SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2021
Weekend Reading

Dear John,

We are so grateful to everyone who gave this #GivingTuesday! With your help, we raised more than $83,000 from 706 donors! That secured a $50,000 matching gift from an anonymous donor. This is going to make so much possible in the year ahead. Thank you for your support.

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

To end this pandemic, we must put human lives over pharma profits: The emergence of the omicron variant shows the danger of world leaders’ inaction on vaccines for all. For all our safety, we need to allow more companies to manufacture vaccine doses, writes AFSC’s Pauline Muchina. [link removed]

Join our Free Them All week of action: Between Dec. 10 (Human Rights Day) and Dec. 18 (International Day of the Migrant), communities across the U.S. are taking action to protect people in prisons, jails, and detention centers from COVID-19. It’s part of our ongoing work for a future without incarceration. Learn more about the week's events, including a phone zap, Facebook Live, and webinar on divesting for immigrant justice. [link removed]

Fostering peace through economic resilience in Burundi: With support from AFSC, community members are learning trades, starting businesses, and supporting their families. They’re also working together to ensure the well-being of all, writes AFSC’s Burundi Program. [link removed]

Immigration within the Build Back Better bill: Listen to this interview with AFSC’s Jennifer Piper to learn how “parole” replaced a path to citizenship in the House version of the bill—and what is needed next. [link removed] (KGNU) And tell Congress: Ensure a pathway to citizenship for all immigrants! [link removed]

Register for our No Way to Treat a Child webinar (Dec. 7 at 9 a.m. PT/ noon ET): Children in the occupied Palestinian territory are often detained by the Israeli military. AFSC and Defense for Children International-Palestine are working to stop U.S. tax dollars from funding this practice. Join us for a year-end update on our campaign to protect Palestinian children as part of working to end the Israeli occupation. [link removed]

Opposing the internment of Japanese-Americans: Dec. 7 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack, the U.S. government forced more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry from their homes into internment camps. At the time, AFSC was one of the few organizations that publicly opposed the enormous human rights violation. [link removed]

Be well and take care

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