21. American Friends Service Committee | Ask.com Encyclopedia The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around http://www.ask.com/wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee?qsrc=3044

22. AFSC - American Friends Service Committee Advance Report 2007. The American Friends Service Committee has a rich tradition of providing programs to communities and people in the Middle Atlantic Region. http://www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/news/afsc.shtml

BYM Home Who We Are Local Meetings BYM Camps ... Site Index News from the American Friends Service Committee Advance Report - 2007 The American Friends Service Committee has a rich tradition of providing programs to communities and people in the Middle Atlantic Region. The mission and the six goals of the American Friends Service Committee guide the development of program in the areas of economic justice, migration and human mobility, peace building and prevention of conflict, youth, humanitarian assistance and education, and healing justice. Although the region includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New York (except New York City,) New Jersey (except Newark,) and the District of Columbia, this report will focus on the programs within the area of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Other programs in peace building, youth and economic justice operate in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Upper New York State, and West Virginia. The major program in Migration and Human Mobility is Project Voice, based in Baltimore, with some work in D.C. Project Voice promotes the rights of immigrants through human rights education and access to legal services to assist individuals to understand immigration laws. Much work has been done with South Asian immigrants on issues of labor rights and recovering of lost wages. Another emphasis has been work with asylees, assisting them to apply for green cards. The plan is to expand the program in D.C. in 2007. The D.C. program works primarily with immigrants from Africa.

23. Awards To Police Who Killed José Mejía Spark Outrage For more information, contact the American Friends Service Committee at 503230-9427. Peopl e's Police Report 28 Table of Contents People's Police Report Index Page http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR28/mejiappr28.html

AWARDS TO POLICE WHO KILLED I Members of the Latino community organized to force Kroeker to resign after they learned about the awardsnot from Kroeker, but instead from Oregonian columnist Steve Duin's complaint about them in the November 21 newspaper. The Latino Network, the Hispanic Police Advisory Council, County Commissioner Serena Cruz, and a representative of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce all spoke out at a November 26 rally at City Hall calling for Kroeker to pack his bags, although some gave the Chief an out if he were to withdraw the awards. As he has in the past, Kroeker apologized if he was misunderstood but defended his actions; Mayor Katz announced (in advance of actually meeting with the community to hear their concerns) that Kroeker would not be asked to resign. While such awards have been given in the pastsome officers involved in the death of Dickie Dow received commendation letters (1999- PPR #18), Officer Scott Westerman received an award after shooting a disturbed woman who'd fired a gun at a paramedic (1997- PPR Members of the Latino community met with Mayor Katz on December 2, where she refused to fire Kroeker and suggested they meet with him in person. Since then, they have added pressure by pre- Christmas demonstrations at the Mayor's Office and the Chief's home. Meanwhile, mental health advocates, criminal justice groups and others have joined the call for Kroeker to resign.

24. AFSC - American Friends Service Committee Advance Report 2010. At the time of the report to the 2009 Annual Session, the American Friends Service Committee was in the midst of attempts to maintain good program while http://www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/organizations/afsc/afsc.shtml

BYM Home Who We Are Local Meetings BYM Camps ... Site Index News from the American Friends Service Committee Advance Report - 2010 At the time of the report to the 2009 Annual Session, the American Friends Service Committee was in the midst of attempts to maintain good program while responding to the serious financial problems the organization was facing. Each Region had to create a budget approximately 50% smaller. This required furlough days, placing most staff on part-time status, reducing rent and other expenses, and closing some programs. In the Middle Atlantic Region, the Executive Committee agonized over these decisions. Our intent was to save as many programs as possible. The only project within the Baltimore Yearly Meeting area that was closed was Project Voice, the work with immigrants and migrants, which was headquartered in Baltimore. We lost a staff member in our Washington, D.C. program and clerical/support staff for the Region. In addition, most staff positions were reduced to 3/5ths or 4/5ths time. One staff member left, and the person doing the Youth Empowerment through Conflict Resolution is currently only working twelve hours a week, with assistance from the Interim Associate Regional Director. Despite these circumstances, the Region has continued to provide effective program work in several areas.

