SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2024
Weekend Reading
Hi Friend,
Happy New Year! As we start 2025, we are deeply grateful to everyone who has made a year-end gift to AFSC. Your generous contributions have strengthened our foundation for another year of vital peace and justice work around the world. Thank you for your support!
HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
Update: Emergency response in Lebanon
By Bilal Olimat
In October, AFSC launched an emergency response to aid families in Lebanon displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign and ground invasion. So many of you responded to our call, helping us to provide immediate relief to people forced to flee their homes. Thanks to supporters like you, we have assisted more than 3,500 displaced people with food, medicine, and more. Continue reading. [link removed]
JOIN US
Third Tuesdays: Protect, Resist, and Build with AFSC (starting Jan. 21, 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT)
Are you looking for ways to support your community while advocating for lasting social change? Join our new monthly webinar series every third Tuesday of the month. You'll hear directly from AFSC staff and partners and learn concrete ways we can all take action for migrant rights, economic justice, and peace . Register today. [link removed]
IN THE MEDIA
Organizing to keep loved ones together
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to begin mass deportations efforts soon after taking office. In this interview on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with the Rev. Al Sharpton, AFSC’s Pedro Rios discusses how immigrants, their loved ones, and other community members are organizing to stop that from happening. “We're working directly with communities, providing information about what their rights are, and helping them organize themselves so they can defend basic constitutional rights,” Pedro says. Watch the video on Instagram. [link removed]
GAZA
On Gaza: Will we say yes to bring hope?
By Jennifer Bing
I’ve been thinking a lot about the poem written by my friend Refaat Alareer, a professor and mentor to many in Gaza. Refaat was killed by Israel in a targeted airstrike last December. The last line of his now-famous poem is “If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a story.” In Gaza this year, over 45,000 people have been killed by Israel with U.S. complicity, and I wonder, what story will we tell of 2024? And how we will take action in 2025? Continue reading. [link removed]
IN MEMORIAM
Remembering Jimmy Carter
AFSC mourns the loss of President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29. The world has lost a public servant on a global scale who used the prestige and power of his former office to work for peace, justice, and human rights. While AFSC profoundly disagreed with many of the Carter administration’s policies, we twice nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work to end armed conflicts and build the foundations of a more peaceful world. Continue reading. [link removed]
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