The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social systems.
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(August 16, 2021)
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(August 3, 2021)
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In the News
AFSC in the news
Jul 8, 2021
(WHYY.org)
ICE detainees in New Jersey are being transferred to other states, far from their families and attorneys, despite advocates arguing for their release.
Jul 8, 2021
(NJ Spotlight News)
"Advocates had hoped detainees would be released but instead ICE is transferring them. A judge declined to halt the practice."
Jul 7, 2021
(Mondoweiss)
“We can’t give Gaza only seasonal attention. The violence continues. Ending the political isolation of Gaza and trying to make Gaza a place we can imagine living in is our mandate," says Jehad Abusalim, AFSC's Education and Policy Associate of the Palestine Activism Program.
Jul 1, 2021
(NorthJersey.com)
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General released about 90 minutes of surveillance and handheld camera footage of the January assaults at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. The videos provide the public a rare look into a state prison that has a history of problems.
Jul 1, 2021
(NJ Spotlight News)
"Explicit recordings document actions inside women’s prison that led to charges against 10 officers."
Jun 30, 2021
(MassLive)
"A transfer of roughly four dozen federal immigration detainees from a New Jersey jail this week has caused confusion about where they ended up and triggered a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration."
Jun 30, 2021
(NJ Spotlight News)
"More than 30 federal immigration detainees at the Essex County jail were transferred Tuesday to unknown locations, raising concerns from advocates who have long pushed not just for the closure of such facilities but also for the release of those held in them."
Jun 30, 2021
(Amnesty International)
"The letter calls on the Biden administration to use its ongoing review of the program, as well as the upcoming 20th anniversary of 9/11, as an opportunity to disavow and end the lethal strikes program for good."
Jun 29, 2021
(Insider NJ)
Community members and immigrants’ rights advocates called on Governor Murphy to sign bill S3361/A5207 to prohibit new, renewal, and expansion of ICE detention contracts statewide.
Jun 28, 2021
(Liberation News)
Community members gather to demand freedom for Leonard Peltier.
Jun 28, 2021
(WBUR.org)
The People's Yellow Pages, a directory of activist and anti-war resources created in the '70s, remains an important part of history.
Jun 25, 2021
(The National Law Review )
"It is expected that if passed, the bill will be signed by Governor Phil Murphy. New Jersey would become the fifth U.S. state to ban ICE contracts."
Jun 25, 2021
(Monadnock Ledger-Transcript)
Grace Kindeke, Program Coordinator for AFSC comments "we deserved a budget that works for us. We deserve a budget that does not harm us.”
Jun 25, 2021
(Yahoo! News )
Residents and activists gather outside of New Hampshire's State House to protest the state budget.
Jun 24, 2021
(Insider NJ)
"Following A5207’s passage in the Assembly on Monday, S3361 passed the full Senate Thursday afternoon. Families and advocates urge Governor Murphy to meet the Legislature’s pace and sign the bill this month."
Jun 24, 2021
(Friends Journal )
Four Quaker organizations announced a new initiative, Quakers Uprooting Racism, designed ”to accelerate the work to end white supremacy among and beyond Friends.”
Jun 24, 2021
(Insider NJ)
"New Jersey will become the second state in the nation after California to create a statewide, state-funded legal representation program for unaccompanied minors, and the first in the nation to include within its scope similarly situated youth, including children arriving from the Remain in Mexico program."
Jun 24, 2021
(The Eagle Tribune )
“It’s immoral and it hurts all of us" Maggie Fogarty, Program Director with AFSC, said of the proposed budget.
Jun 23, 2021
(CBS8)
Pedro Rios with AFSC's U.S-Mexico Border Program comments, "my hope is that President Biden is committed to changing the agency."
Jun 16, 2021
(KTVU.com)
City council approves ordinance that will regulate the Oakland Police Department's purchasing and use of militaristic equipment.
Jun 16, 2021
(NYC Food Policy Center)
AFSC is one of several organizations helping to eliminate food waste by rerouting excess produce to communities in need.
Jun 14, 2021
(Stanford Social Innovation Review )
"White men have taken extraordinary measures to keep construction unions white and have designed their unions to frustrate and intimidate prospective Black members."
Jun 11, 2021
(KJZZ.org)
The Arizona Department of Corrections asks for an additional $16 million to pay for their contracts with private prisons.
Jun 11, 2021
(NJ.com)
"Gov. Phil Murphy announced this week his decision to eventually close Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, a prison that has been plagued by years of abuse against prisoners."
Jun 11, 2021
(Homeland Preparedness News )
"The Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate (NOVID) Act would help increase prevention and vaccination efforts in low- to middle-income countries to reduce new strains and outbreaks of COVID-19." AFSC and several other groups have sponsored this legislation.
