AFSC’s Mission The American Friends Service Committee is a and practice are not the exclusive possession of any practical expression of the faith of the Religious group. Thus, the AFSC draws into its work people of human beings. We nurture the faith that conflicts Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the many faiths and backgrounds who share the values can be resolved nonviolently, that enmity can be principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its that animate its life and who bring to it a rich variety transformed into friendship, strife into cooperation, work and witness to draw on the transforming power of experiences and spiritual insights. poverty into well-being, and injustice into dignity and of love, human and divine. participation. We believe that ultimately goodness This AFSC community works to transform conditions can prevail over evil, and oppression in all its many We recognize that the leadings of the Spirit and the and relationships both in the world and in ourselves, forms can give way. principles of truth found through Friends’ experience which threaten to overwhelm what is precious in AFSC’s Values We cherish the belief that there is that of God in We regard no person as our enemy. While we often We seek and trust the power of the Spirit to guide each person, leading us to respect the worth and oppose specific actions and abuses of power, we the individual and collective search for truth and dignity of all. We are guided and empowered by seek to address the goodness and truth in each practical action. the Spirit in following the radical thrust of the early individual. Christian witness. From these beliefs flow the core We accept our understandings of truth as understandings that form the spiritual framework of We assert the transforming power of love and incomplete and have faith that new perceptions of our organization and guide its work. nonviolence as a challenge to injustice and violence truth will continue to be revealed both to us and to and as a force for reconciliation. others. AFSC’s Work We seek to understand and address the root causes We work to relieve and prevent suffering through recognizes the dignity of each person. We believe of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with both immediate aid and long-term development and that the Spirit can move among all these groups, courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not seek to serve the needs of people on all sides of making great change possible. be popular. violent strife. Seeking to transform the institutions of society, we We are called to confront, nonviolently, powerful We ground our work at the community level both are ourselves transformed in the process. As we institutions of violence, evil, oppression, and at home and abroad in partnership with those work in the world around us, our awareness grows injustice. Such actions may engage us in creative who suffer the conditions we seek to change and that the AFSC’s own organizational life must change tumult and tension in the process of basic change. informed by their strength and vision. to reflect the same goals we urge others to achieve. We seek opportunities to help reconcile enemies and to facilitate a peaceful and just resolution of We work with all people, the poor and the materially We find in our life of service a great adventure. We conflict. comfortable, the disenfranchised and the powerful are committed to this Spirit-led journey, undertaken in pursuit of justice. We encourage collaboration “to see what love can do,” and we are ever renewed in social transformation towards a society that by it.
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National Office 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19102-1403 215-241-7000 Our Beginning “…It is time Friends had a definite answer Japanese Americans during World War When the sweep of history grows to to give these young men who are earnestly II, and to the desire to provide material encompass the next 90 years, the record desirous of doing the right thing, but unless assistance to people in need. For 65 will show that AFSC is still here, still strong something active is forthcoming will be years we have served as a backbone for and still steadfast in its belief that goodness drawn into military service…” resistance to militarism and oppression, can prevail over evil, and oppression in its sometimes at the forefront and sometimes many forms can give way. Dear friends, allies, supporters, behind the scenes, but always with the Thank you for celebrating our past and With these words, spoken at a meeting force of quiet thunder. You will see in this program a snapshot of AFSC’s presence future here tonight, and for standing with us on April 30, 1917, the American Friends on this long, remarkable journey. Service Committee was born. The words in the Pacific Northwest and around the give voice to the urgency that Quakers felt world. Through it all the AFSC continues to to provide, as long time AFSC clerk Rufus learn and grow, striving to live out its ideals Jones later described it, “a conscientious both within and without, pushing beyond Regional Director, AFSC Pacific Northwest service of love for humanity in wartime.” the limits of our imaginations to witness and Who could have known that from these inspire. modest beginnings, the AFSC would The theme of AFSC’s 75th anniversary become the most enduring and far reaching celebration in 1992 was “Faith, Risk and social justice and peace organization in the Change.” Faith in the Light we seek to find United States? in each person and place. Risk - taken by The AFSC repertoire of good works is vast, people of courage who walk alongside us encompassing most of the struggles for in order to realize a more just, reconciled equality and peace of this century. These and peaceful human community. Change— works stand as testament to the profound social, political and economic—that fuels beauty and promise of Quaker belief in the our commitment to nonviolence, and is power of love to overcome violence and a source of renewal for our dedication injustice. to partnership with those whose human rights and dignity are violated. These Here in the Pacific Northwest, we trace simple truths remain our touchstone as we our beginnings back to the all too small uphold our vision of a better world in these movement to protest the internment of frightening times.
Dear AFSC Friends and Family, Northwest and our 90th year around the world. I honor those who came before me Since April of 2003, I have had the and those who are no longer on this earth. fortunate opportunity to be on staff here at the AFSC regional office in Seattle. I’ve Thanks to all of you, from the past and from met literally thousands of wonderful human the present, who make our efforts worthy. beings who work every day in pursuit of justice, peace and self determination for others. I’ve worked closely with hundreds of my peers, elders and youth who continue Associate Regional Director to teach me wise and thoughtful methods of being and working. I’ve learned of the great, rich history of the Friends and others who stood fast against injustice through this office. I’ve learned of their contributions and their sorrows. Still, each day, I come in contact with those brave and relentless; those mindful and tireless; those who bring us forward to an evolved humanity; a humanity destined to understand and experience real change, real justice that bring us closer toward a universe of peace and understanding. Japanese American I’m humbled by your presence at this, Students at Manzanar our 65th Anniversary in the Pacific Internment Camp Courtesy of AFSC Archives
AFSC Pacific Northwest Region Programs Seattle Regional Office
Peace and Community engagements on Tribal Sovereignty and Treaty Rights with regard to gaming and The Peace and Community fishing in effort is dedicated to engaging the community the Pacific Northwest. We are here to on the issues of peace and provide strategic technical assistance social action. We work to and material support to progressive mobilize and educate youth leadership, build organizational capacity, and adults of the Seattle and strengthen and affirm cultural and metro area about political identities of Native Americans. military Inter-tribal Canoe Society in the Pacific NW region Solidarity March for Human Rights and The Intertribal Canoe Journey is Economic Justice 2006 an exciting experience which involves
a Speaker’s Bureau and support events to promote global peace and social justice.