25. 37 Million People In Poverty In The U.S. - AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (A by the American Friends Service Committee. In response to recently released Census Bureau poverty figures, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) called on Congress to adopt a http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/37-Million-US-Poverty1oct05.htm

Home Air Energy Farm ... Water 37 Million People in Poverty in the U.S. AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC) / Street Spirit v.11, n.10, 1oct2005 Data and Graphics from US Census Bureau below Nationwide, 37 million people, including 13 million children, live below the official poverty line. Eliminating safety-net programs for the poor in favor of tax cuts for the rich � while 37 million live in poverty � is immoral. by the American Friends Service Committee In response to recently released Census Bureau poverty figures, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) called on Congress to adopt a moral budget that helps people meet their basic needs. Eliminating safety-net programs for the poor in favor of tax cuts for the rich � while 37 million live in poverty � is immoral, declared the AFSC, an international social justice organization. In its Current Population Survey, released on August 30, the Census Bureau reported that over one million more people lived in poverty in 2004 than in the previous year. Data also show that nearly six percent of the U.S. population lived in extreme poverty, defined as below 50 percent of the poverty threshold. "The Census Bureau report should be a wake-up call for our nation," said Roberta Spivek, AFSC's national representative for economic justice. "At a time when at least one in every eight people in our country lives in poverty, Congress is poised to cut $35 billion from survival programs like Food Stamps and Medicaid. At the same time, it is considering $70 billion in tax breaks that will mainly benefit the most affluent households."

26. Home Page The American Friends Service Committee The Alaska Humanities Forum invite you to a screening of “Sharing Ground” a video program about the compassionate listening project http://www.alaskalisten.org/

For complete posting of Alaskans Listening to Alaskans about Subsistence information, please link to http://www.afsc.org/pacificnw/altas.htm The American Friends Service Committee The Alaska Humanities Forum invite you to a screening of �Sharing Ground� a video program about the compassionate listening project Alaskans Listening to Alaskans about Subsistence Fairbanks Wednesday, March 24, 7 pm, Chena River Convention Center Anchorage Juneau Wednesday, March 31, 7 pm, Centennial Hall Each event will feature a screening of �Sharing Ground,� a brief final project report, refreshments and time for questions. OPEN to the public. Alaskans Listening to Alaskans, a project of the American Friends Service Committee and Alaska Quakers, has worked for the past five years to hear the experiences, values, concerns and hopes of Alaskans from many sides of the debate over subsistence allocation of fish and game. Originating in a deep concern about the divisiveness of the subsistence issue, the project sought to find ways Alaskans might build bridges of understanding across different cultures and different walks of life. By listening carefully to experiences, values, fears and hopes, participants found ways to better understand differences, and discovered key shared values and concerns. The series of seven video programs documents what the project heard in the Alaskan communities of Buckland, Huslia, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau, Angoon and Hydaburg. �Sharing Ground,� the program that bears the series title, features highlights from the whole project, while the other six focus on specific communities and segments of Alaska. VHS and dvd copies of the series are available for order at cost ($12.00).

27. Advocacy For Michigan Prisoners And Their Families The American Friends Service Committee's Michigan Criminal Justice Office http://www.prisoneradvocacy.org/

Home Site Map AFSC National ABOUT US ... Check out our new newsletter. PrisonerAdvocacy.org is a service of the Michigan Criminal Justice Program of The American Friends Service Committee. Our work is rooted in an advocacy and community-organizing model. We help people in prison and their loved ones with their individual problems and provide them with tools to help them become strong advocates for themselves. The problems we often encounter revolve around: access to efficient and good health care services access to appropriate and effective mental health services conditions of confinement (overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, problems with food, problems with commissary, phone, visiting, etc.) access to required programming and other educational programming the use of long-term segregation obstacles related to re-entering the "free-world" community problems gaining positive parole action navigation through a thick and abusive bureaucracy for family members and loved ones of prisoners more... The AFSC Michigan Criminal Justice Office and Prison Legal Services of Michigan has recently published Tolerating Failure: the State of Health Care and Mental Health Care Delivery in the Michigan Department of Corrections . You may download it (pdf format/1MByte) or order it for $10 (incldg. shipping and handling) from the AFSC office (tel: 734-761-8283). Timothy Souders On August 6, 2006 Timothy Joe Souders died from dehydration at Southern Michigan Prison. He had been held on top of bed restraints for hours at a time throughout a four-day period. He was 21 years old. The Michigan Department of Corrections still uses top of bed restraints. To learn more about him and how you can help, go to his

28. A Brief History Of The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) « Levellers A Brief History of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) It’s time for another installment in my series of historical sketches of major grassroots peace and justice http://levellers.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/a-brief-history-of-the-american-friend

Levellers Home About Church/State ... International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)  (concentrating especially on the U.S. branch), and of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) . (In future installments in this series, I plan to cover the Brethren-related On Earth Peace , the Mennonite Central Committee , denominational peace fellowships (especially where I have membership or a direct connection such as the the Mennonite Peace and Justice Support Network and Methodists United for Peace with Justice Pax Christi International (the Catholic peace movement), Witness for Peace Christian Peacemaker Teams, Every Church a Peace Church (my employer for 3 years), Peace Action, Nonviolence International, Holy Land Trust, Black Voices for Peace (now defunct).  Of the peace groups related to military veterans, I will highlight only Veterans for Peace Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and Human Concern. Jewish Peace Fellowship, Muslim Peace Fellowship, and Buddhist Peace Fellowship. For now, we turn to the Quaker-based

