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Jose Manuel Maldonado-Morales
Jose Manuel Maldonado-Morales is graduating from the University of Washington with a bachelors in educational studies and American ethnic studies and a minor in labor studies as a first generation student.
Dominick Damper
Dominick Damper is an Advocacy Corps Organizer for Friends Committee on National Legislation working on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Through grassroots efforts and lobbying, he is working toward a ceasefire in Gaza, the restoration of UNRWA funding, and the end of U.S. arms sales to Israel.
Quaker Communities Speak on the War in Israel-Palestine
As violence escalates and reverberates in the Middle East, Friends feel a call to act. For many, that action includes working in their own community to distill their grief, fear, confusion, and concern into a collective and corporate statement of belief and action.
This Week in the World: Working Toward a Future Free from the Nuclear Shadow
This week, we mourned and honored the more than 100,000 people who were killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 79 years ago.
Native Boarding School Report Tells the Truth but Doesn't Go Far Enough
While Congress continues to consider federal legislation for Truth and Healing from the trauma of Indian boarding schools, the Department of the Interior, led by Secretary Deb Haaland, has continued its own investigation.
An Iftar Meal with Action for Gaza
As the sun set on Sunday, April 7, the Triad Muslims Center in High Point, North Carolina was packed.
Building Diaspora Solidarity to Transform U.S. Foreign Policy
Representing diverse backgrounds—from Egypt to Niger, Bhutan to the Democratic Republic of Congo—these organizers spent four days engaged in deep discussions, advocacy training, and meeting with Hill staff.Minute Concerning the War in Israel-Palestine: Valley Friends Meeting (VA)
We offer our services in any fair and non-violent way we can to help fulfill these petitions, and we continue to hold both peoples in the Light for peace and justice for them and their posterity.Minute Concerning the War in Israel-Palestine: Albuquerque Monthly Meeting (NM)
Albuquerque Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) join with the national and international community of Friends, represented by the American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Quaker United Nations office, Canadian Friends Service Committee, British Yearly Meeting (British Quakers), and expressed through their letter of October 17, 2023, in “calling for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to the civilian population of Gaza.” As a faith community committed to peace and justice, we also join in their call for “action to address the underlying injustice of occupation and inequalities underlying this situation in the long term.” We note that since the release of the October 17 letter, the civilian death toll in Gaza has risen to over 9,000 persons and continues to rise by the day and hour.Spiritual Grounding for Social Change at Quaker House Chautauqua
