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	American Friends Service Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief.
		As the Cold War escalated, the AFSC was involved in relief and service efforts around the world in conflicts including the Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and the 1962 Algerian war of independence.
		The AFSC is still based in Philadelphia in a building attached to the Cherry Street Meetinghouse (one of the oldest churches in the United States).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee (1028 words)

	American Friends Service Committee, Case No. VFA0542, January 10, 2000
		On December 10, 1999, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) filed an Appeal from a final determination that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Energy (DOE) issued on November 3, 1999.
		AFSC argues that the withheld portions of Document 39 are outside the scope of Exemptions 6 or 7(C).
		AFSC states that OIG should not have redacted information from the document under Exemption 6 because it is not a document found in a personnel or medical file.
	www.oha.doe.gov /cases/foia/vfa0542.htm (1331 words)

	American Friends Service Committee, Case No. VFA-0501, July 1, 1999
		On June 4, 1999, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) filed an Appeal from a determination issued to it in response to a request for documents submitted under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, as implemented by the Department of Energy (DOE) in 10 C.F.R. Part 1004.
		On June 13, 1997 and March 3, 1998, the AFSC filed requests with the DOE for all documentation from 1969 to the present concerning the deposit, presence and/or impact of radioactive materials at the Industrial Excess Landfill site in Uniontown, Ohio.
		Specifically, AFSC states that the AIG should not have redacted information from the titles of three documents and other information, such as the name of a government agency and a discussion topic, that do not relate to personal privacy interests.
	www.oha.doe.gov /cases/foia/vfa0501.htm (1308 words)

	The American Friends Service Committee and Friends Committee on National Legislation Appeal for the Release of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the committee and staff members of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) are deeply concerned for the four kidnapped members of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq and we appeal to the captors for their safe return.
		The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is an international social justice organization and a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize, which honored Quakers' historic work to relieve the suffering of war.
		AFSC was a leader in the movements to end the Vietnam War and to dismantle apartheid in South Africa and remains a leader in international movements for peace and justice.
	forrelease.com /D20051203/1303465.html (455 words)

	American Friends Service Committee
		The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
		The AFSC community is guided by the values, principles and practices of the Religious Society of Friends, and is strengthened and renewed by the corresponding spiritual insights of people from many backgrounds who participate in its work.
		In 1947, the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends for humanitarian service, work for reconciliation, and the spirit in which these were carried out.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /org/6333924.html (679 words)

	AFSC Letter to President Bush on Issue of War Against Iraq
		The Board of Directors of the American Friends Service Committee has instructed me to tell you how deeply troubled we are by the impending war with Iraq.
		For 85 years the American Friends Service Committee has worked with helpless victims on all sides in war --feeding children, helping to rebuild bomb-shattered houses and communities, and working with homeless refugees.
		We are relieved that you have turned to the United Nations as an instrument for reducing the danger of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we pray that the Iraqi leadership will cooperate fully with renewed and unfettered weapons inspection.
	www.ncccusa.org /iraq/afsc.html (629 words)

	AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Tripartite Work and Study Project held in the summer of 1963 was the second stage of a three year project organized jointly by the Friends Service Council of Great Britain, the Committee of Youth Organizations of the Soviet Union, and the American Friends Service Committee.
		Through working together on a project of service to the community, and through free and frank exchange of views, participants sought to increase their knowledge of each other's society and ways of life and thought, and to grow in mutual understanding.
		People seemed so eager to meet American students, to see what they looked like, to hear a word or two about their impressions of the Soviet Union, to hear wishes for peace and mutual understanding.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/friends/AFSCreport.htm (1124 words)

	Friends (Quaker) Response to the South Asian Earthquake/Tsunami Crisis - QuakerInfo.com
		The AFSC has some work and experience in affected countries to give it some perspective on help needed and how best it can be provided.
		Our initial response in Evangelical Friends Mission is to "help the helpers." Indonesia was the hardest hit of any country.
		Evangelical Friends Church Southwest has deployed an exploratory team to assess the next steps to be taken by Friends in Indonesia.
	www.quakerinfo.com /tsunami.shtml (798 words)

