Healing Justice

AFSC 2011 Highlights

This report provides examples of the work your generous support has made possible this year. As you read it, we are confident that the progress shown will fuel your optimism and determination. Thank you for being part of our community!

 

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The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Beloved Community

Keith Harvey, AFSC Regional Director in New England, is hosting a series of community phone conversations on the theme The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Beloved Community. 

We'll be talking about economic justice,the peace we work for in the world, and the peace we work for within.   Please join us!

Community Phone Call: Truth and Reconciliation

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:30pm - 7:15pm

Please join Denise Altvater, Coordinator of AFSC's Wabanaki Program, for the inside story of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Process now underway in Maine.  Learn about this extraordinary journey toward healing and forgiveness, and bring your questions for Denise!

Our host will be Keith Harvey, AFSC Regional Director in New England, who has launched a three part series of community conversations on the theme,  The Haves, the Have-Nots and the Beloved Community.

Contact Information: 

Theresa Kirby 617-661-6130 ext 132

Email: 
tkirby@afsc.org

CURRENTS Closing Show

From the "Can You hear Me Now" Collection of F. Geofrrey Johnson

visual arts, CURRENTS, black men

From the "Can You hear Me Now" Collection of F. Geofrrey Johnson

Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

CURRENTS: Black men's cultural activism - A Visual Arts Exhibit, with poetry, music and film is a visual art exhibit featuring works by F. Geoffrey Johnson and Kerly Suffren.  

Join us for the Closing Show featuring the rock/hip-hop sounds of Adams Morgan, vocalist Reci Reign, hip-hop sounds of Young Nova, and poets Theresa Davis and F. Geoffrey Johnson.

 

 

 

Contact Information: 

 

404-586-0460 ext. 17

678-793-2877

404-723-0415

 

 

 

 

Email: 
alovelace@afsc.org

In the Land of the Free

Angola State Prison

healing Justice, Friend of a Friend, black men, art activism

Prisons per form hard labor at the Angola State Prison in Lousiana

Friday, December 2, 2011 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

CURRENTS is a visual art exhibit featuring works by F. Geoffrey Johnson and Kerly Suffren.  

Screening of the film “Land of the Free” about the Angola 3’s three generations in solitary confinement, followed by a discussion moderated by Dianne Mathiowetz and featuring Akinyele Umoja, African american Studies department head at Georgia State University and  Dominique Stevens from the AFSC Baltimore Healing Justice program focusing on the case of Marshall Eddie Conway and the over incarceration of African-American males.

Contact Information: 

 

404-586-0460 ext. 17

678-793-2877

404-723-0415

 

 

 

 

Email: 
alovelace@afsc.org
Documents: 
Commission on Safety and Abuse in American Prisons
US Prisoners and Human Rights in a Post 9/11 World

CURRENTS: Black Men's Cultural Activism - A Visual Arts Exhibit, with poetry, music and film

Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 7:00pm - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 10:00pm

CURRENTS: Black Men's Cultural Activism - A Visual Arts Exhibit, with poetry, music and film is a visual art exhibit featuring artworks by F. Geoffrey Johnson and Kerly Suffren.  The exhibit features works by two men from two very different generations.  Geoffrey is in his 60’s grew up influenced by “Jim Crow” laws and the Civil Rights Movement; while Kerly in his thirties sites the influence of Hip-Hop culture as a major factor in shaping his sense of identity and politics.

Contact Information: 

AFSC 404-586-0460 ext. 18

To arrange an appointment to see exhibit:

678-793-2877 or 404-723-0415

Email: 
alovelace@afsc.org

Respect - an antidote to violence

Participant of AFSC's Friend of a Friend Program

A Participant of AFSC's Friend of a Friend Program

A Participant of AFSC's Friend of a Friend Program

I used to teach second grade at an inner city elementary school in Vallejo, California. I was teaching there when the riots occurred in Los Angeles in response to the initial verdict acquitting four police officers who had beaten Rodney King.  That morning, I interrupted the usual routine to invite the students to discuss what was happening.  Many of my students, who were mostly of African, Filipino, Mexican, and East Indian descent, told story after story of their own experiences of racism.

Pelican Bay Prisoners Hunger for Justice

Talamantez June2011

Luis Talamantez at June2011 rally

Prison activist Luis Talamantez at SF City Hall rally

AFSC Healing Justice Program is supporting a hunger strike, commencing July 1, called by prisoners at California's infamous Pelican Bay State Prison.  Their five demands: 

(1) End "group punishment" -- lock-downs, most typically -- of entire yards or of all prisoners of an ethnic category -- for violations of prison rules by one prisoner, or a few

(2) End State-imposed gang labels, from which a labeled prisoner can escape only by "debriefing," i.e., testifying against others in the alleged gang

Michelle Alexander gives Keynote Speech at AFSC Dinner

Michelle Alexander, a renowned author, civil rights attorney, and prison-reform advocate, delivered this keynote address on May 26 at “Edges of Justice,” an event held by the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco. Only three days before, on May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to greatly reduce its prison population after ruling that the state’s prison system was so overcrowded that it amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Program on Georgia prisons and the prisoner strike

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Human Rights Atlanta sponsors a program on Georgia prisons and the prisoner strike.

Contact Information: 

Dianne

Email: 
atlantaiac@aol.com
Documents: 
The Prison Inside the Prison
Commission on Safety and Abuse in American Prisons

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