AFSC Toward Peace & Justice

AFSC Toward Peace & Justice



In This Issue:



 - Help tsunami survivors in South Asia

 - Wage Peace Campaign update

 - Listen up: Audio presentations now online

 - New resources on Colombia's civil war

 - Gardening project in Bosnia/Herzegovina continues to thrive

 - A Quaker perspective on the global economy



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Help tsunami survivors in South Asia



On Friday, AFSC approved an additional emergency grant of

$143,597 to field three more Indonesian medical teams in Aceh

Province through March. AFSC staff members Bob Clarke and

Patricia DeBoer report by phone from Indonesia that they

continue to be impressed with the work of our Indonesian

partner, the Society for Health, Education, Environment,

and Peace (SHEEP).



During the next few months of immediate relief work, AFSC

and SHEEP will concentrate our work on the area around the

coastal city of Meulaboh. The coastal city was the closest

major city to the earthquake's epicenter and perhaps the

hardest hit. Approximately 43,000 of the area's 200,000

inhabitants were killed in the tsunami.



For updates or donations:

http://ga3.org/ct/Cp_ZLWM1rmAz/tsunami-help/



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Wage Peace Campaign update



Iraq Peace Petition passes 10,000 signatures &

Wage Peace bracelet lets the pro-peace majority show its colors.



In its first weeks, more than 10,000 people have signed AFSC's

petition calling for withdrawal from Iraq-8,000 of them online.

The petition will be a key piece of AFSC's national campaign

calling for an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.



Click here to sign the peace petition:

http://ga3.org/ct/V1_ZLWM1rm_K/petition/.



A second thing you can do is wear AFSC's Wage Peace bracelet.

The blue bracelet is a visible way to let the pro-peace majority

show its support for ending the war. Proceeds from the bracelet

will fund AFSC peace projects, such as the nationally acclaimed

Eyes Wide Open Exhibit.



Click here to get the bracelet:

http://ga3.org/ct/C1_ZLWM1rmA1/wagepeace/.



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Listen up: Audio presentations now online



Listen to a riveting talk by author Chris Hedges about the

culture of warfare, the experiences of AFSC field staff in

Iraq, and more.



Listen now: http://ga3.org/ct/Vd_ZLWM1rm_Z/audio



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New resources on Colombia's civil war



Several new online resources explain the long-running civil war

in

Colombia and describe efforts to bring about a peaceful

resolution to the conflict.



Read AFSC's resources on Colombia:

http://ga3.org/ct/n7_ZLWM1fzLE/colombia/



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Gardening project in Bosnia/Herzegovina continues to thrive



The AFSC Community Gardening Project was established in early

2000 to provide a safe and supportive space where people from

different ethnicities in Bosnia and Herzegovina could work side

by side to grow food for themselves and their families. The

project's newest success stories include:



 - using the gardens as work therapy for former soldiers and

    people with post-war syndrome and mental disabilities; and

 - the Stup garden in Sarajevo, which recently donated a

    portion of its vegetable production to the Stari Grad

    public kitchen operated by the Red Cross.



Read more: http://ga3.org/ct/C7_ZLWM1rmAa/garden/



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A Quaker perspective on the global economy



Global economic justice is the bedrock of a peaceful world.

AFSC's new report, "Putting Dignity & Rights at the Heart of

the Global Economy: A Quaker Perspective," does not attempt to

answer all the questions of how the global economy works.



Instead, the report asks us to test the global economy's

effectiveness by how well it raises the standard of living and

health for the poor, protects our natural environment and

cultural lives, justly produces and distributes goods and

services to meet everyone's daily needs, and creates work

whose intrinsic worth enables people to grow and develop.



Download the report:

http://ga3.org/ct/71_ZLWM1fzLa/economic



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Toward Peace & Justice is a monthly publication of the American

Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a nonprofit Quaker

organization

that includes people of various faiths who are committed to

social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.



Copyright 2005 by the American Friends Service Committee,

1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102



See the AFSC website at http://ga3.org/ct/Zd_ZLWM1rm_-/afsc.



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