AFSC

Quaker action for a just world

  • Our Work
    • Strategic Goals
    • Programs
    • Issues
      Economic Justice Global Peace Migration & Immigrant Rights Prisons & Policing
  • About
    • Team
    • Careers
    • History
    • Archives
    • Reports & Financials
    • Office directory
  • News
    • Press Releases
    • Topics
      Detention and Deportation Crisis in Gaza Climate Justice Youth Organizing
  • Get Involved
    • Take Action
    • Events
    • Friends Engage
    • Subscribe
Donate
  • Give once
  • Give monthly
  • More ways to give
Our Work
Strategic Goals Programs
Issues
Economic Justice Global Peace Migration & Immigrant Rights Prisons & Policing
About
Team Careers History Archives Reports & Financials Office directory
News
Press Releases
Topics
Detention and Deportation Crisis in Gaza Climate Justice Youth Organizing
Get Involved
Take Action Events Friends Engage Subscribe
Donate
Give once Give monthly More ways to give
  • Read more about Ofreciendo Sanctuario

When I opened my mailbox last night, I found an envelope with a card in it from the Friends Meeting of Washington (FMW). It was a thank you card signed by several meeting members for my getting arrested on July 13 at an interfaith civil disobedience action with Reverend William Barber in defense of universal healthcare. As a new sojourner at FMW, I was deeply touched by the meeting’s support for this action.

  • Read more about Taking Action for Healthcare
  • Log in or register to post comments
  • Read more about Steve Chase

Steve Chase is a member of Putney Friends Meeting in Vermont and the author of "Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction to the Quaker Way," as well as the Pendle Hill Pamphlets, "Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness" and "Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights." Steve is currently the Manager of Academic Initiatives for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, DC.

After a five-year campaign, Providence, Rhode Island passed one of the country's most progressive ordinances on policing. 

Linda was only a high school senior when the Providence City Council appointed her to a working group charged with finalizing language for the proposed “Community Safety Act”—an ordinance to hold police accountable and reduce racial profiling in Providence. 

Tags

  • Black Lives Matter
  • Read more about How one community succeeded in making police more accountable
  • Log in or register to post comments

A bill called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act is gaining traction in the Senate. The bill—sponsored by 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats—would make supporting the international boycott against Israel a felony punishable by up to a $1 million fine and 20 years in prison. Here’s what we’re reading to learn more: 

Tags

  • What We're Reading
  • Read more about What we’re reading on the criminalization of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement
  • Log in or register to post comments

Last July, my six housemates and I finally finished hauling all our furniture off the enormous moving truck and sat down in the cross-breeze of two fans to hash out who lived in what room in our rented Victorian rowhouse in West Philadelphia.  

Home sweet home. Photo by Emily McGrew.

  • Read more about Be brave: Activating the chemical reaction of Quaker process
  • Log in or register to post comments
  • Read more about Changing the Narrative: The Case for Commutations in Michigan

The AFSC Michigan Criminal Justice Program held focus groups to collect the stories of men and women who served long time in Michigan’s prisons and are now out in the community, doing well and contributing to society.

Today's toughest challenges have deep roots. So does resistance.

Tags

  • Sanctuary Everywhere
  • Read more about Three reasons why you should explore AFSC’s archives to learn from history for resistance
  • Log in or register to post comments
  • Read more about Conference Call: How to Offer Sanctuary

Young leaders from around the world share their experiences. 

By Cristina Rosa Tono

Last month, 13 youth leaders from the U.S. and around the world took part in AFSC’s fifth annual Human Rights Summit in Washington, D.C. The summit was organized by Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana, AFSC director of Peace and Economic Justice, and led by program graduates Alex Garrison and Jodie Geddes.

  • Read more about What I learned from taking part in AFSC's Human Rights Summit
  • Log in or register to post comments
… 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 …
Subscribe to
AFSC White Logo

The AFSC newsletter connects activism to the issues that matter. Join us today.

American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-241-7000

  • Our Work
  • Our Approach
  • All Programs
  • About AFSC
  • History
  • News
  • Get Involved
  • AFSC Store
  • Careers
  • Contact Us

©AFSC 2025

Creative Commons License | Privacy policy | Terms and Conditions | Sites Credit
Top Rated
BBB
Gold Transparency 2024