AFSC On the Issues: Recent Episodes
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. This podcast will bring together stories of its work and interviews with experts from around the world.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC New Mexico team members Sayrah Namaste and Patrick Jaramillo discuss how accompaniment of indigenous peoples and land-based agricultural traditions can be a force for building community resilience in the face of climate change and extractive economic exploitation.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC West Virginia team members Liz Brunello, Lida Shepherd, Joanna Vance, and Rick Wilson discuss real-world stories of how provisions in the Build Back Better plan, such as the expanded child tax credit, can bring about life-changing reductions in poverty for millions of people.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, join Jacob Flowers, AFSC Regional Director, and Sophia Burns, Robert Andrew Stuart Fellow, as they share tips and insight into community safety and de-escalation practices to help create safer spaces.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC Youth Director Nia Eubanks-Dixon discussed the importance of self and community care during the pandemic and uprisings against racial injustice.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC staff discuss our petition to Abolish ICE that went viral throughout 2020, and why the movement to eliminate this abusive immigration enforcement agency gaining so much momentum. Hear from our program staff about the impacts ICE has on our communities, and what we can do in 2021 to move the #AbolishICE campaign forward!
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC staff members discuss initiatives across the US and internationally that work to support local agricultural communities as ways to address food insecurity, sustainability, poverty, and more.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC staff members Shanene Herbert and Lucy Duncan reflect on the prevalence of white supremacy in society, as highlighted by historic protests and the deadly events of the January 6 violent insurrection at the Capitol. Together they discuss "Radical Acting in Faith for White People," a free e-course designed to help white people of faith to learn how to grapple with the concepts of white supremacy, and how to catalyze themselves as active participants in the creation of a more just society.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media. Learn more about Radical Acting in Faith for White People here.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC staff members Tori Bateman, Dov Baum, and Pedro Rios are joined by the Transnational Institute’s Nick Buxton to discuss a report released by AFSC, TNI, and Mijente explores the financial campaign contributions of the leading US border security contractors and how they have shaped a bipartisan approach in favor of border militarization for more than three decades. What does this industry influence means for the future of US immigration policy and the prospects for change under President Biden?
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this episode, AFSC's Peniel Ibe, Newark Staff Serges Demefack, and Aisa Diallo reflect on Immigration as a Black issue and the need to amplify the stories and experiences of Black immigrants. This conversation took place as part of a Black Immigrant Advocacy Action week hosted by multiple Black led immigration organizations and partners.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities.
In this first episode, Ewuare Osayande shares a powerful and poignant reflection on the protests and calls for justice that spread across the US and worldwide in the wake of the May 2020 murder of George Floyd and the overexposed racial disparities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.