Jody Mashek is director of legal services for AFSC’s Immigrant Rights Program in Iowa and is an accredited representative from the Department of Justice. She volunteered with the Kino Border Initiative and Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, with support from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) – an organization responding to the increasing need for legal assistance at the southern border.
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Demetrius Titus of AFSC's Michigan Criminal Justice Program created this lighthearted look at the 2018 Midwest Staff Retreat in the Twin Cities.
This video provides a brief introduction to AFSC Chicago's work on Gaza Unlocked, No Way to Treat a Child, Communities Against Islamophobia and #NoCopAcademy.
Last week I went to Mexico City and met with migrants from the caravans. I met mothers carrying small children. A teenager who had walked hundreds of miles with a painful limp. A recently deported Dreamer. A trans woman seeking safety. Men looking for work to sustain aging parents.
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Debbie Southorn works for the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago, where she supports community efforts and youth organizing to end policing and reimagine community safety. In 2012, she co-founded the Chicago chapter of Black & Pink, currently serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League, and is a Board Member of the Chicago Freedom School.
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Debbie Southorn works for the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago, where she supports community efforts and youth organizing to end policing and reimagine community safety. In 2012, she co-founded the Chicago chapter of Black & Pink, currently serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League, and is a Board Member of the Chicago Freedom School. She’s written about policing and white supremacy for outlets including Truthout, In These Times, and The Intercept.
Learn how to intervene in public instances of racist, anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Trans, anti-Semitic, and other forms of oppressive interpersonal violence and harassment.
By Coloradans for Immigrants Rights, a project of AFSC