SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2023

Weekend Reading

Dear Friend,

Since 2014, AFSC’s Liberation Summer Advocacy Camp has helped high school students learn how to use photography, filmmaking, and other artforms to drive social change. As we kick off another camp this week, AFSC’s Alexandra Held-Villasenor writes about her own experience and how it shaped her own activism. Read more. [link removed]

Here are this week's picks to inform and support your activism:

Farm to School Project completes successful eight-year run: [link removed] Since 2015, AFSC’s New Mexico program has worked to direct state money to schools to purchase locally grown food. This work has provided students with fresh food, farmers with consistent markets, and local communities with more robust food and hunger legislation. This project is now transitioning to take on a new form as AFSC New Mexico staff are working on two new healthy food campaigns. Read more. [link removed]

5 things you need to know about “Cop City”: [link removed] Cop City is the police training facility slated to be built in Atlanta, Georgia at a cost of over $90 million. If constructed, it would be the largest police training facility in the U.S.—all built by clear-cutting the Welaunee forest. The project faces massive opposition in Atlanta and nationally, and for good reason. Learn more about how the facility would further militarize and expand policing, and about the ballot initiative underway to stop it.

Listen to the latest episode of the Quakers Today podcast: [link removed] AFSC is sponsoring season two of Quakers Today, a project of Friends Publishing Corporation. In the latest episode, “Quakers and Decision Makers,” host Peterson Toscano speaks with Linda Seger and Christopher Cuthrell about Quaker leadership, literature, and art. Listen now. [link removed]

Join our next No Way to Treat Child webinar (July 25, 12 p.m. ET/ 9 a.m. PT): [link removed] Please join our monthly webinar from AFSC and Defense for Children International - Palestine on advocacy for Palestinian rights. This webinar will feature lessons learned from Palestinian rights advocates who engage with elected officials in local communities and on Capitol Hill. The webinar is timed before the August recess when members of Congress return to their home districts. Register today. [link removed]

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