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Dismantling institutional racism – inside and out

Summer 2016

To All Friends in the Midwest From Brant Rosen, Regional Director, AFSC Midwest Region

Brant Rosen

Joshua Saleem, who directs the Peacebuilding Program

for AFSC in St. Louis, meets with Earlham College students

during the 2016 Alternative Spring Break, organized by

Erin Polley of AFSC Indiana.

Dominique Diaddigo-Cash, program associate with the

Healing Justice Program in the Twin Cities, joins other

AFSC staff on a panel about state violence.

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From the Midwest to the Mideast

AFSC Midwest Executive Committee co-clerk Keta

Cowen presents a minute of appreciation to Paul

Ricketts, a Friend from Ft. Wayne, for his work against

institutional racism in AFSC.

Nawal, right, is an intern with AFSC’s Israel-Palestine

Program in the Chicago office. She has played a key role

in supporting the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign,

which is exposing Israel’s military detention of

Palestinian children.

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Standing with immigrants and refugees

On prisons and politics

From left, AFSC Dayton Program Director Migwe

Kimemia with AFSC Indiana intern Elle Roberts and

Program Director Erin Polley at the 2015 Ohio Valley

Yearly Meeting.

Staff and volunteers celebrate at AFSC’s Immigrants Voice

Program youth video awards ceremony in Des Moines.

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Final thoughts and thanks

Marcellus Lovelace, a Chicago artist, created this piece,

entitled “I Can Not Be Moved,” for AFSC’s Humanize Not

Militarize exhibit.

Shown here with Dr. Ben Carson, Linda Garrison, a Friend

from Eldora, Iowa, was one of hundreds of AFSC

volunteers in Iowa and New Hampshire who “bird-

dogged” presidential candidates as part of AFSC’s

“Governing Under the Influence” program. Read more

about how this effort changed the national conversation

at gui.afsc.org.

George Friday, left, and David Cobb

are partners in AFSC’s efforts to build

political justice in Ohio and across

the nation.