The Regional Indian Program
The Indian Program supports Northwest tribes by fostering a grassroots movement recruitment in the that promotes healing, culture, civil society, Puyallups paddling schools. We are developing leaders community and leadership. We support and speakers who can inform the public about a variety of programs, including the annual the alternatives available and to support those Intertribal Canoe Journey, an indigenous who choose to object to militarism. We maintain Film Festival, and a number of speaking
thousands of Native men, women, Research about their lives. Panels address issues such elders and youth from dozens of Center as homophobia, school bullying and violence, tribes across the Pacific NW, British transgender youth, homelessness and other Colombia and beyond who travel Gay/Lesbian/ issues of concern to queer youth. Panels can hundreds of miles with traditional Bisexual/ be designed to address specific audiences cedar canoes to reclaim their Transgender and (e.g., teachers, counselors, elementary traditions, songs, friendships and school-aged children, homeless youth service to create new leadership. We offer free training for the Questioning Youth providers, etc.) GLBTQ Youth Program “...Keep up the good work in “It really Indian Country. Your work The Gay, Lesbian, made me touches many and doesn’t go Bisexual, change unnoticed. It is people like you Transgender and the way I who strive to make a difference Questioning (GLBTQ) act when that makes our world that much Youth program believes that youth I pass better.” leadership is essential to ending the gay/ - Charlene Krise, oppression of all people. We support lesbian Executive Director, Squaxin the empowerment and leadership of people Island Museum GLBTQ youth and their allies in undoing on the Library oppression to create a more peaceful and and just world.
Our focus constituency is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning youth between the ages of 14-22, and those who work with this population, including school personnel, counselors, foster parents, and faith communities. We emphasize working with youth who are often under-served, Freedom School Group disenfranchised and/or experience multiple Exercise street. It oppressions, e.g. homeless youth, school drop- makes me think about outs, youth of color, low income youth/families. how I would feel if I were in their position.” What’s Happening and How to Get Involved Program Participant The GLBTQ Youth Speakers Bureau, working closely with the Safe Schools Coalition and others, brings panels of GLBTQ youth to the broader community to help educate others
Community Justice Program young people aged 15-21, designed to expose In collaboration with the Village of Hope, we them to social justice issues, teach them about present a series of workshops on restorative The Community Justice Program the history of community organizing in Seattle, justice, cooperative economics, reconciliation, was established to build a and nurture their own community organizing Dr. King’s message of non-violence, and multicultural and skills. internalized racial oppression. We coordinate ongoing liberation spirituality discussions Every summer in collaboration with the in collaboration with the Church Council of People’s Institute Northwest, we sponsor two Greater Seattle, the Village of Hope, Freedom Undoing Racism trainings for over 80 youth. Church of Seattle, and the People’s Institute We support the organizing work of the Black Northwest. Prisoners’ Caucus at Monroe Correctional Complex. We organize film showings, set “In 2001, the summer before up info tables, and do presentations at local my senior year of high school, area events, high schools, colleges, and I participated in the first Seattle churches, focused on encouraging youth to Freedom School organized by question what they are hearing from military the AFSC Community Justice multigenerational recruiters, and consider alternatives to military Program. This experience movement in the Seattle service. Internships provide young people completely changed my life. I metro area focused on addressing with hands-on, practical experience in anti- have been involved with anti-racist racism, militarism, and poverty. The program racist community organizing. We currently organizing through the Community operates from provide organizing and anti-racism training Justice program ever since, and I an anti-racist and support to students at Chief Sealth High know this work is something that perspective, School, Marysville High School, University I will continue to do in one way or incorporating of Washington, and Western Washington another for the rest of my life.” spirituality, University. - Megan Wilbert culture, history, and In collaboration with the AFSC National leadership Criminal Justice Program, we are working to development. end the disproportional mass incarceration of African-American and youth of color and We sponsor the impact of the so called “drug war” on our the Tyree communities. We host community-based Scott Freedom forums, workshops on racism in the criminal School which justice system and are currently conducting a is a nine “listening project” on the impact of incarceration day summer on African-American families. educational Anti-Racism Training program for
AFSC Pacific Northwest Region Programs Portland Area Program Office Project Voice undocumented—have gained deeper insights advocating with public officials. into their rights and are empowered to act on Project Voice is a them. Building Alliances nationwide AFSC Educating the broader effort to Developing New Leaders public about the enhance In-depth training for established immigrant concerns the groups who are seeking to develop their and capacity of strategic planning, organizing and media immigrants skills is available through Project Voice. to affirm their Adapted to the specific needs of the group, human rights technical assistance and workshops lay a and impact strong foundation for immigrants seeking to public policies take center stage in mobilizing their that affect their communities, educating communities. the public and AFSC in the crowd at Project Voice Immigrant Rights March. conducts Know Your Rights training Immigrants with immigrants in Oregon and Washington Rights March, March 2006. focused not only on civil rights, but on human rights as articulated in the UN Declaration perspectives of Human Rights. Using popular education of immigrants methodology, workshops draw upon is an important step in creating welcoming the knowledge and experience of Participants picnic. communities as well as allies who will stand immigrants, while incorporating up to up to punitive and divisive policies that hurt the minute practical and legislative immigrants. Utilizing AFSC-produced media information. Through this initiative and immigrants’ stories; Project Voice educates hundreds of immigrants—documented and
taller muy dinámico y emotivo.” and challenge the military recruitment of youth. - Itahi Diaz, Juventud Faceta, July, 2004 Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Rights Project United Voices The Portland Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/ United Voices is a program Transgender (GLBT) Rights Project works to of youth (currently ages create a society which supports full civil and 14-26) in the Portland human rights for GLBT persons. We use a Metro Area. We are variety of educational and activist methods youth of color; we are to bring diverse perspectives to the social, queer youth; we are political and cultural debates of the day. immigrant Through workshops, vigils, demonstrations, AFSC Human Rights Gathering- Molalla, educational events, dialogue, and retreats, Oregon the GLBT Program engages both GLBT persons and the larger community. the public to build bridges between settled Equality, discrimination, hate- communities and their new neighbors. crimes, marriage and family issues, youth; and GLBT participation in faith Advocating for Change we are young communities are among the concerns Whether by mobilizing large numbers for men, women, we address. demonstrations, speaking out in the media, and gender facilitating immigrant participation in public variants. Tina and Alfredo, Beats for Peace. forums or advocating directly with legislators, We come Project Voice puts a human face on the together immigrant experience, advocating for just and to make humane policies that uphold the dignity of immigrants and us all. connections, share Immigrants our experiences, learn Rights March, March 2006. “Primero que nada quiero dar las from one another, educate ourselves gracias por permitirme ponerle on issues of oppression and take peaceful una pagina de conocimientos, action toward a more just world. We publish a alegría y emociones a mi libro. Y magazine titled “United Voices” that analyzes para mi el libro es mi vida. El taller current events and our own experiences fue algo muy bonito e interesante. critically, examining the power, privilege, and Conocí muchas cosas que oppression we see throughout our society. Turiya Autry (visiting artist) giving desconocía. Me gusto como We also put sponsor Beats for Peace events, students instructions for a writing fueron organizadas cada parte del support the youth arts and activism community assignment at the Jefferson Writing Project.
