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Read how Palestinian children in Gaza remember going to school prior to the genocide in this new set of interviews on Gaza Unlocked! (And read more Displaced in Gaza stories there too)
Amid ongoing conflict, young voices from Gaza share their recollections of school days now lost and their hopes for returning to their classrooms one day.
Press coverage of our Interfaith Vigil for Gaza on Tuesday night!
(RNS) — Activists who have been protesting at the Democratic National Convention over the war in Gaza took time out to mourn and draw strength from their varying faiths.
Join us this Sunday at Alhambra in Chicago.
Join us to honor the memory of Wadee and honor him by standing for the Wadee Resolutuion and demanding a Congressional hearing on Palestinian discrimination. May 19 @ 4:00 pm. First United Methodist Church, 77 W. Washington St., Chicago. REGISTER: https://tinyurl.com/wadeealfayoumi
WEDNESDAY: Learn concrete skills in mental health crisis response so you can avoid calling the police! REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/thinktwicewebinar
Thanks to all who have joined our solidarity effort. To learn more visit our site here:
Three teenage boys play soccer in front of the tents in Rafah at AFSC's Goals for Gaza tournament in April 2024. AFSC/Gaza
Helpful new resources when considering Divestment for Palestinian rights on our site here:
Universities and all institutions should withdraw their support of Israeli human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Learn some concrete de-escalation skills, this WEDNESDAY! Register here: https://afsc.org/events/think-twice-toolkit-building-skills-police-alternatives
Please help us welcome asia maya smith as our new Chicago Peacebuilding Program Director! asia comes to AFSC from working on various abolitionist campaigns in Chicago, and will continue our collective work to dismantle militarism and state violence in our domestic and foreign policy, while building alternatives that contribute to the wellbeing of communities.
New film by Sensitive Visuals about the event we co-organized last month "Looking Heaven in the Eye". Please share widely and continue your creative activism for a ceasefire.
Looking Heaven in the Eye is a short film about an event of the same name organized by friends of Dr. Refaat Alareer in Chicago on December 23, 2023. Dr. Ala...
Join us tomorrow to pay tribute to Refaat Al Areer and all storytellers and journalists killed by Israel in recent months in Gaza. Bring a kite!
Join in these upcoming events in Chicago!
Jennifer Bing's year end thoughts on our No Way to Treat a Child campaign. "When we started our No Way to Treat a Child campaign, we believed that a movement of organized, educated advocates could make a difference. As we look to 2024, we remain committed to that vision. Protection not Detention. Freedom not Imprisonment. Life not genocide. Compassion not Despair."
This holiday season, make a gift for peace, justice, and human dignity. Help meet urgent needs and support communities taking action to end violence, overcome oppression, and build a better world.
May this number increase.
Use your finance expertise to support social justice work in the Midwest! Join our team at AFSC.
Location: Chicago, IL, Twin Cities, MN, Ypsilanti, MI, or remote (Midwest locations preferred). Application Deadline: December 1, 2023
APPLY TODAY: https://afsc.org/job/midwest-regional-finance-and-office-associate
On Monday, Nov. 13, people across the United States will visit the district offices of their senators and representatives to honor the dead and demand an end to the mass killing of people in Gaza. JOIN US by hosting or attending an event in your area: https://afsc.org/November13
Thanks to all who joined our interfaith vigil tonight at Grace place! Make your calls for a ceasefire now!
Thank you everyone for your powerful witness and presence tonight at the Interfaith Prayer Vigil: Mourn and Recommit to a Future of Justice
Join us for an hour of advocacy/action online Friday at 11am CT. https://secure.afsc.org/a/afsc-action-hour-ceasefire-now
We need your help in Gaza. More than two million people are cut off with no clean water, electricity, or other basic needs. Your gift puts the resources in place for humanitarian relief and long-term peacebuilding.
‼️JOIN US THIS MONDAY, October 16th‼️for the highly anticipated FREE screening of “No Cop Academy: The Documentary” at Malcolm X’s Conference Center Auditorium (1900 W. Jackson Blvd). tells the story of Chicago's 2017-2019 campaign to stop a $95 million cop academy and invest in Black youth and communities instead. The film features interviews with youth leaders and organizers from the campaign, and shows how they grew from a small group of committed individuals to a city-wide movement that shook the very foundations of city hall.
Doors open at 4:30pm for organization/campaign tabling and pizza/refreshments, the film screening will begin at 5:30pm with a short break before a Q&A at 7:00pm with youth organizers from the campaign. The event will end by 8:00pm.
Co-sponsors include Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education, REAL Youth Initiative, Dissenters, The Final 5 Campaign, Chicago Freedom School, American Friends Service Committee--Chicago, Kuumba Lynx, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, GoodKids MadCity.
RSVP: bit.ly/NoCopDocAtMalcolmX
Note: Masks are required during this event (extras will be available). No food is allowed in the Auditorium. The Auditorium is fully accessible via wheelchair, and is on the first floor of Malcolm X City College’s Conference Center campus. The Auditorium is within one block of the 50 or 126 bus, and just one block from the Illinois Medical District Damen Street Blue Line Stop (which claims to be accessible).