29. American Friends Service Committee The AFSC encourages tax resistance and civil disobedience, possibly in violation of its taxexempt status http://www.omdurman.org/taxpayer/AFSC/

Omdurman.org Defending Western Civilization Home Royalty-free leaflets Tax Exempt DHIMMIs Should the American Friends Service Committee lose its 501(c)(3) tax exemption? Note: Omdurman.org respects fully the American Friends Service Committee's right to criticize and speak against the war in Iraq. The First Amendment does not, however, guarantee any person or organization the right to break our country's laws to further its goals. The AFSC's Web pages, as shown here, go beyond mere criticism of the war by advocating illegal actions like (1) war tax resistance, i.e. refusal to pay a portion of one's Federal income taxes, (2) violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (specifically, failure or refusal to report for duty) and (3) civil disobedience. Relevant portions of Rev Rule 75-384 (Tax exempt organizations cannot promote civil disobedience or other illegal behavior) Web sites that advocate tax resistance Most of us don't dare refuse to pay our taxes or play silly kiddie games with the IRS, and I see no reason why the AFSC should be allowed to use tax-exempt money to advocate such behavior. A Web site that encourages soldiers to violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice , specifically by failing or refusing to report for duty It is one thing to criticize the war or the manner in which it is being waged Omdurman.org's own position is that our soldiers are given far too little leeway in the measures they can take to protect themselves from terrorists, and this is resulting in unnecessary casualties and quite another to knife our Armed Forces in the back by encouraging soldiers to not report for duty.

30. Faith-Based Imitative In The New Deal: Clarence Pickett, The American Friends Se This paper traces the connections between the AFSC a Quaker organization and the development and implementation of the subsistence housing program in the 1930s and concludes that http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/6/0/4/3/p360438_in

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31. Voluntown Peace Farm Still Raising Ideals - Hartford Courant Bruce, who died at 84, was serious peace activist and organizer for the American Friends Service Committee. I met him in the 1970s, when he was living at the Voluntown Peace Trust http://articles.courant.com/2010-06-06/news/hc-condon-peace-farm-0606-column_1_f

32. Daily Dawn Companies | Business Benchmark For The Group - Home There are many things that we must be able to do to make sure that the business will be able to stay alive to compete with many new competitors.We must do some actions and one of http://www.dawndc.net/

Home Search About Us Archive ... infomercial companies Related Store Benchmark Competitive Benchmarking Benchmarking International Benchmarking ... things Related Site Blogroll Benchmarking in Our Business Read more... How Important a Benchmark Action for A Business There is no such sudden action in business. all actions must be well planned. It means, all things must have already been planned perfectly, and it means, we must be able to expect the unexpected. That is why the business benchmarking is something really crucial. This is important to make sure that we will have the chance to make some excellent moves when there is something changing in the markets. The benchmarking actions will give us some kinds of descriptions about the current conditions of the market, the future conditions plus the way to anticipate the situations to make sure that the business will stay alive. Results 1 - 2 of 16

33. Collutions - Announcements Collutions has received a sizable donation from the American Friends Service Committee to help accelerate the development of the cBlog solution. http://www.collutions.com/Lists/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=3

34. American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Throughout the modern civil rights movement, the similarity of the social ideals of King and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) led them to work on the same side of http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_american_f

Search Titles Search All Text Encyclopedia Chronology Documents Quotes ... Most Visited American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Throughout the modern civil rights movement, the similarity of the social ideals of King and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) led them to work on the same side of racial issues. In 1917, a group of Quakers formed the AFSC to give conscientious objectors a non-military public service alternative during World War I. The organization began its anti-racism work in the 1920s, and in 1933 began sponsoring a yearly summer institute on race relations at Swarthmore College that lasted until 1941. In 1944, the Committee created a Race Relations Department, which encouraged business leaders to hire minorities and established visiting lectureships at white universities for African-American academics. Within months of the start of the Montgomery bus boycott , the AFSC contacted King to learn about the campaign. In 1959 the AFSC arranged for King and Coretta Scott King to visit India . The AFSC representative in India

35. Crossville Friends Meeting (Quakers) - The Crossville Quaker community invites you to the first showing in The American Friends Service Committee http://crossvillefriends.org/

