact Information: 

Miryam Rashid, 312-427-2533 x18 or Sami, skk@uchicago.edu

Documents: 
Gaza in Crisis

The US Social Forum

Darryl Jordan, Director of the Third World Coilition

Once again The American Friends Service Committee will be active participants at the U.S. Social Forum (USSF), ready to spark change.  Darryl Jordan, Director of AFSC's Third World Coalition, talked about the USSF, its importance, the participants and AFSC’s goal for the forum.

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Living on the Edge: An Eyewitness Account of Village Life under Occupation

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

 

64 year-old former journalist Sharen Green speaks about her experience as a human rights monitor in Palestine last summer as part of a World Council of Churches program. Green tells the story of life in Jayyous, a once wealthy Palestinian village which has been reduced to poverty by a military occupation that gets more draconian by the day.

 

Contact Information: 

Miryam at (312) 427-2533 x 18

Email: 
mrashid@afsc.org

Zawadi Nikuze Poster

Feel free to download and share this poster.

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Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon, United Nations General Secretary.

Chicago Hearing Flyer 04-18-10

A flyer for the mock congressional hearing on Sunday, April 18th, 2010.

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