	1-14-00 AFSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In that hostile milieu, the American Friends Service Committee was created, initially to provide ways for Quaker men and women to make a witness for peace and reconciliation.
		The first AFSC volunteers to reach their assigned posts, according to Mary Hoxie Jones, was a group of nurses who had been sent to Russia.
		The Committee's longest-serving and best-known executive secretary, Clarence E. Pickett, went from the Earlham religion faculty to that position.
	www.earlham.edu /%7Epres/word-columns/afsc.html (705 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union :ACLU of Illinois and Nobel Peace Prize Award Laureate American Friends Service ...
		Ironically, at the same time that police officers were surreptitiously monitoring the AFSC planning meetings in advance of the TABD, AFSC leaders were meeting with the leadership of the Chicago Police Department to ensure that planned demonstrations would go forward without violence or disruption.
		After the infiltration of AFSC went public in 2004, the ACLU and AFSC asked the police for the files related to this matter.
		The ACLU and AFSC subsequently learned that the files were destroyed under a new General Order that allowed materials about First Amendment investigations to be destroyed before they were shared with independent auditors responsible for a five year external audit of police department activities required by the consent decree.
	www.aclu.org /FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=18104&c=86 (1142 words)

	Quaker information and religious beliefs
		Friends Committee on National Legislation announces their return to "A Place Just Right"-- their building on Capitol Hill, newly renovated as an environmentally "green" facility.
		Friends Center Corporation in Philadelphia (housing the Quaker Information Center and six of our members and associates) develops plans for a green renovation as "a living witness to Friends testimonies."
		Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, a faith that emerged as a new Christian denomination in England during a period of religious turmoil in the mid-1600's, and is practiced today, in a variety of forms, around the world.
	www.quakerinfo.org (368 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - The American Friends Service Committee's Life Over Debt Campaign ...
		However, the Service Committee stresses that these nations represent only a small portion of the countries in urgent need of debt cancellation.
		Over the next six months the Service Committee will work to build support of the Jubilee Act (HR 1130), which seeks debt cancellation for 33 other countries that urgently need cancellation of their odious or illegitimate debts.
		The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service.
	i-newswire.com /pr25570.html (611 words)

	Save Our Services : Economic Justice : AFSC
		AFSC calls for a moral budget that reflects Quaker values in action.
		With winter fuel prices expected to rise 41 percent this year, AFSC has launched a winter-fuel campaign to help people in a number of communities learn about way to keep their heat on this winter.
		In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday weekend Jan. 14-15, 2006 and beyond, AFSC and our partners in the Let Justice Roll coalition invite people of faith to hold workshops and educate people about the need to raise the U.S. minimum wage of $5.15 an hour.
	www.saveourservices.org (252 words)

	American Friends Service Committee
		The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization which promotes social justice, peace, and humanitarian service[?].
		The group was founded, in 1917, to assist civilian victims of World War I.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/American_Friends_Service_Committee.html (63 words)

	OneWorld U.S. Home / Today's News - U.S. Relief Group Calls for Iraq Withdrawal
		The statement by the Philadelphia-based American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) came a day after U.S. forces suffered their worst losses from a single incident in Iraq when an apparent suicide bomber blew himself up at U.S. military base in Mosul, killing at least 22 people, including 14 U.S. soldiers and four U.S. contractors.
		The decision by AFSC's board of directors may feed the sense that the war has been a serious mistake, even though the same poll found that 58 percent respondents still believe that Washington should keep its military forces--now numbering over 140,000--in Iraq until "civil order is restored."
		This in turn will be measured by how well it establishes and maintains security for Iraqis; restores basic services, including utilities, health care and education; and revives the local economy to meet day-to-day, as well as recovery needs of Iraqis.
	us.oneworld.net /article/view/100366/1 (736 words)

	American Friends Service Committee
		Notices asking receivers to send the message on to ten friends were sent by mass e-mail February 3, following the President's State of the Union address.
		Backed by an 87-year history working for peace, justice and reconciliation in trouble areas of the world, the American Friends Service Committee is a faith-based organization grounded in Quaker beliefs respecting the dignity and worth of every person.
		In 1919 AFSC launched massive programs to feed millions of starving children in post-war Germany at the request of President Herbert Hoover, when he was director of the American Relief Administration.
	www.commondreams.org /news2005/0209-02.htm (467 words)

	American Friends Service Committee - Quaker values in action
		American Friends Service Committee - Quaker values in action
		AFSC’s Eyes Wide Open exhibit is featured in the blues musician Robert Cray’s new music video.
		AFSC · 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 · 215-241-7000 ·
	www.afsc.org (226 words)