The Queer Films in Color is a film series Prayer and Dialogue Groups with people from Youth Leadership and Movement creating awareness for LGBT/queer a range of theological and political views on Building communities of color. These social events “gay rights.” Some favor allowing same- create bridges within the LGBT, people of color, sex marriage, others oppose, The Youth Leadership and and progressive communities. Opportunities and others are Movement Building effort are available for community response undecided. The empowers Portland area and dialogue in an atmosphere which is small groups of Latino and other youth entertaining, lively and respectful. Volunteers eight to twelve to be a positive force for from all backgrounds are needed to help in people come change in their community the planning of future events. together for three 2- and the world. Special hour sessions. Each emphasis is placed on gathering begins with supporting opportunities worship and dinner for youth from a range fellowship. In the first of backgrounds and session participants develop basic ground rules which include Participant family during preparation of the respecting each other Freedom School. and speaking out of our own story and experience of God. Session one is an opportunity for each person present to share his/her own spiritual/faith journey; the second session is dedicated to exploring attitudes toward family and marriage; the third and final session includes Christian to Christian Dialogue group exploring the Bible, case study discussion dinner. and summary of the experience together. The Manuel, Victoria and Albert holding We offer experience of praying and sharing stories the AFSC banner during the March for leadership development together in an atmosphere of respect leads to Truth and Justice on June 18, 2005. with GLBT religious/spiritual communities. transformation and new ways of relating and Through gatherings, workshops and retreats, responding personally and in the community. participants learn new skills, develop experiences to connect with each other to build leadership abilities, and create community- “I participated because I desired a broader youth movement for social justice building experiences which will strengthen the a space where Christians of and peace. In collaboration with AFSC’s Project community. differing faith perspectives could Voice and other local organizations devoted to enter into serious civil and loving immigrants’ and workers’ rights, we mobilize discourse on a difficult subject.” In believing that “there is that of God in each the immigrant community for marches and - Dialogue group participant person,” we have created Christian to Christian public forums.
10 SAY (Social Activist Youth) youth organize On Thursday, November 30, 2006, the Portland student mobilizations for immigrant rights, City Council voted unanimously to support the conduct outreach to widen the circle of diverse resolution that AFSC launched with youth activists, participate in community others who are making the link between training and conferences, and the more than $419 million Portland advocate for youth taxpayers have spent on the war in concerns in Iraq and the lack of funding for vital the public human services arena. The resolution calls for bringing Freedom School the troops Born out of the Freedom School Oregonians choose how to use their movement in the tax dollars at the penny poll. 1960’s, Portland’s youth planned and led Freedom School Eyes Wide Open Oregon: the Human brings diverse youth Cost of the War in Iraq together to explore Dozens of Oregon military personnel issues such as militarism have lost their lives in the war in and war, immigrant rights, oppressions, Iraq and hundreds more have been nonviolence, and economic justice, as well wounded. More than 600,000 Iraqis as to sharpen their leadership and organizing have been killed. This traveling exhibit Michael Taylor of Military Families Speak skills. honors their lives and explores the Out looks on as Jessica Acosta, an Iraq human and economic cost of the war war veteran testifies at the city council to Oregon. With our partners, Military Budgets for Peace and People hearing Families Speak Out-Oregon and Why spend billions on war while we short the Rural Organizing Project, AFSC change education, healthcare and other home from is bringing the exhibit to interested essential services? AFSC’s Budgets for Peace Iraq and redirecting resources used communities around the state. Write to and People campaign advocates for shifting on war to address the urgent needs of the most [email protected] to request the Oregon use of our tax dollars away from wasteful vulnerable portions of our population, including Eyes Wide Open exhibit in your town. military spending and towards meeting basic education, health care, and full benefits for Cost of the War in Iraq as of April 19, human needs. returning veterans. 2007 9:34 AM = $418,467,829,101 from the National Priorities Project, http://www. What is next? Let’s take this message to our costofwar.com. state and federal elected officials.
11 Timeline 1917 1944 AFSC founded in Philadelphia as an alternative AFSC joins in post-war relief and to military service for Conscientious Objectors reconstruction efforts in Europe during WWI 1947 AFSC awarded Nobel 1919 Peace Prize with British AFSC feeds one million children in Germany and Friends Service Council Austria on behalf of Friends worldwide 1929 AFSC helps striking textile workers in North 1947* Carolina survive the winter Portland Office opens, focusing on a clothing 1937 distribution center AFSC provides relief to refugees on both sides of the Spanish Civil War 1947* AFSC works with 1938 Indians at Celilo Falls AFSC arranges emigration for Jewish families who are displaced by a dam in Nazi Germany and sends a delegation to From top: remonstrate with the Gestapo Bodine, 1948* Schmoe and Shipley 1942* AFSC Institute of in front of Friends AFSC Seattle founded to assist Japanese International Relations Center, Seattle Courtesy AFSC Archives Americans and protest their internment established in Seattle, Portland and Spokane 1961 - Marie Gilstrap at early Indian Committee Meeting 1943* 1961 - Indian School Youth Seattle Office begins assistance to WWII Conscientious Objectors
* AFSC Pacific Northwest Region specifically
12 1949 1963 AFSC provides relief for displaced and refugee AFSC publishes Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter Palestinians in the Gaza Strip at the request of the from a Birmingham Jail” United Nations
1965 1953* AFSC helps place 7,000 African-American AFSC has work camp at Kake, children in previously all white southern schools Alaska established in the Tlingit Community to save village from erosion 1966* Portland Peace Caravan is organized and AFSC participates in Vietnam War 1954* demonstrations in Seattle and Regional Indian Program Portland established, focuses on education, work camps on Reservations, inter- tribal 1970 relations and sovereignty AFSC issues Counsels thousands of draft 1955 age AFSC publishes “Speak Truth to Power,” a study young of pacifist alternatives to the arms race men
1960* 1970* AFSC sends relief funds to Butte, Montana for families suffering extreme hardship in the Anaconda Mine Strike “Uncommon Controversy,” AFSC’s pivotal book about tribal fishing Top: Institute of International 1962* rights, is published Relations - 1947 Merger of Seattle and Portland Regions Bottom: “Alien’s Indefinite Leave” card, into Pacific Northwest Region Minidoka. Special Collections, UW Libraries, UW14752
13 1970* 1977* Seattle Office supports establishment of the AFSC helps launch and staff the National United Construction Workers Association for Coalition to Support Indian workers of color in the building trades Treaties
