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Everett Independent
April 28, 2018
On Tuesday, May 1, International Workers' Day workers, immigrants and supporters from across the region will join with labor and community ... Raise Up, Fight for $15, MIRA, American Friends Service Committee, MassCOSH, SEIU 32BJ, SEIU 509, Jobs With Justice, New England Carpenters Union, MassÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 28, 2018
In 2016, the center recommended her for a job as a regional organizer at the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, where she spent two years ... At the time, the American Friends Service Committee, a local non-profit, had been surveying day laborers in homeless shelters and on the street corners whereÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 16, 2018
However, a few weeks later, he rescinded the move after demands from the regional government of Val d'Oise, which was pressured by the National Bureau ... The organisations included Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Quakers group.
Lompoc Record
April 12, 2018
In this April 10, 2018 frame from video, a National Guard troop watches over Rio Grande River on the border in Roma, Texas. The deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border at President Donald Trump's request was underway Tuesday with a gradual ramp-up of troops under ordersÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
April 7, 2018
So, in short, the history of Urban Shield is that of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's visions of regional counterterrorism exercises that would draw ... The next year, in 2015, the American Friends Service Committee and Oakland Privacy approached the City of Berkeley and asked them to withdrawÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 3, 2018
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he hopes to send members of the military to guard the southwest border — an escalation in his push to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. But without sign off from Congress or Gov. Jerry Brown, federal law will likely block the president's plans,Ãâà...
NBC 7 San Diego
March 26, 2018
We are getting a better picture of how $251,000,000 in the newly signed federal budget for border security in the San Diego region will be spent. ... be better used for other projects that would improve the relationship between U.S. and Mexico,” says Pedro Ruiz with the American Friends Service Committee.
Arizona Daily Sun
March 23, 2018
American Friends Service Committee member Becca Fealk says the state data examined in the report does not include a complete picture of what's happening in the criminal justice system. Fealk says the state often improperly labels people as repeat offenders, and the state data does not factor in itemsÃâà...
fox5sandiego.com
March 21, 2018
According to the protesters, which included members of Alianza Comunitaria and the American Friends Service Committee, recent ICE operations have ... “On the day that Trump visited San Diego, the border region and migrant communities in particular were under siege by the Department of HomelandÃâà...
Foster's Daily Democrat
March 20, 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 ... DOVER — Seacoast activists are hosting a regional organizational meeting on Thursday as part of the broader NH Poor People's Campaign that wasÃâà...
NUVO
December 31, 1999
For 70 years, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been working in Gaza. ... Through these testimonies, we hope to inspire advocates and elected officials to raise critical questions about U.S. policies in the region, so that Congress will apply pressure to Israel and end this disastrousÃâà...
Lompoc Record
December 31, 1999
Immigration advocacy groups were generally quiet, although some were skeptical. Pedro Rios, director for the American Friends Service Committee's U.S.-Mexico border program in San Diego, questioned why Brown would send troops while rejecting Trump's premise that they are needed to help stopÃâà...
whotv.com
December 31, 1999
The immigrants rights advocate group, American Friends Service Committee is hosting a vigil at the State Capitol building. It begins ... to data released last year by the Immigration and Custom Enforcement, arrests are up 67 - percent and deportations by 55 - percent in a five - state region that includes Iowa.
Sioux City Journal
December 31, 1999
"This law does not reflect Iowa values, and we will continue to defend each other because we believe that we all belong. Everyone still has rights, and we will continue to fight for everyone's rights." said American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Iowa Director, Erica Johnson. "Our country has seen unjustÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
December 31, 1999
For 70 years, the American Friends Service Committee has been working in Gaza. ... Through these testimonies, we hope to inspire advocates and elected officials in the U.S. to raise critical questions about U.S. policies in the region, so that Congress will apply pressure to Israel and end this disastrousÃâà...
NUVO
December 31, 1999
For 70 years, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been working in Gaza. ... Through these testimonies, we hope to inspire advocates and elected officials to raise critical questions about U.S. policies in the region, so that Congress will apply pressure to Israel and end this disastrousÃâà...
