AFSC - period ended 12.15.2006

AFSC/War/Protest/Counter-Recruiting/Anti-war group protests at military facility/Pasadena Star-News/Pasadena/CA/USA/8-Dec-06//... blocking them, but a few got past us," said Steve Gibson, Los Angeles program director for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. ...

Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA

AFSC/War/Protest//Antiwar activists, youths, military agree: no draft/San Luis Obispo Tribune/San Luis Obispo/CA/USA/7-Dec-06/Phila Inq./... the specter of conscription, even with the intention to deter war, is a grave risk, said Castro, who runs the Youth & Militarism Project, a Quaker-run program ...

Biloxi Sun Herald/Biloxi/MS/USA
Charlotte Observer/Charlotte/NC/USA
Centre Daily Times/State College/PA/USA
Belleville News-Democrat/Belleville/IL/USA
Contra Costa Times/Contra Costa/CA/USA
Monterey County Herald/Monterey/CA/USA
The State/Columbia/SC /USA
Kentucky.com/Lexington/KY/USA
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer/Columbus/GA/USA
Myrtle Beach Sun News/Myrtle Beach/SC/USA
Kansas City Star/Kansas City/MO/USA
Bradenton Herald/Bradenton/FL/USA

AFSC/War/Iraq/Boots/Homemade Memorial Is Stirring Passions on Iraq/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/4-Dec-06//... Since 2004, the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group based in Philadelphia, has sponsored a traveling exhibit called Eyes Wide Open, which ...

AFSC/Politics and Economics//Advocates for various issues look for new ways to be heard/Nashua Telegraph/Nashua/NH/USA/10-Dec-06//... when you might walk into somebody,” said Arnie Alpert, the state program coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker-affiliated human ...

AFSC/International Conflict/Relief/Apartheid/Carter defends new Mideast book/Atlanta Journal Constitution/Atlanta/GA/USA/8-Dec-06//... Joseph Parko, a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker relief organization, said he recently spent more than two weeks in the region.

"The conditions I saw there were exactly what the president wrote about," Parko said. "Apartheid is an accurate term to describe the situation." . ...

AFSC/International Conflict//Giving Israel a piece of his mind/Kentucky.com/Lexington/KY/USA/17-Dec-06//... Joseph Parko, a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker relief organization, said he recently spent more than two weeks in the region. ...

AFSC/Immigration///Lawyers say Swift workers detained at military camp in Iowa/West Central Tribune/Davenport/IA/USA/14-Dec-06//... At least four children are still without at least one parent after the crackdown, said Sandra Sanchez, of the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee ...