• The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) founded organization working for peace and social justice in...
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    Quakers (redirect from Society of Friends)
    good, Quakers represented by the British Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. During...
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    1947, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) (previously known as the Friends Service Council) jointly...
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  • Graves Sharman Apt Russell Nicholson Baker American Friends Service Committee Christian atheism Friends Committee on National Legislation Nontheistic religion...
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    became an anti-war activist. In 2004, as a member of the American Friends Service Committee, she was the first coordinator of the Eyes Wide Open installation...
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  • (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of...
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    which was accepted by the American Friends Service Committee and the then London Yearly Meeting's Friends Service Committee, now called Britain Yearly...
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    mostly unprogrammed, and aligned itself closely with the American Friends Service Committee. By the last part of the century it had taken a strong position...
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    controversy about JROTC and militarism in schools. The American Friends Service Committee, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), Veterans for...
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  • City with the American Friends Service Committee and Britain Yearly Meeting. FWCC was set up at the 1937 Second World Conference of Friends in Swarthmore...
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    Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) is a charity that acts on the peace and social justice concerns of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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    Letter from Birmingham Jail (category American political philosophy literature)
    first published as "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" by the American Friends Service Committee in May 1963 and subsequently in the June 1963 issue of Liberation...
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  • Revolutionary Union, The Resistance, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League and the Committee for Peace and Freedom. ADC was formed...
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    Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. Speak Truth To Power is also the title of a global...
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  • disparities within the education system. In 2001, the staff the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) along with The People's Institute of Survival and Beyond...
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    Selective Service System American Friends Service Committee established in the United States during World War I International Voluntary Service in the United...
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  • sweat equity was first employed in the United States by the American Friends Service Committee in the Penn Craft self-help housing project beginning in 1937...
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  • The Friends Relief Service (FRS) was a voluntary humanitarian relief organisation formally established by a committee of Britain Yearly Meeting in November...
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  • Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older Native Americans. After returning to the U.S, she...
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    Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199837601. Statistics from Quaker Information Center Distribution Map from Friends World Committee for Consultation...
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    Crystal Bird Fauset (category African-American state legislators in Pennsylvania)
    the Young Women's Christian Association, and then with the American Friends Service Committee. In 1935, she became assistant to the director of Philadelphia's...
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  • British authorities in Mandatory Palestine of efforts by the American Friends Service Committee to assist Arab refugees during and after the 1947–1949 Palestine...
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  • Unity (Ethiopia) Responding to Conflict (United Kingdom) American Friends Service Committee, an arm of the Quakers Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW)...
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    organizations, such as the Quaker United Nations Office and the American Friends Service Committee have developed curriculum or programmes to educate young people...
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    it, on occasion, as "radical" and "extreme". In 2010, the American Friends Service Committee has described the group as "one of Israel's most influential...
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    Flag of Hawaii (category Use American English from July 2022)
    Alo a He Alo – Hawaiian Voices on Sovereignty. Honolulu: American Friends Service Committee. pp. 108–110. ISBN 9780910082259. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • (HEAT) rounds, fired by Israel's Merkava battle tanks. The American Friends Service Committee says that Merkava tanks fired M830A1 rounds in a November...
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  • organizations: American Friends Service Committee Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Buddhist Peace Fellowship Central Committee for...
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  • for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee along with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)...
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    affiliated with Friends United Meeting. Note that the Friends World Committee for Consultation counts, but does not name, many more Kenyan Friends schools than...
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