1972* 1977* Seattle Cable Video Program is established to Seattle Education explore and advocate for uses of cable public Program is founded access and newly developed small format video to advocate for quality education for all, equal disciplinary treatment 1973* of students and school Portland Neighborhood Options in Childcare desegregation formed to provide childcare services in a racially mixed, low income neighborhood after a large reduction in state funding for childcare 1977* Seattle Southern Africa Program becomes 1974* involved with the Seattle Campaign to Stop the B-1 Bomber is campaign against launched to focus on Pacific Northwest companies the Krugerrand with B-1 contracts, and human needs that could be and South Africa funded instead divestment
1976* 1978* Portland Study-Action Group on the rise of the Pacific military industrial complex focused on analysis Northwest and strategy World Economy 1976* Program Seattle Justice Program undertakes a Court educates the public Top: 1956 - Lummi Monitoring Project, producing a guide for by analyzing the regional Work Camp Courtesy AFSC Archives defendants detailing their rights economy and whose interests it serves Bottom: Bureau of Indian Affairs Sit-In Courtesy AFSC Archives
14 1979* 1985* Japanese American Citizens League honors Yakima Valley Immigration Program begins to AFSC with an award “in deepest appreciation support the needs of migrant workers to the AFSC for their kindness, generosity and commitment to human rights and dignity for the Japanese Americans during their exile and 1986 imprisonment in 1942-1946” AFSC wins an Oscar for its documentary “Witness to War” on the war in 1979* El Salvador Portland Research/Action Project on School Suspension begins 1986* Indian Program 1982 publishes “Treaties on AFSC publishes “A Trial: The Continuing Compassionate Peace,” Controversy Over focused on a just peace Northwest Indian Fishing in the Israel-Palestine Rights” conflict
1986* 1982* Seattle Gay-Lesbian Program AFSC co- develops what will become People sponsors the Seattle of Color Against AIDS Network joint appearance of Israeli and (POCAAN) Palestinian leaders, and hosts an off the record dialogue among local Jews and Portland Gay-Lesbian Program begins Palestinians 1989 1984* AFSC sponsors “Voices of Hope and Anger: AFSC Asia-Pacific consultation hosted in region Women Speak for Sovereignty and Self- to develop AFSC’s effectiveness and involvement Determination” speaking tour, hosted in Seattle Top: UCWA Organizers c. 1971 (including Tyree in Asia-Pacific concerns among other cities Scott) Center: UCWA Members (Milton Jefferson, Pres.; Julius Pinchback) at an Vietnam War March 1971 1984* Portland Central America Program begins to challenge US intervention in Central America
15 1989* 1991* AFSC establishes H.O.N.O.R. Chapter with other AFSC founds ALANA (Asians, Latinos, Africans, like-minded organizations to stop anti-Indian Native Americans for Justice and Peace) to oppose movement’s “Treaty Beer” sales in the Gulf War in Portland Washington state
1992* 1991 Latin America-Asia AFSC counsels Pacific Youth Program military founded in Portland
LAAP evolves into the United Voices and Youth Leadership and Movement Building initiatives in 2005
1993* Indian Program begins support of Skokomish Tribe to restore flows to the North Fork of Skokomish River, diverted for decades Speakers: Yu Bok Nim, Voices of Hope & Anger by the Cushman Speaking Tour 4/28/89. Dam Seoul, Korea – Founder & Resident Director of My Sister’s Place; Maria Socorro I. Diokno, Philippines – Secty Gen’l of the Philippines Anti-Bases Coalition; Maria Isabel Fidalgo, Puerto Rico – Caribbean Project for Justice & Peace; Lilo Klug, 1993* Germany – Political activist & founder - “German-American Peace Embassy”; Marta Isabel Sandoval, Honduras – Scty of the Seattle Gay- “National Peasants & Workers Central” and Suzuyo Takazata, Lesbian Okinawa – Chair of the Okinawa Christian Peace Center resisters to Youth Top: Comic book for AIDS education the Gulf War and helps Program initiates by People of with relief and reconstruction for Gulf War coalition that founds victims Color Against AIDS Lambert House, a drop-in center for Network (POCAAN) LGBT youth Bottom: 1980- POCAAN’s 1st AIDS Conference
16 1995* 1999* AFSC staff and volunteers offer support to Cross-Cultural Youth Leadership Development Intertribal Canoe Journey (CCYLD) Program launched in Seattle to develop multi-cultural youth leadership
1995* Community Economic Development 2002* Program launched in Portland to promote AFSC supports West Seattle High School students sustainable economic projects with and for who changed Indian mascot; the work continues Latinos at Marysville-Pilchuck High School to change that Indian mascot
1995* Seattle Office hosts first 2001* delegation from North Korea CCYLD founds the annual summer Tyree Scott Freedom School
1998* Alaskans Listening 2003 To Alaskans about Project Voice launched nationally to widen the Subsistence, a circle of immigrants who are prepared to advocate Compassionate for their concerns Listening project focused on Portland based Regional Project Voice Organizer bridging divides is hired in 2004 Top: 1991- around hunting Youth at an and fishing 2003* Anti-Gulf War rights in Demonstration Women of Iraq Tour sponsored with Fellowship Alaska, is launched of Reconciliation, University Friends Meeting and Bottom: 1997 Seattle: AFSC Seattle Non-violent Opponents of War receives an 1999* organizational July 7th Coalition is launched to address leadership award 2003* racist incidents and hostilities around the Makah Military Out of Our Schools Coalition is launched for the GLBTQ Youth whaling controversy; Compassionate Listening Program from the Pride and conducts counter-recruiting activities reaching project instituted to bring peace to people and Foundation (Ricardo thousands of youth in Puget Sound High School Leyva-Puebla, former groups with opposing interests GLBT and EC Committee member and Arlis Stewart, former staff member)
17 2004* 2005* CCYLD evolves into the Community Justice Pacific NW Offices Program host delegation of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian 2005* grassroots GLBTQ Youth Program conducts a series of leaders from events and trainings on racism, public speaking Colombia and safety for youth
2005- 2006* Community Justice Program holds community forums and youth speakouts on racism in the criminal justice system
2005-2006* With the help of hundreds of local volunteers, AFSC’s Eyes Wide Open Exhibit comes to Seattle, Oregon, Montana and Idaho
2005* 2005* AFSC joins the Hate to With Quakers from around the Region AFSC- Hope Coalition to defeat anti- PNW organizes “Swords Into Plowshares” Quaker immigration legislation in Washington State Conference at Gonzaga University, Spokane
2005* 2006* From the top: AFSC-PNW participates in Declaration of Peace Budgets for Peace and People initiative in 2003 - Anti-Mascot Actions Portland launched to advocate for less military Rally spending and more human needs spending 1999 - Portland LAAP Youth Participants 2003 - The crowd at the Anti-Mascot Rally 2003 - Intertribal Canoe Journey
18 2006* Community Justice Program along with the People’s Institute of Seattle and the Village of Hope conduct the first Winter-Break Tyree Scott Freedom School
2006 AFSC PNW becomes a founding member of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition
2006* Seattle Peace and Community Relations helps organize and co- sponsors the first Seattle Solidarity March for Human Rights and Economic Justice
2006* Staff participates in Dialogue On Neoliberalism and The Women’s Movement with South Korean workers and farmers in Seattle to demonstrate against the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
From Top Left: * AFSC Pacific Northwest Region specifically 2006 WWU, Whatcom Community College students, parents and community members meet in groups to discuss strategy to organize against racism 2002 - LAAP youth and Portland staff meet with Mexican Filmmaker 2002 - Peace Rally in Portland (Taylor Brelsford, now our EC clerk)