NoCopAcademy.com
Linktr.ee/NoCopAcademy
SoapBoxPO.com/NoCopAcademy
Student activists at Sullivan HS in Rogers Park are holding a teach-in on THURSDAY, JUNE 1. Join us in supporting them and the campaign. Today we and our partner org PO Box Collective helped the students print t-shirts for the event from a design by student Alexiah Houde!!!
🚨Monday, May 8th: Join MAMAS Collective
+ Allies as we call for to make good on her promises to reunite us with our incarcerated loved ones, NOW!
📣Rally at 5:30p; Press Conference at 5:45-6:15p / 6328 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
🙅🏽♀️We are TIRED of hearing the same excuses
🙅🏿♀️We are DONE waiting for the conviction integrity unit to review these cases
🙅🏾♀️We REFUSE to go one more Mother's Day without our children- bring them home NOW!
Put your admin skills to work for social justice!!! Find out more and apply at http://bit.ly/43fV272
NOT TO BE MISSED! March 16-19 at Newberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, & the Chicago Cultural Center. From the “American Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” the SURVIVING THE LONG WARS (STLW) summit explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse communities impacted by war. The summit features the STLW performance program and concluding discussion series of the yearlong NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War program. There will also be poetry readings, panels, artmaking and movement workshops, a portfolio review, exhibition tours, fifteen-minute Open Platform presentations, and more. https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/summit
Veteran Art SummitMarch 16 – 19, 2023 | ChicagoNewberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, & the Chicago Cultural CenterCOVID-19 & ADA Accessibility Statement // View programming by day: Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday Register for Free Join us in Chicago for four days of exciting programming th...
Thanks to all in Chicago who helped to make the book speaking tour a success this fall! Some tour reflections from Yousef AlJamal are captured in his essay here: https://politicstoday.org/how-i-saw-the-light-in-gaza-during-my-united-states-trip/
On October 14, Asmaa Abu Mezied and I landed in Chicago for our book tour with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Join us next Tuesday, November 29 for our final webinar in 2022.
Join the webinar on November 29 to discuss the human rights violations faced by Palestinian children at the hands of Israeli forces in 2022.
Join us tomorrow online with 3 Palestinian authors from our anthology Light in Gaza! 12pm Chicago time! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/light-in-gaza-writings-born-of-fire-tickets-427433664597
Join Mosab Abu Toha, Refaat Alareer, and Jehad Abusalim as they imagine the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and apartheid.
Join us this Tuesday!
Join the webinar on September 13 to learn how to advocate for accountability for Palestinian children and human rights defenders.
Our Chicago-based Palestine Activism program shares some summer highlights and ways to engage with our work! https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.afsc.org%2Fstory%2Fstandwiththe6-and-new-book-gaza&data=05%7C01%7CJBing%40afsc.org%7C069bcb746ba04268d82e08da822a1f9a%7Cbdb9059779bc47b8adec787f4e42aa8a%7C0%7C0%7C637965414691445210%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RXaP2WsWG9Y3OMvUUBKaT%2Bj7UW5xHBQtCFj%2FALfC%2Fho%3D&reserved=0
Israeli army raids offices of Palestinian civil society and human rights groups: Time to forces raided the office of our No Way to Treat a Child campaign colleagues at Defense for Children International-Palestine and welded their front door shut on August 18, nearly a year afte...
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A look at the ways that white supremacy and policing have been intertwined since the days of slave patrols, the impact of this connection, and what can be done about it.
Throwback to last Monday’s #NoCopAcademy Toolkit Release and to the #NoCopAcademy campaign! From 2017-2019, Chicago Black youth powerfully organized and led an effort against the construction of a $95 million dollar cop academy, and demanded the city of Chicago fund youth and communities instead. This upcoming documentary chronicles the explosive #NoCopAcademy campaign through those who lived it. “Real community safety comes from fully-funded schools and mental health centers, robust after-school and job-training programs, and social and economic justice. We want investment in our communities, not expanded resources for police.” #NoCopAcademy Full Documentary Coming Soon. No Cop Academy NoCopAcademy.com for more information about the campaign. NoCopAcademy.com/Toolkit to download and read the toolkit. SoapBoxPO.com/NoCopAcademy to see more visuals and PSAs from the campaign and updates on the documentary. Get engaged in current abolitionist fights to take power away from police, prisons, and ICE and invested into our communities: The Final 5 Campaign, Students Strike Back, Stop General Iron, Defund CPD Campaign
Today we join the End IL Prison Lockdown Coalition demanding that the state of Illinois take the appropriate actions to protect those in IDOC. Where are you Gov. Pritzker? In the past 10 months, incarcerated people in Illinois have faced an extreme, ineffective, and unending prison lockdown, forced to stay in their cells over 23 hours a day! Still, over 60 are dead and 1,000s infected. Cages Don't Stop COVID! Sign our petition: linktr.ee/EndILPrisonLockdown #EndILPrisonLockdown #FreeThemAll #CagesDontStopCOVID
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