AFSC - period ended 1.15.2007

AFSC/War/Iraq/Protest/Grannies read war dead names/ WTVM/Atlanta/GA/USA/1-Jan-07/Associated Press/The vigil was one of more than 290 events planned in 46 US cities, according to the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-led social justice group. ... ``

….We need a new course in Iraq,'' the group said in a statement. ``A new Congress offers a new opportunity to bring the troops home, engage in diplomacy within Iraq and with Iraq's neighbors, and fund an Iraqi-led reconstruction effort.''

In New York, a group of counter-protesters said the grandmothers were insulting U.S. troops, who need support during the Iraq war.

The granny group later walked to the military recruiting center in Times Square. ….

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KTUU//AK/USA
Tuscaloosa News//AL/USA
Times Daily//AL/USA
KAIT//AR/USA
KOLD-TV/Phoenix /AZ/USA
KESQ//CA/USA
Monterey County Herald/CA/USA
Los Angeles Times//CA/USA
Contra Costa Times//CA/USA
TheDay/Stonington/CT/USA
Town Hall//DC/USA
Washington Post//DC/USA
The Ledger//FL/USA
Bradenton Herald//FL/USA
WALB-TV//GA/USA
WOI/Davenport/IA/USA
KCAU/Siuix City/IA/USA
KWWL//IA/USA
WHO-TV//IA/USA
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WHBF//IL/USA
Belleville News-Democrat/IL/USA
WANE//IN/USA
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette/IN/USA
KBSD//KS/USA
Kansas.com//KS/USA
KPLC-TV/Shreevport /LA/USA
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WLUC-TV/Lansing/MI/USA
WLNS//MI/USA
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Pioneer Press//MN/USA
KTVO//MO/USA
KFVS//MO/USA
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Biloxi Sun Herald//MS/USA
WWAY NewsChannel 3/NC/USA
Wilmington Morning Star/Wilmington/NC/USA
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Newsday//NY/USA
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Forbes//NY/USA
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Centre Daily Times//PA/USA
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Providence Eyewitness News/Providence/RI/USA
WHNS/Greenville/SC/USA
The State//SC/USA
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KVIA//TX/USA
KLTV//TX/USA
Team 4 News//TX/USA
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Houston Chronicle//TX/USA
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KNDO/KNDU/Seattle/WA/USA
Seattle Post Intelligencer/WA/USA
WBAY//WI/USA

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AFSC/War/Iraq/Protest/Iraq war protested at Statehouse/Asbury Park Press/Asbury/NJ/USA/4-Jan-07//... we would never need to protest again," he said, adding that the rallies sprung from work by the American Friends' Service Commission, a Quaker group. ...

AFSC/War/Iraq//Vigil counts the toll of war Peace groups gather downtown to read .../Kalamazoo Gazette/Kalamazoo/MI/USA/3-Jan-07//The Quaker peace group American Friends Service Committee nationally coordinates ``Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar'' events. ...

AFSC/War/Iraq//War in Iraq | 'I don't want them to be there' - With Candles Lit .../Kitsap Sun/Kitsap/WA/USA/3-Jan-07//That 3000 milestone passed Sunday with the death of a soldier from Texas, sparking the Quaker peace organization American Friends Service Committee to ...

AFSC/Prison Reform/Social Justice//600 Calif. cons going to Florence/Arizona Daily Star/Tucson/AZ/USA/7-Jan-07//... "Just about anybody in Arizona should be concerned about who we have here and how they're being handled," said Caroline Isaacs, program director of American Friends Service Committee of Arizona in Tucson, a Quaker group that works for social justice.e. ...