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The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 22, 2018
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee U.S./Mexico Border Program, condemned the practice of collateral arrests — when ICE officers arrest unauthorized immigrants who happen to be nearby when they are pursuing a target. Collateral arrests largely stopped in the waning yearsÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
March 22, 2018
The rally is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and 17 other groups. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “This bill is dead, but it was dead before we came in the room and I just wanted to make that absolutely clear.” — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Guy Vander Linden, R-Oskaloosa,Ãâà...
Public News Service
March 22, 2018
The council's directive said the city police department should not assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the performance of their duties, except in cases involving public safety. Berenice Nava Romero with the American Friends Service Committee said the proposed legislation has Iowa'sÃâà...
fox5sandiego.com
March 22, 2018
According to the protesters, which included members of Alianza Comunitaria and the American Friends Service Committee, recent ICE operations have led to the arrest of 108 people in San Diego County. The groups said that those detained have families that are now suffering the loss of a loved one.
Seacoastonline.com
March 22, 2018
Dover resident Maggie Fogarty, the New Hampshire Economic Justice Project coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, said while her children had positive upbringings on the Seacoast, her work in immigrant rights gives her a different perspective on the lives of other Granite Staters.
Foster's Daily Democrat
March 21, 2018
Maggie Fogarty, co-director of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) NH Program, is one of the organizers of a meeting in Dover at the McConnell Center on Thursday that aims to bring together area activists on how to explore ways to engage in the NH Poor People's Campaign.
whotv.com
March 19, 2018
The American Friends Service Committee has worked in North Korea for 30 years teaching farmers about greenhouses and other techniques. During their time working there, members of the group also learned about the tension between the U.S. and North Korea and said they have possible peacefulÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 7, 2018
Emmett Gulley, the Quaker who was the first to head up American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) Gaza unit in 1949 arrived when the Nakba was still underway. The Nakba, the catastrophe, is the Arabic name for the war and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that established Israel. He described “TheÃâà...
The Lincoln County News
March 7, 2018
In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to: The American Friends Service Committee, AFSC (in memory of Beth Conant), 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. The memorial service for Beth is scheduled for: Sunday, March 18, at 1:00 p.m. at St. Columba's Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Lane,Ãâà...
whotv.com
March 7, 2018
"To me, it's a delay tactic, a way for them not to allow people to witness the process," said Sandra Sanchez, the director of American Friends Service Committee's Iowa Immigrants Voice Program. Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant who has lived in Iowa since 1991, also called the bill "nasty" and "unwelcoming.
Boothbay Register
March 6, 2018
She and John became Quakers during their college years. The entire family spent 18 months volunteering at the American Friends Service Committee's Quaker Center in Paris in 1960-1961. Trudie loved the time she spent in Paris. She studied French at the Sorbonne, learned the subway and bus systems,Ãâà...
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
March 6, 2018
“Even if you're working in the community, there's sometimes not enough time to pause and pay attention to what's going on,” said Margaret Fogarty, co-director of the New Hampshire chapter of the American Friends Service Committee. “We assume there are people who are making the community a vital,Ãâà...
La Voz Weekly
March 5, 2018
“We have another way of influencing them [politicians] indirectly, changing corporate policy is useful in some way, but we can also use changes in corporate policy to influence government policy,” said Noam Perry of the American Friends Service Committee. Perry explained how the people can useÃâà...
The Daily Tar Heel
March 5, 2018
Moving forward, Peeples spoke about the greater number of churches in the area that are interested in becoming sanctuaries. The American Friends Service Committee of the Carolinas is also working to spread awareness and increase public knowledge about the role immigration enforcement is playing inÃâà...
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
March 4, 2018
To that end, EMBARC was hosting a free clinic this weekend, which continues from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at 616 Allen St. in Waterloo, in conjunction with Justice For Our Neighbors, the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Charities, CommunityÃâà...
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
March 3, 2018
Hosts include WVPB Executive Director and recovering reporter Scott Finn; economist Jessi Troyan of the free-market Cardinal Institute; and liberal columnist and avid goat herder Rick Wilson, who works for the American Friends Service Committee. An edited version of “The Front Porch” airs Fridays at 4:50Ãâà...
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
March 3, 2018
To that end, EMBARC was hosting a free clinic this weekend, which continues from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at 616 Allen St. in Waterloo, in conjunction with Justice For Our Neighbors, the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Charities, CommunityÃâà...
NJ.com
March 3, 2018
"Local law enforcement should not in any way help carry out immigration enforcement," said Chia-Chia Wang, advocacy and organizing director of American Friends Service Committee. "287(g) has undermined the trust from the immigrant community and only negatively impact their citizen friends andÃâà...
NJ.com
March 2, 2018
Immigration lawyers at non-profits like the American Friends Service Committee and American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey have also seen an increase in arrests of undocumented immigrants with removal orders that come in for their routine check-ins with ICE. "They're low priority," Farrin Anello,Ãâà...
AlterNet
February 10, 2018
“You can't deport a movement,” said his wife Amy Gottlieb, an immigrant rights attorney and advocate with the American Friends Service Committee. Ragbir had been ordered to report to another check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday in Manhattan. Now ICE has told his lawyersÃâà...
Prescott eNews
February 9, 2018
Kirsten Engel have established a criminal justice reform group for the purpose of evaluating these issues and creating new legislation to modernize the state's laws. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is one of several organizations that are collaborating with the criminal justice reform group.
Religion News Service
December 31, 1999
... Trump's plan, including the National Council of Churches, Presbyterian Church (USA), Union for Reform Judaism, Alliance of Baptists, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Disciples Center for Public Witness (Disciples of Christ) and the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), among others.
WRIC
December 31, 1999
When Prince Edward County's public schools were closed, the American Friends Service Committee, the social arm of the Quaker organization, came to see what they could do for those who were shut out of the public education system. “One of those things they did was find people all over the country whoÃâà...
