AFSC On the Issues
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe 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.
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Episode 5: Assembly, Part 6: Nidal Ka’bi, performer and choreographer
January 25, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBLast year, AFSC brought together artists, activists, and cultural practitioners from the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, Jordan. They shared their knowledge and experiences in using art for social change—and strategized ways to support each other in working for peace and justice. Our limited podcast series, “Assembly,” features the stories and perspectives of some of our participants. In this episode, we hear from Nidal Ka'bi, a performer, choreographer, and executive dire...
Episode 4: Assembly, Part 5: Farah Chamma, poet and performer
January 18, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBLast year, AFSC brought together artists, activists, and cultural practitioners from the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, Jordan. They shared their knowledge and experiences in using art for social change—and strategized ways to support each other in working for peace and justice. Our limited podcast series, “Assembly,” features the stories and perspectives of some of our participants. In this episode, we hear from Farah Chama, a Palestinian poet and performer, who mixes pr...
Episode 3: Assembly part 4: Hatem Salama, Program Officer
January 11, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBLast year, AFSC brought together artists, activists, and cultural practitioners from the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, Jordan. They shared their knowledge and experiences in using art for social change—and strategized ways to support each other in working for peace and justice. Our limited podcast series, “Assembly,” features the stories and perspectives of some of our participants. In this episode, we hear from Hatem Salama, a program officer for the Ford Foundation in ...
Episode 2: Reunion: Quaker leaders reunite
November 08, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 248 MBReunion: A special American Friends Service Committee podcast featuring Quaker leaders from the U.S. and United Kingdom gathering and sharing insights about how Quaker organizations are activating Quaker values for a just world. The podcast was recorded at the April 2023 gathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Marisa Mazria Katz and features Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary of AFSC; Bridget Moix, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation; Oliver Robertso...
Episode 1: Mosaic
September 07, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBIn this special podcast, we hear from AFSC staff and other community leaders in Palestine. They are working to bring together Palestinian youth across divides and to counter the fragmentation caused by the Israeli occupation. Listen now to hear them discuss equity, identity, and the Palestinian experience.
Episode 3: Assembly part 3: Lalla Kaber, Mauritanian cinematographer
December 22, 2022 00:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBAssembly: Artists making change in the Middle East and North Africa Earlier this year, AFSC’s brought together activists and artists the Middle East and North Africa to make new connections, talk about their experiences, and support each other in working for peace with justice. In this limited podcast series, “Assembly,” we talk to some of our participants about how art can transform our everyday lives. In this episode, we hear from Lalla Kaber, a cinematographer and video make...
Episode 2: Assembly part 2: Talal Afifi, Sudanese producer
December 16, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MBAssembly: Artists making change in the Middle East and North Africa Earlier this year, AFSC’s brought together activists and artists the Middle East and North Africa to make new connections, talk about their experiences, and support each other in working for peace with justice. In this limited podcast series, “Assembly,” we talk to some of our participants about how art can transform our everyday lives. In this episode, we hear from Talal Afifi, a pioneer in Sudanese film. He ...
Episode 1: Assembly part 1: Emad Hajjaj, Jordanian cartoonist
December 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 22.3 MBEarlier this year, AFSC’s brought together activists and artists the Middle East and North Africa to make new connections, talk about their experiences, and support each other in working for peace with justice. In this limited podcast series, “Assembly,” we talk to some of our participants about how art can transform our everyday lives. In this episode, we hear from Emad Hajjaj, a Jordanian cartoonist who has had a long career that has earned him all kinds of attention — some of i...
Episode 10: AFSC On the Issues: Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Community Resilience
February 02, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBSince 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 ...
Episode 9: AFSC On the Issues: The real impact of the Build Back Better plan
January 12, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBSince 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, Joann...
Episode 9: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 9 - The real impact of the Build Back Better plan
January 12, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBSince 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,...
Episode 8: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 8 - Bystander Intervention, Community Safety, and De-escalation
October 07, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBSince 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 Andre...
Episode 8: AFSC On the Issues: Bystander Intervention, Community Safety, and De-escalation
October 07, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 35.1 MBSince 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, Robe...
Episode 7: AFSC On the Issues: Taking care of one's self and one's community
September 12, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBSince 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 ...
Episode 7: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 7 - Taking care of one's self and one's community
September 12, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBSince 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...
Episode 6: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 6 - Abolishing ICE in 2021 and Beyond
August 04, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBSince 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 thr...
Episode 5: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 5 - Farming for Social Change
August 02, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBSince 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 t...
Episode 5: AFSC On the Issues: Farming for Social Change
August 02, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBSince 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 internati...
Episode 4: AFSC On the Issues: Radical Acting in Faith
July 26, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBSince 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 ...
Episode 4: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 4 - Radical Acting in Faith
July 26, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBSince 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 prevalen...
Episode 3: AFSC On the Issues: Unpacking Biden's Border
June 07, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBSince 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 join...
Episode 3: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 3 - Unpacking Biden's Border
June 07, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBSince 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 th...
Episode 2: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 2 - Immigration as a Black Issue
May 26, 2021 21:44 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBSince 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 o...
Episode 2: AFSC On the Issues: Immigration as a Black Issue
May 26, 2021 21:44 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBSince 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 r...
Episode 1: AFSC On the Issues: Episode 1 - Black Lives Matter
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBSince 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 pr...
Episode 1: AFSC On the Issues: Black Lives Matter
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBSince 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 o...
