Asylum seekers need compassion, not surveillance: “I know community-based programs work,” writes AFSC volunteer Brian Fauver, who sponsored two trans women going through the immigration system. “These models could quickly scale up if the Biden Administration redirected resources towards them.” (Boulder Weekly)
In South Sudan, peacebuilders find healing for their own trauma: In its first year, AFSC’s South Sudan Program has provided trauma healing to dozens of peacebuilders, strengthening their ability to support their communities. AFSC’s Zaina Kisongoa shares what this has meant to one mother of three who survived South Sudan’s civil war.
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: This week we remember Gordon Hirabayashi, an outspoken advocate against injustice and AFSC alumnus who refused to obey a U.S. military decree interning tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II. He spent over two years in prison for violating exclusion and curfew orders—but appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