19 65th Anniversary Program Staged Reading “Voices of a People’s History of the United States” The struggles of the past come alive with dramatic readings from the book by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Welcome Ceremony Northwest Intertribal Canoe Society and the Honorable Cecile Hansen, Chair, Duwamish Tribe Dinner Served Music Fortune Nyondo Presentation about AFSC Taylor Brelsford, clerk, AFSC Pacific NW Regional Executive Committee Presentation of Pillar of Peace Awards Honoring individuals and groups who are models of action and vision for a more peaceful world
Geneiva Arunga AFSC Freedom School Organizer, Spoken Word Artist Peace and Justice Tours Live Auction Martin Friedman Sam Hamill Founder, Poets Against War
U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada
Closing
20 Fortune Nyondo Rexroth (with Bradford Morrow), and Selected Poems of the reasons for the U.S. involvement in Iraq. After reading Fortune Nyondo, a native of Zambia, Africa, got his start Hayden Carruth. several books and articles about the history of Iraq, in music when he made his first guitar at age 12. Since Hamill has taught in prisons for 14 years, in artist-in- international law, and the evidence used to justify the war, then, he has put out 3 albums and is currently working on residency programs for 20 years, and has worked and speaking with veterans returning from Iraq, he ceased his 4th. Fortune is one of Zambia’s top male artists and extensively with battered woman and children. He has to believe in the legality and morality of the war. his music is very popular there as well as other regions of been the recipient of fellowships from the National In January 2006, he attempted to resign his commission. the continent such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania, Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Army denied his request because he had not and many others. Fortune has won many awards for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Fund, the fulfilled his eight year military service obligation. He his music. In 2002, at the Azami Awards, he won Best U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, two Washington used as justification for his request that the war violated Video, Best Recorded Song, and Best Song Writer. And Governor’s Arts Awards, the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime the Constitution and War Powers Act which “limits the at the Ngoma Awards, he won Best Male Vocalist and Achievement Award for Editing, and the Washington president in his role as Commander in Chief from using Best Vocal recording. Both of these award shows are Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry. the armed forces in any way he sees fit”. He also cited Africa’s equivalent to America’s Grammy Awards. Fortune He is Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and was the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the moved to America 3 1/2 years ago and currently resides Editor there from 1972 through 2004. In January 2003, he Nuremberg Principles, which “bar wars of aggression.” in Renton, WA, where he is working on two albums. founded Poets Against War, compiling the largest single- He argued the command responsibility would make him Fortune’s music is very versatile and can be enjoyed by theme anthology in history, and editing a best-selling personally responsible and liable for legal challenges for everyone. selection, Poets Against War (Nation Books, 2003.) violating international law. Further, he asserted that the His work has been translated into more than a dozen war was based on misleading or false premises such as languages. the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Geneiva Arunga links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and that Geneiva has been a participant and a youth organizer the occupation itself did not follow the Army’s own legal with the AFSC Tyree Scott Freedom School for several US Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren K. rules of conduct for occupying a country. years. She is member of African Youth United and Watada In June 2006 Watada publicly refused to deploy to Freedom Church of Seattle. She has traveled, lived Iraq for his unit’s assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi and attended school in Kenya. A high schools student, Ehren K. Watada was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Robert Watada and Carolyn Ho. Robert Watada served for Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal Geneiva is a talented spoken word artist on the topics of and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, racism and social justice. 10 years as executive director of Hawaii’s Campaign Spending Commission and he refused to serve in the it would make him party to war crimes. Ehren is the first Vietnam War. Ehren Watada attended Punahou School, commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq. His court-martial ended in a then transferred in his sophomore year to Kalani High Sam Hamill School, where he played quarterback on the varsity mistrial on February 7, 2007. A second court-martial is Sam Hamill is author of 14 volumes of original football team. Watada is an Eagle Scout, graduating from scheduled to begin July 16, 2007. poetry including Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Hawaii Pacific University in 2003 with a Bachelor’s degree Translations (Shambhala, 2005), Dumb Luck (2002), in Finance. Gratitude (1998), and Destination Zero: Poems 1970- 1995 (1995.) He has also published 3 collections of He joined the US Army after the war in Iraq had begun, essays, including A Poet’s Work (1998), and two dozen stating that he was motivated “out of a desire to protect volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, our country” after 9/11. He was commissioned by the Japanese, and Chinese, most recently, Tao Te Ching Army’s Officer Candidate School, on November 20, 2003, (2005), The Essential Chuang Tzu and The Poetry of at Fort Benning, Georgia as a Second Lieutenant of Field Zen (with J.P. Seaton), Narrow Road to the Interior & Artillery. Watada served one year in South Korea and Other Writings of Basho, and Crossing the Yellow River: was promoted to First Lietenant. He was subsequently Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. He is editor of reassigned to Fort Lewis, Washington. The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry from Soon after reporting to Fort Lewis, Watada discovered Copper Canyon Press, The Erotic Spirit, Selected Poems that his unit would be deploying to Iraq, in support of of Thomas McGrath, The Complete Poems of Kenneth ongoing operations there. In preparation to deploy, he began conducting research on the country, its culture, and
