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Note: Lewis provides sanctuary at AFSC's New York City office for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, and provides safe space for young people in AFSC's Liberation Summer camp program who have a parent or sibling in prison. In this piece he reflects on what those spaces have meant for participants and for him. You can find part one here. – Christina 

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Note: Lewis provides sanctuary at AFSC's New York City office for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, and provides safe space for young people in AFSC's Liberation Summer camp program who have a parent or sibling in prison.

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Morgan Cooper is an urban farmer and designer (she is found of Little Olea for babies and Handmade Palestine). She left academia is 2010 to build an arboretum in Palestine with her husband. Together they run Cafe La Vie in Ramallah. She lives with her husband Saleh Totah, and their baby, in his native Ramallah in the home his father built. 

 
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