A silent black and white film (19 min. 34 sec.) looks unflinchingly at work and living conditions, town life, family life, and child feeding. According to available public health reports the region, as many as 16 families shared one outhouse.

Silent, black and white footage of horse- and camel-drawn sleighs delivering food in snowy Russia during  the third year of a famine there, brought on by war, drought and outmoded farming practices. AFSC not only delivered food but also supplied horses, farm equipment and training.

For the past 15 months AFSC staff and volunteers have been bird-dogging Presidential candidates with questions about Corporate influence on governance in the United States, raising awareness of the private prison lobby, the arms trade lobby, as well as the detention bed quota. In this piece Arnie calls out the NRA and reframes their efforts as supporting gun manufacturers and dealers. To learn more about Governing under the Influence, visit their website. - Lucy

AFSC's Peace by Piece (PxP) New Orleans intern Breial Kennedy collaborated with The Real News Network to collect stories of recovery by New Orleanians displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The compilation of survivor stories was made into a short documentary entitled Katrina X. This trailer offers a preview of the film, which is scheduled to be released in August 2016. 

“What are you going to do about this white God that demands Black and Brown blood?” - Reverend Jennifer Bailey

In November 2015, AFSC’s Middle East Regional Director Giovanna Negretti joined a fact-finding mission led by the Nobel Women’s Initiative, learning on the ground about dangers to women and families along the difficult refugee trek from Syria to Germany. Here are her reflections on the trip through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.

Giovanna is the Middle East Regional Director for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), an organization working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. In 1947 AFSC received the Nobel Peace Prize along with the British Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers worldwide.