	American Friends Service Committee
		Part of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a nonprofit organization committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice.
		Through education programs, worldwide development projects, policy papers, lobbying efforts, and its Quaker United Nations Office (see separate entry), AFSC seeks to end war and poverty, improve conditions in mental hospitals and prisons, and achieve racial equality.
		In 1947, AFSC and the British Friends Service Council shared a Nobel Peace Prize for their "silent help from the nameless to the nameless.".
	www.angelfire.com /mt/internships/32.htm (240 words)

	[hr-professionals] Fundraising Coord. for American Friends Service Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Description: The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker-based organization that seeks to eliminate the causes of war, oppression and injustice, and to promote understanding and reconciliation among those holding differing views.
		The purpose of this position is to increase the visibility and fundraising of AFSC's New England programs, primarily through institutional funding and direct mail, with some time devoted to special events and public relations Education: No minimum requirement Languages: English Additional Qualifications: Experience in fundraising as paid staff or volunteer.
		AFSC is an AA/EO Employer and encourages applications from people of color; women; gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people; people with disabilities; and ex-prisoners.
	mailman1.u.washington.edu /pipermail/hrnetnews/2001-May/002616.html (308 words)

	Help Survivors of Genocide in Sudan : Emergency and Material Assistance Program : AFSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		AFSC is cooperating with Action by Churches Together (ACT) International and Caritas Internationalis to support the work of Norwegian Church Aid, the Sudan Council of Churches, the Sudan Development Organization, and Sudanaid of the Sudan Catholic Church in Darfur.
		AFSC's partners on the ground are working to assist directly 125,000 people in three areas of southern and western Darfur who have been displaced into refugee camps or who are living near their burned-out villages.
		Your generous response can help AFSC save many of those whose lives are at risk.
	afsc.org /emap/sudan.htm (295 words)

	transformcolumbusdayalliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During Columbus' tenure as "viceroy and governor" of the Caribbean Islands and the American mainland from 1493 until 1500, he instituted policies of slavery (encomienda) and the systematic murder and rape of the Taino population.
		Both are intended to convey what the parade organizers find valuable in their interpretation of the Italian American experience; namely, the legacy of racial superiority, conquest, and domination epitomized by Columbus.
		The Columbus parade is the ultimate opportunity for the parade organizers to champion the invasion of the America's, thereby avoiding any personal or collective responsibility for the genocide that began under Columbus, and that continues today.
	www.transformcolumbusday.org /faqtcd.html (2223 words)

	Network for Good :: Help Support Disaster Relief in South Asia
		Please join millions of other generous Americans and support one or many of the important relief organizations below with a safe and easy contribution now.
		Providing vital supplies and services to victims still waiting for assistance in the aftermath of this tragedy.
		Providing rescue and relief services to the victims by supplying them with food, temporary shelter, clean water, medication and survival kits.
	www.networkforgood.org /topics/international/earthquake/tsunami122604.aspx (1348 words)

	AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE CLOTHING COMMITTEE
		The Clothing Committee of the American Friends Service Committee sent gifts of clothing, toys, and other articles to Japanese Americans living in relocation projects during World War II.
		This collection appears to be AFSC administrative files for their program with new mothers.
		The cards usually contain the name of the woman, where she resided, the sex and date of birth of the baby, and the date that a gift was ordered or sent.
	www.balchinstitute.org /manuscript_guide/html/afsc.html (83 words)

	Street Spirit: Justice News&Homeless Blues
		A publication of the American Friends Service Committee
		The views expressed in Street Spirit are those of the individual authors alone, and not necessarily that of the American Friends Service Committee
		Yet last month, a group of some of San Francisco's most respected religious leaders gathered to highlight the contradictory aspects of Newsom's homeless policy, including a dramatic spike in the number of citations issued under his administration for sleeping outdoors.
	www.thestreetspirit.org (513 words)

	The American Friends Service Committee
		The coalition’s ultimate request is that the Commission issue recommendations to the U.S. government encouraging a legislative fix to Hoffman Plastic, and develop a reporting mechanism, which would require regular updates from the U.S. government and the undersigned advocates.
		The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) supports the rights and dignity of all people, regardless of legal immigration status.
		Through its national immigrants’ rights initiative, Project Voice, AFSC seeks to strengthen the voices of immigrants and immigrant-led organizations in setting the national agenda for immigration policy and immigrants’ rights.
	www.commondreams.org /news2004/1220-03.htm (745 words)

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