Beverly Archibald is a member of Manhattan Monthly Meeting since 2003 and has volunteered with AFSC as a letter writer and “camp mom” for 2 years. James Shipside is a British Quaker and a member of Cambridge Meeting in the United Kingdom.

The past decade has seen a handful of significant victories for the criminal justice reform movement, including the election of so-called progressive prosecutors across the country, a proposed overhaul of California’s cash bail system, the

Anti-Semitic attacks are growing. From the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, to the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, to statements from the highest levels of government that repeat anti-Semitic tropes, there has been a very real increase in harms and threats to Jewish communities in the United States.  

These words and actions need to be taken seriously and countered. And we must actively oppose discrimination in all forms. 

Last month, formerly incarcerated people and their families gathered at the West Virginia State Capitol to release the final report of the West Virginia criminal justice listening project and the report’s policy recommendations.  

Update: In late September 2020, a federal judge in California blocked these USCIS fee increases from going into effect, pending further litigation. 

The Trump administration wants to impose another hurdle for immigrants applying for legal immigration status in the U.S.—hiking fees for people applying for citizenship and, for the first time, charging a fee to those seeking asylum.