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Denise Altvater serves as coordinator as AFSC's Wabanaki Youth Program in Maine. She has created a supportive web of connection and communication in a region where Native communities have been isolated and abused. With her leadership, the AFSC's Wabanaki Program (Maine) was instrumental in developing the first Truth and Reconciliation commission between a sovereign tribal nation and a U.S. state, and she has recently focused on offering decolonization workshops for faith communities. 

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  • Native Lives Matter
  • Decolonization
  • Read more about Acknowledging the full truth of our past: a conversation with Denise Altvater, part 5
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Last Sunday, Israel revealed their list of 20 social justice groups from around the world it was henceforth banning from the country because of their support for the Boycott, Divest

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  • Border Militarization
  • Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
  • Read more about Quakers, Jews and Israel’s BDS blacklist
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Add new voices to your social media to be a better activist and build stronger movements in 2018.

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  • Communities Against Islamophobia
  • Read more about Are you listening as well as you should be? In 2018 take action to uplift and support these voices
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Denise Altvater serves as coordinator as the Wabanaki Youth Program in Maine.

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  • Native Lives Matter
  • Decolonization
  • Read more about Colonialism and late stage genocide: A conversation with Denise Altvater, part 4
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Editor's note: Larry White is the founder of AFSC's Hope Lives for Lifers project, which helps people incarcerated navigate long prison sentences. The project is based on White's survivor's manual of the same name, which he began working on while serving 32 years in prison. 

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  • Solitary confinement
  • Read more about Hope, boots, and sardines: Larry White's vision of prison theater
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The biblical story should remind us of migrants today seeking shelter to protect themselves and their families.

This weekend in San Diego and Tijuana, I gathered with hundreds at Friendship Park, which spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. We came together for the 24th annual Posada Without Borders, to remember those who lost their lives crossing the border, and to call for humane and just immigration policies.

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“My faith is tested frequently, because I want to believe in people.” 

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  • ending white supremacy
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Read more about Undoing the systems inside: Subverting white supremacy with Chris Crass
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Over the past year, AFSC's Acting in Faith, News & Commentary, and Media Uncovered blogs have explored racial justice, immigrant rights, mass incarceration, and other issues to help people working for social change in their communities, across the country, and around the world. Here are our top 10 most popular blog posts published in 2017:

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  • Read more about Ron Jenkins

Ron Jenkins is a professor of theater at Wesleyan University and teaches regularly as a visiting professor of religion and the arts at the Yale Divinity School, Institute of Sacred Music. He has facilitated theater workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the U.S.

Urgent action is needed to protect people in the countries affected by the ban, but instead the U.S. is choosing to follow a dark history of legalized oppression.

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  • Islamophobia
  • Communities Against Islamophobia
  • Policy
  • Read more about The human impact of the Muslim ban
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