AFSC - period ended 2.15.2006

AFSC/Civil Rights//Friends of the King family in New Hampshire remember Coretta/Salem News/Salem/MA/USA/1-Feb-2006/AP/... stand for — that would not have been the perception on April 4, 1968, when he was assassinated," said Arnie Alpert of the American Friends Service Committee. ... Also in : Portsmouth Herald News/Portsmouth/NH/USA/1-Feb-2006/AP

AFSC/Homosexuality/Education/DOE looks into bullying policies/Honolulu Advertiser/Honolulu/HI/USA/13-Feb-2006//... happen," said Robin Nussbaum, program coordinator of the group Queers for Justice, and a representative from the American Friends Service Committee who serves ...

AFSC/Humanitarian Assistance/Huricane Katrina/118 Bard students work in NOLA over break/The Bard Observer/Albany/NY/USA/9-Feb-2006//... small groups of dedicated crazy people, at Common Ground, at the Made with Love Cafe, at Carlton Avenue Church, with the American Friends Service Committee, etc ...

AFSC/Immigration/Mexico//Migrante hospitalizado tras agresión de la Border Patrol/La Jornada/Mexico City/Mexico/Central America/4-Feb-2006//... Por su parte, Christián Ramírez, director del Comité de Servicio de los Amigos Americanos, manifestó que "es preocupante" lo que sucede en San Diego. "Antes los elementos de la patrulla en ese sector eran relativamente tranquilos, las agresiones se presentaban en Arizona, pero ahora se ha puesto complicada la situación".

El activista manifestó que el próximo martes las autoridades estadunidenses entregarán el informe del caso de Guillermo Martínez y que se les debe exigir una explicación de estas nuevas agresiones. . ..On the other hand, Christián Ramirez, program director of the American Friends Service Committee, showed that "he is concerned " about what happens in San Diego. "Before the elements of the patrol in that sector were relatively calm, the aggressions appeared in Arizona, but now the situation has been made more complicated". The activist showed that the next Tuesday the U.S. authorities will make a report about the case of Guillermo Martinez and give an explanation of these new aggressions due to the lawsuit.......

AFSC/Immigration/Protest//Minutemen event expected to draw a counterprotest/San Diego Union Tribune/San Diego/CA/USA/4-Feb-2006//... it comes at a particularly tense moment for Vista,” said Christian Ramirez, San Diego director for the human rights group American Friends Service Committee. ...

AFSC/Immigration/Proyecto Campesino/Porterville Recorder/The Porterville Recorder/Porterville/CA/USA/9-Feb-2006//... Proyecto Campesino belongs to the American Friends Service Committee. El Futuro Credit Union is a non-profit financial institution with a lot of history. ...

AFSC/International Conflict/Palestine//Palestine’s Olive Oil in North America/Amin/Aman/Jordan/M.E./5-Feb-2006//... In North America organizations that sell Palestine’s olive oil are: the American Friends Service Committee, Canaan Fair Trade, Holy Land Olive Oil, World ...

AFSC/Nobel Prize/International Conflict/Palestinian and Israeli nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2006/International Middle East Media Center/Jerusalem/Israel/M.E./10-Feb-2006//…The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace and social justice organization, has nominated two candidates for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Ghassan Andoni, ex-director and co-founder of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People, (PCR) from Palestine and Jeff Halper, director and founder of the Israeli Committee against home Demolition (ICAHD) from Israel, for the work they do for peace. ...

AFSC/Politics and Economics/Economic Justice/Gap between rich, poor widening/Charleston Gazette/Charleston/WV/USA/6-Feb-2006//... of its residents, not by overall low wages, said Rick Wilson, director of the West Virginia Economic Justice Project for the American Friends Service Committee ...

AFSC/Politics and Economics/Persons of Faith/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/4-Feb-2006//.. Persons of faith fault Bush

Thirty-five persons of faith -- representing the Sisters of Mercy, the American Friends Service Committee, Pax Christ, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, Priests for Social Justice and the Rhode Island Peace Mission -- were joined by other concerned individuals Tuesday evening at St. Mary Academy-Bay View in East Providence to view President Bush's State of the Union Address.

Many took exception to the president's ardent position that it is the right and duty of the United States to decide where and how to export peace and democracy. They also felt that he seemed unaware that proposed tax cuts and his pride in all the cuts in federal programs are creating a new class of poor in this county....

AFSC/Politics and Economics/Federal judge urged to reject closed courtroom for Hamas hearing/Belleville News-Democrat/Belleville/IL/USA/1-Feb-2006/AP/... It was filed on behalf of a number of groups including the American Friends Service Committee to the Council of American-Islamic Relations. ...

AFSC/Religious Diversity//'Another black eye for Islam,' says imam/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/10-Feb-2006//... Also joining in the statement were representatives of the American Friends Service Committee; the Rhode Island chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; the ...