Nearly a year after protests shut down the city, we're starting to see signs of positive change.

What a difference a year makes. Three-hundred sixty-five days after the arrest and death of Freddie Carlos Gray, we are now remembering, reflecting, still asking, “Has anything changed?” 

Arnie Alpert served as AFSC’s New Hampshire co-director, where he first joined AFSC in 1981. He retired from AFSC in June 2020. Arnie is a leader in movements for economic justice and affordable housing, civil and worker rights, peace and disarmament, abolition of the death penalty, and an end to racism and homophobia. 

Our campaign reminded presidential candidates that the interests of the people, not corporations, must come first. 

Twenty days after the New Hampshire Primary, The New York Times editorialized in favor of a “better, not bigger military budget.” The Times editors explicitly called on the next president to “scale back the planned $1 trillion, 30-year modernization of a nuclear arsenal,” and referred to Hilla

Millions of immigrants in the U.S. will be affected by the court's decision. Here are two of them. 

By Kimberly Krone and Lisa Vives

Mariam’s story

Seventeen-year-old "Mariam" is a young girl with big dreams. If all goes right, she'll be a lawyer or work in business.

But unlike other girls her age, her future will be decided not by her grades or her family income but by the justices of the Supreme Court.

Khadijah Austin joined AFSC’s Peace by Piece program (PXP) in Atlanta in 2015. After graduating from Agnes Scott College in 2011 with a BA in History, Khadijah was a pre-school teacher with the YWCA of Greater Atlanta and taught in a wide variety of other settings. Originally from St. Louis, Khadijah is co-coordinator with Joel Dickerson for Peace by Piece Atlanta. There are also Peace by Piece programs in New Orleans, Baltimore, San Diego, and Mississippi.

And Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."                                                                                                                                       &

A phone call at dinner becomes a personal reminder of why we must end the detention of Palestinian children.     

In my tenure with AFSC, I have had the privilege of organizing hundreds of U.S. speaking tours featuring courageous individuals—mainly from the Middle East—working for peace and justice.