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Iowa visit related to North Korea
Daniel Jasper and Linda Lewis, AFSC staff members who are involved with North Korea, will be visiting us in Iowa this weekend. We have been communicating with them for some months about the possibility of building on the history of … Continue reading
Engaging North Korea: Quaker Work for Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Sunday March 18, 2018 4:00 PM Des Moines Valley Friends Meeting, 42nd and Grand, Des Moines, Iowa The Quaker-affiliated American Friends Service Committee has been working in North Korea for over three decades; by 1998, AFSC had established an on-going … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, American Friends Service Committee, North Korea
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Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea
Please share the following information about a presentation by Daniel Jasper and Linda Lewis, from the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC), about Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea. The meeting will be Sunday, March 18, at 4:00 PM at Des … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, Des Moines Valley Friends, North Korea
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North Korea and the Olympics
Today’s announcement that North Korea will participate in this year’s Winter Olympic Games, held in PyeongChang, South Korea is welcome news. This represents an improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world. Many were concerned about … Continue reading
KHOI Radio Interviews-North Korea Exchange
Following up on recent articles in the Des Moines Register about Iowa and agricultural diplomacy, KHOI (89.1 FM) radio talk producer Susan Franzen created an episode titled “Citizen Diplomacy through agriculture from USSR to PRNC“. From the program’s website: Ambassador Kenneth … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, Bear Creek, North Korea
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US-Korea Exchanges Possible
Daniel Jasper, the Asia Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee has just published the article Opening More Channels in US-North Korea Relations, explaining that there are exceptions to the travel ban that still allow exchanges between the … Continue reading
Scattergood graduate’s social justice video project
Recently graduated from Scattergood Friends School and Farm, Rezadad Mohammadi directed, produced and did much of the work on the video below, “The War on Drugs” (U.S.A. and Mexico), Mass Incarceration and Solitary Confinement. After a revealing history of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, mass incarceration, Rezadad Mohammadi, Scattergood
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BIKE/AFSC/FCNL/IYMC
This photo was taken at Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)’s Midyear Meeting this spring at Bear Creek meeting, outside Earlham, Iowa. These representatives of Quaker organizations illustrate ways Friends are providing witness for environmental justice with alternatives to personal … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, cars, FCNL, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
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I Can’t Sleep After Watching This
It’s 2:45 A.M. and, as I suspected, I can’t sleep after watching the video Detaining Dreams earlier. I saw this video with a group of concerned people that our local American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staff person, Erin Polley, had gathered … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, Israeli military, No Way to Treat a Child, Palestine
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 