36. The Southeastern Public Education Program Of The American Friends Service Commit Surgery ;v. 25, no. 10 Highlights from The Southeastern Surgical Congress, 46th Annual Assembly The Southeastern Surgical Congress, 46th Annual Assembly http://www.faqs.org/copyright/the-southeastern-public-education-program-of-the-a

The Southeastern public education program of the American Friends Service Committee, 1965-1980 Usenet FAQ Index Documents Other FAQs The Southeast Type of Work: Motion picture or filmstrip Registration Number / Date: Date of Publication: January 15, 2004 Date of Creation: Title: The Southeast. Basis of Claim: New Matter: all other audiovisual material. Previous Registration: Series: US geography for children series Description: Videocassette ; 1/2 in. Number of similar titles: Similar Title: The Southeast Schlessinger Media, a division of Library Video Company Names: Schlessinger Media (114 documents) example document: Earth science in action Library Video Company. Schlessinger Media (102 documents) example document: Earth science in action Add comment The Southeastern Surgical Congress highlights Type of Work: Sound recording and non-dramatic text Registration Number / Date: Date of Publication: May 31, 1978 Date of Creation: Title: The Southeastern Surgical Congress highlights. Series: Surgery ; Imprint: Glendale, Calif. : Audio-Digest Foundation, c1978.

37. Street Spirit: Justice News&Homeless Blues The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. http://www.thestreetspirit.org/

The December 2006 Edition of Street Spirit A publication of the American Friends Service Committee About Street Spirit Subscriptions and Donations Contact Street Spirit National AFSC ... BOSS Website In this issue: The Poor Will Perish Without Housing We Accuse the US Government The Works of Mercy: Thoughts on the Death of a Homeless Man Greed Fuels Oakland Condo Conversion Law ... December Poetry of the Streets ARCHIVES November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 July 2006 ... February 2005 Street Spirit is published by American Friends Service Committee. The views expressed in Street Spirit are those of the individual authors alone, and not necessarily that of the American Friends Service Committee Without Housing, the Poor Will Perish by Janny Castillo "Wet Night On Sutter Street." In this painting by Christine Hanlon, a homeless person sleeps outside a fancy clothing store on a rainy night while well-dressed mannequins are dry and warm inside. "The government pegs homeless persons as dysfunctional human beings in need of rehabilitation. This report says, 'I don't care how many life-skills trainings you give me; if I don't have a place to live, I am going to be homeless." Paul Boden, WRAP Executive Director

38. Federal Bureau Of Investigation - Freedom Of Information Privacy Act About the Federal Bureau of Investigation 3,498 pages. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was originally http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/committe.htm

Contact Us Your Local FBI Office Overseas Offices Submit a Crime Tip ... Apply for a Job American Friends Service Committee 3,498 pages The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was originally formed in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors opportunities to aid civilian victims during World War I. This material concerns the activities of the AFSC during the 1920's through the 1970's. Part 01 Part 02 Part 03 Part 04 ... Part 25 [an error occurred while processing this directive] Accessibility eRulemaking Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Legal Notices ... White House FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Department of Justice

39. Military Enlistment A Popular Option During Recession | Philadelphia Inquirer | Jul 05, 2010 But groups such as the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago see the higher recruitment and retention numbers as an unfortunate byproduct of the recession. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100705_Military_enlistment_a_popular_opti

40. Pentagon Is Keeping Secret Tabs On Peaceful Protest Activities — Global Issues The following is from the American Friends Service Committee that has found that the Pentagon has been keeping a secret watch on them because they have organized and http://www.globalissues.org/article/694/pentagon-is-keeping-secret-tabs-on-peace

Global Issues Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All Main menu: Home About Issues World News ... Contact You are here: Home Issues War on Terror War on Terror: Crackdown on Civil Rights; War on Freedom Pentagon is keeping secret tabs on peaceful protest activities Pentagon is keeping secret tabs on peaceful protest activities The following is from the American Friends Service Committee that has found that the Pentagon has been keeping a secret watch on them because they have organized and participated in peace protests. You can see the original article at http://www.afsc.org/news/2006/SecretSurveillanceFiles.htm Newly released surveillance files reveal Pentagon is keeping secret tabs on peaceful protest activities The American Friends Service Committee Lawsuit Confirms Defense Department “Spying” American Friends Service Committee October 12, 2006 PHILADELPHIA, (OCTOBER 12)—Documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union confirm the Department of Defense (DOD) has been “spying” on peaceful protestors. The documents reveal the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization committed to the principles of nonviolence, came under Pentagon surveillance on several occasions last year for organizing or supporting peaceful protest activity.

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