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Through our work, we have found the following messages to be effective in talking with members of Congress about Palestinian children in Israeli military detention.

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Jennifer Piper is Interfaith Organizing Director in AFSC’s Denver Immigrant Rights program. 

 

 

In December, AFSC gathered Quakers and faith leaders from many denominations to respond to the migrant caravans escaping poverty and violence in Central America and seeking safety in the U.S. – only to face the Trump administration’s cruel policies to separate families, detain immigrants, and expand the border wall.

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Q+A with Sahar Vardi, manager of AFSC’s Israel Program based in East Jerusalem
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This past winter, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists confirmed that their Doomsday Clock remains set at two minutes to midnight – the closest we have been to nuclear catastrophe since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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  • Read more about West Virginians with qualifying nonviolent felonies may now petition for expungement
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