Light creates understanding: Undoing racism at the Tyree Scott Freedom School
January 24, 2014 00:00 - 7 minutes - 6.81 MBSeattle area high school students gathered over the winter holidays to learn about the history of racism in the United States during a Tyree Scott Freedom School. Madeline went to visit that Freedom School, and witnessed a grassroots movement for social change built on the passion of a diverse network of young people in the Seattle region. Listen to the voices of some of these young men and women who attended the workshop, and hear how they are using their new understanding to undo racis...
Tyree Scott Freedom schools: An interview with Dustin Washington
January 16, 2014 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBListen to an interview with Dustin Washington, the program director of AFSC's Tyree Scott Freedom School in Seattle, Washington, an intensive seminar program for young men and women that unpacks the structures of racism and oppression in the United States. During the interview, Dustin describes the vision and curriculum of the program, as well as how this training inspires young men and women from the local community to get involved with local social justice efforts to end mass incarceration.
Life on the border: An interview with Ricardo Hernandez and Fabiola Flores Munoz
December 10, 2013 00:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBAn interview with AFSC staff Ricardo Hernández and Fabiola Flores Muñoz on their recent trip down to the US/Mexico border to asses the human security issues facing those living in the region. Fabiola, AFSC's Regional Director of Latin American and the Caribbean, and Integration and Impact's Ricardo Hernandez, discuss their observations of how governmental policies of increased national security and militarization from both nations are negatively impacting life for those on the border, as ...
Teaching peace at Friends Schools
December 04, 2013 17:47 - 5 minutes - 4.97 MBOn November 15th, Quaker schools from around New England gathered at Moses Brown Friends school in Providence, Rhode Island, for a day long conference on peace education. Madeline Schaefer, Friends Relations Associate at the American Friends Service Committee, was invited to present and share AFSC's resources for teaching peace to young people. Along with giving her presentation, which she co-presented with Friends Council on Education's Deborra Sines Pancoe, Madeline spoke with other pres...
If war is not the answer, what is?
October 23, 2013 19:12 - 6 minutes - 5.96 MBOn October 13th, Friends Meeting of Washington hosted an event for Quakers and the general public to learn more about a new joint working paper recently published by the American Friends Service Commitee and Friends Committee on National Legislation, titled "Shared Security: Reimagining US foreign policy." The document, published in April 2013, lays out new ways that the U.S. can engage with the global community, based on principles of cooperation and human security. Listen to this short a...
Interview with Shan Cretin and Diane Randall
October 18, 2013 16:01 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBHear AFSC's General Secretary, Shan Cretin, along with Diane Randall, the General Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), on the new joint working paper, Shared Security, created by the two Quaker organizations to "reimagine foreign policy." AFSC and FCNL have teamed up to envision a set of principles for the U.S. to approach its foreign policy from place of cooperation rather than militarization. To learn more about the document, visit www.sharedsecurity.org, and j...
Rustin and the March: A new play on Bayard Rusti and the March on Washington
September 12, 2013 19:06 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MBWilliam DiCanzio's new play on Bayard Rustin and his important role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington is being performed in open readings in and around the city of Philadelphia this year. Madeline Schaefer attended one of these readings and spoke with playwright William DiCanzio, the play's future director, Benjamin Lloyd, and the play's leading actor, Frank X, about the power and legacy of Bayard Rustin's message of nonviolence. White Pines Productions, located in Elkin's Park, i...
Interview with Vincent Harding
September 12, 2013 18:46 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBAt this year's Friends General Conference gathering in Greeley, Colorado, Lucy Duncan and Madeline Schaefer sat down with renowned civil rights activist Vincent Harding, to discuss the legacy of MLK and the March on Washington, Trayvon Martin and the future of democracy in America.
From the inside, out
September 12, 2013 18:40 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MB"Calling forth the goodness" is a podcast series of the AFSC blog, Acting in Faith, that features the voices and communities that work together to create change. In this episode, "From the inside, out," Madeline sits down with participants in AFSC's mentoring program that works in Baltimore prisons. The program, "Friend of a Friend," teaches skills in nonviolent communication and conflict resolution, while empowering men to advocate for change both inside and outside of the prison walls. P...
Deported without warning: How the loss of a father in Newark is affecting a community
September 12, 2013 18:37 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBIn the middle of May, 2013, Kofi (whose name was changed for this story) was detained and deported to his home country in Africa. The family he left behind--including a girlfriend, and two children--are struggling with his absence, unsure of their future or the fate of their boyfriend and father. Hear the story of this family, and hear how the AFSC in Newark is speaking out against his case and others that tear families apart.
To Heal the World
September 12, 2013 18:33 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB"Calling forth the goodness" is a podcast series that features the voices and communities that work together to create change. The third episode, "To Heal the World," tells the story of how AFSC in Denver is bringing together immigrants and immigrant allies to ensure the equal treatment of all of its residents. Listen and hear the voices of community members in and around Denver, Colorado, working to oppose anti-immigrant legislation and create communities where everyone has an opportunity...
Working at the Root
September 12, 2013 18:23 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB"Calling forth the goodness" is a podcast series that features the voices and communities that work together to create change. This first episode, "Working at the Root," tells the story of how AFSC partnered with communities in and around Albuquerque, N.M., to help local people keep their water rights while providing fresh, organic vegetables to area public schools. Listen and hear the voices of community members in the South Valley of New Mexico working together for change. Produced by M...
Seeds of an Occuption
September 12, 2013 17:55 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBLearn more about AFSC's growing involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Hear the voices of activists, students and Quakers as they work together to hold large corporations accountable for the violation of human rights and listen to the power of nonviolence to bring change to both hearts and minds. This podcast is part of a series, "Calling forth the goodness," which will share the stories of how AFSC works in communities arou...