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A few picks from AFSC staff this week:

“Meet the Guatemalan refugees who’ve been hiding in an Austin church to escape deportation,” by Casey Tolan, Fusion

Congregations across the country are taking action to stop deportations and keep families together.

Mati Gomis-Perez, AFSC's country representative for Israel and Palestine, on why we're failing to build peace in the region.

It’s been 10 years since the victory of Hamas in the legislative elections that were held in the occupied Palestinian territory in 2006. Since then, many things have happened.

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Bet you didn't know today is World Press Freedom day, did you?

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Jerry Elster, program coordinator for the AFSC Healing Justice program in San Francisco, tells the story of his incarceration, his subsequent spiritual awakening, and his work to organize other men incarcerated at San Quentin to practice and teach peace.

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Jerry Elster is the Healing Justice Coordinator for American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He is also a formerly incarcerated person currently pursuing a MA in forensic psychology. He has worked in the field of Mentoring, Substance Abuse Counseling, Restorative Justice, and Advocacy. He serves on the advisory board for Oakland & the World, a venture to aid formerly incarcerated people and those facing employment challenges to gain cooperative economic advancement by becoming owners of their own businesses.

Too often, the media and policymakers treat immigration and refugee resettlement as completely unrelated issues when they assign them a geographic label