21 Pillars of Peace Juan Bocanegra Trail of Self-Determination. More recently, After the 9/11 tragedy, Rita founded the Arab- Jobs with Justice Boca has been active with the Downtown American Community Coalition, which brings Human Services Council, the YMCA, and together Non-Governmental Organizations ‘Boca’, is an organizer for Jobs With Justice, his own consulting business, the Northwest (NGO’s) and Arab-American interest groups to Seattle, and has led the efforts for both Empowerment Institute. Bocanegra is an active educate Americans on Middle Eastern issues. immigration marches and countless anti-war and respected leader in our community. The Arab American Community Coalition seeks marches in Seattle. He has partnered with to: AFSC on issues of the war, immigration, workers rights and trade. • Actively reach out to institutions in the Greater Puget Sound area to build Juan Jose Bocanegra was born in Reynosa, Rita Zawaideh partnerships; Tamaulipas, Mexico and grew up in Corpus Arab American Community Coalition Christi, Texas. After attending Texas A&I • Represent the Arab American community University in Kingsville, TX from 1967-71, he Founding member of the Arab-American in the State of Washington when meeting moved to Seattle to get a graduate degree in Community Coalition, we at AFSC know Rita with public officials and other personnel in social work from the University of Washington. Zawaideh as a tireless worker for immigrants positions of authority and their families incarcerated by the “War on He has been a prominent Seattle-based activist • Provide speakers and resources that will Terror”, and a persistent advocate for peace. ever since. During the 1970s, he played an highlight Arab and Arab American culture Rita is an Arab-American who has lived in active role in the Chicano movement and in the Greater Puget Sound area; and broader Third World Peoples’ movements. He the United States since emigrating here at an • Provide an avenue for the Arab American helped lead a successful campaign to diversify early age with her family. Rita, an international community to communicate their the UW School of Social work and create its business woman, small business owner and concerns about personal safety, report multi-ethnic practice program. He was active certified travel counselor, owns a travel agency, attacks and harassment, and to obtain with the group that occupied the Beacon Hill Caravan-Serai Tours, and has received Top information about their options for dealing School and founded El Centro de la Raza in Travel Awards for Middle East and North Africa. with such incidents. 1972. She holds a Masters in Arabic Studies from the University of Washington. Since graduating, Active in the AFSC’s Third World Coalition, she has written extensively on the Middle East Boca served on the Regional Executive and North Africa, and has lived and traveled in Committee in the 1960’s. During the early to many countries. Rita participates in activities Black Prisoners’ Caucus mid-’70s, he became involved in solidarity which educate the public about the Middle East Monroe Correctional Complex work with local American Indian struggles— and North Africa, particularly their cultures. She including the American Indian Movement founded Arab Film Distribution and Salaam Supported by AFSC’s Community Justice (AIM), Frank’s Landing demonstrations with the Cultural Museum. She frequently lectures to Program, the Village of Hope and the People’s Nisqually tribe, the Puyallup tribe’s takeover schools, organizations, business and travel Institute NW, The Black Prisoners’ Caucus is of the Cascadia Center in 1976, and the 1976 groups. an independent body that works for Prisoner’s
22 rights and for family members of those system. They strive to serve as community role high schools in the US, Germany, France, incarcerated at Monroe Correctional Complex. models of healing justice. England, and later Japan to build relations The Black Prisoners’ Caucus is primarily between the nations. made up of Black men who are committed to After retiring in the ‘80s, the Matchetts moved organizing for antiracist social change. They to a home on Puget Sound but life didn’t slow seek to promote and work towards collective Judy and Bill Matchett down. They found themselves in the midst of healing within the prison system and the Active with AFSC since 1954, Bill and Judy a longstanding dispute between four Native communities that they come from. Matchett come from a long line of active American tribes and waterfront property owners The Black Prisoners’ Caucus has held several Quakers and supporters of AFSC. Bill’s father over land and water rights. Despite a 30- community forums inside Monroe, including a worked with the maligned German immigrant year effort through the Western Washington forum on the failures of the education system. community in Milwaukee after World War I, Indian Committee, a federal court ruling and This forum revealed first hand accounts of which led to the formation of the AFSC office a contract, the dispute continues. Between prisoner experiences in being targeted and in Chicago. Judy’s father, Edward Wright, frequent travels, time spent with their children tracked into “special education” programs and headed the European Work Camp program and three grandchildren, the Matchetts keep fed into the prison system. They spoke about in Philadelphia from its inception in 1945 for up their volunteerism with AFSC. They serve how the present curriculum in schools didn’t more than 20 years; her mother, Elizabeth Cox on many local and national boards and speak to them, their history, nor that of their Wright, served as co-commissioner of the Paris committees working for peace and community communities. office. Bill and Judy continue the family tradition change. “We’re just two of many people of Quaker activism and live their Quaker beliefs Another forum focused directly on the criminal involved,” Bill said. “I suppose there’s some fully. justice system where prisoners spoke out about sense of duty, but we really don’t feel that, it’s gang violence, racial bias crimes and racism in When World War II broke out, Bill became been so much fun.” juvenile incarceration. They conducted another a conscientious objector. They reared three session for incarcerated fathers on parenting children in the Quaker tradition as members of from prison. They have sponsored an array of the University Friends Meeting. Just some of speakers and cultural workers at prison events, the work they have helped coordinate through Safe Schools Coalition including Dr. Joy Leary, Dr. Edwin Nichols and our office: started the first Indian Committee; The Safe Schools Coalition has worked with Ron Chisolm. For the past three years, our helped to organize weekend work camps, AFSC since its inception in 1989 to make AFSC Community Justice Program Director, college-bound support and the first nursery schools in Washington and around the world Dustin Washington, has assisted in facilitating school on the Lummi Reservation. Bill was “safe places where every family can belong, ongoing undoing racism and community directly involved in supporting the development where every educator can teach, and where organizing trainings with the BPC. of Uncommon Controversy, AFSC’s book on every child can learn, regardless of gender Indian Treaties of the NW tribes, and personally identity or sexual orientation.” They are an The current focus of Black Prisoners’ took the book to the University of Washington international public-private partnership of over Caucus work is analyzing and working to convincing them to publish. He also supported 80 member organizations - with some services change repressive laws that contribute to the the formation of the first AFSC Gay and specifically for Washington State members. disproportional incarceration of Blacks and Lesbian Committee in 1984. Through the AFSC People of Color in the Washington State prison The Safe Schools Coalition role is to reduce School Affiliation Committee’s program in the bias-based bullying and violence in schools 1950’s, Judy arranged exchanges between
