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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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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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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Quaker Peace and Social Witness (redirect from Friends Service Council (1927–1978))
(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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Nontheist Quakers (redirect from Nontheist Friends)
Graves Sharman Apt Russell Nicholson Baker American Friends Service Committee Christian atheism Friends Committee on National Legislation Nontheistic religion...
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Christin Hinojosa (category American film actresses)
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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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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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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History of the Quakers (redirect from History of the Religious Society of Friends)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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organizations: American Friends Service Committee Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Buddhist Peace Fellowship Central Committee for...
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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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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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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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American Friends Service Committee. 15 February 2006. Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-20. The American Friends Service...
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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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Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199837601. Statistics from Quaker Information Center Distribution Map from Friends World Committee for Consultation...
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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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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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to Quakers worldwide and accepted by the Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee. The original trainees in the 1939 training...
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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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Brant Rosen (category American Reconstructionist rabbis)
leaving JRC, Rosen became the Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. In 2019, he left AFSC to serve Tzedek...
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