23 and to help schools better meet the needs of • Consulting with other King County understanding between peoples on global and sexual minority youth, and children with sexual school districts. local levels, with initial and continuing emphasis minority parents/guardians locally, nationally Safe Schools provides testimony to legislators in the Middle East. A few of the Foundation’s and internationally, by: regarding potential impacts of bills and projects include: the Rachel Corrie Memorial • Providing resources to schools (posters, technical assistance regarding their wording, Lecture, an annual forum for analyzing publications), and sponsors training events for educators war, racism, global economic inequality, and community groups, including workshops oppression of women, and other forms of • Raising parent/guardian, student, injustice, formulating a hopeful vision of a world educator and community awareness on “coming out” for educators, the Bullyproof curriculum, and “anti-gay harassment and community that responds constructively to (listserv, website, public speaking, its inhabitants’ rights, needs and aspirations; media), violence and schools.” They published a first- of-its-kind Safe Schools Resource Guide an Evergreen State College Rachel Corrie • Providing skill-based training for to assist educators in making appropriate Memorial Scholarship awarded annually to an educators (administrators and other community referrals and in accessing Evergreen State College student dedicated to professional and paraprofessional staff), resources such as books, videos, websites, gaining better understanding of the Middle East • Serving as a technical advisory posters, theater troupes and curricula. In the and working locally or internationally to further resource (to researchers, policy- late ‘90’s they conducted a landmark five-year Middle East peace; and the Sister City Support makers, educators and activists - qualitative study entitled the “Safe Schools Anti- project which supports the Olympia-Rafah students, parents/guardians, community Violence Documentation Project,” documenting Sister City Project, sister city organizations, members), incidents of anti-gay harassment and violence and other delegations that foster connections in Washington schools (K-12). between communities involved in conflict. In • Conducting and disseminating research June 2005, they co-sponsored The Nasrallah (to educators, policy-makers and Rebuilding Alliance educational and fundraising activists), tour with members of the family whose home • Intervening and advocating on behalf Rachel Corrie Foundation for Rachel Corrie was defending when she of individual students, educators and was killed. This effort supports Palestinian families experiencing sexual orientation/ Peace and Justice families as they rebuild their homes during identity-based harassment and violence, Members of Rachel’s family and community continuing occupation and siege. It connects • Holding legislators, school boards and established the Rachel Corrie Foundation for the local Palestinian community, supportive school administrators accountable for Peace and Justice to continue work that she Israelis, and people around the world in making schools safe and free of bias- began and hoped to accomplish, carrying out grassroots rebuilding efforts. The Rachel Corrie based bullying and violence, through that work with her vision, spirit, and creative Foundation has sponsored an array of local community organizing and principled energy in mind. Rachel Corrie was killed in the and national educational peace and justice activism, Gaza Strip in Palestine on March 16, 2003, events that foster dialogue and understanding. trying to prevent demolition of the home of a They also provide ongoing education about • Assisting the Seattle School District in Palestinian pharmacist, his wife, and three the role that Caterpillar, Inc. has played in the training staff, young children. The Foundation conducts Occupation of Palestine. • Contributing technical assistance that and supports projects that educate for peace results in policy changes, and justice and foster connections and
24 25 We honor two guiding lights... Dr. Floyd Schmoe Dr. Floyd Schmoe (1895-2001) was a sixth-generation Quaker, and a conscientious objector in World War I, serving as an ambulance driver on the battlefields of France.
From 1924 to 1928 he was the first official naturalist at Mount Rainier National Park. He took a teaching position at the University of Washington, and spent several summers with his family in the San Juan Islands while he did research for an advanced degree. He gave up his position at the University of Washington during World War II to help Japanese Americans. He befriended Gordon Hirabayashi and other Japanese American students and encouraged them to challenge the curfew and evacuation and internment that were unjustly and unconstitutionally imposed on them.
He helped Japanese American residents of Seattle who were forced to move to Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho. It was Floyd with the help of other Quakers who petitioned the American Friends Service Committee and gained their support to open an office in Seattle at the University Friends Center in 1942.
Floyd opposed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1948, three years after the bombing, he organized volunteers including Aki Kurose and Dolly Dawson and Jean Walkinshaw, to rebuild homes in Hiroshima. He continued his peace work in later years, helping to build orphanages and hospitals, dig ditches, and repair wells in Korea, the Middle East, and Africa. He also wrote, authoring over a dozen books in the course of his life, including A Year In Paradise, about his time on Mount Rainier, and For the Love of Some Islands, about a summer spent exploring the natural history of the San Juan Islands with his family.
The nuclear bombing of Japan and its aftermath remained with Floyd and at the age of 95, he created the Seattle Peace Park to commemorate those who died. He not only applied for permits, raised funds, and organized volunteers, but also did much of the bulldozing, raking gravel, planting trees and mowing grass from a wheelchair. The small park, located at the north end of Seattle’s University Bridge overlooking Lake Union, and across from AFSC’s Seattle office, contains a bronze statue of Sadako, a Japanese girl who died of leukemia 12 years after the bombing. We fondly remember Floyd Schmoe for his clear thinking, initiative, action and perseverance.
26 Akiko Kurose Akiko Kurose (1925-1998) is known for her integral involvement in the life of the Pacific Northwest Region of the AFSC. Aki and her family were interned during World War II at Minidoka, Idaho. A bright high school student, Aki was eligible for AFSC’s Student Relocation Service, which arranged for her to go to Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Floyd Schmoe, then active in the newly established Seattle AFSC office, was instrumental in these arrangements. When, after the war, Aki returned to Seattle, she assisted Floyd in running the Seattle office. She also accompanied Floyd on his mission to Hiroshima after the war to rebuild houses. She married Junelow (“Junx”) Kurose and they had six children: Hugo, Ruthann, Rolland (“Rollie”), Guy, Marie and Paul. Aki worked energetically in preschool programs, later returning to the University of Washington for a Master’s in Education and beginning an extraordinary career in the Seattle public schools.
Aki joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1967 and remained a member of University Friends Meeting. In 1975, Aki joined AFSC’s Education Task Force and helped develop Seattle’s Education Program, which emphasized the involvement of students in the development and implementation of Seattle’s desegregation plan. One of her many contributions to the Task Force were her insistence that “bilingual/bicultural education” as it was known was too limited a concept; what was needed was multilingual, multicultural education. In her years teaching kindergarten, she implemented this concept by teaching her five and six year olds greetings and expressions of peace in many languages. While participating in long AFSC task force meetings, Aki made full use of her time preparing individual reading pamphlets for her kindergarten children, sitting in a big chair surrounded by piles of materials, never losing track of the discussion. Aki played an active role in the AFSC Education Project called SAFE (Student Action Force for Education) and the national Title I Advisory Committee. She developed, used and worked hard to promote adoption at the state level of a K-12 Peace Curriculum.
In the late 1970’s Aki was an active initiator in the movement for redress for Japanese Americans who had been interned during WW II. She brought this concern to the Seattle office ofAFSC and secured its sponsorship of a series of forums, funded largely by the Washington Commission for the Humanities, called Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment. These forums, held in Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane, provided the first public forums in which the Nisei communities looked at this historical experience together in public, reflected on its impact on their lives, those of their children, and of the community at large.At these forums the impulse to organize for redress was developed and nurtured.
During the 80’s and 90’s, Aki was an active member of AFSC’s Peace Committees and brought her activist Quaker values to bear on program work. Aki’s life and work and that of the AFSC are intertwined. The relationships have been reciprocal. Aki was sometimes impatient with AFSC, but she stayed with us. AFSC is fortunate that we were one of her many priorities, even during the many years when she struggled against the cancer that finally took her life. The AFSC recognizes this remarkable life and influence with love and gratitude. A violence-saturated society would do well to heed Aki Kurose’s simple, life-long lesson of peace: “If you don’t have peace within yourself, learning cannot take place.”
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Congratulations and thanks to the
American Friends Service Committee for its 65 years of presence and work for peace and justice in the Pacific Northwest!
Cynthia Sears and Frank Buxton
39 Our Very Best Wishes to AFSC On Their 65th Anniversary Working for Social Justice and Peace and Congratulations Supporting you in building a just and sustainable world. to the Published on Bainbridge Island, 2007 Pillar of Peace distributed nationally. Award Recipients www.yesmagazine.org Alexes Harris & Eric Hampton Ayan Musse & Burgal Hassan Bev Sims Fran & Denny Davidson KL Shannon Sylvia M. Young 40 Veterans for Peace, Ch. 92 says congrats to AFSC for 65 years of peace and justice work in the NW.
41 3 Big Dykes Productions, The Tenants Union of Washington Producers of Mom’s Apple Pie: congratulates AFSC on 65 years in the struggle The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ for Custody Movement peace and justice in the Northwest. Congratulates AFSC May you continue to shine a light of justice on the on this their 65th Anniversary darkness of oppression for another 65 years.
2007 marks the Tenants Union’s thirtieth year in the Shan Ottey, Shad Reinstein, Jody Laine plus Sheri Day struggle for housing justice. You are invited to help document the living history of the TU by sharing your memories at www.tenantsunion.org. http://www.frameline.org
The Fellowship of Reconciliation salutes our partner and frequent collaborator for peace and justice, AFSC Pacific NW.
Evergreen Peace and Justice Community May the next 65 years be Peace and justice activities in the Kirkland/ Redmond area as productive as we continue our
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED! nonviolent struggle. To our weekly vigil in Redmond and the Kirkland Meaningful Movies, a 3-part program every Friday night with a speaker, video, and discussion.
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42 Classifieds The Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites (CARW) expresses its deep appreciation for the support that AFSC has provided the local social justice movement over the past 65 years. We are thankful for program support and the use of office space AFSC has provided for CARW and our partner organizations... to many more years of AFSC’s vibrant presence!
TFC Congratulates AFSC -- Facilitation, AFSC Indian Program staff Jeff Smith (far left with son Mediation and Vision Building for Justice www. Ravi) and Sweetwater Nannauck (center rear) toolsforchange.org attend Intertribal Canoe Society planning meet- ings throughout northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia to support annual Rise Up! Productions congratulates AFSC for Intertribal Canoe Journey. This group photo was their decades of work in the trenches working taken with participants of October, 2006 meeting at Lummi. Muckleshoot tribal members shared for peace and justice. wisdom gained from hosting over 5,000 in 2006 with canoe leaders and youth. PhotoTop by right: Al Johnny 1961- The Backbone Campaign tips our hat to the Indian Committee Seattle AFSC for generations of service to Northwest communities and a future Meeting worthy of our children. We look c. 89-90 Portland Anti War Rally forward to AFSC’s participation 1980’s Seattle: Press Conference on in the first ever Progressive Cabinet AFSC lawsuit re: Immigration Reform Summit this summer in Atlanta. and Control Act 1999 Seattle WTO Protests Voices in Wartime Education Project: Defendants’ Guide to Seattle Mu- an acclaimed curricula and feature-length nicipal Court – This handbook was documentary now on DVD. View the researched and written by members experience of war through powerful images of the Justice Committee of the and the words of poets, soldiers, journalists, American Friends Service Committee Pacific Northwest Region historians and experts on combat from around the world. Info: www.voicesinwartime.org. Nobel Peace Prize: 1947-AFSC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Quakers Service Council (The Quakers)
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44 Thank you! We’d like to express our gratitude to all who have helped to make this event a success. With deadlines upon us, it is impossible to adequately express those thanks. If you are not mentioned here, please know that your efforts are greatly appreciated. Host Committee: Jody Laine & Shad Reinstein Asia Bennett Delila Leber Bookda Gheiser Jonathan Betz-Zall Shaula Massena Steve Habib Rose Tom Head Merlin Rainwater Rick Harlan Esther “Little Dove” John Cynthia Sears Kemeya Harper Delila Leber Susan Segall Dvorah Kost William (Bill) and Judith (Judy) Matchett Jeff Smith Lawrence Leake John & Lee Neff Megan Wilbert Delila Leber Alice Paine Janet Lotawa Alan & Andrea Rabinowitz and Michelle Muri Merlin Rainwater Judith Partnow Beverly Sims Colors NW (My Tam Nguyen) for getting us a Barbara Phinney complimentary ad! Uncle Bob Santos Table Captains: Last Word Books Vivien Sharples Madison Market Sarita Siqueiros People’s Institute NW (Mary Flowers/ John Page/ Francesca Barajas) Cameron Vishaka Smith Arab American Community Coalition (Rita Loren Alan Sugiyama Zawaideh) Bill Aal Anita Suleiman Bethany United Church of Christ Andrea Alexander Mike Tagawa The Kurose Family (Marie Kurose) Mary Andrews Eugene Tagawa, Official Event Photographer Seattle School Board (Sally Soriano) Brenda Anibarro Sarah Welch Andrea Alexander Anthony Arnove Thanks to the help of staff members: Sheri Day, Adrienne Blue Zoe Bermet Erica Kay, Nina Laboy and Megan Wilbert Invitations Designed by: Kemeya Harper Brynnen & Jonathan Brown Adrienne Blue Program designed by: Sheri Day Sheri Day Kate Frew 45 Pacific Northwest Regional Staff Seattle Regional Office Portland Area Program Office Sheri Day Kelly Campbell Seattle Office Mgr./Human Resources Liaison Portland Area Peace Director Email:[email protected] Email: [email protected]
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